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text: Because of some issues Quinn had as a puppy has always either had a little bit of SA or had the potential. She's recently started displaying some pretty bad (at least to me) SA though. When Quinn was a puppy I did start with crating her - the crate was always a positive experience (never used as a punishment) and she was comfortable enough to go into it by herself and nap and was fine in it (even with the crate door closed) as long as I was around. When I would leave the house however she would scream and cry for hours and often pee in her crate (even if we took her out before we left and I was only gone 20 mins). We did a lot of short, positive sessions but largely due to the fact that I live with other people who are not as tolerant/patient/consistent, I gave up and she got free roam at 5 months old with absolutely zero issues. We are still in the same household and Quinn does not demonstrate any anxiety when I leave. My dad (who she loves) is almost always home, but even when she's home alone she lies quietly on the stairs and watches us leave. She seems very relaxed when I come home and usually comes from the living room or the stairs, which is where she likes to sleep. She is the same when left in the our SUV - she is often left in there, often for decently long periods, and is very comfortable and relaxed. We have however had a couple of incidents lately. The first when my boyfriend and I left for a work dinner and left her alone at his house. She had pretty much free range (we did close off bedroom and the bathroom, but she pretty much had the entire main floor) and we were gone for approximately 4 hours. When we came home she was incredibly excited and anxious (whining and crying), panting, and had a big drink shortly after we came home. There were scratch marks on the outside door. She has always been more anxious when left at his house (more excited when we come home, some drool by the window) but no where near how she was that night. The second incident happened at the new house we are moving into. She has been left on her own there once before with no issues so I didn't think much of leaving her there again. The first time we had closed doors as to restrict her to the hallway around the house (where you first walk in) and the kitchen. This time, the hallway was very cold so we gave her access to the kitchen and the large, open living room. We were only gone for 2-3 hours. When we came back she acted quite calm (not like when Josh and I came home) but upon further inspection she had knocked some stuff off the table (where there is a window that looks into the hallway/outside door), there were scratches on the door (this is a door that's very close to the outside one) and she absolutely DESTROYED the door knob. It was an indoor one so not very strong, but she still dented it all up and actually punctured it in one spot. I think a contributing problem that day was the fact that she was restricted from the outside door. She is still fine at home. I feel so over my head on this one. This has always been the dog that I can leave home or in the car with no worries, even for an extended period of time. I don't even know where to begin!


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Our every-so-often tally of business patterns looks to see what this week may tells us about trends at the cash register.
WHAT TO WATCH: Big national retailers often can provide a solid, instant snapshot of the American consumer psyche.
This coming week is full of more retailing earnings reports, so we'll get a fuller picture of the American shopper's mood.
Keep a careful eye on reports from the likes of bargain-oriented TJX and Dollar Tree; big chains like Sears Holdings (including Kmart), Best Buy, Kohl's and Chico's; restaurants like Domino's Pizza, Carrols, Cracker Barrel and DineEquity (IHOP and Applebee's) – and even home-improvement specialist Lowe's.
Please note that sometimes a single merchant's unique performance – good or bad – or the geographic or demographic niche that a specific merchant competes in may distort the meaningfulness of the company's results in the big picture.
FIRST HINT: If anybody understands the wallets of Main Street America, it's Wal-Mart.
The retailing giant, known for its low prices, raised a few eyebrows with an admission that early February sales were sluggish.
But Wal-Mart last week hinted this thriftiness might be a blip, as the company wrote, "February sales started slower than planned, due in large part to the delay in income tax refunds. We began seeing increased tax refund check activity late last week in our stores, resulting in a more normalized weekly sales pattern for this time of the year."
Last year, Wal-Mart sales grew 2 percent by the key industry metric, same-store sales. Wal-Mart now says its first-quarter selling pace, due to this perhaps temporary spending pause, will "be around flat."
That might not be so bad as its customer base fights, as Wal-Mart put it, "higher payroll income taxes, ongoing unemployment and higher gas prices."
SECOND HINT: Restaurant operator Darden also is finding sales elusive in its just-ending fiscal quarter.
Same-store sales at its key chains – Olive Garden, Red Lobster and LongHorn Steakhouse – are estimated to be running 4.5 percent below year-ago levels.
Darden last week blamed harsh winter weather and "difficult macro-economic headwinds during the last month of the quarter. Two of the most prominent were increased payroll taxes and rising gasoline prices, which together put meaningful pressure on the discretionary purchasing power of our guests."
But here's a curious side trend: Darden's higher-end chains – which now include 40 Orange County-bred Yard House brewpubs – saw sales increase 2 percent vs. a year ago in the very same period.


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I'm sorry I can't be much help on the location thing. If it were about Georgia I could help.
As for keeping everything in order, I realized from the get go I was going to have to have an outline. Not because of the story itself but because I tend to get ADD when I write. I'll be in the middle of a scene and some other idea or line of dialogue will hit me and I HAVE to write it down. But I can keep up with it better b/c I can give it a name that corresponds to the rough outline.
For example, the entire time I've been working on my current project I haven't been writting in order of the story. So today I started going through what I've done to see where I was and all I had to do was look at the title of each scene and the look at the outline to put it together. I always have a notepad w/me and an notepad.doc open on the computer so I can put stuff down quickly and then get back to my original work.
It took me forever to realize I needed to do this and I'm afraid I lost alot of work not paying attention.
As for the current project, I'm 52 pgs and 13,039 words into it. The number blew me away because I've only been working on it a little over a week.
My question for the night is, does anyone else have scraps upon scraps of paper w/notes, character info, dialogue, background info and story line ideas laying all over their homes? I have so much stuff it cracks me up and I was wondering if I'm the only one?


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Conservative 11th Circuit panel overturns trial court decision, says firing violated her right to equal protection
Lisa Keen | Keen News Service
A three-judge panel of the conservative 11th Circuit U.S. Supreme Court of Appeals on Tuesday, Dec. 6, ruled in favor of an employee of the Georgia General Assembly who was fired after telling a supervisor that she was undergoing male-to-female sex change treatment.
The supervisor, Sewell Brumby, told the employee, then known as Glenn Morrison, that the gender transition would be "disruptive" to the workplace, that it would make some co-workers "uncomfortable" and that "some people would view it as a moral issue."
The employee, now known as Vandiver Elizabeth Glenn, filed suit with the aid of Lambda Legal Defense saying the firing violated Glenn's constitutional right to equal protection.
The firing, argued Lambda, was both discrimination based on sex and based on a medical condition. A district court ruled for the supervisor.
But the panel said the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution "requires the state to treat all persons similarly situated alike or, conversely, to avoid all classifications that are 'arbitrary or irrational' and those that reflect 'a bare … desire to harm a politically unpopular group.'
"The question here is whether discriminating against someone on the basis of his or her gender non-conformity constitutes sex-based discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause," said the panel, in Glenn v. Sewell Brumby. "… we hold that it does."
Those reasons included a 1989 decision in Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it was sex discrimination for a law firm to deny a promotion to a female lawyer because she was perceived as "macho."
"All persons, whether transgender or not, are protected from discrimination on the basis of gender stereotype," said the panel. "… The nature of the discrimination is the same; it may differ in degree but not in kind, and discrimination on this basis is a form of sex-based discrimination that is subject to heightened scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause. Ever since the Supreme Court began to apply heightened scrutiny to sex-based classifications, its consistent purpose has been to eliminate discrimination on the basis of gender stereotypes."
The panel took note that supervisor Brumby had expressed concern that other female employees at the General Assembly "might object" to Glenn's use of the women's restroom. But it said Brumby presented "insufficient evidence" to show this was the deciding motivation in firing Glenn.
© 2011 by Keen News Service. All rights reserved
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition December 9, 2011.


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Foreign reports link Saudi with Islamic terrorists
Prison Planet.com
April 21, 2013
Glenn Beck's big story tomorrow will likely revolve around the Saudi person of interest, 20-year-old Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi's family ties to Islamic terrorism, as the wheels come off the official narrative concocted around the Boston Marathon bombings.
Below, Alex details the brazen terror plot unfolding before our very eyes.
This article was posted: Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 3:26 pm


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Compass In A Watch
The principle of this toy is based on astronomy.
In the northern hemisphere the sun is in the south at noon. If at that
time we point the hour-hand at the sun, the hour-hand and number
12 will point south. Before the noon the sun is more to the east,
while after the noon - to the west. That's why when it is not noon,
the angle between the point at which the sun is in the south (i.e.
number 12), and the point at which the sun is at the moment (i.e.
hour-hand) entirely shows south. In order to define the direction more
precisely we have to imagine the bisecting line of the angle, or in
other words the line which runs from the center of the watch through a
point half-way between the hour-hand and number 12. It will point
south - as shown in the right part of the illustration.
In the southern hemisphere in order to make your watch working as a
compass you have to point number 12 at the sun. The angle between this
number and the hour-hand, shows north, instead of south. Therefore the
line which you can imagine between number 12 and the hour-hand will
then show north - as shown in the left part of the illustration.


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The Cortez Journal encourages people to submit announcements about upcoming events for the Community Calendar. Send announcements to firstname.lastname@example.com. Items submitted at least two weeks in advance will have a better chance of getting published; items submitted several days before the event might not get published. For more information, call the Journal at 565-8527.
Cortez Library August computer classes
The Cortez Public Library, 202 N. Park St., will offer a series of computer training classes in August. All classes start at 1 p.m. On Thursday, Aug. 2, a class on Internet Maps and Google Earth will be held. On Friday, Aug. 10, the Southwest Colorado Workforce Center staff will teach computer classes on various aspects of finding a job on the Internet, including: registering with the Workforce Center; updating your Workforce registration; conducting job searches statewide; applying for unemployment insurance; resume preparation; and searching for State applications. On Thursday, Aug. 30, an Incredibly Basic Computer Skills class will be taught. This is our beginning class. If you have little or no computer skills, this is the class for you! All classes must be signed up for ahead of time, as space is limited. Sign up by calling the library at 565-8117 or by stopping by.
August theme for Cortez Public Librarys Storytime
Wrapping Up Our Dreams is the August theme of Raising Readers Storytime at the Cortez Public Library, 202 N. Park St. Storytime is held every Thursday and Saturday at 10:30 a.m. for preschool-aged children. Older children are welcome to join in for the craft at 11:15 a.m. on Thursdays. Please note that the library has discontinued Friday Storytime. The Saturday Storytime is held, weather permitting, at the Cortez Farmers Market on the corner of Elm and Main Streets. All days of any particular week will follow the same theme except on Saturdays there will be no craft.
Pajamarama is the subject on Thursday, Aug. 2 and Saturday, Aug. 4. Lets Glow will be discussed on Thursday, Aug. 9 and Saturday, Aug. 11. Camping will be presented on Thursday, Aug. 16 and Saturday, Aug. 18. The topic will be Space Explorers on Thursday, Aug. 23 and Saturday, Aug. 25. Monsters Under the Bed, Really? will wrap up the month on Thursday, Aug. 30 and Saturday, Sept. 1. Raising Readers Storytime offers songs, stories, crafts and silliness and uses the Early Childhood Literacy Initiative program. Theres still time to pick up a reading log for our Summer Reading Program, Dream Big, Read! Join to have a chance at a big prize drawing at the end August. For more information, contact the library at 565-8117.
Church holds Back to School Rummage Sale
The Presbyterian Women will hold their Back to School Rummage Sale on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 3 and 4 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. The sale will be held in the Fellowship Hall of the Presbyterian church, 350 S. Washington. This will be an open sale with no pricing make an offer. There will be the usual treasures, household items, bed linens, books, childrens clothing and toys, plus much more, including electrical items and plants. Come shop with us! Proceeds go toward our mission projects. For more information, call Gerry at 565-7024.
Rummage Sale will support M-CHS Marching Panthers
Come help support the M-CHS Marching Panthers! The students and Band Boosters will hold a Rummage Sale at the Notah Dineh parking lot from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 4 to earn money for 2012-13 season. All donations can be dropped off at M-CHS at the trailer parked by the band room during this week (206 W. 7th St.). Contact Kerri to make item donations for the sale and for more information at 801-259-0016.
Noted Buddhist teacher, author will speak, offer retreat
Noted Buddhist teacher and international best-selling author Lama Surya Das will speak in Durango on Saturday, Aug. 4 at the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College. The event from 6 to 9 p.m. includes book signing and sales as well as a silent auction and Lama Suryas presentation on Buddha Standard Time, which is the title of his latest book. Tickets for the event are $25 for adults and $18 for students. They may be purchased at the Community Concert Hall box office at 8th and Main St. in Durango, by phone at 247-7657, or at durangoconcerts.com. Lama Surya Das will also lead a day-long retreat from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 5 at the Durango Dharma Center. The program will be based on themes from Lama Suryas best-selling book Awakening the Buddha Within. The cost for the retreat is on a sliding scale from $40 to $70 per person. Students may register for $30 each. Dana the practice of generosity may be offered to Lama Surya. Registration may be made through the Durango Dharma Center at DurangoDharmaCenter.org or by contacting Terry Leonard at email@example.com and 799-0084.
Masonic Youth Car Wash fundraiser
The Masonic Youth will hold a car wash fundraiser on Sunday, Aug. 5 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Mobil station at Main and Washington St. Funds raised will help Bethel 42 of Jobs Daughters International to attend the Grand Session in Denver. The group assists hearing impaired kids in Colorado. For more information, call Halene West at 565-3279.
Summer Enrichment Programs at Medicine Horse
Medicine Horse Equine Therapy Center are holding their final Summer Enrichment Program of this season. Kids ages 7 through 12 will learn about horses and how to take care of them, learn how to ride bareback, do art projects, make horse treats and just have fun with horses. The advanced skills camp runs from Monday through Friday, Aug. 6-10. Camps go from 9 a.m. to noon. The cost is $120 and space is limited to six kids. For more information, contact Lynne at 533-7403 or email@example.com.
Master Teacher Seminars with Mother Clare Watts
The Center of Light presents three Master Teacher Seminars with Mother Clare Watts, with the first on Thursday, Aug. 9 at 7 p.m. with Jesus, Mary, and You: Why it Matters. The second will be on Friday, Aug. 10 at 7 p.m. with World Peace: Practice of the Mystics that Help Bring Peace on Earth, and at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 11 Many are Called, but Few are Chosen will be presented. The suggested donation for each of the first two seminars is $25; the suggested amount for the August 11 seminar is $40 and includes lunch. A friend may be brought along for free to all three. The seminars take place at Center of Light at the Sophia Peace Center, 19581 CR 31 in Dolores, turn left at the Riverside Gas and Mart. This road winds up the mesa and turns into CR 31. Go 1.8 miles; youll see a large sign with a dove on it that says Sophia Peace Center. Pre-registration is required: call Rev. Meira Leonard at 882-2123 by Monday, Aug. 6 to reserve your place for these transformative seminars.
Planning meeting for Walk to End Alzheimers
The local Walk to End Alzheimers will be held on Saturday, Sept. 15 at the Cortez City Park, and there will be a meeting to plan the walk on Tuesday, Aug. 7 at 6 p.m. at the Hospital Annex Room at 20 South Market. Anyone interested in helping with this years walk or wanting information on the local Alzheimers Association are welcome to attend. For more information, call Elaine at 259-0122 or Cindy at 749-2319.
Dickson will present How to Get Ready for an Emergency
The Mesa Verde Back Country Horsemen will present guest speaker Karen Dickson on the topic How to Get Ready for an Emergency on Tuesday, Aug. 7 at 7 p.m., at the Elks Lodge, 2100 N. Dolores Rd., on Hwy. 145 in Cortez. Come early at 6:15 p.m. for buy your own Taco Tuesday. Karen Dickson is the Regional Emergency Preparedness and Response Coordinator for Montezuma County and the Southwest Region. She is also the training officer for the Egnar Fire Department and former Firewise Coordinator for Montezuma County. Karen will speak on family emergency preparedness planning which will include how to create an evacuation kit and how to prepare for evacuating stock and pets during an emergency. Due to current fire danger in our area, this information will be valuable to all who attend. The public is always welcome! Call Nihla McCabe at 570-5036 for more information, or visit www.mesaverdehorsemen.com.
Archaeology lecture on 2 successors of Chaco cultural traditions
The Hisatsinom Chapter of the Colorado Archaeological Society is pleased to present Paul Reed on Tuesday, Aug. 7 at 6:30 p.m. at the Cortez Cultural Center, 25 N. Market St., to discuss Chaos or Order: Salmon and Aztec in the post-Chacoan Pueblo III Period. In his presentation, Paul will discuss how these two successors of the Chaco cultural traditions developed on different tracks: a continuation of the Chaco tradition at the Aztec community whereas Salmon forged ahead as a non-Chacoan, local community. Paul Reed is a Preservation Archaeologist with Archaeology Southwest. For the past eleven years he has been the Chaco Scholar at Salmon Ruins. For more information, call Bob Bernhart at 739-6772.
Registration deadline for Leadership Montezuma Fall class
Leadership Montezuma is now taking applications for their class beginning in September. Applications are due no later than Friday, Aug. 10. Leadership Montezuma is the way both locals and new arrivals learn in depth information about our community. Classes are one Thursday per month (all day) from September through May with a weekend orientation in September. Monthly topics range from Education to Natural Resources to Tourism and more. The $350 cost is usually paid for or shared by your employer. To learn more about this premier experience which has been drawing the community together since 1995, visit www.swcommunnityleadership.org or call Alex at 739-3626.
K9 Search and Rescue hosts Pancake Breakfast fundraiser
The K9 Search and Rescue Team is holding their Annual Pancake Breakfast during Escalante Days on Saturday, Aug. 11. The breakfast is the annual fundraiser for the Team and will feature pancakes, sausage, coffee or tea, and juice. Tickets are $5 per person. The breakfast will begin at 6 a.m. and ends at the start of the parade, and will be held at the Dog House, 35 Railroad Avenue (directly west of Dolores Fire Station # 1), with handicap parking at that address and regular parking off Central Avenue directly north of the building. Based in Dolores with divisions in Southern California, Northern Arizona, and members in Eastern Colo. and N.M., the K9 Search and Rescue Team Inc. is a non-profit, 100 percent volunteer organization with no tax base that depends solely on donations, grants, and fundraisers such as the Pancake Breakfast for support. Start your day with a great breakfast and support the K9 Search and Rescue Team at the same time! For more information, visit www.k9team.org.
Final class of Marketing for Smarties business series
The third class of the Marketing for Smarties Series will take place at the Welcome Center in Cortez, 928 E. Main St., on Wednesday, Aug. 15. Classes are from 1 to 5 p.m. This third installment of the 3-part series breaks marketing down into a step-by-step process, and helps to resolve a lot of the problems many small businesses encounter when trying to effectively promote their products and services. Recommended for new and existing businesses. The cost is $149, and scholarships for attending are available. Contact Lynn Asano at 247-7009 or email@example.com to register or for more information. You may also register online at www.coloradosbdc.org/workshop.aspx?ekey=170320037.
Childrens Kiva Open House, registration week
Join The Childrens Kiva Montessori School for our Fall Open House on Wednesday, Aug. 22, from 5:30 to 7 p.m., at 1204 E. Empire St. in Cortez. There will be refreshments and door prizes! Registration week for the 2012-13 preschool and kindergarten school year is Monday through Saturday, Aug. 20-25. Tuition assistance is available. Check us out at www.childrenskiva.org or call 565-8586 for more information.
Sheriffs Office holds Citizens Training Academy
The Montezuma County Sheriffs Office will offer the Citizens Training Academy program on Wednesday evenings for ten weeks, beginning Wednesday, Sept. 12 and ending Wednesday, Nov. 14. The deadline to apply to the program is Monday, Aug. 27. The Academy provides a unique opportunity for citizens to learn about the duties and services provided by the Sheriffs Office. Students will receive instruction in all functions of the three divisions within the Sheriffs Office: Patrol, Detentions and Investigations, as well as auxiliary services which support the Sheriffs Office. The curriculum includes introduction to evidence gathering, crime scene management, case preparation and prosecution.
There is a minimal fee of $10 to offset costs. This is a great opportunity for citizens who have an interest in modern law enforcement. The curriculum does not fulfill State of Colorado certification requirements for peace officers. Applications may be downloaded from www.montezumasheriff.org. You may apply electronically or mail your application to: Montezuma County Sheriffs Office, 730 East Driscoll St., Cortez, CO 81321. If you are interested in this Program, contact any member of the Sheriffs office command staff at 565-8452.


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Throwdown Introduction: Performance Truck Shootout
It's About Time
It's not for the faint of heart. If going fast isn't fun, it's not for you. This is THROWDOWN, where the best performance truck builders and drivers come to put up or shut up. Last year, we showed you our inaugural event, which was really just a bunch of truck guys pushing their trucks to their limits and hanging out, but we had such an overwhelming response to the coverage, we opened the invite to anyone who was willing to bring a truck to SoCal for the shootout. What we found was, truck guys are tired of doing the same old thing at truck shows and just getting a $3.00 trophy on Sunday after cleaning all weekend long. They want to get out and enjoy their hard work by driving their pride and joy. It makes perfect sense to us, and we're looking forward to truck performance events popping up all over the country.
When we think performance and trucks, Stillen instantly pops into our minds as they've brought their winning race heritage to the custom truck world in a big way. From AP Racing big brakes, to superchargers, to even everyday bolt-ons, Stillen has the world of performance trucks covered, and when we told them about our truck shootout, it was a natural fit. Going fast is something they understand, and we're excited to have them on our team.
Truck guys are a unique breed. We like to use our trucks for everything from work, to recreational use, to, in our case, doing things the original engineers could have never envisioned. Truck guys are also loyal to each other, almost to the point if your custom ride has a bed, then you're in the truck fraternity. With that said, this was a competition and there could only be one winner. We had participants of all skill levels, from beginners who had never been on a track before to several guys who compete in autocross events on a weekly basis. We also had trucks and SUVs of all shapes, sizes, and eras with the most prominent truck being a late-model Chevrolet Silverado, which surprised no one. What did surprise us was how much better the trucks who competed in last year's event had gotten over a one-year period. These guys weren't joking around, they were in it to win it. We were also thrilled to have a family drive all the way from New Jersey to compete, and they drove home after the shootout.
We started the event with a quick driver's meeting, it was then time to stop talking and start smashing the throttle. THROWDOWN's first competition was a 600-foot slalom course that tested both body roll and steering response, but also each driver's ability. Next up, tires were at the mercy of giant burnouts and hard shifting as each driver blasted their truck down the quarter-mile. With the trucks cooled off from several hard launches down the track, each driver was asked to go from a dead stop to full speed, then slam the brakes after 600 feet and try to stop within a predetermined box of cones. Fastest time without killing any cones wins. Once the blood rushed back into our brains, it was time to cruise over to the autocross track, which was actually a modified version of the 2.25-mile road course that the popular TV show Top Gear uses in their "Big Star in a Small Car" segment. The course offered hard right and left turns with a sweeping right turn that allowed trucks to drift around, and it also featured a bus stop where trucks quickly dip right to left. It was an absolute blast and everyone wanted to spend hours whipping around the course. In addition to nine trucks competing, we invited Super Trucks Inc. to bring out their Super Truck race truck for a real eye-opening experience. This truck was purpose-built to handle business and it's insanely fast. With professional driver Nathan Swartzbaugh, from Orange County Racecraft, behind the wheel, no one even came close to its level of performance. THROWDOWN concluded with the Truckin' editors giving each truck a maximum five points for subjective styling. Every other event was also worth a maximum of five points. The maximum score for the event was 30 points. Enough with the particulars, let's show you the action.


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This is Part 2 in a 4-Part "Open World" series, a Global Exchange exclusive highlighting individuals (chosen by Global Exchange staff members) who are showcasing the possibility for a different world.
As a young woman living in the island nation of the Philippines, Chie Abad wanted a better life for herself. The opportunities in her homeland were few, so she paid a recruiter thousands of dollars to provide her with a chance at something different.
She was promised good pay and a way out of poverty. She was promised a new life. A future. Chie left the Philippines for Saipan with high hopes.
What she got was a sweatshop.
SAKO's garment factory was far from the dream of a better life Chie had hoped for. The factory, which made garments for companies like the GAP, Levi Strauss, and Anne Taylor, was a noisy, crowded, and dangerous exploitation mill–spitting out cheaply produced clothing which would then be marked up to be sold in American stores for exorbitant sums.
The machine also ground up and spit out people, Chie quickly found. The work itself was tedious and exhausting. From day one, she was pushed to the uppermost limits of human tolerance and endurance. Garments moved down a line, and she performed one task, repeatedly, throughout the day. There was no variation, no chance to see a finished product from start to finish. Workers were expected to work at a frantic pace, for ten hours or more a day, six or seven days a week.
The day's end wasn't much better. When she finished with the day's strenuous work, she'd return to her squalid living conditions–thirty women crammed into small rooms, stacked in bunkbeds four high, everyone sharing one tiny, overtaxed bathroom.
In nearly every imaginable way, the value of the workers was disregarded.
Anyone who got pregnant was fired.
Anyone who got hurt was fired.
And anyone who spoke up was fired.
Dissent meant an instant termination. For workers who had paid $5,000 American dollars to unscrupulous 'recruiters', this was a powerful incentive to keep quiet.
Five years. Five long, taxing, finger numbing, back straining years. That's how long Chie lasted in the sweatshops of SAKO. It's a testament to her strength that the best attempts of the inhuman SAKO bosses could not break her.
In fact, the cruelty of the system opened Chie's eyes.
After five years of working in horrible conditions, Chie couldn't take it anymore—and she thought that no one else should have to either. She attempted to unionize the garment factory where she worked, so that she and her colleagues could finally have a chance to make a decent living, and live decently.
The company where she worked didn't much like her ideas. Immediately, they decided to get rid of her, and terminated her employment contract.
Chie considered her options. Workers like her had few, if any rights. Employers were free to pay them next to nothing, house them in cramped quarters, terminate them at any time, and to toss them out on the street if they dared raise any objections. The garment manufacturers had the tacit support of local governments. The multinational corporations buying the goods only cared that the price was low on the goods they bought. No one, it seemed, cared about the people inside the sweatshops.
Chie knew she was up against incredible odds. But that didn't stop her. She found a lawyer, and decided to fight for her right to a decent livelihood, and for the rights of her coworkers to have access to the same basic rights she wanted for herself.
Chie, as it turned out, is one hell of a fighter.
The court issued an injunction forcing SAKO to give her job back, even before they ruled on the other components of her case. And after a legal battle, she won back pay for herself and all the other workers.
A battle begun in Saipan continued in San Francisco. Chie was invited to the United States to join the massive class action lawsuit against retailers who used sweatshops to produce their clothing. The Asian Law Caucus, Global Exchange, Unite Here, and Sweatshop Watch asked Chie to serve as the spokesperson for the plaintiffs, to be the face of the many people who had chosen to remain anonymous for the court proceedings.
The case brought international shame and condemnation for retailers who used these exploitative practices, and earned $24 million in back pay and lost wages for the garment workers of Saipan. Companies like the GAP vowed to change their practices.
The fight against sweatshop labor continues to this day. Working with Global Exchange's anti-sweatshop program, Chie is taking the issue to the House of Representatives. House Bill 6262 would get the federal government out of the sweatshop business entirely. The ordinance requires all federal garment purchases to use an independent monitoring agency to insure that any textiles purchased are non-exploitative.
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Gov. Tim Pawlenty unveils his proposal today for fixing a $1.2 billion deficit in the current two-year budget.
The Republican governor has said he will provide a solution with spending cuts alone. And during last week's state of the state address, he said those cuts will be "dramatic and painful."
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A Miami Moment with ... Anita Sackenheim
Anita Sackenheim's love for children – whether they are her own two sons or the foster children of Butler and Preble counties — provides the drive to put her organizational talents to work in the department of kinesiology and health and for Miami University's Holiday Project.
Q: With 20 years at Miami, what is your favorite part of your role as program assistant for the department?
A: This department is special to me. I work with great faculty on interesting and varied projects. My youngest son will graduate this year with two degrees, one in physical education, the other in health education, and already has a job offer to work as a teacher in an area school. I remember in one of our all-department planning meetings telling faculty and staff of their importance to me. I said, 'I'm counting on you to do a good job. You are helping me raise my son.' One professor, who called my statement profound, said that she never thought like that about her teaching.
Q: How did you become involved with the Miami Holiday Project?
A: I volunteered to wrap for the project when Melva Brown coordinated the project, now in its 17th year. When she retired, about 13 years ago, she asked for volunteers to take over running the project. I love children, having two sons and 107 nieces and nephews (Yes, the number is correct); children are a very important part of my life. I also found the nature of the foster child — an overlooked group in our society — something that I could relate to being a foster parent myself to one of my nieces. I was able to see all sides of the issue. I also realized that the children we helped could be the same children sitting next to my sons in their grade schools. So, I jumped in and the project keeps growing each year.
Q: Many would remember it as the Parachute Project. Why the name change to Miami Holiday Project and what type of donations work best?
A: Parachute is the name of the Butler County agency that provides CASA's for foster kids. (CASA's are court appointed special advocates.) When we added Preble County, we had to change the name. We need money more than anything else. I receive shopping lists for each child from the county agency. Our volunteer shoppers are given specific rules with the money we receive. It is divided evenly among the children. Our goal this year is $20,000. There are many in the community who also help. We shop at Meijer, who donated $3,000 again this year. Others, such as Arby's and McDonald's help each year. I am also grateful to Miami's physical facilities department who help with transporting the bags and to Beverly Flaig (Panuska Development Center), who is the secretary, and Heidi Neace (kinesiology and health), who is the project's treasurer. So many people on Miami's campus get involved and I want to thank everyone for doing their part.
Q: Who are the children you help?
A: Each year we have more than 150 children who are under court supervision through Parachute-Butler County CASA or Preble County Job & Family Services. This year I have 156 names with at least 12 more names coming from Preble County. I only receive their first names, their ages and their wish lists. I don't get to meet them. But, that is OK. I like to imagine their reactions to their gifts. I do hear stories. One little boy about four didn't realize the gifts were for him, but happily played with the big red bag nonstop. One little girl kept the colorful wrapping paper, folded carefully in her pillowcase for several weeks. And, I hear from grandparents who care for children on fixed incomes. They sometimes write notes expressing their thanks. Many of them struggle to meet the daily needs of the children. They are so grateful for the surprise gift bag and know that it comes from Miami University.
Q: What do the children ask for on their lists?


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love to put my cock in her anal
Although I came in less then 2 minutes I watched it till the end just from respect to that great ass and wanted to see him cuming all over it. Nice fuck!
I love taking my sisters ex hubbies large cock from behind and having him shoot his large load on my ass.He rams me good when fucking me doggy right from the tip of his cock to the base.I always cum a number of times before he blows off on my ass.
I fucked one of my employees like that at work. got paid real good for it.
If a wife satisfies her husband she deserves satisfaction for herself. Working from home gives the wife the opportunity to date her lover at home.
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sexy but needed to be longer 3 mins is not even a quicky lol
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Looks like another wife at her job getting her Bosses Horse Cock .
Would like to work in this office... nice after hour! Great sex, great moaning....hmmm
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would love to put my cock in her and fill both her hole with my cock
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I want one lovely arse
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Why,s he got a purple rather red cock end when he comes?
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That's Jessica...from the "Dave and Jessica" videos here on Youporn. I recognize that mole of hers on her right ass cheek. She definitely knows how to doggie fuck. Just search Dave and Jessica to find more clips of her.
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ay mami i would make love to that ass allll day and all night fuuuck.....
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amazing. i miss fucking. i don't have sex for almost 3 weeks.
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it's that my wife?
Thanks for posting, but a tad boring for my tastes...
i think she should bleach her asshole.
scary skin color!!!
you wanna see her face http://www.youporn.com/watch/501998/girlfriend-in-hot-tartan-skirt-fucking-boyfriend/?from=related3&al=2&from_id=495251&pos=5
I bet their apartment smells gross.
Classic Greek Malakas
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wtf dude go back in after you come. it was right there for you.
Pretty boring...
Looks shooped
I love watching these two fuck
All their videos are awesome, but they'd be better if he used his hands when hitting it. A pussy and ass like her's deserve a worthier pounding.
I would love to see her fucked in the arse as well but not all ladies enjoy this. So for me I'm happy to watch what ever gives this beautiful lady pleasure, thanks Jessica
I am offended, surely this is not the lowest point of my career -.-
I love going to my brothers office and letting fuck me Doggy. I know his secretary can hear us sometimes and it tuns me on even more.
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HOUSTON - As the Olympic spotlight falls on track and field athletes from around the world, a Texas woman has a thing or two on them -- more than 700 gold medals!
Margaret Hinton, 90, was still beaming after scooping up eight gold medals at the 2012 USA Track and Field Southwest Region Masters Championship.
She's competed in senior games on the local, national and international level since the age of 68.
Hinton said, "1989 I believe it was (when) I saw it the first time -- Houston had the Senior Olympics. I saw it in the (Houston) Post. So, I asked my son-in-law, 'How far is 100 meters?' He said, 'Well, it's around the baseball bases and back to first base,' and I thought, 'I can do that!'"
Since then, she's medaled consistently in her age group in events like high jump, long jump, pole vault, shot-put and discus.
What keeps her coming back?
She laughed, "Just the competition and to get my name up there."
In 2004, at age 83, the grandmother hit an unexpected hurdle.
"I called the doctor and told them I had this knot under my arm," Hinton said.
It was metastatic breast cancer. Her team of doctors decided against chemotherapy.
She explained, "(The doctor said) 'With your age and your attitude and what you're doing, I don't recommend it.' I said, 'I'm with you. I don't like it either.'"
Over the years, Dr. Sharon Giordano, associate professor of medicine at MD Anderson's Breast Cancer Center, has treated Hinton.
Giordano said, "She's had multiple different therapies and hormone-blocking therapies, but she's never had to be on any kind of chemotherapy, and her disease has been quite stable."
Giordano said there's no question Hinton's athleticism and attitude are inspirational.
She said, "I'm sure that it helps. She's so fit and in great shape for a woman of her age, and I'm sure that contributes to how well she's done."
On and off the track, Hinton lives by this motto: Overbearing in Victory, Surly in defeat.
She said, "You've got to want to do it. If not you're not going to do it, and if you ever tell yourself, 'I'm not going to do it,' you cant."
Hinton was planning on this past competition being her last, but she said after learning one of her close friends and fellow senior athletes passed away, she wants to come back to beat her record time.
Hinton will turn 91 on Aug. 15.
Copyright 2012 by Click2Houston.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Libporty provides a higher level API for some commonly used library functions such as sockets, date/time, file system access, background processes, and asynchronous DNS resolving. Libporty is configured using scconfig and the API is guaranteed to work the same way on all supported systems. An application that exclusively uses the libporty API will not require autotools/scconfig for porting. Libporty has been tested on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, multiple BSD variants, Minix, OpenSolaris, and some ancient Unix systems.
The MirBSD Korn Shell (mksh) is an actively developed successor of pdksh (the Public Domain Korn Shell), aimed at producing a shell good for interactive use, but with the primary focus on scripting. It is intended to be portable to most *nix-like operating systems as long as they're not too obscure. mksh incorporates improvements from OpenBSD and Debian, as well as bugfixes and enhancements developed for the MirOS, FreeWRT, and MidnightBSD projects and Android. The emacs command line editing mode is UTF-8 capable, and Byte Order Marks are ignored in scripts. The shell supports large files, as well as all pdksh and some csh, AT&T ksh, zsh, and GNU bash features, is compatible with the Bourne shell and POSIX (within limits), has no limit on array sizes, and incorporates some other useful builtins and features. While being already fast and small (without losing functionality), flags to make it even smaller can be given at compile time. An interactive shell reads "~/.mkshrc" on startup.
white_dune is a graphical VRML97/X3DV editor, simple NURBS/Superformula 3D modeller, animation tool, and VRML97/X3DV commandline compiler in development. VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is the ISO standard for displaying 3D data over the Web via browser plugins ("HTML for realtime 3D"). X3DV is the direct successor of VRML97. VRML97 and X3DV have support for animation, real-time interaction, and multimedia (images, movies, and sounds). white_dune can read, create, and display VRML97/X3DV files and let the user change the scenegraph/fields. It also has support for stereoscopic view via "quadbuffer"-capable stereo visuals, and support for 3D input devices like a joystick, spaceball, or magnetic tracker.


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No action taken at library trustees' meeting
BELLOWS FALLS -- No action was taken at Monday's Rockingham Free Public Library Board of Trustees meeting, which was spent mostly in executive session.
Municipal Manager Tim Cullenen and the Rockingham Selectboard were invited to the meeting held at the library and Cullenen gave the Reformer an overview of the building's renovation project.
Baybutt Construction Corp., a Keene, N.H-based company, had been hired as the general contractor for the $2.9 million renovation. But the project hit a snag months ago, when subcontractors refused to continue their jobs and insisted Baybutt had not paid them for the work already done. Rockingham town officials terminated a contract with Baybutt when the corporation's financial woes came to light.
Baybutt Construction did not take out a performance or a payment bond, which acts as a sort of insurance contract and was a project requirement from the town. The company's owner, Frederick L. Baybutt, declared personal bankruptcy in February.
Cullenen told the Reformer town attorney Stephen Ankuda is continuing his discussions with the lawyers of some of the subcontractors who have filed liens (totaling $500,000) in the Rockingham town land records office. Cullenen said the legal issues will have to be ironed out before the town learns how much money is left for the renovation project. The library is open during construction.
Engelberth Construction Inc. was selected by the library trustees on Tuesday, Jan. 15, to "button up" the building by closing in its roofs and walls and making it "reasonably weathertight."
Cullenen said Engelberth's work has been completed. He told the Reformer a new construction management firm will likely be hired at some point in the future but that process has barely even begun.
Cullenen had previously believed the renovation project would be finished by the spring but said Tuesday that it will be some time in the late summer or early fall. The library was closed Monday, Feb. 25, until the morning of Thursday, Feb. 28, for spray foam insulation.
Janice Mitchell-Love, chairwoman of the library's board of trustees, said the building closed temporarily because the fumes could have been dangerous to patrons and staff members.
Rockingham Selectboard previously told the Reformer there will be some sort of investigation into the whole situation. He said the library trustees hired Baybutt as the general contractor and the Selectboard got involved only "once things went south." The board intervened, he said, because the town owns the library.
The state of Vermont canceled a contract with Baybutt due to similar problems. The town of Antrim, N.H., followed suit and terminated a contract to construct a new police station.
Baybutt had been in business since 1964.
Domenic Poli can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com, or 802-254-2311, ext. 277. You can follow him on Twitter @dpoli_reformer.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California marine biologist has pleaded guilty to illegally feeding killer whales in the wild, federal prosecutors said.
Nancy Black pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in San Jose to one count of violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act. The law protects marine animals by prohibiting the feeding of mammals in the wild, prosecutors said.
Initially, Black — who runs popular whale watching tours on Monterey Bay — was accused of feeding the killer whales, and misleading investigators by editing video footage of her encounters with other whales during a whale watching trip, then lying about it.
As part of a plea agreement, Black admitted that when she was on her boat in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in April 2004, she and her crew tied rope to pieces of gray whale blubber that were floating in the water to facilitate viewing of orcas eating the blubber, prosecutors said.
Black admitted in court papers that she didn't have a permit to feed the whales. She is due to be sentenced Aug. 6.
With the guilty plea to the misdemeanor charge, federal prosecutors agreed to drop all other charges and not to seek jail time, the loss of her boat captain's license, or forfeiture of her boat, one of her attorney's, Lawrence Biegel, said in a statement.
As a marine biologist, Black's work has been featured on PBS, National Geographic and Animal Planet. She has also worked with federal agencies on the study of whales, including the National Marine Mammal Laboratory, which is part of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
She also operates Monterey Bay Whale Watch, which offers year-round whale watching trips, where she is listed on the company's website as owner and lead naturalist.


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I must post some words so that avoiding kickout from this forum. I started using xfce 4.8 as my desktop environment since last year november. Why? Just escape from Gnome3 and Unity. But after some months i really found that xfce was an excellent DE. Simple, efficient, quick and stable. It has only a few bugs and drawbacks, example lack of icons and menuconfig, badly powermanager. I will go on supporting this DE.
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Xfce based on Archlinux is a wonderful combination.
I will go on supporting this DE.
Silent Hands......
Welcome L. You are very brave to correspond in English AND use Arch!
Linuxers Live by a CODE!
Tks, english is an international language. In china there are a great number of Archlinux user such as me. I expect the new version of XFCE.


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For example, sophomore guard Jay Trusty was named to the all-state and all-conference teams. Trusty averaged 22.3 points per game with a 45 percent shooting average. Trusty also shot 75 percent from the free-throw line, pulled down 6.5 rebounds, three assists and three steal per game — and Wright gets him for two more years.
"I'm pumped," Wright said. "I think he's got a chance to be a really special player."
Obviously, Trusty was instrumental in the Little Johns offense and defense, but he wasn't the only one.
"Really, other teams focused on him [Trusty] every night," Wright said. "They knew he was going to start, but people had a hard time defending him. He was one of the best shooters in our conference, but he could take it inside, too."
That opened the door for other players to shine. Senior McKenzie Garner was named all-conference after he averaged 12 points per game, shot 46 percent from the field and pullled down 7.2 rebounds each game. Garner only averaged three points per game last year, but the senior stepped up his game for Class 3A.
"He really turned into a polished player that teams had to focus on," Wright said. "He did a great job on both ends of the court for us."
Three players earned all-conference honorable mention: Tanner Mantooth, Grant Cathey and Keven Dominguez.
Mantooth, a senior guard, did the little things that don't necessarily show up on the stat sheet, the coach said.
"He was mister consistent," Wright said. "He just did the little things coaches like. He would get rebounds more than you'd think looking at him. He gave up his body for the team and played well for us all season long."
Wright said Grant was the best defender on the team. Grant, another sophomore, will be in Wright's toolbox for another two years.
"This is the most talented group of sophomores I've ever coached," Wright said. "And Grant was probably our best defender. He was the guy I could always count on to make a big hustle play, driving the floor and just going and making something happen."
Dominguez hadn't played for Danville for the past few years, but his presence was unmistakable during his senior year.
"He's one of the best passers in the conference," Wright said. "He saw the floor better than anyone in the league."
Though the Little Johns struggled to compete in the new conference, they were only a few plays each game shy of a difference outcome. Eight of their nine losses were by single digits. Trusty was only held under 15 points in three games all season. According to Wright, things are on the right track.
Like every team, the seniors have dribbled their last basketball at the high school level. Saying goodbye is never easy, but it's something every team must face.
While Danville says goodbye to a few players, several more have sharpened their teeth for next year.
"Anytime you say goodbye to seniors it's hard to do," Wright said. "You watch those kids grow and you grow with them as a coach. These guys have been part of two state tournament teams, two conference championship teams. They've done a lot. They stepped into bigger roles than they'd ever seen this year, and as a coach that makes you extremely proud."


text: :rolleyes:Never work on your sewing machines tired. I just got my 301 back from being cleaned/oiled, threaded it up and it stitched one stitch and then wouldn't catch. spent 1 hour re-threading, messing with bobbin and tension. figured it had to be the bobbin hook or timing was off. decided to leave it until morning. checked on you tube for bobbin info or timing, then I noticed that the lady threaded the needle 15-1 from right to left, I did that once and took it out thinking it was the wrong way. boy did I feel stupid, so I did right to left and it worked fine. Thanks Youtube! Now I know I would have gotten the right answer from this board, but I was to tired to get on. ( I would have been on reading post and such) So try the simple things first :shock:


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Saturday Sermon: Face life's transitions with Jesus
By Rev. Herb Beyer
June 7, 2013 at 1:07 a.m.
This past month has been a personal reminder to me how there are great transitions in our lives.
My wife and I just celebrated our 36th wedding anniversary. In a way, it's hard to believe we've been married that long. I can remember when she walked down the aisle escorted by her dad and her chin quivering.
I wasn't nervous until it came time for the vows. During part of it, I went blank. And the pastor had to repeat that portion, and fortunately, I said my part.
But getting married was a big transition. It is for others who take that step.
And when kids start arriving, that's another big transition. In the beginning, you hope you'll finally get some sleep because a baby is on a different schedule than you are. And it can be a struggle to get the child on your adult schedule. Keep in mind, there are many other challenges ahead.
For others, marriage may happen later in life. A spouse has died, or a couple's gone through a divorce. And in the course of time, the person meets this other special person who comes into his/her life.
It's hard living alone. Joy returns. But it's a transition and not just for the couple. There are usually children involved, and it can be a struggle.
When my father remarried, I was a teenager. It took me a while to realize he just wanted to be happy again. He didn't want to live the rest of his life alone. And my sisters and I were growing up, and we weren't going to stay around to keep him company the whole time.
He just wanted to love again and be loved. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Recently, I was in a local restaurant grabbing a bit of lunch. And one of the guys involved with the oil and gas industry was at a table nearby. We were the only customers at the time, and we engaged in a conversation and one of the topics was about children.
I remember my wife saying how important it is to spend time with our son because before you know it, he'll be all grown up and out of the nest. And she was right.
Well, this guy was starting to realize that about his 13-year-old daughter and 16-year-old son. They were at an age when they wanted to spend more and more time with their friends, their peers. So parent and child were going through all sorts of transitions.
We have kids in our communities graduating from high school and college or vocational schools. They are taking big steps toward their future. It's a time of celebration for families, but parents may worry, too. Will the kids have a good future? Will things go well in their lives? Will they come home and visit? We raise them up hoping we've given them the needed tools, which includes a solid foundation of faith, as they go out into the world.
It's a hard transition, to let them step into their future.
Yes, they will make their share of mistakes. Didn't we all? And you can learn from the mistakes and make better choices. Maybe we could tell our kids, "When you fall, just get up and try again."
And no matter how old they get, they will always be your children, and you will always be their mom and dad.
Keep on encouraging them. And what a joy it is when they call you during the week or show up on your doorstep for a visit.
A couple of dear friends whom I have known all my ordained ministry are going through a time of transition that involves a move to assisted living.
Through 31 years of ministry I have witnessed similar changes or transitions in peoples' lives. It's not easy leaving a place that has been home for 25 or 50 years or more. It's not easy for them, family members or that church and community they've been a part of for so long.
There was a lady who lived out in the country up on a hill. There would be days when the wind was just perfect atop that hill. She'd open the windows, and it was so pleasant. She'd look out on the pastures and watch her cows. It was a wonderful life.
But one day she suffered a stroke and had to go to a nursing home. She would do her therapy and exercise each day with the hope of returning home.
Sometimes they do, but in her case, it didn't happen.
But she never gave up the hope and kept doing the exercises and enjoying the company of other residents.
As it turned out, many of them were old friends of hers who because of similar health issues made the transition.
It's important to know that through all the changes and transitions of our lives, there is something that helps us - our faith in Jesus Christ and the support, love and care of the church and those who are our family and friends. The Scriptures give us words of encouragement for this journey we are on: "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid." (Hebrews 13).
And while our journey in life is full of changes and transitions, there is one whom we can depend on, one constant - Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.
Trust God, and in the end, it will be all right.
The Rev. Herb Beyer is pastor of Tri-County Cooperative Ministries, ELCA.


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Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America (Hardcover)
March 2011 Indie Next List
"As riveting as any thriller, as poignant as any memoir, and as powerful as any investigative journalism, Bringing Adam Home is impossible to put down. The key scenes are beautiful, simple renderings of vulnerability and truth laid bare. This is a gripping work which should become a classic of the genre, not because of the crimes it explores, but for how it casts light into darkness."
— Aaron John Curtis, Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL
Before Adam Walsh there were no faces on milk cartons, no Amber Alerts, no National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, no federal databases of crimes against children, no pedophile registry. His 1981 abduction and murderunsolved for over a quarter of a centuryforever changed America.
One sunny July morning in 1981, RevÉ Walsh and her six-year-old son Adam stopped by the local Sears to pick up some new lamps. Enchanted by a video game at the store's entrance, Adam begged RevÉ to let him try it out while she shopped. When she returned a few minutes later, Adam was gone.
The shock of Adam's murder, and of the inability of the police and the FBI to find his killer, radically altered American innocence and our ideas about childhood. Gone forever were the days when parents would allow their kids out of the house with the casual instruction "Be home by dark!"
RevÉ and John Walshwho would go on to create America's Most Wantedbecame advocates for the transformation of law enforcement's response to and handling of such cases. Prompted by the Walshes' activism, Congress passed the Missing Children Act in 1982, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children was founded in 1984.
While our lives have been significantly altered by Adam Walsh's case, few of us know the whole storyhow, after more than twenty-seven years of relentless investigation, decorated Miami Beach homicide detective Joe Matthews finally identified Adam's killer.
Bringing Adam Home is the definitive account of this horrifying crimewhich, like the Lindbergh kidnapping fifty years earlier, captured public attentionand its aftermath, a true story of tragedy, love, faith, and dedication. It reveals the pain and tenacity of a family determined to find justice, the failed police work that allowed a killer to remain uncharged, and the determined efforts of one cop who accomplished what an entire legal system could not. As harrowing as In Cold Blood, yet ultimately uplifting, Bringing Adam Home is the riveting story of a triumph of justice and the enduring power of love.
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"Bringing Adam Home is one of the finest true-crime books since Thomas Thompson's Blood and Money…This remarkable story will bring readers to tears of grief - and rage."
-Associated Press
"Les Standiford's account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I've ever read. A triumph in every way."
-Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent
"Charts with devastating precision the decades-long search for the killer and the evolution of Revé and John Walsh... from grieving parents into powerful advocates for missing children...Standiford's account is riveting, heartbreaking, and supports John Walsh's statement: "it's not about closure; it's about justice."
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"[A] page turner…hopeful and heartbreaking, Bringing Adam Home is tough to forget."
"Intertwined with this true-crime chronicle is the important story of how Adam's abduction turned his parents into powerful advocates for crime victims and how law enforcement agencies across the country changed their response to missing children cases."
-Orlando Home and Leisure
"Les Standiford's account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I've ever read. A triumph in every way."
-Dennis Lehane, author of MYSTIC RIVER and SHUTTER ISLAND
"BRINGING ADAM HOME is a riveting account of a child abduction and murder that goes unsolved for twenty-seven years—both an unsettling expose of police incompetence and a portrait of an extraordinary and dedicated detective."
-Joyce Carol Oates
"Not since IN COLD BLOOD has the story of a terrible crime been told with such elegance and power....Heartbreaking and hypnotically suspenseful."
-Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of VANISHED
"An essential read for those interested in forensic science and true crime."
-Library Journal
"BRINGING ADAM HOME is a maddening, terrifying and ultimately triumphant book. Les Standiford explores the injustice and finally justice surrounding the murder of Adam Walsh. You will cry and rage but you will not be able to put this book down until you finish it. My God! What a book!"
-Ann Hood, author of THE RED THREAD and THE KNITTING CIRCLE
"I didn't live far from the mall where Adam Walsh was kidnapped. I remember that story as if it were yesterday. It terrified me as a kid. But it's the details that Les Standiford has found that terrify me as an adult. Insightful, horrifying, and just beautifully written."
-Brad Meltzer, New York Times bestselling author of THE BOOK OF FATE
"A riveting, harrowing, tautly suspenseful book that reads like a crime novel…but is all the more chilling for being fact, not fiction."
-St. Petersburg Times
"While many true-crime books claim to shine a light on society by examining one particular case, this account actually does. No reader can come away from this without appreciating what it takes to keep pursuing an investigation, against the obstacles of police politics and bureaucracy. Wrenching and riveting."
"Compelling, bittersweet… ably fleshes out the difficult yet familiar story with style, pathos and relevant historical detail."
-Miami Herald
"[M]ystery writer Les Standiford, in collaboration with Detective Sgt. Joe Matthews, has written a riveting and page-turning account of this heart-wrenching story."
"Standiford and Matthews relate Matthews' quest skillfully."
-Dallas Morning News
"[A] heartbreaking story of incompetent police and determined parents… Novelist and nonfiction author Les Standiford does a masterful job of re-creation, reporting and research… readers will be haunted by the maladroit investigation and the added anguish this caused the Walshes."
-Los Angeles Times


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The Science Museum of Minnesota will dedicate four afternoons in January to celebrating scientists of color.
The Science Fusion series kicks off Jan. 5 with African Americans in Science, inviting museum visitors to interact with African Americans who have careers in science, technology, engineering and math.
Joanne Jones-Rizzi, who directs community engagement for the museum, said African Americans in Science is in its 21st year. The other events feature scientists from the American Indian, Asian American and Latino communities.
"It's a way for us to present scientists of color and to celebrate the work that they've done," she said. "We want to promote careers in science, technology, engineering and math and to show our audiences that these careers are open to everyone, and the best way to understand that is to see people like yourselves who are doing this work."
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While the museum hopes the events will encourage children and teens of color to see themselves in STEM fields, Jones-Rizzi said the activities are for everyone.
"When you bring people together there are just enormous opportunities for people to learn from each other," she said.
The North Star American Indian Science and Engineering Society Alliance and Professional Chapter will lead the activities on Jan. 6. Wren Walker Robbins, the organization's president, said the group will encourage visitors to learn about different aspects of physical science.
Walker Robbins said it's important for young American Indian students to interact with people like them, especially in STEM fields. State test scores show that American Indian students lag behind their peers, especially in science and math.
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@kiwidude - I knew it was an ugly hack, I just didn't know another way to do it.
You're exactly right: metadata plugboards are a much cleaner, more elegant, and safer way I can accomplish the same thing.
I figured I was either brilliant or missing something--and now I know which.
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I would like to see a plugin that would allow selecting one of several templates when "saving books to disk", similar to the plugin "Quick Preferences" for "adding books".
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I've searched and found references to using overdrive as a source for metadata, but ...
I'd love to see a plugin for finding library books through Overdrive. Ideally, it would be configurable so that I could set what libraries I'm able to borrow books from, and then be able to check availability for books that I'm looking for. (usually new releases). Anyone else have similar needs, or a method that currently works for them?
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Data Normalization
I have been using Calibre for a little while now, and like it alot. There is some functionality I would want that I don't see, so I have been thinking about writing a plug-in that would meet my needs.
Essentially, this is about data normalization with a few extra things... This would be a single plugin that does a broad range of normalization features. It is not meant to do/replace QC or duplicate finder, just normalize the data set.
Unfortunately, when I plug in my Kindle and sync it my tags get all messed up, so this is something I go through periodically.
- Tags: These get to be a mess quickly. In a lot of cases Amazon has multiple variations of the same tags. I would want to create a tag normalization table where I have a set of master tags that I can "map" other tags. Additionally, it would provide a report of tags that are not mapped to the master list (and would leave them so as not to lose the information). I am leaning towards splitting out Tags into Genre's and Tag's using a custom column (and possibly another field for tags that are less about the book and more about the book in relation to the user, e.g. "read" "to read" "liked" "hated"), but haven't finalized my thoughts there. Also, I have been thinking about tags and series... I always find it bizarre when 2/3 books in a trilogy are marked mystery and the 3rd is marked suspense, so possibly some series-wide normalization (maybe more genre-wise than tag-wise if I split that out).
- Authors: First off, I have multiple e-readers and manage a relatively large library (8k+ books) for myself/parents/sister. Some pull in books as LN, FN some as FN LN. That is a relatively simple issue, I have a stored regexp that fixes this, though there are some times where there are exceptions (, Jr. or , III) and I need a better way of dealing with those rather than converting them back at the end (or at least automating that re-conversion). When there are more than 3 authors, I use "multiple authors" as the author name (and generally this is an anthology or short story collection) - the same goes with anything that has editor, ed. etc. in the author name. Some authors have written under pseudonyms and I like to standardize them to their "real" or most accepted current name. Some authors are listed both with and without a middle initial.
- Series: Not only do I have books that are in multiple series, but in some cases the metadata for the name of the series is recorded differently and needs to be normalized. I would also like the ability to track series by a single author vs. series with multiple authors, and use that to help with some of the author normalization. Last, I would like a report of which books in the series it thinks I am missing (and ideally would be able to search Good Reads or Amazon for the name of that book and author and search my library just to see if it is missing the series label.). I do have some "special" series numbers I use (e.g. 99.xx for extras) and lots of the series have had books added in the middle (so it is number 2.5 in the series, squeezed between 2 and 3) - and I am not planning on attacking that right now (other than not to consider a gap between 2 99 as missing books 3-98).
- Title: I have a Kindle Touch right now, so collections are broken, and one day they might return, but one thing that really annoys me is the way it sorts books. Even in a collection, it doesn't order the series by which book in the series. When I have a series, I would like the series name, number, then title to show in the title field. I am thinking I will need to move the title into a customer field and then have the real title field that is used to create the books hidden and make it a composite record. Also, there are some titles that are all-caps, and I need to convert those to title case.
Right now, this is just a pie-in-the-sky desire, but something I plan on starting to play with. My initial thought is to develop this myself for myself (no UI plugins needed, just customize the python scripts as I go), though I think it might interest other people. If I just haven't found the plugin that is out there that does these things, please point it out to me. If anyone else is interested in the same type of normalization tool and is either interested in tinkering around / learning in tandem or mentoring, think that would be cool.
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@kbullkar - welcome to MobileRead.
As you found in my quoted text, the idea of some kind of tag mapping tool has floated around for a while. I lost any personal motivation to write it because nowadays I just use the Goodreads plugin for my tags, and I ensured that it has a tag mapping mechanism inside it that does all I need. I know this doesn't help people out there who have existing tags, unless they are willing to erase them all and just grab from Goodreads, but as that is a possible workaround my care factor isn't sufficient to spend the time coding an alternative . That doesn't not mean someone else could not do so of course, I am sure there would be users who would like it.
For series/title, have you looked into metadata plugboards? They should solve your issues with prefixing the title with the series when sending to your Kindle. You can get a report of books missing in a series out of the Quality Check plugin. However it can never tell when a series is missing "later" books, nor does it have any integration with websites like Goodreads.
As for authors, what I do is use the Quick Preferences plugin to juggle between my various regexes when importing. It doesn't however solve the "FN LN" vs "LN, FN" issue. Trying to come up with a universal name switching algorithm is problematic as Kovid/chaley have mentioned a few times, particularly when you consider calibre is used to store non-english named authors as well. Usually I have drilled down into that author with a search (in combination with Alt+A) before I add a book for that author. So it is easy enough to do a copy/paste from the "proper" author name of an existing entry over the top of the new book - either individually or via the bulk editor dialog. For when multiple authors, I agree it is a pain, and I personally end up manually retyping the whole series in LN1, FN1 & LN2, FN2 &... format. But it doesn't happen often enough for me to code up an alternative
Good luck should you choose to write something...
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@kiwidude - thanks for the response. :-)
To be clear, these are things I don't think should be "natively" in the program, as you pointed out, they are too specific to a users preferences and region. Possibly the ability to mark some records not to be over-written while allow others to be updated...
The goodreads metadata source plugin (1.0.9) is awesome, unfortunately, there is so much bad data on goodreads right now (as least as I am concerned - I tend to tweak title's and author names a lot...), and I haven't figured out how to mark a record so that it doesn't get re-messed up after I manually change it, so I have mostly stopped using it for now. (I need to get better at custom fields and search/mark/update custom fields)
I did find out about the plugboard options, but have been unsuccessful in getting it to work with my Kindle Touch (no problem with the "keyboard" kindle my parents have though... suspect it may be an issue similar to the collections?)
I am still trying to figure out the QC plug-in (1.7.0)- which is also very cool. There is a lot of weirdness for me there (granted, probably some/mostly error between the chair and the keyboard)... for instance, the check metadata for author's with comma's doesn't seem to work right when there are multiple authors, for instance, it missed the following entries (which are picked up by a search author=","):
Konrath, J. A. & Henry Perez
c/oAnderson & Dunn, Meghan & Barker, Lydia
Gerrard, Alex & Coleen Maguire
Grogan, Michelle & Michelle Grogan & Kip Ayers
Eason, Jack & Huntman, Gerry & Knowlton, R. A. & Gerry Huntman & R. A. Knowlton
Matthews, Thomas K. & Thomas K Matthews
Stoecklin, Eileen & Eileen Stoecklin
Tsui, Drake & MangaMagazine
(this also points out why the LN, FN vs. FN LN on import doesn't work - I seem to have an inordinate number of books that have author's names recorded both ways...)... and I really wish I could do these changes in the "manage xxx" (e.g. manage author) instead of in the main section... is there a reference for the database structure? Is it normalized such that I could make some python scripts to clean up the author, tag, and series tables directly?
Some of my things could be feature requests to the QC plugin, for instance, if I have a cover.jpg in the directory that doesn't match what is in the epub, I would like that reported, and I would like to be able to step through and choose to either replace the one in the e-pub, replace the one in the folder, do nothing, or do a cover search... or maybe if I can figure out how to add a custom button to the edit metadata screen that let me do this... I suspect this is more a me thing than something useful to most people anyway...
The "report" I get from QC is really more of a "what series have gaps" than the "what is missing in the series" that I am looking for - and I haven't figured out how to output the results of a search to a file for looking at later or importing to a set of scripts that would pull down all of the books in a series and then cross reference them... maybe I could do something that created placeholder book records? (again, I expect there is a good bit of error between the chair and keyboard here).
I am on 0.8.36 and am about to update to 0.8.37, hopefully that will fix some of my issues. :-)
Unfortunately, my ambition seems to be better than my python skills and my desire greater than my time. I am in no rush.
I want to stress how much I appreciate everything you and Kovid (and others) have done to make this program awesome. I hate coming across like what you do isn't good enough... I hope you take my rambling as just the fluid thoughts from someone who probably should be crashing after an all-nighter and long-day of work...
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@kbulkar - if you have some issues/suggestions with the Quality Check plugin, can I suggest you post them on that plugin thread instead? It will make it easier for me to not forget them/respond there.
Author FN LN -> LN, FN - thats a fairly frequently topic. I suggest you do a search in the library management subforum, there is some useful information in the help pages about it. It is more complicated than it needs to be (imo) but Kovid knows I love prodding him about it every now and then
For goodreads metadata (or any other source for that matter) - I recommend you untick the "Title" and "Author" columns in the preferences for downloading metadata. That way your books will stay with the original title/authors you put into them in calibre, and not get corrupted if either by chance the metadata download gets the wrong book, or gets some bad capitalisation/omnibus edition or whatever that happend to come back first in the search results. You can change those preferences either from the edit metadata dialog of from Preferences->Metadata download.
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How about a plugin to support the input and conversion of eTextbooks formated in the
Wolfram (Mathematica) "Computable Document Format (.cdf). The construction of the
files looks, to me, like an XML/HTML based construct and Calibre seems to work well
with such ebook/document formats.
A look to the subject through the free eTextbook site, http://www.ck12.org should provide
a start to see if it is practical to create a plugin for it.
This is in hopes that Ectaco's new Color jetBook can handle it, at some point.
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I asked some time ago if it is possible to extract only some tags from epubs.
eg "description".
It isn't possible, right?
So I suggest a plugin for calibre where it is possible to define which tags should be extracted from epubs.
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I'd love to be able to set up Calibre as a shared library. Something where different users could "check out" an ebook, to ensure only one user reads it at a time.
I tried to search to see if this had already been suggested, but couldn't find mention of it. My apologies if this has already been mentioned.
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plugin to put higlights and notes into the original PDF file
When viewing a PDF both the kindle and the SONY do not edit the pdf. they just view it and save all highlights and annotations elsewhere. the output documents for both the kindle and the sony are useless as they are not spatially linked (or embedded) into the original document. I need a plug in that adds the notes, scribbles and/or higlights i make when viewing a PDF file on my ereader back into the original PDF file when using my prs-t1.
There is a way to do this using python scripts on both linux and windows as shown here:
but it is over my head. i think having Calibre do it would be cleaner.
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I was looking to something like that.
any development?
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@ntome - I haven't seen anyone post on these forums about progressing that idea so if you feel motivated to develop it yourself, go for it.
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Merging EPUBs
I'd appreciate a plugin that allows easy merging of EPUB books into one, for creating omnibus editions or creating short story compilations. The discussion at this thread contains a link to an Apache-licensed Python script that could be used as a basis for this.
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I wrote the epubmerge.py referred to, and I've since written a plugin. So odds are I'll get to it someday--if somebody else doesn't do it first.
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