Into our second month here. We have moved into our place on a hill overlooking the town of Rincon.
Very pretty and breezier, thank god. It can be extremely hot here in the afternoon 87º+ on a regular basis. We just constructed a screen door, so we can keep the front door open being that there is only ac in the bedroom.

A couple of days ago, while driving back from dinner, I almost ran over a few stranded puppies that were left on the side of the road. There are so many stray dogs and cats here.  Not more than a month old, someone just dumped these 3 adorable dogs and cut out.  We stopped and put them in the back of our borrowed SUV. Home with us they went. Fortunately, we were able to find a home for one of the puppies and shelter the other two for adoption in Mayaquez.
The island has a cultural disregard for animals. Last year a horrible incident took place when animal control workers seized dozens of dogs and cats from housing projects in the town of Barceloneta and hurled them from a bridge to their deaths. Since then, there have been laws put into place to halt the abuse and negligence of dogs and cats.  Obviously, this has not stopped people from throwing them out of cars late at night. Very sad.

Prosecutors had charged the women with kissing, groping each other and “indecent acts in public,” the 7Day paper said, adding that this was the first case of its kind in the United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven states including Dubai.

According to police reports, the two women were seen being intimate with each other on Al-Mamzar public beach between Sharjah and Dubai in April.

They will be deported after serving their sentences.

Even more disturbing is that earlier this year two women here in America, “Land of the Free” were asked to stop kissing at a Seattle baseball game or be thrown out.

Apparently, woman-on-woman sexual assault in correctional facilities is extremely unusual and is being handled with great secrecy by the department.

The alleged victim, claims that someone entered her cell in the 1000 bed facility while she was asleep, sometime before 6am on July 3. She says the intruder(s) bound and gagged her with bedsheets and then proceeded to assault her with a dido-like object.

The incident was reported at 7:30am and the victim was transported to a local hospital.

What remains to be answered, is how did the intruder gain access to her cell since she did not share her cell with anyone, and why was she assaulted?

One source suggests that the woman was targeted in a power play by another inmate anxious to flex her muscles.

Correction Department spokesman Stephen Morello said:

“We do not tolerate any type of sexual abuse by anyone in the jails. For more than five years, we have engaged in a campaign to prevent it.”

The DA’s office declined to comment.

“There was a slight safety risk for women wearing normal bras with metal parts underneath a bullet-proof vest,” a police spokesman in the northern city of Hanover said.

“If the vest is hit by a projectile, this can have an impact on the metal bit in the bra underneath and cause injuries.”

Some 3,000 police women working for Germany’s federal police will be equipped with the new bras which feature no metal parts and look like sports bras, the spokesman said. [via Reuters]