MBA progess etc., Philosophy, Myths and Books

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Finished two more courses of my MBA today with exams for Contemporary People Management and Strategic Management. The latter would be quite amusing for Brendan E; it was entirely dedicated to Nike, whom I discover neither make or sell shoes. Assuming I've passed both of these (a fair assumption) this means I've completed all all the rerequisite units for the qualification with only four elective units to do. I must confess I am rather unsure of what to select from the offerings and will spend some time considering these choices - and for that matter how many I do. I could be enthusiastic and try to get the lot done over summer, the equivalent of a full-time load. In other qualifications did the refresher course for my First Aid Certificate. The trainer wasn't very good; when people didn't understand his questions his strategy was to repeat himself, but louder. He also tried to tell us that a blood glucose level of 12 was normal for diabetics. I think that's a very dangerous thing to teach.

Last Sunday conducted a dual presentation with Rick Barker at the Unitarian Philosophy Forum on Teleology and Free Will. Deriving heavily from Aristotle which follows a somewhat Hellenic-centric approach we've had recently at the Forum, which will be followed up with The Hellenic Origins of Philosophy. Appropriately, I've just picked up the Folio Society edition of Graves' Greek Myths, a set both flawed and beautiful. Actually I should also mention that recently picked up a 1674 edition of Beuvelet's Meditations on the Principles of Truth and a mid-19th century Byron set. I am justly worried that I might be acquiring yet another hobby.

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[shehasathree]

Congrats on the exams!
Ooh, it's time for me to renew my First Aid certificate, too. I wasn't too impressed with the place I went to last time, though. Nothing as bad as what your trainer said, though!

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Thank you kindly.... If you don't mind me asking, where did you get your certificate (mine was St John in the city..)

[shehasathree]

It was emergency.com.au - to be fair the instructor wasn't too bad, but the class was full of people who were required to be there for their job and had done a first aid course before and obviously weren't taking it *at all* seriously, and I didn't think that the instructor handled that very well. When we broke up into pairs to study specific medical conditions one pair of jokers reported to the group about diabetes "there's two kinds of diabetes, high and low" and recommended "give them a coke" as an appropriate treatment. So I was not impressed, and fervently hope that I am never in a position to receive First Aid from the vast majority of attendees of that particular course.

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"give them a coke" as an appropriate treatment

Actually that's not a wrong short-term response for a person who is suffering hypoglycemia; assuming it's the non-diet version. Any form of candy water is a good immediate response).

It's probably not entirely wrong to refer to two types being "high" and "low" (rather than Type I and II); after all as the old wry comment about the two types of cancer ("the one you get better from and the one you don't"), those are the two levels that can kill.

But yes, some seriousness is appreciated. Keeping people alive in a moment of crisis is sobering. I was much more impressed with the first instructor I had on this topic who really emphasised the point and played it out quite effectively.