So many are so quick to think ill of others, to spread calumny and give out malicious gossip, that the man who reverses this debased trend minds his own business is coming closer to spirituality than he perhaps knows himself. What historian has complete and true information on any past event or obscure personage when he does not even have it on any present event or celebrated personage? Unless business or duty brings the responsibility into our hands, it is fairer to refrain from sitting in judgment. The man who respects himself will not degrade others. He will have eyes open enough to see the sordid evil in men yet a World-view large enough not to become cynical about them. What is the use of reproaching a fly for not being a bird or for its inability to travel as far or look as beautiful? Yet this is what they do who deplore others’ bad behaviour and spiritual ignorance. By blaming other persons, one’s own ego is served by its implied superiority. Ignorance and immaturity in others should call forth, not his irritability, but his patience. The largest activity in the World is criticism, the smallest creation. We aspirants ought not to waste our time or sully our minds to criticize the weakness of others. There are countless people in this World who expend their energies in this useless task. It brings them no gain. It keeps them tied to the lower nature. It attracts Worldly troubles to them. We are to be as constructive and optimistic as they are destructive and negative. This will lessen the disharmony in our surroundings and increase the harmony in our hearts. #RandolphHarris 1 of 25

“I have been told by other women that immediately after the birth of a baby, your desire for pleasures of the flesh wanes—probably because you do not want another child in nine months!—but then the desire comes back even stronger. That’s how it was for me. When we were trying to have a child, we were trying so hard it was pretty terrible, but once I was pregnant, it was great. Then after we had her—we have a daughter—it waned, but now it’s even better than ever. So I wonder whether his isn’t one reason why woman have stronger drives for pleasures of the flesh when they get older?” The question is too complex to answer in detail today, because it involves both psychological and physiological elements. So permit me to put aside the issue of whether desire for pleasures of the flesh occurs at a later age for the female and I will concentrate on the physiological aspects of female responsiveness after childbirth. Many women in a relatively happy marriage are not fully responsive with pleasures of the flesh until after the birth of a first baby, and there is a physical reason for this. Responsiveness in regard to pleasures of the flesh for a woman, just as for a man, is inevitably accompanied by a concentration of blood in the pelvis. The amount of blood supplied to the pelvis changes through pregnancy and childbirth, and this affects responsivity—especially a woman’s awareness of feelings for pleasures of the flesh. #RandolphHarris 2 of 25

From about the third to the sixth month of pregnancy, there is usually a high level of demand for pleasures of the flesh. You seem to have noticed that, and it was a happy contrast to the period when you were first trying to become pregnant, when you forced yourself to make the effort. However, you mentioned a waning of desire after childbirth—and this reflects, among other things, the fact that your ovaries were not functioning yet. The ovaries stop functioning at about the second or third month of pregnancy, and they do not start again until anywhere from six weeks to three months after you have given birth. If you nurse your baby, it may take an extra month or six weeks. What does all this add up to? Well, it means that demand for pleasures of the flesh can be expected to return a couple of months after childbirth, and when it does, it may well be stronger than before because now you have a greatly increased vascular supply to the pelvis, much greater than you ever had before. “My wife and I have been talking about having a baby, and she keeps telling me that she isn’t sure she wants to start a family. But it seems to me she’s kidding herself and she really wants me to decide that we will have one.” I certainly do not want to find myself stepping into the middle of a battle. However, somewhere along the line, Mother Nature talks to every female. There is, I am convinced, an innate female demand to reproduce. Some women, of course, make a deliberate commitment, for their own valued reasons, to certain goals in life that preclude motherhood. #RandolphHarris 3 of 25

However, the demand to reproduce is real; it is a tremendous instinct. It may not be too much of a factor for many women when they are twenty-three, twenty-four—but when thirty-three or thirty-four rolls around without pregnancy, the gal looks in the mirror and says, “Well, how much time do I have, oh Lord?” “When a man says that at thirty-three or thirty-four, he has something entirely different in mind!” It is popular, I know, to point out the difference between men and women, but I have to tell you that from the beginning of our work, what has impressed us most have been the similarities, not the differences, between the genders. Not only physically but emotionally—and we are talking specifically about functioning involving pleasures of the flesh. Men and women are incredibly and constantly similar. Oh, there are a few basic—basic and happy biological difference that we all enjoy. And there are a couple of other differences that are far less obvious. For instance, there is no question that the human female is infinitely more effective as a sexual entity than the male ever dreamed of being. Her potential capacity to respond to effective stimulation of intimate passions is almost unlimited. Nature simply built her that way. This is her natural facility. If the male capacity to produce the “vital lifeforce” is compared to the female capacity to produce eggs, on the other hand, it is plain that the male is infinitely more fertile than the female ever dreamed of being. By comparison she is an astonishingly sterile create! #RandolphHarris 4 of 25

The other difference that I want to mention is just an interesting sidelight. Recently, as you may know, there has been a good deal of research on sleep patterns. In our laboratory, we have observed husbands and wives to see whether they move differently in their sleep, depending on whether they have or have not had a climax release. Observers discovered that in the first hour after sleep, the post-climaxed female usually moves nearer the male. If he is removed from the bed, the sleeping female still reaches for him, and in one out of every two cases she will settle in his place. Would anyone care to guess about the behaviour of the male? “He moves into another bed.” Not quite. The man stays put. Of course, we are talking in terms of percentages. This differential response was not universal. However, the dictations seem reasonably clear and quite fascinating—that the female, the postorgasmic female has a subconscious need to relate, to remain in touch with her partner. The male does not need to relate physically to the degree that the female evidences. There may be a physiological factor operating here. As we mentioned a moment ago, the woman’s natural capacity for repetitive response of pleasures of the flesh is far greater than that of the man. The fact that she reaches out for him in her sleep while he tends to stay where he is may be a reflection of a difference in their capacities for pleasures of the flesh. #RandolphHarris 5 of 25

Even in sleep, she may seek to continue interactions of pleasures of the flesh while he is satiated and seeks nothing more. On the other hand, her sleep behaviour may reflect her acceptance of the traditional female role of being receptive for pleasures of the flesh rather than indicating any active desire. However, I am afraid that this discussion, as interesting as it is, is based on speculation and has taken us away from the more immediate and very real concerns that young couples are encountering in marriage. “I was just wondering…does a marriage work out best over the years if the husband and wife place more emphasis on the emotional than the physical side? Because after you’ve been married for a while, making love just isn’t the same sensational thing it used to be when you were dating. So you have to deal with it differently. You learn to appreciate it for what it is—an act of communication. It’s part of what keep two people together. But you don’t expect it to be the way it was in the beginning.” Nothing feels the same way it did in the beginning—and some things become better than they were then! Of course, the first flush of excitement, the first taste of the unknown, this is always memorable and can never be duplicated—and I am not talking about pleasures of the flesh alone. The first dance, the first kiss—the first time is unlike any other that follows. And yet, because a later experience often unfolds out of an earlier one, it can prove to be more mysterious or more wonderful than the one before. It is a cliché that we become older and wiser, but clichés are often true. And “wiser” simply means that we can do more things, do them better—and appreciate them more. #RandolphHarris 6 of 25

It is no different with marriage. I do not want to sound like Wally Cleaver—or like Ozzie Nelson, either!—but let me assure you that marriages can become deeper and richer and more intense over a period of time as your commitment to each other becomes reinforced by all the experiences, good and bad, that you share. This is not true for all marriages, of course, it may not even be true for most marriages. However, it has proved true for some marriages—and since that is the case, why should it not be possible for yours? All I am trying to say—and saying it poorly, I am afraid—is that marriages may grow, or fail to grow, depending on whether the husband and wife develop greater trust in each other, more confidence in themselves and increased pleasures in their relationship—their emotional and their physical relationship—because they are really two sides of the same coin. The existence of pleasure with intimate passions testifies to the quality of that man-woman relationship. It adds a dimension to your marriage and makes life itself more rewarding. If you and your husband are vital, growing individuals, different today from what you were yesterday, and if you can communicate this growth not only emotionally and philosophically but also with pleasures of the flesh, your marriage, over the years, will remain vital and creative. However, there are times, occasions, situations, and responsibilities which may make fair criticism a moral duty. #RandolphHarris 7 of 25

Yet, no aspirant can fall into the all-too-common habit of criticizing for its own sake, much less for malice’s sake, without thwarting his spiritual progress. Condemning others for their real or supposed sins is even worse. From the time that he perceives that he does not and can not know all the circumstances, he ceases to condemn others. It is not for him to judge others, for this would imply finding fault with the divine World-Idea, of which they are a part. He knows well that, in their own proper time, they will unfold their better characteristics. Since every man is guided in his mind by, or is in the end-result of, his own experience of life, it is conceit to act as a judge and criticize his actions. If he were perfect, he would not be born at all. Of what use, then, is blaming him? Since every man is—by the mere fact of his reincarnation here on Earth—admittedly imperfect, no other man has the right to upbraid him for this and yet become indignant when his own imperfections are pointed out and condemned. There is a certain quality missing from their psychological makeup which Saint Paul called “charity” and which is the outcome of broad views and generous feelings, of spiritual insight and mental serenity. It is this lack which accounts for the harsh, unfair, prejudiced, and even spiteful treatment which they afford me. Nevertheless, it is not my duty as a student of philosophy to blame them for not possessing a quality which, after all, is not a part of their goal, but to display it towards them myself. And in the last reckoning it does not matter how people—even reputedly spiritual people—behave to me, but it does matter how ai behave to them. He may register what others are by the measure of his own sensitivity, but he must not set up to judge, criticize, and condemn them. If you are to love men, you must expect little of them. #RandolphHarris 8 of 25

For a long while it has seemed to me that there is a natural depth in man’s experience that is little known to the outer social man. I will wander in this depth to show something of its unique ways, language, and outlook on the outer World. Client-centered therapy is one means of letting come forth some of the personal meanings from this depth. The subtle air of reflecting everything back to the client will usually annoy them because it is an artificial game by which the therapist remains free of even meeting the client. There is a growing confluence of people in psychology and kindred disciplines who move in the direction of humanism while respectful of science. The confluence can be as large as the humanities themselves. Science and humanism have different aims, though they can be productive brethren. Humanism can supply root questions and root speculations of man together with raw data of human experience—phenomenological descriptions. The science of psychology can be considerably enriched by this data; yet the aim of science is toward the communal, common, consensually validated—what is general or lawful and can be measured and shown consistently by publicly agreed upon methods. On the negative side, science can see humanism as vague in method, inconsistent, and unsure in results. Humanism, on the other hand, can well see in science a great monster that eats up the test protocols of 1,000 people to spew out one or two generalities. #RandolphHarris 9 of 25

Science digests uniqueness and turns it to the generally valid. Humanism can gain from science methods which would increase the validity and reliability of observation, while science can get from humanism the varied, proactive and question-awakening richness of individual experience. These should be two side of the same coin. It always requires a technical breakthrough to move sperm-egg colonies to a higher altitude—a higher velocity. A gene pool is a species-unit capable of protecting its young over several generations. Marauding bands of astronauts, like Francis Drake and Johny Wanye, are beginning probe. However, nothing happens until the family-units move together. You see, the King-Emperor does not want to migrate. He does not want to leave the seat of Imperial power and luxury. The feudal society cannot migrate, which is likely why Catholic countries could not pull it off. The Holders of the Land have to stay on the land. Feudal Catholic-Monarchies are flashy in the first stage of opening-up of a new ecological niche. The second-born sons, the Dukes’ younger brothers, sail off with crack-troops to establish secure footholds. It was generic folly for Spaniards to make with Paleolithic natives. Nonetheless, permanent military settlements have to breed with the natives and the mestizo result is uniformly disastrous because the second-string, invasive male-warriors mate down with intellectually unrealized conquered females. A gene pool is a species-unit capable of protecting its young over several generations. #RandolphHarris 10 of 25

Under all this stress and change, and the need to keep cool in order to get what he wants, good or bad, the male adolescent becomes more aware of his bodily reactions. His mother and father can no longer surround him with love and protection, or on the other hand, he is no longer inclined simply to cower before their range, drunkenness, whining, or brawls. Whatever the situation at home, he is on his own outside. He must rise before his fellows and recite, and walk down long and often lonely corridors under the critical gaze of other boys and girls, many of whom already know his weaknesses. So sometimes he sweats aromatically, his hands shake, his heart pounds; girls blush, their clothes become moist, and their stomachs gurgle. In both genders, there is an assorted loosening and tightening up of various internal and external sphincters, and this reorganization in the long run may determine which “psychosomatic” illnesses will play a major role in their scripts. Jeder becomes sphincterized. Now, what can you do about anger? There is no denying that it comes up. And when it does, the result is almost never pleasant. You cannot ignore it, yet you are not likely to cherish it either. Getting very angry can cause you to hurt other people. Refusing to get angry can cause a great deal of internal damage to you. So what can you do? “Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun do down upon your wrath,” reports Ephesians 4.26. #RandolphHarris 11 of 25

If you are a manipulator who is stuck on the anger polarity, you hold on to it. It accumulates within you and, in time, explodes like a pressure cooker. By the time this happens, you are so relieved to be expressing the anger that you get a certain perverse pleasure from showing people your hostility. Result: your relationships suffer. When they are around you, people feel the need to proceed very cautiously so they avoid being around you. Ironically, this isolation does little more than reinforce your anger. If you are a master, you have learned to express your anger on a “cash and carry” basis, expressing it whenever it comes up from within, so that you do not build up an “anger debt” which explodes when it is overdue. As a master, you understand that hostility from others is a projection of their own repressed or unexpressed anger from the past, and that you are not really the target. You also know that you have a natural restraining function within yourself that prevents you from too much expression of anger. Functioning as a master, you recognize your need to express your intense anger occasionally, perhaps by hitting a couch or bed, chopping wood, or in some way releasing your repressed tension. After such a session, you are even able to reach a level of hurt, feeling your vulnerability, and perhaps cry. Eventually, this leads to a feeling or personal well-being. When you are able to express your minor irritations to another on a regular basis, you then become aware of your opposite values of love and caring for that person. This makes your relationship much more pleasant and exciting. Your relationships flow naturally from negative to beneficial feelings and back. #RandolphHarris 12 of 25

Well-loved children feel and express affection for parents, siblings, friends, and animals. As they grow and become socialized to their gender roles, and ultimately their occupational and community roles, they can lose the capacity to feel affection and tender concern for others. Men of our culture especially appear to be subject to a “tenderness taboo.” Their relationship with other men frequently are limited to reserved expressions of friendship or competition in work or in games. The male role, as socially defined, impels many men to regard affection and tender solicitude between men as evidence of homosexuality or effeminacy. Women are encouraged, by contrast, to be more open in experiencing and expressing their affection. There is evidence that such rigid differentiation between the genders is breaking down in America and other Western countries, so that men can be softer, less aggressive, and more affectionate in their relationships with others, regardless of age or gender. From the perspective of healthy personality, such liberation from rigid gender roles is good for men, women, and children alike, and may even add years to the typical male life expectancy. Affection is life-giving, both for the object of the affection and the one who is feeling and bestowing it. “Yea, and cry unto God for all thy support; yea, let all thy doings be unto the Lord, and whithersoever thou goest let it be in the Lord; yea, let all thy thoughts be directed unto the Lord; yea, let the affections of thy heart be placed upon the Lord forever,” reports Alma 37.36. #RandolphHarris 13 of 25

If metaphysical rebellion refuses to assent and restricts itself to absolute negation, it condemns itself to passive acceptance. If it prostrates itself in adoration of what exists and renounces its right to dispute any part of reality, it is sooner or later compelled to act. Ivan Karamazov—who represents non-interference, but in a dolorous aspect—stands halfway between the two positions. Rebel poetry, at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, constantly oscillated between these two extremes: between literature and the will to power, between the irrational and the rational, the desperate dream and ruthless action. The rebel poets—above all, the surrealists—light the way that leads from passive acceptance to action, along a spectacular short-cut. Mr. Hawthrone was able to say of Mr. Melville that, as an unbeliever, he was extremely uneasy in his unbelief. It can equally well be said of the poets who rushed to assault the Heavens, with the intent of turning everything upside down, that by so doing they affirmed their desperate nostalgia for order. As an ultimate contradiction, they wanted to extract reason from unreason and to systematize the irrational. These heirs of romanticism claimed to make poetry exemplary and to find, in its most harrowing aspects, the real way of life. They define blasphemy and transformed poetry into experience and into a means of action. #RandolphHarris 14 of 25

Until their time, those who claimed to make poetry exemplary and to find, its most harrowing aspects, the real way of life. They defined blasphemy and transformed poetry into experience and into a means of action. Until their time those who claimed to influence men and events, at least in the Occident, did so in the name of rational rules. On the contrary, surrealism, after Mr. Rimbaud, wanted to find constructive rules in insanity and destruction. Mr. Rimbaud, through his work and only through his work, pointed out the path, but with the blinding, momentary illumination of a flash of lightning. Surrealism excavated this path and codified its discoveries. By its excesses as well as by its retreats, it gave the last and most magnificent expression to a practical theory of irrational rebellion at the very same time when, on another path, rebellious thought was founding the cult of absolute reason. Mr. Lautreamont and Mr. Rimbaud—its sources of inspiration—demonstrate by what stages the irrational desire to accept appearances can lead the rebel to adopt courses of action completely destructive to freedom. The most important thing to consider in the twenty-first century is that the youth of this nation who, thanks to the criminal corruption of our parliamentary do-nothings, have received to real training on how to be patriotic Americas and have been handed over to the enemy as defenseless kids, sacked with debt. Should American be a confederation of states or one national central government? To end divisions and slavery, we need the honest will and intent of our leaders almost without exception to an honourable, upright, and proper outcome. #RandolphHarris 15 of 25

The Sacramento Fire Department is considered an “All Hazards” Fire Department. In addition to fire response, Sacramento Firefighters respond to Medical Emergencies, Hazardous Materials Incidents, Technical Rescue and Maritime Emergencies. The Sacramento Fire Department also provides Fire Investigation and Prevention, as well as Community Education. The Sacramento Fire Department is the primary provider for Emergency Medical Services within the City of Sacramento. All Frontline Companies are equipped to provide “Advanced Life Support. “X and I were putting gear away on the truck after a high-rise fire of no great consequence, when we heard a report on the radio of a helicopter crash in the river. It was an afternoon in April. They were sending a full assignment of three engines and two trucks over there. I told Lieutenant Y of the report and asked, ‘Do you want us to take it in?’ He said, ‘Tell them we’re going. We’ll put the scuba equipment on en route.’ It was only a five-minute ride away. When we got there, there were many police officers and the firemen from Rescue Z. Some of the men were in the water with cold water survival suits, some just in their uniforms, helping the people who were on the surface of water. A and I went down to the pier to where the helicopter was in the water. It was upside down, and the tail rotor was just visible on the surface. The fuselage dipped downward at a severe angle into the river and was bobbing up and down, with a small rope tied to it to keep it from being swept away. #RandolphHarris 16 of 25

“In the confusion there, I found out that, unlike commercial airliners, shuttle helicopters don’t a passenger list. So they weren’t sure of exactly how many people were in there. It was right near a floating dock, so it was relatively easy getting into the water when the lieutenant have me the go-ahead. I worked my way underwater to the front of the helicopter and went in. It was laid out like a van-type school bus, with rows of seats four across. I had to twist around to get fully into the helicopter. The were personal items floating around, some seat cushions and other obstructions. I was about ten feet below the surface of the water, wondering if the chopper would sink. I went row by row and didn’t find anything. When I reached the back of the helicopter, I remember thinking, ‘There probably isn’t anybody here.” Then I came across a man who was strapped upside down in the seat farthest away from me. He was a fairly heavy man, about 225 pounds. I couldn’t lift him enough to release the buckle, so I had to take my knife and cut the seat belt. I brought him to the surface, and they started resuscitating him right away. They did get a heartbeat, and they took him to the hospital, but he died two hours later from heart failure. He was a German businessman. We did everything we could. We did get him going again, and we felt good about that, but it was a little too traumatic for him. He had a heart attack. I suppose that’s why he couldn’t get himself out of the seat belt in the first place. #RandolphHarris 17 of 25

“I made another dive down to check the helicopter again, then to the bottom of the river to see if there was anybody else. They took me out and got me to the hospital of ingestion of polluted water and hypothermia from the cold water. It was one of the initial successes in scuba rescue, if you could term it a success. It proved that the scuba team concept in the fire department was an effective one. There were some people against spending any money to equip us. I was recently involved in two rescues within twenty-six days of each other. Both turned out to be pretty dramatic for me. The first was in a partially demolished hotel. We arrived with the first engine and the fire truck. I had been to the building before, so I was familiar with the layout. I knew that the fire escapes were partially destroyed and unusable. I knew that large portions of the top of the building had been removed in illegal demolition. On this particular job, there were two or three floors of heavy fire in the rear building. I was helping B Engine stretch a line up the stairs when we got a handie-talkie message that there was a victim on the fire floor, which was the fourth. The fire was coming down the hall from the back apartments and starting to vent into the staircase. I told the nozzle man I was going to go up. He advised against it because there was a malfunction in the pumps, and there wasn’t going to be any water until the second pumper came through. Knowing there was a victim trapped on the roof, and knowing the layout of the building, I felt fairly secure, and I continued up the staircase. I was being chased, though, by some pretty hot some, real hot, and I just burst out on the roof. A few minutes later there was a fire rushing through the doorway I had come through. On the roof I saw Lieutenant C, who had done virtually the same thing I did after hearing the report. #RandolphHarris 18 of 25

“We came across twin brothers, twenty-two years old, who were huddled in a corner. They were kind of young bums—homeless people would be a better way to put it. They were living in this partially demolished vacant building. Now there was no way down the interior or down the fire escape in the rear, and the aerial ladder wouldn’t reach from the side. We have to bring them to the front, where an aerial was being places in position. But much of the roof had been removed, leaving only a bare steel I-beam, which was about eight inches wide and about fifteen feet long, sticking out into nothing seven stories into the air. We saw that we had to walk across the beam to get to the ladder; it was the only way, and we knew it. Conditions were rapidly deteriorating. We now had fire on the roof and in the rear, and smoke was coming up through the demolished lower portions of the top floors in front of us. The smoke was starting to obscure the beam and the ladder, so we had to get there quickly. I tied a rope to one of the victims, the lieutenant took the other end, went across the beam, and tied it to the aerial ladder. We guided the first guy across the bean to the ladder. I then had to get the second civilian across, but conditions were now so severe there was no time to tie him. I forced him out onto the beam. He did not want to go. I asked him if he could fly. I don’t think he got it, because he just gave me a blank look. He was scared. I cussed at him a little bit, urged him, and finally got his butt in gear. Well, I got him across the beam anyway. When he got to the end of the beam, he grabbed the lieutenant and just froze. He wouldn’t do anything we told him. I realized we were in a tight situation, like being on the edge of a diving board seventy feet above the ground. So I had to swing myself around to the aerial ladder, around the lieutenant, who was like a stabilizer, and the victim. Then we hoisted him bodily onto the ladder, for he was like a stiff, and moved him down to the street. All in a day’s work. #RandolphHarris 19 of 25

Well, just twenty-six days later we’re in quarters, and a report comes in that a helicopter, another helicopter, has crashed in the river. We started off immediately, getting into our scuba gear en route. At the scene there was some confusion, a lot of people trying to give us a lot of information quickly. The biggest obstacle at this point was the vertical drop about eighteen feet from the dock down to the water. The area was another berth for large ships, and was pretty deep. I was lowered by Captain D on a rope, and I swam out to where E was on one of the rotor blades underwater. The helicopter had settled at an angle on the bottom, in twenty-odd feet of water. I dove down and swam until I got to the front of the helicopter and found a door, where a part of the canopy had broken apart from the impact. I pulled the door open, and right there was the pilot of the helicopter. I vividly remember him wearing a white shirt. I shook him, and he did not respond. If he had, I would have given him the octopus to let him breathe air underwater. I discounted that possibility as a waste of time. I got his seat belt off him and removed him to the surface as quickly as possible. I turned him over to the four divers and firemen who were there. I immediately went back down and followed the same route into the helicopter. I was surprised to see that the other seat was empty. But I figured that there had to be somebody in there, because I remembered hearing that there were two people in the copter when it crashed. #RandolphHarris 20 of 25

“It was a two-passenger helicopter, a lot smaller than the other one. I swam completely into the helicopter, and in the back I found the passenger, a woman floating but wedged in with some seating equipment and pieces of broken canopy. I grabbed her, worked her out of the spot, and immediately brought her to the surface and handed her over. I tilted her head back to see if we could clear her airway. I looked across the water to the eighteen-foot-high pier. They were tying a rope around the first victim, the pilot, and giving him mouth-to-mouth while they were still in the water. They swam the woman over. I had been hyperventilating a little bit, so I took a thirty-second break. I went back down to search the bottom to make sure there was nobody else, because there were conflicting reports that somebody may have jumped in to help these people. I did that and found nothing. I did a secondary search of the helicopter and found the pilot’s headset with his name on it. Not knowing whose helicopter this was at that point, I took the headset to the surface, figuring it might help to identify the helicopter and the people involved. I got up on the dock and saw the firemen and the EMS personnel frantically working on the two victims, with a crowd of police, reporters and cameramen hovering around. It was a strange scene. I remember seeing the polit, G, take his first breath on his own, and it felt like a great weight was lifted off me. #RandolphHarris 21 of 25

“I think firemen work somehow on a feeling of guilt. I don’t know how to describe it, really. You do have limited capabilities when you get to these emergency situations. You have your training, you have your tools. But then things go wrong. Things weren’t going right for these people. The helicopter not only crashed, it crashed into the water, so besides injuries, now you have to contend with drowning. And somehow we managed to revive G, and I felt better as soon as I saw him breathe. I then started to get a bit emotional. I withdrew from the crowd and for a minute or two just stood by myself and regained my composure. Then I started the round-robin of television interviews. H, may she rest in peace, despite all efforts to revive her, was pronounced dead a few hours later in the hospital. And I mean, they worked on her, but it was not to be. But G has had a tremendous recovery. He must have been in the water eight or nine minutes with no air. He did get some severe shoulder injuries, a lot of broken bones, a broken jaw. He has pretty much recovered. I stay in touch with his family, and they give me progress reports on how he is doing. Again the scuba had come through and showed how successful it is. One of the firemen got a boy out of the river after nearly an hour and he survived. It’s things like some of these crashes that give meaning to all the hard work and all the drilling. We can actually save people’s lives with scuba. It’s not a matter of body recovery anymore, it’s an actual rescue operation, and that’s how we approach it.” #RandolphHarris 22 of 25

In 2024, Americans spent $100 billion on Japanese cars. In a afford to help America pull through the massive national deficit, please buy American made cars. American made cars used to be the envy of the World and because American car brands are offering a wide range of options, from family SUVs to electric vehicles and luxury sedans, we are now seeing a resurging interest. American made cars are equal or superior to those made overseas. The Chevrolet Trax, for instance, is a well-designed, fuel efficient, and safe SUV. American food imports have risen by 300 percent since 1999. American farmland declined by nearly 20 million acres between 2017 and 2022. As of 2022, there were 880.1 million acres of land dedicated to farming, compared to 900.1 million in 2017. The data shows there are now little more than 1.9 million farms in the country.  Americans and American corporations spent $136 billion on food and beverages from other countries. It is a national security risk to lose American Farms and farmers. If there is a war, and most of our meat, produce, poultry, dairy, and fruit is coming from foreign counties, we stand the risk of starving. With war breaking out all over the World, in these uncertain times, it is very important to bring American farms back. We can protect American farmland and support American farmers by buying American made beef, poultry, dairy, and produce. As money flows, it influences further investment. #RandolphHarris 23 of 25

Save the land that sustains us by protecting American farmland. Once the land is built on, we lose it forever. Also, to ensure that we have farmland for future use, we need to start limiting the number of people allowed to immigrant to America. Perhaps with the immigrants we do allow into America, there needs to be a diversity program to make sure we have a populations that equally represents all races of people. If Americans continue to spend money on American products, then more need to be made to keep up the inventory. When investors notice these goods are selling, it gives them the confidence to pour more money into that local business. It shows that people want these goods made in America and pressures investors to keep these goods and services in America. The jobs stay here, the business stays in American, wages naturally increase, and more money is invested to keep up with demand. This reduces the burden on the taxpayer. When you support American businesses, that money stays in our economy and can help to reduce the national debt. The government creates debt by borrowing from businesses in the private sector or from foreign countries. It also increases the national debt by spending more than it gains in tax revenue in a fiscal year. When people shop locally, more tax money stays in the economy and goes to the government. This way, it keeps more money in our national economy and keeps more jobs located in American which also sends more taxes to the government, which can again help to reduce the national debt. #RandolphHarris 24 of 25

When you buy foreign goods, these companies usually have lighter tax loads or exemptions, meaning less money for the nation debt, plus you are helping to strengthen these foreign nations by send more money overseas. Buying American made products is also better for the environment and helps to reduce the carbon footprint because these products do not have to travel nearly as far. Furthermore, American companies and manufacturers are held to much higher standards in regard to pollution. American companies have to be more careful about air, land, and water pollution and have proper ways to dispose of waste. Moreover, please remember to respect law and order and treat your elders with the utmost dignity and kindness possible. And take your education seriously so that you will be successful in life and make your family proud. It is inborn in the human minds to wish to know. If this begins with the endless surface questions of a child’s curiosity, if it continues into deeper questions of a scientist’s probing investigation, it cannot and does not stop there. For the higher part of the mind will eventually come into unfoldment, that union of abstract reflective thought with mystical intuition, which is true intelligence, which needs and sees a view of the whole of things. And so, the knowing faculty enters the realm of philosophy.  I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic, for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. #RandolphHarris 25 of 25

Ventris Place

Laguna Park, CA | From the Mid 500’s

Now Selling!

Welcome to the New Fabulous Forties! This intimate enclave of 37 homesites with available one- and two-story floorplans is the place to be in Sacramento. Waking up to a home you love sets just the right tone for what is ahead. Ventris Place offers beautifully designed homes. Danville, Residence 4, has 3 to 4 bedrooms and a loft across 1,846 square feet of living space.

Danville gives two levels, each one with its own defining purpose to create exactly what you need and want in the moment. Your home will flex with you, whether you need to invite work or play right into your comfort zone.

There are also nooks that conjure up a visionary escape, welcoming you to lounge or create for the perfect work love balance. A main level with sweeping, open spaces and down to earth textures and tones, is designed with all the luxury details and faraway feels, much like the extended Laguna Park neighbourhood it occupies.

Organically designed to pull the outdoors and the indoors out, you can dine alfresco right of your gourmet kitchen or make the night bright, sitting on your side yard, for an entirely fresh perspective. A setting that is as cool as it is calm, elegant, and ready for the way you want to live.

You will enjoy this home for generations to come. Just a few steps from your door and located in the Elk Grove School District, enjoy the features of the 22 acres North Laguna Creek Park, which includes paved paths, tennis courts, a basketball court, playgrounds, picnic areas, ball fields and 119-acre Wildlife Area and Interpretive Trail.

Your new home is within walking distance to Cosumnes River College and Regal RA Laguna Village and 24-Hour Fitness Laguna Sport Gym. Also, in close proximity to Kaiser Medical Centers, Winco Foods, Shell and Chevron gas stations and highway 99.

This is the perfect community for those who are on the go, or just want to enjoy life at a slower place. The convenience is uniquely charming. https://nextgenerationcapital.us/new-homes-elk-grove-ventris-place/

How often have Ι lain beneath rain under a strange roof thinking of home. Welcome to Ventris Place, a home for generations.

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