Category Archives: The Things I’ve Recently Learned
Family history: Final Review
Today is the last class of family history. Now I need to seek out sources of knowledge of how to look up information via census records, birth and death certificates, and marriages etc. Here are the final reminders about family … Continue reading
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Larry Pratt, on gun rights:
Larry Pratt Is the Executive Director Emeritus of Gun Owners of America. Here are some notes of his gun rights via Skype. A gun owner of America now has a 1.5 million membership. Larry has seen a steady positive progress … Continue reading
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Spelling Brilliant:
What is one of the most brilliant bugs in the world? The ANT! Thus its BrilliANT. Also sometimes I have a hard time remember this word has two is. As in to dots of the BI that can be the … Continue reading
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CERT 6 D, CERT Organization:
These are a continuation of my notes for Cert training on the topic of Cert organization. Scribes: Scribes need to be assigned to everyone. Everything needs be documented from ascribe to the incident commander to one of the pairs of … Continue reading
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Putting in the meat in your journal and life history:
We have learned wonderful things about people’s lives by what they put into their journals. But I have found that a lot of people put useless information in the journal. I like to give two examples myself. When I was … Continue reading
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Writing suggestions maybe by Ronald Shusett:
I listened to an old recording of a LTUE symposium in the 90s. The speaker mentioned about writing on the movie script for Alien so this might be suggests from Ronald Shusett. I may be wrong. I’m not certain if … Continue reading
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Spelling Endeavors:
Not sure if this will work but I’ll give it a try. Good: endeavors Bad: endeavers We will make numerous attempts to accomplish a goal. Well do this OR well do that thus we make multiple endeavORs. Have a better … Continue reading
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Can SF/F be taught?
This is a very old panel from LTUE. Might be during the 80s or 90s. Much of the information is still relevant. The panelists are several BYU professors. Marian K Smith was the moderator. Any misinformation is the fault of … Continue reading
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CERT 6 C, CERT Organization:
Effective two-way communication: Use runners as a pair. Assigned kids needs be responsible. They can also look out for each other. Team members provide the command post with ongoing assessments. Section heads gets updates from the team leads and then … Continue reading
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Family History Eight, Memories:
The theme for Family History we discussed saving family memories. Last two 5th Sundays of the year have been dedicated to improving the Sabbath day. One goo way to spend the Sabbath is to do family history. Want to do … Continue reading
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