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I'm now a certified First Responder.
PPEs, BSIs, CPR, AEDs, NPAs, OPAs, DCAPp-BLST, DOTS, FAST, AVPU, ETC.
If you's in trouble, give me a buzz.
Peace.
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For the laper:
Personal Protection Equipment, Body Substance Isolation, Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation, Automated External Defibrilators, Nasopharyngeal Airway, Oropharyngeal Airway, Deformation/Contusions/Abrasions/Punctures/Perforations/Burns/Lacerations/Swelling/Tenderness, Deformation/Open Injury/Tenderness/Swelling, FAST=Stroke Signs=Face, Arms, Speech, Time, AVPU=Alert, Vocal, Pain, Unresponsive. ETC= etcetera. |
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There is a monk in my First Responder class.
We have (in the first two days) learned CPR, Heimlich, choking skills, physical/environmental assessment skills, and other stuff. All with a monk in the class. A real live monk.
Who never stops talking.
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I am certainly not an economics expert, but I'm trying to figure it all out. Maybe you could help?
I'm not sure I understand why pretty much every bank in the world operates under "Fraction-Reserve Banking." I understand the basic function-- a central bank or government determines a percentage of every deposit that must be held at all times at banks around the nation. In other words, if the reserve is 20%, and I make a deposit of $100, the bank is required to keep $20 of it around, and can loan out the other $80.
Recently, the reserve was lowered to expand economy--meaning that they can loan out much more and keep much less. This was bad.
Basically, if the reserve is now 10%, then only 10% of the people need to come and ask for their money back, and the bank will fold because it will have no money. That, too, is what happened.
So...why use a fraction-reserve system? Surely there is some other way. What do you think? |
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Now, you won't find me in the camp of most republicans who are crazy angry that Obama has been elected. I disliked both "major" candidates equally. I'm not surprised by the amount of money he will cost our nation--but I wouldn't have been surprised by the amount of money McCain would have costed our nation either.
The funny thing about the money that our nation is spending (and its increase) is that at the heart--Obama isn't changing anything at all!
Here we are faced with one of our nations worst economical crises, and the only thing Obama can think of is...drum roll...the "New New Deal!" YAYEEE!!!? No. Same thing as last time. Just like last time, it will appear to help some symptoms but will actually make the problems greater and more permanent.
This is one place that we actually DO need change!! And not from Republican to Democrat (certainly), but from old, stupid practices! It is time to revisit the entire structure of our economy and see where we can change. Could we not have a more evident reason to do so? This is the SECOND huge recession in the last century. Clearly, then, the first "New Deal" was not a solution to real problems. So- we need that "Change" that Barack Obama promised us--not a reversion to something that didn't work.
I wonder if we even realize that there are competing schools of economic thought. I took economics in high school. Little did I know, it was only one view of economics. Other views are out there, and they are better. They have actual solutions--solutions that have been proven empirically through National Bankruptcy (as declared by Nixon in 1971).
More on that later. |
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In one week I start my Fire Recruit job. Oh yeah.
My older son, Jackson, has been learning his colors--and is very good at identifying them. Wed, Boo, Neen, Poh-poo, yeh-yo, etc.
At the same time, he has learned how to ask for some of his favorite foods-- esp. berries. The way he says berries is "bees."
Now...his favorite food is "blueberries."
Try putting those two words--the color and the food-- together and screaming them at other people's dinner tables.
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