Melva Gifford

A friend of mine posted a question of what good movies would be for a for a lad who is struggling in making good decisions. This is the list of the responses he got and I thought I’d share. Any inaccuracies or misinterpretations of the contents below are the fault of the note taker.

Books: the dragon who lost his fire

Boyhood

Radio, with Cuba Gooding Jr.

Endors Game

Only the strong

Last air bender box sets

3:10 ty Yuma

The pact

The way of the Peaceful Warrior

Laughing at my nightmare by Shane Burcaw

Southpaw

Almost famous by Erin Brockovic

A beautiful mind

Frida

Soul surfer

Big miracle

A dolphin tale

Awakenings

Braveheart

Patch Adams

The blind side

Rudy

Maiden trip

October sky

What stories does my son need by Michael Gurian

Outside Providence

Life as a house. Case closed

The cosmos documentary

The power of one

What the bleep do we know?

Robert Downey jr. story = book

Forever strong

Requiem fora dream

The sandlot

Boyz in the hood

Me earl and the dying girl

School ties.

12 documentaries that will inspire kids to change the world

Dead poets’ society

Stand by me

My side of the mountain

Boyhood

October sky

Powder, august rush

Fat boy rules the world

Joy

Lean on me

Life as a Huse

Big Gish or it might be Big Fish

Nausica of the valley of windows

The fisher king

Into the wild

Pay if forward

Glory

Second hand lion

Brand of the hand

Into the wild

The blind side

The pursuit of happiness

The boys who could fly

A walk to remember

Go ahead and add to the list if you have some suggestions.

I attended a lecture at an emergency / book of Mormon conference and these are my notes on Humanism. Any inaccurate or misinformation is the fault of the note taker

• Nephites embraced humanism. In the book of Mormon (Alma 30) it was called priest craft. Priest craft is where you worship yourself rather than God:
• Humanism says no God, right and wrong depends upon the circumstance, he lemon 7:4, third Nephi 6:21 – 30, Alma 30:17, Alma 30:12 – 28, he lemon 13:27 – 28
• Nephi’s return to humanism fourth Nephi 1:29
• Humanism destroys religion: Alma 14:18, third Nephi 1:9 – 16, Moses 17:13
• Humanism destroys rights and self-rule: Alma 12:22
• Laws changed: third Nephi 6:25 – 30
• Private property taken Alma 43:9, Alma 3:6 – seven, third Nephi 3:6 – seven, Alma 35:43 – 62

On a different topic: sound government:

• Self-reliance: Alma 62:29, Alma 4:13
• God’s covenant rests on the land not the people. 2nd Nephi 1:7 to 9

At toast Masters listened to an interesting presentation about people’s feelings about life at the end of their life.  Palliative care representatives had similar regrets in life. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

• Wish I could have accomplished some of my dreams.
• Wish I didn’t work so hard. (missed milestones in their life). You can fix this by simplifying your life.
• Wish I had the courage to express my feelings. Too tightly contained emotion can contribute to your health. Need to speak honesty to have an authentic relationship.
• Wish I had stayed in contact with my best friends. (life is about love and relationships.
• Wish I would have let myself be happier. Sometimes we let ourselves be held back by our worry what others think.

People want to look at the end of life and see it as complete.

Good: census

Bad:    cencis

A census in our country is to check the population numbers in the US. Thus cencUS.

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Any inaccuracies or misinterpretations of the contents below are the fault of the note taker.  Glenn Meder. Webinar@survivalistill.com

How contaminated water affects your family

• First world countries have water and sewage pipes, emery response and police, phone radio and internet etc. Third world countries don’t have these resources ‘
• Disasters can quickly disable these compatibles. We depend on our electric grid. If not sewer water can mix with drinking water.
• Recommend book: Lights out by Ted Koppel = discussed the vulnerability of the US electric grid.
• If water is compromised we experience rapid dehydrations. If you can’t replace fluids people become ill. Children and babies are at high risk.

Different type of contaminations

• Particles (items floating into the water
• Microbiological (living organism in the water) this is the most dangerous containments. An example of this is when sewer water and drinking water mix and microorganisms grow. Distillation is the best way to clean this.
• Inorganic contaminants (metal content such as Arsenic, fluoride, lead
• Radioactive metals: uranium, radium
• Organic Contaminants: solvents and pesticides. (Carbon based molecules)

The Red Cross recommends three ways to clean water

• Boiling when you boil water the steam is what is healthy but the bad contents in the water are concentrated in the pot of water. Best used against biologicals. Use filter before using
• Chlorination (regular bleach) and
• Distillation. Distillation takes place when the sun changes ocean water into a vapor. Contaminants are left behind and pure water vapor is absorbed into the air. It becomes rain and rain falls on the ground.

Distillation is good against biologicals but nothing against contaminants.

Filter the water before putting it into the filter.

How to distill your water:

1. Boil water and put lid upside down.
2. Tie a mug on the handle to capture the steam/water before it returns to the pan  You don’t want the boiling / contaminated water to splash on your cup. You want to have the water boiling before you put on the lid (and cup) so that any impurities that will steam away lower density impurities prior to boiling. That way you have contaminates in your distiller. Print out recommendations in advance so you can have them.

• Red Cross discourages using other chemicals to clean water
• You should have one gallon of water each day for two weeks for each person. Sealed and store in a cool place. Need a stove and fuel like a rocket stove.
• Filters do no filter out all impurities.
• Ultra-violate light is currently not on the list of Red Cross recommendations. UV lights require a certain wave length Sometimes a UV light bulb may not shine at that wave length consistently if bumped etc.

Presenters are selling their own water still.

I attended a lecture at an emergency / book of Mormon conference and these are my notes.

Any inaccurate or misinformation is the fault of the note taker

• Moses 6:17
• Ether 2: 7 – 8
• Heleman 11:8 – 9
• Prosperity comes from wise laws
• Law of Moses is the only civil law given by God
• Deuteronomy 4:6 – 8
• Statutes are civil law.
• Love Moses the 10 Commandments = 3 Nephi 25:4, 3 Nephi 15:4 – 6, Mosiah 29:25 came from the father
• Donald Lutz and Charles Hyndman = both historians who did an intense research of the Constitution and concluded that 37% came from the Bible most of which was Deuteronomy.
• 2nd Nephi 1:5 based on the covenant of God
• 2bd Nephi 1:7, Heleman 5:2 equal self-rule
• To propose and renew?
• The law: Mosiah 29:37
• Rectified by the people Alma 1: One government under national government Zarahemla,
• Inaligible rights protected
• Most of the Bill of Rights can be found in the book Mormon such as the right’s speech, right to assemble, right to petition, and right to bear arms
• Equal justice before law and God: Alma 30:11
• Free enterprise system Helaman 6:8
• Prosperity from sound economics and religious people = Helaman 3: 25, Alma 48:11 – 17
• Washington in general shared similar traits: should an understanding of God: strong build, Laban exceedingly for the people
• Defensive warfare: Alma 43:46 – 47
• Comparison between George Washington Valley Forge not having supplies and general Moroni and not getting supplies from the government was kicked out
• Most wicked to be destroyed: 3rd Nephi 9:9

Here are my notes from a webinar that was presented by SunOven.com

any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

• You can cook, purify water, bake, roast meats, boil, steam and dehydrate.
• Sun oven can get up to 350 to 400 degrees.
• Use because people don’t have access to fuel. Seals for canisters are only good for about 5 years
• Need to see how much propane you can legally store 2 for 20 lbs. canister.
• Nothing burns and nothing dries out because all items in oven have the same temperature
• 60 % comes from sun 40 %comes from reflecting light.
• Adjust sun every 30 min and a chicken will only cook 15 min longer than a conventional oven
• Pays for itself by energy savings by not using cooking fuel.
• Outside temperature does not affect performance. As long as the sun can cast a shadow. In winter can use an oven but hours for use is shorter.
• Baking bread. Preheat sun oven. Rise or proof dough until lit is 1/2 to3/4 an inch below tje top of bread pan. Spray a light mist of water on dough just before placing in sun oven. Then it can raise the rest of the way in the oven. Mist of water can help your bread brown. One loaf 45 min and 2 loaves over an hour.
• Sun cooked beans are soft and yummy add 2 1/2 cups of water for each cup of dry beans. The ratio of beans to water will vary depending upon whether you are simmering or boiling. Or you can simmer all day better to have extra water.
• Sun baked turkey. Bake a turkey up to 21 lbs. put in a taking bag. Tie baking bag tightly. Do not cut slits in baking bag.
• Sun oven are great for rehydrate freeze- dried preparedness foods. Use 26% less water. Put in sun oven and will rehydrate fine.
• Hard boiled eggs without water. If have fresh eggs, they should peel easily from sun oven cooking. Anywhere eggs touch each other get brown spots. You can cook them in tier half cardboard trays. Put in for an hour. If spin and it spin well its cook if it’s wobbly cook it for another 15 min. if take out 30 min early from fridge
• 145 for 10 min can kill bugs and eggs in food supply
• Cook food half way put in oven and let it cook rest of the way.
• You can use any pan that is oven paste. Enamelware. It’s popular and nice because it’s thin and dark.
• Dutch ovens take an hour and half longer to warm up than other pots.
• Dutch ovens are good for slow cooking or to let it continue cooking.
• You can use glassware or corning wear.
• Silicone: muffin tins etc.
• Avoid stainless steel pots. Shiny pot. Put a dark dishtowel and over it. p
• On tin foil, put shiny side facing the food and a dark dishtowel to cover.
• Pasteurize water 165 degrees for 6 min to make it safe.
• At 212 degrees water can boil.
• Some will get cheese cloth to filter out objects for dirty water.
• Herbs should be dried at 100. At a higher temperature, the essential oils and vitamins break down.
• The thinner you cut food the faster it will dry.
• Buy parchment paper so it can be used as shelf covering for dehydrated foods.

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Good: luxurious

Bad:    luxerous

Remembering this may require some visual image for me. We have three Us in lUxUrioUs. Thank of a room filled with wealth that includes bowls upon bowls filled with treasure or luxurious contents thus the 3 bowls or three U.

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