Sunday, June 1, 2003
††††††††††† I got up at 6:20 AM in order to drive to Guimba to meet with the Branch Presidency of the 3rd Branch.† I let Mae sleep in until I left.† It was raining and heavy traffic, so I was until 8:10AM getting there.† The Branch President didn't get there for another few minutes.† We had a good meeting and I turned the Home Teaching over to them, with the offer to help.† I came back home and got Mae, and then went back to Munoz 1st Branch.† We only attended their Priesthood and Relief Society meetings.† We then attended the Baptism of April Sarianto.† From there we came home and started dinner, before returning and attending Sacrament meeting at the Munoz 2nd Branch.† After that meeting we took a video over to Brother Silvia, and also took him a copy of the plans we have for Home Teaching.† He was excited about it, and would like to be the Branch Executive Secretary over Home Teaching.† We came home and ate dinner, and then went out visiting a family, with the Elders, which just live 2 houses west of us.† I was a while on the computer catching up my journal.
Monday, June 2, 2003
††††††††††† I woke early, but let Mae sleep in a little longer.† We seem to have been busy all day trying to get caught up on recording of bills, which we spent too much last month.† Trying to get organized and e-mailing our family, etc.†† This evening I called Home Depot and found that I still owed them over $400.00, so I just had her write a draw on my checking account for the balance.† I am fairly sure that when I was doing Nolan's home that I paid a payment of about that much in cash and I don't think it was ever credited.† But I couldn't find my receipt so I guess that is water under the bridge.† We were late getting to bed.
Tuesday, June 3, 2003
††††††††††† We got up and prepared breakfast for the Elders.† They helped us with Tagalog after eating.† We worked on the Home Teaching program most of the afternoon.† I felt very discouraged over the language, finances and just things in general.† We had an appointment with Brother and Sister Umipig's this evening.† We gave them a presentation on "Jacob's Dream".† It went very well although a little long.† I had trouble getting the TV and video working together, but finally realized I had one wire wrong.† They are special and are trying.† They felt the presentation was just what they needed.† We ate a late dinner before going to bed.
Wednesday, June 4, 2003
††††††††††† We got up and went walking this morning.† We could tell that it has been a while since we have done that.† We have spent most of the day working on instructions for the Home Teaching program.† We did go to San Jose for some groceries and bought Mae an ice cream cone.† We went to visit Sister Agliba who we have heard has been sick.† She is down with an infected thyroid.† We suggested that she have a blessing and we will see if the Elders can come with me tomorrow.† We went to the Corpus's and showed them the CD, "Finding Faith in Christ".† They really enjoyed it and felt the Spirit of the show.† We really enjoyed being with them and set an appointment to return next Wednesday evening.† Mae called the Medical Missionaries when we got home to find out more about Sister Agliba's condition.† We ate dinner and the evening was about gone.
Thursday, June 5, 2003
††††††††††† We slept in, getting up and preparing breakfast for Elder Jex and Elder Barrett.† After breakfast they helped us with the Tagalog language.† They then went with us to Sister Leonarda Oamil Flores Agliba and gave her a Priesthood blessing.† She was feeling much better than she did yesterday when we visited her.† While there we visited another family with the Elders.† We took the Elders back to their home and we went to San Jose, where we got some money from the bank.† We paid our phone bill and then came home.† We took a nap, and then spent the rest of the day working on the computer.† Time sore goes by fast.
Friday, June 6, 2003
††††††††††† Before breakfast, I checked the e-mail to see if Elder Persson had replied to our e-mail.† He hadn't but there was an e-mail from David.† That made me a little home sick.† We had District meeting which we always enjoy although we don't report much.† We just enjoy being with the Elders and seeing how they are doing.† We had Elder DeAlday and Elder Villanueva come home with us.† They are assigned to work in the Rezal area, which is quite a ways South East of San Jose.† Elder Villanueva is a new missionary, getting here a month after we did.† President Brimhall asked us if we could give him a little TLC as he is homesick and needs some encouragement.† We had Marlyn prepare a nice dinner which we enjoyed, then had them help us translate some of our Home Teaching presentations into Tagalog.† We also watched the DVD of "Finding Faith in Christ" before we drove them to their home.† I am constantly amazed at how at ease Mae can make people feel and the way she can handle each situation.† She is sure a special person and to think that she is mine, tops it all.† We enjoyed the drive to take them home as it is really out in the country; they are assigned to the Rezal area.† When we got back to San Jose, we stopped at CVC and got some groceries.† We prepared and ate dinner, and then I transferred some pictures from our camera to the computer and of course Mae wanted to see them, so did I, so that took the rest of the evening.
Saturday, June 7, 2003
††††††††††† We did get up in time to go walking this morning.† We walked down to where they have a herd of caribou cows that they are using for dairy milk.† It seems strange to me as they don't look like a dairy animal, as they don't have much of a bag.† Elder Jex says he has tried the milk and it is very good.† I don't know what the production is.
††††††††††† This morning we had a Medical Mission to attend.† We werenít sure what it consisted of or what to expect, but was very excited when we got there.† There is a group from the United States that has formed a foundation here that helps provides financing for Chapters here to give medical and dental assistants to those that couldnít otherwise afford it.† The 2nd counselor in the District Presidency is the Chairman of this Chapter, so has the Branches rotates putting this program on, I think, every 6 Months.† They have volunteer Doctors and Dentists come and they also provide prescribed medication.† I didnít get in to see the dentist, but they had 3 or 4 Doctors that work just as fast as they could, but showing great patients and care for each person, for over 4 hours.† There could have been 200 to 300 people that went through during that time.† The only thing that I wish is that we would have had a separate area and shown some Church videos while people were waiting and given out some pamphlets.† There was many less active and non-members there.† Oh well, next time we will know what to expect.
††††††††††† This afternoon, I joined a Priesthood activity.† We went bowling and that was a new experience.† The alley is about the same as ours, 50 to 60 years ago, with pin boys to set up the pins, but the ball is about the size of a softball or just a little larger.† There are no finger holes.†  I am not sure how spars and strikes are scored as I didnít see many of those, although I got a spare once.† You just bowled in your street shoes, so I bowled in cowboy boots.† We also played some pool.† It was interesting and we had fun.
††††††††††† We also had Elder Jex and Elder Barrett over for dinner this evening as it is Elder Barrett's 21st Birthday.† Elder Jex isn't feeling the best so asked if Elder Barrett and I could administer to him, which we did.† These Elders sure keep going, and are doing a great job.
Sunday, June 8, 2003
††††††††††† We slept in then went out to Guimba 1st Branch to meet with the Branch President and go over the Home Teaching program with him.†  The Branch President is a young R.M. and is running most of the branch by himself.† He had 4 speakers for Sacrament Meeting but ask if we would set on the stand and if there was time, he wanted us to speak.† President Mercado was also there to visit, so we told him not to worry about us speaking.† He did have us speak for 5 minutes each.† We came home and got something to eat.† The Elders stopped by and went with us to visit a neighbor two houses down.† We shared the DVD of "Building Faith in Christ" with them.† We were tired and ready for bed tonight.
Monday, June 9, 2003
††††††††††† We got up early and left for Angeles.† We stopped at McDonald's in Tarlac, for breakfast and then we stopped at the Sony Dealer to have them check out our camera.† They had us leave it as they had to have time to check it out. †We went on to the Mission Home and with the Elders help, we soon found out our problem on the Home Teaching program.† We went over to the dentist and she says Mae's tooth is doing better, so she worked on it more and wants her to come back in about another three weeks.† While Mae was in the dentist office, I had the car washed.† When we got back to the mission home, Mae and Sister Clark went shopping while Brother Clark and I went looking for computer supplies.† The four of us then went out to eat.† It was sure good to be with them and just visit.† President and Sister Brimhall came home just as we were ready to leave for home, so we stayed a few more minutes and visited with them.† They are sure great people.† It was 8PM before we got home, and then brought things in and put them away.† Mae wanted to check the e-mails and we had a couple.† One from Jeff that was really cute.† Mike sent us a picture of Taylor. Mae then called Sandi and visited a few minutes.† She is worried that Sandi is going too fast and just wanted to check on her.
††††††††††† While with the Clark's we were told that in the one area there is a group that is trying to get the Philippine government changed to communism.† They are hid up in the hills and call them self "The Gadianton Robbers".† They are trying to find some Americans that they might kidnap and hold for ransom to get money from the United States.† President Brimhall, therefore, had to transfer all American missionaries out of the area.† Also, last week while President and Sister Brimhall were in one of the areas, they were stopped at a check point and with guns pointed at them were questioned as to their business in the area.
Tuesday, June 10, 2003
††††††††††† We slept in and really didn't do a lot today.† We rested and relaxed as we were worn out from the trip yesterday.† Mae studied on Tagalog. We worked on the computer and did some preparation for next Saturday.† I wrote a letter that we will send to Mike for Jack Persil about the house.† Mae sent some personal e-mails to family and friends this evening.
Wednesday, June 11, 2003
††††††††††† We went walking this morning before getting breakfast.† I spent a long time on the internet trying to renew our subscription with Norton Anti Virus, and ended up just frustrated.† I was so upset, that I took a nap.† Mae woke me for lunch.† We worked all afternoon on our presentation for Saturday.† This evening we went to the Corpus's and showed the video, "Mans Search for Happiness".† It went well and we felt a good spirit with them.† I still feel the need to learn the Tagalog language, in order to do a good job.† We came home and Mae wanted to get on the computer to correct some of her Tagalog studies, but the computer asks us to update some of the system, so we did.† While it was doing that the Norton Anti Virus renewal came up so we tried that again and we think this time it worked.† We got e-mails from Shellie, Jeff, Mark and Georgia, plus a short one from Mike.† We sure enjoy the e-mails.† It is like Mae said, "It doesn't seem that we are quite so far away with the e-mails."
Thursday, June 12, 2003
††††††††††† Mae was still tired so I let her sleep in a little longer.† I woke thinking about the lack of training the leaders here in the Philippines have and became quite depressed with the great amount of work that is needed here. †It is also depressing as to the amount of Tagalog that I know or that I don't know.† We went walking at the collage, but found that it is much more crowded now that school has restarted.† After breakfast and the Elders didn't come over we call them and found that Elder Jex's is still quite sick.† We took them some soup and crackers, along with some vitamins.† Before lunch, we took a nap.† This afternoon we studied for a Home Teaching presentation we are to make tomorrow at Gapan.† We figured our monthly bills and are tight.† I visited with Elder Clark and ordered some Home Teaching pamphlet.† I wrote Mark an e-mail and sent it.† Mae cooked a casserole and we took part of it over to the Elders.† We worked on our Home Teaching presentation for Saturday to be given in San Jose, St. Lsidro Branch.† We were late getting to bed.
Friday, June 13, 2003
††††††††††† We went to Gapan this morning as the zone leader there had asked us to talk to his district about Home Teaching.† We went through Cabanatuan and that trip through there is usually 45 minutes or more, but this time it only took us 10 minutes.† The reason why is the road is still under construction, but this time they had the one lane closed due to having trenches dug 1/2 way across the road.† The thing is that it was closed the direction we were going.† I didn't know any other roads to take us through Cabanatuan, so I went around the signs and took the main road anyway.† Well the traffic was light and I only had to slow down when I came to a road closed sign, just long enough to get through the traffic.† Maybe I was lucky, but I didn't get stopped.† We got to Gapan early, so got to visit with some of the missionaries before meeting started.† Our presentation went well.† After the zone conference we decided to drive to Tarlac and get our camera.† We got there just a noon and the shop was closed.† We went back to the mall and walked around it, and then ate lunch at Jolly Bee's.† We went back to the shop and waited another hour.† We finally decided that it was a Holliday and they were closed.† I was upset that we had wasted three hours.† We studied for our presentation tomorrow the rest of the evening.
Saturday, June 14, 2003
††††††††††† I was quite anxious about today, concerned with how our presentation would go with us not speaking Tagalog.† We picked up Elder Jex and Elder Barrett at 8 AM, and then went to the San Jose Stake center, where we borrowed an overhead projector and copied some sheets.† I was really glad that the Elders went with us because I sure had the directions wrong to get to the St. Lsidro branch.† With there help we went right to it.† It is North East from San Jose, maybe 10 miles.† That was really a humble Church House.† It is old converted building, very small, but there was a good turn out.† I was especially impressed when I found that the Branch only had 230 members and had about 30% activity.† That is the highest we have seen in the Philippines.† Our presentation went well and the Spirit was there and felt.† We came home and had some lunch.† I then went to District Presidency and Branch Presidency in Guimba.† Again I was very anxious about that meeting.† It went well and it turned out to be three meetings.† First the Branch Presidents and District Presidency meeting went well, although most of it was in Tagalog.† We then held a High Council meeting, which went well.† We then held a District Presidency meeting and some decisions were made concerning the reorganization of Munoz 2nd Branch, as President Maico's wife has left him.† The entire Presidency including myself was included in the discussion and decision, and then we took it before the Lord.† Also I brought up that the Branch Presidents carried a heave load with out many of them having much help.† President Dasalla said that they had clerks and Executive Secretaries, but none of them was functioning.† He asked if I could train them next District and Branch Presidency meeting.† I jumped at that as that is what I have been wondering how to approach the District Presidency on Leadership Training.† While at Guimba, I got the CMIS report, for Guimba 1st Branch, from the Elders assigned there.† All together it was a pretty successful day.† After I got home, Mae and I went to San Jose where we paid our drinking water bill, tried to get some money out of the bank, but the ATM machine didn't work, so we only bought what we needed at the groceries store.† We came home and got some dinner.† Mae wanted me to check the inter-net for e-mail.† We got a cute letter from Kim.† Mae fell asleep so I made my journal entries.† Then I did up the evening dishes.† Mae woke up, so we played a game of Rummy.† That is the first game of Rummy we have played since before Mom died and we would cheat so Mom could win.
Sunday, June 15, 2003
††††††††††† We did sleep in a little, and then got to Church.† Mike called to wish me a Happy Fathers Day; it was sure good to talk to him.†† After Sunday school class we visited with a good member that has some concerns.† We took the Elders to their home.† We are getting quite concerned about Elder Jex's being sick.† We had some lunch and took a nap.† We picked the Elders up for Sacrament meeting in the 2nd Branch, as Elder Barrett had to speak this afternoon.† We enjoyed his talk although it was in Tagalog, and we enjoyed the people.† This evening President Brimhall called us concerned about Elder Jex.† We are waiting to see if we will take him to the Doctor in Angeles tomorrow.
Monday, June 16, 2003
††††††††††† No decision was made this morning about getting Elder Jex to the Dr.† It has been raining hard all day.† Being P-day, we slept in and relaxed more today.† I put up some clothes lines in our storage shed so Marlyn would have some place to hang the clothes on rainy days.† We went down the street to see a neighbor that is having her house re-roofed, and has the roof open.† They had already moved everything to her sister's house, so everything was ok.† We found out that Elder Jex and Elder Barker needs to go to the Doctors tomorrow, so we will take them.† David called to wish me a Happy Fathers Day.† They will leave in the morning for a trip Bahamas; Shauna's parents will tend their children while they are gone.†
Tuesday, June 17, 2003
††††††††††† We picked up Elder Jex and Barker and took them to see the Doctors in Angeles.† Elder Jex has either an upper repertory infection or T. B.† Elder Barker has a hernia that will need to be operated on.† We stopped on the way in Tarlac and picked up our camera.† There was no charge as they said it is just that our battery's need charging.† It took us all day taking the Elders back and forth to the Doctors.† We did take time to cash a check for two hundred dollars, also went out to eat with the Clarks.† We did see President and Sister Brimhall for a minute, but they had to go to get their drivers licenses renewed.† It was 9:30 PM before we got home, and then had to get things in, so it was late getting to bed.
Wednesday, June 18, 2003
††††††††††† We left for Zone Conference and went to the Munoz Chapel, but no one was there.† As we debated as to why, Elder Clark and the Elders from the office came.† They too thought it was there.† We went to the San Jose Stake Center and found the meeting just starting.† The conference was attended by President and Sister Brimhall, President Apoa from the San Jose Stake, President Nuque from the Guimba District and all the Elders.† It was a great conference and went well.† We got home at 4:30 PM, and then laid down for a short nap.† We did some preparation for a presentation and went to the Corpus's.† They were waiting for us to come.† They had a sign on the wall that read, "Welcome Elder and Sister Browning", they are special.† We had a very enjoyable evening with them, encouraging them to be and remain active, and to work towards receiving their Temple Blessings.† They had prepared bread, chicken, bananas, water for me and a Sprite for Mae.† We had to explain that mission rules wouldn't allow us to eat the chicken, but thanked them for the rest.† It rained hard while we were there and the water started coming in the doorway.† Brother Corpus put on boots and went out to our car and got our boots for us.† As we walked to the car, Mae stepped in the ditch and went over her boots.† We laughed most of the way home over that.† I am not feeling the best tonight.
Thursday, June 19, 2003
††††††††††† Today is our 44th Wedding Anniversary and I am so sick that I wish I could just die.† I think this is the same thing that I had 16 year ago.† The Elders came by and administered to me.
Friday, June 20, 2003
††††††††††† I am not feeling any better today.† Mae talked to the Medical Missionaries; they felt that I should get some amoxicillin, so Mae asks Marlyn to go to town to buy some for me.† I felt a little better a couple of hours after taking it, but it wore off before time to take another.† The Elders came by and changed our back tire on the car, for it is low.† Mae has worked most of the past two days entering data for the Guimba 1st Branch.† The Elders came by again to check on me.† They stayed and watched the DVD "Finding Faith in Christ".
Saturday, June 21, 2003
††††††††††† I have again been quite sick today; Mae is also feeling some sickness.† I wish we knew what we are fighting and if we are taking the right medication or not.† Mae called Nancy and she told her that I should continue to take lots of Ambrotose.† Mae also completed the entering of the data for the Guimba 1st Branch from their CMIS.† She is quite an amazing girl.† Roy e-mailed us and we realized that they are not receiving our e-mails.† I think I have his address with one extra character in it.† I corrected it and sent him several letters and a picture.† I printed a picture for one of the girls our Branch that wanted us to write in her journal.† I seem to get feeling better for a little while, then it will turn around and I will start hurting again.† I was in a lot of pain so Mae asked Elder Jex and Elder Barrett if they could come over and administer to me at 9:30 PM, which they did.† I am feeling some better so decided to write in my journal before going to bed.† I think I will try sleeping in the big chair with my feet on the couch.† That is the closest I can come to a recliner.
Sunday, June 22, 2003
††††††††††† I was still quite sick today so again stayed home.† Part of the time I will get some better but then it will come back in different forms.† Most of the times my hand feel raw and itches but if I scratch them they become worse.† This is also happening to my feet, put not as much as my hands.†  This is very strange and we feel confused as to what to do.† ††††††††††† President Maico heard from the Elders that I wasn't feeling well, so came by to see me.† While here he asked if we knew he was being released as branch President.† He said that he understood why and then told us of his problems.† His wife left to work abroad when their daughter was 14 months.† She went to California.† She came home once after about two years for a vacation.† She hadn't seemed to hold a job for long because she would get upset with those who she was working for and leave.† This, of course, made each new job harder to get.† After returning, she has never written or contacted any of her family.† Their daughter is now 6 years old.† He and his daughter live with her parents and they will not talk about their daughter.† He feels they have become inactive because they are embarrassed about their daughter.† He tried, through a person he knows that works in immigration, to find her, and it was reported that they think they located her, except she does not admit to being married, having a child or being a member of the Church.† He thinks she is five or six months pregnant now.† He was told that for $50,000 he could try to have his marriage annulled, however only 10% of those that try that are successful and those are ones that spend that much or more under the table.† The other choice would be for him to go to the United States and there get a divorce and then move back.† Of course both options are ridiculous for he is very poor.† In fact, he has been working for the Church as a janitor, but they are letting him go and that will leave him out of employment.† I am really concerned over his problem for I just don't see a solution.† I called Elder Clark and visited with him about my concerns.† After we visited a while he said he would visit with President Brimhall about it.†
††††††††††† The Umipig's daughter, Dr Marcel called and said she thought I should have some blood work done.† She said she was the resident doctor, on call, at the government hospital and so she could leave to come here.† We told her we didn't expect her to come here and we could wait until tomorrow to have her look at me.† She did suggest that we go to her friend, a classmate of hers, Dr. Arnel Domingo, who has his practice here in Munoz and he could look at me today.††† We told her we would rather wait for her.†††††††††† Mae had e-mailed Jennie Porter and she e-mailed back this evening with some suggestions of what to take.
Monday, June 23, 2003
We didn't get up early because of me.†† Dr. Marcel (Umipig) said she would call me back, she did later in the morning and said she couldn't have us come to her hospital, but she would talk to her superior to see if she could have us come to a private hospital and she could go there to check me over and do blood work.† She said she would call us back, but she didn't today, so we didn't do anything today about my problem.
††††††††††† Jeff e-mailed us with a cute letter.† We always enjoy hearing from our kids.† Mike tried to send a couple of pictures but for some reason they didn't come through.† I was able to balance our check book this afternoon.† Susan and Joy Corpus came over to see how I was doing and visited for a while.† This evening I called Rich and Lois to see how they are doing and woke them up at 6AM.† It was good to visit with them.† For F.H.E. we read a couple of the General Conference talks, popped some popcorn, and played a game of Rummy.† I have a wonderful wife and sure love her.† I am still not well and I don't think we have any idea as to what I have or what to do for it.
Tuesday, June 24, 2003
††††††††††† I slept in but Mae got up about 7AM and got dressed.† We did some work on the Home Teaching files for the Guimba 1st Branch.† We received a very nice e-mail from Shellie.† We also received 5 pictures from Mike and a short note about a camping trip they took with Jeff, Gail and Scott's family.† We didn't hear from Dr Marcel, so Mae tried to contact her.† When this didn't work, we decided to see if we could find the Doctor, here in Munoz, that she had recommended.† Mae had me stop at Umipig's to see if they were home.† They were and took us down to find the Dr.†  We went shopping at CVC, any way; I drove Mae over and waited in the car while she did the shopping. †It took her longer because she enjoys visiting with the children.† As we came home, President Maico and his daughter, Mishelle, were just leaving our place.† We had them come back and visit.† Dr. Marcel had tried to call us and couldn't reach us, so she called her parents (probably at the time they were with us) and when she didn't reach them, called President Maico and asked him to contact us and get me into Dr. Domingo.† We thanked him, and then visited a while with him.† Mae enjoyed entertaining his daughter.† I still feel deeply concerned about his job situation.† After they left, we had some dinner, and then Mae started working on a letter to her family.† I put in a conference tape and watched about an hour of that.† I called Scott to see if he was able to ship the acidophilus for us.† He was able to get one bottle, but thought he could get the other two this evening and get them sent off.† It was good to visit for a minute with him and hear of their camping trip with Mike's family and Jeff and Gail.† I became very tired and uncomfortable so we went to bed, although Mae soon got back up and continued to work on a letter for her family.† I woke later very uncomfortable, so went into the front room to sleep sitting up.††† Mae woke up since she heard me in pain and we were up a while.† I sure miss my recliner.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2003
††††††††††† I woke about 3:30AM concerned about the Priesthood leadership training I am to give on the 2nd Saturday of July, to the Executive Secretaries, Branch Clerks, and Branch Finance Clerks.† I made up a few notes.† Brother and Sister Umipig took us down to Dr. Domingo's and remained with us the full time.† They are great people.† We were very impressed with Dr. Domingo.† He is not pleased that I started the amoxicillin and feels that I should change.† He checked me quite thoroughly and feels that I have an upper respiratory infection.† He gave me a new drug, zithromax, and wants me to take it for 5 days and come back next Tuesday.† I took a short nap after returning home.† I just relaxed and rested as the Dr. told me to.† President Maico talked to Mae and asks if we could give him $100.00 witch she told him I would have to talk to him when I woke up.† I visited with President Nuque about him and was advised not to.† I later called President Maico and told him that I couldn't.† I tried to give him some counsel, but I think he just wanted the money.† President Brimhall called this evening and was just concerned about me.† He is so special.† We watched the Sunday Morning session of General Conference, October 2002, it was really wonderful.† We have invented a new sandwich of toast with peanut butter, honey and sliced bananas on it.† It is great!
Thursday, June 26, 2003
††††††††††† I woke early this morning and so to let Mae rest; I stayed up and worked on the information for leadership training for the 2nd Saturday District meeting.† I went back to sleep after breakfast.† Brother Maico again called and wanted just a P1, 000 to repay money he had used from Church Operating funds.†† I again had to tell him no.† This afternoon I worked more on the Leadership training material.† This evening we watched another General Conference tape.† Mae made cookies to take to District meeting tomorrow.† I think I am feeling some better, anyway I hope.† I have been depressed this afternoon.
Friday, June 27, 2003
††††††††††† I am sure that what ever I have is virile as the antibiotic is not affecting it and I still feel lousy.† I got up and showered and dressed, thinking just getting going would make me feel some better, but it didn't help much.† Mae took cookies over to the missionaries for District Conference, and then came home and we fixed some breakfast.† I went back to bed for a while.† I woke with a bad headache so got up to take some pills.† Mae had just received some e-mails so we read those.† We then lay down for a few mounted but I couldn't sleep so got up and entered this into my journal.†† I would get up for a while but then get very tired and go back to bed.† I didn't get much done today.
Saturday, June 28, 2003
††††††††††† I didn't sleep very well last night so after breakfast went back to bed for a while.† I feel some better today so went to the World Wide Satellite Priesthood Leadership Broadcast.† The instructions were absolutely great but I felt very depressed as there were such a few Brothers there.† That is my biggest concern here is the Priesthood Leadership.† President Mercado, President Nuque, Brother Ernesto Damacio (I think) and I met for a brief District Presidency meeting.† They talk mainly in Tagalog so I really didn't feel very good about that meeting.† When I got home Mae had spoke to the lady next door, about how pretty the flowers were, but she must have misunderstood for she cut the flowers off.† This language is the hardest barrier I have ever tried to work around.† This evening we got some things ready to take to Guimba tomorrow.† I worked on my history writing more about the experiences I remember about my Father.
Sunday, June 29, 2003
††††††††††† We were able to sleep in a little, then got up and went to the Guimba 2 Branch.† We attended their Sacrament Meeting.† They had a very nice meeting with the Jr. Sunday School giving the program.† I visited with the Branch Presidency about their Home Teaching program, and was very excited to see the progress they are making.† I gave them some helps.† They ask us to give a Home Teachers training class on the 12th of July, which we agreed to do.† Sister Ronda and Sister Cathleen visited with for a few minutes in between meetings.† We then met with the Guimba 1st Branch and gave them their Home Teaching records and some training and aids.† We attended the 1st Branches meetings.† It was a very enjoyable day.† We had Elder Jex's and Elder Barrett for dinner this evening and discussed the Home Teaching Fireside for next Saturday.† Mae worked on the Family letter until quite late.
Monday, June 30, 2003
††††††††††† I woke early and wrote in my history.† We went grocery shopping, paid some bills, and got our money transferred at the bank.† After lunch, I got the car serviced; the tire repaired, filled the car with gas and got it washed.† Mae again stayed up late working on letters.† I fell asleep about 9PM.


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Guarded Command Language is a language that consists of guarded statements. Guarded statements have a proposition, which must be true before a command is executed.
Hoare Logic formal system with a set of logical rules for reasoning rigorously about the correctness of computer programs. Provides axioms and inference rules for all constructs of a simple imperative programming language.
A process is defined by describing the whole range of its potential behaviour. It is also designed recursively.
Kind of like using recursive properties of functions to simulate finite state machines
Choice between several different actions, for example. On each such occassion, the choice of which even will actually occur can be controlled by the environment. The environment itself can be a process.
Bottom line: the entire system can be described, prescribed, analysed as interacting processes.
When two processes are brought together to evolve concurrently, the usual intention is that they will interact with each other. These interactions are regarded as events that require simultaneous participation of both the processes
P || Q
to denote that P and Q interacting in lock-step synchronisation as described above
Two parallel processes can be evaluated as a single process, by identifying possible paths/events between both processes.
Notable laws: || is symmetric
|| with a deadlocked process results in the entire system being deadlocked
(c !P)||(c !Q)=(c !(P ||Q
traces(P ||Q)=traces(P) [intersect] traces(Q)
(P||Q)/s=(P/s)||(Q/s)
FOOT0 =(x:D!FOOT1) FOOTj =(x:D!FOOTj+1|y:U!FOOTj 1) forj2{1,2,3} FOOT4 = (y : U ! FOOT3)
A constantly greedy neighbour.
Taking an arbitrary trace and showing that in all cases there is at least one event by which s can be extended and still remain in traces.
αP - the set of events in which the process is in principle capable of engaging
traces(P) - the set of all sequences of events in which the process can actually participate in if required
Processes are called deterministic, because whenever there is more than one event possible, the choice between them is determined externally by the environment of the process. Sometimes a process has a range of possible behaviours, but the environment of the process does not have any ability to influence of even observe the selection between the alternatives.
The choice is made, as it were internally, by the machine itself in an arbitrary and nondeterministic fashion.
Non-determinism arises form a deliberate decision to ignore the factor which influence the selection. Nondeterminism is useful for maintaining a high level of abstraction in descriptions of the behaviour of physical systems and machines.
P n Q
is used to denote process that behaves either like P or Q, where the decision is made arbitrarily
α(P u Q) = αP + αQ
The purpose of non-determinism is to abstract away details of implementation. There may be many different implementations of nondeterministic process P each with an observably different pattern of behaviour. The differences arise from different permitted resolutions of nondeterminism.
Needs to ensure that his system works correctly for both choices.
the environment can control which of P and Q will be selected, provided that this control is exercised on the very first action.
Communication is an event described by pair c,v where c is the name of the channel on which the communication takes places and v is the value of the message which passes.
(c!v -> P)=(c.v -> P)
initially prepared to input any value x communicable on the channel c, and then behave like P(x)
P >> Q
denotes that there is a process that send all inputs from P to Q
A buffer is a process which outputs on the right exactly the same sequence of messages as it has input from the left, although it is after some delay.
SP is defined as a process that terminated successfully. (Not STOP)
Many ideas here are analogous to ideas in distributed systems. The book provides a strong mathematical/theoretical foundation to understanding concurrent programming as a whole by introducing expressions and laws that allow us to express and construct concurrent programming systems.
Keys ideas include processes, determinism and non determinism, communication, traces.


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Notebook for
Linchpin
Seth Godin
Introduction
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Stop settling for what’s good enough and start creating art that matters. Stop asking what’s in it for you and start giving gifts that change people. Then, and only then, will you have achieved your potential. For hundreds of years, the population has been seduced, scammed, and brainwashed into fitting in, following instructions, and exchanging a day’s work for a day’s pay. That era has come to an end and just in time. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must. I’m hoping you’ll stand up and choose to make a difference.
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You might be the hardworking secretary, the one with institutional knowledge, the person who has given so much and deserves security and respect. And while you might deserve these things, your tenure is no guarantee that you’re going to get them.
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The educated, hardworking masses are still doing what they’re told, but they’re no longer getting what they deserve.
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You weren’t born to be a cog in the giant industrial machine. You were trained to become a cog. There’s an alternative available to you.  You can train yourself to matter. The first step is the most difficult, the step where you acknowledge that this is a skill, and like all skills, you can (and will) get better at it. Every day, if you focus on the gifts, art, and connections that characterize the linchpin, you’ll become a little more indispensable.
THE NEW WORLD OF WORK - We Are Surrounded by Bureaucrats, Note Takers, ...
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Our society is struggling because during times of change, the very last people you need on your team are well-paid bureaucrats, note takers, literalists, manual readers, TGIF laborers, map followers, and fearful employees. The compliant masses don’t help so much when you don’t know what to do next.  We need original thinkers, provocateurs, and people who care. We need marketers who can lead, salespeople able to risk making a human connection, passionate change makers willing to be shunned if it is necessary for them to make a point. Every organization needs a linchpin, the one person who can bring it together and make a difference. Some organizations haven’t realized this yet, or haven’t articulated it, but we need artists. Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done. That would be you.
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The easier people are to replace, the less they need to be paid. And so far, workers have been complicit in this commoditization. This is your opportunity. The indispensable employee brings humanity and connection and art to her organization. She is the key player, the one who’s difficult to live without, the person you can build something around.
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Instead, you recognize the opportunity of becoming indispensable, highly sought after, and unique. If a Purple Cow is a product that’s worth talking about, the indispensable employee—I call her a linchpin—is a person who’s worth finding and keeping.
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The PERL (Percentage of Easily Replaced Laborers) In the factory era, the goal was to have the highest PERL. Think about it. If you can easily replace most of your workers, you can pay them less. The less you pay them, the more money you make.
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Here’s the problem, which you’ve already guessed. If you make your business possible to replicate, you’re not going to be the one to replicate it. Others will. If you build a business filled with rules and procedures that are designed to allow you to hire cheap people, you will have to produce a product without humanity or personalization or connection. Which means that you’ll have to lower your prices to compete. Which leads to a race to the bottom. Indispensable businesses race to the top instead.
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The original Mechanical Turk was a chess-playing “computer” built in the same year that the Encyclopaedia Britannica was founded. Invented by Wolfgang von Kempelen, the Turk wasn’t actually a computer at all, but merely a box with a small person hidden inside. A person pretending to be a computer.
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The essence of mass production is that every part is interchangeable. Time, space, men, motion, money, and material—each was made more efficient because every piece was predictable and separate. Ford’s discipline was to avoid short-term gains in exchange for always seeking the interchangeable, always standardizing. It only follows, then, that as you eliminate the skilled worker, the finisher, the custom-part maker, then you also save money on wages as you build a company that’s easy to scale. In other words, first you have interchangeable parts, then you have interchangeable workers.  The goal was to hire the lowest-skilled laborer possible, at the lowest possible wage. To do anything else was financial suicide.
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Now, success means being an artist. In fact, history is now being written by the artists while the factory workers struggle. The future belongs to chefs, not to cooks or bottle washers. It’s easy to buy a cookbook (filled with instructions to follow) but really hard to find a chef book.
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There are fewer and fewer good jobs where you can get paid merely for showing up. Instead, successful organizations are paying for people who make a difference and are shedding everyone else. Just about anyone can be trained to show up. Anyone can unlock the door of the local coffee shop in the morning or monitor the dials at the power plant. What does it mean to make a difference? Some jobs are likely to remain poorly paid, low in respect, and high in turnover. These are jobs where attendance (showing up) is all that really matters. Other jobs, the really good jobs, are going to be filled with indispensable people, people who make a difference by doing work that’s really hard to find from anyone else.
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An exceptional performer earns you $30 for every hour he works. A good employee is worth $25 an hour, and a mediocre worker can contribute about $20 an hour in profit. If you can’t tell who’s mediocre and who’s exceptional when you do the hiring, and you want to pay everyone a standard rate, how much should you pay? Well, other than “as little as possible,” the answer is certainly less than $25 an hour. Probably less than $20 an hour. You want every employee to make money, even the mediocre ones. Which means that all your other employees are getting paid less to make up for the ones who contribute the least. The exceptional performers are getting paid a lot less, which is why they should (and will) leave. Exceptional performers are starting to realize that it doesn’t pay to do factory work at factory wages only to subsidize the boss.
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After years of being taught that you have to be an average worker for an average organization, that society would support you for sticking it out, you discover that the rules have changed. The only way to succeed is to be remarkable, to be talked about. But when it comes to a person, what do we talk about? People are not products with features, benefits, and viral marketing campaigns; they are individuals. If we’re going to talk about them, we’re going to discuss what they do, not who they are.
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You don’t become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to be indispensable is to be different. That’s because if you’re the same, so are plenty of other people. The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
THINKING ABOUT YOUR CHOICE
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If you want a job where you get to do more than follow instructions, don’t be surprised if you get asked to do things they never taught you in school. If you want a job where you take intellectual risks all day long, don’t be surprised if your insights get you promoted.
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In a factory, doing a job that’s not yours is dangerous. Now, if you’re a linchpin, doing a job that’s not getting done is essential.
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When your organization becomes more human, more remarkable, faster on its feet, and more likely to connect directly with customers, it becomes indispensable. The very thing that made your employee a linchpin makes YOU a linchpin. An organization of indispensable people doing important work is remarkable, profitable, and indispensable in and of itself.
INDOCTRINATION: HOW WE GOT HERE - Mediocre Obedience
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We’ve been trained to believe that mediocre obedience is a genetic fact for most of the population, but it’s interesting to note that this trait doesn’t show up until after a few years of schooling.
BECOMING THE LINCHPIN
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The law of linchpin leverage: The more value you create in your job, the fewer clock minutes of labor you actually spend creating that value. In other words, most of the time, you’re not being brilliant. Most of the time, you do stuff that ordinary people could do.
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If you don’t have a résumé, what do you have? How about three extraordinary letters of recommendation from people the employer knows or respects? Or a sophisticated project an employer can see or touch? Or a reputation that precedes you? Or a blog that is so compelling and insightful that they have no choice but to follow up? Some say, “Well, that’s fine, but I don’t have those.” Yeah, that’s my point. If you don’t have these things, what leads you to believe that you are remarkable, amazing, or just plain spectacular? It sounds to me like if you don’t have more than a résumé, you’ve been brainwashed into compliance.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO DO HARD WORK IN A CUBICLE?
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Passion isn’t project-specific. It’s people-specific. Some people are hooked on passion, deriving their sense of self from the act of being passionate. Perhaps your challenge isn’t finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen. The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.
THE RESISTANCE
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“Real Artists Ship”
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Shipping isn’t focused on producing a masterpiece (but all master-pieces get shipped). I’ve produced more than a hundred books (most didn’t sell very well), but if I hadn’t, I’d never have had the chance to write this one. Picasso painted more than a thousand paintings, and you can probably name three of them. As we’ll see, the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.
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The reason that start-ups almost always defeat large companies in the rush to market is simple: start-ups have fewer people to coordinate, less thrashing, and more linchpins per square foot. They can’t afford anything else and they have less to lose.
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Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Successful people learn from failure, but the lesson they learn is a different one. They don’t learn that they shouldn’t have tried in the first place, and they don’t learn that they are always right and the world is wrong and they don’t learn that they are losers. They learn that the tactics they used didn’t work or that the person they used them on didn’t respond.
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Going out of your way to find uncomfortable situations isn’t natural, but it’s essential. The resistance seeks comfort. The resistance wants to hide.
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The road to comfort is crowded and it rarely gets you there. Ironically, it’s those who seek out discomfort that are able to make a difference and find their footing.
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Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you’re doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they’re busy hiding out in the comfortable zone. When your uncomfortable actions lead to success, the organization rewards you and brings you back for more.
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You’ve probably guessed what happens when you have a great backup plan: You end up settling for the backup. As soon as you say, “I’ll try my best,” instead of “I will,” you’ve opened the door for the lizard.
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The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.
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In difficult economic times, the resistance explains that we’d better get a steady job, because the world is fraught with uncertainty and this is no time to do something crazy like starting a company. And in great times, of course, the resistance persuades us not to start a company because competition is fierce and hey, salaries are high. “Don’t be stupid,” it says.
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Over time, drip by drip, year by year, the manual was written, the procedures were set, and people were hired to follow the rules. The organization gets extremely efficient at producing a certain output a certain way . . . and then competition or change or technology arrives and the old rules aren’t particularly useful, the old efficiencies not so profitable.
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Fear of living without a map is the main reason people are so insistent that we tell them what to do. The reasons are pretty obvious: If it’s someone else’s map, it’s not your fault if it doesn’t work out. If you’ve memorized the sales script I gave you and you don’t make the sale, who’s in trouble now? Not only does the map insulate us from responsibility, but it’s also a social talisman. We can tell our friends and family that we’ve found a good map, a safe map, a map worthy of respect.
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“I don’t have any good ideas”—actually, you don’t have any bad ideas. If you get enough bad ideas, the good ones will take care of themselves. And as every successful person will tell you, the ideas aren’t the hard part. It’s shipping that’s difficult.
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“I don’t know what to do”—this one is certainly true. The question is, why does that bother you? No one actually knows what to do. Sometimes we have a hunch, or a good idea, but we’re never sure. The art of challenging the resistance is doing something when you’re not certain it’s going to work.
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“I didn’t graduate from [insert brand of some prestigious educational institution here]”—well, MIT is now free online, for anyone who wants to learn. The public library in your town has just about everything you need, and what’s not there is online. Access to knowledge used to matter. No longer.
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The Cult of Done Bre Pettis wrote this manifesto on his blog: 1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion. 2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done. 3. There is no editing stage. 4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it. 5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it. 6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done. 7. Once you’re done you can throw it away. 8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done. 9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right. 10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes. 11. Destruction is a variant of done. 12. If you have an idea and publish it on the Internet, that counts as a ghost of done. 13. Done is the engine of more.
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There’s not a lot to fear when you’re stuck in the dip, not a lot that can threaten your standing. You’re just a hardworking guy, doing your best; how dare someone criticize you? The people who have experienced this and fought back—by quitting when they were stuck—tell me that the feeling of liberation and new potential is incredible. Suddenly, they can get back to doing the work, to making a difference, and to engaging with a community. The hard part is distinguishing between quitting because the resistance wants you to (bad idea) or because the resistance doesn’t want you to (great idea). The goal is to quit the tasks you’re doing because you’re hiding on behalf of the lizard brain and to push through the very tasks the lizard fears.

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Metcalfe’s law says that the value of a network increases with the square of the number of nodes on the network. In English? It says that the more people who have a fax machine, the more fax machines are worth (one person with a fax is useless). The more people who use the Internet, the better it works. The more friends I have who use Twitter, the more the tool is worth to me. Connections are valuable in and of themselves, because they lead to productivity, decreased communication costs, and yes, gifts.
MAKING THE CHOICE
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The Choice You can either fit in or stand out. Not both. You are either defending the status quo or challenging it. Playing defense and trying to keep everything “all right,” or leading and provoking and striving to make everything better. Either you are embracing the drama of your everyday life or you are seeing the world as it is. These are all choices; you can’t have it both ways.
THE SEVEN ABILITIES OF THE LINCHPIN
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When you meet someone, you need to have a superpower. If you don’t, you’re just another handshake. It’s not about touting yourself or coming on too strong. It’s about making the introduction meaningful. If I don’t know your superpower, then I don’t know how you can help me (or I can help you).
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If you want to be a linchpin, the power you bring to the table has to be very difficult to replace. Be bolder and think bigger. Nothing stopping you.


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Proprietary |
For example, a publisher’s or wholesaler’s product number. Note that <IDTypeName> is required with proprietary identifiers |
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ISBN-10 |
International Standard Book Number, pre-2007, unhyphenated (10 characters) – now DEPRECATED in ONIX for Books, except where
providing historical information for compatibility with legacy systems. It should only be used in relation to products published
before 2007 – when ISBN-13 superseded it – and should never be used as the ONLY identifier (it should always be accompanied
by the correct GTIN-13 / ISBN-13)
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GTIN-13 |
GS1 Global Trade Item Number, formerly known as EAN article number (13 digits) |
| 04 |
UPC |
UPC product number (12 digits) |
| 05 |
ISMN-10 |
International Standard Music Number (M plus nine digits). Pre-2008 – now DEPRECATED in ONIX for Books, except where providing
historical information for compatibility with legacy systems. It should only be used in relation to products published before
2008 – when ISMN-13 superseded it – and should never be used as the ONLY identifier (it should always be accompanied by the
correct ISMN-13)
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DOI |
Digital Object Identifier (variable length and character set) |
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LCCN |
Library of Congress Control Number (12 characters, alphanumeric) |
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GTIN-14 |
GS1 Global Trade Item Number (14 digits) |
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ISBN-13 |
International Standard Book Number, from 2007, unhyphenated (13 digits starting 978 or 9791–9799) |
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The number assigned to a publication as part of a national legal deposit process |
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Uniform Resource Name: note that in trade applications an ISBN must be sent as a GTIN-13 and, where required, as an ISBN-13
– it should not be sent as a URN
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OCLC number |
A unique number assigned to a bibliographic item by OCLC |
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Co-publisher’s ISBN-13 |
An ISBN-13 assigned by a co-publisher. The ‘main’ ISBN sent with ID type code 03 and/or 15 should always be the ISBN that
is used for ordering from the supplier identified in Supply Detail. However, ISBN rules allow a co-published title to carry
more than one ISBN. The co-publisher should be identified in an instance of the <Publisher> composite, with the applicable
<PublishingRole> code
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ISMN-13 |
International Standard Music Number, from 2008 (13-digit number starting 9790) |
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ISBN-A |
Actionable ISBN, in fact a special DOI incorporating the ISBN-13 within the DOI syntax. Begins ‘10.978.’ or ‘10.979.’ and
includes a / character between the registrant element (publisher prefix) and publication element of the ISBN, eg 10.978.000/1234567.
Note the ISBN-A should always be accompanied by the ISBN itself, using codes 03 and/or 15
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JP e-code |
E-publication identifier controlled by JPOIID’s Committee for Research and Management of Electronic Publishing Codes |
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OLCC number |
Unique number assigned by the Chinese Online Library Cataloging Center (see http://olcc.nlc.gov.cn) |
| 29 |
JP Magazine ID |
Japanese magazine identifier, similar in scope to ISSN but identifying a specific issue of a serial publication. Five digits
to identify the periodical, plus a hyphen and two digits to identify the issue
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UPC12+5 |
Used only with comic books and other products which use the UPC extension to identify individual issues or products. Do not
use where the UPC12 itself identifies the specific product, irrespective of any 5-digit extension – use code 04 instead
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BNF Control number |
Numéro de la notice bibliographique BNF |
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ARK |
Archival Resource Key, as a URL (including the address of the ARK resolver provided by eg a national library) |
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Installation¶
This document will guide you through the installation of the nefi project. We offer installation support for some of the most popular operating system. Please take a deeper look into you OS section.
Windows¶
For Windows Nefi 2.0 provides a .exe file that install all the dependencies of the software and run it.
MacOSX¶
Linux¶
Make sure you have your python3 installed before the following steps below.
NetworkX¶
# pip3 install networkx
demjson¶
# pip3 install demjson
PyQt5¶
For build and use PyQt5 you must install before SIP. Download the package from the link and then unpack it. Then you need to configure executing configure.py:
# python3.4 configure.py
Then build and install it:
# make
# make install
After the successfull installation of SIP download PyQt5. Configure it executing configure.py:
# python3.4 configure.py
Then build and install it:
# make
# make install
OpenCV¶
To compile OpenCV you need to clone the repository on your system and then install it by the commands:
# git clone https://github.com/Itseezopencv.git
# git checkout 3.1.0
# mkdir relase
# cd relase
# cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELASE -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$ (python3 -c "import sys; print(sys.prefix)") -D PYTHON_EXECUTABLE=$(which python3) ..
# make j4
# sudo make install


HTML Rouguelike Game
Press Space to start.
This is a HTML 5 rouguelike RPG, it's a very long way from being complete and is in a very bare bones stage. While I made it without any framework I am thinking about switching to Enchant.js to make the transition to mobile easier. I plan on making a demo for this 3x3 map but hopefully will expand to a 9x9 to 16x16 map.
This is incomplete so there is no download avaivlable.


Welcome to my beer page!
My name is Justin, welcome!
I have a passion for making beer! It has become one of my favorite things!!
Making beer is really easy, all you have to do is follow simple directions! Can you make oatmeal? Can you boil water? If you answered yes to both of these questions, then you're already skilled enough to make your own beer!
Here are some simple instructions on how to make beer!
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And here are some recipes that I like!
| Belgian Wit |
| Chocolate Stout |
If you want more resources on making beer, here is a great website that is clearly thorough and a great resource for myself! How To Brew by John Palmer


tell us your speed & distance and we’ll estimate your time to complete the ride
tell us your distance and time and we’ll tell you the avg. speed you need to make it
tell us the time you’d like to bike for and avg. speed and we’ll figure out the total distance of your ride
If you maintain an avg. speed of 15 mph you will complete your 25 mile bike ride in:
To complete a 25 mile bike ride in 50 minutes you will need to bike at a speed of:
If you bike for 50 min at an average speed of 12 mph you will travel a total distance of:


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