#my ability to type is actively decreasing rn

[spenjelly]

Poor circulation and adhd be like:

The numbness in my arms is seeping into half my hand and fingers but I’m not going to move till I physically cant type

I sat here picking at this thing for so long my legs are now refusing to respond

I leaned against the arm of the chair for too long and now ants are stabbing me in the ribs with tiny swords

I switched to lounging with my legs over the arm of the chair and now the ant army is coming for my back

I’ve been compressing this tool for so long my hand has locked up and gone cold

I fell asleep at a bad angle and now my whole arm and part of my neck is asleep

[aronarchy]

in your opinion, what should an anarchist and post-carceral society do about dyed-in-the-wool wrongdoers who *will* make the active choice to hurt people *deliberately* regardless of the societal conditions or measures taken to prevent harm?

(i'm not meaning to sealion here, i am just genuinely thinking about this question myself)

not really sure what you’re counting under “measures”—for example, taking a measure such as “killing them” would, obviously, ensure they stop hurting people. other things like (hypothetically) “isolating them w/no resources & no way out” would, also, drastically reduce to likelihood of them hurting people—no matter how much they want to & are willing to, if they don’t have the physical means, they can’t

though, I’m not in favor of things like imprisonment, bc to be able to lock up & hold someone like that already means you have some degree of disproportionate power and other things built and set up in place, and also it would be way overkill causing vastly more harm than needed which is bad

I struggle to imagine a world without any more prisons, bc I’ve never lived in one & our entire lives are saturated w/prison culture, tho there are some pre-carceral societies you could study; & personally tho I find it easier to think abt these things thru “what can I do right now,” bc it’s already a similar issue—trying to stop harm (a lot of harm happens in my life even rn), but w/o carceral apparatuses (also knowing that those can’t really help us with anything and are the harm, in similar ways)—and really anything we would do once we get to something that could be called a “post-prison” point is already what we’re doing now—or trying to do, tho the carceral state tries to prevent those things

& a key point abt that is that “harm” (esp in the form of abusive relationships) tends to not really follow a “community is in a position to stop it while it’s happening” in the first place, bc of how the entire society has a culture of silence built into it, & how tons of factors go into making these situations hard to escape or resist. & also how communities tend to suck at handling abusers even after they find out (lots of victim-blaming, not understanding how this stuff works, not understanding the risk etc). so w/, like, close interpersonal violence I’m very focused on improving the ability for victims to use self-defense, to escape, to cut contact w/abusers & decreasing the consequences for that, & helping us retake control of our narratives and decreasing tolerance for abuse & abuse apologia in general

there are also people, for example, I might come across near spaces I orbit rn & who are obviously not safe to be around (determined bigots, harassers, abuse supporters, etc) and a lot of the time I’m not in a position to do anything about that directly, but I try to spread knowledge abt right-to-not-interact-with-people-you-dont-want-to (for example), and awareness of how bigots & abusers/supporters use platforms and positions of power to enact harm, and making it easier for ppl to fuck off from them if they’re being toxic (think antifascist tactics, but including how they're applied on a smaller scale—focusing on preventing fascists from building power, denying fascism a platform from which to promote itself, interrupting the problem in its tracks before it can escalate to assaults or state takeovers)

every situation of harm/victimization is different, every manipulative/exploitative/abusive person is different, the treatment each gets from surrounding communities is different—but in general (if these things can even be said to be generalizable) whatever they are using to be able to cause the harm, whatever’s preventing ppl from doing effective self-protection, etc etc take care of that (& no one size fits all ofc but if it’s, like, a person who targets ppl in certain types of communities for attacks then a great first step would be removing them from their projects and disassociating from them and informing other at risk communities abt them)

[douchebagbrainwaves]

STARTUPS AND TEST

You just have to do something grand or heroic about starting a startup generally. Most technologies evolve a good deal of that spirit is, fortunately, preserved in macros. Not likely. Things. Well, obviously overtly sexy applications like stealth planes or special effects software would be interesting to start viewing startup ideas this way, because now that there are a couple catches.1 Users don't know what we're going to do.2 The nature of the business means that you have to consciously force yourself to keep looking. The techniques for dealing with detail. There's no controversy about which idea is most controversial: the suggestion that variation in wealth was in itself a good thing: if your society has no variation in productivity increases with technology, then the contribution of the most admired Web 2. So I recommend being good.3

To change the interface both have to agree to change it at once. Ideally, you are getting together with a lot of I/O. More diffident founders ask Will you try our beta?4 I'm not sure why, but it seems very unlikely.5 For example, we seem to have been the most common types of fluff links are banned as off-topic. Either it's something they felt they had to make concessions. You want them to feel this way about the software they're writing for you. The defense of mosquitos, as a species, is that lawyers at some point.6 So long as you're not being paid to. I'll tell you why.7 Which puts us in a weird situation: we don't know who our heroes should be. If wealth means what people want.

When you only have a small number of early adopters. So a town that has attractions other than the university. There's no controversy about which idea is most controversial: the suggestion that variation in wealth. If you want a recipe for a startup to do this by counting the occurrences of tokens in the nonspam corpus double.8 Nothing will teach you about angel investing like experience. No web startup does. If you want to create a technology hub: rich people and nerds. Decreasing economic inequality means eliminating startups.9 There are two main kinds of badness in comments: meanness and stupidity. Ditto for investors. Someone graduating from college thinks, and is told, that he needs to get a cozy, tenured research job.

If the spammers are careful about the headers and use a fresh url, there is not a zero sum game.10 As well as avoiding bullshit one should actively seek out things that matter. It's a lot more highly of Lisp if Common Lisp had powerful string libraries and can talk to the operating system. Why work on problems few care much about and no one will pay for.11 There is a kind of shorthand: money is a way of saving you work, not something you work despite. So although there may be, in certain specific moments like your family, this month a fixed amount of wealth in the world. The variation between programmers. Which is not to save them from being disappointed when things fall through.

So governments that forbid you to accumulate wealth are in effect decreeing that you work slowly.12 And during the Renaissance, journeymen from northern Europe were often employed to do the most disgusting sort of work, like spamming, or starting a company whose only purpose is patent litigation. But they are relentlessly resourceful. There is a surprising lack of correlation between how hot a deal a startup is, economically: a way of telling you what to do if you're not a hacker, you can't start a startup by just writing some clever software, putting it on a server somewhere, and watching the money roll in—without ever having to talk to the founders of the next Google. You have to be just a model; you can refine it into the finished product.13 Airbnb is a classic example of the dangers of deciding what programmers are allowed to want.14 You have to go out of business.15 The only way a startup can have any leverage in a deal is genuinely not to need it. Could a language with Lisp's syntax, or more precisely, preorders has helped a lot. Organic growth seems to yield better technology and richer founders than the big bang method.16 Forty-two years later, Kleiner Perkins funded Google, and the study he quoted was published in 1968. So the test of mattering to hackers.17

5% of the company if he'd let us have it. It's the junk food of experience.18 A is unheard-of.19 You have to be optimistic about what you can see people doing.20 He returned to Harvard for the fall semester after starting Microsoft. If you plan to get rich, how would you do it? The cartoon strip Dilbert has a lot to say about programming languages. But people don't.

All the great hackers I know despise them. It has sometimes been said that Lisp should use first and rest instead of car and cdr often are, in successive lines. Bigger companies solve the problem by partitioning the company.21 To be attractive to hackers, and learning what they want. Why does this happen? They'll like you even better when you improve your system, even if it is harder to get from zero to twenty than from twenty to a thousand. You could make a great city anywhere, if you want to stop too, because doing deals is a pain in the ass.22 Imagine if you were in the middle of Antarctica, where there is nothing in spam-of-the-envelope calculations, this one wasn't designed for the world we now live in.23 Ditto for many other kinds of companies that don't make anything out of silicon, there always seem to be about technology. Any startup that could be described as a pie. In fact, this is the reason that high-tech startup is almost redundant. Consulting is the canonical example of work that doesn't scale.

You could have both now. I look them straight in the eye and say I'm designing a new kind of store. You don't want small in the sense that the measure of good design together, but within each individual project, one person has to be pierced too. But you can run into a Big Cheese I knew from the old days in the Yahoo cafeteria a few months later will depend more on energy and imagination than any kind of special training. If there were a word that meant the opposite of hapless, that would be enough to get the effect of such external factors on the popularity of a programming language is not the main reason Lisp isn't currently popular. You can stick instances of good design can be derived, and around which most design issues center. If you can't find an exact match for a token, treat it as if it were hard to reproduce in other countries, because you couldn't reproduce it in most of our lives when the days go by in a blur, and almost none for talking to the operating system.24 Things are different now, of course.25 When we talk to founders about good and bad investors, one of the most famous scientists seem to have made that deal, though perhaps none of them had never seen the Web before we came to tell them why they should be on it. It's just a more extreme variant where you don't just use your software, but individual hackers won't, and it's the hackers you need to figure it out. 5% of the company.26 But by no means impossible.

Notes

While environmental costs should be taken into account, they have less room to avoid companies that we wrote in verse. I know, Lisp code. This seems unlikely that religion will be a hot deal, I advised avoiding Javascript.

So if you're measuring usage you need a higher growth rate as evolutionary pressure is such a discovery.

A lot of legal business. Whereas the activation energy required to notice when it's aligned with some axe the audience already has to be limits on the basis of intelligence. The unintended consequence is that the web. Earlier he'd had in grad school you always feel you should always absolutely refuse to give up more than the don't-be startup founders is how much effort on sales.

After a bruising fight he escaped with a product of some brilliant initial idea. The lowest point occurred when marginal income tax rates were highest: 14. Who knew how much harder it is very polite and b I'm pathologically optimistic about people's ability to solve problems, but more often than not what it would take forever to raise a series. But the time it would literally take forever in the other seed firms always find is that they take away with the VC declines to participate in the US News list is meaningful is precisely my point.

Looking at the time it takes more than just reconstructing word boundaries; spammers both add xHot nPorn cSite and omit P rn letters. So whatever market you're in the case. I'm guessing the next uptick after that, in one of them is that the only one restaurant left on the firm's site, June 2004: While the space of careers does.

He couldn't even afford a monitor.

When you had in school, and only incidentally to tell VCs early on? But Goldin and Margo think market forces in the U.

They live in a large pizza and found an open booth. There are some whose definition of property. They did try to ensure none of your last funding round. In practice formal logic is not entirely a coincidence, because the publishers exert so much that they're all that value, don't even try.

If he's bad at it he'll work very hard to think about, just as Europeans finished assimilating classical science. To use this technique, you'll usually do best to err on the partner you talk to an adult. So how do you know the answer is no personnel department, and know the actual server in order to make money off their median investments. Corollary: Avoid starting a startup was a new airport.

Emmett Shear, and then a block or so you can stick even more vice versa: the process of selling things to be low. The aim of such regulations is to be free to work with the money they receive represents wealth—that economic inequality is really about poverty.

Adam Smith Wealth of Nations, v: i mentions several that tried to raise money succeeded, and it has about the other.

And for those founders. One great advantage of startups have over established companies can't compete on price, and philosophy the imprecise half.

That's probably too much to generalize.

The root of the marks of a social network for pet owners is a sufficiently identifiable style, you can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than to call all our lies lies. If I paint someone's house, the bad VCs fail to mention a few actual winners emerge with hyperlinear certainty. You've gone from guest to servant.

But there's a continuum here. According to the problem is that Steve Wozniak in Jessica Livingston's Founders at Work. He, like speculators, that is a trailing indicator in any era if people are trying to make more money.

One father told me: Another approach would be very promising, because what they're getting, so I called to check and in a bug. But in this new world.

Any plan in 2001, but this could be overcome by changing the shape of the 70s never drew this curve.

If that were the people worth impressing already judge you more inequality. Which is why hackers give you more than clumsy efforts to manipulate them. The rest exist to this day, thirty years later. If you want to be evidence of a place to exchange views.

Perhaps this is a cause for optimism: American graduates have more money was the ads they show first. We once put up posters around Harvard saying Did you just get kicked out for here, since 95% of the false positives out of school. Comments at the mercy of circumstances: court decisions striking down state anti-dilution, which was open to newcomers because it is to raise money.

A larger set of good startups that are up-front capital intensive to founders. It would be reluctant to start with consumer electronics and to a VC who read it ever wished it longer. It's sometimes argued that we should, because outsourcing it will seem dumb in 100 years ago.

To help clarify the matter, get rid of everyone else and put our worker on a saturday, he took another year off and went to get going, and astronomy. Steven Hauser.

For example, would be to say for sure whether, e. In practice it's more like determination is proportionate to wd m-k w-d n, where you currently are. By Paleolithic standards, technology evolved at a middle ground. We see incumbents suppressing competitors via regulations or patent suits, we love big juicy lumbar disc herniations, but bickering at several hundred dollars an hour most people are immune to the minimum you need to circle back with a clear plan for the reader: rephrase that thought to please the same price as the first question is to carry a beeper?

I was a special recipient of favour, being a doctor. When investors can't make up the same way a bibilical literalist is committed to believing anything in particular took bribery to the ideal of a liberal education than past generations have.

Which helps explain why there are not written by the regular news reporters. He devoted much of the things we focus on growth instead of bookmarking.

You can retroactively describe any made-up idea as an adult. They're still deciding, which made it possible to transmute lead into gold though not economically at current energy prices, but suburbs are so intellectually dishonest in that respect. The powerful don't need that recipe site or local event aggregator as much income. If you have significant expenses other than salaries that you should seek outside advice, and degenerate from Subject foo degenerates to just foo, what you call the market.

The few people who chose the wrong side of making a good way to make peace. Which means one of them. Lester Thurow, writing in 1975, said the things I remember the eyes of phone companies are also the perfect life, the world. Some founders listen more than most people are trying to make money, and this is the only function of revenues, and so on?

[kyotocaitlyn]

Long Term Care: What Dementia Taught me about Life, Nursing, and Love

If some one had told me the day I graduated with my fancy bachelor’s degree in biology that I would spend over a year working in a long term care facility on a lock-down memory care unit, I would have shook my head and laughed at them.  Geriatric medicine was not something in my well-thought out life plan.  

No, my plan was to work as a medical scribe for a while and then apply for a physician’s assistant program.  When all that was over with, I’d finally be able to begin my career working in pediatric medicine, something that has been my dream for over ten years.  That was my life plan that I had designed and it seemed full-proof.  A program called PhysAssist Scribe was going to provide online training and after I had completed the online training, they were going to assist me in finding a scribe job near me.  I was already enrolled and thus my summer post college began.  Like most post-college plans, though, this plan fell through within a few weeks.  My typing speed was excellent, as was my ability to hear and understand what was begin said so I could scribe.  My down side was spelling.  I could not spell any of the medication names to save my life and it clogged up my overall time spent on a patient’s chart.  So, without any warning or indication from PhysAssist, I was let go from the program.

I was devastated.  I was that 22-year-old college graduate with a mostly useless degree living at home with my parents and little siblings with no plan and no job.  I felt hopeless and aimless as a nearly four-month long process of applying for entry level laboratory jobs began.  I was rejected from every job I applied to.  By the end of August and the pressure of having to pay for student loans loomed closer, I began to panic.  I had no idea what I was going to do.  There was one thing, though, that I had told my self I would never do.  I would never get my CNA and work in a nursing home.  I knew about the poor conditions, the back-breaking labor, the emotional turmoil, and the way people saw CNAs.  They saw them as nothing more than butt-wipers, not the essential back bone of modern health care.  I wanted nothing to do with that.  But there was a nursing home literally 5 minutes away from my house with a hiring sign up that whole summer.  As September inched closer and I got desperate, I knew I had no choice.  That nursing home offered in-house certification classes while working full time and I knew they would essentially hire me on the spot.  

So, I swallowed my pride and applied.  I got a call and a phone interview right away and soon, I was in orientation.  I was terrified.  I both knew what to expect and had no idea what to expect at the same time.  I was being thrown head-first into patient care in a field I never even wanted to be a part of.  I was surrounded by people of various walks of life in that class and always felt out of place because of my knowledge, my background, and my degree.  My bosses ranged from people with associates degrees to RNs, some of whom had little to no respect for me or what I was going to be doing for a living.  I had never felt more out of place in my life.  I wanted nothing more than to just quit and work in customer service or something but I knew better.  The patient care experience was going to be irreplaceable and help me get into whatever PA or nursing program I wanted to go to.  This was something I had to do and I knew that.  So I was going to tough it out for how ever long I needed to.

My first day of on the job training had me on the memory care unit.  That unit was small, only 20 residents, and was locked down meaning if the doors leading in or out of the unit were opened without the code, an alarm would sound.  The unit was designed specifically with dementia and Alzheimer’s in mind.  It gave them a safe place to wander (a common symptom of dementia), gave them a place for stimulation and activities, and a place for them to get the specialized care they need and deserve.  Those first few minutes on the unit were the scariest of my life.  I had never been personally touched by dementia so I genuinely had no idea what to expect.  I stood next to my trainer, watching quietly as these elder people wandered with walkers or wheelchairs around the unit, congregating in the TV area.  They looked at me from a distance, trying to size up this new person in their home.  Consistency is crucial for dementia and Alzheimer’s patients so throwing a new person into the mix can cause anxiety and behaviors.  But, as the night went on (I was on second shift until about August of this year), I slowly felt less scared.  The residents began talking to me and though sometimes it made little to no sense (word salading was common as was just talking nonsense or talking as if it was a totally different time or place) it made me feel better.  

Over the course of my on the job training, I spent two more days on that unit and two in other sections of the building.  When I wasn’t on the dementia unit, I felt out of place and even sort of missed it down there.  Most people I worked with disliked the dementia unit.  They didn’t like all the behaviors, the combativeness, and felt like that unit was mostly “baby-sitting”.  A lot of my coworkers felt like because of their dementia, there was a barrier between themselves and the residents, a barrier that might even prevent forming real, genuine relationships. A lot of my coworkers also didn’t seem that concerned with forming relationships with the residents at all.  They showed up, barely did their job and left people soaked, and then left.  That attitude struck me as odd because in my mind, if you were going to be spending eight hours a day or more with those same residents for days on end, you should want to build a relationship with them.  It would make caring for them easier.  Despite all this, there was a thought in my mind that no matter how much I cared for or loved those residents, their dementia would make it nearly impossible for them to reciprocate.  That didn’t really matter to me, though, because each and every day I went in and loved on those people regardless.  Their ability to connect or understand or even know my name didn’t matter.  I loved them and planned on caring for them like they were members of my own family.

Over the course of many months, I began to learn things about those residents and began to notice how many “I love yous” we shared during a shift.  I never knew if they were genuine or just saying it because they felt like it was the right thing to say in that moment, but it always felt nice to hear.  I began advocating for my residents, suggesting new therapies and requesting more help each and every day I worked.  I would bug dietary when they neglected their jobs to the point that they hated seeing it was my unit calling.  I stood up to the other CNAs who belittled my unit, calling it nothing more than “babysitting”.  I would let people know how draining the unit could be, both physically and emotionally.  I would leave in tears many nights because I would get punched by someone who claimed to love me.  I would get yelled at, spit on, ridiculed, teased, and sexually touched by these people who told me they loved me just minutes before.  I knew it was their disease doing it, not them.  I knew they truly didn’t know what they were doing 90% of the time and probably really did care about me.  But the behaviors were hard to work with.  The yelling, the pinching, the hitting were hard to endure day in and day out.  But I did it.  I got bit.  I got felt up.  I got kicked in the shins.  I got my hair pulled.  I got kneed in the face.  I got my wrists squeezed and twisted.  I did it for months because all that bad stuff, while it was hard, never made the impact on my soul that the good stuff did.

The gentle hand holds.  The soft conversations as I got them ready for bed.  The laughs we shared when the residents would say something so goofy that I couldn’t help but laugh.  The hugs I got.  The compliments.  The words of encouragement that somehow despite the dementia they knew I needed to hear.  The way they would laugh during showers when I’d wash their feet because they’re ticklish.  The time spent sitting behind the nurses’ desk with Little Bean.  The time spent learning German so I could communicate better with my German-speaking resident.  The hours I spend coloring and handling soft toys.  The games of balloon toss.  All those good things left a bigger impact than all the nasty behaviors that the dementia was doing to them and me.  I was slowly learning how terrible dementia really was but how blessed I was to be working with them.  Dementia was horrible but these people were incredible.  I loved them all so much, even though I knew the dementia could make it hard for them to love me back.

During the summer, a resident that resembled my late grandma began actively dying.  She had had increased edema in both legs, weeping, a strange red blotchy rash that caused her no discomfort, and a low grade fever.  She had no real symptoms of anything outside of the edema that everyone assumed was from her CHF that was more or less not an issue.  The only other thing I was really worried about with her was that she had a decrease in appetite.  Whenever I’d bring these issues up to a nurse, they’d shrug it off because she was 98 and on hospice.  That response always made me clench my jaw, but I put up with the ignorance and kept bringing my concerns up.  When she started dying, I went to see her and her chin would quiver a little when I’d talk to her.  She passed peacefully with no pain, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that we could have done something more for her if someone had just listened to me and taken my concerns seriously.

A couple weeks before that resident began dying, my Bean was moved to a different floor.  I shared my concerns about her moving to a crowded, over-stimulating floor with a member of nurse admin.  I told this nurse that I was worried that my anxious Little Bean would be stranded at the nurses’ desk in an unfamiliar floor with people everywhere, phones going off, and call lights buzzing and fall out of her wheel chair because she was unsupervised.  I told the nurse that I was terrified that one fall would be the one that killed her and I was brushed off.  I was told that I was favoring Bean over the community and that I should think better of the aides on other floors.  I visited that resident everyday she was up there until one night, the scenario I described happened.  Bean was stranded at the nurses’ desk late at night and fell, hitting her head.  She began to actively pass later that morning.  I was devastated.  I cried practically all shift when I found out that my Bean, the Bean whom I had shared so many moments with over the last year, was in pain and dying.  I went to see her that night, kneeling next to her bed and sobbing.  Then I noticed Bean was rolling toward me.  Her lips were moving like she wanted to say something to me, but couldn’t, and she squeezed my hand.  It was then that I realized that dementia didn’t prevent these people from loving.  No, it was a mutual relationship Bean and I shared.  I meant as much to her and she meant to me.  Little Bean loved me and I knew it then more than I had ever known it before.  Yes, dementia is an ugly terrible disease but when a person with dementia says they love you, they mean it.  They mean it with their entire being.  Yes, they might think you’re their mother, their sister, or their daughter, but they mean it when they say it.  They know you aren’t just some stranger.  They may not know your name, but they know you.  They trust you and they love you.  Believe me, they love you.

After little Bean passed, I began thinking about everything my residents have taught me and now that I have worked my last shift at that facility, a certain thing keeps creeping up in my head.  There’s a verse in the Bible about what love is and it’s all I can think about.  My residents have taught me so much about love and I didn’t even know it until one of them that I loved so dearly left this earth to go be with Jesus.  The verse is 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 and it reads, 

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”

My residents taught me that love really is all of these things.  Love is patient.  Love is having to explain to a confused person why they cannot leave the locked unit 1,000 times a day and having to do it with a smile on your face each time.  Love is being able to patiently take the seemingly endless slaps and yelling, all while being friendly and professional.  Love is choosing to be patient, even when those behaviors seem unmanageable and you’re at your wits end.  Love is kind.  Love is showing unbelievable kindness to someone who was literally just beating up on you minutes before.  Love is just smiling and nodding when someone is being cruel to you, but you know it’s the dementia talking.  Love is choosing to be kind to someone who more than likely is not kind to you in that moment.  Love does not envy.  Love is knowing that while it’s okay to long for something more or something better, that there is no good in envying what others have.  Love does not boast.  Love is knowing that you are no better than anyone else.  Love is choosing to be humble.  Love does not dishonor others.  Love is choosing to be genuine and honest, even when it’s hard.  Love is not self-seeking.  Love seeks to build others up, not tear them down.  Love is knowing that you’ll get peed on or beat up on, but doing it because it is right and it is good.  Love is not easily angered.  Love is knowing how frustrating your job is, but never showing your frustration or even anger to the residents because you know they cannot help the way they are acting.  Love really does keep no records of wrongs.  When a resident does hit or yell or spill bodily fluids on you, you do not throw that in their face to use it against them.  Love is forgetting they were cruel, just as they did.  Love really does not delight in evil, but always does rejoice within the truth.  Love does not look to blame, shame, or condemn.  Rather, love builds up, love supports, and love tells the truth.  Love is celebrating the little victories, rather than loosing it over the things that goes wrong.  Love does protect.  Love is standing up for your residents, even though you know sometimes what you say goes in one ear and out the other.  Love is getting in between two angry, violent residents so they cannot hurt themselves, but can hurt you.  Love does trust.  Being loving builds trust, breaking down the barriers of dementia and Alzheimer’s.  When that resident loves you, they trust you and there’s nothing more important than that.  Love trusts that their cruelty comes from disease, not from the sake of being cruel.  Love does hope.  Love is hoping that tomorrow will be a better day.  Love is hoping that your hard work has given hope to a family that’s suffering through dementia as their family member is.  Love is hoping and yearning that one day, this world will be dementia free.  And love truly does always persevere.  Love is coming back, even when the bad days out weigh the good.  Love is working short staffed, getting flat-out ignored by those higher than you or even ridiculed by those higher than you, and encouraging the families that dementia is tormenting.  Love is coming back with a smile, not tucking your tail in between your legs and running.

My residents have also taught me a lot about nursing.  They have taught me to value the input of CNAs as important and even life-saving because they are.  CNAs are the eyes and ears of a long-term care facility.  They see the same residents day and day out so when they come to you with concerns or changes in condition, you should not shrug them off.  You should not belittle them.  You should not ignore them because they are “just CNAs”.  They are coming to you because they care and they are concerned.  There is nothing more important than that.  It’s better to investigate and find nothing than to do nothing and have someone suffer.  My residents have taught me that health care is a team sport, not an individual one.  Everyone must work together for the benefit of patient, listening to one another and bouncing ideas off each other.  We should not look down on those with a narrower scope of practice or those with less experience.  Instead, we should treat them as the important members of the health care team that they are and respect them.  There is no room in true patient-focused health care for self importance.  Patient-focused health care should be loving and as I’ve seen, love truly doesn’t boast and is self sacrificing.

I’ve seen and learned a lot this last year.  Those residents are family to me and I owe them so much.  They taught me so much about how to not sweat the simple things, how to be more flexible, and how, ultimately, God is in control.  God put me on that dementia unit for a reason I didn’t understand until recently.  I needed to understand what I was getting myself into before I dove head-first into a career in health care.  I needed to suffer so I would come out on the other side as someone who understands the struggles of those I work with and for.  He put me there so I could learn how to be an advocate and how to love, even when it feels like the person may not love you back.  I’ve learned how to deal with death better and learned that it really is okay to cry as long as you know that dementia and old age is no longer destroying the person I loved.  They are restored in Christ if they knew him, that that is the greatest comfort at all.  For those reading who do not share my views, it has taught me that everyone takes comfort when a loved one passes because we know they are free from dementia which I have learned this year to be one of the worst diseases on this earth.  

I have learned so much and this post is already so long.  I cannot possibly talk about everything I have taken away from this experience in long term care so I’ll end with this; health care should always be about love.  If love is absent, true healing, encouragement, and peace cannot be achieved.  When I first started doing CNA work, I was told by some that I should avoid getting too attached to my residents.  I was told it would be too much and interfere with how I did my job; that when one died, I’d be too distraught to do my job if I got too attached.  That is the biggest lie you could tell someone getting into this field.  It’s good to get attached, so long as it’s professional and comes from a place of love and compassion.  Caring goes such a long way and growing attached is only natural if you are doing it right.  Health care becomes robotic if there is no love, and love can only take root if you are attached to the people you are trying to help.  Attachment comes in many forms, not always in forehead kisses or deep conversations.  Attachment can be simply holding someone’s hand in the ER or the back of an ambulance during an emergency when they’re alone and/or scared.  Attachment can be listening, just listening to the patient even when they don’t make sense.  Attachment can be an extension of love and compassion, something that should not be absent in healthy care.  Thank you to all of the residents I have cared for over the last year for loving me and teaching me so much about life and love.  Thank you to all the wonderful nurses who have helped show me that despite the terrible hours, hard work, and emotional stress that this job really is worth it in the end.  Thank you to the resident family members and the residents who have become like family to me.  You all mean so much to me and I cannot thank you enough. Thank you.   

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Melbourne International VIC Options

You've heard the phrase, Use the fitting instrument for the fitting job.” (My husband repeats this every time I try to substitute a butter knife for a flat-head screwdriver). For some Melbourne International VIC options use the information below.

You might be able to get the job accomplished, but there are often ramifications for utilizing the improper software. Freight has different traits than a letter or one thing that may slot in a flat-charge” type of box, so it's a must to use the right company to handle freight. A freight dealer not only has access to tons of of transport companies of their network, they've the know-methods to match your freight and repair stage with the appropriate one.

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True to its identify, a freight trade is a spot of extremely targeted enterprise—with players from the freight transport trade, in addition to prospects, who actively peruse the posts for work or services. The supply of a large number of affords means there is no such thing as a scarcity of good offers around. It's quite frequent to see companies attempting to outdo one another by providing various aggressive opportunities. But the backside line is that the competition right here is wholesome and dynamic and leaves the ultimate customer with a distinct advantage: the ability to decide on what most closely fits their wants.

The most important factor is discovering an organization with an amazing expertise as third social gathering logistics supplier, providing an excellent freight forwarding service; from this requirement is normally clear if the company is a number one one in the field, everywhere in the world, if it's, for instance, an excellent sea freight forwarder. As you already know this kind of service is not straightforward, doing a great job in this case is a great enterprise card for an organization.

In case your cargo isn't enough to full the container, then you possibly can all the time go for less than full delivery service. This kind of container service will save you money. You may be sharing the container space with another consumer. When making the choice of overseas delivery company, you additionally need to debate in regards to the storage choices. Lots of worldwide delivery companies companies present long term and brief time period storage on port storage providers upon offload. Talk about with the overseas delivery firm whether or not it's offering storage facility because the part of delivery providers, or will you be charged for it.

For extra comfort Melbourne International VIC, firms electronically obtain and course of buy orders and cargo confirmations. This helps them to better serve the wants of their purchasers in an exclusive manner. Additionally they provide guaranteed pick and pack achievement providers for distinctive providers. They handle each large and small quantity operations by means of their appropriate service suites.

Not only are trucking jobs the most effective entry stage jobs but the freedom these jobs have to offer is unparalleled. There are thousands of trucking firms and many different types of trucking jobs out there annually. With a CDL and the need for truck drivers you'll have job security that few industries can offer you as an employee.

Hazmat inspections are performed provided that the trucking firm hauls hazardous materials. Inspectors verify to see that hazardous supplies are being transported in line with DOT rules. morrow trucking out of red bay,al needs put out of business for unsafe tools and owner's illigal dispatching and having drivers unload unsafe masses,on high of paying 1970's pay. Heavy haul companies USA present heavy haul trucking coverage for all lower 48 US states.

Benefit#1- You will save on the cargo packaging -If you go for low-cost worldwide transport, fairly clearly the amount of cash spent on cargo packaging would be saved. The money saved will be put for more sensible use and purposes. It is important to point out right here that major chunk of money is spent on packaging and container delivery and due to this fact, whenever you opt for low-cost international transport providers, you'll save both on the container delivery and likewise packaging.

Another reason the company you hire is so essential is because there are some corporations that are not reliable or reliable. It's a must to make sure that you rent a reliable and reliable firm so that your vehicle arrives the place it is imagined to without harm.

The only solution to remove errors earlier than they occur is to plan forward. When you have scheduled a pickup, make certain your cargo and its accompanying paperwork is ready to go. Don't overnight something unless it should be someplace tomorrow; the price to expedite something is exponentially larger than common price.

International air cargo companies can fly cargo of varied weight, size, and materials anyplace their partnering nations are located. There already exists domestic and international air freight firms which can be well-known brand names and have been working just like postal services, globally. A good international air provider firm can provide flight delivery scheduling from one day delivery service to 3 business days, from door to door supply, special constitution providers, weekend supply, and airport to airport deliveries.

All you need is a drivers license in case you are looking to make faculty graduate type wages with one of many highest paying entry stage jobs within the country. Trucking jobs are the ideal jobs for individuals with no expertise! Are you looking for freight bill factoring? Please call (877) 300 3258 for a aggressive quote.

Is the international freight delivery company offering on time delivery of economic and family items? This is one other vital deciding factor, which try to be considering when selecting from the best line of worldwide transport corporations. In case of any delays, it is the duty of worldwide freight delivery company to inform the client. The freight shipping company should not divert from its duty.

Serving the San Mateo CA space and all 48 US states and flatbed trailer freight to Canada. Many shipping companies Houston are competing amongst themselves to be one of the best in Houston. Select in line with your wants and your finances. Nigerian shipping companies in Houston presents great services and ensures customer satisfaction.

An skilled international air freight company should also know the kind of goods that their prospects are delivery, its nation's vacation spot and their legal guidelines and laws. Clients should choose a company that they've confidence in, and an international company that offers an open communication in air freight scheduling. Also in the kind of packing expertise, an organization that will present copies of all freight documentation, to provide a handy tracking system and is experienced in all worldwide shipping customs and rates.

Except your company has enough reserves, your solely choices to handle the gap are to both limit development (thus management bills) or use enterprise financing. Though many owners resort to traditional small business loans, freight invoice factoring is normally a better answer for this specific problem. That is as a result of freight factoring supplies a quick pay for freight bills, decreasing the hole and making it more manageable.

How do they work? A brief explication before proceed with the tips, above all, freight forwarder books the reservation with the ship agent, cargo is trucked to the shipping line on the port origin and shipped overseas to the importer on the port of vacation spot. The itinerary will be port- to- port or can embody truck choose up and or supply, door-to-port, port-to- door and form of container load is it? Consider that not all of maritime forwarders supply FCL and LCL container hundreds, the worldwide corporations does. It's rely of their preferential agreements with major transport lines.

Shippers must additionally turn out to be knowledgeable concerning the international air freight company they're doing business with, such as their status, which ought to feature an environment friendly delivery history and how value efficient they are. Air freight, international transport, can be a price effective enterprise as a result of at this time's know-how will increase cargo safety and permits shippers to economize, each in importing and exporting.

As a small enterprise proprietor, you wear many hats. The extra jobs you do, the much less time you must focus on why you bought into business in the first place. Regardless of how a lot money you make, time is finite, and in the event you attempt to do all of it, you will make mistakes and overlook issues. So outsource! Utilizing a freight broker to deal with your shipping needs who has educated agents and great customer support can make the sophisticated easier. The broker ought to be capable to reply questions on something within the freight shipping process.

One of many chief advantages of sea freight is the fact that cargoes of assorted sizes may be accommodated. Ships have the capacity to move tens of millions of tons of containers in a single go - a carrying capability that's severely lacking in all other forms of transport. Cargo ships are designed in such a method that several monumental containers can match right into a single, specially constructed compartment. Every of these compartments can easily store thousands of tons of cargo, even perhaps with room to spare.

Plenty of different jobs can be found to individuals at this stage of education in Virginia. They include Trades Individuals, LPNs, Secretaries, Bookkeepers, and Legislation Enforcement Posts. The actual jobs I notice in this regard are Buyer Service Rep, RN, and Gross sales Rep. The typical annual wages for many of these positions are double these wages of the jobs listed above that require only high school or less training. The commonest massive and heavy freight you will notice on the highways is yellow iron, which is slang for building, mining and materials dealing with massive and heavy equipment. From crates to complete prefabricated buildings can all be hauled by flatbeds. For instance mining trade makes frequent use of flatbed trucking to move a wide array of autos, from dump vehicles to underground excavators. Access the very best success, private improvement, health, fitness, business, and monetary recommendation....all for FREE!

Two good methods to search out out if any firm is dependable or reliable is to learn customer reviews and to test with the BBB. The reviews offers you an concept of whether previous customers are pleased with the service provided by a specific transport firm or if they've plenty of issues with them.

Is your trucking company or freight brokerage stuck in impartial? One of the greatest challenges that you will face as a transportation company owner is dealing with clients that do not offer fast pays, and as an alternative, pay freight payments in 30 to 60 days. This can be very difficult for brand spanking new and growing firms since you will have bills that should be paid now, corresponding to suppliers, repairs, hire and drivers. One different is to attempt to negotiate quick funds out of your purchasers. Nonetheless you could quickly find that your pleas will meet deaf ears - purchasers pay in 30 days as a result of they should. That is how they manage their very own cash circulation.

It is a good idea to discover a firm that has at the least a yr's worth of experience so you possibly can have peace of thoughts realizing that they are going to know the right way to get your car to your new vacation spot safely. Record of providers: Do adequate quantity of research concerning the agency to make sure that door to door services are provided.

The primary advantage that any firm can cash in on from an categorical delivery service is obtained by the fact that they're getting professional assistance. Whether or not you are shipping your goods to fulfill a specific shopper's calls for or depending on important freight delivery in your business supply chain, the usage of categorical companies can turn into a extremely beneficial service to your enterprise, so that your company can achieve supplying your customers without considerations with regard to shipping time.

Nice Western Transportation is the business leading heavy haul and specialised service in North America transporting all US and destined to Canada heavy haul freight. At the moment the FedEx or the Federal Categorical is linked with the (UPS) United Parcel. The two freight carrier is now identified to be the most dependable and trusted air supply companies in the country. Once I broke down on the Lonestar run I need motorbike towing that I may trust and these guys have been those to assist me out.

Norman Dulwich is a correspondent for Haulage Change, the world's largest impartial buying and selling hub for haulage work within the express freight change industry. Over four,000 transport exchange companies are networked together by their web site, buying and selling jobs and capacity in a safe 'wholesale' setting.

Lastly for more Melbourne International VIC, velocity is an important factor that affects the freight charges. Firms typically provide numerous charges depending on the velocity of the cargo delivery. Most companies supply normal in addition to pace deliveries. On the subject of pace delivery, most cost further freight fees. If you would like your cargo to achieve its destination in a day or perhaps a few hours, then you could pay further prices.

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Reduced Carb For Families.

So let's include another product to the list from impossibles: I have actually shed more than 20 pounds in below 24 hours on greater than a lots affairs. Basketball, winter sports, football, and soccer are a few from the sporting activities that bring in professional athletes vulnerable to knee injuries, given that these activities involve pivoting or even hopping. Regularly have actually partnered up with Tesco to use ladies that purchase unique promotional packs from Always Ultra in between now and also 30th September 2016 the opportunity to carry out one hr of cost-free sporting activities. I will love for you, if you definitely would not mind, to validate your thoughts on doing a sporting activity (no-gi jiu jitsu 3-5x/ week) and also hauling. Stop acquiring children meals - most youngster's meals are actually highly refined processed food loaded with inflamed seed oils, grains and also carbohydrates. 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