Melva Gifford

If you take a hot shower, steam will appear on your mirror. The steam on the mirror is made up of water molecules. These tiny drops of water stick together on the mirror because of a force called surface tension. If you were to dab your finger into liquid dishwashing detergent you can write a note on the steam. You can do a note before the hot shower. Then when the steam forms on the mirror, it will avoid the detergent areas of the mirror.

The liquid dishwashing detergent breaks the surface tension of the water. Wherever there is detergent, the water molecules are unable to form into droplets. The words that are written with the soapy solution stand out clearly against the foggy background of the mirror.

Sometimes we can read the scriptures or listen to the words of prophets and not really understand why they say what they do. But as we live life and overcome challenges by obedience their messages the wisdom of their words can often become clear.

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For anyone interested in the state officers of the R party, here are links to the candidates. State voting is on May 20^th. If you want to give your opinion/preferences, please view the candidate list offline and reply privately, not here.

I sent an email out, asking each candidate for their website. A couple also replied to the email. Any misinformation is the fault of Melva.

Chair

James Evans   

https://www.facebook.com/JamesEvansForStateGopChair/

He also gave me a flyer

Robert Anderson 

www.robandersonut.com

Rob Anderson, LtCol USAF, Ret Chairman of the Davis County Republican Party, announces his candidacy for Chair of the Utah Republican Party. He says, “We are in dire need of vision, leadership, fiscal responsibility and accountability. The Democrats are energized and organized. Now isn’t a time for the complacency we have seen from our party leadership. All those who espouse conservative values are welcome, and we look forward to increased involvement from all demographics throughout the state, with an emphasis on women and millennials, as both are currently underrepresented.”.

Phill Wright 

www.phillwright.com

Yes, I have a website that has quite a bit of information about me, my background, and my experience.

Vice-Chair

Don Guymon 

www.donguymon.com

You can also see my Facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/DonGuymonForURPViceChair/

The Facebook site has all of my email messages as well as endorsements.

Joseph Levi

www.JoeLevi.com.

By day I am a Web Developer, by night I am the Webmaster for the Cache County Republican Party and Utah Republican Party. With my background in Information Technology and my prior experience which includes serving as the Vice Chair of the Davis County Republican Party, I feel I am uniquely qualified to leverage technology to bring people who share our values into our Party; and simplify, standardize, and speed up our processes, thus freeing up Precinct and County Party leaders to foster better relationships between the elected neighborhood representatives (the Delegates), the people they represent, and our elected officials.

Nephi Aiono       

I’m waiting for a response.

Joni Crane 

www.JoniCrane.com

Natalie Callahan 

www.natcallahan.com

Casey Voeks

has withdrawn

Secretary

Lisa Shepherd 

Thank you for being involved and reaching out. I love conventions and I hope you will enjoy your experience.

I have not submitted an email yet since I’ve been so busy doing the work of the secretary. However, I do hope to submit one next week.

I’ve been a county party secretary and was elected from among six excellent candidates last June to replace Bryce Christensen who moved out of state. I’ve been able to see the processes at the state party and in my opinion improve upon a few processes; such as, not delegating secretary duties of the volunteer officer to the paid staff. I believe if it has my name on it, it should be done by methods that I know are efficient and transparent. I have also created an online file with all information regarding State Party committee memberships and compiled previous scattered attendance records of the members for their’s and their constituents review.

My focus as the Secretary is on the duties of the office. I’ve enjoyed my time in service. I will have more information available soon. Again, thank you for reaching out.

Cole Souza         

I’m waiting for a response.

Treasurer

Abram Young 

I did not send Abram an email as he has not competition.

source: http://utah.gop/calendar-2/convention/

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bad:   enormouse

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I went to a presentation at church and took some notes.  The subject was on the magic of tidying and how to fold clothes. The knowledge came originally from Maria Kondu..

Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

• She says dress in nice clothes.
• When organizing fold clothes in rectangles so that you can place them up in the drawer so that all clothes are seen when you open the drawer. Do not pile them on top of each other. This provides easy access. You can see all your clothes at once when they are put in drawers vertically.
• When cleaning the house of a certain item, do it all at once. Get all the clothes in the house and put them in a big pile.
• You do all clothes in the house at once, all books at once. Discard by category not by location. Books, clothing, dishes.  Not by room.
• Put all things on the floor so you can see everything you have.
• As you judge keeping or discarding an item, ask if it gives you joy. If it does not, discard. For each item does this spark joy? It needs to be an instant response.
• Don’t play music while cleaning or permit distractions. Focus on only the task
• Discard all and organize.
• Thank your objects. At the end of the day put your items away.
• She noticed that clients who got rid of stuff also lost weight.
• Fold your socks in rectangle folds as you do your clothes. Don’t tuck them inside each other and stretch out the material.
• She only keeps things she loves.
• YouTube: Google folding clothes. Maria Kondu.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpc5_1896ro

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I went to a presentation at church and took some notes. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

• Nothing you do outside can fix your inside.
• Want you to help you, bring out your beauty.
• God does not make junk.
• Your body tells the story of who you are such as your life.
• Don’t let the world determine what is beautiful.
• In the next life, our imperfections will be gone.
• Take care of the body you have.
• Like Adam and Eve tend the garden, you too will have jurisdiction.
• Learned to put a lot of mineral oil on her skin. It creates a barrio on the surface of your skin. Most skin products have a mineral based. It does not breath. Need to have a skin bath.
• Coconut oil is great for all kinds of things. Put under eyes put on hands when they crack. Help with dry skin or a dry scalp. You can find it in a big tub at Costco in the baking oil section.  Also use it in baking.
• Coconut oil is good for hair.
• Vitamin e oil is good for lines under the eyes.
• Stay out of the sun. Use sun block and on your kids and grandkids. Always have sun screen and a hat.
• Wear cool cotton cloth, It breaths.
• Wear a hat in the summer.
• Determine what makes you feel good, a certain perfume a certain soap etc.
• Find out what can work or be substituted and what is really needed.
• If you are living under a budget. Remove one thing from something that is more important.
• How many of you have girl time. Maybe you can have one once a year or have a sisters reunion. You can get together share hotels and have fun. It is a good chance to associate with other women.
• Let your husband, friends, or kids to paint your nails.
• Get your favorites nail polish. Pain your toes.
• With curlers you can do simple things with your hair.
• Do what you need to do for you.
• Schedule time for yourself, either once a week or every other day.
• You can go to the gym or exercise.
• Find out what renews yourself
• After you renew yourself you can be more in a mood to help others.

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I was called last week to be a replacement delegate. I went to the second delegate meeting on Tue night. These are updated notes I took on the candidates. I went to the different candidates and asked, “Why should I vote for you?” I then took notes. When I talked to other delegates, there were a lot of complaints about how bad the communication system was between leadership and the delegates. One State Central Committee, candidate expressed concern that he didn’t know about Wednesday meeting until the day before.

There is no new info on the County chair candidates from last night as I couldn’t tell who was who and I didn’t want to attach the wrong notes to the wrong candidate.

I sent emails to some of these people and some replied giving me their websites in case you want to read more.

Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

County Party Chair

Ryan Boudwin  ryan4utah.com

• In his next term, he would like to concentrate on promoting the Republican message.
• Q: What are your feelings toward the various tangents of the Republican Party? We are a big tent. If we can agree on 80% on issues we are good.
• Q: What is your explanation on the citizen complaint that a signature candidate was not promoted by the Republican Party as the cactus candidate was? Ryan said that the rules of the party require that they have to be official candidate of the Republican Party and those are the people we can promote. The Signature candidate did not meet the rules of the party to be a candidate.
• Pointed out things he promised that he says he accomplished.

Rob Craig: www.rob4chair.com

• Previously the party treasurer
• He feels that there needs to be a better representation to be done between the leadership and the delegates/ people. He has been disappointed with the poor communication.
• He wants to establish more feedback between leadership and delegates/citizens and get more ideas from the ground level.
• He wants to improve the Republican image.

Craig Frank

• He said he met the promise of getting 500 people involved in the traveling tour of politicians. He has as new goal to make it 1000 delegates/citizens
• Previously, he was a rules guy. Had to make sure party procedures were followed precisely.

County Party Vice-Chair

Joshua Daniels https://m.facebook.com/Josh4ViceChair

• wants to have an easier process to replace delegates.
• supports nominees elected at the convention
• Don’t identify someone as an enemy just because they have a different option than your own.

Karen Ellingson

• Wants to improve the reaching out effort of delegates/citizens
• Supports and wants to protect the cactus system
• Want to strength the party and better communication.
• Make it easier to find info for the republican party

County Party Secretary

Kristen Chevrier http://kristenchevrier.weebly.com/

• Likes writing detailed notes so that there is more accurately of minutes in the meetings. That way when those notes are accessed years later there is more clarity on the point of the conversations.
• She wants to streamline the cactus system.
• She was involved in grassroots groups and in the education program
• She has been involved in Republican Party for 25 yrs.
• has been working with other leaders to create a new database that would help the effort of the republican party.
• support caucus

Heidi Balderree

• I feel I can offer a new perspective. She’s been involved for several years. I can see issues with new eyes. She has a goal to respond to emails/communications within 48 hours.
• For education, she has a master’s degree in HR and resources. He has contributed to campaign committees.
• Has worked with various organizations to improve her skills.
• She is a current precinct chair.
• Others asked for her help in their organizations, because of what she has accomplished previously.
• The advantage of good doc/excel is that they can share updated info with everyone else very quickly.
• Want to involve volunteers to help with different tasks and let citizens become more involved. they  have more skin in the game.

County Party Treasurer

David Lamb

• Not sure if he was there.

State Central Committee filings;  SD 15 – 4 Seats

(They give advice and helps determine policy of the Republican leadership)

Donald Monson

• He supports conservative values.
• Likes and has done work in support of charter schools and to have their funding just like public schools have.
• Plans to have a facebook page where he can communicate with delegates and citizens.
• Supported bill sb 38- charter schools and public school each get their finances.
• sb233 I believe this one is that the public school board is separate from the charter shool board. this bill wants to combine the two. He liked charter schools.support conservative values

Josman Cereceres

• He worked for Jason Chavez campaign.
• Wants to get ideas from those he represents and get their ideas up to leadership.
• Like both the cactus and signature process for people to run for politics.
• Wants to get feedback from citizens.
• He lIkes both signature and caucus system for candidate applications.

John English

• Like the idea of a new chair that will have a new voice.
• As a programmer/it he wants to help the republican party in developing a better database system provide better efficiency/communication between leadership and delegates/citizens.
• Likes neutral8t6 that though the republicans are the domnate party, still get input from ther people outside of the republican party.

Cole Souza

• Not present

Richard Jaussi

• Not present

Val Peterson (Legislator)

• Not present

Keith Grover (Legislator)

• Not present

Margaret Dayton (Legislator)

• Not present

Peggy Burdett

• Not present

Arturo Morales LLan

• Not present

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Good: ladle

Bad:   ladel

My solution for this is visual. The d looks like a ladle pointing one way. The le (combined) looks a ladle pointing the other way.

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I’ve always been interested in the genius of Tesla, so of course, I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to attend a lecture about him and to see some displays of some of his technologies. I attend such a presentation at western-con 2016.

Any inaccuracies or misinformation in any of these notes is the fault of the note taker.

• 1884 Tesla migrated to the US
• Tesla work for Thomas Edison. Edison told Tesla if you can improve the efficiency of certain equipment I’ll give you $50,000. When Tesla did it Edison says that was a joke. Tesla quit
• 1887 industrialists funded Tesla to improve the lightning bolt
• Tesla built the first AC motor
• Tesla worked for Westinghouse
• There was a war of the currents was between Edison and GE and Tesla and Westinghouse.
• 1890 Tesla built a transistor that could transmit electricity through the air.
• Tesla built the Tesla coil,
• 1891 he built the carbon ball lamp.
• 1895 he build a wireless slam it was lionized and ionized
• Tesla never married. He was considered an eccentric. He hated germs so he didn’t like to shake hands and wore gloves. When you go to dinner, he used a pile of napkins to clean the plates and utensils prior to eating
• Tesla would invent an item in his head then he would sketch about for the machinist to construct and it usually worked the first time.
• 1895 his lab burned down that contained all is working papers. He fell into a deep depression
• Because building contractors sought out the cheapest bidder to install electricity the buildings there was a high amount of building fires. Because of that insurance companies created a list of standards that had to be followed if a builder wanted to have insurance coverage.
• P. Morgan as Tesla did hold off on the patents and he tore them up. He knew he could create new things
• Tesla created the first x-ray but information got burned in the fire
• 1898 he created a radio controlled boat but the Navy was not interested
• Colorado spring experiment created ball lightning

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