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Ahoy Members
Just a reminder that your VSC Website at www.usps.org/national/vsc is
updated with informative items.
Insure your browser updates/refreshes each time you visit the site
to insure you are seeing current information.
Thank You
Stf/C Lee R. Chasse, AP
USPS Safety/VSC Program Chair


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USPS Signs Agreement With Marriott

Ahoy, district commanders and conference chairmen, USPS has signed an agreement with the Marriott Group of hotels. When you choose the Marriott Group for a future conference, you will be offered discount room pricing, and your district can earn Marriott Reward points to use at its discretion. This also benefits USPS. You provide your requirements; Marriott will do the walking. We put you together, and you start talking. Click below for more information. — Nigel E. Hargreaves

READ MORE www.usps.org/php/marriott

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CPR & First Aid Facts

Cardiovascular disease continues to be the number one cause of death in the United States. The Center for Disease Control attributes 831,000 deaths each year to cardiovascular disease. CDC further estimates that 456,000 heart-related deaths occur each year before the victim reaches the hospital. If a person experiencing sudden cardiac arrest receives a shock from a defibrillator and CPR within the first four minutes, there is a 62 percent chance of full recovery.

In major metropolitan areas of our country, the average response time for an EMT/Paramedic to arrive at the scene of a person in distress is 10 minutes from the time a call is received. When medical emergencies occur on the water, however, entry into the Emergency Medical System takes significantly longer than it does on land. Due to the delay in getting help, boaters have a greater need to recognize the signs and symptoms of a person in distress and know the proper procedures to save the lives of crew or guests aboard their vessels. In the Chesapeake Bay, the Baltimore Sector of the U.S. Coast Guard estimates the average response time for help to arrive at the scene of a medical emergency, remove the victim(s) from the vessel, and deliver them to the EMS, is 1.75 hours and may be as long as 2.75 hours.

The U.S. Coast Guard recognizes the value of a quick, appropriate response to a medical emergency and recommends that every boater

• be trained in CPR and first aid,
• have an Automated External Defibrillator on board, and
• have a first aid kit appropriate to the anticipated time for entry into the EMS.

CPR & First Aid training is being made available to USPS members on 16 Jan. at our Annual Meeting in Jacksonville, Fla.

More information and registration forms are available at http://www.usps.org/national/safety/cpr-1staid+.html or by contacting me, CPR & First Aid National Chairman, Alan Karpas, at USPS.CPR1stAid@gmail.com or 301-767-5905.

USPS Monthly Broadcast Input

There are new USPS Course and seminars available online through University of West Florida. Courses are Seamanship, Weather, and Sail. There are 18 seminars and several under development. Go to UWF.edu Continuing Education - Maritime Studies - USPS Online courses. There is a link on the USPS home web page.

The Education Outreach Committee needs several members to help develop the online material and others to narrate the presentations. Either submit a USPS Resume of contact the EOCom Chair.

R/C Wilbur Hugli, SN
EOCom


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Dr. Wilbur Hugli
wilhugli@cox.net
whugli@uwf.edu
850.863.0874

USPS Broadcast

As USPS moves toward different educational material presentation modes there is a critical need for members will special capabilities. If you have experience in developing online course content, content scripting, narrating, and learning management system (LMS) applications USPS Education Outreach Committees needs you. LMS experience with D2L, Blackboard, Camtasia, Composia, or Inquisiq would be a great help. For additional information contact: R/C Wil Hugli or Stf/C Don Stone.

R/C Wil Hugli
EOCom

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Dr. Wilbur Hugli
wilhugli@cox.net
whugli@uwf.edu
850.863.0874

Squadron Activities Committee Needs You!

The Squadron Activities Committee needs your input.  Please send photos and descriptions of one of your squadron’s 2012 activities to us.  We are collecting information about all the different ways squadrons exercise the three sides of the USPS triangle: education, community service, fellowship.  Send your entries by email to Stf/C Paula Mizell, JN at paula.mizell@gxs.com.   Also we are always looking for new members for the committee.  So if you want to join please send in your resume and we will contact you.  We especially need a webmaster.  Hope to see you all in Detroit.

 

STF/C Paula Mizell, JN

 

USPS Budget Committee Needs You

The USPS Budget Committee is looking for a new member who is an expert in creating and using large Excel spreadsheets and has experience verifying calculations in existing models with multiple linking sheets and equations as well as creating and verifying new sheets, equations, and links. The majority of work can be completed online from December to May. If you are interested, please update your resume, indicating an interest in the Budget Committee Excel model.

Budget Committee Job Description: The Budget Committee Excel worksheet is a tool used to gather data and recommend a budget for the next fiscal year. It’s also used to record historical budgets and actual expenses over the past several years. As USPS committees and tasks are added and subtracted during the year new equations, sheets, and links must be created and verified while preserving the historical records. During the budget development process revenue, expenses and rationale created by USPS committees for hundreds of accounting codes will be provided for your entry into the model. As the budget creation process continues, you will create new sheets and links and enter the data displaying the detailed Budget Committee recommended revenue, expense and rationale for the next year.  During creation of the new sheets all of the requests and rationale submitted by the various departments must be preserved. After the Board of Directors approves the budget you will enter the new data into the model.  –Nigel Hargreaves