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I am sitting at my desk at the Global Ministry Center, responding to emails just as I do every day. This email is from Stephen in Kenya; that one is from Galia in Bolivia. Another flies into my inbox from Amos in Ghana.

Oh wait, I need to look at this note from Sharon in Sri Lanka. Let me check that question from Ricot in Haiti. Ah, here’s that answer I sent to Igor in Brazil — so many emails from colleagues around the world.

Some of them have intermittent Internet connections in an office; others are working from a cell phone while traveling to a church partner. Some are dealing with drought; others are in the midst of a flood.

As I begin my morning, someone else is ending his or her workday. We speak different languages. We live in separate time zones. We follow different customs and practices. We lead such vastly different lives.

Every one of these emails brings greetings and blessings from field and area staff. I may not have met these individuals face-to-face, but I know them: I have seen their pictures, I have prayed for their family members, and I have worked closely with them.

We are all connected by the fact that Christ dwells in our hearts. We are also connected because we believe in the mission of Compassion. No matter what the situation behind the email, every one of these messages contains gratitude to the Lord for the mighty work He is doing.

I am blessed to have a great team to work with at the Global Ministry Center. I am also blessed to have co-workers all over the world.

Together we are one in Spirit.

“Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.” — Colossians 3:16, NIV

Prayer: Dear Lord, thank you for allowing the message of Christ to dwell richly in us. Remind us to pray for our co-workers, including those who sit right next to us and those who sit thousands of miles away.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Kelly Hedgecock works with the International Program Complementary Interventions (CIV) team. Part of Kelly’s role is to ensure that crisis updates are properly communicated to our global partners. She also assists in processing CIV proposals and funding. Kelly has been on staff at Compassion since 2006.

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In late 2007, student Meredith Kercher was found brutally murdered in a hillside cottage in Perugia Italy. Her murder sparked a media frenzy due to the alleged sexual nature of the crime. News out of Perugia told unsubstantiated tales of a satanic ritualistic sex orgy that led to murder. At the heart of these accusations was Meredith's roommate Amanda Knox. This outrageous fantasy all began with a kiss.

The morning following the murder, Amanda Knox and her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were standing outside the cottage watching investigators and members of the media converge on the murder scene. As both stood there in the cold, Raffaele held Amanda keeping her warm and at one point they shared a few short kisses. At that moment cameras flashed, images of the two kissing were viewed around the world, instantly creating the fictional satanic ritualistic sex crazed killer "Foxy Knoxy." The media failed to note that Amanda was scared and shaking, looking for comfort in an extreme moment of shock. They also failed to note that the nick-name pulled from Amanda's MySpace page was actually a childhood nickname earned for her skills on the soccer field. "Foxy Knoxy" made for salacious headlines in a story that was becoming more sexually charged with each coming hour. Sex sells and the media saw the opportunity to cash in. Unfortunately the truth was nowhere on their radar.

In the days and weeks that followed, the fantasy of a lust driven and sexually motivated sex killing was the topic of conversation about a case that in reality had absolutely nothing to do with sex. Police moved forward with their investigation of what they would call a "threesome sex-orgy gone wrong." False claims fueled what quickly became a sexual obsession that overwhelmed every media report. One story in particular sent the obsession into overdrive. It was reported that Amanda went to a lingerie shop with Raffaele shortly after the murder to by a g-string. Readers were told they were seen laughing and talking about "wild" sex in the store. As it turns out, the witness claiming to hear the sex talk didn't speak any English. Amanda and Raffaele just so happened to be speaking English in the store. We would later find out that the witness was paid by a tabloid. Even worse, the store wasn't even a lingerie shop. Elizabeth Vargas, an ABC reporter, reported on the Oprah Winfrey show that she visited the store and observed that they didn't even sell the sexy lingerie that was described in the media. She described the store as being similar to a Target store in the United States. Unfortunately, the security camera footage that showed a brief moment when Amanda smiled at Raffaele was all the media needed to propel the lie around the globe.

 

Barbie Nadeau

One of the most salacious writers in the case, yellow journalist Barbie Nadeau was front and center when it came to fueling the sexual obsession hovering over the case. She printed outright lies regarding excerpts leaked from Amanda's prison diary stating that Amanda claimed to have slept with seven partners during the time she was in Italy. The truth is, in a dishonest attempt to gain information about her sex life, Amanda was told by corrupt prison officials that she tested positive for HIV. In a very responsible manner, Amanda put together an honest list of partners she had been with during her lifetime. Little did she know that immoral journalists such as Barbie Nadeau would use this information to formulate egregious lies to be used against her.

Nadeau consistently shows how out of touch she is with the current culture in Perugia Italy. For example, Nadeau left college students in Perugia baffled when she made this observation:

"I don't think it's completely out of the picture to assume that group sex is part of the university experience now.  Based on interviews I have done, it's just what kids are doing in Perugia. These kids are not strangers to what I would consider to be extreme sex games."

Most readers would probably be quite interested in hearing from those Barbie claimed to interview. If group sex is a normal part of college life, Barbie Nadeau is the only one to realize this.

But Barbie's salacious style is not just used to sexualize the students of Perugia or Amanda Knox. Instead, Nadeau is one of the few yellow journalists willing to take her constant sexualization to the next level by disrespecting the murder victim, Meredith Kercher, in her book Angel Face, describing her lifeless naked body in lurid and sexualized terms ( as viewed during autopsy). There was no reason whatsoever to mention anything about the appearance of Meredith’s private parts and Nadeau should be ashamed for stooping to that level to promote her career. 

Sexually charged headlines for articles written by Barbie Nadeau, and others like her, came easy for editors all around the world.  For those who haven't followed the case, salacious headlines like the following were the norm:

"Lesbian Sex Plea to Knoxy"

"Foxy Knoxy plays the field from her jail cell with new romance"

“Diary reveals Foxy Knoxy’s sex secrets"

“Hayden banned from seeing sex monster Knox”

 

The Prosecution and the Court

The media carries much of the blame for fueling the sexual obsession, but we must not forget that they were being fed erroneous information from the prosecution's office led by Giuliano Mignini. Mignini was the media's source for many of the lies that were spread early on. Prosecutor Mignini would change his theory of the crime many times throughout the course of the trial. He eventually dropped the sex game theory that filled the headlines for over two years leading up to the verdict, going with an equally ridiculous theory that Amanda simply hated Meredith enough to kill her. Along with the baseless motivation of hatred, he was able to keep lust in his narrative. He created dialog for Amanda during his closing argument and imagined her saying this to Meredith during the attack: "You are always behaving like a little saint. Now we will show you; now we will make you have sex."

Judge Massei, the head magistrate in the case, didn't buy Mignini's theory and instead created his own lust driven theory of the crime. Massei suggested that Amanda and Raffaele were being intimate in Amanda's room when they overheard Rudy Guede attacking Meredith. Instead of coming to Meredith's aid, Amanda and Raffaele decided to join in on the attack. The amazing thing is that Massei's theory is even more ludicrous than Mignini's. Why would Amanda decide to help a virtual stranger attack and murder her friend? How would they have known that Rudy would not attack them? Common sense was nowhere to be found and apparently any sexually driven theory would do.

 

Peggy Ganong and Perugia Murder File

The sexual obsession fueled by the court and observed in the media was quickly adopted by a group of individuals running an ongoing hate campaign against Amanda Knox online. This group assembles on a discussion board called Perugia Murder File (PMF) run by Seattle resident, Peggy Ganong. The same group also runs a so called informational site called True Justice (TJMK) run by New Jersey resident, Peter Quennell. This group claims to be dedicated to preserving the memory of Meredith Kercher but in reality their only goal is to smear Amanda Knox. They continuously show an obsession with sex in their daily conversation attempting to paint Amanda's supporters as middle-aged men that only support Amanda because they are sexually attracted to her. Here are a few quotes from PMF, the site moderated by Peggy Ganong:

"They are middle aged Perverts who dream of being the foxy to Amanda's knoxy"

"All are middle-aged men driven by fantasies of recapturing lost youth, being a hero and carrying the damsel in distress off into the sunset."

"those middle aged one hand typists who spend their sleepless nights imagining romantic interludes with Amanda."

"seriously sick, pitifully perverted, lust aided attraction that some bored middle aged males with keyboards, have for a unanimously convicted, justly incarcerated young female"

Recently, this group suggested that Wikipedia Founder Jimbo Wales became interested in the Amanda Knox case because he was looking to have sex with Amanda.

"I don't see the pay-off in the end. Right now, Jimbo is on the verge of losing any sense of respect as a new media entrepreneur (lying about his checkuser results, for example) just for a chance to catch a peek of some tender young sex killer flesh."

"Jimbo is precisely the profile of the aging Lothario looking for access to tail through his powerful media connections. He isn't thinking with his correct head and everything he's proposed is straight out of the FOA manual."   

"Somebody should give Jimbo a cold shower. He's really lathered up and ready for brunette sex killer action"   

Peggy Ganong should have been ashamed to be part of that conversation, but as moderator she not only endorsed the dialogue but joined in with a zinger of her own: "In all seriousness, what is it with these wiki guys and their wicks?"

 

Peter Quennell: The worst of the sexually obsessed

Peter Quennell, who runs the website True Justice, does nothing to hide his obsession with murder victim Meredith Kercher on his site, giving readers an experience that is outright creepy. He doesn't hesitate to carry on the sex laden talking points of his group. He had this to say about me when he felt the need to talk about my daughter while accusing me of lusting over Amanda:

"Hmmm. Someone now tells me that Bruce Fisher who runs some FOA website claims to have a daughter. I have never paid much interest in him, but one has to wonder why he is slobbering kinkily over Amanda Knox while at the same time undermining those public institutions that are the bedrock of the future of his daughter and, when she has them, her own kids."

Even though many of the people that support Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are women, Peter Quennell, Peggy Ganong and their followers, like to spread lies that the support comes primarily from perverted middle-aged men. This line of thinking is disgusting, but not surprising.  More likely than not, followers of Quennell and Ganong project their own shameful and creepy sexual obsessions onto others.

Recently, Quennell showed his obsession with young women when he stalked and attempted to extort money from a young woman who resisted his advances. This young woman's name will not be mentioned in this article in order to protect her privacy. Quennell attempted to lure this young woman into a business deal in which he would create a promotional website to help build her career. She was new to the United States and Quennell's offer sounded pretty good in the beginning. Quennell proceeded to create a website telling the young woman that he was creating the site free of charge to show her the benefits of his promotional expertise. The site included many personal details of the young woman's life and she did not approve. The young woman was shocked at the website Quennell had created and also became concerned (and was warned by at least one friend) that his interest in her was not solely business-related. Quennell's emails were at times sexual in nature, repeatedly asking for her to take trips with him. He refused to cease communications with her when asked, and he appeared to her to be obsessed.

The young woman asked Quennell to take the website offline but he refused, demanding money to remove it. Quennell sent the young woman hundreds of emails encouraging (pressuring) her to work with him. This disturbing daily barrage of emails led the young woman to become afraid of Quennell and she decided to go to the police. It was only after being contacted by detectives that Quennell finally removed the website ending this young woman's nightmare.

Quennell has been instructed by the police to have absolutely no contact with this young woman. In fact, if, as a result of this article or any other catalyst, Quennell decides to disobey the instructions of the police and contact or harass this young woman, or repost the offensive website he created, he knows that he will be in violation of stalking laws, and will be subject to arrest.  Additionally, individuals close to the case are in possession of several hundred emails sent by Quennell to this young woman. To this point, they have been kept confidential, and will remain so, unless Quennell violates stalking laws by any of the previously mentioned actions or continues to harass the young woman in any way, shape or form.

I know of other women that have been mistreated by Quennell that have chosen to stay silent for personal reasons. I encourage anyone that has been wronged by Peter Quennell to come forward. Exposing the truth will help to prevent Quennell from mistreating others in the future. Peter Quennell is one of the leaders of the ongoing hate campaign against Amanda Knox. If this information doesn't cause readers to pause and reevaluate what kind person Peter Quennell is and how credible his website is, nothing will.

The truth in this case has been clouded over by a disturbing sexual obsession that began with the prosecution. This obsession spread like cancer throughout the media, distorting public perception, fueling a hate campaign, eventually leading to the wrongful conviction of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, who now face a quarter century behind bars.

The murder of Meredith Kercher was a brutal crime but not a complicated one. Rudy Guede ambushed Meredith when she arrived home while Guede was in the process of burglarizing the residence. Meredith endured a violent attack which included rape. This crime was not one of lust acted out by three sex killers. This crime was one of extreme violence inflicted by one man in an act of pure evil. The sexual obsession that overwhelmed this case was based on pure fantasy; it was never about sex.  

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Anime Expo, North America’s largest anime and manga celebration, had just announced a live concert with the chart-topping, female Japanese pop trio, Kalafina, when it returns to the L.A. Convention Center from July 1 – 4, 2011. Along with the hit-making sound producer Yuki Kajiura, Kalafina has provided memorable songs for popular anime series including [...]

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In the hours and days after Osama bin Laden’s death, television screens were filled with images of smiling Americans – many with their children in tow – flocking to the White House and the World Trade Center site to wave flags and cheer the death of an enemy… The elated response gave many observers, including some [...]

It is a short 15 second public service message on the CBS Jumbotron on Times Square in New York City that encourages everyone to make informed vaccine choices. The message is sponsored by the nonprofit charity, the National Vaccine Information Center, and made possible by a donation from Mercola.com. It has been shown hourly since March 22, 2011 alongside much bigger ads for a variety of products marketed by large corporations.1

AAP Strong Arms CBS

On April 13, the President of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) sent a letter to CBS containing misinformation about NVIC in an attempt to strong arm the network into taking the vaccine education message down before it was scheduled to end on April 28. The AAP letter was provided to bloggers,2 , 3 who orchestrated an online smear campaign against NVIC and created a petition drive to increase pressure on CBS. Mainstream media outlets like The Guardian in Great Britain republished the AAP’s attack and added more disinformation.4

AAP: Follow the Money

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is a trade association with 60,000 pediatrician members that publishes guidelines for giving vaccines to children. In recent years, the public has learned that the AAP has been taking lots of money from vaccine manufacturers and refusing to disclose to the media just how much money it gets from Big Pharma.

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This past week saw Burbankers kick up their charitable and caring spirit by walking the Chandler Bikeway, enjoying a Western-themed horse show at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center and strutting the fashion catwalk to benefit the charities of Temple Emanu El.

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The Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band of Oklahoma will host their next meeting from 1 to 3 p.m. May 21 at the Taft City Hall/Resource Center, 208 W. Seminole St.

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A former director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center speaks to Anderson Cooper about Osama bin Laden.

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Curtis Granderson loves to back up Ivan Nova. He hit two homers in support of the right-hander to lift the Yankees to a 4-1 victory over the Rangers in Arlington. The center fielder also went deep in Nova's last start, also a win, on Sunday against the Tigers. Nova pitched his best game as a big leaguer, lasting into the eighth and allowing one run on two hits. He also walked one and struck out only one, which probably won't cut it on most nights. But he kept the ball on the ground and helped the Yankees snap a three-game losing streak. [ more › ]

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ATA Retail Services is hiring for permanent, very part time merchandising position to service the "general merchandise" items that hang on clipstrips & j-hooks in the supermarkets in Alexandria & Franconia, VA

The route will include the following store:

Store # store freq Address
5980 KINGSTOWNE CENTER, ALEXANDRIA, VA 22315

7005 MANCHESTER LAKES, FRANCONIA, VA 22310

5870 KINGSTOWNE BLVD, ALEXANDRIA, VA 22315

7558 TELEGRAPH RD, ALEXANDRIA, VA 22310

YOU MUST HAVE:
* CAR, VALID DRIVER’S LICENSE AND PROOF OF AUTO INSURANCE LISTING YOUR NAME AS A DRIVER.
* Computer with internet access.
* Have 1-2 mornings available during the M-F work week, every 14 days.
* You should live within these areas listed
* $.38 mile (after 20 miles- round trip)
* HOURLY RATE: $10.50. While hours are not guaranteed, you will typically get around 9-12hrs wkly (MORE HOURS ARE REQUIRED IN THE BEGINNING)! Average time in a store is approx 2 hours.

For immediate consideration, apply online at:
http://www.ataretail.com/home/
Use the 4-DIGIT JOB # 7831

*PLEASE REMEMBER, SINCE WE ARE GETTING AN ABUNDANCE OF APPLICANTS, EVERYONE MAY NOT RECEIVE A CALL BUT WE WILL KEEP YOU IN OUR DATABASE FOR FUTURE OPENINGS.

• Location: ALEXANDRIA, FRANCONIA, VA
• Compensation: 10.50
• This is a part-time job.
• Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
• Please, no phone calls about this job!
• Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.

We seek high-energy self-starters with confidence, creativity, poise, and a natural ability to interact with people and sell in a luxury retail boutique environment. Successful candidates will also possess the ability to quickly learn the tea business in order to help educate customers and answer questions. Requires computer savvy, either a college degree or four years retail sales experience, and three references to attest to your proven sales ability, honesty, and work ethic. ***Must be able to work weekends.

If you're interested in joining the Capital Teas team, please send resumes, cover letters (all cover letters not tailored to a specific position at Capital Teas will be discarded automatically), and references to jobs@capitalteas.com. No phone calls please. EOE.

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Compensation: Starting at $10/hour + commensurate with experience and success

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• Compensation: Starting at $10/hour + Commensurate with experience and success
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• Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
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It’s getting down to the wire. Mother’s day is right around the corner. It will be here before we know it.

Trying to think of the perfect Mother’s Day gift? As a Walmart Mom, I was presented with the challenge to Build-a-Basket for Mom. So I headed to my local Walmart with my own Mom in mind. The challenge was to create a beautiful gift basket less than $30. Can it be done?

After looking around a bit I stumbled upon this very cute white Better Homes and Garden basket. What added to the cute factor of the basket was the lining of pastel blue and yellow flowered fabric. What caught my eye the most was the price. This basket was on clearance for only $5 which makes this basket the perfect base for my Mother’s Day gift idea.

My Mom loves flowers, and as I’ve mentioned many times before she likes to garden as well. So instead of grabbing some fresh cut flowers that maybe will last a week, I went to Walmart’s Garden Center and looked for a plant that would match our basket. I found a rather large, PERENNIAL Delphinium for only $4. Not only are these flowers great and absolutely beautiful sitting in the Mother’s Day basket but since they are perennial my Mom can plant them in her garden and watch them grow year after year. A Mother’s day gift idea that lasts, gotta love that!
Next up a little pampering. Keeping with the blue theme, I found a large bottle of Olay body wash (in a blue bottle) and a matching bath puff with a Better Homes and Gardens Fresh Ocean Flowers candle for that perfect scent.

No gift basket is complete without some indulgences, I think. So I added a reusable, freezable cup (similar to this tumbler set) that my Mom can use throughout the summer to keep her drinks cold, even on the go, and some of her favorite candy.

I’m so excited about this basket. I think my Mom is absolutely going to love it. I can’t wait to see her face on the big day…if I can wait that long :D

What are your ideas for a Build-a-Basket for Mom?

Disclosure: I am a Walmart Mom. This post is sponsored by Walmart. I have been compensated for my time and efforts in creating this post and given a giftcard to cover the cost of the items mentioned in this post. As always my participation is voluntary and opinions are my own.

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Joe Hewitt helped build Firefox, he built the wildly popular developers' tool Firebug and then he single-handedly created one of the world's most widely used iPhone apps: the Facebook app. Today he announced on his blog that he's leaving Facebook and going independent.

What's he going to do? Build tools. "[T]ools for writers, designers, programmers, whatever," he writes. "Wherever people are using computers to turn their ideas into reality, I want to help." That sounds awesome.

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Hewitt continues:

"I've spent the last four years of my career working on a very different kind of software. At Facebook, I've gotten to build communications tools that reach hundreds of millions of people. I've had the honor of seeing people, even my own parents, using my apps while walking down the street, in restaurants, on trains, in planes and everywhere I go. Still, I haven't been able to stop thinking about Firebug.

"Technologies have a way of growing faster than the ecosystem of tools needed to support them. Over the last four years, we've seen the rise of mobile apps, the cloud, and now HTML5. Most developers building on these new platforms are using the previous generations of tools along with a mix of ad-hoc scripts and Web apps to get things done. It works, but it is far from ideal. In fact, it reminds me a lot of the Ajax climate back in 2006 when I decided to make Firebug.

"And so, I'm independent now, and I'm going to pour myself into understanding the needs of modern developers and designers, and creating software to fill those needs. There are so many opportunities that I can't even predict what I will end up building, but I am pretty sure I know where I am going to start. I can't wait."

Other blogs will focus on Hewitt's incredible success building Facebook's mobile offerings, but imagine the wisdom from that experience turned to face outward. Leading developer and former director of developer tools at Mozilla Dion Almaer writes tonight, "I have never been as excited about someone leaving a company as hearing that Joe Hewitt has moved on for Facebook to become an independent developer."

Hewitt's plan to build tools for other developers (much less writers and designers!) points towards a future where the Web is a platform for democratized creation again. A generative force, not a new walled garden silo for passive consumption of media on a mass scale.

Facebook is many things; on the positive side it's been an incredible introduction to a writeable, personalized, feed-driven, mobile, social, place-aware Web for hundreds of millions of people. Just like AOL was too often mistaken for the entirety of the Web in the old days, though, there's a risk that many people will treat Facebook like the entirety (or at least the center) of the Web today and in the future.

There's nothing hotter right now than mobile design and applications and there are few things online more conflicted with potential and confusion at the same time as HTML5. Some tools-driven leadership could come in very handy in both departments.

Joe Hewitt creating for creators, on the open Web, sounds like very good news for the Web and its future.

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//Artwork made for the cover of Yorokobu magazine issue 18. It is inspired by Native American culture. Just as the lettering that forms the center of the totem. //Pieza realizada para la portada del número 18 del magazine Yorokobu. Está inspirada en la cultura nativa americana. Así como el lettering que forma la parte central del totem.

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Rachel Krause, aka the building doctor, asked Richard Martinez and Judy Cattran what projects they had in mind for their historic 1865 home.“Do you want a list? There’s about a hundred things,” Mr. Martinez said, looking up at the stately brick house on North Superior Street.“Priority?” Ms. Krause asked hopefully.The technical preservation services coordinator for the Ohio Historic Preservation Office had just 50 minutes to look over the 4,800-square-foot home inside and out, basement and attic included.Her mission: To identify problems in structures built before 1955 and advise owners on issues such as crumbling plaster, deteriorating masonry, and window problems.She and colleague Mark Epstein, who heads the Ohio Historic Preservation Office’s resource protection and review department, fanned out to a variety of residential and commercial properties within a five-mile radius of Toledo’s center Friday, providing the free building consultations. In addition to private homes in the Vistula Historic District and the Old West End, their stops included the shuttered Ohio Theatre on Lagrange Street and the Casey-Pomeroy House Bed & Breakfast on North Huron Street.Ms. Krause said moisture tends to be the worst enemy of old buildings though she also frequently sees structural issues that result from poorly thought-out repairs or changes to the structure. Both were true at the Martinez-Cattran house.During a walk around the yard, Ms. Krause pointed to several issues that were contributing to moisture problems — clogged gutters along the roof line, ivy and other vines growing up on the brick, peeling paint on the front porch.In the brick-floored basement, the floor was damp around a drain with an unknown destination. A small dehumidifier hummed nearby.“You might want to find out where that drain’s going,” Ms. Krause suggested, adding that additional dehumidifiers might help too. “You might be doing one thing for one room and causing a problem for another room.”Mr. Martinez pointed out a support beam and floor jacks they installed in the basement to reinforce a sagging first floor caused, he said, when previous owners removed a back staircase that led from the kitchen area to the maid’s quarters upstairs and relocated the basement stairs. With parlors and bedrooms dramatically appointed with antiques — not to mention eight fireplaces — Mr. Martinez and Ms. Cattran said their real priority is to redo their kitchen and butler’s pantry-turned-laundry room, which they’ve been living with since they bought the house in 1988.Ms. Cattran said she favored removing a wall and opening up the kitchen, while Mr. Martinez wants to rebuild the back staircase along that very wall to re-create as closely as possible the house’s original design.Ms. Krause listened patiently, though it was clear their differences of opinion were not a matter for the building doctor. The Building Doctor Clinic, which included a free seminar on renovation projects Thursday evening, was sponsored by the United North Community Development Corp., the Toledo chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the Toledo-Lucas County Planning Commission, the Toledo Historic District Commission, and the Ohio Historic Preservation Office of the Ohio Historical Society.Contact Jennifer Feehan at: jfeehan@theblade.com or 419-724-6129.

A new effort led by a University of California, Irvine Medical Center oncologist seeks to improve cancer survival for adolescents and young adults. Dr. Leonard S. Sender has long advocated changing the approach oncologists take when treating patients and survivors aged 15 to 39.

Some of the biggest talents on both sides of the Atlantic are featured in the cast of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' production of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies, which begins previews May 7 at 7:30 PM.

Salesman Joseph P. Lally Jr. was so confident of his pull with former House speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi that he fabricated an outrageously high figure, $15 million, as the state’s cost of doing business with his company, sure that DiMasi could make it happen, according to the testimony of one of his former colleagues.

In a jam-packed Norwich Arts Center, Christopher Zhang, a professional painter from East Lyme, was named the winner of the Lincoln Portrait Project contest last weekend.

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