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Continuation from the first part
1. Marriage is a personal union, intended for the whole of life, of husband and wife.
Marriage differs from other valued personal relationships in conveying a full union of husband and wife- including a sexual, emotional, financial, legal, spiritual, and parental union. Marriage is not the ratification of an existing relation; it is the beginning of a new relationship between a man and woman, who pledge their sexual fidelity to one another, promise loving mutual care and support, and form a family that welcomes and nurtures the children that may spring from their union. This understanding of marriage has predominated in Europe and America for most of the past two thousand years. It springs from the biological, psychological, and social complementarity of the male and female sexes: Women typically bring to marriage important gifts and perspectives that men typically do not bring, just as men bring their own special gifts and perspectives that women typically cannot provide in the same way. This covenant of mutual dependence and obligation, solemnized by a legal oath, is strengthened by the pledge of permanence that husband and wife offer to one another-always to remain, never to flee, even and especially in the most difficult times.
2. Marriage is a profound human good, elevating and perfecting our social and sexual nature.
Human beings are social animals, and the social institution of marriage is a profound human good. It is a matrix of human relationships rooted in the spouses' sexual complementarity and procreative possibilities and in children's need for sustained parental nurturance and support. It creates clear ties of begetting and belonging, ties of identity, kinship, and mutual interdependence and responsibility. These bonds of fidelity serve a crucial public purpose, and so it is necessary and proper for the state to recognize and encourage marriage in both law and public policy. Indeed, it is not surprising that marriage is publicly sanctioned and promoted in virtually every known society and often solemnized by religious and cultural rituals. Modern biological and social science only confirm the benefits of marriage as a human good consistent with our given nature as sexual and social beings.
3. Ordinarily, both men and women who marry are better off as a result.
Married men gain moral and personal discipline, a stable domestic life, and the opportunity to participate in the upbringing of their children. Married women gain stability and protection, acknowledgment of the paternity of their children, and shared responsibility and emotional support in the raising of their young. Together, both spouses gain from a normative commitment to the institution of marriage itself-including the benefits that come from faithfully fulfilling one's chosen duties as mother or father, husband or wife. Couples who share a moral commitment to marital permanency and fidelity tend to have better marriages. The marital ethic enjoining permanence, mutual fidelity, and care, as well as forbidding violence or sexual abuse, arises out of the core imperative of our marriage tradition: that men and women who marry pledge to love one another, "in sickness and in health" and "for better or for worse," ordinarily "until death do us part."
4. Marriage protects and promotes the well-being of children.
The family environment provided by marriage allows children to grow, mature, and flourish. It is a seedbed of sociability and virtue for the young, who learn from both their parents and their siblings. Specifically, the married family satisfies children's need to know their biological origins, connects them to both a mother and father, establishes a framework of love for nurturing the young, oversees their education and personal development, and anchors their identity as they learn to move about the larger world. These are not merely desirable goods, but what we owe to children as vulnerable beings filled with potential. Whenever humanly possible, children have a natural human right to know their mother and father, and mothers and fathers have a solemn obligation to love their children unconditionally.
5. Marriage sustains civil society and promotes the common good.
Civil society also benefits from a stable marital order. Families are themselves small societies, and the web of trust they establish across generations and between the spouses' original families are a key constituent of society as a whole. The network of relatives and in-laws that marriage creates and sustains is a key ingredient of the "social capital" that facilitates many kinds of beneficial civic associations and private groups. The virtues acquired within the family-generosity, self-sacrifice, trust, self-discipline-are crucial in every domain of social life. Children who grow up in broken families often fail to acquire these elemental habits of character. When marital breakdown or the failure to form marriages becomes widespread, society is harmed by a host of social pathologies, including increased poverty, mental illness, crime, illegal drug use, clinical depression, and suicide.
6. Marriage is a wealth-creating institution, increasing human and social capital.
The modern economy and modern democratic state depend on families to produce the next generation of productive workers and taxpayers. This ongoing renewal of human capital is a crucial ingredient in the national economy, one that is now in grave peril in those societies with rapidly aging populations and below-replacement fertility rates. It is within families that young people develop stable patterns of work and self-reliance at the direction of their parents, and this training in turn provides the basis for developing useful skills and gaining a profession. More deeply, marriage realigns personal interests beyond the good of the present self, and thus reduces the tendency of individuals and groups to make rash or imprudent decisions that squander the inheritance of future generations. Families also provide networks of trust and capital that serve as the foundation for countless entrepreneurial small-business enterprises (as well as some large corporations), which are crucial to the vitality of the nation's economy. In addition, devoted spouses and grown children assist in caring for the sick and elderly, and maintain the solvency of pension and social-insurance programs by providing unremunerated care for their loved ones, paying taxes, and producing the children who will form future generations of tax-paying workers. Without flourishing families, in other words, the long-term health of the modern economy would be imperiled.
7. When marriage weakens, the equality gap widens, as children suffer from the disadvantages of growing up in homes without committed mothers and fathers.
Children whose parents fail to get and stay married are at increased risk of poverty, dependency, substance abuse, educational failure, juvenile delinquency, early unwed pregnancy, and a host of other destructive behaviors. When whole families and neighborhoods become dominated by fatherless homes, these risks increase even further. The breakdown of marriage has hit the African-American community especially hard, and thus threatens the cherished American ideal of equality of opportunity by depriving adults and especially children of the social capital they need to flourish. Precisely because we seek to eliminate social disadvantages based on race and class, we view the cultural, economic, and other barriers to strengthening marriage in poor neighborhoods – especially among those racial minorities with disproportionately high rates of family breakdown – as a serious problem to be solved with persistence, generosity, and ingenuity.
8. A functioning marriage culture serves to protect political liberty and foster limited government.
Strong, intact families stabilize the state and decrease the need for costly and intrusive bureaucratic social agencies. Families provide for their vulnerable members, produce new citizens with virtues such as loyalty and generosity, and engender concern for the common good. When families break down, crime and social disorder soar; the state must expand to reassert social control with intrusive policing, a sprawling prison system, coercive child-support enforcement, and court-directed family life.3 Without stable families, personal liberty is thus imperiled, as the state tries to fulfill through coercion those functions that families, at their best, fulfill through covenantal devotion.
9. The laws that govern marriage matter significantly.
Law and culture exhibit a dynamic relationship: changes in one ultimately yield changes in the other, and together law and culture structure the choices that individuals see as available, acceptable, and choiceworthy. Given the clear benefits of marriage, we believe that the state should not remain politically neutral, either in procedure or outcome, between marriage and various alternative family structures. Some have sought to redefine civil marriage as a private contract between two individuals regardless of sex, others as a binding union of any number of individuals, and still others as any kind of contractual arrangement for any length of time that is agreeable to any number of consenting adult parties. But in doing so a state would necessarily undermine the social norm which encourages marriage as historically understood – i.e., the sexually faithful union, intended for life, between one man and one woman, open to the begetting and rearing of children. The public goods uniquely provided by marriage are recognizable by reasonable persons, regardless of religious or secular worldview, and thus provide compelling reasons for reinforcing the existing marriage norm in law and public policy.
10. "Civil marriage" and "religious marriage" cannot be rigidly or completely divorced from one another.
Americans have always recognized the right of any person, religious or non-religious, to marry. While the ceremonial form of religious and secular marriages often differs, the meaning of such marriages within the social order has always been similar, which is why the state honors those marriages duly performed by religious authorities. Moreover, current social science evidence on religion and marital success affirms the wisdom of the American tradition, which has always recognized and acknowledged the positive role that religion plays in creating and sustaining marriage as a social institution.4 The majority of Americans marry in religious institutions, and for many of these people a religious dimension suffuses the whole of family life and solemnizes the marriage vow. It is thus important to recognize the crucial role played by religious institutions in lending critical support for a sustainable marriage culture, on which the whole society depends. And it is important to preserve some shared idea of what marriage is that transcends the differences between religious and secular marriages and between marriages within our nation's many diverse religious traditions.
© The Witherspoon Institute 2006
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A comparison between these points and the KC conception of marriage:
1. The complimentariness of the married relationship, conjugality, part of a KC marriage but not the only important relationship involved. What they refer to is otherwise known as the "nuclear family", and prior to the onset of industrialization in the Western countries, family was more closely identified with kin, or extended family. This is notion of extended family is also present in the Vedic conception of marriage, for when two people get married, it is two families that come together. The nuclear family has many disadvantages over the extended family, one being that the married couple are more or less "on their own" as regard to their economic burdens and childcare, which extended relatives like grandmother or aunts happily share, is also missing from the marital equation. Although I'm sure that the authors of this report are well aware of modern psychological "close relationshp" theories and likely object to them, they are nevertheless popular and have tremendous influence. For more information on marriage and closerelationship theory, please see this article "The End of Courtship", by Leon Kass, which was originally published in the very respectable academic journal "The Public Interest".
2. Marriage is everywhere. We agree.
3. True, but prevailing economies and social theories have much weakened this.
4. True, but partly so. A strong case can be made for the traditional gurukula, where qualified children are sent away to live at the home of the guru. The gurukula, incidentally, is also a family arrangement, because the disciple of the guru is also considered just like one of the guru's family members. According to Manu, brahmacaris may also entitled to some portion of the guru's assets upon his demise. When classified according to varna, parents are in different categories–first class (brahmana), second class (kshatriya), third-class (vaishya), and fourth-class (shudra), and if the children associate with their parents, their association will be first-class, second-class, third-class, and fourth-class respectively. But if a child of a kshatriya is sent to the gurukula, then during some of the boy's most important formative years his association will be first class instead of being second class. Within a varnashram society, that seems to be how the institution of the gurukula maintains a high standard of character throughout all the twice-born classes–all the upper castes by going to the gurukula get the association of a first class person rather than staying at home and getting second or third-class association. (Of course, the children of shudras generally don't go to the gurukula, but there may be exceptions.)
5. We agree with this. As a cultural note, in the matter of selecting families, in India a common question is "Is he or she from a good family?" This is an incentive for families themselves to be on good behavior, because otherwise their children will be all the less marriageable.
6. Marriage and networks of marriages are mentioned here as being the basis of economic wealth and prosperity. Care for elders is mentioned but not care for children by elders. (But I'm sure they would agree that it is also important.) A very big problem with our conception of marriage within ISKCON is that devotees have yet to extensively associate economic prosperity and satisfying the needs of convalescence with marriage. That is the structural defect of the ongoing Vrindavan hospice project. Although it is a virtuous undertaking, at best it will only be able to satisfy the needs of some devotees. The majority will need to be taken care of by families. Modern history has shown that socialist societies that attempt to subsume the family role of caregiver into government bureaucracies do poorly what families do very well. (cf. Arjuna's explanation of the role of family and family welfare projects in ch. 1 of the gita)
7. In America today, overall 1 out of 3 children are born out of wedlock, and in the African-American community, 7 out of 10 children are born out of wedlock. Source: United States Dept. of Health and Human Services. "Births: Preliminary Data for 2002." 25 Jun 2003. National Vital Statistics Reports. Vol. 51, No. 11. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr51/nvsr51_11.pdf
8. A paradox of democracy should be noted: Democracy in the Western countries was relatively stable when the family itself was hierarchical and authoritarian, with the father, the pater-familias, as its provider and ruler. But when the relationships between husband and wife were democratized by feminism, the law, and, later, close relationship theory, this breaking down of the family's authoritarian hierarchy led to unstable families and, hence had a destabilizing effect on the broader society itself. Democractizing the husband-wife relationship adversely affected the accumulation of wealth necessary for extended family welfare and entrepreneurial activities, what to speak of increasing antisocial behavior the Witherspoon research identifies. All of these outcomes have political consequences, and, if they become too pronounced, put the existence of the society or civilization itself into question. The paradox is that the democractic form of government depeneds on the existence of the undemocratic family.
9. Agreed, and that is why ISKCON's natural leaders–temple presidents, teachers, sannyasis, and GBCs–must be active in explaining, encouraging, and as far as possible offering incentives for people who remain faithful in their marriages and disincentives for people who do not. (More on this subject of incentive and disincentive can be found in the essay "Why Divorce is Tolerated in ISKCON" at Hare Krishna Cultural Journal [siddhanta.com].)
10. Since we are a religious society, we take this even further. We will not allow so-clled "gay-marriage" or so-called "monogamous partnerships".
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Thanks! Prabhu, are you planning on posting the rest?
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After Edmonton selected Adam Larsson first overall (to mixed reviews), it is now Colorado's turn at the podium for the #2 selection. For a brief overview of the Avalanche system and team needs, check here.
Picking for the Avalanche on behalf of Mile High Sticking, is their Lead Writer, Stephen.
With the second pick in the 2011 NHL FanSided draft, Mile High Sticking, selecting for the Colorado Avalanche, select Gabriel Landeskog, left wing for the Kitchener Rangers of the OHL.
Jared's Analysis – Colorado becomes the second team to bypass #1 ranked Ryan Nugent-Hopkins in favor of a Swedish born prospect. The most likely of all prospects to play and succeed next season, Gabriel Landeskog has an NHL body already. The Avalanche are getting a versatile forward who has drawn favorable comparisons to another former Kitchener Rangers captain, Mike Richards. That comparison is good enough for me, and he will be a positive addition to the stable of young forwards in the Mile High City.
Stephen from Mile High Sticking passed along these comments on why he chose Landeskog.
After Edmonton decided to pick Larsson I came very close to selecting Red Deer center Ryan Nugent-Hopkins with the number two selection. I decided to go with Landeskog because the Avalanche is plentiful at center with young stars Matt Duchene, Paul Stastny, and Ryan O'Reilly. Landeskog brings a good two way game and fits the Avalanche plan to build a force in the upcoming years with guys like Joey Hishon, Tyson Barrie, Stefan Elliot, and Calvin Pickard waiting to receive their opportunity in the NHL.
Avalanche fans should check out Mile High Sticking for more reaction to this pick.
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Up next, with the #3 Selection, on behalf of the Florida Panthers, is The Rat Trick.
2010-2011 Record: 30-40-12 (28th Overall)
League Rankings:
Goals for: 28th
Goals Against: 14th
Power Play: 30th
Penalty Kill: 6th
TOP 5 Prospects in the system: Jacob Markstrom (G), Erik Gudbranson (D), Nick Bjustad (C), Colby Robak (D), Michal Repik (RW)
NEEDS: Florida needs scoring help to improve its woeful offense. The goalie of the future is in place in Jacob Markstrom, and the defense is solid, if not spectacular. Even if Thomas Vokoun is not brought back, they shouldn't have much trouble keeping the puck out of the net. However, you need to score goals to win and Florida has struggled in that area. Some of the youth is maturing, such as Shawn Matthias, but they need a game-breaker that Stephen Weiss hasn't really become. Look for The Rat Trick to go with either Ryan Nugent-Hopkins or Sean Couturier.
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Last week marked the return of two things to my life: speaking and running. This fall for me has been extremely busy and stressful, but I have to say, I am starting to re-take control of my life.
Last week I spoke at the Nonprofit Human Resources Conference and I'll be up in Springfield, Massachusetts, in a few weeks presenting at a diversity workshop. I must say: It feels great! That is the power of knowing what you are passionate about. Once I realized that – understood the passion running through me – I made my life about that. Sadly, I lost it.
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Tropa's "mini" Christmas Party
Had dinner at Coco's. I think we were overwhelmed by the foods and we ordered a lot.. :/ We didn't finish all of it..
Had our gifts exchanging at Coco's car park :) It was pretty cool and funny.. There's story behind of this event. The original plan was potluck and you know everything was messed up.
Bacardi at Brewery.. Hmmmm!
Girls shots..
Starr to squeeze out the fats and the alcohol! :))
Dinner at Coco's Restaurant | Chill at Brewery | Dancing the Night at Starr
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- 28 Oct 1405:04 PMNTPC, the country's largest power generator, plans to foray into wind energy sector with its first project in Karnataka. The company will soon float tenders for first such project with a capacity of 100 Mw, a top company official said.
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St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church
500 De Haro Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2006 - Wednesday, Feb. 01, 2006
James Alison, Author, Theologian Miroslav Volf, Author, Professor, Yale Divinity School Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Professor, Islamic Studies, University of Florida Helen Prejean, CSJ, Author, Activist
for presentations and conversations from their practice of reconciliation and the theology that demands it.
James Alison is a notable Catholic theologian, a major interpreter of Rene Girard's work, and an out gay priest within the Roman Church. Miroslav Volf, a Croatian theologian, writes and speaks from the experience of Christian on Christian and Christian on Muslim violence in Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons is a black civil rights activist, a Sufi Muslim, and professor of Muslim Studies, and Sister Helen Prejean's work with condemned criminals on death row led her to work both with the condemned and with the families of victims. All four theologians and teachers push us beyond the question of 'who gets justice' to powerful understandings of scapegoating the enemy or unfamiliar other that invites us instead to the Gospel work of reconciliation.
At St. Gregory's we'll see and hear these presenters via high speed computer connection.
And for our local experience of this conference, our two liturgies will highlight lay preachers experienced in reconciliation work - - -
Sara Miles, freeplace War Journalist published in the New York Times Magazine, and activist during the War in El Salvador, poet, and founder of the St. Gregory's Food Pantry, and Bread of Life, a program for founding free food pantries around San Francisco. Lee Thorn, Viet Nam veteran, peace activist, and winner of the Stockholm prize for his work founding Jhai Foundation with its pioneering reconciliation activities in Southeast Asia, fair trade coffee program, clinics in Southeast Asia, and development of bicycle-driven Jhai computers to give rural poor web access for economic and political autonomy.
Our conference theological reflection groups (facilitated by EFM trained leaders) will take us from theology and scripture to our own questions of the day-to-day choices and practices of reconciliation.
Our West Coast Agenda is as follows:
Tuesday, January 31, 2006: 9:00 AM - Eucharist 10:15 AM - Registration & Continental Breakfast 11:00 AM - James Alison 12:30 PM - Theological Reflection with Lunch 2:30 PM - Gwendolyn Simmons 3:30 PM - Break 3:45 PM - Theological Reflection 4:45 PM _ Break 5:00 PM - Bishop Michael Curry's Sermon 5:15 PM - Closing Prayer and Blessing 5:30 PM - Depart
Wednesday, February 1, 2006: 9:00 AM - Panel Discussion from New York 10:00 AM - Break 10:15 AM - Theological Reflection 11:15 AM - Break 11:30 AM - Miroslav Volf 12:30 PM - Theological Reflection with Lunch 2:30 PM - Sister Helen Prejean 3:30 PM - Break 3:45 PM - Theological Reflection 4:45 PM - Break 5:00 PM - Panel Discussion from New York 6:00 PM - Eucharist 7:00 PM - Depart
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I grew as a big Bob Probert fan and like many was deeply saddened by his sudden and untimely death.
Bob put all his blood and sweat into a 16-year NHL career, nine with Detroit and seven in Chicago.
I really can't believe neither team has retired his No. 24. It's kind of ridiculous seeing Ruslan Salei for the Wings and Nick Boynton for the Hawks wearing Probie's number.
I can only hope that someone will make the right decision and honor the toughest player to ever dawn these two jerseys.
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I really don't understand some of the comments made. We've been at Ricks for 5 years and are thrilled with our children's progress. Our children come bounding home everyday excited about school and eager to learn. They are filled with ideas, thoughts, and observations which are encouraged and nurtured by their teachers. Teachers, administration, and staff are always warm and friendly and whenever there is a concern it has always been addressed. This year we saw some changes in one of our children. Reading was getting slower and there was a problem with comprehension. The teachers were the ones who saw this very early on and after helping with ideas and resources we found out our child has some eye teaming problems and is now going through vision therapy. At any other school we would have been told how bright and creative our child is but is not working to capacity. We can only imagine what that potentially could have done to an academic career left untreated. We are pleased to say that vision therapy is on track and our child is soaring! We are truly thankful for Ricks and for two diligent and keenly observant teachers.
I want to like this school but after 4 years of dealing with unqualified teachers (a majority with no education degree) and ongoing administrative drama, we decided to leave. The theory behind the school (integrated units and specialized learning) is fantastic. Unfortunately we found that the nuts and bolts (English, math and science) are non-existent. IEPs are not prepared for the children and there is no overall goal-setting to keep children on track. Our child went 3 weeks with no math lessons and no assigned reading books. The administration is difficult to deal with and ignores issues of bullying and inept teaching practices. Parents are strongly discouraged from spending time in the classroom and it seems that the only contact admin wants with parents is to request money. There is no computer lab, no library and limited gym facilities. Given the price of the school, I expected much more.
I attended Ricks Center during my middle school years and absolutely LOVED IT!! I look back on that time, and remember how much the teahcers and staff cared about my development in all areas. The preparation that Ricks Center gave me for not only high school, but college as well was essential to my success and a young professional. Each holiday season, I look forward to returning to Colorado and visiting my family at the Ricks Center.
If you are a parent of a gifted child or children, you will find no better place for them to attend school than Ricks Center for Gifted Children. The school provides a world class education for its students. The students have access to phenomenal opportunities. Ricks Center is an amazing place.
"Bullies tend to weed themselves out." Not sure if I agree with this statement. However, what I can attest is that the school does work with student and teachers diligently on this issue. I can send my children to the Ricks knowing that they are in a safe, happy environment that gets them excited about learning.
Ricks is an amazing school. All our children have attended since EEC and we couldn't be happier. My wife and I have extensive experience with private and public schools in Colorado and after significant research decided that Ricks was the best fit due to the strength of the administration, the talented teachers and the unique teaching philosophy. The leadership is solely focused on educating the gifted and talented and their passion filters to all aspects of the school. The teachers teach our children as individuals, not as a mass group. This customized approach has enabled them to flourish and gain confidence in their own ways... Something we find invaluable. Separately but equally importand is the fact that the school has garnered attention worldwide and has hosted teaching professionals from Canada, Australia and other countries who have interest in learning more about the Ricks approach. In our opinion the Ricks Center is the best PK-8 school in Colorado.
You will not see a Ricks class drilling any child to be a machine that fills out worksheets all day long. Attending last year's middle school graduation ceremony solidified our decision to keep both of our girls through 8th grade. It was amazing to watch every one of them carries himself with such confidence and maturity. If a parent is making a decision with a short-term vision, such as year to year progress, s/he will not see the benefits of Ricks' integrated education can provide and thus, better off finding another place that will provide more traditional education that pacifies parents' needs rather than children's needs. Parents, who focus on well-rounded education with a long-term vision, tend to keep their children at Ricks and reap the benefits. On another note, people rarely talk about how kids are at schools. At the Ricks, the motto that has been drilled into our children's heads is " Care and Concern". My children have been at The Ricks for more than 5 years now. Teachers and Administrations take the issue very seriously. All in all, bullies tend to weed themselves out of the school.
Ricks has been quite a disappointment. With one exception (a specials teacher no longer with the school) I have not seen evidence of excellence in teaching. Although Ricks faculty believe they are very unique and creative I have seen most of the units studied at the elementary level taught with more depth, breadth and accountability at other schools. My sense is that 7-10 years ago this was a great school but now they are just going through the motions. I am still often impressed when walking down the hall or reading the newsletters but my partner jokingly reminds me not to be taken in by the advertising and public relations experts. The parents who are happiest with Ricks have children attending Pre-K/K or have little inside knowledge of other schools.
We are parents of three thriving Ricks Center students. Our children possess three distinctly different learning styles and the Ricks Center's teachers and administration have accommodated and adapted their attention to each of our children individually. As parents we are always concerned about our children's successes and failures. Our school has helped develop their confidence, interests, and talents while addressing their weaknesses. This is our strongest point. We want our children to maintain their curiousity for all school subjects, even if they find one or two difficult or challenging. We are grateful to the teachers, especially the one negatively mentioned below. That teacher's expectations are strict and reasonable. My child knows what he/she needs to do regarding homework. The same review calls the school's director "aloof". We find the director to be passionate about gifted learning and very accessable when we need to talk.
We have two sons who have attended Ricks since EEC. We have extremely high expectations of our children's education and are involved, demanding and vocal. Almost without exception, we have found Ricks teachers AND adminstrators to be helpful and responsive to our inquiries, worries and frustrations. We have not always agreed with their answers, but we have found that they know our children well and view our children's education from a wholistic perspective. So while we may be demanding more scholarly rigor, they may be recommending that our children learn better teamwork skills or how to lighten up on themselves or be more organized. And, in the end, it will be the well-rounded gifted child who is happy and sucessful. With that said, our sons have been tested inside and outside Ricks and are scoring well beyond grade level, even in those "nuts and bolts" areas.
In response to the parent comments posted August 29, 2010: I am pleased with my children s all-star third/fourth grade Ricks teacher who commits her boundless energy, creativity and love for her students to provide what may be the most positive and supportive school experience that my children will ever have. She is the teacher who will be forever etched in their memories as the one who helped them become avid learners. She provides challenging work to each individual with clear goals and constructive feedback in a caring and nurturing manner. The homework load is manageable as long as the student is devoted and organized. The three strikes system reinforces student responsibility and accountability. Receiving three strikes does not result in some draconian disciplinary action-rather, the student does not get to participate in the homework reward party which is the appropriate recognition and incentive enjoyed by the vast majority.
I have three current Ricks students with a cumulative 20 years of Ricks education between them. I credit Ricks with developing my children with their individual interests, personalities and learning styles into engaged, passionate learners. Ricks greatest strengths are in the classroom where the children are challenged in a nurturing, inclusive, safe environment where their gifts, differences and quirks are largely insulated from the social distractions and risks that are more common in a main stream school. While I would not describe the administration as warm and fuzzy , I absolutely credit them with developing the curricula and enabling the excellent classroom environment in which my children are thriving. Over the years, my children have encountered their own occasional but inevitable educational or social challenges but I have always found the administration to be accessible, informed, responsive and supportive in helping us explore and resolve every issue fairly.
Ricks is difficult, as a parent. The head of the school is so aloof, she rarely acknowledges parents. The rest of the administration is spotty. In terms of teachers, it's a mixed bag-last year, my had a teacher who was nearly militant in homework, and would use a strict 'strike system' if anyone forgot the least bit. This year, it seems as though we have a decent teacher who is both jovial and engaging, while having decent control over these preteens. The curriculum is spotty. For between $15-17,000 there is no music past preschool. Their math is spotty, foreign languages seem to be a selling point rather than a learning time. The integrated curriculum is a great concept, but tough to execute. For as much money as the tuition is, there have to be better options out there which challenge brighter kids, without making them feel entitled.
As a Ricks alumni I'm completely disgruntled by the reviews I see below. Giftedness doesn't just mean you're smart, it's a special need, you view the world differently and if you're not somewhere where people understand you, you FEEL hopelessly different. I'm not going to pretend that Ricks was perfect. But I'll gladly sacrifice some of the complaints I see below for the unbelievably unique experience I got at Ricks. I'd much rather take the occasional missing "nuts and bolts" than have facts crammed down my throat for six hours a day. Ricks taught us how to think and live and grow. If you're having a problem with that, you're in the wrong school. And for those of you considering Ricks, take if from an alum who is now third in a class of 425 . In closing, I took music classes at Ricks through 8th grade.
I have read through the previous reviews and I find that most of them are rather abhorring. Ricks Center was a fantastic school for both me and my sister. To say anything less about the school is ignorant. The super critical parents that write their scathing reviews about Ricks seem to be lashing out at Ricks for the child's ineptitude. The learning environment was outstanding. The relationships developed with the staff and the administration allow for the student to feel safe. Parents are usually disconnected from their child's day-to-day school life due to the complexity of the school. Children are not taught facts or fed information. They are shown how much fun it is to learn, by the teachers who enjoy their profession. It truly is an amazing school. I went to a elite college preparatory boarding for high school, and after ricks, it was a breeze. A Simply Amazing School
I want to like this school. I have spent a lot of money with the hopes that this is the right school for my child. What I have found, over four years of my child attending, is an inconsistent model of education that is wrapped in a package of fun and adventure. My child loves it. It is a bit like going to camp everyday. Unfortunately, the nuts and bolts of education is often missing and the administration seems unconcerned and generally offended when parents raise concerns as to whether children's needs are being met in the areas of reading, writing and mathematics. Some teachers are great...but as a complete package, there are far too many holes. In addition, the continual drama that is prevalent in this school's environment is draining. This is our last year.
Like most schools, it has its positives and negatives. In general, the kids are relatively nice and interested in learning. Everyone is bright, with some bellcurve intelligent. As was mentioned, the teachers are hit and miss. Some read the kids' papers over and over, while others return them weeks later. If your kid is in the top three percent of IQ testing (the general goal) and is a bit quirky for public schools, it's a good choice. If your kid is bright, but relatively normal (whatever that is, but hopefully you get the idea), save your considerable money for college. The school likes to boast about how well it's former students are doing, but it's hard to go wrong when you start with exceptionally bright kids.
We have two children attending Rick s. I ve questioned whether Rick s was right for smart boys and their quirks. However, my oldest is flourishing. His experiential learning has been phenomenal. He would not do well only learning from a book. Rick s far exceeds this model through exceptional field trips and application of reading and math to interesting social and scientific topics in class. Also, the languages, technology, and music have been marvelous. My child is learning at a high school and college level! Our youngest s education has been outstanding, and we ve been pleased by the teachers. Regarding administration, they are responsible for the school s excellent curricula for gifted children. They ve struggled on the relational side with parents. It s clear they ve digested this feedback. They ve made changes, including being accepting of parental requests. They ve reached out to families and made meaningful connections. Kudos for being responsive to the need for change!
Our daughter has attended Ricks Center for 5 years. We're extremely happy with the education she is receiving. Even though she's only in 2nd grade, she comes home talking about Greek architecture or the different social classes aboard the Titanic. She read the entire Harry Potter series this year. In a recent newsletter, I read how one Ricks class had just returned from a fieldtrip to Yellowstone. Another group of Ricks kids had made a presentation to Jane Goodall. And a third group had learned all about starting a business from scratch, including writing a business plan, securing a loan, marketing and advertising, producing a product and doing the accounting. You don't find this kind of education in public school. But the best part of Ricks is that gifted children get to hang out with other gifted children, so they just take their abilities for granted and feel normal.
My daugther attends the Ricks Center and consistently flourishs. She stepped out of her shell and became a happy, excited and social student. She is challenged intellectually and was encouraged to meet the challenge that the teachers presented. Teachers are careful to balance the intellectual with the social/emotional needs that she has. We feel confident going to the classroom teachers and administration over any concerns. We were greated and known by name and always feel welcome in the school. The amount of information that the teachers and administrators know in terms of educaitonal best practice and gifted education is outstanding. We have had many teachers during our years at Ricks and although styles are very different, every teacher is amazing. The projects, culminations, and units that the children study are truly excellent. We are pleased and happy with every dollar and hour spent at Ricks and highly reccomend the school.
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I mean, you need to have a lot of self-respect and composure to demand the WS come clean, go NC, do IC & MC, etc., and self-respect takes such giant hits on D-Day.
Really? I demanded NC immediately - seconds after finding out actually. He was NEVER to call or text that number again, ever. They were DONE speaking as friends. It ended NOW. I also said we were going to MC (I actually pulled back on that one later, but he had agreed), and told him within 2 days if he didn't stop lying, we were NOT going to make it.
Now, he did TT, so the lies continued to hurt us. I would dig further, uncover the truth, and more confrontations, etc. It was not good. TT is not good.
So I think it's natural - and always has been - for BSes to think they're in R on D-Day or shortly thereafter, even though their WSes have shown no remorse.
Respectfully, I don't think anyone but someone in said relationship can say if they are in R or not. Some couples do reconcile without a remorseful WS. I don't know how, but there are WSs that never come fully clean, but do change.
I think the status of a relationship is what the members of the relationship believe it to be. Your version of R, or mine, may not be theirs.
[This message edited by painfulpast at 5:55 PM, February 28th (Friday)]
the people who come back are not representative of the whole. As in, only the sad and hurting ones come back to check in, the happy ones have forgotten all about SI. At least that's what my self talk says to calm me down.
I don't think anyone, ever, has forgotten the A in their relationship, or SI. I'm much farther out than my profile suggests. I was actually too angry to think there was any advice for me anywhere. I'd already read about a dozen books, watched conference lectures, looked up websites, bought online self help guru crap, etc. There was no message board that offered anything. Oh, how wrong I was!!!
So, I'm over 3 years post DDay, and nearing 4 years of the end of the EA (well, more like 3.5 years). I'm happy. My marriage is, for the most part, much better than it was before. My husband treats me so much differently, so much better. All of his resentments are gone. We've worked through the issues we had. Are we perfect? Nope, and that's ok. No one is perfect, nor is any marriage. But, we are happy. We do more as a couple than we have in a decade. We spend a part of every day reminding the other how much they mean, and how much they are loved.
So, you may ask, why am I hear. Well, for one, I've grown found of several people here, one of whom is giving me an amazing birthday gift!!
Also, I really like helping, or trying to help. I remember, vividly, how lost I was after DDay. I thought I was abnormal. I thought I was really insane for reacting the way I did. I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep for more than an hour at a time. I would wake up in full on Rambo mode, running downstairs to 'catch' him (doing what, I don't know). All of it was classic post DDay stuff, but I thought I was nuts. I literally cried when I started reading 'After the Affair' by Janet Springs. In it she discusses these post DDay reactions. Finally, I knew I wasn't crazy. I was normal. If I can help one person get out of that feeling, or any other feeling, then I'm happy to be here.
WSs do so much damage, both by the cheating, and then by the rewriting of the history, the ILYBINILWY talk, the false R, the fence sitting, cake eating, mean saying things. I wish I had been here, so I would have known that it was him, not me. That these were common statements, and that he was protecting himself and his ego by trying to say I was a bad person so his EA was ok. This is another area where if I can point out to just one person that this happens, and maybe help them to see that these things, while hurtful, are normal, and that they are lies that most WSs say, then I'm happy to be here.
I'm not expecting to come back in a week and change my mind. If I couldn't come here, I probably would be just fine. But as I said, I really enjoy the opportunity to help people. I know some very happy people that have R'd and they're still here. I also know some people that D'd right away, and they're still here.
We all have our reasons, but to say it's out of unhappiness, or that those that are still here are still in 'need' isn't the case. Well, let me rephrase that - To say that those that are still here need to be comforted about the A, is not true. We all need something. I enjoy conversations with those that have experienced some of the things I have. Unfortunately, I've experienced infidelity. Everyone here has as well, on one side or another. I enjoy chatting with everyone here. I like helping. I like learning more. I like the people here.
I mean, you need to have a lot of self-respect and composure to demand the WS come clean, go NC, do IC & MC, etc., and self-respect takes such giant hits on D-Day.
Hmm. . . Looks like I done good.
(All but IC.. .) Maybe this is where I am stubborn, but why would my self-respect as a BS take a hit?
I edit, therefore I am.
Well, I must doing well, because I demanded NC immediately. He was the one to actually schedule MC the morning following DDay. Not to mention, I am not even considering R yet. If it was up to my WH we'd be in R and married "happily ever after." I do not want to live in that dreamland any longer.
Maybe the warmest January on record + polar vortex + Canada's hockey gold metal + the unhappy Rs + the devolution of language due to Twitter + all the other crap that's happening really are all adding up to the true decline of civilization......
Lol! I blame Facebook!
Mrs Doubtfire, sorry to offend you! My wording was too black and white.
I'm fine about it so don't worry. I just didn't want you to carry on with that black and white thought in your head.
People stay as a way to pay it forward as well as because they still think about the A period I guess.
As to why so many who R well seem to then stumble Chico?
I think it is because, in some relationships the 'want' to R decision is made quite swiftly and after the IC and MC etc....... I think you then start to 'settle' into the realisation that you were cheated on.
If you read my profile I knew either with or without FWH in my life I would/could be happy but thought it would be happier with him in it so decided to R.
Then I struggled and thought I wanted out and was diagnosed with PTSD.
I think it is only fairly recently that I am able to assimilate the fact of how deeply he hurt me because I am now in a place of healing (does that make sense?).
I think what I am trying to say is that... now the shock and the fear have gone and now the PTSD has been dealt with... and now the MC has strengthened our M...and the IC has made us individually stronger...only NOW am I in a position of complete stability and rationality to properly think through the entire period of his A etc.
With a healthy mindset (due to IC/MC and PTSD work)and the benefit of being able to rationally look back at how he treated me and my DD I guess NOW I can look at what he and OW did and actually now make a determined and informed choice about whether the A was or wasn't a deal breaker ...simply because I don't have all that other stuff going on (FOO issues, aftermath of his A, fear of comparisons between me and the OW that some BS struggle with at the onset etc) that I have to deal with.
Maybe this is why some couple's R's 'go wrong' many years after.
I observed and experienced that for R to work both partners need to work independently and together on all three:
1. WS healing
2. BS healing
3. M healing
From my personal journey I have to state that had the 3 points above not ALL been addressed then I would be a D lady today as I don't believe a successful R can occur without those 3 things minimum!
Anyone else think this is a possibility?
[This message edited by MrsDoubtfire at 8:25 AM, March 1st (Saturday)]
but why would my self-respect as a BS take a hit?
I personally couldn't understand why spouses would give a cheating spouse a second chance. I felt those BS's were weak. I was, obviously, quite wrong about that.
"Oh, why do my actions have consequences?" ~ Homer Simpson
"She knew my one weakness: That I'm weak!" ~ Homer Simpson
A lot of BS's feel a loss of self-respect (or pride) when they decide to give reconciliation a chance.
this is my current dilemma. I think I've accepted the affairs, but me staying in spite of them, that's the hard part - forgiving oneself for staying in what could be perceived as the line of fire. Staying when you aren't totally sure the person you're with is safe, and being ok with that.
There are a lot of posters on this thread and the "what is going right in recovery" thread that have had one Dday, a remorseful spouse right away and they list that as one of the good things... I cannot say that. That would be one of our wrong things...
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Follow your intuition. Be smart, be brave. Tell the truth and dont take any shit.
I think I've accepted the affairs, but me staying in spite of them, that's the hard part - forgiving oneself for staying in what could be perceived as the line of fire.


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Getting Cheeky With The Men In Red: Steven Gerrard vs Gerard Pique vs Gianluigi Buffon
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My "Cooking Basics" club made Jamie Oliver's Macaroni (Cauliflower) Cheese Bake this week. These boys are 7-9 years old and they worked in teams of 2-3 to create this healthy, tasty meal in under an hour! Each team was responsible for 1 or 2 ingredients so they were variously chopping cauliflower, grating cheese or chopping parsley. Once all the ingredients were prepped (we cooked the pasta as we prepared the other ingredients and threw the tiny cauliflower florets in at the last minute just to make sure they were not too crunchy), it was a simple matter of mixing them all together in one bowl with some Greek yoghurt and some crème fraîche.
This was dangerously good. It will be made again. By the boys. By me!
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If you have a stable development process, you should rarely run into a situation where you have simply "lost" files or an entire path in your git repository. However, even if your process is stable, there could be a situation where you have removed files in one commit, but a number of commits down the line, you wish to have them back. Git provides an incredibly easy means to accomplish the goal of taking a file or a number of files from one commit SHA and adding them to the HEAD of your repository.
Let us say you have a hypothetical e-commerce site that once upon a time relied on a series of image files under a path. You've removed the path entirely in a commit, but now, you would like to add all of those files back.
You simply need to find the commit SHA with the image path included, and issue the git command above. Commit these files while on HEAD, or wherever you wish to place them, and magically, you have your files back! This is a useful git command for any programmer to have in his or her arsenal, and hopefully you can imagine a number of ways in which this could be helpful. As always, if you have anything to correct and/or add, please feel free to tweet @_kulte or email me at zafriedman at gmail dot com.
In the past six months at Stacksocial, we've begun to really embrace Test-Driven Development (TDD). Recently while working on a PORO, or Plain Old Ruby Object, to encapsulate some checkout logic for our REST API, I found the need to create a has_many association on the User model in our factories. This sounds simple enough, and it is, which will explain the short nature of this post; however I was forced to take a journey beginning at Stack Overflow, with a layover at Github and then a bit into the source of Factory Girl itself before reaching my final destination of factory-association nirvana, so my goal here is simply to save you that time.
If we consider the following code, we have a User model with a has_many relationship to Comment. So as the method signature below suggests, we simply need to call the following class method on FactoryGirl to create a Comment list for the User in question.
Hopefully I have just saved you a few minutes of Googling in the future! If you have anything to correct and/or add, please feel free to tweet @_kulte or email me at zafriedman at gmail dot com.
Once I had an implementation I thought might work, I decided to test a POST request to the server to see what best move it generated. I ran into problems when regardless of board state, the server always seemed to return 0 (the index which references the upper-left tic-tac-toe slot). My first inclination was that the asynchronous model of node.js was causing my recursive function calls to be handled out of order. I spent a couple of hours debugging with console.log(), playing around with adding callback parameters to functions and experimenting with forcing synchronous execution. Having decided late at night that wrapping my head around the runtime behavior of node.js for this purpose was an ill-use of my time, I decided I might port my program over to Sinatra. I even got as far as setting up a basic Sinatra app before heading to bed.
The next morning I awoke motivated to at least spend another hour or so seeing if I could debug the existing Express app. I had already written a few unit tests to ensure the trivial initialization behavior of my Board model was as expected. Realizing that I had a series of private functions in my AI model which all accepted a Board instance as a parameter, I refactored these into the Board model itself, and made them part of its public API. I then wrote a unit test just to drive out the recursive base case for a terminal board state, one assertion to check that the function returns correct for a state for a computer victory, and another to ensure expected behavior for a human victory. My initial code following the refactoring looked like this:
Some of you might already be able to tell what's wrong with this code, but when thinking at the algorithm-level, it's easy to miss what's gone askew. So driving the behavior for the minimax() function out through the following mocha describe() function, I saw that for the computer-winning state the test passed, yet for the human-winning state, it did not:
So tracing through the series of function calls in my algorithm, the next function called was the isWinner() function from above. Since I had already refactored it to be public in the Board model, I was able to write the following tests:
So refactoring the code to a point where I could debug it by writing a unit test against it has enabled me to nail down a distinct point of failure in my implementation. Something is wrong with the isWinner() function. Debugging this in the node REPL, I realized what I was branching on was causing unintended behavior, briefly walking through this, here's what happened:
Moreover, unit testing here has saved me a hassle of deploying and creating an entirely new Sinatra app server, and saved me the demoralization of failing to implement a solution the first go-around. Perhaps most important of all, writing unit tests has debunked an incorrect assumption I had regarding node.js, an assumption that would have held in my mind had I ported to Ruby before testing.
One thing that bears mention is that I clearly have not test-driven this application. There is an obvious difference between test-driven development (TDD) and writing unit tests after the fact. On the spectrum of validity in software development methodologies, I have perhaps faithfully executed middling. I would also say that what I've done here is uncontroversially superior to what I was on the verge of doing, which is not writing tests at all. Stay tuned for perhaps another post where I document a hard-learned lesson that was solved through test-driven development. If you'd like to read more about TDD, the book I'm currently reading is the canonical Test Driven Development: By Example, written by Kent Beck.
In the meantime, if you have anything to correct and/or add, please feel free to join the conversation on Hacker News, tweet @_kulte or email me at zafriedman at gmail dot com. Furthermore, I will be posting the entire source code for my tic-tac-toe game, both the node.js server as well as the Backbone client, as soon as it's completed on GitHub.
Let's face it, great developers can take their pick of jobs right now. These same developers know the value of coding in the open and will want to build up a portfolio of projects they can show off to their friends and potential future employers.
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Let's face it, great developers can take their pick of jobs right now. These same developers know the value of coding in the open and will want to build up a portfolio of projects they can show off to their friends and potential future employers.
Tom Preston-Warner in Open Source (Almost) Everything
I am 24 years old and fancy myself a very self-aware software developer. I am at the stage in my career where I believe the lion's share of software developers spend the entirety of their careers, somewhere between competence and proficiency. In Japanese martial arts, there exists the concept of Shuhari, which describes the stages of learning to mastery. Michael Norton gave an excellent talk at Windy City Rails this past summer where he extends the concept of Shuhari to professional software developers. Applied in this context, Shu encompasses novices and advanced beginners, Ha encapsulates those who are competent and those who are proficient, and Ri represents the experts and innovators in our field, people like Michael Feathers, for instance. Ascending from proficiency to expert-level is extremely hard, so hard that most people never do it.
Everyone who gets paid to write software got into doing so for slightly different reasons. For me, it is the acceptance that dedicating myself to a body of work where I will never be done learning means that I will never be bored. So at 24 years old, I can look at this information in two ways. I could be content that I am already at or near the ultimate stage of progression for most software developers at a relatively young age. But doing so would violate first and foremost my personal reason for what I have chosen to devote my life to. It would also violate the premise that I want the benefits bestowed upon the great developers that Tom Preston-Warner refers to. For obvious reasons, I want to be able to take my pick of jobs, and I, without qualification, recognize the value of coding in the open and wish to build up a portfolio of open source contributions. But remember I'm not an expert yet, so what are the action steps?
Let's take a brief sidestep. I love Backbone. I was a relatively early adopter and I can't be sure, but I'm reasonably positive my proficiency with it got me my current job. I've been wishing to contribute for months now, for all of the reasons I previously mentioned as to why a developer would wish to participate in open source. But I have not. Why? Because I suck at reading other people's source code. When I first gave it a go at understanding the Backbone source, I thought the annotated source code would make it easy for me to grasp. It did not.
The annotated source of Backbone is beautiful, but I far prefer simply reading the standard source. It's much more familiar when the comments are above the code in vertical space, and there is something about horizontally aligned comments that my brain actually works less efficiently with.
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The annotated source of Backbone is beautiful, but I far prefer simply reading the standard source. It's much more familiar when the comments are above the code in vertical space, and there is something about horizontally aligned comments that my brain actually works less efficiently with.
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I then moved to reading the source in standard form, and I can grasp what the native Javascript code is doing line-by-line, the assignments, the object creation, but there's one vital aspect that I missed when just reading the source, and that's Why? It's very difficult to understand simply by reading the source what every variable's and object's raison d'être is. So I tried something crazy. I started not by reading the source, but with reading the tests.
Let me walk you through an attempt to understand the source for Backbone.Events. We'll do this twice, first by reading the first few lines of source and the comments, and then once again by reading the first QUnit test written for the Events module.
So from this we can learn a few things:
This is actually superb documentation, and the code is also written very well. Reading the source in this way is extremely helpful for someone wishing to write application-level client-side "programs" using Backbone, and it was helpful for me when I first attempted to do just that. But as Justin James highlights in his blog post 10 tips to go from a beginner to an intermediate developer, if our goal is to learn by looking at senior developers' code, this blob of source doesn't really do that much for us.
So how can we do better? Let's go another direction and navigate from the root directory of Backbone to /test/events.js. And let's just look at the first QUnit test defined in this file.
This code is very easy to understand. Moreover, I've actually learned something about how the system works. So what do we learn by reading this test?
We also can pick up some extra breadcrumbs in regards to coding-style from Jeremy Ashkenas, someone who I would consider to be at least at the expert realm of the earlier Shuhari discussion.
This is admittedly a trivial example, at least compared to what we can learn from reading all of the tests included in the Backbone suite. But if our goal as intermediate programmers is to learn from the experts, I'd argue that we've already achieved a more efficient pass through the source code this way than we did in the first example where we jumped feet-first into the executable Javascript. Knowing that object.on binds the calling object to an event (as denoted by the event string) is simply more valuable as a means to accomplish the goal of understanding how the Backbone system is architected. Want proof? Go back and read the bullet points I've summarized above for what we learned from reading the source first. Compare what those words meant to you before we read the tests and after. It should click in a way that is much clearer now than before.
My plan for the New Year in furthering my level of mastery in software development is to engage in this practice with open source repositories like Backbone. If you have anything to correct and/or add, please feel free to join the conversation on Hacker News, tweet @_kulte or email me at zafriedman at gmail dot com.


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I was born on a deep blue cloud in the heart of winter, the Solstice, with nothing but a guitar and a woven hat. Twenty years rolled by as fast as the surrounding clouds around me cleared.
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One day, when I had to jump furiously from moisture to moisture, a cloud cleared just enough for me to notice a man, bearded and young, turn his attention to my mysterious presence. Where had I come from? I pondered. Without a second thought, my body thrusted onto his cloud and we intertwined.
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This is just some silly YouTube nonsense for your Monday morning. My favorite line: "Many plants emit sounds. The South American dwarf pelargonia emit a clicking sound when seeding." OK, and I will add, in response to comments: if you're not, say, a Southpark fan, you probably won't love this as much as I do. […]Read related articles in: I Don't Have a Garden, but I Watch One on TV
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