Melva Gifford

 I decide to re-certify the CERT training for its good to be reminded of techniques after a few years of past and besides this information is great content for my Tuesday blogs.

• Orem city has several warning systems that under mass medication. There is texting, email, phone calls and they even have arranged an opposite of 911 where all cell phones in the area can be called to be notified about a problem. You can register to receive such alarms under the website Utah Valley.gov. Provo city also has fire alarms that can notify people of danger.
• The different types of disaster will give you the list and then some examples under that list: Natural: Earthquake, flood, tornado, hurricane and mudslides etc. Utah has about 700 earthquakes a year. Most of them are deep in the ground and in remote areas.
• Man-Made: Terrorism, chemical accidents, violent acts.
• Technology: EMP, sun flares, or breakdown of some utility.
• There are 9000 residents in Orem. We have three fire stations in the city and approximate 4 to 5 individuals that always present per fire station.
• Check out ready.gov to learn about preparedness.
• Check out ready.gov for good recommendations.
• Infrastructure: means items that make a city functional such as the police managing crime or hospital taking care of people. In an emergency the police will take care of the biggest problem society wise. The hospital will not be concentrating on Band-Aids and minor injuries but major injuries and fire stations will concentrate on the big fires rather than the small fires.
• If a building stability is compromised do not enter the building.
• Preparedness requires action notify your friends and neighbors.
• There is a law that you try to help someone to the level of your training, you can’t be liable to the consequences

Here are some examples of complications according to the emergency.

• The reason you want to be a person who is prepared, follows the same policy as why we on an airplane you put an air mask on yourself first before putting on your child. You must be in the condition to help others. Your responsibility is to your family first. This means that you want to take the appropriate measures to make your home safe. Review your home see what an earthquake is quickly due to pitchers mounted on the walls, books on shelves, kitchen cabinets, heavy equipment or just a few. You also want to build respond to possible electrical shock or faulty wiring and possible sewage backup.
• Shelter in place: this would mean where you still a room against chemical danger. That means having plastic, scissors and tape in a specific room that has few windows. Cover the windows and the vents. This is where you would want to have a place where your family can spend a couple of days and safety. You may also want laboratory resources and a means of medication to get a status was going on outside. Some people would actually have the plastic and tape precut to quickly put over the windows when needed. That means he’s already be in the house. Another suggestion is that you would need to have food and water besides the plumbing for easy access for that secure room
• If you want to arrange a disaster plan for your family: these are some of the things you’d want to discuss as a family: where to meet? Contingency plans according to the problem.
• Who is your, and out-of-state contact so that you can communicate with the outside. Phone lines to the outside or not as busy as phone calls within the state.
• Define in advance hired escape your home, your workplace, and your neighborhood. This means that not multiple routes of escape. Know the floodplain of the possible flood and define the best route to take care of the problem.
• Do you have transportation?
• Ham radio is another way to learn was going on as well as communication

Consequences of the Breakup of Water services:

• Fire departments will not have water to stop fires, erosion, flooding, hospitals will not have water to help with the patient’s, hygiene issues, positive crowd control and drinking water, possible riots.

The loss of city Infrastructure:

• No utilities, no schools and places of employment during catastrophe, neighbors rely upon their own capabilities for subsidence.

Breakup of communication:

• There will not be a normal means for the cry for help, coordination of services will be hindered, and family and friends can communicate their status to others, no technology access.

Lack of utilities:

• No gas, no sewer, no water, no power. Sewer back up in businesses and homes. Possible spread of disease, no heat, no cooking, no access to life sustaining equipment, no access to banks and technology for funds.

No Transportation:

• No resupply to stores when they empty their shelves, restricted access of help do you know overpasses. Possible inability to use cars may have to rely upon bikes and nonelectrical transportation. Many actions may need to be performed manually rather than with the help of vehicles.

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These are notes from my training this week on family history.

Today’s class discussed how to manage duplicate records in search. Any inaccuracies on these notes are the fault of the note taker.

• Click on a name inside family search and then select the details column at the top. This of bringing up the individual information on the person, such as what temple work has been done for them.
• The more dots under the name Tab at the top to provide information on that as a person such as what work is done.
• Please name listed the number under it to help I make these similar names different.
• You will see the name number five dots The more dots located in the more supporting documentation on that particular person that supports their death marriage etc.
• Do temple work you need both the date in the place.
• You now need to see what information is different and what information similar. If you have multiple accounts at the same husband is a good chance the husband’s current information. But this be definite when you actually see the marriage certificate with supporting evidence in the documentation.
• You want to compare the individual information on each duplicate name.
• If you decide to reject a certain name you need to provide a reason why in the notes. This will not remove the name from the database. It will just remove it from your viewing to make your individual work for you.
• Family search uses multiple resources to gather information on each individual. From international database, contributions by genealogists, government records just a few.
• You will want to review all the hints and notes of each individual.
• If merge, it will combine the information two records.

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This was a very positive presentation where I learned same great info about the Muslim faith and people. This is a continuation of my notes of the week before. Any inaccuracies is the fault of the note taker.

Overview of the life of Mohammed:

Mohammed was born in Saudi Arabia and at age 6 he lost both his parents. He went to live with his uncle. It was the culture between the tribes that if one person killed a member of another tribe of blood feuds would begin that could last decades. Natural resources in the country was scarce so tribes a very protective of the limited resources they had.

At Mecca (current name) is believed to be the place of the burial of Abraham. Inside one of the buildings there were many idols one of which represented all.

Mohammed was known to be very trustworthy and has excellent skill of settling disputes. Many people came to him for help. He was involved with other traders. One of which was an older woman that come to love him and propose marriage to him. He accepted. I think she was 40 and he was 25. They love each other very much.

Mohammed would meditate and at one point (in a cave I think) had an experience where he talked to the Angel Gabriel. He was really upset and went home and told his wife. His wife said that with his integrity that maybe he had been chosen and that he should listen to the messenger. Mohammed told the people that your idols or fake. The tribes got upset at him and tried to get Mohammed stride to agree that they would not avenge his death if he was killed. The uncle/tribe leader did not accept that request.

Mohammed got support from Mesodania. He agreed that he and his limited followers would come if they would offer protection. (I believe this represents year one of the Muslim colander and may be 22 A.D.?)

News of his followers/Muslims being slaughtered reached him and God/Allah said to go to war. The guest speaker made a comparison of how the Israelites of the Old Testament were told to wipe out the fellow countries so that Israelites could occupy the land. 300 followers fought against 1000 enemy. The war lasted three years.

As news spread other tribes joined. Eventually leading up to 14,000 Muslims.

In the end, Mohammed won. When he arrived into Cabba? He circled it seven times and then went inside and destroyed every idle.

Tribal code dictates that the victors kill the man and the wife and children can be sold into slavery and the possessions of the losers become the possessions of the victors. But when Mohammed gained a victory he told his followers not to hurt the survivors of the war. The losing soldiers did flee anticipating execution.

Good: medicine

Bad:    medican

I have a hard time spelling this is one but maybe this visual image that might help. What is the common advice with doctor? Take two aspirin and call me in the morning. Well there are two Is. The little dots on top of the I look like a tablets/pill, medicine. There is also two Es.

Medicine does not come from a can. So no can in medicine.

We’ll see if this helps.

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I attended a lecture on body language a while ago and these are my notes on that presentation. Any misrepresentation is the fault of the note taker.

• There are three voices of communication. 57% gestures 36 percent tone and 7% words
• Communication is what makes a difference in our lives.
• Missed communication can hurt our relationship.
• When there is a miscommunication it is the communicator’s fault.
• The audience is looking for someone to let them out of the box.
• List of messages (gestures) do not provide the same result.
• When communicating one can

1. Heighten respect
2. Stay present
3. Manage your communication devices.

• Communication growth can come by getting out of our comfort zone. When you go out of your comfort zone you grow.
• Your subconscious does not care if your message is good or bad.
• 650 words used a minute to create a subconscious message.
• 150 words is what we speak. 500 words remain unsaid.
• We need to upgrade our subconscious program.
• As you change your body language, you can choose your subconscious messages. Our behavior will repeat until we consciously change our actions.
• In communication if you point your full hand with fingers slightly apart and lineup the arm and elbow to your sides it illustrates freedom.

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These are notes from my training this week on family history.

• There is some repetition from the previous week training.
• Anyone under the age of 13 requires the parent’s permission to create an account on family search. The LDS church or rather family history will ask permission from the parent through an email.
• A helper to the patron will have an account that will include the last five numbers of the membership ID of the patron. The helper will also need log in information of the patron.
• When setting up an account the phone’s affects incapability which would be used in case of password retrieval.
• During the registration process you will be asked if your member the LDS church. If you are then you will be prompted for your membership ID. This gives access to the temple components of family search.
• During the registration process there will be a box that has a phrase framed in a box. It is often a combination of numbers and characters. You need to type into the empty box below, to ensure that you are a real person and not a robot.
• When you are training someone new to family history you need to find out what their goals are. Let them navigate on the website so they can become better familiar with the steps involved in looking up information. People learn better to doing rather than watching.
• You want to see what their objectives are family history. Then you goal is to help them achieve their specific objectives not yours.
• There are various ways that you can look up family parents and descendants. One of them is the family tree that looks like half a circle. Each ring of wedges will contain ancestors’ names. If you want to move a name from an outside circle to be relocated into the center of the tree you will want to click the mouse on the bottom part of their wedge. This will move them to the center of the family tree. Then you can see the four generations to them. Also when you want to click on a person’s pedigree chart there are two areas on the site where you can see is the pedigree chart icon. Choose the one under the name rather than top left as is that will retrieve that person’s relations more effectively.
• There’s a family history conference that has thousands of attendees called roottech. There are videos that you can watch. https://www.rootstech.org/?lang=eng

Tonight I attended a presentation by a man who was once Muslim who converted to Christianity. It was a very good presentation about fanatic Muslims, good regular Muslims, and the abuse of the United States government contributing to the problem in the Middle East. For the safety of his identity I’m not including his name here.

The presentation shared a very positive side of Muslims and I particularly was glad to see many clerics publicly objecting to the actions of fanatical Muslims emphasizing that they were misinterpreting Mohammed’s words.

Any inaccurate or misspelled names and information is the fault of the note taker.

Our guest was involved in the youth rebellion in Iran. At that age he can appreciate the willingness of willing to die for your principles for your country.

There are three types of Muslims: the average Muslim is just want to earn a living to protect and take care of his family. The jihad Muslim believes that they are protecting their land. The radical will kill off any competition including fellow Muslims.

Iran was a poor country and Britain found oil in the country. The company West oil, made arrangements to have 100% of the oil and canvas of it would be provided back to the people of the country but did not share their books with everyone else. Dr. Masaga took Britain to world court to force England’s oil company to open their books. What resulted was Iran nationalized the oil. England came to United States for help. The Free Press supported the government to show that the new leader of Iran was a bad guy. The CIA planned a Koo.

A guy with the last name of Roosevelt (maybe the son?) US made up lies about Iran’s leaders.

The CIA arranged for mobs to destroy areas of the country to show that the country to be unsafe. They help to insert a new leader and help set up a secret police for that new leader to maintain power and then advertised through the US media that the new dictator/shop was a good guy. The media advertised that the country want to create two nuclear plants for more energy because of the fear that the oil would eventually run out.

1953 CIA had an operation by the name of Ajax, also known as the houses of spies. Want to bring the shaw back.

In the country of Guatemala, there’s a huge United States food company that grows produce there. The government wanted to do a law that for any organization that has over 100,000 acres of land is not be informed that has he sold back to the government. The US County didn’t like that. They approached the president, US officials to intercede. The CIA became involved with Guatemala by interfering with their free democratic vote so that they could maintain control.

There is also CIA abused the country Chili, for different reasons.

We as Americans have the moral duty to help those we’ve abused.

Refugees from Syria should not be brought to United States. Neighboring Muslim countries should help with refugees fleeing Syria. Those refugees don’t want to move to another country. They want to eventually return to Syria. The refugees that are current being brought to United States are being deposited into average to small-town communities. Their delivery is stretching the floundering resources of those communities.

The guest made reference to an article in the LDS magazine The Ensign August 2000 by James torrent. It was called the perspectives of Mohammed. This article may have reference in 1855 article called who was Mohammed.

Good: Toilet

Bad: tolet, Tolit

It a bunch of drudgery and toil to have to clean a TOILet. But indoor plumbing/tolLETs LETS the less desirable stuff drain away. Thus ToiLet.

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