SIDEBAR #56 - Travis Alexander forum

[YESorNO]

Morning all! :wave:

Oh shoot - I missed all the tennis games this morning, as I slept in... until 9:30am!!! WOW! Haven't slept that late in a very long time! LOL! I guess I needed the sleep!

Oh - forgot to mention before - my thyroid tests came back - and they are all okay! So, I guess I lost all that weight walking around the Song Festival and jumping up and down for the Huz! :happydance: Hope it stays off!

Beautiful pictures from that artist! I love cows!! :moo: Maybe cause we had some in our backyard when I was kid and would go visit them and steal some of their salt! :lol:

Happy Halloween everyone!!

BBM :great:

 

[GigiG]

Searching for Names on an Island of Graves

"...Hart Island, a 100-acre swath of land nestled between the Bronx and Queens, has been the final resting place for an estimated three-quarters of a million people since the city acquired it in 1869. It is actually the city’s ninth potter’s field; since the 17th-century paupers, orphans, criminals and mentally ill people who did not have other burial arrangements..."

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/searching-for-names-on-an-island-of-graves/

What We Found at Hart Island, The Largest Mass Grave Site In the U.S.

http://gizmodo.com/what-we-found-at-hart-island-the-largest-mass-grave-in-1460171716

City Cemetery
Hart Island
(Potter's Field)

"The Department of Correction maintains and operates the City Cemetery, commonly called Potter's Field, on Hart Island, the Bronx, in Long Island Sound. Burials are done with inmate labor, under supervision of Correction staff. Inmates are paid between 25 and 35 cents per hour. The supervised inmate work details are bused from Rikers Island and ferried from City Island on weekdays to perform the burials, disinterments and maintenance tasks.The Island is 101 acres, measuring approximately one mile long and one-eighth to one-third of a mile wide. It is maintained by the Department of Correction. Hart Island is not open to the public..."

http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/nycdoc/html/hart.html

(A trench at the potter’s field, circa 1890. Credit Jacob A. Riis/Museum of the City of New York)

(Prison inmates burying infants in caskets in 1991. Credit Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)

A Visit to Hart Island (08-17-1978)

"Uploaded on Mar 9, 2010
Channel 7 Eyewitness News (WABC-TV) Correspondent Roger Sharp tells the story of New York City's Hart Island, a part of the Bronx. Rarely seen by the public, the island is today closed to the press and remains in use by the city as a Potter's Field. It was never developed as suggested in this 1978 report. Aired August 17, 1978."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrj...---------------------------------------------

I have been fascinated by Hart Island for quite some time. Earlier this year, a federal class-action suit was settled which allows people to visit the grave sites of family members for the first time.

From a NY Times article:
"For years, family members and their advocates battled the city for the right to visit the unmarked graves of loved ones buried on Hart Island, the city’s potter’s field at the western end of Long Island Sound. The city refused such visits, with rare exceptions, citing safety concerns and the rules of the Correction Department, which controls the island and uses inmate labor for burials.

But on Sunday morning, under the settlement terms of a federal class-action lawsuit that sought regular grave site access for relatives, a small group was allowed to stand beside the very stretch of ground that holds their kin."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/20/nyregion/mourners-make-first-visit-to-new-yorks-potters-field.html

Here is a sweet story about one of the first visitors:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hart-island-visitors_55ad5328e4b065dfe89f1346

Here is the link to "The Hart Island Project," which played an important role in advocating for those who filed the lawsuit. Some very good storytelling here, too.

https://www.hartisland.net

 

[YESorNO]

Al Molinaro, character actor on ‘Happy Days’ and ‘The Odd Couple,’ dies at 96

"Al Molinaro, an actor who specialized in lovable blue-collar roles and played his Midwestern cadence, penguin-like physique, beaked nose and wayward eyebrows for laughs on the long-running sitcoms “The Odd Couple” and “Happy Days,” died Oct. 30 at a hospital in Glendale, Calif. He was 96.

The cause was complications from an infected gall bladder, said his son, Michael Molinaro..."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/ente...9dfe54-7f75-11e5-afce-2afd1d3eb896_story.html

Anyone remember the Happy Days spinoff Joanie Loves Chachi?

Link: https://media3.giphy.com/media/5oAEifEqkj1W8/200.gif


[video=youtube;w13Vpt074Qc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w13Vpt074Qc[/video]

RIP Big Al :candle:

 

[YESorNO]

I have been fascinated by Hart Island for quite some time. Earlier this year, a federal class-action suit was settled which allows people to visit the grave sites of family members for the first time.

From a NY Times article:
"For years, family members and their advocates battled the city for the right to visit the unmarked graves of loved ones buried on Hart Island, the city’s potter’s field at the western end of Long Island Sound. The city refused such visits, with rare exceptions, citing safety concerns and the rules of the Correction Department, which controls the island and uses inmate labor for burials.

But on Sunday morning, under the settlement terms of a federal class-action lawsuit that sought regular grave site access for relatives, a small group was allowed to stand beside the very stretch of ground that holds their kin."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/20/nyregion/mourners-make-first-visit-to-new-yorks-potters-field.html

Here is a sweet story about one of the first visitors:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hart-island-visitors_55ad5328e4b065dfe89f1346

Here is the link to "The Hart Island Project," which played an important role in advocating for those who filed the lawsuit. Some very good storytelling here, too.

https://www.hartisland.net

Thanks for those articles- some were so sad, but at least the dead will have visitors now.

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

Link: http://great-images.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/happy_halloween_2012_001.jpg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLCuL-K39eQ
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This Infographic Shows Every State’s Fave Halloween Candy

"...In case you’ve ever wondered how your tastes compared to everyone else who lives in America, the folks over at Influenster have created this super sweet infographic to break it down by state..."

http://pixel.brit.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Print-645x499.jpg

(and we see the murderer's candy in Arizona)

I like 3 Muskerteers the best

- a story for today:

Stealing Life

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/holly...843348.html?utm_hp_ref=featured-fifty-fiction

And a quiz:

How much do you know about Halloween?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/ho...364d90b-8cc2-41cc-9b5b-c9edd67e1943_quiz.html

My score: 3/ 5
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LOL that is so true about Texas and candy corn. I have to have my fix of candy corn and marshmallow pumpkins then I can't stand it until next year.

 

[Nore]

Why does she have to have a new love interest to be happy and have fun :thinking:

Can't she just be free for the first time in a long time and be happy for that? She may be just hanging out with friends and isn't that nice.

Boy Toy??? :shame: Zuri, you bad girl, you. :bigstick:

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I'm right up there with Zuri !!! BUT all I want is take me out for dinner , don't care
if it's
Arbys!!! tired of the cooking...:laughing: :S. Milky Way Yes!!!

 

[GigiG]

Update: World’s first head transplant patient schedules procedure for 2017

"...Dr. Sergio Canavero, an Italian neurosurgeon, will perform the procedure on Spiridonov. The procedure is expected to last up to 36 hours, and it will require Spiridonov’s head be cooled as well as the donor’s body to extend the period during which the cells can survive without oxygen, CEN reported..."

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/...nsplant-patient-schedules-procedure-for-2017/

Human head transplant edges closer to reality: Chinese surgeon teams up with Italian doctor to perform controversial procedure in 2017

"Sergio Canavero from Italy will partner with Chinese surgeon Ren Xiaoping

Dr Xiaoping has performed some 1,000 head transplants on mice so far (note: some mice are pictured)

Duo will plan the head transplant procedure intended for Valery Spiridonov, a 30-year-old computer scientist who has muscular atrophy
Spiridonov has previously told MailOnline he is ready to put his trust in the experts who claim they can cut off his head and attach it to a healthy body..."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ms-Italian-doctor-perform-procedure-2017.html
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Robert Berdella: The Butcher of Kansas City

"...The house belonged to Robert Berdella, the man who would become Kansas City's most notorious serial killer. Prior to his arrest, Berdella was that serial killer cliché, someone neighbors described as a nice man who kept to himself. He helped start a neighborhood watch program, had worked as a chef, wrote restaurant reviews for the Kansas City Star, and ran his own booth at the Westport Flea Market...

In one of the only interviews he ever gave before his death, Berdella expressed his displeasure over the songs and the media coverage of his murders, claiming that the media "dehumanized" him just as he had dehumanized his victims. Berdella referred to himself as "the neighbor next door, who reached a point in his life where he could do monstrous acts; that's not the same thing as being a monster."..."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-l...utch_b_8426374.html?utm_hp_ref=crime&ir=Crime
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What the heck are people doing to themselves now? Cryotherapy??? :gaah: Rediculous and sad- very sad, IMO

Woman Found 'Frozen In Solid Ice' Inside Cryotherapy Chamber (UPDATE)
Officials say that her body had been in the chamber for at least 10 hours.

"...A Henderson, Nevada, cryotherapy center manager froze to death inside one of the business's freezing chambers, according to local news station KSNV.
The frozen body of Chelsea Ake, 24, was discovered by a fellow employee last Tuesday at Rejuvenice, a beauty salon that specializes in cryotherapy, the deep-freezing beauty and medical treatments.

Nevada's Occupational and Safety Health Administration told KSNV that Ake was in the chamber for at least 10 hours before she was found and may have suffocated by inhaling the cooling nitrogen gases emitted into the chamber..."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...apy_562068dfe4b06462a13b8b59?utm_hp_ref=crime
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The head transplant thing still blows my mind (pardon the pun). WTH? That will be interesting...

I can't believe I had never heard of Bob Berdella before. How could that be? Such horrific crimes!

 

[GigiG]

Here's a crazy story:

http://sharelikely.com/woman-intent...ium=sidebar&utm_campaign=Woman+Blinds+Herself

I have heard of people having limbs amputated, but never intentionally blinding themselves.

Had to look it up on Snopes to make sure it was true!

 

[coffeejunkie]

Here's a crazy story:

http://sharelikely.com/woman-intent...ium=sidebar&utm_campaign=Woman+Blinds+Herself

I have heard of people having limbs amputated, but never intentionally blinding themselves.

Had to look it up on Snopes to make sure it was true!

Now that is crazy!

 

[Niner]

Hey - thought I'd stop by and see what was going on!

Thanks for all the links YESorNO!!

Guess I'll have to move to Florida for the Crunch bar, as I'm not that into Life Savers! :lol:

On the "How much do you know about Halloween" - I got a score of 4 out 5 - missed the most popular candy - I guessed Kit Kat, but it was M&Ms...

Yeah... I don't know about that head transplant??!! :thinking: :scared:

RAIN here tomorrow and Monday!! :happydance:

Okay - tried going to "Go Advanced" and I will trick it to post a picture - I'm going to just go with Quick Reply, and than edit my post and add pictures of my kittys!

Kimi on the left and Louie on the right at 6 months old! Louie has a favorite weaved basket he like to sleep in, but he's getting a bit too big for it! LOL!

:gaah: tried to post the color pictures, but for some reason it won't let me - I even named them different files... I'll see if I can try tomorrow with the color photos! And the pictures might have switched - Louie is the orange one in the basket, but than you can't tell if he's orange... :laughing:

See you all tomorrow!

:seeya:

 

[YESorNO]

Big Bird ‏@BigBird 4h4 hours ago
Trick or tweet!

https://twitter.com/bigbird

 

[Niner]

hmmmmm...
the pictures are supposed to be in color - wonder WHY they show up in black & white??? :waitasec:

Can anyone see them in color??

Edit - :doh: for some reason those two pictures were saved in black & white? Editing them now....

 

[Val1]

LOL that is so true about Texas and candy corn. I have to have my fix of candy corn and marshmallow pumpkins then I can't stand it until next year.

This will show my age but I fondly remember popcorn balls and those sweet but tart and kinda fizzy tablet Rocket candies first and foremost, as well as Dubble Bubble Bubblegum and candy cigarettes(to be cool...). If none of those were found at the end of the night it was a toss up between chocolate covered raisins, Big Turk and Coffee Crisp chocolate bars and Winegums(the kind in a roll, not the cheaper bagged versions they mostly sell now).
http://ibackpackcanada.com/ultimate-canadian-candy-list/

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

There is a whole lot going on for this day - Harry Houdini Day - Indira Ghandi was assassinated - Mount Rushmore was ‘completed’ this day -
The Donner Party, and EgyptAir Flight 990, en route to Cairo from New York, crashed off the coast of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. All 217 people on board died. Some American investigators suspected a relief co-pilot deliberately put the plane into a suicide dive, causing the crash.



1963 - Deep Purple - Nino Tempo & April Stevens tops the charts

[video=youtu;MCv3Uw2dvNg]http://youtu.be/MCv3Uw2dvNg[/video]

 

[Spellbound]

Niner, the kitties are adorable? (no color) Pretty sad when you have to trick the functions to work, and they still get it wrong. sigh

Pages... I read a book about the Donner Party when I was quite young, and the story has stayed with me. I was pretty excited to finally find that same book at a yard sale (or was it a flea market?) this summer.

Val, I have never heard of Winegums...:thinking:

Bernina, come out of hiding and give us an update, gal.

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

1965 - Lead singer Wayne Fontana leaves his group, The Mindbenders.


[video=youtu;G7zL6ktCypM]http://youtu.be/G7zL6ktCypM[/video]

 

[daisymae]

Nore .... wish I lived a little closer as it would be an honor to take you out for lunch. :heartbeat:

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

1960 - The Everly Brothers, Ebony Eyes

[video=youtu;3TvSj_IRrc4]http://youtu.be/3TvSj_IRrc4[/video]

 

[Zuri]

Spent Halloween at the barn, yet again as Knox was colicky. I wish I could put him on top of a dryer like we did with our kids. Just an episode, not that bad, but DDand I went over to feed him at 4:00 am. I was going to try and go by myself and not wake her, but I could not top the water buckets off with hot water by myself, so she had to go. Things were peaceful thank goodness.

Every time I get a call from my vet, I never know if it is good or bad. She was on her way to the barn at 8 pm and we met her there. Back to back severe colicks do not bode well, so I had to make arrangements in the event we had to put him down. I hope he continues running these exercises in futility for me for a long time. I pray then threaten with the euthanasia bottle.

The weather changes have not helped so a lot of horses colic when this happens. Ahhh. The things we do for love... And my internal clock is all messed up. It is now only 4:45 am, instead of 5:45 am. So now I can sleep hopefully and Knox will just quit teasing us, trying to get attention.

See you in Standard time!

 

[Susza]

I agree with Daisy. I bet she is just happy for the first time in a long time and that can be so freeing. Ahhh. That rush you get when you fall in love. No appetite. Incredible energy. Feeling great. Euphoria. Dreamy. Walking on air.

I need a boy toy.

Zuri - I have one. Half of the year he's in the USA, the other half he's here. We can share!