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Shandee 'stabbed several times' with unknown weapon
UPDATE: POLICE have continued to make progress with their investigation into the homicide of 23-year-old Mackay woman Shandee Blackburn.
With the investigation entering its fifth day, police including local detectives, intelligence officers, scientific officers and detectives from the homicide squad, are continuing to conduct exhaustive enquiries into the movements of Ms Blackburn on Friday evening and Saturday morning.
Regional Crime Coordinator, Detective Acting Inspector Paul Elliot said preliminary post mortem results indicated Ms Blackburn was stabbed several times with an as-yet unknown weapon.
"While we continue to make good progress with our investigation, we still need to speak to anybody who was in the general vicinity of where Ms Blackburn was found on Saturday morning."
Detective Acting Inspector Elliot said police had continued to receive valuable information from members of the public overnight.
"I'm pleased to report the man seen on CCTV footage walking through the McDonald's car park has made contact with police," he said.
"We are very grateful for his assistance, and indeed for the assistance of everybody who has called police with information since Operation Lima Zimzala commenced."
An Investigation Centre remains in operation at the Mackay Police Station while investigations continue.
Anyone with information which could assist with this matter should contact Crime Stoppers anonymously via 1800 333 000 or crimestoppers.com.au 24hrs a day.
POLICE have released CCTV footage of a number of people they believe may be witnesses in the murder investigation of Shandee Blackburn.
The footage is of several cars and one man using a McDonald's drive-through in the early hours of Saturday morning, around the time Shandee was viciously attacked.
Central Region crime co-ordinator Detective Acting Inspector Paul Elliot stressed the people in the footage were not persons of interest, just possible witnesses that they would like to talk to.
"Our never-ending search for evidence is obviously continuing," he said.
"We've identified some potential witnesses that we'd like people to (identify).
"If you're the driver of one of these vehicles or you own one of these vehicles we are urging you to come forward, you may be a potential witness in helping us solve this matter.
"We are hopeful they saw something that may assist us in our investigation."
Shandee Blackburn's body was autopsied yesterday and preliminary results, including a cause of death, are expected to be known today.
On Monday Shandee's mother and sister bravely fronted the media and appealed for anyone with information about her murder to come forward.
The unexplained attack and subsequent death of the young woman has caused shock and outrage in the Mackay community with Facebook pages "RIP Shandee Blackburn" and "Justice for Shandee Blackburn" being created since the weekend.
Dozens of people have gone onto the pages to express their grief and anger over her death.
Det Insp Elliot has urged people commenting on these social media pages to consider what they post and be mindful of the family's feelings.
The 23-year-old was found in Boddington St in the early hours of Saturday morning with multiple serious injuries.
Anyone with information should call Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000.
WITH police investigating the possibility that Shandee Blackburn was murdered in a random attack, what should women in Mackay be doing to improve their personal safety? Has walking home alone become a thing of the past?
"I think (Shandee's murder) has made me think about growing up in Mackay," REDC CEO Narelle Pearse said.
"Growing up we used to walk home alone all the time. It makes me sad to think we can't do that any more.
"Nobody deserves to be killed - people shouldn't have to worry about their safety."
Ms Pearse said people in the community were shocked and enraged by the murder and were hoping the culprit would be caught soon.
Detective Acting Inspector Paul Elliot said they won't know whether Shandee Blackburn was attacked at random until they find the culprit.
"I don't think there's any measure of shocking in this matter because it's right at the top of the shocking scenarios," he said.
"Why doesn't she (Shandee) have the right to walk home on her own.
"It's not as though we're in a world where females can't be treated exactly the same as males."
"It should be every member of the community's right to walk their streets safely and without fear," Cr Deirdre Comerford said.
"I'd like to think if I leave work today I have the right to arrive home safely.
"In a community like ours you'd like to think you can walk home safely.
"The reality is we're a changing community and our demographics are changing; in this environment we have to err on caution but without fear," she said.
What you said on Facebook:
- Emma Hunt It's not safe to walk home alone in the dark anywhere these days! Trust no one.
- Jesse N Alarna If you had common sense you wouldn't walk home alone in the first place. No matter where you are.
- Emma Jackson But the point is you SHOULD be able to walk home alone without being attacked. Anywhere. What a sad society we live in.
- Chantele Hoey You should be able to walk home any time but unfortunately it's not safe any more!!! It's disgusting!!
- Lynda Mckee Cairns was once the capital for danger to women seems Mackay is taking over, sad indeed.

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Danielle L. Watt, PhD. is a 3rd-year postdoctoral research fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, DNA Replication Fidelity Group of Dr. Thomas Kunkel at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH. She received her B.A. in chemistry from Albany State University and PhD in bioorganic chemistry from the University of Connecticut. Under the advisement of Dr. Ashis Basu, her dissertation research focused on DNA damage caused by environmental pollutants and the resulting mutations that could ultimately lead to the development of cancer. She also studied a special family of DNA polymerases that may be responsible for the initiation of these mutations. Her dissertation has been published and won her several awards including the Agilent Technologies, Inc. Graduate Research Fellowship for Outstanding Achievement in Science. Her current research is centered on elucidating the structure and function of yeast DNA polymerases, including their abilities to bypass well-known damaged DNA substrates. As a graduate student, Danielle was a New England Board of Higher Education scholar, a participant in the Alliances for Graduate Education in the Professoriate (AGEP), and active in several science outreach programs for 3rd-12th grade students, in which she continues to be committed.


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Kosher Revolution's Chicken Liver Crostini
Chicken livers mashed with onions and schmaltz are a Jewish deli staple that has a tendency to beg the question, "what am I, chopped liver?" Because, well, chopped liver isn't usually all that thrilling. But with chicken livers come a world of delicious possibilities, like these genius Chicken Liver Crostini from Kosher Revolution.
Inspired by the deli counter spread, this version of chopped liver finds inspiration in the Mediterranean, blending the rich livers with caramelized onions, fresh herbs, and a good shake of red chile flakes. Instead of being puréed into a mousse, this one is kept chunky and rustic with bursts of capers and herbs. These crostini are a great way to begin your Hanukkah meal, a playful take on a Jewish holiday standard.
As always with our Cook the Book feature, we have five (5) copies of Kosher Revolution to give away this week.
Adapted from Kosher Revolution by Geila Hocherman and Arthur Boehm. Copyright © 2011. Published by Kyle Books. Available wherever books are sold. All Rights Reserved
- Yield:makes 12 hors dâoeuvres; serves 4 as a starter
- Active time: 45 minutes
- Total time:45 minutes
- 5 tablespoons duck or chicken fat
- 1 small onion, sliced thin and roughly chopped
- 1 sprig fresh rosemary
- 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 2 garlic cloves, flattened with the side of a knife
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh or dried oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh or dried sage
- 2 tablespoons chopped small capers, rinsed and drained
- 1/2 pound chicken livers (see below kashering)
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt, plus more
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, plus more
- 1/2 cup white wine
- 2 slices white sandwich bread, crusts removed
- 1 baguette, diagonally sliced into 12 pieces
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
In a large skillet, heat 2 tablespoons of the fat over medium-high heat.
Add the onion, rosemary, red pepper and garlic, and sauté, stirring, until
the onion is translucent, about 5 minutes. Add the oregano, sage and
capers, and sauté, stirring, until the onions are beginning to brown, about
5 minutes. Transfer the mixture to a plate and remove and dispose of the
rosemary sprigs.
Add the remaining fat to the pan and heat over medium-high heat.
Sprinkle the livers with the salt and pepper on both sides and sauté until
cooked through, turning once, about 2 minutes. Return the onion mixture
to the pan, add the wine, and cook for 2 minutes. Transfer the livers to a
plate, and cook the wine until it has reduced to 1/4 cup, 3 to 4 minutes.
Meanwhile, pulse the sandwich bread in a food processor to make rough crumbs. Add the livers and onion mixture and pulse until a rough paste is formed. Season with salt and pepper, and transfer to a medium bowl. Cover and chill, if not serving immediately.
Preheat the oven to 325ºF. Brush the baguette slices on both sides with the oil, transfer to a baking sheet and bake until lightly toasted, about 10 minutes. Spread the liver mixture on the slices and serve.
Note on kashering: If your butcher doesn't sell kashered chicken livers, which aren't otherwise available commercially, you must kasher them yourself following kosher law. To do so, remove any fat from the livers. Rinse them three times under running water and salt lightly with kosher salt. Transfer the livers to a rack that, when fitted in a roasting pan, will allow juices to run away from it
into the pan. Broil the livers until well done, about 5 minutes per side. Cut open a liver to ensure that no pink remains, and broil longer, if necessary. Rinse the livers three times and dry thoroughly.


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I wonder if I can make it down alone, I asked myself. Probably not. I watched the blood already dripping through the jacket that was tied around my badly broken leg. I pondered the rugged rock walls surrounding me. This could be worse, I thought—I was fortunate that I didn't hit my head or break my back; and that the rope caught my fall. But it also could be better.
To distract myself from the pain and anxiety about my sister's safety, I rustled in my pack. I found some alphabet cookies. C-R-A-P, I spelled out.
Note: I wrote this accident report while I was still in the hospital, where I stayed for two weeks after nearly losing my lower leg in the accident.
The Climb
At 5am, I pulled up at my sister Jenny's house in Seattle. We were on our way to what we planned to be a fun and relatively mellow end-of-summer climb of the North Face of Vesper Peak. We were at the trailhead at 7am and at the saddle looking at the north face of Vesper at 9:20am. The moats did not look like they would be a problem on the glacier below, so we decided to cross the glacier and do the entire route (rather than the ledge bypass that cuts into the route halfway in and is probably the more popular choice these days.) Once off the glacier, we began to climb the north face route. It was a bit wet in areas so we had to bypass on the right of the actual route. This was taking quite a bit of time, but we saw a reasonable way up to where the bypass ledge hit the upper route.
The Accident
The accident occurred at 1pm. I was about 20 feet above the belay, on 5.7-5.8 terrain; I had set 3 pieces of protection, and was roped on a doubled 8mm. Suddenly, a rock flake I was standing on broke loose. I felt my left foot rotate inwards, either as my foot was caught between some rocks or the foot was torqued out by the rockfall. As I fell, I remember thinking "My foot is hurt bad. This is not good." I fell cleanly about 15 feet before the rope caught on my highest piece, which had not pulled. I looked down and could see my left foot flopping and my splintered tibia poking out of my lower leg. Blood and yellowish-white fluid was flowing, but not spurting.
I immediately asked Jenny to lower me down to a stand of bushes we had passed about 20' below where I could be somewhat safe and comfortable. I clipped myself to a bush. After trying to retrieve as much gear as possible, Jenny lowered down, clipped herself to the bushes, pulled the rope, and wrapped it around a small tree she would eventually rappel off. I was already starting to shake with the initial stages of shock, so Jenny helped me put on a couple of insulated jackets, a hat, and some wool gloves.
We quickly turned our attention to the foot. We were not sure to what extent it was bleeding (I later found out one of my arteries had been severed by the broken bones), so we created a couple makeshift tourniquets around my thigh and upper calf with slings. We decided to use an ice axe as a splint. I rotated the foot into place and Jenny wrapped a fleece jacket tightly around the foot and ice axe splint. This was quite painful and I could hear the shattered bones grinding together as I told her to pull as tight as she could. We also used crampon straps to cinch the fleece even tighter against the leg. Initially I propped the foot against my other knee with the tip of the ice axe that was sticking out, but I later tied my foot to the tree above me in an attempt to minimize the bleeding, which was a worrisome constant drip. I draped my legs with my rain shell to keep them as warm as possible. We transferred all of the food and water into my backpack, and I gave her my car key.
The Rescue
We discussed what strategy would result in the quickest and safest rescue. Jenny had a cell phone, but there was no service where we were. We decided that she should descend to the glacier, taking with her the rope and the gear so she could set rappel anchors as she went. The knot I had fallen on was cinched so tightly we could not get it undone, but it would be sufficient for rappelling. We estimated it would take her 3-4 rappels to get to the glacier. She would then hike up to the saddle and try to make a phone call if she could find a signal; if she could not find a cell signal at the saddle, she could try from higher on the ridge or try to hike out and find a pay phone. Time was of the essence, as dusk would be around 7 pm, and it was 2 pm by the time Jenny left me. A rescue would be much more feasible in daylight. I was pretty sure my foot needed immediate attention.
After Jenny left, I felt quite alone and exposed on the mountain. (Jenny later told me that after she left me was one of the loneliest times of her life as well; but it was her willingness to go get help alone that saved my life.) To keep myself occupied, I made words with some alphabet cookies I had brought. I fiddled with my camera, took some photos of my foot tied to the bush, and rustled around in the backpack deciding what I didn't want to leave behind on the mountain (eventually I decided to strap on the entire backpack so they would have to pull it up with me). I also ate most of the energy bars Jenny had left me with, mainly because it was just another thing to do other than focusing on the pain. There was a very real possibility that Jenny would not be able to alert a rescue team for several hours (in which case it might be a ground rescue since poor weather was forecasted for the next day), so I knew it was important to keep my wits about me. I wondered how I would keep myself occupied when my alphabet cookies were gone.
Fortunately, Jenny could yell to me the entire time she was making her way to the glacier and the saddle. She reached the saddle at around 3pm. Her heart dropped when she could not get a cell signal. So she continued up the ridge towards the summit, checking her phone constantly. Not far up the ridge, her efforts were rewarded when her phone showed a couple of bars of service. Jenny immediately called 9-1-1. When she mentioned this was a mountain rescue, she was transferred to SAR/ASU Sergeant Daniel Wikstrom with the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office Air Operations Helicopter Rescue Team. She requested a short haul. Daniel told her to turn the cell phone back on when she heard the helicopter, in case they needed help locating my position. It turned out that the coordinates from her cell phone were coming off a cell tower west of Arlington north of the Stillaguamish River east of I-5 as opposed to her actual location, but her verbal description of my location was sufficient. The cell phone call had been vital to the success of the rescue, as the doctors later told me I probably would have lost my foot had I been up there much longer; moreover, with the poor weather throughout most of the following week it was unclear whether an airlift could have been conducted the next day anyway. A cell phone had also proven vital on Mt. Terror the year before. (It is interesting to note that as Jenny was searching for a signal we heard the "whoop" of a summiting party. When Jenny yelled to them for help, they too pulled out their cell phones, but none of them could find cell service. Of all the phones on the mountain, only Jenny had Verizon, which I've discovered on previous trips is one of the only providers that gets scattered coverage in the Cascades. A GPS-enabled SPOT or a PLB would have been nice to have if we had not found cell coverage, but they lack the ability to verbally communicate.)
The helicopter arrived at 3:40pm, less than three hours after the fall. The short time from call to arrival was aided greatly by the fact the helicopter had been on a reconnaissance flight to Storm King and planning a body extraction. The crew and medical team were still at the airport and the aircraft was already refueled when Jenny's call came in. The rescue team consisted of Chief Pilot Deputy Bill Quistorf, Pilot Deputy Steve Klett, and Crew Chief Deputy Beau Beckner (hoist operator), as well as two volunteers from Everett Mountain Rescue, Helicopter Rescue Technician Ernie Zeller and Flight Medic Richard Duncan. Even though wilderness search and rescue is free to the lost or injured in Washington state, this has no impact on the phenomenal quality and effort displayed by the volunteers on these teams. The helicopter that rescued me, SnoHawk 10, was a Bell UH-1H Iroquois, commonly called a "Huey."
After identifying my position (they were a bit thrown off that I was the actual injured climber when I started to take photos of them), they dropped one of their party (Ernie) to the bushes below. Ernie attached me to a seat harness and by 4 pm I was hoisted into the helicopter. (Note that a hoist is slightly different than the short haul I had thought I would get: a hoist involves being lifted up into the hovering helicopter before it flies away while a short haul involves actually hanging below the helicopter as it flies away, which would have been more exciting but I'd had enough excitement for the day anyway.) Ernie had made me take off my backpack, but assured me he would bring it up with him when he was lifted just after me. The helicopter flew to Copper Lake below the north side of Vesper, where the team had dropped off some gear in order to reduce weight for the hoist; while we were on the ground, the flight medic (Richard) gave me some morphine and resplinted my foot. They then flew directly to Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, arriving there around 5pm. I am forever thankful and indebted to the whole-hearted efforts of the SCSO AirOps Helicopter Rescue Team on Sept 14, 2010.
The Night of the Accident
During the time I was transported and then getting x-rayed at the hospital, Jenny called our parents to fill them in on the news of the accident, hiked out to the trailhead, and drove my car to the Providence Regional Medical Center. My parents arrived at the hospital shortly after Jenny, at around 8 pm. I do not remember the first night in the hospital, but it was quite a traumatic time involving three separate surgeries and nearly losing my foot.
The first surgery—which took about 1.5 hours—was to place pins, plate, and screws on the tibia; no plate was put on the broken fibula. The surgery was conducted by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Peter Kinahan. Dr. Kinahan's attention to detail would turn out to save my foot—as I was being awakened after the surgery, he noticed that my foot was completely white and he called in well-respected vascular surgeon Dr. Mark Papenhausen to take a look at it. Dr. Papenhausen reported that the two main arteries to the foot were damaged (one artery had actually been severed by the broken bones, but fortunately it was crushed and clotted enough that I had not bled out), necessitating immediate reconstructive surgery. I was put back under. In a painstaking and rather impressive surgery that took about 5 hours, he used the vein running down my lower leg to replace the damaged arteries. During this time, my parents were more or less resigned to the fact that I would lose my foot, but Paupenhausen commented that he was determined not to let this happen to a 27-year-old athlete. However, I was not out of the woods yet. With the renewed blood flow, the calf muscle began to swell up with blood; this is a situation called compartment syndrome. The swelling was so great that in order to stitch close my lower leg and relieve the limb-threatening compression of the nerves, blood vessels, and other muscles within the compartment, Papenhausen had to perform a fasciotomy, in which the fascia of the compartment was slit open to relieve the pressure. The slit opened to a 7" x 5" wound as the muscle swelled freely. (Over the next week the wound would be drained via a wound vac and would shrink a little, but it would still require a significant skin graft to close.) At 5 am, Papenhausen reported that the surgery was a success.
I had initially put my recovery notes here. But due to a series of frustrating setbacks and dangerous complications, I ended up creating a separate "Recovery trip report", a day-to-day account spanning the first year after the climbing accident. Recovering from this serious tib/fib fracture ended up being both the most challenging and the most life-enriching mountain I've ever climbed.
|Beginning the road to recovery....little did I know how long and windy it would be.
Looks like a nut tool!
(You can also see the broken fibula behind, and all the staples over my skin graft as a result of the compartment syndrome.)
|My leg 3 weeks after the accident - looks like I got in a tangle with a meat grinder. The big round area is the skin graft over where my leg had to be split open when I developed compartment syndrome. The stitches are from the compound fracture, pin/screw insertion, and artery reconstruction. I was shocked at how quickly atrophy occurs.
|Hospital distractions. Some sculpee clay would have been a good distraction on Vesper too.
My leg at Week 8. At this point, I am unable to lift my foot up and the bones are still badly broken, but the skin graft is healing nicely.
Note the skin graft on the stuffed cat too. During the first few weeks of my recovery at my parents' house I passed the time by sorting through some of my childhood toys, and I discovered that some rats had eaten away most of my stuffed animals; my mom was able to salvage my favorite stuffed cat (named Coco) with a skin graft of his own!
I would be non-weight-bearing for 5-6 months.
Here me and my crutches are at Weeks 9 and 10, in Italy! Check out my Italy on Crutches trip report.
The recovery had several setbacks and complications. At 3 months, a bad infection necessitated immediate removal of the infected hardware in my leg. It was over half a year until I was off crutches, and several more months until I was "fully" recovered.
See my "Recovery Trip Report" for a day-to-day account spanning the first year of my recovery.
Short Analysis
The rescue was in all ways a success, apart from the broken bones. Sometimes climbers are just in the wrong place at the wrong time. The outcome could have been very different had it not been to a number of good decisions and favorable factors:
- I was not climbing alone.
- We were roped up (doubled 8mm) and I had set good protection.
- Jenny and I both kept calm when the accident occurred.
- We made a gameplan for rescue.
- We were competent at first aid and anchors.
- Jenny was willing and able to descend alone to get help.
- I was resigned to stay on the mountain alone and take care of myself while Jenny went for rescue.
- We had a cell phone.
- Jenny was able to get to a place with cell service (Verizon).
- We had good weather.
- We had started climbing early enough in the day so that the accident occurred with enough time to get an airlift before darkness. My foot might not have survived the night due to the vascular damage. Plus, poor weather the next day would have made an air rescue impossible.
- The aircraft and rescue team was already at the airport and
refueled when the call came in, since they had happened to be on a
reconnaissance flight just before the call came in.
- The SCSO AirOps Helicopter Rescue Team crew did a great job at identifying my location and making a successful airlift off the steep rocky terrain.
- The surgeons at Providence Regional Medical Center did a great job putting my foot back together. If it had not been for Dr. Kinahan's fortunate observation of the lack of blood supply to my foot, I would have lost my foot.
- I would have climbed only the upper section of the route. The lower half—where the accident occurred—turned out to be loose, poorly protected, and not very aesthetic. We had decided to climb the lower section since we wanted to climb the whole route, rather than cutting in midway.
- I would have had a SPOT or PLB with me. Although the cell phone
allowed us to verbally communicate with the rescue team to let them
know the details of the accident and location, we were lucky that Jenny
found a cell signal. A GPS-enabled SPOT or PLB would have avoided the
agonizing 2.5 hours spent wondering if we could initiate a rescue that
day or if I would have to spend the night on the mountain. My foot
might not have survived the night due to the vascular damage. (Another option, albeit a bit above the typical climber's budget, is a
satellite phone; this would have allowed us to alert a
rescue team right from the accident site. Yet another option is a radio, although these tend to be line of sight and are of mixed use in mountainous terrain.)
Gear Lost During Accident/Rescue
Jenny had to leave a lot of gear behind to get safely down to the glacier when she went to get help. The rope—which might have been damaged in the fall—also managed to get stuck on her descent, but fortunately it was on the final rappel to the glacier. The following gear was lost on the climb:
- 60m 8mm rope
BD Cams: #2, #1, #0.5
Metolius Cams: yellow (size 2)
- Slings: 4 short
- Carabiners: yellow, red, and purple DMM carabiners, 4 neutrinos
- Other: Pants and climbing shoe (had to be cut by medic)
|First attempt at gear retrieval. The fog turned the team around. (Photo by Ian Derrington.)
|Second attempt at gear retrieval. They got most of it, plus the summit. (Photo by Wayne Wallace.)
Mountaineering Accident Statistics
Interestingly enough, about a week before I was involved in the mountaineering accident on Vesper Peak, I had written an article about mountaineering accident statistics (click link to see article). I used the data tables in the American Alpine Journal to make pie charts and cartograms displaying the statistics.
14.5 months later, I finally stood on Vesper's summit!
In December 2011, 14.5 months after I nearly lost my leg on Vesper's North Face, I again attempted to climb Vesper. This time, it was via the moderate East Ridge, as a snowy late-fall climb with a group of friends (click link for trip report). It was a rewarding day — finally I stood on the summit!
...and 6 years after I first started up it, I finished the north face of Vesper.
In June 2016, nearly 6 years after I first started up the north side of Vesper, I climbed to the top via Ragged Edge, a 5.7 route that was established in 2013 on the right side of the north face of Vesper (click link for trip report). With the spicy early season conditions and untraveled and exposed nature of the climb, the day captured the essence of North Cascades climbing.
In June 2016, nearly 6 years after I first started up the north side of Vesper, I climbed to the top via Ragged Edge, a 5.7 route that was established in 2013 on the right side of the north face of Vesper (click link for trip report). With the spicy early season conditions and untraveled and exposed nature of the climb, the day captured the essence of North Cascades climbing.


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The eastern side of Hoop Lane is a very traditional Sephardic cemetery (above picture), where the gravestones are laid horizontal. The east side is used by the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation. The western part of the cemetery is maintained by the West London Synagogue, and it is a more traditional Askenazic cemetery, the stones being upright (below).
Lieut. Ronald Lucas Quixano Henriques. who lost his life at the Battle of Aisne on September 14th, 1914. Even though he "Rests On The Field Of Battle", he is remembered here. Just a few stones away a brother is also remembered. We have so many who have died protecting us, may we never forget them.
History, reminds us how many men and women have died serving their country, however not all who perish during wartime are members of the military. The stone at left marks the Belasco family, torn apart by enemy action on December 14th, 1944. The strength to carry on after 3 family members are lost is remarkable.
As I walked past one headstone, I couldn't help but stop and soon found myself lost in thought over the events of January 30, 1962 for the families of David and Betty (Jacobs) Goldberg. They had just celebrated a happy event, the marriage David and Betty. Shortly there after, the young couple, while on their honeymoon, died together. I do not know what happened, and reading it I had many emotions, however, I found great comfort in the line that reads "Forever together never to be parted".
I am thankful for all those who have sacrificed so much. May they truly never be forgotten.
The information gathered from the stones has now been added to the Knowles Collection- Jews of the British Isles, and will be available after the next update, which will be very soon.


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How to Childproof Your iPad
9 Tips For Childproofing Your iPad
9 Tips For Childproofing Your iPad
Face it: your iPad is not your own. You may have purchased your tablet to read your favorite book and play some games (Candy Crush, anyone?), but before you could blink, your iPad probably found its way into your little one's hands. While there are plenty of great, educational apps your child could be playing, there's even more that you probably don't want them to see. And even if you think your tot is too young to find his or her way to violent and expletive-filled videos, kids are faster with technology than you'd think.
Thankfully, Apple knows just how savvy children are, and there are a few (free!) steps they offer to protect your kids — you just have to know how to find them. Lucky for you, we've uncovered them. Here, nine quick and easy steps for protecting your iPad-loving tot.


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This origami style skirt has krama lined front folds and side pockets. The skirt sits mid to high waist and has a mini length.
Dara fits true to your usual size. Louisa is 170cm tall and wears a size XS.
- 100% cotton - upcycled from factory deadstock.
- handwoven cotton krama details
- mini length
- side pockets
- invisible back zip closure
80% of the gross things about fashion happen after you take me home. Don't be gross, follow these mindful care tips:
- Wash Cold: most of the energy spent in conventional washing machines is used heating the water. Switching from hot water to cold or warm can help prevent 227 kilos of CO2 from entering the atmosphere every year.
- Hang Dry: Skip the drier, just do it. Air-drying your clothes just 6 months a year could save up to 318 kilos of Co2. That's the equivalent of a flight to Paris where hang-drying laundry is super chic anyways. Go hang like the Frenchies.
- Iron Cool: All of our GOOD KRAMA clothing can be ironed. Ironed, not fried. Give your iron a break and set it on a lower temperature – you'll save energy and do less damage to your clothing
- Hand Wash: Our handwoven fabrics are super delicate. While you can place them in a gentle cycle, we recommend handwashing them whenever possible.
- Krama pouch: Remember those little krama pouches your clothes came in? They are a great way to protect your clothes when machine washing them. Any other mesh laundry bag will also do.
FACT: 95% of discarded clothing can be recycled or upcycled. Think about that for your next spring-cleaning sess.
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North Korea moves push tension to the limit
North Korea's deadly game of brinkmanship took several steps towards armed conflict on Thursday as it appeared to move a missile capable of hitting South Korea and Japan to its east coast.
The movement was detected by South Korean and US intelligence, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported, citing military and government sources.
Earlier in the day the US announced it was speeding the deployment of an advanced missile defence system to Guam in the next few weeks, two years ahead of schedule, in what the Pentagon said was ''a precautionary move'' to protect US naval and air forces from the threat of a North Korean missile attack.
That in turn followed the North Korean army's claim that it had final approval to launch "merciless" military strikes on the United States, involving the possible use of "cutting-edge" nuclear weapons.
One South Korean official was quoted as saying the missile movement detected appeared to be a Musudan, which is believed to have an intended range of 3000 kilometres and the ability to carry a 650-kilogram warhead. However, it is not known to have been tested.
''We are closely monitoring whether the North moved it with a view to actual launch or just as a show of force against the US,'' the official said. Japan's Asahi Shimbun carried a similar report.
Yonhap cited intelligence sources as saying the North might launch the missile on April 15, the birthday of founding leader Kim Il-Sung.
The South Korean Defence Ministry declined to confirm the report, but stressed that it kept a ''24-hour watch'' for any potential North Korean missile launches.
Earlier this week, the US Defence Department announced that two of the navy's Aegis-class missile-defence warships were positioned in the Pacific to watch North Korea. Installing the land-based missile system in Guam will free up the ships, which have radar and interceptor missiles, to be repositioned closer to the North Korean coast.
In a statement published by North Korea's official KCNA news agency, the general staff of the Korean People's Army said it was formally informing Washington that US threats would be "smashed by ... cutting-edge smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear strike means".
"The merciless operation of [our] revolutionary armed forces in this regard has been finally examined and ratified."
US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said North Korea's threats and recent actions represented a "real and clear danger" to the US as well as its allies South Korea and Japan.
"They have nuclear capacity now, they have missile delivery capacity now," Mr Hagel said in Washington, calling Pyongyang's "bellicose dangerous rhetoric" problematic.
"We take those threats seriously, we have to take those threats seriously," he said. "We are doing everything we can, working with the Chinese and others to defuse that situation on the peninsula. I hope the North will ratchet its very dangerous rhetoric down."
For the second day North Korea prevented South Koreans crossing the border to enter the jointly operated Kaesong industrial park, allowing only those already staying in the park to leave.
Its continued operation had been seen as an indicator of whether the North's rhetoric was anything more than mere posturing.
The North on Wednesday notified South Korean businesses to leave Kaesong by April 10, Yoo Dong Ok, a spokesman for Kaesong companies said. But the South's Unification Ministry, which is in charge of relations with the North, said that claim was a ''misinterpretation'' of North Korea's regular request for the South to submit its plan for cross-border movements.
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Woman finds bag stuffed with $11,000 cash at Marshalls in Swampscott
Police: Money's owner raising funds for Guatemalan church
A Beverly woman got quite a surprise when shopping at Marshalls this week -- a very attractive bag stuffed with cash hanging on the rack.
Cheryl Gavazzi told the Salem News that was looking at sweaters when she saw a Vera Bradley bag on the rack. Initially she thought it had been placed on the wrong rack, but when she looked closer, she found more than $11,000 in cash inside.
Gavazzi brought the bag to police. She soon learned the bag and its contents had been reported missing to Swampscott police earlier in the day by a man who had raised the money to build a church in his native Guatemala, the paper reported.
The man's story was verified with receipts and it was returned to him.
Gavazzi met with the man who told her his wife had put the bag down to tend to their young children and forgot about it, the paper reported. She said he had planned to sell his car to make up for the missing money after realizing the bag had been lost.
Gavazzi said she only did what she hopes others would have done for her.
Gavazzi said the man gave her a reward.


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Why Stefany Shaheen running for Portsmouth City Council is a bad idea
Anyone should be applauded for stepping up and running for local office, particularly someone like Stefany Shaheen, a professionally successful mother of four and daughter of U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen who announced Monday she will run for Portsmouth City Council.
But politically it isn't just a bad idea, it really doesn't make much sense.
Shaheen is hardly the first child of a prominent politician to run for office. Almost every state in the country can point to some prominent political family. In New Hampshire, there are the Greggs, Sununus and the Bass family. All of those families began with a New Hampshire governor, just like Shaheen. However, the first move from the next generation was either a safer play or for a much higher office than something like the city council of the state's 12th-largest community. Judd Gregg and Chris Sununu both followed their fathers' footsteps with a run for Executive Council districts that were safely Republican. They also picked years that involved mid-terms for a Democratic president, which historically offered further safety. For John E. Sununu and Charlie Bass, their first bid for office was for Congress, Sununu winning in 1996, and Bass losing a primary in 1980 to Gregg.
These moves took for granted what Shaheen apparently does not: that they needed to schlump it out in local office first to earn the credibility to run for higher office later.
This is the real problem with Shaheen's run for Portsmouth City Council: there is a lot more risk than there is reward.
Consider the risks involved for Shaheen.
First, it is almost impossible for her to beat expectations in this race. Portsmouth elects it's city council and mayor in a weird and very unpredictable fashion. This year, about 20 people will run for nine at-large positions, with the top vote getter becoming mayor. The conventional wisdom in Portsmouth is that Shaheen will do something that is basically unheard of: she will become mayor in her first run for the council. Going back decades, that has not happened, yet unless Shaheen is the top vote getter -- even if she gets second -- it will be seen as a loss of sorts even though for most people it would be an amazing accomplishment. Keep in mind that she will be going up against incumbent Mayor Eric Spear, second vote getter Assistant Mayor Bob Lister (a very popular former principal) all other incumbents, except one. Oh, and then there is the fact that Republicans in the city, however outnumbered, probably won't vote for her in principle where they would other Democrats. It is no guarantee that she will be mayor, and unless she is it will be seen as a loss on her way to building a stepping-stone to higher office.
Second, if she wins and becomes mayor, it is hard to put her stamp on anything. The entire point of using an office for a stepping-stone is build more relationships and accomplish something in office that you can run on in the future. However, in Portsmouth the mayor is a very weak position, much less being a city council member. The mayor's position is not full-time and its only power is in setting a tone and some power in setting meeting agendas and appointing community members to boards and commissions. The city is really run by the city manager. If things go right, it is hard to take credit, and if things go badly, people are going to look for people to blame and that's the politicians.
Third, the position doesn't play to her political strengths. Shaheen has a great last name, a huge ability to raise money and a work ethic politically where you know she will knock on doors and have a team of volunteers that will help. In local politics, too much of this -- particularly the money -- can create a backlash in a way that would only have been a positive accomplishment for major office. If she wanted to "give back" to her community, there are other ways of doing that wouldn't carry the political risks. If she had run for the school board, for example, no one would be keeping tabs on how many votes she got since the top vote getter is treated the same as the others elected.
Now consider for a moment what would happen if she didn't run. If she could spend more time with her children, spend more time on her career and her ability to run for, say, Congress or governor down the line remains unchanged. If there was an opening for major office this year, Shaheen could clear a primary. She would still have name recognition and the ability to raise money.
Again, Shaheen should be applauded for stepping up, but politically it is unnecessary and could turn out to be a very bad move.


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Why BioShock Isn't A 10/10 Game
So obviously spoilers. All the spoilers ever, completely ruining every aspect of the game. There's not a sentence of this you should read before finishing what is a very good game. Spoilers. Spoilers. Have I mentioned, stuff here will spoil surprises? And ruin the game.
This isn't a list of reasons why BioShock is a bad game. It isn't. It's an excellent game. This is a list of reasons why I think it doesn't merit the highest score possible.
I thoroughly enjoyed the vast majority of Bioshock. It's a 9/10 game, and if limited to five stars, it would be the full five (which it will be where I'm reviewing it). But it is unquestionably not a 10/10 game, nor indeed a 97% game or whatever hyperbolic, "we'd better give it more than we gave Half-Life 2" marks it might have received. To credit it with such perfection simply doesn't make sense.
1) The narrative gradually tears and flails around like a frayed windsock, failing to see any of its threads through to an end, beyond simply killing people who were previously alive. What's to become of Rapture? A sequel? Why not let me explore it once it was over, to see the bits I missed, see it in peace? What happens to Tenenbaum?
2) The final boss fight, which Kieron mentioned a while back, was just awful. It's not just out of place for the rest of the game. It's a bloody terrible boss fight. It's far easier to left-mouse your way through than any of the early Big Daddy fights, which is appalling. I loathe boss fights, and I'm only interested in them when they demand cunning over luck and reflexes. This asked for neither, letting me kill Fontaine with only a few crossbow bolts, no plasmids at all, and at its most ridiculous, allowing me to hack a security bot, presumably while Mr All Powerful stood still tapping his toes, politely waiting.
3) Amazingly, it was unoriginality that really got to me by the end. I'm a bio-genetically engineered being, created to perform the duties of my evil master while believing I was working for the side of good, only to rebel against my creator using the very super-human powers he gave me… So it's Deus Ex again then, but with the cast on radio. Which is such a massive shame, after the fantastic Brechtian "Would You Kindly" moment. It's such an extraordinary point in the game – in any game ever – as the inevitabilities of corridor-gaming become the subject of the narrative. And then it just gives up on that plot completely, and says, "hey ho, but let's carry on anyway". You obey Tenenbaum, and Fontaine mocks you, but then nothing is done with this. I really love that despite the realisation that all your actions are controlled by the need for the game to progress – how you are the puppet of the developers' whims – that you cannot help but continue do the same. I just wish the game had acknowledge this in any way at all, beyond saying, "ner ner". How about bothering to do anything with Tenenbaum's character, after the point where you stare at her through a window and can't communicate with her for no reason? What was the message? Blindly following is a random act, and if you do it twice it'll be ok? Huh? SOMETHING!
4) Something that bothered me from the beginning to the end was the brutality of your approach. Here's this beautiful city, crafted by the greatest minds in the world: now go hit it with a spanner. While you can later on elegantly use your plasmids for tactical ballet, there's never a point where it isn't easier, and far more effective, to just pound everyone in the head with your wrench, while tapping F to heal.
5) I think this is my largest complaint. It reminds me a bit of Studio 60 where Sorkin's script said, "We're the funniest thing ever to have been on television", and then proceeded to not be funny at all. This is a world created by geniuses, but the vast majority of people encountered (by their recordings, obviously) seemed to be pretty stupid to me. Indeed, beyond their having made scientific breakthroughs, there was no evidence of genius at all. Having a couple of museums and a nice garden to sit in isn't really the pique of human achievement. Why wasn't I wandering through the ruined remains of former astonishing greatness? Architecturally it was impressive, and they did a good line in red banners, but um… While those mini-ads for plasmids were obviously there for gags, they were pretty damned moronic. I can see an argument that says this is a commentary on those so arrogant that they believed themselves worthy of a utopian society only open to the very most intelligent. But that doesn't really do it. They'd still at least demonstrate some smartness.
As an FPS, I think it falls short of Half-Life 2, which would be the ribbon to break. But it's close, and in terms of level design, that's a massive achievement. As a post-Looking Glass game, it doesn't come close to offering what Deus Ex provided (and I don't mean in terms of not being an RPG – I mean in terms of delivering on its narrative). And yes, you could create a list like the above for Deus Ex until the internet ran out of room, but I think you could create a pro-list that equally out-weighs. The only emotional moment for me was arriving in the room filled with the saved Little Sisters, thanking me and gossiping about how I would save them. I could only ever save them, because of who I am, and the game rewarded that with kindness. That was splendid. But it was one moment. So while huge amounts were enjoyable (most especially Cohen's photography sequence), I never felt like I could betray, or trust, or manipulate. I was the puppet, and the game laughed at me for that, but then it just carried on laughing at me while it wandered to a rather vague conclusion. Oh, and if you're going to have ten minute cutscenes throughout your game, have the ending last more than 30 seconds, and go into some credits, and not back to a screen declaring "Continue" like I wish it would have.


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The State constitution gives the Board of County Commissioners the power to adopt ordinances (local laws), approve the County budget and set millages, and establish the requirements for the departments under its control. The Board governs all unincorporated areas of the county directly; municipalities may call upon the County for specialized services.
The Commission does not have control of the budgets or policies of the School Board. The Commission approves support funding for court services, insofar as County funds are concerned, and approves the budgets of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, the Sheriff, and the Supervisor of Elections. Budgets for the Tax Collector and the Property Appraiser are approved by the State Department of Revenue and filed with the Board of County Commissioners. The commissioners also serve as other Boards for the County, such as the Emergency Medical Services ity, the Fire Protection ity, the Mosquito Control Board, the Countywide Planning ity, and the Water & Navigation Control ity.
Meetings are held twice a month, usually, but not always, on the first and third Tuesdays. The earlier meeting in the month begins at 9:30 a.m. and follows an agenda of Invocation, Pledge of Allegiance, Presentations and Awards, scheduled Public Hearings, Citizens to be Heard, and Agenda Items.
Meetings in the latter part of the month are actually held in two parts. Invocation, Pledge of Allegiance, Presentations and Awards, Citizens to be Heard and Agenda items are discussed with the Board at 2:00 pm, after which there is a break and the Board reconvenes at 6:00 p.m. with scheduled Public Hearings. These meetings are designated for zoning matters as well.
The public is invited to attend these meetings which are held in the fifth floor Assembly Room of the County Courthouse, 315 Court Street, Clearwater. Special listening devices are available at the meetings upon request. Board meetings are televised LIVE and repeated during the week on the Pinellas County Government television station – Pinellas County Connection TV (PCC-TV). These meetings are closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.


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The differences between the sexes are fairly obvious, but even more interesting are the differences within each sex, according to a story in The Independent. There are "tomboys" and "girly-girls," robust female weight lifters and lithe fashion models. The paper states: "Recent evidence supports the idea of psychological gender as a spectrum, and that your place on the spectrum is not necessarily related to your genetic or physical gender." Immediately following this a is a quiz, where readers can choose from two options for each question to find out if they are "typical" of their gender.For instance: Do you prefer a bath or a shower? Do you tend to have chapped lips or use Chapstick? Do you drink lager or gin and tonic? But! Does being a man who likes to bathe really mean he's in touch with his feminine side? Does being a woman who likes to shop and spend a day at the spa really mean she's a "typical" female? According to the scoring of this questionnaire, (put together by Phillip Hodson, of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy), even if you're a woman who watches football and hates to shop, you're not necessarily a tomboy, "just a girl who dares to be different." Dares? And! If you're a man who moisturizes and can't find his keys, you're "in touch with your femininity," which could help you "empathize with the opposite sex." The question is: If we're living in an age when women box and race cars and men wax their hair and shop, is there such a thing as "typical" behavior for your gender anymore? (And! What kind of score did you get? I'm a 9, which is in the "middle ground" but closer to the manly side, heh.) Questionnaire: Are you gender typical?, Scoring [The Independent]
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Pancakes are a must at a brunch, but I hate being the one in the kitchen doing all the flipping, while everyone else is having fun and eating. There is the option of making pancakes in advance and freezing them, but its just not the same as when they come out fresh. So I found this great recipe for mini maple pancake muffins on Bakerella.com
Generously grease a 24 cup mini muffin pan with non-stick spray.
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
2/3 cup buttermilk
1 egg
2 tablespoons pure maple syrup
2 tablespoons melted butter
1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and sugar in a medium bowl. Sift together with a wire whisk.
- In another bowl, stir buttermilk, egg, maple syrup and melted butter until just combined.
- Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir with a spoon until combined.
- Stir in chocolate chips. Reserve a few chips to sprinkle on the tops.
- Bake for 8-9 minutes.
Makes 24 mini pancake muffins.
Let cool slightly and remove from the pan. You may need to use a toothpick around the edges to separate the pancake muffins from the pan.
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NY barber who survived rampage says he played dead
The barber who survived last month's fatal shooting rampage in neighboring central New York villages said Wednesday he played dead while the gunman shot up his shop, even as one of the victims fell on him.
John Seymour recounted how Kurt Myers walked into his barbershop in Mohawk on March 13 just as he was pulling the cloth from a customer in the barber chair. Myers asked Seymour if he remembered him, pulled up his shotgun - Seymour had thought it was an umbrella - and began firing.
"It just kind of spooks me out that he would say, `Do you remember me ...' And he had a smirk on his face almost like he wanted me to know that he was the one who was going to do me in," Seymour, 66, said in a phone interview from his home in Ilion.
Seymour yelled: "This is really a gun! He's going to kill us all!" as Myers started shooting Seymour and three of his customers. Seymour and Dan Haslauer survived, but Michael Ransear and Harry Montgomery Sr. were killed. Myers then drove to neighboring Herkimer, where he fatally shot two men inside Gaffey's Fast Lube.
Myers died in a shootout with police the next morning inside an abandoned Herkimer bar.
Seymour counted about nine shots in his shop and even recalls the song on the radio: the 1978 Joe Walsh hit "Life's Been Good." Seymour stayed still on the floor even as Montgomery fell on him. He had remembered an interview with a girl on TV who survived a family shooting by playing dead.
"I knew he shot everybody, but my worst fear was that maybe he was going to stand there and wait to see if anybody moved so he could shoot us again," he said.
Police were still trying to figure out a motive for the shootings. Seymour said he cut Myers' hair years ago and knew him only passingly as a "nervous-type guy" that you wouldn't want to hang around with.
Seymour, who initially spoke to the Utica Observer-Dispatch, is recovering at home with wounds to his left wrist and back. Though his scissoring wrist is still healing, he wants to get back to being a barber.
Not at his old shop, though.
"I don't think I'm going to back there, no," he said. "Too many memories."


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* 5 years ago … It happened again. Different skirt, different lot. Meh!
As I was walking from my office to my car, my skirt hit the concrete. I remained upright, standing there in front of God and everybody, in my top and underwear. I do not have a tan – on purpose, but I sure could have used one at that moment. My legs look like abnormally long pieces of packaged chicken. Read: white. Did have on nice underwear, but it just doesn't compensate for the lack of skin color – in daylight. Couldn't grab the demon garment because I was holding boards. The wooden kind. Ignored the horrified screaming and running of garage mates and finally managed to pull that sucker up under my arms. And took my boards to the post office to mail them.
Who mails boards? As in not- too- long- but- sorta- heavy boards? Interior designers, that's who. I'm not a designer, I am the office ODDJOB. Without the razor-brimmed hat. My areas of expertise are research ("Here's a picture of a painting. We need to know who the artist is. There is no information, no caption, no nothing, don't even know when or where the picture of painting came from. Go!" I found artist and a silkscreen of painting to purchase in 30 minutes), food choices ("Everyone is dieting but I still think we should get a cake, should we get a cake?" Get the cake. Am genius), and mailing boards.
Had to stick my stomach out to keep skirt on in post office. Happy foreign man says, "You want to mail boards?". I said indeed I did and the cost must be under $100. He started laughing and speaking to himself in his native tongue. Am thinking that means cost will be well over the budget. Skirting the details,I return to office with humble, sad face. Walked into designers bull pen, looking for my boss to tell her about expense. That damn skirt went south again. My colleagues, all women, were nonplussed; they are used to my wardrobe malfunctions. Paper-clipped skirt top to underwear and called it a day.
Did I mention I live in the city located just on the outskirts of Hell? Where it is 81-degrees at 7 a.m.? This morsel of info is only necessary because sweats are not clothing here, sweats are a perpetual state of the body. Every body. So skirt slippage was heat-related. As evening approaches, it is a brisk 80-degrees inside my house; the a/c is working its ass(?) off, making the same sounds that pierce the air when empty cans are put in dryer and dryer is turned on high. War zone ambience. Trying to relax and cool down.
Turn on the computer and get some news. Apparently bird doo facials are all the rage in NYC; you, too, can have one for $180. So "Emperor's New Clothes", I can't even wrap this. My mind is grinding, so I'll throw out an offer for bird poop facial aficionados …. you are most welcome to sit on my patio – all day long – for $10; you will be delighted by all the bird bombs that cover your entire self. There is only one catch … bring earplugs… the a/c sound might disturb your bliss. Come early and stay late.
Don't even think I"m complaining, I'm not. Based on what I read, hear, and see, I am beyond lucky. If anyone needs a skirt fail, a scary loud a/c, a poop facial provided by numerous regional birds, and/or boards mailings, you know where to look.
*P.S. Always wear nice underwear, even if you aren't riding in the car … you never know ….. just saying.
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A Novel Health-Transportation Partnership Paves The Road For Young Driver Safety Through Virtual Assessment." Health Aff (Millwood). 2020;39(10):1792-1798."
Implementing a Trauma-Informed Approach in Pediatric Health Care Networks." JAMA Pediatr. 2016;170(1):70-7."
Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Novel Web-Based Intervention to Prevent Posttraumatic Stress in Children Following Medical Events." J Pediatr Psychol. 2016;41(1):138-48."
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Understanding recovery in children following traffic-related injuries: Exploring acute traumatic stress reactions, child coping, and coping assistance." Clin Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2013."
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I recently read a story ("Dog Story," The New Yorker, Aug. 8, by Adam Gopnik, their award-winning staff writer) that saddened me. Mr. Gopnik wrote that he knowingly purchased a puppy-mill dog from a Manhattan pet store simply because his 10-year-old daughter asked him to. Since buying puppies from pet stores supports a cruel industry in which breeding dogs suffer every day of their shortened lives and the puppies who make it out are often sick, I am always disheartened when I hear that anyone has—knowingly or unwittingly—purchased a puppy-mill dog from a pet store or online.
Mr. Gopnik wrote that because his daughter knew her parents would never leave Manhattan to purchase a dog from an "approved breeder, she quietly decided that she could live with a Manhattan pet-store puppy-mill dog if she could check its eyes for signs of illness and its temperament for symptoms of sweetness."
His decision to purchase a dog that likely came from a puppy mill puts him in the small minority of Americans who would knowingly purchase a dog from a pet store if they knew that dog came from a puppy mill. According to a survey conducted by Lake Research Partners on behalf of the ASPCA, nearly 80 percent of Americans would not make the same decision.
Puppy mills are large-scale commercial breeding operations in which the breeding dogs live in squalid, overcrowded, wire-bottom cages stacked on top of each other. The breeding dogs almost never leave their cages and never know the feel of anything other than the cages' muck-covered wiring. They don't know what grass feels like, what toys are or what it's like to be loved.
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Usually crammed in dark, poorly ventilated sheds where they are exposed to sweltering temperatures in the summer and below-freezing temperatures in the winter, puppy-mill dogs live in horrific conditions day after day. In order to maximize profits, the females are bred repeatedly until their bodies give out, at which point they are often killed, left to die or even thrown out with the garbage.
By checking her new puppy's eyes for signs of illness, Mr. Gopnik's daughter was in no way ensuring that she was getting a healthy dog. Many puppies from puppy mills have internal parasites and other problems that are invisible without a veterinary examination, including genetic and hereditary problems that will not show up until much later.
Puppy-mill puppies are sold through pet stores, online and at venues outside the puppy mill, such as flea markets. Even though three-quarters of Americans have a negative view of puppy mills, puppy mills would not stay in business if people who claim to oppose them did not support them financially — often unintentionally — largely through purchases of dogs in pet stores or online.
The ASPCA, which, along with other animal welfare organizations, spends vast resources caring for and rescuing breeding dogs from abusive puppy mills, has launched a "No Pet Store Puppies" campaign. Please pledge to refrain from buying anything—supplies, collars, kitty litter—from pet stores that sell puppies. For this campaign to be successful, large numbers of Americans shopping for pet supplies have to bypass pet stores selling puppies and instead, choose responsible stores and online outlets that do not support the puppy-mill industry by selling dogs.
When it comes to actually bringing home a new pet, the ASPCA recommends adoption as the first option or, for those who want to go directly to a breeder, responsible breeders who would never sell their dogs to pet stores or ship them to unknown purchasers.
I hope that Bark readers will visit nopetstorepuppies.com to sign the pledge not to buy anything at pet stores that sell puppies, and will share the pledge with everyone they know. While the ASPCA will continue to rescue puppy-mill dogs, we would prefer to stop the large-scale breeding operations that allow dogs to live in deplorable conditions before dogs are harmed.
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I showed up at John Sindelar's Tool Museum almost an hour late on Saturday morning after an evening at a Chicago tapas restaurant that pushed my bedtime to 1 a.m.
The museum, which is also Sindelar's commercial woodworking business, was hopping with gawkers and tool collectors who had come to see the new additions to the museum and to perhaps buy a few pieces for themselves.
"Hey John," one guy asked, "what's for sale and what's not for sale here?"
"Everything's for sale," John replied. "You see something you like, maybe we can work something out."
You'll never get that kind of banter with the docents at the Guggenheim.
For the show, I had packed my hatchback full of tools and wood to build a couple English squares during the day and talk about handwork. But Sindelar had other ideas. He led me over to a wooden crate filled with ancient woodworking components.
"These are workbenches," Sindelar said. "I thought you might enjoy putting them together today."
I picked up a massive chop for an angled leg vise. Below that was a mystery part.
Heck, yes.
The first part of the job was figuring out which parts went with which bench. After some sorting, it became clear we had two old commercial maple benches with sled feet and wooden vise screws. These were nicely made benches, but I've assembled my share of those and they have no mystery for me.
The other two benches were craftsman-made. The first one we built was the oddest. The top was an 18"-wide single slab of some ring-porous wood, likely chestnut according to the consensus of the group. Plus the top had a wide tool tray.
The undercarriage of the bench was interesting. All the mortise-and-tenon joints had been drawbored. The crate contained all the rived pegs and they were clearly bent in the middle – some with a heavy offset – and the bent pegs had set.
To disassemble the bench, the pegs had been knocked out and put in an envelope with the dozen screws that held on the tail vise and tool tray.
But the big star of the bench was the leg vise. Here's the weird: The angled front leg of the bench was massive – at least 16" wide. The chop for the leg vise was equally beefy and powered by a wooden screw with an internal garter.
The coolest part of the vise: the chop and leg were designed to take a so-called St. Peter's Cross – an X-shaped metal assembly that replaces leg vise's parallel guide. Oddly, this vise was missing its metal St. Peter's Cross, but it had a parallel guide. We searched the shop and crates for the metal hardware, but no joy.
The other workbench had a couple standout features on its top. The top was one solid slab of hardwood about 22″ wide and 3″ thick. The marker had oriented the top so that the bark side was facing up, it it must have caused some problems for the woodworker.
A bark-side benchtop will tend to curl up at the front and rear edges of the bench. The fix was to drive in a single sliding and tapering dovetail all across the width of the benchtop.
"You don't see that every day," I told the onlookers.
Funny thing was, that was about the 100th time I'd heard that expression on Saturday. We were, after all, at Sindelar's astonishing tool museum. Below is a quick slideshow/doughnut video of some of the things that caught my eye on Saturday.
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Commenter GiantBoyDetective wonders when video games and their consoles make the transition from recent to retro in today's nostalgic installment of Speak Up on Kotaku.
How old does a game have to be to be considered "retro"?
I would definitely consider anything Super Nintendo or older as retro...at least in my eyes. I suppose the Nintendo 64 is kinda retro now. So is the limit around 10 years or more like 15?
Wikipedia, grand master of wisdom/opinion, states that "retro style" is something that "generally implies a vintage of at least 15 or 20 years" and then it goes on to state that the Dreamcast is part of "retro gaming"...obviously those two facts don't quite match up.
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Happy new year dear blogfriends! How did you celebrate? Well, we were a bit under the weather, so it was quite intimate.
This morning, I began my New year's preparations by throwing out all garbage. I then did a water and salt cleansing potion. I burned rosemary with mandrake. I did a Goddess blessing and an elemental blessing and then I drew my tarot cards for each month of 2017. It looks like it is going to be a great year for me!
Then we cut our vasilopita which is a traditional Greek cake that has a coin in it. Whoever gets it is supposed to have good luck through the year that comes. Ours was a bit more magical. It was an apple abundance cake from which we will make an offering to the Goddess and fairies. And to top it all off it was sugarless, very low in carbs and delicious. The only downside was we forgot to take a picture. It's a shame because me and the little witchling had decorated it, in a short of "frozen"theme. But we were hungry, and sleepy and sick. It completely slipped our minds. Well, the coin was in my mom's piece which was great because she got really excited when we called to tell her.
Right now the witchling and her dad are playing with her cars in her motorway, right next to me. I am sipping nutmeg coffee with milk foam and cinnamon which is my drink of choice with a heating pad on my back, on my rocking chair by the fireplace. Life is wonderful! It would be a little more wonderful if we all didn't have the flu and I didn't have menstrual cramps but I am not one to split hairs. Just kidding! This was one of my all time favorite New Year celebrations.
May 2017 bring peace, love, health and abundance to all!!
A quiet New Year's day
Happy new year dear blogfriends! How did you celebrate? Well, we were a bit under the weather, so it was quite intimate.
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- Unknown said...
Happy New Year! I'm sorry you're not feeling well and hope it passes quickly. I love the idea of the cake with the coin in it. Never heard of that one before but I think it's a great concept. I do hope that our 2017 is filled with good health, lots of happiness and peace from within! So glad I found you again. Yay!
- January 1, 2017 at 3:43 PM
- Debra She Who Seeks said...
Sounds like a wonderful way to start 2017! I hope you're all feeling better soon though! Happy New Year to you all!
- January 1, 2017 at 5:31 PM
- jaz@octoberfarm said...
happy new year and i hope you feel better soon!
- January 1, 2017 at 5:36 PM
- Leanna said...
Happy New Year my dear! Hope this year is much better than last. Sending get well wishes and an abundance of love joy and prosperity spell your way. *smooches*
- January 1, 2017 at 6:17 PM
- Magic Love Crow said...
I hope you all feel better soon! Sounds like you had a wonderful New Year's Eve! Happy New Year to you and your loved ones! Big Hugs and Many Blessings!!!
- January 1, 2017 at 10:46 PM
- angela said...
Happy new year to you and your family
May it be truly blessed xxxx
Sounds like a wonderful way to spend New Years only without the cold xxx
- January 1, 2017 at 11:58 PM
- Magaly Guerrero said...
We stayed home, too. The Little Princess was sick and I need to stay away from crowds (too many germs and I'm still on steroids, which make my immune system rather crappy). But we had fun with LEGOs, coloring books and watching Space Balls.
By the way, if you have the recipe for the low carb cake, I would love to have it! You can email it to me: magalyguerrero At live DOT com.
Hope 2017 brings you lots and lots of magic!
- January 2, 2017 at 7:22 AM
- Haddock said...
Wow... nutmeg coffee and cinnamon.... love it.
- January 3, 2017 at 2:06 AM


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