I’m a twenty-something university grad living in the Bay Area with hopes of returning to the world of academia for Japanese, linguistics, or East Asian Studies.
My obsessive-compulsions include stopping the microwave only when the time remaining is divisible by five and reading the fine print on commercials.
My first sip of tea was out of my baby bottle. I make one of the best cuppas you’ll ever taste.
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Kasey and Heidi, a Shiba Inu and Dachshund are missing from Sandusky, Ohio. They escaped from their owners backyard on January 20th. The windstorm the night before had knocked down part of the fence and they went on a adventure.
The owner created this facebook page in hopes of finding her beautiful fur-babies. If you have any information please contact her at Myerschristine
Signal boost. The town is about two-and-a-half hours north of Columbus, one hour east of Toledo, and one hour west of Cleveland.
17 yo runaway who is planning on heading to either Bisbee (outside of Tucson, AZ), Arcata (outside of LA), or Humboldt (about 4-5 hours north of SF). Dad just wants to know she’s safe. Legit report/video.This is so sad.
When Laci Peterson went missing, the world seemed to stop. The 7 and a half months missing pregnant woman became a household name everywhere, grabbing the hearts of Americans. “Who would take a pregnant woman!” was probably the thought that was on the minds of men and women alike.
But despite the ongoing and national attention she received, her case was under fire when Latoyia Figueroa, another missing pregnant woman, went missing a few years later. The subject was “media bias in the reporting of missing women” and it was causing uproar across the nation. Figueroa, who was Hispanic and black, did not receive nearly the amount of attention that Peterson did, despite the similarities in their cases.
On a CNN segment, Brooke Anderson asked the question: “Why do stories like Natalee Holloway, like Laci Peterson, like Chandra Levy get so up attention? Could it be in part because they`re white? Would the media have been so obsessed if they had been black women?”
To this day, no one seem to know the answer to that question. Some say racism. Some say it’s a social and economic problem. Others say that it’s just plain foolishness. Whatever the case is, there’s another missing pregnant woman, and she needs your help.
More than two weeks ago, 5 months pregnant woman Cheri Dawson went missing from Auburn, Alabama. She left behind a 7 year old son and her car was found burned to the metal just one day after she was reported missing.
Family members described Cheri, who is also a member of the Army Reserve, as a mom who would never go one day without calling her son.
“He’s having a very rough time. He’s having a very rough time. He’s cried a lot. He’s asking for her. He’s missing her a lot,” said Charlotte Barnes (Cheri’s aunt) describing how Dawson’s son is coping.
Barnes says her niece is a hard worker and has served in the Army with one deployment to Afghanistan.
“Please, for her son’s sake, for her grandparents on both sides sake, for her aunts and uncles on both sides. Please just help us have closure,” said Barnes.
Cheri is described as a black female, about 5’4, 140 pounds, with dark hair and hazel eyes.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Dawson is asked to call the Auburn Police Division at (334) 501-3140 or leave a tip anonymously at (334) 246-1391.
Black women and women under age 20 were at highest risk of being murdered during or after pregnancy, according to a study done by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Black women had a maternal homicide risk about seven times that of white women, and black women ages 25 to 29 are about 11 times as likely as white women in that age group to be killed when pregnant or in the year following childbirth. [Source]
It may be too late for Cheri. Please share Cheri’s story if you can. To this date, Google News only shows two stories on Cheri. The last known article on her was written four days ago. Cheri needs your help. Someone knows something, and her case will turn cold if no new leads turn up. So please share, retweet or blog on this issue.
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AMBER ALERT: NORTH CAROLINA: WILLIAM MCQUAIN A 11 YEAR BOY IS STILL MISSING - HIS MOTHER WAS MURDERED BY HER BOYFRIEND WHO THEN ABDUCTED WILLIAM. PLEASE CALL 240-773-5070 IF YOU KNOW ANY INFORMATION OR THE WHEREABOUTS OF WILLIAM.
TV stations in North Carolina are reporting that the father of a missing 11 year old boy has been arrested in North Carolina. Cops still do not know where the 6th grader is at this hour! Cops say the dad is a suspect in the murder of 51-year-old Jane McQuain and the disappearance of her son William McQuain.
Montgomery County police spokesman Officer Rebecca Innocenti says cops have found the slain mother’s car but won’t reveal where the vehicle was recovered Thursday since the boy remains missing and the investigation is active.
Cops say they found Jane McQuain dead in her bedroom in Germantown around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. Investigators say there was trauma to her body.
Meanwhile, Maryland State Police have issued an Amber Alert for McQuain’s 11-year-old son William. Authorities say he was last seen at the home on Sept. 30. Police believe he was abducted. Capt. Paul Starks, a police spokesman, says detectives are interviewing people close to McQuain but he had no information about any possible motives or suspects in her death.
Police say McQuain’s car is also missing. It’s described as a 2011 black Honda CRV with Maryland tags 5AG9405. William is 5’0″ tall, weighs 85 pounds. William has brown hair and brown eyes Call 240-773-5070
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this is all over the news, so sad.
Reblogging to get this out there. I hope he is found alive and well.
I have a ton of followers in North and South Carolina. Let’s try and get this around, guys.
It looks like you can hop onto 95 or 85 [North/South] heading west away from Germanville, so even if you’re in a neighboring state [to NC] please reblog.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt1ygbGtFT1qegt3yo1_400.png)
AMBER ALERT: NORTH CAROLINA: WILLIAM MCQUAIN A 11 YEAR BOY IS STILL MISSING - HIS MOTHER WAS MURDERED BY HER BOYFRIEND WHO THEN ABDUCTED WILLIAM. PLEASE CALL 240-773-5070 IF YOU KNOW ANY INFORMATION OR THE WHEREABOUTS OF WILLIAM.
TV stations in North Carolina are reporting that the father of a missing 11 year old boy has been arrested in North Carolina. Cops still do not know where the 6th grader is at this hour! Cops say the dad is a suspect in the murder of 51-year-old Jane McQuain and the disappearance of her son William McQuain.
Montgomery County police spokesman Officer Rebecca Innocenti says cops have found the slain mother’s car but won’t reveal where the vehicle was recovered Thursday since the boy remains missing and the investigation is active.
Cops say they found Jane McQuain dead in her bedroom in Germantown around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. Investigators say there was trauma to her body.
Meanwhile, Maryland State Police have issued an Amber Alert for McQuain’s 11-year-old son William. Authorities say he was last seen at the home on Sept. 30. Police believe he was abducted. Capt. Paul Starks, a police spokesman, says detectives are interviewing people close to McQuain but he had no information about any possible motives or suspects in her death.
Police say McQuain’s car is also missing. It’s described as a 2011 black Honda CRV with Maryland tags 5AG9405. William is 5’0″ tall, weighs 85 pounds. William has brown hair and brown eyes Call 240-773-5070
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this is all over the news, so sad.
Reblogging to get this out there. I hope he is found alive and well.
I have a ton of followers in North and South Carolina. Let’s try and get this around, guys.
It looks like you can hop onto 95 or 85 [North/South] heading west away from Germanville, so even if you’re in a neighboring state [to NC] please reblog.
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Arizona peeps! She was last seen at her home in GLENDALE, ARIZONA.
5 year old Jahessye Shockley missing since Tuesday, 10/11/11:
Police also set up a separate phone line for the case and received a couple dozen tips by Thursday. The number is 623-930-4357.
Police said Jahessye is a black girl with brown eyes. She’s 3 feet, 5 inches tall and weighs 55 pounds and was last seen wearing a plain white shirt, blue jean shorts and pink sandals.
One woman reported seeing a girl matching Jahessye’s description wandering around the neighborhood before being pulled into a black sedan through the passenger door.
Please reblog.
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Please read and help out my dear friend Amit. I don’t know what I’d do without him. Pass this on if you can help or know of others who can. Can’t wait to get my mouth swabbed, I love you, Amit!
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About two weeks ago I got a call from my doctor, who I’d gone to see the day before because I’d been feeling worn out and was losing weight, and wasn’t sure why.
He was brief: “Amit, you’ve got Acute Leukemia. You need to enter treatment right away.”
I was terrified. I packed a backpack full of clothes, went to the hospital as he’d instructed, and had transfusions through the night to allow me to take a flight home at 7am the next day. I Googled acute leukemia as I lay in my hospital bed, learning that If it hadn’t been caught, it would have died within weeks.
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I have a couple more months of chemo to go, then the next step is a bone marrow transplant. As Jay and Tony describe below, minorities are severely underrepresented in the bone marrow pool, and I need help.
A few ways to help:
- If you’re South Asian, get a free test by mail. You rub your cheeks with a cotton swab and mail it back. It’s easy.
- If you’re in NYC, you can go to this event my friends are putting on.
- If you know any South Asians, please point ‘em to the links above. Thank you.
Unlike blood transfusions, finding a genetic match for bone marrow that his body will accept is no easy task. The national bone marrow registry has 9.5 million records on file, yet the chances of someone from South Asian descent of finding a match are only 1 in 20,000.
This is where we come in. We’re going to destroy those odds.
How? By finding and registering as many people of South Asian descent as we possibly can.
Tests are easy– a simple swab of the cheek. If you’re a match, the donation involves an outpatient procedure. It’s not fun, but it’s not dangerous either. And doing it could save a life.
We are encouraging anyone of South Asian descent to take a test to see if you’re a match.
You can get a free test by mail, or, if you’re in New York, you can join us Friday, October 14th for a special party to rally support.
We’ll have test kits on hand at the party, as well as music, booze, and maybe even a photo booth. It will, for the first time, combine a House 2.0-style party with a New Work City-style party, and if you’ve ever been to either, you know they are always something special.
Please help us get the word out any way you can. My life quite literally depends on it.
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My Uncle Brian’s friend (Dottie)’s son went missing. He is the male patient in the Mercury New article here. Any reblogs would be appreciated especially those in the CV area.
