Friday, August 01, 2003
I didn’t sleep very well again last night. I will be glad to get a new bed, but am concerned as to the bed being the problem or not. Mae got up and made “Oh Henry Bars” for the Elder’s at District meeting this morning. I took the computer over to the Elder’s home and hooked it up to their land line and it worked ok, so it has to be something with our line. I called the phone repair before we left, but they called Marlyn while we were gone and she didn’t understand that the problem is in the inter-net service, so they thought they had the problem resolved. We attended the District meeting and as always enjoyed being with the Elders. After the meeting, we were talking to Elder Hayman and he said there are 132 known dialects here in the Philippines. Each dialect is a complete different language, much as the Indian tribes in the Americas. We got letters in the mail from Marge and Gary and from Lois (Porter) Falck. We stopped on the way home at the computer shop and pulled off e-mails from Jeff, Deanna and Georgia. There is one from Roy & Linda, but we couldn’t get it off. Marlyn told us that the phone co. had called and the phone was working, but as soon as I tried to use the inter-net, it quite again. I had to call Sister Clark, on our cell phone and ask her to call in to the phone repair again for me. Sister Clark called back and talked to Mae about speaking in Auxiliary meeting next Saturday. We also went over to President Parardan and ask Sister Parardan if she could arrange for a special musical number for the Auxiliary meeting. On the way back, we got gas in the car and another P300 of time for our cell phone. President Nieto stopped by to be sure that we got an invitation to the Munoz 2nd Branch Social. He said that they, as a Branch Presidency, had visited over 20 less active families, last night and invited them to the social. We took a nap before going to the social. The social was well planned and well attended. At the beginning President Michol dedicated a special song, that he sang, to Mae & I, he has a beautiful voice. They also had music, games, talent entertainment, relays and box lunches. We participated in the relays. President Nieto had bought special dinners for the Elder’s, Mae and I, but it was still food that was not packaged or in a bottle, therefore we could not eat it according to the Mission Rules. We left at that point not knowing how to handle the food situation. We came home feeling very confused as to right and wrong.
Saturday, August 02, 2003
I’m not sleeping very well and waking early. Marlyn Dator came to wash our car. We decided to go to Tarlac to look for a bed. We went to Saver’s Mart on the main highway in Tarlac. They carry a Sealy Posturepedic mattress with a pillow top. We worked out a price with them for the mattress, a box spring and a rocking chair for P19, 000. Elder Clark approved it so we put P4,000 down on it and asked them to deliver it on Tuesday, Aug. 5th. On the way home we realized that I was going to be late for my Saturday meeting with the District Presidency, so we text President Mercado. I arrived at the church about 2:15 PM, but no one else showed up. It is possible that they had tried to call me during the week, but couldn’t reach me due to the phone problems. I met with Brother Roger Silvia at 6:30 PM and we tried to get on a inter-net line, but couldn’t, having the same problem we are having at home. Roger did some checking and we think my modem is out, but Roger will have to take the computer to work to test it out. If it is, we might be able to get an exterior modem for the computer. I decided to adjust the head lights on the car, but I can’t find any adjustment. After dinner, I washed the dishes, and then entered my journal entry.
Sunday, August 03, 2003
Today is Fast Sunday and I didn’t sleep very well last night, so when I got back to sleep, Mae let me sleep in until 7 AM. We attended the Munoz 1st Branch block meetings, then came home and took a nap. We attended Sacrament meeting at Munoz 2nd Branch. They were 20 minutes late starting, but went over ˝ hour before closing. We met Brother Silvia and Brother Aglibia and accompanied them Home Teaching. We were able to visit four families. In the first home was 3 sisters, their mother was not there at the time. We had a nice visit with them and found that they have a sister who is serving a mission and will be home in November. Their father is not a member and stays on their farm all the time. The mother goes out most nights and stays with him, but it doesn’t sound like he sees the rest of the family much. Brother Silvia asked one of the girls if she would show us where other members lived, so two of them accompanied us. We then went across the street to see a lady, but she wasn’t home. Her mother was there, but she was not listed as a member. She told us that she was baptized in 1997. We had a nice visit with her. We next went to a home and as we entered, a boy probably in his 20s and the tatay (Father) got up from watching TV and went in the other room. They did not come back in. The nanay (mother) reminded us that Mae and I had met her before and then we remembered her from when we first came here, as we had visited this family with Elder Kendall and Elder Irorita. The nanay had a little boy there that was 2 or 3 years old, that she told us was her grandson. She is raising him because his father, her son, had been murdered. The boy’s mother had remarried and they didn’t want the baby of her former husband. The child does not know his mother.  He invited us to come to his home to visit him and his wife. After visiting a while with his mother, we went to the home just to the front of his parent’s home. I think this has been built since our original visit. It has only one room that might be seven feet square with just room enough for a small bed. There was an open area that was covered by the roof being extended an extra three feet, which was used for a kitchen and porch area. The bed was built of bamboo logs with a blanket on the logs for a mattress. This young couple has just been married for two months and she is a cute blushing bride. She is not a member, but he told us that she was going to take the lessons starting next week. I bore my testimony to her that if she would study and pray she could find out for herself the truth of what the missionaries were going to teach them. I then told them a little about the Temple and how they could be sealed as husband and wife for eternity. It was a very enjoyable evening. After getting home I called the Elders and told them that we had met their new investigator. They said her husband introduced her to them at church this morning and they didn’t know much else about her. I told them I thought they had a Golden Contact. We made soup and sandwiches for dinner. We then worked on the computer and I made my journal entry.
Monday, August 04, 2003
We went to Angeles today where Mae got her new teeth (four crowns). She is really pleased with them. I had my teeth cleaned and I talked to Dr. Rosales about my teeth.  She x-rayed my teeth to see if permanent bridges could be put in and she feels they can. Permanent Bridges would cost P32,000; Flexite removable would cost P20,000 and medal one piece would cost P15,000. We will think about it. When we got back to the mission office, we visited with President Brimhall for a few minutes before he had to leave. Sister Brimhall, Sister Clark and Mae then visited about the auxiliary training they will do next Saturday. Elder Clark and I visited a while. Elder and Sister Clark then went out to eat with us. After eating they let me off at the Indulgence Spa where I got a massage. Elder Clark picked me back up at 5:30 PM. Mae and I soon headed home, stopping to get a few groceries and a couple of sandwich coolers to carry our lunch in when we have to be gone during lunch. It was 9:30 PM when we got home.
Tuesday, August 05, 2003
Although my back felt so much better last night, I still woke at 3:30AM with a back ache. I had to set up the rest of the evening. We were busy on the computer all morning trying to be ready have it ready for Brother Roger Silvia to check out as to the modem problem. He came by at noon and took the computer to his work, but soon brought it back, unable to do much with it. I went down to the computer calf and sent our family letter and got an e-mail from Shellie. I also took some master copies, of hand outs, over to have them duplicated, then paid our telephone bill. This afternoon, our new bed and chair was delivered, we are excited about that. We worked the rest of the evening on the transcript for the presentation we are to put on tomorrow.
Wednesday, August 06, 2003
We slept much better last night although I did wake with a back ache about 4AM and lay in the lounge chair the rest of the night. My back wasn’t near as bad as it has been and the new chair was so nice to set in. We got every thing in the car and picked up Elders Barrett and Clam at 6:45AM. We got to Tarlac shortly after 8AM, so we went to McDonald’s and had breakfast. The District, Zone Leaders meeting started at 10AM. We tried to get the DVD, “Finding Faith in Christ” to play in our computer, but it wouldn’t recognize the disk. We think that the disk is in bad shape, for we got it to play another disk. As we got started into the meeting, I asked Mae where our scripts were and she only had hers. We couldn’t find mine script or the pamphlet “To the Home Teachers of the Church”. I pulled another script up that had the last two paragraphs of the talk, which are the only part of the pamphlet I read and copied that down. We made out with one script and it went well. We later found where Mae had laid the folder down with the other information in it. Oh well, it went ok. The meeting was very good with some good instructions given. We had 2 or 3 Elders ask about scheduling us for more presentations to the leaders in their areas. We stopped at a 7/11 store in Tarlac for a snack to eat on the way home. After getting home we fixed us something light for super and then watched the movie “Brigham” before going to bed.
Thursday, August 07, 2003
Elder Barrett called to see if they could come over and use our computer. We invited them for breakfast. After breakfast they gave us a Tagalog lesson, we then let them use the computer. They were all morning working on a booklet about the requirements for convert bartizans. Mae studied in preparation for her talks she is to give on Saturday. I did the dishes and then prepared lunch for all of us. After we ate, Mae went back to studding. The Elders went back to work on the computer. I did up those dishes and talked to President Clark. He wanted me to check as to the location of the meeting on Saturday. I called President Nuque to check on the location, and then called President Clark back. He was out of the office, so I left word with the Office Elders. When the Elders finished I took them to a copy store, and then I went to San Jose and bought some supplies and groceries. I went to a computer calf and pulled some e-mails. JaNae sent us five pictures of Dawson along with a letter. There was a nice letter from Scott, a note from Mike and a note from Kim. Sister Clark sent some information to Mae. This evening I warmed up dinner and did up the dishes. Mae worked until 9:45PM on the computer getting her talks. I set down and read some, but fell asleep. It has rained all day again today, as it did yesterday. When they call this the rainy season they are right, although we are told that this is less rain than normal.
Friday, August 08, 2003
We attended District meeting this morning. We enjoy these meeting and as always were very impressed with the Elders and the work they are doing. We are loosing Elder Park as he will be going home this next week. Elder Barrett will be the next to go home in about another 10 days, but he is still working hard as Zone Leader. We felt bad for Elder Hayman, as he just got a Dear John letter from his girl friend. I spent some time visiting with Elder Summerhaze about the problems he is having with the leadership in Rezal. We really get attached to these Young Men and feel for their problems and miss them when they are transferred or go home. Marlyn had dinner ready for us when we got home. I then went over to San Jose and bought some bed legs and put them on one of the Elders beds over there. One store had told me a week ago that she would sell me bed legs for P30 a set, but now that I didn’t buy our bed from her, she can’t sell them to me. I had to pay P280 for 1 set at another store. That still isn’t bad as it is about $5.00 per set. I got some copies made for Mae for her presentation tomorrow. I also went to the computer café and sent a short reply to Mike about extended warranty on our camera, one to Scott about the carpeting replacement in our house, and one to JaNae thanking her for the pictures of Dawson she sent us. We got a cute letter from Jeff, and I tried to send an e-mail to President Brimhall, but had trouble getting the computer to read the file. Mae has studied all afternoon and evening for tomorrow. It has rained on and off through the day today.
Saturday, August 09, 2003
It was raining quite hard when we got up and continued most of the morning. We left for Guimba 3rd Branch by 7:15 AM. We were the first to get to the church house, getting there just after 8 AM. We waited until 8:30 before the Branch President came. I helped Mae get set up, and then I found a room where I could work on the computer writing a letter to our family and to my Uncles and Aunts. Mae had a part to give on the District Relief Society program this morning. She also had a part to give on the District Leadership given this afternoon. The Priesthood also met this afternoon under the direction of the Mission Presidency. We followed after that with a District Presidency. When we got home we were tired and hungry. We fixed toast and tuna fish grave to eat, then this evening we watched the movie “Brigham” again. It was late before we got to bed but we enjoyed the chance to relax.
Sunday, August 10, 2003
We slept in, and then went to Sacrament meeting at Guimba 2nd Branch. President and Sister Clark were also there. After meeting, we put some chairs under the trees outside and ate our lunches. We enjoy being with the Clarks. We attended the Guimba 1st Branch Conference. The District was to have someone give a workshop, but no one was there when it was time for meetings to start, so the Branch President started anyway. I felt he was right. We had had an opening song, prayer and then the Branch President started a workshop of sort. He had the Sisters relate what they had gotten out of the training yesterday. About that time, the District leaders got there. President Cabuyaban turned the time over to President Nuque, who presented a lesson. We had a two hour Sacrament meeting which went well. When the Branch President had been concerned earlier, he had asked if President and Sister Clark, also Mae and I would plan on speaking as he wasn’t sure what the District was planning. When the District Presidency did show up, I relaxed thinking we were off the hook. That wasn’t the case for he still had us speak. We made our talks short so as to leave time for the District Presidency. President Clark said that he counted and there were twelve speakers. It was a very interesting day.
After the meeting, President Cabuyaban asked to see President Clark and me. He told us of a family who have gone less-active, but have children with a very rare disease called Muscular Aprathy (? On spelling). Two children have already died from this disease and two children still have it. He does not know what can be done for them. President Clark asked if Sister Browning and I would go with President Cabuyaban and the missionaries to visit this family and report back to him. I said we would and we went immediately with them to visit the family.
We found first that the family had moved to another location. The father was working so was not home. From what we could find out, the couple had 8 children; a daughter and a son that is married; two sons that at ages 14 and 9 died from the disease; two sons ages 13 and 11, who both still have the disease; and two younger boys whom the Doctors have checked and said that they do not have it. We assessed the situation and found that their house is adequate as to the standards here in the Philippines. They seem to have the basic needs of food and clothing. All of the children have been taken to Specialists in Manila, where they diagnosed this disease and only the four boys have it. These are the only known cases in the Philippines. The only treatment, as recommended by the Doctors, is to take them off all dairy products and to give them special vitamins. There is no known cure. We were shocked when we first saw the two children because they looked as if they were starving, they are so thin, just skin and bone. We were also surprised at their ages, for they look much younger. They have to have constant care, for they can not move around on their own as they are too weak. This also stops them from attending public school and the parents can not afford a private tutor. Both seem to be mentally alert and bright. The mother showed us some of the one son’s art work and he does very well. We took pictures with the boys and family and they were excited to be in them. The Catholic school has invited the parents to bring the two boys over to their school, on occasion, which they have done but, of course, they can’t participate in regular classroom activities because they have to be carried and helped with everything.
There is no immediate need for financial help, that we observed, but that could change suddenly if either were to catch even a cold, as they have no immune system and it could turn into a life threatening situation. I recommended to President Cabuyaban that he assign a good faithful Home Teacher and a good Visiting Teacher to check each week on the family, that he may be kept apprised of the situation. They could alternate weeks, but he should emphasize the importance of this special assignment. I also recommended that the Full Time Missionaries check regularly on this family when they are in the area. If there are any needs, President Cabuyaban should be immediately notified. He could appraise the needs and if he feels they warrant it, can call President Clark. I asked President Cabuyaban about schooling and he said there are two professional teachers, in the branch, which he would contact to see if they could volunteer some time to this effort. Sister Browning and I are going to take the Children Book of Mormon to the family this next week. We will also check on the family as we get the opportunity to do so.
When we go home we noticed that our grass had been cut very short. Marlyn told us that they do this, as if the grass gets long it will attract snakes. Elder Barrett says that they have a several types of snakes here in the Philippines, one is a small Cobra but it is very aggressive and will chase a person and is very poisonous. That has Mae worried now, as she hadn’t thought of snakes before this.
Monday, August 11, 2003
We got up and went walking this morning. It was a pretty morning and the sky was fairly clear. It has been so long since we have walked on a nice morning that I got a little sunburned. Mae didn’t feel the best this morning. We came back and ate breakfast. Marlin Dator came over and washed the car. Mae and I read the scriptures and both of us were so tired that we lay down to take a 15 minute nap and ended up sleeping for an hour. We then worked on a report for President Clark about the Family with the two boys with Muscular Aprathy. That took us most of the morning. Time went by fast and the next thing we know is Marlyn was calling us for dinner. Marlyn moped the bedroom floors with “Permethrin” and so we moved the computer out into the kitchen to be away from the odder. As I was working on the computer, I saw Marlyn run to get the clothes in. We went out to help her and as we got them in it started to rain and really came down. We were amazed that she could sense the storm coming in. I called the Toshiba repair service in Manila and found out that we would have to take our computer to them. They could check it out, and then order the parts from Singapore, which could take up to 3 months. We would then have to return the computer to them and it could take 3 to 4 day before we could go back to get it. I am not sure what we will do but that doesn’t sound acceptable to me. We worked on family letters and this evening we went to an inter-net café and got them off. We got a nice letter from Roy and Linda. Mae gave me a haircut this evening.
Tuesday, August 12, 2003
We got up and went walking this morning. We were busy trying to get organized a good part of the day. I upset Mae as we tried to find things and I say things wrong so often. Just as we were getting ready to eat lunch, two ladies and several children came to the house bagging. Mae gave them some crackers, but this really broke Mae up, wanting to help them but mission rules says we can’t. This afternoon we went grocery shopping. We did some visiting this evening. When we got home Mae got on the computer, while I got some super. Time seems to go so fast or else we are getting slower.
Wednesday, August 13, 2003
We went to Cabanatuan to a special missionary conference at which President Neuenswaner of the First Quorum of Seventies presided as he and his wife are touring the mission. We picked up the four Elders from Guimba at the town where the flags are, which is on the way to Cabanatuan. The four of them rode in the back seat, but said it was still better than the jeepnies. The conference was great and we sure enjoyed meeting President and sister Neuenswaner as well as being with President & Sister Brimhall and the Elders and Sisters. After the meeting, Mae and I found Bass Edwards computer shop to see if we could get an external modem for our computer. They didn’t have one that was compatible with our computer. We came home to find the power off. We found out later that the secondary power company had not been able to pay their monthly payment so the main power company cut off the power to five towns and we were one of them. We heard that the power would be off for 3 days. We used candles tonight and since we couldn’t read by candlestick very well, we decided to play “Rummy” and Mae beat me.
Thursday, August 14, 2003
We went walking this morning. As we went out the front gate we spoke to out neighbors across the street and he told us that the power had been shut off by the main supplier as our local company hadn’t paid the bill they owe. He pointed out that we have a lot of other things to be thankful for, so we will just have to except this. We had to admit that he is right. Some have told us that we could be with out electricity for weeks. Elder Barrett, Clam and Hayman came over for breakfast and to teach Tagalog. We found out that they have a hand pump that they can get water from, so I took several containers over to their place and filled them with water. We worked on some scheduling for a while, and then this afternoon we went to Risal where I worked with the Ward Clerk and the Elders there, to teach him how to do the Clerks job. On the way home we took some pictures of a man riding a caribou and leading two others. We also stopped in San Jose and bought some ice to put in the refrigerator, to help keep it cool, but when we got home we found that the power was back on. We were glad for that but did find out what we could do if the power goes out again. It is sure good to have power back.
Friday, August 15, 2003
I was up early with my back hurting. It took me a while to get back to sleep in the big chair. I had just got to sleep when Mae got up and that woke me again. We attended District leadership with the Elders and as always enjoyed that meeting. This is Elder Barrett’s last meeting with us as he will be going home on Wednesday. We stopped at the inter-net café and got an e-mail from Kin and some pictures from JaNae. We couldn’t bring up the pictures on those computers, so will have to wait to see them when we get our computer repaired. After getting home, we ate and then I tried to call the computer store in Cabanatuan. When I finally got through to the store they put me on hold and forgot me. I tried to take a nap, but between being upset and a fly bothering me, I couldn’t. I worked on a budget table to try so we can see how we are doing on our budget a little better. We did some planning to what we needed to do for leadership training this evening. I read quite a bit, from the Church Handbook of Instructions, as to the responsibilities of a Stake President. First, I was amazed at the great responsibility a Stake President has and 2nd I can not see how President Mercado can possibility have the time to do his calling with his job in Manila. Mae got most of a letter written to our family.
Saturday, August 16, 2003
I don’t know why I continue to have back pain after sleeping for 3 to 5 hours. The bed is very comfortable and seems to be great, but again this morning about 3AM I had to get up and set in the recliner. I was still tired so we didn’t go walking. Brother and Sister Dator came over about 7AM and washed our car. After breakfast we did some planning on what we could do for training. I called President Nuque to see if we were having District Presidency meeting today, and he said we were not. President Mercado has decided that we will hold meetings only twice a month. I was really surprised and concerned so after thinking about it, I called and talked to President Clark about it. He feels that I need to give President Mercado some training. I told him that I thought either he or President Brimhall should talk to him first. We decided that we should get together Monday and talk things over. I tried to call President Apoa about getting a copy of the World Wide Broadcast for Priesthood Leadership, but he did not have his phone on. I called Blas Edward’s in Cabanatuan and they said that they had a modem that would work on our computer. We drove there and bought it. We had to find an ATM at The Bank of the Philippines and draw some money out. We then went to the mall on the west end of Cabanatuan where we purchased some file boxes. We were tired when we got home, but I got the modem installed and working. After dinner, I cut Mae’s hair, and then we took our showers so Mae’s hair would dry after she put it up.
Sunday, August 17, 2003
I woke with my back really hurting this morning. It took some time to get it limbered up and then Mae had to massage it with the viborator for several minutes. We attended Munoz 1st Branch Sacrament meeting. Brother and Sister Silvia’s daughter, Karen, wanted to sit next to Mae during Sacrament meeting. I think we have an adopted granddaughter here. After Sacrament meeting Mae and I went over to San Jose Stake where we met with President Opoa, his counselors and a clerk and talked with them about doing some training. That went very well and they would like us back next Saturday to help with some auditing training. We were very surprised at that request, for we have never done auditing before. Oh well, I guess we will learn. We came home and took a short nap before going to the Munoz 2nd Branch’s block of meetings. President and Sister Clark were there and we enjoyed visiting with them for a few minutes before meetings. President Nuque told me that after I had called him yesterday and he had told me that we were not having a meeting, that President Mercado called him and said we needed to meet, but they couldn’t reach me. There is a special Training meeting, in Tarlac, next Saturday morning that is scheduled by President Brimhall for all District Presidencies in the mission. President Clark also confirmed that meeting. President and Sister Clark left to go back home after Priesthood and Relief Society.
After the block meetings, Mae and I met with Brother Romeo Tabalno and Brother Alvin Pilien and planned to go with them to visit their Home Teaching families. As we prepared to go, it started raining very hard. We were not sure just what to do as Brother Tabalno and Brother Pilien were planning on Brother Tabalno’s motor scooter as transportation. We know that they would be socked riding the scooter but the mission rules does not let us give anyone except missionaries rides in our car. We had a prayer and they decided they would ride the scooter anyway. As we left the church, the rain let up and completely quite while visiting the first family. Things worked out just fine. These are four families that President Gajonera wants us to visit and see if we can activate them. We had a nice visit with each of the families. It was 9PM when we got home. We got some dinner, and then I made my journal entry. We were late getting to bed again tonight.
Monday, August 18, 2003
We left early for Angeles that we might meet with President and Sister Clark, because of my concerns about the District Presidency no holding meeting very regular. As we drove we were quite relaxed and enjoyed several traffic problems. We stopped in Tarlac, at McDonalds for some breakfast. As we left, traffic began to backup. Because the oncoming lanes were empty, the traffic going our way soon took up the whole road. Only in the Philippines! It was a circus, but we were lucky for we were at the front of the mess as it narrowed down to one lane to get around a wreck. As we passed the traffic on the other side was already taking up just about the whole road and was backed up for almost a mile. I am sure it will take hours to clear that problem, mainly because of every one crowding the roads so bad. When we got to the mission home, we met with the Clarks and President and Sister Brimhall. It was amazing to me but President Brimhall already had a solution to the problems I am concerned with. I think he is amazing. We next went to the bank to draw out some money, and then went down to a shop that makes Christmas decorations and bought some ornaments. We went out to dinner with the Clark and a always really enjoyed it. We were late getting home but sure enjoyed the day.
Tuesday, August 19, 2003
I woke early with back pains and so slept in the chair. We had Elder Barrett, Elder Clam and Elder Hayman over for breakfast and a Tagalog lesson. Elder Barrett leaves to go home today. We have sure enjoyed him and will miss him. Mae worked all afternoon on the computer, while I ran some errorns. We watched the video The Other Side of Heaven” this evening, and then got some e-mails off. We had one from Becky, Shellie and Sandy Peterson. I did get a letter written to Keith and Kathleen Nelson this afternoon.
Wednesday, August 20, 2003
I slept most of the night in bed but did get up about 4:30 AM. Mae let me sleep until 6:30 AM, when I got up. We didn’t go walking this morning. I got a letter off to my family and worked on some pictures. I met with President Nuque this afternoon and we updated the District organization record. Mae worked on Tagalog quite a while. We went out this evening to visit the Galletes family, but couldn’t find their place in the dark and with it raining hard, so gave up. We will look for them tomorrow while it is light. We decided to visit the Sylvia family and take them the Book of Mormon stories for children. Roger has been home with back problems this week. It sounds like he needs a good chiropractor, but I don’t know if there is one here. He also asked for my advice on looking for a new job. I could only advise him to pray about it. It sounds like someone advised him not to pay or look at it as borrowing three months of tithing to hold him over. I advised him to pay his tithing and fast offerings and trust in the Lord. As we drove around through these homes I wondered if the shanty towns in the U. S. were as bad off as these, and these homes are the average people.
Thursday, August 21, 2003
We were late going walking as we massaged each others backs and feet first. I worked on filling capsules all morning. While I was doing that we went over our schedule and did some companion planning on the families we are working with. I called President Apoa to check on our change in days with the auditors. He said to plan on Friday at 6PM. He also said that they were just waiting on Area Presidency approval to combine the two Rizal Wards, but would like us to do all we can to get the Home Teaching and Visiting Teaching going. We went downtown this afternoon to get some LP gas, get copies of our driver’s licenses and drove around to find where the families live that we are trying to fellowship. This evening we visited the Galletes family and showed the video “Man’s Search for Happiness”. It went very well. We tried to order some ink cartridges on the inter-net but it wouldn’t let me use the Philippines zip code.
Friday, August 22, 2003
We were late getting to bed last night so slept in this morning. We attended District meeting and became acquainted with our new zone leader Elder Ragasa. President Mercado was at the chapel and as we visited with him for a few minutes, Mae mentioned that we got word that we could have members ride in our car when they are helping with missionary work. He immediately picked up on it and wondered about tomorrow. I told him I would call and check. I called President Clark and he felt as I do, that we would be out the direction, to take members to a meeting.
We received a Wedding Invitation, from Brother and Sister Craig Howe, for their daughter, Jocelyn’s, wedding to James C. Scott on Sept. 6th, 2003.
We went to San Jose after lunch and mailed some cards to our children and letters to Mae’s Aunts and Uncles. We also did some grocery shopping, while there.
This evening, just as we were getting ready to leave for an appointment, President Brimhall called me, just to thank me for the idea of how to follow up on assignments that are made in the various council meetings. I thought that was very special of him.
We met President Apoa at the San Jose Stake Center at 6PM, who took us to the other chapel in San Jose, to introduce us to his Auditing Committee. It is three sisters that have been given this responsibility. President Apoa told them that we were here to train them, however, as he introduced them to us, he said they were accountants by profession. We thought, Wow! How are we to train them? Mae told him we hadn’t had much experience with auditing, but we said, well, I have confidence in you that you can do it. With the Lord’s help, all things are possible, so we’ll do what we are asked to do and pray for guidance. He went on to praise us to them and told them he would be using us to train many of their various leaders. He said he hoped President Mercado wouldn’t be mad at him for using us so much, but he was planning to do so. President Apoa excused himself and said he had business at the stake center so he would leave us to do our training. We visited with them a few minutes and decided we need some information from the Stake, so we took them over to the Stake Center. President Apoa had left by then, but we were able to visit with the clerk and get the forms, codes and some of the other information that will be needed. We also made plans on where the committee should start and called it good for tonight. They will call us to help with the auditing when they get it scheduled with the bishops, ward clerks, stake president and stake financial clerk. After getting home, I prepared some materials for tomorrow, and then we played some games on the computer before going to bed. I also popped some pop corn. It as rained quite a bit today and this evening.
Saturday, August 23, 2003
I got up and let Mae sleep in. I had to go to a District Presidency Training in Tarlac. We had all four District Presidency and Executive Secretaries, except I am an assistant executive, there. The training went well. Before coming home I stopped at Saver Mart where we bought our bed and talked to them about getting 8 sets of bed legs for the Elders. Mae was working on the family letter when I got home. She read it to me before I took a nap, and then we went out visiting this evening. We visited the Santo’s and had a very nice visit and could feel the Spirit as we did. We were very excited for we had especially involved Brother Santo’s in asking us questions. We then went to the Dela Cruz family and even though the father wasn’t home we had a nice visit, although communication was more difficult as Sister Dela Cruz doesn’t speak much English. We showed the video “Mans Search for Happiness” and had a prayer. We set return appointments with both families.
Sunday, August 24, 2003
Mae let me sleep in longer for I had been up with my back hurting. I don’t know just what to do about it, as there is one spot between my shoulders that I can tell is out, and when I lay still for 3 to 4 hours it gets really tight. I get up and do a little stretching and twisting, and then if I set in the recliner, I can get some more sleep. The trouble is that it will have me up for an hour or more before I get back to sleep. We attended the Munoz 1st branch as we hopped that we would have some families there, which there were. The Santo’s family came for part of the meetings and the Dela Cruz children and cousins came. We had hoped that hopped that the Galletes family would have come but their daughter and her husband are visiting.
Both Mae and I were quite upset at the lack of reverence there was during Sacrament meeting. It is a real problem in this Branch as there is one little girl, who is an adopted daughter of a single sister, who start right from the start to running around, she soon has other children running around and playing with her. The parents pay little or no attention to them. There are also a lot of adults and youth that move around and talks to each other. Sunday school class went fairly well, although we only get parts of the lesson, because of the language. After the Sunday school class let out, Brother Santo’s got up and left. I went looking for him, but he had gone home. Eva Gajonera asked me some questions and I spent the Priesthood time visiting with her. Along with not understanding Tagalog and the reverence problem, we were not sure if we had got much out of meetings. We came home and got some lunch and prepared some things for dinner this evening. I got a short nap, and then we attended the Sacrament meeting at Munoz 2nd Branch. I was impressed for the meeting started on time with all the Branch Presidency on the stand ready to start. The reverence was much better in this meeting. We left with a much better Spirit. We stayed after to attend a planning meeting for the upcoming Medical Mission. Elder Ragasa and Elder Clam came home with us for dinner. We enjoyed visiting with them and they seemed to really enjoy dinner. We drove them over to an 8PM appointment, and then we came back and got on the inter-net, sending letters to our family and friends. It was late when we finished and got to bed. Mae is sure special and I can’t even imagine not having that girl for all eternity.
Monday, August 25, 2003
I again woke at 3AM and couldn’t get back to sleep for some time. Mae let me sleep in the chair until 7AM, and then I laid down on the bed and fell asleep for another 20 minutes. Both Mae and I fasted this morning for Jeff and Gail, as they are trying to make some tough decisions about going back to school, selling their home and moving into Gail’s mother’s basement. Jeff is really feeling stressed out. Mike is also having a lot of stress with his work, Shellie is having back pain that she is dealing with (we don’t know how she hurt it), we are not sure how Sandi is doing with her new job at the school, and Scott is starting his last semester of school before graduating. It sounds like David is the only one that we haven’t heard is under stress right now. We spent most of the day in companion study and planning. We do have a big week ahead of us. I visited with President Clark about some reports that the A. P.’s were going to send me, also some thoughts about executive secretaries. This evening we went to the Santo’s so that we could change our appointment that we have on Saturday with them, to Sunday, as we have a conflict. We were there longer than we had planned but it worked out ok. We visited the Lozano family and had an enjoyable Family Home Evening with them. We stopped by the Corpus’s and set up an appointment to see them Wednesday morning at 9AM. We were up late tonight on the computer.
Tuesday, August 26, 2003
I was up early as usual, but I did sleep longer. We went for a walk just around this area. We visited with some of the people in the area. We found out that there will be a brown out today as the power co. is working on the power lines. We had Elder Ragasa and Clam over for breakfast and they gave us a Tagalog lesson. I just don’t know? The power did go off at 10AM. Although it was over cast and cooler than many days, it was still very uncomfortable. The power did come back on shortly after 5PM, and we were sure grateful for that. We did some planning and studding, mostly on the front porch where it was a little cooler. This evening we had an appointment with the Galletes family but the father had to be at a meeting and his wife didn’t know when he would be home, so asked us if we could come back next week. We thought of visiting the Sariano family, but it was raining and the yards were all closed up. We called it a day and came home. We spent a little while on the computer before going to bed.
Wednesday, August 27, 2003
We went walking this morning before breakfast. After breakfast we visited the Corpus’s and talked to them about preparing to go to the Temple. It was a good visit and we hope we helped them to set some goals. We worked the rest of the day on preparing presentations for Friday and Saturday. We had Marlyn call our landlord to see if they could run our phone line from the kitchen into our bedroom. They did, but you will have to read the write up of it in “Ken’s Stories”. We quite about 7:30PM this evening and decided to watch “The Other Side of Heaven” again. We sure enjoy that film. Elder Stokes from Sanga Ignacia Zone called to see if we were still planning on being there on Friday. We got to bed about 11PM.
Thursday, August 28, 2003
We got up and went walking. It was a beautiful morning and we walked for over 45 minutes. We went to the bank in San Jose to transfer our money for October and got our money for September. We tried to get Mae’s prescriptions refilled but they don’t carry those medications here. We did some grocery shopping. The rest of the day was spent on the computer preparing for our presentations for Friday and Saturday.
Friday, August 29, 2003
We left at 6AM for Padapada where we are to give a presentation to the Elders in the Sanga Ignacia Zone. We stopped at McDonald’s in Tarlac and got some breakfast. It is interesting that when we were in the U.S. we didn’t like McDonalds, but now we stop there quite often. We found the Chapel in Padapada with out much trouble. We really enjoyed the Elders there and our presentation went quite well. We came home by going North through Camalin and then East across the Tarlac River to Panaki back South to the Total Station and East to Guimba and on to Munoz. It was a very beautiful drive and we really almost became jealous of the Maharry’s when we saw the beautiful area they are to be assigned to. We got back to Munoz at 1:15 PM so went straight to the Chapel to help with the setup for the Medical Mission for tomorrow. Only Brother Michol and Brother Espiritu were there, when we got there. Brother Michol told me that there was no water in the restrooms because a pipe had broken in the Ladies room, so he had shut off the water. I told him we had to have water on for tomorrow and Sunday, so let me look at it. The supply line to the one sink was broke so I worked the supply valve for a minute and was able to shut that one off. All the rest of the lines are ok. We went home and changed our clothes, got some lunch and then went back. By then, others were there and things were almost done. I told President Nuque about the water problem so he could get someone to repair it. When I told him how I was able to shut off the water to the one sink so the rest rooms could be used tomorrow, he was really excited and thankful for me. I used the copy machine and made handouts for Saturday. After diner, we spent the evening on the computer working on Saturday’s presentation.
Saturday, August 30, 2003
We got up a little before 5AM, ate and went to the chapel to help with the Medical Mission. Brother and Sister Marlin Dator washed our car for us this morning. We gave Elder Clam and Elder Ragasa a ride there, although I about forgot them and had to suddenly stop and back up to get them. Mae was reading from the Book of Mormon and I was so interested in what she was reading that I forgot we were going to pick them up. We had a very successful Medical Mission with over 215 registered for the doctors and over 80 that wanted to see the dentist. Although the Dentist worked just as hard as she could go, she only saw about 40. We came home after 12PM when they quit for lunch, but the Doctors came back after lunch and saw more that wanted in. We had 6 or 8 Elders from San Jose there with Elder Clam and Ragasa. They were very successful with visiting non-members, inactive and active members. We showed the videos, “Mans Search For Happiness, and Finding Faith In Christ”, to those that were waiting to see the Doctors. When we got home we got some lunch, prepared some meat for dinner tomorrow, worked on our presentation for this afternoon and got a short nap. We left for Guimba 3rd Branch Chapel. We got there just a few minutes early and had time to set up. They asked us to give our Home Teaching/Visiting Teaching workshop first, it went well. We had a large group that was in attendance. President Nuque was just a few minutes late but gave an excellent talk on the statistics of the District. President Desalas gave a good talk on the payments of Fast Offerings and Tithing. They then opened it up for questions for about 45 minutes. I sure felt lost not being able to speak Tagalog. They then held a dance that started about 6:30 PM. We enjoyed joining in with them in games and dancing until almost 9M. We had fun dancing. It’s been a long time since we have been able to dance. The music was wonderful. They were all sitting around the outside of the cultural hall and many times, there was only us and 1 or 2 other couples on the dance floor. They liked how we danced and clapped for us. We were a little embarrassed, but had so much fun, we didn’t stop. The District YW president asked if we would come on the 19th and teach them how to dance. We then came home. Before we left they passed out hamburgers and soft drinks.  It was a very enjoyable evening.
Sunday, August 31, 2003
We thought we would sleep in a little later, but I woke before 5AM anyway. We went to Guimba this morning and attended the 2nd Branch. We really enjoyed the meetings. We had a question about the primary putting on a program during Sacrament meeting, so we researched it as we drove. We still were not sure about the interpretation of the handbook by the time we got there. President Clark and Sister Clark came out to meetings with Guimba 2nd also; in fact, we had to change our schedule in order to be there with them. After the meetings we had them come home and have dinner with us. We visited with President Clark about the Primary giving the program and he had to agree with me that it is up to the Branch President. Mae made a nice dinner and we sure enjoyed visiting with the Clarks. It is amazing that we had to come half way around the world to meet them and become friends. They left to attend the Guimba 1st Branch Sacrament meeting, which was to start at 2:40 so they left about 2:00. We took a nap before going to the Munoz 2nd Branch Sacrament meeting. As we came in and sat down, we had several children come and sit by us. They especially love Sister Browning, as does everyone. It was all around that we had been to the dance and “were the bell of the ball”. After the meeting, we stopped by the Corpus’s, to see why they hadn’t attended Church. Sister Corpus had gone to Cabanatuan with their son, but we took a picture of Brother Corpus and Joy anyway. We visited the Santos family and showed the film “Mans Search for Happiness”, then had a good discussion about the Plan of Salvation. Brother Santos has a really cute personality and asks good questions and gives good comments. We enjoy being with this special family. Their youngest daughter, who is 5, had a bad cold and so the parents tried to keep her away from us, but she insisted on sitting next to Sister Browning and kept rubbing her arm, looking at her, etc. Mae enjoys the children and showed her pictures from the small Children’s Song Book we brought with us. Mae is a lola (grandmother) and the children love lolas. We next visited the Dela Cruz family and though the father wasn’t there, we showed the film “Building Faith in Christ”. When I put the DVD on our laptop to play, I could not get it to come up. I could not figure a way to get it to work and felt that I should just give up. I said a silent prayer; later found that Mae had also offered a silent prayer. Just then a young man came to the door, made some comments about the computer. Mae asked him what his name was and he introduced himself as Dennis. He handed me a DVD of “Harry Potter” and suggested that I try that one. I almost said no, as I do not feel good about Harry Potter, but then out of politeness, put it on. As it loaded it, it asked for licensing and I decided to cancel it. The feeling came to just close it, which I did. A player came up, and I used it to read the “Faith in Christ” DVD and it worked perfectly. We were able to show the film and all felt the spirit. Dennis watched a little bit of the film, but then left. We visited with the mother and children and Mae bore her testimony in Tagalog. We have difficulty communicating with them because the nanay (mother) doesn’t speak much English, and the children are too shy to speak. But the film and Mae’s testimony left a spirit that could be felt. I think they even understood my closing remarks. When we were to leave and I shut the computer down I thought of trying to save the program, but didn’t want to take the time to do so, and possibly spoil the spirit. When we got home I brought the computer up to make my journal entry and saw that the icon for the DVD reader was still there. I used it and can immediately bring the DVD’s up. I am continually amazed at the Lord’s hand in our lives over little and almost insignificant things. He gives us small miracles all the time. We got an e-mail from Shellie and she did a pretty good job of balling me out. If I can come up with words to answer her, I will insert part of her letter and my reply here.


Castle of Dreams film review: a slice of the best Iranian cinema
by Martin TurnerTHERE is a kind of genius among the best of Iranian cinema for psychological studies that eke complex, nuanced glimpses of what makes people tick.
Internationally acclaimed Castle of Dreams, the opening film of the Iranian Film Festival Australia, lives up to that national reputation.
It seems prosaic enough when Jalal (Hamed Behdad) meets his sister-in-law at her house, seemingly to pick up his ex-wife’s car and scoot.
He’s doing a side deal on the phone but it’s not clear what’s involved.
Whatever his scheming, his plans are thrown into disarray as his brother-in-law insists he take his young children Sara (Nioosha Alipour) and Ali (Youna Tadayyon), who they have been looking after while the children’s mother lingers on life support in hospital.
Thus begins a tentative, uncertain road experience, with Jalal giving every indication of wanting to abandon his long-neglected offspring, especially after picking up his girlfriend (Zhila Shahi), who is unaware of the sudden change of circumstance and unprepared for the series of revelations and upheavals they will experience within a short period.
The film is anchored by the flinty, unpredictable presence of Behdad as Jalal, but the interplay with the brilliant child actors here gives a necessary compassion and some level of hope as tensions escalate.
The international premiere of Symphony No.9 by Mohammadreza Honarmand marks the closing night film of the festival. The cross-genre fantasy/drama/comedy marks the return of Honarmand to the big screen after 17 years with this fantasy about love that arches over 2500 years of Iranian history.
Symphony No.9 releases in Iran simultaneously with its International Premiere at IFFA 2019.
Tehran: City of Love arrives direct from the BFI London Film Festival to make its Australian premiere.
The latest work from emerging director Ali Jaberansari follows an ex-bodybuilding champ who develops feelings for the young man he’s training; a shy office clerk who invents a new persona for herself; and a singer who turns to weddings in the hope of finding love.
Tehran: City of Love is a delicate examination of disenfranchisement, desperation and sexuality.
Further titles include the international premiere of Ebrahim Ebrahimian’s Zero Floor and the Australian premiere of Mohsen Tanabandeh’s The Oath following its international premiere at Tokyo Film Festival.
THE ESSENTIALS
Castle of Dreams (CTC)
Directed by: Reza Mirkarimi
Starring: Hamed Behdad, Nioosha Alipour, Youna Tadayyon, Zhila Shahi
Reviewed by: Martin Turner
Four stars
In cinemas: November 14, opening film of Iranian Film Festival Australia, 10 films from November 14-20


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| 175 | Ronald D. Colella | 1571 Bingamon Branch Road, Barrington, IL 60010 | Male | Top executive | 32 |
| 174 | Martha B. Tomlinson | 4005 Bird Spring Lane, Houston, TX 77002 | Female | Systems programmer | 38 |
| 173 | Cameron K. Barnett | 2822 River Road, Colorado Springs, CO 80903 | Male | Mortgage loan officer | 52 |
| 172 | James V. Foreman | 4881 Adams Drive, Houston, TX 77002 | Male | Sports instructor | 32 |
| 171 | Dallas V. Jones | 2672 Broaddus Avenue, Bowling Green, KY 42103 | Male | Tractor driver | 45 |
| 170 | Patricia R. Lohman | 2653 Courtright Street, Garrison, ND 58540 | Female | Counseling psychologist | 24 |
| 169 | Lee H. Young | 4097 Cambridge Place, Cockeysville, MD 21030 | Male | Refractory mason | 24 |
| 168 | Melina T. Reza | 68 Elk Creek Road, Chamblee, GA 30341 | Female | Manpower development manager | 40 |
| 167 | Sandra P. Swain | 3563 Wolf Pen Road, San Jose, CA 95134 | Female | Mortgage banker | 32 |
| 166 | Thomas K. Herrman | 4342 Despard Street, Atlanta, GA 30331 | Male | Scientific photographer | 47 |
| 165 | Nick M. Gilligan | 4951 North Bend River Road, Lexington, KY 40505 | Male | Supply manager | 42 |
| 164 | Ronald S. Keefe | 4388 Goff Avenue, Grand Rapids, MI 49508 | Male | Landscaping worker | 22 |
| 163 | William C. Wright | 2653 Pyramid Valley Road, Cedar Rapids, IA 52404 | Male | Political geographer | 33 |
| 162 | Jarrod D. Jones | 3827 Bingamon Road, Garfield Heights, OH 44125 | Male | Manpower development advisor | 64 |
| 161 | Glenda J. Stewart | 3482 Pursglove Court, Rossburg, OH 45362 | Female | Cost consultant | 28 |
| 8 | Charles D. Horst | 1636 Walnut Hill Drive Cincinnati, OH 45202 | Male | Financial investigator | 29 |
| 7 | Antonio J. Forbes | 403 Snyder Avenue Charlotte, NC 28208 | Male | Faller | 32 |
| 6 | Barbra K. Hurley | 1241 Canis Heights Drive Los Angeles, CA 90017 | Female | Service technician | 26 |
| 5 | Clara Gilliam | 63 Woodridge Lane Memphis, TN 38138 | Female | Programmer | 24 |
| 1 | Bruce Tom | 656 Edsel Road Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 | Male | Driver | 36 |


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First some ordinary text to compare font sizes in admonitions
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Code
Need some code outside admons for color and font comparisons:
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Sayre's law states that
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Source: wikipedia
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Warning.
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test how the heading behave and add quite some extra texts
in comparison with the other admons.
We continue with more text to see how that affects the layout.
And more and more text.
And more and more text.
And more and more text.
And more and more text.
And more and more text.
And more and more text.
Test warning with title:
Title ending with math \( \sqrt{2}\approx 1.4 \).
And here comes some text with bad news in larger font.
Also some code:
And a complete program
Test warning with large title with math:
Watch out for \( \nabla\cdot\boldsymbol{u}=0 \) equations.
Divergence freedom is often problematic from a numerical point
of view.
Then we test a block, which is guaranteed to never have any admon icon.
Block with title.
Here is a block of text with title. It is typeset
without any icon and is useful when you want some admons with icon
and some without. With the small font size, as used here, one can have
more comment-style text or text that really goes deeper or talks
about fun facts that are not strictly necessary for the main flow
of understanding.
Here is a block of text with no title. As above, it is typeset without any icon
and is useful when you want some admons with icon and some without.
The next admonition features a title "Note, eventually!" (the comma
must be removed in the mdfbox
admon also in graybox2
if
code is present).
Note, eventually!
Ah, we are soon close to the end (with illegal font size specification!).
But first a bit of math where we define \( \theta \) and \( \boldsymbol{r} \):
$$
\begin{align*}
\theta &= q^2,\\
\boldsymbol{r} &= \varrho\boldsymbol{i}
\end{align*}
$$
Point1.
Ah, we are soon close to the end.
Question.
So, how many admonition environments does Doconce support?
Question.
- Once more, how many admonition environments does Doconce support?
Tip.
It is of outmost important to
- stay cool
- read hints and tips carefully
Because here the thing is to do
import urllib
def grab(url, filename):
urllib.urlretrieve(url, filename=filename)
Next is a warning without a title ("none" implies no title).
And here comes some text with bad news.
Going deeper environments
Here is a long notice environment with a custom title and much
text, math and code.
Going deeper.
We have some equations that should be preceded by much text, so the
task is to write and write. The number of words, and not the
meaning, is what counts here. We need desperately to fill up the
page in the hope that some admonitions will experience a page break,
which the LaTeX environment should handle with ease.
Let us start with some equations:
$$
\begin{align*}
\frac{Du}{dt} &= 0
\\
\frac{1}{2} &= {1/2}\\
\frac{1}{2}\pmb{x} &= \pmb{n}
\end{align*}
$$
The implementation of such complicated equations in computer
code is task that this "Going deeper" environment targets.
def Dudt(u):
r = diff(u, t) + u*grad(u)
return r
half = 0.5
x = 2*n
And some more text that can help going into the next page.
Longer computer code requires vertical space:
class Diff:
def __init__(self, f, h=1E-5):
self.f = f
self.h = float(h)
class Forward1(Diff):
def __call__(self, x):
f, h = self.f, self.h
return (f(x+h) - f(x))/h
class Backward1(Diff):
def __call__(self, x):
f, h = self.f, self.h
return (f(x) - f(x-h))/h
class Central2(Diff):
def __call__(self, x):
f, h = self.f, self.h
return (f(x+h) - f(x-h))/(2*h)
class Central4(Diff):
def __call__(self, x):
f, h = self.f, self.h
return (4./3)*(f(x+h) - f(x-h)) /(2*h) - \
(1./3)*(f(x+2*h) - f(x-2*h))/(4*h)
class Central6(Diff):
def __call__(self, x):
f, h = self.f, self.h
return (3./2) *(f(x+h) - f(x-h)) /(2*h) - \
(3./5) *(f(x+2*h) - f(x-2*h))/(4*h) + \
(1./10)*(f(x+3*h) - f(x-3*h))/(6*h)
class Forward3(Diff):
def __call__(self, x):
f, h = self.f, self.h
return (-(1./6)*f(x+2*h) + f(x+h) - 0.5*f(x) - \
(1./3)*f(x-h))/h
And then we add a figure too.
The end
A bit of text before the summary, which we now call "Concluding remarks,
for the novice",
just because we can.
Concluding remarks, for the novice.
We can summarize the most important things with admons: they have
a different typesetting, and they may have a symbol.
Titles should be optional.
Remark.
The remarks
and hint
environments are not allowed outside
exercises (and problems and projects too).


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During this year, I also learnt Assembly, another programming language creating four programs after having studied computer architecture in semester 1. The first semester I studied some historical facts for an architecture background and computer architecture with raspberry pi understanding how every piece of technology physically works with gates and the hardware. On semester 2, I started learning Assembly language using the raspberry pi creating four pieces of coursework. For the first one, I had to write a subroutine that generates three check bits assuming even parity. Passing a 4-bit word, the output should have been a 6-bit word. The second coursework required me to write a subroutine that corrects a single corrupted bit assuming even parity. The third was more complex and required me to write a subroutine called “generate16” which generates five check bits assuming even parity. A 16-bit word is passed and the output of the program is a 21-bit word. The last coursework was a subroutine that corrects a single corrupted bit returning a 16-bit word from a 21-bit word. The code is available only on request.