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BAKER � It has been a special season for Baker School's football team. The Gators have rolled through the season with a 9-0 record. Last week, they wrapped up the District 1-1A title with a 24-20 win over Northview, securing home field advantage in the upcoming playoffs.
BAKER � It has been a special season for Baker School's football team.
The Gators have rolled through the season with a 9-0 record. Last week, they wrapped up the District 1-1A title with a 24-20 win over Northview, securing home field advantage in the upcoming playoffs.
Even with all their success, the Gators still have work to do as they host South Walton, 7 p.m. Friday on Senior Night, to close out the regular season.
The Seahawks are one of Northwest Florida's � and maybe the state's � surprise teams. After winning just one game in each of the last two seasons, South Walton has turned things around. The Seahawks come into the game with a 7-2 record and are the runner up from District 3-1A
"Phil Tisa (South Walton head coach) and his staff do a great job," Baker Coach Matt Brunson said. "The Ortner kid (Johnathan) � it's unbelievable what they've done with him. He throws the ball as well as anybody we've played.
"They are definitely going to throw it around, and you will have your hands full covering them and trying to pick when to bring pressure. It seems like anytime somebody blitzes them, they hit the right perfect call. I think they are doing as good of a job with the spread as anybody around here in high school football."
Brunson said that having played Northview, another spread team, last week should help the Gators prepare for the South Walton offense.
"We are just going to tweak our game a little bit," he said. "Our guys contained some very good players last Friday night at Northview."
South Walton runs a base 4-3 defense and will move into a five-man front. Brunson said the Seahawks play with good pad level and are tough up front.
Once again, the Gators will rely on senior D.J. Thomas to spark that running game. Thomas enters Friday's game with South Walton with 1,629 yards rushing and 21 touchdowns.
"We are going to do what we can to knock some holes in there and do the things that have helped us be successful this year," Brunson said. "We are going to take pride and try to be physical and if we get some guys open down the field we will definitely try a shot going play action pass. But we've got to get our running game going.
"We are going to have our hands full containing those guys. I think we've got to be kind of bend but don't break because it definitely gets tougher for the offense (because it doesn't have as much room to work) as the field gets shorter."
Brunson would like nothing more than for the Gators to finish off the perfect regular season.
"Perfect season don't come along very often," he said. "I've been a head coach 17 years and I've had one (2002 at Crestview), and I've been a part of some pretty good football teams.
"As a player, we had a couple. There are not a lot of teams that have a perfect regular season and that's definitely what our goal is Friday night."
Brunson expects an electric atmosphere Friday as a pair of playoff teams flex their muscle as they prepare for the playoffs
"I tell you what, it's two teams playing at a very high level at this point season," he said. "It's going to be a great high school football game."
What:South Walton at Baker
When:7 p.m. Friday
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Business meetings take place in all organization be it small or big. The meetings may involve the people within the organizational structure or people outside the organization who are related to or interested in the business. These meetings ensure that the organizational functions are in place and the right strategies are put in place to maximize on service delivery and productivity. Regular meetings are held to ensure that there is always continuous application of the rules, regulations and strategies by the organization.
These meetings are recorded in either video/audio. These recordings are then transferred to written documents or transcripts. This process is well known as business meeting transcription. The categories found under this process include conference call transcription, meeting transcription, interview transcription, telephone transcription etc. these transcripts are best transferred from audio to transcripts for the purpose of secure storage.
Business Meeting as it sounds is a very important part of a business and its growth. This translates to the idea of handling this service with a lot of great emphasis in professionalism, detail and accuracy. This can be fully achieved by ensuring that the staffs carrying out this kind of service has the right skill to handle this service.
Organizations have realized that to have a satisfied employee translates to having a satisfied client that eventually translates, to a more business and profits. What they are currently doing is adding value to their employees through training. The employees then realize that the employees care about them hence loyalty and the skills gained ensures quality delivery service to all it clients.
This process requires a fast turn around time. In business after analyzing all aspects of its growth potential and the necessary steps to take, then a decision to implement all these strategies is reached ASAP. The documentation is necessary for carrying out this process.

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Hi all! My patchwork scarf tutorial, part of the 12 Days of Ruby Star, is up on Fat Quarterly's blog today. Head on over there to check it out!
Thank you again to Fat Quarterly for inviting me to be a part of this Designer's Challenge, and thank you to Melody Miller for sending me some of her gorgeous fabrics to play with!


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Honor the Heroes of the Game, Preserve Its History, Promote its Values & Celebrate Excellence Everywhere
Share your pictures, videos, and stories from your visit to the Pro Football Hall of Fame on our social media. We might even feature you in one of our promotions!
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Adrian Cursio necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 221 diseños de 65 diseñadores freelance.
Advance-Tec Plastics Pty Ltd
Advance-Tec Plastics Pty Ltd is a plastics manufacturing business based in Dandenong South, Australia specialising in the design, development, manufacturing and distribution of Custom Injection Moulded Products and Industrial Components.
The company was formed in 2002 by the merging of a 30-year old hi-tech industrial components factory and a 75-year old shoe components factory. Shoe components is not a growth market in Australia so not our main focus anymore.
We have recently invested in innovation and development by strengthening our industrial design team and installing a rapid prototype-making machine which brings 3D cad drawings to life, before the tooling investment is made.
Our overall aim is to always feed work to our factory by actually securing the production which comes from the new development, rather than designing a new product which will be moulded somewhere else... As a result we can subsidise the development which is a huge positive for customers...
With our new logo we intend to market ourselves more strongly within Australia as the leaders in plastic injection moulding technology.
This is a highly competitive market. Our target customers are typically B2Bs that are looking to bring plastic components or their inventions 'to life'.
We are looking to attract new customers who may require 3D CAD, rapid prototyping, new tooling and/or moulding from the following industries: medical, mining, furniture, automotive, boating, health, agribusiness, sports, footwear and other industries.
Usually our projects are complementary within a larger assembly which the customer is developing. (eg. Plastic vents within an air-conditioning system, Water jets within a Spa Bath, Stiletto heels within a ladies shoe, Nylon bearings within a conveyor system).
We also sell a range of stock plastic components to curtain manufacturers, shoe makers and repairers, homeware distributors and mining and medical industries.
As we have a diverse range of machine sizes so we can mould tiny components (<1 gram) right up to very large parts (10kg), in materials ranging from commodity grades (PP, HDPE) to specialist grades (ABS, PU, Nylon).
We also quote against competitors to take-over the manufacturing for new potential customers.
Our main aim is to create a unique, modern & professional logo that encapsulates our position as a 'full design and production partner' from design, prototypes, tooling, testing to production, logistics and sales.
We have also commissioned the development of a new website – the current one page (ugly) website, http://www.advance-tec.com.au, gives you an idea but is being redeveloped to encompass our full service capabilities. The logo served the old website but needs to evolve into a stronger more modern technological image.
We want it clean, not too fancy, and something that will convey we create, develop and design plastic components of all types. Two colour blue and white is suggested (but not mandatory), but up to three colours (including white) will be entertained.
We want a logo that doesn't substantially lose its integrity when you fax or photocopy it...
Use the company name in the design, either under the logo or after the logo. Please select a contemporary font that is very clear and easy to read, eg. we like Verdana, Futura however something different will be refreshing.
Need to keep the logo more horizontal than vertical (do not want it taking up too much height on the web site or business cards).
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo.
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You're headed to a picnic and need some ice for the cooler. At the store you see two equal-sized bags of cubes, but they are priced differently. You buy the cheaper one, right? Ice is ice.
Well, the same can be said of stock index funds. Those designed to mimic a certain benchmark, like the S&P 500, are all pretty much alike. Yet they are priced differently—and people routinely choose the ones that cost the most, according to a study that the TIAA-CREF Institute has singled out as exceptional work in the field of lifelong financial security.
(GALLERY: 10 Money Move to Make Before 2012)
Why don't individuals treat stock index funds like a bag of ice and choose the least expensive one? Answer: Most simply don't understand how to figure it out. But with a little financial education they may easily overcome what in the long run can be a costly mistake, according to the paper "Why Does the Law of One Price Fail?" by Brigitte C. Madrian and David I. Laibson of Harvard and James J. Choi of Yale.
Researchers asked individuals to allocate $10,000 choosing from four actual S&P 500 index funds that had been in existence for different lengths of time and had different expense ratios. Almost no one focused on annual fund costs, which for an S&P 500 index fund may range from as little as 0.18% of assets to 2% of assets or more. In the survey, subjects almost all chose funds that charged more than 1% of assets.
Investors collectively spend more than $200 million a year in excess fund fees on S&P 500 index funds alone, the study found. They get nothing for that money, which could be compounding in their accounts instead. Think about it. If you have $100,000 in an index fund that charges 1.2%, your annual cost is $1,200. But you could chop that cost to $200 with a like fund that charges just 0.2%.
Is that a big deal? Well, yes. You'd save $1,000 a year, which if reinvested in the fund, which compounds quarterly and has average annual gains of 8%, translates into an additional $124,000 over 30 years (and a total of nearly $1.3 million)—just because you understood to focus on the expense ratio.
(MORE: A Better Way to Pay Off Debts)
In the study, almost everyone focused on historical returns. That's not a bad starting point, especially when comparing actively managed funds. But the only comparisons that matter are those looking at the same periods, like the last 10 years, five years or year to date. In the study, most looked at returns since fund inception, and because the funds had launched at different times these were meaningless figures that often led investors to the funds with the highest fees.
The researchers argue for a greater effort at financial education (at work, in the community and in schools), saying that those who had some training invested in lower cost funds. The authors concluded that those without any financial education generally recognized they may be choosing wrong. But as the authors conclude: "Regrettably, having a sense that your choice is wrong does not necessarily tell you how to fix it."


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The study, conducted by researchers in Corvallis, Salem, Eugene and Portland, Oregon, is in the current issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
In the study, Parkinson's patients were divided into three groups. One group participated in a resistance training program with weighted vests and weights, designed by Oregon State University researcher Gianni Maddalozzo. Another, which acted as the control group, did stretching classes. The third group took a modified tai chi class designed by Fuzhong Li, the lead author of the study. Li is with the Oregon Research Institute in Eugene and earned his doctorate in the exercise and sport science program at OSU.
Each group did a 60-minute class twice a week for 24 weeks. The patients in the tai chi group had significantly better balance, had better overall physical functioning and had a much lower incidence of falls. In fact, participants in the tai chi group had 67 percent fewer falls than those in the stretching group.
Maddalozzo, a coauthor on the study, said the reduced rate of falling is a significant finding.
"Falls can be detrimental, not only to those with Parkinson's, but for many people including aging populations, diabetics, people with osteoporosis," he said. "More than 30 percent of serious falls occur in the home, so what we tend to see is that people develop a serious fear of falling that leads to a more sedentary lifestyle, which is the opposite of what they should be doing."
Parkinson's is a disorder of the nervous system that affects motor control and movement. Patients affected by the disease have substantially impaired balance that can lead to serious if not deadly falls. Lead author Li practices tai chi, a martial art marked by slow, focused movements focused on meditation and relaxation.
"Clinically, as an effective and safe exercise regimen, tai chi may be used as an add-on to existing physical therapy or rehabilitation programs as part of a balance training protocol or to address some of the key movement disorders in Parkinson's," Li said.
Maddalozzo said because tai chi has been shown to help Parkinson's patients restore balance and regain strength, he believes it could be useful to a wide variety of people. Li agrees, saying that researchers have found positive results with older adults, including reducing falls by 47 to 55 percent.
"Tai chi has also shown to be beneficial in reducing pain in people with fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis, ameliorating sleep disturbances, and helping to decrease blood pressure," he said. "Overall, accumulating evidence suggests that tai chi may be efficacious as a behavioral medicine approach for the prevention and rehabilitation of chronic diseases and dysfunctional mental and physical conditions commonly associated with advancing age."
Researchers from the Oregon Medical Group, the PeaceHealth Medical Group–Oregon, Willamette University, BPM Physical Therapy Center, Oregon Health and Science University and Oregon Neurology Associates contributed to this study, which was funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.


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The following is a walkthrough of the Ryder mission in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Quick Walkthrough
- Meet Ryder at his house and find out what he has planned.
- Go to Reece's Barbershop for a haircut.
- Go to Well Stacked Pizza Co. to eat.
- Escape from the restaurant and make your way to the map marker at Ryder's driveway.
Detailed Walkthrough
Enter the red mission marker outside Ryder's house (which is right next door to CJ's house) to begin this mission. The cut-scene shows Ryder in the kitchen, loading his gun. He explains that a Pizza Restaurant has been painting over the Grove Street Families Gang Tags.
Climb into Ryder's Picador behind him and drive to the yellow map marker. Park the car in the red mission marker outside of "Old Reece's Hair & Facial Studio." Walk through the door to enter the barbershop, and then step into the red marker. Select the haircut you would like, then purchase it to get the cut.
Leave the barbershop. Ryder comments on CJ's haircut, good or bad. Your next goal will be to find something to eat.
Haircuts that cost $200 or more are considered expensive (good) haircuts and haircuts under 200 are considered cheap (bad) haircuts.
The Well Stacked Pizza Co. is directly across the street from Old Reece's shop. enter the red marker at the counter and order something to eat.
After Carl eats his meal, he jumps up to hold the cashier at gunpoint. The clerk responds by pulling a Shotgun from beneath the counter.
Kill the clerk or run to Ryder's car (or, if you want to, do both: the clerk drops a shotgun when he dies, which can be helpful in future), which is parked on the other side of the street. Drive into the red marker in Ryder's driveway to complete this mission, earn 3 Respect, and open up the Sweet Path missions.


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Pre-Rulemaking on
2019 Building Energy Efficiency Standards
Commissioner: Andrew McAllister
About the Pre-Rulemaking
The California Energy Commission will be opening a public process and rulemaking proceeding to adopt changes to the Building Energy Efficiency Standards contained in the California Code of Regulations (CCR), Title 24, Part 6 (also known as the California Energy Code), and associated administrative regulations in Part 1 (collectively referred to here as the Standards). The updated standards will be proposed for adoption in 2018 with an effective date of January 1, 2020. Previously open Docket 2016-BSTD-06 for the 2019 Time Dependent Valuation (TDV) of Energy has been closed. The Energy Commission has opened Docket 17-BSTD-01 for pre-rulemaking comments on proposed 2019 Standards measures.
The California Energy Commission staff will conduct workshops to present potential revisions to the Standards and obtain public suggestions and comment. The scope, time, and date of these workshops will be publicly noticed.
Interested parties should be aware the California investor-owned utilities (IOUs) and some publicly owned utilities (PUCs) conduct the statewide Codes and Standards programs through rate payer funds. To support the 2019 revisions to the Standards, the IOUs and POUs are conducting a number of Codes and Standards Enhancement (CASE) Initiatives. These Initiatives address areas of potential change to the Standards that show promise, based on the results of utility research, and the success of incentive programs and document the potential energy savings, cost implications, and specific approaches. Although outside the scope of the Energy Commission's rulemaking proceeding for the 2019 Standards, these Initiatives are important. The California Energy Commission expects the IOUs and POUs to engage building industry stakeholders throughout the development of the CASE Initiatives so that these initiatives will be adequately vetted with affected stakeholders prior to proposing potential revisions to the Standards. To participate in this development process please visit Title24Stakeholders.com or email email@example.com.
Organizations and individuals may also propose new measures. Go to the public participation page for more information.
For questions about the 2019 Standards program proceedings, please call the Energy Standards Hotline.
For members of the news media, please contact the Media and Public Communications Office at 916-654-4989.


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*The lovely and ridiculously witty Alyson from Alyson Is Neat was amazing enough to guest write today's post while I am away. Please do yourself a favor and visit her blog. You'll be glad you did. XO Robyn
I want to say a huge thank you to Robyn for asking me to do a guest post on her blog while she is on vacation.
Hey, speaking of vacation... I am going on vacation later this summer. I love packing my beach bag for the beach or the pool and just wanted to share what I carry in my beach bag. (Think of this as that game, "I'm going to the pool and I'm taking an Alligator..." Then the next person adds something with a B, C... you get the point. I won't be going in that direction though!). First off, can we take a moment and talk about how much I love sarongs? I hate most swim suit cover ups. They all look the same (some oversized tunic, in a gauzy fabric, in an obnoxious color or white, with metallic hoo-ha on it). I play it simple and go with a sarong. You can wear it several different ways, find them in a multitude of styles and colors, and because of their thin fabric, they dry pretty fast. They are perfect when you are lying out in the sun and start to feel a little weary, just throw this over your shoulders, legs, chest, stomach for some fast easy relief from the sun. Also, hats are a must. A burn on your scalp just plan sucks. What else do I like to take with me?
A towel. A big fluffy beach towel... not one from your bathroom linen closet. They aren't big enough.
Sunscreen. Like Robyn, this milky white skin does not tan... So I do as every good fair skinned woman should do, and lather on some SERIOUS sun block. I love the Banana Boat spray sport kind. It is easy to apply and it stays on really well. Also, more important it works. It is sticky and a little greasy but totally worth it to not get burned. Also, if I don't want to feel too greasy and sticky... I use Coppertone Faces on my whole body. I mean why not?
Baby powder and agua. Baby powder works really great to get sand off of your skin (and also gets that stanky fish smell off your skin too). And when you are outside this summer, make sure to stay hydrated. No one like the dehydrated chick at the party.
A stretchy knit dress. I have chosen a swimsuit cover up that is actually a skirt, but I just use it as a strapless dress. Its knit which means I can throw it in my bag and then when its time to hit up the beach-side bar or restaurant, I can be ready from the beach. When you start to feel a little chilly, throw your sarong around your shoulders!
Sarong: HawaiiHat: ThriftedSunglasses: ThriftedSwimsuit: Victoria's SecretBag: Old NavyFlip Flops: Havianas, Urban OutfittersBlack knit dress: Target
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PADRES at CUBS
Time: 5:05 p.m. Game 3 of 4
TV: Fox Sports San Diego
Radio: 1090-AM, 860-AM (Spanish)
Today's matchup
Padres RHP Andrew Cashner (1-1, 3.26 ERA)
Cashner, 26, will be making his first appearance against his former team. He was the 19th overall pick in the 2008 draft out of TCU. Cashner picked up his first career win as a starter last Friday night, holding the Giants to one run on five hits and a walk over six innings. He struck out five. This will be his third start of the season. He opened the campaign with five appearances out of the bullpen. In 10 innings as a starter, he has allowed three runs on seven hits and two walks while striking out 10. Cashner is 0-6 in his career on the road with a 4.34 ERA in 52 games (four starts).
Cubs RHP Scott Feldman (1-3, 3.92 ERA)
Feldman is coming off his first win of the season and as a Cub. He is 1-1 with a 5.40 ERA in two games (one start) against the Padres in his career. Both those appearances came while he was pitching for the Texas Rangers. Only nine of the 16 runs charged to Feldman this season have been earned. Right-handed hitters are batting .205 (9-for-44) against Feldman.
Looking Ahead
Thursday: Padres LHP Eric Stults (2-2, 5.67 ERA) at Chicago Cubs LHP Travis Wood (1-1, 2.08 ERA), 11:20 a.m.
Friday: Diamondbacks LHP Wade Miley (2-0, 2.37 ERA) at Padres RHP Jason Marquis (2-2, 4.20 ERA), 7:10 p.m.
Saturday: Diamondbacks LHP Patrick Corbin (3-0, 1.91 ERA) at Padres LHP Clayton Richard (0-3, 7.94 ERA), 5:40 p.m.
Sunday:Diamondbacks RHP Ian Kennedy (1-2, 4.78 ERA) vs. Padres RHP Edinson Volquez, 1:10 p.m.


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What Is Human Papillomavirus?
Human papillomaviruses (HPV) are a group of more than 100 viruses.
Certain types of HPV can cause genital warts, which are growths or bumps that appear:
- On the vulva
- In or around the vagina or anus
- On the cervix
- On the penis, scrotum, groin, or thigh
Some strains of HPV are linked to cervical cancer . Although it is less common, some strains are linked to cancers of the vulva, anus , throat, and penis.
HPV is easily spread during oral, genital, or anal sex with an infected partner.
Many people will be exposed to a form of HPV at some point in their lives. Not all will become infected or develop symptoms.
What Is the HPV Vaccine?
The HPV vaccine contains virus-like particles that are not infectious. These particles produce antibodies to prevent HPV from infecting cells. The vaccine is given by injection into the muscle.
The vaccine protects against 9 types of HPV strains. It may be used to prevent the following conditions:
- Genital warts
- Precancerous lesions on the genitals (in women)
- Cancers of the cervix, vagina , vulva, penis, and anus
Who Should Be Vaccinated and When?
The HPV vaccine is recommended for girls and boys between 11-12 years old (2 doses at least 6 months apart). For the vaccine to be most effective, adolescents should complete the series before their first sexual contact in order to have time for an immune response to develop. The vaccine may be given starting at 9 years old.
Other recommendations for the HPV vaccine series include:
- Girls and women aged 13-26 years old, especially those with a suppressed immune system.
- Boys and men aged 13-21 years old
- Men aged 22-26 years old if they have sex with other men or have a suppressed immune system
- Transgender persons aged 22-26 years old
A 3-shot series is given in those with a suppressed immune system or if the vaccine is started at age 15 or older.
The vaccine is recommended to children starting at age 9 who have a history of sexual abuse.
What Are the Risks Associated With the HPV Vaccine?
Research suggests that the vaccine does not appear to cause any serious side effects. Like any vaccine, it has the potential to cause serious problems, such as a severe allergic reaction.
Some problems have been associated with the HPV vaccines, like pain, redness, swelling, or itching at the injection site. Other potential side effects include:
- Headache
- Mild to moderate fever
- Fainting
- Rarely, severe shoulder pain
Who Should Not Be Vaccinated?
Do not get the vaccine if you:
- Had a life-threatening allergic reaction to yeast or any other component of the vaccine.
- Are or may be pregnant.
- Are moderately or severely ill. Wait until you have recovered.
What Other Ways Can HPV Be Prevented Besides Vaccination?
Avoiding physical contact with an infected sexual partner is the only way to completely prevent the spread of a genital HPV infection. Latex condoms may help reduce the spread. However, condoms are not 100% effective because they do not cover the entire genital area.
Other preventive measures include:
- Sexual abstinence
- Having only one sexual relationship
- Regular check-ups for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)
- Pap smears for women, starting at age 21 to screen for cervical cancer
What Happens in the Event of an Outbreak?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 14 million people become infected with sexually transmitted HPV each year. HPV vaccines cannot treat infections that already exist. The best way to prevent further spread of the disease is to get the vaccine before becoming infected.
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NEW YORK — To support the larger-than-life looks of Katy Perry's Prismatic World Tour, show director and designer Baz Halpin worked with a 70' wide by 34' tall automated tracking triangular LED video screen as the visual centerpiece. The screen is comprised of 700 PRG Nocturne V-9 Lite LED Video Modules.
More details from PRG (www.prg.com) and PRG Nocturne (www.nocturneproductions.com):
Having completed the first European leg of her Prismatic World Tour and now starting dates throughout North America, Katy Perry invites her audiences into a visually stunning concert experience. "Everything with Katy is larger than life, so the design needed to reflect that. The stage itself is a statement," points out Show Director and Designer Baz Halpin. Helping Halpin and Perry make that strong visual statement is PRG Nocturne.
Supporting her album, Prism, and calling the tour the Prismatic World Tour, Perry had a vision of where to start in the look of the show's design. "She wanted a large triangular LED Video screen on a triangular stage," explains Halpin. "That was the basis of the design—the shape. Everything else plays into that." Halpin conceived the enormous 70' wide by 34' tall automated tracking triangular LED video screen that is, as he says, "the backbone of the show; it's used in everything but the unplugged section of the performance. The main challenge was to make sure that the screen wasn't too overbearing. We spent a lot of time making sure that it wasn't going to overpower the action onstage."
The first leg of Perry's tour took Europe by storm garnering successful reviews throughout the UK. PRG Nocturne's UK team, who handled the Prismatic World Tour, also supported Katy Perry's iTunes performance last year at the Roundhouse in London.
To realize Halpin's dynamic creative design and offer a reliable, globally tourable solution to the challenging element, he turned to PRG Nocturne. "We needed a very experienced crew and an experienced vendor, which obviously PRG Nocturne have that pedigree. They have the experience of dealing with huge shows like this that have to be transported on a daily basis and work every time. It is very important to have their experienced crew and their support to carry that out, which PRG Nocturne does."
The LED prism-shaped video backdrop, used as both a scenic and dynamic lighting solution throughout the evening as well as for cutting in I-MAG camera shots at times, is actually three separate pyramid-shaped screens comprised of over 700 PRG Nocturne V-9 Lite LED Video Modules. The hi-resolution V-9 Lite product offers a lighter weight LED screen option without compromising image quality. Cutting weight was important, not only to better address touring needs but because of the scale of the LED screen Halpin wanted on the stage. Even with the V-9 Lite it weighs in at 40,000lbs.
"Because the V-9 Lite is so lightweight it's an ideal solution for touring, certainly it was the right solution for this production," explains Mark O'Herlihy, PRG Nocturne's UK Head of Video Services. "Beyond the weight considerations it also still delivers an equally high quality, high-definition picture, which is always important when you have such a strong visual element with such rich content."
PRG Nocturne is also supplying the Prismatic World Tour with several other LED video elements including their V-9 LED Modules for a rising pyramid Perry enters through at the top of the show, and flexible digiLED LED product that wraps around a huge multi-layered birthday cake set piece. For playback control and to allow truly creative flexibility the tour's Video Director Omar Montes-Rangel, from PRG Nocturne, is using two PRG Mbox media servers. PRG Nocturne crew on the tour also includes video engineer Eugene McAuliffe, the video crew chief John Moore as well as the LED screen technicians, the camera operators and projectionist.
The PRG Nocturne UK is going to have a busy summer supporting artists including The Rolling Stones, Linkin Park, and Metallica for their European tours. Katy Perry's Prismatic World Tour will continue to play North American dates through October. She heads to Australia and New Zealand for November and December before returning for a second European leg, ending the tour in late March, 2015.
The original article can be found here: http://www.plsn.com/projection-connection/13758-katy-perrys-prismatic-world-tour-gets-prg-nocturne-support.html
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The eleven statewide propositions on next month's ballot have already drawn $336 million in campaign contributions, or about $25 per voter, assuming a turnout similar to that of 2008.
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In a few cases, individuals like Molly Munger ($33 million for Proposition 38). Charles Munger ($23 million for Proposition 32), Thomas Steyer ($22 million for Proposition 39), and George Joseph ($16 million for Proposition 33), have presented their names with their causes.
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According to Maplight.org, an independent nonpartisan research organization that tracks the flow of money in the election process, last week Americans for Responsible" dumped $11 million into the "No On Prop 30" campaign to oppose Governor Jerry Brown's temporary tax increases. It put another $11 million for Proposition 32, the ballot initiative that would severely limit the ability of employer and union groups to collect campaign contributions from their members, which most people define as anti-union.
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If the democratic process is going to be hijacked, at least we should know who is doing it.


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Alan Shearer and Robbie Savage are tackling each other in a bid to be top of the bottoms in a Sport Relief challenge.
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The football stars turned pundits will attempt the sit-off next month with each aiming to be the first to complete 45,000 chairs and reach the winning post, the royal box.
It has been estimated that they will have to manage around 14 seats per minute across ten hours each day to complete the challenge by the time the final whistle blows after five days.
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Dorothea Puente (Photo LA Times)
Serial killer Dorothea Puente was charming and incorrigible.
by Mark Pulham
Charles Willgues, a retired carpenter, had been out that Wednesday afternoon to a hardware store to buy a glass cutter. Now, he sat at the bar of the Monte Carlo Tavern, a short walk from his home where he lived alone, and nursed a beer. At around 2 p.m., the door opened, and a gray-haired woman walked in. Elegantly dressed in a red pleated skirt and red high heels, she walked to the bar, took a seat at the end and ordered a screwdriver from the bartender. Willgues called down to give her a friendly warning, "The heat from the refrigerator motor comes out right where you're sitting."
The woman thanked him, and moved to the seat next to him. She introduced herself as 55-year-old Donna Johansson and said she had just come down to Los Angeles from Sacramento. Her husband, she explained, had died just a month before, and to escape from her grief, she had decided to make a new life in Los Angeles. She hadn't got off to a good start. She had taken a cab from the bus station to the Royal Viking Motel, and the cab had driven off with four of her suitcases and her overnight bag. To make matters worse, the heels of her shoes, the only ones she had, were worn down from the walking she'd done looking for a place to live.
Willgues, as a friendly gesture, offered to take the shoes across to a repair shop and have them fixed. Donna accepted his kind offer, and gave him $3 to cover the cost. Willgues said that he felt very relaxed with her. "She seemed very thoughtful and intelligent, a typical grandmother-type person."
When he came back from the repair shop, the conversation continued, and eventually turned to financial matters. Willgues told her that he suffered from arthritis and emphysema, and that he received $576 in benefits each month from Social Security. Donna told him that he could get up to $680. She seemed to know what she was talking about. They became more friendly, and she persuaded him to take her shopping the next day to replace all the things she had lost.
Donna had an idea. She said, "I'm alone, you're alone. Thanksgiving is coming up and I'm a great cook. How about I cook you Thanksgiving dinner at your apartment?" She then surprised Willgues by suggesting that they share an apartment together.
"I've got all I can handle right now." Willgues replied. He told her he'd think about it. They agreed to meet the next morning, and Willgues took out one of his business cards, that identified him as "Chuck the Handyman." Donna wrote her name and address on the back and handed it to him.
Back at his apartment, Willgues kept thinking about the woman he met. There was something about her that seemed familiar. "I knew I'd seen this woman before, but I couldn't place it right away." Finally, it clicked, he thought he knew where he had seen her. She had been on the local news. He turned on the television and watched the 5 p.m. news on KCBS Channel 2. He hoped that a photograph of the woman would be shown, but it wasn't. He was reluctant to call the police "because I didn't want to get an innocent person involved in something I wasn't sure of."
Instead, Willgues called the television station. Gene Silver, KCBS assignment editor immediately drove over to Willgues apartment and showed him a clipping from the Los Angeles Times with the photograph of the wanted woman. Willgues took a long look at the woman in the photograph and said, "It could be her."
Silver called the Los Angeles Police Department. A short while later, officers drove to the Royal Viking Motel. Police Sergeant Paul von Lutzow knocked on the door and talked with the woman known as Donna Johansson for a few moments. "She didn't say much." said von Lutzow, "When I asked her for some ID, she went to her purse and got her drivers license." The license identified the woman as Dorothea Puente. "She appeared to know we might be coming," Von Lutzow added, "She didn't put up a struggle or curse us or anything. Usually, when the police go into someone's motel room, people get upset. But she showed no emotion, almost like she expected us. She was real cool. She was real calm. She was not intimidated by police." By 10:40 p.m., Dorothea Puente, who had been on the run since the previous Saturday, November 12, was in custody.
Like most cities, Sacramento had a homeless problem. Many of the street residents were suffering from mental illness, or they were alcoholics and drug addicts. Judy Moise was a street councillor working for an organization called Volunteers of America. Her job was to make certain that the homeless of Sacramento had help, and received the benefits and services that they were entitled to and needed. One of the people she helped was 51-year-old Alvaro Montoya, whom everyone called Bert. He was a mentally disabled schizophrenic who spent much of the time having loud arguments in Spanish with the voices that were in his head. Bert was a gentle man, almost childlike, and no danger to anyone. Living on the streets was not good for him. He sometimes slept at a nearby detox centre, but Moise felt he should have somewhere better. Luckily, there was such a place, a boarding house at 1426 F Street. It was popular with social workers as they knew that no-one would be turned away. Some of the people who lived there had many problems, such as James Gallop, a 62-year-year-old man who was suffering from a brain tumour. There was also 64-year-old Dorothy Miller, a long term alcoholic. There were Betty Palmer and Leona Carpenter, both 78 years old. They were unable to fend for themselves. No matter what your problems, no matter what your mental state, your infirmities, or your addictions, all were welcome at 1426 F Street. The boarding house was run by a white-haired landlady in her seventies, who was known for her charitable work, donating money and clothing to the needy, and employing paroled prisoners from the local halfway house to do repairs and other work that was needed. She also knew how to work the system and was very good at getting more money in benefits for her boarders. Her name was Dorothea Puente.
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On February 3, 1988, Bert Montoya took up residence in the quaint pale blue gingerbread Victorian. By this time, some of the other residents had moved out. James, Betty, Dorothy, and Leona were all gone, not an unusual situation. Most of the residents of the boarding house were transient. Some may just move out to be with relatives, some just move to another place. A couple of days after Bert moved in, another resident, 62-year-old Vera Faye Martin, also moved away, and the following April, another boarder, 55-year-old Benjamin Fink, like Dorothy Miller, a long term alcoholic, also left after a heavy drinking binge. But Bert seemed to be thriving under Dorothea's care, he looked healthier, his hair was neatly cut, he was cleaner and neatly dressed. Judy Moise was happy for her client. All through the summer, things were fine, but then Moise got a message that Bert had travelled down to Mexico. Moise called Dorothea and asks what was going on. Puente tells Moise not to worry, Bert should be back in the next few days.
But several weeks passed and by early November, Moise had still heard nothing from Bert. Now deeply concerned, Moise talked to Puente again and told her that she was worried and that she was considering calling the police. A day or two later, Moise got a strange phone call. A man claiming to be a relative of Bert told her that Bert was with him in Utah. Moise's suspicions were definitely aroused, especially as the man who called introduced himself first as "Don Anthony" before rapidly changing his name to something different. Moise called Puente, and Puente confirmed this story, telling Moise that on Sunday, while she was out at church, a relative of Bert's came to the house and collected him, leaving a note for Puente.
Something didn't add up, and determined to discover the truth, Moise called the police. Officer Richard Ewing listened to what Moise had to say and agreed to visit 1426 F Street to see what was going on. Moise told him to talk to one of the residents, John Sharp. Moise knew that what Sharp said would be reliable. John Sharp was a 64-year-old retired cook, who had been living at the F Street boarding house for 11 months. Unlike the other residents, Sharp was neither an alcoholic nor a drug addict, and he was not mentally disabled. Ewing went to the house and met with Dorothea. She repeated what she had told Moise about the relative that had come and taken Bert away with him. John Sharp who was standing with them, confirmed this story. Ewing was satisfied, and left the house. He had not gone far when John Sharp caught up with him and handed him a note asking him to meet at another location, far from the house. Ewing agreed and they met later. This time, the tale that Ewing heard was a little more disturbing. Sharp told Ewing that all the tenants had been told by Puente's to repeat the story of the relative, but it was not true. Then Sharp added more, something sinister. He told of the dragging sounds he heard on the night that Benjamin Fink moved out of the house, and he told of the strange holes that were being dug in the back yard. And he told of the awful stench that came from one of the rooms upstairs.
Ewing had heard enough, and he contacted Detective Sergeant John Cabrera of the Sacramento Missing Persons and Homicide Bureau. Cabrera started by looking into the background of Dorothea Puente. According to a police file, Dorothea was not in her seventies as she claimed, she was actually only 59 years old. She was also on Federal Parole. Between 1981 and 1982, Puente, on at least four occasions, had posed as a nurse, and had administered drugs to her elderly patients. While they were unconscious, she rifled their belongings, stealing jewellery, blank checks, and any credit cards she could find. She was caught in late 1982, trying to run, a ticket to Mexico in her bag. She was sentenced to five years in prison, but was released in 1985 for good behaviour.
On Friday, November 11, 1988, Cabrera, along with detective Terry Brown, and a parole agent named James Wilson, paid a visit to 1426 F Street and talked to Dorothea Puente. She seemed very open about everything, and when asked if the detectives could have a quick look around, she told them that it would be okay. Two prescription bottles were found in her room, one empty and on the floor, the other open, containing some blue capsules. The name on the bottles was Dorothy Miller. Cabrera showed the bottles to Puente, and asked her who Dorothy Miller was. Puente told him that Dorothy was a relative who recently stayed with her. She must have left the bottles behind when she went home. The detectives found Puente to be very believable.
Cabrera asked Puente if she would be okay with them digging a bit in the back yard. Once again, she was very cooperative and told them that it would be okay. They took some shovels from the car and started digging. It was not long before they hit a tree root. They tried to move it, with little success, and then Cabrera got into the hole and took a grip on the root. He pulled on it, and suddenly, it came loose and was pulled from the ground. The men looked at the root, and realized that it was not a root at all, but a leg bone. Dorothea Puente, who had come from the house to watch the men at their digging, gave an audible gasp of shock, and her hands flew to her mouth, as if to stifle a scream. She seemed visibly shaken by the gruesome discovery.
The detectives called in the deputy coroner, Laura Santos, who ordered the digging to stop until a forensic team could get there. It is not until the next morning that the digging could be resumed. By this time, word had spread about what was going on at 1426 F Street, and crowds had gathered, including members of the media. The corpse was uncovered, but it was not that of Bert Montoya. It was a small female, and had been in the ground for quite a while, the body skeletonised. The digging resumed once more, and Dorothea Puentes came over to Cabrera. Looking shaken, she asked if she was under arrest. Given that she had been extremely cooperative, Cabrera said that she was not, and asked her why. Puente tells him that what has been happening had unnerved her, and she wished to join some relatives around the corner at the coffee shop in the Clarion Hotel. Cabrera told her that she was free to go, and escorted her through the crowd.
Twenty minutes later, another leg is discovered, a second body has been found. Realizing that allowing Puente to go off for coffee may have been a mistake, they rushed around the corner to the coffee shop. They were too late. Dorothea Puente had vanished. By the time the third body had been discovered, a full scale hunt was on for the landlady of 1426 F Street.
Puente was born Dorothea Helen Gray in Redlands, California on January 9, 1929. Her parents, Trudy Mae Yates and Jesse James Gray, were cotton pickers. Dorothea lost both of her parents when young, within a year of each other; he father died from tuberculosis when she was eight years old, and her mother died a year later in a motorbike accident. In 1945, the 16-year-old Dorothea met Fred McFaul, a 22-year-old soldier. At the time, Dorothea and her friend were both working as prostitutes. After a few months together, Dorothea and Fred got married in Reno. Dorothea claimed to be 30 years old, and she signed the marriage certificate as "Sherriale A. Riscile." Two children came from this marriage, both girls. One of them was sent to live with McFaul's mother, and the other was put up for adoption. In 1948, Dorothea found she was pregnant once again, but this time she miscarried.
By this time, Fred was fed up and wanted out of the marriage. He had discovered that Dorothea was a compulsive liar, with tales of how she had survived the Bataan Death March, and how she was related to the ambassador to Sweden. She had even told people that she was a close friend with the film star Rita Hayworth. Fred McFaul had had enough, and finally, he left her. Dorothea now embarked on a life of crime, which included forging some checks for which she was caught and spent six months in jail before being paroled.
In 1952, Dorothea married a second time, this time to a merchant seaman named Axel Johansson. It was not ideal. Johansson's work took him away much of the time, and when he'd return, he would find other men living with his wife. He knew that neighbors often complained about taxis that pulled up at strange hours and dropped men off to visit Dorothea. Theirs was a turbulent marriage, with frequent fights and separations, yet they remained married for 14 years.
In 1960, she was convicted of owning and managing a brothel, though she denied it. After serving her time, she was arrested again, this time for vagrancy. By this time, her marriage to Johansson was over and she had married her third husband, Robert Puente, who at only 19 years old was half Dorothea's age. The marriage would last just two years.
The crimes that she committed now became more serious. In 1968, she opened a halfway house for alcoholics which she named "The Samaritans." It didn't last long. The halfway house closed after Dorothea had run up debts to the tune of $10,000. Shortly after the closing of The Samaritans, Dorothea moved to a 16-room boarding house at 2100 F Street in Sacramento, where she eventually became the manager.
In 1976, Dorothea Puente married for the fourth time. This time, her new husband was one of the tenants living at the boarding house, a violent 52-year-old alcoholic named Pedro Angel Montalvo. The marriage would last just a few months. "She wanted new pantyhose every day." Montalvo would later tell the newspapers. "She thought she was rich." When this marriage collapsed, Puente began to haunt the local bars and taverns, on the lookout for elderly, lonely men. Once she had become friendly with them, she would start forging their signatures and stealing their money. She was eventually caught in 1978, and charged with forgery. She was convicted of forging 34 checks that she had stolen from her elderly victims, and was given a very lenient five year's probation. Undeterred, even on probation, Dorothea Puente carried on committing treasury fraud.
In 1981, Puente moved several blocks down from the boarding house at 2100, into the boarding house at 1426 F Street. She rented an upstairs apartment, and it was during this period that she began the drugging and robbing of the elderly that led to her five-year sentence. One victim, 74-year-old Malcolm McKenzie, told the Sacramento Bee how she had drugged him and as he watched in a stupor, helpless and unable to move, she looted his home and took his valuables.
After her three years in prison, and her release on parole in 1985, she moved back in to 1426 F Street. Part of her parole condition was that she stay away from the elderly, and that she not "handle government checks of any kind issued to others." It was a condition that Puente had no intention of following. When the owner decided to move out, Puente took over the running of the boarding house, a clear violation of her parole. On at least 15 separate occasions, Puente was visited by parole agents, who must have been aware that she was running a boarding house. Astonishingly, no parole violations were ever reported, and Puente was free to carry on accepting new tenants, collecting their mail for them, and handling their expenses. Before long, her reputation as a kind and benevolent woman began to spread, and soon, social workers began to send their homeless and afflicted clients to the boarding house. Puente kept her five felony convictions to herself, and the social workers never checked. Outwardly, Puente appeared to be perfect, the "best the system had to offer," as one social worker put it.
Ismael Florez was a local handyman. He was hired by Puente in November 1985 to install some wood panelling in her apartment. She also wanted him to build a storage box. The box was to be six feet, by three feet, by two feet. Instead of getting cash for his work, Puente made him an offer. If he gave her $800, she would give him a red 1980 Ford pickup. The vehicle once belonged to her boyfriend in Los Angeles, she explained, but he no longer had any use for it. Florez accepted the deal. Puente asked if Florez would drive her and the now filled and nailed shut box to a storage depot, and he agreed. On the way there, Puente changed her mind about the depot. The box is just full of junk, she told him, and instead, he helped her carry the box to an unofficial dumping site on the bank of the Sacramento River along the Garden Highway in Sutter County.
By 1988, the neighbors had begun to notice a particularly foul smell that was coming from 1426 F Street. In the summer months it was so bad that many of the neighbors chose to endure the heat rather than turn on their air conditioners and suck the smell into their homes. When asked about it, Puente put the blame on the sewer system that she said had backed up. Another time, she blamed the fish fertilizer that she had recently spread on the garden. In an attempt to mask the stench, Puente had dumped lime and bleach into the back yard, and when any guests came to the house to visit, she liberally sprayed the house with air freshener. But it made no difference. Whatever it was, the smell clung to the house.
But in November, when the first of the bodies was discovered, the source of the smell became clear. By Sunday, November 13, Dorothea Puente was front page news across the country, and there was still no sign of her. The newspapers also commented on how the police had let her give them the slip. John Kearns, Sacramento Police Chief, acknowledged that a serious error had been committed by his officers. "She should have been followed," he said, even though detectives did not have enough evidence to arrest her. "She should have been tailed very closely." Kearns said, "She was a prime suspect in a homicide case. There isn't any excuse as far as I am concerned why the suspect was not kept under surveillance." He did defend the officers' decision not to arrest her, saying that if they acted in haste, it could well have jeopardized their case. "You've got to realize you're walking on egg shells when talking to a suspect without an arrest warrant or a search warrant. She could have refused to allow the officers to dig in the yard," he said. The criticism became worse when it was revealed that the police knew about her criminal past and her propensity for lying.
As the digging continued, more bodies began to turn up, some buried for only a few weeks, some buried a year or more. Social workers supplied the police with a list of people they had placed at the boarding house. Included on the list were the names of John Sharp and Benjamin Fink, and one that stood out for Detective Cabrera: Dorothy Miller, the name on the prescription bottles he'd found. It was established that Puente had not dug the holes, but had hired others to do it, not suspecting what the holes were for. Homer Myers, a 74-year-old former tenant, had dug several holes for her, one supposedly for an apricot tree. "She said she had contacted a nursery and they told her she needed a hole that was four feet by four feet and five feet deep," said Myers, "I thought that was a little deep. Now I know why." Other holes were dug by the paroles from the local halfway house, including one named Don Anthony, who Puente got to call Judy Moise and pretend to be Bert's relative, and who inadvertently gave his own name before hastily correcting himself.
On Monday, police demolished a shed and underneath, a shallow grave was discovered. A short while later, another grave was found in the front garden. This corpse was different in the fact that the head, hands, and feet had been severed and had been removed. Inside the house, other damning evidence had been found. In plain view, detectives found a book entitled Drugs and Their Effects. Cabrera also found a driving licence that had a photograph of Dorothea Puente, but a name that was not hers. Upstairs, the detectives entered one of the rooms, and it was immediately clear that this was the source of the foul odour that John Sharp had complained of to Officer Ewing in his private talk. This room was kept by Puente to store the bodies while preparations were made for their disposal in the back yard. Sometimes, the bodies could have been there for a week or more. As a result of the length of time between their death and their eventual burial, the bodily fluids from her victims had seeped from the corpses and saturated the carpeting, seeping through to the floorboards beneath.
Neighbors began placing handmade posters in their windows, reading "Nightmare on F Street" although had it not been a comedy, Arsenic and Old Lace may have had closer parallels. Seven bodies had now been found, four women and three men. Most of the bodies were missing their teeth and were too decomposed, making it almost impossible to get their fingerprints. Identifying the bodies was going to be difficult. The San Francisco branch of the Social Security Department sent a list to the police. It contained the names of all the people registered to 1426 F Street who had been receiving benefit checks for the past three years. Although the list could not specify who actually cashed the checks, it became fairly clear what had been going on. On the days when the checks would come, Puente insisted on getting the mail, collecting the checks and handling all the finances for her tenants, giving them a small amount for their personal needs, and keeping the rest as "expenses," to the tune of around $5,000 a month. A handwriting expert would later confirm that Puente had signed the names of her tenants, including the dead, on some 60 federal and state checks that had been sent to the boarding house. Many of the names on the list had not lived at the boarding house for well over a year, but the checks kept coming because no one had reported that they had moved or were missing.
There was, however, one family looking for a relative. Everson Gillmouth had moved to California in 1985 to get married, and his family had not heard from him since late that year, though they had been receiving letters from his new wife. The woman that Gillmouth was supposed to have married was Dorothea Puente.
Gillmouth was a 77-year-old retiree who lived in Oregon. He had begun a pen-pal friendship with Puente while she was still in jail serving her 1982 prison term. A romance blossomed, and when Puente was released on parole in 1985, Everson Gillmouth was there at the gates to collect her, in his red 1980 Ford pickup. In their correspondence, Gillmouth had told Dorothea all about himself, including the fact that he earned a nice pension. Gillmouth had told his sister that he and Dorothea were going to get married. He had even made Puente a signatory on his checking account. The family would get letters from Puente, telling them all that she and Everson had been doing, the trips they took and the things they had seen. With the bodies found at the boarding house, the family contacted the Sacramento police to ask how Everson was.
Another man named William Clausen also called the Sacramento Police, but not for a missing person. He was calling about his mother, Ruth Munroe, who had committed suicide six years before. In 1982, Ruth Munroe was 61 years old and was going through a tough time. Her husband had been diagnosed with a terminal illness, and was residing in a Veterans Administration Hospital and Ruth was uncomfortable living alone. She and a partner ran a small catering business, and it was her partner who came up with a perfect solution to Ruth's dilemma. As they were business partners, why not also share a place to live. It sounded like the ideal solution, and on Easter Sunday, 1982, Ruth moved in with her partner, Dorothea Puente. William would often visit his mother at 1426 F Street, and she seemed well for a while. One thing William noticed was that Puente made drinks for Ruth. But, he thought nothing of it, after all Dorothea was a friend of his mother. Then, on April 27, William called and found his mother in bed, unable to move or speak. Worried, William comforted her, and assured her that she was okay and that Dorothea would care for her until she was well. But the next morning, William received a phone call. His mother was dead.
The cause of Ruth's death was determined to be an overdose of a mixture of drugs. Puente told the coroner that Ruth was very depressed, not unreasonable considering her husbands illness. With no other evidence, the death was ruled a suicide. Ruth's family denied that Ruth was depressed or suicidal, that in fact, she was the opposite, upbeat and cheerful. The timing of Ruth's death struck Cabrera. It was the same time that Puente was drugging and robbing the elderly, and Puente needed to go on the run. Ruth would have been a ready source of cash, and it was likely that the ticket for Mexico found on Puente when she was caught was paid for with Ruth's money. With this new evidence, Ruth Munroe's name was added to the list of homicide victims.
The coroner's office was working hard to try and identify the seven bodies taken from the boarding house yard. Eventually, they were successful. The first one found, whose leg was first thought to be a tree root, was that of Leona Carpenter, and the fourth body found had some tattoo's, which enabled them to identify it as that of Benjamin Fink. Despite their condition, the coroner's office did manage to get fingerprints from two of the bodies. One was Dorothy Miller, and the other, to Judy Moise's sorrow, was Bert Montoya. It was the body of Betty Palmer that was missing the head, hands, and feet. The last two bodies were those of James Gallop and Vera Faye Martin.
One thing Cabrera noted was how the corpses were buried. Each one had been wrapped in sheeting and plastic, and secured with duct tape. He wondered if any similarly wrapped bodies had been discovered elsewhere. Cabrera sent out a bulletin to all agencies, and it wasn't long before he got a reply. Sutter County police called and told him that on January 1, 1986, a fisherman out on the Sacramento River had found a long homemade box on the river bank, where people were dumping their garbage illegally, just off the Garden Highway. He called the police, and when they opened the box, they found, wrapped in sheeting, plastic, and duct tape, the badly decomposed corpse of an elderly man. He had been dead a few months, and they had been unable to identify him. Now, three years later, they finally could. It was the body of Everson Gillmouth.
Puente's body count was now nine.
After her capture in Los Angeles, Puente was cooperative, and admitted that she had buried the bodies in the back yard, and that she had continued to collect their checks and cash them. However, she denied that she had murdered the victims, insisting that they had all died of natural causes. In fact, there was no clear cause of death in any of the victims. Dalmane (flurazepam) is a prescription-strength sleeping pill, which could certainly be lethal if it was taken with alcohol or any other sedatives, and it was especially lethal if taken by the elderly. Although Dalmane had been found in all of the bodies, it could not be determined as the cause of death in any of them. But it would have been easy for Puente to mix it in with their food or drinks.
After many delays, including a change of venue to Monterey County due to the publicity surrounding the case in Sacramento, the trial of Dorothea Puente on nine counts of homicide, finally began on February 9, 1993. Puente's defense team of Kevin Clymo and Peter Vlautin didn't deny that Puente had buried the bodies of her tenants, or that she cashed their benefit checks. But, they insisted, the tenants had all died from natural causes. The trial lasted months, but finally, on July 15, the jury retired for deliberation. Weeks passed until on August 26, the jury returned. At 43 days, it was at that time the longest deliberation in California history.
For four of the counts, the jury returned a split vote, eleven guilty, one not guilty. For two more of the counts, the jury was split equally. But for the murder of Benjamin Fink and the murder of Vera Faye Martin, she was found guilty in the first degree, and for the murder of Leona Carpenter, she was found guilty in the second degree. On October 13, 1993, Dorothea Puente was sentenced to two life terms for the murder of Fink and Martin, and 25 years to life for the murder of Leona Carpenter. This time, there would be no parole.
Dorothea Puente was taken to what would be her home for the rest of her life, the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, Madera County, California.
In the wake of the events surrounding 1426 F Street, the social services understandably came under fire. An independent agency published a report entitled "Sins of Omission," which criticised the Sacramento Police Departments handling of the case, and also criticised 10 more agencies, both public and private, that had dealings with the boarding house. After the events, social services were tightened, and a better system for keeping track of applicants was established.
|Cooking with a Serial Killer
In 1998, Puente began a long correspondence with underground artist, publisher, and self proclaimed serial killer expert Shane Bugbee. In 2004, he published the book, Cooking with a Serial Killer which included a long interview with Puente, plus some prison artwork, and 50 recipes that she had sent to him.
On March 27, 2011, Dorothea Puente died from natural causes at Chowchilla. She was 82 years old.