Meridenite of the Week: Roberta Cooke Gibson
20.05.09
Meriden Hospital, Yale New Haven Hospital, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, Santa Barbara County Hospital and Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, California, D. C. General Hospital and the National Institute of Health, Bethesda,... Born in 1924, Gibson attended Meriden schools, graduating from Meriden Hospital School of Nursing in 1945. From 1945 to 1962 Gibson advanced her nursing career working as a neurosurgical nurse at hospitals across the country. Roberta Cooke Gibson talks about her life as if it is nothing out of the ordinary but there is nothing ordinary about the accomplishments of this woman. In 1959 she received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Catholic University, Washington, D. C. “Almost everything I did was to increase my knowledge in neurology and neurosurgery,” explained Gibson.
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Dissonance: Having Your Planet and Eating It Too
17.07.11
violence at the other end of this economy, a violence so widespread that. As Chris Hedges admonished in. his books, "Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy" and the "Triumph of. Spectacle," any culture that cannot distinguish reality from illusion. change, a direct result of burning fossil fuels, has proved not only to. be as unpredictable as it is real, but as destructive as it is. unpredictable. we're all not only complicit in it to a degree (e. g. , if you're a. taxpayer, you help subsidize the manufacturing of weapons of mass. marches this culture closer to self-annihilation. planet closer, sooner than later, to a point of uninhabitable. denial in the face of all this sadistic exploitation and violence. "Jersey Shore" and soulless pop music as if their lives depended on it,. identifying with a reality that's artificial and constructed, that. planet and its shifting atmosphere are becoming the norm of the 21st. destruction), but victims of it as well. The erratic and lethal...
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Heavy Duty Fabric Tote bag panel - SANTA'S LAND, PUTNEY VT, since 1957 
At Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex, Santa Monica. Publicized as the first feature made entirely with the Flip camera, David Guy Levy's DIY indie "A Love Affair of Sorts" is exactly what such a technology-specific effort promises: epic navel-gazing and