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Express Checkout (15 Items or Less Please)

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Emergency Preparedness – Express Checkout  (15 Items or Less Please) 
 

   With two carts filled, people in line behind me not only starred daggers, but were sure I would try and pay with stolen credit cards and have half dozen felony convictions and outstanding warrants on my record.
   I never shop without going out the express line, even if I’m buying 15 cases of goods.
   The secret is never buy just onesies and twosies.  Never buy anything unless it is in case quantity and on sale.  That way you not only lock yourself into bargain basement prices per unit, but you have less than 15 items (1 case of TP, tuna, or tooth paste is still one item) and inventorying will cut required trips to the store.  Your purchase is faster to scan, eliminates bagging, and you don’t have to take anything out of the cart to ring up.  Oh yes, all are overjoyed if you pay cash — THAT’S THE FASTEST WAY TO SHOP.
   For more information contact (your emergency preparedness specialist).
CATCH THE VISION, GET FACTS, DEVELOP SKILLS, AND BE PREPARED.

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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.
CATCH THE VISION, GET FACTS, DEVELOP SKILLS, AND BE PREPARED.

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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).
CATCH THE VISION, GET FACTS, DEVELOP SKILLS, AND BE PREPARED.

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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).
CATCH THE VISION, GET FACTS, DEVELOP SKILLS, AND BE PREPARED.

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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).
CATCH THE VISION, GET FACTS, DEVELOP SKILLS, AND BE PREPARED.

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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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What Food “Sell-By” Dates Really Mean.

Friday, May 5th, 2006

Emergency Preparedness – What Food “Sell-By” Dates Really Mean
 

     Many states require food manufacturers to mark perishable foods with a date so that customers can gauge product freshness.  There are no federal regulations requiring products to be dated and there isn’t a uniform system.  “Sell-by” dates let stores know how long products can remain on the shelves and are used as guides for rotating stock.   Perishable foods can remain good long after this date, dependent on home storage conditions.  Cool (38-40 degrees F), dark and dry conditions extend shelf life.

     Use your eyes and nose to judge product freshness.  Eggs are usually good for three to five weeks past the sell-by date.  Milk products typically are good up to seven days past the date.  Fresh chicken, turkey, beef, pork or lamb should be cooked or frozen within two to five days of the sell-by date.  Unopened canned meats kept cool will easily store two years or more.  Vacuum packing keeps air out and  freshness in.  Unopened peanut butter, mayonnaise, and oils can store for years beyond sell-by dates.
     For more information contact (your emergency preparedness specialist).
CATCH THE VISION, GET FACTS, DEVELOP SKILLS, AND BE PREPARED.

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72 Hour Emergency Kit — #2 Food.

Friday, May 5th, 2006

72 Hour Emergency Kit — #2  Food
 

     Stress makes us eat more – up to double.  Don’t under estimate food in your kit, and keep it light.
     Tools:  A P38 can opener or easy-open containers.  Cooking materials (high tech lessens weight).
     Resources:  Use high protein energy foods such as Jerky, canned tuna, MRE meals, whole grain foods, dehydrated, powered, or freeze dried items like drinks, condiments, fruits, and even Mentos or gum.
     Know How:  Anything will cook if you can put it in a 1 qt. wide-mouth Thermos bottle and add boiling water.  Even raw foods will cook overnight.  Easier still, use the 4 ” square chemical heat pads (add 2 tbs. water) that cook MREs in flameless fashion.   Heat tabs or dirt stoves using Jet-A kerosene are light cooking apparatus.  Otherwise, plan to eat everything cold, unless the container can warm under your arm.
     Emergencies need high powered food and a lot of it.  Pack good stuff  that is easy to make editable.
Your Emergency Preparedness Specialist(s) . . . . . . .can help with ideas.
DO IT, DO IT RIGHT, AND DO IT RIGHT NOW.

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First Responder Kits.

Friday, May 5th, 2006

Emergency Preparedness – First Responder Kits.
 

     A 72-hour kit IS NOT the foundation of a home preparedness program.  But, it’s a start.
     What are the essentials of a three day First Responder Kit?  (priority order)

  1. Water
  2. Food                               Considerations:   “Will it all fit into something
  3. Clothing                                                        that won’t break my back?”
  4. Shelter                                                        “Can technology lighten my load?”
  5. Sanitation                                                   “Will I be able to afford it?”
  6. First Aid                                                     “I don’t want something else that will
  7. Communication                                           just sit and decay for lack of use!”
  8. Transportation

     Each week we will treat one topic.  Get ready and build your kits and involve the whole family.
     For more information contact (your emergency preparedness specialist).
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“An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure.”

Friday, May 5th, 2006

Emergency Preparedness – “An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure.”
 

    “I lightly fertilize my yard and garden the first day of every quarter.  I do my houseplants only on New Years Day after I’ve checked all my vehicle brakes and tires.   I don’t want to be surprised during the year.”
     My next-door neighbor’s yard was always greenest and his vehicles seldom broke down.  I was 12 when he became my example, but I didn’t implement his wisdom until I had earned a car and yard years later.  I remember him every time I maintain.   Surprisingly, I look forward to the beginning of each quarter more for those chores he taught me to make time for, than for my 401K report.
     For more information contact (your emergency preparedness specialist.)
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