Welcome “ShatteredBrokenGlued” to WordPress :)

https://shatteredbrokenglued.wordpress.com/2015/02/02/lets-start-from-the-beginning/

Last Words For a Dead Friend.

http://18mitzvot.com/2015/02/08/last-words-for-a-dead-friend/

LOL. 07Feb2015.

http://18mitzvot.com/2015/02/08/lol-07feb2015/

Another amazing woman — this time, an Italian astronaut

Electrifying photo: Lightning and the gleaming eye of Cyclone Bansi from the International Space Station

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/01/18/electrifying-photo-lightning-and-the-gleaming-eye-of-cyclone-bansi-from-the-international-space-station/

Samantha Cristoforetti at:  https://twitter.com/AstroSamantha

Self Portrait on path by the Rio Grande

Looking for the Yellow Brick Road 🙂

Self Portrait at the Rio Grande

The Rio Grande and the Sandia Mountains

December 2014, Albuquerque, NM

Good-bye to a Friend

https://lifelessonscats.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/good-bye-to-a-friend/

New England Braces For Another Storm, Maybe A Foot Of Snow

Well, at least I’m not snowed in… Perspective, right?  (Sorry, New England.)

A look at Michigan

Cities Where Crime Is Soaring

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/07/urban-crime_n_6636522.html

1. Monroe, MI
> 5-year increase in violent crime rate: 159.1%

http://www.miheadlines.com/2014/02/16/heroin-takes-young-life/

2/6/2014, Heroin Takes Another Young Life

Johnny Honeycutt

Click to access Substance_Abuse_Public_Health_Issue_small.pdf

Substance Abuse Issues In Monroe County (May 2014)

A review of drug deaths as presented by Dr. Carl Schmidt, Medical Examiner for Monroe
County reflects an increase in drug related deaths over the past 10 years. Since 2004 Monroe
County has seen a total of 285 drug related deaths with 75 of these related to heroin use, 68
related to methadone use, and 67 related to cocaine use. There are a variety of other drugs
identified such as alcohol alprazolam (Xanax), codeine, diazepam (Valium) and Citalopram
(Celexa, an antidepressant) in relation to death but in lesser numbers…

http://woodtv.com/2014/07/20/michigan-heroin-use-od-deaths-increase/

7/20/2014, Michigan heroin use, OD deaths increase

http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2014/10/drug_thefts_at_u-m_hospital_a.html

10/26/2014, Drug thefts at U-M hospital: A nurse’s death, a doctor’s overdose and 16,000 missing pills

The nurse, 29-year-old Carla DelVecchio, died. The doctor, 32-year-old Timothy Sutton, lived and was subsequently convicted of a crime and lost his job…

Black Lives Matter

Jerome Murdough, He Too Is America

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jessica-ann-mitchell/jerome-murdough-he-too-is_b_6633614.html

Anthem Hack: Health Care Insurers Aren’t Required to Encrypt Consumer Data

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/07/anthen-hack-encryption_n_6637748.html

The main federal health privacy law — the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA — encourages encryption, but doesn’t require it…

United Steelworkers Strike Spreads To More Refineries

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/07/united-steelworkers-strike-spreads_n_6636634.html

Douglasville, Georgia Shooting Leaves Several Dead

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/07/douglasville-georgia-shooting-dead_n_6637392.html

Minnesota stops accepting TurboTax; Intuit temporarily halts all TurboTax e-filing

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/minnesota-stops-accepting-turbotax-intuit-temporarily-halts-all-turbotax-e-filing-020615.html

If you’d planned on using TurboTax to file your taxes this year, you might need to make other arrangements. Minnesota’s state Department of Revenue announced last night that it would no longer accept any tax returns filed through Intuit’s TurboTax software, because scammers were apparently using it to file fraudulent returns in the names of legitimate state taxpayers…