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Oral History Program Hope Shipley Welch Interviewed by Marci Farr 11 October 2010 Oral History Program Weber State University Stewart Library Ogden, Utah Hope Shipley Welch Interviewed by Marci Farr 11 October 2010 Copyright © 2010 by Weber State University, Stewart Library Mission Statement The Oral History Program of the Stewart Library was created to preserve the institutional history of Weber State University and the Davis, Ogden and Weber County communities. By conducting carefully researched, recorded, and transcribed interviews, the Oral History Program creates archival oral histories intended for the widest possible use. Interviews are conducted with the goal of eliciting from each participant a full and accurate account of events. The interviews are transcribed, edited for accuracy and clarity, and reviewed by the interviewees (as available), who are encouraged to augment or correct their spoken words. The reviewed and corrected transcripts are indexed, printed, and bound with photographs and illustrative materials as available. Archival copies are placed in Special Collections. The Stewart Library also houses the original recording so researchers can gain a sense of the interviewee's voice and intonations. Project Description The St. Benedict's School of Nursing was founded in 1947 by the Sisters of Mount Benedict. The school operated from April 1947 to 1968. Over the forty-one year period, the school had 605 students and 357 graduates. In 1966, the program became the basis for Weber State College's Practical Nursing Program. This oral history project was created to capture the memories of the graduates and to add to the history of nursing education in Ogden. The interviews focus on their training, religion, and experiences working with doctors, nurses, nuns, and patients at St. Benedict's Hospital. 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No part of the manuscript may be published without the written permission of the University Librarian. Requests for permission to publish should be addressed to the Administration Office, Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, 84408. The request should include identification of the specific item and identification of the user. It is recommended that this oral history be cited as follows: Hope Shipley Welch, an oral history by Marci Farr, 11 October 2010, WSU Stewart Library Oral History Program, Special Collections, Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, UT. iii Hope Shipley Welch Graduation Photo Class of 1963 Hope Shipley Welch October 11, 2010 1 Abstract: This is an oral history interview with Hope Shipley Welch, conducted by Marci Farr and Melissa Johnson, on October 11, 2010. In this interview, Hope discusses her recollections and experiences with the St. Benedict's School of Nursing. MF: This is Marci Farr, and we're interviewing Hope Welch. She graduated from St. Benedict's School of Nursing in 1963. We're interviewing her at her home in North Salt Lake; it's October 11, 2010. Tell us a little bit about your family, about where you grew up and where you attended school. HW: I grew up, actually, in Roy until I was nine, then we moved to Corinne, which is west of Brigham City. My mother died when I was three, so I was raised by a stepmother and my father. There is one full brother, no other siblings. I went to Corinne Elementary, and then to Box Elder High. At the time I went to Box Elder High there was a junior division and a senior division. It was all in one school, and I graduated in 1960. MF: In high school, did you know you wanted to be a nurse? What made you decide to become a nurse? HW: I cannot tell you when I started wanting to be a nurse; it was when I was very, very young. I always wanted to be a nurse. I've thought back and wondered what influenced that. My mother died in an auto accident when I was three, so I'm thinking maybe that triggered something, but I always wanted to be a nurse. MF: When you were in high school, what classes did you take? 2 HW: There was nothing told to us about what specifically you had to take. We went in; (the girl that eventually became my roommate in nurses' training), we went to Box Elder's counselor, and he says, "You don't want to go on to college. You just want to go find a husband and get married." So we were asking for schools of nursing, and he says, "Well, here's a little bit of literature." St. Benedict's happened to be one of them. I had taken Latin, hearing from somewhere that I should take Latin, and we (Suzy and I) were taking chemistry as seniors; we knew that probably was a given. Other than that, I wasn't told anything. I'd had anatomy and physiology from the high school, but there was not much for girls then at our high school. There was no promotion of, you should go on. Even my parents felt girls should not go on to college. My dad especially; they just get married six months out of high school. My stepmother, actually, who stated that she hated Mormons and Catholics, is the one who said, "Let her go – she'll not make it, but let her go." So that's why I got into St. Benedict's. I think she (Stepmom) was very rigid, and the sisters had a rigid program. They kept track of their girls very carefully. MF: They did. They made sure you did what you were told to do. HW: Yes. MF: So was this your first time away from home, when you entered training? HW: Yes. MF: Tell us a little bit about when you first got there. How was that, what were your impressions? 3 HW: That's pretty scary. Mainly because I did come from a home – my parents ran a pool hall, but I was raised LDS. My stepmother was extremely rigid (i.e. bouffant slips under dresses and skirts, wearing shorts). I had rules about how late to go out, whom I could go with, how old – they could be, two years older maybe. Very rigid. We (my brother and I) could not eat between meals. So when I got to St. Benedict's, I knew it was going to be rigid, and that's one of the reasons she let me go. So the first – well, we actually tested to get in in January of 1960. After the testing, there were 130 girls. After the testing was finished, we went into the nurses' home, and they took us around, some of the current students, and they said, "If you're not smoking and drinking now, you will be in a year, because we're going to party." I was LDS, and my parents ran a pool hall; the last thing I wanted to do – they (my parents) drank, I didn't want to drink – that scared me. So that first day was a little scary. My roommate was not LDS, but she was the friend from high school. So we had each other. It was scary, but it was a controlled environment. You lived here, and you went to school here; you went to school in the basement, and you went to work, when you started nursing, over in the hospital. It was very controlled. MF: Who was your roommate? What was her name? HW: Her name was Suzanne Barker. She died in 1975. But she was from Box Elder, also. MF: Were you roommates with her the whole time? HW: Yes. We became like sisters. MF: You would have to be, relying on each other for all the stuff you went through. 4 HW: We were quite separate – different – but by the time we finished, my extremes had come her way, and her extremes had come my way – we were very good together. MF: So you balanced out. HW: We did. MF: That's good. Do you have any fun stories about your roommate or classmates that you remember about when you were in training? Anything that stands out in your mind? HW: You know, when I went to the Sisters new monastery open house, whoever was there from Weber State asking for the history said, "I'll bet you have stories about partying and going out." There was some of that, but a lot of our classmates did not do that. We had a laundry chute – we had to stay, as freshmen, on the second floor, on the west and north part of the nurses' home. Then the sisters' convent was on the east side. You went through a swinging door, and there were the sisters. So they were there for the freshmen to be kind of a guide. But this chute was there, where you put your laundry down, and the girls would slide down it. I have – one of the pictures is my roommate, who would get in there. She was the party girl. She didn't go out and party and go on wild parties, but she just was mischievous. I was the studious person. I went to bed at nine o'clock at night, and I got up at four to study. They would stay up 'till midnight and talk and laugh. One night I got up in the morning, at four, and I opened the door; I didn't turn any lights on. I opened the door, and somebody had fashioned a brown paper bag into what looked like a man's arm. They had taped it to the top. 5 I opened that door and I screamed, and I literally jumped from the door to the bed on the opposite side, just screaming. At one of the recent get-togethers, well, in the last few years, the girl who was responsible said she just laughed. Another time – have you heard about Mrs. Chase? MF: Your dummy? Yes. Tell us about Mrs. Chase. HW: Mrs. Chase, they dressed, and they put in one of the bathroom stalls, with her feet out on the floor. I got up, and I thought, there's a dead woman in here. They heard me then, and they thought that was funny. One time we had chemistry from Mr. Gray at Weber State, he was the head of the chemistry department at Weber State. He was probably the most dull teacher we ever had. We knew we were going to flunk. We were supposed to have one hour on Monday of class, and a two-hour lab, and then another hour of class on Wednesday, and he was just the driest person. He'd end up lecturing the whole time. So they dressed Mrs. Chase and put her in the front – our classroom was downstairs, and there's a commode in there, a toilet that flushes, and then there's beds, and the chairs are there. They dressed her up, put a scarf on her head, and propped her hand up under her chin. At the end of the three hours that he had been lecturing, and we didn't get a break, Sister Berno, the director of the school of nursing, came in. She had a way of tipping her head; just this questioning look in her eyes. She said, "What's this, girls?" I don't know who said, this is the dummy. He said to her, "I wondered why she was so still the whole time." Of course, the scarf and everything were in 6 the classroom. Sometimes they would flush the toilet during his lectures. Never during one of the sisters' lectures. You never did anything with the sisters. MF: That is a good story. What do you think you remember most about the sisters, or which of the sisters stand out to you from training? HW: You know, they're human. There were some you liked better than others. As I got older, I appreciated more of them. Sister Berno I liked; Sister Estelle was probably one of the top ones. She taught us anatomy and physiology, and she went on to become the hospital administrator. So we lost her as a teacher, but she was still there. Sister Rebecca taught us pharmacy, and we loved her. Effie Etcheverry was our clinical instructor on Orthopedics, and was a most pleasant instructor, and person. Sister Boniface was the dietitian, and she had coke-bottle glasses, you know? Her eyes would be just huge. She was slender, and she was the dietitian, and we had to have part of our rotation into the diet office, or work in the cafeteria. You can see I'm a little chunky; I wasn't as chunky then as now, but I was a little chunky. So she would have me get menus. Fourth floor, no elevator. You'd get one menu, and you'd come down the stairs, hand her the menu, and she'd say, well, we need this other menu. So you'd run back up the stairs, and you only had a certain amount of time. I understand she eventually got lasik surgery. I think she might still be alive, and I thought, that would make a big difference for her. MF: In your perception of her. How funny. What were your favorite classes that you took? 7 HW: I enjoyed all of them. Did I do as well – chemistry was probably the worst, I didn't do well in chemistry in high school either. MF: That's a hard one. I think you either like it or you don't. HW: My husband's cousin became the Dean of Weber State's chemistry department. He was telling me one day, when we were young; he said, "These nurses at Weber, they just don't get enough chemistry." I just kind of didn't say anything and acted like that's fine, because I probably would have flunked his class. MF: With the sisters, did you have social time with them outside of the hospital? HW: Yes. Well, out of the hospital… everything was in the hospital, practically, but we had parties frequently. Some of the pictures I have, show them – Sister Berno, I don't know what the games were, but they'd go and see who could unpack a suitcase and dress – over their habits – with regular clothes, street clothes, and then they'd have to race back and get them off and put them back in the suitcase. We had parties. As Freshmen, we went up to Snow Basin for a picnic, around October of our first year, 1960. We went to Maddox's once as a class. MF: Did that help, as far as seeing them as more humanistic, instead of in their habit? That would be kind of intimidating, if you weren't used to it. They were always in their habits. HW: You got used to the sisters. When you first walked in – I hadn't been around Catholic sisters, but when I first walked in, they made you feel at home. They were rigid, there were some. Mary Gerald was over the second floor, medical floor, and I literally saw her take a small student and take her to the wall, lift her off the ground to tell her she should not do something with one of the patients, 8 and what it was, was to talk about medical conditions around the patient. You were not to do that. They were not to hear you. Yet, Sister Mary Gerald - I took care of a woman when I was a senior, and she had been in a coma, and they expected her to die. When she came out of her coma, she said to me while I was caring for her, that she was so mad at Sister Mary Gerald, because she came in one day with my best friend and told her I wasn't going to make it through the night. She said, "I couldn't even blink my eyes, but I could hear Sister Mary Gerald say that. I wanted to tell her, I'm going to make it. I just was so mad." I thought, I have a feeling, where I'd seen Sister Mary Gerald with that student, bawling her out about not talking about a medical condition around where they the patient could hear, that she (Sr. Mary Gerald) did it for that purpose. You've got to fight to get out of this. MF: Absolutely. Wow. HW: We didn't have IV antibiotics then, you know; this lady had serious infections and boils. They'd taken her to surgery to lance, and then she'd get another one. But she made it. MF: Kind of a never-ending battle, trying to keep these things under control, I'm sure. Was it kind of primitive, as far as the medicine? Is that the right word to say? HW: Primitive? My kids say I'm out of the cave era. MF: As far as the things that they had; things were just coming in, I think, as far as the drugs, the wonder drugs, and being able to help. HW: We had antibiotics. Antibiotics founded in '42; we were there from '60 to '63. So they really were quite new. We gave shots right and left. People's hips would be 9 so sore. I mean, you'd give penicillin, and that's thick medication; potent to the skin. We'd give shots every six hours, to the same person, for maybe a week. People were in the hospital for a back problem, or if they had to be in traction and on the orthopedics ward and that might be – six weeks. I think back, what did they do, with jobs and money? You didn't have insurance like you do today. MF: That's true; that would be a challenge, that would be hard. They didn't do IVs at that time, did they, as far as giving the medicine? Had they started doing that yet? HW: We did IVs, but it was sugar water (actually D5W or D10W), and lactated ringers. Nurses didn't put medication in IV's. When I graduated in '63, I took the first coronary care nurses' course in Ogden in April 1968. Then we could start. When we had that course, we could start putting some IV medications in. MF: Wow. So that probably made a difference, too. HW: It made a big difference. But it was still restricted. I moved to Idaho and came back to Logan Regional; well, actually, they didn't need nurses then, so I didn't get in the hospital until 1989, and when I got back on the floor, everything was IV medication. That was a big adjustment. MF: I'm sure that would be. Do you remember any of the doctors that you worked with? Who were a few that were at the hospital? HW: There were a lot; they're dying. Dr. Grua was a surgeon, Dr. Howe was a surgeon. Dr. Taylor, Dr. Rogers, Dr. Stirlund, Dr. Hurst, Dr. Merrill, Dr. Swindler. I ended up working for Dr. Swindler after I graduated. Dr. VanHook, the neurosurgeon. 10 MF: Connie's husband. HW: Yes. MF: She's… '62? HW: Yes, '62. MF: Make sure I keep my dates straight. Did they ever teach, or did you just do surgeries with them? HW: There were a couple of times they lectured, but not very often. We had OR rotation, and that was interesting. I won't – there were some doctors you enjoyed being with more than others, but that was so on the floor too. There were some who would throw the instruments at anybody and everything. There was one in particular that everybody was scared of him. I'm short, and in OR, the first thing you learn is, this is the sterile field the front of you; on the back is not. You held retractors when you were assisting the doctors, and there was an intern who wore glasses with no lenses, so he could have the hearing aids. When we went into surgery, he was assisting this surgeon, and he took his glasses off so he couldn't hear. This was the surgeon that was known to throw verbal barbs as well as all the instruments. He was doing abdominal surgery, and I was holding the retractors, and his elbow was right in my face; that's contaminated, and I'm sterile. I'm holding and holding the retractors and trying to avoid the back of his arm, and my hands start shaking. One hand slipped, for just a second, but it slipped. He said to me something about, "You've had your vacation, get back to work," and then he started hollering at this intern who had no hearing aids in, who just sat there and smiled. 11 MF: That's a good story. We love to hear those. Tell us about if your classmates or your roommate had some time off - what are some things you would do? HW: We'd go downtown on the bus frequently. There was Fred M. Nye's, and Auerbach's, and those stores – JC Penney and things like that. We'd go down there and go to the store – frequently we went to Utah Noodle. That was a big – once in a while we had a class party, and we'd go down to Utah Noodle. In fact, I have pictures of our whole class there. MF: Which rotation was your favorite when you were rotating to each floor? The one you most enjoyed, the one you least enjoyed? HW: I enjoyed most of those, except pediatrics. I didn't like pediatrics, but they scared us about pediatrics. That was in Denver, at the Children's Hospital, and they told us that Katie Thompson would get us if nobody else did. MF: She was the military nurse, right? HW: Yes. MF: Okay. HW: I loved Hastings, the psych; some of them didn't like that, but I had some good experiences there. I enjoyed most of – when I was there, I got into it and enjoyed it. MF: Did you like the fact that you were away? HW: At Denver Children's, you mean? MF: Yes. HW: Yes, it was a very good learning experience. They were the largest children's hospital west of the Mississippi, and they had people flying in from Mexico, and 12 all over. That was pretty huge, and we lived at the nurses' home just across from the hospital; Tammen Hall. I've got pictures of the hall. From there, we were told - it was in a poorer district – not to go out, even in the day, without at least three of you. At night especially. This roommate of mine, she was there at the same time. Sometimes they would split us up; she and I weren't in psych together, but we were at Denver Children's. She was going through leaving her religion and becoming Catholic. She wanted to go to the cathedral, I think on Aurora Boulevard. Anyway, there's a main boulevard in Denver, and the cathedral was there. It was about ten blocks away from the hospital. It was at night that the priest was available for catechism, to teach her, so she could become Catholic. Of course, I was LDS, and I wanted her to be LDS, but – that didn't work. She wanted to go by herself, so I said, you can't go alone. So the two of us went, in the night, in the dark. We had a couple of scary incidences. They'd lock all of the facility at Denver, and the only way you could get in was with a card identifying you. There was a police officer stationed in the emergency room the whole time. If you weren't there at ten o'clock, they would not let you in. There were a couple who ended up in hotels because they did not get in, and then St. Benedict's told us they'd kick us out, if that happened. There were a couple of girls who were affiliated with other schools, from other states; Idaho State, some from Iowa; two or three from there in the Denver area, and there were a couple from another state who went on blind dates, and when they 13 went in, the guys were drunk and beat up the police officer. They got – I don't know what they got – at least, they had to leave, while we were there. MF: That's crazy. So how many from the school would go at a time? HW: There were seven of us there from St Ben's at our affiliation; there might be something around that. There were thirty in our class, so what they would do is divide you; there would be some left at St. Benedict's, there'd be some at Hastings, and some at Denver. Then we'd just rotate around. MF: That's a good thing. What scary things happened in Denver? Did you have some run-ins with people in the street? HW: We're on the seventh floor of the nursing home. Pretty safe, I would imagine. But one night – there was no air conditioning, and we were there March through June. One night this man was hollering, "Help me! They're going to kill me! Help me!" I went to the window, and they were beating up on a guy, and they shoved him into a car and drove off. We didn't have a phone on the floor, you'd have to go to the first floor to get the phone; I jumped into bed and just shivered. You know, that was so cowardly, but it scared me to death. When my roommate and I were walking to the cathedral and coming back, a lady was coming back – or she was dressed as a lady, I don't know if she was. But she was swinging this big purse back and forth, and she'd swing it clear up and clear back, then clear up – she was coming for us, and all of a sudden, she made a ninety-degree turn. There were several churches on the corners, and she went up to the sign of the church, and she went up to there, and as we got up to her, she turned and started running to us. We just ran to the hospital emergency room. I don't know. 14 Other than that; there were little things that scared you, but it was okay if you used the cautions they told you. Another one of the classmates we were with; she just died a year ago, but she and I went to the zoo, in the day. They had a very good zoo there. We met a young man, and he asked her out to a movie. So he drove us back to the nurses' home, and she went with him – as she left, I thought, I don't know where they're going, I don't know his name. You don't have cell phones. A few years after we graduated, she said, "Hope, why did I do that? That was so stupid!" And I said, "Yeah, it was!" Because, especially in today's world, with things that happen, it was terribly stupid. But it was even not good then. MF: That is a crazy story. MJ: Now, a lot of people that we've interviewed have talked about how the psychiatric experience – they hated it. So I'm curious what was so positive about it for you. HW: I don't know. I don't know if it was my background; my stepmother hated Mormons and Catholics, and she didn't like me. I don't know if it was part of that. I loved psychology. When we got there; there were some coming from Denver to Hastings, and three of us traveled from Ogden to there. We traveled by train, and one girl had packed fried chicken in a little bucket. There was no refrigeration, and we took two nights and most of three days to get there. We got there, and they told us, the cafeteria's in the middle. It's a three square mile hospital area, with buildings, and you have keys on a big ring to open and lock doors everywhere. It was night, or dark; it was about six o'clock in the evening, and we were going to go to the cafeteria, and there were three of us. We went down the 15 stairs; we were going by tunnel, because it was dark. I don't know if the patients knew there were a bunch of new students there, but you heard people screaming. You didn't know where it was coming from, because they had a lot of little hidden spaces. There was graffiti all over the walls; not always pleasant graffiti. So that was kind of scary, but pretty soon you got quite used to it. My first six weeks was on a chronic ward. There was a lady there that had been thirty-four years with post-partum depression, and there were others that were just as sad. That was a little harder. Then I went to a male admitting ward. The psychiatrist – how do I put this - he was a normal person. A lot of them were not. They had issues of their own, but he was normal. I watched the police bring guys in with straightjackets; they'd take them into his office, and within an hour or so, they'd walk out without the straightjacket. Most of the time we were just fine. It was a positive experience. I learned a lot about myself, about people; it was good. I enjoyed it. I know that my mother, my stepmother, said, one of the last letters before I came home, "Why don't you stay there?" Because of the way I was writing. They told us, when we got there, you'll wonder why you pick up the fork the way you do to eat. You know, you do start thinking like some of the patients. Why am I not in this facility -? because a lot of the people seem so normal. Why? I did well in psych, so. MF: Just trying to figure out the puzzle, why things work that way. HW: Why does somebody end up there, and I didn't. MF: What's the difference. 16 HW: Right. I had good nursing supervisors there, and I talked to the one assigned to me about that, and she'd tell me about strengths that people have, you know, that somewhere else you didn't. I didn't have a lot of reinforcement at home, but she said, somewhere else you've got reinforcement that helped. We all – there's a line, and we all have our ups and downs. But she said, it's when you get really out of control that you have the most problems. Most of us can have those ups and downs. There was a man who taught – I don't remember exactly what the course was – but he was a minister of another church, and he would teach about psych. He had a good philosophy. What he said was, you look at God through the eyes of your father. I did love my father, very very much. So that was good for me to hear. I had a good feeling for religion. My mother, again, hated Mormons and Catholics, but my father was Mormon, and we were baptized – I was a Mormon. There were about seven of us in the class of thirty. Half of them were Catholics; the others were a multitude of religions. But we did very well. Our class, out of the 130 that tested, 36 started. By the first six months, we had lost six. Then we retained the rest, which was unusual for a class. Ours was the largest graduating class. MJ: I'm curious about the psych aspect, because my parents; I grew up in a facility, they ran an apartment complex that was kind of a halfway house for psychiatric patients. It's interesting the things that you do learn about yourself, being around people dealing with those issues. I think my childhood was very interesting 17 because of it, but I learned a lot of compassion and empathy through the experience. HW: Yes. There but for the grace of God go I type of attitude. You know? I'd never thought of that before going there. You saw that most of the time, when they were on their medication, they were like you and I. There were situations that might be the straw on the camel's back, but – I enjoyed psych. MF: When you were at St. Benedict's, which did you like the most, as far as med/surg, OB… was there any that you liked in particular? HW: OB probably was my least favorite. I liked orthopedics, the medical, the surgical. When I worked, I worked more than twenty years in hospitals; I probably prefer medical, but I would float. MF: So it was probably good training that you had every aspect of the hospital. HW: Yes. I think the student nurses today don't get the hospital training. I mean, they put us in – we started Labor Day of 1960, and by November of 1960, just before Thanksgiving, we were on the floor as nurses' aides. MF: So was that before capping? HW: Oh, yes. MF: Okay; so they had you as aides. HW: We got capped the end of January. MF: Okay. Tell us a little bit about capping. Was that just the greatest day? HW: Oh, yes. We'd made it to capping, not completion. We had to recite the Nightingale code – I'm not saying that right – the Nightingale pledge. We had our 18 little lanterns that had the little lights in them, and we were given our cape, and capped, and I have pictures of that day. MF: So you weren't guaranteed, but were you pretty much for certain once you got there, or did you still have to maintain your grades and everything? HW: You still had to maintain your grades. Now, the first six months that we were there; when we started on the floor, they would give us so many hours on the floor, then you came back to class. Then, after four o'clock, your classes were done, so you might go back. We had split shifts. You might work seven to eleven and then four to seven. However, you didn't get off the floor at 11 a.m. or 7 p.m. They liked to give the student nurses the little extras to catch up. They passed a law, and I kept thinking I was going to go in and look at what that law was – it restricted student nurses, it was specifically for student nurses and that type of thing, where you couldn't have classes and work more than forty-eight hours in a week. But technically, because you were only scheduled the amount of time the law allowed, so they were okay; it was just that actually you didn't get off the floor when you were supposed to. MF: That's how they kept you. HW: By the first year, by June after we started, we were doing charge nurse duties. MF: Wow. That's amazing, to think, here you are nineteen years old, and you're in charge of how many patients. . HW: That's right. We were charge and medicine nurse. There could be about 25-30 patients, it depended. 19 MF: That's a lot of responsibility; but look what it did for you, as far as being able to take on anything. HW: You got the floor experience before you got the RN title. When I came back to Logan Regional, they had the two-year Weber State program, and those girls just didn't have that much time on the floor. So then they took the boards, passed, got their RN, and didn't have that practical experience. I think we lose a lot of nurses following graduation. In fact, the University of Utah had the four-year program. As a senior, we saw several "U" graduates with their four-year program come. Some of them couldn't start IVs. We had started them at the beginning of our senior year. They didn't know how to empty what they called Gomco suctions. It's an ancient machine now, but they didn't know how to do those. We know – I had a friend who was a couple years older than I, from Box Elder, who graduated cum laude from the U, and came up to work and lasted one year as a nurse. She couldn't last on the floor. She had the bookwork, but she didn't have the practical. MF: That makes a difference; and I think the personal care, as far as being able to spend time with your patients. Because you had to; there weren't the machines. You were the ones that were taking care of these patients. I think that makes a difference, the personal care. Because sometimes you don't get that; it depends, but I think being able to take that time. HW: Well, the sisters taught holistic nursing. This person's in for an appendectomy, but this is affecting that whole person, and you need to care for that whole 20 person. They really, I think, made that a big part of my nurses' training. I loved that. MF: That's true. Your whole body needs to be able to heal. HW: Well, and you put a man, the head of the household and the wage-earner in traction for six weeks, what an impact on the family. So you're treating him, but also those family members. Yet they were rigid with visiting hours. It was something like two to three in the afternoon, and seven to eight; we, as part of student nurses or employees, were to say, "It's time for you to leave." Now, that's changed to where they walk in any time. MF: That is interesting. What was probably your greatest challenge while you were in nurses' training? HW: I don't know. Once in a while I wouldn't make the grade I wanted. Orthopedics was a little challenging for me, the class. I called mother then; I think I got a D on a test, and I didn't do that that often. I called her then because of that test score. "I just need to quit." But she said, "Oh, you've gone this far, you can make it. Just do it." So I stayed there. I loved to study, which, when you're in a dorm, is sometimes not the priority. Janice Hassell gave vocabulary quizzes; medical terminology. She gave something like 15-20 words at a time. One time there were so many who made so many errors, that she made those who had made errors write a sentence ten times using the word, to hand in the next day. I didn't have any that I had to write. That made me not so popular that way. But we all got along together. I was the studious one, and I got teased, like I said with the arm and Mrs. Chase, but I was in offices every year, one of the student body 21 officers. I was the student body president as the senior; class secretary as a freshman, and student body secretary. I look back and I think, that's probably because they didn't want to do it. MF: Exactly. That's good. Well, tell us a little bit about graduation and where it was held. HW: Okay – it was at the Catholic St. Joseph's. Fantastic. I've got to show this to you. This my mother sent for, after graduation. This is what it looked like. MF: What a great picture. HW: This is our class; we all came in, we had roses, and we came in and sat in our assigned rows. Then they'd call our names, after they had the speaker and everything. They'd call our names, and we had to go up to the altar and genuflect. Our freshman year, the first year, we were expected to go to prayers every morning at seven, and classes started at eight. We recited the 23rd Psalm, and then other scriptures that changed. The 23rd Psalm was there the whole year. We were given a doily – I call it a doily, I don't know the real term – and a little holder, and we had to put that on our head. We had to genuflect at the altar, and go and kneel on the benches, and recite this. Then we'd – at the beginning of the school year, we'd go to high Mass to begin the school year. I was thinking that – I must not have taken it out. There was an article that went with this picture in the Ogden Standard. So this is where she got this from. But you were supposed to genuflect at the altar at graduation, then go over to the Bishop- Bishop Federal, on the left of the altar and kneel down and kiss his ring. They did 22 tell us that if you didn't feel good kissing the ring, you didn't have to. We would bow our heads in reverence, but I didn't have to kiss the ring. But it was exciting. MF: All your family was able to come? HW: My mother and dad; that's it. MF: Did you have a reception afterward? HW: There was a reception in the basement of the cathedral, or the chapel. It's a cathedral too, isn't it? St. Joseph's Cathedral. MF: I'll have to check on that; I'm not sure, I've heard it both ways. HW: I have too. I'm trying to think; I've been in it a couple of times since. An aunt of mine passed away, and I went into it, and I thought, how small. It seemed so large when we graduated. MF: That's interesting. What did you do after graduation? Did you stay with St. Benedict's? HW: I went back to the nurses' home. MF: Did you? HW: Yes. MF: Tell us a little bit about your nursing career after you graduated. HW: Sister Berno asked me to be one of the instructors when I graduated, because I was planning to go on to college and get a degree. In the interim, between the time the freshmen came on, or the new students came for the new school year, they (St. Benedict's Mother Superior) changed her. Sister Cassian (the new School Director) didn't agree with that, but she kept me on as an instructor for freshman students when they got on the floor (or as a Clinical Instructor). I did 23 that for a year. I also worked as a float when I wasn't with the students. Then I stayed on as a float; I took this intensive coronary care nursing. I have to back up; I worked for Dr. Swindler for a year, then came back and worked – Sister Danile, who is still at the monastery, was the pharmacist. She started a program called pharmacy nursing. We worked with her in the pharmacy, but we would deliver the medications on the floor. They don't do that – I've never heard of it anywhere else. We cut known medical errors by eighty percent, she did, by having us do that. They went to the unit dose; most of the things were unit dose. The nurses on the floor only gave the PRN or pain medications. Then I took the first coronary care course that they offered in Ogden, one of my other classmates and I in April 1968 and there were, I think, about four of us from St. Benedict's. We went over to the old Dee hospital and took that course. We learned CPR on a dog; live dogs. They took two dogs that were at the Humane center, that were going to be euthanized, and they'd wire them and shock their hearts to go into the different rhythms. We would have to bring them out. We'd have to intubate them; you don't find that any more – they'd put a tube down, and that's how we would breathe for the dog while somebody was doing CPR. We resuscitated – I think there were fourteen of us, and we just worked; there were three weeks that we went every day, and we worked on those dogs forever. They both survived. MF: Wow. That is good to know. HW: In fact, the man in the lab took them home, and one – he was going to use them as hunting dogs, but neither one of them; for some reason they would shy behind their legs. So that's how – I worked then in the pharmacy as well as coronary 24 care. Then we moved to Brigham, and I commuted for a while, but Brigham had a small hospital – Cooley Memorial Hospital, not the one that's there now. They needed a coronary care nurse. They had sent, by then, other nurses from there down for training; they were expanding this program. It was called IRMP – Intermountain Regional Medical Program – out of the U, was who was doing Coronary Care training. So I worked there. I had a new baby, and I said, "I can't work that much." They said, "Just come in for coronary care." Well, you know, when they're short on nurses, I went in for anything that was on call. The emergencies; you didn't have ICUs and things like that. So I did that until the baby started having medical problems. One of the most interesting things, which I was very unprepared for. They called me from the hospital, because I wasn't working as much, and they said, "Could you just do this commercial?" I said, "Sure, what is it?" They said, "We don't know, but just meet them at the cafeteria at the south end of Brigham." So I walk in in my dress – you didn't wear pants, you wore a dress. My nylons, my white shoes, into this cafeteria, and there's men there from Hollywood, going to do an Anheuser-Busch (they are the parent company of Budweiser Beer) commercial out at Little Mountain or Promontory Point. So I said, okay – so I get on a bus and go with twenty men out to Promontory Point. Isolated. They are bringing in four 2,400 pound sides of a beer can that they're putting together with a helicopter. They say the top dog from the Vietnam War was coming in to fly this helicopter to put these sides together. Now, I had one little emergency bag. I was supposed to be there two days; it 25 ended up being four. I thought, what's going to happen if one of those 2,400 pounds comes down onto a man? I realized that I had gotten myself into a little more industrial nursing than I had ever thought. We made it with just one man getting a laceration, sent him to Brigham to sew up. That was interesting. It made me realize; don't step before you know. Then we moved to Montpelier, and they had a small hospital. I worked there; worked nursing home in Brigham for a year for a friend, a classmate, who was the director. I hated that, there. I hated it. I was always told you take care of your family. Went up to Bear Lake Hospital in Montpelier, and they built a nursing home on. It wasn't always busy in the hospital, and not everybody wanted to work nursing home, so they'd send me there. I loved it, because it had changed. I realized people can't take care of family with serious medical problems now; there's so much medical that has gotten so much – I mean, people are living that died when we were in training. And ten, fifteen years later, these caretakers were destroying their health trying to care for their family that they felt guilty bringing to a nursing home. But I watched, and they had a lot of love at that nursing home, and I fell in love with those little old people. I guess because I was aging; I don't know. Then we moved; my husband taught seminary, and we got moved around. So then we moved back to the Logan area, and they didn't need nurses at Logan Regional Hospital. They had shut down two wings of the brand-new hospital. So I ended up working at Pepperidge Farm as the health coordinator. So that was another industrial nursing. So I certified as an EMT, because I was twenty 26 minutes away from the hospital on a good day. On a snowstorm, forty minutes or an hour away. That was interesting. Then I went back to the hospital and worked in Dayspring, with the drug and alcohol rehab. Then they shut the nursing part of that; they used techs. So they put me out on the floor, so I floated again; nights. I said, don't send me to peds. The very first patient that I lost while I was caring for was a two-month old baby that was probably SIDS, but they didn't have that term. This family had lost four. MF: Four babies? HW: That was the fourth child. They had one four-year-old at home. It just devastated me, when I had cared for him all day, and he died ten minutes before I was to go home. The mother – it was hard. I can still cry about that one. I didn't want peds. So Logan – I was float. Every once in a while, they'd need someone in peds, and they'd say, "Okay, Hope; sorry, you have to go." And I'd say, "You guys are not kind." And I did work in Peds, but the other nurses were good. They'd put me on medical or psych or ER or surgical. And that kept my skills. Then my husband got transferred down here, so I came down. I don't know if you ever heard of Ask a Nurse? MF: No. HW: Okay. It was only open about ten, maybe fifteen years. It was nurses, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. People called in if they had a medical question. They could call from – well, we got calls from all over the United States - mainly in Utah, but also some from Europe or Hawaii. Asking, "Hey, this is what's going on, what do I do?" You lost the use of your eyes because we were on the phones 27 - you couldn't see them, couldn't smell, couldn't touch, couldn't take blood pressures. All you could do was listen to what they were saying. Very challenging, and probably one of the highest liability places you could work. You had to have had five years of experience in the hospital, and I worked there five and a half years and they closed it down because of liability and cost. So then I went to what they call auditing – clinical auditing for Intermountail Health Care's Insurance Company. High dollar facility claims, anything ten thousand and over, we would look at claims for duplicate charges, erroneous charges, fraudulent charges. They put us in what they called SIU, which is the Special Investigation Unit. So that's where I ended, was there. My husband retired and wanted to go on a mission, so I quit in December of 2003 and haven't gone back, but have missed it. I'm still licensed. 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The dairy farm discovered a concrete manure storage tank was overflowing about 6 a.m. Sunday. A plugged pipe between the storage tank and a lagoon caused the tank to fill and then overflow.
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Among the gladiators hurling themselves across the field and at each other with a ferocity that will shorten expected lifespans- there will be a player who, in the privacy of his own home, has sex with other men.
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By all the guys in the picture with five shirtless guys
By all the guys in the picture with five shirtless guys
Jake Gyllenhaal
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Aaron Carter
Blu Kennedy
Jay Corey
Anthony Fedorov
Bret Harrison
John-Paul Lavoisier
Clay Aiken
Frankie Muniz
Daniel Radcliffe
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Michael Urie
Chad Pennington
Andy Roddick
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Ryan Phillipe
Zac Efron or Justin Timberlake.
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Jared Padalecki
Jesse Metcalfe (hairier & dirtier looking the better)
Chris Evans, Tom Welling
I'm not greedy.
Michael and Nate Westen
"If you can't do something smart,do something right."-Jayne Cobb
Robert Hoffman
Channing Tatum
Zac Efron
Brad Pitt
Mathew Fox
Boy, Chase, you are cute!
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Nick Lachey
Zac Efron
Ashton Kutcher
will smith or Adewale who played Adebisi on oz
scores of guest stars from US telly shows
Always Tom Welling
Casey Affleck.
Chris Jericho
Scott William Winters but only if he is acting the part he did in Oz. So adorable.
Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles.
Nice. Ken Marino.
Andy Roddick, Roger Federer and James Franco at the same time. one going in each end, ie head and mouth, and then the other sucking my dick
Drew Fuller! Jake Abel and Ryan Carnes! Any of those three would be nice or all at the same time! =]]]] haha
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Sawyer from LOST!!
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certain sound
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Desmond Harrington, Ron Eldard, half the cast of Black Hawk Down, Gabriels Macht and Mann, Fab Fabrizio, Henry Thomas, Matthew Davis, selected cast of Pearl Harbor, Luke Wilson his bro from Charlie's Angels 1 and 2, Luke and Noah from As the world turns
justin timberlake
ashton kutcher and zac efron, at the same time =P
Turns out, all of these guys. Yikes, I'd be sore. It'd be a good day to buy a lottery ticket. That. and sore.
"If you can't do something smart,do something right."-Jayne Cobb
The combined casts of guest stars from Nip/Tuck, Charmed, CSIs Vegas, Miami and New York, Smallville, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Oz, Supernatural, The Ghost Whisperer, NCIS, Numb3rs, Desperate Housewives, Will & Grace, ER, Friends, Angel, Dragnet, The X Files
Ooh, Edward Norton. I just love his broody, sallow, emo quality. And, cliche though it might be, Johnny Depp, but only in his Sweeny Todd get up...
Clive Barker. I'm not usually into older guys, but he is sooooooo sweet, soulful and the most beautiful author I have ever come across.
The Virgin Mary (just to be perverse).
The members of McFly, Howie from the Backstreet Boys, Aaron and Nick Carter, The brunette from Busted, Brady Corbet, Michael Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Ben Chaplin, Christian Slater, Josh Brolin (without the tash), Michael Biehn, Raymond Cruz, Michael McMillian.
I want to get it up the ASS by Ricky Mendez ......He's soooo dripping HOT.....GOD obviously loves GAY men if he made a man like Ricky.....Whatever happen to him.....he seemed to like disappear like Casper the friendly ghost.....
Mark Whalberg. Ben Affleck. Cole Hauser. Jason Ritter. Brian Van Holt. Martin Henderson. Simon Baker. Adrian Grenier. Brendan Fletcher. Jonathan Abrahams. Ryan Merriman. Ryan Kwanten.
Half the cast of Hollyoaks (the male cast, that is) particularly Justin/Chris Fountain
North Hykeham? Far out... I know it well..
Paul Rudd is the guy from Clueless, yes?
Roman Heart would also do nicely. The scene with him and Brent Everett together is lovely.
Jon McLaughlin. He's so fucking sexy with his new haircut. I mean, he's sexy as hell anyway, but there's something extra right now. Check out his new video, "Beating My Heart"
Hockey First!
Cillian Murphy...such a beautfiul, beautiful man....
James McAvoy and David Boreanaz
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A House panel investigating Solyndra voted Thursday to subpoena internal
White House documents on the failed California solar company.
The 14-9 vote, entirely along party lines, adds a legal sledgehammer to
what already had been a hyperactive political clash on energy policy
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House Democrats and President Barack Obama's top lawyer tried to work out
a deal Wednesday to avert the subpoena vote by Energy and Commerce's
Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee. But Republicans didn't bite,
complaining that they were repeatedly ignored in their demand for all
Solyndra materials dating back to the start of Obama's term.
The panel's GOP leaders said the White House wasn't even answering basic
questions they had about materials related to Solyndra's $535 million loan
Republicans addressed two subpoenas to White House chief of staff Bill
Daley and Bruce Reed, Vice President Joe Bidena**s chief of staff.
But their request is even broader, extending to messages exchanged between
several other senior West Wing aides, including Daley predecessor Rahm
Emanuel, senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, former National Economic Council
Director Larry Summers and Ron Klain, Biden's former chief of staff.
Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), the subcommittee chairman, also has said he
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Prepping for a legal showdown, Stearns told Fox Business News on Wednesday
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lawyers should be careful if they invoke executive privilege.
"He just can't have a blanket executive privilege," Stearns said. "He's
got to defend it and show which ones he's talking about."
Obama and his House Democratic allies worked Wednesday to try to avoid a
subpoena vote. White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler met with Energy and
Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), Stearns, ranking member Henry
Waxman (D-Calif.) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee ranking
member Diana DeGette (D-Colo.).
The Energy Department also turned over 15,000 more pages of documents on
Wednesday, including about 1,200 pages of communications specifically
between DOE and the White House.
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to more than 80,000. "Despite all the allegations and insinuations, the
record shows that the decisions related to this loan we made on the merits
after extensive review by the loan program," DOE spokesman Damien LeVera
In a letter sent Wednesday night, DeGette pleaded with the GOP leaders to
back down from the vote and narrow their request. She said Republicans had
been offered access to documents focused on involvement of both the White
House and campaign contributors at two key moments in the Solyndra loan
guarantee process: during the period around the March 2009 conditional
commitment to Solyndra and the February 2011 restructuring on the terms of
the loan guarantee that put private investors ahead of taxpayers if the
company went bankrupt.
But Republicans rejected the request. They say the documents theya**ve
already gotten may help to show what happened on Solyndra with outside
agencies, but they don't tell the full story of the internal West Wing
discussions that didn't involve the Energy Department and other agencies.
A House panel voted Thursday to subpoena the White House for documents
related to the bankrupt solar energy company Solyndra, which received more
than $500 million in federal loan guarantees.
Some Republicans have questioned the White House's relationship with the
company, accusing it of stonewalling congressional investigators. The
Obama administration says it has been forthcoming in answering questions.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee's subcommittee on oversight and
investigations voted 14-9 in favor of issuing the subpoenas for internal
documents regarding the loan guarantees after a contentious debate among
subcommittee members.
Federal analysts looking at the proposed Solyndra loan in 2009 warned of
possible problems as well as pressure from the White House to speed up a
decision, according to a memorandum released last month by congressional
investigators. Solyndra filed for bankruptcy in August and shut down,
putting more than 1,000 people out of work.
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I, the owner of this familiar Hostel which is in an ancient and
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Actually I have not. Its ones and zeros. No video cards, no additional processing. As far as I know, DirecTV boxes do not color what they get from the NIC or external storage sources.You have just inserted added more variables into the stream which have the ability to influence the outcome.
No offense but i know far more about this stuff than you do. Its a requirement for what i do.Clearly you know of calibration, not digital error aka digtial jitter and how it reduces a 16 bit CD down to 8-10 bits at time and reduces an 8 bit video down upwards of 40%.
A HDTV wants to receive a YCbPr signal? Really??? List one display manufacturer that explicitly requires their equipment receive a YCbPr signal.Furthermore this has nothing to do with RGB output when the TV wants to see YCbPr over HDMI. If you have one of the few that can force the RGB input (which, again is 8 bit on the HR24-500) and the user knows to make sure that it is set for RGB in the user settings (which I would bet very few have that knowledge), then they can live with their 8 bit output from the HR24.
All DirecTV boxes send out an 8 bit signal. That is true for those sending 4:4:4 and RGB. Get an analyzer and see for yourself.
Almost all displays are capable of recognizing RGB and YCbPr signal types without the end user having to do anything.
Accupel is a Chromapure product and has been for a few years now. I know the owner, Tom, quite well and he is always in contact with the original owner and programmer of Accupel pattern generators, Greg. Neither have ever stated that any Accupel has issues with their digital outputsMight want to read the calibration forums about that - or speak to the people @ Accupel
You know nothing of this field so I suggest you read more on what meters are defined as reference. Photo Research is the defacto brand use to calibrate displays in Hollywood and broadcast studios. There isn't one studio that would allow you to touch any of their mastering displays without you having a Photo Research meter. Not one.Interesting as the Photo Research units do not match the Minolta Spectroradiometers (CS2000/CS2000a) which are considered reference.
From one vendor? Sure. I don't use that vendor's tablesFurthermore, there are plenty of know issues with the Klein, also in the Calibrator's forums.
Wrong. I, as well as many other calibrators, do not put quantity over quality. Guaranteed to fail. The largest difference between my Klein and the PR-655 its tables were created from is <1 dEuv on grayscale and <1.2 dE2000 on color for plasma, ccfl LCD and LED LCD. Translation for normal folks... visually imperceivable.And while we are laying cards on the table, let's just admit the reason calibrators use the more inaccurate Klein unit is because it takes a measurement quicker than most Spectroradiometer and getting out of your house faster trumps using a more accurate meter.
How many Kleins have you used? Better yet, how many spectros have you used?
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer received a $1.12 million cash bonus and $13 million in additional restricted stock options on top of her $1 million salary in 2012. The technology company executive pulled in a good amount of money, but she didn't even come close to making this list. Check out the world's richest technology billionaires.
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8. Paul Allen. Net Worth: $15 billion. Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist Paul Allen scores big in real estate, tech and energy. In late 2012 his Vulcan Real Estate sold to Amazon their 12-building campus in Seattle for $1.15 billion.
7. Steve Ballmer. Net Worth: $15.2 billion. Microsoft CEO and Chairman Steve Ballmer is celebrating his 33rd year at the software company by continuing to sell the world on all of the company's new products while battling competitors Apple and Google.
6. Michael Dell. Net Worth: $15.3 billion. In what could be the biggest leveraged buy-out of recent years, Michael Dell and his investment partners at Silver Lake struck an agreement in February with Dell's board to acquire the company he founded in 1984 for $24.4 billion.
5. Sergey Brin. Net Worth: $22.8 billion. Google cofounder Sergey Brin is now director of special projects at the Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant, leaving his counterpart Larry Page to handle most day-to-day operations.
4. Larry Page. Net Worth: $23 billion. Larry Page, Google's cofounder and CEO since April 2011, saw the company through the $50 billion revenue milestone in 2012.
3. Jeff Bezos. Net Worth: $25.2 billion. Jeff Bezos' Amazon.com is the world's largest internet retailer of any kind, reporting more than $61 billion in 2012 sales, up $13 billion from the previous year.
2. Larry Ellison. Net Worth: $43 billion. In the past year, Larry Ellison, America's third richest man, has been on a real estate buying spree. In June, he bought 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai for a reported $500 million or more.
1. Bill Gates. Net Worth: $67 billion. Bill Gates, the world's most generous person, has already given more than $28 billion through multiple charities, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Newark, NJ (SportsNetwork.com) - Beast Mode turned into least mode on Tuesday when Seattle Seahawks star Marshawn Lynch begrudgingly spent less than seven minutes with Ines Sainz and the extras for "World War Z The Sequel" at Super Bowl Media Day.
"I thought he did six great minutes from what I heard," his coach Pete Carroll quipped. "Some comedians make a career on that."
Lynch, perhaps the Seahawks' top offensive player, is not all that keen when it comes to dealing with the media, but it's in his job description and the actual demands on his time only amp up during Super Bowl week.
Some players enjoy the lavish attention they get on the game's biggest stage, but the seventh-year running back, famous for his electrifying, tackle- breaking "Beast Quake" runs, is counting down the hours until his NFC champions battle with the Denver Broncos for the Lombardi Trophy on Sunday.
"I'm just about action," Lynch told a sea of reporters who packed the Prudential Center. "You say 'hut,' and there's action. All the unnecessary talk, it don't do nothing for me.
"I appreciate that people want to hear from me, but I just go to work and do my thing. You feel me?"
The NFL's media policy doesn't feel Lynch, who was already fined $50,000 by the league after refusing to speak to the media during the regular season, a penalty which was set aside pending the moody one's living up to his responsibilities in the postseason, something he has done so far, according to the league.
"Players are required to participate and he participated," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said. "We will continue to monitor the situation."
Lynch is scheduled to be available to the media at least two more times during the week and if there are any more hiccups, he faces up to $100,000 in fines.
The Pro Football Writers of America believe he has already failed to reach the threshold set for him by missing his hour-long availability mark by over 53 minutes.
"The Pro Football Writers of America, the official voice of pro football writers fighting and promoting for access to NFL personnel to best serve the public, is extremely disappointed in the lack of meaningful access to Seattle running back Marshawn Lynch at the Super Bowl XLVIII media day on Tuesday," the organization said in a statement issued by president D. Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
"Several of our long-standing and high profile members were appalled by Mr. Lynch's conduct and refusal to answer any questions. We find the statement that by the league that 'Players are required to participate and he participated' to be an affront to our membership. However, we are encouraged that the league will continue to closely monitor this situation."
Yours truly was not one of those long-standing members appalled by Lynch's conduct.
Yes, every other member of the Seahawks and Broncos stayed for their entire hour-long media day block as Lynch hid in a tunnel, save for a quick talk with Deion Sanders of NFL Network, but, hey, maybe it's an anxiety thing for Lynch or maybe he just isn't comfortable speaking into microphones or digital recorders.
"I think you're just taking it wrong," Lynch countered. "(It) don't make me uncomfortable."
It's hard for alpha-male types to admit something like media-phobia, however.
"He's got strong feelings about it," Carroll said. "We try to help him as much as we can, so that it fits together. He's quiet and to himself in public settings, and I think he feels way more comfortable not being involved very much. He's much more outgoing and gregarious when he's with the team."
Give that quote to the The Anxiety and Depression Association of America or any other non-profit advocacy groups which lobby for a living and you can be assured Lynch won't be getting fined for anything and will no longer have to talk at all.
That said, Lynch understands why the media is granted access and that reporters have a job to do.
"Man, I appreciate this. This is love right here, straight up," Lynch said when surveying the fans in attendance. "They came to watch people get interviewed? This is amazing right here, man."
"My fans love me regardless," he continued. "They love the Seahawks. They aren't worried about what I've got to say. They just want to make sure I show up to perform."
Journalists are taught never to inject oneself into a story because it can ultimately call into question objectivity and independence while damaging credibility.
As a member, I'll admit the PFWA shouldn't have issued a statement on this matter but worked behind the scenes with the league to enforce existing policy.
Lynch isn't the first high-profile star to sidestep the media and he'll hardly be the last.


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When a valuable teacher had to relocate to another city, the Washington State School for the Blind wanted to continue to use her skills. It set up a videoconferencing solution to enable her to teach from home, but the solution provided limited interaction with the students. Then the school learned about Microsoft Lync Server 2010 and deployed the technology to create a fully interactive classroom with videoconferencing, desktop sharing, chat, and file sharing. The school is upgrading to Lync Server 2013 to improve its videoconferencing capabilities and to take advantage of improvements in mobility and remote access.
Business Needs The teachers at the Washington State School for the Blind are valuable resources because they have specialized skills not only in the subject matter they are covering, but also in teaching visually impaired students. The teachers use specialized instruction methods and must be fluent in Braille.
In the summer of 2009, the school faced a serious challenge. Its high school math teacher, Robin Lowell, had to move away from the campus to a different city in Washington. A great math teacher with the skills to teach visually impaired students is virtually irreplaceable. After brainstorming solutions, the school and Lowell decided to use a videoconferencing solution to enable distance learning by bringing the teacher into the classroom.
The school used the videoconferencing solution during the 2009–2010 school year. Lessons continued, but the school had challenges with the system. "I could talk to the students, but there was no interaction," says Lowell. "We also had difficulty getting materials back and forth. We had to scan them or use the postal service." The videoconferencing solution had a separate camera to show a whiteboard, which could be used for partially impaired students, but only one screen existed in the classroom and the students had to walk up to it to see anything. It was disruptive and didn't allow the students to learn naturally.
Solution Given those challenges the school continued to look for a better solution and soon learned about Microsoft Lync Server 2010. Lync Server provides instant messaging (IM), videoconferencing, desktop sharing, file transfers, and whiteboarding capabilities, which the school is using to provide a fully interactive classroom for the math students.
The students use standard laptops with Lync 2010, screen readers, and braille displays, which convert text into Braille and vice versa. With Lync, instead of using a mouse to control all of the functions, students use a keyboard, an important accessibility feature for blind and visually impaired people. Students can ask questions out loud or send an instant message to Lowell. "I have one student who doesn't like to talk in class, but he asks questions all the time over Lync. His attentiveness and participation have skyrocketed," says Lowell. "It's great for all of the students to be able to use IM. They have the opportunity to ask a question while it's fresh in their minds. They can let me know they don't understand or they are having trouble keeping up in private, and I can change on the fly without anyone else knowing."
Lowell uses the desktop sharing feature to view all of the students' screens so that she can watch what they are doing as they complete their work. Because some of the students have limited vision, she also uses a document camera with a small whiteboard to write out examples. Lowell uses Lync to transfer files to the students and receive files back from them. She also records all of the lectures so that they can be reviewed by students who missed the class or need a refresher.
This application earned the school first place at the 2012 Microsoft Partners in Learning US Forum, which showcases innovative uses of Microsoft technology in education. Despite the accolades, the school is working to improve the solution and has been testing Microsoft Lync Server 2013 to take advantage of advances in conferencing and mobile and remote access.
Upgrading to Lync Server 2013 "Lync Server 2013 is going to be very helpful for the classroom experience," says Lowell. "I can lock the camera view so it doesn't change to the person who is talking. I can also open my IM sessions with students in tabs instead of separate windows. That is going to make it easier to manage communications with the students."
With the Lync 2013 client, Lowell can also customize the view of the conferences. For example, she can hide the contact list and gallery view so that only the desktop sharing session appears and she can easily see what a student is doing.
Lowell sees potential to take advantage of the video support within Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. Although she doesn't use PowerPoint presentations in her normal sessions because they are not accessible to blind students, she has been looking for a way to show recorded lectures over Lync when she cannot attend class. The school also sees potential for Lync Server 2013 to help it reach stakeholders outside of the classroom, such as parents or students at other schools who don't have access to a Lync client. The Lync Web App provides full voice and video capabilities when external users join conferences. "We don't have a phone conferencing service that we can use for calls with parents, so the Lync Web App will be very useful for that," says Ed Lukowski, IT Support at the Washington State School for the Blind.
Great Accessibility Features Students can fully control Lync 2013 by the keyboard, which is important because they cannot use a mouse. "With Lync 2013, our students can start desktop sharing, send an IM, download a file, and do any other function they need, all with keyboard commands," says Lukowski.
Lync also supports the speech software that the school needs to enable students to use applications. "Microsoft does a great job of including accessibility features in all of the Microsoft Office products," says Lukowski. "Our speech software worked with Lync 2013 immediately after we installed it. We did not have to customize anything."
Benefits Lync Server has helped the Washington State School for the Blind implement a very effective distance-learning program for its students. The school sees a lot of potential to expand that program to share resources between schools. It also sees potential to use Lync Server in other ways at the school. Faced with the potential of losing a valuable math teacher, the school used Lync Server to set up a distance-learning program that is nearly as effective as being in the classroom. "When we switched from the videoconferencing system to Lync Server, I saw a dramatic improvement in my ability to interact with the students," says Lowell. "The students started doing a lot better in class. They interacted more and they started asking more questions. I can easily forget that we are in separate zip codes."
By using desktop sharing, Lowell can give instant feedback to the students as they do their work. "With Lync desktop sharing, I almost feel like I am standing in the room and looking over their shoulders," says Lowell. "It's been phenomenal."
The school would like to expand its Lync-based distance-learning program beyond the borders of Washington State. It is already educating a few students in other states and would like to access teachers and resources from other schools, as well. "We hope to be the example for using Lync for education for the visually impaired," says Lukowski. "Only a finite number of teachers can teach visually impaired students. If we can work with a teacher somewhere else who has special skills, our students will benefit. Eventually, we would like to connect all of the schools for the blind."
For more information about Microsoft Lync Server 2013, go to: www.microsoft.com/lync
The Washington State School for the Blind is a residential public school in Vancouver, Washington. It is also a state agency that provides services to visually impaired students all over the state of Washington.


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Never heard of John Besh? He's an extremely popular chef the world over, and he's one of New Orleans' favorite and most famous chefs and frequent TV personalities. Naturally, he owns more than half a dozen restaurants in and around the city, all of which are held in high esteem. If you're looking for a high-quality meal in New Orleans, consider one of these Besh eateries.
Restaurant August (301 Tchoupitoulas St)
August is one of Besh's newer restaurants, and it's perhaps his most highly rated in the city. It has a smaller menu of dishes that are of the highest class and quality, including agnolotti, grilled octopus and red beans, Gulf dorado, pompano, courtbouillon, duckling dirty rice and Berkshire-duroc pork. August also has a five-course degustation menu and a tasting of farmers market vegetables, both with the additional option of a sommelier's pairing.
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Lüke has been featured in a variety of media, such as Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure and The Times Picayune, for its brilliant menu and fantastic fare, particularly its seafood bar and famous Lüke burger. The menu includes a charcuterie selection, a wide range of seafood, including a plethora of oysters, shrimp, clams and mussels, and other delicious entrees, such as etouffe, roasted duck breast, fresh Gulf fish, paneed pork and homemade sausages.


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Inadequate training and failing to make sure a formwork system could support weight loads were the reason a contractor at the Wacker construction site in Charleston has been fined by state officials, according to reports from the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development Division of Occupational Safety and Health.
Two men died late last year at the site after a wall reportedly collapsed as they removed forms and a scaffolding platform.
Baker Concrete Construction Co. Inc. is a contractor at the Wacker Polysilicon build site.
Baker was fined a total of $10,800 for the alleged violations regarding training on the MEVA KLK 230 scaffolding, MEVA Imperial wall-form system and the "improperly fabricated, erected, supported, braced" formwork, according to the report.
Hugo Mendoza Canales and Rodrigo Trinidad Mena Luis Ochoa, fell approximately 85 feet after scaffolding gave way while the platforms and formwork system were being released on a tower being built at the Charleston work site. The accident occurred Oct. 10, 2012.
According to the report released by TOSHA, the formwork system works in "combination of a MEVA KLK climbing scaffolding system."
"This is an engineered system that was designed to build towers. The decking of the scaffolding system is the work zone for the employees and wraps all the way around the tower," the report findings stated.
A number of safety and protection systems are built into the overall system, including a series of locking pins.
"Based on information gathered and interviews taken it was determined the following occurred and resulted in the death of Mr. Mendoza (foreman/victim) and Mr. Ochoa. On Oct. 10, at approximately 10 p.m., four employees for Baker Concrete Construction were working on the south side of the stairwell tower in area B-244. The employees were approximately 85-feet above the lower level at the time of the accident," the report stated.
The report noted testing had been done on the concrete wall which had been poured. The cured wall form and scaffolding were supposedly ready to be detached and "jumped" to the next level to be constructed and poured.
"Three of the employees working on the system were newly hired laborers that had only been working with the system for approximately four months. The fourth employee was the foreman of the crew and it was stated that he had worked with the system for several years. The superintendent that was over that crew had just started working on the night shift two weeks before this incident," the report stated.
"This superintendent had never worked with the MEVA KLK 230 climbing scaffolding in combination with the MEVA Imperial wall form system, however; the responsibility to inspect the system to determine that it was being used properly and to ensure that pours were ready to be made were his. According to witness statements, it was determined the employees had gotten the OK to move the formwork on the system back away from the freshly cured concrete," the report continued.
As employees attempted to release the system, Ochoa was "tied off" on top of the formwork to help pry away the form from the wall. As employees began to release "wedge pins" and braces, the form began to "pull away" from the wall and "popping and cracking sounds were heard."
The report indicated according to witness statements the form continued to fall away and broke free of its support, then broke the guardrail on the scaffolding system, knocking Mendoza off. Ochoa was also tied off to the form and was dragged off as well as the form fell approximately 85-feet to the concrete pad deck below.
In conclusion, the report stated "it appears the south wall of the Imperial system was overloaded at the point where it attaches to the slide carriage and as the form pulled away from the concrete wall, it became top-heavy, broke free of the slide carriage supports whereby failing and fatally injuring two employees.
"Baker Concrete Construction, a contractor at the Wacker site, continues to mourn the loss of our two co-workers who perished last October during a construction accident. While completing work on the Wacker site, Baker fully cooperated with Tennessee OSHA in its accident investigation, which was completed last month. Last week, we amicably resolved the two citations that TOSHA issued to Baker as a result of the investigation.
"We continue to proactively address the issues identified both in our own investigation, and in TOSHA's investigation of the accident to ensure that we provide the safest working environment for our co-workers on the Wacker site and all of our sites across the country. We remain committed to being an industry leader in safety and realizing our goal to be an incident and injury-free company," said Robert Fox, an information officer for the company.


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