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Jan 29, 2018
In this episode, I am excited to have Jim Dwyer on to talk about how best to align your goals and values with your career experience.
Jim believes that one of the core purposes of our short time here is to align the world around us, so we can live as meaningful a life as possible and help others do the same. Going into his third decade as an attorney, Jim is more committed than ever to the healing power listening can be for our clients. It's a force that is undervalued in the legal world. Jim grew up in a trial lawyer family. He is a personal injury lawyer and the managing partner of his law firm.
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Jim Dwyer: [00:00:03] For me, the goal is how do I keep myself centered so I don't lose myself in a reactionary relationship with someone I don't like.
Intro: [00:00:18] Welcome to The Resilient Lawyer podcast. In this podcast, we have meaningful, in-depth conversations with lawyers, entrepreneurs, and change agents. We offer tools and strategies for creating a more joyful and satisfying life. And now your host, Jeena Cho.
Jeena Cho: [00:00:40] Hello my friends thanks for being with us today. In this episode I am so happy to have Jim Dwyer. Jim believes one of the core purposes of our short time here is to align the world around us so that we can live as meaningfully as possible and help others do the same. He's been practicing law for over three decades and he has committed more than ever to the healing power of listening to our clients. It's a force that is undervalued in the legal world of orderly agree with that. Jim grew up in a child lawyer family. He is a personal injury lawyer and managing partner of his law firm in Portland Oregon. And with that here's Jim. Jim welcome to the resilient lawyer I ask.
Jim Dwyer: [00:01:25] Good morning Gene. As always good to be talking with you.
Jeena Cho: [00:01:29] So let's start by having you give the audience a 30 second introduction to who you are and what you do.
Jim Dwyer: [00:01:36] So in about the year 2000 I've moved up to Portland that's our pricing law. I woke up one morning and felt. Not internally happy about where I was in my life. And yet I looked around and I appeared to myself to have everything that should have made me happy. I still do have a wonderful marriage. I have two incredible children. I have a partner of up to practice law with I live in a house. I love the city I love. And yet inside of me was this lack of contentment. And it was very confusing to me. And what I realized just kind of thinking about it and sitting with why I was not happy with where I was when everything told me I should add is that I really felt like.
[00:02:36] I needed that who I was fundamentally as a person was not being fully integrated into the practice of law. Russia another way of putting the practice of law I had not integrated into me living my best life. I compartmentalize years of practice of law. Here's me as a father. Here's me as a husband and I realized what I needed to do was align all of these critical relationships in my life to helping me. Live my best life which also meant in turn I was helping all those people do the exact same thing for them. And that's where tipping the scales I didn't realize at that time. That's where it was born from.
Jeena Cho: [00:03:26] So you know as I'm listening to you tell your story I think a lot of lawyers would be like I can't seem to figure out a way to or they sort of realize that the way that they've been practicing lies really misaligned with their best selves or their true intentions. And they think this is an adequate law. Did that ever occur to you or anywhere you like this. Figure out how to make this work within the context of being a lawyer.
Jim Dwyer: [00:03:53] Well when I that's a really interesting question because when I moved up from Eugene in 1990. I've been practicing law for nine years and I was really happy and I know. Am I unhappy because of where I'm practicing or how I'm practicing or am I just unhappy being a lawyer. And I mean I didn't know the answer to that question. And they decided you know rather than stopping practicing law why don't I start changing how I'm practicing law and discover. Whether.
[00:04:33] Being a lawyer is consistent with me living my best life or not. And so it became kind of a grand experiment when I came up here interviewed 39 literally 39 attorneys before I found what I believed was the perfect attorney for me to practice law with who I've been with for 20 years now.
Jeena Cho: [00:04:54] Wow. When did you start tipping the scales.
Jim Dwyer: [00:04:59] Tipping the Scales started about five years ago.
Jeena Cho: [00:05:04] Was that part of the interview process or were the interviews sort of for your own personal growth and knowledge.
Jim Dwyer: [00:05:13] Oh the 39 interviews. Oh that was me actually trying to find the perfect place for me to land. I had my wife and I had given up so much to make this move up to Portland that I decided that I did not want to insult the sacrifice that really my wife and I made by just taking any job. If I was going to make this change that I needed to take the time to make sure that I landed in the right place.
Jeena Cho: [00:05:57] Yeah. And what unfolded for you see you when an interviewer interviewed 29 lawyers. Why did you get out of the way. Did you learn or where did you get it.
Jim Dwyer: [00:06:12] She was 39 lawyers and they didn't even know I was interviewing them either. I said my wife helped me come up this ingenious idea of calling lawyers up and saying I'm looking for work from Portland. I'm not. Looking to get hired by you but I just need to understand the Portland market which could take you out to lunch. Yeah because if I told them I was looking for work and they weren't looking for hire somebody well it wasn't going to work.
[00:06:44] But everyone's really pretty willing to help people out. And so I don't have lunch and they didn't realize that I was learning about the market. I was also learning about that because I believe that I was going to be some recently I believe that I was going to be hired not by someone who was looking to hire. I would meet someone and we would so connect that we would make it work we'd find a way to make it work because of how we would connect. Which is exactly what happened. Actually.
Jeena Cho: [00:07:23] So you on your part.
Jim Dwyer: [00:07:26] Right.
Jeena Cho: [00:07:28] Tell me about the lawyer Compass series. What is out about.
Jim Dwyer: [00:07:32] So the lawyers compass was really born from the I D. I've always loved compasses for that it was because I grew up with my grandpa and we went fishing in high mountain lakes and hiking up and down rivers of central Oregon Trout Trout fly fishing. When I was young my Grandpa always had a compass with that in his pocket on his boat dashboard autist car Myhre you know those kind of like floating old school compasses that kind of float in the water and move as the car the boat moves. And I remember asking him Grandpa why do you have compasses everywhere.
[00:08:20] And he said it's because I always want to know where I'm going. And that kind of always stuck with me this affinity for compasses and one thought five 0 7 years ago is in Hawaii and we're in Hawaii. You're on an island. You see compasses everywhere. Yeah. And I was looking at a compass and I saw it and thought flashed in my mind that was what a lawyer is. Compass looked like that would help me stay true to who I am and that's. Really where it was more from him.
Jeena Cho: [00:09:03] You always say you know the type of lawyer that you were meant to be or you know really sort of aligning you pass this law to who you are. Like what does that mean. What does that look like in terms of those on a day to day basis. I was at the wall and looking at you and the way that you're working and let's say you know 10 years ago versus how you practice law. Now what's different.
Jim Dwyer: [00:09:30] Sure. So this the center of a compass the center of the lawyers compass is the true self. And just like with an old school campus not like a digital compass you'd have on your phone an old school campus you can only take a troop bearing a true reading by standing still. At me moving you can't be running. You're not going to get a true reading. So the war the center of the lawyers compass is about understanding our true self and then integrating that meaningfully into the everyday ness of life. So an example of that would be a I consider myself a student of relationships and the relationships are one of the most powerful forces in my life.
[00:10:31] And because of that I want to honor every relationship that I am in to the extent of whatever that relationship is obviously of my relationship with my wife is going to be different and their relationship with my client was going to be different with Eugene than it is with my law partner Dean. And so within each relationship my focus is on how do I bring the greatest meaning and value in this relationship to the person that I am in that relationship with. At that moment in time whether that's a phone call but a client meeting with a client face to face meeting with my law partner or my wife. So because relationships so powerful for me I want to honor them. And that's how I bring that aspect of me out into my everyday life.
Jeena Cho: [00:11:33] I think that's probably easy to do with people that you like and respect them. I think that we tend to come across lots of different personalities and some personalities are very difficult to deal with it. Sure it does. How does that translate when your work. It's a very difficult opposing counsel.
Jim Dwyer: [00:12:00] Well first off there's no way that a thing that I'm going to say is meant to imply that that I believe there's something we can do to dissipate all frustration dealing with a difficult person. I don't think that's actually possible. By acknowledging that I think that's all it's true. I can't make the person go away I pay a wife to or two but that's not going to happen. So for me the goal is how do I keep my self centered.
[00:12:37] So I don't lose my self in a reaction relationship with someone I don't like. And I just have to keep focused on who I am and not be sort of like you're dealing with a difficult person sort of like an electorate Tim Holding a cattle prod right now they're just jabbing at you and it just every time it hits you it just makes you jump and it makes you angry. And that makes you want to. Be that back to them. Well that's just that's just I know where that puts me that puts me in a in a downward spiral cycle that is never going to serve me and never going to serve my client ever. So that simply requires self discipline.
[00:13:34] And control. And not taking things. Personally I think for me that's the biggest lesson all of us to not take things personally. That attorney who's jabbing me with a cattle prod he or she is not jabbing me because I am Jim Dwyer jabbing me because I'm the opposing side and that's just what they do. I'm a fungible good. For them jabbing at so I don't really take it personally because honestly it's about them and not me. And that helps kind of lower that. That had that intensity inside of me because I could see them like Heintze repairing the deposition. When you start answering questions when you're angry or mad that's when you're going to say things you wish you never said and you can't take it back. Right. Yeah. That applies to me as well as my core I have.
Jeena Cho: [00:14:37] But yeah I you think just telling someone like well you know just don't take it personally. It's only like it's entered into me. There is like this tone of I mean it's almost like principle Don't be angry like or get over it.
Jim Dwyer: [00:14:52] Right.
Jeena Cho: [00:14:54] That's say. What does that actually look like you know so you're on the phone with opposing counsel and he has just unreasonably. I mean not agreeing to give me an extension on something that's like that's not even important or I don't know exactly what that dispute is. So when you say like well you know I don't take it personally like there are there like me that use other tools and you know what does that actually. How does that translate in how can someone you know get better at that practice of not taking things so personally.
Jim Dwyer: [00:15:28] Right. So for some reason for me understanding that they're not doing what they are doing because I am Jim Dwyer helps me. Get rid of my anger about a not like oh I'm at peace it's all fine. Say what you want to you can't ruffle my feathers. That's a bunch of B.S. because I'm not happy. I don't like it. So just because I'm feeling that does not mean I'm going to react or act from that place of the discipline of being a professional is to understand the separate yourself out from that. And what I just try to do is because once you get sucked up into it you're wrong in the gutter Yeah. And how do you advocate for your client rolling in the gutter. I I don't know. So I still have frustration inside me that this person is being a teacher to me. I'm just not going to be upping the ante and I'm doing. And that helps me just. Keep me from vaporizing inside really vaporize. Then I say things I wish I hadn't have said.
Jeena Cho: [00:16:47] Yeah.
Jim Dwyer: [00:16:49] OK you don't have to respond. Most of the time responding isn't going to change what they do. It's only going to make you more mad and you lose your bearings and you don't do a good job. It's fight or flight. And as attorneys we're not. Taught to fly we are trained to fight. And so there's kind of a third way inside of that and that is I don't say anything. They are waiting for you to respond. They are. They have just jab you with that cattle prod and now you're supposed to play your part. I don't play that part. And that is very empowering. And that throws them off I believe internally it throws them off because they don't know what to do. I'm going off script and they don't know what to do. There's a lot of power literally in that.
Jeena Cho: [00:17:53] Thing not allowing the other person's behavior to dictate what your response is going to be. Just as you said it this empowers them. And whereas if you kind of give them the reaction that they want then they know they can just continue to hold you and they say well you know it's like oh off at work. So I mean you had a few more times and get some more reaction out of them than the lawyers that sort of engage in these jerks like behaviors you they do it because it works.
Jim Dwyer: [00:18:23] Yes right. That's right. I mean you know they always say whether whatever sport you're playing it's like don't lose your cool when you lose your cool you lose your sense and your ability to function as your at your best. And that is not easy because everything in you as an attorney because you're not taught to fly. Everything is taught you to fight.
Jeena Cho: [00:18:50] Yeah. So true. So you've been practicing law for a little bit. Is that the practice of law teach you about relationships and why they declined.
Jim Dwyer: [00:19:07] Well you know I actually believe that lawyers it is we are actually given a roadmap or a blueprint. To relationships. And it's ironic that the profession that is so often and legitimately maligned by society as to how they treat their clients actually are the holders of a blueprint or a road map to relationships. And it's something that we all know that that was we started learning in law school. That is the three fiduciary duties that we owe our client. Full and frank disclosure. Duty of care. And duty of loyalty.
[00:20:00] And if you think about those are three object ways of understanding relationships and if a relationship fails be it with a client as an attorney or your spouse or a friend or your children. I guarantee you at least to one of those three are going to be at the root of why that relationship failed. So if I'm looking to strengthen a relationship since I value relationships and I look at the relationship with my law partner it's like how do I communicate to him how important our relationship is to me.
[00:20:50] Well full and frank disclosure I let him know how much I value him. I also let him know when what he is doing is bothering me because if I ignore the problems and only acknowledge the positive it's going to either eventually fail. Or going to limp along and never be what it really could've been. And then we have a duty of care. That's our actual action. How am I doing the things that I'm supposed to be doing to show that that relationship is. Important to me my pulling my weight.
[00:21:35] Which is completely different from full and frank disclosure. Yeah. And then finally his loyalty and you know loyalty I think loyalty is one of the most powerful forces in our lives because it allows us to see beyond what our rational brain tells us is true what our eyes tell us is true what we hear in our ears. That allows us to transcend the senses and see more of what is possible to see the best in someone in a difficult situation. It is readily powerful and it's there at our disposal.
Jeena Cho: [00:22:18] Yeah and if we think about it and use it you know that's such a beautiful framing and I think that I ever really thought about our duties as lawyers and how that can translate into just every aspect of our lives and can actually help us be better lawyers but also better spouses and friends and significant others and parents and to for and love.
Jim Dwyer: [00:22:44] There's so much mystery in a relationship. Chemistry is how people get along but it's not just all chemistry. Sort of like being a doctor. There is there is a science of being a doctor and there's the art of being a doctor and the fiduciary duties is the art of relationships and if you if you want to dig into that then you can do that.
Jeena Cho: [00:23:18] Lay your hopes for our profession and society.
Jim Dwyer: [00:23:25] We are trained we are trained technicians to understand the if you're ever a doctor you are trained in the science of medicine. If you are an attorney you are trained in our science of understanding all the technical aspects whether it be a statute or case law about being an attorney. And we have seminars we have magazines we have law school we have we have awards where we award people for there are technical which is not easy technical accomplishment.
[00:24:04] I'm not trying to put the less than that or say it's not important. It is when that's all we are focusing in on. We are missing the soul of law. When my clients come to see me I can look at this and say I'm a persons are well you know they're here because they're injured and my job is to get them money. And I I do my job by getting them the most money I can. That is so not true. It is terrifying. And my clients may not even understand what actual justice is and how it feels. But if I understand the emotional part of justice was being treated fairly and respectfully and being honored as a person is all about I am that conduit. All of us individually are this conduit of bringing the soul of law into the experience of our clients.
[00:25:06] When we have awards and seminars and training and law school that deals with this human relationship dynamic though the art of listening because it is an art it is not easy then we will see. I believe the satisfaction of lawyers going up clients and a gradual change in how society views the law and lawyers.
Jeena Cho: [00:25:36] Now when you say the soul of law and we'll talk about that what does that mean to you.
Jim Dwyer: [00:25:43] The whole form means to me the emotional experience the feeling of law. Laws are meant to protect us to keep us safe to have rules that everyone knows how to operate ideally within and keep within those for an orderly safe society. All of that actually has to do with each of our individual sort of fruition. It's all about about individuals becoming the best that they are able to within the society that and culture that they live within. And as lawyers when we're just focusing on being the best technician and for getting the heart of why someone is coming in as they are they feel injured they feel hurt they feel wronged whether you're a criminal lawyer bankruptcy family law.
[00:26:50] It doesn't make a difference. There is something hurting inside that person that is bringing them to you. And as lawyers were trained to deal with that technical part. Well here's what the rules say. This is what the law says. This is what I can do. And that's great we're doing our job. But there is so much more that we can do and how our clients experience the law through us. I can get a client from the best settlement on the face of the earth and they can leave I'm satisfied on feeling treated fairly respectfully and honored.
Jeena Cho: [00:27:33] Yeah. Yeah I think so often what our clients really want is some kind of closure or an apology. Or you know just the sense that like someone heard them you know. And I know and I often just feel like we miss Ed because we just focus on you know how are we going to divide the pie how are we going to get x number of dollars and insight and give it to my client exactly.
Jim Dwyer: [00:28:02] Exactly. And then they are looking for that. And that's part of what we have to deliver. But just like a doctor with terrible bedside manners who is great accurately what they're doing there's not a feeling of completeness that transaction they go into a restaurant having a best food served by hook hook created by the chef and they have the worst service like. I'm not going back there. The food was awesome. The service was horrible. It was a terrible experience. I didn't like it at all. It's like that's kind of what happens with lawyers. And that's our response we're responsible for that.
Jeena Cho: [00:28:47] Yeah.
Jim Dwyer: [00:28:50] You had referred on Facebook you were talking about the book just mercy. Wow. Wow. Talk about someone who is a master technician in the law and never got the sole.
Jeena Cho: [00:29:10] Right.
Jim Dwyer: [00:29:11] That that that man is an evil power that came from his guilty to soul fully connect with his clients. At the same time being a master technician. Yeah right. That's what makes that's what makes him so powerful. And each one of us can be that in our own right. So I read a book and somehow that got me searching and I found a book The Book of joy which is written by Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama. And it's a wonderful read.
[00:29:54] And there's a quote in there that I want to read to is I read this really made me think about you and it said discovering more this is Desmond Tutu saying discovering more joy does not save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak. In fact we may cry more easily but we will laugh more easily to perhaps we are more just alive. Yet as we discover more joy we can face suffering in a way that ennobles rather than him Vitters we have hardship without becoming hard. And we have heartbreak without becoming broken. And that that really hit a very deep place within me and it made me really also think a lot about you and the great work that you do helping lawyers find more satisfaction and happiness and. In their life through being mindful meditation is such a big part of I start every one of my mornings with meditation and some days I meditate really great and other days my head is higher meditation really helpful.
[00:31:29] I can't even stop may break them for 20 minutes. Like I said this is a practice. Yeah. Some days you practice better than you practice other.
Jeena Cho: [00:31:41] And then that happens to me all day that happened to me. Yes. The day I you know I often like I'll do some sort of concentration practice I'll just cannot determine and start back back up at one and not once I get past three and it's I don't.
Jim Dwyer: [00:31:56] Have you know I think people who are just starting out meditation think well if I'm supposed to just be having this perfect blissful experience like I don't know not really. And sometimes you hit that they have. But lots of times you don't. It's still a practice of what you're where you're trying to get to and you just keep plugging away. But yeah.
Jeena Cho: [00:32:22] Oh really, yeah. So I mean I think two lessons you know really go check out just that book hands the first book I read in the last decade and it will change my life. And you know there's this part of the book where he is sitting on the phone with someone and they have they lost all appeals and he is going to be executed very shortly.
Jim Dwyer: [00:32:49] You know the next Yeah. Right over the phone call.
Jeena Cho: [00:32:53] Yeah. And he says you know why don't we want to kill all the broken people. And he goes on to say you know but we're all broken right. And I think just kind of recognizing that like to be human is to recognize our own broken ness and and also in others and to hold that with compassion. And I. Oh my gosh. And you know and the other thing that I don't think I'll ever forget from that book is you know he's part of this person who is about to be executed and of course you know Brian just feels like he has completely failed you know.
[00:33:32] And right in the and the and the person says You know I just want to thank you Brian for believing in me and for fighting for me. And I think that's also part of a lot that we often forget as intercropping take on the other person is not dependent on the outcome.
Jim Dwyer: [00:33:52] That's right. We can give a great outcome and destroy it by how we treated them. That's where we lose kind of the soul of law Brian and not just Mercy was able just to perfectly aligned to be the consummate professional where he's a technician and focused on the soul they are both equally important. And when we combine those two that's that is a force to be reckoned with and each one of us can be that force to be reckoned with and our own rights in our own lives.
Jeena Cho: [00:34:28] Does it mean to be easily that way.
Jim Dwyer: [00:34:35] would say a resilient lawyer means that in the face of all of the challenges and complexities and mastery that that the law demands of us to really be the advocate the technical advocate that our client clients need that we do not lose and forget our humanity. At the same time.
Jeena Cho: [00:35:08] Europol. Jim thank you so much for being with me today. Really appreciate it.
Jim Dwyer: [00:35:14] It's always great talking with you.
Jeena Cho: [00:35:16] You know that and for the veterans that want to learn more about you check out your blog Royds. Most the best way can count Sure.
Jim Dwyer: [00:35:28] So if a little bit of a little complex what's called Tipping the Scales dot com. But there's a hyphen on each side of the so tipping the tipping hyphen. Hyphen scales dot com Krait.
Jeena Cho: [00:35:42] And we will link to that.
Jim Dwyer: [00:35:45] Get them have a blog post on that. I'm posting now for four and a half years.
Jeena Cho: [00:35:51] I love that you do that and just appreciate your thoughtfulness. Yeah I think it's so easy to just kind of go on autopilot and just be assigned and aren't generating more income but you.
Jim Dwyer: [00:36:07] Really just have Yeager's in the very demanding you know much to do. It's like how do you do anything else.
Jeena Cho: [00:36:15] And just appreciate your insights. An unnamed woman thank you for sharing it with the audience. Hey thank you.
Jim Dwyer: [00:36:24] I feel the same way about you. You know that, absolutely.
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Biography Of Florence Nightingale
When we visit hospitals and see them sparkling and cheerful, we know all this is a result of the efforts put in by the courageous and intelligent lady. -Florence Nightingale .The nursing profession today owes a lot to the invaluable contribution of Florence Nightingale .She was a pioneer in the nursing field .Before she started her work nurses were largely untrained. They considered their job a lowly chore .They were not caring and gentle like the nurses of today but were careless and dirty .
People looked down upon nurses and women from good families did not enter this profession.Hospitals were so dirty that people were scared to go there .The bed linen and mattresses were hardly changed from one patient to the next. The floors were not cleaned and scrubbed while the walls stank with dampness .Patients with infectious diseases were not kept in a separate ward.
Doctors too practiced no hygiene before surgery. Florence Nightingale with her efforts raised the standards of not just the nursing but the medical profession as well.
Florence Nightingale was born at Florence ,in Italy ,on May 12,1820 .It was her parents ` fancy to call their children after the name of their birthplace, so that, although Florence was until then always understood to be a man`s name ,it was given to this future reformer in whose honor so many women have since borne it. Nightingale was raised mostly in Derbyshire, England and received a thorough classical education from her father.
Florence was very good looking ,graceful, witty, and full of life. In those days ,young ladies were bred to be gentle and demure .They spent their reading books ,listening to music or doing embroidery work. But Florence saw the uselessness of leading life in such a manner. Born in a aristocratic family ,Florence Nightingale felt her talents would be wasted if she just played the role of a typical Victorian lady, that of wife and mother.
Florence parents were wealthy well connected and associated with leaders in society and politics .It was imagined what repugnance they regard that the strange desire on the part of their younger daughter to take up as career that would bring her into contact with the fearful conditions then prevalent in hospital life. Every method was used to distract her from those interest. But Florence wanted to help the needy and her mind too was absorbed with that idea .But in those times it was certainly not considered proper to do so. She set her sights on nursing as an outlet for her talents ,at the age of twenty -four .She wanted to work with the sick in hospitals .She was the first woman to break out the Victorian traditional mould. Her family was horrified and rejected the idea to totally because respectable women did not become nurses.
Whenever she went in her journey through Europe ,she always sought first the places where some kind of good work was being for the afflicted and needy .More than ever ,she was convinced that it was useless trying to be pioneer in a movement that did not exist in her own country. She must not merely point the way.She must make the way and lead.
The Crimean war gave her the chance to put her principles into practice, and by her heroism there Florence Nightingale lit a lamp which will blaze for all time.Modern nursing and hospital routine are the blessings which we owe to her actions and ideals. Change did not come completely but she did manage to rebuild some barracks and reduce the death rate by fifty percent.She prepared a one thousand page report ,Notes on matters affecting Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army.
Soon all over the world ,Florence became expert on the building of the hospitals .More windows and better ventilation resulted and the drainage system was improved .Laundry rooms and clean kitchens also became a part of her style of hospitals.
In the year 1853 when Florence was thirty -three years old she took up the job of superintendent at the Institute for the care of sick Gentlewomen in London. This news made her mother and sister weep and get angry but news made her but Florence was stubborn . With full enthusiasm Florence started to reorganize the hospital. Soiled and stinking bed lien were removed ,brooms and dusters were bought, she installed hardworking house keepers and in a short time she became a specialist in her field .She was loved by both patients and women because of her sympathetic nature.
In 1859 she published `Notes on Nursing ; what it is and what it is not ` .It was a revolutionary work where ,besides hygiene and basic health she wrote about the need for a sensitive approach to the suffering of the sick person .Today this is accepted as a slogan for all medical institutions .Her Nightingale Training School `was a success. There was a demand worldwide for Nightingale nurses. They were disciplined , given neat uniforms and had a room for themselves .Gradually nursing got transformed into a respectable profession.
Florence wanted efficient workers .She was taking revolutionary decisions so many even opposed her .But there was a kind in her and her sharp mind and keen sense of observation was admired by many. Initially the committee was aghast by her list of requirements but they were very impressed by her ideas of improvement of the hospital .She concentrated on her job and started planning how to recruit of farmers to join nursing.
In November 1907 ,King Edward VII awarded Florence Nightingale the Order of Merit.. Florence Nightingale changed and shaped the role of women of her time. She derived great joy from the letters she received from the globe .She made people change their attitudes towards soldiers .She sensitized people towards childbirth ,the poor and the sick and suffering .Hospital buildings underwent major reforms .She enabled wide-ranging workhouse reforms by pressing for an Act of Parliament.
Florence Nightingale was one of God` s most gifted beings. She was a perfectionist yet she had a very gentle voice and manner. Her clarity of mind and inner strength were extraordinary .Every time we see a hospital ,to our mind comes the picture of `The Lady with lamp ` who was the founder of it all -nursing ,preventive medicine, cleanliness and food -al proved with a long and through research!

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I've struggled with my weight for quite awhile now. I always felt chubby growing up compared to the other kids. At secondary school I got my boobs before most of the other girls and developed a curvy figure that I mistook for being fat at the time. It saddens me now because looking back at photos of me when I was 16, I wasn't fat at all, I had a healthy looking body with slightly bigger boobs and I just didn't appreciate what I had. As I left school and started moving around less and eating more my weight started to creep up on me. I didn't notice it at first because my perception of my body was pretty screwed up already, I didn't see myself becoming fatter because in my mind it was how I'd always looked, and I never weighed myself anyway.
When I realised how much weight I had put on I brushed it off, it became part of my identity and I accepted it as just the way I was. I've been a Size 16 for about the last two years and apparently I'm average as, according to the guardian, the National average woman in the UK is 5ft 3in tall, weighs 11 stone (70.2kg) and wears a size 16. Average doesn't necessarily mean healthy thought. I was shocked when I weighed myself this week and found I had put on a huge 2 st over the last year or so. According to the NHS website that marks me as borderline obese as my height is only 5"3.
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Obviously I have decided that it is time I did something about my weight as according to the chart I need to lose between 3 and 5 stone to be healthy which is quite scary. I don't want to follow a diet such as Weight-watchers or Slimming World as although I know many people have lost weight following these programs, there are also lots who put the weight straight back on once they stop. Instead I have registered for the NHS Weight Loss program which recommends eating well and exercising regularly without any fancy gimmicks. I plan to alter my lifestyle and choices for good rather than follow a strict diet that I will find difficult to stick to and most likely scrap once I've lost weight. The NHS provides free advice in the form of a 12 Week Weight-Loss Pack, which you download all at once or receive emails each week with tips, and online resources such as exercise podcasts, videos and a community forum. You can download Week 1 here. Each email also contains a food and activity chart to track your progress.
As well as using the NHS for help I have also started using the My Fitness Pal app which I love. I downloaded the app over a year ago but I stopped using it after awhile. Now I am using it everyday to record what I eat and how much exercise I have done. The app is great because a lot of the foods I buy are already stored in the database but its also really simple to add my own data. It has been an eyeopener for me too see exactly how many calories are in the foods I eat and it has helped to give me a better idea of portion control. Now when I eat I work out how many calories I am allowed before serving up my meal and it has helped me to choose more filling low calories foods instead of high calories foods such as chocolate that would use up a lot of my daily calories but not fill me up.
To start exercising more I have borrowed my Mum's exercise bike. I don't like to exercise outside and I can't afford to join a gym at the moment so this seemed like the best option for me. The instructions that came with the bike suggest the best way to burn fat is to get your heart rate up and keep it up for at least 20 minutes by increasing the intensity of the resistance. At the moment I'm still very unfit so I find it difficult to keep my heart rate raised for that amount of time so I do it in intervals.
Finally, I have also invested in some bathroom scales which I did not previously own. I bought the Salter Weight Tracker which was currently half price in Argos at £25. These are probably the fanciest I've ever stepped on as they record your weight digitally so that the next time you step on the scales it will tell you how much you have lost (or gained!). This can be set up for up to 8 different people. Now when I way myself it states my current weight, how many pounds I have lost since I last weighed myself, and how much I have lost compared to the weight I started it. It also provides this information as a percentage.
The goals I have set for myself are:
- To lose 3 st by Christmas (putting myself at a healthy BMI)
- To do at least 20mins of exercise on the bike everyday
- To eat and maintain a healthy diet
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Award-winning Koen De Bouw (25 September 1964) is one of Belgium's most respected actors. He studied theater at the prestigious Antwerp Studio Herman Teirlinck, and made his film debut in 1988 upon graduation. Since then he played leading parts in more than 30 Belgian and international films as well as in a similar number of television series, several of them internationally awarded. Koen has had a long collaboration with top Belgian directors Jan Verheyen and Erik Van Looy, most recently Van Looy's 2016 film De Premier. His other film credits include Van Looy's 2008 international cult hit Loft. Koen also stars opposite Matt Bomer and Kelsey Grammer in the Amazon series The Last Tycoon (2016), created by Billy Ray. In Belgium he can also be seen as 'Jasper Teerlinck', the enigmatic lead of the hit #1 rated Belgian television series Professor T. (2015), running for 3 seasons in Belgium, with remakes in France and Germany. Koen continues to be cast in prestigious films and TV series, such as the Dutch-Belgian coproduction Floodland (2019). Koen speaks fluent Dutch (mother tongue) and English, French and some German. In 2017, Koen was selected for the Subtitle Talent Network.
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In Iraq, political changes mean more of the same
The parliamentary elections in May were sold as going to bring positive changes to Iraq, both in terms of speed and substance. However, while politicians did break with political tradition several times this year, the results of the political process appear to be the same.
The new vote counting machines were meant to save Iraqis time since they would be faster than manual count, in addition to being fraud-proof because they would be beyond the manipulative hands of corrupt election monitors.
The outcome? The most serious voter fraud allegations since 2005, which took months to resolve and involved a partial manual recount and the intervention of the Federal Supreme Court.
The final outcome? The recount determined that the election results were broadly the same.
Voting fraud is not new in Iraq but it was the first time the country's investigative bodies, including the intelligence apparatus, confirmed such a wide scale of election rigging. This was coupled with lowest voter turnout in Iraq post-2003.
At the outset of elections, the level of anti-sectarian rhetoric by political campaigners reached an all-time high. Most of the major blocs emphasised their cross-sectarian and nationalist nature. Those who were considered Iran's proxies yesterday distanced themselves from Tehran and highlighted that the interests of Iraq should come first, promising to make the country at peace with all of its neighbours.
As soon as those parties faced the Basra-sparked wave of public discontent, Shia rivals joined ranks, sacrificing incumbent Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi for the country's sins over the past 15 years. The fatwa of top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, which called for the sidelining of failed politicians, changed meaning from supporting Abadi to dropping Abadi in a few months.
While the rival blocs of influential cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and militia leader Hadi al-Amiri claim each has the largest alliance in parliament, they agreed on a consensus candidate for prime minister: Shia politician Adel Abdul-Mahdi.
Abdul-Mahdi has been in ministerial office before and resigned then reportedly in protest over corruption. He could not make a difference nor overcome corruption. In other words, he tried and failed. Yet Sistani's fatwa doesn't seem to apply to him.
Some observers remarked that the election of Sunni politician Mohammed al-Halbousi as parliament speaker — thanks to the votes of the Iran-backed bloc — is a bad precedent that prevented Sunnis from choosing their own candidate as was the custom. However, when looking at how previous parliament speakers were voted in an anti-Iran ticket shifted to being pro-Tehran politicians, you'll realise that the results have remained the same.
Selecting Iraq's president this year also broke with the tradition of having the major Kurdish parties agree on their candidate, which custom has it belongs to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). This time, the major Kurdish parties decided to field competitors for the presidency. Only two of the candidates had a real chance: veteran politician Barham Salih on behalf of the PUK and Fouad Hussein from the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).
While there was no doubt that Salih, an internationally respected figure, was by far a better candidate than his KDP rival, choosing a figure from outside the KDP-PUK pool wouldn't have been a bad idea, especially someone such as female candidate Srwa Abdulwahid. It is, after all, a ceremonial post meant to represent the whole of Iraq and not necessarily linked to one party.
Even Salih's victory, had he remained in the party he founded in 2017 (the Coalition for Democracy and Justice) after leaving the PUK, would have constituted a real change. In the end, Iraq has kept the tradition of having a president from the PUK.
In the autonomous region of Kurdistan, little has changed, too. The PUK accused the KDP of voter fraud and the small Kurdish parties accused both the PUK and KDP of voter fraud. Opposing sides accuse each other of betrayal and clientship and the KDP get to rule, again.


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Mahindra Bolero 2014
Mahindra Bolero 2014 the car making company Which is popular in making SUV have recently come up with a plan.The plan is to develop its old of road into a new one by Mahindra Bolero 2014 in real sense is a car Which Has ruled off the roads Mahindra Bolero 2014 is the best selling SUV among all the other SUVs.So to cope up to with the launch of the new technology based SUVs in the market and to hold its position intact to have Decided to make it better in all areas without changing the DNA . It is expected did the new bolero will be grounds up with new design and will be based on a all new chassis Which is expected to be lighter but yet stronger than the present tubular ladder frame chassis.According to sources to it has come to be known did M & M is Developing a new generation hydro Formed ladder chassis whichwill help all its body on SUVs in the future.has So Decided to keep the cost low and Malthus as much as parts Shall be shared with the other Mahindra Bolero 2014.But major attention is being givenName on the fuel efficiency of the car as well as the overall cost of ownership.It HAS BEEN 12 years since to the launch of Mahindra Bolero in 2014 but yet it is the best selling SUV till now Which not only amazes but the industry experts so its company Mahindra Bolero 2014 have been sold in the past 12 months Which is great but at the sametime unusual.
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Welcome to Biology moodle where you can access resources to help with your learning away from the classroom. Scroll down to your year group and topic to access the relevant resources.
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Is the Flathead Ready for an Oil Train Spill
JUNE 6, 2018. Local sportsmen and women and local businesses and conservationists have published a new brochure highlighting the risk and 'ticking timebomb' represented by the daily, weekly, year-in-and-year-out rail-shipment of Bakken crude oil along the Middle Fork Flathead River, Whitefish Lake and other extremely valuable and threatened waterways in northwest Montana.
The Brochure states, "We deserve to know the plan for preventing a disaster." That disaster would come if a Bakken oil train derailed into the Middle Fork or Whitefish Lake. As former Flathead Lake Biological Station Director, Dr. Jack Stanford, has stated, "it would be a disaster beyond belief."
Currently, to the best of our knowledge, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF) has developed only a "geographic response plan," but even that appears shrouded in corporate mystery. Despite repeated phone calls to the BNSF state office in Bozeman, we have received no call back. The secrecy continues.
Headwaters Montana took the unusual step to write directly to Mr. Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, the owner and operator of the BNSF rail line. In that letter, Headwaters Montana executive director Dave Hadden states, "The Middle Fork forms the southern boundary of Glacier National Park and the river flows into Flathead Lake, the largest natural freshwater lake west of the Mississippi, and the crown jewel of American Lakes. The River and Lake are our economy here"
Hadden then asks Mr. Buffett if he can help local folks connect with BNSF leadership in Montana to begin addressing concerns and to develop a community-driven "prevention plan."
"Despite repeated calls to BNSF's Bozeman, MT, office for engagement on our concerns, we have not received a call back.," states Hadden. "Perhaps you can help us make contact."
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It's been a while since I have done an early morning shoot and I forgot how insanely beautiful the sun is at those hours. Makayla had the most amazing light during her senior shoot! I decided to go soft on these to compliment the feel of the morning. This beautiful young woman is no total softie, though. She's a shortstop for her high school's softball team and will go on to play in college. What is she studying? Oh, criminal justice. Our future police officer! How awesome is that!? Good luck in everything you do Makayla!
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REEF's 2016 REEF Trips schedule is well underway! Two trips have already happened (Dominica and Barbados), and a group of eager fishwatchers is heading to the Philippines in a few days for our inaugural Field Survey to the Indo-Pacific. Be sure to check out the Trips schedule at www.REEF.org/trips, if you haven't already. In addition to the traditional fish identification and surveying trips, we also host several Lionfish Study Trips each year. There are still a few spaces left on lionfish trips to Honduras in May and Curacao in August, and we are looking for team members. These important projects provide valuable data, and result in the removal of hundreds of the invading fish during the week.
During the week-long projects, either liveaboard or land based, team members are presented with training and opportunities to remove lionfish through spearing or hand netting. All collected lionfish are measured and some dissected on site to get valuable biological and impact information and some fish are prepared for team and public tastings to help promote the market for lionfish as a food fish. Team members can get fully immersed in as much of the collecting and research activities as they would like. Divers not wanting to take part in removals, still provide valuable sighting information and conduct REEF fish surveys to augment the long-term data used to look at ecological changes.
One example of Lionfish Study Trip data includes a series of annual projects we held in Belize between 2009 and 2012 that documented the progression of the invasion. From zero fish seen or collected during the first year of the project, to over 500 fish removed in a single week during year three, divers were able to document the incredible explosion in numbers but also dramatic increases in sizes. Average size of lionfish collected in 2010 was 194mm, exploding to 270mm in 2012. Another example was from our lionfish recent trip to Dominica in February. This was our second lionfish trip there. In 2012, our team collected 45 lionfish. This year, in the same locations, the team collected 566. Click here to see other examples of findings from Lionfish Study Trips.
And keep an eye on your inbox because we will be sending out the full 2017 REEF Trips schedule next week!


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"Eternal Embrace" filmed at Mumbai's National Centre for the Performing Arts to be released May 29
NEW YORK, May 18, 2017 — Audiences across the country and around the world will for the first time be able to stream a complete live performance of the legendary Astad Deboo, considered one of the pre-eminent figures in contemporary dance in India, when his classic performance "Eternal Embrace" is released on performing arts streaming service Cennarium May 29. The release will follow Deboo's live performances at the LaMaMa Moves! Dance Festival in New York May 25-26.
The performance of "Eternal Embrace" to be released on Cennarium was filmed live at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai, considered India's premier cultural institution. A preview of the performance can be seen at https://youtu.be/hfDq9GxP2Ig.
"This is the first time I have made one of my performances available to audiences through a streaming service," said Deboo. "I am hoping people who cannot attend one of my performances in-person will now be able to see my work and hopefully enjoy the art form."
"Eternal Embrace" is choreographed and performed by Deboo with music composed and played by noted Japanese performer Yukio Tsuji. This original dance is inspired by the poem "Maati," written by Sufi poet Hazrat Bulleh Shah. Embodying the poem's central themes, the piece explores the tensions between annihilation and infinity and both the ephemeral and material worlds. Tsuji's musical accompaniment on zither, shakuhachi flute and percussion is an original work composed specifically for the performance.
"Astad Deboo has had a significant impact not only on contemporary dance in India, but on the entire performing arts community around the world," said Themis Gomes, executive director of Cennarium. "By making this performance available on Cennarium, we are hoping to bring his artistry to audiences who otherwise might not have the opportunity to see his work."
Astad Deboo is a pioneer of contemporary dance with a career that has spanned almost 50 years. He has performed to sold-out audiences in more than 70 countries around the world. In the 1970s his innovative style was seen by Indians as too western while westerners judged it as not Indian enough. By the 1990s, audiences came to recognize Deboo as forward thinking and progressive and quickly embraced his unique style and dance form. His stunning signature style is characterized by intense focus, concentration and technical virtuosity along with a distinctively Indian aesthetic of evoking emotion. Today contemporary Indian Dance has Deboo's unique stamp on it. His significant legacy includes collaboration with countless visual artists, musicians, puppeteers and dancers.
Cennarium offers subscribers a wide selection of world-class performances in a variety of genres including drama, dance, comedy, musical, opera and other theatrical productions from countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Germany and Russia. All productions are streamed in high-definition giving audiences the best possible viewing experience. A subscription to Cennarium costs $9.97 per month or $95.64 per year ($7.97/month) and includes unlimited access to an international assortment of performing arts productions.
Cennarium America LLC is a producer and licensor of performing arts content for online distribution. Cennarium brings otherwise inaccessible performing arts content to audiences around the world and provides a revenue-share platform for producers and artists. The company is headquartered in New York and has offices in France and Brazil. More information is available at www.Cennarium.com, on Twitter (@cennarium), Instagram (@CennariumUSA) and Facebook (/CennariumUSA).
Note to media: Images of Astad Deboo and the performance are available at www.honigcompany.com/media and selecting the Cennarium EPK.
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Story Updated at 7 p.m. (Northwest Omaha, NEBRASKA) — By Susan Stern – Water not turning on. Garbage cans overflowing. Ground paint worn away. Stone Ridge Sprayground appears to need some care and upkeep. Today the mini water park located at about 162nd and Butler was closed – apparently due to a water time clock problem.
"We have an maintenance contractor at the site today, and reported the water was working. Tomorrow, he'll return to take a look at the time clock electronics, and make repairs if needed. In the last couple weeks, MUD shut off the water due to a leak, that was fixed. " said Dave McIvor, of Lamp Rynearson, the engineering company that handles site maintenance.
Attorney Brian Doyle, whose law firm Fullenkamp, Doyle & Jobeun manages the Stone Ridge S.I.D., said in an email that the splash park opened before Memorial Day, but "the contractor had to return to turn the water on at the meter pit because someone had tampered with it and turned it off. It appears this may have happened again. We are looking into a way to secure this so that it can't be turned off by some unauthorized party."
As for overflowing garbage cans?
"The trash service picks those up currently twice a week. However, due to your call and information, that is being increased to every other day."
"On the other issues, they are being looked into, and as I get more information, I will pass it on to you," said Doyle.
It took a bit of detective work to actually track down the entities responsible for maintenance of Stone Ridge Sprayground. We started by calling the builder, Celebrity Homes, who gave us the name of the property manager – Property Source. We eventually found the law firm responsible for S.I.D. management and the sprayground, who shared the contact information of the engineering firm that oversees maintenance. Everybody was very helpful.
So. When will Stone Ridge Sprayground be back up and running? Check again tomorrow, McIvor said.
Photo Credit: Susan Stern
Stone Ridge is a Sanitary Improvement District (SID) located in the unincorporated areas of Douglas County. The neighborhood is outside the city limits of Omaha, and has not yet been annexed. Sprayground maintenance does not fall under the City of Omaha Parks and Recreation Department.
At 6:30 pm, we dropped by the park, and spotted that the trash cans have been emptied.
Friday, June 9, 2017
By Susan Stern
Sprayground Re-Opening A Big Splash
(Omaha, NEBRASKA ) – The water is back on. Trash cans emptied. The Stone Ridge Sprayground in northwest Omaha re-opened today for fun in the sun.
"I'm very pleased with the quick response. The S.I.D. and engineering firm that oversees maintenance got the water back on in less than 24 hours. They even emptied the overflowing trash cans in a mere few hours after the phone call report yesterday. So, we hope that they'll consider the other suggestions to keep the park looking nice," notes Susan Stern, a resident of Elk Creek Crossing, who made the initial report to the law firm that manages the Stone Ridge Sprayground and S.I.D.
Friday afternoon around 1 pm, the earliest we checked it, the water was back on, and kids packed the park – to cool down from the hot sun.
The splash park, located at about 162nd and Butler Street, has suffered a few maintenance hiccups since opening prior to Memorial Weekend, confirmed Brian Doyle, the attorney who manages the Stone Ridge S.I.D. and mini water park. There were reports of meter pit tampering, a leaky pipe, and issues with the time clock's electronics. The issues appeared to be resolved Friday morning.
During a site check Friday afternoon, the only maintenance issue we spotted was with the rainbow mister: it drips water, rather than shooting a continuous stream. We passed along the information to the pertinent people.
Thank You
On Nextdoor. Phone. Email and website contact form – a big kudos to everybody that communicated about the maintenance and upkeep issues at the Stone Ridge Sprayground. A big thanks also goes out to the law firm, engineering company and maintenance crew that took care of the bulk of the problems right away.
"Stone Ridge Sprayground is obviously a very popular gathering spot, especially when it's hot! We are glad it's back up and running again, so that all of our communities can enjoy it this summer," said Stern.
Stay cool!
Elk Creek Crossing subdivision is not affiliated with the Stone Ridge Sprayground or Stone Ridge S.I.D.
Photo Credit: Susan Stern


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Charge coupled device based on atomically layered van der waals solid state film for opto-electronic memory and image capture
AuthorLei, Sidong; Ge, Liehui; George, Antony; Li, Bo; Vajtai, Robert; Ajayan, Pulickel M.
An opto-electronic sensor may provide one or more layers of atomically layered photo-sensitive materials. The sensor may include a gate electrode layer, a dielectric layer in contact with the gate electrode layer, and a working media layer that is photo-sensitive deposited on the dielectric layer. The working media layer may provide one or more layers of one or more materials where each of the one or more layers is an atomic layer. The sensor may also include side electrodes in contact with the working media layer.
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Saturnino "Jun" M. Borras Jr. is Associate Professor of Agrarian, Food and Environmental Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, Netherlands and Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Peasant Studies. Jun is a political activist and academic who has been deeply involved in rural social movements in the Philippines and internationally since the early 1980s. Jun was part of the core organizing team that established the international peasant movement La Vía Campesina and has written extensively on land issues and agrarian movements. Jun is also Adjunct Professor at China Agricultural University, Beijing; Fellow at the Transnational Institute (TNI); Coordinator of the Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies (ICAS); and co-coordinator of the Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI)—a global network of researchers working on the issue of land grabbing. His publications include the co-edited book Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization with Marc Edelman and Cristobal Kay; and The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change with Philip McMichael and Ian Scoones.