#whitney canfield

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Everyone was in their finest form for this party lol

[Family Reunion CAS Challenge by @faerie-tempest]

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From the Golden Age of Television

Series Premiere

Leave it to Beaver - Beaver Gets Spelled - CBS - October 4, 1957

Sitcom

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher

Produced by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher

Directed by Norman Tokar

Stars:

Hugh Beaumont as Ward Cleaver

Barbara Billingsley as June Cleaver

Tony Dow as Wally Cleaver

Jerry Mathers as Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver

Diane Brewster as Miss Canfield

Doris Packer as Mrs. Cornelia Rayburn

Burt Mustin as Old Gus

Stanley Fafara as Hubert "Whitey" Whitney 

Jeri Weil as Judy Hensler

Gary Allen as First Man

Steve Paylow as Boy #2

Ralph Sanford as Fats Flannaghan

Alan Reynolds as Second Man

[fruityyamenrunner]

idk why the various London and New York "ooo remembehs rhodesia" socialites and BAPoids haven't made a thing out of these degenerates. they seem like more realistic role models

Born Alice Gwynne (1898–1946), she was an American socialite, relative of the powerful Whitney and Vanderbilt families. Kiki and her second husband, Jeromy "Gerry" Preston (1897–1934) first moved to Kenya in 1926, after being offered land on the shores of Lake Naivasha by a friend. Kiki and her husband excelled as big game hunters. Kiki was also notorious for her drug use, especially her addiction to cocaine and heroin, and was one of the best clients of Frank Greswolde Williams, the chief drug dealer of the colony. She was nicknamed "the girl with the silver syringe", due to her habit of always carrying her syringe in her bag and publicly shooting drugs without regard for onlookers. Whenever she was out of supplies, she would send an aeroplane to get new ones. Kiki also had numerous affairs with men, including Prince George, Duke of Kent, whom she introduced to drugs, much to the dismay of the British royal family, which forbade them from meeting with each other. Kiki is often alleged to have borne a child out of wedlock from her affair with Prince George, who later became publishing executive Michael Temple Canfield, adopted son of Cass Canfield

and so on. maybe they are too realistic

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Amazing Stories is coming to Apple TV+ on March 6.

A reimagining of Steven Spielberg’s 1980s anthology series, this new version is being developed by Universal TV and Amblin Television.

Apple released a first look photo from the series today at the Television Critics Association winter press tour. The image offers a glimpse of an upcoming episode titled “The Rift,” directed by Mark Mylod and starring Kerry Lynn Bishe, Whitney Coleman, Trisha Mashburn, Austin Stowell, Edward Burns and Juliana Canfield.

Talent on additional episodes includes Dylan O’Brien, Victoria Pedretti, Josh Holloway, Sasha Alexander, and Robert Forster in his final role before passing away last October.

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Amazing Stories is coming to Apple TV+ on March 6.

A reimagining of Steven Spielberg’s 1980s anthology series, this new version is being developed by Universal TV and Amblin Television.

Apple released a first look photo from the series today at the Television Critics Association winter press tour. The image offers a glimpse of an upcoming episode titled “The Rift,” directed by Mark Mylod and starring Kerry Lynn Bishe, Whitney Coleman, Trisha Mashburn, Austin Stowell, Edward Burns and Juliana Canfield.

Talent on additional episodes includes Dylan O’Brien, Victoria Pedretti, Josh Holloway, Sasha Alexander, and Robert Forster in his final role before passing away last October.

[dailydob]

Amazing Stories is coming to Apple TV+ on March 6.

A reimagining of Steven Spielberg’s 1980s anthology series, this new version is being developed by Universal TV and Amblin Television.

Apple released a first look photo from the series today at the Television Critics Association winter press tour. The image offers a glimpse of an upcoming episode titled “The Rift,” directed by Mark Mylod and starring Kerry Lynn Bishe, Whitney Coleman, Trisha Mashburn, Austin Stowell, Edward Burns and Juliana Canfield.

Talent on additional episodes includes Dylan O’Brien, Victoria Pedretti, Josh Holloway, Sasha Alexander, and Robert Forster in his final role before passing away last October.

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Researchers discover super-elastic shape-memory material

UConn materials science and engineering researcher Seok-Woo Lee and his colleagues have discovered super-elastic shape-memory properties in a material that could be applied for use as an actuator in the harshest of conditions, such as outer space, and might be the first in a whole new class of shape-memory materials.

If you have ever had braces or wear eyeglasses, you may have already come in contact with shape-memory materials. With applications in a wide range of consumer products such as "unbreakable" frames for glasses, and civil industrial structures like bridges, materials with shape-memory properties can return to their original shape by magnetic forces or heat even after being significantly deformed.

Lee, who is Pratt & Whitney assistant professor of materials science and engineering, studied calcium iron arsenide, or CaFe2As2, which is an intermetallic better known for its novel superconducting properties. Since the material is commonly used in high-temperature superconductors, extensive research had already examined the compound's superconducting and magnetic properties. Inspired by previous research conducted at the U.S Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory by Paul Canfield on calcium iron arsenide's electronic properties, Lee set out to measure the material's high degree of pressure and strain sensitivity for potential applications as a structural material.

Read more.

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Fantastic First Trailer For Steven Spielberg's AMAZING STORIES Revival Series!

Apple TV+ has released the first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories revival series and I’m 100% sold! I grew up watching Amazing Stories when I was a kid. It is one of my favorite shows of all time and I loved what I’m seeing in the first trailer! I totally looks like it captures the magic of the original series and when that classic musical score kicks it, it gave me all the feels!

The trailer teases five of the unique stories that the series will tell and gives us a first look at the stars which includes Dylan O’Brien, Edward Burns and the late Robert Forster, who plays a grandpa who has superpowers! It also stars Victoria Pedretti (The Haunting of Hill House, You), Josh Holloway (Lost, Yellowstone), Sasha Alexander (Rizzoli & Isles, Shameless), Edward Burns, Kerry Lynne Bishé, Whitney Coleman, Trisha Mashburn, Austin Stowell, and Juliana Canfield.

There will be 10 episodes total and each episode will transport the audience to worlds of wonder through the lens of today’s most imaginative filmmakers. Those directors and writers who have been brought onto the series include Chris Long (The Americans, The Mentalist), Mark Mylod (Succession, Game of Thrones), Michael Dinner (Unbelievable, Sneaky Pete), Susanna Fogel (Utopia, Play By Play), and Sylvain White (Stomp The Yard, The Rookie).

Forster stars in the episode titled “Dynoman and the Volt,” directed by Susana Fogel, which follows an awkward tween boy and his grandpa (Forster) who wrestle with feeling powerless, but when a superhero ring Grandpa ordered out of the back of a comic book arrives 50 years late and has the power to turn them into actual superheroes. The episode will feature an “In memory of” card to honor the late actor.

The series will be making its debut on Apple TV+ on March 6th with its first five episodes. Spielberg is a producer on the series alongside Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz (Lost, Once Upon a Time), who will both serve as showrunners.

Check out the trailer below and let us know if you like what you see!

source https://geektyrant.com/news/fantastic-first-trailer-for-steven-spielbergs-amazing-stories-revival-series

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'It could have been me': five years after Michael Brown, young black men in Ferguson speak

‘It could have been me’: five years after Michael Brown, young black men in Ferguson speak

On 9 August 2014 police in Missouri killed 18-year-old Michael Brown. We asked his peers from the same neighborhood to recall that day – and discuss how they’ve moved on.

By Mariah Stewart with photographs by Whitney Curtis | The Guardian | August 9, 2019

Ricky Allen, 20

Ricky was in a green space around the corner from where he lives at the Canfield Green apartment complex,…

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boredom

ok, so I can across this game that i reblogged 7 years ago. And I now feel old on so many levels ...

Bold the names you recognize; strike the names of the people you dislike.

Aaron Albert, Aaron Yoo, Adam Hicks, Alan Tudyk, Alex Black, Alex Lambert, Alexander Gould, Alexander Ludwig, Alexander Skarsgård, Alexandra Daddario, Alyssa Milano, Ally Maki, Alyson Michalka,Alyson Stoner, Amanda Crew, Amanda Michalka, Amber Riley, Amber Stevens, Anna Paquin, Andrea Bowen, Andrew Caldwell, Angel McCord, Angela Featherstone, Angus T. Jones, Anna Maria Perez De Tagle, Anna Margaret, AnnaLyne McCord, Annamarie Kenoyer, AnnaSophia Robb, Anne Hathaway, Ariana Grande, Ariel Winter, Asher Book, Ashley Argota, Ashley Bell, Ashley Benson, Ashley Greene, Ashley Rickards, Ashley Tisdale, Austin Anderson, Austin Butler, Austin Canfield, Avan Jogia, Ayla Kell, Bailee Madison, Bella Thorne, Ben Nemtin, Bianca Lawson, Bobb’e J. Thompson, Bobby Campo, Bo Burnham, BooBoo Stewart, Bradley James, Brando Eaton, Brandon Mychal Smith, Brandon T. Jackson, Brenda Song, Brecking Meyer, Bridgit Mendler, Brie Larson, Brit Morgan, Britt Robertson, Brittany Curran, Caitlyn Taylor Love, Camille Winbush, Cameron Monaghan, Candice Accola, Carlie Casey, Carly Chaikin, Carlos Pena Jr., Carter Jenkins, Casey Deidrick, Cassie Scerbo, Cassidy, Charlie McDermott, Charlie Stewart, Charles Carver, Chelsea Hobbs, Chelsea Gabrielle, Chelsea Staub, Chloe Bridges, Chloe Moretz, Chris Colfer, Chris Warren Jr., Christina Milian, Christian Serratos, Christopher Massey, Ciara Hanna, Cody Allen Christian , Cody Linley, Cody Longo, Colin Firth, Colin Morgan, Collins Pennie, Conner Price, Corbin Bleu, Cory Monteith, Cymphonique Miller, Dakota Fanning, Dan Benson, Dana Davis, Dani Thorne, Daniel Curtis Lee, Daniel Radcliffe, Daniella Monet, Danielle Campbell, Danielle Panabaker, Daren Kagasoff, Darin Brooks, Daryl Sabara, Daveigh Chase,David Archuleta, David Boreanaz, David Blue, David Deluis, David Del Rio, David Henrie, David Lambert, Debby Ryan, Demi Lovato, Devon Werkheiser, Dianna Agron, Dijon Talton, Dichen Lachman, Doc Shaw, Doug Brochu, Drew Roy, Drew Seeley, Drew Tyler Bell, Dustin Milligan, Dylan and Cole Sprouse, Dylan Minnette, Dylan Patton, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Elijah Kelley, Eliza Dushku, Elizabeth Gillies, Emma Watson, Emily Grace Reaves, Emily Osment, Emily Ratajkowski, Eric Sheffer Stevens, Erin Sanders, Enver Gjokaj, Ethan Peck, Evan Ellingson, Evan Rachel Wood, Fivel Stewart, Fran Kranz, Frankie Jonas, Francia Raisa, Gage Golightly, Gia Mantegna, Gilland Jones, Giglianne Braga, Grace Gummer, Greg Finley II, Gregg Sulkin, Gregory Michael, Graham Patrick Martin, Graham Phillips, Haley Bennett, Hanna Beth, Hayden Panetteire, Hayley Chase, Hayley Erin, Hayley Hasselhoff, Hayley Kiyoko, Hayley Williams, Haley Ramm, Harry Shum Jr., Heather Morris, Honor Society, Holly Marie Combs, Hugh Jackman, Hugh Laurie, Hutch Dano, Ian Somerhalder, Isabella Collins, Isabelle Furman, Italia Ricci, Jack Salvatore Jr., Jake T. Austin, Jake Silbermann, James Kyson-Lee, James Maslow, James McAvoy, Jamie Chung, Jena Malone, Janel Parrish, Jansen Panettiere, Jasmine Villegas, Jasmine Guy, Jason Dolley, Jason Earles, Jayma Mays, Jenna Ushkowitz,Jenette McCurdy, Jennifer Stone, Jessalyn Gilsig, Jesse McCartney, Jessica Lucas, Jessica Stroup, Jillian Clare, Jimmy Robbins, Joe Jonas, Johnny Depp, Johnny Pacar, Jolene Purdy, Jonathan Keltz, Jordan Monaghan, Josh Golden, Josh Henderson, Josh Hutcherson, Josh Sussman, Joshua Moore, Josie Loren, Joy Lauren, Julia Jones, Justin Bieber, Justin Lee, Justine Bateman, Justine Wachsberger, Kate Lang Johnson, Katerina Graham, Katie Cassidy, Katy Perry, Kay Panabaker, Kaycee Stroh, Katelyn Tarver, Kayla Ewell, Keira Knightley, Keke Palmer, Kelsey Chow, Kellan Lutz, Kelly Blatz, Kelly Gould, Kelly Hu, Kelly Kruger, Kerry Ellis, Kendall Schmidt, Kenny Baumann, Kevin Jonas, Kevin Mchale, Kevin Schmidt, Kristen Stewart, Kristoffer Polaha, Kristine Elezaj, Kristin Cavallari, Kropp Circle, KSM, Kwame Boateng, Kyle Gallner, Kyle Kaplan, Kyle Massey, Kyle Swann, Laura Ramsey, Lauren Gottlieb, Lea Michele, Leon Thomas III, Lexi Ainsworth, Leven Rambin, Liev Schreiber, Lil’ JJ, Liliana Mumy, Lily Collins, Lindsey Shaw, Logan Henderson, Logan Lerman, Logan Miller, Lucas Cruikshank, Lucas Grabeel,Lucas Till, Lucy Hale, Luke Benward, Luke Worrall, Lyndsy Fonseca, Lindsay Lohan,Madeleine Martin, Madison Davenport, Madison Pettis, Madison Riley,Maiara Walsh, Malcolm David Kelley, Malese Jow, Mariana Klaveno,  Mark Salling,Mason Musso, Mathias Anderle, Matt Bennett, Matt Davis, Matt Lanter, Matt Prokop, Matt Shively, Matthew Davis, Matthew MacFadyen, Matthew Morrison, Matthew Underwood, Matthew Timmons, Max Fagin, Meaghan Martin, Meg Ryan, Megan Fox, Megan Park, Melissa Ordway, Mia Rose Frampton, Michael B. Jordan, Michael Rady, Michael Steger, Michael Trevino, Michael Welch, Michelle Kim, Milly and Becky Rosso, Mitch Ryan, Mitchel Musso, Miranda Cosgrove, Molly Burnett, Molly McCook, Molly Quinn, Monique Coleman, Moises Arias, Morgan York, Nate Hartley, Nathalia Ramos, Nathan Gamble, Nathan Kress, Natrui Naughton, Naya Rivera, Nicholas Braun, Nicholas Hoult, Nick Jonas, Nick Purcell, Nikki Blonsky, Nikki Reed, Nikki Soohoo, Nico Tortorella, Nicole Anderson, Nina Dobrev, Noah Cyrus, Noah Munck, Odette Yustman, Olivia Thirlby, Olivier Martinez, Olyessa Rulin, Paul Iacono, Paul Wesley, Peaches Geldof, Perry Mattfeld, Portia Doubleday, Push Play, Rachel G. Fox, Raini Rodriguez, Raven Goodwin, Raven-Symoné, Recci Canon, Reed Alexander, Reid Ewing, Rachel Mc. Adams, Renee Olstead, RJ Mitte, Rob Pinkston, Robbie Amell, Robert Hoffman, Robert Pattinson, Romi Dames, Rooney Mara, Rosamund Pike, Rumer Willis, Rupert Grint, Ryan Eggold, Ryan Gosling, Ryan Hansen, Ryan Malgsrini, Ryan Newman,  Ryan Ochoa, Ryan Pinkston, Ryan Rottman, Samantha Droke, Star Ryan, Sammi Hanratty, Sara Canning, Sarah Hyland, Sasha Pieterse, Ryan, Savvy and Mandy, School Gyrls, Scout Taylor-Compton, Selena Gomez, Shailene Woodley, Shane Harper, Shanica Knowles, Shareeka Epps, Sharni Vinson, Shaun Sipos, Shay Mitchell, Shenae Grimes, Shiri Appleby, Shoshana Bush, Simon Curtis, Sofia Vassilieva, Skyler Samuels, Spencer Grammer, Sterling Beaumon, Sterling Knight, Stella Maeve, Stephanie Jacobsen, Stephanie Pratt, Steven R. McQueen, Sydney Park, Tahmoh Penikett, Tania Gunadi, Taylor Lautner, Taylor Parks, Taylor Spreitler, Taylor Swift, Teresa Palmer, Tiffany Giardina, Tiffany Thornton, Teo Olivares, Tony Oller, Trace Cyrus, Tristin Mays ,Tristan Wilds, Trevor Gagnon, Troian Bellisario, Tyler Hilton, Tyler James Williams, V Factory, Van Hansis, Vanessa Hudgens, Varsity Fanclub,Victoria Justice, Vincent Martella, Vinicius Machado, Walter Perez, Whitney Able, Whitney Cummings, Whitney Port,, WOW, Zac Efron, Zach Roerig, Zachary Burr Abel, Zoe Myers

[goldoradove]

Cedric's twin Chelsey is doing okay. Katlyn, on the other hand, is really struggling—losing her niece and her closest brother in quick succession.

[duaneodavila]

These Biglaw Firms Are Officially Diversity Certified

A little over a year ago, a bold idea was formed at a Diversity Lab event, the Women in Law Hackathon. Modeled after the NFL’s Rooney Rule, which requires teams to interview a minority candidate for head coach or general manager vacancies, the idea first proposed by Mark Helm, a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson, was to create a system to encourage Biglaw firms to consider women or minority candidates for leadership roles at the firm.

Named the Mansfield Rule after Arabella Mansfield, the first woman admitted to practice law in the U.S., asks firms to consider two or more candidates who are women or attorneys of color when hiring for leadership and governance roles, promotions to equity partner, and hiring lateral attorneys. And, if the firms can demonstrate 30 percent of the pool for these positions are diverse, they’ll be “Mansfield Certified.” A year later, we have our first official list of Mansfield Certified firms.

A total of 50 firms are in the process of implementing the rule, and in its inaugural year, 41 firms have been Mansfield Certified:

Akerman; Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer; Blank Rome; Brinks Gilson & Lione; Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck; Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner; Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney; Clifford Chance; Cooley; Covington & Burling; Day Pitney; Dentons; DLA Piper; Dorsey & Whitney; Faegre Baker Daniels; Fasken; Fenwick & West; Fish & Richardson; Goodwin Procter; Holland & Hart; Holland & Knight; Jenner & Block; Katten Muchin Rosenman; Latham & Watkins; Littler Mendelson; McDermott Will & Emery; Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone; Morgan, Lewis & Bockius; Morris, Manning & Martin; Morrison & Foerster; Munger, Tolles & Olson; Nixon Peabody; Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe; O’Melveny & Myers; Reed Smith; Seyfarth Shaw; Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton; Troutman Sanders; White & Case; Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr; and Winston & Strawn.

The Diversity Lab is continuing to work with the firms that are working toward this goal.

That so many firms have signed onto the program is seen as a great success, as reported by Law.com:

“Law firms are not typically early adopters on risky endeavors, especially ones where the results will be made public,” said Caren Ulrich Stacy, CEO of the Diversity Lab, which worked with the firms to implement the Mansfield Rule.

“But these 41 firms showed their true desire to boost diversity in leadership by trying something new and tough to implement,” she said.

Another benefit law firms have seen from implementing the rule is documenting just how well they’re doing on questions of diversity:

“The Mansfield Rule has really brought a rigor and discipline to the whole process,” said David Koschik, partner and member of White & Case’s executive committee.

“It’s also caused us to look at situations where we might either not have a female partner or diverse partner in our minds ready for a leadership opportunity [and] it’s caused us to look at why that is,” he said.

Diversity Lab is currently working on Mansfield 2.0, which will expand the rule to include LGBTQ+ attorneys.

Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, and host of The Jabot podcast. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter (@Kathryn1).

These Biglaw Firms Are Officially Diversity Certified republished via Above the Law

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Made in America

In what messed up universe is being called Pocahontas an insult?  Reading the recent letter from members of the Cherokee Nation to Senator Elizabeth Warren, I have been cast into reflection, and I have looked back through the three-pound hardcover edition of the compilation Three American Indian Women: “Sarah Winnemucca” by Gae Whitney Canfield, “Sacajawea” by Harold P. Howard, and “Pocahontas”…

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Favorite tweets: Thanks for the tip. Extremely interesting. Especially on Rockefeller, Reed, Burden, Jackson, Paley, Whitney, Cowels, Fleischmann, Canfield, Hobby and Braden with ties to both museum and intelligence worlds.— Open Art Data (@OpenLinkArtData) February 28, 2020

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Battling The Bullets From The Operating Room To The Community

Dr. Laurie Punch (center), a trauma surgeon at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, shows Melissa Woeppel (left) and Stan Schloesser how to apply a tourniquet during a Stop the Bleed class last month in St. Louis.(Whitney Curtis for KHN)

This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free (details).

ST. LOUIS — Dr. Laurie Punch plunged her gloved hands into Sidney Taylor’s open chest in a hospital’s operating room here, pushing on his heart to make it pump again after a bullet had torn through his flesh, collarbone and lung. His pulse had faded to nothing. She needed to get his heart beating.

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She couldn’t let the bullet win.

Bullets are Punch’s enemy. They threaten everything the 44-year-old trauma surgeon cherishes: her patients’ lives, her community, even her family. So, just as she recalled doing two years ago with Taylor, Punch has made it her life’s mission to stem the bleeding and the damage bullets cause — and excise them if she can.

In the operating rooms at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Punch treats gunshot victims, removing bullets that studies show can poison bodies with lead and fuel depression. And in her violence-racked community, she teaches people how to use tourniquets to stop bleeding, creating a legion of helpers while building trust between doctors and community members.

Punch feels a calling to St. Louis, a place with the nation’s highest murder rate among big cities, where at least a dozen children were shot to death this summer alone, including a 7-year-old boy playing in his backyard. Punch believes all she’s learned has prepared her for now, when gun violence kills an average of 100 Americans a day and mass shootings are so common that two this summer struck less than 24 hours apart.

To her, the battle is personal, in more ways than one.

Dr. Laurie Punch, a trauma surgeon at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, is adamant that violence is a true medical problem doctors must treat in both the operating room and the community.(Whitney Curtis for KHN)

Besides being a surgeon, she’s a multiracial single mom living in Ferguson, Mo., just over a mile from where Michael Brown Jr., a black teenager, was shot and killed by a white police officer five years ago.

She has a son the same age as the little boy killed in the backyard in August. And she said, “I hear the gunshots echoing through my 2-acre backyard all the time.”

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Stopping A Deadly Disease

In September, Punch brought her message to Washington, D.C., testifying before the House Ways and Means Oversight subcommittee on gun violence. Wearing a jacket and tie, she faced lawmakers to share the story of Shannon Hibler.

The 23-year-old was brought to Punch’s hospital last summer, shot seven times. While the nurses gave him blood, Punch said, she cut open his chest, trying to force life back into his body — to no avail.

“I watched his wife sink, as the floodwaters of vulnerability and risk came into her eyes, thinking about the life of her and her child and how they would live without him,” Punch told the assembled lawmakers. “I watched his father rage. And I heard his mother wail.”

Punch placed the black-and-yellow, blood-splattered Adidas sneakers she’d worn the day of the shooting on the table before her in the hearing room.

“I can’t wash these stains out,” she told lawmakers.

Dr. Laurie Punch testifies in September before the House Ways and Means Oversight subcommittee on gun violence, seated next to a pair of blood-spattered Adidas sneakers. She was wearing them the day she tried to save a 23-year-old who had been shot seven times.(Screengrab from House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee via YouTube)

The trauma surgeon was adamant: Violence is a true medical problem doctors must treat in both the operating room and the community. Until they do that, she said, violence victims will continue to be vectors who spread violence.

“The disease that bullets bring does not yet have a name,” she told Congress that day. “It’s like an infection, because it affects more than just the flesh it pierces. It infects the entire family, the entire community. Even our country.”

But healing also can be contagious — spreading among victims, families and the physicians themselves.

Punch, who regularly visits the neighborhoods where her patients live, attended an event last year for Saint Louis Story Stitchers, an artist and youth collective working to prevent gun violence. She remembers spotting a volunteer she knew — Antwan Pope, who’d been shot some years earlier but had found renewed purpose helping young people.

Punch told Pope about Hibler’s case, and learned Hibler was Pope’s cousin. Hibler’s dad was at the community event, too, and he handed Punch a lapel pin with his son’s picture.

She wore it on her white coat for months.

Two Worlds

Punch was born in Washington, D.C., the only child of a Trinidadian father and white Midwestern mother. They separated six months after her birth.

Until she was 7, Punch moved every year with her mom. They eventually settled with Punch’s grandmother in the tiny town of Wellsville, Ohio, a close-knit but segregated community.

Classmates bullied her for being different, Punch recalls.

“I was different in every way because I wasn’t black; I wasn’t white,” said Punch, who later came out as gay.

From the time Punch was 9, she took $2 piano lessons from Elizabeth Carter. The local music teacher had transformed former drug dens into places with music lessons, free clothes and meals, and put all the kids who sought her help to work. Punch’s assignment was serving food.

“You show someone that they can help,” Punch said, “it’s revolutionary.”

That lesson guided her life as a child and when Punch moved on to Yale University, the University of Connecticut’s medical school and then the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, where poverty and trauma scarred many of her patients’ lives.

Participants listen to Dr. Laurie Punch, a trauma surgeon at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, as she teaches a Stop the Bleed class last month in St. Louis. “It’s far more than teaching people what to do,” Punch says. “They learn: ‘I am not simply a victim or a perpetrator or an observer; I’m a helper. I have the capacity to help.’”(Whitney Curtis for KHN)

Punch spent her early career in the shock trauma center in Baltimore, throwing everything she had into saving others.

After marrying a woman she met as a medical intern, Punch became pregnant with twins at 35.

The next few years were marked by highs and lows in her personal life and the unrelenting stress of dealing with the aftermath of violence at work.

She miscarried at five months. No one could tell her why.

Five months later, she became pregnant again, this time giving birth to a healthy boy, Sollal Braxton Punch. But not long later, she and her wife separated. Now she found herself as a single parent as the pressures of her job mounted.

One morning, three shooting victims arrived at the trauma center, quickly followed by a car crash victim who was pregnant. Punch’s nanny texted her, saying Sollal had a fever of 102.3.

“I realized I can’t do this anymore,” Punch said. “I just can’t.”

The Call Of Community

So, she took a break from trauma for more than two years, focusing on general surgery at Houston Methodist Hospital in Texas.

But in 2015, a former colleague contacted her about a job as a trauma surgeon and educator at Washington University in St. Louis.

She feared going back to another troubled city. Michael Brown Jr. had been killed in Ferguson, Mo., a little more than a year earlier, triggering unrest and riots in that city just outside St. Louis.

Despite the area’s well-known history of violence, she flew to St. Louis for interviews, then rode around Ferguson with Dr. Isaiah Turnbull, an assistant professor. He pointed out the spot on Canfield Drive where Brown’s body had lain in the road for more than four hours.

“It was almost like seeing Ground Zero,” Punch said. “This is where it all went down. And it went down because of deep structural realities that caused the experience of black and brown people in north St. Louis to be fundamentally different. I went from not wanting to go to wanting to be right in the middle of it.”

And now she is.

Project manager Erica Jones (center) shows Tracy Russo (right) how to pack a wound during Dr. Laurie Punch’s Stop the Bleed class last month in St. Louis. The program helps educate the public on how to care for a gunshot victim immediately following the trauma.(Whitney Curtis for KHN)

Project manager Erica Jones demonstrates how to properly apply pressure to a wound. (Whitney Curtis for KHN)

On a recent hot summer evening, 20 people — some black, some white — gathered around Punch. A few feet away, a doctor, a trauma nurse and a medical student stood near tables stacked with “pool noodles,” the long foam cylinders kids play with in swimming pools — these happened to be about the width of a human arm.

Punch told the class that a person can bleed to death in a minute, but an ambulance can take 15 minutes to arrive.

“If you can stop the bleed, you can save a life,” she said. “Time is life and minutes matter.”

Participants practiced packing wounds by pressing gauze into holes in the pool noodles. They tightened tourniquets — first on the foam cylinders, then on each other.

Punch knows one of the doctors who created the “Stop the Bleed” training sessions after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. She realized the same training could save lives after street shootings, too.

Since March 2018, she and her team have trained more than 7,000 community members in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Many come to a rented space she dubbed “The T,” for trauma, tourniquet and time. But Punch’s team has also held classes in schools, a juvenile detention center and a firing range.

“It’s far more than teaching people what to do,” Punch said. “They learn: ‘I am not simply a victim or a perpetrator or an observer; I’m a helper. I have the capacity to help.’”

Dr. Laurie Punch (right) and project manager Erica Jones demonstrate how to apply a tourniquet during a Stop the Bleed class in St. Louis.(Whitney Curtis for KHN)

Contagious Healing

Two years ago, Sidney Taylor was shot outside his brother’s comedy club in north St. Louis County while trying to help a friend who was drunk. When Taylor arrived at Punch’s hospital, profuse bleeding had left his blood pressure dangerously low.

At one point, the father of four technically died on the operating table, but Punch and her team pulled him back.

After 10 days in intensive care, the longtime wrestling coach was still in physical and mental agony.

That’s the point when many patients slip back to their communities unhealed. But Taylor, now 47, showed up in Punch’s clinic a month after he had been shot, and they bonded during a 25-minute visit. Punch described to him how her team had removed part of his lung and inserted a breathing tube.

“Wow,” he told her. “I have another chance at life.”

Punch mulled a thought, then asked. “Would you ever want to share your story?”

Taylor agreed.

Punch recruited his hospital caregivers to create a video of their memories of saving him. When the taping finished, Taylor hugged each one.

Punch uses the video during talks, sometimes inviting Taylor to join her. Giving back to the community in that way has saved him a second time, he said.

After getting shot, “I could’ve basically turned to the dark side and done straight revenge,” Taylor said. “But I didn’t because of her.”

Stan Schloesser (center) practices using a tourniquet with assistance from project manager Erica Jones. (Whitney Curtis for KHN)

Tracy Russo (left) and Brittany Conners listen to trauma surgeon Dr. Laurie Punch as she teaches a Stop the Bleed class last month in St. Louis. (Whitney Curtis for KHN)

from Updates By Dina https://khn.org/news/battling-the-bullets-from-the-operating-room-to-the-community/

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That Time My Mom's Babysitter Was A Murderer; or Why You Need to Vet Your Childcare Providers

That Time My Mom’s Babysitter Was A Murderer; or Why You Need to Vet Your Childcare Providers

My mom was born on May 30, 1933 at her paternal grandmother’s house in Clinton, New York. My grandparents, Tom and Dorothy Canfield and their newborn daughter Patricia then took up residence in Clayville, New York near the Clayville Knitting Mill (now Homogeneous Metals, a division of Pratt & Whitney) where both parents worked. The mill was located on the Sauquoit Creek, whose falls provided the…