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"The Way It Is" by Scott Kramer
If you're a fan of 1980s soft rock music, the title of this blog entry may sound familiar to you. Does the band "Bruce Hornsby and the Range" ring a bell? It should. "The Way It Is" was a number one hit in North America in 1986. The song depicts a time prior to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when people were segregated from others due to the color of their skin. Those who were discriminated against felt that things would never change. They said that's just "the way it is." Eventually, the Act would become law. Over fifty years later, progress has been made in the area of civil rights to varying degrees.
How does this relate to autism? Soon after Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the tools to diagnose autism were made available to the American public. As the 25th anniversary of the ADA's passage occurred last year, Autism Speaks announced that the next wave of youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) would become adults within the next ten years. Not just any wave of youth becoming adults, but a tidal wave of 500,000 youth with ASD. One of these children may be someone you know – your own child, a relative or friend's child, or a child you might know from the within the same school system, place of worship, or somewhere else.
These children will become adults with ASD one day. I personally know of a number of these adults in the Chattanooga, TN and North Georgia areas. They have dreams, ambitions, hopes, and aspirations of living a full and meaningful life, just like adults who are not on the autism spectrum. However, the adults with ASD can relate to the pain that people faced in the song, "The Way It Is". The discrimination and marginalization they face are due to (1) their challenges in communicating well with others, (2) employers and others not understanding those who are "different" from themselves, (3) employers who do not effectively capitalize on the skills, knowledge, and abilities that those with ASD "bring to the table" (especially outside the tech sector), and (4) people having preconceived notions that are perpetuated about adults with ASD.
Way back in 2008 (when the rate of children being diagnosed with autism was less than what it is now), ABC News came out with a list of "10 Myths About Autism"1. One of the myths was regarding the inability of people with ASD to create social relationships that work for them. Relationships are the foundation of human progress, in business, the arts, and in education. If the myth were true, then ASD adults would not have a role in making society a better place. If the myth were true, then these adults could not learn how to develop their own support systems. My organization, Greater Chattanooga Aspies, has seen numerous adults and young adults with ASD build their support networks as a result of meeting others like them at support group meetings and social events. However, the myth is not true, and adults with ASD are capable of doing great things.
Children with ASD need good examples in their lives – parents, role models, and yes, even adults with ASD. Parents of these children need to understand that adults with ASD (like me) want to help give the parents hope for their children. They want to assure parents that life for their children as adults won't be the same as in "The Way It Is", where everything seems to be the same because nothing changes. Parents have several ways to take action to help create positive change for the future of their children. First, they can find a support group or social event that is geared towards adults and young adults on the autism spectrum. This would give parents the opportunity to connect with these individuals. Second, one of the parents might suggest to the group's facilitator about having a potential adult/young adult with ASD panel discussion. A discussion like this could give parents insight into the lives of each panel member from childhood into their adult years, including better ways for parents to communicate good examples to their children with ASD.
In conclusion, this country has two choices with the increasing number of children being diagnosed with ASD. Either, the USA can become like South Africa of the 20th century, with apartheid taking aim against future adults with ASD. Or, the USA can learn to accept change (as difficult as that is), and realize the contributions and differences that these future adults will make in this country. This is not about whether societal change will occur with ASD in this country, but when. Given the two options, let us hope that a revolution is not needed to bring about the necessary transformation for future adults with ASD to thrive.
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Wales floods: Tough scrutiny pledge as Prince Charles visits
Any plans to build in flood areas in Wales in future will face stricter scrutiny in the future, a minister has promised.
Environment Minister John Griffiths's comments follow devastating floods on Ruthin's Glasdir development last week.
He said any new proposals involving a flood risk must now be referred back to the Welsh government.
The minister spoke before Prince Charles arrived for a visit in flood-hit St Asaph in Denbighshire.
Mr Griffiths's statements came during an interview with Huw Edwards for BBC Wales' The Wales Report, broadcast on Sunday night.
"There's a much more hands-on approach from Welsh government," he told the programme.
"We now have a system in place that wherever housing is proposed in flood risk areas it has to be referred to the Welsh government to consider whether it needs to be called in, so we now take a much more strong line to make sure that only appropriate development takes place."
The minister said that under current rules, developments like Glasdir would have been considered with a "highly precautionary approach".
"It would be referred to us now under this new direction brought in this summer," he said.
"Obviously flood risk is a very serious risk for communities as we've seen last week and over the summer, so it is a very precautionary approach and I think that must be right," he added.
Flood inquiry
The Environment Agency is already investigating how water from the river Clwyd breached flood defences built on the Glasdir site.
Those defences - a flood bund, or mound - had been put in place as part of original outline planning permission granted to the Welsh Development Agency (WDA) by Denbighshire council.
The functions of the WDA were later taken over by the Welsh government, who sold the site to the builder Taylor Wimpey North West.
The house builder said last week: "We too were reassured that the flood defences, which were designed and implemented prior to our ownership of the site, would serve their purpose.
"We fully understand our customers' concerns and expect a full investigation with all the key authorities involved to take place to identify why the flood defence system did not stop the site from flooding."
Prince Charles is seeing for himself how badly parts of the county were hit during his to St Asaph on Monday.
More than 400 properties in the city were submerged when the River Elwy burst its banks last Tuesday.
The prince is speaking to residents of Roe Park, which was one of the worst affected parts of the city, and will be given the chance to see inside one of the flood-hit homes.
He is also meeting emergency teams at St Asaph's fire station, which became a hub for rescue and recovery operations on Tuesday at the height of the incidents.
He will then meet volunteers, school children and local dignitaries at the city's cathedral.
It is the second time the prince has been to the city in five months, after visiting in July to celebrate St Asaph's new city status, which was awarded as part of The Queen's diamond jubilee celebrations.
A statement from Clarence House said the prince was "keen to thank the emergency services and lend his support to some of the residents affected".
On Sunday, prayers were also said in the cathedral and at St Asaph's parish church for the flooding victims, including 91-year-old Margaret Jane Hughes who was found dead in her flooded home on Tuesday.
An inquest was opened last week and John Gittins, the acting coroner for north Wales central, heard that the provisional cause of death was drowning.

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On the heels of her successful theatrical turn in Minsky's, gay-favorite funny lady Rachel Dratch spoke with The Advocate this month about her role in this summer's My Life in Ruins, her made-for-gay film Spring Breakdown, and why she always seems to get cast as a lesbian.
Spring Breakdown, a film Dratch co-created with Amy Poehler, tells the story of three women (Dratch, Poehler and Parker Posey) who decide to leave their stale 30-year-old lives behind and live it up one good time on spring break. The project stalled out several times in the distribution phase, and after three years, finally made it to DVD.
The Advocate asked Dratch about Amy Poehler's comment that Spring Breakdown was "made for gays." Dratch responded:
Dratch had a lot more to offer in the way of lesbian insight.
In what substance would she prefer to wrestle girls?
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Much has been made of the predatory gay scene in Dratch's upcoming My Life in Ruins. It's interesting to hear the actress, who obviously has quite a gay following, talk about toeing the line between good-natured gay humor and lazy queer-bashing. Honestly, I think it's something Saturday Night Live is still trying to figure out (and failing at quite often), but something that former SNL superstar Tina Fey has nearly perfected on 30 Rock.
What do you think of Dratch's take on gay humor? Are you interested in seeing Spring Breakdown or My Life in Ruins?


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When the ingredients are evenly blended, pour into a bowl and beat in the two grated cheeses by hand. (This is not much work, and it results in a more interesting texture and better flavor than you get when you mix in the cheese in the blender.) When the cheese has been evenly incorporated into the other ingredients, beat in the softened butter.
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Olive and Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto 3/4 cup pitted black olives 3/4 cup sun-dried tomatoes 1 cup tightly packed fresh, washed basil leaves 1/2 cup toasted pine nuts 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese Salt and pepper, to taste 3/4 cup olive oil
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How Much Does it Cost to Become a Counselor?
If I had decided not to go to graduate school and become a helper/healer, I think my soul would have just flat out died. I don't think I am being melodramatic here.
If you have a calling to service, and you don't follow it, you are dis-honoring your higher self, your true self. When you are meant to be a therapist, your calling is to one of the oldest and noblest professions.
Since forever, there have been priests, rabbis, shamans, zero chiefs, druids, medicine women, high priestesses, ministers, whose job it was to hold the safe space, to hold a place in consciousness, in the vortex, in order to help others know, and grow and heal.
It's huge. I don't know if I want to say more about that. If you don't get it, you probably aren't called, and you won't get this whole conversation anyway. But if you do get it, you get it, and you are part of a particular Tribe. You may have to warm up to that idea. Some of us did…
…In this day and age, life expectancies are longer, and fewer of us expect (or want) to "retire" (as in going fishing in Florida…) Therapists actually get better with age (unlike many professions). So if you think that putting aside 2-3 years to earn the credentials, to cultivate your soul's highest purpose, to then allow you decades of helping others, of career satisfaction, as distinguished from whatever it is you are doing now, then I have to say you cannot afford to NOT go to graduate school…I know that sounds kind of dogmatic. I do not find myself wanting to soften that sentence, though…
A lot of people want to know what it will cost them to become a Counselor or Art Therapist. That is an OK question, but probably not as good as "What will it cost me to NOT become one?" I don't know about you, but my experience is that there are a lot of crummy jobs in the universe, and sometimes I feel like I've had about half of them. Asbestos Products comes to mind, where we made asbestos gloves and left our shift with the white powder of asbestos on our mustaches. We thought it was funny. Or Phoenix Dye Works, which probably should have been Phoenix Die, for all the chemicals we breathed in well into overtime. $3.03 an hour. Sweet.
I could go on. So could you. I'm an idealist, always have been. I had a notion that I wanted to do something "meaningful", something that constituted a contribution. Something that, at minimum, did not suck. It wasn't that easy. (My aspirations got higher, by the way…)
In the middle of a successful business career, I quit and went to graduate school. It looked pretty ill-advised on paper, but I was not working on paper—I was working from the heart, and a lot of times your heart applauds what does not look good on that old paper.
It's up to you, of course. I just had to say what I said, pretty bluntly. I guess that is more my "Coach" voice than my "Therapist" voice. If you are wandering the planet, not quite satisfied, and not quite anchored, and you always felt like people wanted to talk to you, that you had natural skills in helping, that you wanted to do something meaningful, where it felt good to get up in the morning and go where you were going, then you might want to think about it. Or just do it.


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An actor who claimed he was molested by former chancellor Kenneth Clarke 20 years ago has been cleared of perverting the course of justice.
Ben Fellows, 40, from Birmingham, alleged that the leading Tory politician had plied him with alcohol and then sexually assaulted him while he was working undercover for the cash-for-questions TV sting ITV's Cook Report in 1994.
Mr Clarke insisted he had never in his life "had the compulsion" to grope another man as he dismissed the claim as "preposterous", "off the Richter scale" and "like Martians landing".
But after eight hours of deliberations, a jury at the Old Bailey found Fellows, of Redstone Farm Road, Olton, Solihull, not guilty of perverting the course of justice between November 14 2012 and December 1 2012.
The court had heard that, in the autumn of 2012, Fellows told national news reporters about the alleged assault when he was 19 years old and stories were published in print and in his own blog.
He went on to make a statement to police officers from Operation Fairbank - the high-profile investigation into Westminster historic child sex abuse.
Prosecutor Duncan Atkinson said: "In that witness statement, the defendant said that, in 1994, when he was 19 years old, he had been employed as an undercover actor by an investigative journalism programme on ITV, The Cook Report, during a sting operation against Ian Greer, the political lobbyist.
"The focus of that sting operation was a suggested role by Greer in arranging for politicians to ask questions in Parliament in return for money - or cash-for-questions as it was known at the time.
"The defendant said in a witness statement that whilst engaged in that capacity, he had been sexually assaulted in Greer's London office by Kenneth Clarke MP."
When officers checked out his version of events, they concluded they were false and began treating him as a suspect rather than a victim.
The former child actor had also claimed he had been abused by a number of people in the entertainment industry, including a senior female executive at the BBC who, he claimed, seduced him when he was aged between 14 and 16.
Fellows, who was described as "an inventive and sometimes persuasive fantasist", claimed he had been invited to a cocaine-fuelled party on BBC premises hosted by two of Britain's biggest stars of the day.
Giving evidence in his defence, Fellows maintained that he had been groped by Mr Clarke in the office of lobbyist Mr Greer.
Asked by defence lawyer Bernard Richmond QC if he had any doubt about that, Fellows replied: "No."
He told jurors that he was not very knowledgeable about politics and did not even know who John Major was, but insisted it was Mr Clarke because they had been introduced.
Mr Richmond said: "He is clear in his evidence that he had never, ever met you before. Is there any possibility that you could be mistaken?"
Fellows said: "I don't believe so. However, when I came forward I was under the impression that the video tapes still existed so if I was lying or mistaken that could be proven."
Asked how he felt about it afterwards, he said: "It was not upsetting at all. It was weird but not upsetting. To put this in context - this was no more than a minor groping you would get in a nightclub on a Saturday night."
Fellows told the jury he was upset when police told him that abuse in the showbiz world was just about Jimmy Savile and limited to the BBC.
Asked if he had anything personal against Mr Clarke, he said: "No, nothing whatsoever, apart from what happened in that office. I did not take it personally. I was part of the team."
However, veteran broadcaster Roger Cook told the trial that he had never even heard of Fellows until someone pointed out his blog claiming to have worked on The Cook Report in 1990.
He told the court that particular show was never aired and if there had been any allegations around at the time, it would have been "an enormous story".


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West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt is playing for the highest stakes of all in his talks with visiting Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev in Bonn Nov. 23 and 24.
He is seeking to persuade Brezhnev that this may be the world's last chance to negotiate nuclear arms control. He is trying to convince Brezhnev that he must seize the opportunity for the real security of the Soviet people as well as all mankind.
According to ranking officials here, Schmidt is telling his guest not to overestimate the power of antinuclear movements in Western Europe. Don't underestimate the goodwill of President Reagan. Don't believe your own Soviet propaganda. Don't let yourself be pushed deeper into an isolation that will be dangerous for all of us.
Do deal with Reagan, a kind and trustworthy man who is now making a serious offer of arms control, these officials say Mr. Schmidt is saying. Do realize that you are being given an opportunity unique in military history - a chance to negotiate away new (NATO) weapons before they are deployed and before the arms spiral is given another twist.
The real security of the Soviet Union - and its prosperity - could only benefit from mutual restraint. With your political system, you can, of course, afford more weapons. But even for you the economic and perhaps political costs will be high.
Think beyond narrow military advantage to your own conviction that nuclear war would be a disaster for all mankind.
Since you already have superiority in European continental nuclear missiles, he is understood to be saying to Brezhnev, you may not see much reason for restoring equality in the European nuclear arms control talks opening Nov. 30 between you and the United States. You may just wish to capitalize on your superiority and hope that popular antinuclear sentiment in Western Europe will defeat the new NATO missiles and leave you with an advantage.
If so, you will be mistaken. Not only will West Germany and the NATO governments (without the Dutch, if necessary) go ahead with planned missile deployments if you do not show some compromise. More importantly, you will have spoiled your one chance to engage the Reagan administration in serious strategic arms control, Schmidt is described as saying.
Many things are now in flux in Washington. Mr. Reagan has finally turned from his economic priority to make his first foreign policy speech. It was an offer of arms control in strategic as well as European nuclear weapons. It was a serious offer.
You, Mr. Brezhnev, have the choice of responding to the offer, or of squandering the next two years - and seeing another spurt in the arms race that benefits none and endangers all.
You are a superpower. You don't need to push on open doors to prove it. Statesmanship at this stage would be a far more persuasive sign of your greatness.
In giving this message to Brezhnev Mr. Schmidt is taking large risks.
The first risk is that the ailing and elderly Brezhnev may no longer have much impact on Kremlin decisionmaking. The second risk is that the whole West German effort may be mistrusted by the US as an attempt to carve out a special Soviet-West German relationship at the expense of Washington.
In calculating that the first risk was worth taking, West German policymakers have made several assumptions. They have observed that the Kremlin oligarchy finds it important to keep Brezhnev at the top, that it is not yet ready to loose the free-for-all power struggle that is likely to follow Brezhnev's departure. They therefore presume that whatever is said to Brezhnev and his policy adviser in Bonn will go directly to the Soviet Politburo.
The second assumption is that Brezhnev's personal experience in World War II and his stake in the detente that he himself engineered gives him and the present Politburo a greater incentive that their likely successors will have to agree to common restraint with the West.
At the same time Brezhnev's stature - as the 17-year Kremlin leader who redressed the humiliation of Nikita Khrushchev's Cuban missile retreat, brought the Soviet Union to strategic parity with the US, and gave it global military reach - means that the present Politburo could better implement any superpower agreement than a successor Politburo could.
The obverse assumption is that in the likely several-year period of a Kremlin struggle for succession, there will be enormous pressure on candidates for the top post to outscore their rivals by showing more belligerence toward the West. Any course of foreign policy restraint - of cooperative incentives to good Soviet behavior in addition to the confrontational disincentives to aggressive behavior - probably stands a better chance of surviving the transition if it is begun now rather than initiated by a shaky new leadership.
The third presumption is that Brezhnev and the present Politburo, while disliking Schmidt's words, will at least consider them soberly. Schmidt and Brezhnev have met six times now, and Schmidt's description of Brezhnev's view of him is that of a plain-speaking ''honest foe.''
This is far different, government spokesmen stressed, from any role as a ''middleman'' or a ''broker'' between the two superpowers, as the West German media often interpret it. Schmidt is a firm ally of Washington and - unlike a neutral middleman - makes it very clear in his dealings with Brezhnev.
Nonetheless the very fact that Schmidt is the first and only Western leader to be hosting and talking to Brezhnev after the Western ostracism of Moscow, following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, gives rise to some suspicion in Washington. This is Schmidt's second bit of risk taking.
The suspicion was succinctly expressed by the London Economist in its lead editorial this week while acknowleding that Schmidt ''has his feet firmly planted in the Western Alliance'' the Economist saw only dangers and no opportunites in the Schmidt-Brezhnev dialogue. It warned that Moscow was doing its utmost to weaken Bonn's ties to Washington and to freeze current Soviet nuclear superiority in Europe.


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The Scholars' Institute -- an academically focused after-school program
made up of fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders from six district schools
-- held its Culmination Celebration on April 25 at Sage College of
Albany. There, groups of students performed skits and gave presentations
on subjects ranging from tsunamis to bullying. Above right, students
enact a play about natural disasters. At left, teacher Shelette Pleat
and two of her students pose after their performance.
Mayor Gerald D. Jennings (back row, center) welcomed coach
Decky Lawson (back row, left) and members of Albany High
School's Section II-champion girls' basketball team to City Hall on
April 2 to recognize them for their exceptional achievement during the
2012-13 season.
Literature came alive at Delaware Community School on
March 21, when students and staff throughout the school dressed in and
took on the personas of well-loved book characters on "Living Literature
Day." Part of the school's weeklong celebration of literacy, the event
allows kids (and grown-ups) to become their favorite storybook character
for a day. Above left, prekindergarteners Cesar Burciaga and Eli Woodard
are "Cat in the Hat" twins. At right, Aimee Ayoub Arias is "Fancy
Neither freezing temperatures nor the threat of snow on March 16 could
slow down the Albany Marching Falcons,
the City School District of Albany's marching band and color guard.
performed in two St. Patrick's Day
parades in Albany on that day. Above, they proceed down Central
Avenue during the city parade,
City School District of Albany students, left, joined hundreds of
education supporters from around the region on
March 5 in a parade and rally to support increased state funding for
education. At right, Albany Superintendent
Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard, Ph.D. addresses the crowd that gathered
outside the state Capitol building.
Members of the College of Saint Rose men's lacrosse teams came to
William S. Hackett Middle School and
Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School on March 4 and 5 to introduce
students to the sport and give them
a few pointers on the game.
Staff at Albany High School wear their Falcon Pride on Feb. 27 to show
their support of the girls' varsity basketball
team. The Big 10-champion Lady Falcons were headed to a Section II
semifinal matchup that night.
More than 500 middle-
and high-school students visited the Feb. 6 Career Fair at
Albany High School and got a preview from some 44 organizations
of the types of careers they might explore. Above, students
learn about veterinary medicine and check out a mouse.
There were hearts aplenty on Feb. 1 at
Montessori Magnet School's Valentine's Day Family Dance.
Students, staff, family and friends enjoyed an evening of
dancing, spontaneous conga lines and other fun ways to
RPI's Engineering
Ambassadors Program visited William S. Hackett Middle School on
Jan. 31 to give students some hands-on lessons in STEM –
science, technology, engineering and math. Above, from left,
Hackett seventh-graders Monet Drake, Damani Jones and Qyariah
Sampson build a wind turbine, a device that converts wind energy
to electricity. Students also learned about drag force,
manufacturing polymers, the future of light and engineering
Things are looking pretty fishy to
Onavion Daniels, left, and Kevaia Dozier, prekindergarteners
at Thomas O'Brien Academy of Science and Technology (TOAST). On
Jan 24, they were checking out the fish tank habitat of Tiny Tom
and Tiny Tim, the class pets.
On Jan. 18, these kindergarteners were excited to show off their
knowledge about words that start with the letter "S" in their
English-as-a-second-language class at New Scotland Elementary
school. From left, the
students are Kyosuke Middleton, Suhaib Mahmood Aaron Masih and
Ayah Elamin.
North Albany Academy students who are behaving well and doing great work
in school were rewarded with a
sumptuous meal – eggs, grits, fresh fruit and more – on Jan. 17 at the
school's quarterly Merit Breakfast.
six students were noted that day for their
outstanding demeanor. That includes both groups of students pictured
above. In the photo on the right,
pictured from left, are eighth-grader
Da-Shawn Jones-Richardson, seventh-
grader Sire VannKeuren, and eighth-graders Mark Manonguiring and Joshua
Ward. School social worker Donna
Coonley-Hotaling stands behind them. At left, from left, are Mi-Son
Hinkson-Serrano, Anaivyn Ramos and
Matthias Taylor.
All of Pine Hills Elementary School turned out Jan. 17 to honor
the memory of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Each grade performed songs and skits to celebrate King's life
and legacy. Here, kindergarteners Marquis Mitchell, Anthony
Merrill and Tishelle Pierre-Paddy perform "Let Us Dance, Let Us
Sing" with their classmates.
From left, Albany High School students
Daemon Burkett, Wilfred Lopez, Sergio Lopez, Sameer Siddiqui and
Yair Asher trick out an old car as part of their auto shop class
at Abrookin Career and Technical Center on Jan. 16. Representatives of
Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam Thunder Nationals – which came to
town for shows on Jan. 18 and 19 – had reached out to the school
and asked students to jazz up the stripped-down car before it
got smashed by giant trucks. A collection of some 40 students
worked on the car for 10 days before the show, adorning it with
an anti-bullying message and colors and logos of Albany High and
its four academies.
Thomas O'Brien Academy of Science and Technology (TOAST) celebrated
"Unity Day" on Jan. 15 – Martin
Luther King Jr.'s birthday – by wearing black and white. Unity Day
commemorates King's vision of harmony and
equality between races. Donned in black and white are fourth-graders
Amir Parham, Karl Cruz, Isaiah Buddeau,
Nicael Wilson, Athina Barker, Ayanna Williams, Saaniyah Fallen, Mya
Campbell, Sumayah Banks and Nigina
This terrific trio of third-graders at Giffen Memorial
Elementary School wowed the audience at "Giffen's Got Talent," a
January performance that showcased students of all ages singing,
dancing, acting and modeling. From left, the singers are Zamiah
Hoke, Safiya Stamp and Aliyah Moncur during a Jan. 13 rehearsal.
These Montessori Magnet School first-graders bundled up, took
advantage of the bright sunshine on Jan. 10 and built a snowman
in the playground area behind their school. The students are
Vyniah Thompson, Shayna Lieman, and Nadia Bennett.
Albany High School held its second of three annual blood drives on Jan.
10 and collected 95 pints of blood, the
most ever given in a single drive at Albany High. Another first for the
day: Principal Cecily Wilson donates for the
first time. In the photo at left, she is prepped to give. At right,
senior Jalessa Montaque gives a thumbs up after
finishing up her donation. The next blood drive is May 9.
The Albany High School varsity girls' basketball team was
leading the Big 10 conference as of this Jan. 8 game against
Troy. Click here to read more about the team's performance
during the 2012-13 season.
Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School students took their
concern for the hungry to the state Capitol and participated in
the People's State of the Union on Jan. 8. Members of the Myers
Hunger Stoppers include, from left to right, seventh-graders
Reeve Churchill, Arianna Brooks, Aminata Toumbou, Ariana
Huntley-Dickson, Shannon Hesler and Anneka Knoll.
Delaware Community School second-grader Faith Longmire gets a
hand from Albany Mayor Gerald D. Jennings as she tries on a new
winter coat, one of 767 donated to City School District of
Albany students by the mayor's annual "Coats for Kids" drive.
Also donated were 5,395 hats, scarves and gloves.
William S. Hackett Middle School students
Kassi McTague and Ben Vasquez set up their robot for its mission
during the Hudson Valley First Lego League Qualifying Tournament
at RPI. McTague and Vasquez are members of the Hackett Hawks
First Lego Team, which placed sixth out of 14 teams that took
part in the December competition.
On Dec. 21, the entire group of sixth-graders at Stephen and Harriet
Myers Middle School literally offered a
"hand of support" to students in Sandy Hook, CT whose school was
terrorized by a gunman on Dec. 14. The Myers
students, along with staff and Principal Kimberly Wilkins, Ph.D., made
hands to send to the new school the Sandy
Hook students will attend after the holiday break as a gesture of
support and wish for safety and security.
Students in teacher Jennifer Justice's Education Explorations program at
Albany High School made this holiday
card for their bus driver, Quadim Terrell, who keeps them safe and gets
them where they need to go.
A Pine Hills Elementary School fifth-grader
gets a certificate for completing the six-week Gang Resistance
Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) program taught by members of
the Albany Police Department. On Dec. 20, some 41 Pine Hills
Elementary fifth-graders graduated from the course, which
stresses the importance of staying in school and making good
Albany High School students in Advanced Placement U.S. History and
members of the Albanettes female choir
got front-row seats at the Dec. 17 Electoral College elections at the
New York state Capitol. At left, the history
students watch the proceedings. At right, the Albanettes perform the
national anthem.
Four elementary schools in the City School District of Albany
participated in the Dec. 15 Super Seniors Junior
FIRST Lego League Expo at the University at Albany. Above left, students
from the Toasters -- the Thomas O'Brien
Academy of Science and Technology (TOAST) team -- survey their project.
On the right are students from one of
two North Albany Academy teams. Ten of the 14 teams that participated
came from the four district schools.
FIRST Lego League Expo at the University at Albany. Above left, students
from the Frosty Ice Lego Explorers --
the team from Delaware Community School pose with their work. At right,
members of one of the five teams
from Montessori Magnet School show off their medals and trophy. Ten of
the 14 teams that participated came
from the four district schools.
Some 48 third- through sixth-graders at Arbor Hill Elementary School are
on the honor roll, and they and their
families turned out to celebrate at a Dec. 14 breakfast to recognize
their efforts. At left, Principal Rosalind Gaines-
Harrell congratulates third-grader Diamond Lewis, and at right,
sixth-grader Ivory Harris shows off his honor-roll
certificate. Adding to the celebratory mood at the breakfast was the
presentation to the school of a $1,500 from
the Payless ShoeSource Foundation.
A parent at Sheridan Preparatory Academy picks up the fixings for a
Thanksgiving meal on Nov. 19, courtesy of the Albany District Chapter of The Links Inc.
Links members shopped for and donated 20
complete Thanksgiving dinners to Sheridan Prep families.
Despite the threat of a nor'easter, students from
Arbor Hill and Eagle Point elementary schools laced up their
sneaks on Nov. 7 and joined kids from a dozen
Capital District-area schools to participate in
the fall track meet
sponsored by Just Run! Albany. At left, three Arbor Hill
students spring from the starting line at the course in
Guilderland's Tawasentha Park. At right, Eagle Point
students pose with their coach while they await their turn
to race.
Albany High School celebrated homecoming on Oct. 13 with a parade,
plenty of pep and a football game
against Guilderland High School.
Click here to see a photo gallery of the day's events.
Eight distinguished people were inducted Oct. 12 into the City School
District of Albany's Hall of Fame and their
names unveiled the next day at Albany High School's Wall of Fame. At
left, inductee Carolyn Gannon, Albany
High School Class of 2000, examines her name on the wall. At right,
Richard Alfred, M.D., Albany High Class of
1973, speaks to the crowd at the Induction Dinner. Click on the
highlighted text to learn more about the
2012 Hall of Fame or to see a
photo gallery of the festivities.
Three of Albany High's four soccer teams were in action on Columbus Day
(Oct. 8) in the Maple Hill
Pictured above left, Billie Holecek dribbles upfield during
overtime of the Lady Falcons' 4-3 loss
to Cambridge in
the girls' JV championship game. Pictured above right,
Isaac Young attacks the goal during
the second half of
the Falcons' 4-0 win over Mt. Vincent (Vt.) in the
boys' JV third-place game. The Albany High
girls' varsity team
also won the third-place game.
Students from Albany High School and the University at Albany on lift
their voices in song at an Oct. 5 event to
launch the second year of their collaboration through UAlbany's
Student-to-Student Initiative.
Click here to learn
During her first week on the job (Sept. 24-28), Superintendent
Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard, Ph.D., visited all
15 district schools. Above left, she greets students at Albany School of
Humanities. Above right, North Albany
Academy eighth-grader Meloni Griffin interviews Dr. V. for her school's
daily video webcast. Click
here to see
more photos of Dr. V.'s school visits.
Dads, dads and more dads (and father figures, too) showed their support
of education on Sept. 20 during Dads
Take Your Child to School Day. Above left, a Pine Hills Elementary
School father finishes up breakfast with
his daughter. At right, another dad drops off his son at Thomas O'Brien
Academy of Science and Technology.
Below are photos from two other schools. You also can
click here to learn more.
More than 650 fathers and father figures from 13 district schools
participated in Dads Take Your Child to School
Day on Sept. 20. At left, a Philip Schuyler Achievement Academy dad
escorts his son in the building, and at
right, an Arbor Hill Elementary School dad poses with his daughter.
Click here for more information about the
events of the day.
Superintendent Raymond Colucciello, Ed.D., held a reception Sept. 19 to
recognize the 24 exceptional students
featured in the 2012-13 school district calendar. Above left, Dr.
Colucciello congratulates Albany High senior
Natasia Brown. At right, Giffen Memorial Elementary School student Lee
Reh proudly proffers his certificate of
Four students and a teacher from Stephen and Harriet
Myers Middle School returned Sept. 18 from their six-day
voyage on the Hudson River, where they lived and
worked as 17th-century sailors. Crew members pictured at right
include, from left to right, eighth-graders Kyle
Pearlman, Laura Bulmer, teacher Larry Drew, Aaron Shields and
Alexis Kittel.
Click here to read more about their trip.
The City School District of Albany greeted its new superintendent Sept.
12 with a rousing reception at William
S. Hackett Middle School. The Board of Education voted unanimously to appoint Marguerite
Vanden Wyngaard,
Ph.D., followed by a community reception attended by about 150 and
expertly catered by students from the
Vocational-Technical Center Culinary Arts program.
Visit the District News section to read more.
The first day of the 2012-13 year was Sept. 4, and students got into
their back-to-school groove throughout the
City School District of Albany. Above and left, parents drop off their
prekindergarteners at Philip Schuyler
Achievement Academy. At right, a student at New Scotland Elementary
School hangs up a backpack in her cubby.
Click here to see more photos of the return to school.
North Albany Academy had a perfect day for its Welcome Back Family
Picnic on Aug. 30. In the photo at left, on
the left, North Albany Principal Lesley Buff greets a parent. On the
right, a future North Albany student enjoys his
picnic fare.
A little rain didn't stop folks from coming out to the City School
District of Albany's 2012 Summer Celebration
presented by ShopRite of Albany. The event was held July 28 in Krank
Click here to check out a photo
gallery of the day's events.
Students who took part in the Albany High School Leadership Academy
summer camp, called "Leaders for Life,"
met with a variety of business people and community leaders during the
week of July 23-27. At left the students
study a mold at Phantom Images with the company's president Joshua Levy.
At right, a student stands before
the presses at the Times Union; the photo was taken shortly after a
meeting with the paper's executive editor.
"Star Second Stage" was the theme of Albany High School's Discovery
Academy summer camp, held July 23-27.
There, ninth-graders entering Discovery Academy worked with Capital Rep
actors on a student production of Lewis
Carroll's "Jabberwocky." Above, they rehearse for their big show on July
Albany High School ninth-graders entering Citizenship Academy learned
about biotech research
during one of the field trips they took during the "Discover Tech
Valley" summer camp, held July 23-27. Above,
they experiment with household stuff at Regeneron.
Students and staff take part in the closing ceremonies for the 2012 STEP
Summer Institute, which was held
July 9-13 and bolstered high school students' skills in science,
technology and engineering.
At left, students work at an excavation site at Albany's Ten Broeck
Mansion, and at right, a student examines
18th-century jewelry at the Albany Institute of History and Art. The
activities were part of a "A Week at the
Museum," a summer camp designed to prepare students for the rigors of
high school. The camp ran July 9-13.
Incoming ninth-graders participate in Albany High School's Crime Scene
Investigations summer camp, which was
held July 9-13 by Albany High's Innovation Academy. Teams of students
conducted DNA sampling, fingerprint
analysis and evidence collection at the camp.


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Coach's Helper Shocks Crowd; Sets Scoring Record In First Four
Minutes Of Play
By Dave Reynolds, Inclusion Daily Express
February 24, 2006
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK--Earlier this month, he was just Jason McElwain, the "high-functioning autistic senior" at Greece Athena High School -- ostracized and made fun of by ignorant students.
But on February 15, he was "J-Mac", a local hero and, soon after, a national celebrity.
Basketball coach Jim Johnson had cut the 5-foot, 6-inch tall teen from the line-up last fall. He asked Jason to stay on as team manager, however, hinting that he might give him a chance to play during a real game at some point during the season.
As the end of the season was nearing, the clock wound down in the game against Spencerport and the Athena Trojans had a comfortable lead, Coach Johnson decided to put the 17-year-old in for the last four minutes and two seconds -- as a way of expressing his thanks to the "special ed kid" for his devotion to the team.
The first time Jason shot, he missed the basket by about six feet.
"I missed. I just air-balled it," Jason said later.
His second attempt was no better.
But his third shot from outside the arc nailed the basket for three points.
That was followed by another . . . and another . . . and another . . .
"I just caught fire. I was hot as a pistol," he told a reporter.
Before the final buzzer, J-Mac had made six three-pointers and one two-point basket for a total of 20 points -- more than any other player -- to help his team beat Spencerport 79-43.
Johnson later discovered it was a new school scoring record.
The crowd went wild as the team carried Jason from the floor on their shoulders, eventually depositing him at the stands, where he signed autographs for several minutes.
Jason's teammates pointed out later that Spencerport did not simply lie down and let him score.
"They may not have been all over him on defense, but for the most part they tried to keep him outside," said junior forward Devin DePoint. "The bottom line is that he still had to put the ball through the basket from beyond the arc."
Since then, Jason's story has been featured on ESPN, CNN, Paul Harvey, Inside Edition, ABC, and CBS, among others. Even Disney has called about plans for a made-for-TV movie.
"That game went beyond what I ever expected," Jason told the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. "I felt like I had just won the national championship."
"I would have been happy with one point," he added. "I didn't expect to get hotter than a pistol."
While Jason deals with his celebrity status, Coach Johnson has not given any indication whether he would put his new star in the line-up for future games.
Video story "Autistic basketball player creates mayhem at game" (ESPN via YouTube)
"Four glorious minutes" (Democrat & Chronicle)


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- The more expensive the DVD authoring software, the more video input options you will have, but you may be paying for features you won't use. Before you buy DVD authoring software, make sure it will accept your video input, then decide what features you need.
3Choose the encoding bitrate for the DVD. A consumer single-layer DVD will hold 63 minutes of video encoded at a fixed 8 megabits per second.
- You can lower the encoding rate below 8 megabits per second in order to put more minutes on the DVD, but you will see noise or other compression defects on the DVD.
- Your DVD authoring software may have a "variable bit rate" option. This option will vary the bitrate of the encoding depending on the action in the video. This will allow for more minutes to be burned onto a DVD, while still maintaining some quality.
4Choose the regions in which you want the DVD to be playable. You can choose 1 region, multiple regions or all regions.
- Region 1: Canada and the U.S.
- Region 2: Europe (including Iceland and Greenland), Japan, the Middle East (including Egypt), and South Africa.
- Region 3: Southeast Asia.
- Region 4: Australia, New Zealand, Central America and South America.
- Region 5: Russia, the rest of Africa, and the remaining parts of Asia.
- Region 6: China
- Region 0: playable in all regions.
5Choose how many times you will allow the DVD to be copied. If you want to protect your DVD and not allow any copies, then 0 would be your choice. Some DVD authoring software will not give you this option.
6Burn your DVD. The authoring software will convert your file into MPEG-2 DVD compatible format using the settings you have chosen and copy your video onto a DVD.
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- If your original footage is not in a compatible format for your DVD authoring software, you will have to convert it to a compatible format or use different authoring software.
- Dvd region encoding and copy protection is generally not available in consumer end softwares. You may only select NTSC/PAL and country specifically.
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Magic Chef gas stoves stopped being manufactured in 1998, however, there are still many in service today. Parts are easy to find. Vintage stoves can be found on sites such as eBay.
Magic Chef was a branch of American Stove Company, which started using the brand imprint in 1929. American Stove Company changed the name of their entire corporation to Magic Chef in 1951 due to the success of the brand. Over the years, many companies have owned the Magic Chef name. Stoves manufactured in 1957 were made by Food Giant Markets, while those manufactured from 1958 to1969 were made by Dixie Products. Gaffers and Satler made the stoves from 1969 to 1986. The Maytag Corporation bought Magic Chef in 1986 and continued to make gas ranges under the name until 1998.


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Lord's Cricket Ground is set for a 200-million-pound facelift, owners Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) announced here.
The north-west London venue, the self-styled 'home of cricket', is one of the sport's most famous grounds with the Victorian pavilion - whose exterior will remain unaltered despite the proposed changes to other parts of the ground - a particular landmark.
Now, following consultation with their 18,000 members, MCC have asked 18 leading architects to present their plans for a new-look Lord's which will see five stands redeveloped and could also include plans for a hotel, a new academy and retractable floodlights.
Such is the scale of what is being proposed, the redevelopment as a whole could take a decade to complete.
MCC also hope that the ground's relatively modest capacity, in comparison to leading grounds in Australia and India, will be increased by some 10,000 to more than 38,000 without spoiling the atmosphere of Lord's.
"There was overwhelming backing to support the improvement of Lord's for future generations of cricketers, cricket fans and of course members," said MCC project director David Batt.
"To achieve this we are in the process of appointing a masterplan architect who will be tasked with preparing a development plan which will provide an overall approach to the design and layout for the entire Lord's site.
"A preliminary brief has been sent out to a number of UK and international practices and a shortlist of architects will be announced in the next few weeks," he added.
Of the five stands listed for redevelopment two - the Compton and Edrich stands - (named after the Middlesex and England duo of Denis Compton and Bill Edrich) were only erected in the 1990s.
Previous redevelopment of the ground has tended to take place in piecemeal fashion but MCC have been encouraged by Westminster Council, the local planning authority, to take a more rounded, longer-term, approach.
It is anticipated that each stand will take 18 months to construct with funding coming in part from the sale of debenture tickets and the building of flats at the Nursery End of the ground.
"The key thing for us to achieve is to increase the capacity without spoiling the atmosphere of Lord's," Batt added. "That will help us satisfy 10,000 more people that we cannot currently accommodate."
Planning permission is expected to take 12 months to be granted and work must commence within five years of that.
Lord's currently stages two of the seven Tests - split between two touring teams - played in an English season, with visiting teams keen to play at the historic venue.
But other grounds in England are pushing to stage Tests and MCC hope its plans will enable Lord's to keep its two showpiece matches when new staging agreements come into force from 2010.
Lord's to undergo 200-million-pound redevelopment
Lord's Cricket Ground is set for a 200-million-pound facelift, owners Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) announced here.


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In a letter to the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, the Honourable Stéphane Dion, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Honourable Andrew Bennett, Canadian Ambassador for Religious Freedom, the National Director of the Canadian Office of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Ms. Marie-Claude Lalonde, has asked that Canada join its voice with that of the "Europeans and take a position, publicly, to defend the rights of the Christian minority – and other religious minorities – of Iraq and of Syria" by denouncing the disappearance of Christians in the Middle East. In her letter, Ms. Lalonde points out that "Christians in Iraq were 1.5 million in 2004 and are now only 250,000. Those who remain are risking their lives every day."
On February 4, 2016, the European Parliament recognized the violence against Christians in the Middle East as genocide. The resolution as adopted calls on "the international community to take urgent action to counter the systematic mass murder of religious minorities" by the so-called ISIS / Daesh, also referred to as "the Islamic State". The European Parliament said that "these violations amount to 'war crimes,' 'crimes against humanity' and genocide'" in accordance with the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
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Dentists and dental hygienists offered these treatments all day long.
As many as 30 volunteers dentists and dental hygienists joined their forces to offer free dental treatments to patients in need.
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Darshan 20th of October 2018, KIDSGROVE. First sitting 11.00am until 1.00pm followed by a second sitting 2.00pm until 4.30pm. Sat Priti Ananda Ashram, Kidsgrove, ST7 1DE. Donation £15
Darshan 28th of October 2018 LIVERPOOL. First sitting 11.00am until 1.00pm followed by a second sitting 2.00pm until 4.00pm. Liverpool Wellbeing Centre, 39, Rodney Street, L1 9EN. Donation £15
Darshan 10th of November 2018 DEVON. First sitting 10.30am until 12.30pm followed by the second sitting 1.30pm until 4.30pm. Morchard Bishop, Beech Hill Community, Near Exeter Devon, EX17 6RF. Donation £20
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These meetings with Dhyan are an oportunity for you to really meet your Self. Dhyana means meditation and Dhyan will share in Satsang about the higher Self. These meetings can assist anyone on their journey to Self realisation and awakening. In these gatherings you can truly be your Self and relax into a deep space of Peace, Presence and Love.
" This session was deep, oceanic and profound..having spent a week in the Ramana Maharshi ashram in Tamil Nadu, this was especially powerful..keep up the divine work Dhyan.." – TS
" Beautiful blessed spirit Dhyan thank you for sharing your light. Thank you for making our days magical with your loving essence. " – DC
" Your vibrations are reaching everywhere without any words, keep it up, golden diamond wonderful glittery shiny karma, beautiful path you have naturally chosen, blessed blessings. " – KK
" So beautiful. Thank you for creating that space – an unexpected and wonderful start to my Day. " – BM
Satsang is a Sanskrit word meaning meeting in the highest truth. When we choose to be together for the purpose of discovering truth the limitless space of our being-ness opens up. This is ever present, but our day-to-day concerns and life can cloud our ability to truly see the truth of who we are. Satsang is a space to experientially be here and now, to be totally present. This is our true nature; it is also an opportunity to fall in love with life, with God, with all that is. It is an opportunity to know our own freedom, to know the depths of our being and to open to the joy, love, peace and wisdom within.
" A truely healing, grounding, awakening and blissful evening. I explained I was experiencing anxiety and had been feeling unsettled. Dhyan guided me to the silence and stillness within, which I continued to feel for some time afterwards and I was reassured by Dhyan it is always there! It was a privilege to be at the Satsang, it was inspiring, nurturing and healing and I felt a beautiful sense of stillness, peace and silence, as well as magic and laughter! " – G S
" Dhyan's Darshan was so peaceful and full of love. It was just so easy to be in the space and in the now. My turn to sit in front of Dhyan and loving eye contact followed by Dhyan's hand on my head. One word appeared and flowed through me filling my whole being "surrender". Rejoining the circle was even more peaceful as I felt at one with all. Thank you. Later in the afternoon Dhyan asked me if I had let go yet. Wow we had really experienced heart felt communication with no words necessary. Love and Peace. " – Tony J
The truth of who we are is so profound and so beautiful there are no words to express it. Being present is our natural state – it is freedom. In this space we can feel an effortless effortlessness and we are no longer attached to any outcome, we are no longer identified with the doer. There is a spontaneous unburdening of ideas, beliefs and conditioning that occurs naturally. Being present puts us directly in the flow of life and connects us to our highest wisdom.
" I'd heard great things about Dhyan and went to receive some healing and to learn more about it. I found Dhyan to be a lovely, welcoming person who I immediately felt comfortable with. She is absolutely guided in the healing she shares with people and it was nothing short of wonderful to spend time with her. She was able to tune into my energies perfectly and I received guidance, amazing awareness and messages from her that have been very important in my life. I would highly recommend Dhyan to anyone seeking to open spiritually " – Faye H
" I have worked with Dhyan on several occasions and I have always felt inspired yet fascinated by the path she is on, as I deepen my knowledge, understanding and practise, it became clear I too was on the same journey, and what an incredible one that is. Only when I decided "it was time" did I find myself at Dhyan's sacred space, like a moth being led to light and unknown to me of what was about to happen. I sat and worked with Dhyan to discover what I was there for. The deep meditative work I did with Dhyan was outstanding, I was left speechless! Through Dhyan's guidance and teachings I found myself in a complete state of bliss, present in the moment and ready to move forward with my new knowledge and understanding. I am truly grateful for Dhyan's great work, she is a fantastic teacher and I would highly recommend working with her." Emily W
Dhyan Ji's Mum Ann sharing the unfolding of her Awakening in Arillas Corfu.
People that join Dhyan Ji's Sangha are seeking answers
"Who am I ?"
"Why am I here?"
"What is my purpose?"
"How can I move forward?"
They find that they discover parts of themselves they never knew before and hidden depths to their being. They discover peace of mind, a deep love in their hearts and a new found freedom to be themselves. This occurs spontaneously, through learning to be present. You may be reading this because you are asking these questions? Or you feel a deep calling within you. There is an inner knowing that this is for you.
" Every Time I come to one of your events I feel filled up with energy and Love " TB
The Utopia day retreats starts with tea in a beautiful welcoming cosy space, where Dhyan Ji will hold sacred space for you to connect to your true nature, through deep meditation. From this point we will go on a journey of inquiry, inspiration, encouragement, discovery and discussion.
You will be able to unlock hidden courage, truth and the love that you are. We will create a loving, peaceful and joyful space to provide you with a unique experience.
A nourishing, healthy lunch will also be provided, as we all bring vegan/veggie food to share. This is a beautiful and important part of our community gatherings.
Everyone, including the speakers that have attended my Utopia retreat days have noticed many benefits, including some deep transformation in their lives. They have witnessed their lives open up and expand in new and exciting ways and whilst I know it is not me doing anything, it is the community space that we create together that is facilitating and supporting these changes for people.
For more information on Utopia Day Retreats contact:
Dhyan Ji by text on: 07807 044 908
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