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September/October 2008
Hygienic Handwash/Handrub Agents
ASTM International Committee E35 on Pesticides and Alternative Control Agents has now published the third in a series of three standards that address the activity of hand hygiene agents against microbes that can be transmitted via contaminated hands. Subcommittee E35.15 on Antimicrobial Agents developed the new standard, E2613, Test Method for Determining Fungus-Eliminating Effectiveness of Hygienic Handwash and Handrub Agents Using Fingerpads of Adults.
"The fingerpad methods can be used to test handwash as well as handrub agents," says Syed Sattar, E35 member, professor emeritus of microbiology and founding director of the Centre for Research on Environmental Microbiology, University of Ottawa. "When testing handrub agents, they can determine the incremental removal or inactivation of the target organisms after exposure to the test formulation itself, post-treatment rinsing with water and the terminal drying of hands." Sattar notes that the microbes to be tested are relevant in health care settings, as well as in settings in which food is processed, handled or served.
Researchers in hand hygiene, manufacturers of hand hygiene formulations and government regulators for post-market monitoring of label claims are all potential users of E2613.
The other two standards in the series of hand hygiene agent standards developed by Subcommittee E35.15 are E1838, Test Method for Determining the Virus-Eliminating Effectiveness of Liquid Hygienic Handwash and Handrub Agents Using the Fingerpads of Adult Volunteers, and E2276, Test Method for Determining the Bacteria-Eliminating Effectiveness of Hygienic Handwash and Handrub Agents Using the Fingerpads of Adult Subjects.
"All three standards are quite unique in that they are fully quantitative while incorporating all the essential elements of how hands are routinely decontaminated," says Sattar, who notes that both E1838 and E2276 are currently listed in the World Health Organization's guidelines on hand hygiene.
Sattar says that the subcommittee invites participation in its standards developing activities from all interested parties, particularly those in academia and those involved in government regulation.
Technical Information: Syed Sattar, Centre for Research on Environmental Microbiology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Phone: 613-562-5800, ext. 8314
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The Icona Pop show at The Complex has been cancelled.
A note on the SmithsTix web site, dated today, says: "It is with much regret to announce that Icona Pop have had to cancel their upcoming tour dates in Denver and Salt Lake City due to sickness ... Refunds are available at point of purchase."
The Swedish electro-pop duo have a feature on them in the Friday edition of the Tribune's Mix, and it is too late to eliminate the short feature from the printed page, so please disregard it when you come across it Friday.


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November 12, 2012
What are some effective ways to live out your faith in a culture that's pluralistic, postmodern, and post-Christian?
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I drive a diesel truck in Uganda, so when my sister's boyfriend loaned me his diesel pick-up while I was in the United States recently, I thought I could manage it just fine. The very first time I put fuel in it, however, I made a big mistake: I topped off the tank with high-grade gasoline instead of diesel.


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Thank you to all my new watchers, I really appreciate you supporting me, but it'll be a while until i upload any new stuff.
Just wanted everybody to know that I'm VERY VERY thankful for your comments, and for using my stock. And I feel really bad that I don't have the time to answer to all faves etc, but I'll make it up to you by uploading some super amazing packs during summer
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Watch: Nyquist's speed thwarts Bruins, ends streak
There are plenty of reasons why the Bruins wouldn't want to see the Detroit Red Wings in the NHL playoffs later this month. On Wednesday, Gustav Nyquist proved why he was one of them.
The Detroit forward scored the game-winner in the Red Wings' 3-2 victory over the Bruins, but it was the speed he displayed in doing so that had Zdeno Chara and Tuukka Rask look like deer in the headlights. The Montreal Canadiens have proven over the years how their speed can oftentimes neutralize the Bruins' game plan, and Nyquist showed on Wednesday just how dangerous that aspect of his game can be.
Nyquist now has 12 goals in his last 10 games, a pivotal stretch that has helped the Red Wings nearly assure their playoff status.
The victory gave Detroit a three-point edge on Columbus for the seventh seed in the playoffs, so it's becoming more likely that the Red Wings wouldn't be the Bruins' first-round opponent. Boston is 1-3 against the Eastern Conference's new member this season.
The loss was the first in regulation on the road since Jan. 9 in Los Angeles, and the first loss in regulation overall since March 1.


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Mary (Rafferty) Attella, 86 of West Boylston, died on Nov. 29, at home, surrounded by her family, after an illness.
Her husband of 46 years, E. Leo Attella Sr. died on Aug. 25. She is survived by her three children, Edwin J. Attella and his wife Diane, of West Boylston, E. Leo Attella, Jr. and his wife Denise, of Sterling, Conn. and Maryann Gibree and her husband Tom, of Oakham; her nine grandchildren, Alisha, Benjamin and his wife Brianna, Alexander, Nicole, and her husband Rob, Meaghan, Kendall and Erin Attella and Rebecca and Rachel Gibree; two great-grandchildren Elizabeth and Wyatt Mueller; two sisters Sarah Erricola and Barbara Jacques and her husband Jack, of Worcester, and a brother, Richard Rafferty and his wife Joanne of Naples, Fla.
In addition to her husband, she was predeceased by two sisters, Ann Sarasin and Rita Lavallee and five brothers Owen, James, Raymond, Edward and Arthur Rafferty.
Mrs. Attella was born in Worcester, on Dec. 23, 1925, the sixth of the eleven children born to James and Annie (McKinney) Rafferty. She graduated from Ascension High School became the first female manager at Warner Theater in Worcester. She met her husband Leo, while book keeping at Central Cab and Coach Inc. Together they owned and operated Leo's Reservoir Package Store, Inc. in West Boylston, for twenty-three years. After her children were grown she returned to work and spent nineteen years as an administrator with Social Security. She was a warm, funny, and happy person.
Visiting hours will be Sunday, Dec. 2 from 2 to 4 p.m. at The Fay Brothers Funeral Home, 1 West Boylston St. A Mass of Christian burial will be Monday, Dec. 3 at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church: 111 Worcester St. Burial will follow in Mt. Vernon Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the St. John's Church, Food for the poor Center, 44 Temple St., Worcester, MA 01604. For online condolences, visit www.faybrothers.com.


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I have a problem when designing my classes when bringing data to and from the database.
I design my classes closely to the database fields.For example CustomerId is a property in a class and also in a table.
My problem is that in a table called productCategory can have productId and productName and product class can have productName and productId. So we have a duplicate property called categoryId.
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No Start, Need Suggestions
1998 ZJ 5.2 Limited.
Was driving 70mph and the truck died. Started again on the side of the road and died a few minutes later, would not start again.
Will not start, No spark. Poured a little gas in the throttle body and turned the key: nothing.
I have searched and searched for things wrong with this problem and have checked them all and they are all good. I am leaning towards a bad computer, but I am not one to buy a part without KNOWING that it is causing the problem. My question is this:
Is there a definitive way to tell that the computer is bad using an ohm meter?
Things I have checked: ASD relay (good), ohmed out the crank and camshaft position sensors (both are good), put a spark light on the ignition module (got a light), checked the O2 sensor wiring(No faults), good voltage on the battery (13vdc).
Did a general tune up about 10 months ago when I had another no start problem, it ended up being a bad camshaft sensor but in the process I changed plugs, wires, cap, distributor rotor, ignition module and crankshaft pos sensor.
I don't think there is any correlation but this happened the day after I fixed a cracked door latch mechanism, after the repair the dome lights will not turn off after the door is closed now (light switch ohms good), no fuses blown.
It has been two weeks and I can't figure it out. I want the broke thing out of my driveway! lol
Please Help!
Does the CEL come on for 3 seconds when the switch is placed to the ON position?
There is not a CEL code thrown.
Do you have 5v at the two outside contacts on the disconnected TPS connector with the switch in the on position?
The TPS is the one that is on the throttle body, not the one forward of the throttle body correct?
yes, its in line with the throttle plate shaft. unplug the crank sensor and read the voltage on the tps connector
Damn! Its too late today to try it, I will try in the AM... besides, it is a PITA to disconnect that crank sensor...
Just curious, why am I disconnecting the crank sensor and checking the disconnected TPS?
I'm checking to be sure you checked the crank sensor correctly. Sometimes, the crank sensor will fail and load the 5v circuit in the PCM. It may or may not completely disable the PCM.
When there no CEL, the PCM is disabled, so the fact that you have the CEL at key on is a positive sign that the PCM is not dead.
These are just some steps to check the output of the PCM.
Read through the link below for more ideas, i have a b allgame to watch.
Disconnected the crank sensor and read 5.13 VDC at the two outside pins of the TPS harness, what does that mean?
it means you need to find a mopar crank sensor. it is overloading the 5v circuit
Awesome! I'm glad that I have without a doubt located the problem... Can anyone give me an OEM part number? The one I changed was an aftermarket crap one and need to get the right one... I found a Delphi one at advance auto and need to know if that is the right one.
You are now at the mercy of the dealer. Only place to get genuine Mopar parts unless you order online.
i've been looking around for a replacement for mine. Mopar overstock carries the sensor but I dont think they are genuine Mopar. Additionally, they make you give your information before they give you shipping costs, so I opt out.
The last one i bought 3 years from NAPA was a Sorenson and i havent had any trouble with it.
Dealer will probably tell you they are on nationwide back order.
You are looking for PN 52067868
I usually check factorymoparparts.com or wholesalemopar.com for my parts
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By Kevin Kelley
Babies haven't changed very much since the 19th century, Lysa Stanton acknowledges.
But the items parents used to care for babies have, the Westlake Historical Society president said, if not in functionality then at least in materials and sophistication.
Dozens of items related to babies and toddlers from the society's collection are on display through September at the Clague House Museum in an exhibit called "Vintage Baby."
"We have items that we like to rotate into the museum," Stanton said. "(The exhibit) is a nice way to showcase them."
Stanton said the "Vintage Baby" exhibit was inspired by the birth of Madelyn Todd, the daughter of Jackie Todd, Mayor Dennis Clough's administrative assistant, and her husband, Brian. The exhibit also appropriately follows the historical society's two previous exhibits – "Love and Romance," the 2011 display on the history of Valentine's Day and courtship, and "Wedding Dresses Through the Decades," last year's display of bridal gowns from 1860 to 2003.
The exhibits follow the traditional path of romance, marriage and children, Stanton notes. A fourth exhibit, on vintage kitchens, is planned for 2014, she said.
The oldest item in the "Vintage Baby" display, a crib, dates to the Civil War era. But Stanton also included items from the second half of the 20th century.
"People want to see things they can relate to," she said, adding that some Clague House visitors recalled seeing family members in cribs or high chairs in the exhibit.
"I have photos of me in that stroller," some have said, according to Stanton.
Information sheets, for those taking a self-guided tour, or Stanton herself will tell visitors about the history of various baby-related items.
Carriages first became popular in the early 1900s, Stanton said. Fill-in books in which parents marked a child's development became popular only around 1910, after public health improvements greatly reduced the infant mortality rate, she explained.
High chairs, which were constructed of wood, saw chrome sections added around the 1940s before being made entirely of metal, Stanton said.
The exhibit also addresses the messy nature of babies.
"Babies were just as messy in the 1800s as they are now," Stanton said when addressing how parents of past centuries dealt with their biological functions.
Simple pieces of cloth eventually gave way to dedicated cloth diapers, Stanton told West Life. The first mass-marketed disposable diapers were introduced in 1948, she said. But they took off in popularity in the 1970s following the introduction of Pampers by Procter & Gamble in 1961. Disposable diapers gave young mothers more freedom by allowing them and their children to venture away from the diaper pail, Stanton said. But the popularity of disposables created environmental issues, she added.
Initially, potty chairs were simple, utilitarian items made of wood, Stanton said. But by the 1940s, beads and other toylike devices were introduced on the tray in front of the child.
"If we entertain him and make it fun, he'd get potty-trained faster," Stanton said, explaining the thinking behind the more elaborate potty chairs.
The Clague House Museum, located at 1371 Clague Road, and "Vintage Baby" by appointment, which Stanton said works well for groups. The exhibit is free; donations are accepted. To contact the Westlake Historical Society, call Stanton at 440-808-1961.


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Exploring Wisconsin Trout Streams: The Angler's Guide - Exploring Wisconsin Trout Streams is a treat for novice and veteran anglers alike. Drawing on years of conservation and angling experience, authors Steve Born, Jeff Mayers, Andy Morton, and Bill Sonzogni tell you about great fishing opportunities unique to Wisconsin--1,000 miles of spring creeks, the amazing nocturnal Hex hatch, and big salmonids in the Great Lakes tributaries. Reflecting the state's preeminent role in the nation's trout-angling and conservation heritage, every chapter emphasizes the importance of environmental stewardship. Exploring Wisconsin Trout Streams shares ways to get the most out of your angling adventure while preserving Wisconsin's beautiful streams. Foreward by Gary A Borger.
The book profiles twenty of Wisconsin's finest streams--from the bucolic Green River in the southwest to the historic and wild Bois Brule in the north. For each stream, the authors share their fishing experiences, supplemented by detailed maps and descriptions of the stream's location and natural setting; conservation history; angling opportunities and advice; nearby facilities, including choice places to eat and sleep; and other local fishing sites. Several key features in this book include: Profiles of the state's 20 finest trout streams and maps to find them. "Don't miss" fishing opportunities. Sound advice for anglers--from beginner to expert. Tactics you can use to catch more trout. Conservation projects that have helped trout survive. A history of Wisconsin's trout-fishing and conservation heritage. A guide to trout foods. Choice places to eat and sleep Suggestions of helpful organizations, tourism and conservation offices, books, magazines, videos, and internet web sites. Four-color cover/jacket.
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Bell'O International Corp. has announced that, on May 29 and 31, the United States Patent & Trademark Office issued Actions Closing Prosecution rejecting claims of certain patents held by Whalen Furniture Manufacturing that are the basis of that company's infringement action against Bell'O and Z-Line Designs. The ruling allows the patent office to continue proceedings to determine if the patents are invalid because of prior art publication, essentially the existence of the 3-in-1 television mounts in question before a patent was formally pursued.
Bell'O noted that it requested inter partes reexamination of U.S. Patent No. 8,079,311 and No. 8,191,485 held by Whalen. Based on those patents, Whalen filed suit against Bell'O on December 19, 2011, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
In commenting on the ruling, Marc Sculler, Bell'O CEO, said, "We are very pleased that the PTO has confirmed its invalidity rejections after hearing Whalen's response and has now issued Actions Closing Prosecution, again rejecting all of Whalen's '311 and '485 patent claims as invalid in the reexamination. Bell'O has not infringed any of Whalen's alleged patent rights, and Bell'O will continue to vigorously defend against the complaint's allegations. As a leading designer and manufacturer of furniture and consumer electronic accessories, Bell'O holds over 200 worldwide patents, trademarks and copyrights. Bell'O respects intellectual property rights and takes care to avoid infringements. Bell'O will continue to pursue invalidity of Whalen's '311 and '485 patents via the PTO reexamination proceedings and in the lawsuit."
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Dog's Life: Work of Dogs
Making slopes safer for everyone.
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In a cold february morning in 2013, a Golden Retriever named Rocky and his owner/ handler John Alfond quickly climb into the backseat of the Flight for Life helicopter. Rocky scoots to the far side next to the window. Alfond slides in beside the dog, followed by the avalanche technician. The liftoff is fast and hectic, and Rocky leans into Alfond for reassurance. It will take them 12 minutes to reach the Arapahoe Basin Ski Resort, and every second counts. Rocky, an avalanche-dog-in-training with the Colorado Rapid Avalanche Deployment program, is being transported to a disaster.
Avalanches threaten not only skiers and snowboarders but also snow-mobilers and ice climbers. According to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, 25 people on average die in avalanches each year. In 2010, that number hit an all-time high with 36 deaths, and a near-record high again in 2012 with 34 fatalities. The risk is the highest in Colorado, which has more than 1 million acres of avalanche terrain and a notoriously unstable snowpack.
When the Flight for Life helicopter touches down, police officers and members of Arapahoe Basin's ski patrol are waiting. They brief Alfond and team on the incident—a man in his mid- 40s witnessed an avalanche. The man wasn't affected, but he saw others swept away. No one is sure how many people are buried. Rocky paces on the end of his leash.
Alfond, himself a member of the ski patrol in Vail, assesses the scene's safety. He identifies the wind direction, and looks for signs of more slides—cornices, or snow that could shift. Time is critical. After 15 minutes, nine out of ten people, or 90 percent, will survive an avalanche. After 30 minutes, that percentage decreases to 50.
Once Alfond is comfortable that the snow pack no longer presents an imminent danger, he asks Rocky to sit. The dog obeys. Alfond gets down on his knees and looks Rocky directly in the eye. "Are you ready to work?" he asks. Rocky sits tall and holds Alfond's gaze. He's ready. Alfond unclips the leash. "Find it!" he says. Rocky bolts.
The dog immediately identifies a partially buried man, alive, but with head and leg injuries. Alfond praises Rocky, who romps with glee, and then asks him to sit. "Are you ready to go back to work?" he asks. Rocky turns serious again, and Alfond issues the "Find it" command a second time. After several minutes, the dog identifies two more victims, fully buried, and begins to dig them out. Alfond determines that both are dead. Rocky is still praised, as his job is to "daylight" avalanche victims—to locate and unbury bodies, alive or dead.
Alfond sends Rocky back to work to "find it" one more time, but the dog turns up nothing. Alfond radios in the coordinates of the bodies as the avalanche technician loads the injured man onto a sled. Rocky follows. Total time from when they stepped off the helicopter: 23 minutes.
Once Alfond and the team rejoin the rest of the group, the mood turns celebratory. The incident was a simulation, and Rocky performed exceptionally well. The two "bodies" are volunteers, members of Arapahoe Basin's ski patrol, as is the "injured man," who hops off the sled and starts to wrestle with Rocky. "He's ready for certification," Alfond says, high-fiving the avalanche technician.
The next month, Rocky passes his certification test at Copper Mountain Resort, along with a Labrador named Mookie and his handler Caroline Stone. The two dogs officially become the second and third members of Vail Resort's certified avalanche-dog team. "I was more stressed than Rocky was," Alfond says. "When it comes to avy dogs, humans are the dumb end of the leash."
Born to Rescue
Rocky was born April 4, 2011, at Hunters Trace Kennel in southeastern Wyoming. Alfond chose the kennel because owner Marsha Greenwell had successfully put four other dogs into ski patrol programs. "There are specific traits I look for in a puppy for avalanche rescue," says Greenwell, "but the most important factor is the dog's genetics."
For avy work, Greenwell breeds dogs with pedigrees proving good health and strong joints, as well as successful hunting or field-competition backgrounds. She feels that hunting and field dogs have attributes that are also desirable in avalanche dogs: they are intelligent, bold but not reckless, and possess the perseverance to work and search. Once the dogs have been bred, she selects puppies who can distinguish scents easily, demonstrate a strong work ethic, are confident and playful, and know when it's time to rest. The key trait she looks for, however, is eye contact. "It's been proven that dogs communicate through eye contact," she says. "They get a lot of their instruction from us by what we're saying to them with our eyes. It's how they learn to trust in scary situations, like getting into a helicopter."
By the time Rocky's litter was five weeks old, Greenwell had selected two possible avalanche dog candidates. At eight weeks, she'd narrowed it down to just one—the male with the gold yarn around his neck. "She was right," says Alfond. "Rocky is smart, has a great temperament and a strong work drive, and loves to search."
Alfond gave Rocky four weeks to get adjusted to his new home before starting training. The Alfond household includes two children and two other Golden Retrievers; fortunately, Rocky fit in well. The pup's first lessons lasted five minutes, building up to 20. After Rocky mastered the basics like sit and come, Alfond started laying the foundation for the commands essential to search-and-rescue work.
Alfond would ask Rocky to sit; once he'd done so, a friend or family member would hold the dog. Next, he'd ask Rocky if he was ready to work, and then walk 10 to 20 feet away. Watching his owner "leave," Rocky would become anxious to follow (hence the need for someone to hold him). Finally, Alfond would issue the most critical command in the search-and-rescue dog universe: "Find it!"
The friend or family member would let go of Rocky and he'd run directly to Alfond. Praise, play and treats were part of Rocky's reward for a successful "find." "When they get good at that, then you start to hide, like ducking behind a rock," says Alfond. "Eventually, you hide downwind from them, without [letting] them see where you hide, and they find you based purely on scent."
After a summer and fall of preliminary training, Rocky was ready to try his new skills in the snow. Alfond started Rocky with basic burial drills, in which the dog is held as he watches a person crawl into a snow cave, and then released with the "find it" command. Rocky progressed to finding someone who had been buried in the snow out of his sight.
In January 2013, Rocky and Alfond traveled to the Snowbird and Alta ski resorts in Utah to attend the four-day WBR International Dog School. The oldest and most prestigious program of its kind, the school includes instructors from Wasatch Backcountry Rescue, Canadian Avalanche Rescue Dog Association, Swiss Alpine Club, Alaska SAR Dogs and the International Commission for Alpine Rescue. By spring 2013, Rocky had mastered avalanche simulations like the one at Arapahoe Basin. His total training and preparat ion for Colorado Rapid Avalanche Deployment (CRAD) certification took two years.
The Avy Dog Difference
"As the number of people recreating at ski resorts and in the backcountry continues to rise, more resorts are starting to see the benefits of avy dog programs," says Thompson, himself an avy dog handler and a member of the Beaver Creek Ski Patrol.
Thompson, who has participated in more than a dozen avalanche SAR efforts with his dog, a Labrador named Dixie, created Beaver Creek Resort's avalanche dog program in 2000. Four dogs currently participate, and the resort plans to add a fifth for the 2013/2014 season. "In the winter, you have to be ready at a moment's notice," he says. "When Flight for Life responds, they look for the closest avy dog to the scene."
Thompson doesn't mince words when it comes to avalanche survival rates. Ski patrollers understand that the best way to survive an avalanche is to not be caught by one in the first place. The hard fact is that by the time avy dogs and their handlers reach a site—by helicopter, snowmobile, skis or all three —it's usually too late for the victim.
At 30 minutes, the avalanche survival rate is 50 percent, and that percentage drops to 20 after two hours. "We always respond as fast and as efficiently as possible with the thought that we're going after a live body, but more often, that's not what we're finding," says Thompson. Alfond agrees. "An avalanche dog is not a magic bullet."
As he and Rocky head toward their first ski season as a full-fledged avy dog team at Vail Resort, Alfond acknowledges that there are serious on-the-job risks. In addition to avalanche danger, there are other hazards, such as frostbite or Rocky accidentally getting cut by a ski edge while running beside him to a rescue. Yet Alfond appreciates the rewards of his job. "If we rescue just one person, or bring just one body home to a family, it's worth it."
Alfond sees another benefit to having avy dogs as part of a resort's ski patrol team: they're great for public relations. Ski patrol members are not typically known as the most approachable skiers on the mountain. Quite the contrary— they're the ones who bust you for ducking a rope and to get to the untracked powder out of bounds. But when avy dogs are around, suddenly people want to interact. "Guests actually come into our office just to pet them," says Alfond. "And we get a lot better reception at schools during our snow-safety presentations when the dogs are there."
Avy dogs may be a ski resort's best chance at decreasing the avalanche death toll. Dogs put a friendly face on snow safety outreach programs. They give the ski patrol an opening to talk about the importance of carrying a shovel, beacon and probe into the backcountry, and knowing how to use the gear in an emergency. Avy dogs in their red vests make people smile, and may make them more attentive to messages about using common sense in the backcountry, including having a partner and carrying a cell phone.
The presence of avy dogs at ski resorts helps make people more snow-safety conscious—and that's a feat worth wagging about.
Culture: Stories & Lit
Standing up for a dog in Haiti
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June 20 2013
It was a strange place to cry, but I had no other place to go. In Haiti, a 10-by-12-foot classroom in a small schoolhouse served as a makeshift hotel for the evening. I sat down on the end of the bed—a green army cot beside a laminated poster of the human eyeball—and sobbed. My tears lacked the grace of my 35 years; childlike, inconsolable, they were tears of shame. I felt that I'd done something wrong.
I also sensed I was not alone. Chest heaving, nose running, I turned and checked the skeleton on the wall behind me. It stared back with empty eyes, its jaw unhinged in a perpetual state of laughter, or maybe horror.
Then I saw them, or rather, the tops of their heads. All three of my host family's children were on tippy-toes outside the window, a square hole in the cinder block wall, listening. Their presence made me want to cry even harder, but instead, I forced myself to stop. They'd already seen and heard enough of my Ugly American behavior for one afternoon. I pulled a book out of my backpack and pretended to read.
The incident began with a dog. Or maybe it started with my decision to backpack across the Central Plateau of Haiti. An adventure-travel journalist, I was on assignment to cover the inaugural trek of Expedition Ayiti, a new adventure tourism company. Instead of camping, our small group of Americans and Haitians stayed in rural settlements along the remote route, paying local families for a meal and a place to sleep. The idea was to provide a source of income for some of Haiti's poorest communities and to foster cultural understanding—or in my case, cultural misunderstanding.
We'd arrived earlier that afternoon in the tiny village of Lamarre after a seven mile hike. I was dozing in the schoolroomturned- hotel when a dog disturbed me. The rest of the group had gone to check out a church built by American missionaries. Feeling sluggish in the 100- degree heat, I stayed behind. I'd been napping for only a few minutes when the dog began to bark. I shifted in the cot so my back was to the window, yanking a pillow over my head. It didn't help. I heard scuffling in the dirt beneath the window, a boy's voice, a dog's yips, more barking and then a dog's cries. I winced. It was clear my nap was over.
Pushing open the wooden door, I stepped outside into the humid heat. Instantly, a layer of sweat formed on my brow. Around the corner beneath the window, a boy of about seven, my host family's son, struggled with a skinny orange dog. It was a horrid game of tugof- war. The boy yanked a rough piece of twine he'd knotted around the dog's hind foot. The dog alternated between trying to pull his leg back and letting himself be dragged, crying and whimpering all the while.
I yelled "Hey!" or something to that effect. Startled, the boy dropped the string and looked up. The dog limped away. The boy moved to chase him. I stepped between the two. "Stop it. Can't you see you're hurting him?" I said.
The boy didn't understand. In rural villages, children speak only Haitian Creole, not French, and certainly not English. He lunged for the dog. I backed off. The dog scampered around the back yard, licking at the twine tied around his foot, which the tug-of-war had cinched down painfully.
My work wasn't done. I needed to get the twine off the dog. But every time I moved toward him, he scurried nervously away. The boy watched, having found an even better source of entertainment than bothering the dog. I caught the dog once, but when I touched his back foot, he nipped at me. I cursed out loud. The boy giggled. By now, his mother and two sisters had come out of the house to watch the action.
The dog and I went round and round the back yard, each time garnering more laughter. The few scrawny chickens scattered. The goat tied to a tree bleated in alarm. Frustrated, I stood and faced my human audience, wiping the sweat and grime from my forehead. I knew they wouldn't understand, but that didn't stop me. "It's not funny," I said. "This dog is hurt." More laughter. I searched each face for a sign of compassion. Their eyes were empty.
Finally, I caught the dog by the scruff of his neck, and he nipped at me again. I began to shout at my host family. I don't remember exactly what, but it was aggressive and accusatory and, due to the language barrier, irrelevant. The dog was the only one who seemed upset. I let go of him and burst into tears.
The mother ducked back inside her concrete home and emerged with a leg bone—part of the soup we'd later be served for dinner. She lured the dog easily, and I realized that he belonged to the family. She untied the twine and shooed him away. I waited for her to look at me, for a moment of understanding to pass between us. But she didn't. It didn't.
I retreated to the schoolroom to finish crying. My clothes, soaked in the pungent sweat of adrenaline, stuck to my skin. I was disgusted with my host family, but more so with myself for losing it over a dog. What's worse, a bored sevenyear- old abusing his dog or an Ugly American throwing a fit because of it?
A week later, I returned home to Boulder, Colo. During my time in Haiti, I'd lost 10 pounds and found an intestinal parasite and a heat rash. It was a challenging trip, on many levels. After a few days, the weight came back and my digestive system recovered. The rash, along with the nightmares of impoverished people in a ravaged landscape, faded. But the incident with the dog stayed fresh.
I thought a lot about suffering, specifically the relative amounts felt by animals versus people. The Haiti dog was suffering, and I'd wanted to alleviate that. But could I really blame my host family for their indifference? They had been dealt more than their fair share of suffering—scarce food, rudimentary shelter, parasites, cholera, devastating natural disasters. My concern with animal pain was a luxury their culture couldn't afford. Who cares about a dog when you can only feed your family two meager meals per day?
I was ashamed of my behavior, my cultural insensitivity. And even a bit guilty about my privileged perch at the pinnacle of Maslow's "hierarchy of needs." My basic needs are so well satisfied that I have nothing better to worry about than lofty concepts like self-actualization and animal suffering.
Surely I wasn't the first person to lament such things. During a restless night in Boulder, I turned to the soothing search engine of Google. I typed "animal ethicist" and found Dr. Bernard Rollin. It turns out that one of the world's experts on the ethical treatment of animals teaches at Colorado State University, an hour away in Fort Collins. Desperate for closure on my experience in Haiti, I sent him a long, late-night email.
Dr. Rollin called me the next day, which surprised me. His response surprised me even more. He told me that abuse of animals is a hallmark of an abused culture … But that doesn't make it right. "What you did was absolutely the right thing to do," he said. "Not only as a 21st-century American, as a human being. Why should an animal be allowed to suffer to gratify the whim of some child who hasn't been taught any better?"
His forceful words that morning served as a literal wake-up call. I realized what was really keeping me up at night: I was trying to justify my host family's behavior, telling myself that it was somehow acceptable, and that I was the one who was out of line. Dr. Rollin turned me around. Animal suffering shouldn't be tolerated just because the person abusing the animal has also suffered. Nor should my privileged position in the world be reason to feel guilty about passing judgment on those in a less fortunate culture, or acting on my own ethical responses.
Dr. Rollin told me that Americans are so afraid of being labeled culturally insensitive that they become overly tolerant. "Even if an entire culture condones an unethical behavior, you should try to educate individuals out of it," Dr. Rollin said.
I couldn't take back my outburst in Haiti, but maybe that was okay. Maybe it was appropriate to show my host family how upset another human being was over animal suffering. Dr. Rollin perhaps put it best: "The last thing I'm worried about is offending people. We're not here to be loved. We're here to leave a better world than we found."
Maybe that family is still talking about the crazy American woman who tried to help the dog. Maybe those three kids will hesitate before abusing their dog again. And maybe, just maybe, one of those kids will step in someday, the way the crazy lady did.
Dog's Life: Humane
Transformed by volunteering, Nora Livingstone helps others do the same
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March 1 2013
Four months after hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in August 2005, college student Nora Livingstone decided to drive from her home in Toronto to New Orleans to assist at an animal shelter during winter break. Livingstone, a double major in environmental studies and anthropology, thought she'd be walking and grooming dogs who had been separated from their owners during the flood, in an otherwise comfortable setting. The experience wasn't what she expected. "Up in Canada, we had no idea how bad things had gotten in New Orleans," Livingstone, now 29, says.
Her first clue to the chaos came when she entered the city. Beside the road, a dead horse hung from a tree. "Everyone was too busy helping themselves and their families to deal with the horse," says Livingstone. "It sort of set the precedent for the rest of the week."
The section of the city where Livingstone had signed up to volunteer didn't even have full power. She spent her Christmas vacation working up to 20-hour days at a makeshift animal shelter at Celebration Station, a former fun park. She slept on a cot alongside other volunteers in a second-floor loft overlooking hundreds of displaced cats caged on the floor below. Outside, chain-link fences separated the runs that housed about a hundred homeless dogs. "At that time, there were still houses on top of houses," Livingstone says. "There was tons of debris. There was no food. There were stray dogs everywhere."
Livingstone's volunteer work in New Orleans was difficult, both physically and emotionally. Each morning, she fed hundreds of dogs and cats, and cleaned just as many bowls and litter boxes. She picked up countless piles of dog poo. By the time she had completed the breakfast routine, it was time to feed the animals dinner, and the whole process started all over again. The sheer number of dogs meant that she could only spend a couple of minutes with each. "I cried every day," Livingstone says. "There were some dogs who were just so bewildered and scared. The hard part about working with animals is that you can't rationalize with them. You can't explain what happened, and that things are going to be okay. All you can do is lie down beside them and pet them."
Despite the challenges, Livingstone considers her time volunteering in New Orleans as some of the most rewarding in her life. The sadness she felt was tempered by the joy of witnessing daily reunions with families who had come to claim their lost pets. She learned that in many cases, people had had their pets taken from them by authorities who prohibited them at human shelters, or were forced to leave their animals behind at gunpoint by the National Guard during evacuation. "I realized that the work I was doing was helping not only animals, but also people struggling to make their families whole again after a really awful situation," Livingstone says.
While she didn't know it at the time, her experience planted the seed for what would become her life's work. Six years later, Livingstone co-founded Animal Experience International (AEI), a travel company dedicated to providing animal volunteer opportunities around the globe.
But before the idea for AEI could materialize, Livingstone would return home to Canada and finish university and a post-graduate program in Outdoor Adventure Leadership, which involved activities like canoeing and kayaking. Unsure how to combine her education, her outdoors experience and her love of animals into a career, she headed to Nepal in 2007 for another round of volunteer work. She hoped to find some direction, or at least the same satisfaction she had discovered in New Orleans.
While in Nepal, Livingstone volunteered at a medical clinic and as an English teacher. She noticed that dogs were not treated the same as they were in the west. Dogs in Nepal guard homes and gardens, and are not typically considered pets. Most Nepalese believe dogs are the reincarnations of bad prophets —humans fated to live as dogs as punishment for past misdeeds.
One day at a bakery in Kathmandu, Livingstone discussed her observations with a British woman she'd just met. The woman had been living in Nepal for more than 30 years and told Livingstone about a groundbreaking dog clinic, the Kathmandu Animal Treatment Center (KAT). Shortly after, Livingstone showed up at KAT's door and offered to volunteer. She wound up spending several weeks at the center, which aims to improve the lives of street dogs through vaccination, injury rehabilitation and spaying/neutering. After dogs are treated, experts at KAT evaluate them for pet potential, and keep those with promise at the shelter for adoption instead of returning them to the streets. "I loved being there," Livingstone says. "A place like KAT is so rare in Nepal. I wanted to find a way to get more people involved, to let more people know about it."
An idea formed once Livingstone returned to Canada. Wouldn't it be great if there were a company that connected standout animal sanctuaries, shelters and conservation programs around the world with interested travelers like her? The vision stayed in the back of her mind even as she took a job as volunteer coordinator at the Toronto Wildlife Centre. It was there that Livingstone met veterinarian Heather Reid, who helped bring her idea to fruition. Reid shared Livingstone's passion for travel and her interest in volunteer work with animals. One step ahead of Livingstone, Reid had been considering what it would take to create international animal-based volunteer experiences for other veterinarians. "My brain practically exploded after talking to Dr. Heather because it was just so obvious," says Livingstone. "I'm passionate about volunteering and encouraging others to volunteer and travel and stir up their lives, so why not get paid to live my dream while helping other people live theirs?"
In 2011, the two women founded AEI, launching it in March with five trips, including one to KAT, the dog clinic where Livingstone had volunteered in Nepal. Within a couple of months, they had 20 travelers signed up. In June, a volunteer tourism portal, GoVolunteering.com, picked up some of their trips and blasted them out to more than 13,000 subscribers. A few months later, AEI's client list doubled. "We knew there was a market for this," Livingstone says, "We were just surprised at how quickly it took off."
Animal-based organizations from all over the world started contacting AEI to create volunteer travel programs at their locations. But Livingstone has been careful to add trips slowly. One of AEI's core values is to partner with only the best and most effective organizations; Livingstone or Reid visits each before adding it to the lineup. After one year of operation, AEI offers 26 trips to locations ranging from Canada to Thailand and Australia. Travelers can choose to volunteer with dogs, cats, bats, turtles, monkeys, elephants, parrots, bears, leopards, tigers, crocodiles and kangaroos, among others. "People have been knocking down our door, which is both inspiring and a little overwhelming," says Livingstone.
AEI travelers can also customize the length of their trip, from two weeks to two months, with longer options available. One client signed up for a full year working with orangutans in Sumatra. Her cost of $4,390 includes accommodations, meals, transportation, travelers' insurance—everything except airfare. While $4,390 seems like a bargain for a full year abroad, Livingstone recognizes that money is the biggest inhibitor to international travel. She and Reid have devised aggressive fundraising techniques for clients, as well as a scholarship program. "If someone is inspired enough to go on one of our trips, we're going to do everything in our power to get them there," says Livingstone.
Trips also include cultural experiences and sightseeing excursions. Both Livingstone and Reid want AEI travelers to experience the natural and manmade wonders that draw tourists to the destinations where they are volunteering. But they are also clear that AEI trips are not typical getaways. "We're not offering a vacation," Livingstone says. "This is not going to a resort, this is work. But it's work that's transformational— through the animals you work with, through the family you homestay with, and through the community you live in."
Good Dog: Activities & Sports
Dog on Board
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September 10 2012
The race was on. a dozen people on stand-up paddleboards paddled ferociously across the Santa Cruz Harbor, flinging water with every stroke, and nearly 300 spectators had gathered on this overcast Saturday morning to watch their antics. The big draw? Dogs. Each paddler was toting at least one four-legged companion. Some sat between their owner's legs, ears flapping. Others stood at the front of the board like hood ornaments, tongues flying. On one board, a pair of Rat Terriers scurried back and forth as though their movements could help propel their vessel. There was a bit of sliding, and a lot of laugher.
The event, dubbed DogJam! by its creator, Neil Pearlberg, is an annual fundraiser for the Santa Cruz Animal Shelter and something of a rare breed on the stand-up paddleboarding (SUP) scene. But as more people take to the sport, it's likely their dogs will, too. "A standup paddleboard just happens to perfectly fit one person and one dog," says Pearlberg, owner of Santa Cruz Stand Up Paddleboard Co. "Plus, you get a dog on a stand-up paddleboard and he just seems to know what to do."
Pearlberg's dog, Rusty, an Australian Shepherd/Bernese Mountain Dog/mutt mix, doesn't like water, but will always get on the paddleboard. The pair is known around town for paddling ocean waves together. "I think it makes him better on the board — the fact that he's not interested in jumping in and swimming," says Pearlberg. "There was one time when I got knocked off by a rough wave and resurfaced to see Rusty still on, just surfing by himself."
SUP, an ancient form of surfing, has its origins in Hawaii. And before it had a name, it was the way surf instructors gained perspective to observe students and read the incoming swells. Stand-up paddleboards, which resemble surfing's longboards, stretch 10 to 12 feet and are geared more toward balance than speed. A single long-necked paddle is used to move the board through the water.
The sport has exploded in the last five years, thanks to celebrity advocates like big-wave surfer Laird Hamilton, and the fact that, unlike most board sports, SUP is easy to get the hang of. It's not overly technical; doesn't require a high fitness level; and can be done on lakes, rivers or the ocean, on still water or in waves. For dog owners, it opens up a whole new way to experience water sports with their pooch.
"Any dog can do it," says San Diegobased dog trainer Lara Schindler. She started her Portuguese Water Dog, Snorkel, on a stand-up paddleboard when he was four months old, but says dogs of any age can get involved; they don't need to be puppies. "This is one activity where the type of dog really doesn't matter," she says. "They can be any age, any breed, even any size. I've seen people SUPing with 100-pound dogs."
What matters, according to Schindler, is making the dog's first experience with the board a positive one. She suggests starting slowly on land, ensuring that your dog knows the basic commands — "sit," "stay" and "down" — before you go on the water. "You don't want the dog to be afraid of the board or the water, and you need a way to [keep] him from just jumping off the board whenever he wants," she explains.
Schindler also recommends starting on a bay or a lake, as it can be tricky to maintain your balance in waves, which makes it scarier for your dog. Outfitting your dog in a life vest will help your peace of mind if he accidentally falls off, as well as give you a handle to lift him back on the board. Schindler teaches people to stand-up paddleboard with their dogs in one-hour private lessons. She says that's about as long as it takes, even for people with no prior SUP experience.
Stand-up paddleboarding instructor Linda Brown, owner of Michigan-based Paddle the Mitten, echoes Schindler's thoughts on the ease of learning the sport, but says every dog is different. All three of her Dachshunds enjoy SUPing on Michigan's inland lakes, but learned at different paces. Kraut, the six-yearold, took to it immediately, and charges right up to the front of the board. The youngest, Gretchen, was the shyest. "Her first time out, she did fine until she realized the other two were still back on the shore," Brown says. "Then, she jumped in and swam back."
While Brown typically SUPs with one pup at a time, on occasion, she's had all three on the board at once. Kraut stands at the helm; Gretchen sits between her legs; and Fritzie, the oldest, patrols back and forth. "I can't say I recommend it," she laughs. "They're stubborn and don't listen to me all at once." Whether Brown has one dog on the board or all three, she uses the HovieSUP Nomad — a generous 12 feet long, it supports up to 350 pounds. She suggests buying a bathmat with suction cups for the front of the board, where most dogs like to sit, to reduce sliding. (The middle and rear sections of most boards have a non-slip surface.)
Brown's favorite client is Judy Huston, also a Michigan resident, who decided to take up the sport at age 71 — and to do it with her 92-pound White Shepherd, Kole. Huston, a former windsurfer, heard about SUP from her son and thought it would be something fun to do with Kole, who has developed intervertebral disc disease (IVDD) and can no longer participate in many activities for fear of injury, and Callie, her 15-pound Sheltie.
'The trickiest part with Kole on the board is balance," Huston says, "He's so big, you really feel it if he moves around." She asked for a HovieSUP Nomad of her own for Mother's Day so she could practice with Kole on the pond in her backyard. "I'm so looking forward to it," she says. "I think it will be the most fun I've had with my dogs on the water in my whole life."
Culture: Stories & Lit
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January 30 2012
I didn't go on a pilgrimage through the holy lands of Israel and Palestine expecting to return as an international dognapper. Yet in the desert east of Bethlehem, just outside of a fourth-century monastery, that's exactly what I was about to become.
I'd been watching the local boys for 15 minutes. There were three of them, about nine years old, give or take a year. Dressed in dirty jeans and t-shirts, they hung around the small parking lot near the monastery waiting for tourists. They'd approach the foreigners, the tallest boy carrying a puppy, soliciting. What, I couldn't tell. Money? Candy? Attention? They'd look at the visitors' cameras, gesture toward their cell phones and talk animatedly in Arabic. No one understood them.
Once the tourists continued on toward the monastery, the tallest boy would toss the puppy to the ground. I'd watched the creature hit the pavement twice. Both times, it yelped, then lay limp. In the week I'd been on the pilgrimage, I'd seen a fair amount of poverty in the West Bank. But I hadn't seen abuse. And while I may have been misinterpreting the exact situation with the dog, I was having a hard time witnessing it.
I've been fond of dogs since I was a kid. As a 34-year-old, I had two of my own back home in Colorado. Or had, up until three months earlier when my divorce was final. My ex and I had decided that both dogs—yellow Labs—would be better off living with him. As a travel writer, I am out of town more often than not. But I missed them terribly. I didn't want to make another regrettable dog decision, which is how I came to be plotting at a monastery in the Middle East.
I continued to watch. The puppy lay in the sand beside the parking lot, unmoving. It looked too small to have been separated from its mother. I imagined that it was hungry, thirsty, injured. I waited for the boys to become distracted. When a car pulled up and the Arab man inside called them over, I had my chance. I moved quickly, scooped her up and hid her in my sweater. No one seemed to notice. I ducked into the van, which was waiting curbside to take my group to our hotel for the evening. I realized that I now had a new problem: how was I going to explain this to the others?
I didn't have much time to figure it out. Through the window, I could see that the members of my group—a team of academics—were starting to trickle out of the monastery. This 12-day pilgrimage was part of their work with a nonprofit called the Abraham Path Initiative. They wouldn't understand. In fact, I was pretty certain they'd find my actions ridiculous, if not insulting, in an "ugly American" sort of way.
Hidden under my sweater, the puppy lay listless in my arms. It was possible no one would notice her, had it not been for the smell. Even after a full day on the trail, I was nowhere near that musty. I watched each of them crawl into the van, catch a whiff, and raise an eyebrow or scrunch a nose. Yunus, executive director of the Abraham Path Initiative and the unofficial head of the group, slid into the seat beside me. He eyed the sweater on my lap. "You know you can't keep it," he said.
I kept quiet. Yunus and his ilk were anthropologists and sociologists, trained in international conflict negotiation in situations far more dire than this. I was afraid they would convince me to put her back. But if I didn't speak, there could be no persuading.
He tried again. "Just what exactly are you planning to do with it?"
I looked at him. Then I looked down at my sweater. I pulled it back a bit so her head was exposed, and tears welled up in my eyes. "It's a she," I said, keeping my head lowered.
Yunus tried again, more gently. "Dogs aren't pets, they're work animals. It's a hard life in Palestine—for people and for dogs. But her life is here."
His logic reminded me of the discussions my ex and I had about where the dogs would live once we divorced. I'd done the right thing, the rational thing, in giving them up. But this time, there was more at stake.
I lifted my chin and stared straight ahead. "Twendi," I said to the driver. "Let's go."
He started the ignition. Yunus exhaled and sat back in his seat. Conversation resumed in hushed tones. I felt like everyone was passing judgment on me, the youngest in the group, the one with the least experience traveling in the Middle East. But I didn't care. The puppy barely moved in the 20 minutes it took to get to our hotel. In that time, I decided her name would be Amira, which means princess in Arabic.
If the elderly woman running the Arab Women's Union Guesthouse was surprised that I walked in cradling a puppy, she didn't show it. Nor did she object when I went to the kitchen to get milk, bread and a small bowl.
Inside my room, I set Amira down in front of the food. She ate slowly, as if she really didn't have the energy. I wondered how long it had been since she'd eaten. She had sable fur, the color of the sandy desert she came from, highlighted with swatches of white on her muzzle, chest and feet. Her brown eyes were an unusual almond shape that made them appear almost human. She would have been beautiful had she not been so filthy.
I carried her into the bathroom and set her in the sink. I rinsed her fur, lathered her with my shampoo and rinsed her again. I remembered how I had washed Cody Bear in the bathtub at least once a week when he was a pup. Part of it was my new-dog-mom obsession with keeping him clean. Part of it was his penchant for jumping into any body of water he saw, including the tub. He loved the water. Amira didn't. She squirmed under the spray from the faucet, but was too weak to put up a struggle.
As I toweled her off, she fell asleep. Her breathing was labored. She didn't stir when I searched out and removed three ticks. When I was done, I joined the others for dinner. Yunus spoke first. "There is a shelter in Jerusalem," he offered. I told the group that I didn't know if she'd make it through the night. I couldn't tell if their eyes were sympathetic or condescending.
Amira opened her eyes when I walked back into the room. Her ears perked when I reached for her. I took her off the bed and let her do her business. She walked to the now-empty food bowl and looked up at me. I hurried back to the kitchen and got her more bread and milk. She ate with considerably more gusto, and then set out to explore the room, sniffing under the bed, in my suitcase, around the trash can. We played tug of war with a sock on the Persian rug at the foot of the bed, and she yipped and pranced like a princess. I felt a surge of hope. When she started wagging her tail, I knew she was going to make it. And if she could make it, I could surely find a way to get her out of Palestine.
I opened my computer to do some sleuthing. In order to bring her back with me, she needed a health certificate from a vet and proof of rabies vaccination at least 30 days prior to her arrival in the U.S. That wouldn't work. Maybe I could convince Cody Bear's vet to forge papers, have them faxed to me, and pretend she had been traveling with me from the start. I checked pet regulations on the airline I'd flown. No dogs allowed. Shoot. Maybe I could buy a ticket on another airline for the return flight. Or I could take her to a shelter in Jerusalem, pay for 30 days' worth of care and vaccinations, and then have her sent to me on an airline that permitted pets once she was ready. I was so busy scheming that I almost forgot the biggest roadblock: three months earlier, I'd decided that I wasn't home enough to have a dog.
I turned to look at Amira. She was asleep at the top of the bed, curled up against the pillow. She opened one almond eye at my movement, and I remembered Yunus' words, her life is here. I knew then that I couldn't take her with me. Not just for my own good, but also for hers. I thought about her in a shelter, in a crate on an airplane, in my 400-square-foot apartment in Boulder, and none of it seemed right. However much I struggled with the conditions I'd seen in Palestine on this trip, Americanizing Amira was not the answer. I got ready for bed with a heavy heart. I didn't know how or where I'd leave her, just that I had to let her go.
Amira slept curled beside me on my pillow. I slept little. In the morning, I got my things ready for the day's trek, and fashioned a pouch for Amira out of a headscarf, like those I'd seen mothers carry their babies in at the Whole Foods store in Boulder. At breakfast, the group looked at me like I was crazy. I did my best to ignore them. On the trail, Amira was a good sport about riding in the pouch. She mostly slept.
An hour into our walk, we came across a family of Bedouins, nomadic shepherds. Typical of Muslim hospitality, they offered us tea and bread, and we accepted. I let Amira out to stretch her legs. As I sipped the sweet black tea, I noticed how she blended in, wagging her tail among the goats and sheep. The Bedouins had their own sheep dog—tall and rangy, with light fur—tied to a tree. I imagined that's what Amira would look like when she was grown. It was easy to picture a future for her here. She seemed to belong.
When we stood up to leave, I didn't retrieve her. I thought perhaps she could earn her keep as a sheep dog. She had a better chance with the Bedouins than she did with the boys in the monastery parking lot.
The matriarch of the tribe motioned that I'd forgotten something. I shook my head no. I opened my arms to say, here, here is where she belongs. The old woman nodded. She reached down and touched Amira's head. I turned so they wouldn't see me cry.
Amira didn't follow me. And I didn't turn back for one last look. Instead, I walked at a quicker pace than usual. I felt like I needed to keep my body moving so my mind could rest. The others gave me space, and I hiked alone for the better half of the morning.
Eventually, Yunus caught up with me. I don't know what I expected—a scolding perhaps, or maybe an I told you so. But he matched my pace and didn't say a word.
I spoke first. "I'm sorry," I said.
Yunus slowed down a little. "You know, originally, no one agreed with what you did. But you improved conditions for that puppy, alleviated some bit of suffering."
I snuck a glance at him. It was true. Amira was better off. I couldn't guarantee her safety or her health, but I'd done what I could. I'd removed her from a harmful situation. In that moment, I realized how powerless I'd felt on the pilgrimage. Walking through an oppressed and impoverished society can do that to you. The magnitude of issues in the West Bank had made all of us feel that there was nothing one person could do to help.
I slowed my frantic pace and fell into step with Yunus. I'd done something. However small, it was something. "Ultimately, it's not about what we can't do. It's about what we can," he said.
I realized I was dogless once again. But it didn't feel quite so terrible this time.
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December 28th, 2011
Hello all,
I'm going through a difficult bout of intense sexual frustration and I'm starting to lose my concentration over it. To give a quick background, my wife of 3 years unexpectily left a few months ago. I haven't had sex in nearly six months. Even at that, we didn't have sex that often. I always had a high drive and she was low. It was probably a partial reason for some of our problems.
Recently, as each day goes on, I get hornier and hornier. At this point, I'd bang anything that walks. I'm really starting to lose my focus as this frustration is beginning to consume my thoughts. I'm still young at 28, but I'm feeling like a raging teenage boy.
I'm not sure what to do. Manual stimulation only works for a brief time. I've considered paying for it, but don't think that is going to be a solution. Plus there are monetary issues and personal awkwardness. I've tried the bar scene, but it seems that most women around my age are already locked up, and if there is one, there are seven guys on top of it.
I've been out of the single life for awhile, so it is going to take some time to get back in. I'm not looking for a completely committed relationship at the moment. I really need a casual bout of sex, and it's getting to the point where I'm going to settle for anything and then fully regret it soon thereafter.
Has anyone gone through this before? Any suggestions? I'm not sure to what direction I should take.
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Yes, I have been through that. But usually I ended up finding an old girlfriend to hook up with. Are you on facebook? Im sure you could find some old flames there.
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Actually, I don't have Facebook, but that's probably something a single guy should have these days.
I think a lot of this is pyschological, as it would help bring a sense of closure and open some hope on the horizon.
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Facebook is not a dating site by any means. But once you get on there, you will find a lot of people you know and havent seen in a while. Possibly an old girlfriend, classmate, etc.
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