Melva Gifford

Good: continuous

Bad:   continuous

If I would pronounce this properly I should remember the u instead of the I but I don’t.  Maybe this visual image will help. Water on the ocean can be a continuous wave the nu the air visually, could look like the rise and fall of a wave thus I remember nu at the middle.

We’ll see if that helps. I’m open to any other better recommendations.

Here is my additional CERT training concentrated upon the psychological environment created by a traumatic event.  This comes from the book.

Critical incident stress debriefing (CISD):

• – A critical incident stress debriefing is one type of intervention that may be helpful for CERT. Critical incident stress management, (CISAM) is a short term healing process that focuses on helping people deal with the trauma one incident at a time. CISM Is intended to lessen the chance of experiencing post – trauma stress disorder.
• – CERT leaders made by a mental health professional trained in critical incident stress management to conduct a critical incidents stress debriefing.
• – C ISD is a formal group process held between 1 to 3 days after the event. It’s geared to help emergency service personnel and volunteers to cope with the traumatic event.
• – C ISD would not be used as a stand-alone intervention but we’ve used in connection with other types of intervention such as diffusing, debriefing, and following up with individual.
• – Petition in a CI SD should be voluntary. Your agency may assist in arranging for these services for the CERT. If no one is available to your agency contact the Red Cross or a community mental health agency. Pastoral counseling is not a substitute for disaster counseling from a professional.
• – C ISD has seven phases.
• – Introductions and the description of the process, including assurance of confidentiality.
• – Review of the factual material about the incident.
• – Sharing of initial thoughts and feelings about the incident
• – Sharing of emotional reactions to the incident
• – Review of the symptoms of stress experienced by the participants.
• – Instruction about normal stress reactions.
• – Closing and further needs assessment.

Working with survivor’s trauma:

• – Crisis survivors can go through a variety of emotional phases, and as a rescuer, you should be aware of what you may encounter
• – Impact phase, survivors generally do not panic and may, in fact show no emotion.
• – Inventory phase, survivors assess damage and try to locate other survivors. Routine social ties tend to be discarded in favor of more functional relationships required for initial response activities (search and rescue)
• – Rescue phase, emergencies service personnel respond, survivors of willing to take direction from these groups without protest. This is why CERT identification felt was best etc. is important. Survivors are likely to be more helpful and compliant during the rescue phase.
• – Recovery phase, the survivors appear to pull together against their rescuers as they transition to the recovery phase. You should expect survivors to show psychological effects from the disaster, expects a reaction to be directed toward you.
• – Traumatic crisis will the crisis is an event that is experienced or witnessed and a person’s ability to cope is overwhelmed

Traumatic Crisis:

• – Actual or potential death or injury to self and others
• – Serious injury destruction of their homes, neighborhood, and possessions
• – Loss of contact with family members or close friends

Traumatic stress may affect:

• – Cognitive functioning: people he acted irrationally to ways that are out a character. They may have difficulty sharing or retrieving memories.
• – Physical help: stress can cause a range of physical symptoms from exhaustion health problems.
• – Interpersonal relationships: those who survive to make stress undergo temporary or long-term personality changes that may affect interpersonal relationships

Meditating factors:

• – The strength and type of personal reaction to trauma may vary depending on: CERT members can’t know and should never seem to know someone else think of feeling. Do not take the survivors attitude personally. Rescuers can expect to see a range of responses that will vary from person to person. Their responses may relate to the event not to CERT members.
• – Persons prior experience, with the same or similar event; the emotional effect of multiple events can build up lead to greater stress reactions. Intensity of the disruption is the writer’s lives; the borders of either lives are disrupted, the greater the psychological and physical reactions.
• – The meaning of the event to the individual; the more catastrophic the victim deceives the event to Hillary personally one tends his or her stress maybe
• – Emotional well-being of individual and the resources (especially social) that he or she has to hope; people who have other recent traumas may not hold with additional stresses.
• – The length of time that has elapsed between the events occurrence in the present. The reality of event takes time to sink in.

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I attended the get motivated seminar and took notes on various motivational speakers as well as people selling the product. Here are some of the quotes that they posted on the screen prior to the speeches. Any misinformation or misquotes is the fault of the note taker.

• You have to think differently if you want different results
• Success is a choice not an accident
• Outside your comfort zone is success
• Shoot for the moon if you miss you’re still amongst the stars
• Only those who do the ridiculous achieve the spectacular
• Help others achieve their dream and you achieve yours.
• If you want to become independently wealthy you must become independently wise.
• Learning is the antidote for trial and error.
• People are not living their dreams because they are living their fears.

Do you have a favorite quote that inspires you? Please feel free to share it in the  comment section of this blog.

Bad:   ancestery

Good: ancestry

it’s always the last half of the word that I mess up on. So how about this: When you do any research on your ancesTRY you TRY to find out from whom you come from. Thus remember the word TRYin ancesTRY.

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Today’s CERT training concentrated upon the psychological environment created by a traumatic event. Here are some notes.

CERT members may experience disaster trauma because you have to address

• Your own personal losses
• Work in your neighborhood
• Assisting neighbors, friends, coworkers who’ve been injured.
• Not feeling safe and secure
• The vicarious trauma can occur when you identify too strongly with the survivors feelings. This is also known as compassion fatigue a secondary victimization. Taking on survivors feelings can affect your ability to perform your duties.

Possible psychological symptoms:

• Some of the types of disaster – related psychological responses that you may experience or observe and others are
• Irritability or anger
• Self-blame of blaming others
• Isolation and withdrawal
• Fear of reoccurrence
• Feeling stunned, none, overwhelmed
• Feeling helpless mood swings
• Sadness, depression, and grief
• Denial
• Concentration and memory problems
• Relationship conflicts – marital discord

Possible physical symptoms:

• Loss of appetite
• Headaches of chest pain
• Diarrhea, stomach pain, or nausea
• Hyperactivity
• Increase in alcohol or drug consumption
• Nightmares
• The ability to sleep, fatigue or low-energy

Team well – being

• The action you can take before, during and after the incident to help manage the emotional impact of the event. Knowing in advance what kind of responses you can get can help in managing the impact.
• Some actions of the CERT responders can be taken by themselves or by certain leaders to take during a response

Ways to reduce your own stress:

• You are the best one to know what can help you reduce stress. Consider these preventative steps in your everyday life.
• Get enough sleep.
• Exercise regularly.
• Eat a balanced diet.
• Balance work, play, and rest.
• Allow yourself to receive help as you get help; you should remember that your space identity is wider than that as a helper.
• Connect with others.
• Use spiritual resources.
• In additional to preventative steps you can also explain to your loved ones and friends how to support you. You can ask them to listen to when you want to talk. And remind them not to force you to talk if you don’t want to.

How team leaders reduce stress during the incident:

• Brief CERT personnel before the effort begins on what they can expect to see what they can expect in terms of emotional response in the survivors in themselves. Emphasize of the CERT is a team. Share in the workload and emotional load can help defuse pent-up emotions.
• Encourage rescues to rest and regroup selection of boy becoming overtired.
• Get rescuers to take breaks away from the incident area, to get relief from stresses of the effort.
• Encourage rescues to eat properly and maintain fluid intake throughout the operation. Encourage water or electrolyte – replacing fluids and to avoid drinks caffeine or refined sugar.
• Arrange for debriefing 1 to 3 days after the event in which workers describe what they encountered and express their feelings about it in a more in-depth way.
• Rotate teams for breaks or new duties. Encourage team members to talk to each other about their experience. This is very important for their psychological help.
• Phase out workers gradually. Move them from high to low stress areas of the incident. At the end of the day assignment to low stress responsibilities so they can decompress gradually. Conduct a brief discussion (diffusing) with rescue workers after their shift during which they can describe what they encountered and express their feelings about it

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Today is the last class of family history. Now I need to seek out sources of knowledge of how to look up information via census records, birth and death certificates, and marriages etc.

Here are the final reminders about family history teaching others.

A comparison was made of how Christ taught a lot of his object lessons through fish/fishing themes. Also it was said this better to teach a man to fish and if even one fish. This being that if you give him a fish, he can eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish he can feed his family today and in the future.

1. Create a successful first experience. This can be embellished by already knowing their customer number and being familiar with how to do an easy set up.
2. Scout out the person family history in advance so you can find nuggets of opportunity so they can find success on their first experience. Use your knowledge to help them find a good lead for joining family history.

• Depending upon what history has been done in the past will influence your response to helping them. If you have a client who’s just starting out with hardly anything in their family fan then the First thing to is fill out the personalized family booklet. These free booklets are available to family history reps in the area.
• For those that have partial trees that hints and suggestions would be a good way for them to continue their work until then start filling out more of their fan chart.
• If someone has a fool fledged filled out fan chart those people want to do work via the ascendancy options to family history.

3. Tap into the object lesson mentioned earlier about fish is better to cast the easy fish first. When you help a new client you don’t want to be modeled down with trying to clean out duplicate entries on the name. As you help some of the first time concentrate on something be done easily to avoid discouragement.
4. Keep the equipment simple. Using family search and maybe the other accounts like heritage or ancestry websites. Also when you beginning you might want to cast a wider net is there going to specific with trying to find only one fish but there may be a group of fish in certain for the family tree that is more accessible and easier for beginners.
5. Look for hints and clues. Both family search and ancestry email hints once you join their organization. A fisherman when walking down the River knows that fish life hiding under the bridges of Riverbank and under a rock to on the protected. Thus the fisherman will direct his bait he wore those areas of the River. In family history look under details and record here.
6. This is can’t find the fish? An example of this in family search is that sometimes you may skip somebody because the census taker misspelled someone’s name.

• You may make a better connection when you think of the possibility of someone else have an exact same birth and death has a slightly different spelling in the same exact location it might be the same person

7. Decadency is used to help researchers find extended family relationships. In family search click on the fan chart to view your ancestors. The image will be a whale that’s like spokes of a tire or slices of a pie. Select a name on the outside reading of the fan. In the inner circle of the name from one generation to another, you will see a shadowed edge on the miniaturized fan. When you click on that it will put that particular person in the center of the wheel and you now see their pie chart.

• Once you have you selected name in the middle of the pie chart go to the top left edge of the screen. Next to fan chart are two little circles linked together with lines. Many people call these lollipops. Click on the lollipops icon. The descendants word shows up next to the lollipops.
• Now this activated, you can see the name and children. On the left side as the names on the right side of Temple images. The blue Temple means the works been done. The yellow Temple says that something is needed before work can be done. It might be something as simple as a formatting problem. But frequently it is missing data. This is where the more long term family history personnel concentrate their energies.

8. Reduce the snags. Avoid overcomplicated issues and so you gain more experience.
9. Don’t go after the trophy. A lot of people can be lured (of course the pun was intended) by trying to find a connection between themselves and royalty. Don’t pursue that.
10. Seek out help difficult tasks. Family history as helpers via chat and email and other sources. I’ve use this already and find them very helpful.

If anyone has suggestions on how to do actual research and web sites for census, graveyard info etc., please feel free to share those ideas.

Larry Pratt Is the Executive Director Emeritus of Gun Owners of America. Here are some notes of his gun rights via Skype.

• A gun owner of America now has a 1.5 million membership.
• Larry has seen a steady positive progress in regards to the rights of the Second Amendment.
• There was an election of a city that the public politicians in power want to control. The police officers took the ballots to the police station to be counted and as a result to have the people in power remain in power. The people gathered together and pro-Stat protested by coming armed. The police realized they were outmanned and gave up the election boxes. The specific democrat politician who the people wanted ended up winning.
• The Bundy ranch incident went to the rights of the people and the BLM back down because the people objected to an oppressive government.
• The tea party represents as we wakening of the American people and the rights. States that have constitutional carry have not seen the negative predictions offered by their actions of such liberties.
• Alaska who enacted constitutional carry has noticed a decrease of crime in the last 10 years. Criminals don’t go through legal means to get their guns law-abiding citizens to.
• A way to combat the rhetoric against guns one politician said when I feel the heat I see the light meaning that to maintain his position he wants to follow the will of the people.
• He observed that background checks do not fight against crime.
• To stop politicians who want to restrict gun control than threaten the finances of their pet projects.
• It is against the law to have manufacturers sued for a crime. A gun like a ladder and a car is manufactured for quality and usability. And the higher courts favor the manufacturer.
• He was asked about the rumor of a bunch of ammunition being purchased by the government that is true. With over 100,000 federal agents they needed the ammunition for their gun practice.
• Websites that have information about gun rights and fax etc. is gun owners.org and John Latt. Gun owners as a fact sheet about 20 pages long about guns studies relate to guns while John Latt’s website has information about crime prevention.
• To learn more about the founding of America, google the phrase “committee of safety”. See how it was used in the founding of America.

What is one of the most brilliant bugs in the world? The ANT! Thus its BrilliANT. Also sometimes I have a hard time remember this word has two is. As in to dots of the BI that can be the eyes of the bug.

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