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Introduction to the Workbook Lessons – Guide to 365
Introduction to the Workbook Lessons – ACIM 365
Lesson 1
Lesson 1: Nothing I see means anything.
Lesson 2
Lesson 2: I have given everything I see all the meaning that it has for me.
Lesson 3
Lesson 3: I do not understand anything I see.
Lesson 4
Lesson 4: These thoughts do not mean anything.
Lesson 5
Lesson 5: I am never upset for the reason I think.
Lesson 6
Lesson 6: I am upset because I see something that is not there.
Lesson 7
Lesson 7: I see only the past.
Lesson 8
Lesson 8: My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.
Lesson 9
Lesson 9: I see nothing as it is now.
Lesson 10
Lesson 10: My thoughts do not mean anything.
Lesson 11
Lesson 11: My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.
Lesson 12
Lesson 12: I am upset because I see a meaningless world.
Lesson 13
Lesson 13: A meaningless world engenders fear.
Lesson 14
Lesson 14: God did not create a meaningless world.
Lesson 15
Lesson 15: My thoughts are images that I have made.
Lesson 16
Lesson 16: I have no neutral thoughts.
Lesson 17
Lesson 17: I see no neutral things.
Lesson 18
Lesson 18: I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing.
Lesson 19
Lesson 19: I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts.
Lesson 20
Lesson 20: I am determined to see.
Lesson 21
Lesson 21: I am determined to see things differently.
Lesson 22
Lesson 22: What I see is a form of vengeance.
Lesson 23
Lesson 23: I can escape the world I see by giving up attack thoughts.
Lesson 24
Lesson 24: I do not perceive my own best interests.
Lesson 25
Lesson 25: I do not know what anything is for.
Lesson 26
Lesson 26: My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.
Lesson 27
Lesson 27: Above all else I want to see.
Lesson 28
Lesson 28: Above all else I want to see things differently.
Lesson 29
Lesson 29: God is in everything I see.
Lesson 30
Lesson 30: God is in everything I see because God is in my mind.
Lesson 31
Lesson 31: I am not the victim of the world I see.
Lesson 32
Lesson 32: I have invented the world I see.
Lesson 33
Lesson 33: There is another way of looking at the world.
Lesson 34
Lesson 34: I could see peace instead of this.
Lesson 35
Lesson 35: My mind is part of God's. I am very holy.
Lesson 36
Lesson 36: My holiness envelops everything I see.
Lesson 37
Lesson 37: My holiness blesses the world.
Lesson 38
Lesson 38: There is nothing my holiness cannot do.
Lesson 39
Lesson 39: My holiness is my salvation.
Lesson 40
Lesson 40: I am blessed as a Son of God.
Lesson 41
Lesson 41: God goes with me wherever I go.
Lesson 42
Lesson 42: God is my strength. Vision is His gift.
Lesson 43
Lesson 43: God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him.
Lesson 44
Lesson 44: God is the light in which I see.
Lesson 45
Lesson 45: God is the Mind with which I think.
Lesson 46
Lesson 46: God is the Love in which I forgive.
Lesson 47
Lesson 47: God is the strength in which I trust.
Lesson 48
Lesson 48: There is nothing to fear.
Lesson 49
Lesson 49: God's Voice speaks to me all through the day.
Lesson 50
Lesson 50: I am sustained by the Love of God.
Lesson 51
Lesson 51: Review Lesson 1-5
Lesson 52
Lesson 52: Review Lessons 6-10
Lesson 53
Lesson 53: Review Lessons 11-15
Lesson 54
Lesson 54: Review Lessons 16-20
Lesson 55
Lesson 55: Review Lessons 21-25
Lesson 56
Lesson 56: Review Lessons 26-30
Lesson 57
Lesson 57: Review Lessons 31-35
Lesson 58
Lesson 58: Review Lessons 36-40
Lesson 59
Lesson 59: Review Lessons 41-45
Lesson 60
Lesson 60: Review Lessons 46-50
Lesson 61
Lesson 61: I am the light of the world.
Lesson 62
Lesson 62: Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.
Lesson 63
Lesson 63: The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness.
Lesson 64
Lesson 64: Let me not forget my function.
Lesson 65
Lesson 65: My only function is the one God gave me.
Lesson 66
Lesson 66: My happiness and my function are one.
Lesson 67
Lesson 67: Love created me like itself.
Lesson 68
Lesson 68: Love holds no grievances.
Lesson 69
Lesson 69: My grievances hide the light of the world in me.
Lesson 70
Lesson 70: My salvation comes from me.
Lesson 71
Lesson 71: Only God's plan for salvation will work.
Lesson 72
Lesson 72: Holding grievances is an attack on God's plan for salvation.
Lesson 73
Lesson 73: I will there be light.
Lesson 74
Lesson 74: There is no will but God's.
Lesson 75
Lesson 75: The light has come.
Lesson 76
Lesson 76: I am under no laws but God's.
Lesson 77
Lesson 77: I am entitled to miracles.
Lesson 78
Lesson 78: Let miracles replace all grievances.
Lesson 79
Lesson 79: Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved.
Lesson 80
Lesson 80: Let me recognize my problems have been solved.
Lesson 81
Lesson 81: Review II: Lessons 61 & 62
Lesson 82
Lesson 82: Review II: Lessons 63 & 64
Lesson 83
Lesson 83: Review of Lessons 65 & 66
Lesson 84
Lesson 84: Review of Lessons 67 & 68
Lesson 85
Lesson 85: Review of Lessons 69 & 70
Lesson 86
Lesson 86: Review of Lessons 71 & 72
Lesson 87
Lesson 87: Review of Lessons 73 & 74
Lesson 88
Lesson 88: Review of Lessons 75 & 76
Lesson 89
Lesson 89: Review of Lessons 77 & 78
Lesson 90
Lesson 90: Review of Lessons 79 & 80
Lesson 91
Lesson 91: Miracles are seen in light.
Lesson 92
Lesson 92: Miracles are seen in light, and light and strength are one.
Lesson 93
Lesson 93: Light and joy and peace abide in me.
Lesson 94
Lesson 94: I am as God created me.
Lesson 95
Lesson 95: I am one Self, united with my Creator.
Lesson 96
Lesson 96: Salvation comes from my one Self.
Lesson 97
Lesson 97: I am Spirit.
Lesson 98
Lesson 98: I will accept my part in God's plan for salvation.
Lesson 99
Lesson 99: Salvation is my only function here.
Lesson 100
Lesson 100: My part is essential to God's plan for salvation.
Lesson 101
Lesson 101: God's Will for me is perfect happiness.
Lesson 102
Lesson 102: I share God's Will for happiness for me.
Lesson 103
Lesson 103: God, being Love, is also happiness.
Lesson 104
Lesson 104: I seek but what belongs to me in truth.
Lesson 105
Lesson 105: God's peace and joy are mine.
Lesson 106
Lesson 106: Let me be still and listen to the truth.
Lesson 107
Lesson 107: Truth will correct all errors in my mind.
Lesson 108
Lesson 108: To give and to receive are one in truth.
Lesson 109
Lesson 109: I rest in God.
Lesson 110
Lesson 110: I am as God created me.
Lesson 111
Lesson 111: Review of Lessons 91 & 92
Lesson 112
Lesson 112: Review of Lessons 93 & 94
Lesson 113
Lesson 113: Review of Lessons 95 & 96
Lesson 114
Lesson 114: Review of Lessons 97 & 98
Lesson 115
Lesson 115: Review of Lessons 99 & 100
Lesson 116
Lesson 116: Review of Lessons 101 & 102
Lesson 117
Lesson 117: Review of Lessons 103 & 104
Lesson 118
Lesson 118: Review of Lessons 105 & 106
Lesson 119
Lesson 119: Review of Lessons 107 & 108
Lesson 120
Lesson 120: Review of Lessons 109 & 110
Lesson 121
Lesson 121: Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
Lesson 122
Lesson 122: Forgiveness offers everything I want.
Lesson 123
Lesson 123: I thank my Father for His gifts to me.
Lesson 124
Lesson 124: Let me remember I am one with God.
Lesson 125
Lesson 125: In quiet I receive God's Word today.
Lesson 126
Lesson 126: All that I give is given to myself.
Lesson 127
Lesson 127: There is no love but God's.
Lesson 128
Lesson 128: The world I see holds nothing that I want.
Lesson 129
Lesson 129: Beyond this world there is a world I want.
Lesson 130
Lesson 130: It is impossible to see two worlds.
Lesson 131
Lesson 131: No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth.
Lesson 132
Lesson 132: I loose the world from all I thought it was.
Lesson 133
Lesson 133: I will not value what is valueless.
Lesson 134
Lesson 134: Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.
Lesson 135
Lesson 135: If I defend myself I am attacked.
Lesson 136
Lesson 136: Sickness is a defense against the truth.
Lesson 137
Lesson 137: When I am healed I am not healed alone.
Lesson 138
Lesson 138: Heaven is the decision I must make.
Lesson 139
Lesson 139: I will accept Atonement for myself.
Lesson 140
Lesson 140: Only salvation can be said to cure.
Lesson 141
Lesson 141: Review of Lessons 121 & 122
Lesson 142
Lesson 142: Review of Lessons 123 & 124
Lesson 143
Lesson 143: Review of Lessons 125 & 126
Lesson 144
Lesson 144: Review of Lessons 127 & 128
Lesson 145
Lesson 145: Review of Lessons 129 & 130
Lesson 146
Lesson 146: Review of Lessons 131 & 132
Lesson 147
Lesson 147: Review of Lessons 133 & 134
Lesson 148
Lesson 148: Review of Lessons 135 & 136
Lesson 149
Lesson 149: Review of Lessons 137 & 138
Lesson 150
Lesson 150: Review of Lessons 139 & 140
Lesson 151
Lesson 151: All things are echoes of the Voice for God.
Lesson 152
Lesson 152: The power of decision is my own.
Lesson 153
Lesson 153: In my defenselessness my safety lies.
Lesson 154
Lesson 154: I am among the ministers of God.
Lesson 155
Lesson 155: I will step back and let Him lead the way.
Lesson 156
Lesson 156: I walk with God in perfect holiness.
Lesson 157
Lesson 157: Into His Presence would I enter now.
Lesson 158
Lesson 158: Today I learn to give as I receive.
Lesson 159
Lesson 159: I give the miracles I have received.
Lesson 160
Lesson 160: I am at home. Fear is the stranger here.
Lesson 161
Lesson 161: Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.
Lesson 162
Lesson 162: I am as God created me.
Lesson 163
Lesson 163: There is no death. The Son of God is free.
Lesson 164
Lesson 164: Now are we one with Him Who is our Source.
Lesson 165
Lesson 165: Let not my mind deny the Thought of God.
Lesson 166
Lesson 166: I am entrusted with the gifts of God.
Lesson 167
Lesson 167: There is one life, and that I share with God.
Lesson 168
Lesson 168: Your grace is given me. I claim it now.
Lesson 169
Lesson 169: By grace I live. By grace I am released.
Lesson 170
Lesson 170: There is no cruelty in God and none in me.
Lesson 171
Lesson 171: Review of Lessons 151 & 152
Lesson 172
Lesson 172: Review of Lessons 153 & 154
Lesson 173
Lesson 173: Review of Lessons 155 & 156
Lesson 174
Lesson 174: Review of Lessons 157 & 158
Lesson 175
Lesson 175: Review of Lessons 159 & 160
Lesson 176
Lesson 176: Review of Lessons 161 & 162
Lesson 177
Lesson 177: Review of Lessons 163 & 164
Lesson 178
Lesson 178: Review of Lessons 165 & 166
Lesson 179
Lesson 179: Review of Lessons 167 & 168
Lesson 180
Lesson 180: Review of Lessons 169 & 170
Lesson 181
Lesson 181: I trust my brothers who are one with me.
Lesson 182
Lesson 182: I will be still an instant and go home.
Lesson 183
Lesson 183: I call upon God's Name and on my own.
Lesson 184
Lesson 184: The Name of God is my inheritance.
Lesson 185
Lesson 185: I want the peace of God.
Lesson 186
Lesson 186: Salvation of the world depends on me.
Lesson 187
Lesson 187: I bless the world because I bless myself.
Lesson 188
Lesson 188: The peace of God is shining in me now.
Lesson 189
Lesson 189: I feel the Love of God within me now.
Lesson 190
Lesson 190: I choose the joy of God instead of pain.
Lesson 191
Lesson 191: I am the holy Son of God Himself.
Lesson 192
Lesson 192: I have a function God would have me fill.
Lesson 193
Lesson 193: All things are lessons God would have me learn.
Lesson 194
Lesson 194: I place the future in the Hands of God.
Lesson 195
Lesson 195: Love is the way I walk in gratitude.
Lesson 196
Lesson 196: It can be but myself I crucify.
Lesson 197
Lesson 197: It can be but my gratitude I earn.
Lesson 198
Lesson 198: Only my condemnation injures me.
Lesson 199
Lesson 199: I am not a body. I am free.
Lesson 200
Lesson 200: There is no peace except the peace of God.
Lesson 201
Lesson 201 & Review VI Introduction.
Lesson 202
Lesson 202: Review Lesson: I will be still an instant and go home.
Lesson 203
Lesson 203: Review Lesson: I call upon God's Name and on my own.
Lesson 204
Lesson 204: Review Lesson: The Name of God is my inheritance.
Lesson 205
Lesson 205: Review Lesson: I want the peace of God.
Lesson 206
Lesson 206: Review Lesson: Salvation of the world depends on me.
Lesson 207
Lesson 207: Review Lesson: I bless the world because I bless myself.
Lesson 208
Lesson 208: Review Lesson: The peace of God is shining in me now.
Lesson 209
Lesson 209: Review Lesson: I feel the Love of God within me now.
Lesson 210
Lesson 210: I choose the joy of God instead of pain.
Lesson 211
Lesson 211: Review Lesson: I am the holy Son of God Himself.
Lesson 212
Lesson 212: Review Lesson: I have a function God would have me fill.
Lesson 213
Lesson 213: Review Lesson: All things are lessons God would have me learn.
Lesson 214
Lesson 214: Review Lesson: I place the future in the Hands of God.
Lesson 215
Lesson 215: Review Lesson: Love is the way I walk in gratitude.
Lesson 216
Lesson 216: Review Lesson: It can be but myself I crucify.
Lesson 217
Lesson 217: Review Lesson: It can be but my gratitude I earn.
Lesson 218
Lesson 218: Review Lesson: Only my condemnation injures me.
Lesson 219
Lesson 219: Review Lesson: I am not a body. I am free.
Lesson 220
Lesson 220: Review Lesson: There is no peace except the peace of God.
Lesson 221
Lesson 221 & Part II Introduction
Lesson 222
Lesson 222: God is with me. I live and move in Him.
Lesson 223
Lesson 223: God is my life. I have no life but His.
Lesson 224
Lesson 224: God is my Father, and He loves His Son.
Lesson 225
Lesson 225: God is my Father, and His Son loves Him.
Lesson 226
Lesson 226: My home awaits me. I will hasten there.
Lesson 227
Lesson 227: This is my holy instant of release.
Lesson 228
Lesson 228: God has condemned me not. No more do I.
Lesson 229
Lesson 229: Love, which created me, is what I am.
Lesson 230
Lesson 230: Now will I seek and find the peace of God.
Lesson 231
Lesson 231: Father, I will but to remember You.
Lesson 232
Lesson 232: Be in my mind, my Father, through the day.
Lesson 233
Lesson 233: I give my life to God to guide today.
Lesson 234
Lesson 234: Father, today I am Your Son again.
Lesson 235
Lesson 235: God in His mercy wills that I be saved.
Lesson 236
Lesson 236: I rule my mind, which I alone must rule.
Lesson 237
Lesson 237: Now would I be as God created me.
Lesson 238
Lesson 238: On my decision all salvation rests.
Lesson 239
Lesson 239: The glory of my Father is my own.
Lesson 240
Lesson 240: Fear is not justified in any form.
Lesson 241
Lesson 241: This holy instant is salvation come.
Lesson 242
Lesson 242: This day is God's. It is my gift to Him.
Lesson 243
Lesson 243: Today I will judge nothing that occurs.
Lesson 244
Lesson 244: I am in danger nowhere in the world.
Lesson 245
Lesson 245: Your peace is with me, Father. I am safe.
Lesson 246
Lesson 246: To love my Father is to love His Son.
Lesson 247
Lesson 247: Without forgiveness I will still be blind.
Lesson 248
Lesson 248: Whatever suffers is not part of me.
Lesson 249
Lesson 249: Forgiveness ends all suffering and loss.
Lesson 250
Lesson 250: Let me not see myself as limited.
Lesson 251
Lesson 251: I am in need of nothing but the truth & What is sin?
Lesson 252
Lesson 252: The Son of God is my Identity.
Lesson 253
Lesson 253: My Self is ruler of the universe.
Lesson 254
Lesson 254: Let every voice but God's be still in me.
Lesson 255
Lesson 255: This day I choose to spend in perfect peace.
Lesson 256
Lesson 256: God is the only goal I have today.
Lesson 257
Lesson 257: Let me remember what my purpose is.
Lesson 258
Lesson 258: Let me remember that my goal is God.
Lesson 259
Lesson 259: Let me remember that there is no sin.
Lesson 260
Lesson 260: Let me remember God created me.
Lesson 261
Lesson 261: God is my refuge and security & What is the body?
Lesson 262
Lesson 262: Let me perceive no differences today.
Lesson 263
Lesson 263: My holy vision sees all things as pure.
Lesson 264
Lesson 264: I am surrounded by the Love of God.
Lesson 265
Lesson 265: Creation's gentleness is all I see.
Lesson 266
Lesson 266: My holy Self abides in you, God's Son.
Lesson 267
Lesson 267: My heart is beating in the peace of God.
Lesson 268
Lesson 268: Let all things be exactly as they are.
Lesson 269
Lesson 269: My sight goes forth to look upon Christ's face.
Lesson 270
Lesson 270: I will not use the body's eyes today.
Lesson 271
Lesson 271: Christ's is the vision I will use today.
Lesson 272
Lesson 272: How can illusions satisfy God's Son?
Lesson 273
Lesson 273: The stillness of the peace of God is mine.
Lesson 274
Lesson 274: Today belongs to love. Let me not fear.
Lesson 275
Lesson 275: God's healing Voice protects all things today.
Lesson 276
Lesson 276: The Word of God is given me to speak.
Lesson 277
Lesson 277: Let me not bind Your Son with laws I made.
Lesson 278
Lesson 278: If I am bound, my Father is not free.
Lesson 279
Lesson 279: Creation's freedom promises my own.
Lesson 280
Lesson 280: What limits can I lay upon God's Son?
Lesson 281
Lesson 281: I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts.
Lesson 282
Lesson 282: I will not be afraid of love today.
Lesson 283
Lesson 283: My true Identity abides in You.
Lesson 284
Lesson 284: I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
Lesson 285
Lesson 285: My holiness shines bright and clear today.
Lesson 286
Lesson 286: The hush of Heaven holds my heart today.
Lesson 287
Lesson 287: You are my goal, my Father. Only You.
Lesson 288
Lesson 288: Let me forget my brother's past today.
Lesson 289
Lesson 289: The past is over. It can touch me not.
Lesson 290
Lesson 290: My present happiness is all I see.
Lesson 291
Lesson 291: This is a day of stillness and of peace.
Lesson 292
Lesson 292: A happy outcome to all things is sure.
Lesson 293
Lesson 293: All fear is past and only love is here.
Lesson 294
Lesson 294: My body is a wholly neutral thing.
Lesson 295
Lesson 295: The Holy Spirit looks through me today.
Lesson 296
Lesson 296: The Holy Spirit speaks through me today.
Lesson 297
Lesson 297: Forgiveness is the only gift I give.
Lesson 298
Lesson 298: I love you, Father, and I love Your Son.
Lesson 299
Lesson 299: Eternal holiness abides in me.
Lesson 300
Lesson 300: Only an instant does this world endure.
Lesson 301
Lesson 301: And God Himself shall wipe away all tears & What is the Second Coming?
Lesson 302
Lesson 302: Where darkness was I look upon the light.
Lesson 303
Lesson 303: The holy Christ is born in me today.
Lesson 304
Lesson 304: Let not my world obscure the sight of Christ.
Lesson 305
Lesson 305: There is a peace that Christ bestows on us.
Lesson 306
Lesson 306: The gift of Christ is all I seek today.
Lesson 307
Lesson 307: Conflicting wishes cannot be my will.
Lesson 308
Lesson 308: This instant is the only time there is.
Lesson 309
Lesson 309: I will not fear to look within today.
Lesson 310
Lesson 310: In fearlessness and love I spend today.
Lesson 311
Lesson 311: I judge all things as I would have them be.
Lesson 312
Lesson 312: I see all things as I would have them be.
Lesson 313
Lesson 313: Now let a new perception come to me today.
Lesson 314
Lesson 314: I seek a future different from the past.
Lesson 315
Lesson 315: All gifts my brothers give belong to me.
Lesson 316
Lesson 316: All gifts I give my brothers are my own.
Lesson 317
Lesson 317: I follow in the way appointed me.
Lesson 318
Lesson 318: In me salvation's means and end are one.
Lesson 319
Lesson 319: I came for the salvation for the world.
Lesson 320
Lesson 320: My Father gives all power unto me.
Lesson 321
Lesson 321: Father, my freedom is in You alone.
Lesson 322
Lesson 322: I can give up but what was never real.
Lesson 323
Lesson 323: I gladly make the "sacrifice" of fear.
Lesson 324
Lesson 324: I merely follow, for I would not lead.
Lesson 325
Lesson 325: All things I think I see reflect ideas.
Lesson 326
Lesson 326: I am forever an Effect of God.
Lesson 327
Lesson 327: I need but call and You will answer me.
Lesson 328
Lesson 328: I choose the second place to gain the first.
Lesson 329
Lesson 329: I have already chosen what You will.
Lesson 330
Lesson 330: I will not hurt myself again today.
Lesson 331
Lesson 331: There is no conflict, for my will is Yours.
Lesson 332
Lesson 332: Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free.
Lesson 333
Lesson 333: Forgiveness ends the dream of conflict here.
Lesson 334
Lesson 334: Today I claim the gifts forgiveness gives.
Lesson 335
Lesson 335: I choose to see my brother's sinlessness.
Lesson 336
Lesson 336: Forgiveness lets me know that minds are joined.
Lesson 337
Lesson 337: My sinlessness protects me from all harm.
Lesson 338
Lesson 338: I am affected only by my thoughts.
Lesson 339
Lesson 339: I will receive whatever I request.
Lesson 340
Lesson 340: I can be free of suffering today.
Lesson 341
Lesson 341: I can attack but my own sinlessness, And it is only that which keeps me safe.
Lesson 342
Lesson 342: I let forgiveness rest upon all things, For thus forgiveness will be given me.
Lesson 343
Lesson 343: I am not asked to make a sacrifice. To find the mercy and the peace of God.
Lesson 344
Lesson 344: Today I learn the law of love; that what I give my brother is my gift to me.
Lesson 345
Lesson 345: I offer only miracles today, For I would have them be returned to me.
Lesson 346
Lesson 346: Today the peace of God envelops me, and I forget all things except His Love.
Lesson 347
Lesson 347: Anger must come from judgment. Judgment is the weapon I would use against myself, to keep the miracle away from me.
Lesson 348
Lesson 348: I have no cause for anger or for fear; for You surround me In every need that I perceive, Your grace suffices me.
Lesson 349
Lesson 349: Today I let Christ's vision look upon All things for me and judge them not, but give Each one a miracle of love instead.
Lesson 350
Lesson 350: Miracles mirror God's eternal Love. To offer them is to remember Him, and through His memory to save the world.
Lesson 351
Lesson 351: My sinless brother is my guide to peace. My sinful brother is my guide to pain. And which I choose to see I will behold.
Lesson 352
Lesson 352: Judgment and love are opposites. From one come all the sorrows of the world. But from The other comes the peace of God Himself.
Lesson 353
Lesson 353: My eyes, my tongue, my hands, my feet today have but one purpose; to be given Christ to use to bless the world with miracles.
Lesson 354
Lesson 354: We stand together, Christ and I, in peace and certainty of purpose. And in Him is His Creator, as He is in me.
Lesson 355
Lesson 355: There is no end to all the peace and joy, and all the miracles that I will give, when I accept God's Word. Why not today?
Lesson 356
Lesson 356: Sickness is but another name for sin. Healing is but another name for God. The miracle is thus a call to Him.
Lesson 357
Lesson 357: Truth answers every call we make to God, responding first with miracles, and then returning unto us to be itself.
Lesson 358
Lesson 358: No call to God can be unheard nor left Unanswered. And of this I can be sure; His answer is the one I really want.
Lesson 359
Lesson 359: God's answer is some form of peace. All pain is healed; all misery replaced with joy. All prison doors are opened. And all sin is understood as merely a mistake.
Lesson 360
Lesson 360: Peace be to me, the holy Son of God. Peace to my brother, who is one with me. Let all the world be blessed with peace through us.
Lesson 361
Lesson 361: This holy instant would I give to You. Be You in charge. For I would follow You, certain that Your direction gives me peace.
Lesson 362
Lesson 362: This holy instant would I give to You. Be You in charge. For I would follow You, Certain that Your direction gives me peace.
Lesson 363
Lesson 363: This holy instant would I give to You. Be You in charge. For I would follow You, certain that Your direction gives me peace.
Lesson 364
Lesson 364: This holy instant would I give to You. Be You in charge. For I would follow You, certain that Your direction gives me peace.
Lesson 365
Lesson 365: This holy instant would I give to You. Be You in charge. For I would follow You, certain that Your direction gives me peace.
Lesson 336: Forgiveness lets me know that minds are joined.
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Another scam to part bank customers from their money is making its rounds. Don Noller of Marion National Bank said his bank has received notification from its data processor that four banks have called about scam attempts on debit cards.
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Great product and great around town or down to the station.
The San Marco Ass Saver is a simple and reasonably effective solution to keeping spray from soaking your bum when riding rain soaked roads. If you can't, or don't want to fit traditional full-length mudguards to your bike, and most racing bikes won't take them, this is better than nothing.
The San Marco branding pumps the price up though. We tested the original Ass Saver Smart Ass mudguard last year and that costs just €7.99 + €3.50 shipping (about £10). San Marco want £12 for their branded version, which smarts a little. Fine if you're a San Marco fan and it matches your saddle perhaps. They're both the same, they're made by a Swedish company who came up with the clever idea a couple of years ago. San Marco have recognised this and arranged to produce a liveried version wearing their logos.
What is is exactly? It's a shaped piece of polypropylene that that goes underneath the saddle and clips to the rails. It's a bit of a fiddle to fit it in place, some saddle/post combinations may require the length to be trimmed, but there are handy dotted guides for cutting. Two plastic hooks provide a very secure fixing to the rails. Since I've been testing it, not once has it shaken loose or needed any attention. It's light at just 15g.
I tried it on several saddles; San Marco's Regale, a Prologo Scratch and a Fizik Arione and each time it went on without any complication. If you have a Brooks saddle, you'll be interested to know they offer a specific version.
Naturally, it's not going to halt 100% of the spray and muck that gets chucked up by the rear wheel, but what it does do is stop a large majority of it. The weather recently has been horrid and has given me plenty of opportunity to test it. And every ride I've finished with a drier bum than riding without it. It's a good first defence against road spray and does go a long way to keeping you a bit drier.
Its simplicity of fitting, sleek design and low weight makes it a practical solution for everyone from racing cyclists who won't want to fit complicated and more costly mudguards to commuters who just want to arrive at the office with a dry bum. What's more, it can be quickly removed and folded in half when you don't need it.
Some of the Lotto-Belisol team, who are sponsored by San Marco, have been spotted using the Ass Saver in many of the rainy early season races, including Milan-San Remo. While it won't be the difference between winning or losing a race for those guys, it will bring a little slice of comfort to them. Marginal gain? Not quite, but what price a dry bum?
The original Ass Saver is available in a wide range of colours, and San Marco offer a section of hues as well.
Keep your bum drier with this cheap plastic mudguard that attaches to the saddle rails.
If you're thinking of buying this product using a cashback deal why not use the road.cc Top Cashback page and get some top cashback while helping to support your favourite independent cycling website
road.cc test report
Make and model: San Marco Ass Saver mudguard
Size tested: Black
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
An original emergency fender that's there when you need it, gone when you don't. Personalized for us by Ass Savers.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
An original emergency fender that's there when you need it, gone when you don't.
Personalized for us by Ass Savers.
It's a strip of shaped plastic but it feels indestructible and built to last.
It's not going to be as good as full-length mudguards, but it does stop a reasonable degree of rear wheel spray, enough that you're going to have a drier bum with it, rather than without
So far it's proving tough and very durable
At 15g you're not going to notice it at all.
It's a little more expensive than the original Ass Saver without the San Marco branding, and the Ass Saver company offer a wider choice of colours
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
I was impressed with how much spray it kept off my bum. It's better when there's just a bit of water on the roads and it's not raining heavily, but the heavier and more prolonged the downpour the less effective it becomes
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
It's simple and works
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
There's nothing to dislike really bar that you are paying extra for the San Marco branding a more limited choice of colours, it's a neat design and cleverly executed
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes.
Would you consider buying the product? Yes.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes.
Anything further to say about the product in conclusion?
It works, and it's not outrageously priced but unless you specifically want the San Marco branding I'm not sure why you'd buy one of these in preference to a standard issue Ass Saver.
About the tester
Age: 31 Height: 180 Weight: 67
I usually ride: My best bike is:
I've been riding for: 10-20 years I ride: Every day I would class myself as: Expert
I regularly do the following types of riding: road racing, time trialling, cyclo cross, commuting, touring, mtb,
David has worked on the road.cc tech team since July 2012. Previously he was editor of Bikemagic.com and before that staff writer at RCUK. He's a seasoned cyclist of all disciplines, from road to mountain biking, touring to cyclo-cross, he only wishes he had time to ride them all. He's mildly competitive, though he'll never admit it, and is a frequent road racer but is too lazy to do really well. He currently resides in the Cotswolds.
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Why would I pay £12 for a piece of polyP when for an extra quid I can get a proper guard with a quick release catch so I can easily demount
or if quick release is not important the Crud guard is excellent too
oh - I forgot - it says San Marco on it - pffff
Well first off, you pay £9.50 for the normal Ass-Savers one, and secondly, because both of those mudguards are heavy and ugly as sin. It's a lovely bit of design and I wouldn't swap mine for anything (it's actually my second since the first one got stolen along with my whole bike).
Practicality is not everything in life, or we'd all wear £3 t-shirts and never go to restaurants.
Still a great product, but.... I prefer the other folding mudguard: The Fendor-Bendor (http://www.witindustries.nl)
It's larger, doesn't fold under the saddle, but gives more serious protection and I easily take it along in my jersey on road bike tours with rain threat. Or in my backpack when commuting.
I'd imagine a pro team are after the lightest and most aero solution. Glad that they recognise that freezing water down your back and thighs is a severe performance limiter. Cold wrecks racing cyclists.
Also a massive boon for Ass Savers. Props to them. A huge coup.
The Ass Saver SmartAss is nice (I have the direct from Sweden version). Just enough to get the direct spray off your bum and central rear pocket area, which makes a ride turned wet and cold a little less uncomfortably wet and cold, which could save enough energy to get you home before the man with the hammer.
It doesn't fit as well on a Selle SMP Composit as it does on an old Selle Italia Flite, since the Selle SMP rails widen out a lot on their way to the shell but once used on the Flite it fits better on the Composit.
Selle SMP owners don't be afraid to give it a good pinch just ahead of the fold grove.
Why would I pay £12 for a piece of polyP when for an extra quid I can get a proper guard with a quick release catch so I can easily demount
or if quick release is not important the Crud guard is excellent too
oh - I forgot - it says San Marco on it - pffff
I know quite a few people doing long rides who have had them wrecked by old fashioned mud guards getting bent and rubbing on the wheel.
The arse savers looks like the best thing around. If it goes tits up then it probably plops off and you arse gets wet. No faffing trying to straighten it or getting rid of stuff caught between it and the wheel.
Can't argue with a pro.
These Ass Savers are great products. We have just decided to co-brand and stock them here. We can offer you a significant saving on the San Marco branded version at £6.99 with free postage and packing.
That's the right price to keep your jerseys white!


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Figured i should start a wip here.
What it looks like
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I had to rebuild the back detail piece as i seem to have lost it during the move. :/ Also i will be rewiring the led's as the original kit does not light up the rear lense.
Figured i should start a wip here.
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I had to rebuild the back detail piece as i seem to have lost it during the move. :/ Also i will be rewiring the led's as the original kit does not light up the rear lense.
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Started painting. My goal is to finish the neck down before i finish the head.
Head Work
Pretty much where it stands right now
Slow work w/ lots of masking.
Most of the paint used is from Plamo Color and Alclad.
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That is so intense. Where did you get yours. I've wanted a bust for a while.
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Intense?! LOL that's a pretty strong word. XD
I was lucky enough to grab it from a member on another forum for 90 bucks. It's an original cast and is sold out everywhere. You just have to look around. You can get an sms bust of the Nu for like 70 on ebay, the one FrosenCarrotz posted a while back. For about 100 you can get a 1/24 Strike Bust. Whatcha thinking about getting? I can help you find one if you give me an idea of a suit you're thinking about. I'm always on the lookout for deals to help out forum members. ^_^
Hi all this is gonna be a fast build. Hoping to finish by Friday. It's being entered in a group build over on GE, but i still need to finish it for display at Image Anime.
Seam line removal underway. The Putty is just to fill any places that didn't fill from the glue, and to help even out uneven levels.
I actually tried removing the seams on the shoulder ball things... then realized the line is supposed to be there. :$ Easy fix with a scriber.
Pretty much doing stock colors.
Putty go byebye
Needs more putty/fixing on areas like on the arm cannon
Seam on head is gone
Got rid of that extra peg on the shield connector. I really never understood why Bandai still put's it on there. It's pointless really.
Most likely the final pose
Simple addition, added ic pins to the ends of the binders. I thought about adding more metal detail parts, but decided against it.
The backpack will be the only thing holding me up from painting. I have to paint part of the outer armor, the inside detail, then put it together and remove the seam, then respray the outside. :shakefist:
Should be painting most of the kit tomorrow.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who does that. It just never looks right.Got rid of that extra peg on the shield connector. I really never understood why Bandai still put's it on there. It's pointless really.
Would you recommend the dra-c. Or is it too fast of a build? Whenever I look at it I think it would take almost no time at all to straight build the model.
It depends. I'm kind of rushing this as it needs to be done before new years for a store, but honestly i really like the idea and design of the suit and would love to sit down and add more detail to it. There is ALOT of modding potential. Also removing the seams and painting it for accuracy adds alot of time to the build. Snapping the kit together took me about an hour to do. It's a pretty simple build, but making it actually look good will take time. I say if you have the money and like the design, go for it. Heck even if you don't like the design, it's a great kit to scrap to use parts for another model that you wish to modify.
If you're just going to snap the kit and not remove the seams... i think it will look pretty bad as the binders are huge, and the seams go all the way down them.
I was kind of disappointed that they actually took a step backwards compared to the Zaku II F2's engineering for this kit, but I definitely want one for the sake of modding another Zaku. I'm halfway thinking of getting the Sleeves version for the sake of a Sleeves Zaku II F2.
How'd this build coming along? Would love to see this guy finished!
No kidding. I'd like to know where you guys get these. Like the Strike Freedom bust you showed Wiltonican.


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Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay for Homefront — the story of a former DEA agent who quits his job and moves to a small town under a new identity — with the intention to star in the film himself as the closing chapter of the Rambo saga. But the project stalled, Stallone got too old and he ditched the Rambo stuff and handed the lead over to Jason Statham.
Statham is the rare breed of action star who not only does most of his stunts and is a pleasure to watch kicking butt, but can act, too. He tries his best here, as he always does, to make you believe in Phil, the retired narc who has set up home in a remote Louisiana town with his 10-year-old daughter Maddy (Izabela Vidovic). Father and daughter go on a lot of horse rides in the placid countryside and spend quality time together. Phil has also taught his daughter to defend herself, and after she beats up a bully at school, the boy's angry drug-addict mom (an emaciated Kate Bosworth), indignant and wanting payback, sets off a series of events that brings Phil to the attention of the local meth lord Gator (James Franco) and his band of dangerous cronies, including a ruined-beauty biker girl (Winona Ryder).
Homefront is based on a novel by Chuck Logan, who cleverly spun an everyday occurrence, a schoolyard scrap, into an increasingly dangerous situation that spirals out of control. But the movie, directed by Gary Fleder ( Runaway Jury, Don't Say a Word) with all the style of a late-night infomercial, never builds the slightest bit of suspense. Statham is such an efficient killing machine, there's never a moment in the movie when you doubt he'll get the baddies (in one scene, he takes out five guys with his hands literally tied behind his back). Franco, who brought so much dynamic weirdness to the role of Alien in Spring Breakers, looks as engaged here as he did while hosting the Oscars: Gator is the least threatening villain since Demi Moore's would-be badass in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (in several scenes, he looks like he was just roused from a nap in his trailer and called onto the set).
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Although "all will be revealed" at Mobile World Congress in just a few short weeks, it doesn't mean the speculation cannot begin. A new device, RM-860, has shown up in two places to validate its existence.
The first spot is on Elbert Perez's Occasional Gamer site. Perez makes numerous high quality Windows Phone games and he happens to record which devices use his wares. That info is then shared publicly on his website.
A view on Nokia's servers validates RM-860
In of itself that just tells us there is a new Windows Phone but that info can and has been faked in the past. However, the data can be cross-referenced on Nokia's own servers via Navifirm under 'Quality Assurance' and sure enough RM-860 is visible there as well, confirming its legitimacy.
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So the much ballyhooed Race to the Top program – $4.35 billion out of nearly $110 billion in federal education stimulus and bailouts – is over, with today's announcement of ten round-two winners. Who knows for sure how the winners were ultimately determined – point allocation was highly subjective – but it's hard to be impressed by the list: the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Rhode Island.
New York? Recent revelations about dumbed-down Regents exams hardly make it seem like a paragon of honest reform. Hawaii? How did last years' school-free Fridays help them stack up so high? Maryland? Fostering charter schools was supposed to be important, but it has one of the most constricting charter laws in the nation. And Massachusetts? Well, it's easy to see how it won – it just dropped its own, often-considered nation-leading curriculum standards to adopt national standards demanded by Race to the Top.
In the end, though, how states were chosen really doesn't matter that much. Why? Because the race was based mainly on who could make the biggest, fastest promises of reform, not who was actually, meaningfully reforming things. So, at the very least, we should all hold our applause for both the winners and the race for several years, because promises are easy – real change is tough.


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Remember the scandal of "the 16 words"? If you do, you've probably been inside the Beltway too long, literally or figuratively. If not, the quick version is this: A former ambassador named Joseph C. Wilson IV charged in 2003 that President George W. Bush had included in his State of the Union address a (16-word) allegation about Iraq that his top aides knew to be false — that Saddam Hussein had sought to purchase uranium from Niger. Wilson then amped up the ensuing partisan uproar by claiming there had been a White House conspiracy to punish him by deliberately blowing the cover of his CIA wife.
Most of what Wilson said was later proved to be grossly exaggerated, or simply false. But that didn't stop Democrats and partisan media from devoting years to conspiracy-spinning and attempts to pin political and criminal responsibility on Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney or Karl Rove. Blustered Wilson: "It's of keen interest to me to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs."
A decade later, we have the right's answer to Joe Wilson: Benghazi. Once again the obsessive focus is on a public statement — this time by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who appeared on news programs five days after the armed attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya last Sept. 11 and said that it had grown out of a demonstration against an anti-Muslim video. Again the theory is that this assertion was the product of a high-level conspiracy to twist the truth. Last week Republicans produced their own Wilsonesque figure: former Tripoli deputy chief of mission Gregory Hicks, who claimed he was punished after he questioned Rice's words.
The common thread here is not just the climate of intense partisanship in which media and politicians from the left dismiss what the right insists is a scandal of historic proportions — or vice-versa. It is the diversion of what should be serious, bipartisan discussion about government failings. The Bush administration, after all, did wrongly conclude that Iraq was hiding chemical weapons and trying to revive its nuclear program. For its part the Obama administration didn't provide enough security to the Libya mission or adequately prepare for an emergency in post-revolution North Africa.
Yet Wilson did not prompt a serious discussion of why U.S. intelligence about Iraq was wrong; instead, the debate was about those 16 words, whether Wilson was truthful in saying he had debunked them before they were spoken, and whether he and his wife were the victims of a vendetta. (He wasn't and they weren't, but that's an old story). Now, instead of examining how the Obama administration handled post-revolution Libya, we are debating whether Rice, Hillary Clinton and President Obama deliberately lied about the nature of the "terror attack" in Benghazi.
Some of those who denounced the Wilson-inspired witch hunt are now repeating its tactics. First they focused on Rice, who was a leading candidate to be secretary of state before 97 House Republicans released a letter asserting that she "willfully or incompetently misled the American public." When it became irrefutable that Rice had simply delivered a consensus estimate prepared by the intelligence community, the scandal-mongers shifted to how her "talking points" had supposedly been doctored by Clinton or White House political henchmen.
An investigation by House Republicans and reports in the Weekly Standard and ABC News purport to show how the talking points were edited over several drafts to remove references to the extremist militia Ansar al-Sharia and previous attacks in Benghazi. But this was not a cover-up. Instead, the changes were mainly the product of interagency tensions: State thought the CIA, which was mainly responsible for the Benghazi mission, was preempting an FBI investigation and trying to shift blame for the fiasco.
Meanwhile, by the ABC account, every draft of the talking points says that the attacks "were spontaneously inspired by the protests at the U.S. embassy in Cairo and evolved into a direct assault . . ." That's what Rice said. It might have been wrong, but it was the intelligence assessment at the time. So what, exactly, is the scandal?
To be fair, the House Republican investigation of Benghazi also addresses the more substantive issues of the State Department's failure to adequately secure its Benghazi facilities and Obama's lack of "a credible national security posture in the region." Some of those same points were made by State's independent review board; many Democrats might agree with them. A constructive discussion is there to be had. Instead, we have more bickering over words — and more dreams of frog-marching White House staffers in handcuffs.
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One of the most common issues I see that affects my clients is the: "Yahoo/Gmail/Hotmail is sending all of my mail straight to the spam folder despite 'insert usual DNS and config details here'" issues, so I spent some time researching a solution that would be relatively quick and painless to implement. I found it, but it only works with a straight postfix box. This will not work for Plesk servers, qmail, sendmail, etc. So if you're running a centos or RHEL box with postfix and want DKIM/domainkeys signing? Here's an article for you.
In particular, Yahoo seemed to be the most stringent defender of the DKIM/domainkeys/SPF rules (and thus a lot of spamming of mail going on), so…..Yahoo became sort of my "litmus" test for DKIM/domainkey/SPF configuration. If it works there, it is going to work everywhere else. This has also been generally true in my experience. Your mileage may vary.
Please note: This is NOT a cut and paste document. This is meant as a guide that should get you from point A to point B pretty painlessly. However, every dkimproxy install I've done has differed just slightly from one detail to another. So be prepared to do a little thinking on your feet. I've tried to include most of the "gotchas", but there's always something.
Prepare to install
This is actually the "hardest" part of the install for dkimproxy. It has varied for just about every system I've done to date and is purely a question of searching the DAG repositories for the RPMs you need to meet the base requirements of the required packages if it isn't available via YUM.
So, to start with….you need to install the following RPMs:
As of May 30th, 2011 I found all of the above packages on yum for centos 5. RHEL 5 and earlier versions of both may still require a visit to DAG to get the packages that may not be available in those OS versions. Edit: 12/2011 – I just did this install on a RH ES5.6 server and all of the above perl rpms were in the epel-release. Edit: 8/2014 – I just did this on a Redhat 6.1, the packages were still there in both the base channel and epel-release for perl-Net-Server.
These installs could give you some dependency errors. As I said, it is a little different for each server (mostly due to a question of how long the server has been online and what has been installed on it and how old the OS is). Every requirement I've had to fill can be met by searching yum/up2date and/or the package list at DAG. Follow the chains and install the required packages. It is better for your system overall that you try to install any package from yum/up2date before you go trying to install a DAG rpm.
Once you have the base packages listed above installed (with no further dependency issues), you are ready to proceed onward.
Obtain and compile dkimproxy
Note! The wget statement below was current as of May 30th, 2011. It may have changed. Always go here and make sure you are downloading the most current version of DKIMproxy.
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/dkimproxy/dkimproxy/1.4.1/dkimproxy-1.4.1.tar.gz?r=http%3A%2F%2Fdkimproxy.sourceforge.net%2Fdownload.html&ts=1306808396&use_mirror=cdnetworks-us-1
tar -xvzf dkimproxy-1.4.1.tar.gz
cd dkimproxy-1.4.1
./configure –prefix=/usr/local/dkimproxy
make install
Then we place the init script:
cp sample-dkim-init-script.sh /etc/init.d/dkimproxy
chmod +x /etc/init.d/dkimproxy
and create the DKIM user:
useradd -d /usr/local/dkimproxy dkim
passwd -l dkim
From there, we create the Key:
cd /usr/local/dkimproxy/etc/
openssl genrsa -out domain.tld.key 1024
openssl rsa -in domain.tld.key -pubout -out domain.tld.pub
Obviously, replace domain.tld with the domain the client is wanting to sign. If they plan to sign multiple domains with a single key, this is fine and you may wish to make the key name more generic rather than domain specific.
Now create a DNS TXT record for mail._domainkey.domain.tld with the contents of domain.tld.pub. Your public key will span at least two lines, so combine all of the lines of the key together when putting it in your DNS record. The whole DNS record will look something like this:
k=rsa; t=s; p=MFwwDQYJ..(snipped for space)….0JMCAwEAAQ==
I've shorted the key here for space/display reasons. It will be pretty long.
You can test to see if the key is working like this:
# host -ttxt mail._domainkey.domain.tls
mail._domainkey.domain.tld descriptive text "k=rsa\; t=s\; p=MFwwDQYJ……0JMCAwEAAQ=="
Now to set up the config files. Tell dkimproxy about the key files, and configuration parameters. Create /usr/local/dkimproxy/etc/dkimproxy_out.conf with this content
# specify what address/port DKIMproxy should listen on
listen 127.0.0.1:10027
# specify what address/port DKIMproxy forwards mail to
relay 127.0.0.1:10028
# specify what domains DKIMproxy can sign for (comma-separated, no spaces)
domain domain.tld
# specify what signatures to add
signature dkim(c=relaxed)
signature domainkeys(c=nofws)
# specify location of the private key
keyfile /usr/local/dkimproxy/etc/domain.tld.key
# specify the selector (i.e. the name of the key record put in DNS)
selector mail
Please note, if you are doing a multiple domain set up with a single key, you can list each domain as "domain domain1,domain2,domain3" a comma separated list.
Now copy the sample inbound config to the real inbound config
cd /usr/local/dkimproxy/etc
cp dkimproxy_in.conf.example dkimproxy_in.conf
Start the service
/etc/init.d/dkimproxy start
chkconfig dkimproxy on
Configuring Postfix to use DKIMproxy
You must add the following entries to the bottom of the /etc/postfix/master.cf file:
# specify the location of the DKIM signing proxy
# Note: the smtp_discard_ehlo_keywords option requires a recent version of
# Postfix. Leave it off if your version does not support it.
dksign unix – – n – 10 smtp
-o smtp_send_xforward_command=yes
-o smtp_discard_ehlo_keywords=8bitmime,starttls
# service for accepting messages FROM the DKIM signing proxy
127.0.0.1:10028 inet n – n – 10 smtpd
-o content_filter=
-o receive_override_options=no_unknown_recipient_checks,no_header_body_checks
-o smtpd_helo_restrictions=
-o smtpd_client_restrictions=
-o smtpd_sender_restrictions=
-o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=permit_mynetworks,reject
-o mynetworks=127.0.0.0/8
-o smtpd_authorized_xforward_hosts=127.0.0.0/8
Then, depending on WHAT messages your client wants signed, you need to add the line
-o content_filter=dksign:[127.0.0.1]:10027
to that part of the service. So, for example, if they want anything submitted to port 25 signed:
smtp inet n – n – – smtpd
-o content_filter=dksign:[127.0.0.1]:10027
If they want script created mail to be signed:
pickup fifo n – n 40 1 pickup
-o content_filter=dksign:[127.0.0.1]:10027
Mail to port 587 to be signed:
submission inet n – n – – smtpd
-o smtpd_etrn_restrictions=reject
-o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
-o content_filter=dksign:[127.0.0.1]:10027
-o receive_override_options=no_address_mappings
-o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=permit_mynetworks,permit_sasl_authenticated,reject
Note: The spacing before the -o is being pulled out by the blog software, even with the code tag. Look at how the rest of the entries in your master.cf file look and emulate that where the -o lines are indented. That matters! And a lack of such indenting will prevent postfix from working properly.
There's obviously more there than just the dksign line, due to the nature of that port in that last one.
From there, reload postfix (make sure it starts and continues to be able to send mail. I tend to do both command line tests as well as pop/imap checks for the rack user).
service postfix reload
Testing DKIM signing
Now that all of that is in place, you can now do some tests.
The easiest way to do this, if the server is not doing any sort of mail redirection, is to set up the email@example.com account in your mail client so you can both send the test messages as well as check and see the reply emails.
I use two primary tests. One, I send a mail (with any subject, any body) to firstname.lastname@example.com. This returns 4 (at the moment) test results. You can pretty easily see from these 4 messages what is working and what isn't.
The second test I use is to check the SPF record, because most services will fail dkim/domainkeys if the SPF record is invalid for the sent mail. So send a test message to firstname.lastname@example.com. It will be rejected WITH the response, so watch the log file on the server to see if the SPF record passed correctly.
Finally, I create a php script to generate a mail to my yahoo account to see if it gets through with the DKIM/domainkey/SPF pass. You can use something like:
and invoke it via a browser or by the command line:
php /path/to/phpmail.php
Tweak and resolve any issues you came across in the testing until you get clean results for DKIM, Domainkeys, and SPF. At that point, I generally send an email to myself at my yahoo account. If you see the little key/lock icon on the "from" line of the email (and it isn't in the spam folder)? You've successfully set up and configured DKIM/Domainkeys. If it IS in the spam folder? Check the header to see where to go next. As I said, the most common reason it fails is the SPF record in my experience.
Hopefully this article has been helpful at getting you to get your DKIMproxy install up and going.
These days, I am finding it harder and harder to justify mod_php as the default behavior of an apache webserver over the advantages of mod_suphp. A lot of this has to do with my clients and their everyday needs, but I've become a pretty strong proponent of mod_suphp as the default for a server and only enabling mod_php if required.
It's actually pretty easy to do, surprisingly. suPHP used to be a process that involved sacrificing chickens in the midnight hours to get to work correctly. Now? All it takes is the below. I've included instructions for centos and ubuntu both.
yum install mod_suphp
mv /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf /root/saved.conf/
Obviously the path /root/saved.conf/ can be wherever you want to put the original php.conf file. I suggest saving it somewhere in case you need it in the future to specifically enable mod_php for a site. Then you need to modify the file /etc/httpd/conf.d/mod_suphp.conf to look like:
# This is the Apache server configuration file providing suPHP support..
# It contains the configuration directives to instruct the server how to
# serve php pages while switching to the user context before rendering.
LoadModule suphp_module modules/mod_suphp.so
### Uncomment to activate mod_suphp
AddHandler x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4 .php5
suPHP_AddHandler x-httpd-php
# This option tells mod_suphp if a PHP-script requested on this server (or
# VirtualHost) should be run with the PHP-interpreter or returned to the
# browser "as it is".
suPHP_Engine on
# This option tells mod_suphp which path to pass on to the PHP-interpreter
# (by setting the PHPRC environment variable).
# Do *NOT* refer to a file but to the directory the file resists in.
# E.g.: If you want to use "/path/to/server/config/php.ini", use "suPHP_Config
# /path/to/server/config".
# If you don't use this option, PHP will use its compiled in default path.
suPHP_ConfigPath /etc
and then modify /etc/suphp.conf to change this line:
Restart apache and then check a phpinfo page. You should see that the Server API line now reads: "CGI/FastCGI".
Ubuntu was actually much easier, surprisingly:
aptitude install libapache2-mod-suphp
a2enmod suphp
a2dismod php5
Restart apache and check your phpinfo page.
To be honest, given the way web applications function these days, I'm truly surprised that this hasn't become default behavior for php at this point…that they have not absorbed the suphp project into their own work. Until that day comes, that's all that is required to start running with your own suphp install.
Edit: Also, I've not tested this on RHEL, but given the way fedora/centos/RHEL works, you should be able to follow these instructions for that OS as well.
Ran into an interesting issue earlier tonight where a customer wanted the levenshtein UDF module (user defined functions) compiled for mysql on a centos5 64 bit box. While it seemed the module built correctly, he was still getting errors in trying to create and use the functions:
mysql> CREATE FUNCTION levenshtein RETURNS INT SONAME 'libmysqllevenshtein.so';
ERROR 1026 (HY000): Error writing file 'mysql.func' (errno: 121)
mysql> select levenshtein('abc', 'bbc');
ERROR 1547 (HY000): Column count of mysql.proc is wrong. Expected 20, found 16. The table is probably corrupted
After some poking around, this is what was done that ultimately led to a successful implementation of this module:
wget http://joshdrew.com/mysql_levenshtein_udf-1.0.tar.gz
tar -xzvf mysql_levenshtein_udf-1.0.tar.gz
gcc -I/usr/include/mysql -fPIC -O -pipe -o mysqllevenshtein.so -shared \
-L/usr/lib64/mysql -lmysqlclient mysqllevenshtein.cc
cp mysqllevenshtein.so /usr/lib64/libmysqllevenshtein.so
Once that module is in place, restart mysql and log into it. If it is loading correctly, you should be able to do the following:
mysql> CREATE FUNCTION levenshtein RETURNS INT SONAME 'libmysqllevenshtein.so';
mysql> select levenshtein('abc', 'bbc');
| levenshtein('abc', 'bbc') |
| 1 |
1 row in set (0.01 sec)
The ultimate key here was using the correct libs, since most of the instructions out there on the net (due to the age of this module) assume 32bit. The resulting module, when compiled the way those instructions indicated, would load but not be functional. The above resolved the problem. I figured I'd document this here for others that are trying to compile it and having issues, in case it saves them some time. I'm always happy when folks try to do things themselves and am a little sad when the documentation for a given software fails them somewhat. The difference in libs may seem like a no-brainer to some, but for those just learning… well. Let's put this out there in case it helps the next guy. 🙂


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Erik Weihenmayer
Commencement Address
May 22, 2011
Thank you, everyone. Thank you, President Bravman. I know that was a really nice introduction and lots of prestigious things and accomplishments, but I think most people are just excited about the dog today. My dog here to my left, Uri.
I was earlier out in the crowd and somebody said, "That's the most amazing dog I've ever seen, man's best friend, what a noble creature." Then I was walking up the aisle and I think I heard him say, "Oh, by the way, that's our speaker, he climbed Mount Everest blind."
I'm used to taking a back seat to the dog.
It's been such a pleasure to be able to climb mountains around the world, to do the Seven Summits, to adventure as a blind person. Obviously there is a physical dimension to what I do, but I think more interesting than the physical piece has been the mental journey. It's been a journey to understand how people, how teams, how cultures here in the United States and around the world, to see how we confront uncertainty, to see how we confront change, whether we're able to grow and evolve to a certain degree of success, but then make a decision to camp out on the side of the mountain and ultimately stagnate or whether we figure out a way to challenge ourselves until the day we die.
To see how people deal with adversity, whether it crushes us, as it does so many people or whether we figure out a way to flourish in the face of it. How we deal with uncertainty — you're leaving Bucknell, many of you, and you have a road map to create ahead, there's lots of uncertainty as you go forward.
No road map
A blind person, a blind climber in particular, also there's a lot of uncertainty. I feel like I'm in that same boat, there's no road map, there's no defined, clear road map for a blind climber. The word 'blind' and 'climber', they don't even go together.
It's like being a Jamaican bobsledder and there's a lot of uncertainty as I decided that I would try to climb the Seven Summits, the tallest mountain in every continent. My first of the seven was actually Mount McKinley, Denali, 'the Great One,' 'the High One' in the Inuit language.
We flew planes onto the glacier at 7,000 feet and, 19 days later, we crossed this narrow summit ridge towards the summit. It was 4:30 in the afternoon when I stood on top. It turned out to be Helen Keller's birthday. And we were all worried about getting down, you know, 90 percent of accidents happen on the way down when you've lost your focus.
But we were also exhilarated because we had timed it so well. We had radioed down to a small airstrip near the mountain, and now that we were near the top, my Dad and my two brothers and my wife, they were circling above us watching us take our last steps. We all had these red suits on. We looked identical to each other. We were waving our ski poles at the plane, we're cheering and I said to my buddy, Jeff: I said, "Jeff, do you think they'll know I made it? He said: "Oh yeah, they'll know — you're the only one waving your ski poles in the opposite direction."
It's good to have friends, as you know.
I did make it down safely and I lay outside my igloo that we had built up there. As cold as it was, as tired as I was, I lay on my belly in the snow, and I've never done something so physically demanding, so mentally demanding, something that had asked so much out of myself.
Half of me knew I wasn't cut out for this life. I wasn't tough enough, I wasn't resilient enough. This was the last thing a blind person is supposed to be doing with his life. But the other half of me didn't care; the other half of me wanted to figure out how to climb forever.
Positive pessimism
I climbed into the igloo and Chris Morris, who was our team leader, he'd cooked up a big pot of celebratory freeze-dried spaghetti, which I immediately gave back to the mountain gods. I threw up right in the entranceway and everyone had to crawl through it to get out.
Chris is from Alaska and he's got these great philosophies, these great witticisms about life. You know you're sitting out in this terrible storm; it's blowing, it's hammering in your face, you're miserable. Chris will look up with a big smile on his face and he'll say something like: "Sure is cold out here, but at least it's windy." Or he'll say, "We sure have been climbing a long way, but at least we're lost." On the top of Aconcagua, 23,000 feet, I got to the summit behind Chris and he gave me a hug and he said: "Big E, you may be blind, but you sure are slow." I wasn't expecting that, but I said: "You know, Chris, you're not so nice, but at least you're stupid."
I love positive pessimisms; you know you can use them anytime, anyplace, to say, "Hey, we're facing a tough road ahead but we'll get through this together." As graduates, you could say, "Hey, there's not a lot of jobs out there but at least I have a 2.1 gpa." Or when you buy your first house, "You know honey, we may have to move into a smaller house than we wanted to but at least my mother-in-law's coming to live with us."
But back in the igloo, I said, "Chris, I am so sorry. I didn't mean to throw up and ruin the entrance of the igloo." And he did something so nice-he slapped me on the back as hard as he possibly could, and he said: "Big E., anyone who stands on the top of North America, I'll crawl through his puke any day."
And he did, he crawled right through; I was touched.
I've had such a good time in the mountains, climbing to the tops of mountains and coming down with friends around me. Climbing and summiting a mountain is very much a goal. It's linear, it's tangible, it's reachable. I love goals. I know all of you have multitudes and multitudes of goals that will keep you very busy that are very important.
Visions and goals
But in my life, and I imagine in yours too, what's been more important than any one goal, is what I would call a vision. I see a vision maybe a little differently than others, it's more of an internal vision. A vision of how we see ourselves living our lives and serving other people and impacting the world-what kind of legacy we want to leave behind us. I think sometimes we can focus on these long lists of goals, they can become isolated and fragmented and go unfulfilled, or maybe even lead us in directions that we didn't want to go to in the first place.
When I think we need to continually reconnect with that unifying vision that takes those goals and binds them together and gives them purpose and power. I think first has to come a vision and it's one thing as you know, to create a vision, it's another thing entirely to believe in it so strongly that you're able to summon up the focus and the courage and the discipline to live within its framework.
At Bucknell, your vision is powerful; perhaps your vision is to serve people-your community, your family, your university, the world around you. But how do your goals, day after day after day, align to bring you closer to that vision?
Perhaps your vision is to flourish through a sense of innovation; how do your goals achieve it?
If your vision is to not just slip into the status quo, but to find ways of blasting through people's expectations so hard you shatter them into a million pieces-how do your goals do it?
If your vision is not just to respond and react to life's changes and challenges but to lead - how do you take those goals and wrap them around that vision and make it real?
I think, as you leave Bucknell, it's a very important time to begin to formulate the vision that will sustain you along your journey. Like an internal compass, it guides us through good weather and-most importantly-through bad weather. And it tells you where you're going and why it's so important you get there.
Swept to the sidelines
When I went blind just before my freshman year in high school, I wasn't thinking about a vision. I was just thinking about surviving. Blindness was like a storm that had descended upon me with such force, such viciousness, I thought I'd be crushed by it. I remember sitting in the cafeteria listening to all the laughter, all the jokes, all the food fights passing me by that I wanted to be a part of, and I wasn't afraid to go blind. What I was afraid of was that I would be swept to the sidelines, that I'd be forgotten, that my life would be meaningless, for nothing.
I could still see just a tiny bit out of my right eye at that time. If I got real close to the TV set, I could watch television. I had my face pressed up against the screen one day, watching this show, back in the '80s called "That's Incredible." They were featuring a guy named Terry Fox. Terry was a Canadian, he'd lost a leg to cancer and he was still in the hospital when he decided that he was going to run across Canada, thousands of miles.
Now I'll tell you, this is not the typical decision that a person in his situation was supposed to make. Most people would have just dug in their heels and focused on surviving. Instead, Terry did the exact opposite; he decided to attack. The miles took a terrible toll on his body, on his stump. The look on his face was an absolute contradiction-full of exhaustion, yet at the same time, full of exultation. And I thought to myself, there's something inside of us that I can only describe, at the time, as a light-a light that seemed to have the ability to feed on frustration, on setbacks, on failures, to use those things as fuel. The greater the challenge, the brighter that light burned. That light seemed to make us more focused, more driven, more creative. I wondered if it could even transcend our own limitations and give our lives power.
It was by staring into Terry's face with my one eye pressed up against the screen that I first wondered, "How do you turn into the storm of life and emerge on the other side, not just unscathed, not just damaged as little as possible, but actually stronger and better?"
It was a few months after that that I got this newsletter in Braille of a group taking blind kids rock climbing. And I ran my hand up the wall of my room and I thought, "Who would be crazy enough to take a blind kid rock climbing?"
So I signed up. I was tired of building walls around myself, I wanted to attack, like Terry. And I found through trial and error that I could do a pull-up, I could scan my hand across the face, and just before I was ready to lose strength in my forearms and fingers and felt like I had to fall, I'd dig my fingers into a little crack or pocket, just enough to keep me stuck to the face a few seconds longer so I could do another pull-up, scan my other hand across the face. I left a lot of blood and skin on the face, but I got to the top and I'll never forget; it was so exhilarating, so vibrant, it was almost painful. Like a rebirth — the texture of the rocks under my hands and the patterns of hot and cold as the sun touched the rock. The sound of space — when I got up high I could hear sound vibrations moving infinitely through space. It was beautiful, but as beautiful as it was, it was also scary.
Reaching into darkness
And there's one thing that hasn't changed much since that very first time I went rock climbing 25 years ago, and that's the reach. I don't care if we're blind or sighted, I think in a way we're all reaching into darkness. We're hoping, we're predicting, we're praying, we're calculating. All our metrics, all our measurements, all our algorithms, the data leads us to believe that we're going to find what we're looking for, but we understand there's no guarantee. It's that moment when we've committed ourselves to the reach, our minds, our bodies, we know it's almost impossible to turn back. I think those fears, they're overwhelming — the fear of flopping on our face, of making a bad decision that leads us astray. The fear that we're not as good at something as we wanted to be or the fear, for some of us older folks, that we've climbed as high as we can go, there's nowhere else to go but down. I think all those fears conspire against us and they paralyze us.
I think there's a big difference between most people and pioneers, because pioneers understand that life is an ongoing, never-ending process of reaching out into the darkness when we don't know exactly what we'll find. We're constantly reaching towards immense possibilities. They're always unseen, yet they're sensed. While so many others allow that darkness to paralyze them.
Well, I reached out that day; I know you reach out every day and you're about to make some big reaches in your life. Those reaches lead us to some great adventures around the world. I will say this, though. I don't see myself as some crazy blind guy, like a blind Evel Knievel just getting shot across the Grand Canyon in a rocket ship or something. I'm very methodical; I see myself more, maybe as you do, as an innovator, as a problem solver. I love looking at things that maybe others see as impossible or improbable and then figuring out a way forward.
I'm motivated in a similar way as the pioneers of the past, like Sir Edmund Hillary, like Tenzing Norgay, by a sense of what's possible. I think it's important to see ourselves as modern-day pioneers. I don't think that means that you're climbing necessarily a scary mountain. What it means is that we're motivated from within, by that internal vision rather than from external factors.
It means we're motivated by a sense of discovery. When you define the word discovery, it means to unveil. I think a lot of the world and its potential are veiled by darkness.
Reach farther
Here's the trouble, though. I think, as a pioneer, when you embrace that mindset, and you reach out, farther and farther up the mountain, maybe farther than anyone's ever gone before, and you've tried to be great — the farther you reach, the more adversity you bring into your life.
In fact, it's like you're asking for it. Who wants that? In fact, I think the farther you reach, the more adversity you bring in. There's a correlation between adversity and greatness; the two go hand-in-hand, there's no way to separate them.
Maybe what kept our species surviving for so many thousands of years was this ability to move away from discomfort, away from uncertainty, to find nice, safe, familiar niches and settle in.
That doesn't work anymore in the modern world. I think, in order to achieve greatness, we've got to square off with adversity, those small adversities that wear us down, that make us ask ourselves, "Hey, I'm treading water but I'm still drowning." Right up to the most complex issues that face us as human beings on the horizon ready to bear down on us.
I think we've got to square off with them and walk into the storm.
The best example I ever saw on a personal level, a person able to do this is my friend Mark Wellman. Mark Wellman, when he was 21 years old, fell down a peak in the Sierra Nevadas, and he became paralyzed from the waist down. Mark decided that he was going to learn to climb again. He went out and he developed this new pioneering system — no one had ever seen anything like it.
His partner goes up the rock face and anchors the rope and then Mark has a pull-up bar that he invented that locks onto the rope with an ascender. He slides it up the rope, it locks off, he pulls himself up on a pulley system. He pushes the bar up, he pulls himself up, he pushes the bar up. He only gets about six inches up with each pull-up.
He climbed El Capitan — 3,300-feet of overhanging granite. They estimated he did over 7,000 pull-ups in seven days.
I've met a lot of people like Mark over the years. I call these people alchemists. You know, they can take the lead that life piles on top of them and they'll figure out a way to transform it into gold.
With an alchemist, they don't just do the traditional things that you hear about. They don't just deal well with adversity, they don't avoid it, they don't even overcome it as you hear so often.
These alchemists have figured out how to do something radically different. They've figured out how to seize hold of that storm of adversity that seems to swirl around us to harness its energy and use that energy to propel themselves forward to places that they never would have gone to in any other way.
With an alchemist you can throw them in the midst of a fierce competitive, uncertain environment, you can strip away their resources, you can throw roadblocks in front of them, and they'll still find a way to win. And I'd argue that they don't find a way to win despite adversity, they find a way to win because of it. I think if we want to learn, if we want to grow, if we want to strengthen great teams around us, if we want to innovate, if we want to create a whole new paradigm that the world follows, I think the way we harness those challenges in our lives is our greatest advantage.
Imagine while the world is digging in its heels and focused on surviving, you're out there using the energy behind this momentous occasion to drive forward, to make ground, to make an impact.
Pathway to greatness
What if adversity weren't the enemy? What if, instead, it were the pathway to greatness?
There are a lot of adversities that are all around us. You're entering a pretty tough economy, and people's confidences have been beaten down over the years. There's lots of hype that America isn't what it used to be. And beyond all that, there are global challenges, like an overcrowded planet and poverty and natural disasters and climate change and over-reliance on fossil fuels and a clash of religions and cultures that compete around the world.
Lots of adversity. But look at the pool of talent in this stadium, in this area. Look at this pool of talent. You are the alchemists; you are the world's best hope for alchemy.
But I don't think it's enough to just harness adversity and push through and say, "Look at me, look at me on top." I think leadership is about pushing the envelope but I also think it's equally about helping others to reach their own summit.
For me, that opportunity came when I teamed up again with Mark Wellman to start this organization No Barriers. We were so impressed by the innovative ways that each of us climbed mountains that we decided that it was time to show others how to change their approach and their mindset to adversity.
We bring together this amazing community of pioneers, most of them have disabilities who have pushed the envelope in science and technology and engineering and art and music. We bring them together with the aim of helping others with challenges, that's most of us, find new ideas, new approaches, new technologies, to shatter the personal barriers in our lives and be more adventurous.
We show new prosthetic legs that are enabling amputees to sometimes walk for the first time; new mountain bikes for paraplegics to get off the pavement for the very first time; new climbing systems and kayaking systems for triple and quadruple amputees to get out and adventure in the wilderness.
Most importantly we teach that mindset, that we all have the tools, we all have the mindset to attack our challenges head-on and live the life that we envisioned.
America's heroes
In that No Barriers spirit, as the 10th year anniversary of my Mount Everest climb approaches on Tuesday, we as a team decided that we wanted to celebrate and give back to America's heroes.
We organized, last summer, a team of injured soldiers, soldiers who had been hurt in Afghanistan and Iraq. We had a team of 10 soldiers, we took them back to Colorado and trained them and taught them everything they needed to know about climbing.
On this team we had some extraordinary people. Nicolette, who had been injured in Iraq and was in a wheelchair for three and a half years as she learned to walk again. Dan, a Marine, who is big and tough and could bite you in half but, because of PTSD, has trouble walking through a grocery store. And Matt, who was part of Elite Force when a helicopter crashed and he was sucked into the rotor of his helicopter, he lost his leg. His other foot has severe nerve damage, every step is painful. And, close to my heart, Steve, who was in an armored vehicle - shrapnel went through his brain and blinded him instantly.
On this summit day, this Himalayan giant mountain next to Mount Everest; it was a hard day. We were pushing up steep rock and steep ice and steep snow and, at one point, Steve started wearing down and struggling. He said, "I feel like I'm out of my element. I feel like I need to go down."
My friend, Jeff, he just seems to know exactly how hard to push people and know what to say. He said, "Steve, this just isn't about you. This is about all those injured soldiers, all the soldiers who are yet to be injured, all your fallen comrades; this is about them. Knuckle down and get this job done."
And that was what Steve needed to hear because, three hours later, Steve and the rest of the soldiers in my Everest team; we stood at 20,100 feet together.
I've been on higher mountains, I've been on harder mountains but, standing on top with these heroes was the proudest moment of my life.
Leadership is contagious
I think leadership, you'll find, is contagious. You pass it from body to body, from life to life. And we give the people around us great courage to do great things.
You're entering a very challenging world. It's harder and harder to predict the future; in fact, I promise you there will be days where you feel like you're climbing blind. But I don't think this is the time to lose our will, to be clouded by fear and doubt, to be swept to the sidelines and forgotten. I think this is the best time in history, perhaps the most precious time in history, to be a pioneer, to reach out, to take lead and turn it into gold.
We do this for ourselves, for your family, for your university but, I think most importantly, we do it for the sake of this wondrous world that we live in.
Helen Keller said: "I am only one, but still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still, I will do something. I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
To Bucknell graduates 2011, keep climbing. Keep reaching. Climb high. Thank you very much.
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