Melva Gifford

I was doing research on a different topic and came across some information about coconut milk. Since many of my blogs are quite self-serving It thought today I’d just share some interesting information and links about coconut milk.

Coconut Harvesting 101 – With a Machete

http://www.earthboysblog.com/?p=1678

How to Open a Coconut : Draining a Coconut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwrel&NR=1&v=Ima9y_aUU00
http://www.ehow.com/video_12137953_shell-coconut.html

Removing Coconut Meat From Shell
http://www.ehow.co.uk/video_2335012_removing-coconut-meat-from-shell.html

How to Cook with Coconut Milk
http://voices.yahoo.com/how-cook-coconut-milk-1844896.html
http://thaifood.about.com/od/thaisnacks/r/thaicoconutrice.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGx7W-NN8dc
http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/recipe-collections-favorites/cooking-with-coconut-milk-10000001168450/index.html
http://voices.yahoo.com/how-cook-coconut-milk-1844896.html?cat=22

HOW TO BAKE WITH COCONUT MILK
http://www.livestrong.com/article/459751-how-to-bake-with-coconut-milk/

3 Terrific Uses For Coconut Milk
http://www.lifescript.com/food/articles/0/3_terrific_uses_for_coconut_milk.aspx

Today’s lesson touches ways to teach about the checks and balances of government to elementary aged kids. So here is a draft of the lesson I hope to present on Wednesday for the Utah Patriot Camp 2012. I want to crate activities for the kids that might help them compare govern to their own lives. I’ll see if this works.

Three branches of government so that one branch does not become too powerful over the others. James Madison was involved in setting up the government and saw how checks and balances could work better with an elected president instead of a King.

When people moved to America and created a new nation they wanted a say how their government was run. James Madison and other founding fathers came up with a government divided into three sections.

Legislative , and
Judicial

The President represents the Executive Branch –
• President: select a boy and girl to put on crowns and sit before the class.
Have the class partition the king for their favorite dessert. King says “No!” to all. You’re going to all have pickle cake each night for a week.
• The Executive at home is Dad and Mom. (Mom can I have some ice cream? Dad can I got to the movies with my best friend? Just like mom and dad law down the rules of the house. The president’s job is to make sure the rules and laws of the country are obeyed.
• President elected compared to a king who just become king because he was a son of a king. And he told everyone else what to do.

Congress: (has congressman and senators)
• The founding fathers wanted all the people to be America to be treated fairly. The big states thought “hey we’re big states we should have more say.” The smaller states, with less people in them said “that’s not fair we want to have the same kind of vote as you do.”
• Ask different kids where their grandparents live. As they name off a different state give that child two pennies. These two pennies are you state senators. They have the responsibility to do what you want. We elect senators every six years.
Divide kids into four states CA (53), NY (29) UT (4) WY (1)
• Have students divided up into groups by their favorite dessert. Pie one area, cake, cookies another. Pretend we’re going to have a big party at the end of the week. We’re going to have games, all kinds of food, even petting animals and a clown. But the clown is very expensive. So your parents say there can only be one dessert for everybody. Everyone at the party wants to decide what deserts to have and there is only one desert. You want your desert to win.
• Have a child stand up and talk about why their desert is best. Do others in the group agree? Elect that person to represent you.
Have the two biggest dessert kids

I always have a hard time with these two words and use them occasionally enough in my writing that it’s about time I try to learn them.

It’s always a question who is going to win in a battle when conquest is the goal to every military leader and the loser ends up becoming the conquered. I hope that remembering that questioning the results of these two actions gives me a hint to their spelling. So I use QUE (from the word question) as my reminder for both.

Question of who is the winner
conQUEst
conQUEred

-Your feet change as you grow older
-A good walking shoe is one that won’t bend easily in the middle
-Many times people will do the wet test to see what kind of foot they have before buying a shoe. A wet test is when you get your foot wet and step on a piece of paper. You can see what parts of the paper your feet meets the paper. You can tell how much or how high your arch is and then buy a shoe that fits your type of foot.
-Shoes should bend only where your foot bends
-Don’t have fashion be a reason to buy a specific shoe
-Shoes should have good cushion to absorb shock of walking and running
-Have a sales person measure your feet while you’re standing up
-Many fancy shoe stores will permit you to return a shoe within a week if they don’t work out.
-Buy a shoe on how it fits not necessarily by a labeled shoe size.
-One foot is often larger so you may needed to ensure that you have shoes that fit each foot
-You should have wiggle room for your toes in your shoe
-Buy your shoes in the evening while you’ve been on your feet all day so that they’ve adjusted to the days activates and thus when you buy new shoes they fit feet that have been busy.
-Find a shoe that fits your foot with a little wiggle room.
-Running shoes need to be 1/2 to a full size biter than normal shoes because while you run your feet swell.
-Heals higher than 3 inches have related health/pain issues.
-Buy shoes that aren’t too tight where heel is comfortable without too much sliding.
-Often the more expensive the shoe the more types of material are put under the inside, bottom portion of the heal to prevent wear and tear of shoe and will most likely not cost less than $60
-Shoes that are too tight can add to blisters and crunched toe nails.
-Thick soles on shoes help cushion your feet when you’re walking

Sources:
http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/hygiene-tips/how-to-care-for-your-feet6.htm
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=22534
http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-240-319–10779-0,00.html
http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/shoes/choosing-a-shoe-the-very-basics/481.html
http://docpods.com/good-things-shoes

I hope this lesson will be of use to youth ministries, family devotionals and family home evening study. Today I discuss choices. This lesson could be abbreviated and presented in one lesson or you could expand the theme of God, Family, Community and nation to be four lessons with greater detail. Your choice.

Since childhood we learn what is important from the knees of our parents to the teachers we listen to at school. As we begin to mature we acquire new opinions by experience and through the people we interact with. Those teachings and life experiences bind us to how we will act in various situations.

Our parents can influence what directs us as children by what they teach and by example. The scriptures and listening to God’s messengers are good sources of gaining wisdom to support family values. Eventually, we become responsible for our own actions. Will we follow our parents’ path or take an alternative route that might complicate our lives with unnecessary hardships?

Collect all of binders from around the house. Examples might include clamps, paper clips, rubber bands, tape, string etc. Gather the family or class around and have everyone discuss how a certain binder might be useful for different circumstances. One example is that a bunch of utensils might be found by a rubber band. A binder might be useful in holding a bunch of papers etc. Now compare how the Ten Commandments, Biblical stories, honesty, dependably, family loyalty and other virtues can bind us to have better lives. Be specific in your brainstorming.

Now Go through various examples of how being bound to God can help us. Discuss what it means to be Christian. Is it a once a week thing or a life style and attitude? If time permits discuss some of your most favorite phrases and scritpures to stimulate a conversation.

What does it mean to be bound to family. We know each others greatest weaknesses and greatest strengths. Discuss how can family members support one another in shared goals and aspirations.

Community might not include being a good neighbor but being a good member of the church community and of the town and city where you live. Discuss living the laws of the land and involvement in community can help improve and sustain the community.

Country: I’ve always liked Kennedy’s quote of: “My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” So the question is, how do we support our country? By being good citizens. By being informed citizens about local and national issues, obeying the law and voting to name a few. Branch out the dialog to whatever areas you feel are appropriate.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johnfkenn109213.html#JDmm71IwEvqALqiW.99

Farther is for distance
I remember this as matching the word far away (distance) to match with farther.

Further is for adding on. I use the visual image of the u of further looking like a funnel where I can pour in further or add additional content into a container.