Melva Gifford

Here are some notes from a preparedness fair I attended. This presentation large scale disasters.

– The greatest loss is communication.
– Who care for ourselves stashed a good 72-hour kits, including some food and water and first aid.
– Damage report, how many people hurt. Other people not be prepared you need to get them help.
– Communication solutions: cell, CB radio
– Ham radio, walkie-talkie, social media. Email, text, runners, smoke signals, shouting? Whistle. Broadcast am/FM/short wave radio, print, satellite phone.
– Most reliable communication is two-way: cell phone when conditions are good. Rely on tower, system, location.
– Ham radio: most reliable. Requires a license (test) and some skill. Complete control of the entire system.
– Satellite phone. Good when the weather is good. Requires an extensive subscription. Must be line-of-sight with satellite.
– FRS radio (walkie-talkie. Advantages: don‘t require a license. Inexpensive, lightweight, easy to use: Disadvantages limited rage. 4 block. Unchangeable antenna, eat batteries fast. Frs: family radio service.
– Runners. Two-by-two. Run by foot, bike, cycle, etc. include a written message. Don’t rely upon memory. Can be slow.

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– Who is our neighbor: is not necessarily your physical neighbors.
– We server in areas of need.
– Matt 22:36-40 love the Lord God with all they heart souls and mind. Second, love thy neighbors as they self.
– Sometimes our callings and responsibilities can weigh us down.
– Sister Beck: mother was fussing at her. Mom tell her someone else should be doing that. She told her mom, I am someone else.
– Some will feel there are too many messes in the world, how do we determine? The spirit can help you determine what to do.
– If you have a responsibility and you don’t do it, someone else may feel inclined to do it. Try to do your responsibilities.
– When a bishop was set apart he was told your top responsibility is your spirituality. The second is your family. first.
– If we learn to work with the Godhead, we can learn how to do the things we need to do in proper sequence.
– ON the airplane, put on your own face mast before your neighbors.
– God can bless you to accomplish a lot of the things you need to do.
– Hierarchy of service:
– You’re a responsibility to your families
– You have responsibility to your jobs.
– Have responsibility to your lord’s work.
– We need to serve ourselves.
– Focus your goals and plans that the corrinside with the priorities listed by the prophet.
– Mosiah 18:8-18 when we keep our baptismal covenant we are also ministering.
– God priority: man’s immortality
– Ask God what you can do next.
– When you ask Gods inspiration you can have a house of order that does not mean your home but your life.
– Your priorities may change from day today.
– As we reach out to take care of our stewardship remember that our sisters we minister are parts of that stewardship.

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Good: festival
Bad: festible

It’s the second half of the word I keep messing up. VAL is the part I keep messing up. Me mispronouncing it consistently wrong does not help. Maybe this visual image will help. When having a festival a bunch of people funnel into one area to have a bunch of fun. The V looks like a funnel.

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Here are some notes from a preparedness fair I attended. This presentation was given by Bob carry. Any inaccuracies are the fault of the note taker.

– Looking at earthquakes from a casualty point of view.
– Hazard versus risk: risk is when something is important.
– The Wasatch fault is about 290 miles long.
– An earthquake can interfere with supply chains like taking down the spaghetti bowl.
– Now from 72 hr check to 120 hr check.
– Earthquake effect on the health care system: hospital 3 hospitals closed after the CA earthquake
– Structure older than 1975 has an unreinforced mastery structure > more vulnerable to earthquake.
– Liquefaction: ground shaking water from in-depth can come to the surface.
– Impairment of hospitals: assuming at least moderate damage. A hospital that has moderate damage cannot be used.
– Nontraditional causality sources:
– The water system was gone and can’t take care of fires.
– Fire following: fire will start a chain reaction
– Challenge of apartments and high density is also subject to fire following.
– As people build homes into wood areas.
– Hazard material: industrial areas,
– Flooding: broken water main.
– A high hazard dame is one that has people below it.
– Areas up the mountainside have water storage that saves water for the dry month of Aug.
– Building: buildings with masonry the face of the building falls off. Comes out into the street. This is why you don’t run out of a building.
– If stuck outside best to move away from the structure. Keep away from falling objects
– Don’t get to an exterior wall.
– Duck, cover and hold indoors.
– A most likely injury is crashing injury.
– Youtube: Christ church new England videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XyXR0MN19Q
– More likely to be injured not from collapse building but to what’s going inside.
– Falling objects from ceiling air conditions falling objects mean get under a sturdy object.
– Triangle of life: go. Get between table and pile of a tree.
– Get under a sturdy table.
– Go under a doorway
– 1.3 million People in Salt Lake
– 2.57 million will be affected. We only have sheltering for 65K.
– Inside of Utah, 8% go to care centers. Outside of Utah 10%. Why low for Utah has food at home. Or have places to go.

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These are notes from a church.

– A good sturdy rope is made of many little strands. Everything in the church is twined together. All unified to the Lord’s work.
– Ephesians 1:10 Gather all things in Christ.
– John 14:6: gather all things in Christ.
– Elder Bednar says all changes have a purpose. All are based to center our objectives. Two objectives:
– Facilitate conversion to the Lord (I think, bad typing here) 2. Love more completely and server more effectively our brothers and sisters.
– There is a story of an old man helping a youth pay fare for a bus. The youth is grateful and sits by the old man. He asks for some water. The old man removed his gloves and the lad sees he is a leper and leaves the bus in anger, feeling the leaper tricked him. As a result, he has to walk to his destination.
– The church no longer has checklists anymore, instead, we should follow our brothers and sisters serve and love our brother sisters.
– We should rely upon the spirit.
– You want to visit because you love others not to check off a list.
– We are being asked to incorporate the various components of the church and gospel to be a part of our lives.
– Every single stitch we put into the church makes a complete
– In our tapestries, not all stitches are bright and shiny. We are not perfect.
– The house of Israel is not perfect and God keeps working on them for their opportunity to obtain their promised blessings.
– To show that things are added upon where one event prepares us for a future event.
– 1978: build up stakes where you are >, President Kimball. More temples are coming.
– 1980: 3 hr. block for the church.
– 1895: the proclamation of the family.
– 1998: President Hinckley temples.
– 2012: Monson go to the rescue.
– 2017-18 ministering, 2 hr. block.

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These are the political minutes I took of the of status of Utah legation. any inaccuracies is the fault of the note taker.

This is a submission to my caucus corner occasional blog.

– Brad Daw: tax reform: hope to see something soon. There is a big shift in tax policy. Broken the base, lower the rate and overall tax cut. Numbers of income is coming down.
– Curt ramble: 14 days left and not seen bill yet. One Proposal is for tax reform. If you trade in a car you pay sales tax on the difference. If you trade an old car and pay for a new car, you pay sales tax on both.
– Hoton: occupational freedom, reduce govern leaving home and coming to work.
– Adam: change of driver’s license. Change the license renewal period from 5 yrs. to 8 yrs.
– Clyde Peterson:? Approbations committee: Reported back to priorities. Did a reallocation of the committee. Executive proportions will build a budget based on what those committees have done
– Approbates determine the budget on that.
– Other people do it by volume.
– Q: tax reform always seems to be a crisis without being solved: Daw: years ago we had a higher tax rate. Shift made. No major change was done for a long time. We see sales tax as a viable income coming down. Because we are moving more into a service economy. Income tax is going up. Sales tax is paying for more state needs. Other rep: what are we spending in different categories on a per capita basis? Transportation was spending more. Gas taxes used to pay transportation. We can’t keep up with needs. A small pilot program being looked at by some states if road usage. Charge road would encourage less driving. Senator ramble: broadening the base and increase the tax on services.
– Q: why do need a hate crime; all crime is a hate crime? All crime involves hate: Jenkins says: if a crime against a broad group of people. It is a terrorize act because you are trying to hate a group. Should include restorative justice. Try to do something to educate them to what they are doing. Stratton: difficult to get in the mind of a person of a criminal. Need to enforce the law. Need to protect our first responders.
– Q: Can you define affordable housing: Thurston: there is no definition of affordable. The solution is supply and demand. All we need to do is buy more housing. We need to determine what kind of hosing can be constructed. One idea is high rise apartments as small units. Do a bunch of them and the price for them will go up. The best dealing is to expand the supply of start or second-tier homes. People move from apartments to start home to second-tier home. Rep is hesitant to tell a city what to do with their areas. Feel Utah county cities do a good job.
– Q; what are the chances of Provo airport getting funded? It’s going through IGD committee. Two requests looking for 9 million and an addition 18 from another place and 8 million from federal. Committee sent a request to another committee. Ogden discusses an airport funding as well. At halfway point in the probations committee
– Q: Stand at house road proposal: if affordable housing is improved. Cities that have more affordable housing get more funding.
– Q: Why do so many need to submit reports to the natural resources interim committee? We’ve empowered our rulemaking bodies is legislators and subdivisions that deal with environments (sewer treatments) are empowered to make regulations. There is a principle of delegation and a report of how things are going. This gives a chance for the pole to have a voice. Otherwise, we would have regulations without representation. Other rep: a lot of reports are being removed or sent in paper form. It does provide some accountability.
– Q: How do you feel about banning the establishment or expansion of sand and gravel pits (hb288)? Need source and raw material available to build roads. Need to balance local jurisdiction with other concerns.
– Q: Status of 18-week abortion passing the Senate? Another abortion bill 166 prohibits abortions of a child because of Down syndrome. 18-week abortion sponsored by Senator Henderson> issue with constitutional issue > woman has control.
– Q: Will UT c. receive 6.25 M appropriate requests for the fire mitigations and recovery efforts? It allows us to obtain funds to reseed the burned area. Working on putting a budget together
– Q: explain how agreement last yr. with our schools now, is causing my property tax to go up? It was an agreement. 10c tax shut down. Our school agreed to step back from their ballot initiative.
– Q: what do you think about the church involved politically? All voices should be heard. Other rep: I have been lobbied by more issues by the Catholic Church then the LDS church. One rep: says 7 yrs., he has never been contacted by the church about an issue. People who object also want their voice to be muted yet they want their voice to be heard. They resent that the LDS church has a stronger influence. All should have the freedom to speak.
– Q: what bill do you think will have the biggest impact this year? Medicaid expansion. Businesses asking to increase Medicaid reimbursement. Business going out of business can’t afford to run a business at the current rate. Rep: the appropriations bill is the most important. (Budget) has a series of bills.
Funding education is also high. Pari-mutuel bill: 1927: is making race tracks as legal. Legislation in 1929 then said no. We would have every Indian reservation have gambling casinos. Thought to raise funds and allow betting on horses. Rep: if we allow gambling it will open a whole host of other gambling.
– Q: stance on police taking possession of assets without a charge of crime? We all need to have loyalty to those facing the front lines. Need to be checks and balances. Supreme Court ruled: The constitution is against excessive fines.
– Q: 49% of the states k-12 growth is in Utah County. and 47% of all higher education resident growth is being handled by UVU. What can be done to increase the growth funding 2/3 of funding goes to education? Last 5 yrs. put in 1.2 billing into public education. UVU: committee cut down by half. Why? Wanted to shift more into performance metrics. Wanted more emphasis on graduation.
– Q: change Utah county form of government? Many need to change the form. We need 7 instead of 3. Other areas of the state have bigger commissions. Car inspections don’t make a difference. The main people lobbying to keep inspections were those doing inspections. Inspections are a great income source but there is no definite evidence that it improves the health of a car. One way we look at data we look at insurance rates. And there was no relationship.
– Review: we’ve passed 100 bills about 400 bills to go.

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Good: original
Bad: orgional

I keep wanting to put in an O. but if I imagine big hole O that swallows the O and it disappears I can get the spelling right. Original.

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