Is Your Caregiver A Family Member?

Is your caregiver a family member? (via Repost Video News)

Is your caregiver a family member?

---

Mesothelioma Center's Asbestos.com Website

Asbestos fibres - a single fibre is believed to cause mesothelioma (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Asbestos.com is a website and advocacy group that helps the victims of asbestos exposure and their loved ones. We connect our visitors with the resources they need to understand and fight asbestos-related disease, all at no cost. We research the latest data about asbestos and asbestos-related diseases to ensure an accurate, up-to-date site, and we maintain relationships with doctors and cancer centers to promote patient access to cutting-edge treatment.

Our free services include: providing literature on asbestos and related diseases; providing access to our on-staff nurse; matching patients up with qualified doctors in their area; managing a support group for asbestos victims and their families; helping veterans receive VA benefits for asbestos diseases; educating the public about Social Security disability and legal options; and much more.

Asbestos.com is part of the mesothelioma community, which has a blend of for-profit and not-for-profit websites and companies occupying it. We are a for-profit company. The site is owned by AMAG, LLC, based in Orlando and sponsored by The Peterson Firm. We think we do good work, much like other for-profit companies: Walt Disney World, Starbucks, UPS and Whole Foods. We like the fact that we're a business because we feel it gives us more opportunities to help people. Although we do understand the stigma that sometimes comes with a for-profit company, we are proud of the work we do and we trust the feedback of our users.

Related articles

• Mesothelioma and Injuries Caused by Asbestos
• Mesothelioma Patient Blames School Asbestos Exposure
• Largest MDL in History, on Mesothelioma and Asbestos Exposure, Winding Down
• Asbestos Exposure Symptoms And The Diagnoses of Mesothelioma

US Has the World’s Least Flexible Workplaces

Family Values? US Has the World’s Least Flexible Workplaces (via Moyers & Company)

The phrase “family values” has become a proxy for a suite of policy preferences championed by the religious right. But what would a set of policies that truly reflected the value of American families look like? A good place to begin in creating…

---

Military Veterans as Nannies

When it made the news that a nanny agency specializing in placing military veterans as caregivers was opening up, there was a buzz of concern and interest amongst those in the nanny industry. To learn more about the Tactical Nannies program I reached out to Jonathan Gilliam, president and CEO of United States Continued Service, the parent company of Tactical Nannies. Here’s what he had to share. 

eNannySource: I think when people first hear that military veterans are being sought out to provide nanny care they wonder two things: first, how do you reconcile the idea of being a combat veteran with a nurturing caregiver, and second, what about post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental issues?

Jonathan: I understand both of those concerns, and I think most people’s perception of the military is off the mark is many ways. With respect to reconciling a trained, military combat veteran, it is important to note the core elements that drive a person, male or female, to enter into military service. Those core elements are love of their fellow citizens and a desire to protect our freedoms and rights. The key words here are love and protect. Under the body armor and ammunitions is a human being who is serving at a level of selflessness that most people will never know without being in the military. This is easily translated into caring for children and protecting a family/home. Our pilot program includes several personality screening practices. Not only am I a former Navy SEAL, but I also served as a special agent in New York for eight years. I am associating with other agents to complete a background screening that gives us a complete picture of the personality and motivation of our nanny candidates, as well as making sure the underlying love and protective nature is at the forefront. I know it is unusual hearing those words from a trained warrior, but it is actually the basis for what we do.

PTSD is, as you pointed out, a major concern for many people. We understand that. In our screening process we will pay close attention to indicators of PTSD. However, the sheer numbers of veterans returning from duty overseas does not lend itself to an overwhelming percentage of PTSD sufferers. There just isn’t a lot of PTSD. What we see more often is the need for a “debrief” or time-out after returning from overseas. The awareness is so heightened in a war environment, that when you return, it takes time to turn it down. Reactions are quicker, attitudes are more assertive. But it is not PTSD the majority of the time.

eNannySource: You mentioned people’s views of the military are off the mark. Can you elaborate on what that means?

Jonathan: Unfortunately, many people in the American public see young enlisted people as dropouts that couldn’t make it anywhere else. This couldn’t be further from the truth in most cases. A high percentage of young people entering into military service have a drive to serve and a determination to succeed that cannot be met through college. Many of these individuals do in fact finish college after an initial tour of duty. Some take online classes, some night school and others transfer into the Reserves or National Guard and attend full time. Regardless, within two to four years of their entry into service, these young people have developed a core set of values and skills that propel them forward in life. Learning how to operate using Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and how to function in a team environment, it is driven into everyone that serves that you are a leader no matter what rank you hold. This part of the training is widely unknown or understood by the majority of employers and the American public itself.

Continue Reading

It never goes away...

Posted on Record For Pop

ROCHESTER, NY - NOVEMBER 3: The Eastman Kodak Co. corporate headquarters is seen November 3, 2011, in Rochester, New York. Kodak announced a loss of $222 million in the third quarter and has warned it's survival hangs on the sale of digital-imaging patents or raising money by selling debts. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

From a conversation on Facebook:

As posted on the wall of the Eastman Kodak Company: "My father worked for Kodak for 36 years and authored over 200 US Patents during that time which he sold to the company for $1.00 with the understanding that he would get compensated for his efforts in the form of medical and retirement benefits and you bastards dare give yourselves huge bonuses then cut the medical and retirement benefits from his wife of 69 years, my mother? Shame on you and start running you pricks!"

Like ·  · Share

• Nicole Taylor and Kathy Miller Chevalier like this.
• 

  Ron Darling-Storyteller That's what happens when a company says...oh...digital is just a fad...we'll stay in the film business...

  2 hours ago · Like · 1
• 

  Kevin Patrick Reynolds They have no shame...my partents are in their late 80's and must now shop for their own health insurance.

  about an hour ago · Like
• 

  Ron Darling-Storyteller Who has no shame?....where in the contract we signed to live here...oh wait we signed no contract....but where does it say everything is a guarantee? I ran a very successful business for nearly 30 years...had lots of savings and was making a good six ...See More

  38 minutes ago · Like
• 

  Stephen G. Barr Well, my Pop was a company man and worked in the chem labs in Bldg. 59 for many years and authored over 200 of Kodak's patents which were up for sale not long ago, eventually became head of all of the research labs within Kodak Park then was promoted to be Kodak's Director of Information Services worldwide and was responsible for connecting all of Kodak's research libraries via this new thing called the internet before he retired with 36 LOYAL years of service. He and his then lab partner (Dr. Phil Land) invented and patented instant photography process together....Pop sold his rights to Kodak for a buck and Phil left and sold his rights to a little unknown startup called Poloroid. Kodak sat on that patent and didn't use it until long after Poloroid made hundreds of millions off of it. The least they could do is keep his widow supplied with an insurance premium before giving themselves up to 2 million in bonuses for steering a ghost ship into dry dock. Kodak management made several huge mistakes over the years, instant photography, film sales lost to Fugi, crappy printers and the death shot of digital technology which they owned long before anyone else did but again sat on their own technology too long in greed and arrogance which led to their ultimate demise. The three former Presidents I believe made the worst judgement errors were Lou Eilers, Jerry Zornow and Jack Thomas but they reported to an even more arrogant Board of Directors. My Mom is ok financially and now 85 and Pop is now 18 months passed and has his original patents in leather binders which I will pass down to my son as a symbol of days gone by and more than that a way of life that has left us when men worked for decades and were "company" men and the company left them with enough to carry them out the door for their valuable service to the cause. Pop's buried just a mile or so north of old building 59 in Holy Sepulchre Cemetary and he'd want me to speak up for him on this I'm very sure so I did. Have there been bigger crimes against humanity? Sure, but not against the life's work of a man who also discovered the cure for leprosy in 1947, could have sold his work to Poloroid like his partner did but chose to be loyal to the company that now spits on his grave and slaps his widow. It's a sad state of affairs we are in at this point indeed.

Related articles

• Eastman Kodak Delays Patent Auction As Bidders Offer Low Price
• Key events in the history of Eastman Kodak Co.
• Goodbye Kodak T-Max P3200
• Kodak Reaches Agreement with Retiree Committee

Just now able to return 18 months almost since he passed....

Just a bookmark to mark the first time I've been able to return here...I now am able to go about a week at a time without thinking of him...but then I feel guilty as if I have abandoned his memory or whatever BS I run through my own head...I miss my Pop....and I'm tearing up so that's enough for today.