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A 37-year-old woman accused of killing her pet dog because it persisted in sniffing her 9-year-old daughter at their Haleiwa home was found not guilty Tuesday by reason of insanity.
Circuit Judge Richard Perkins' ruling ended the case against Andrea Fiegle, who faced one count of felony cruelty to animals.
Fiegle was accused of slicing the dog's throat on April 29, 2013.
Police said Fiegle told them she cut the dog's throat with a 12-inch kitchen knife at her Paalaa Road home after losing her temper. She said the dog sniffed her daughter's "private area" and didn't listen to commands to stop.
Prosecutors have said Fiegle's daughter contradicted what her mother told police.
The daughter told police her mother injured herself before killing the dog. She told police that her mother picked up a rock at the park and hit herself in the head with it.
A police report said Fiegle called 911 to report that she had killed the dog. Police found the dog's remains in a garbage bag.


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Shift involves 750 Auto Group employees
In one of the largest corporate relocations within the Tampa area in the past several years, AAA has moved into new space in the 71-acre Renaissance Center in Westshore.
The Auto Club Group shifted some 750 employees from two nearby locations in Tampa's suburbs earlier this month to Renaissance VI, at 9125 Henderson Drive.
"We considered where our employees are coming from to get to work, and saw that with the design of this new building we could better collaborate and do business in a new way," says Matt Nasworthy, a AAA spokesman.
"This location is very central for us, and we were able to build in a lot of elements to our specifications," he adds. "And the campus here is big, with lots of open space and amenities in it."
New Jersey-based Vision Properties, which acquired the five-building Renaissance Center for $108 million in early 2016, began the four-story Renaissance VI building in December of that year on a speculative basis.
AAA fully leased the 150,000-square-foot building for a base period of 15 years in April 2017.
The balance of the more than 500,000 square feet of office space in the park is completely leased by Wellcare Health Plans Inc. and Capital One Financial, which developed the park beginning in 1997.
Renaissance Center is considered one of the most highly amenitized properties in the Tampa area. In addition to a full-service cafeteria, the park contains a two-level fitness center; walking trails; basketball, racquetball, volleyball and tennis courts; and a baseball diamond.
With Renaissance VI committed, Vision Properties has begun construction of a seventh building — also on a speculative basis — measuring 150,000 square feet, and plans are in the works for an eight-story Renaissance VIII, which would contain up to 250,000 square feet.
Combined, the latter two buildings are expected to cost more than $120 million to develop.

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Here's a little challenge to Michael Behe and his chums from the Discovery Institute.
No, it's not to explain how it came about because that's too easy. It's to explain why it came about. The problem is not that it is irreducibly complex but that it is irredeemably stupid.
Here's the situation:
A family of viruses, the herpesviruses, has a mechanism for overcoming the human immune system when it infects cells. It basically hides inside the cell nucleus looking for all the world like part of the normal genome and only in certain situations does it come out of hiding, start replicating and destroying cells by cell lysis. This liberates millions of viruses to go off and infect new hosts. At that point, the human immune system recognises this 'lytic' form, makes antibodies and usually quickly wipes out the active form of the virus. But the latent form is still hiding in the nucleus of other cells and gets reproduced into other cells when infected cells divide, safe and sound where the immune system can't get at it.
The herpesviruses cause chickenpox, cold sores, genital herpes, shingles, mononucleosis, some cancers and in newborn babies with an immature immune system, deafness, mental disability and death. One form, the human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is highly infectious and infects very high numbers of people globally. Once you have the infection you are stuck with it for life.
Basically, the survival of the virus depends on it staying latent and it does this by co-opting a protein, Daxx, in the nucleus which is part of the intrinsic immune system and normally prevents viruses replicating - which is exactly what this virus wants. In a nasty little trick, HCMV uses the immune system against itself and so shuts down the detection process.
Now a new study has found that, not only are human cells fighting back and have evolved a process for reactivating the latent virus using proteins called lysine demethylases, but that HCMV is already overcoming that line of defense. The viruses bring a protein called UL138 into the cells with them and use this to block the lysine demethylases. Quite how it works is still to be discovered because UL138 remains outside the nucleus but seems to exert its effect inside the nucleus.
Intrinsic immune defenses mediated by restriction factors inhibit productive viral infections. Select viruses rapidly establish latent infections and, with gene expression profiles that imply cell-autonomous intrinsic defenses, may be the most effective immune control measure against latent reservoirs. We illustrate that lysine-specific demethylases (KDMs) are restriction factors that prevent human cytomegalovirus from establishing latency by removing repressive epigenetic modifications from histones associated with the viral major immediate early promoter (MIEP), stimulating the expression of a viral lytic phase target of cell-mediated adaptive immunity. The viral UL138 protein negates this defense by preventing KDM association with the MIEP. The presence of an intrinsic defense against latency and the emergence of a cognate neutralizing viral factor indicate that "arms races" between hosts and viruses over lifelong colonization exist at the cellular level.*
S. H. Lee, E. R. Albright, J.-H. Lee, D. Jacobs, R. F. Kalejta.
Cellular defense against latent colonization foiled by human cytomegalovirus UL138 protein.
Science Advances, 2015; 1 (10): e1501164 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1501164
*Copyright © 2015, The Authors.
Reprinted under terms of Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (CC-BY 4.0)
So, what we have here is a typical host-parasite arms race in progress. Over millions of years viruses have invaded cells and hosts have evolved to destroy or neutralise the viruses; viruses have evolved to overcome these defences and so on. We are now at the stage in this arms race between herpes viruses and humans where humans have begun to evolve a method for beating the viruses ability to hide by switching off the detection mechanism, by making them come out of hiding, and viruses are evolving the ability to switch that off again.
And so round and round we go, generation after generation, both humans and viruses running just to stand still with some human casualties in the process but not enough to threaten the viruses supply of available hosts and humans have never been able to hit the viruses hard enough to wipe them out. There is absolutely no problem here for scientific evolution; in fact the entire thing, including the evolution of parasites, is predictable. It would be a problem for the TOE if we didn't have parasites and arms races. They are ultimately pointless because evolution doesn't have a point; they are mindlessly idiotic because evolution doesn't have a mind and they are amoral and devoid of compassion because evolution doesn't have morals or compassion.
But for those who still believe in creationism and intelligent (sic) design, they represent a major problem for the theory. So now, for those creationists who haven't worked out what the question is yet and so haven't stopped reading: what on Earth is this arms race for? Theistic creationism believes an intelligent creator (and only one intelligent creator) created everything for a purpose. Additionally, most religious apologists who promote this notion, this intelligent creator is maximally benevolent and wishes to maximise the good in the Universe.
Why then did it create viruses to infect cells and make the host sick, then create a defence for the host to overcome these viruses, then redesign the viruses to overcome the 'problem' of the hosts' defences, then.... and so on, apparently ad infinitum, to the ultimate benefit of neither host nor parasite? In short, why would an intelligent designer keep building problems into its creation for which it then needs to design a solution, which creates another problem.
Why would any intelligent designer design hosts and parasites so that a solution for one is a problem for the other to overcome? Of course the standard dogma is that, for some reason, in order to maximise the good in the Universe this intelligent (sic) designer invented sin (no really!) so viruses are just it's way of showing it loves us (stay with me here...) and anyway it's not for us to question the intelligent (sic) designer. It's intelligent, so whatever it does is intelligent and that's that. But, why then did it design a defense system to minimise the harm these sin-justified viruses do? How can that be intelligent. It's a bit like locking criminals up then giving them the means to make keys.
Could it be that the designer isn't intelligent and doesn't have a plan? In other words, there isn't intelligent design because there isn't an intelligent designer?
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Why SIGNL4
Server Density is a hybrid Server performance monitor with easy to configure dashboards and user setup. SIGNL4 ensures that all on duty members receive, acknowledge and resolve critical alerts, all from their smartphones. With persistent notifications and escalation chains there will never be a critical alert that goes unattended. SIGNL4 also offers ad-hoc collaboration between team members for each and every alert, so Subject Matter Experts can be looped in to help resolve issues.
How it Works
SIGNL4 webhook URL establishes a connection with Server Density to enable mobile notification and alerting capabilities for operational and network teams. The SIGNL4 team email address can also be used to receive alert data.
Integration Capabilities
In our example we are using Server Density to monitor the up-time of critical servers. We are setting up a SIGNL4 Webhook as the method of receiving the alerts.
SIGNL4 is a mobile alert notification app for powerful alerting, alert management and mobile assignment of work items. Get the app at https://www.signl4.com
A SIGNL4 (https://www.signl4.com) account
A Server Density (https://www.serverdensity.com/) account
Integration Steps
First let's choose a site to monitor.
Now, let' setup a webhook.
SIGNL4 can further increase the visibility of alerts through its Signals and Services section. Augmenting the color and icon of alerts will provide more relevant information at a glance without having to open the alert.
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The first RuneScape Elite Dungeon is finally here! Discover what schemes and foes lie behind the great doors to the Temple of the Aminishi, as you delve into its halls and corridors. You might even be able to meet the Azure Serpent itself!
The only requirement to participate in the Temple of Aminishi Elite Dungeon is the completion of the Port Sarim quest "Impressing the Locals". You can team up with up to two other players via the grouping system or attempt to solo the content directly for more lucrative loot. This is a great opportunity for you to train Dungeoneering a little bit differently, while at the same time gathering tokens as you progress.
Quest "Impressing the Locals" Quick Guide:
|Start point
|Talk to Trader Stan at the southern docks of Port Sarim.
|Member requirement
|Members only
|Official difficulty
|Official length
Skill requirements are not boostable.
- None
Items required
Items from the tool belt are not listed unless they do not work or are not automatically added.
-1000 RS Gold
Access to the port sarim and draynor village lodestones
|Enemies to defeat
- None
- Talk to Trader Stan.
- Talk to Guard Captain Roarkwin in the Port Sarim Jail.
- Talk to Seasinger Umi inside the player-owned port portal in Port Sarim.
- Talk to Surula, the Barmaid in the player-owned port bar.
- Climb the stairs and talk to Mister Gully.
- Talk to Seasinger Jemi at the Rimmington well.
- Talk to the Black Knight sergeant upstairs in the pottery house southwest of the Draynor lodestone.
- Return to Trader Stan.
- Quest complete!
There are five sections inside the temple, each of these packed out with factions, minibosses and, along the way you'll run into challenging bosses blocking the way to the final encounter.
May be you will fail, but don't fear! Your progress will be saved so you can head back in and continue where you left off, skipping to any unlocked checkpoints. For those who want more of a lore experience you can attempt to play the content in story mode, a mode where the monsters are toned down significantly but with significantly reduced rewards.
- Two dedicated Dungeoneering reward shops featuring some new cosmetics, port scrolls and a new Invention blueprint.
- Maybe a direct upgrade for your sirenic gear. Pushing the sirenic mask and chaps to tier 92.
- The drop tables inside the temple won't have raw skilling resources but instead are replaced with new alchable/disassemblable items which you gather as you kill your foes inside the Temple.
Stormborn Armour
Stormborn Armour has also been added with this update, and you'll be able to pick up this electrifying outfit with the redeeming of any green or red game cards. You should redeem your code on July 1st as that's when it will release in-game, Premier Club will be given a Premier Club token from July 1st if they wish to use that to unlock this armour.
That's all about this elite dungeon news, you can click here to see more details about the Temple of Aminishi. If you want to know more RS Guide, you can come to the Best Gaming Store MmoGah. You can also Buy OSRS Gold and OSRS Account here. The professional services will never let you down.


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Wisconsin elections: Doug La Follette defeats Jay Schroeder in race for secretary of state
MADISON - Democrat incumbent Doug La Follette has defeated Republican challenger Jay Schroeder in the race for secretary of state, winning another four years in the office he has held since 1983.
La Follette had received 52 percent of the vote when the race was called in his favor Tuesday night.
La Follette, of Madison, and Schroeder, of Fox Crossing, won their respective primary races in August, with La Follette defeating fellow Democratic challenger Arvina Martin, and Schroeder defeating Republican Spencer Zimmerman.
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La Follette was the subject of a July Politifact article in which he is quoted as saying he's been in office for "about 25" years, despite serving nearly 40 years, including a term he served in the 1970s. His pension was also called into question by State Treasurer Matt Adamczyk, who speculated that La Follette's pension could have ballooned to more than $2 million over the years.
The office has faced years of downsizing, with most of its key duties being removed or transferred to the Department of Financial Institutions or the Department of Administration.
The secretary is third in line for the governor's office and is mostly responsible for record-keeping duties, primarily providing apostilles, which are international certificates of approval that a document is legitimate.
Another primary duty of the secretary is to sit on the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands, which is a three-person panel tasked with managing state properties and money to help pay for public school libraries and the University of Wisconsin System. The other board members are the state treasurer and the attorney general.


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If you want to check out the solar eclipse on August 21, your new aviator sunglasses won't cut it. You'll need a pair of solar eclipse glasses to gaze at the first total solar eclipse to be seen from coast-to-coast in the United States since 1979. But the question remains: where can you buy solar eclipse glasses?
So what are solar eclipse glasses anyway? They're a bit like 3-D glasses you'd get at a movie theater, but with the addition of blacked-out lenses designed to block all but .01% of the sun's rays—which is important, since you'll be staring directly at the sun.
According to the American Astronomical Society (AAS), for about two minutes and 30 seconds on August 21, the moon will completely cover the sun, which means you could actually look directly at the solar eclipse. But looking at any uncovered light from the sun could result in harmful damage to your eyes, which is why you need the glasses.
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Related: There Will Be a Total Solar Eclipse in August—Here's What You Need to Know to See It Safely
Some stores are selling knockoff solar eclipse glasses that won't fully protect your eyes. The AAS website helpfully outlines specific vendors and locations where you can purchase legitimate solar eclipse glasses, but it's not the easiest thing to find right now, so we've compiled a list of websites where you can still snatch one (or a few) up.
- Stock Eclipse Glasses, 25-pack for $100, Eclipseglasses.com
- Plastic Solar Eclipse Glasses, 3-pack for $25, Daylightsky.co.uk
- Omegon SunSafe Solar Eclipse Viewing Glasses, $10, Astroshop.eu
- Solar Eclipse Glasses, $3, Educationharbor.com
- Rainbow Symphony Eclipse Glasses, 5-pack for $40, Avenuesofthesky.com
- Deluxe Wrap Around Solar Eclipse Glasses, $100, Khanscope.com
- Eclipse Glasses, 10-pack for $160, Fireflybuys.com
- Safe Solar Eclipse Glasses, $36, Dhgate.com
- The Real Solar Eclipse Glasses, 3-pack for $70, Ebay.com
If you're already doing some shopping at a chain like Walmart or Best Buy, you might be able to walk out with some solar eclipse glasses if they have some in stock. But buying the glasses isn't your only option. If you can't get your hands on a pair, you can sit back on the couch and check out NASA's solar eclipse livestream from the comfort of your own home, starting at noon.


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family, family life, friends, insects, seashore, wild flowers
This is another diary post. Before I write anymore accounts of days out and holidays I really ought to tell you about a few things that have been happening lately.
The saddest event of all is that my mother-in-law died on Thursday 13th August. She had been in very poor health for some time and had had to move into a nursing home a few months ago. This made her unhappy but she knew that she was incapable of living on her own any more and was doing her best to come to terms with the changes this entailed. My brother-in-law had visited her during the afternoon of the day she died and hadn't been home long when he got a call from the nursing home telling him she had collapsed and the ambulance had been called for. He telephoned us and said he had been told that there wasn't much hope that she would survive and we were to prepare for the worst. He phoned us again a few minutes later to say she had died.
The strange thing was that we were only an hour or so away from Manchester (where my husband's family live) when Chris phoned us. Thursday 13th August was the day we travelled to the Peak District with our caravan to spend a week there on holiday and with the hope of visiting Mum-in-law. We had set up the caravan where we usually stay in Leek, Staffordshire and put up the awning on the side of the van already. We had then driven to Sheffield (about an hour's journey) to take Elinor to stay with Alice for the week. Alice had given us a cup of tea and we had left the girls there together and were driving back to Leek. We had almost got to Buxton when Chris's call came through.
We went to Manchester the next morning. The rain, which had started when we got to Sheffield the night before, was still coming down so the roads were very wet and some were flooded. We went to Chris's house and spent some time talking to him and his partner Annie and then went out to have some lunch together in a pub. During the afternoon we went to Joyce's (Mum-in-law's) nursing home and sorted out all her belongings, taking some away with us but donating all of her clothes and a lot of her equipment and wheel-chair to the nursing home. They were pleased to accept all we could give them as there are many old people in homes who have no relations to get them clothes and other necessaries.
The Coroner couldn't establish a cause of death despite a post mortem and there have been a number of tests done and an inquest has been held. All extremely painful for my husband and his brother. Eventually the date for the funeral was set and it duly took place yesterday 2nd September. There was a large turn-out of family and friends and all went smoothly and we hope Joyce would have approved. Richard had the difficult task of writing the eulogy which he delivered with dignity. The wake was in the upper rooms of a nearby pub and that was a success too.
Our holiday was a weird one to say the least! Richard's 62nd birthday was on Sunday 16th August so we went to a church in Leek and said more prayers for Joyce and then went to a café for brunch. There wasn't much else we could do. We met Alice and Elinor in Bakewell on Tuesday 18th August and told them the sad news.
This was one of Joyce's favourite pieces of music.
A lot of our time has been spent (as usual) in keeping appointments with doctors, with physiotherapists and at hospital. Not a week goes by, it seems, without one or other of us having to go to see some specialist or another! Elinor went to her yearly appointment with the physiotherapist and was told she needed to do more calf-stretching exercises. I'm not sure that she has done anything about it yet! Richard went to the hospital for yet another MRI brain scan but won't hear the results until he sees the specialist in a few weeks. He also went to the eye clinic and all seems okay. I took my Mum to her eye clinic again last week and she had to return there on Tuesday for another eye injection. I went to the Rheumatology clinic for a check-up and it seems I am in a medically-induced remission. My blood tests show excellent results and I have lost all the fluid on my finger joints. The nurse suggested I give up one of my drugs for a month to see if it made any difference to the problem I have in my throat. It hasn't made any difference at all, so I'm back on the drug and my GP at my local surgery has asked the Ear, Nose and Throat clinic to give me an appointment so they can investigate further.
Alice works part-time in the University library in Sheffield and some months ago went to a number of internal job interviews. She desperately needs a full-time job, preferably one in which she can use her librarianship skills instead of filling shelves and moving crates of books about as she is doing at the moment. She was disappointed to hear that though she had been offered a job one grade higher than the one she was doing, it was still a part-time job and as the hours were fewer she would be earning less money. After a lot of thought she decided to accept the job and after some discussion with her supervisor she has been given a few more hours and is earning slightly more money than in her last position. She moved house at the weekend and she is now sharing with a few other people (one of them a friend of hers) and will be paying less rent. This will be a Good Thing! She has finished the corrections and amendments to her PhD and has handed it back in to have it read through again. When that's done she will have to get it printed – not just one copy but several – which will be yet another expense for her. We will then hear when she will receive her Doctorate which we all hope to attend if possible. She had her 30th birthday on the 24th July and her friends got together and arranged a Haunted Sheffield Tour for her to go on which she found great fun.
Elinor wasn't able to go into college to collect her GCSE results as we were still away in the Peak District so she got the results in the post. She didn't do as well as she had hoped but she passed three out of the four exams she took. She got a D in Maths so she will have to re-take that exam next year. She got an A in Psychology but only Cs in English and Art. We are pleased that she managed to do as well as this because she missed two whole years of school and at one stage we didn't think she'd ever be able to get any qualifications at all. The college have found that the grades the students got this year were generally much lower than expected. I don't know if this is the fault of the college or if the marking was stricter than usual. She went into college last Wednesday for her enrolment and was disappointed to find she can't take the Graphic Art course she wanted to do because of her failed Maths exam. She will do a years Art and Design course and re-take her Maths and then she will decide what she does next. The Graphic Design tutors say that they will assess her work after six weeks this term with a view to moving her onto the Graphic Design course if she is doing very well.
Richard has now retired. His final week at work was last week and he had a good send-off from his colleagues. He will be giving back his fleet car tomorrow and has ordered a new car of his own which will be delivered in just over a week's time. He hasn't had time to appreciate the fact of his retirement yet. He still has a number of things to sort out with his brother with regard to his mother. Once that has been done he will relax a little and then begin to feel retired.
I spent a lovely day in Norwich with my dear friend Wendy. We met at school 45 years ago! Her husband was working in this area for a few days so she joined him and took the opportunity to visit former neighbours of theirs and to see me. Fortunately the weather was fine and we were able to find somewhere to sit outside and have coffee and a long chat.
We then went to have a look at the Roman Catholic Cathedral which is an enormous building and has many fine features. I'll probably make a post about it sometime soon. We walked from there to the Plantation Garden. We had a lovely lunch together and I then walked back with her to her hotel. In thinking about this special day I am amazed to realise that I cannot remember the last time I spent a day out with her or in fact with any friend. I very, very occasionally meet someone for coffee or lunch or I visit Wendy's house in company with my family but a whole day away from home with a friend enjoying myself…. no, I can't recall anything since I was in my early twenties!
I always look forward to having my piano tuned each year. Kimble Reynolds is a very skillful man who not only tunes pianos but can also build, restore and repair them. He has a piano gallery in Blundeston in Suffolk and has recently invented a way of teaching people how to read music which doesn't entail having to learn the names of the notes. His invention is called Noterettes. He is a lovely man and I enjoy talking to him and we spend most of his visit laughing together.
With all the upheaval of Joyce's death and Richard's retirement, we haven't had time for much gardening or walking locally. We managed to visit Dunwich beach for an hour on Saturday. We bought some chips from the fish and chip restaurant in the beach car-park and then walked on the beach. The weather was quite over-cast and there was a very strong wind blowing but it was good to be away from the house for a while.
Thanks for visiting!


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Found at American Digest a while back. Made by John E., who says of his work:
"In this infographic, I took a look at various statements and promises made by Barack Obama (and a few others) during both the 2008 campaign and early on in his Presidency. These statements were then set against current statistics and those from inauguration day or 2008 for annual stats."
Click to embiggen.
The other day I caught a reference to the previously unknown-to-me blog, Pesky Truth, where Garnet92 has written a couple of excellent articles on The Good and The Bad sides of Texas Governor Rick Perry. They are well researched and include links to most, if not all, cited references. While I'm not endorsing any republican candidate at the moment, I highly recommend these as a starting point to educate yourself on Perry's positives and negatives.
Hat Tip to Doug Ross and Ace of Spades HQ.
Zilla has a thought provoking piece concerning the vetting of candidates in light of a post 9/11 America.


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This lecture was part of the Divine Disorder Conference on the Conservation of Outsider Folk art that was organized and hosted by NCPTT. The conference was held February 15-16, 2012 on the campus of Northwestern University in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
Clementine Hunter; History of Forgery
The talk will present a biographical sketch of the folk artist, Clementine Hunter, born in southern Natchitoches Parish in late 1887 and died January 1, 1988.
Around 2000 a group of paintings appeared on the market supposedly by Hunter but later found to be painted by Beryl and William Toye. The lecture will include details of the fraud and how eventually law enforcement took what became an extraordinary criminal case and prosecution.
The subsequent investigation and legal proceedings resulted in a case study of an art fraud that spanned over 35 years. Extensive work by the FBI and leading scientific and analytical experts exposed a great range of forgeries by the Toyes, including modern masters such as Matisse and Degas.
The lead agent from the FBI on the case, Randolph Deaton IV, and Joseph Barabe, Senior Research Microscopist, McCrone Associates, Inc., will present details of the investigation and successful prosecution.
I briefly will give two parts of my presentation today. One will be, the approximate first half will be, a biography of Clementine Hunter. Not a very serious one or deep one but one to give you enough perspective tonight to see the African House mural, which will also be discussed this morning and then the last half of my talk will be an introduction to the forgery case that Mr. Deaton will continue with when I finish.
Clementine Hunter was an extraordinary person. She was born in the nineteenth century. We do not know for sure when she was born, but we do know from church records, that she was christened in the catholic church on March 19 and you don't see the book here, it was the 1888 book. She was the natural daughter of Antoinette Adams as you will probably read in there.
She lived her first fifteen years with her family, approximately fifteen years; some of these dates are a little hazy in here. Around the turn of the last century at Hidden Hill Plantation, which is in south Cloutierville, which is south of Natchitoches, about 20 miles from here, at approximately the age of fifteen, her father moved to Melrose Plantation. He had been a sharecropper at Hidden Hill and when he came to Melrose, he became a tenant farmer, which had a different status in terms of earning some income, much more income.
At Melrose, Clementine was enrolled at school. She never liked school. She quit school. She would run away. So finally they quit trying to get her to go to school and she started working in the cotton fields picking cotton. Now, in order to set the site of Melrose in perspective, I need to give you a brief background on the history of Melrose Plantation.
It is a unique place in Louisiana, and one of the unique plantations in America. It was founded by the descendants of a freed African American slave named Marie Therese Coincoin. She had a relationship with a white businessman here in town named Thomas Pierre Metoyer. Their relationship resulted in a group of children, offspring, that became the ( ?) of the Creole community here. Her two sons went out in the country, further out in Natchitoches to Melrose and started a plantation and it was never known as Melrose then. It probably was called the Metoyer place. The two young men were named Metoyer. They started a plantation. They grew cotton. They harvested bear grease. They did other agricultural entities of that time. Now, you have to think a moment here. Here were Creole people owning slaves. It was a large slave holding operation and that operation built the first structure there. They built the initial house, which you'll see tonight and they also built this cottage we believe, we call it to date the Yucca House and probably the house that we call African House was built as a storage house at that time. The dates are approximate. There is research being done continually on when these buildings were actually constructed.
Melrose stayed in the hands of the Metoyers until the 1840's when during an economic downturn, they lost the plantation. They sold it to the Hertzog family, a white family and they owned it until about 1880 and in 1880 they sold it to a speculator from New Orleans who bought it entirely with the purpose of trying to make money off of it. In 1885 they sold it to Mr. Henry. Mr. Henry went out there and started a plantation. He inherited it and married about 1895 and that is the beginning of the Henry period or the Henry aristocracy of Melrose Plantation. They're the ones that gave it the name Melrose.
Early on Mr. Henry, whose wife's name was Cammie Garrett Henry. Her husband died and left her with six small children. So she had no other way to earn income. So she stayed out at Melrose and she began a very large agricultural operation. The primary crop was cotton and it took a large amount of labor. With running the plantation, Cammie was not able to travel or to go to the city and meet with interesting people, so she started inviting people to come to Melrose. It was not what you would call a formal artists' colony but it was a place for writers and authors who came, particularly from the New Orleans area. Cammie converted some of these outbuildings at Melrose, including the Yucca House, into guest cottages. The guest cottage, Yucca House, originally held the last of the living slaves. The former slaves died in 1924 with Uncle Israel and Aunt Jane and that house became the cottage that a prominent New Orleans writer named Lyle Saxon lived in until his death in the 1940's.
So Melrose in the 1920's and 30's became a place, a lot through the impetus of Lyle Saxon, where writers and artists came that could ride the trains within a mile of Melrose and they would come and do periods of visitation, sort of like a residency. They could create works at Melrose. One of Lyle Saxon's most famous books was written in the 1930's, Children of Strangers and it was set as a fictitious version of Melrose Plantation.
Now Clementine Hunter enters back into the picture. She left the field and became a house servant, a maid at the house and also became a cook. Now to set the stage for Clementine Hunter becoming an artist, we have to think a moment that she did not know what art was. She had no concept of art. It was not something she had been exposed to. She did have the opportunity to see artists work at Melrose and that's where the concept of art developed. A prominent New Orleans artist, Alberta Kinsey, would come up and stay at the Melrose during various times of the year to paint. So she would see Alberta working and painting. Also, some of you may know Doris Ulmann, the photographer from New York. She came out and was taking photographs and picture at Melrose.
So Clementine saw people in creative environments and the story goes, and you know stories become true over time, the idea that Alberta Kinsey left discarded tubes of paint and Clementine asked for them and started painting. Now how do you (?) that one day. We do know, here's an early photograph of her paintings, this is probably in the 1940's, 1950's, early 50's. It's a picture of her painting outside a little house. She had a sign up that said "Art Exhibit." It started out at twenty-five cents a look and went up to fifty cents to look, and I believe before she left Melrose, it was up to a dollar to look. She had a little porch on her house, a little place where she put pictures to be exhibited that she wanted to sell and frequently, if you find one with a nail hole in it, you'll know that's a real one because she always used a hammer to put the pictures up. She did not have any other way to hang the pictures. I have one that I think is a really great one because it's got a hole in it where she hung it outside the wall for people to look.
These are two examples of her early paintings. We can date this painting to the early 40's. She had a self-taught style of art. She only painted things she knew and here's another example of one from this early period. It's almost like a wash, but it is with oil paint. She painted scenes she knew, stories she knew. Some were religious but most were scenes of plantation life. I have to pause here a moment because there's so many layers to the story of Clementine Hunter and I must now jump for a moment to New York City in the 1930's.
Two men that lived in New York at that time would later have a very important influence upon the life of Clementine Hunter. One of them was an interesting character named Frank Mineah. He was from Portland, New York and we know very little about him. He was from a working class family. He spent one semester at Columbia University in New York. We don't know what happened there. We don't know if he quit, flunked out or what. We just don't know. He took a job at an international bookstore in New York City. Along the way, he met with and took up a relationship with Christian Bell. Christian Bell was French and he worked at the French Consulate in New York City. During the 1930's, the late 30's, Francois was getting blind and after extensive medical observations, they discovered he had inoperable cataracts. So Christian Bell decides that while François still has some vision, he needs to go out and show Francois the south. By now Francois has completely changed his name. He just created the character of Francois Mignon. He went from Frank Mineah, we think probably under the influence of Christian Bell. I have found some letters that were addressed to Frank Mignon and the Frank evolved into Francois Mignon. So by 1938 – 39, Frank Mineah will completely become Francois Mignon.
Christian Bell brought Francois and they came down to Natchez, Mississippi. Now this is kind of interesting. At that time, you would think that New Orleans would have been the social Mecca of this part of the world, but it actually it was not. It was Natchez, Mississippi. The old southern aristocracy was in Natchez. And Lyle and Miss Cammie were visiting in Natchez and they ran into Christian Bell and Francois Mignon and Cammie invited them to come visit Melrose on their way back. So they left Natchez, came to Melrose, then went back through New Orleans, and back to New York. When they returned to New York, Christian was posted to a new job, a counsel in Puerto Rico. He was going to have to move to Puerto Rico. Francois was going blind, was not able to read to work, what was he going to do. Well, Cammie started writing letters, inviting him to come live at Melrose, work with her on the gardens, and supposedly Francois had been involved in the restoration of the gardens of Versailles. Now in Portland, New York, he created this persona of being and landscape architect and a lawyer that worked outside of Paris.
Now when he came to Melrose, this is where the story gets important as a connection to Clementine. In 1939, on October 27th, Francois got on a train in New York City at Penn Station and headed to Shreveport. On that day, he started a journal called the Louisiana Journal. It later sort of became the plantation journal. By the time he left Melrose in 1969, he had written over 17,000 pages. He wrote six days a week, never on Saturdays and that journal chronicles a fascinating period of time of 30 years when the south was changing, the whole life changed from 1939 to 1969. Those 17,000 plus pages of journal are now housed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. If you're just really curious and want to read something fascinating, they have just digitized the first several hundred pages at Chapel Hill. If you will go to the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, to the southern archives, search Francois Mignon, you will find some of the pages are digitized. Absolutely fascinating reading because this part of the story, this all tangles up together, is that on December 19th, 1939, he had been at Melrose less than two months, he writes that the Negress wash lady came by and said she painted pictures and she's going to bring me a picture. So that's the first documented proof that we have that Clementine painted. From then on, we know all these stories about her work and art and painting at Melrose. It's absolutely a fascinating insight.
I haven't got the time to go through all of this but in the 1940's another character entered the scene named James Register. He was from out here in the country of Louisiana and he lived in Oklahoma City in northern Oklahoma. He presented himself as a professor of ( ? ) at the University of Oklahoma. Later we found out he worked in the film library rewinding film. But you know, he created this character and then lived this life. Register and Francois become involved with promoting Clementine in the 1940's. There's all kinds of great stories, and they try to get Life magazine to do a spread on Clementine. They register mailed some old paintings to Life, Life doesn't respond, they just keep the paintings and he can't get the paintings back. There is correspondence about this and they saved everything. Besides the 17,000 pages of journal, there are another 6000 pages of correspondence at Chapel Hill and Francois did everything on a type writer. He couldn't see to write so he put carbon paper, so you can see both sides of the correspondence. You'll see the letter and you'll see his response. He corresponded with Eleanor Roosevelt, with Alice B. Toklas. It's just fascinating things. That's one of the difficult parts of doing research, is you get sidetracked so easily with some of their stories.
This is a famous episode. In 1955, here at Northwestern, they had an exhibition of Clementine's paintings, one of the early exhibitions. Now, it was interesting, the story goes, and there are different versions of these stories, because Francois wrote a version and sometimes other people wrote versions, is that they would not allow Clementine to come to the university because she was black and because there was a segregation policy. But the story goes, they brought her up here on a weekend and they opened the exhibit place and showed her the paintings and they had a little program printed. She went back home and painted a picture on the program of her visit to the museum on the exhibit. ( ? ) that is owned by a family here in Natchitoches that is here today.
Here's a close up of her painting. She always marked her picture first with a pencil. That's something the forgers didn't always do, but there is her drawing marking a painting. This is the little house she lived in at Melrose Plantation. She lived there for most of the 40's and 50's. She lived out in (?) earlier. This is where we're going tonight, the Africa House at Melrose. In 1955, and we know the date in June, Francois wakes up one morning with the idea, "why don't we go upstairs in the Africa House, " clean it out and why don't we have Clementine paint pictures to put in the Africa House. Well he goes and asks her and she said okay, I'll do it. So they send a truck to Natchitoches to buy plywood and this is in early June of 1955. By July the 25th, the paintings are finished and here are two views of the paintings at Melrose and you'll see these tonight and one of our guests today did conversation work, he (?) discussion about conservation of the murals. There are nine murals that depict plantation life and they have become really, some of the iconic pictures of southern art, from the perspective of an insider, a person that actually lived the cotton picking, the Saturday nights at the honky tonk, and the wash days, the funerals, the wakes. These stories are told in these murals.
1955 was a good year. Here's a page from The New Orleans Times-Picayune. They did a story. There was a color picture of the murals (?) right after they were completed. There's a photograph of Clementine and Francois in the back of her house porch and there's a picture of a house, Yucca House, in front where they were sitting. Francois had a sugar kettle they grew water lilies in. In 1977, there was a flood at Melrose and the water went under her house. She was scared of the water so she bought a house trailer and the house trailer she lived in until she died on January 1, 1988, and that house moved three times on Cane River. She moved to the first place and she didn't like that too much. She moved on Ricks Place for awhile and then she decided at the age of 98, she had never owned a piece of property. So she bought a piece of property in the little town of Natchez, Louisiana and moved her trailer there and that's where she was when she passed away.
This is a picture that we're going to hear more about today, I just wanted to throw this in. Here are two conservators that came from the Kimble Museum in the summer of 1984 to do conservation work and I think it's very special that one of the two conservators is here today. So this is really a follow up twenty eight years later, and I will kind of close my biographical sketch with just a couple of pictures here she painted. She never used an easel. She always, always held the painting in her hand or propped it up to paint so there are frequently fingerprints or smudges and this is the little final picture here. This is a photograph that I had taken when she was charging 50 cents a look. She had increased her price.
Now that's a kind of biographical sketch. This is a condensed quick version of a book that we're writing that's coming out this fall. I need to tell you now the story to introduce the forgery discussion that's going to take place this morning. In the summer of 2000, we had a man down here from Minooka, Minnesota, suburbs of Minneapolis. His name is Dr. Hugh Shapoista . He had been a very successful text book writer for elementary school kids, spell books, readers, science books and he came to Natchitoches early in the 70's sometime and was taken to Melrose, met Clementine and became fascinated with Clementine. He acquired a large collection of paintings and was working on a book. He had health issues, problems with his legs, and he became a paraplegic but he had a caregiver. They had a van and they had it handicapped equipped and they drove down from Minnesota. We had lunch at the Brittain's home, we talked and it was interesting. We have a friend of mine here in town, who had some kids and he thought, well, you know, I'm going to buy some Clementine's to invest. (?) go to school and I will buy the paintings, when they go to college, I figure they'll be worth more and I'll sell them. So he bought some paintings from Robert Lucky here in town, who had been a dealer here, and was moving to New Orleans. My friend said to me," you know I've got one exceptional painting that I've never seen before," and he said you know Hugh might like to buy it. I said I hadn't seen it so after lunch we load Hugh up in the van and we go to his office, go out in the back and they bring the painting out to the van. It's a very complicated painting.
Now Clementine painted cotton pickings, pecan pickings and culling the cotton and all these scenes of work at Melrose, wash days. Well this painting had all of them on one board. There was a little cotton picking, a little wash day, a little cotton picking all over. Well, I had never seen that and Hugh looked at it and said, "Gee, this is good but you know, I just bought one like that from Robbie". Well that should have rung bells but it didn't too much because over her life, Clementine painted exceptional (?) paintings but she also painted a lot of mundane paintings, (?) themes, wash days, cotton picking but occasionally she would go out and do something totally different that would really awe us. I mean, she was still being creative at her late age. Well, so over the next two years a friend of mine, now deceased, and Anne and I bought seventeen of these paintings from Robbie Lucky. His story to us was there was a lady from England, who had married an American soldier, a civil engineer, came back to New Orleans and while he worked, she made trips to Melrose to visit Clementine and acquired these paintings. She had them stored in a closet and every once in awhile she'd pull one out and sell it. You know, we didn't know every one that went to Melrose but there was a little clique of folks, we kind of knew names, you always try, when you went to Clementine's to take her supplies. We have never known her to buy any art boards, or canvas boards or paints or anything. People brought her stuff and we always wrote our name on the back, Tommy, Anne, Bob, whatever. So we would try to get our boards back. We didn't all the time because she would sell them and that was okay.
Well this person in New Orleans he told, her name was Mrs. Samoridge, and Mrs. Samoridge had these paintings that she had acquired in the 70's. So they were really good. But after seventeen of these things, it became more and more concerned that everyone of them was really good. In my collection at home I have some fabulous ones but I also have some that are not so fabulous. I mean she could miss, got outside of the lines and stuff, it was kind of messy. Well, we sort of got out of the (?) business and my friend Anne passed away. So I was out of that. However, I was up in Arkansas visiting some friends and my friend up in Arkansas said, "I want to show you a Clementine I bought," and I said okay. So he brought out a Christmas tree. Now she painted a few Christmas trees. I have a Christmas tree and I've maybe seen seven or eight Christmas trees. Well, my friend in Arkansas said, "look at this, it's really…" and it was a good Christmas tree and he said, "You know what else?" I said what. He said. "I told Robbie that I have three kids, and I'd like to be able someday to leave each kid a Christmas tree painting for the holidays. So Robbie said, "Let me check on it." In two months there were two more Christmas trees. So I knew then that there was a big problem. Well, but we didn't know the source of the paintings. That was a problem. It was just coming and we knew people all over the country buying these pictures now from Robbie.
Well, we did a book in 2005 on the African House murals; a beautiful book celebrating the fiftieth anniversary and of course, the book came out in August of 2005, the same month that Katrina hit New Orleans. So that ( ? ) completely crashed any publicity or anything to do with selling the book. Well in 2006, we had a Barnes & Noble book signing in Baton Rouge. We go there; it's a cast of characters. I'm there, Art Shiver's there, a prominent art dealer in Baton Rouge, Shelby Gilley shows up. His son is her e today and we are signing books and talking and this kid that went to school here at Northwestern comes up. He's a lawyer and he says to me, "I just bought my wife a Clementine for a Christmas present and I want to show it to you." I said fine. He goes out to the car and comes in to Barnes & Noble with the painting. Well he hands it to Shelby Gilley and he looks at it, and Shelby kind of shakes his head. I look at it, and I at first don't catch it. Shelby looks at me again and I look at it more carefully and I realize it's one of these; it's one of these same ones. There's certain characteristics you can tell. Well that was interesting but my friend, the lawyer, didn't know. He just bought it from a dealer in Baton Rouge, not from Shelby. We go ahead and leave. We're kind of really fascinated by this and we eat lunch and head back to Natchitoches from Baton Rouge and over the Atchafalaya Basin, I remember it vividly, the phone rings and it's Shelby. He says we know whose doing the paintings and I said; who and he said William Toye. We had known in 1974 on April 3rd, on the front page of the Times Picayune in New Orleans there was a photograph with ( ?) NOPD had arrested Mr. Toye and there was a display of fake Clementine's. Well we didn't know what happened to Mr. Toye since nobody knew anything about Toye.
A guy in Baton Rouge whose name is Don Fuson runs an art shop, Christmas shop, kind of lots of things in Baton Rouge and does art conservation carpentry work. Well, Mr. Toye had approached him after Katrina and said, "We lost everything in New Orleans except our collection of Clementine paintings and we need to sell some Clementine's. So Don Fuson had bought a whole bunch of Clementine's from Mr. Toye. Don Fuson, that afternoon, he brought them over to Shelby's shop and Shelby said these are fake. So Don goes to Mr. Toye's house and walks in and I'm not going to spoil the story. I'm going to let (?) Deaton tell the story in a few minutes about what happened when Don Fuson went to the house but let's just say it involves lots of cats and (?).
The problem and this is where it really gets really interesting, I hope, for the audience, we tried from then on, Don Fuson, myself, Shelby Gilley, the lawyer in Baton Rouge, and there was another couple of people, a couple of lawyers involved, we couldn't find anybody interested in taking the case. True story. The FBI in Lafayette, Louisiana was approached by an attorney. The FBI in Baton Rouge was approached. I drove to Baton Rouge and went to a meeting with the three assistant attorneys general of the State of Louisiana. They met with the district attorney. They met with the sheriff. They met with the US attorney in Baton Rouge. Everyone agreed this is really terrible but nobody did anything about it. Now this was going on for nearly a year. It was white collar crime you know, whatever, nobody did a thing about it. Finally the group contracted with, consulted with the US attorney in Shreveport and there are two heroes in this story. One of them is Alex (?) who is the first assistant US attorney in Shreveport and the other hero in this story is our next speaker, Special Agent FBI Randolph Deaton IV, Randy Deaton.
Speaker Biography
Tom Whitehead, a retired professor from Northwestern State University, knew the artist and became her unofficial biographer. He co-authored Clementine Hunter: The African House Murals in 2005, and Clementine Hunter: Cane River Artist to be published by the LSU Press in the fall of 2012.


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Tensions are running high in Ivory Coast, where Laurent Gbagbo, the incumbent president defeated in November elections is refusing to hand over power to his newly-elected rival Alassane Ouattara (see Black Box chronology bottom of page). Philippe Duval reports from Grand Bassam, a spot just outside the economic capital Abidjan, where a divided population feverishly await the next development in the crisis.
Grand Bassam is the former French colonial capital abandoned in 1900 after an outbreak of yellow fever. This is where, 30 kilometres from the economic capital Abidjan, women marched at the end of the 1940s to shake off the colonial yoke. This is also where, in the 1990s, a local secondary school was the scene of a revolt that soon spread to others in Abidjan, to demand the implementation of multi-party democracy.
A tumultuous city, a concentrate of all the contradictions of Ivory Coast, Grand Bassam is on edge today. On November 28th, it voted for Alassane Ouattara, and since then, the near daily run-ins with the forces of law and order have left at least two dead and numerous wounded. On the seafront is the French quarter, with its dilapidated colonial houses waiting to be officially classified as part of world national heritage, its luxury villas, its hotels, often run by French people, and visited by wealthy Ivoreans, white ex-pats, and UN officials for weekends on the beach. On the scorching sand they brush up against hoards of craftsmen come to tote their wares from all over West Africa, and battalions of'balles perdues' ('stray bullets', the nickname given to young prostitutes) looking for a few euros.


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The company that can communicate clear, compelling benefits and good differentiators usually gets the sale.I think we're seeing some real product differentiation in racing. And I think that is good.
I've never been convinced lack of IndyCar oval consumers has been a question of poor promotion. I increasingly think it's a product differentiation issue, as in there isn't enough differences. Consumers of racing only have so much time and attention to give. When IndyCar is basically NASCAR without fenders, it's not going to prevail. Just not different enough. In fact, masses of people seem to LIKE the contact in NASCAR. Even if you don't like the crashes, which I don't, I am intrigued by the sort of give-and-take contact on the track that is part of the racing. Danica Patrick articulated it very well here when she said:
pressdog: Drivers seem to know -- they sort of have an unspoken or universal knowledge of what is good, and what's acceptable and what's not acceptable. Do you find that to be true?
Danica: Yeah, I do. I think that while things happen on the track and you might not even tell anyone about them, because guess what -- you'll just go out and fix it the next weekend. I mean, it's just as easy as that. And I think that probably happens within stock car racing quite a bit, and you kind of deal with it out on the track yourself, and that's the best way. Sometimes, it's also what feels the best, too, as a driver is to be able to take it into your own hands.
Given recent comments about the lone 1.5-mile track left on the schedule (Texas Motor Speedway), I now think IndyCar will soon stop racing at those size tracks. Go ahead and grieve if you have to. I know I have. But I think that's a done deal. IndyCar's differentiator, of course, are the road-and-street races. NASCAR does maybe two twisty races, so that segment is all IndyCar's.
Whether or not that is a good business proposition for IndyCar has yet to be seen. But at least the differentiation is clear. IndyCar is the 500, the road-and-street and maybe a sprinkling of small ovals. They are, pretty much, the most versatile drivers in the world. NASCAR is full-contact oval racing. They are all about contact and circles.
If you like open-wheel pack racing ... condolences. Personally, I've moved on to get my oval jollies the only from the only avaiable outlet. It's not personal, it's business.


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Emily Manoogian
Emily Manoogian, Ph.D. is a researcher at the Salk Institute who studies the intricate interaction between our body's biological rhythms and the timing of our daily habits. These internal rhythms interact with our daily behaviors of when and how much we sleep, eat, and exercise. As the head of human research in Dr. Satchin Panda's lab at Salk, Emily monitors the timing of these behaviors in thousands of people around the world to gain insight on how they relate to health.
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Patrick Hsu, Ph.D. is a Principal Investigator and Salk Helmsley Fellow at the Salk Institute. The Hsu Lab employs an interdisciplinary approach for discovery-based synthetic biology to develop new avenues for cell design and control, with applications in gene and engineered-cell therapeutics for neurodegeneration and cancer. Working at the Broad Institute and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, he contributed to the early development of CRISPR-Cas9 genome engineering technologies.
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Stephanie Culler, Ph.D. is co-founder and CEO of Persephone Biome, which is taking a unique approach to gut microbiome health, understanding and leveraging the rich metabolic capabilities of the microbes themselves to develop targeted nutritional products and better therapeutic drugs. Stephanie was previously a senior scientist at Genomatica, developing and applying synthetic biology tools toward the engineering of microorganisms as biocatalysts for the industrial production of sustainable chemicals.
Ken Diffenderfer
Ken Diffenderfer, MS manages the Stem Cell Core lab operations including hands-on training of new and experienced researchers, and procurement and validation of human stem cell culture reagents, in addition to advancing gene editing technologies. Ken was also instrumental in establishing and streamlining reprogramming methodologies in the stem cell core. For his graduate work, Ken completed a CIRM Bridges sponsored MS program in Biotechnology with an emphasis in Stem Cell Technology.
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Margot Wohl is a Graduate Student Fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and neuroscience graduate student at UCSD. Her research centers on how brain cells and the molecules they exchange give rise to aggressive behaviors in fruit flies. She's an avid science communicator, producing the KPBS "Rad Scientist" podcast. Her most embarrassing moment was asking John Glenn what the moon was like. She was ten. Can someone please build her a time machine to correct this error?
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There are several things you will want to consider before taking your toddler on their first trip by plane, such as what should go on your traveling checklist, what to pack, and how to avoid airport tantrums. Below you will find information on these three topics.
Traveling Checklist
Here's a list of the things that you're going to want to pack:
• Fine Baby® Diapers (pack extras in case your flight is delayed)
• A changing pad to place under your toddler when changing its Fine Baby® Diapers (you can opt for disposable ones if available)
• Fine Baby® Wet wipes
• Plastic bags to store soiled clothes, Fine Baby® diapers and shoes
• Disinfecting hand gel
• Fine® Tissues
• Blanket(s)
• Toys and books to keep your toddler entertained
• Sippy cup or water bottle to make sure your toddler remains hydrated
• Washable bibs
• Snacks to forestall hunger-related crankiness
• Collapsible stroller in case your toddler gets tired of walking or you get tired of carrying them while at the airport
Packing Tips
Any trip requires a bit of forethought when it comes to packing, particularly trips that involve young children. Here are a few tips on what to pack and how you should pack it to make your life a bit easier when it's time to move:
• Begin packing a few days before you travel to make sure you have everything you need.
• Bring along a waterproof diaper bag with a shoulder strap.
• Keep your toddler's clothes in one suitcase so you can find them easily.
• Pack an extra shirt for yourself in your carry-on in case of messes.
• Pack medicines and toiletries in re-sealable plastic bags to prevent leaks.
Preventing Airport Tantrums
No one wants to have to deal with a full-blown tantrum in public, let alone one at an airport. Here are a few tips on how to keep your toddler complacent when traveling by plane:
• Maintain your normal routine as much as possible. This includes providing snacks and allowing for naps around the same times your child is used to having them. If you can, try to travel during off-peak seasons when airports are less crowded and not as intimidating.
• Bring along lots of toys and entertainment. Pack several of your toddler's favorite books, toys, and comfort items such as a favorite blanket or stuffed animal. Make sure that the toys you bring don't make much noise in order to avoid disturbing fellow travelers.
• Have your toddler wear a backpack if they're old enough. Make sure that the backpack is small and light, and allow your toddler to pack their favorite items in it. Toddlers can find great pleasure in the simple act of unzipping, pulling out and returning different goodies from their very own bags.
• Explain to your toddler what is expected of it ahead of time. Let them understand that the trip will involve a good deal of sitting and quiet play time.
• Try to get window seats. Letting your toddler enjoy the view will keep them entertained for a while and can be educational.
• If possible, opt for a non-stop flight. By doing so you'll be eliminating the hassle of having to take connecting flights and getting off at different airports.
• Remember that you're in charge. As the adult, it is your responsibility to keep things from getting out of hand, and you can do this by gently, lovingly and firmly guiding your toddler's actions and trying to make the whole experience an enjoyable one for both yourself and your tot. Don't let the small things get to you.
• Label your toddler. Tag your toddler with an ID bracelet in case you lose sight of them at the airport. Write down your child's name, your name, your destination, your home address, and your phone number on the bracelet.


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Thora Birch
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Thora Birch (born March 11, 1982) is an American actress. She was a child actor in the 1990s, starring in movies such as All I Want for Christmas (1991), Patriot Games (1992), Hocus Pocus (1993), Now and Then (1995), and Alaska (1996). She came to prominence in 1999 after earning worldwide attention and praise for her performance in American Beauty. She then starred in the well received film


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Ever heard of vitamin K2? If you're like most people, we're guessing the answer is no. And while this nutrient isn't talked about much and may be easy to overlook, some say it's the "missing link" between the Western diet and several diseases and health ailments we're prone to suffer from.
Vitamin K was discovered in 1929 as an essential nutrient for blood clotting. Danish scientist Henrik Dam attributed anti-hemorrhaging data he found to this fat-soluble vitamin he called "Koagulations vitamin" (= vitamin K). In the 1930s, dentist Dr. Weston Price found that vitamin K is essential in maintenance of oral health (which we all know affects the entire health system) and that a diet including vitamin K can prevent and heal dental cavities.
Now you might be wondering, what's the difference between vitamin K1 and K2? Long story short, vitamin K refers to a group of vitamins that share a similar chemical structure; the two main forms found in the human diet are K1 and K2. Vitamin K1 is typically found in plant foods, namely leafy green vegetables (ie. kale, collard greens, and spinach), and makes up approximately 75% of vitamin K consumed by humans. Vitamin K2 is primarily found in animal products (pork, chicken, egg yolk and certain cheeses) and fermented foods (kefir, kombucha, and sauerkraut) and accounts for approximately 25% of our total vitamin K intake.
The health outcomes of incorporating sufficient amounts of vitamin K2 into your diet are plenty. Vitamin K2 (also called Menaquinone 7):
Have we convinced you yet that vitamin K2 is worth adding to your health routine? To up your vitamin K2 intake, try incorporating more chicken, eggs, and fermented foods into your diet. And as with any essential vitamins and minerals, we suggest adding a supplement to your dietary routine to ensure you're covering your bases and ingesting adequate amounts. Especially if you're vegetarian or don't want to increase your intake of animal products, supplements can be a good way to go in this case. We suggest taking our incredible Quick K2 before a meal, and you can take up to three per day!


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Vista is a social science consultancy with its head office in Oslo, Norway. Its main emphasis is on economic research, policy analysis and advice, and evaluations. Key thematic areas include climate change, energy and environment, transport, urban planning and welfare issues. The employees have high academic credentials and broad experience within consulting. Many Vista projects deal with practical analysis of impacts of projects and policies, especially environmental impacts. Clients are often decision-makers at different levels of government. Activities bridge knowledge from academic research and policy analysis with practical implementation of policies. The company is for example actively involved in drafting guidelines on the use of cost-benefit analysis, and especially giving guidance on how to deal with normally unpriced ecosystem service impacts.
Vista's involvement in the OpeNESS project will strengthen the channel for disseminating cutting edge research results on monetary and non-monetary ecosystem service assessments to relevant decision-makers in Norway through the company's large network and extensive project portfolio. In particular, Vista will be involved in the planned case study on urban ecosystem services in the capital Oslo.


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Charms and Bracelets
Sep 21, 2019
For centuries, charms have been used as a medium for superstition, religious beliefs and fashion. The ancient Egyptians first used charm amulets to gain the favor of the gods and to obtain a passage into the afterlife. Later, charms were used to ward off evil forces and were also used to curse enemies.


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Jason Bright
Jason Bright's 2012 V8 Supercars Championship to date has been a tale of two halves.
The Team BOC Holden languished down in 21st in the standings after the ITM400 Hamilton, but has since risen 10 places thanks to strong performances at Barbagallo and Phillip Island.
Speedcafe.com's Stefan Bartholomaeus spoke to the former Bathurst winner to find out more about the change in form.
SPEEDCAFE: Jason, test days are pretty precious commodities in this category. You had one on Monday at Winton, how did it go?
JASON BRIGHT: We got through a bit of stuff, but we had a mechanical problem which cost us a couple of hours at the end of the day which was a bit disappointing.
Over the last couple of rounds we've made a few changes with engineers and the philosophy of how we go about things, so it was good to spend a bit of time reaffirming some of the changes that we've made. I felt as though we had a pretty good day in that respect even though we didn't get the full day in. I think it will still put us in pretty good shape for the next couple of rounds.
SPEEDCAFE: You've had a real upswing in form over the last two events. Barbagallo was somewhere you went well last year, but to go out and back that up at Phillip Island where you've struggled a bit over the last couple of years, that must have been satisfying.
BRIGHT: It was very satisfying. To be honest, we made a fair bit of ground early in New Zealand. I was pleased with the pace we had on Friday there, and we made a couple of wrong calls over the rest of the weekend while we were trying to learn things and maybe didn't finish off the weekend as well as what we should have. But come Sunday night in New Zealand I was pretty sure I knew where we'd gone wrong.
In Perth we didn't have any dry practice time, so it was a pretty big gamble to go away from what we'd run the year before. We did decide to use the new stuff that we'd practiced and qualified with for the races and it turned out to be quite good.
But, like you said, Perth was good to us last year, so Phillip Island reaffirmed that the direction we've been going is working. The car was very strong there all weekend. As far as I'm concerned, over the last couple of rounds we've shown the best hard tyre qualifying form that we've ever had, so I'm pretty pleased with how far we've come.
SPEEDCAFE: You mentioned the engineer switch (Phil Keed moving to Fabian Coulthard's car and Andrew Edwards shifting to Bright's car) that took place before Hamilton. Talk us through the reasons behind that. It looked like a big decision.
BRIGHT: It was a very big decision. Phil and I have had a lot of success together, but it wasn't working as well as it had in the past. Towards the end of last year we certainly didn't continue on from the results that we were having in the middle of last year, and it wasn't really progressing any better this year. There were some differences of opinion on the direction that we needed to go, and I thought as though we weren't really achieving anything being on the same car.
It was a difficult situation because we'd had good success before so a lot of people thought that we should still be working together. But when you're pulling in different directions it's not productive for anyone, let alone the team as a whole. Brad made the decision to separate us to give everyone a chance to explore the different philosophies.
You could say that it was a leap of faith on Brad's part. Maybe it should have happened at the end of last year, I don't know, but I think it's proving to be a good exercise. We've certainly progressed a fair bit in the last couple of rounds and been able to focus solely on the one set-up rather than switching backwards and forwards like we had been. It's what we needed to do.
SPEEDCAFE: So how has it been working within the team as a whole over the last few events? Are the #8 and the #14 cars running separate programs?
BRIGHT: Not really. It started off that way, but it's really just small things. It's philosophies on ways that different components work. I think that we're sort of going in the same direction at the moment, but at each race meetings we have started off quite different. At Perth we finished off quite different, but at Phillip Island we finished very similar. Hopefully at the next test day and at the next couple of rounds the cars will be more closely aligned.
I thought that the performance we had at Winton and Barbagallo last year were a result of those tracks suiting us quite well and not showing up some of the weaknesses we had in the car. Some other tracks really showed up the weaknesses in the car and particularly in my driving style. I like to carry a lot of brake into the corners, and at times I was having a lot more trouble than what Fabian was with a similar set-up. I think there were certain tracks that really punished the way our car was working, and I think we're on top of that now.
SPEEDCAFE: Certainly since Barbagallo your qualifying has been outstanding…
BRIGHT: Yes, over the last five sessions it was only the one that got red flagged in Perth were we've been outside of the top five. The last two years have been very frustrating with the way we've been qualifying. Up till then I'd always considered myself a reasonable qualifier, but when things aren't going right it's not hard to qualify at the back of this field!
SPEEDCAFE: What would make a successful second half of the season for you? Do you look at where you are in the points standings, or do you just try and win as many races as you can?
BRIGHT: We've got to make sure that we continue to improve. For me, I just want to go out there and win as many races as we can. I'd love to walk away from the enduros with some really good results.
Championship wise, there are four guys at the front that are just having the sort of dream run that you normally only see one guy have. For four guys to be so close – they've all only had one or two bad results, which is a bit unheard of. If there's just one runaway guy at the front you can expect them to trip up at some stage, but to expect all four of them to trip up is a bit of a long shot.
We've moved up a long way from where we were after Adelaide, and now we've got to try and get up into the top five or six by the end of the year. I think that'd be a pretty good championship result for us.
SPEEDCAFE: Looking beyond 2012, what are your early feelings on how the team is positioned for the Car of the Future? You guys are one of many currently building up a base frame from Pace Innovations. The whole project is a massive undertaking.
BRIGHT: It is for sure. I look forward to COTF in some ways because it's a clean slate. I'm sure we'll be able to take some of the stuff we're leaning at the moment into COTF, and I think we can hit the ground running as good as everyone else.
The key to it will be making the testing count when we finally do hit the track. Everyone will have to deal with all of these new components coming together, and I'm really looking forward to the challenge of trying to develop it faster than anyone else.


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This is the information page of pinball tournament Kuopio Pinball Open 2011. Read also the post I wrote after the tournament to see the results and the tournament lineup.
A pinball competition open for everyone, held by one Finnish pinball hobbyist. Among the competition there's also time to spend with other pinball hobbyists and to enjoy nice Summer weather in Savonia region. Barbecue included!
Saturday 30th July 2011
12-6pm qualifications (last time to arrive: 3pm)
7-10pm play-offs
10pm-> prize ceremony, after party
Qualifications will be played in a private gameroom location about 5km's outside of Kuopio city. Playoffs and after party at Josse's house at Kaislastenlahti, that is about 20 kilometers away from the centre of Kuopio.
Each player plays eight qualification machines, one three ball game on each machine. The scores on every machine will be compared among all the players and the best players of every game will receive qualification points in following order:
1. 10p
2. 8p
3. 6p
4. 5p
5. 4p
6. 3p
7. 2p
8. 1p
The total qualification score of a player is the sum of qualification scores from all eight machines. If there's a tie, the number of first place scores will be compared, then the number of second place scores etc. The player with more high scores is the better one. If there's still a tie after this comparison, the result will be drawn.
If there are less than 24 players in qualifications, eight players will advance to playoffs. Playoffs will be played as a single elimination bracket best of three games (except the final). Pairs for first round are 1vs8, 2vs7, 3vs6 and 4vs5. In semi-finals the winner of pair 1vs8 will meet the winner of pair 4vs5 and the winner of pair 2vs7 will meet the winner of pair 3vs6.
The winners of semi-finals will meet in the final, which is best of five games. The losers of first play-offs round will compete for positions 5-8 on one machine. The losers of semi-finals will compete for the bronze medal, best of three games.
If the number of players in qualifications is 24-30, 12 best will advance to playoffs. The best four will receive one bye and pairs for first round are 5vs12, 6vs11, 7vs10 and 8vs9.
The games played in play-offs will be chosen randomly from the machines that are available to play. Only modern machines (1991 or newer) will be used in the tournament.
How can I participate?
Registration to the tournament will be opened later at flipperit.net message board. If you are not able to register that way, please contact me by email. The maximum number of participants is 30.
What does it cost?
Registration fee is 10 euros, including something to enjoy while having the barbecue.
It might be possible to stay overnight at the venue. If you want to stay overnight, please contact tournament director Josse (send private message to user "bok-tapok" in flipperit.net message board or call +358443038757).
How to get there?
It might be possible to get you picked up from the centre of Kuopio. Please contact Josse if you need transportation.


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Byron Pitts has a pretty good thing going. He's been a CBS News correspondent since 1998, working in Miami and Atlanta before coming to New York in 2001. He's now the chief national correspondent for the "CBS Evening News" and contributes to "60 Minutes." But as a child he had a profound stutter. Pitts wrote about it in his memoir "Step out on Nothing" in 2009. With attention being giving to the Oscar-favorite film "The King's Speech," how King George VI worked through his stammer to deliver a defining speech before WWII, Pitts shares how he overcame his stutter. On HuffPost this morning, Pitts writes:
Once in grade school I was attacked by a bully outside a neighborhood fast food restaurant. I was unable to defend myself physically or verbally. He took my food and my dignity that day. The moment still haunts me. There were of course the loving relatives and dear friends who tried to help me by finishing my sentences or defended me to others. To them I will be forever grateful.
I actually didn't get help for my stutter until I was almost out of college. A speech professor at Ohio Wesleyan University heard me struggling one day in class. It was during a group discussion about our future occupations. Other students were shouting out: Lawyer… teacher… entrepreneur. Then it was my turn. "Jour— jour— jour—jour– journalist," I said. There was laughter.
The professor asked to see me after class where he kindly offered to help me for free. There was no formal program to follow so it was trial and error. You could call it tough love for stuttering. He would make me read the newspaper with pencils in my mouth. I would read great works of literature backwards. There were breathing exercises, audio recordings, even singing while reading. We made a list of words I should avoid and a separate list of replacement words. And he encouraged me to take a job at the university radio station as a disc jockey where I was forced to confront my terror and speak in public.
It was a difficult and at times painful road. For the first twenty years of my life I'd felt virtually voiceless. One man helped changed that. It's one of the reasons I became a journalist: to give voice to the voiceless.


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ROCHD3 Healthcare Deep Data Dive
November 14, 2015
Saunders Research Building (SRB), UR Medical Center
Healthcare Deep Data Dive
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Saunders Research Building (SRB), University of Rochester Medical Center
Looking to discuss healthcare data? Then ROCHD3 is the event for you!
The Rochester Healthcare Deep Data Dive, ROCHD3, is an "un-conference" focused on bringing together healthcare data hackers, app designers, entrepreneurs, students, healthcare professionals, tech developers and individuals with new, innovative and effective uses of health data to improve patient outcomes and overall health. It will also drive topics for a Rochester Health Care Hack event next spring.An "un-conference" is an event without the rules and structure of a classical conference. YOU, the participants create the agenda and discussions. It is fun way to help develop ideas and make many new academic and business connections with the possibility of developing long-term collaborative relationships.
ROCHD3 is what you make it
• DocGraph: Healthcare Provider Networking Graphs
• DrugGraph: Healthcare Provider Prescribing Practices Data
• Associative and Graph Databases in Healthcare
• CryptoHealth: Using blockchain and cryptocurrency methods for health data
• Twitter Healthcare applications
• Big Data Visualization
• Network and Graph Theory
The "ungenda"
• Registration and breakfast begins at 8 AM with plenty of coffee and networking
• Event kick off promptly at 9am
• What is Healthcare Data? 4 slides x 4minutes (4x4's) from the Sponsors
• Lunch and more networking will be around 12:30pm
• Breakout discussions for most of the afternoon
• Group 4x4s in the Auditorium around 3:30pm
• Wrap up will be at 4:30pm
• Post HD3 libations at College Town (Beer Market) around 5:00 PM
Sponsored By
The University of Rochester's Institute for Data Science (NYS Center of Excellence), Rochester Center for
Health Informatics, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Center for Integrated Research Computing, in
collaboration with High Tech Rochester
Registration is required (but free)
Check for updates on Twitter: #ROCHD3
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I have used Libre as it was installed on a second hand notebook I brought. I have to say, I like it. It tend to write in it and then tidy up in word before saving as a PDF and yes the word count is a bonus.
Yeah it's a great tool. I use it and Scrivener.


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Guide Objectives
This guide will help you
What is a Systematic Review?
According to Cochrane, a systematic review is "A review of a clearly formulated question that uses systematic and explicit methods to identify, select, and critically appraise relevant research, and to collect and analyse data from the studies that are included in the review."
A systematic review contains the following components:
What makes a systematic review different from other reviews?
A systematic review plan contains the following elements:
Team Members: A project leader to coordinate and write the final report; librarians to develop comprehensive search strategies and identify appropriate databases; reviewers to screen abstracts and read the full text of articles; a statistician who can assist with data analysis; and individuals with expertise in systematic review methods and the clinical area of interest.
A clearly defined question: Clarify the key question(s) of your systematic review and the rationale for each question. Use the PICO framework to identify key concepts of the question.
Check to see if a high-quality systematic review addressing your question is in progress or has been completed recently.
Eligibility criteria: Determine criteria for including and excluding studies from your review. Typical criteria: population characteristics, intervention details, language, study type, publication type.
Register your systematic review protocol on Prospero.
Create a timeline: typical timeline is 12-18 months (see example detailed timeline)
The search must exhaustively encompass multiple databases and other literature sources. You can consult the library's research guides for your discipline to find the key databases.
Note that your library liaison can provide assistance with identifying databases and creating searches.
Use the following steps to screen your studies based on predefined eligibility criteria. It is recommended that two or more people review each study during screening. Record the number of results at each step.
Based on Cochrane Handbook, Chapter 7.2.3
The PRISMA Flow Diagram depicts the number of records identified, included and excluded, and the reasons for exclusions during the screening process (PRISMA Flow Diagram Generator).
Consider using software to help organize and streamline the screening process.
Using a data collection form, extract all relevant data from each of the included studies. The specific elements collected will depend on both the question asked by the review and by the types of studies included.
Common fields included on a data extraction form include:
Pilot your data collection form to make sure that all of the important data is collected and that all fields on the form are clear.
Cochrane checklist of items to consider in data collection (Cochrane Handbook 5.4, Part 2, Chapter 5)
Assessing the methodological quality of studies included in a systematic review is a critical step. This allows you to assess the risk of bias in each study. Whether you plan to asses randomized controlled trials, observational or mixed methods studies, or qualitative research, there are a variety of tools available to simplify this process. Some of the most common tools are included below.
There are a number of reporting frameworks that ensure reproducibility, which can be found at the EQUATOR Network.
Some of the most common reporting guidelines are: