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TIDBITS® EXAMINES FINGERPRINTS by Janet Spencer

On November 2, 1904, the use of fingerprints began in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in Kansas, and the St. Louis Police Department. They were assisted by a Sergeant from Scotland Yard who had been on duty at the St. Louis World’s Fair Exposition guarding the British display. Shortly afterwards, the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) created America’s first national fingerprint repository, called the National Bureau of Criminal Identification. Come along with Tidbits as we examine fingerprints! FINGERPRINT FACTS • In some cultures criminals were identified by amputating an ear or finger, or by blinding an eye or cutting the tongue. Egyptians extracted teeth of criminals for ID purposes, and in medieval Europe they were branded like cattle— a practice that continued in China until 1905. Today we identify criminals through fingerprints. FINGERPRINT FILE • Fingerprints form about 4 months before birth. We have fingerprints (as well as hand and foot prints) in order to increase traction. The ridges increase friction against surfaces. Foot and hand prints are just as unique as fingerprints. (Continued next page)

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• There may be 300 ridges on the skin between fingertips and wrist. There are millions of sweat pores between the ridges, which exude a nearly invisible mixture that’s 99% water and 1% fatty acid. Everything you touch is covered with this residue. The water will evaporate, but the fat remains. Fingerprints are still intact and readable on ancient mummies. • In ancient China, emperors used thumbprints to sign state papers. Artists used fingerprints on pictures instead of signatures. But the fact that every human being carries a signature on their fingertips wasn’t put to use in police work until William Herschel became interested in 1860. At that time, he was working for the British government in India. He handled the payment of pensions to retired people. But frequently one person would collect his money, and then later someone using the same name would show up to collect it again. Herschel couldn’t keep track of the many people he dealt with— so he started having everyone sign for their money with a thumbprint. The fraud stopped immediately, but it was decades before fingerprints came into play where crime solving was concerned. • In 1892 a detective was called to a scene where two young children had been murdered. The mother accused an old man who lived nearby. He proclaimed his innocence. The policeman found a bloody handprint on the door. He called the old man to the scene, and had him place an inked handprint on a piece of paper. The prints didn’t match. Next he had the mother of the children do the same— and the prints matched. She had murdered her own kids because the man she loved wouldn’t marry her as long as she had children. This is the first recorded instance of fingerprints being used to solve a crime. (cont’d)

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just a good idea to clean up after your dog -- it’s a rule in most parks. First and foremost, you and your dog usually are hanging out in the same areas that everyone else frequents. Other dogs, people and small children roam those same trails and play in the same areas. Nobody wants to roll in a dog’s leavings (except other dogs). Before going into a park, review the rules for that park regarding dogs. For example, California’s state parks do not (in most cases) allow dogs on the beach “for sanitary reasons.” Dogs are restricted from some trails, and they have to be on a leash at all times during the day. Even if a park doesn’t have strict rules, being a good neighbor by picking up after your dog helps breed good will and can keep restrictive rules from being enacted in the ﬁrst place. Send your questions or comments to ask@ pawscorner.com.

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• Scotland Yard began using fingerprint evidence in 1901. Since then, fingerprint evidence has solved innumerable crimes. • For many decades, each police department kept its own collection of fingerprints on file. Any police department with a suspicious person in custody sent copies of fingerprints to each police department individually, and each police department searched through their files manually. It was a time-consuming and inefficient process. Congress established the FBI’s Identification Division in 1924 to be the central repository for all fingerprint records. Now known as the Criminal Justice Information Services Division, the bureau employs around 3,000 people and is the largest branch of the FBI. Currently the FBI has over 234 million fingerprints on file representing over 81 million people. Of the millions of sets of fingerprints in FBI files, none have ever been found to match. • In 1999, the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) went into operation. IAFIS stores over 51 million digital prints and compares them within minutes, pulling up a list of potential matches along with their criminal histories. State and local law enforcement agencies transmit fingerprint information to the system electronically, and get identification within a few hours.

FINDING FINGERPRINTS

• There are several methods of ﬁnding ﬁngerprints. One of the most common methods is called iodine fuming. In the late 1800s it was found that iodine fumes, when they come into contact with body fats and oils, will react with them in a way that makes them visible. To accomplish this, iodine crystals are put into a beaker and heated, which produces a purple gas. (Continued next page)

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• Brian E. Dalrymple was born in Toronto in 1947. He got his baccalaureate in 1970 from Ontario College of Art. In 1972 Dalrymple joined the Forensic Identification Services of the Ontario Provincial Police as a forensic analyst, beginning a 28-year career with the agency. • In 1977 he began collaborating with a couple guys at the Xerox Research Centre named Duff and Menzel, experimenting with lasers. It bothered them that every time they turned the lasers on, the laser beam would illuminate every single fingerprint in the area, fouling up their experiments. Finally someone suggested that maybe this discovery could be useful in crime detection. • Fine-tuning their discovery, the team found that shining an argon ion laser on latent fingerprints would cause them to fluorescence, making them highly visible. The laser light bounces off the human fat and perspiration in the fingerprint which glow fluorescent yellow. The laser beam was a non-destructive method that also allowed the more traditional methods of fingerprint identification to proceed normally. • Additionally, they found that the goggles that all laser operators are required to wear while working with a laser beam effectively blocked certain wavelengths of light, which made the fingerprint stand out even more. Further research by Dalrymple showed that if a fingerprint were stained with particular chemicals, it would cause an even greater degree of fluorescence when the laser light was beamed upon it. Together, these developments proved to be so effective that fingerprints that were otherwise invisible using standard methods could now easily be revealed using these techniques. (cont’d)

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• The very first fingerprint identified and utilized in a criminal case using this technology was located on the sticky side of a piece of black electrical tape in a drug case. This was the beginning of a revolution in the forensic identification field. • Today, portable lasers are sometimes taken to crime scenes to help with fingerprint evidence. This technology is now in global use and has provided crucial evidence in hundreds of major investigations. • As a result of his efforts, the Ontario Provincial Police became the first police agency in the world to be operational in this technology. After another decade of research, Dalrymple perfected the art of applying computer enhancement technology to sharpen images, once again placing the Ontario Provincial Police as Canadian leaders in forensic science. • In 1991, as Associate Section Head, he introduced the first Computer Evidence System to Canada, and became the first Canadian to offer expert advice in this technology. He was promoted to Manager of Forensic Identification Services in 1992. • He perfected methods on examining murder victims for fingerprints left on their skin. • Brian Dalrymple retired from the Ontario Provincial Police in 1999 and now runs a private firm dedicated to consultation and training in identification services. He specializes not only in fingerprints, but also in shoe prints, foot prints, and forensic photography, helping solve homicides, drug crimes, fraud, and deter organized crime. • Brian Dalrymple is the author of numerous publications and the recipient of several prestigious awards. Without his work, many a criminal would still be roaming the streets.

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• In 1941 a Texas cop stopped to question a hitchhiker. When asked to show his ID, he said he had lost it. The officer noticed his fingertips looked odd. The officer took him in for questioning. After being fingerprinted, the police were fascinated to find he had no fingerprints whatsoever. The man said he was born like that. Police had their doubts and detained him while they consulted the FBI. The FBI instructed police to search the man’s body for scars. On each side of his ribcage there were five oval scars. When he held his arms folded across his chest, his fingers fit perfectly over the scars. A crooked doctor had removed the skin from his fingertips, then cut out small patches of skin from his chest. His arms were folded across his chest and his fingertips taped over the wounded skin. When new skin grew from his sides, it adhered to his fingertips in a natural skin graft. Alerted, police sent photos of the man across the nation. He was identified as a specialist in safe blowing, wanted for three jobs. • In Miami in 1990, police arrested a suspect who was thought to be a drug dealer. Upon fingerprinting him, they found his fingerprints running in all sorts of crazy zig zag patterns. It was like nothing they had ever seen before. Tommy Moorefield, an FBI expert on fingerprints, examined the fingerprints and concluded that the man had sliced the skin on his fingertips into tiny pieces and then transplanted those pieces onto other fingers. After the fingertips healed, his new fingerprints ran in all directions. Moorefield took photographs of the fingerprints and cut them into small pieces, then began fitting them together like a jigsaw puzzle. Before long he was able to match the reassembled fingerprints to a fugitive connected to another drug case. The suspect was convicted. (cont’d)

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Carmel-Sutton United Methodist Church will host an evening of food, fun, and fellowship for the entire family

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For Advertising Call (740) 441-7633 FINGERPRINT FOIBLES (cont’d) • In Binghamton, NY, police had to wait awhile before they were able to fingerprint suspect Lane Fontes. Fontes was arrested after leaving the scene of an accident and, while sitting in the back of the police car, he chewed the skin off the tips of his fingers. This made police suspicious and they held him in custody for two weeks while the fingerprints grew back. Sure enough, they discovered that he was wanted for parole violations in Virginia. • In 1975 Larry Collins walked into a bank in New Jersey with a sawed-off shot gun. After swiping over $3,000 he was on his way out of the bank when the gun went off accidentally, striking him in the hand. He yanked off his glove to inspect the damage and threw it on the floor before running out. When police inspected the discarded glove, they found the tip of his finger inside. They got a fingerprint from it and shortly had the robber in custody. • In 1994 in Mendota Heights, MN, John Wuchko robbed a store. He was careful not to leave fingerprints at the scene, because he wore surgical rubber gloves. However, as he fled the scene, he stripped off the gloves and discarded them. Police recovered one, turned it inside out, and lifted a perfect print. • In Egypt, a burglar broke into a woman’s house. When she awoke to see a man bending over her, she began to scream. He put his hand over her mouth, but his hand slipped and a finger went inside her mouth. The lady bit down— taking the tip of the finger completely off. The burglar fled. She took the fingertip to the police, who matched the print to a known burglar. They shortly had in custody a man who was missing the end of his finger. He argued that losing the tip of his finger was punishment enough and he shouldn’t have to go to jail, but he did anyway.

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By Keith Roach, M. D, Thyroid Top Cause of Eyebrow Loss DEAR DR. ROACH: I am an active 63-year-old female of normal weight. I exercise several times a week and am in seemingly good health. About a year ago I noticed that my eyebrows were disappearing, starting on the outer edges. They are now almost completely gone. During my annual physical in November, my general physician found that I have thyroid nodules. Three large ones were biopsied and proved negative. Blood work, including a TSH level, is normal. Both my GP and dermatologist feel certain that the nodules are not causing the eyebrow problem, because I don’t have any other symptoms of thyroid disease, but they don’t know what is causing the loss. -- K.F. ANSWER: The loss of eyebrows, superciliary madarosis, has many possible causes, but low thyroid is the ﬁrst one that most doctors think of. A TSH level is a reasonable screening test for thyroid disease, but if the suspicion is high, I check

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coffee can stimulate your stomach to make more acid, and can weaken the sphincter muscle that keeps the stomach acid from going up into the esophagus. However, if it isn’t bothering you, there is no reason to stop drinking coffee. One cup of juice usually doesn’t cause acid indigestion either.

DEAR DR. ROACH: My wife continually tells me that I should not drink reheated coffee because it concentrates the acid in coffee and is bad for me. I never drink more than one cup per day, and I always use a non-dairy creamer and Splenda. I have researched this question online and several responses say it is not harmful. In the meantime, she drinks orange juice every day, which has a lower pH than coffee. She sometimes complains about acid indigestion. Your comments? -- A.

ANSWER: A hammer toe is a deformity of the second, third or fourth toe, where it stays permanently bent. It may be caused by wearing shoes with too little toe room. Roomy shoes are always a good idea, and taping may be tried if the toe is still bendable. Surgery is used in cases of pain that doesn’t respond to conservative treatments. Surgery should not be done just for cosmetic reasons.

ANSWER: Acid is measured by the pH scale -- with the lower the number, the more acid in the liquid. Coffee has a pH of about 5, slightly acidic, whereas orange juice has a pH of 3, which means it is a hundred times more acidic. Reheating coffee should not change the acid concentration. Your stomach has a pH of about 1.5 -- much more acid than either juice or coffee. The caffeine in

DEAR DR. ROACH: What is a hammer toe? Is surgery always necessary? -- R.H.

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• Save plastic bags that cannot be recycled, and use them to collect food scraps that cannot be composted or ﬂushed. -- B.M. in New York

• Keep the yolks in hard-boiled eggs from crumbling by wetting your knife between slices. • “To soften butter without melting it, warm a bowl that is bigger than the butter stick and invert it over the butter on a plate. It’s nice before a meal because it makes a hard stick of butter easier to spread on bread rolls, but not so soft that you use too much.” -- T.G. in Indiana • Save the peel on oranges and grapefruits. You can toss them on a ﬁre for a nice smell.

• “Hard-water stains in the toilet are no match for denture tablets. Simply drop one in the toilet and let sit overnight. A quick scrub and a ﬂush in the morning should do it.” -- P.S. in Washington • Make a holiday cheese ball simply: Combine a package of cream cheese with a cup of ﬁnely shredded cheese (your choice) and 1/3 cup sour cream or plain Greek yogurt. Form into a ball, roll in coating of your choice (dried fruit pieces, chopped nuts, spices, etc.) and chill. Wrap in a pretty cellophane bag and bring with pita chips, crackers or pretzels as a hostess gift. Send your tips to Now Here’s a Tip, c/o King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475 or e-mail JoAnn at heresatip@yahoo.com. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Q: I read recently that the best way to store all of my lawn tools for the winter is to rub them with linseed oil and then hang them up. Linseed oil seems like kind of a pricey way to do it, and I don’t have a lot of space to hang up tools. What do you recommend? -- Karl G., Buffalo, N.Y. A: Linseed oil is considered a good medium to protect wooden-handled tools, but there also are wood-conditioning blends available -- some of them contain linseed oil among the ingredients, others don’t. The oil protects the handles from cracking as the wood expands and contracts from cold and hot temperature changes, dryness or humidity. The metal surfaces of your hand tools should not be coated with linseed oil. Instead, clean them well, removing debris and any spot rust. Some people even sharpen trimming tools one last time for the season. Then, put a light coat of protective oil on the metal portions, including the blades and any hinge points. (Some people wipe motor oil onto the blades, but oils developed for lawn tools are available at hardware stores.) How you store the tools is up to you. The most important thing is to keep them out of direct weather -- in a storage shed, basement or garage -- and off the floor. The next priority is to store them so that the metal blades don’t touch each other. If your only option is to place them on a storage shelf, lay them in a line, in opposite directions, to minimize metal-to-metal contact. DIYers with a garage or storage shed often designate a section of the wall for hanging tools. A classic, fast and inexpensive way to get a lot of tools into one section is to put up a piece of pegboard with metal hooks. This can be quickly configured and reconfigured since the hooks simply can be lifted up and repositioned into another peg. Hang tools by their handles. Long tools like shovels can be suspended by placing the shovel head on two hooks with the handle pointing downward. HOME TIP: For garden tools that have a lot of rust, brew up some strong black tea and soak the blades in it for a couple of hours. The surface rust should wipe right off! -- James in Bennington, Vt. Send your questions or home tips to ask@ thisisahammer.com. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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1. Who holds the majorleague record for most multihomer games? 2. In 1974, an Atlanta Brave led the National League in batting average, while a teammate led the league in ERA. Name them. 3. Who was the last quarterback before Alabama’s A.J. McCarron in the 2011-12 seasons to lead a team to back-to-back undisputed national championships? 4. In 2014, Mark Jackson became the sixth coach in Warriors franchise history to win 100 NBA games. Name three of the ﬁrst ﬁve to do it. 5. Who has recorded the most saves during a shutout in an NHL game (including overtime)? 6. Who is the only U.S. athlete to win a gold medal in both the Summer and Winter Olympics in different events? 7. Who has compiled the lowest nine-hole score at a PGA Tour event?

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