Melva Gifford

I attended a preparedness conference. Here are my notes from John Garrison. This is a list of useful things to have at a camp site. Any inaccuracies are the fault of the note taker.

• Drying racks.
• Use bath water for the garden.
• Through the bucket list seat
• Microfiber towel (by Nowak’s) antibiotic
• Sleeping on a caught: blowout foam mattress, three each foam pad, twin fitted sheet fits on the phone pad and prevents kids from picking at the foam.
• Have a pillow have a headboard so that you don’t lose your pillow each night.
• Have a nightstand.
• Closet organizer.
• Bins under beds/cots.
• Coat rack. Put on a pin board and attached to the polls the tent.
• You need oven mitts to touch the hot pans
• Thermal cooker is where you cook the food for five minutes and then transport the food into the cooker until finished
• Scraper – now on the boards so that it does it caught in your foot you try to put.
• Step activated trash can
• Game bag – box. You can take the pieces of the game out of the box. Cut the lid off the box and put everything in a Ziploc. An example puzzles etc. Some people will put a puzzle together and then put then number the pieces to see what is missing.
• Fire bellows (made of leather better quality)
• Ash bucket and shovel (ashes can be used to make life so) leave 2 inches of ash as a barrier between the stove wall and the new wood. It will burn better.
• If you buy a smart law cutter, get several replacement parts.
• Toolbox on wheels is a good source of holding kitchen accessories.
• Multi-catcher mouse trap let you catch multiple mice.
• Take inventory of what you have to see what you need to buy.
• In each room make a list and what needs to be purchased

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I attended a story telling conference. Saw a very inspirational video and thought I’d share.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRtV-ugIT0k

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqIJUJmnc-Y

reigning: Good

raigning: Bad

I need to remember this is not referring to the weather. Reign (as in king’s reign) is the root word.

I took notes on this presentation for Toastmasters, Lisa (the presenter) felt I did not present everything accurately, so she provided some updated notes. Here they are:

• On June 28, 1969, several patrons were at a bar in New York’s Greenwich Village.   This bar was run by the mafia because it’s patrons were considered “undesirable” and it was illegal to serve the at other bars in the state.
• During the raid, the patrons decided they had enough of the discrimination.  As one of them was being forced into a paddy wagon she yelled to the crowd “Why don’t you DO something”  A drag queen named Marsha P. Johnson threw a shot glass at police, this would later be referred to as “the shot glass that was heard around the world”
• This so called “undesirable” patronage of the bar were gay men and lesbian women. plus many drag queens.   They wanted to have basic rights to be able to gather to dance, drink and socialize.  The name of the bar is the Stonewall Inn and it is pivotal in the fight for equal rights for LBGTQ (lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender, queer) people.
• One year later several of the original patrons and many other who supported the cause gathered to march in the Christopher Street Liberation Day.  This was the first gay pride parade.
• Rights for the LBGTQ community have come a long way, but we still have a long way to go.  On June 12, 2016, another bar where members of the community could gather to drink, dance and socialize was attacked.  In the worst mass shooting in the United States history the Pulse club was attacked.   49 people were killed and another 58 wounded.  This was a hate crime against the LGBT community.  This is unacceptable.
• As citizens of this country, as people who undoubtedly personally knows someone who identifies LGBTQ, as humans who have compassion for others we need to be kind and loving.  It is up to us to make sure the prejudice and marginalization end.  It is up to us to make sure that the Pulse never happens again and Stonewall doesn’t need to.

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I attended a motivation conference. Here are my notes from John Garrison. Any inaccuracies are the fault of the note taker.

• Never eat pie from someone you fire. Maybe the name of his book.
• This can be your friend
• Some people make things happen not let that happen.
• Poor people pass over opportunities repeatedly
• Examine what you have that is of value.
• You can’t blame others for your own failures.
• We need to invest in things that add to our success.
• Risk is a passport

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https://www.prageru.com/courses/economics/why-healthcare-so-expensive

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Good: prejudices

Bad:   prejustices

People have a prejudice of people who game with dice. See part of JUdge and DICE in the word.

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