...I attended an open AA meeting that was named Traditional Group. I would put off this assignment because I was nervous going alone. I did not know what to expect because I had never attended an AA meeting before. I was afraid I was going to be picked on to speak or that I would have to announce that I was a non-AA member. I did not know whether to expect a big group of people or a small group. I was afraid that others would notice that I was new. I finally got the courage to attend the closest group to my home on a Saturday morning. I was amazed at how large the group I attended was. I walked in and there were already a lot of people sitting down, but I was able to find a seat. They began the meeting with people reminding the group of the 12 steps and the 12 traditions. I noticed a familiar face in the group and I realized that one of my coworkers from my internship was sitting across from me at a distance. At first I thought that...
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...Today is Friday September the 18th and I’m attending my third AA meeting. I have to admit I really have been looking forward to coming to these meetings. When I read the syllabus and realized I had to attend group meetings, I was concerned and fearful that this was going to be difficult for me to complete due to my work schedule and other obligations. After attending my second meeting, I was so excited and picked up the phone and called my daughter and told her how much I learned about human behavior and how life events affects people so differently. Today’s meeting was led by a female, she started the meeting in Rebo’s tradition. I knew the meeting was going to be different from my other two, because throughout the room there was books...
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...Meeting at a church on a Friday night is not usual for most college students, but it is for the members of an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) women's group in my hometown. A square room with windows, two couches, and an odd assortment of chairs, the space is the home for a vast array of women who meet weekly to discuss their addiction journey, as well as to both provide and receive support for their decision to remain sober. My experience at the AA meeting began with a mix-up, not to be confused with a mixer. A classmate and I spoke first with the woman who was opening the door and greeting members as they arrived. I asked her if she was the group facilitator and she explained that she was just the attendant. I later discovered that the group was autonomous and had no true leader. I explained that we were students and she let us know that it was a closed group. While apologizing for the misinformed website and letting her know we'd try elsewhere, the attendant stopped me and said that they could ask the group if we could observe. She explained that as long as no one objected, we could stay. The meeting opened with the leader for that week explaining that students were here, and asking for discussion. This was the first glimpse into the leadership and decision-making of the group. Collective leadership ran the decisions, with every member playing an equal part in voicing their opinion. While one member was chosen each week to facilitate, decisions were unanimous or majority-based...
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...I attended my first AA meeting as a nursing student. Though, working in psychiatric unit I have attended many groups on addiction, and watched movies, I still was excited to attend this meeting. It was not at all a surprise to see well dressed and groomed attendants. However, the majority of the attendants were elderlies. This might be because of the time of the meeting; it was Wednesday at 11am and this is more convenient time for retired elderly population in the community. I introduced myself to the organizers and they were very supportive; and it was even more pleasing to see members who are very sociably interacting to each other and newcomers which, indeed is a very great tool to support each other. The meeting is well structured. Prior to what is scheduled for the day, the team leader introduces new comers, and share new events. The lady who was leading the meeting introduced herself and appoints different members to read the criteria of membership or attending the group, the purpose of the meeting, and outcome or goal expected from the meeting. This sounds more like nursing care plan to me. Different members also share their insightful experience with the group. This AA meeting incorporates spiritual guidance in getting sober...
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...On Sunday May 30th, I attended an AA meeting in Baltimore, MD. At the beginning, Rabbi Trencher and I were suppose to attend a NA meeting for youth, but they cancelled that one; so we went on an adventure. After being locked out of another meeting, we drove around riot tattered Baltimore City and ended up in the basement of a church in Fells Point. As soon as we enter the meeting, I felt the warmth and homeliness of the group. The welcoming committee made sure that we felt at home, that way we would continue coming. When the meeting commenced, people already started to fall asleep, play on their phones, etc. It seemed to be runned by all addicts, I feel that Rabbi Trencher and I were the only ones who weren’t addicts. The reader started by giving some housekeeping notes and one thing that caught my attention is when they said to have your slips signed go to Alex. It felt...
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...Case Study Project Phylicia Rowe HUS 1001/SECTION 65 Professor Dr. McNeely Word Count: 728 When Scott came into my office I had a brief bio on what he was going through, by listening and observing I could see that Scott was physically and mentally being abused by his parents, and emotionally detached and lack of control over his anger due to his childhood. Scott diagnoses was bipolar depression and his condition is workable but it will take time and constancies. Scott’s faces lack of feelings and is emotional detached with his wife. The issue that Scott has is being verbally and physically violence to get his point a crossed and be known, and the reason he is that way is because of how he was raised and how his parents treated him. The goal here is to help Scott find positive reinforcement in getting his point across and not build things up inside The third issue that Scott has is that he has no relationship with his family, and his goal that we had agreed on was going to support center therapy that could help guide him in ways on how to slowly get a relationship with his family.. Next, as me and Scott was continue to talk, I had brought up some resources that help men who batter their spouses. I could see the look on Scotts face as if he wanted to change but didn’t want to lose control and he mentioned that he liked his method of getting what he wanted. I approached him in another direction and asked him “do you want to see your children...
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...Yesterday I attended my first ever AA meeting and it kind of blew me away. I’ll be honest, I was extremely nervous in preparation for this meeting. I was afraid I was going to be seen as an intruder, that people would know right away I was not one of them. I was apprehensive about who I might see there, wondered if it was safe to go alone. But from the moment I walked into the building, I had my preconceived notions tossed out the door. Right away I was struck by two things, the age gaps between members, and ratio of men and women. In my head I figured it would be mostly older men. I was wrong. There were people ranging from probably late 70’s to a few who didn’t even look old enough to drink. And the mix of men and women astounded me. I’d say the ratio was just about 50/50. But what probably threw me for the biggest loop was the differences in appearance. Again, my ignorance had led me to believe that the average alcoholic was an older man with tattoos and a...
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...I at attended the AA Alcoholics Anonymous meeting at the AdCare hospital on Lincoln Street on Tuesday March 8, 2016 from 6:30 to 7:30PM. As the meeting began everyone introduced themselves by their first name and told whether or not they were alcoholics or not. As everyone told their names the rest of the people welcomed them by their first name. At first I was really afraid to go to the meeting alone so I emailed my class fellows to see if someone wanted to go with me or not. I had never attended an AA meeting before so I did not know what it would be like. But when I went to the meeting and sat through it I slowly started to feel comfortable. I think one important role everyone played was that they were listing to other people’s conversations and replying...
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...Before arriving at the Open AA meeting that I was attending at the Alano Club in Agawam, MA I wasn’t sure how to feel or what to think. I wasn’t sure if the other people attending the meeting were going to be ok with me being there since I wasn’t an alcoholic. I thought that they would think I was going to judge them because of their current situations and or problems since I was not dealing with the same ones. When I entered the meeting there were two large tables with people sitting around them. The people attending the meeting noticed that I was a newcomer and introduced themselves. Everyone was so open and welcoming it made me want to go back again just because of how nice they were. I had told them that I was a student attending the open meeting for a class assignment so the chairperson gave me a pamphlet with his number on it just in case I needed to call for any questions....
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...Setting The alcohol anonymous meeting I attended took place at East Bay in warren at a club house between 5:15 pm and 5:45pm and I will refer to the meeting as “The gathering of morals”. The room is big enough to accommodate the members and from what I learnt nothing else happens there apart from the meetings. Signs are put in the walls which are basically the announcements, 12 steps, and 12 traditions and slogans. There was a lot of coffee indeed and people freely filled there cups. There are members as young as 16 years old and older individuals making the median age to be around 45 to 55 of years. There were individuals of different social class: those who seem to be living in the street and those who seem much confortable financially. There was no much big amount in racial diversity. Meeting occurrence AA meeting started on time with the chairperson “Mr. Milton” calling the meeting to order. Other conversation stopped and people took their sits. It then followed a moment of silence before one of the members offered to pray then there after members recited the Serenity Prayer. The chairperson then asked if there was any person attending the meeting for the first time and their reasons for attendance. The aim of doing so was to welcome any guests or visitors. What I observed and shocked was "The gathering of morals” meeting room is not a church in but in many ways, it imitates the church among the Christians faithful space that would be familiar to any Catholic church...
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...spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, I could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead. If I do not work, I would surely drink again, and if I drank, I would surely die. With me it is just like that. I for one would not be here today had one man at my first meeting appointed himself to be my sponsor, and herein lies what I believe to be the miracle of AA. He was just over 5 years sober at the time and was experiencing difficulty, he shared this with another member and was told to get a newcomer and work with him. He asked where am I going to get a newcomer all the rest of you seem to grab them. He was told to pray for a wet alcoholic to work with, at this point in his life he was not too heavily into prayer but he had no better ideas so he did what was suggested and he shares this as part of his story now,” Billy fell into our meeting”. He surmises that the group had not seen a worse example at that time and they were quite happy for him to have me because none of them thought I had much of a chance. Man did he persevere with me. I was not honest and was drinking between meetings for a while but he kept turning up and taking me to meetings that I didn't...
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...Dear Manager Two weeks ago I purchased a 50inches Sharpe LCD Television. The TV was delivered two days later and your technician setup the system for me. Upon assembly we realized that the remote did not have any batteries. Though I was concern that I was not able to check if the remote was active the technicians were able to able to assure me that all it needed was the batteries and everything would be O.K. Two days later I purchased a set of AA batteries and tested the remote, to my dismay the remote did not work. Upon close examination I realized that the remote was branded Harpe and not Sharpe. I visited the store a week later to return to return the remote. The CRS asked me why I didn't the case earlier, I explained to her I was unable to visit any sooner but I called several times and got a busy tone each time. Without any further question she told me to have a seat. After waiting for approximately two hours she returned and told me that it will take at least five working days for them to complete the investigation as to how I received the incorrect remote. She advised me that someone will call to update me on the progress. It has been seven days and I still have not received a call. Dissatisfied Pat. Respond to customer addressing the following 1. Digitec Ltd. Policies and Procedures that should have been observed. 2. What actions the organization will be taken to appease her experience. 3. What steps will be taken to ensure that the situation does...
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...the experiment is getting the materials that are needed. 4 things are required for this experiment. A. Material 1- Potatoes- You will need 2 potatoes. B. Material 2- Nails- You will need 2 copper nails and 2 galvanized nails. C. Material 3- Wiring- You need 3 different copper jumper wires. 1. 3 different copper wires with alligator clamps. D. Material 4- Clock- A LED single battery clock is required. 1. Either a single AA battery or single AAA battery clock. II. Putting the materials to use – The second step is to use all the materials to make the appropriate connections for the experiment to work. A. Potatoes- You will need two fairly sized brown potatoes. 1. Call one potato A 2. Call one potato B B. Nails- Each of the four nails will be placed in both of the potatoes. 1. Place one copper nail in one side of each potato. 2. Place one galvanized nail in each potato on the opposite side insuring the nails do not touch. C. Clock- The clock must be an LED that requires little power to operate and uses only one AA or AAA battery. 1. Make sure that no battery is in the clock, if there is then remove it D. Wiring- Each of the three wires are important for the electrical connection. 1. Connect the first jumper wire from the...
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...Contract/Subcontract Management User Guide Copyright © 1999. All Rights Reserved. TOC TABLE OF CONTENTS * 1 INTRODUCTION Purpose Scope Related Manuals 2 RESPONSIBILITIES Assignment of Tasks 3 INITIAL TASKS Pre-Award Activities Pre-Construction Meeting Filing System Correspondence and Correspondence Control Insurance and Bonds Schedule Submittals 4 PERFORMANCE Changes Commitment Approvals Schedule Requests for Information (RFI'S) Technical Transmittals Claims Backcharges 5 MONITORING/REPORTING Daily Report Progress Review and Coordination Meetings Progress Measurement and Payment Quality Surveillance Safety and Health Environmental 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS CLOSEOUT Page i of v CONTRACT/SUBCONTRACT MANAGEMENT MANUAL 6.1 6.2 Beneficial Occupancy 6.3 Substantial Completion 6.4 Punch List 6.5 7 Contract Closeout Warranty SPECIAL TOPICS 7.1 Contract Law 7.2 Basis for Claims 7.3 Negotiation 7.4 Interface Coordination 7.5 Labor and Industrial Relations 7.6 Force Accounts 7.7 Liquidated Damages 7.8 Delays and Extension of Time 7.9 Acceleration 7.10 Suspension of Work 7.11 Differing Site Conditions 7.12 Terminations 7.13 Project Environmental Controls INDEX FORMS TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ii of v CONTRACT/SUBCONTRACT MANAGEMENT MANUAL Introduction TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.1 Purpose.................
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...have addressed the problem so that the entire team could approach and move to the Norming Stage smoothly and harmoniously together as a team. Instead, they left Mike behind and moved on without his presence. The team at week five is now ready to present their case and is now in the Performing Stage. Mike only has some rough handwritten notes. Knowledge of the Team Development Stages should have helped Christine fix problems during the Storming Stage before moving on to the next stage clean and fresh. Part II: Problem Identification The primary problem is Mike, the secondary problem is Christine. During the first group meeting, Mike showed resistance to get together before class. Then as time went on Mike missed most of the meetings. But Mike left brief notes to Christine, which she was supposed to discuss for him at the meetings. In week three there was a cafeteria incident where Mike walked away with drama. Then on week four, Mike confides to Christine that aside from the job, the coursework, he now has girlfriend problems. On week five, Mike could not...
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