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Your Desire – Passing Through Four Layers of ManifestationBy Deepak Chopra in Manifesting Dreams on January 18th, 2007 / No Comments
If Vedanta is right and there is only one reality, then all desires must follow the same mechanics. Desires arise and are fulfilled in consciousness. Making yourself happy involves fulfilling many desires every day; this is also the path of evolution, for as desires become more refined, they lead to higher states of consciousness. It is impossible to achieve any level without wanting to, and impossible to be blocked if the mechanics of desire support you.
If you want a piece of chocolate cake and go to buy some at a restaurant, you are fulfilling your desire exactly the same way as someone who wants a piece of chocolate cake and tastes it in his dreams. That is the point made by Vedanta, and it seems totally improbable to a materialist, who makes a huge distinction between a real piece of cake and a piece of cake in a dream.
Materialism focuses on the object of desire, Vedanta focuses on the source of desire. The only way to prove which one is right is to test the theory of consciousness. How do we do that? Personally, by mapping out the path in our own consciousness that desires follow. If the map is right, then Vedanta must have hit upon a deep truth and not just a pure philosophical whim.
I am going to give a linear description of this path first, even though to be completely true to Vedanta, there is only the "pathless path," which isn't linear at al. Our minds work in a linear fashion, and the path of desire won't seem real unless we can connect the dots between cause ("I want a piece of chocolate cake") and effect ("Ah, here it is.")
Desires Pass Through Four Layers of Manifestation:
- The desire appears in your mind.
- It is processed in the unconscious or subtle body
- It passes through collective consciousness
- It is organized cosmically in pure consciousness.
This is the chain of command for every desire, and it follows the Vedic structure of consciousness: the person, the Jiva, Atman, and Brahman. Naturally, these levels of awareness have a great deal in common. Karma, for example, operates for the person and for Jiva, is calculated in Atman, but does not apply to Brahman (unity is beyond action). But I won't go into technicalities here; we want to keep our eye on the prize, which is fulfillment of desire.
1. The Personal Level
Your desire will come true if you first state it clearly in your mind. Repetition isn't all that important. You don't have to go around saying, "I want a new car" over and over again. But your mind must be clear that it wants the car. Contrary to popular belief, wanting something really, really, really badly doesn't help. Craving and desperation are obstacles, in fact. Clarity is a quieter, more subtle state. It feels right, or even inevitable, to have a particular desire, and the desire is consistent with who you are. (I had a friend whose father despaired all his life that he never got to sing at the Metropolitan Opera. I asked my friend if his father ever learned how to sing opera. The answer was no, which says something about the lack of fulfillment in this case!) But of course all kinds of desires are fulfilled without perfect clarity. The more you are clear, the fewer unexpected consequences you will experience when your desire comes back.
2. The Unconscious Level:
When you learn a new word, it gets added to your vocabulary, but you don't see it fit into a slot. The fitting in happens unconsciously. The same is true for any desire. It must fit into your storehouse of desires, which we can call your desire body. In your desire body you've stored beliefs, self-image, various repressed or shadow energies, and the whole history of your self. This is the level where desire hits its first and biggest obstacles, for no matter what you think you want, if your desire body won't compute that desire correctly, you will achieve little or nothing. You might even get failure instead of success. When people quote Murphy's Law (Whatever can go wrong will go wrong) they are actually observing the difficulties thrown up in the desire body.
It's undeniable that the desire body is too complicated to figure out mentally. If you want a new car, it would be staggering task to compute how this one desire fits into your whole history, not to mention the invisible intricacy of your karma. But we can simplify the desire body by saying that if you tell yourself "I want a new car," the desire body will route that intention along either the Yes path or the No path. Not that these paths are completely clear, either, but at the unconscious level you either deny yourself or accept yourself, and this overall self-judgment tells the major story when it comes to desire.
3. The level of Collective Consciousness
If your desire is allowed to go down the Yes path toward fulfillment, it heads into a subtler level of consciousness, the shared level of groups. The group can be family, community, nation, or the world. If you desire peace for the whole world, then at the collective level you are one intention among billions. If you want your parents not to get a divorce, you are one intention among only a few people.
At this level you can be blocked again. Millions of people may want Hitler to die or for a hurricane not to hit the gulf coast, yet there are larger intents at work. Some people are very sensitive to the collective level–politicians, for example, and great geniuses. A great mind can literally move all of collective consciousness, as Buddha and Christ did.
Here we also encounter myths and archetypes, which help to shape the vision and therefore the desires of a whole race or an entire epoch. But consciousness gets clearer as we approach subtler levels, so here one doesn't meet with obstacles quite so stubbornly. People you consider to be not on your side are totally allied with you at subtler levels. Also, in computing how our desire fits into the overall picture of your destiny, the decision made is totally fair. Hence we find that desire A may not come true, but it leads to an even bigger, more important desire B that does.
4. The Level of Pure Consciousness
At this level everything is coordinated so that your desire can reach some kind of fulfillment. Here there is never an obstacle, never a no. The quantum field will move however it must to accommodate the new intention you have place in it. Naturally, if your desire hasn't made it through the other levels, not much effect will be produced. But something will happen; no desire escapes without affecting the universe.
If this is the actual chain of command for desires, improving your share of fulfillment can be improved on all four levels. There is no linear path but a nonlocal process in which everything is affected simultaneously.
Personal: Become clearer about who you are and what would make you happy. Don't follow external notions of success. Set aside labels of status, money, possessions, and social connections. Look into your psychological issues, especially the points of stress. Examine your beliefs. If a desire doesn't come true, look to yourself for the reason why, but do this without blame or judgment. Consider that you want to improve the mechanics of desire as they exist in you. Don't wish for negative things, because you will only be adding to the obstacles.
Unconscious: Here is the workshop of desire. What is most changeable in you exists at this level, where hidden things can be brought to light. Be open to whatever is happening inside you. Sincerely work on the negative or blocking energies that you find inside.
These are:
- I don't deserve
- I am afraid
- I am guilty or ashamed
- God doesn't care
- Everything is set up against me
- Nobody is paying attention
- I don't matter anyway
Resolve to believe that you are responsible for what happens to you. All kinds of energy work, therapy, hypnosis, meditation, etc. are available to you, but keep in mind that if you intend to achieve clarity, there are thousands of steps in this maze of the mind. What you need to see will appear when you need to see it. Your job is to be alert to anything awareness needs to notice.
Two things help at this level: First, avoid the drag of group beliefs and don't add to group negativity. Consciousness flows wherever it is called, and if you join with the negativity of any social group, including the family, those energies will come to you. Beliefs are always on the move, attaching to one person, detaching from another.
Second, find a vision of life that inspires you and maintain contact with it. This level of awareness is alive – as are all levels of awareness – and the highest ideals you think about, talk about, and put into action have an effect here. Action in consciousness is powerful, which is why you so often read in the biographies of great men and women that they dreamed in childhood of the very deed they later accomplished. Invisible forces came to their aid, not mystically but from the level of collective need and evolution.
Pure Consciousness:
At this level there is no action, only being. A law of consciousness says that consciousness becomes more powerful at subtler levels, which implies that at this level, the very subtlest, all power is at your command. How can it be that doing nothing can accomplish everything? The Vedic sages asserted this truth, which must be validated personally. To do that, they pointed to the state of Samadhi, or deep consciousness in which objects and desires disappear. Samadhi isn't a void, however. It is the subjective experience of the womb of creation, a connection to the source.
The deeper your awareness, in and of itself, the more your desires will come true. Patanjali has written the textbook on this subject in the Yoga Sutras, but to simplify things, we can say that as you meditate longer and bring in more Being, the whole mechanics of desire gets clearer. In true Samadhi, where there is no gap between the person and pure consciousness, the path becomes completely pathless. In the absence of a gap, time and space have no effect; you are in a timeless, perfectly organized, universal domain that is nevertheless yourself. Desire and fulfillment are instantaneous and without obstacle.
Thus we have the map of desire given to us in Vedanta. It applies to all intentions, however small and insignificant. If you are willing to put yourself in play as the source and en-point of your desires, you will find that the map becomes more and more useful as your awareness evolves. to me, the greatest gift of this map is that it keeps me focused inward, a huge benefit in a world that is constantly dragging out attention outward.
Love, Deepak
Reprinted with permission by Deepak Chopra from: Intentblog.com
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After receiving a very thought-provoking question from one of our customers faced with the time-intensive task of tallying up server downtimes, we decided to see if we could work out a solution to this dilemma. In the end, the process revealed itself to be quite easy, and we thought sharing it would be beneficial to anyone responsible for overseeing Domino, Sametime, or Traveler servers. First, let's take a look at the situation.
The Problem
This particular customer's task was to calculate server downtimes every week. This required them to dig into each server's log file, seek out a particular string to pinpoint server restarts, and then look at the log context and manually (!) export lines to an Excel sheet—all so they could add up the elapsed time for each instance the server had been down to finally arrive at the total time. They were rightly complaining that this process took hours and hours of administrator time each week; they needed a better way to do it.
The Task at Hand
To determine the length of time it took for a given server to come back up, we need to find two specific events: the event that identifies a server shutdown, and the event that shows when the server started back up. By calculating the elapsed time between these two events, we'll get the exact amount of time that a given server was unavailable.
For starters, we'll need to look into our log.nsf file for the two expressions that flag the events in question. For server shutdowns, the expression to find is "Server shutdown complete" (see fig. 1).
For server start-ups, the expression we want to find is "Lotus Domino (r) Server started, running Release 9.0.1FP5″. But, to accommodate different versions in our search, we can simply look for "Lotus Domino (r) Server started, running Release" (see fig. 2).
The first issue with the method described above, is that the dates and times aren't readily available from the log file; one would need to search for both expressions, one after the other, open each matching document, do a CTRL+F to find the appropriate line, and finally export the date and time. This obviously takes a great deal of time. Complicating this situation even further is the fact that server start-ups don't always follow a successful server shutdown. For each start-up event that isn't preceded by a shutdown event, we're looking at a crash, and we need to figure out when the crash occurred.
Luckily, consoleEZ can get us out of this jam. Beyond the fact that it allows us to search for both of these terms simultaneously, it also lets us extend that search over as many servers as we want. Additionally, our searches will be organized chronologically, allowing us to identify crash events immediately. Let's take a look at how this works.
The consoleEZ Way
Since consoleEZ allows us to search multiple server logs simultaneously, we'll be able to get all of this done in one pass. First, we need to open consoleEZ and launch Log Analyzers for each server we want to parse. This can be done with a CTRL+N, or by selecting the Log Analyzers > Choose Servers option (see fig. 3).
For this case, we'll make sure that only Miscellaneous Events is selected in the top section of the Log Analyzer Options window. This will help to optimize the tool's performance. Next, we can select our desired Date-Time range. In order to use the entire contents of log.nsf, we'll need to select Include Everything.
Then, in order to look for the two events mentioned above, we'll enter this regular expression:
Server shutdown complete|IBM Domino \(r\) Server started, running Release
Note that we must use a "|" character to separate our expressions, and we'll need to use the "\" escape character to search for the (r) string with a regex. Thus, \(r\) (see fig. 4).
Once our search has completed, we'll see a readout of all matching events in the flexYgrid enabled Log Analyzer panel. This means we can categorize our matches by server, and then sort the events by time. Ideally, this would leave us with a clean chronological layout of shutdown and start-up events. But as the majority of us will probably see, there will be some surprises—such as two successive start-up events without a corresponding shutdown event (see fig. 5). In these cases, we'll need to look for a crash event somewhere between them.
In the case of a crash (once again, indicated by a set of server start-up events without a corresponding shutdown event between them) calculating downtime requires us to find the last time that the server was up and running. This sounds harder than it actually is, due to a certain characteristic of log documents: when a server goes down unexpectedly, the log document item FinishTime (which normally shows us the time of the last event per document) won't be created.
To find out when the crash occurred, all we need to do is use scanEZ to look for any log documents that use the "Event" form and that lack the item FinishTime. Note that the log document currently open by the server won't have this item yet, so we need to exclude this document from our search.
We can find these documents in only a few steps. Open scanEZ and select the Search by Formula option from the Search menu. Then, enter the following formula:
When we apply this formula to our example above, we'll find two log documents on the server Acme02/ACME, one of which is our current log document (see fig. 7). Now, let's put the documents into a My Selection folder and use the StartTime item value to set the displayed title.
Set up in this manner, the latest date shown in our My Selection folder will be our most current log document—this we'll disregard. Looking at the EventList item's last time stamp for the remaining document will give us the last time that the server was available (see fig. 8).
If you have a larger number of documents:
If there were more documents involved, it would be a good idea to set the My Selection folder's displayed titles to automatically display the date and time of each log document's last event. We can do this by simply right-clicking the My Selection folder, selecting Change Displayed Title, choosing Formula from the list of options, and then when prompted to enter a formula, using this: @Subset(eventTime;-1)
Once the operation has completed, we can use the Copy Tree Titles to Clipboard function to get the list of last event times onto our clipboard, and then simply paste it into an Excel sheet.
We've encountered several customers who've needed to create server-downtime reports on a weekly basis; all agree that completing this task requires a multiple-hour time commitment each week. Following the steps outlined above to export our results from consoleEZ (only a CTRL+C & CTRL+V once the filters have been applied) will give us a chronological timeline of server shutdowns and start-ups—calculating downtime is a cinch. And by looking at our Excel sheet, we'll quickly spot any times where a server start isn't followed by a proper shutdown event—a clear indication that we need to search for a crash (see fig. 9). At that point, scanEZ will play a very important role.
Once we've established the dates and times of the crashes, all that is left to do to complete our downtime report is to insert new rows between server-start events and add in the last event time from the log document (see fig. 10).
And there you have it, a thorough server-downtime report completed in a time that's a far cry from the hours spent in any traditional method—all thanks to EZ Suite.


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Need for Chariot: Undergroundby bytekeeper - Competition Entry
Having only have day to make a game I didn't let that stop me.
*You cannot control the actual chariot action.*
*Do not resize the window or the buttons won't work*
Now, for the game:
You are *insert cool roman name here*. Pimp your chariot and defeat your enemies!
But you have to setup your chariot to win against the enemy, who will pimp their chariot as well.
You need to have java installed, to run this game. Sorry, I will "fix" this tomorrow.
Downloads and Links
I really, really like the concept but I can't help but notice a severe lack of horse breeding.
Also the music is kinda cool but the hit sounds are a bit intrusive to say the least.
Upgraded to max. Tied with last guy.
Accidentally reset race by clicking? Not sure if that's intentional.
Pretty cool, could be like one of those games where you just keep upgrading more and more and fight against more and more ridiculous opponents.
The game looks nice but the resolution is broken : It is very difficult to find where to click to activate a button.
Moreover, a tutorial would be a good way to tell the player what controls he can use.
Hmm I mentioned "You cannot control the actual chariot action". If you resize the window it is broken, yes :(
The game is based on a great idea and your graphics are simple but good. I only dont like that you have to wait most of the time.
Cool game! I really liked the concept. If I win enough races, will I get new upgrades to pimp my chariot more?
Good Idea, but I feel that by adding money you can make the game better, as I just upgraded to the max and won the race, so it felt too easy for me.
I also didn't like the music the beat I thought didn't match the style of the game, the art was cool, love the texture detail on the horses.
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What turbulent times we are living in. It seems it doesn't matter what part of the world you are in, there are changes, uncertainty and the unknown lurking.
There is no question that this effects us. As an individual your life might be very smooth and going in the right direction, but collectively there is a lot shifting. Humanity is standing on the precipice of change and it seems fractions are fighting it out to see which way we go forward. These are unnerving times to say the least and we can't help but to feel unsettled.
How Do We Stay Centered?
So how do we stay centred in all this upheaval? With this universal push for change you are probably finding uncertainly in your own life. I personally have battled with relaxing into change and the unknown for years. I like to call this unknown The Mystery.
Embrace The Mystery
Naming the unknown as mystery somehow softens the edges for me. There is something almost romantic about mystery and it certainly can arouse our curiosity. Though naturally the renaming of it doesn't necessarily hold us in a place of comfort for long.
Whether you wondering if you should take that trip, change your job or end a relationship or whether you are anxious about what the future holds for our forests, oceans and animals or if we are capable of feeding our population in 20 years time, its important to have something that keeps the deeply embedded worrying at bay. This sort of anxiety can be held in the body without us being even aware of it.
The Inner Journey….
The only way to free ourselves from this is always an within journey. Coming back to the body experience is the first place to start. The vehicle that takes us there is the Breath. Try it now. Just sit back in your chair, take a deep slow and gentle breath in and as you exhale let your attention rest in your body. Watch your breath's flow. Feel into your body; notice the earthiness of it. Let it ground you back into the known. Feel better?
Slow Down Ground Breathe…
Landing back in the body helps to ground us back into Earth time, the time of NOW. There is so much less to worry about when we focus on one breath at a time. To take it into daily life we only need to focus on one step at a time. When there is deep upheaval or uncertainty the best thing to do is just put one foot in front of the other. This is the wisest path. This helps slow things down and can simplify the process. This allows for better consolidation and decision making.
Meditation And Yoga Help
When we couple this with a regular meditation practice as well as some yoga stretches, these simple steps can be very effective in keeping us at ease. When working with The Mystery meditation is our greatest gift. Sit in meditation with the attitude that whatever arises is ok.
Turn away from nothing, hold all that arises in your awareness if you can, with heart-felt compassion. Tuning into the bigger prospective is also helpful. Feeling into the space that holds everything together. Call it the Source, the Divine, the Earth, the Universe, God or whatever resonates for you.
Tune in and once again allow whatever arises in this space to be ok, there is nothing to fear. Tuning into the felt sense of Mystery helps us to understand the friendly nature of its presence.
Mystery is Possibility! And learning to walk happily alongside it is the art of Joyful living.
Joy Yoga is holding a short Meditation Course in August and Yoga Beginner's Course in July, both held in Moe.


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An IT engineer in central Việt Nam is demonstrating the value of hydroculture as an effective way to build climate change resilience in the storm-prone region, Hoài Nam reports.
After working with the military-run telecom group Viettel for seven years, Nguyễn Quốc Phong decided he wanted to do something else.
The 33-year-old man from Núi Thành District in Quảng Nam Province has since used his IT know-how and experience to study and promote hydroponic farming, launching a startup of his own.
Hydroponics is a subset of hydroculture, the method of growing plants without soil, using mineral nutrient solutions in a water solvent. Terrestrial plants may be grown with only their roots exposed to the mineral solution, or the roots may be supported by an inert medium, such as perlite or gravel. (Wikipedia)
Phong surfed the internet for information and solutions, found suppliers in the Netherlands and Israel, imported materials and quality fertiliers and seeds.
"It's not new in the world, but it has just emerged in central region. Farmers have a long tradition of growing vegetables in the soil, which is low cost and easy, but also carries the risk of contamination with water and air pollution already at alarming levels. And with rapid urbanisation in the region, it is not going to get better soon.
"Local farmers still hesitate to change to new agriculture, or hi-tech farming. They are used to growing with easy tools, but not electronically controlled devices or smart-phone guided production," Phong said, explaining why his company, H2O Farm Viet Nam, has launched a package solution.
Phong said the package, including recycled water mixed with fertiliser, a pumping system and pipes made with durable material, would help farmers save a lot of time working with soil, manual watering and dealing with pest problems.
"Farmers can manage operation of the system with their smartphones to set up nutrition pumping timer for the vegetables, and they do not need to work directly with hazardous pesticides.
"However, they have to change from their labour-intensive farming into hi-tech application production with stricter conditions like using toxin-free water and specific doses of other inputs like fertiliser and sunlight," he said.
Phong explained that water at all the farms have to be tested to eliminate hazardous contaminants, while seeds and fertilisers from the Netherlands and Israel would offer suitable material for hydroponic farms.
He said 24-hour programmed pumping system will help carry a mixture of water and nutrition to grow saplings.
"It's like a stream running day and night. Roots will absorb nutrition from the water running through pipes. Each sapling grows in a plastic box, and farmers can harvest easily by moving it up after 25 days," he said, adding that a small household's hydroponic garden could produce 40kg of greens each month.
Household gardening
Trần Thị Anh Thư, a Đà Nẵng resident, said she installed a 6sq.m hydroponic garden on her rooftop eight months ago, growing vegetables for her family.
"I could harvest vegetables from this garden 25 days after sowing. I do not have to buy these vegetables from the market anymore, because the garden provides plenty and we even have some for neighbours," Thư said.
Her family needs at least 3kg of fresh vegetables a day.
"I invested VNĐ10 million (US$442) for installation of the hydroponic system including water pipes, beds, pumps and seeds. I just spend a little money (around $5) for buying new seeds or fertilisers a month."
Thư said she did not spend a lot of time on the garden, and had more time now for housework and caring for children.
The 42-year housewife also said she had planted vegetables in soil on plastic trays or styrofoam boxes, but that required more time to water, protecting the plants from pests and rats.
She said the hi-tech garden was really suitable for household that wants safe vegetables.
Bùi Thị Thanh Sương of Điện Bàn District in Quảng Nam Province, said her family had grown vegetables for 20 years via traditional farming, and only recently began hydroponic farming as a trial.
"In co-operation with the H2 Farm Việt Nam company, we have developed a small hydroponics area on our 3,000sq.m garden with total investment of VNĐ70 million ($3,000)," Sương said.
"We saw that growers did not waste time to clear weeds, prepare soil or halt crops because of rain or floods."
The 26-year-old woman said that in hydroponics, pest and insect attacks could be avoided, and strictly tested quality seeds would ensure a bumper crop. "While it requires more investment than traditional farming, the focus is on consumers seeking high-quality produce," she said.
"High and medium income customers have gradually been seeking safe food and vegetables. They are willing to pay higher prices for daily greens at selected places," she said.
She said hydroponic salad greens, including lettuce costs between VNĐ60,000 ($2.6) and VNĐ90,000 ($3.9) per kilo, much higher than normally grown vegetables, which only cost between VNĐ10,000 ($0.44) and VNĐ40,000 ($1.7) per kilo.
Sương said her family supplies 70kg of vegetables every day to farms with the Việt Nam Agriculture Practice (VietGAP) certification.
However, hydroponics is still limited to growing leafy vegetables, and it should be expanded to other products like beans, pumpkins, potatoes and tomatoes, Sương said.
Minimum cost
Phong said his company can design a household hydroponic garden of just 2 to 6sq.m at minimum costs of VNĐ6 million ($265) to VNĐ8 million ($354).
He reiterated that hydroponics can help prevent the alarming overuse of stimulants in agriculture.
He said he plans to expand hydroponics into mountainous areas in Quảng Nam, where farms are destroyed by disasters every year, and promote household gardening in Đà Nẵng and Tam Kỳ cities.
"Household hi-tech gardening can supply safe greens to supermarkets or directly to urban communities, and its expansion would also reduce investment." — VNS


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Has Higher Ed. Ceded Reponsibility for Teacher Quality Control?
The dean of the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education, Robert Pianta, pens a provocative piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education that poses what's probably the essential teacher-quality question du jour: Who should be responsible for defining and policing the standards of the teaching profession?
The genesis of the piece is the Education Department's effort to write new rules governing teacher preparation, which collapsed last month. While Pianta isn't fond of some of the ED's proposals, he argues that the drive to do something on teacher preparation has been born out of failure of higher ed., and other related agencies, to monitor quality:
"Teacher unions, higher education, and even alternative teacher-preparation routes such as Teach For America have ceded responsibility for building credible and open internal quality controls. Education schools and other preparers of teachers have failed to build competency- and knowledge-assessment systems to identify and measure the skills that teachers need for successful performance. Such systems would be capable of publicly verifying that teachers met certain known performance benchmarks before they entered the profession, and passing would mean a high likelihood that the students taught by a graduate would make progress academically.
State agencies today certify teachers using an accumulation of academic credits and assessments that do not discriminate between good and poor performers. Nearly all graduates pass criteria that have no known association with teaching and learning in elementary and secondary classrooms. But when teacher-preparation organizations say that state-standards tests and value-added metrics are neither reliable nor valid, they sound like unions arguing against teacher evaluationplacing blame on imperfect assessments rather than finding alternatives and testing them."
To throw another log on the fire, there are more sets of teacher standards out there than I can possibly list in one post—Danielson, the inTASC standards created by the Council of Chief State School Officers, the standards set by the teacher-college-accreditation bodies, and every state's own professional licensing and program-approval standards for starters. But arguably, these standards haven't been well linked to assessment mechanisms, nor have they served as the lever that their creators have hoped to change the nature of how teachers are trained.
A few education schools have begun to move in this direction. And quite a few others are pinning their hopes on the Teacher Performance Assessment, a licensing test being piloted in about half the states. But only time will tell if they actually begin to do the things that Pianta outlines in the commentary.


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Via CyclingNews.com
New Zealand cycling in shock following sudden death of Patrick Avery.
New Zealand cyclists are mourning the loss of fellow rider, Patrick Avery, 21, who died suddenly on Tuesday evening.
"If you have not heard, Patrick fell off this bike towards the end of the Crit, there is a possibility he had a heart attack but we do not know the cause," wrote Peter Clark, President of Cycling Rotorua to club members according to a Rotorua Mountain Bike Club post on Facebook.
Via tvnz.co.nz
"We believe it may have been a seizure of heart attack which caused him to fall off the bike, but we are not sure."
"Patrick comes from a well known cycling family in Rotorua, he was a fantastic young guy, very laid back and a very good cyclist."


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I'm a huge fan of cutely designed products, especially accessories that "dress up" your boring stuffs like your (i)phone, computer, car, you name it, to make it unique and attention-grabbing.
I have two iphones right now. One is my personal one and another one is a company phone. Guess which one is which?


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President Obama challenged the gathering, which included leaders of nuclear powers including Russia, China, Great Britain and France, to overcome cynicism against the goal of ridding the planet of nuclear arms.
"We harbor no illusions about the difficulty of bringing about a world without nuclear weapons," Obama said, adding that Thursday's meeting signaled a significant step forward in cooperative global action.
The resolution, which was adopted unanimously, calls for tighter controls on nuclear materials to prevent them from being stolen or used for military purposes. It also encourages enforcement of international treaties and U.N. resolutions regarding nuclear non-proliferation, particularly when nations such as Iran and North Korea are in violation.
"The world must stand together," Obama said. "We must demonstrate that international law is not an empty promise."
It was the first Security Council summit chaired by a U.S. president, and only the fifth time that Security Council heads of state have met. Obama led the meeting because the United States holds the revolving presidency of the Security Council in September.
Hillary's looking awfully glum.
Boy...who side is Obama working for, ours or our enemies?
Well why don't Obama practice his anti-gun ideals here, he can give up any and all of our Nukes first and see if the other side would do the same? They would by dropping them on our cities.
Obama can't get Iran to stop developing nuclear technology... but he thinks he can get the world to disarm???
Hey Obama.... why don't you just fly back to DC on your magical unicorn??
Obama leads? That's an oxymoron. It's more like Obama lectures.
That was kinda cool Obama holding the gavel at the UN, this one is for the history books.
HIllary is napping there. No interest in Barack's speech. Barack you are irrelevant now.


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I said in my last post about the cougarling's visit that he never replied to the 'thank you' email I sent him a few days after we parted.
I was concerned that I'd left him with hurt or anger or bad feelings, and thought that his lack of reply may have been a reflection of that.
But he did reply, finally, and long after I had reconciled myself to not hearing from him again.
I was surprised, not least because it was super sweet, lovely.
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Here's another one of those serendipity moments.
A weekend fishing trip up to the Owens Valley yielded an unexpected surprise. If you've ever driven up US 395 you may have noticed those large radio telescopes off to the east between Big Pine & Bishop, CA. For years I've wondered about those and have always wanted to get a closer look and learn more about them. What I never knew, is that 13 miles east of there, tucked up in the hills is another similar array.
Here's the serendipitous part – the day we picked to fish the Owens River just happened to be the same day that CARMA (The Combined Array for Research in Millimeter wave Astronomy) was holding their annual Open House. We followed the signs along the highway, headed east on highway 168 past the big dishes in the valley up into the White Mountains, and found the observatory site and it's 23 "telescopes".
Upon arriving we were greeted by Dr. Mark Hodges from Caltech who started the tour by sharing some information about the array and some of the work being done there. While not as big as the 130 ft dishes in the valley, what these telescopes lack in size, they make up in quantity and precision. The 10 and 3.5 meter dishes here are practically perfect parabolas – the margin of error is about the width of a human hair. By using an array of telescopes they are effectively able to get the same information that could be obtained by a much larger dish. As we toured the facility, Douglas, one of the engineers explained how the racks of computers he designed process terabytes of information received from the array, filter out the noise, and combine it into one "image".
Why take a picture with radio waves?
After munching on free hot dogs provided by the CARMA staff, Eric, one of several astrophysicists on site, explained that while the Hubble Telescope provides stunning visual images, it doesn't give us the whole picture. Radio waves provide much more information about distant stars & galaxies and help scientists determine not just what they look like, but also identify the molecules that make up these distant objects. Also, because radio waves are not affected by visible light, these telescopes can be used 24 hours a day.
What type of research is being done here?
When I asked Eric about his project, he shared that he currently has the 3.5 meter array pointed at a cluster of galaxies and hopes to use the information he gathers to prove the existence of dark matter.
The CARMA array is funded by the National Science Foundation and is a jointly operated by Caltech, UC Berkeley, the University of Illinois, the University of Maryland, and the University of Chicago. Every 6 months, the NSF accepts research proposals and determines which ones get time to use the array. The allocation of time is a valuable thing because a single "picture" taken by the array can take take several hours. Douglas, one of the CARMA engineers, explained that to get one image, an array of telescopes captures lines of information as the Earth rotates. After about 8 hours these lines create a complete circle and the computers get to work to process the image. "It's like the world's slowest digital camera."
That's me standing next to one of the 10 meter telescopes.
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Out of juice:
When you've used all the battery power of something like a mobile phone, so that it doesn't work anymore, we can say it's 'out of juice'. It's a slang expression.
Sometimes if a person feels low on energy, they could say 'I'm out of juice'. Also if your car is low on petrol, you could say 'The car's running out of juice.'
- My laptop's out of juice. This is so frustrating.
- I am packing three spare phone batteries so I don't run out of juice on my climbing trip.
Take a back seat:
'To take a back seat' is an idiom that means to give up control and let someone else take responsibility.
- Mary was happy to take a back seat and let Jim run the meeting.
- I'm going to take a back seat this year and let you decide where we go on holiday.
- Now he's getting older he's decided to take a back seat in running the company.
The penny dropped:
In English when we say 'the penny dropped' we mean somebody has finally realised or understood something.
- Susan keeps postponing the wedding, Joe. When is the penny going to drop? She doesn't love you!
- If your boss doesn't appreciate you, why not leave a job advert from another company on your desk? That will make the penny drop!
Drink someone under the table:
in English, when you say you can drink someone under the table, you mean that if you and your friend both drink the same amount of alcohol, your friend will be very drunk, but you will be fine. In other words, you're saying that you've got a much higher tolerance of alcohol than another person.
- I do like a gin and tonic after a hard day at work but Alan can drink me under the table!
- When Beth realised she could drink anyone under the table she decided to stop drinking alcohol and go into rehab.
Me time:
Me time is an expression which means time we have for ourselves to do just what we want.
- I've just sent my mum to a spa in the countryside. She's been taking care of the whole family and is really in need of some me time!
A: Oh, six in the morning! I'm going to be late for work!
B: Ignore the alarm clock today. It's Sunday! Stay in bed till late and have some me time.
Cyberbullying includes things like spreading lies and rumours online, sending or forwarding unpleasant messages via instant messaging, text or on social networks.
- Kate is a victim of cyberbullying. It's so bad she doesn't want to leave the house. Someone from school has put messages on social media saying she's ugly and she should die. It's terrible!
- Experts say people should protect themselves from cyberbullying by not taking everything to heart.
In black and white:
When something is in black and white it is clearly written down so it is believed to be true.
- I have it here in black and white – I've got the job!
- I'm not going to start celebrating until I've seen the deal in black and white.
- We didn't believe the bank's offer of a loan until we saw it in black and white.
Give me credit:
To give me credit means give me praise or appreciation for something I've done.
- We must give credit to our sponsors who helped pay for this new building.
- I'll give her credit for her beautiful handwriting, but the answers she gave in the test were all wrong!
- Give me credit – I worked all night to get the project finished!
Sleep on it:
When someone says they're going to sleep on it, they mean they're going to spend some time thinking about something before making a final decision.
- We couldn't decide which car to buy so we decided to sleep on it – we didn't want to buy the wrong one!
- Thanks for your job offer but I need some time to think about it. Let me sleep on it and I'll give you an answer tomorrow.
- He told me he'd have to sleep on it before he could agree to my request for a pay rise.
In a sticky situation:
in a situation that is difficult to get out of
- I'm in a sticky situation: I said I'd go to the cinema with Pete but I've also promised to go for a drink with John.
- It was a sticky situation – neither side would agree on who caused the accident.
- We're in a sticky situation – we've got to catch the train but we haven't got enough money to buy a ticket.
Done and dusted:
it means something has been completed successfully, there's no more work to be done on it.
- The dispute between me and the council about my parking ticket has been resolved. It's done and dusted.
- After two months of hard work, the project is finally done and dusted.
- About this logo design… as far as I'm concerned, it's done and dusted.
'to frogmarch' means to force someone who is unwilling to move forward or to walk somewhere, often by holding their arms tightly.
- The drunken suspect was handcuffed by the police and frogmarched to the waiting police van.
- In major sporting events, if you disrupt the game, you risk being frogmarched out of the stadium by security guards.
On the ball (also 'to keep your eye on the ball'):
When you are 'on the ball', it means you are alert and quick to react to things.
- The interviewer raised tough questions but Ma Yun was on the ball.
- Financial management is not a job that everyone can do. You have to keep your eye on the ball at all times.
Chill pill:
When you tell someone to take a chill pill, you are telling them to calm down and relax.
- Stop shouting at the referee and take a chill pill.
- She was getting so stressed about what her boss said to her that I told her to just take a chill pill – everything would be fine.
- My wife's working so hard, she needs to take a chill pill, otherwise she'll make herself ill.
A close shave:
A close shave describes a situation where you have a narrow escape from something bad.
- We ran to catch the train – it was a close shave but we just managed to get on.
- I had a close shave when a fast car just missed me as I was crossing the road.
- It was close shave but I don't think my mum saw us smoking.
Out for the count:
Too tired and fall asleep quickly
- Jack had so much to drink last night that when he got home he was out for the count.
- There was some trouble outside my house last night but I didn't hear it: I was so tired I was out for the count.
Used to describe when things or people are very intense.
Have a good holiday?
To be honest, not really. We were up at 6am every day to get as much sightseeing done as possible and didn't get to bed till midnight. It was so full-on. I feel like I need another holiday.
- I really don't like children's parties. All those excited, screaming kids. It's too full-on.
- London's too full-on. I need to move to the countryside.
Eat humble pie:
When we say someone has to 'eat humble pie', we mean they have to admit they can't do something they boasted about. It's a bit humiliating for them.
- The factory owner had to eat humble pie after a lot of customers complained about his product.
- Peter is so arrogant. He said he could finish the work much quicker than anybody else in the office. I hope he has to eat humble pie.
Face the music:
To face the music is another way of saying you have to accept the consequence of your mistakes.
- Whoever keeps missing these deadlines will have to face the music.
- After two years of stealing from the family who hired her, the nanny was caught stealing red-handed. Now she has to face the music.
Take to the cleaners:
When we say we're going to 'take someone to the cleaners', we mean we're going to take a lot of money from them.
- My husband cheated on me with my best friend! I'm going to get the best divorce lawyer in town and take him to the cleaners!
- My team has the best players and we'll take you to the cleaners in this Sunday's match!
Take for a ride:
When we say someone is 'taking you for a ride', we mean he is deceiving you.
- That hotel took me for a ride. When I booked a room they said they'd give me a full cooked breakfast but all I got was a cup of coffee and a piece of toast. I'm never going back there again.
- Don't be taken for a ride. If an offer seems too good to be true, it's probably not real.
Butter up:
When you say you'll 'butter someone up' you mean you'll be especially nice to them in the hope they'll do something good for you in return.
Johnny: I was very impressed with your presentation, Mrs Beany. You are really intelligent and perceptive and…
Mrs. Beany: Don't waste your time buttering me up, Johnny. I'm not raising your salary anytime soon.
- The director was always ready to butter up Angelina Jolie. He knew she was looking for her next role and he wanted her in his movie.
Give the cold shoulder:
It means they are rejecting you or ignoring you.
- After Mary divorced her rich husband all their friends gave her the cold shoulder. She was not invited to their lavish parties anymore.
- My brother told our parents I haven't been studying at all and my marks are low. I'm not happy and I've been giving him the cold shoulder. Let's see if he's got the message.


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Learn more about the Problem of Hunger in Canada
Food Banks Canada is proud of its comprehensive research into food banks and food bank use in Canada. As a charitable organization, we are fortunate to have members and donors who support our public education and research efforts. All of our reports and surveys share the goal of reducing hunger in Canada.
In Canada, hunger is largely a hidden problem. Many Canadians are simply not aware that large numbers of children, women and men in this country often go to bed hungry.
Who is Hungry in Canada?
While anyone is at risk of food insecurity at some point in their lives, certain groups are particularly vulnerable:
Working Poor:
People with jobs constitute the third largest group of food bank clients, at 11.4%. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the majority of food bank clients with jobs are employed at low wages. The loss of full-time jobs during the recent recession and the expansion of the low-wage economy has generated more working poor who are unable to meet basic needs for themselves and their families.
Children continue to be over-represented among food bank recipients in Canada. This year, 37.8% of food bank clients were under 18. Child poverty has remained at the same level for two decades, despite the fact that the federal government commited to end child poverty by the year 2000. Child poverty is directly tied to the level of household income. Among households accessing food banks, families with children make up more than 50% of recipients.
Families with children:
Over half of households who turn to a food bank for assistance are families with children. The single parent family is still one of Canada's most economically vulnerable groups. It is likely that many of the single parent households assisted by food banks (27.5% of the total), as reported in HungerCount 2010, are headed by women: according to Statistics Canada, 80% of single-parent families are headed by women.
Rural Canadians:
Despite the fact that many of Canada's rural communities are located in prime agricultural areas, hunger is a reality for tens of thousands of the nation's rural residents. About half of the food banks participating in HungerCount 2010 are located in rural communities (defined as having populations of fewer than 10,000 people).
Persons With Disabilities:
Those receiving disability income supports now make up the second largest group of food bank users, according to the 2010 HungerCount report (15%). This is an example of the broader problem of inadequate social assistance in Canada. Disability support is not enough to help clients provide for themselves. If current disability programs and rates do not improve we expect to continue to see a rise in food insecurity among this demographic, since Canada has a rapidly aging society and life expectancy is increasing.
Seniors accessing food banks across Canada is a sad reality. HungerCount 2010 reports that seniors accounted for 7.2 % of adults assisted by food banks in a typical month.
Recipients of Social Assistance:
People receiving social assistance as their primary source of income continue to make up the largest group of food bank clients. This year, 50.5% of those assisted by food bank in Canada were receiving social assistance. This suggests that social assistance rates in Canada are not sufficient to ensure food security for low-income Canadians. According to the National Council of Welfare, welfare rates across Canada continue to fall below Statistics Canada Low Income Cut-Offs.
February 16, 2011 | Categories: Learn more about the Problem of Hunger in Canada, Lessons, Social Issues: where we're needed | Tags: Canada, Food bank, Food Banks Canada, National Council of Welfare, Philanthropy, Poverty, Welfare, Working poor | Leave a comment


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Notice effective 3/24/2020
Per Governor Carney's "Stay-At-Home Orders", all public gatherings of Arden Club & Gild activities, including Scholars Gild events, are canceled through May 15th, or until the public health threat is eliminated. Check back here for periodic updates.
Please practice all good health safety practices and stay healthy!
A gild of the Arden Club, the Scholars Gild explores and discusses topics of interest to the gild members and those of the community. Each month a different topic is presented and discussed. We have covered topics ranging from issues of poverty and race to the culture of Native American tribes of the lower Delaware River valley, to the current research on how the immune system works, and much, much more.
The mission of the Scholars Gild is to provide an environment where those attending can learn about an interesting subject and participate in a free-flowing discussion on the subject. Our monthly discussions are like having a conversation with our friends and family on an interesting subject in our living room with an expert in the room.
Visit our blog on this website to see the upcoming discussion topic.
Our Discussions
The Arden Scholars Gild holds regular monthly discussions at 7:30 pm on the third Tuesday's of the month (except July and August). Our discussions are held in the lower Gild Hall. These discussions are open to all. Other programs are periodically held which are aligned with our mission. These events are held at other times and locations.
Contact Us:
Use this form to request inclusion on our email distribution list, make comments on our past programming, make suggestions for future programming, or simply any other point you would like to convey.
Our History – The "new" Arden Scholars Gild
In February, 2010, the Arden Club Board unanimously approved the creation of the new Scholars Gild. Some people don't see this as the creation of a new gild but the resurrection of an old one. According to oral history, the Club had a Scholars Gilds in the 1930's and again in the 1950s and 1960s.
As a quick summary, the Village of Arden was founded on three pillars: Arts & Crafts, planned community, and Henry George's single tax. The Georgist Gild covers the latter; the Scholars Gild will (as currently conceived) explore the ideas, concepts, and thinking on arts, crafts, and community as they impact the Ardens and our broader community today. This concept represents our starting point. We expect the gild to evolve over time.
The creation of the new Scholars Gild was easy. Some 35 members in good standing signed a petition that was presented to the Arden Club Board of Directors at their January meeting. (Only 15 signatures were required.) The petitioners confirmed their support of the gild and their willingness to sustain it. Also presented was a statement of purpose, goals and objectives, and financial responsibilities.
- Purpose: The purpose of the New Scholars Gild is to promote scholarly dialog among members of the Gild, the Arden Club and the broader community, by bringing in learned people on subjects of interest and importance to the community.
- Goals and Objectives: The New Scholars Gild will produce and promote lectures open to the general public on subjects and by lecturers selected by Gild members. These lectures will increase participants' knowledge and awareness of the selected topics and provide a basis for future dialog.
- Financial Responsibilities: The Scholars Gild accepts contributions for support of our programs. Additional funding for support of our programming will be raised by the Gild by soliciting grants and charging admission to programs.
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Due to the current Coronavirus crisis, all tour operations are suspended until further notice. We look forward to resuming tours and hosting our guests when restrictions are lifted and it is safe to do so. Please feel free to email us if you have any questions or check back for updates. Until then, all the best to you and yours…stay safe and stay healthy!
Flower City Food Tours was started to offer locals and visitors a distinctive and delicious experience to get a taste of unique neighborhoods in the Rochester area.
Pittsford Food Tours launched in late April of 2017 and continues to offer guests an opportunity to enjoy the sites and the bites along Schoen Place and Pittsford Village on the Erie Canal.
With much enthusiastic interest in tasting experiences in other areas, Park Avenue Food Tours launched in August in 2017. Although each tour (Wednesday & Sunday) is slightly different, each welcomes guests to get a true flavor of this popular and trendy neighborhood.
We invite you to Eat, Experience and Enjoy your way through some of the area's favorite places. Local tour guides look forward to sharing their knowledge and highlighting historical, architectural and cultural points of interest along the way.
Let us take you on a memorable journey one delicious bite at a time!
Cheri enjoyed her first food tour in July of 2016 in Carmel California. Wanting to share a similar experience closer to home, she could think of no better place to offer a variety of flavors than in some of the unique neighborhoods around Rochester.. Cheri enjoys good food, good wine and good friends. Special thanks to her husband, Mark, who has supported her along the way with never ending encouragement.
We look forward to taking you on our culinary journey!
As a young mom of two kids, Tammie spent many afternoons along the Erie Canal feeding the ducks and having picnics. She is excited to share this place with adventure food enthusiasts!
Rebecca is passionate about food and has worked as a personal chef, caterer, cooking school instructor and Registered Dietitian. Her passions in life are her family, travel and the outdoors.
Terri is a self-proclaimed foodie that is passionate about making tasty yet healthy food for her family. She is an active person who enjoys the outdoors, crafting and volunteering.
Hope is a Tourism and Events Management Major who is passionate about Rochester. She runs a blog called #ROCthecitywithHope to help locals become tourists. She loves exploring new places!
Miranda worked and lived in the NOTA for over a decade. She has earned a Theater Degree, became a teaching artist with Drama Kids International of Rochester and fell in love with playwriting.
Jessica was born and raised in Rochester, NY, graduating from RIT with her hospitality & tourism degree. She is excited to share her passion for local food, cocktails and craft beer!
Leslie is a born and bred Rochesterian. She always has a new recipe to cook for her family. Leslie loves to eat out to try new local restaurants and enjoys yoga, working out and walking her dog.


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Enquero, an enterprise solutions company delivering business capability as a service to the enterprise segment, will open its first Agile Delivery Center, a high performance technology center providing software products and services, in Lafayette. They will launch in August from the LITE Center.
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Friday, April 08, 2011
This Evening's Meditation
C. H. Spurgeon
BEHOLD, how independent of outward circumstances the Holy Ghost can make the Christian! What a bright light may shine within us when it is all dark without! How firm, how happy, how calm, how peaceful we may be, when the world shakes to and fro, and the pillars of the earth are removed! Even death itself, with all its terrible influences, has no power to suspend the music of a Christian's heart, but rather makes that music become more sweet, more clear, more heavenly, till the last kind act which death can do is to let the earthly strain melt into the heavenly chorus, the temporal joy into the eternal bliss! Let us have confidence, then, in the blessed Spirit's power to comfort us. Dear reader, are you looking forward to poverty? Fear not; the divine Spirit can give you, in your want, a greater plenty than the rich have in their abundance. You know not what joys may be stored up for you in the cottage around which grace will plant the roses of content. Are you conscious of a growing failure of your bodily powers? Do you expect to suffer long nights of languishing and days of pain? O be not sad! That bed may become a throne to you. You little know how every pang that shoots through your body may be a refining fire to consume your dross—a beam of glory to light up the secret parts of your soul. Are the eyes growing dim? Jesus will be your light. Do the ears fail you? Jesus' name will be your soul's best music, and His person your dear delight. Socrates used to say, "Philosophers can be happy without music;" and Christians can be happier than philosophers when all outward causes of rejoicing are withdrawn. In Thee, my God, my heart shall triumph, come what may of ills without! By thy power, O blessed Spirit, my heart shall be exceeding glad, though all things should fail me here below.
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The year has a mere three hours left in it, so it's time I did an end-of-year roundup.
I am pleased to say that I had a meeting with my consultant just before Christmas and the news from the CT scan at the beginning of December is extremely good. He and his colleagues still cannot see any recurrence of the disease, so it is very much steady as she goes now. I am 4 1/2 years into remission and all is going very well – so much so that my regular meetings with him have now been put onto a 6 monthly cycle, so I don't need to see him until 10th June, just before I go on holiday. So that's excellent news.
I have, however, had a pretty miserable Christmas holiday this year. I'd had a cough for a couple of weeks before Christmas and this turned into the flu over the Christmas period. I spent most of Christmas week in bed, which is a real pain, as it was the first time forever that the two of us had all of Christmas off. I'm afraid I wasn't very good company and it was only a visit to the doctor who gave me some antibiotics that has allowed me to turn a corner this week. So, we didn't get to go to the Lakes as planned on Christmas Day – we didn't actually do anything. What a waste.
We do have a couple of days in Scotland to look forward to this weekend, so let's hope that the weather is OK and I can get some photographs taken. Have taken only one photograph all Christmas.
Looking back over last year's post, I'm afraid that I could repeat what I said then. I am not taking photos like I used to, but look forward to new opportunities next year. San Francisco is going to be a bit of an eye-opener, I suspect, but if past experience is anything to go by, won't yield many photographs. Oh, who cares? It's being there and enjoying oneself that's important, not taking photographs of it.
Finally, as always, I need to thank everyone who continues to help and support me with their love and kindness and support throughout the year. You really do make a huge difference and of all the resolutions that I could make tonight, the one I will make is to try to never take anything or anyone for granted.
Thank you.


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