Pat Summerall, legendary NFL announcer, dies at 82

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="A look back at <a href='http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/world/obituaries-2013'>those we have lost in 2013</a>." src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130404163509-pwl-update-horizontal-gallery.jpg" /><br /><br /><div class="cnn_strylftcntnt" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: left; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="cnn_strylctcntr" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 166px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">STORY HIGHLIGHTS</strong></div><ul class="cnn_bulletbin cnnStryHghLght" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 9px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/global/red_bull.gif); background-position: 0px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hospital spokesman: Pat Summerall dies of cardiac arrest at age 82</li><li style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/global/red_bull.gif); background-position: 0px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fans, friends mourn the football player turned legendary play-by-play announcer</li><li style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/global/red_bull.gif); background-position: 0px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says Summerall was "royalty in the broadcast booth"</li><li style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/global/red_bull.gif); background-position: 0px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">John Madden: "Pat Summerall is the voice of football and always will be"</li></ul></div></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(CNN)</strong> -- Pat Summerall, the football player turned legendary play-by-play announcer, died Tuesday. He was 82.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph2" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">He was best known as a broadcaster for teaming with former NFL coach John Madden for 22 years. Summerall also worked for years alongside former player Tom Brookshier and became the voice of the NFL in the 1970s and 1980s, calling most of the league's signature games.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph3" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Summerall called games for CBS, Fox and ESPN and worked more than 10 Super Bowls.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph4" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">As a player, he was a placekicker and played 10 seasons for the Chicago Cardinals and New York Giants from 1952 to 1961. He scored more than 500 points as an NFL player.</div><a href="" name="em1" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><div class="cnn_strylftcntnt cnn_strylftcexpbx" id="expand15" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: left; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 27px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="clickToPlay" id="clickToPlayvideoContainerexpand15" style="background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/video/416_player_Click_to_play_off.png); border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 42px; left: 45px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 27px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 136px; zoom: 1;"></div><img alt="" border="0" class="box-image" height="120" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130416202108-vo-pat-summerall-larry-king-addiction-00003102-story-body.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="214" /><cite class="expCaption" style="background-color: black; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; bottom: 0px; height: 20px; left: 10px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.85; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 214px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: white; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; left: 4px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">2001: Pat Summerall on beating alcoholism</span></cite></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph5" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Summerall died Tuesday of cardiac arrest, said Jeff Carlton, a spokesman for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph6" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">His powerful and eloquent voice was well-known to thousands of football fans, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph7" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"For a man who could dramatically capture a moment with very few words," Jones said, "there simply aren't enough words to adequately describe what he meant to sports and broadcasting in this country."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph8" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jones described Summerall as "royalty in the broadcast booth."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph9" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"He was respected and admired by players, coaches, commissioners and presidents of our country -- and always a gentleman -- someone who had time for the fans in the parking lot after the game," he said in a written statement.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph10" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fox Sports described Summerall as "an icon in his profession" and "the voice that defined the NFL on television for generations of fans."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph11" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"He and John Madden helped give FOX Sports and the NFL on FOX credibility when it launched almost 20 years ago, and for that we'll be forever grateful," the statement said.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph12" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Madden called Summerall a longtime friend.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph13" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"We never had one argument, and that was because of Pat. He was a great broadcaster and a great man. He always had a joke. Pat never complained, and we never had an unhappy moment. He was something very special," Madden said. "Pat Summerall is the voice of football and always will be."</div></div>

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Physical Legacy of Bomb Blasts Could Be Cruel for Boston Marathon Victims - NYTimes.com

<base href="data:"><div style="color: black; text-align: left; "><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">BOSTON — So many patients arrived at once, with variations of the same gruesome leg injuries. Shattered bones, shredded tissue, nails burrowed deep beneath the flesh. The decision had to be made, over and over, with little time to deliberate. Should this leg be amputated? What about this one?</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">"As an orthopedic surgeon, we see patients like this, with mangled extremities, but we don't see 16 of them at the same time, and we don't see patients from blast injuries," Dr. Peter Burke, the trauma surgery chief at Boston Medical Center, said.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">The toll from the bombs Monday at the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/b/boston_marathon/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about the Boston Marathon." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Boston Marathon</a>, which killed at least three and injured more than 170, will long be felt by anyone involved with the city's iconic sporting event. For the victims, the physical legacy could be an especially cruel one for a group that was involved in the marathon: severe leg trauma and amputations.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">"What we like to do is before we take off someone's leg — it's extremely hard to make that decision — is we often get two surgeons to agree," Dr. Tracey Dechert, a trauma surgeon at Boston Medical, said. "Am I right here? This can't be saved. So that way you feel better and know that you didn't take off someone's leg that you didn't have to take. All rooms had multiple surgeons so everyone could feel like we're doing what we need to be doing."</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">The widespread leg trauma was a result of bombs that seemed to deliver their most vicious blows within two feet off the ground. In an instant, doctors at hospitals throughout the city who had been preparing for ordinary marathon troubles — <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/dehydration/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Dehydration." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">dehydration</a> or <a href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/injury/hypothermia/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="In-depth reference and news articles about Hypothermia." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">hypothermia</a> — now faced profound, life-changing decisions for runners and spectators of all ages.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Some victims arrived two to an ambulance, some with huge holes in their legs where skin and fat and muscle were ripped away by the bomb and with ball bearings or nails from the bombs embedded in their flesh. Others had severed arteries in their legs or multiple breaks in the bones of their legs and feet. The shock wave from the blast destroyed blood vessels, skin, muscle and fat. And at least nine patients — five at Boston Medical Center, three at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital and one at <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/b/brigham_and_womens_hospital/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about Brigham and Women's Hospital" class="meta-org" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Brigham and Women's Hospital</a> — had legs or feet so mangled they would need to be amputated.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Some of the attendant medical professionals, said Julie Dunbar, a chaplain at Beth Israel, were faced with "more trauma than most ever see in a lifetime, more sadness, more loss."</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">There were only three fatalities, which doctors say was because the blast, low to the ground, mostly injured people's legs and feet instead of their abdomens, chests or heads. And tourniquets stopped what could have been fatal bleeding in many.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Dr. Allan Panter, 57, an emergency-room physician from Gainesville, Ga., was standing 10 yards from the blast near the finish line, waiting for his wife, Theresa, to complete her 16th Boston Marathon. Assisted by others, he said he used gauze wraps to apply tourniquets to several victims, including a man who appeared to be in his late 20s who lost both of his lower legs in the blast. He said he saw another six or seven victims with belts tied around their wounded legs.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Tourniquets, once discouraged because they were thought to cause damage to injuries, have returned to favor and have been used to treat wounds inflicted by explosive devices in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Dr. Panter said.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">"With blast injuries to the lower extremities that we're getting in the Middle East, you bleed out," he said. Tourniquets "can help save lives. I don't know if they helped in this situation, but it sure couldn't hurt."</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">While there was some initial chaos in a medical tent near the finish line, and some screaming and moaning by victims, it was generally an orderly scene, Dr. Panter said. He assisted others in wheeling in a female victim who died, he said. He described 20 to 30 cots in the tent with IV bags that had been intended for dehydrated runners.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">At least eight doctors and what seemed to be 20 or more nurses were stationed in the tent. A man with a microphone stood in the center of the tent to coordinate medical care. Arriving victims were assessed and categorized as 1 for critical, 2 for intermediate, 3 for "can wait" and "black tag" for anyone who appeared to be dead, Dr. Panter said. An emergency medical technician outside the tent coordinated ambulance service to hospitals.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">"All in all, it was a pretty controlled environment," said Dr. Panter, who has been an emergency-room physician for 30 years. "I've seen a lot worse. They were without question ready — not ready for those type of injuries, but they were prepared."</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Once victims were transported to Boston's hospitals, doctors had to carefully coordinate their response. Each has a story of where they were when the bombs went off and how they rushed to help and how, in some cases, they somehow just missed being victims themselves.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Dr. Alok Gupta, who directed the surgical response at Beth Israel, said he often goes to the finish line of the marathon to watch the race. But this year he was so tired that he took a nap. Then he heard ambulance sirens and helicopters outside his home in Back Bay, near the marathon finish. He was just beginning to wonder why the sirens had not dissipated and why the helicopters were hovering when his cellphone rang.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">"The call was broken up," he said. "All I heard was 'mass casualty.' " And "we need you," he said.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">He was out of the house in less than a minute and at the hospital five minutes later. Then he and his colleagues set to work. They cleared the emergency room, sending home those who could leave and sending others to beds elsewhere in the building. They cleared intensive care, sending patients to other areas of the hospital. Dr. Gupta directed a central command.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">"Surgeons were notified, emergency-room physicians were notified, operating-room personnel were notified, everyone was notified," he said. Cellphone service in Boston had been limited to prevent terrorists from using cellphones to detonate any more bombs, so doctors, nurses and other medical professionals were contacted with text messages.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">About 10 minutes later, patients began to arrive. Each was put in a room and assessed. Doctors described the situation as calm and efficient.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Seven patients at Beth Israel went directly to the operating room for emergency surgery to stabilize them, stopping bleeding for example. Five went to intensive care. At Brigham and Women's Hospital, six patients went to the operating room and nine to intensive care.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">"I think a lot of these injuries are so devastating, it was pretty straightforward — they weren't going to be able to salvage these things," said Dr. Burke of Boston Medical Center. "We all would like to salvage whatever extremities we can, but one thing we've learned in trauma is when you get too much damage, you can create too much hassle, so you may get the amputation but it may be a year down the line. Ten operations, failed operations, addictions to narcotics for the chronic pains, all these kinds of things." An early amputation, Dr. Burke added, can mean a quicker return to a normal life.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Borrowing a tactic used by the military in Iraq, doctors at Beth Israel used felt markers to write patients' vital signs and injuries on their chests — safely away from the leg wounds — so that if a patient's chart was misplaced during a transfer to surgery or intensive care, for example, there would be no question about what was found in the emergency room.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Those who needed surgery would often need more than one operation on subsequent days. Those with huge blast wounds that ripped out skin and muscle would need <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/plasticsurgery/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="Recent and archival health news about plastic surgery." class="meta-classifier" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">plastic surgery</a>. Those with severed arteries would need surgery, too.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Most of the injured taken to Beth Israel were no older than 50, said Dr. Michael Yaffe, a trauma surgeon at the hospital. A few were runners, but most were spectators who had prime viewing positions near the finish line.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">At about 2 a.m. on Tuesday, the Beth Israel medical team left for home, to return again at 6. They examined each patient before they left and again when they returned. Often, in trauma, the doctors said, patients will not notice some of their injuries until the major injury is taken care of.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">The Boston Marathon is so special, a day to celebrate athleticism and the thrill of the sport. For those runners who trained for months and now can be facing months or years or rehabilitation, and the end of their running days, the bombs took away "the thing they loved," Dr. Yaffe said.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">In the moments after the explosions, some patients recalled that they "thought they would die as they saw the blood spilling out," said Dr. George Velmahos, chief of trauma services at <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/m/massachusetts_general_hospital/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about Massachusetts General Hospital" class="meta-org" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Massachusetts General Hospital</a>. When they awoke Tuesday and realized they were still alive, they said they felt extremely thankful, some even considering themselves lucky, Dr. Velmahos said.</font></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'"> "It's almost a paradox," he said, "to see these patients without an extremity to wake up and feel lucky."</font></p></div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/us/physical-legacy-of-bomb-blasts-could-be-cruel-for-boston-marathon-victims.html?&pagewanted=print"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/us/physical-legacy-of-bomb-blasts-could-be-cruel-for-boston-marathon-victims.html?&pagewanted=print</font></a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

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party at my table

There is a party mood happening today because I've got tablescapes on the brain people. I'm styling a table for a local charity event this evening and then I'm hosting a big party at my house in June, so Pinterest and I have been chatting of nothing but linens, flowers, napkins and silverware. (forks on the left...i always forget)<br /><br />So I thought I would share some pretty inspiration pics with you. Because I don't know about you, but I enjoy a good looking table when I sit down to my catered dinner.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC2EW3C-lVq7z8QMZtKePH33nw0Kxatz649a6jOpmhFKp6PzyKGGQf3P6SVHLsLGbMKZmPvbR4_QVSkThsWU-uRjm0e4V1ywDxZz-0t3mbj0w1qawqlnmz4q-jRrXn3qi_VjNLPWKrMKas/s1600/50d905a8b0219ce3155111de62ee8ec7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC2EW3C-lVq7z8QMZtKePH33nw0Kxatz649a6jOpmhFKp6PzyKGGQf3P6SVHLsLGbMKZmPvbR4_QVSkThsWU-uRjm0e4V1ywDxZz-0t3mbj0w1qawqlnmz4q-jRrXn3qi_VjNLPWKrMKas/s400/50d905a8b0219ce3155111de62ee8ec7.jpg" width="292" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://erineverafter.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">source</a> via <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/6896205651825251/" target="_blank">pinterest</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1L0Vn0ySJUo1XgUvVMRchf2M1f0WQij6GbF_KtUOTRQ7aME49VU4jtDwX9RVRgitAljLLvACr21u44tYACLBLijeJtSltAYAb5BF7kFDe8NpCGXkwfVsyeyBRQeXZl0Jlpg9kOkaJ9Svm/s1600/9d496fe5fbc5a0d4b696d2dde3d69d4c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1L0Vn0ySJUo1XgUvVMRchf2M1f0WQij6GbF_KtUOTRQ7aME49VU4jtDwX9RVRgitAljLLvACr21u44tYACLBLijeJtSltAYAb5BF7kFDe8NpCGXkwfVsyeyBRQeXZl0Jlpg9kOkaJ9Svm/s400/9d496fe5fbc5a0d4b696d2dde3d69d4c.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://ruffledblog.com/blue-dress-barn-michigan-wedding/" target="_blank">source</a> via <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/6896205651825238/" target="_blank">pinterest</a></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCBpmPuwGpViJlCYZRHZ2zEWai_FiDOxd85MXpOw5UXMkPrCp26mosC4Lvj_OjHLFD86lRSCu6-oqCujf27CiA90bmY9nNxTfFU7cWdNIgdBKFi_-j10N8DOtOPGOZXHGNo4oAQsy3F2cW/s1600/thecreamevent-nyc-mossandisaac-221.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCBpmPuwGpViJlCYZRHZ2zEWai_FiDOxd85MXpOw5UXMkPrCp26mosC4Lvj_OjHLFD86lRSCu6-oqCujf27CiA90bmY9nNxTfFU7cWdNIgdBKFi_-j10N8DOtOPGOZXHGNo4oAQsy3F2cW/s400/thecreamevent-nyc-mossandisaac-221.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://ruffledblog.com/the-cream-event-nyc-2/" target="_blank">source</a> via <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/6896205651825210/" target="_blank">pinterest</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie5FRv6-AVf966lFHEuqz9PCMbOXwniTqWFFbzUg45S-M9gjS6eE_ueLrR160G43gEjLK1nNYxYsJqEzT3BGvPDSqMYcf6TYFHeoOXKrdQ-iwX9QcnRmxjO8V126xMbtIpMXWgP0hGAI51/s1600/c2b7976250c6abbcdfac694714048ace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie5FRv6-AVf966lFHEuqz9PCMbOXwniTqWFFbzUg45S-M9gjS6eE_ueLrR160G43gEjLK1nNYxYsJqEzT3BGvPDSqMYcf6TYFHeoOXKrdQ-iwX9QcnRmxjO8V126xMbtIpMXWgP0hGAI51/s400/c2b7976250c6abbcdfac694714048ace.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.isuwannee.com/2012/11/a-fabulously-furbish-thanksgiving-table.html" target="_blank">source</a> via <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/6896205651825206/" target="_blank">pinterest</a></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9cC95zXKetCpzEujgrNBfrk3il8J2PNEhc9rHGKp1XtT2HcbuhBXFQ7fHmVfp3GgL3bT0ev_9S5BdHtMSo2gYMWSyaj4TGLXJjGotdn1j0CjbeldYaDfpBTjQijioVoVLayiwoSsHdYFN/s1600/1cffcba2a1c969f6cf663a74aaade3e7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9cC95zXKetCpzEujgrNBfrk3il8J2PNEhc9rHGKp1XtT2HcbuhBXFQ7fHmVfp3GgL3bT0ev_9S5BdHtMSo2gYMWSyaj4TGLXJjGotdn1j0CjbeldYaDfpBTjQijioVoVLayiwoSsHdYFN/s400/1cffcba2a1c969f6cf663a74aaade3e7.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.stylemepretty.com/gallery/tag/place-settings/picture/863339/" target="_blank">source</a> via <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/6896205651798454/" target="_blank">pinterest</a></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5UyhXbmpnjuIG0f3HlUbD6-VB8ZWaELxNmCgLVv1IDyivK7i0GiDu8y2NkgJrxkYjdV-JuknahuNqZAsji5udvXvChsdcX39TzcAHxTGO6AlTtdoyhPIf0Qti_E486vqxQTKHN-zXIEdC/s1600/04fdeb24a5308102ee9295915ea1b97a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5UyhXbmpnjuIG0f3HlUbD6-VB8ZWaELxNmCgLVv1IDyivK7i0GiDu8y2NkgJrxkYjdV-JuknahuNqZAsji5udvXvChsdcX39TzcAHxTGO6AlTtdoyhPIf0Qti_E486vqxQTKHN-zXIEdC/s400/04fdeb24a5308102ee9295915ea1b97a.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://vivafullhouse.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">source</a> via <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/6896205650685166/" target="_blank">pinterest</a></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNI9TLbdwl1IPWl0Pn_mCslHm3tIkOBMSzcmGwbNhi-Bpz0Mo6c7YyREFtXsyWnamX4Th_3yXTjWzeyyxAON-cSuxsoFcFoY_r8FXEd1gw8R7nsZ48UfAHQQmSAKZR7jh_WZ9maVBFNLOl/s1600/2d0f49e7e1d75c6180fe8af5148a6faf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNI9TLbdwl1IPWl0Pn_mCslHm3tIkOBMSzcmGwbNhi-Bpz0Mo6c7YyREFtXsyWnamX4Th_3yXTjWzeyyxAON-cSuxsoFcFoY_r8FXEd1gw8R7nsZ48UfAHQQmSAKZR7jh_WZ9maVBFNLOl/s400/2d0f49e7e1d75c6180fe8af5148a6faf.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nellhillsblog.com/?p=2575" target="_blank">source</a> via <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/6896205650567044/" target="_blank">pinterest</a></td></tr></tbody></table>I'll be sure to share pictures from tonight's event sometime next week.<br /><br />So what do you think? Does it get you in the mood to have a party? If you do, can I come? I am full of sparkling conversation.<br /><br />And btw, don't forget to sign up for the great <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/04/indie-mats-giveaway.html" target="_blank">Indie Mats Giveaway</a>! You only have until Monday.

party at my table

There is a party mood happening today because I've got tablescapes on the brain people. I'm styling a table for a local charity even...

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Twilight - sweet spot for snaps

Yesterday evening while Amy and I were in Dillingers, Ciaran and Declan were working hard taking photos of the back of the house as the sun went down. <br /><br />These are just iPhone photos of what they were photographing - the proper results will be used on their website www.odkmarchitects.com <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOKdGq5ycmN1RT5PhBazEvfdo1X6KOk4K9zwamRdnXMJ8UBkwd4XE3hDzZrAs9Nr2uXr8ce6ataFQJ3h4fjA0CI0ZTQBjgUV2-4gO77oRYk6J3RboceuIs2VTeFGA8VWCB9VhgUp5x3zWH/s640/blogger-image-720645652.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOKdGq5ycmN1RT5PhBazEvfdo1X6KOk4K9zwamRdnXMJ8UBkwd4XE3hDzZrAs9Nr2uXr8ce6ataFQJ3h4fjA0CI0ZTQBjgUV2-4gO77oRYk6J3RboceuIs2VTeFGA8VWCB9VhgUp5x3zWH/s640/blogger-image-720645652.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYx75ZAlSdrT9ZxyiXReQm7FFEfv0K0KS7IpBdsWK-o6s_Vz_G59OM3S-jmt4jmG6d6_1nEirHoEHU-dpRJq2E5njHHD2SwPPVsz3XRPbH58DzgBSlDkJXecKQJ6sHT60BQO6GSJ4Mke1N/s640/blogger-image-514961206.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYx75ZAlSdrT9ZxyiXReQm7FFEfv0K0KS7IpBdsWK-o6s_Vz_G59OM3S-jmt4jmG6d6_1nEirHoEHU-dpRJq2E5njHHD2SwPPVsz3XRPbH58DzgBSlDkJXecKQJ6sHT60BQO6GSJ4Mke1N/s640/blogger-image-514961206.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK9VMdun0FbfYplGEV8_6rwlKL9vI1304s5RipZxgRMIqTeeBnK9pWrcgpBIoJKGa-v3G9rSFcjTp0uKShu5GXY7hK8uVGNB9kpcs0kuw7Z1mmS0xMbwvR8L4OgCmGFB-xz2wV5D9WQPLV/s640/blogger-image--134224042.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK9VMdun0FbfYplGEV8_6rwlKL9vI1304s5RipZxgRMIqTeeBnK9pWrcgpBIoJKGa-v3G9rSFcjTp0uKShu5GXY7hK8uVGNB9kpcs0kuw7Z1mmS0xMbwvR8L4OgCmGFB-xz2wV5D9WQPLV/s640/blogger-image--134224042.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmaMN-6m0PGdg7s2k-xcwbSNQhsuuYKRHPuE936n1gtiuh8HvcSy76ZvvykkkeMk5pH2NYdrqKTptjAST6-qrqCXRv2FKzxBrG4jNxxYqh8a9x69zAvJEDqw3mQgRJ0JcqCvq1S7CkZYfQ/s640/blogger-image-1166047741.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmaMN-6m0PGdg7s2k-xcwbSNQhsuuYKRHPuE936n1gtiuh8HvcSy76ZvvykkkeMk5pH2NYdrqKTptjAST6-qrqCXRv2FKzxBrG4jNxxYqh8a9x69zAvJEDqw3mQgRJ0JcqCvq1S7CkZYfQ/s640/blogger-image-1166047741.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtqcR-Q_bObYJpKlbkYyZhwEDsQGka1qlTGire5qkXyoHA8D39S3-9eQfBUEBjmtId_PzfwjgUE8czerxi5ZqfXD3p3aoCIuQynPoSQXS9jhtH3o0JiFP_sZyNFJ7imgvcnYZZ5KwfrqRz/s640/blogger-image--930035718.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtqcR-Q_bObYJpKlbkYyZhwEDsQGka1qlTGire5qkXyoHA8D39S3-9eQfBUEBjmtId_PzfwjgUE8czerxi5ZqfXD3p3aoCIuQynPoSQXS9jhtH3o0JiFP_sZyNFJ7imgvcnYZZ5KwfrqRz/s640/blogger-image--930035718.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRvoqT54xCHS_zLhNmld5n2XmLf7w8YPpOq_wcVrkMhCdNv4C74lGlHlTzYc2a1YMFhpTpx2HVop_AlkqnssUsBjnTIcn61gOoYe7UMyyIdaw_ZOksFI4GNcbwSO6Jw-SvsX1YrZL38q2y/s640/blogger-image--1127159307.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRvoqT54xCHS_zLhNmld5n2XmLf7w8YPpOq_wcVrkMhCdNv4C74lGlHlTzYc2a1YMFhpTpx2HVop_AlkqnssUsBjnTIcn61gOoYe7UMyyIdaw_ZOksFI4GNcbwSO6Jw-SvsX1YrZL38q2y/s640/blogger-image--1127159307.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqqDEEerVOZB1MdFX2-C9k9JQHZDiKdg3NgwwJuqU2tRWv9rEHJKh808JW5k4BxdhyZFQqHJm0QwqC8Qaj9WHgf6IQlH8eHzznCycB4QjaLmY_fSl2jv_YoAxRjsTsZeNHQL2HjBzIIkmy/s640/blogger-image--376755084.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqqDEEerVOZB1MdFX2-C9k9JQHZDiKdg3NgwwJuqU2tRWv9rEHJKh808JW5k4BxdhyZFQqHJm0QwqC8Qaj9WHgf6IQlH8eHzznCycB4QjaLmY_fSl2jv_YoAxRjsTsZeNHQL2HjBzIIkmy/s640/blogger-image--376755084.jpg" /></a></div>

Twilight - sweet spot for snaps

Yesterday evening while Amy and I were in Dillingers, Ciaran and Declan were working hard taking photos of the back of the house as the sun ...

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Hump day

Once Wednesday is through I am over the hump and closer to the weekend. Yesterday evening was bright and beautiful, today it is grey and overcast - that's Irish weather for you.<br /><br />We were up and out early this morning as we had the plumber doing work in the house. We walked up to Coffee Society for a cuppa together. Bones sat outside and waited patiently for us.<br /><br />Ciaran then went off to work. I don't start work until the afternoon so I am now in Starbucks doing some work. <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT4RWNeHIpEe6NLM6QwVhvupzcRL-jWtXkY5w6_13nxHP0D_P0eiYIPhI9xdlkArSh40BCFeZLCJMxbiYbTy87TkFLZFIyXkZ2WJEoT3twgT8KWaSApcyt40jp1NpdP92PJg7YyRIucYyH/s640/blogger-image-441223571.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT4RWNeHIpEe6NLM6QwVhvupzcRL-jWtXkY5w6_13nxHP0D_P0eiYIPhI9xdlkArSh40BCFeZLCJMxbiYbTy87TkFLZFIyXkZ2WJEoT3twgT8KWaSApcyt40jp1NpdP92PJg7YyRIucYyH/s640/blogger-image-441223571.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo9sS_ROPPB7E1mQiHvMW9KXXkn_pJK34VsNd70ZLpiOriqPzRta3lwJdLxU-1plOIR0t7PyD-HY21UNew2NtxWeo4HlT13_3qjpx0_qEUq3CrP8ZUgJfJr9vU4xXJdptWgHTHj1-x_vJU/s640/blogger-image-358536827.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo9sS_ROPPB7E1mQiHvMW9KXXkn_pJK34VsNd70ZLpiOriqPzRta3lwJdLxU-1plOIR0t7PyD-HY21UNew2NtxWeo4HlT13_3qjpx0_qEUq3CrP8ZUgJfJr9vU4xXJdptWgHTHj1-x_vJU/s640/blogger-image-358536827.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGwq17ZSUJFbycUU1Klvz2MRt1yAkUisrqupSvaJ8-WuYcKSa1CrED8-2IO5TUAsPDYEUk_D7MYzy6BbJfulfC1YKZV2buW_yb6scCGYysFKTeXfyK-8FlZ3Gj9v4KzXuOGt7a4L4IjncV/s640/blogger-image-1911969318.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGwq17ZSUJFbycUU1Klvz2MRt1yAkUisrqupSvaJ8-WuYcKSa1CrED8-2IO5TUAsPDYEUk_D7MYzy6BbJfulfC1YKZV2buW_yb6scCGYysFKTeXfyK-8FlZ3Gj9v4KzXuOGt7a4L4IjncV/s640/blogger-image-1911969318.jpg" /></a></div>

Hump day

Once Wednesday is through I am over the hump and closer to the weekend. Yesterday evening was bright and beautiful, today it is grey and ove...

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Dillingers remodel

Dillingers reopened on Monday night in Ranelagh. It has a complete redesign and looks very different to the old restaurant. It has a very cool diner feel to it. We sat at the large green bar and ordered a small plate of beef short rib chilli and Mac & cheese. Both were gorgeous.<br /><br />The menu choices have an American feel to them, I don't think I have ever seen corn bread in Ireland - and it had real corn in it!!<br /><br />The barman was working in front of us and he was making great old fashioned cocktails - strong on alcohol, light on mixer and no fluffy or creamy additions.<br /><br />I will be back - maybe this weekend with my husband! ;-)<br /><br />I will have to make a reservation though. My sister and I were lucky to get seated last night (Tuesday!) without a reservation and we were advised that our seats were needed back at 9pm. <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoC43lkDzG8SgyApR4ZCoq-ugMatKNz75DsUOsyw3MHa85RHdaBSmhZRD7q4T7RX2RuOBfoixFiSA_rYugu7tgfCIDe-5lqUR1nXeY_AQbn1-ubiCtEEo-hg7LWeLR6dAZ0Q3POLMExx4I/s640/blogger-image-718374910.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoC43lkDzG8SgyApR4ZCoq-ugMatKNz75DsUOsyw3MHa85RHdaBSmhZRD7q4T7RX2RuOBfoixFiSA_rYugu7tgfCIDe-5lqUR1nXeY_AQbn1-ubiCtEEo-hg7LWeLR6dAZ0Q3POLMExx4I/s640/blogger-image-718374910.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbW8rtZEhAHw6txLboPDoAmUib7o8OpiA2XzAnDYR1j7LU2hi8HSHnepv8sqKJMLVLT6cyKoGMSqnSF1GuoqB7dvQLIPSwH9fusC7DMEC1AiHdi4l81-Az8hUSsexdXUZBo0xr4toJ61oP/s640/blogger-image-683367209.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbW8rtZEhAHw6txLboPDoAmUib7o8OpiA2XzAnDYR1j7LU2hi8HSHnepv8sqKJMLVLT6cyKoGMSqnSF1GuoqB7dvQLIPSwH9fusC7DMEC1AiHdi4l81-Az8hUSsexdXUZBo0xr4toJ61oP/s640/blogger-image-683367209.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8cCVlI-S8iv49L3I0F0Nv6wJTFUHUKIH-eXajREz2O7VmiNMmW_8jkSHh4OxdJXJxvIN2okU9-vdIvcTiizqHmU8AArLxna0ToaP6WuFSKSglAwn0YbAKJb8gPzBrSoMJOQfX36gbsooH/s640/blogger-image--316512413.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8cCVlI-S8iv49L3I0F0Nv6wJTFUHUKIH-eXajREz2O7VmiNMmW_8jkSHh4OxdJXJxvIN2okU9-vdIvcTiizqHmU8AArLxna0ToaP6WuFSKSglAwn0YbAKJb8gPzBrSoMJOQfX36gbsooH/s640/blogger-image--316512413.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNqOUyfAetjPaT-B45YEWhTevS4upIhjDnJQhZzlVYQNqtQrNL5FUCSMMZd7lc5BZ0WZNU-2nh9gV-H5gl3A7CcjFxGosq4K1jLnvFO3z03v-IgXC1crNjNM4F8ERCe4CK-J-qUE7Xo1mQ/s640/blogger-image--1734837788.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNqOUyfAetjPaT-B45YEWhTevS4upIhjDnJQhZzlVYQNqtQrNL5FUCSMMZd7lc5BZ0WZNU-2nh9gV-H5gl3A7CcjFxGosq4K1jLnvFO3z03v-IgXC1crNjNM4F8ERCe4CK-J-qUE7Xo1mQ/s640/blogger-image--1734837788.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4APzQJwcyVAtCfyt3zhm8qR7yxl5LI1ere4SYif2qCUvEsgXheTS8FJagH8AU3yBrOWmFBSenW1NxWKo5AvmjHvJh0GgzrXtOx04t0BzsCHGwMj7rKlOr2IzBjxkbnx6czbSnftJEyRbO/s640/blogger-image--382224515.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4APzQJwcyVAtCfyt3zhm8qR7yxl5LI1ere4SYif2qCUvEsgXheTS8FJagH8AU3yBrOWmFBSenW1NxWKo5AvmjHvJh0GgzrXtOx04t0BzsCHGwMj7rKlOr2IzBjxkbnx6czbSnftJEyRbO/s640/blogger-image--382224515.jpg" /></a></div>

Dillingers remodel

Dillingers reopened on Monday night in Ranelagh. It has a complete redesign and looks very different to the old restaurant. It has a very ...

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Envelope tests positive for ricin at Washington mail facility

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" height="234" id="ep_672" width="416"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="movie" value="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_embed_2x_container.swf?site=cnn&profile=desktop&context=embed&videoId=us/2013/04/17/piers-bash-ricin-letter-latest.cnn&contentId=us/2013/04/17/piers-bash-ricin-letter-latest.cnn" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /><embed src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_embed_2x_container.swf?site=cnn&profile=desktop&context=embed&videoId=us/2013/04/17/piers-bash-ricin-letter-latest.cnn&contentId=us/2013/04/17/piers-bash-ricin-letter-latest.cnn" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="416" wmode="transparent" height="234"></embed></object><br /><div class="cnn_strylftcntnt" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: left; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="cnn_strylctcntr" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 166px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">STORY HIGHLIGHTS</strong></div><ul class="cnn_bulletbin cnnStryHghLght" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 9px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/global/red_bull.gif); background-position: 0px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">Laboratory tests confirmed the presence of ricin, Senate official says</li><li style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/global/red_bull.gif); background-position: 0px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">The letter had a Memphis, Tennessee, postmark and no return address</li><li style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/global/red_bull.gif); background-position: 0px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">It was addressed to Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi</li><li style="background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/global/red_bull.gif); background-position: 0px 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px 7px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ricin is a highly toxic substance derived from castor beans</li></ul></div></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Washington (CNN)</strong> -- An envelope that tested positive for the deadly poison ricin was intercepted Tuesday afternoon at the U.S. Capitol's off-site mail facility in Washington, congressional and law enforcement sources tell CNN.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph2" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he was told the letter was addressed to the office of Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi. A laboratory in Maryland confirmed the presence of ricin after initial field tests indicated the poison was present, according to Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Terrance Gainer.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph3" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, the FBI said additional testing is needed as field and preliminary tests produce inconsistent results.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph4" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Only a full analysis performed at an accredited laboratory can determine the presence of a biological agent such as ricin," according to the bureau. "Those tests are in the process of being conducted and generally take from 24 to 48 hours."</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph5" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">In a statement late Tuesday, the U.S. Capitol Police said more tests would be conducted at the Army's biomedical research laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph6" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">The letter had a Memphis, Tennessee, postmark and no return address, Gainer wrote in an e-mail to senators and aides.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph7" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sen. Claire McCaskill told reporters after a briefing for lawmakers that a suspect has already been identified in the incident, but a knowledgeable source said no one was in custody Tuesday night.</div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8896966065785019252" name="em1" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br /><div class="cnn_strylftcntnt cnn_strylftcexpbx" id="expand18" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: left; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 27px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="clickToPlay" id="clickToPlayvideoContainerexpand18" style="background-image: url(http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.e/img/3.0/video/416_player_Click_to_play_off.png); border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 42px; left: 45px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 27px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 136px; zoom: 1;"></div><img alt="" border="0" class="box-image" height="120" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130416185607-tsr-bash-suspicious-letter-sent-to-senate-office-00022225-story-body.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="214" /><cite class="expCaption" style="background-color: black; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; bottom: 0px; height: 20px; left: 10px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.85; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 214px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: white; display: block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; left: 4px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 2px; vertical-align: baseline;">Letter laced with ricin sent to Senate</span></cite></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph8" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wicker, the junior senator from Mississippi, has been assigned a protective detail, according to a law enforcement source.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph9" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/16/health/what-is-ricin/index.html" style="border: 0px; color: #004276; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A primer on ricin</a></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph10" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Postal workers started handling mail at a site off Capitol Hill after the 2001 anthrax attacks that targeted then-Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, among others. Senators were told the post office would be temporarily shut down "to make sure they get everything squared away," McCaskill, D-Missouri, said Tuesday afternoon.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph11" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">"The bottom line is, the process we have in place worked," she said. Members will be warning their home-state offices to look out for similar letters, she added.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph12" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">A previous ricin scare hit the Capitol in 2004, when tests identified a letter in a Senate mailroom that served then-Majority Leader Bill Frist's office. The discovery forced 16 employees to go through decontamination procedures, but no one reported any ill effects afterward, Frist said.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph13" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ricin is a highly toxic substance derived from castor beans. As little as 500 micrograms -- an amount the size of the head of a pin -- can kill an adult. There is no specific test for exposure and no antidote once exposed.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph14" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">It can be produced easily and cheaply, and authorities in several countries have investigated links between suspect extremists and ricin. But experts say it is more effective on individuals than as a weapon of mass destruction.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph15" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ricin was used in the 1978 assassination of Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov. The author, who had defected nine years earlier, was jabbed by the tip of an umbrella while waiting for a bus in London and died four days later.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph16" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wicker, 61, was first appointed by former Republican Gov. Haley Barbour to the U.S. Senate in December 2007 after the resignation of then-Sen. Trent Lott. He was then elected to the seat in 2008 and won re-election in 2012 to a second term.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph17" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Before joining the Senate, he was a U.S. representative in the House from 1995 to 2007. Before that, he served in the Mississippi Senate.</div></div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><br /><div class="float_left" style="border: none; float: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div id="potd_block" style="border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="big_photo" itemprop="photo" style="border: none; float: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px 20px 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Mental Health Boston Explosion" class="pinit" height="190" id="img_caption_3095183" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1090263/thumbs/s-MENTAL-HEALTH-BOSTON-EXPLOSION-large.jpg?15" style="border: none; height: auto; list-style: none; margin: 1px; max-width: inherit !important; padding: 0px;" width="260" /><div class="caption" style="border: none; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 0px 7px; max-width: 260px; padding: 0px; width: 260px;">A woman kneels and prays at the scene of the first explosion on Boylston Street near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15.</div></div></div></div><div class="articleBody" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="border: none; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">The morning after the deadly Boston Marathon explosions, Joyce Maguire Pavao called local hospitals and the Red Cross, rushing to find victims.</div><div style="border: none; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">Family and friends who had been near the attack were unscathed, but Pavao, a psychologist who usually works in child welfare, was looking for something else: people who needed help recovering from trauma.</div><div style="border: none; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">"It's like an experience in an war zone, a bomb on a sidewalk," said Pavao. "It's traumatic for the people that were involved, for those hurt, for those who saw them get hurt, for the people that helped afterwards."</div><div style="border: none; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">After two bombs packed with pellets exploded near the finish line of the city's marathon Monday, killing three people and injuring more than 170, the recovery continues. The streets are being cleaned of debris, hospitals are tending to victims with burns and severed limbs, and law authorities are investigating a terrorist act. But as Boston slowly returns to normal, people like Pavao are tending to an often less visible effect of disaster: post-traumatic stress disorder and mental health issues that can emerge in weeks, months and years after the trauma.</div><div style="border: none; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">"There is so much we know about PTSD these days, and there are so many instances in our world that are traumatic. If we acknowledge them and find the best way to address them, we can save people from having residual, difficult problems," said Pavao. "Horrible images are ingrained in people's minds, and there will be memories and triggers. But you can manage them better if you have assistance, if you have someone to talk to."</div><div style="border: none; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">Across Boston, trauma counselors, disaster chaplains and mental health professionals were dispatched to hospitals, churches and recovery resource centers to help those who are spiritually and emotionally drained, and in shock.</div><div style="border: none; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">Not far from the blast sites is the Park Plaza Castle, a historic Victorian building that's become a makeshift resource center for victims, where Boston officials are offering shelter to displaced residents and information on counseling. In New York and across several states, the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has a 24-hour, toll-free "<a href="http://www.disasterdistress.samhsa.gov/" style="border: none; color: #6aa3b1; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">disaster distress helpline</a>" (1-800-985-5990). Though it had only logged a few dozen calls since Monday, volume had doubled by Tuesday, officials said.</div><div class="ad_wrapper" id="ad_mid_article" style="border: none; float: left; list-style: none; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 300px;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="250" hspace="0" id="adsonar_serve786435" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="adsonar_serve786435" scrolling="no" src="http://ads.tw.adsonar.com/adserving/getAds.jsp?previousPlacementIds=&placementId=1519975&pid=2301767&ps=-1&zw=300&zh=250&url=http%3A//www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/mental-health-post-traumatic-stress-boston-explosion_n_3095183.html&v=5&dct=Mental%20Health%2C%20Post-Traumatic%20Stress%20Disorder%20Become%20Concerns%20After%20Boston%20Marathon%20Explosion&ref=http%3A//www.google.com/trends/hottrends&metakw=mental,health,,post-traumatic,stress,disorder,become,concerns,after,boston,marathon,explosion" style="border-style: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" vspace="0" width="300"></iframe></div><div style="border: none; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">"Trauma is a completely natural response to an unnatural event, and most people are resilient," said Lloyd Sederer, medical director of the New York State Office of Mental Health. "But you need to help people understand what happened, that these are predictable symptoms and that there are ways to take care of yourself."</div><div style="border: none; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">Sederer, who administered mental health programs in New York City after Sept. 11 and is currently organizing similar resources for Hurricane Sandy victims, said many witnesses to the Boston attack may have trauma symptoms in the days and possibly weeks after the bombings, including a general sense of fear, mental replays of the experience and nightmares. But he cautioned that a minority could develop longer-lasting PTSD and related symptoms, such sudden debilitating flashbacks, anxiety, social isolation and drug and alcohol abuse.</div><div style="border: none; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">"The (physically) closer you are to the experience, the more it is potentially life-threatening to you or the closer you get to witnessing a life-threatening or deadly event, the more likely you will remember it indelibly," he said. "The most important resources are your own family and community. It helps to talk to someone to understand what you have gone through."</div><div style="border: none; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">That's one of the reasons for the disaster distress hotline, said Anne Mathews-Younes, who directs mental health services for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The administration, which also runs National Suicide Prevention Hotline, first launched the disaster line during the BP oil spill. It's been manned continuously since then, but has seen a spike since Monday.</div><div style="border: none; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">"We know from experience with Hurricane Katrina that sometimes we don't immediately experience our stress or distress. Sometimes it has taken people up to two years to realize they are not feeling or acting like themselves," said Mathews-Younes. "It can be a simple as people lacking energy or not sleeping enough. We train people to give reassurance."</div><div style="border: none; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">Experts said isolation is one of the worst things for those who have experienced the tragedy. They point to the candlelight vigils and prayer gatherings in the Boston region throughout the week as immediate, organized ways to cope.</div><div style="border: none; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">Boston resident Charlotte Robinson, whose family left the marathon uninjured, described herself as "dazed" by the attack and planned to mourn at a memorial service at the Israeli consulate Tuesday evening. After she saw dozens of ambulances rush by her home in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood to aid victims on Monday, Robinson said she felt as though she was in a "horrible nightmare." But recounting the experience with her partner, Marilyn, has helped her process it, she said, and she's looking forward to reflecting with other residents.</div><div style="border: none; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">"It's a somber time and it's tough to see your city like this," she said, "but it feels better if we come together."</div><div class="promo_holder clearfix" style="border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"><div class="fmvps-wrapper" id="SmartPlayer_0" style="border: none; float: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div id="adaptvDiv0" style="border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><object data="http://cfiles.5min.com/FlexPlayers/SmartPlayer_217.swf" height="411" id="FiveMinPlayer378125371613477" name="FiveMinPlayer378125371613477" style="border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="570"></object></div><div id="tacodaTrack_0" style="border: none; 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