Bad: Opatory
Good: Operatory
I really need to learn how to spell this word correctly. Upon seeing the correct spelling I realize that much of my misunderstanding of the word is that a lot of people will shorten the word.
If I can remember that OPERATory is where dentist OPERATe on teeth then maybe I’ll remember it better.
If you have a better idea of the spelling, please feel free to share.
These are notes from a panel at Life the Universe and Everything. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.
– Many can travel constantly.
– One panelist’s father will find a place to live a couple of years then move on.
– Group will move each generation.
– One panelist will find a place and stay for summer and another trip to the south or north arctic for the winter.
– There are communities that are being forced to move due to war. And have a hard time finding a permeant home. Jew communities during the Middle Ages were constantly moving and learned occupations that could be done to support themselves.
– Find jobs at another place. One presenter has an urge to move every 2 yrs. and have to tell dad don’t have to move.
– Dakota Indians: analysis thought the followed the buffalo or sources of food. They would establish a winter camp and move to a different camp for the summer. Each camp represented a different section of the sky. In each camp, they would do certain ceremonies to maintain the cosmoses.
– A lot of travel pathways were designed to prevent conflict. When one tribe meets an unknown tribe, they talk to find how they may be related to. If not find someone you will duke it out. Tribes will alter travel to avoid meeting with unrelated tribes.
– Some cultures will write rules on walls so the people know what must be done. If not death.
– Some cultures foresee a conflict. They will move apart.
– How did religion play on this?
– Shamanism: are the spiritual leaders they are very traditional. The people would leave a stick or stone to signify a place is sacred. Those sticks and stones can collect through time.
– Some people would change their language and actions to merge into the culture they have joined.
– In native cultures, a person’s name is sacred and only used in ceremonies. They will go by a nickname or what they do.
– People build networks such as the place you live but also establish a relationship to other places or groups.
– Dig a well: a community is built around the well. Place in India the city put in pipes in homes so citizens no longer needed to get water from the well. The people got their water from pies and they stopped talking to each other. After a few years, the village elders took out the pipes to restore the community.
– The Aleet (Alaska?)were amazing boat people.
– Firefly shows nomadic culture between planets.
– Voyager’s Star trek is a nomadic example.
– Nomads helped trade between cultures. If certain cities did not treat them well, they stopped going there and that city failed.
Motivations
– The book, Petra: The History of the Rose City, One of the New Seven Wonders of the World, discussed how people would have everyone join into one place and meet and discuss trading and then separate after a few days’ leave.
– Songs from the sky: series of essays talk about the Nekota and the Polynesian.
– The book, When the Wind Was a River,
– Book: Genghis Khan: how Mongol cultures and how they invade. (note taker couldn’t find it.)
– in Hawaii, summer live n beach winter in homes.
– Limited resources have a limited size because they are an agrion society. Polynesian seek all islands to find a new place to live on
– Viking may raid or take a family with them.
– Nomads are a small population.
This is the title I gave to this presentation. This is a continuation of notes of Pt. A. It was presented by Frand Abangale. Steven Spielberg made a movie called, Catch Me If You Can”. The movie details his life of crime doing fraud. He then worked for the FBI to teach them how to catch fraudsters.
Q: How to protect on any social media?
– We will realize that social medial is a bad thing. If you tell me where you were born and when > online that will give an 85% chance of others stealing your identity. Never tell birth pale of birthday.
– Fishing emails: In the past, you could catch fishing emails by bad spelling. Now thieves use social media. Criminals will follow events in people’s lives. They will take the info of a planned event in the present time. Then when the planned event is occurring, the criminal creates emails at the time of an event. They will use references for that event and then put their wire instructions on social media to get their target to send money.
– Thieves will use the event and then may wire someone’s info.
– You need to be careful what you say and post on email.
– If you are asked to wire a bunch of money, you need to verify whom that message came from.
– Cyber insurance: It will not save your reputation. The person offering that coverage should require that the investor have to do certain things of prevention. If the preventions are not in place then that company may not feel they have the claim.
– There is a 400% increase of scams,
– Government is 648billing to pay unemployment. 68bilions in fraudulent claims have been made. Maybe 100 billion. They did not take the appropriate prevention measure. When the Federal government did not require that states to be liable for fraud, the states did not feel obligated to take prevention measures.
AARP is the largest organization working to help senior citizens not be vulnerable to fraud.
– Book: fraud me if you can (?) the book covers all types of scams from marriage, bitcoin, and millennials.
– Millennials are scammed more often but seniors lose more money because they have more money.
– No matter how confident or mature two red flags identify scammers.
– A. At some time in the relationship, I will ask you for a high amount of money and they need it immediately.
– B. At some point, I will ask you for personnel information such as credit card, birthday, and social security number etc.
– If you don’t know who is on the other end of the emails or phone> before you part your personal information, you need to verify who that person is. Someone may call you or email you out of the blue. Do that and you won’t’ be scammed.
Q: Do you have any last advice?
– If you make it easy to have people steal from you, the chances are, they will. Be a little smarter, wiser, and understand the environment you are in. Protect yourself; educate yourself and your family.
– Contact frand@abangale.com if you have questions. It may take several weeks for a reply.
– His website gives advice. https://abagnale.com/index2.asp
Articles:
– Detecting and Deterring Embezzlement in the 21st Century
– https://www.abagnale.com/pdf/EMBEZZLEMENT-Detecting_and_Deterring-Nov2020.pdf
– Catch the scam video
– https://abagnale.com/hebvideos.htm
– Constant Wonder, Frank Abagnale Interview
– https://abagnale.com/audio-interview-byu-radio.htm
– The Perfect Scam podcasts
– https://www.aarp.org/podcasts/the-perfect-scam.html?cmp=RDRCT-94a30519-20200401
These are notes from a stake conference, any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.
– Mathew 6:33: But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
– We need to follow the commandments, the speaker said, we paid to tithe even though we were poor. It was miraculous how we got blessings.
– heavenly father was looking out for us.
– We need to have faith
– we need to repent
– we need to take part and be part of the sacred concernments we’ve made when we were baptized and gone to the temple
– Love can increase as we follow God
– Christ taught to serve with love.
– Speaker told a story of a child in primary, hated chocolate cake that the teacher brought each week. The teacher suggested trying it, it has a special ingredient. the child tried it and found out she liked it. Child as an adult, found out later that the secret ingredient was love. the teacher sacrificed their bus fare to church for her and her kids to pay for the ingredients for the cake.
How to Navigate the Utah Legislature Website
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw_ktdk3my4&t=24s
Someone may try to TAPE or nail cloth TAPEstries to a wall to warm or decorate the walls.
These are notes from the convention life, the Universe, and Everything. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.
– Owner of Titans books in England heard the predatory traits of Utah small publishing houses.
– Publisher will give you some of the money won’t get royalties until you earn-out.
– Royalty periods are usually 4 times a year of 6 mo. royalty is % of the cover price.
– Evil contracts. Avoid business when they say we will give you a % of the number profited. Hardcover sales, iBooks, etc. avoid contracts that give % of the profit. Beware of anything that is a profit-sharing thing. Need to be % of sales not income.
– Watch out on rights: They will be English rights. Foreign publication rights. Don’t sell unless the company does not have a branch outside of the US.
– Ancillary rights: dramatic rights mean Movies and TV shows. Do not sign dramatic rights who will not do anything to develop. A production will option if. Rights to not share your piece to anyone else. If the piece gets accepted get paid for production. Out of 100 options about one goes into production. TV may offer a $5-10K option. It’s much more lubricative. Define what money you get from the publisher.
– Audible rights: is big money. Only give the audible right to a publishing house that actually has a branch that is devoted to auditable. They are hunger for material and they pay well.
– Video games: don’t throw that way
– Anything is for merchandising.
– Publishers will try to collect the moon. They will try to get everything.
– If you did sign up with a product, see if they would actually produce the thing they are paid for.
– There will be time frames in our contact and when they expect to produce it. (There may be production delays) If they fail to produce something you need to do a reversion of rights. There needs to be a specific time. An eBook > you need to get those rights back.
– 47North publisher is amazon.
– What to do with eBooks for reversal of rights. Define what is not active.
– Writer’s first approval: you can’t write a product that competes against what was sold to them.
– Some even have in control that you can print under a pen name.
– If in doubt have someone with knowledge review the contract. An attorney can review it. Get a contract law attorney.
– In case a publisher shuts down, have an exit strategy.
– You don’t owe a publisher anything other than what is in the contract.
– Contract renegotiation: when authors first start out, our options are limited. As you show you have a good track record our advances will grow.
– Earning out: if you don’t earn out they look at profit and loss. If fail in the mind of the company they are not eager to pursue supporting them.
– $5 K is the first advance.
– Professionals understand authors will review and study a contract. Never sign anything until you know what you are signing.
Q: How to negotiate a contract.
– If publishers feel that you have a reasonable request they will be open to it.
– Some contracts have an NDA. Can’t give details of the contract. Fishy if you can’t share the content of what you’re working on. It could be legit if it is certain companies have security-related information.
– For book series don’t get advance until all the books ae done. Try to get it one book at a time.
– English rights cover the US, Australia, and Canada.
– Publishers offer 25% eBooks. 60% audio and *% for mass-market papers back and 10% for hardcover. A movie deal is 20-25%. The % will be influenced by different studios.
This is the title I gave to this presentation. It was presented by Frand Abangale. Steven Spielberg made a movie called, Catch Me If You Can”. The movie details his life of crime doing fraud. He then worked for the FBI to teach them how to catch fraudsters.
The presentation was offered by a financial company who offers services for employees of my company.
Frand has three philosophies.
1. Prevention is important.
– 110 billion court restitution. Less than 10% have been paid back
– Once you lose your money you’ll never get it back.
– If you don’t use the technology, you are vulnerable.
2. Verification
– Everything can be duplicated easily these days.
– Before you give any money, you need to verify whom you are working with
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3. Education
– If you’re given tools
– Most people are not criminal-minded and are vulnerable to scam emails and voicemails.
Q: How did the fame (from the movie ‘Catch Me if You can’) change your life?
– It did not change my life.
– After fail time, he would get hired at companies, he advanced up in the company and be offered a position of responsibility and management. They would do a background check three companies would fire him. He realized he couldn’t hide his past. So he decided to educate others about fraud as a job. I’m not happy with being famous. Fame and fortune is not all its cranked up to be
Q: How has technology changed?
– It is four thousand times easier to conduct fraud today. In his time, he had to create and learn how to run a press to forge checks as well as learn how to match four colors to match the appearance for those fake checks. One can use online sources about the target of the fraud and it can only take minutes. You can duplicate anything.
– You also deal with criminals from all over the world.
– Need to be very proactive you can rely upon police or business to protect you.
– Want to be remembered as a loving husband and father and a good guide.
– He is concerned about the ability to turn off someone’s pacemaker. Or to control a car. They are restricted by 35 feet.
– Worried about foreign actors using Cybercrime will become very capable to close down electrical bridges or steal military secrets.
– Every breach is because someone in the company did not do what they were supposed to do or they did not do something they should have.
– Bad people look for a soft spot of their target. One company did not update security patches.
– Companies need to teach employees they have is keeping the information entrusted by their -clients/ customers safe. That comes through education.
– People need to be aware of how they can be tricked.
– Passwords are for tree houses.
– Last six years worked with personal (means true personal. This software eliminates the need of passwords. You identify that individual by their device. A person can use their phone app to confirm who they are.
– Top 5 banks the average banks spends 100 million a year just resetting passwords for their call centers. Eventually, the time will be to get rid of passwords.
– He expects that in the next 2-3 years passwords will decrease and it will influence cybercrimes since 85 % take advantage of passwords.
– Credit card is safer for payments. He spends the credit card money. . You have no liability for theft. If you buy a bad product if the company does not refund he can use the credit card.
– Credit card use can raise our credit score. If used well.
– A bank on debit card money can be taken, and the bank will investigate a crime.
– ATM card: you can get money anywhere in the world. And drop the dollar of the debit to a dollar so you louse only one dollar to fraud.
The second season of The Chosen is on YouTube. Check it out.
https://watch.angelstudios.com/thechosen/watch
The presentation offered by Bob Woodson on ‘Systemic Racism’. He is one of the founders of the 1776 project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU85v2gVYjo
