Undergraduate student of psychology.

Currently the top answerer (as well as top asker) in slaughter-shochet-shecht !

I really am (kind of, almost) a shochet -- currently working on my license to kill (=ktav kabbalah).

English translation of the Simlah Chadasha may be found here.

Since it might make a difference: if I quote from שמירת שבת כהלכתה and don't specify which edition it was, it's the second edition (red cover).