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Microwaves — Tool or Trouble?

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Emergency Preparedness:   Microwaves — Tool or Trouble?
 

  • Operate with an RF wave slightly above that of FM radio, penetrating foods 1 to 2 ½ inches
  • The RF excites moisture molecules to rotate 180 degrees 2.5 billion times per second which . . .
  • Produce heat from friction inside foods – which builds faster in foods with fats and/or sugars
  • Use 1/20th the electricity of conventional radiant cook ovens or ranges
  • Cook oil-less, salt-less, flameless and waterless to cook in flavors without cookware or broil stick
  • Can’t burn or hurt kids or adults (unless you pick up hot foods or serving dishes in your hands)
  • Require 80-90% less cooking time (temperatures need never be remembered)
  • Make cheap, raw foods snack foods because they are fast (cooking) foods.
  • Save 30-50% throwaway.  Reheated leftovers look and taste like fresh prepared foods.

   For the first time sufficient energy can go into a food before the heat it produces has had time to cook it.  Conduction cooking continues long after the oven has shut off and often confuses the inexperienced.
   Learn more about high tech cooking from your emergency preparedness specialists.  They will tell you that when utilities are disrupted such as after earthquakes, only flameless cooking methods can be used to avoid fire danger.  That leaves MRE chemical heat pads, or remote generator powered microwave as your choices.  If you know how to cook with fast, easy microwave, your meals will beat MRE’s every time.
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Real Relief or Donation Scam?

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Emergency Preparedness – Real Relief or Donation Scam?
 

   When natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina happen, fraudulent activities seem to spread like gold rush fever.  According to the New York Times, the FBI lists over 2,300 new websites purporting to deal with hurricane relief and assistance.  Some are legitimate, and others not.  Law enforcement has teamed with Internet Service Providers and computer security companies to try and ferret out the weasels.  Well before the calamities happen, scammers register domain names to foist their fraud.  More than 40 sites were shut down within the first week after Katrina, and starting the day of the storm, “Rita” sites numbered more than 1,100.  How can you tell the real good guys from the real bad ones?
   People who receive suspicious emails or who are directed to suspicious Websites should report the activity to the Federal Trade Commission at www.consumer.gov/sentinel or call them at (877) 382-4357.
   Otherwise, you can always donate to the only 100% PROPHET charity and the Bishop can help you.
   For more information contact (your emergency preparedness specialist).
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“Live From the Gulf Coast” (22 Sept ‘05) by Melba Cox

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Emergency Preparedness – “Live From the Gulf Coast” (22 Sept ‘05) by Melba Cox
 

   Pensacola, Florida:  “We are hangin’ in here!  “Rita” is an SEH storm so far.  “Somebody Else’s Hurricane.”  I feel for the Louisiana and Texas people this weekend.  (24 Sept ’05)  Our wards have been sending out work parties (since 29 Aug ’05 to clean up Katrina) of 7+ each weekend until now.  They don’t want us on the roads this time, due to so many people trying to evacuate (ahead of Hurricane Rita) on the interstates.  There have been great missionary opportunities down here.  One Newspaper commented (after last Fall’s hurricane ‘Ivan’) that “there were two churches that stood out above all the rest when it came to helping the hurricane victims.  One was the Mormon Church and the other was the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. . .”  We feel privileged to serve.”

   Do you have enough and to spare?  Are you prepared to be the answer to someone else’s prayers? 

   For more information contact (your emergency preparedness specialist).
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Command and Control

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Emergency Preparedness – Command and Control
 

  Have you ever been so upset that you couldn’t find words?  As stress escalates, the powers of reason and communication diminish so much so that to find relief some will fixate on something totally removed and unrelated to the immediate need.  This response mechanism can be good or bad, . . . fight or flight.
   A combat pilot, exiting his craft wearing his survival vest, pointed to a zippered front pocket and said:  “if I ever crash, the first thing I’m going to do is sit down and eat this king sized candy bar.  I’ll need the quick sugar energy, the soothing chocolate, and the long-term protein from the peanuts to not run away, but start to work and survive.  This Baby Ruth is brain food.  I will be in command and under control.”
   What program do you have to meet an emergency head-on?  Will your first focus be to insure that you act rather than react to the problem?  Can you swing into action, or will you be overcome by emotion?
   Emergencies can be tongue-tying.
   For more information contact (your emergency preparedness specialist).
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“Ive got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by 4 o’clock.” Henny Youngman

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Emergency Preparedness – “I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by 4 o’clock.”  Henny Youngman
 

   “When peoples bank accounts grow, they feel more secure thinking that they can simply go out and buy all of the things that they need.  That’s not the program of the Church.  Food in the basement will be more important than money in the bank,” said President Kimball in the mid l970’s. 

   The only things that have changed from then until now are the attitudes of members of the Church.  Most have ignored increasing dependence on debt for personal maintenance of their family as incomes have declined from competition in the ever-increasing global market.  If this describes the pinch in your budget, consider simpler diet, more home made everything, and less entertainment outside the home.  After all, money isn’t everything.  It’s not even worth as much as it was this time last week.  Check gas prices lately?
   For more information contact (your emergency preparedness specialist).
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What is the Definition of Globalization?

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Emergency Preparedness – What is the Definition of Globalization?
 

   Answer:  Princess Diana’s death.  WHY, you ask?
   An English princess with an Egyptian boyfriend crashes in a French tunnel, in a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian who was drunk on Scottish whisky, followed closely by Italian Paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles; treated by an American doctor, using Brazilian medications.  Still don’t get it?
   This information is coming to you from an Englishman, using American technology, by a computer that uses Taiwanese chips, a Korean monitor, assembled by Bangladeshi workers in a Singapore plant, transported by Indian lorry-drivers to an Indonesian dock that Sicilian longshoremen offloaded to semi-trucks driven to your store by Russian drivers on US interstate roads built by Hispanics.
   Are you starting to get the picture?
   If any part of a system breaks down, do you have enough essentials on hand to support your family until a fix is found? 
   Now lets talk about bananas, milk, fresh produce, tuna fish, and Tobleron chocolate.
   For more information contact (your emergency preparedness specialist).
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Take the Stairs, Not the Elevator

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Emergency Preparedness – Take the Stairs, Not the Elevator
 

   No two people react to an emergency in the same way.  When adrenalin hits your system, emotion easily overrides logic and you may do things that can make your rescue far more difficult.  To go down was the correct choice in the NYC Twin Towers disaster of  9/ll, but most were dissuaded by smoke in the stairwells and either stood at the elevator doors, or went up to the roof.
   Training and experience provide the advantage for those who can keep their heads under stress.  Experienced people will also take the low-tech road whenever possible, too.  When one failure spawns others, an electrical outage not only stops elevators but also leaves you in the dark and trapped by automatic doors.   The roof brings hope of fresh air, but inordinate energy is needed for a helicopter rescue. 
      Modern fingertip push buttons have many forgetting they have hands and feet.  Gardening, bread making, and bicycling take more time than computer aided shopping and drive-up services.  The former, however, are based on self-reliance and personal power while the latter make us dependent on others — energy sources that are out of our control and may not arrive in timely fashion to save us. 

    Survival of the fittest means staying in shape and being alert to alternative solutions.  If you commute, a good pair of walking shoes and a flashlight are always good things to have to get you safely home.
   For more information contact (your emergency preparedness specialist).
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Make a Dirt Stove

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Emergency Preparedness – Make A Dirt Stove
 

   Emergency cooking can be simple as dirt, if you have the right stuff.
   Highly refined (Jet A or Jet B) kerosene is clear as water because sulfur and ash that typically color this fuel have been  removed.  This heavy oil-based fuel does not evaporate or produce explosive fumes and must be wicked to burn.  It contains ten times more BTUs of heat per gallon than lighter LP gasses.
   To make the stove, use any empty can smaller in diameter than the one you have food in to be cooked.  Punch 1/4th inch holes around the open top and closed bottom rims of the can (for air ventilation) and fill the can to 1/3rd with loose, dry dirt (peaked, not level)  Pour 1/4 cup of Jet grade kerosene on the dirt and light.  It won’t explode and will light like a candle as the dirt wicks the fuel upward for cooking.  It won’t smoke if you are using Jet grade fuels obtainable only at fuel distributors found in the Yellow Pages.
   For more information contact (your emergency preparedness specialist).
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Diets are Really Getting Ugly.

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Emergency Preparedness – Diets are Really Getting Ugly.
 

   As June, 2005 came to a close, MTV Networks launched the newest of digital cable channels, especially designed to capture the “underserved” 10 million (estimated) viewer market of gays and lesbians.  Previously launched HERE TV was joined by ad-supported LOGO NETWORK (Ch. 263) to offer 24-hour  lifestyle programming to over 44 million American cable and satellite system homes.
   “There have been more gay characters and themes in television and film, but we haven’t had a home base of our own,” says Logo president Brian Graden to USA Today.  Advertisers including Miller Lite, Subaru and Motorola, have been “. . . frustrated by their limited advertising options,” says the same article.
   This problem(?) of the “last great underserved segment of the TV world” should remind parents to carefully monitor changing diets offered to the family.  Some molds, spores and fungus can be tasty eatables in a food diet, but spiritually deadly elements are in the LOGO diet.  You trust your grocer to know mushrooms from toadstools in your eatable diet.  Trust the prophets to know about spiritual diets.
   For more information contact Miller Lite, Subaru, Motorola, and MTV’s parent company Viacom.
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Born 1930 thru 1960?

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Emergency Preparedness – Born 1930 thru 1960?
 

   Hey, we survived!!!   . . . Without child proof cabinet doors and prescription bottles, lead based paints, riding in cars with no seatbelts or airbags, bicycles with no helmets, hitchhiking, drinking soda pop with real sugar in it from the same bottle as three other friends, Twinkies, Ding Dongs, and riding in the back of pick up trucks on a hot day because it was cool.  We survived coasters made of scraps of wood and running down the street forgetting we had no brakes.  We even survived BB guns and real firecrackers. 
   We didn’t have Play stations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, video games, 99 to 120 channels on cable, and cell phones.  We weren’t overweight because we rode bikes or walked everywhere, made up games with sticks and balls, and sometimes had near death experiences just ringing door bells to ran away just for fun.
   Some got caught, some didn’t make the team after tryouts, some fell out of trees, and some even ate mud pies and worms.  Parents taught us how to deal with all this and be responsible for what was right.
   With freedom, failure, responsibility and imagination this generation produced an explosion of products, innovations and progress that made it easier for future generations to live with fewer risks.
   NOW, remember to check that your immunizations are up to date so you don’t catch something.   The County Health Department can help you with inexpensive shots and immunization information.
   For more information contact (your emergency preparedness specialist.)
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