Melva Gifford

Found this on the web:

How the West’s ‘Destructive Games of Self-Immolation’ Derange Society and Empower Dictators

https://www.theepochtimes.com/douglas-murray-the-wests-destructive-games-of-self-immolation-derange-society-and-empower-dictators_4415784.html?utm_source=Enews&utm_campaign=etv-2022-05-09&utm_medium=email&utm_content=7

These are note from church. Any misinformation is the fault of the notetaker.

• In the book of judges, the Lord calls 12 judges to help Israel .they are more military leaders than normal judges are.
• Fisherman will use a lure called a Man tige:  they use it to capture occupies. The occipus will grab the lure and not let go until it dies.  They will capture the occipus and toss it into the boat.
• Social media can be used for good or bad.
• If we don’t have spiritual perspective, we can forget.
• We need to pass on what we know to those who follow us.
• Telling personal stories of what you’ve learned to your kids. Stories from the scriptures can accomplish a similar goal.
• Elder Belnore: you don’t help them feel empowered. You invite them to act.
• God will judge us on our efforts.
• You can dance but you need to fell the music.
• Do not be Mormon enough to be miserable.
• The Lord looks into the heart.
• Each of us take individuals actions to influence others.
• Why is the pattern of wickedness repeated? The nature of man is to wander without guidance. We may stop seeking direction. Satan uses our weakness to tempt us.  We often go back to where we feel comfortable.
• Do not depend upon relying upon great leaders like Moses or Joshua. We need our own testimonies.
• We are all experience our own pride cycle. WE are never too far to being too prideful.
• Departure from the church can begin on one item that bothers us about the church. We let that item fester and it begins the passage of apostasy.
• Judges 3: The lord put the Israelites amongst nation with other points of view.
• Gideon was told to attach a big military target.  He wanted a sign from God, had drew, and fleece as a sign. The lord wants to show his power and whittles 20 K soldiers to 10 K to 300 (those who brought water to them to ring. The opposite military was 100,000. Each of the 300 was given a horn and lantern of coals.  The 300 blew the trumpets and tossed the coals on the ground giving the enemy the impression of an enormous army. The enemy is a mix of nations and stabbed each other.

My company has different workshops to help employees. These are the notes of one. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

Signs up burnout and stress:

• Stress can be healthy burn out is when you cross the line. Burn out can cause depression.
• Stress is illustrated by over management or urgency. Burn out gives disengagement or unmotivated.
• When you want to disconnect it is advisable to seek out help. Theory is to playing an active role in your own mind. Is important to understand you.
• When you start to disengage > you need to give yourself permission to give 50% or 70% on different days. 100% is not a sustainable model. Give yourself permission to slide back a little back.
• You never know what people are going through. Sometimes, you can see your environment with new eyes. There was a slump in performance in the dept. opened a dialog to see what was contributing to the problem.
• Your employer may have ’employee assistance programs’ that can offer help.
• You need to fill up your cup first before you can help others. using PTO or other resources to help support you.

Strategies for facing challenges:

• There is strength in vulnerability but don’t use it as an excuse to not perform. Make sure you are having conversations with your manager to be aware of challenges.
• Bend so you don’t break. Stretch physically. Get on the move and stretch with yourself.
• Make time to work, make time to play, make time to learn. Schedule time for each.
• Ask for permission of yourself. Find out when a deadline is really set it’s not all immediately.
• You need to be intentional about your mental health. You need to create intentional process.
• Set up a good environment for your mental health.
• One presenter makes time to mediate or listen to podcasts. Learn new lessons to help you learn of your new self.
• Exercise and play.
• As a manager, she tries to create positive emotional moments with her team.
• You may want to redefine success. Not just at work but at family, and community.
• Keep the communication going in regards to yourself, your circle, and your manager if needed.
• When you have, concerns do not keep in the shadows. Seek help. Be kind to yourself.

bad:   Hassel

good: Hassle

I consistently spell this word wrong. I put el rather than le. I believe I have a way to remember the l next to the s. I envision the l as an i and when I experience hassles i/l want to be close to my supporters who are the letters ss.

The full title is: How the Chinese Regime Co-opts Our Elites and Weaponizes Our Systems Against Us

An interview with Sen. Marco Rubio.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/sen-marco-rubio-how-the-chinese-regime-co-opts-our-elites-and-weaponizes-our-systems-against-us_4472373.html?utm_source=China&utm_campaign=uschina-2022-05-18&utm_medium=email&est=E%2FdwVXy1mf9kf3fGRVNpQMstGWzkH5M9h2i2ABWNVH6ZKI44oLUkz1F3s8aiMCus5wA%3D

Bad:    coinside

Good: coincide

How to remember the second C. The second C CoinCides with the first.

I attended the Live the Universe and Everything symposium. These are notes from one of the panels. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

• Editing funnel: this is when you do the big edits first such as plot, digitization, and pacing and then you do the detailed edits at the ends such as grammar, line editing, and punctuation.
• Structural editing:
• This involves plot, pacing, and characterization.
• See if the stories that follow a clear plot.
• C with the subplots fall.
• Self-editing: then edited to do big edits. Make changes on the big issues and that fix them then devote time to the small issues.
• Hire an editor for the self-edits.

Galley:

• A Galley is a PDF of the entire book. The Galley is provided to the author does find any things that were missed in prior edits. The Galley is the last site of the book before goes to print.
• Next line alpha and beta readers:
• Alpha and beta readers can help you catch things. Alpha readers or for the main plot catches.
• Beta readers is final for the Final Cut catch and may be specific on a certain area of knowledge they have. A good source of beta readers might be other authors or people who like to read. You should not have to pay beta readers.
• Agents: an agent may be interested in looking at the manuscript to see if they have any ideas or improvements to make the manuscript more sellable.

• Sensory editors. Backspace: have the task of going to the manuscript and seeking out areas that need sensory details. This is more than just visual sensory details.
• When do you know when to stop editing?
• On the first draft, you need To turn off your internal editor. In the early drafts of the manuscript is better than the cleaned it five dishes than none at all. Just get your first draft out. Some will set a timer where they can only write without stopping.
• How do you know when you’re done?
• If you can’t see what else to change or improve. Trust yourself.
• Put a draft away for a month and not do anything with it and then come back and look at it with new eyes.
• What are good resources for better content editing Westmark
• Take classes on grammar and English.
• Grammar girl is a good blog to look at.
• Seek out the writer digest archives. They were online and available.
• On Twitter, seek out the #asked an editor. You can ask them occasional questions. When you get a response, make sure you get enough from an editor not a mere reader of the website.
• Check out the book self-editing the book writers.
• Book: kiss my astrict.

Got this from a preparedness fair. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

• Food and water are the most important. The food you want most is the most expensive.
• For this typically eating is used up in one to three months of a crisis. These foods have a shelf life that lasts only a few short years or
• Five meals living off food storage
• Food storage is too expensive.
• It needs to be rotated
• Get long-term food from the food market.
• The Five food killers: problem with beings is on the two old the too hard to cook.. After cooking multiple times the beings are still hard. Get precooked beans instead you can even when dry. Emergency milk: not very useful if you don’t have a blender. It clumps. Good varieties of dry milk should mix well in cold water. You should not have to have a blender. Moisture is dehydrated versus freeze-dried. Both get rid of water. Sun-drying it dries and shrinks.
• It’s very condensed.
• It has a longer shelf life next line his writing to your meals.
• Cons less nutritious. Often shorter shelf life
• Often needs cooking
• Freeze-dried: uses supplemental. Get some code to triple point the go solid to a gas. It dries with liquid. It remains the same size. Precooked. He can keep it as cold as possible. If a freezes it hurts the food. Light deteriorates food
• Oxygen causes food becomes rancid. All food has bug eggs in it. They are part of your regular diet.
• Only store is hard white wheat, not hard red. Metallic hands. Food can absorb the flavor of the metal. They can be hard to eat again and again. Miser couches: stinks. They say they reflect the flashlight. For the flashlight do it and see if like to be seen through the miler next language of – putting cans but it should have according to on it.
• Test your food supply. People find that food does not have a 25-year shelf life promised.
• The fewer ingredients the better the food that can be stored.
• The more contents in a prepackaged food can cause chemical reactions. It can cause aftertaste
• Cook the food free first and then freeze it.

These are notes from church. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

• The speaker talked to women in Yolanda 1 million of her people were slaughtered and murdered. Years ago. She says she’s happy because of Christ.
• The prophet Joseph Smith while liberty jail was told by the Lord peace be tonight to the vessel.
• Adversary diversity is not evidence of the Lord’s disfavor nor does he withdraw a blessing
  days in these changing times:
• Personal peace? When I face challenges I think about what I can learn from this experience.
  Go to the closest priesthood for the blessing of protection from the adversary. And as for peace.
  Psalm: did you think of prey?. This refers to a ball of Gilead. That is an ointment that is usually the daily law: we could never get peace in the outer world until we get peace in the world.
• Article: she holds a cup full of water. For the first 10 minutes is okay with a lot of shows that the heavier that comes to wait long enough in the civil burden could be because of extreme pain.
• Allow the goodness of Christ to feel you with.
• John 14:1 don’t let your heart be troubled.
• Think about how stressed you are in your life to help compensate can talk to a trusted friend or spouse and know that God loves you and will be seen challenges
• 4 suggestions:
• Love God, and live his commandments. Love everyone.
• Prejudice spirit is love and. Goodness: meet.
• goodness – meet beer in one another’s burdens can point you to heaven.
• Exercise agency Christ can help us endure our challenges. Let go of pride and control. The atonement is a way to fix all of the events in our lives.
• Build Zion in our hearts and homes. Families can create peace and determine kind of boundaries or are you creating to create peace in your world?
• Certain turn-off the phone follows the current counsel of our prophet.
• Universal peace happens voluntarily from the inside out.