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Real Relief or Donation Scam?

Real Relief or Donation Scam?

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…

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

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

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…

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Command and Control

Command and Control

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…

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

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

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…

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What is the Definition of Globalization?

What is the Definition of Globalization?

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…

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Take the Stairs, Not the Elevator

Take the Stairs, Not the Elevator

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…

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Make a Dirt Stove

Make a Dirt Stove

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…

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Diets are Really Getting Ugly.

Diets are Really Getting Ugly.

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…

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Born 1930 thru 1960?

Born 1930 thru 1960?

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…

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The Large Print Giveth, and the Find Print Taketh Away.

The Large Print Giveth, and the Find Print Taketh Away.

Emergency Preparedness – The Large Print Giveth, and the Fine Print Taketh Away.           Beware of prepayment penalties on fixed or adjustable-rate mortgages, and home-equity loans and lines of credit.  They require borrowers to pay extra cash as a penalty for closing out loans within the first three years.  These fine print contract features, pervasive in the late 70’s and early 80”s during double- didget interest rates, have crept back into lenders agendas to penalize borrowers who see the…

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