Melva Gifford

I found this to be an interesting panel at LTUE. They have some excellent panels there.  Any inaccurate information is the fault of the note taker.

• Propaganda: any media that has the goal of getting the recipient to act in a certain way. You could show businesses positively or negatively by such things as anti-smoking commercials.
• Book, 1984, highlights the propaganda.
• How propaganda is different from ads: pro: wants to you have a certain worldview or an action.
• 2016 elections had both sides with a lot of propaganda on both sides.
• Propaganda techniques: 3 types

1. Pathos: appeals to feelings. One ad, against the policies of a President, has a little girl playing in daises, and then the screen goes white with a blast of a nuclear bomb
2. Logos: appeal to logic. See an add ‘buy this item, because they break down of features and to save money. Not a strong form of persuasion. Most of our decision comes. Presidents chose by who is most likeable. Usually more emotional is better.
3. Ethos: is like endorsements by celebrities. Ads based on who someone is.

• As people become bigger, others want to be like them.
• Propaganda as a tool: will often have a bad character that had the wrong attitude.
• Book: state of fear, Michael Crownton. Talks about global warming.
• Propaganda can be used to control people: Brandon poll: A World Without Heroes: Beyonders, book. In book, Paredes for heroes, characters promote their Point of View.
• Propaganda creates an ‘other’ history to hate such as in history: the Huns. They become the target to fight against. Mormons have horns. Movie: trapped by the Mormon.
• Studies have shown that people don’t feel it affects them. But they believe it will affect their neighbor so they will respond to it.
• People will hear something, forgot the source but will still believe it.
• Book: Switch how to make change when change is hard. When you make it easy to take actions they will do it. Put food outside door got more food then bring to community center.
• Politicians will associate themselves with images like flag, or eagles to associate with American way.
• Movie: wag the dog.
• To share a message in a movie has it in the past or future so people will not feel threatened by the message being current.
• Overt Propaganda relies upon felicities of thought. Ie: Economy downturn is the Jew’s fault.
• Because the man is labeled as bad that means anything he says is bad.
• Book: thinking fast or slow. People are happier when they are around people who feel the same way.
• Book: made to stick, how to create a message that people will remember and may act on. Story is a great example. Wag the dog was where a created a story. Soldier put in morose code on seater. Hi mom I’m ok.
• There was a Rumer that McDonalds used worms in their meat. Publicist says how much does worm meat cost. Found cost and sent out message worm meat is too expensive. And the rumor dropped.
• Make your message emotional, concrete and tell stories.
• A lot of Propaganda has a face to it. Big brother in 1894. It creates the ethos.
• Celebrities will have people come up and talk to them as if they know them.
• Three fingers and crossed pinky and thumb will put you in prison in North Korea because the symbol from hunger game is a sign of resistance.
• The book, The Circle, soon to be a movie is about a society that shows that personal privacy is bad.
• Hitler killed all opposing views. The other is here is a thought and this is why it is wrong. Marginize them.
• Book: Revolt in 2100
• There’s a rule that an argument can only go so longer before one calls the other a Nazi.
• Propaganda highlights only one part of the truth.
• 90 % truth and 10% that is not and they’ll believe it.

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Sheri Dew, a former RS president of the LDS church gave a fireside. Here are my notes. Any misinformation or inaccuracies are the fault of the note taker.

• She was the first church official to go to Siberia. Everything there was grey but the spirit was powerful. During the meeting, the wife of mission president said in English “very Holy Ghost”
• God will communicate with the spirit what you ask.
• We would be stuck in life and unable to accomplish our missions on earth without the savior. So who will we turn to when we are stuck? When we have a weakness we can’t overcome or feel lonely or other issues who can we turn to when we feel stuck. If we can have a burning conviction that Jesus is the Christ. He can help us deal with things we can deal on our own. Our only chance of not being stuck in our life is through God and Christ.
• Much of the miraculous help from the gospel are gifts from God: Elder Holland.
• Preach my gospel: all that is unfair about life can be made right through the atonement through Jesus Christ.
• We each have a divine origin that has been put into place long ago. We‘ve been sent to be a part of certain people’s lives.
• She watched 93% of the solar eclipse and 7% realized it still provides the light on earth. Amazing light but the light of Christ is even more powerful.
• We live at a time when gospel called evil and evil is called good.
• People are observing the light of Christ, but there are enough followers who can share the light. Or can reflect the light of Christ.
• No one can gauge the power of women who live the gospel of Jesus Christ.
• A devote Methodist woman was given a ticket to the woman’s conference and she made for observations that stood out. 1. Everyone is so friendly. They made me feel so welcome. 2. Every woman is in a dress. The Methodist asked the woman next to her why. The other’s response, we want to show that we are respectful. 3. I like that they quote scriptures. 4. They all said witnessed what they know to be true. She liked how the women witnessed things you do that they can speak with confidence in what we know to be true. She asked how you know? the response, we’ve learned to recognize the spirit.
• Imagine what can be accomplished with women who have witnessed the spirit of Jesus Christ. Imagine the level of influence we could have.
• Be more articulate and be willing to speak on what you know.
• Learn to repair the breaches in your life.
• Gordon B Hinckley told conference members he was asked to be interview by Mike Wallice for 60 minutes. He thought, Lean into the stiff window of opportunity rather than hunker down and do nothing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAosHXQWyuU ; https://overcast.fm/+CDc3dhvss
• Questions are good, 14 yr. old question to God began the restoration of the church in modern days. We all have tons of questions. Are we willing to engage in the lifelong wrestle of question we have? Through our live God will enlighten our minds.
• 1 Nephi 11-14 vision of the modern day. See rod of iron.
• Nothing pleases God more than for us to ask him questions and for him to answer.
• Russel Nelson: (a doctor) was given the assignment by the twelve open up all countries of Eastern Europe. He wondered, why me? He made multiple appointments with leaders in different countries. People who had appointments would cancel them. Some places police would follow him. By the time the Berlin wall fell. There were for preaching the gospel. Sister Do asked what did you learn? He said: The lord likes effort.
• If we are willing to engage in a wrestle and find out what Christ’s atonement means to us and the foundation thing like is Joseph Smith is a prophet. Then all the questions we have to give us opportunities to grow.
• If we have had a witness of the spirit about different topics then I know the gospel is true and we have a testimony.
• Questions are an opportunity to grow and we can gain a stronger testimony of the gospel and to gain revelation.
• I don’t have all my answers to questions answered but I have confidence that they will be answered.
• Holland’s talks often speak of angels. Once he had a talk about lust, ask for angels to help you. God has used angels as an emissary to show love. Usually, they are not seen. Joseph f Smith: one of the greatest assignments is to administer to us as angels. We can ask for angels to help us to help us with different challenges or to help family members who are struggling. We can plea for angels to help us in our challenges
• Grace is Godly power.
• Our weakness can be turned into strength s through the power of the atonement of Jesus Christ.
• We can be healed through the atonement of Christ.
• Everything flows from Christ. He is the enteral healer. He can healer us from decades of pain, sin,
• We can resist temptation and forgive others who have hurt us.
• We can become the best version of ourselves.

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Good: Hyperventilating

Bad: hyperventilating

I am just forgetting the I. HyperventIlating is when I have a hard time breathing because of panic. Thus remember the I.

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At life the universe and everything I attend a presentation about search engines. Here is a continuation of that lecture. The theme is a comparison of websites. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker

Website advice on content:

• Buzzsumo website will have top articles ton topic or to rank and you can share those articles.
• Get ideas from other websites: can put in a URL and will come up with a cloud and page to see what the keys words on that page are.
• Need to get other words besides tool, to rank up on total sites.
• Promoting: follow Mary Wincraft.
• Facebook target: target not users but people who will give you visibility.
• Measurement: monitor to see what you are doing is working.
• To learn more about this Larch engine land, search land media, search engine optimization in linked.
• Book: the art of SEO. Also, does good webinars.
• Favorite tools for web analysis: semrush, ahrefs, moz,

There are notes taken for this week’s marriage and relations class. Any inaccuracies is the fault of the note taker.

• Forgiveness could be considered looking at the value of someone else over their shortcomings. Accept them in spite of their shortcomings.
• when someone forgives another they feel at peace and lighten the weight of grudge in my heart
• Gordon B Hinkly: forgiveness is the greatest virtue. …
• Pride can get in the way of forgiveness.
• If we come to talk about an issue to each other and not let the resentment build, it works better.
• Matt 6:14-15 forgive your trespasses and the father will forgive yours.
• In most cases, we are married for a short time before we offend our spouse. To develop a solid marriage we need to address conflict and ask for forgiveness.
• To be effective in apologies, they must be sincere and heartfelt.
• Many times contention in families is due to people not willing to apologize for something they did.
• A good apology is to also state the things that you did that was the cause behind the apology.
• In communication, the spouse needs to tell their partner of why they felt bad to help their partner understand them.
• Sometimes people are willing to forgiveness once they have a chance to retaliate against the hurt they gave. Maybe giving a partner the silent treatment a bit aft the apology.
• Sometimes the hurt partner needs to feel that their partner knows that they are truly sorry. Maybe provide an act to compensate.
• Hurt feelings don’t just go away; sometimes it takes an act of the atonement to truly cleanse the hurt.
• Longtime guilt that can last for years also needs the atonement to cleanse.
• When tempted to give a partner the silent treatment, just tell them lets come back a little later. I’m not ready to talk yet. That way the partner knows you are not ignoring them.
• The silent treatment can make the partner feel helpless.

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Spaghetti

spacatti

It’s the GHE part of part of the word I consistently spell wrong.

Sound-wise I always want the GhET (sounds like get) heaps of spaGhETti as often as I can.

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