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You are hereObama Closing Air Defense System on U.S./Mexico Border: Texas & America Vulnerable to Attack from Low Altitude Missiles and Aircraftupdates: Outrage Growing over Obama Cutting Homeland Security U.S. Border Air Defense System (TARS)White House Petition Asks Obama Not to Shut Down TARS Air Defense System on Southern Border Call your Congressmen and Senators immediately and demand that the recent budget cuts do not affect the security of America's borders. The Federal Government wastes billions of dollars on things they should not even be involved in, but securing our country's borders is one of the jobs that the federal government is actually supposed to do! Obama has always pushed massive cuts in the military as part of any budget cuts he will accept in fiscal deals. Obama seems to be getting what he wants, and it will leave America's borders vulnerable to attacks and other infiltrations. Air Force's Air Defense Radar Systems along U.S./Mexico Border will SHUTDOWN on March 15th, 2013 On January 17th, 2013, Exelis Systems Corporation sent out an email (see email below) to all of its employees informing them that on March 15th, 2013 all TARS Air Defense Mission Operations will permanently cease. These TARS Air Defense sites were under the control of the United States Air Force. On January 15th, 2013, the Air Force informed Exelis (the defense contractor running the TARS sites) that the TARS sites will be shut down. Exelis tried to then negotiate with the Department of Homeland Security to see if they would take over the vital project, but it seems as though those negotiations have failed. What does this mean? This means the southern border of the United States of America will be more vulnerable to attack from low flying aircrafts, low altitude missiles, and other infiltrations such as smuggling. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, one Exelis employee had this to say about the announced closure of the TARS sites:
According to the Air Force's website, the Tethered Aerostat Radar System, or TARS, is an aerostat-borne, surveillance program. Using the aerostat as a stationary airborne platform for a surveillance radar, the system is capable of detecting low altitude aircraft at the radar's maximum range by mitigating curvature of the earth and terrain masking limitations. TARS provides a detection and monitoring capability along the United States-Mexico border, the Florida Straits, and a portion of the Caribbean in support of the Department of Defense Counterdrug Program. The primary agencies using the TARS surveillance data include U.S. Northern Command in support of Customs and Border Protection (Air and Marine Operations Center and Caribbean Air and Marine Operations Center) and U.S. Southern Command in support of Joint Interagency Task Force-South. In addition to its counterdrug mission, TARS surveillance data also supports North American Aerospace Defense Command's air sovereignty mission for the continental United States. Email Sent to all Exelis Employees January 17th, 2013 Announcing Closure of TARS Air Defense Sites: Subject: TARS Contract Update Tuesday, 15 January 2013, we received a government request for a proposal (RfP) to de-scope and close the TARS program by the end of the fiscal year. The government indicated that it does not intend to exercise the final two option years for the TARS contract. In the RfP, the government also indicated its intent that aerostat flight operations will cease on March 15, 2013, and that the remainder of the fiscal year will be used to deflate aerostats, disposition equipment, and prepare sites for permanent closure. We are currently reviewing all the details of the RfP and evaluating the possible impacts on the program and our workforce. We continue to communicate with the government on this matter, and we will have more information in the coming days and weeks. The TARS program provides a critical capability to the U.S. government and we should remain focused on providing that service in an uninterrupted and robust manner. The best thing we can do right now is to continue to provide the outstanding TARS support that has become the Exelis hallmark, while allowing the company and the government time to continue discussions on how to best support the customer, the program, and our workforce. We will provide regular updates as we know more. Should you have a specific question, please address them to Tim Green, Program Manager. Tim Green, PMP Posted under:
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Permalink Submitted by Administrator on Fri, 2013-01-18 09:37
Make sure to check out the comments on Facebook. Obama is purposely weakening our military
Permalink Submitted by greycoat on Fri, 2013-01-18 11:51
Air Force's Air Defense Radar Systems along U.S./Mexico Border will SHUTDOWN on March 15th, 2013 But we have billions of taxpayer's dollars for the defense of the new Islamist State of Egypt and Muslim Brotherhood President Morsi and their new Islamist Constitution, by sending Egypt state of the art military aircraft, military tanks, and military hardware, while he emasculates our military. Please sign petition against
Permalink Submitted by Jared robertson on Sat, 2013-01-19 19:26
Please sign petition against TARS closurehttps://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/keep-tethered-aerostat-radar-s... Why would anyone sign any
Permalink Submitted by Tamara on Sun, 2013-01-27 23:43
Why would anyone sign any petition on whitehouse.gov? Seems almost comical to me. hi 1st
Permalink Submitted by Mohamed on Mon, 2013-01-21 22:23
actually i am one of many Egyptians who dont want that Morsi shit,, and one of alots of Egyptians if it was belong to him i will not accept those things,, dont think even for 1 sec that you giving us those things for free darlin,, we pay in many ways ,,that is poltical baby not me or u who make it,, and i would prefer the russian paid weapons more than urs,,even it is better QUALLITY ,, and really i wish if we have weapons factory like urs,, i cant imagine how much you hate us as egyptian or muslim with no reason Americans have no control
Permalink Submitted by Lori on Tue, 2013-01-22 19:58
Americans have no control over our Government anymore. We are hijacked by Zionist Corporations and the rest of the world is too. zionist control nothing
Permalink Submitted by chris lucas on Wed, 2013-01-23 09:04
the vatican is running the usa, not zionists. how dumb can you be?? even the jews you accuse like Feinstein, are jesuit schooled Stay on topic for Pete's sake
Permalink Submitted by Mike Travis on Sat, 2013-01-26 07:08
You both are wrong though it is irrelevant. what is relevant is the intentional destruction of America by an unlawfully installed potus. HATE
Permalink Submitted by Franco Tramble on Tue, 2013-01-22 23:46
We don't ''Hate'' anyone. We also do not know who our friends are. Every Government for many Nations, including the USA,, does underhanded shit. But the Gov. is guilty,, not the people of that Nation. We don't blame ALL Muslims for 911, but we do blame the ones who DO NOT CONDEMN the murderous acts of the Jihadists. The people of the United States,, more than anything,, want the Egyptian people to be free. But you ALL must understand that WITH FREEDOM COMES RESPONSIBILITY.. Free people must speak out when they see others doing wrong.. Either in there own Nation,, or in another Nation. Too many over here have forgotten that lesson. WE have much work to do to undo the damage that this has done to our Nation. If the people of Egypt do not learn this lesson, and learn it NOW!! There will be nothing in Egypt but suffering and poverty for a long time to come. That's a pity, their is so much history to be dug up in the desert still. And this history will not get learned for another generation. It is not just their history, but the history of the whole Human race. All of ours together. Please,, get it under control. Do not let extremists take all that you have sacrificed, and make it for nothing. Your people deserve better.... Why?
Permalink Submitted by Mike on Mon, 2013-01-28 19:27
Why would an Exelis employee supposedly make this comment, when this information has been out since last year... http://www.afcea.org/content/?q=node/10208 WTF
Permalink Submitted by brittany on Fri, 2013-01-18 11:28
What in the world is this president thinking? Is he that dimwitted that he thinks this is a good idea??? Cut defense spending, increase spending on unnecessary gun programs and other nonsense? Time to get his a$ OUT! CALL YOUR SENATORS - INFO BELOW!
Permalink Submitted by brittany on Fri, 2013-01-18 11:38
Called Senator Cornyn's (202-224-2934) and Sentaor Cruz's office (214) 361-3500) to let them know this is ridiculous! Takes two seconds! Commies Invading from South and North
Permalink Submitted by Whatever on Sun, 2013-01-20 21:24
The Chinese Military have infiltrated Mexico, they have 12 Military bases built there and the Media is not reporting it. Russia has already amassed their troops to their already existing Russia Military base in the Arctic Circle near Alaska. In the late 1800s, we bought Alaska for 7.2 Million from the Russians. Years later, we discovered that Alaska is sitting on top of oil. So the Russkies went nuts and ever since the days of the Soviet Union, they've been demanding their land back. So now they're gonna steal it from us. China will invade Texas, because of two reasons, it's a very hardcore Conservative State and a gun haven for their citizens. Second reason is Texas is the 2nd economic state of the nation, if Washington D.C. were to fall for example, Texas has all the resources and economic means to help the rest of the nation and can actually run an effient Government should it be the new Capital State. So when and if China takes out Texas, the rest should be easy. Oh, our oil reserves? The U.N. has them hostage now, they're guarding it. The Marines and our military will of course come to our aid, but it's gonna be a very long haul fighting 3 fronts, Russia, China and the U.N. as well as traitors, i.e. FEMA Corps. Say "no" to surveillance blimps
Permalink Submitted by Gritsforbreakfast on Tue, 2013-01-22 06:44
When the small-government guy is blogging in favor of surveillance blimps I thought it must be satire. But since you seemed to be serious, here's a bloggerly response, fyi: http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2013/01/surveillance-blimps-fine-p... Best regards, Grits for breakfast is not enough nutrients for your brain
Permalink Submitted by Drake on Tue, 2013-01-22 11:18
Hey there grits, I will first start out by forgiving you of your ignorance, since you are probably just a couch potato blogger in Austin, TX.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Secondly, I will explain to you that the Aerostats are not only in Texas, but also in Florida, New Mexico, Arizona and Puerto Rico. I don't know about you, but I haven't really seen any Texas state troopers or Border Patrol in Florida. I would also like to point out the difference in Border Patrol/State Troopers with the Aerostat. You see, the aerostat flies at around 10,000 feet in the air sending out a 200 nautical mile radar. This radar is used to detect aircraft by sending a signal to the aircraft to determine if it is a friend or foe. (The Aerostat is able to detect the aircraft well over the border before it even begins to reach the US) The information that is received at the TARS site is then sent directly to WADS or Western Air Defense System. They are then in charge of scrambling jets to the location of any unauthorized aircraft that has been detected by the Aerostat. So while it is great that we have the BP and DPS, they do not have the air capabilities of the Aerostat. Furthermore, the closer of the Aerostat does not mean that the Air Force does not need it; it simply means that they are tired of funding it. Something else you probably didn't know is that just hours before Exelis released the email, the Air Force was trying to negotiate with Homeland Security to take over the program. Why would they make these negotiations if the program was not needed? The problem is the cost. The Air Force has been tired of losing money from their budget, and Homeland Security is also facing budget cuts. That is why neither of them wants ownership of this program because it is too much cost and hassle for them. To shed a little more light on your lack of knowledge with the TARS program, when the Aerostat is down due to weather or maintenance, the Air Force is calling trying to figure out the soonest that it will be able to fly because it is such a critical part in the security of America. You see, before this program the cartels and dealers were constantly flying right over the border in all types of small aircraft. When this program was put in place, the numbers have gone down and stayed down. Once you close this program, the numbers will again go back up. So, while it is easy for you to sit there and be a critic of the program, you should probably learn a little more about something the next time you open your mouth. By the way Quaker man, you sound liberal to me, so I realize that you will still not understand anything that I have just said. Regards, Drake Surveillance blimps and Big Government conservatism
Permalink Submitted by Gritsforbreakfast on Thu, 2013-01-24 06:08
Drake writes, "I don't
know about you, but I haven't really seen any Texas state troopers or Border
Patrol in Florida." Who would they be protecting the border from, Georgia? You say, the Air Force considers the blimps "a critical part in the security of America," but it's the Air Force that's ending the contract!! They're the ones who don't think they need it, or at least that the cost-benefit analysis doesn't justify it compared to other programs. You're the one who wants them to keep spending high for pork purposes (hundreds of jobs, etc.) when the Air Force clearly doesn't think it's a "vital" or cost-effective way to secure the border. Where are the small-government conservatives when you need them? BTW, I'm not a Quaker - Baptist, actually - and I'll leave the "liberal" or "conservative" labels to others. IMO I've taken the fiscally conservative position here while you've adopted a Big-Government, spend-more, money is no object approach. Which of those positions is "conservative" or "liberal" is in the eye of the beholder. Government is responsible for security
Permalink Submitted by Drake on Fri, 2013-01-25 08:24
Grits, I really see what you are trying to say, but the fact is it is the governments job to protect this nation. While they are busy trying to put forth laws to control us and strip away our rights, they should instead be controlling our borders. They however are doing the opposite, stripping away our freedoms and leaving us vulnerable to smugglers and terrorists. The simple truth is that TARS is a needed and effective program. With the recent military budget cuts, the military is doing away with wanted and unwanted programs all together. The reason the Air Force does not want to find it is because this program helps CBP and the Coast Guard more than the Air Force. So in turn they believe Homeland Security should be the one paying the tab. Here are comments from a commander in the Coast Guard: "Its presence has a deterrent value to illicit trafficking here in the area," U.S. Coast Guard Sector Key West Cmdr. Al Young said on US1Radio this week. "It also allows us here at the Coast Guard to maintain real-time visibility of air and surface resources that we may have and on occasion, we have used that information to vector assistance resources to find search objects." "It appears to be a funding issue, and I believe what the Air Force is doing is saying, 'If it has value to the Department of Homeland Security, then find a way to pay for it' -- I think that's what's going on right now," Young said. "Its presence has deterrent value to illicit trafficking here in the area -- both human and drug trafficking. "We've got some pretty sophisticated tools that we work with already, but if you're asking me, 'Do I want to work without it?' I would tell you no." The reason that Homeland Security does not want the tab is because they too are facing budget cuts, so they simply just cannot afford to take on this program. I know this by talking to certain individuals within the Border Patrol. This is what happens when you cut the budget of our security, you are left to compromise needed programs. The liberal left wing that is in control could care less about illegal immigration or insecure borders, they only care about the paycheck of the working class and control of the US. Drake Budget cuts for thee but not for me?
Permalink Submitted by Gritsforbreakfast on Sun, 2013-01-27 11:46
So the Air Force doesn't think it benefits them and "The reason that Homeland Security does not want the tab is because they
too are facing budget cuts, so they simply just cannot afford to take on
this program." If that's the case, I truly don't see your point. For most fiscal conservatives, that'd be an excellent reason to eliminate any program, much less surveillance blimps. Budgets are about setting priorities and it appears the Air Force and DHS have done so. Conservatives undermine the legitimacy of their arguments when they criticize excessive spending then moan and wail when cuts are applied to their pet programs. Grits - when you can't
Permalink Submitted by right4us on Fri, 2013-02-01 22:31
Grits - when you can't comprehend that over and over again conservatives state that it is the role of the gov't to protect and defend the people - what part of that don't you understand? Further, that we (conservatives) state over and over again that we are for "limited" gov't - not "no" gov't - got it?? - ie. fulfilling its basic obligations like protecting the people (evidently no matter how many time idiots on the left are told that, it doesn't get through the liberal mush where a brain is supposed to be). Priorities of budgeting should begin with the basic requirements under the constitution - not funding the hundreds of billions of dollars yearly in gov't subsidies, bloated bureaucracies, agencies, welfare programs, foreign aid, ect, etc, etc.. got it?? The fact that this rogue DHS does not want to support it can also be linked to the fact that they have also labeled tea party people, pro-lifers, gun owners, etc. as the potential terrorists (web search Napolitano targets pro-lifers) - it doesn't take even middle school intelligence to conclude red state, pro gun, 2nd amendment loving Texas is reviled by this administration - especially with Gov Perry at the helm, the secession mumblings, etc… Regarding the Air Force, even a 5th grader can look up - "The Air Force is headed by the civilian Secretary of the Air Force, who is appointed by the President". Finally, perhaps it escapes you - they both (AF & DHS) have an ultimate commander in chief - the president. A most partisan, revengeful (even remarked "vote for revenge" during election) thug intent on "fundamentally transforming America". One whom tries to bully news organizations, leaks secret info on Israel about its allies against Iran, whom gives guns to ruthless drug lords to use on civilians in Mexico in hopes of finding some at crime scenes to blame and crack down on "our" 2nd amendment (ie. fast and furious) ---- why am I even bothering - if you don't already know this you are too lazy to do your own investigating, or, so ideologically maligned you can't grasp it!! 12 Chinese military bases in
Permalink Submitted by doran on Wed, 2013-01-23 06:28
12 Chinese military bases in Mexico? My information is that there are at least 32 such bases. And they are all equipped with low-flying missles, low-flying aircraft, specially trained hordes of Egyptian muslims who hate our freedoms, at least 100,000 Mexicans and other Central Americans being trained to infiltrate this Great Nation, and tons and tons of dope all packaged and ready to distribute to school children all over the US Southwest. This is really serious stuff, Grits. By the way, can anyone tell us just how many low-flying aircraft and/or missles coming out of Mexico these blimps have actually detected during the period they have been floating around? I mean, really documented stuff, that anyone can access? And how many drug smugglers, stumbling across the border desert with school packs full of drugs, have been detected by the blimps? In short, are there any facts -- to be distinguished from hysterical fear-mongering nonsense -- to support the proposition that these blimps actually accomplish anything worthwhile? It really is fun to watch small-government Texas Republicans deal with the reality of small-government. When the pork that is being cut is your pork, you guys squeal like hogs caught under a closing gate. Texas
Permalink Submitted by John on Wed, 2013-01-23 09:22
Well I do think we, the people in Texas, have the right to deal with things the way we see fit. Since we do pay two times more to the government than what they put in to our state. On top of that, we have a rainy day fund that every other state wishes they had. To add some icing on the cake, I do believe we (Texans) have the 14th largest economy in the world. So for all that we do for this diminishing country, I think we should have the right to put our say in to a few things. We are the backbone to this nation. Obama Closing Air Defense System on U.S./Mexico Border
Permalink Submitted by Roy on Mon, 2013-02-04 20:28
Not good enough for Texas, but apparently good enough for D.C. Blimps to bolster Washington's air shield in test http://news.yahoo.com/blimps-bolster-washingtons-air-shield-test-2046298... |


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A revised version of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 15-1), is effective for proposals submitted, or due, on or after December 26, 2014. The PAPPG is consistent with, and, implements the new Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (Uniform Guidance) (2 CFR � 200). Please be advised that the guidelines contained in NSF 15-1 apply to proposals submitted in response to this funding opportunity.
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Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are engineered systems that are built from, and depend upon, the seamless integration of computational algorithms and physical components. Advances in CPS will enable capability, adaptability, scalability, resiliency, safety, security, and usability that will far exceed the simple embedded systems of today. CPS technology will transform the way people interact with engineered systems -- just as the Internet has transformed the way people interact with information. New smart CPS will drive innovation and competition in sectors such as agriculture, energy, transportation, building design and automation, healthcare, and manufacturing.
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Oral History Program Lou Ann Larsen Thurgood Interviewed by Marci Farr 17 November 2008 Oral History Program Weber State University Stewart Library Ogden, Utah Lou Ann Larsen Thurgood Interviewed by Marci Farr 17 November 2008 Copyright © 2009 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 Dee School of Nursing was founded in 1910 to provide training for nurses who would staff the new Dee Memorial Hospital. The first class of eight nurses graduated from the school in 1913 and the school continued to operate until 1955, with a total of more than 700 graduates. A new nursing school and home located just east of the hospital was completed in 1917 and all nursing students were required to live in the home during their training. This oral history project was created to capture the memories of the school's alumni before their stories disappear in the same way the Dee Hospital has disappeared. The oral interviews focus on how the women became involved with the school, their experiences going through training, and how they used the training. ____________________________________ Oral history is a method of collecting historical information through recorded interviews between a narrator with firsthand knowledge of historically significant events and a well-informed interviewer, with the goal of preserving substantive additions to the historical record. Because it is primary material, oral history is not intended to present the final, verified, or complete narrative of events. It is a spoken account. It reflects personal opinion offered by the interviewee in response to questioning, and as such it is partisan, deeply involved, and irreplaceable. ____________________________________ Rights Management Special Collections All literary rights in the manuscript, including the right to publish, are reserved to the Stewart Library of Weber State University. 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: Lou Ann Larsen Thurgood, an oral history by Marci Farr, 17 November 2008, WSU Stewart Library Oral History Program, Special Collections, Stewart Library, Weber State University, Ogden, UT. iii Lou Ann Larsen Thurgood Application Photo November 1951 Graduation Photo Class of 1955 Lou Ann Larsen Thurgood c 2000 1 Abstract: This is an oral history interview with Lou Ann Larsen Thurgood. It was conducted November 17, 2008 and concerns her recollections and experiences with the Dee School of Nursing. The interviewer is Marci Farr. MF: It is November 17, 2008. We are interviewing Lou Ann Thurgood, correct? LT: Yes, I was a Larsen then. MF: Larsen. LT: Lou Ann Larsen. MF: She graduated with the Dee School of Nursing in 1955. We are interviewing her via the telephone from her home in New Mexico. LT: Albuquerque, New Mexico. MF: Tell us a little bit about your early life, your family, where you grew up, and where you went to school. LT: I was born in Huntsville, Utah. I was born at the Dee Hospital. When I was about five years old we moved to Salt Lake and then to Ogden and eventually North Ogden. MF: How many brothers and sisters do you have? LT: Five brothers, three of them are older, two of them are younger. No sisters. Just the nurses, they were my sisters. MF: Where did you attend school at? LT: I attended school at Weber County High School in Ogden, Utah. MF: What made you decide to become a nurse? LT: My senior year of high school, because I needed funds, I worked as a nurse aid at the Dee Hospital. Then the option came out that they had a three year 2 scholarship that you could apply for. I applied for it because I didn't have any funds to go to school and so I got my three year scholarship and that is how I ended up at Dee Hospital, and it was close to my home in North Ogden, Utah. MF: And you were familiar with the hospital. LT: I was kind of familiar with it a little bit, because I had worked the previous year there part time as a nurses' aid. So that was very helpful to me. MF: Did you take any assessments before you entered school? Were there any pre-requirements for you to become part of the school, to become a nurse? LT: I think it was mostly all taken care of through the scholarship program. I qualified for the scholarship so that was just kind of automatic. MF: What were your impressions when you first walked in the hospital, when you started? LT: Well it was kind of frightening. You walk in the nursing home first of all. There were all these people you didn't know, however, there was one I did know because she was also working as a nurses aid and further down the line we became roommates. She was from Canada so I didn't really know her other than I had seen her at the hospital when we both worked there. It was really frightening. I remember I hid up in my closet and put the clothes away and stayed there for awhile. Many of them visited downstairs. MF: What were some of the first things you started doing when you were first in the program? LT: We started out with nursing arts and classes; most of it was at the hospital but some of it we walked down to Weber College, which it was called then. 3 MF: Who was your housemother at that time? LT: It was N. H. Peterson, she was a nice lady. MF: Was she strict or was she easygoing? LT: She was fairly easy going. If you stayed out too late and all those types of things, she could get a little unpleasant about it. MF: Tell us who your roommate was. LT: My roommate was Leona Gibbs. Brown is what her name is now. She was from Canada so we came from different places for sure. MF: Do you remember some of the rules you had to follow while you were in nurses training? LT: Mainly things like keep the rooms clean because they inspected it periodically. And, of course, you were to be in your rooms by ten o'clock at night and the noise at a minimum. MF: So did you feel that since you were the last class that the rules were a little more lax? LT: I don't think they relaxed that much. I think it was pretty much the same. Maybe we did know that we were the last class, I don't remember knowing that but maybe we did our last year or so. MF: What were some of your favorite classes you took while you were in training? LT: Bacteriology, Pediatrics Nursing Arts I found interesting, and Biology. Those are the types of things I just enjoyed. There was one place in my records where I ran into a paper that I had written down, the first week that we were in there. The 4 first day we enrolled at the school and the Junior nurses kept us up most of the night doing exercises. MF: Oh. initiation. LT: Yes, this went on all week. The second day we had our Nursing Arts class at 7:30 AM and toured the hospital. In the afternoon they had a little party in the auditorium and they kept us up that night too. The third day the initiation continued. We had to polish the Senior's shoes, we registered at Weber College, I guess we walked down there at 8:00 AM and studied for the Nursing Arts test. The fourth day we dressed as Musketeers for initiation and we didn't get much sleep that day. The fifth day we walked back and forth to classes at Weber College four times that day. The sixth day they had Kangaroo Court. We had to recite something or eat onions. Then they had a banquet for us. That was our first week in nurse's training. MF: If you had a night off, what was something you would do? LT: If there was a movie or something, that was kind of rare, sometimes we would go get something to eat or a date now and then. Of course, my parents lived nearby so I could go visit them. They lived in North Ogden. One of the things I remembered or ran into in my pictures was in the winter time we would take the bedpans and slide down the hills right there by the nurse's home. Those little hills there, we could go out and ride on the bedpans. MF: They probably worked well, didn't they? Tell us about some of your instructors that you had while you were in the program. 5 LT: Louise Scoville was the Assistant Director. Marie Donaldson was the Educational Director. Leona Maas was the Surgical Director and Ruth Brown was the Medical Director. And Ursul Hawkes was the class advisor. But Louise Scoville helped us out quite a bit. I have the picture of when I got my cap. She is the one that put my cap on my head during the capping ceremony. MF: Tell us about your capping ceremony. When you got your cap, tell us a little bit about that. LT: We first of all repeated the Nightingale pledge. In the picture we kneeled on a little pillow. We had a candle lit in a candleholder in our hand and she came and put the cap upon our head. It was very special. It showed you were making progress. You were doing something, now you got to wear a hat. MF: How long had you been in the program? LT: Six months. Probees…that is what we were called when we started out. You know, like probationary? There were twenty-six probees that started. By the second year there were eighteen. The last year actually there were nineteen of us that graduated one transfer. MF: Tell us about some of your favorite doctors you worked with. LT: I didn't like doctors too much. I can think of Lindsey Curtis. I think he was an OBGYN, I got along with him alright but I did not like surgery. My experiences from surgery were that I was always contaminating everything or the doctors were hollering at you. It was difficult in surgery, they were always irritated. I stayed away from them as much as possible. MF: That probably saved a lot of stress? 6 LT: Yes, it worked best for me to be with patients. MF: Tell us one of your greatest challenges that you faced while you were in the nurse's program. LT: It was more towards the end when I was about ready to graduate, it was in pediatrics and that is one division that I liked very much. We had a little girl in there, about eighteen months old, or maybe a little bit older, who had hydrocephalus and was doing very, very, very poor. At the time, I was shift coordinator and I had to call the parents and tell them that she had passed on. So that was hard. There wasn't a doctor there or any one else, it was late at night. MF: So you had to take care of it yourself. LT: Yes, and that was probably most difficult message I had to give, although they were expecting it! MF: That would be very hard. LT: Other than that, sometimes difficult patients or grouchy ones. Some of the men got pretty grouchy I think. MF: Do you think that your training at the Dee Hospital made a difference on your being able to get a job, because of the quality of your training? LT: Oh yes, definitely. I worked at the hospital, I think, as soon as I graduated we stayed and worked until March. I got married in March but up until then I stayed and worked up in Pediatrics. MF: After you got married, did you stay at the Dee? What did you do after you graduated? 7 LT: After we got married we went to Salt Lake and so I worked at LDS Hospital for about a year and then my husband got into Dental School so we went back to St. Louis and I worked three years there at the St. Louis Children's Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. After that he was in the United States Military Service which transferred us every 2-3 years, so our first assignment was New Orleans. I didn't work there. When we got to Zuni New Mexico…don't know if you have heard that but it's an Indian Pueblo there. They had a big flu epidemic so they asked me to come and work there. So I worked there for a period of time too. But after about 1966 I didn't continue in nursing at hospital, but I continued at home. I felt it was very beneficial for my family and me because, you know, I could take care of a lot of problems that I would have had to run to the doctor for. MF: How do you think nursing has changed over the years? LT: Too much. I think the main thing is all the mechanical, you know, computerized. Of course, it has improved in a lot of ways but I think there is less bedside care. Now it is over the telecom they see what is going on without coming in for personal visits. MF: Do you still keep in contact with your classmates? LT: Yes. We have done pretty well. We have had a fifty year reunion in 2005. I have been to probably two others besides that but there are several of my classmates up there in Utah and some that I still keep in contact with. Especially my roommate, I keep in contact with her. There is about six, seven, or eight of them that we keep in contact with at least once a year. 8 MF: Now when you talk to Leona, will you mention to her what our project is … LT: She hasn't signed up yet? MF: She hasn't. So if you would like to ask her, to get in contact with us. We are not going to do interviews until January because with holidays and everything going on that would be great. LT: I know Pauline Anhder…I talked to her about it. After I sent that off to you I thought, maybe it is too late so I sent her an email and she said I haven't even got mine in yet. So she is aware of it. MF: We have talked to her we just need to get in contact with her but we are going to wait until the first of the year. LT: It is just hard to fit everything in, and that is kind of why I ended up doing it now. MF: Yes, it worked out perfect, I am glad you have been able to stay in contact with your classmates because you were so close. LT: Yes at our fifty year reunion we just had a marvelous time. It was so fantastic. It was perfection. As a group we went to a home by ourselves and spent the whole day. MF: Now is that when you went to Edna's house? LT: Yes it was. MF: We just interviewed her a couple weeks ago. She mentioned that so that it was wonderful. LT: Yes, it was just really super. You just were floating on air. I was going to mention one more thing, along with our training and so forth, we also had six 9 weeks at the Tuberculosis Sanatorium. We went there and stayed there. It was quite an experience! Fortunately medications have improved so it is closed now. And then we had a three month period time down at the Mental Hospital down in Provo. MF: How was that? LT: Ooh scary. You had to watch what was going on, somebody could grab you by the head, or pull your hair, or be very unpredictable. MF: That would make you a little nervous. LT: I was nervous but, you know, on the job it was very informative. MF: You were learning as you were going. LT: Yes, being in the program that we were, we were on hospital duty when we weren't in classes. MF: Yes, and I think that helped reinforce what you learned in class. LT: I say on the floor in more ways than one. We were worn out but had great experiences. MF: That is true and that probably just solidified everything you were taught. LT: Yes, there was one little frustration we had when we started the two year program. Here were these students that were graduated (two years) in June of the same year (1955) and we had to wait until September. We were the shift coordinators and they were working there and getting paid for it. MF: That is true. LT: Yes, three months, July, August, September, October. Yes, it was a frustration there. 10 LT: When they started the Weber State College two year program in 1953 they made a little folder advertising for it. I don't have my copy of it but my picture was on there and I thought it was LuAnn Secrist, now I'm not sure positively. But we were on the folder recruiting students to our program. So if you happen to run into one of those I want a copy. MF: So it was the program for '53. LT: Yes that was the year. They started in '53 I guess. We graduated in '55 and we were the last. They were the first ones to graduate that same year in June. MF: We will check it out and see what we can find. LT: That would be fun. MF: Yes, that is great. Well I appreciate you letting us talk with you and get your interview in and hope you have a great holiday and everything goes well in your upcoming years. LT: Well thank you and I appreciate your being involved in this project here. I feel like we are not totally forgotten now as the Dee Hospital School of Nursing. I was senior class President and gave the student address at graduation September 17, 1955. MF: That is why we are doing it. LT: That is exactly right. MF: Thank you Lou Ann for taking time to talk with us. We really appreciate it so much.
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by Vince Morales on January 14th, 2014The Chicago Cubs unveiled their unBEARably cute new mascot this week and his name is Clark and He Is Adorable. No, seriously, I was going to write this thing making fun of them for having this kid friendly new mascot, but then I saw this picture:
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Toronto | Toronto councillors, as of late October, have approved public financing for a 20,000-seat soccer-specific stadium to host a Major League Soccer expansion franchise in 2007. The stadium would also be available to help stage—along with venues in Montreal, Edmonton, Ottawa, Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia—the 2007 FIFA World Youth Championship, which already has been awarded to Canada. The city would contribute about $10 million to construction of the $63 million facility, with the federal and Ontario governments along with Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, owners of the Maple Leafs (National Hockey League) and Toronto Raptors (National Basketball Association), making up the difference. Debate has been spirited, with some objecting to the public subsidy.
"This is so wrong. This is so bad," said Councillor Mike Del Grande during the 4½-hour debate. "It's a backroom deal" (Vanessa Lu and John Spears, "City Spends $9.8M for Soccer Stadium," Toronto Star, 28 October).
Others wonder whether MLS can lure interest, now that European football is readily available. "For most Toronto fans, the focus is on the very best soccer in the world—European soccer," says Bruno Hartrell, co-owner of the United Soccer League's Toronto Lynx. "The North American product is so far down the ladder to those fans, you're very hard-pressed to attract them" (Cathal Kelly, "Soccer Gamble: Can MLSE Make It Work?" Toronto Star, 29 October).
At play, too, are questions of soccer's place in the sporting culture of an extraordinarily vast (3.9 million square miles) and diverse land mass, as well as the desires to preserve Canada's distinctiveness in relationship to the United States. No one questions that soccer could replace ice hockey in the hearts of Canada's sports watchers. Georgie Binks, a Toronto writer, compares the yearlong National Hockey League lockout to "losing a lover." Six of the NHL's 30 teams are based in Canada; Hockey Night in Canada, telecast on Saturdays by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., is a national institution, dating to its origins in radio in 1933. "We felt shunned and very hurt," says Binks. "I was encouraged most people didn't go completely insane. I couldn't envision at first what it might be like. For many of us, it wasn't reality" (Ed Graney, "Finally! Game On, Eh?" San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 October).
The NHL returned on 5 October following its hiatus. Binks's friends seemed divided on the impact of hockey's absence on the national libido. Some polling suggested that Saturday-night hockey facilitated amorous encounters; some are not so sure. Binks writes: "One woman wrote to me that her husband had always done the ironing during the hockey game, and now the ironing basket was filled to overflowing. But it had meant no change to their sex life" ("What's the Score? Does No Hockey Mean More Action?" CBC News, 4 February).
Like the United States, however, soccer nearly tops the charts in Canada when it comes to participation. The last major survey of nationwide participation in sports, completed in 1998, shows soccer placing second to ice hockey (37 to 34 percent) among boys 5–14 and second to swimming (30 to 28 percent) among girls. Participation rates in soccer dropped to 11 and 6 percent of active men and women, with ice hockey (men) and swimming (women) remaining the most practiced.
According to the Canadian Soccer Association, there were 825,000 registered youth and adult players in 2004, with 347,000 women, or 40 percent of the total. In a country of 32 million, the per-capita numbers are high. Pockets of fervor also exist, with Newfoundland mentioned in a recent BBC report as being especially "football mad" (BBC World Football, 29 October; archived audio available as of 7 November). The St. Lawrence Laurentians of Newfoundland competed in October's provincial Challenge Cup, established in 1912; as Newfoundland and Labrador champions, they represented a tiny, seafaring community of 1,500 with Irish roots. The Laurentians' website chronicles the first recorded game in 1904, complete with the name of referee and goal scorer. "Soccer is a religion there," CSA competitions director Angus Barrett tells the BBC's Margot Dunne.
If you look down at the bleachers, there's a gentleman there in a yellow jacket. He's actually broadcasting the game back to Newfoundland. And they've been doing that for about 15 years. It's the only province that has its games broadcast back on radio.
In a follow-up interview to the BBC report, Owen Hargreaves—born in Calgary, Alberta, and a midfielder for Bayern Munich and England (his father is from England, mother from Wales)—is asked about Canada's failed attempts to form a professional league (the Canadian Soccer League folded in 1992) and whether Canadian soccer always will be linked with the United States. The Toronto Croatia, established by Croatian immigrants, competed in the former North American Soccer League and were crowned champions in 1976; they were preceded by Toronto Blizzard and Vancouver Whitecaps.
Among women, Vancouver Whitecaps, London Gryphons, Ottawa Fury, Sudbury Canadians, and the Toronto Lady Lynx represent Canada in the semi-pro W-League, another primarily U.S. venture. Many of Canada's best women players, moreover, such as Christine Sinclair at the University of Portland, receive their training at American colleges. "Growing up the way I did and in Canada the way it is there are a lot of people that move, like my family, from other countries," Hargreaves says. "So there are a lot of South American families there. There's interest in football from I think the parents, so [for] the teenagers there are no possibilities, there are no leagues."
At the international level, the senior women's team continues to show progress while the men—who last qualified for the World Cup finals in 1986—slip in FIFA rankings. Further, the U-19 women's team barely lost to the USA in the final of the 2002 FIFA championship before 47,000 in Edmonton, Alberta. M. Ann Hall, in her treatment of Canadian women's soccer in Soccer, Women, Sexual Liberation (Frank Cass, 2004), mentions, too, the striking figure of 33,000 adult women playing the game. A strong adult women's competition exists even in Whitehorse, Yukon, where the First Nation Community recreation consultant, Charly Kelly, has a soccer-ball tattoo on her foot. Her six closest soccer friends, according to Hall, bear the same identifying marker.


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Ryan's lightning-fast release from halfway house not out of line, experts say
BY KIM JANSSEN Federal Courts Reporter firstname.lastname@example.com January 30, 2013 7:54PM
Updated: March 2, 2013 11:45AM
No sooner than he'd arrived at a West Side halfway house Wednesday morning, inmate 16627-424 was on his way home.
While other ill or elderly prisoners have endured months in a halfway house at the end of their sentences, George Ryan was by late Wednesday morning free to putter around his kitchen, dine with his family or take a nap in his favorite comfy chair.
In a state where voters have learned to suspect a political fix, the disgraced former governor's short stay — just a few hours following his release from federal prison — attracted plenty of skeptically raised eyebrows.
But the U.S. Bureau of Prisons insists its decision to immediately release Ryan into home confinement at his Kankakee house is "not uncommon" for an elderly inmate.
And attorneys who specialize in federal sentencing law agree he likely got no special treatment.
"The Bureau is typically trying to maximize the bed space at halfway houses for people who need the services offered there," said Todd Bussert, one of the nation's top sentencing experts.
Elderly, financially secure prisoners such as Ryan have no use for the resume-polishing skills and help re-integrating into society offered at the facility, Bussert said.
Under the circumstances, sentencing consultant John Webster added, "it makes no sense for the Bureau to pay for the expense of his detention at this point."
Despite that, some elderly inmates, such as William Hanhardt — the Chicago chief of detectives who was convicted of leading a crew of mob-connected jewel thieves — spend months in a halfway house.
Hanhardt, like Ryan, had serious health problems, but was considered a higher risk because of his links to organized crime. In 2011, at the age of 82, he was held on the West Side for about four months.
His attorney, Jeffrey Steinback, said "timing and the availability of beds" mostly determine how long inmates stay in a halfway house, noting that the Bureau of Prisons is "underfunded and overcrowded."
While "it isn't an everyday occurrence" for a prisoner to be released so quickly, Steinback said, "it's not uncommon, either."
He said that if the bureau "had been inclined to release [Ryan] but didn't because it was afraid of how it would look, that really would have been unfair."
Besides, he added, "Though home confinement is preferable to a halfway house, he'll still be bound by the same restrictions he'd face at the halfway house while he completes his sentence."
So no celebratory cocktails, just yet.


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Boston marks week from Marathon bombs with silence
By STEVE PEOPLES and MICHAEL HILL Associated Press April 22, 2013 8:48AM
Annie Packard, 13, sings during Trinity Episcopal Church Sunday service at Temple Israel, which allowed the Trinity congregation hold service, Sunday, April 21, 2013, in Boston. Trinity is within the blocked-off area near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, where earlier in the week two bombs exploded. Packard was in the grandstands when the first bomb exploded and ran away in the direction of the second bomb, which went off 10 seconds later. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Updated: April 22, 2013 10:38AM
BOSTON — Seven days after the Boston Marathon bombings, the city was bustling Monday, with runners hitting the pavement, children walking to school and enough cars clogging the streets to make the morning commute feel almost back to normal in the hours before the traumatic week would be marked with mournful silence.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has asked residents to observe a moment of silence at 2:50 p.m. Monday, the time the first of the two bombs exploded near the finish line. Bells will ring across the city and state after the minute-long tribute to the victims.
Many Boston residents headed back to workplaces and schools for the first time since a dramatic week came to an even more dramatic end. Traffic was heavy on major arteries into the city Monday morning, and nervous parents dropped their children off at schools, some for the first time since the attacks.
Authorities on Friday had made the unprecedented request that residents stay at home during the manhunt for suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He was discovered that evening hiding in a boat covered by a tarp in suburban Watertown. His older brother Tamerlan was earlier killed during a furious getaway attempt.
At the Snowden International School on Newbury Street, a high school set just a block from the bombing site, jittery parents dropped off children as teachers — some of whom had run in the race — greeted each other with hugs.
Carlotta Martin, 49, of Boston, said that leaving her kids at school has been the hardest part of getting back to normal.
"We're right in the middle of things," Martin said outside the school as her children, 17-year-old twins and a 15-year-old, walked in, glancing at the police barricades a few yards from the school's front door.
"I'm nervous. Hopefully, this stuff is over," she continued. "I told my daughter to text me so I know everything's okay."
The city is beginning to reopen sections of the six-block site around the bombing that killed three people and wounded more than 180.
Tsarnaev remained hospitalized and unable to speak, with a gunshot wound to the throat. He was expected to be charged by federal authorities. The 19-year-old also is likely to face state charges in connection with the fatal shooting of MIT police officer Sean Collier in Cambridge, said Stephanie Guyotte, a spokeswoman for the Middlesex District Attorney's office.
On Norfolk Street, where the brothers lived, neighbors said they thought they saw some more detectives Monday morning. But unlike Friday, the street was open.
Outside City Paint, the paint store a half-block from the brothers' home, Brian Cloutier smoked a cigarette." We'll get back to normal," he said. "Cambridge and Boston are resilient."
A private funeral was scheduled Monday for Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old restaurant worker killed in the blasts. A memorial service will be held that night at Boston University for 23-year-old Lu Lingzi, a graduate student from China.
City churches on Sunday paused to mourn the dead as the city's police commissioner said the two suspects had such a large cache of weapons that they were probably planning other attacks.
After the two brothers engaged in a gun battle with police early Friday, authorities found many unexploded homemade bombs at the scene, along with more than 250 rounds of ammunition.
Police Commissioner Ed Davis said the stockpile was "as dangerous as it gets in urban policing."
"We have reason to believe, based upon the evidence that was found at that scene — the explosions, the explosive ordnance that was unexploded and the firepower that they had — that they were going to attack other individuals. That's my belief at this point." Davis told CBS's "Face the Nation."
On "Fox News Sunday," he said authorities cannot be positive there are not more explosives somewhere that have not been found. But the people of Boston are safe, he insisted.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, the suspects in the twin bombings, are ethnic Chechens from southern Russia. The motive for the bombings remained unclear.
Sen. Dan Coats of Indiana, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the surviving brother's throat wound raised questions about when he will be able to talk again, if ever.
The wound "doesn't mean he can't communicate, but right now I think he's in a condition where we can't get any information from him at all," Coats told ABC's "This Week."
It was not clear whether Tsarnaev was shot by police or inflicted the wound himself.
In the final standoff with police, shots were fired from the boat, but investigators have not determined where the gunfire was aimed, Davis said.
In an interview with The Associated Press, the parents of Tamerlan Tsarnaev insisted Sunday that he came to Dagestan and Chechnya last year to visit relatives and had nothing to do with the militants operating in the volatile part of Russia. His father said he slept much of the time.
A lawyer for Tamerlan Tsarnaev's wife told the AP Sunday night that federal authorities have asked to speak with her, and that he is discussing with them how to proceed.
Attorney Amato DeLuca said Katherine Russell Tsarnaev did not suspect her husband of anything, and that there was no reason for her to have suspected him. He said she had been working 70 to 80 hours, seven days a week, as a home health care aide. While she was at work, her husband cared for their toddler daughter, he said.
The younger Tsarnaev could be charged any day. The most serious charge available to federal prosecutors would be the use of a weapon of mass destruction to kill people, which carries a possible death sentence. Massachusetts does not have the death penalty.
Across the rattled streets of Boston, churches opened their doors to remember the dead and ease the grief of the living.
At the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in South Boston, photographs of the three people killed in the attack and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer slain Thursday were displayed on the altar, each face illuminated by a glowing white pillar candle.
"I hope we can all heal and move forward," said Kelly McKernan, who was crying as she left the service. "And obviously, the Mass today was a first step for us in that direction."
Boston's historic Trinity Church could not host services Sunday because it was within the crime scene, but the congregation was invited to worship at the Temple Israel synagogue instead. The FBI allowed church officials a half-hour Saturday to go inside to gather the priests' robes, the wine and bread for Sunday's service.
Trinity's Rev. Samuel T. Lloyd III offered a prayer for those who were slain "and for those who must rebuild their lives without the legs that they ran and walked on last week."
"So where is God when the terrorists do their work?" Lloyd asked. "God is there, holding us and sustaining us. God is in the pain the victims are suffering, and the healing that will go on. God is with us as we try still to build a just world, a world where there will not be terrorists doing their terrible damage."
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was tracing the suspects' weapons to try to determine how they were obtained.
Neither of the brothers had permission to carry a gun. Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas said it was unclear whether either of them ever applied for a gun permit, and the applications are not considered public records.
But the younger brother would have been denied a permit based on his age alone. Only people 21 or older are allowed gun licenses in Massachusetts.
Meanwhile, surgeons at a Cambridge hospital said the Boston transit police officer wounded in a shootout with the suspects had lost nearly all his blood, and his heart had stopped from a single gunshot wound that severed three major blood vessels in his right thigh.
Richard Donohue, 33, was in critical but stable condition. He is sedated and on a breathing machine but opened his eyes, moved his hands and feet and squeezed his wife's hand Sunday.
Associated Press writers Geoff Mulvihill, Meghan Barr and national reporter Allen G. Breed in Boston, and writer Michelle R. Smith in Providence, R.I., contributed to this report.


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