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Sunday, August 01, 2010
Shafter, California
I woke at 6 this morning but went back to bed not feeling very well. Mae cuddled me up, added a blanket and let me go back to sleep. She came back in at 8:30 to check on me. I woke and she told me that my breakfast was ready for me. She then had to leave for church. I got up and found that not only was my breakfast ready but that the TV and DVD player were ready for me to turn on to the General Priesthood session of last conference. Also the computer was set on the stand beside the recliner so I could easily access it. Is there any man that has a wife sweeter to him than I do? How grateful I am for her.
After eating and watching the conference session, I got up for a minute. I was glad for it takes me a couple of minutes to get up and moving. About that time Eleanor Ewing called in return to Mae’s call yesterday. We enjoyed a short visit. It was good to hear from long time friends and to know that they are still in fair health.
Mae came home from meetings completely worn out. We laid down together and took a nap. Mae cooked a very delicious chicken dinner. While Mae cooked dinner and while we ate we watched the 1st and 2nd CD of “On Sacred Ground” by Truman G. Madsen. The Shaw’s let us borrow their set of eight CD’s. Lee and Kim came over for a short visit and then Jay, Ilene and Andrew Payne came over so that Andrew could give me a get well picture that he colored for me. Andrew is in our nursery and is a very special young man. Of course he has very special parents. This evening we watched another CD loaned to us by the Shaw’s, “For Ever Strong” and we really enjoyed that. I also got my letter to Ashley written today. It was after 10PM when we went to bed.
Copy of letter written to Ashley
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Dear Granddaughter Ashley,
Grandpa had hoped that we might drive home to be with you on this special day in your life. I am sorry that my health is stopping Grandma and me from doing that. When we found out that I was going to have this operation and we were told that I could not work for a couple of weeks, we thought that it might work out so that we could come home for this special occasion but I guess Grandpa is getting to old for my body to heal that fast.
May I still tell you some of my feeling as to what this special day means to me?  Although it was over 63 years ago that I was baptized, I still remember that day. I am sorry to say that it was not because of my mother or father’s testimony, teachings or encouragement that I was baptized but because of the love of my primary teacher. When she realized that my parent’s faith was not strong enough to teach me the importance of baptism into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, she continued to teach me each week in our primary class and then, several months after my 8th birthday, she arranged for me to have an interview with my Bishop. She then picked me up on the appointed day and took me to the Stake Baptismal Day which was held at our Stake Center over 10 miles away from where I lived, in the next community. There is not much that I remember about that day except that I didn’t know anyone that was there, except my primary teacher. I do not remember the talks or the music and I did not even know the one that baptized me. I do remember that after being baptized that I felt good and I also remembered that my primary teacher loved me. The next day was Fast Sunday and my Uncle Albert, who was also serving in the bishopric, confirmed me a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I do not remember if anyone else in my family was in attendance at the meeting or not that day.
When looking at how much I remembered about my baptismal day, some people may say, “Why do we baptize a child so young? Why not wait until they are older, maybe 16 or 18 or even 21 when they are an adult and can decide for themselves?” Yes we have many wonderful and faithful members of the Church that were not baptized until they were much older. I believe that for some reason; only known to Our Heavenly Father, some of us were blessed with the privilege of coming to this earth with special parents and circumstances wherein we are blessed to have the privilege of being baptized as early in our life as 8 years of age. We know from our scriptures that, Our Heavenly Father has stopped Satan from having power over the hearts of little children until 8 years of age. I believe that because of the Great Love Heavenly Father has for each of his children, as soon as circumstances are right, that He wants us to have a very special helper, a personal guide and a comforter, to be with us as we go through the rest of our life. Most of the time we refer to this helper as the Holy Ghost. Ashley, for you that time is now.
May I testify to you, as one of many who loves you very much, that I know the Holy Ghost. He has helped me make important decisions in my life. He has given me answers to my prayers, often instantly. He has comforted me when I was afraid and needed help when there was no one else that could help me. The greatest experience to me was when I needed help and asked to know if the Book of Mormon was true and if Joseph Smith was a Prophet of God. That answer came to me as I left my bed room, after I had completed reading the Book of Mormon and earnest prayer, as clear and certain as if someone had spoken to me in a loud voice. I bear testimony that I know that the Book of Mormon is true and that Joseph Smith was called of God to restore the Church of Jesus Christ. He remained true to that calling and sealed his testimony by giving his life rather than to deny his testimony. By the Spirit of the Holy Ghost you or anyone can also have that testimony.
I love you!
Elder / Grandpa Browning
Monday, August 02, 2010
Shafter, California
Neither Mae nor I were able to sleep well last night. Sometime during the night Mae went into the spare bedroom to sleep. I still woke a couple of times but I think we both slept better. When Mae couldn’t sleep she got up and wrote a special letter to Ashley. I got up before 7 but tried not to wake Mae. I worked on the sheetrock materials take off for the housing project and started today’s entry to my journal before getting something to eat for breakfast. I did some study from the “Preach My Gospel”. This evening at 5:30 Elder and Sister Shaw came for dinner and after we held a Family Home Evening and enjoyed discussing the Attributes of Christ. It was a very enjoyable evening. After the Shaw’s went home Mae and I watched a series of the JAG programs before going to bed.
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Shafter, California
I slept in this morning. Mae was up earlier and was preparing for the events of the day. While she prepared breakfast I wrote a Birthday card to Taylor Page Browning. She will be 16 years old on Thursday. I also made changes to our Calendar from July to August. After breakfast Mae went with other Sisters from our ward to a Sr. dinner and program held in Bakersfield. I stayed home and started this journal entry and watched more of Truman Madsen. When Mae returned I had eaten my lunch and was ready to go to Bakersfield for my appointment with Dr. Moon. After the appointment we got a few items from Lasson’s. We stopped and got a Sub-Way and then went to Home Depot. I used the electric cart to get around. This evening before going to bed we watched another section of Big Valley.
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Las Vegas, Nevada
We got up with plans for a normal day. After breakfast I fixed the drip lines in the front yard. David called to see how I was doing. We visited for several minutes. After we hung up I went into the house and told Mae that we should go to Utah. Ashley will be baptized on Saturday, David will be operated on tomorrow, Aunt Beth is dying, and I can’t do much work yet. We also need to see the apartment now that it is about repaired. She asked how I felt and I said that I felt like going home for a few days. I called Lee and he agreed with me, so we packed up (mainly Mae packed), I made some arrangements for sheetrock to be delivered and we left for home. We called Mike on the way and asked him where we should stay overnight in Las Vegas and he recommended Sam’s Town or Orleans. Sam’s Town was only $27.00 for the two of us so we took that one. We got checked in and started for the elevators when the show started at Mystic Mountain. It was a water dance to music with moving animals on the mountain. It was fun to watch but I had walked long enough by the time we got to our room. The room was very nice, especially for that price.
Thursday, August 05, 2010
Las Vegas, Nevada
I didn’t sleep the best last night. I experienced quite a bit of pain and about 5:30 AM I got up and took my computer into the bathroom where I might work on it without waking Mae. I worked on my personal autobiography. We left for Mike’s shortly about 9AM after getting something to eat and stopping at Wal-Mart’s. it took us a few minutes to get the GPS going and determining our rout. Then when we thought we were going onto the main highway the exit was closed due to construction and we had to find an alternate route. We were sure glad for the GPS as I completely lost coordination to directions and after several turns of freeway we were back on route. We stopped in St. George for a break, gas and something to eat before going on. Mae drove from St. George to Fillmore where we stopped for a break. I couldn’t resist and we got a small cup of frozen yogurt and did we enjoy that. I drove on to Mike and Becky’s. Becky invited us to stay for dinner with them, it also being Taylor Page’s 16th Birthday. After dinner Mike and Page had plans to go to a movie. We soon went on to Jeff and Gail’s. Ben and Rachel had gone to bed but when they heard us come in they had to get us and give us a hugs and kisses. They were so cute and then went right back to bed. They are growing so fast. It is so good to see our family as we have missed them very much. Jeff, Gail, Mae and I played some Hart’s before going to bed late.
Friday, August 06, 2010
Layton, Utah
I woke before 6AM California time but snuggled with my sweetheart and went back to sleep. It was a couple of hours later that I got up. Mae prepared us some breakfast. Benjamin wanted my help in putting a puzzle together. We got start on the puzzles and then I ate breakfast. After eating Mae and I helped Ben put the puzzle together. Mae took Benji and Rachael outside for a little while and I caught this journal up. Mae and I then went over to visit Bob and Carroll. The apartment looks very good with the cabinets looking the worst. They will do but there is several places that shows damage and poor craftsmanship. We went up to David and Shauna’s to be with David while Shauna took Tyler to the school for a program he is participating in. It was good to visit with David. This evening Mae and I met Jeff, Gail, Marcy (Gail’s mother) and Sandi at Tagert Grill for dinner. After eating we came back to Jeff and Gail’s and played games. It was late when we quit and went to bed. I finished this entry while Sandi and Mae visited for a few minutes.
Saturday, August 07, 2010
Layton, Utah
I slept very well last night but Mae didn’t sleep quite as well. She got up at 6:30 and I didn’t get up until after 6:30AM. I put on my suit but it was so uncomfortable that I changed back into a jump suit. We got over to the Country Creek chapel before 10AM and I changed into my suit and tie. The Baptism was held in conjunction with Justis Arnell but went very well. The pianist and chorister was not there so Sandi and Becky volunteered. The services went well and were very spiritual and appropriate. After the services Mishelle had all family members go to the Stake center where we enjoyed a nice lunch. David of course couldn’t come but Shauna and Emily came. Sandy came without Nike. Mike, Becky, Page, Mattie and Jesse came along with all of Jeff’s family, so our family was well represented. After lunch we all came back to Jeff’s where we visited and played games. It has been a special day. This evening Jeff, Gail, Mae and I played Rook. It was late when we got to bed.
Sunday, August 08, 2010
Layton, Utah
Mae got up and attended Sacrament meeting with Gail. I showered and then got me some breakfast and hung out with Jeff. After Mae returned she and I went down to visit Aunt Beth. She seems to be alert but can’t talk. She writes on a note book to ask or answer questions. After visiting with her we ate a lunch that Mae had prepared. We then went Bob and Carroll’s. Bob had attended Priesthood so we visited with Carroll for a while. Carroll immediately began to tell us how people are breaking into our house and using our internet service. I assured her that they couldn’t use our internet service as we had totally disconnected our services with Qwest and had disconnected any services. She feels that it is the neighbors to the east and that they are stealing electricity from us. She is sure that they are getting on the roof of the house and into the attic along with getting access to the house through our apartment. We attended Sacrament meeting in the Clinton 20th Ward and it seemed good to see old friends. We were a half hour or longer visiting after meeting. Bob prepared a very nice dinner for us and had made a special apple pie for us using Agave Nectar and did it taste good. I visited with Bob about Carroll and he doesn’t know what to do about her. He says she is getting more paranoid daily. We came back to Jeff and Gail’s and after they put the children down to sleep we played games. Gail’s mother also came over and played games with us. It was late when we got to bed. We spent some time finding phones, cameras and computer chargers and getting everything plugged in. I also filled out this entry.
Monday, August 09, 2010
Morgan, Utah
We were later getting up this morning. Mae prepared breakfast for us. After getting going this morning and having breakfast we went up to David’s. David is doing well but is in quite a lot of pain. It is good that he has pain med’s. I slept some through the day. We also watched the movie “The Man from Snowy River”, along with a couple that the kids watched. David has a program with Netflex so that they can select the movies that they want. We really enjoyed being with David’s family. We stayed tonight at David’s.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Morgan, Utah
I woke up and was still having some dizziness. After breakfast, Mae gave me a haircut and then I took a shower. This afternoon we went to Scott and Michelle’s. We spent some time looking and checking out their camp trailer. It is very nice and we were quite impressed with some of the new fetchers that they have added to this model. David called Scott and asked if he could got to his n-laws and get I stationary bike for him so he can get started exercising his leg. Kylan and I went with him and it ended up taking about two hours to do it. It was 11PM when Mae and I got to Jeff’s so we were late getting to bed.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Layton, Utah
We woke before 7AM but cuddled for a few minutes before getting up. We went to Bob and Carroll’s for biscuits and gravy. I soldered a pipe in the cabinets downstairs just before the cabinet tops were installed. The installer did a excellent job with the installation. Bob, Carroll, Mae and I played a game of Canasta in which Bob and I won. Mae and I then went to a Truss Officer at America First Credit Union and had our Truss reviewed. It is in fair shape but needs a little addition. We spent 2 ½ hours with him and it was free advice. We stopped at the health store and the grocery store before going on to Jeff and Gail’s. I took the time to get this entrance added to my journal and then took a nap. Mae woke me for dinner and then Mae, Gail, the children and I took a walk. Jeff came home shortly after we got back from the walk. After the children were put to bed Jeff, Gail, Mae and I played a game of Harts. It was a close game with Jeff finally going over 50 and we quite at that point. Mae isn’t feeling the best today as she feels like she is coming down with a cold.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Layton, Utah
Mae didn’t sleep very well last night but was up before 7AM. Gail took Mathew for some medical evaluations. Mae and I took Benji and Rachael to Benji’s swimming lessons. After the swimming lesson we took the children to the park and let them play on the slide set. They had Mae on the slides with them until she was worn out. When we got back to Jeff’s and Gail was home, Mae went downstairs and took a nap. I filled some capsules with Phy-loe and Ambrotose. We filled out Medical Directives Living Wills and took them to get our signatures Notarized and then made copies in case of a medical crisis. I then took Mae out to eat at Golden Corral Restaurant. After eating a wonderful dinner we went over to Bob and Carroll’s and watched a cute show on the Hallmark channel. We came back to Jeff and Gail’s, Jeff wanted to play a game before going to bed. Gail and Mae challenged Jeff and I to a game of Rook and though it was close Jeff and I won. I made this entry before we went to bed. Mae still isn’t feeling very well.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Layton, Utah
We slept in until after 6AM when we started up. It was almost 8AM when I got up. After reading my scriptures and having my morning prayers I wanted to go to the Temple. As Jeff didn’t go in until late I stayed to be with him. For breakfast we had hot cakes. I went over to Good Earth and bought some fresh ground almond butter. It was really good and the price was ok but it is made out of almond chips and not whole almonds. Mae, Gail, Jeff and I played a game of Settlers which Mae won beating me by one move. This was Mae’s first time at winning this game. I took our truss papers back up to David’s and put them into our safe that is there. David is feeling some better this morning but I didn’t go up to his room to see them because of the colds we have all had at Jeff’s. I am sorry to say that I didn’t make it to the Temple. This afternoon Mae and I watched the show “Eight Below” with Benji and Rachael. We then had dinner and went to the movie “Toy Story 3” with Jeff and Gail. Gail’s mother, sister and sister-in-law also met us there. It was a cute show for little children. After the show more of Gail’s family met at a ice cream store so Mae and I went to a store and bought some fruit and came back and ate our fruit with them. I had started this entry earlier and finished it before going to bed.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Tooele, Utah
I got up this morning and showered and then went to the Bountiful Temple. I really enjoyed the session but missed not having Mae with me. She is still not feeling the best. It was 11:30AM when I returned home. I finished packing up as Mae had done most of the packing while I was at the Temple. We played a game of Settlers with Jeff but ran out of time so called the game and I won by 1 point. We stopped at Bob and Carroll’s and they had the two apple pies baked for us and ready for us to take. We came out to Sandi and Nick’s. We helped them prepare for a 50th Birthday Party for Nike. They had quite a few guests that came. Mae and I especially enjoyed visiting with Gary and Sandra McClusky and _____________________. After the party ended and we got things gathered up, Chelci, Steve, Nathan, Sandi, Nick, Mae and I set in the gazebo and visited. It has been a very enjoyable evening. Before the party started Mae and I started watching the show Johnny Lingo 2 but was unable to see the last of it so after the party we watched the ending. Sandi and Nick gave up their bedroom for us to use tonight.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Las Vegas, Nevada
We had breakfast wi Sandi and Nick and then left for Mike’s. Neither Mae nor I really felt the best so we called Mike and asked if they wanted us to stop and take the chance of getting them sick. They felt that although they would like to see us they didn’t want to chance it. We stopped to get gas and changed into our Sunday dress and went to Sacrament meeting at the Broadway Ward in Tooele. We really enjoyed the meeting and appreciated being able to partake of the Sacrament. We drove to Las Vegas where we stayed at Sam Town. We did go down and watch the water show and I estimated that the height of the mountain room is over 100 feet. When we got to our room we tried to find something on TV but there wasn’t anything worth watching.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Shafter, California
We enjoyed sleeping in and didn’t check out until 11:30AM. After getting to the car Mae wanted to return to the mountain room and take some pictures. I stayed at the car and caught up my journal. This gave Mae time to get her pictures. We drove on from Las Vegas to Bakersfield California with only one rest stop. I drove the first half and Mae drove on into Bakersfield. We stopped at the Sizzler in Bakersfield and ate dinner. It was 6:45PM when we got home. Gail called us about the time we were leaving Las Vegas to tell us how much they enjoyed having us there. She said that as she came home after taking Benji to swimming lessons, Benji said, “I sure miss Grandma and Grandpa.” We did enjoy being with them. We were tired and ready to quite but got things brought into the house and Mae got most everything put away.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Shafter, California
I woke at 2:30AM and was up almost a ½ hr not being able to go to sleep. I got up and looked for my robe or the light blanket to put over me while I watched something on the TV. I couldn’t find either and in the process I woke Mae. I took some aspirins and went to sleep. The alarm was set for 6:30AM but after turning it off I fell back to sleep and it was after 7 when I woke. Mae prepared my breakfast and lunch and I went over to the Kimberlina shop and helped Elder Shaw with some repairs on the house there. We worked until 4PM. I came home and showered and cleaned up. We then went over to the Shaw’s for dinner and enjoyed visiting with them. It was 9PM when we got back home. I filled in this journal entry before we went to bed. I have been dizzy part of the day and am quite dizzy this evening.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Shafter, California
Neither Mae nor I feel really good this morning. We got up and had breakfast and then went into Dr. Moon for another check-up. Dr. Moon said that everything was good and I could go back to work. I asked him about the dizziness that I am experiencing. He said that it is not related to the operation and that we should look into it. He is ordering a cat scan to be taken and told us that we would follow up with Dr. Hudson. We also had to go to the laboratory to get a blood test. After leaving the medical center we searched for a notary to get the letter signed for Citi Bank. We finally went to UPS where they notarized my signature and then faxed the letter to Citi Bank. We next went to T-Mobil and got my new cel phone switched and returned the loaner phone. We went to Lassens to get some bread but also got some cold cereal as it was on sale. After getting home I took a short nap and then we met Lee and the Shaw’s and Lee showed us the harvesting of the almonds. It was very interesting. We took several pictures and notes of the operation. Before returning home I washed my pickup at the Kimberlina shop and got two bottles of drinking water. Mae soon had dinner ready when I got home. We watched a movie, “Rooster Cogburn” starring John Wayne. That is still a good movie. I down loaded the pictures we took today to our computer and entered this journal entry before we went to bed.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Shafter, California
I got over to the Kimberlina shop home at 8AM and Elder Shaw was already working. I am still dizzy when I bend over or tip my head but I have been able to work all day. We removed the carpeting and pad from the dining room area, hall way and living room. The flooring is not in very good shape. The roofers worked on the roof most of the morning. The plumbers removed the toilet and shower / tub in preparation of replacing them. We found that someone has replaced several areas of water line mixing galvanized pipe with copper pipe making direct connections with the two metals, which does not work. Hector sent his crew over but when we found this problem he came over. I spent some time visiting with him. He had his men stop back this afternoon and we went over the situation. We agreed that the waterlines need to be completely replaced but that decision has to come from Lee. I called Lee and he stopped be and we again looked at the problem. He will call Hector and then take the problem to Merrill for his decision. It was almost 5PM when Elder Shaw and I finished for the day and went home. I was really tired when I got home. Mae had called to see how David was doing. He is doing quite a bit better than the other day. Mae told David that I was still dizzy and that my blood pressure was low. David said that that could cause my problem. He will do some more research on it and get back to us. This evening we called and talked to Shellie but Garrett was still at school. We wanted to wish him a Happy Birthday but did enjoy visiting with Shellie. After dinner I was just tired out so we watched a JAG show and then called and did get to visit with Garrett. He sure sounds good. I wish we could be at his Ward when he gives his report Sunday. After thinking about my blood pressure and dizziness situation I told Mae that if in the testing the medical people should suggest that I have a pace maker installed, that my decision is still the same and that is NO. After showering and shaving I entered today’s journal entry.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Shafter, California
Elder Shaw and I worked all day on the Kimberlina Shop home removing the bathroom flooring to the floor joist, painting, deciding on how much of the water pipes need to be replaced and how to do it and repairing some of the flooring that has been insect damaged. It looks like the damage was caused by termites. When I talked to Lee about it he said that they had to have the home treated for termites about a year ago and they hadn’t seen signs since. Mae called me just before 4PM and wanted me to stop at the plant and purchase some nuts which I said that I would but I then got involved with ending the day and forgot to go to the plant. Mae has been busy all day. She and Sister Shaw went to Bakersfield for supplies for a special management seminar meeting. We will help prepare lunch Monday at noon and dinner Tuesday evening. This evening we watched a Big Valley and a JAG series before going to bed.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Shafter, California
I didn’t feel very good this morning so didn’t seem to get much done. My blood pressure seems low and my dizziness is worse today. Mae and I each spent some time on the computer today. I mainly just got upset with it. After lunch Mae went with me and we went into Bakersfield. We stopped at a material store and bought some blanket kits that Mae wanted so she can make them for the grandchildren for their birthdays. We then went to Home Depot and bought some materials for the Kimberlina shop home. We had to stop at Lowe’s for a sheet of ½ inch underlayment. I suggested that we stop for something to eat and so we stopped at a KFC for chicken. After getting home we went for a walk so that we could take some pictures of some cotton plants and some black eyed bean plants. We enjoyed walking and visiting together. When we got home I caught up my journal entry. We then watched a movie on DVD before going to bed.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Shafter, California
I didn’t feel well so slept in until 8AM. We went to church and enjoyed Sacrament meeting. We had two other Sisters help us with the nursery and we really needed it. We were both very tired by the time parents came for their children. I was too dizzy to drive today. After getting home we got some dinner then both of us took a nap. This afternoon Mae worked on the write up about the harvest. I called and visited with David. He is feeling quite a bit better and is walking without crouches now. We played some rummy and then went for a walk. After returning Mae called and visited with Jeff. They have been to a family reunion and had just returned home and are trying to get children to bed and they are beat. Georgia called and visited with Mae. Before going to bed we finished our game of Rook and Mae won.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Shafter, California
I woke about 1AM and Mae was not in bed with me. When I got up Mae was at the computer working on the write-up of the harvest that Lee had taken us out to see. She hadn’t been able to sleep partly because they are spraying the Pistachios again and the sprayers are very noisy. I got her to come back to bed and when I again woke at 5:15AM I shut the door so that the light would not wake Mae. I got myself off to work. I went to the plant and got some tools and the compressor and then went to the Kimberlina shop home. Elder Shaw and I worked on the bathroom flooring, moving the light switch to the opposite side of the door way and then we removed the pocket door and added framing so we can install a standard door. At 11AM we went to the Kimberlina bowery where we started the fire in the grill. Sister Shaw and Sister Browning also met us there, as well as Lee and we worked together setting up tables and putting covering on them, setting out food and grilled hamburgers. At noon we had 40 men that are in a management training seminar come for lunch. They were there for about an hour for lunch and then continued their training program. We were another hour cleaning up before we got back to work. I went over after work to help Elder Shaw get their propane tanks refilled but a gasket was missing from the fill nozzle. They will have to get the tanks filled at a station in Shafter. I came home and showered and shaved. Mae and I met Elder and Sister Shaw in Shafter at the China Cuisine Restaurant where we had dinner. It was Elder Shaw’s Birthday so we celebrated it with them. After eating Ken and Vivian stopped at a station and got propane before coming to our place for desert. We are sure enjoying serving with them. We were tired and ready for bed this evening.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Shafter, California
I woke early but went back to bed and cuddled with Mae. She is sure special. I feel better today than I have for a long time. Elder Shaw and I again worked on the Kimberlina Shop home. We still have quite a lot to do on it yet. We quit, cleaned up and then went to the pavilion. Lee already had the fire going in the grill. Mae and Vivian soon came and we all worked together getting a dinner ready for the management seminar. Tonight there were several that also brought their wife’s and children. We were ready to serve dinner at 6:30PM. It was after 8:30PM when we finished cleaning up and got home. I entered this journal entry and we soon went to bed very tired. Before Mae came over to help with the dinner she had gone to the nursing home and then to the Riverside Elementary and put and application in to help as an assistant. She stipulated that her calling as a missionary had to take preference.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Shafter, California
I woke at 4:30AM and realized that I should not have put any sheetrock on the tub area at the Kimberlina Shop home. I couldn’t go back to sleep so got up and got my own breakfast. Mae got up just as I was finishing my breakfast. She made me a lunch and I left for The Home Depot in Delano. I decided to stop at the plant and leave the washer and dryer set that I had in the back of my pickup there. I went on to the Home Depot and bought some sheetrock and underlayment and then returned to the Kimberlina Shop home. Elder Shaw and I worked there all day and finished up about 5PM. Mae had dinner about ready when I got home. I then showered and shaved. We watched another JAG series. I entered this entry and played a game of solitary and a game of Harts before we went to bed.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Shafter, California
Mae got my breakfast for me. I left a little early and got to work at 7:30AM. We got started on the repairs. At 8:45AM Mae came and got me and we went to the plant where we met with Merrill Dibble in his office. He just wanted to meet with us to see how we are doing. He would like to do this on a monthly schedule when he is available. We just visited for almost an hour. To show his appreciation for the work we are doing and the example we are he gave us a large bag of almonds and a bag of pistachios. For our help with the lunching and dinner for the training meetings Carman had Lee give us some chocolate covered almonds, some chocolate covered prunes and a box of See’s candy. This evening we tried the chocolate almonds and prunes and both were very good. I worked until 5PM this afternoon and came home very tired. Today we received two special E-mails, one from Tonie, Leah and Kenneth Garison and one from President Brimhall. It was so good to hear from Tonie as it has been so long since we have heard anything from or about them. They are in the United Kingdom. Hopefully we can again establish contact with them. President Brimhall let us know that he will be in Bakersfield on September the 18th at the Bakersfield East Stake Center. When I got home Mae had dinner about ready and while we ate we watched a Netflex movie, “Mrs. Miniver” a movie of the families in England during the war with Germany in 1939. It was really a moving story. I filled in this entry and then took a shower before going to bed. I need to just add, “That I sure love my sweet wife!”
Friday, August 27, 2010
Shafter, California
We got up at 5:45AM although I would have preferred to sleep longer. When I first got to work I took the quilting frames that Mae got from the Ward, to Lee’s shop and there did some repairing and strengthening of them. Elder Shaw and I worked the day on the Kimberlina Shop home getting quite a lot accomplished. Sister Shaw stopped at the home and I gave her the quilting frames. She went to our home where she and Mae sewed a quilt. I got home quite tired about 5:30PM. Mae soon had dinner ready and then we watched the show “Rio Bravo” before going to bed.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Shafter, California
We got up at 6:30AM. I gave Mae a hair cut this morning. We took showers and I prepared breakfast while Mae put her hair up. It was 9:30AM before we got away to Fresno. We arrived at Roy and Linda’s at 11AM and hurried and changed clothes. We attended the Fresno Temple with Roy and Linda. It was a very enjoyable session and I again gained some answers to questions concerning the Temple session. After the Temple we went out to the Home Town Buffet for lunch. After lunch, we went back to Roy and Linda’s. Roy and I got into their hot tub although the water wasn’t really very hot today. It was 6:45PM before we left for home. As we drove this morning Mae read the Church News and as we returned she read from the book “Seven Years in Hanoi”. That really gives you an appreciation for the blessings that we have. After unpacking I caught my journal up to date. We watched a “Big Valley” episode before going to bed at 10:30PM.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Shafter, California
I would like to have slept in but we were up early to get to church in time. As it was we were there long before choir practice and had time to set the nursery room up. Kim and Lee Brown were the speakers for Sacrament meeting and both did very well on the subject of Tithing. Nursery went very well today. We did have two Spanish sisters help us and Elder and Sister Shaw also helped us. Today we took the children outside for a walk. We have tried using the rope in the room but just wasn’t sure just how well it would work when we took them outside. It worked very well. After the block meeting was over the activity committee held a “linger longer” which was a pot luck lunch. It went quite well and does give Ward members time to be together in an informal gathering. After leaving the Church Mae and I stopped by Manuel Macias’s to make a Home Teaching visit but no one was home. We came home and had some lunch and then took a nap. We watched a DVD on the Life of President Tomas S. Monson “On the Lord’s Errand” that is very good. We called Jeff and David, and visited with each for a few minutes. Georgia called us to let us know that Aunt Beth died yesterday. Her funeral will be held on Saturday. We are sure glad that we were able to visit with her while we were in Utah two weeks ago. It is sure a blessing for her to be able to go. We received a e-mail from Leah Gerritsen. We are sure glad that we have been able to reestablish contact with them.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Shafter, California
Mae got up with me and got my breakfast and lunch ready for me. Elder Shaw and I worked on the Kimberlina Shop home for a while. I was informed that my truck was going to be sold and that I have another brown Ford assigned to me. My truck has 150,000 miles on it and the Ford has 100,000 miles on it. It really doesn’t matter to me. It took a little while to transfer the tools from one to the other. This afternoon we started work on the home that Stacy and Jolynn Shaw had lived in. Mae had dinner ready for me by the time I showered and shaved. She also went Home teaching with me to Brother Manuel Macias. After visiting with him we went shopping for a few items and K-Mart. I filled out this entry while Mae prepared my lunch for tomorrow. We soon went to bed but it was still close to 10PM before we got to bed.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Shafter, California
I woke at 4AM and couldn’t get back to sleep without dreaming that the alarm was going off and I would wake back up. Finally it went off and then I didn’t want to get up. Mae got up with me and got my breakfast and lunch. Bob called to visit for a few minutes. He said that the Doctor checked Carroll and said that she does not have Alzheimer’s but does have anxiety and he would like her to see another Doctor but Bob doesn’t think she will. I worked on the Kimberlina Shop home and then went over to the Kimberlina housing where Elder Shaw and I worked all day on demo-ing it. At 4PM Lee wanted me to follow him to a lock smith in Bakersfield to get a new lock put on my tool box. After getting that repaired I stopped at a Sub-Way and got sandwich before going to Mike’s where I checked on what we would need to put an electrical outlet for their dryer. It was 8PM when I got home. After taking a bath and shaving Mae and I split the last half of the sub-way sandwich. I entered this journal entry while Mae prepared my lunch for tomorrow. I am sure tired tonight.


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Who is the second conflicted minister?
by New Zealand National PartyToday’s extraordinary performance by David Parker and Jacinda Ardern in Parliament raises even more questions about NZ First’s links to a shady Provincial Growth Fund application, National’s Regional Development spokesperson Chris Bishop says.
“Yesterday in Question Time, Winston Peters talked about ‘both’ ministers declaring a conflict of interest in Future Forest Product Limited’s bid for $15 million of PGF funding.
“We know Shane Jones was one of them, but who was the other minister and why is the Prime Minister and the Associate Minister of Finance not providing straight answers?
“The Prime Minister was asked directly today ‘were there other ministers or under-secretaries who declared a conflict of interest in the matter being discussed?’ and she utterly failed to answer the question.
“Multiple questions still hang over the Future Forest Products Limited application. While Shane Jones declared a conflict in October after returning from holiday, why did it take him so long to do this when the application began in March?
“When was Mr Jones first aware of the application? What involvement did he have in the application while it was before the Provincial Development Unit?
“The Provincial Growth Fund is $3 billion worth of taxpayers’ money, so it’s right for questions to be asked about the probity of the process, and right for the Prime Minister and her Government to give the public some direct answers.”


OPEN console to find the log
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RESUME FOLDER PATH
Enter the path for the resume folder.
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Please note that is required that the resumes be in '.pdf' as this format is expected during processing.
Folder Path
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Grid System
Our grid system is based on the Bootstrap grid and is composed of 12 columns with a gutter width of 30px.
Grid Sizes
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This is as simple a neural network I can think of. 2 inputs and xOR decision and on output. An xOr decision means:
off output if neither input is on or both inputs are on. On output if either of the inputs are on but the other one has to be off
0, 0 = 0
1, 0 = 1
0, 1 = 1
1, 1 = 0
Click LearnXOR() then select which sets of inputs you want to test. this is fairly complex but many Neural Networks will have a similar structure
Tensorflowjs xOr Neural Network.
Click the button to train the network. Pull down the select box to test
Training


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These checks relate to DLL Hijacking
Implicit Linking
Dependency Walker (depends.exe)
Dumpbin
dumpbin.exe /dependents <executable_file>
Explicit Linking
Rattler (sensepost)
Process Monitor (sysinternals)
Metasploit: exploit/windows/local/ikeext_service
PowerSploit: - Find-PathDLLHijack
- Find-ProcessDLLHijack
Write-HijackDLL
Others:
DLL_Hijack_Detect (adamkramer)
Siofra
HDMoore's DLL Hijack Audit Kit
SecurityXPloded DLL Hijack Auditor
Sxstrace.exe (builtin)
sxstrace trace -logfile:tracefile.etl
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Use built-in icacls to enumerate permissions of directories


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ESL Image uses entire available width and occupies the height according to image aspect ratio. No inner image, css background is used to render the image. No inner image, image is rendered by background image. ESL Image has no own size. Can be used with img-container classes Example: As background-image is used to render image in cover mode we can control image cropping options
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image source and state. Origin mode behaves similarly to the fit mode but sets esl-image size according to inner image
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Class AMT_Service
Used in features: Intel(R) ME defined Classes
CIM_ManagedElement
CIM_ManagedSystemElement
CIM_LogicalElement
CIM_EnabledLogicalElement
CIM_Service
AMT_Service
class AMT_Service
- extends CIM_Service
General Information:
A class providing access to Intel(R) AMT Features configuration, such as KVM and IDE-Redirect
Qualifiers:
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Version=0.0.1
LOCALE=0x409
dynamic
provider=IntelMEProv
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Supported Fields Summary |
string |
Name
The Name property uniquely identifies the Service and provides an indication of the functionality that is managed . . .
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string |
CreationClassName
CreationClassName indicates the name of the class or the subclass that is used in the creation of an instance . . .
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string |
SystemName
The Name of the scoping System.
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string |
SystemCreationClassName
The CreationClassName of the scoping System.
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Methods Summary |
uint32 |
isWebUIEnabled(enabled)
Indicates whether the WebUI capability is currently enabled
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uint32 |
getSOLState(hardEnabled, softEnabled, active)
Indicates whether SOL is currently enabled / active
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uint32 |
getIDERState(hardEnabled, softEnabled, active)
Indicates whether IDER is currently enabled / active
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uint32 |
getKVMState(hardEnabled, softEnabled, active)
Indicates whether KVM is currently enabled / active
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uint32 |
TerminateKVMSession()
Terminates KVM session
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uint32 |
setSpriteZoom(zoom)
Allows user to specify Sprite zoom level
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uint32 |
setSpriteLocale(locale)
Allows user to specify Sprite locale
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Get(Instance)
Gets the representation of the instance
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Enumerate()
Enumerates the instances of this class
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Name
public string Name
-
General Information:
The Name property uniquely identifies the Service and provides an indication of the functionality that is managed. This functionality is described in more detail in the Description property of the object.
Qualifiers:
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Key
Override=Name
MaxLen=256
CreationClassName
public string CreationClassName
-
General Information:
CreationClassName indicates the name of the class or the subclass that is used in the creation of an instance. When used with the other key properties of this class, this property allows all instances of this class and its subclasses to be uniquely identified.
Qualifiers:
-------------
Key
MaxLen=256
SystemName
public string SystemName
-
General Information:
The Name of the scoping System.
Qualifiers:
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Key
MaxLen=256
Propagated=CIM_System.Name
SystemCreationClassName
public string SystemCreationClassName
-
General Information:
The CreationClassName of the scoping System.
Qualifiers:
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Key
MaxLen=256
Propagated=CIM_System.CreationClassName
isWebUIEnabled
public uint32 isWebUIEnabled([OUT]boolean enabled)
-
Permission Information:
No permissions defined
General Information:
Indicates whether the WebUI capability is currently enabled
Qualifiers:
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static
implemented
Parameters:
--------------
- enabled
- General Information:
Indicates whether the WebUI capability is currently enabled
Qualifiers:
-------------
OUT
getSOLState
public uint32 getSOLState([OUT]UINT32 hardEnabled, [OUT]UINT32 softEnabled, [OUT]boolean active)
-
Permission Information:
No permissions defined
General Information:
Indicates whether SOL is currently enabled / active
Qualifiers:
-------------
static
implemented
Parameters:
--------------
- hardEnabled
- General Information:
Indicates whether SOL is enabled by MEBX
Qualifiers:
-------------
OUT
ValueMap={0, 1, 2}
Values={Enabled, Disabled, UNKNOWN}
- softEnabled
- General Information:
Indicates whether SOL is enabled by WS-Management interface (using AMT_RedirectionService class)
Qualifiers:
-------------
OUT
ValueMap={0, 1, 2}
Values={Enabled, Disabled, UNKNOWN}
- active
- General Information:
Indicates whether SOL session is currently open
Qualifiers:
-------------
OUT
getIDERState
public uint32 getIDERState([OUT]UINT32 hardEnabled, [OUT]UINT32 softEnabled, [OUT]boolean active)
-
Permission Information:
No permissions defined
General Information:
Indicates whether IDER is currently enabled / active
Qualifiers:
-------------
static
implemented
Parameters:
--------------
- hardEnabled
- General Information:
Indicates whether IDER is enabled by MEBX
Qualifiers:
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OUT
ValueMap={0, 1, 2}
Values={Enabled, Disabled, UNKNOWN}
- softEnabled
- General Information:
Indicates whether IDER is enabled by WS-Management interface (using AMT_RedirectionService class)
Qualifiers:
-------------
OUT
ValueMap={0, 1, 2}
Values={Enabled, Disabled, UNKNOWN}
- active
- General Information:
Indicates whether IDER session is currently open
Qualifiers:
-------------
OUT
getKVMState
public uint32 getKVMState([OUT]UINT32 hardEnabled, [OUT]UINT32 softEnabled, [OUT]boolean active)
-
Permission Information:
No permissions defined
General Information:
Indicates whether KVM is currently enabled / active
Qualifiers:
-------------
static
implemented
Parameters:
--------------
- hardEnabled
- General Information:
Indicates whether KVM is enabled by MEBX
Qualifiers:
-------------
OUT
ValueMap={0, 1, 2}
Values={Enabled, Disabled, UNKNOWN}
- softEnabled
- General Information:
Indicates whether KVM is enabled by WS-Management interface (using CIM_KVMRedirectionSAP class)
Qualifiers:
-------------
OUT
ValueMap={0, 1, 2}
Values={Enabled, Disabled, UNKNOWN}
- active
- General Information:
Indicates whether KVM session is currently open
Qualifiers:
-------------
OUT
TerminateKVMSession
public uint32 TerminateKVMSession()
-
Permission Information:
No permissions defined
General Information:
Terminates KVM session
Qualifiers:
-------------
static
implemented
setSpriteZoom
public uint32 setSpriteZoom([IN]uint8 zoom)
-
Permission Information:
No permissions defined
General Information:
Allows user to specify Sprite zoom level
Qualifiers:
-------------
static
implemented
Parameters:
--------------
- zoom
- General Information:
Zoom level
Qualifiers:
-------------
IN
ValueMap={1, 2}
Values={No zoom, Zoom x2}
setSpriteLocale
public uint32 setSpriteLocale([IN]uint8 locale)
-
Permission Information:
No permissions defined
General Information:
Allows user to specify Sprite locale
Qualifiers:
-------------
static
implemented
Parameters:
--------------
- locale
- General Information:
Sprite locale
Qualifiers:
-------------
IN
ValueMap={0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}
Values={English, French, German, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Brazil, Korean, Chinese Simplified}
Get
public Get([OUT]AMT_Service Instance)
-
Permission Information:
No permissions defined
General Information:
Gets the representation of the instance
Enumerate
public Enumerate()
-
Permission Information:
All users permitted to use method
General Information:
Enumerates the instances of this class


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Hello, world!
London is the capital city of England.
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Tokyo is the capital of Japan.


State of the Union Address
John F. Kennedy
11 January 1962
Mr. Vice President, my old colleague from Massachusetts and your new Speaker, John McCormack, Members of the 87th Congress, ladies and gentlemen:
This week we begin anew our joint and separate efforts to build the American future. But, sadly, we build without a man who linked a long past with the present and looked strongly to the future. "Mister Sam" Rayburn is gone. Neither this House nor the Nation is the same without him.
Members of the Congress, the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress. We are all trustees for the American people, custodians of the American heritage. It is my task to report the State of the Union--to improve it is the task of us all.
In the past year, I have traveled not only across our own land but to other lands-to the North and the South, and across the seas. And I have found--as I am sure you have, in your travels--that people everywhere, in spite of occasional disappointments, look to us--not to our wealth or power, but to the splendor of our ideals. For our Nation is commissioned by history to be either an observer of freedom's failure or the cause of its success. Our overriding obligation in the months ahead is to fulfill the world's hopes by fulfilling our own faith.
1. STRENGTHENING THE ECONOMY
That task must begin at home. For if we cannot fulfill our own ideals here, we cannot expect others to accept them. And when the youngest child alive today has grown to the cares of manhood, our position in the world will be determined first of all by what provisions we make today--for his education, his health, and his opportunities for a good home and a good job and a good life.
At home, we began the year in the valley of recession--we completed it on the high road of recovery and growth. With the help of new congressionally approved or administratively increased stimulants to our economy, the number of major surplus labor u areas has declined from 101 to 60; nonagricultural employment has increased by more than a million jobs; and the average factory work-week has risen to well over 40 hours. At year's end the economy which Mr. Khrushchev once called a "stumbling horse" was racing to new records in consumer spending, labor income, and industrial production.
We are gratified--but we are not satisfied. Too many unemployed are still looking for the blessings of prosperity- As those who leave our schools and farms demand new jobs, automation takes old jobs away. To expand our growth and job opportunities, I urge on the Congress three measures:
(1) First, the Manpower Training and Development Act, to stop the waste of able-bodied men and women who want to work, but whose only skill has been replaced by a machine, or moved with a mill, or shut down with a mine;
(2) Second, the Youth Employment Opportunities Act, to help train and place not only the one million young Americans who are both out of school and out of work, but the twenty-six million young Americans entering the labor market in this decade; and
(3) Third, the 8 percent tax credit for investment in machinery and equipment, which, combined with planned revisions of depreciation allowances, will spur our modernization, our growth, and our ability to compete abroad.
Moreover--pleasant as it may be to bask in the warmth of recovery--let us not forget that we have suffered three recessions in the last 7 years. The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining--by filling three basic gaps in our anti-recession protection. We need:
(1) First, presidential standby authority, subject to congressional veto,
to adjust personal income tax rates downward within a specified range and
time, to slow down an economic decline before it has dragged us all down;
(2) Second, presidential standby authority, upon a given rise in the rate of
unemployment, to accelerate Federal and federally-aided capital improvement
programs; and
(3) Third, a permanent strengthening of our unemployment compensation system--to maintain for our fellow citizens searching for a job who cannot find it, their purchasing power and their living standards without constant resort--as we have seen in recent years by the Congress and the administrations-to temporary supplements.
If we enact this six-part program, we can show the whole world that a free economy need not be an unstable economy--that a free system need not leave men unemployed--and that a free society is not only the most productive but the most stable form of organization yet fashioned by man.
II. FIGHTING INFLATION
But recession is only one enemy of a free economy--inflation is another. Last year, 1961, despite rising production and demand, consumer prices held almost steady--and wholesale prices declined. This is the best record of overall price stability of any comparable period of recovery since the end of World War II.
Inflation too often follows in the shadow of growth--while price stability is made easy by stagnation or controls. But we mean to maintain both stability and growth in a climate of freedom.
Our first line of defense against inflation is the good sense and public spirit of business and labor--keeping their total increases in wages and profits in step with productivity. There is no single statistical test to guide each company and each union. But I strongly urge them--for their country's interest, and for their own--to apply the test of the public interest to these transactions.
Within this same framework of growth and wage-price stability:
--This administration has helped keep our economy competitive by widening the access of small business to credit and Government contracts, and by stepping up the drive against monopoly, price-fixing, and racketeering;
--We will submit a Federal Pay Reform bill aimed at giving our classified, postal, and other employees new pay scales more comparable to those of private industry;
--We are holding the fiscal 1962 budget deficit far below the level incurred after the last recession in 1958; and, finally,
--I am submitting for fiscal 1963 a balanced Federal Budget.
This is a joint responsibility, requiring Congressional cooperation on appropriations, and on three sources of income in particular:
(1) First, an increase in postal rates, to end the postal deficit;
(2) Secondly, passage of the tax reforms previously urged, to remove unwarranted tax preferences, and to apply to dividends and to interest the same withholding requirements we have long applied to wages; and
(3) Third, extension of the present excise and corporation tax rates, except for those changes--which will be recommended in a message--affecting transportation.
III. GETTING AMERICA MOVING
But a stronger nation and economy require more than a balanced Budget. They require progress in those programs that spur our growth and fortify our strength.
CITIES
A strong America depends on its cities-America's glory, and sometimes America's shame. To substitute sunlight for congestion and progress for decay, we have stepped up existing urban renewal and housing programs, and launched new ones--redoubled the attack on water pollution--speeded aid to airports, hospitals, highways, and our declining mass transit systems--and secured new weapons to combat organized crime, racketeering, and youth delinquency, assisted by the coordinated and hard-hitting efforts of our investigative services: the FBI, the Internal Revenue, the Bureau of Narcotics, and many others. We shall need further anti-crime, mass transit, and transportation legislation--and new tools to fight air pollution. And with all this effort under way, both equity and commonsense require that our nation's urban areas--containing three-fourths of our population--sit as equals at the Cabinet table. I urge a new Department of Urban Affairs and Housing.
AGRICULTURE AND RESOURCES
A strong America also depends on its farms and natural resources. American farmers took heart in 1961--from a billion dollar rise in farm income--and from a hopeful start on reducing the farm surpluses. But we are still operating under a patchwork accumulation of old laws, which cost us $1 billion a year in CCC carrying charges alone, yet fail to halt rural poverty or boost farm earnings.
Our task is to master and turn to fully fruitful ends the magnificent productivity of our farms and farmers. The revolution on our own countryside stands in the sharpest contrast to the repeated farm failures of the Communist nations and is a source of pride to us all. Since 1950 our agricultural output per man-hour has actually doubled! Without new, realistic measures, it will someday swamp our farmers and our taxpayers in a national scandal or a farm depression.
I will, therefore, submit to the Congress a new comprehensive farm program--tailored to fit the use of our land and the supplies of each crop to the long-range needs of the sixties--and designed to prevent chaos in the sixties with a program of commonsense.
We also need for the sixties--if we are to bequeath our full national estate to our heirs--a new long-range conservation and recreation program--expansion of our superb national parks and forests--preservation of our authentic wilderness areas-new starts on water and power projects as our population steadily increases--and expanded REA generation and transmission loans.
CIVIL RIGHTS
But America stands for progress in human rights as well as economic affairs, and a strong America requires the assurance of full and equal rights to all its citizens, of any race or of any color. This administration has shown as never before how much could be done through the full use of Executive powers--through the enforcement of laws already passed by the Congress-through persuasion, negotiation, and litigation, to secure the constitutional rights of all: the right to vote, the right to travel Without hindrance across State lines, and the right to free public education.
I issued last March a comprehensive order to guarantee the right to equal employment opportunity in all Federal agencies and contractors. The Vice President's Committee thus created has done much, including the voluntary "Plans for progress" which, in all sections of the country, are achieving a quiet but striking success in opening up to all races new professional, supervisory, and other job opportunities.
But there is much more to be done--by the Executive, by the courts, and by the Congress. Among the bills now pending before you, on which the executive departments will comment in detail, are appropriate methods of strengthening these basic rights which have our full support. The right to vote, for example, should no longer be denied through such arbitrary devices on a local level, sometimes abused, such as literacy tests and poll taxes. As we approach the 100th anniversary, next January, of the Emancipation Proclamation, let the acts of every branch of the Government--and every citizen--portray that "righteousness does exalt a nation."
HEALTH AND WELFARE
Finally, a strong America cannot neglect the aspirations of its citizens--the welfare of the needy, the health care of the elderly, the education of the young. For we are not developing the Nation's wealth for its own sake. Wealth is the means--and people arc the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.
Last year, we improved the diet of needy people--provided more hot lunches and fresh milk to school children built more college dormitories--and, for the elderly, expanded private housing, nursing homes, heath services, and social security. But we have just begun.
To help those least fortunate of all, I am recommending a new public welfare program, stressing services instead of support, rehabilitation instead of relief, and training for useful work instead of prolonged dependency.
To relieve the critical shortage of doctors and dentists--and this is a matter which should concern us all--and expand research, I urge action to aid medical and dental colleges and scholarships and to establish new National Institutes of Health.
To take advantage of modern vaccination achievements, I am proposing a mass immunization program, aimed at the virtual elimination of such ancient enemies of our children as polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus.
To protect our consumers from the careless and the unscrupulous, I shall recommend improvements in the Food and Drug laws-strengthening inspection and standards, halting unsafe and worthless products, preventing misleading labels, and cracking down on the illicit sale of habit-forming drugs.
But in matters of health, no piece of unfinished business is more important or more urgent than the enactment under the social security system of health insurance for the aged.
For our older citizens have longer and more frequent illnesses, higher hospital and medical bills and too little income to pay them. Private health insurance helps very few--for its cost is high and its coverage limited. Public welfare cannot help those too proud to seek relief but hard-pressed to pay their own bills. Nor can their children or grandchildren always sacrifice their own health budgets to meet this constant drain.
Social security has long helped to meet the hardships of retirement, death, and disability. I now urge that its coverage be extended without further delay to provide health insurance for the elderly.
EDUCATION
Equally important to our strength is the quality of our education. Eight million adult Americans are classified as functionally illiterate. This is a disturbing figure--reflected in Selective Service rejection rates-reflected in welfare rolls and crime rates. And I shall recommend plans for a massive attack to end this adult illiteracy.
I shall also recommend bills to improve educational quality, to stimulate the arts, and, at the college level, to provide Federal loans for the construction of academic facilities and federally financed scholarships.
If this Nation is to grow in wisdom and strength, then every able high school graduate should have the opportunity to develop his talents. Yet nearly half lack either the funds or the facilities to attend college. Enrollments are going to double in our colleges in the short space of 10 years. The annual cost per student is skyrocketing to astronomical levels--now averaging $1,650 a year, although almost half of our families earn less than $5,000. They cannot afford such costs--but this Nation cannot afford to maintain its military power and neglect its brainpower.
But excellence in education must begin at the elementary level. I sent to the Congress last year a proposal for Federal aid to public school construction and teachers' salaries. I believe that bill, which passed the Senate and received House Committee approval, offered the minimum amount required by our needs and--in terms of across-the-board aid--the maximum scope permitted by our Constitution. I therefore see no reason to weaken or withdraw that bill: and I urge its passage at this session.
"Civilization," said H. G. Wells, "is a race between education and catastrophe." It is up to you in this Congress to determine the winner of that race.
These are not unrelated measures addressed to specific gaps or grievances in our national life. They are the pattern of our intentions and the foundation of our hopes. "I believe in democracy," said Woodrow Wilson, "because it releases the energy of every human being." The dynamic of democracy is the power and the purpose of the individual, and the policy of this administration is to give to the individual the opportunity to realize his own highest possibilities.
Our program is to open to all the opportunity for steady and productive employment, to remove from all the handicap of arbitrary or irrational exclusion, to offer to all the facilities for education and health and welfare, to make society the servant of the individual and the individual the source of progress, and thus to realize for all the full promise of American life.
IV. OUR GOALS ABROAD
All of these efforts at home give meaning to our efforts abroad. Since the close of the Second World War, a global civil war has divided and tormented mankind. But it is not our military might, or our higher standard of living, that has most distinguished us from our adversaries. It is our belief that the state is the servant of the citizen and not his master.
This basic clash of ideas and wills is but one of the forces reshaping our globe--swept as it is by the tides of hope and fear, by crises in the headlines today that become mere footnotes tomorrow. Both the successes and the setbacks of the past year remain on our agenda of unfinished business. For every apparent blessing contains the seeds of danger--every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope--and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
Yet our basic goal remains the same: a peaceful world community
of free and independent states--free to choose their own future and their
own system, so long as it does not threaten the freedom of others.
Some may choose forms and ways that we would not choose for ourselves--but
it is not for us that they are choosing. We can welcome diversity--the Communists
cannot. For we offer a world of choice--they offer the world of coercion. And
the way of the past shows dearly that freedom, not coercion, is the wave of
the future. At times our goal has been obscured by crisis or endangered by
conflict--but it draws sustenance from five basic sources of strength:
--the moral and physical strength of the United States;
--the united strength of the Atlantic Community;
--the regional strength of our Hemispheric relations;
--the creative strength of our efforts in the new and developing nations; and
--the peace-keeping strength of the United Nations.
V. OUR MILITARY STRENGTH
Our moral and physical strength begins at home as already discussed. But it includes our military strength as well. So long as fanaticism and fear brood over the affairs of men, we must arm to deter others from aggression.
In the past 12 months our military posture has steadily improved. We increased the previous defense budget by 15 percent--not in the expectation of war but for the preservation of peace. We more than doubled our acquisition rate of Polaris submarines--we doubled the production capacity for Minuteman missiles--and increased by 50 percent the number of manned bombers standing ready on a 15 minute alert. This year the combined force levels planned under our new Defense budget--including nearly three hundred additional Polaris and Minuteman missiles--have been precisely calculated to insure the continuing strength of our nuclear deterrent.
But our strength may be tested at many levels. We intend to have at all times the capacity to resist non-nuclear or limited attacks--as a complement to our nuclear capacity, not as a substitute. We have rejected any all-or-nothing posture which would leave no choice but inglorious retreat or unlimited retaliation.
Thus we have doubled the number of ready combat divisions in the Army's strategic reserve--increased our troops in Europe--built up the Marines--added new sealift and airlift capacity--modernized our weapons and ammunition--expanded our anti-guerrilla forces--and increased the active fleet by more than 70 vessels and our tactical air forces by nearly a dozen wings.
Because we needed to reach this higher long-term level of readiness more quickly, 155,000 members of the Reserve and National Guard were activated under the Act of this Congress. Some disruptions and distress were inevitable. But the overwhelming majority bear their burdens--and their Nation's burdens--with admirable and traditional devotion.
In the coming year, our reserve programs will be revised--two Army Divisions will, I hope, replace those Guard Divisions on duty--and substantial other increases will boost our Air Force fighter units, the procurement of equipment, and our continental defense and warning efforts. The Nation's first serious civil defense shelter program is under way, identifying, marking, and stocking 50 million spaces; and I urge your approval of Federal incentives for the construction of public fall-out shelters in schools and hospitals and similar centers.
VI. THE UNITED NATIONS
But arms alone are not enough to keep the peace--it must be kept by men. Our instrument and our hope is the United Nations-and I see little merit in the impatience of those who would abandon this imperfect world instrument because they dislike our imperfect world. For the troubles of a world organization merely reflect the troubles of the world itself. And if the organization is weakened, these troubles can only increase. We may not always agree with every detailed action taken by every officer of the United Nations, or with every voting majority. But as an institution, it should have in the future, as it has had in the past since its inception, no stronger or more faithful member than the United States of America.
In 1961 the peace-keeping strength of the United Nations was reinforced. And those who preferred or predicted its demise, envisioning a troika in the seat of Hammarskiold--or Red China inside the Assembly-have seen instead a new vigor, under a new Secretary General and a fully independent Secretariat. In making plans for a new forum and principles on disarmament for peace-keeping in outer space--for a decade of development effort--the UN fulfilled its Charter's lofty aim.
Eighteen months ago the tangled and turbulent Congo presented the UN with its gravest challenge. The prospect was one of chaos--or certain big-power confrontation, with all of its hazards and all of its risks, to us and to others. Today the hopes have improved for peaceful conciliation within a united Congo. This is the objective of our policy in this important area.
No policeman is universally popular-particularly when he uses his stick to restore law and order on his beat. Those members who are willing to contribute their votes and their views--but very little else--have created a serious deficit by refusing to pay their share of special UN assessments. Yet they do pay their annual assessments to retain their votes--and a new UN Bond issue, financing special operations for the next 18 months, is to be repaid with interest from these regular assessments. This is clearly in our interest. It will not only keep the UN solvent, but require all voting members to pay their fair share of its activities. Our share of special operations has long been much higher than our share of the annual assessment--and the bond issue will in effect reduce our disproportionate obligation, and for these reasons, I am urging Congress to approve our participation.
With the approval of this Congress, we have undertaken in the past year a great new effort in outer space. Our aim is not simply to be first on the moon, any more than Charles Lindbergh's real aim was to be the first to Paris. His aim was to develop the techniques of our own country and other countries in the field of air and the atmosphere, and our objective in making this effort, which we hope will place one of our citizens on the moon, is to develop in a new frontier of science, commerce and cooperation, the position of the United States and the Free World.
This Nation belongs among the first to explore it, and among the first--if not the first--we shall be. We are offering our know-how and our cooperation to the United Nations. Our satellites will soon be providing other nations with improved weather observations. And I shall soon send to the Congress a measure to govern the financing and operation of an International Communications Satellite system, in a manner consistent with the public interest and our foreign policy.
But peace in space will help us naught once peace on earth is gone. World order will be secured only when the whole world has laid down these weapons which seem to offer us present security but threaten the future survival of the human race. That armistice day seems very far away. The vast resources of this planet are being devoted more and more to the means of destroying, instead of enriching, human life.
But the world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution. Nor has mankind survived the tests and trials of thousands of years to surrender everything-including its existence--now. This Nation has the will and the faith to make a supreme effort to break the log jam on disarmament and nuclear tests--and we will persist until we prevail, until the rule of law has replaced the ever dangerous use of force.
VII. LATIN AMERICA
I turn now to a prospect of great promise: our Hemispheric relations. The Alliance for Progress is being rapidly transformed from proposal to program. Last month in Latin America I saw for myself the quickening of hope, the revival of confidence, the new trust in our country--among workers and farmers as well as diplomats. We have pledged our help in speeding their economic, educational, and social progress. The Latin American Republics have in turn pledged a new and strenuous effort of self-help and self-reform.
To support this historic undertaking, I am proposing--under the authority contained in the bills of the last session of the Congress--a special long-term Alliance for Progress fund of $3 billion. Combined with our Food for Peace, Export-Import Bank, and other resources, this will provide more than $1 billion a year in new support for the Alliance. In addition, we have increased twelve-fold our Spanish and Portuguese language broadcasting in Latin America, .and improved Hemispheric trade and defense. And while the blight of communism has been increasingly exposed and isolated in the Americas, liberty has scored a gain. The people of the Dominican Republic, with our firm encouragement and help, and those of our sister Republics of this Hemisphere are safely passing through the treacherous course from dictatorship through disorder towards democracy.
VIII. THE NEW AND DEVELOPING NATIONS
Our efforts to help other new or developing nations, and to strengthen their stand for freedom, have also made progress. A newly unified Agency for International Development is reorienting our foreign assistance to emphasize long-term development loans instead of grants, more economic aid instead of military, individual plans to meet the individual needs of the nations, and new standards on what they must do to marshal their own resources.
A newly conceived Peace Corps is winning friends and helping people in fourteen countries--supplying trained and dedicated young men and women, to give these new nations a hand in building a society, and a glimpse of the best that is in our country. If there is a problem here, it is that we cannot supply the spontaneous and mounting demand.
A newly-expanded Food for Peace Pro-. gram is feeding the hungry of many lands with the abundance of our productive farms--providing lunches for children in school, wages for economic development, relief for the victims of flood and famine, and a better diet for millions whose daily bread is their chief concern.
These programs help people; and, by helping people, they help freedom. The views of their governments may sometimes be very different from ours--but events in Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe teach us never to write off any nation as lost to the Communists- That is the lesson of our time. We support the independence of those newer or weaker states whose history, geography, economy or lack of power impels them to remain outside "entangling alliances"--as we did for more than a century. For the independence of nations is a bar to the Communists' "grand design"-it is the basis of our own.
In the past year, for example, we have urged a neutral and independent Laos-regained there a common policy with our major allies--and insisted that a cease-fire precede negotiations. While a workable formula for supervising its independence is still to be achieved, both the spread of war-which might have involved this country also--and a Communist occupation have thus far been prevented.
A satisfactory settlement in Laos would also help to achieve and safeguard the peace in Viet-Nam--where the foe is increasing his tactics of terror--where our own efforts have been stepped up--and where the local government has initiated new programs and reforms to broaden the base of resistance. The systematic aggression now bleeding that country is not a "war of liberation"--for Viet-Nam is already free. It is a war of attempted subjugation--and it will be resisted.
IX. THE ATLANTIC COMMUNITY
Finally, the united strength of the Atlantic Community has flourished in the last year under severe tests. NATO has increased both the number and the readiness of its air, ground, and naval units--both its nuclear and non-nuclear capabilities. Even greater efforts by all its members are still required. Nevertheless our unity of purpose and will has been, I believe, immeasurably strengthened.
The threat to the brave city of Berlin remains. In these last 6 months the Allies have made it unmistakably clear that our presence in Berlin, our free access thereto, and the freedom of two million West Berliners would not be surrendered either to force or through appeasement--and to maintain those rights and obligations, we are prepared to talk, when appropriate, and to fight, if necessary. Every member of NATO stands with us in a common commitment to preserve this symbol of free man's will to remain free.
I cannot now predict the course of future negotiations over Berlin. I can only say that we are sparing no honorable effort to find a peaceful and mutually acceptable resolution of this problem. I believe such a resolution can be found, and with it an improvement in our relations with the Soviet Union, if only the leaders in the Kremlin will recognize the basic rights and interests involved, and the interest of all mankind in peace.
But the Atlantic Community is no longer concerned with purely military aims. As its common undertakings grow at an ever-increasing pace, we are, and increasingly will be, partners in aid, trade, defense, diplomacy, and monetary affairs.
The emergence of the new Europe is being matched by the emergence of new ties across the Atlantic. It is a matter of undramatic daily cooperation in hundreds of workaday tasks: of currencies kept in effective relation, of development loans meshed together, of standardized weapons, and concerted diplomatic positions. The Atlantic Community grows, not like a volcanic mountain, by one mighty explosion, but like a coral reef, from the accumulating activity of all.
Thus, we in the free world are moving steadily toward unity and cooperation, in the teeth of that old Bolshevik prophecy, and at the very time when extraordinary rumbles of discord can be heard across the Iron Curtain. It is not free societies which bear within them the seeds of inevitable disunity.
X. OUR BALANCE OF PAYMENTS
On one special problem, of great concern to our friends, and to us, I am proud to give the Congress an encouraging report. Our efforts to safeguard the dollar are progressing. In the 11 months preceding last February 1, we suffered a net loss of nearly $2 billion in gold. In the 11 months that followed, the loss was just over half a billion dollars. And our deficit in our basic transactions with the rest of the world--trade, defense, foreign aid, and capital, excluding volatile short-term flows--has been reduced from $2 billion for 1960 to about one-third that amount for 1961. Speculative fever against the dollar is ending--and confidence in the dollar has been restored.
We did not--and could not--achieve these gains through import restrictions, troop withdrawals, exchange controls, dollar devaluation or choking off domestic recovery. We acted not in panic but in perspective. But the problem is not yet solved. Persistently large deficits would endanger our economic growth and our military and defense commitments abroad. Our goal must be a reasonable equilibrium in our balance of payments. With the cooperation of the Congress, business, labor, and our major allies, that goal can be reached.
We shall continue to attract foreign tourists and investments to our shores, to seek increased military purchases here by our allies, to maximize foreign aid procurement from American firms, to urge increased aid from other fortunate nations to the less fortunate, to seek tax laws which do not favor investment in other industrialized nations or tax havens, and to urge coordination of allied fiscal and monetary policies So as to discourage large and disturbing capital movements.
TRADE
Above all, if we are to pay for our commitments abroad, we must expand our exports. Our businessmen must be export conscious and export competitive. Our tax policies must spur modernization of our plants--our wage and price gains must be consistent with productivity to hold the line on prices--our export credit and promotion campaigns for American industries must continue to expand.
But the greatest challenge of all is posed by the growth of the European Common Market. Assuming the accession of the United Kingdom, there will arise across the Atlantic a trading partner behind a single external tariff similar to ours with an economy which nearly equals our own. Will we in this country adapt our thinking to these new prospects and patterns--or will we wait until events have passed us by?
This is the year to decide. The Reciprocal Trade Act is expiring. We need a new law--a wholly new approach--a bold new instrument of American trade policy. Our decision could well affect the unity of the West, the course of the Cold War, and the economic growth of our Nation for a generation to come.
If we move decisively, our factories and farms can increase their sales to their richest, fastest-growing market. Our exports will increase. Our balance of payments position will improve. And we will have forged across the Atlantic a trading partnership with vast resources for freedom.
If, on the other hand, we hang back in deference to local economic pressures, we will find ourselves cut off from our major allies. Industries--and I believe this is most vital--industries will move their plants and jobs and capital inside the walls of the Common Market, and jobs, therefore, will be lost here in the United States if they cannot otherwise compete for its consumers. Our farm surpluses--our balance of trade, as you all know, to Europe, the Common Market, in farm products, is nearly three or four to one in our favor, amounting to one of the best earners of dollars in our balance of payments structure, and without entrance to this Market, without the ability to enter it, our farm surpluses will pile up in the Middle West, tobacco in the South, and other commodities, which have gone through Western Europe for 15 years. Our balance of payments position will worsen. Our consumers, will lack a wider choice of goods at lower prices. And millions of American workers-whose jobs depend on the sale or the transportation or the distribution of exports or imports, or whose jobs will be endangered by the movement of our capital to Europe, or whose jobs can be maintained only in. an expanding economy--these millions of workers in your home States and mine will see their real interests sacrificed.
Members of the Congress: The United States did not rise to greatness by waiting for others to lead. This Nation is the world's foremost manufacturer, farmer, banker, consumer, and exporter. The Common Market is moving ahead at an economic growth rate twice ours. The Communist economic offensive is under way. The opportunity is ours--the initiative is up to us--and I believe that 1962 is the time.
To seize that initiative, I shall shortly send to the Congress a new five-year Trade Expansion Action, far-reaching in scope but designed with great care to make certain that its benefits to our people far outweigh any risks. The bill will permit the gradual elimination of tariffs here in the United States and in the Common Market on those items in which we together supply 80 percent of the world's trade--mostly items in which our own ability to compete is demonstrated by the fact that we sell abroad, in these items, substantially more than we import. This step will make it possible for our major industries to compete with their counterparts in Western Europe for access to European consumers.
On other goods the bill will permit a gradual reduction of duties up to 50 percent-permitting bargaining by major categories-and provide for appropriate and tested forms of assistance to firms and employees adjusting to import competition. We are not neglecting the safeguards provided by peril points, an escape clause, or the National Security Amendment. Nor are we abandoning our non-European friends or our traditional "most-favored nation" principle. On the contrary, the bill will provide new encouragement for their sale of tropical agricultural products, so important to our friends in Latin America, who have long depended upon the European market, who now find themselves faced with new challenges which we must join with them in overcoming.
Concessions, in this bargaining, must of course be reciprocal, not unilateral. The Common Market will not fulfill its own high promise unless its outside tariff walls are low. The dangers of restriction or timidity in our own policy have counterparts for our friends in Europe. For together we face a common challenge: to enlarge the prosperity of free men everywhere--to build in partnership a new trading community in which all free nations may gain from the productive energy of free competitive effort.
These various elements in our foreign policy lead, as I have said, to a single goal--the goal of a peaceful world of free and independent states. This is our guide for the present and our vision for the future--a free community of nations, independent but interdependent, uniting north and south, east and west, in one great family of man, outgrowing and transcending the hates and fears that rend our age.
We will not reach that goal today, or tomorrow. We may not reach it in our own lifetime. But the quest is the greatest adventure of our century. We sometimes chafe at the burden of our obligations, the complexity of our decisions, the agony of our choices. But there is no comfort or security for us in evasion, no solution in abdication, no relief in irresponsibility.
A year ago, in assuming the tasks of the Presidency, I said that few generations, in all history, had been granted the role of being the great defender of freedom in its hour of maximum danger. This is our good fortune; and I welcome it now as I did a year ago. For it is the fate of this generation-of you in the Congress and of me as President--to live with a struggle we did not start, in a world we did not make. But the pressures of life are not always distributed by choice. And while no nation has ever faced such a challenge, no nation has ever been so ready to seize the burden and the glory of freedom.
And in this high endeavor, may God watch over the United States of America.


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It looks back at you with the eyes of those you chose not to protect.
Now the tablet is before your eyes! Is it an illusion?
The sound of swordplay brings you back to reality.
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"At first glance, South Park’s Randy Marsh does not seem to have the makings of someone with financial savvy. Neither his job as a geologist nor his irrational tendency to over-react suggest we should trust his judgment with money at stake. And yet, there is something this man can teach us about personal finance. For all of his sporadic obsessions and fad chasing, Randy Marsh exhibits a sincere desire to discover and (just as important) act on good ideas and principles. More of these are explained below."