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2004 Baccalaureate Address
by James C. Kapteyn '79
Baccalaureate Address, May 23rd, 2004
When Juliet's mother asks her how she feels about marriage-this is before she has fallen in love with Romeo-she says, "It is an honor that I dream not of." I've always thought that was a remarkably clever response: what Juliet wants her mother to hear in her reply is, "Wow, getting married is such an honor I don't even dare dream of it," but what I think she really means is, "Are you kidding? I wouldn't dream of getting married." Well, until you all asked me, I would have said being your Baccalaureate Speaker was "an honor I dream not of." Interpret that as you will.
Nevertheless, here I am, and here you are, and it is, indeed, a tremendous honor to stand before you.
I not only stand before you as your Baccalaureate Speaker, though; I also stand here before you as an alumnus and a teacher. And what standing here really makes me think of is back to the days when I was a student at Deerfield. Twenty-five years to the day I was sitting where you sit. In fact, I was sitting right there in that very seat.
I have no doubt that my memories of Deerfield will sound familiar to you.
When I first arrived on campus in the fall of 1976, I knew I had stumbled into the middle of a school whose history, beauty, stature, and strength towered above me. I felt small and feeble. At the same time, though, I was exhilarated because I somehow sensed that even as I, a newbie from nowhere, was just a little atom in the mass of Deerfield, that same mass of Deerfield was becoming part of me. Though the challenges in front of me were daunting, the school infused me with its strength.
Back in those days, ten years before Deerfield's return to coeducation, just about the only time we saw girls was when they arrived by the busload for dances. I remember those dances all too well; basically I would cower against the wall in an agony of bashfulness for about three hours, until I finally got up the nerve to ask a girl to dance just as she was supposed to be getting back on the bus. My memories of my Deerfield days are all but devoid of romance.
I do remember loving the chicken cutlet sandwiches, however, and the shepherd's pie. I remember the Dining Hall's four great light fixtures that ever so slightly swayed in the cavernous air above us.
I remember Geometry class. I loved the procession of axioms and corollaries elegantly marching one after another to an impeccable proof. Given that angle ABC is bisected by line DE, prove that angle ABE is the complement of angle DBC. I could do that. I loved it. In Geometry there were no questions without answers, no loose ends, no dark mysteries. What at first might have seemed groundless and faint became absolutely rooted and fine.
I remember following our cheerleaders in songs and cheers, writing a term paper in U.S. History, playing Frisbee in front of Barton, first-waiting and second-waiting, painting banners for Choate Day, hiking to the rock, swimming in the river. I remember running the small loop. I remember memorizing Chaucer, playing backgammon and blackjack, singing and snoozing in School Meetings, directing strangers on Albany Road, meeting college reps in the Caswell.
I remember my English teachers. Mr. Durgin, who was Head of the Theatre Department, had the odd habit of somehow putting his unfiltered Camel cigarette to his lips by wrapping his arm around his head something like this. It was in this somewhat unsettling posture that he looked at me in the middle of a rehearsal for the senior play and summarily announced, "Kapteyn, you can't act, so just pretend you can."
I especially remember Mr. McGlynn, the dashing and astoundingly articulate gentleman ,whose portrait by Mr. Engelland hangs in the Faculty Lounge. I still have the essay grading rubric that he handed out to his AP English students; in it he explains the criteria he considered when grading our papers. One of the differences between an A and a B paper was, as he put it, "a certain felicity of style." I loved that. He was one of many teachers who inspired me to push myself beyond where I had ever been. Like all my English teachers, he helped me to see that the epiphanies of understanding that occasionally illuminated my study of literature were invaluable treasures.
I remember the exhilarating exhaustion I felt after double session pre-season soccer practices. I remember reading the Scroll, reading my Economics, reading Sports Illustrated. I remember the nicknames we had for each other (like Ob Job, Sapper, and Greezy) and for our teachers (like Uncle Chuck, Park Bench, and the Titanium Cranium). I remember arriving at other schools and stepping off the bus with my teammates in jacket and tie.
All these memories stir my heart as in one way or another similar memories must stir yours, and I think of them fondly. Even before I left Deerfield I knew there were things and people that I would miss dearly, and I had a vague sense that I would never be in another place quite like it. Yet I was ready to move on. Deerfield had begun to feel a bit small, and I had begun to feel a bit restless. I was eager to sail out of the safe harbor of this valley and to challenge the waters of the world beyond.
But though I left Deerfield after graduation in 1979, Deerfield certainly didn't leave me and, and though I can't say I went to bed every night humming the "Deerfield Evensong," the lessons I learned and the values I embraced in this valley in some small measure have ever since informed my decisions and shaped my longings.
Let me tell you about some of the pivotal points in my life over the past twenty-five years and then let me try to explain to you how Deerfield's influence urged me along. I share these episodes with you not because they are interesting in and of themselves, necessarily, but because I think they'll help me articulate what is truly great about what we all share and perhaps because they'll help you to understand how you might think about your future as you plunge into the world beyond these hills.
After college, I followed my friends to New York City and secured a position at a leading and enormous advertising agency. My job was to evaluate the various kinds of advertising and to help determine how and where our clients should spend their advertising budgets. I found the work fairly easy and was promoted at a satisfying rate. After a little more than two years, I had become a head of a small group working on the media plans for some big accounts, namely B. F. Goodrich and Canon Copiers. My chief responsibility was to oversee the crunching of piles of numbers to determine, plan, and justify their advertising spending. I was doing exactly the sort of work that I thought would befit an ambitious graduate of Deerfield Academy and Trinity College.
In truth, however, I began get to the office later and later and to spend more and more time not preparing the budget reports, but reading the newspaper. When my supervisor finally called me in to give me a proverbial kick in the pants, I was ready to render my resignation.
My last day of work was fittingly anticlimactic. After a farewell lunch with some of my closest colleagues, I returned to my empty apartment and sat on the couch. My roommate, who, by the way, was a Deerfield classmate and who remains my dearest friend, was still away at class at the New York University School of Law. I was wearing a hand-me-down chalk striped suit that looked pretty good from a distance, but in truth the lining was in tatters and the pockets were full of holes and the fabric was irretrievably worn.
It was a hot summer day and I was still damp with sweat from the Lexington Line subway. I sat on the couch in a swirl of hollow elation. I kicked off my highly polished tasseled loafers, took off my jacket and tossed it over a chair. I peeled off my wrinkled shirt and tie. Then, with a surge of energy, I grabbed my threadbare suit pants at the knees and literally ripped them off my body and dropped them to the floor. There I sat in my boxers and knee-high socks wondering what was next.
About a year later, I was in Australia looking for a job. I had found a room in a dirt-cheap hotel on Bondi Beach on the outskirts of Sydney. I went to a bar to inquire about work. The bartender told me I wouldn't want to work there–it was a rough place–but told me the manager would be in later that evening. I drifted to the adjoining pool room. A local and I had a bit of a run on the tables and we won three or four games in a row. When we lost, I went to the bar for a pint of beer. As I turned from the bar, I saw that two women had started to fight. I had never seen women fight before. As a gentleman with a boarding school background my instant reaction was to jump in and stop them. They kept fighting. My glass hit me in the teeth and spilled my beer. For an instant I met their glare. Their eyes were livid, their arms cocked. Someone stronger than I yanked me out of the way.
When I went to top off my pint, the bartender said, "You shouldn't have done that, mate." As I looked around at the scraggly hair, dirty fingernails, and greasy jeans, I felt that I had missed some crucial social signal, some key to the meaning of the past few moments. The fight was over. I swallowed an inch of my beer and returned to the relative calm of the pool room. Soon I was back on the table and my partner was on a roll.
While I was watching him shoot, a group of men from the bar came into the pool room. They came right to me. I leaned my pool cue on a video machine, but it fell over. I was slammed back against the machine. I thought how hard I must have been hit to slam back with such force. I was getting hit. There were four or five men taking shots at me. One had lifted me up in a bear hug while the others punched me. Though I could feel the knuckles connecting and though my face was snapping from side to side, somehow it didn't hurt.
I looked out over their heads and fists. Some of the guys I had played pool with were watching. I looked back at the men beating me. I watched as one of them stepped to the front and started kicking me. He was kicking my torso with alternate feet, first one side and then the other. I tried vaguely to deflect the blows with my hands. I looked right at the man kicking me and tried to read his motive. Someone hit me in the side of the head. The blows came less frequently.
Then I found myself outside. My heart was beating loud and fast. I could see the white line of the surf on the beach off to my left. I looked at my hands. They were unmarked; no torn skin, no swelling, no blood. Most of my shirt was gone-I hadn't heard it rip-some of it was still draped on my back. The breeze off the ocean was warm and humid, and slowed my shaking.
I hadn't gone very far when a man from the bar appeared at my side. He was scared and small with a full beard and he talked fast. "Here's your shoe, mate," he said. "Get the hell out of here. They'll kill you." Then he ran away. I held my shoe to my chest. It was still tied tightly. I didn't remember losing it, didn't remember walking through the crowded bar without a shoe. Then I felt the sand on the sidewalk. I felt the spilled soda and the sand and the fried food under my foot.
After a few more steps, I heard a scream behind me. I ducked–my hands hit the ground–and the two screaming men who had dived at my back hit the pavement in front of me. Somehow they had missed me. They rolled, elbow, shoulder, knee, elbow, and then I couldn't see them. I sprinted through back alleys, from darkness to darkness, to the rickety fire escape I had seen at the back of my hotel.
I got into my room. There was a low bed and my books on the right and a window with barbed wire on it on the left. Beside the window were a stainless steel sink and my toothbrush. I turned on the only light, a bare bulb hanging from the ceiling. I ran the water and spat in the sink, tasting the sweet tang of blood. From the inside, my face felt lumpy. Both of my eyes were throbbing. I sat down on the bed and looked at my hands. Then I took a deep breath and looked up into the mirror above the sink. My left eye was swollen, already. The white of my right eye was red. The curve of my mouth was exaggerated and bloody. My ears, both of them, were bloody. I stuck my index fingers in gingerly. There was pain there, along with crusts of blood. As I looked into the mirror, a few tears fell into my hands. And, with some surprise, I saw that I was smiling.
When I came back to the States almost a year later, I returned to Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts where I had grown up. My first two jobs were in advertising, the first working for a small marketing firm that, as it turned out, couldn't afford to keep me on the payroll, the second working as a sales manager for a resort and conference center that also fell on hard times when the owner was brought to court for embezzlement. I then turned to carpentry, a trade I had learned from several summer jobs as well as a six month stint in New Zealand. What I loved most about carpentry was framing. Framing is what you call the early stage of construction when you build the wooden skeleton of a building. It is not the slow and painstakingly detailed finish work that requires a carpenter's greatest skill, but rather the much more athletic and speedy work of banging together the timber frames of floors and walls. I loved finding the rhythm of pounding big nails into joists, and studs in rapid succession. The progress is fast and the results are obvious. At the end of a day of framing, as you drive away in a pick-up truck, you can look over your shoulder and see a chunk of the house that wasn't there when you arrived in the morning.
Eventually my carpentry skills reached a new level. I was soon charged not only with the construction of walls, but also with their layout. That is, I was made responsible for reading the blueprints to plan and measure where to build the walls. It was my job to make sure that the pieces of lumber were put together in a way that would allow the next phase of construction. I had to plot where the doors and windows and closets would be, and where the stairs would start. It was a rewarding challenge, sort of like geometry.
One afternoon, as was his custom, our boss arrived to check our progress. I was pleased to read his satisfaction as he walked around the first floor deck affirming the accuracy and quality of our work. At one point he stopped on a bare spot and looked over our work into the air. He asked to see the blueprints. After a moment of consideration, he said, "This won't do; that wall is in the wrong place. When you build the second floor, you won't be able to see through the window at the top of the stairs." I looked over his shoulder at the plans. We had built exactly as the prints dictated. What was the problem? His explanation revealed that I had made no mistake in my layout. The problem was in the plans themselves. Nonetheless, I saw my future as a builder shrink. What I realized in that moment was that my boss possessed a power of visualization that allowed him to see the building's progress in his imagination in a way that was utterly beyond me. I realized that I might never progress beyond the literal in my building skills. Sure I could bang nails, I could bang nails with the best of them, but, when it came to building houses, I simply didn't have the vision to foresee the shape of things to come.
Jump forward to 1992. I was studying the poetry of William Wordsworth at Lincoln College of Oxford University with a professor who was at the time the world's foremost authority. Mrs. Kapteyn, Ingrid, and I (Ilse had yet to be born) were living just at the edge of the center of the city. One night, in the middle of one of several all-nighters I pulled that summer, as I sat at my desk in the midst of curling paper and open books, I looked into the darkness over the stone city and listened to the thumping trains approaching Oxford station.
Somehow my explorations into Wordsworth had lifted me even higher than the top of our four-story flat to a place free from the ubiquitous whine and roar of the combustion engine, to a place where only the palpitating tremors of train couplings rooted me to earth. There I was, thrilling to the elevation of my spirit through the vigorous exercise of my intellect, connected timelessly to the thinkers that had graced that academic Mecca for centuries. I was transported above the city, in the dense dark of night, sifting over the familiar streets and hidden quads, absolutely exulting in the precious joys of scholarship.
And now jump ahead again, this time to the fall of 2000, under the canopy of golden leaves arcing over Albany Road. I was walking from west to east, from Field to the classroom, this time not with a sophomore's armload of textbooks and binders, but with a teacher's briefcase full of novels and gradebooks. And with a deliriously mirthful smile in my heart.
What brought me back? The answer lies in more than the memories I spoke of before. The answer lies in the promise of the world that I lived in, but could not fully appreciate when I sat where you sit, a place that has long been singularly invested in a tradition of teaching individuals to contribute to and to honor the whole, a place where the worst of the world has no hold and where the best is cherished.
If you're like me, I think in the years to come you will be surprised to discover where Deerfield exerted its most lasting influences.
First, nametags. Yes, nametags. When you look back to how we all begin the year with nametags at Deerfield, you'll see that they are a vital manifestation of a commitment to community. On the one hand, when you and I wear our nametags, we simply demonstrate that we want others to know our names. On the other hand, however, by partaking in the tradition of nametags, we signify our investment in a custom that proclaims that not just our, but everybody's, name is important. Thus this tradition establishes a principle tenet of the Deerfield ethos: my name is no more nor no less important than anybody else's; I am important, but so, too, is everyone else.
Another fundamental manifestation of this idea is our tradition of sit-down meals, and, believe it or not, you will recall sit-down meals in the years to come with a great fondness. Think of your best sit-down meals. What characterizes them is the sense that each of the ten people at the table contributes in significant ways to the good of the whole. The most obvious contributions, of course, are those of the first and second waiters. But the best tables are those where each member contributes. When we each play by the rules of good manners, when we pass instead of reach, when we ask instead of grab, when we wake and stretch ourselves to contribute to table conversation, then those meals are an absolute pleasure. I am certain you will remember them as such.
Think of Deerfield's dress code in this light. When we get dressed for class, when we fasten our top buttons and knot our ties, or when we button our blouses and smooth our skirts, we not only demonstrate our respect for each other, we honor the education that is at the core of the Deerfield experience. By adhering to the dress code we tell each other that we care about what we do here. The dress code, as old fashioned or, even, as pretentious as it might sometimes feel, is nonetheless an unambiguous proclamation that what we do here deserves our respect.
I have no doubt that you will also recall the beauty of the Deerfield campus in years to come. You will find few places in the world that offer so much natural beauty, but as central to your Deerfield experience as that beauty might be, it is not exactly what I'm talking about. What you'll remember is how much human effort we expend in the cultivation and maintenance of that beauty. What's more, you will come to cherish the part of the Deerfield culture that fosters our active appreciation of that beauty. When we stop to thank Denny, when we pause to compliment Denise, when we toss our litter in the garbage, or better yet, when we pick up someone else's litter, we become a participant in the beauty that distinguishes our school.
And, if you think about it, nowhere at Deerfield is our devotion to the idea that an individual's best strengthens the whole more vibrantly apparent than in our elemental role as students. For our commitment to learning, our commitment to the best education we can possibly get, is a remarkably powerful acknowledgement that we are not yet, perhaps never will be, perfect, and that we always have more to learn.
What all these fundamental traditions have in common-what nametags, sitdown meals, the dress code, and our devotion to learning all have in common-is what I consider the greatest lesson of Deerfield Academy; that the first step to strength is humility. That is what Deerfield is all about. And that is what your experience here has taught you over and over. To sit in the Caswell Library, to walk up Albany Road, to sing the Deerfield Song in School Meeting, to be immersed in the massive strength of Deerfield Academy, is to feel small just as it is to feel huge.
Finally, consider the tradition of the Seal. All of us have walked into the gym through the Trophy Room where the portrait of Tom Ashley hangs on the east wall. And all of us have conscientiously, though perhaps not consciously, avoided stepping on that big brass Deerfield Seal in the middle of the floor. Why do we go out of our way in deference to a spot in the middle of a heavily trafficked room? Because the Seal symbolizes a strength that we value, and in valuing that strength in that way, we are confirming our own contribution to the very future of that strength.
That's what "Be worthy of your heritage" means to me. The first part is imperative; we are told to be worthy. The pronoun at the end of the motto is the critical piece for me, though. We all bring our own heritages to Deerfield; we have the heritage of our family, our relatives, the heritage of our own past. But, as signified by the pronoun "your," once we get to Deerfield we gain another heritage. The motto, in asking us to live up to Deerfield's past, includes us in the ownership, even the responsibility, of that glory. It is our heritage we are to be worthy of. "Be worthy of your heritage" humbles us before the past and uplifts us for the future.
And that is why I came back. Because when I was a student here I learned that I could be worthy of something great. When I ripped my suit off in Manhattan, I knew I wanted a life I cared about. When I was bewildered and bruised in Bondi, I knew I was not beaten. When I was disillusioned and deflated on a construction site, I knew I would aspire to more. When I was exultant and elated in Oxford, I knew I had discovered what I loved. And when I was back on Albany Road with a smile in my heart, I knew I was charged with purpose and I knew I was at last worthy of the expectations that were planted in me when I sat where you sit.
That is why I came back. And that is how I would like to send you off. You have all accomplished tremendous things here. You have studied, sang, acted, and played. You have memorized, motivated, and managed. You have declaimed, you have calculated, you have conjugated. You have explored the unknown, determined what is difficult for you, and discovered strengths and talents you never knew you had.
And now, members of the mighty and memorable class of 2004, the first and only Deerfield Academy class of 2004 the world will ever know, the time has come for you to leave, to move on to the horizons that hearken beyond the cradling hills of Deerfield. But, whatever paths you take, whatever challenges you face, whatever dreams you chase, you will bring the best of Deerfield with you. And, as the best of Deerfield is the best of you, I know you will bring your best to the world. The world needs your best; the world needs your intelligence, your integrity, your generosity, your humor, and your passion.
Go forth graduates. Go forth with the faith that you can give your lives great meaning. Go forth with humility. Go forth and be strong. Go forth and be huge. Go forth and be worthy.


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I'm responsible for writing unit tests for a rails app whose behavior depends on the relationships of tens of thousands of items in a DB. I need this data in the test DB for a lot of tests. Storing this data as fixtures, keeping it in sync with the production DB, and waiting HOURS for the fixtures to load whenever the test suite is run are all untenable options.
Here is what I think I want to do:
Create a reference archive of the test DB once all the data is loaded. This will be checked into
the repo so anyone can load it (quickly and easily with a rake or capistrano task) prior to running the test suite.
Trick rails into believing the data was loaded from fixtures, so tests will behave normally.
Presumably this means overriding the standard procedure of deleting, re-inserting, and instantiating test data that happens before each test method. I believe this could probably be done with a test_helper method without having to modify ActiveRecord.
Concerns: * This seems to be in violation of the Rails philosophy of "make right things easy and the wrong things hard."
- I think this has to be a fairly common problem, but after lots of google searching, I have found no instances of someone else trying to do this sort of thing.
This makes me think there is a better way, or at least a different way that someone has already implemented.
What I am looking for: * A reality check. Is this a good way to handle this problem?
Technical guidance. I am a relative novice (read: n00b) with ruby development, so any input on things I should be aware of as I try to figure this out would be helpful...
Sample code. If someone has already solved this problem and talked about it somewhere, just point me in their direction.
Thanks, John
I was recently working on a rails-based data warehouse solution and was running some tests with rspec against test databases of ~2 million rows or so for stress/performance type tests while running the bulk of the "logical correctness" style tests off of fixtures. I disabled the destroy and recreate and load of the test data and structured my tests not to depend on very specific values in this scenario of testing. The best place for me to get 2 million rows of data that reflected production, was, well, production. So I put together a rake task to snap up the production's nightly backup and restore it into the test database prior to running those specific tests.
But even so, I also had a bit of a jerry-rigged data generator built around the faker gem to generate gobs of data that was, in my mind, a fair approximation of what I could expect in production's dataset and could thus initiate a 500k, 2 miliion, or even 15 or 25 million row database. Those took a crazy long time to load up with Ruby, so I resorted to generating SQL Insert scripts and pushing through by repetitively bulk loading the dbms' bulk loaders.
At the same time, we knew our data and model had to conform to certain rules and validations and we had fixtures that we loaded and ran tests against where the data scenario was known and the desired answer was also known. This is how we confirmed logical correctness of our models.
In other words, the right tools and data set for the specific job and set of tests and have a variety of tests to test different aspects of the system.
Your comments don't seem to fall into "amount of data" so much as "variety of inter-dependent data" so I may be commenting on the wrong question. But, having tackled such a huge volume of data, I get where you are coming from in trying to ensure data across tables and rows are what we expect it to be!
This was actually something I encountered with the large volume of data coming in, which was fed to our data warehouse from another system (thus we didn't really know what the quality of the data was going to be). For this sort of situation, I took two approaches. When the user says, "this data report is wrong because..." I would look at the specific scenario and then either, a) change the code to handle the incoming data stream with on-the-fly corrections, b) flag the record somehow as potentially wrong and provide a status page of flagged data for end user to review edit the data so that it would then process (which sometimes the user would review and say, "but this is right, we just need to handle it like so..."
One thing about related data in a database, if you know a key column should never have values unless they exist in another table/column, then set up your foreign keys and enforce the relationship rather than trying to set up validations and unit tests to test for them! (Or do all of these things...) Outright enforcement over hypothetical testing on test data is far better than hoping to be able to write every possible test case conceivable. No matter how crazy the incoming data stream was, we found that there were relatively few rules that the data had to conform to or the reports the application generated simply weren't valid. So the "logical correctness" was built to ensure our DSL / relationship rules were indeed catching invalid data situations. Often, solving for one uncovered issue brought up "what if?" and "how likely?" questions surrounding different, but similar potential data inconsistencies and we'd elect to document user stories for those scenarios and build in as well. Thus our system "grew up" very quickly and became trustworthy along with end-user understanding of their data (as well as ours!).
That's a bit of rambling on my part (sorry!), but maybe some of the ideas/perspectives shared triggers some good ideas for you to pursue.
Hi Michael, thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed response.
bq. I disabled the destroy and recreate and load of the test data and structured my tests not to depend on very specific values in this scenario of testing.
This is basically what I think I should do. I basically just want a sanity check before diving into what, for my experience level, is a pretty substantial modification of rails' behavior. It is just surprising to me that the need to do this isn't more commonly encountered, and there is no discussion I can find that talks about doing it.
Before I get to invested, though, I'll try to give a better picture of the scenario I am dealing with. Because of an NDA, I can't really talk about what is in the DB or why it all needs to be there with any specificity, but will try to explain by analogy.
Suppose I have an app that tries to smartly generate a list for grocery shopping. The db has a table for all the items sold by the grocery store. There is also a table for categories of groceries, and a join table that associates the items with the categories. Cheddar, for instance, could be joined with the categories: cheeses, dairy, items_that_require_refrigeration. We also a have table for different scenarios we might be shopping for, e.g. general_grocery, camping_trip, dinner_party, christmas_baking, etc. and items are joined with certain scenarios.
The way this might play out in our app: We select dinner_party as our scenario and indicate that we need to buy some cheese. The app provides a list of cheeses to pick from. If we add camembert, perhaps the list suggests a bottle of white wine that pairs well with the cheese, but if we add parmesan, the list gives us the option of adding spaghetti, pasta sauce, and/or all the raw ingredients to make our own pasta sauce.
Suppose the scenario is camping_trip, and we add graham crackers. Chocolate and marshmallows are added to the list automatically. However, if we add graham crackers while shopping for general_grocery, those items are not added.
Some of that behavior may sound a bit obnoxious for generating a shopping list, but remember this is an analogy, and in the real app, that sort of thing is more appropriate. The point is that the behavior of the application is heavily dependent on the grouping relationships of a large data set. So really, our tests need to verify the data relationships as much as the code. I can't really do that if I use a different data set, or restrict the data to a smaller, more manageable load.
Again, thanks for the input.
Hi, John
Sorry for the delay in replying as I don't log on here very often. What you're describing is basically facet searching. Have you looked at SOLR?
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ http://acts-as-solr.rubyforge.org/
At any rate, I am curious myself that the topic of tailoring one's test environment doesn't get much attention. Or perhaps its just that the whole testing approach utilized in Rails in general is new grounds for many developers coming into the field, so much of discussion is simply getting folks on board with the whole TDD and BDD concept altogether. Although TDD/BDD have been around for quite a while, a surprisingly small percentage of developers in general have not been exposed to either, so that's where the energy is expended.
With a system that takes hours to load, you definitely should just snapshot a database you consider "in a known state" and and roll from there as needed.
Thanks Michael, thats helpful. Someone on another forum also linked me to this utility, which looks quite promising:


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Totally Beautiful. Perfect. LOVE THEM! THANK YOU!Reviewer:Kristina Love (Dunwoody, GA, US)
I was looking for a Ganesha murti that would suit the entrance to the new studio I and my beloved have created in Kyoto From my initial inquiry to the day of delivery, the service from Lotus Sculpture was stellar. Kyle answered my questions promptly, gave me two shipping options, and shipped the sculpture out the day I confirmed the order. I received the statue in only 5 days. It was packed with care, and very easy to unpack. The packing Lotus Sculpture used was molded to the sculptures form, which I felt showed additional care and respect for the murti. Once Ganesha was unpacked and stood up, I took some time to examine the artistry of the statue. It is actually even more gorgeous than it appeared in the photo. In fact, my beloved, who is not as passionate about the murtis as I, also remarked that he was quite handsome! It is a true work of art and devotion. I am extremely content with this purchase. If you are in need of a quality murti from a reliable dealer who exhibits a love for the statues they sell, I believe your expectations will be exceeded by Lotus Sculpture. Namaste.Reviewer:Mark Shveima (Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, JP)
A great small statue at great valueReviewer:olav aarts (Amsterdam, North Holland, NL)
Dear Kyle, I have a bit of experience with Antique Asian Spiritual Art as my teacher, Rudi, was a dealer in it in NYC in the 60's and early 70's. Then in the 80's and 90's with Stuart Perrin also. I had a modest collection for a long time. After living in Shree Gurudev Rudrananda Yoga Ashram in Big Indian, NY in the early 1970's, there were many quality antique pieces there. Very fortunate to have been around this art, huge buddhas, great large Tibetian and Indian bronzes and Thankas, etc. I am very pleased and satisfied with the beautifully carved and finished 3' wood Ganesh recently purchased. The value was spectacular, and he makes a welcome addition to our meditation hall. Thank you Lotus Sculpture for making affordable quality pieces accessable to all. Warmly, Michele Galante, MDReviewer:Michele Galante, MD (Suffern, New York, US)
I am absolutely delighted with the statues I had ordered - thet are beautifully crafted! Not only were the statues beautiful, the service was excellent. My query was answered promptly and I will definitely be buying from lotus sculpture in futureReviewer:Shamala (Singapore, Singapore, SG)
- Materials: Hand Carved & Polished Indian Black Granite from Tamil Nadu, India
- Total Height Including Base: 29" inches
- Base Width & Depth: 18 x 11 inches
- Weight: 295 pounds
- Shakti has 10 arms holding a variety of weapons
- Shakti is hand carved from one piece of Indian granite
- Her skin is polished and her clothes are left rough cut, the two colors contrast nicely
- Shakti's face is sublime! Beautiful!
Shakti has ten arms which hold a variety of different weapons and a lotus flower. Shakti, as in the entire Shakti series, has a stunning face that radiates the power of her benign beauty. On the base is a Tiger, one of the many vehicles of Shakti.
About Black Granite: Indian black granite is a wonderful stone. It is capable of a variety of finishes which can give it a variety of different color possibilities. It is possible to see 4-5 different colors on a single piece depending on the degree of polish or roughness of the stone. Indian black granite is among the best granite in the world sought after by artists globally. Unlike inferior quality granite, Indian granite is extremely dense and without impurities that plague other stones. The density of granite makes a granite sculpture perfect for any garden because it can be left outside in extreme heat and extreme cold for years without care.
About Shakti
By you this world is created,
O Devi, by you it is protected
The Shakta tradition glorifies Devi, the consort of Shiva, as the World Mother who, as Shakti, is the energy giving power behind all creation. Shakti is shown in many forms. As Uma or Parvati, she is the gentle consort of Shiva. As Kamakshi or Rajarajeshwari she is the Great Mother. In the form of Durga she rides a tiger, the ego and arrogance that man must subdue. In her angry form she is Kali. In her sensual form she is Bogashakti. Bogashakti is the form that Parvati takes before going into the inner sanctum of a temple with her husband, Shiva. "Boga" meaning pleasure and "Shakti" meaning energy; this form embodies Devi's sexual energy.
The earliest term applied to the divine feminine, which still retains its popular usage, is Shakti. The word Shakti is used in a variety of ways ranging from its use as a way to illustrate the ultimate primordial creative power, to expressing the capacity or power of words to convey meaning. The word 'Shakti' is derived from the root 'shak,' meaning potency or the potential to produce, an assertion of Her inherent creative aptitude.
All interpretations of the word 'Shakti' hold common one parameter, Power. Specifically, Shakti means Power, Force and Feminine Energy. She represents the fundamental creative instinct underlying the cosmos, and is the energizing force of all divinity, of every being and every thing. Devotees believe the whole universe to be a manifestation of Shakti, who is also known by her general name Devi, from the Sanskrit root 'div' which means to shine.
Granite statues from India do not need much maintenance. The best way to maintain the statue is to simply dust the piece periodically to keep any dirt from accumulating. They can be used for both indoor and outdoor use.
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I have been terminated from my employment. What is the best way to deal with my 401(k) and profit sharing money?
"Some employers allow former employees to leave their 401(k) funds in the plan, but many prefer that you transfer them out, particularly if you have a balance of less than $5,000," said FPA member Delia Fernandez, CFP®, MBA. "Your former employer should send you instructions on your options.
"Many people choose to transfer those funds directly into a rollover Individual Retirement Account (IRA) — another type of retirement account. A direct transfer avoids taxes and possible penalties on early withdrawals. A rollover IRA often provides you with a wider range of investment options.
Many types of financial institutions have such accounts, including banks, credit unions, brokerage firms and mutual fund companies.
Typically, you open the rollover IRA account first and then provide that account information to the 401(k) and profit sharing administrators so that they can send the funds directly. Sometimes, however, they send you a check payable to that new institution or "custodian" of the rollover IRA for your benefit. If that's the case, be sure to keep track of when that check is mailed and watch for its arrival. It's critical that you deposit that check as soon as possible after it's issued into the rollover IRA account to avoid tax problems.
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Wonderful owner and delicious Grilled Chicken Breast Platter – I am writing a review about Nikko's Cafe Mexican Grill, located at 408 El Camino Real in Redwood City, California 94063, telephone number (650) 599-9383. It is a small size restaurant but the taste of the food there is delicious and listening to the many stories from the owner "Nikko" you just have a wonderful time. I would walk into the restaurant and in a moment's notice, a nice and sweet bald and old gentleman would say "hello my friend, how are you, would you like to try our specials today," with a bright smile, you just cannot say no. I ordered the Grilled Chicken Breast Platter, which was topped with a tomato and pepper jack cheese, it also came with beans, rice, some fried vegetables, and fresh made flour tortillas. The taste of the chicken was good and juicy but the fried onions and vegetables made the meal stand out. Something different from other Mexican restaurants in the Bay Area is that mostly everyone uses refried pinto beans. Not at Nikko's, they use real black beans and delicious rice. I then had the opportunity to chat with the owner "Nikko" and he would tell me that he
came into the United States in 1948 as a "Bracero" working on our fields to pick cotton and vegetables and that in those days the wage they received was 48 cents a day can you believe that. I just about cried when he was telling me his story but he made it clear, he has no regrets and loves the U.S. because his entire family is here from Mexico. In conclusion, I
would like to give Mr. Nikko a wonderful review with five stars because the food and the service were wonderful and just to see his wonderful smile as he thanked every customer individually for choosing his restaurant. If ever you are in Redwood City, give Nikko's Cafe Mexican Grill a try you never know what can happen.
Best Mexican Food – Serves healthy Mexican Food. All food is fresh and made daily. Owners are great people and friendly.
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Another season comes to an end with yet another great Super Bowl to top it all off, Brees was on fire, and Manning, while a great quarterback, started off strong, but looked like he ran out of magic in the end, but even the great ones fall sometimes. With this win, the Saints have proven to everyone just how good they really are, and as for the Colts, they will have yet another opportunity to be on top next year, they just have to look at what they did wrong, and fix those leaks in their armour and try again.
As for the Saints, they are the Aints no more, as they have proven to everyone that they are indeed a force to be reckoned with, so enjoy this win, to the team and to the fans, you deserved it.


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One of the things a yoga practice can teach is how to transform to remain in balance with all that is changing around you. The Telluride Yoga Festival itself has done the same. We now hold all our events in downtown Telluride and our headquarters is smack in the middle of downtown at the base of the gondola in Camel's Garden. Our venues are intimate, enhancing the experience of our attendees and presenters.
It is due to the support of the town and returning attendees that the festival has remained a success. As the film and music festivals, we strive to be a world class premier event in Telluride. Internationally renowned master teachers come to teach. We'll be at the elementary school, Element 52, Telluride Yoga Center, and the library.
We have some returning teachers and some new ones – a wonderful and diverse lineup of teachers. Another of the fabulous opportunities the TYF offers is the Community Classes. We will have at least seven free classes offered throughout the weekend. We also have a great deal for locals which we will reveal closer to the festival. There are classes offered for all levels of practice and plenty for those who have never practiced. There is also a volunteer program which is a wonderful way to be a part of the festival.
Yoga is for everyone and it is joining of mind, body, spirit. Physical practice with your body, asana and bhakti (devotion) chanting, and pranayama (breathing), yoga nidra and ayurveda are all offered. If your back ever hurts or you ever feel anxious – yoga is for you. Being human is the only prerequisite. Sometimes I hear people saying how intimidated they are and I just want them to know how much is offered and that you do not have to be a gymnast or enlightened to greatly benefit and enjoy some of the yoga practices – especially in the hands of these gifted teachers.
As a yoga teacher, I am especially grateful to TYF for making it possible to enhance my education in my hometown. All my students benefit from this. Many of our Telluride teachers attend the festival!
Our vendors marketplace is open all weekend at the base of the gondola. We'll share the space with the Farmers market that Friday. We're thrilled to be sharing our weekend with the Ride festival and feel that our attendees will benefit from the fabulous music offerings as well.
Please see our website: www.tellurideyogafestival.com
I am happy to provide contact info for any of the instructors as well.
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It's perhaps not so surprising that a Bank of America customer discovered recurring payments on his credit card bill for a service he swears he never signed up for. This kind of thing happens a lot.
What is surprising is that BofA told the customer to pound sand when he requested proof that he authorized the bank by phone to enroll him in its Credit Protection Plus program, which came with a $212.50 monthly charge.
BofA's stance: Trust us, we're right. We have nothing to prove.
This didn't sit well with Craig Chatfelter, 60, of Lake Hughes after he realized he'd paid more than $4,000 in Credit Protection Plus charges over 19 months — and, yes, he blames himself in part for not having kept closer tabs on his card statements.
"When you phone Bank of America, they say they record all calls," he told me. "OK, so play me the tape. Show me the proof that I really signed up for this.
"I'd never sign up for anything like this," Chatfelter insisted. "Never in a million years. I'm self-employed. I don't sign up for anything that comes with extra fees."
Betty Riess, a BofA spokeswoman, acknowledged that "this is not the type of experience we want customers to have."
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Chatfelter, who works as a real estate appraiser, remembers being pitched by the bank for Credit Protection Plus, which can cancel up to 18 monthly credit card payments if you lose your job or are hospitalized.
"They had contacted me because there was an unauthorized payment on my account," he said. "They had me change my card number, which I did."
During the same call, a BofA service rep asked if Chatfelter wanted to sign up for credit protection. He said he declined the offer.
Months passed. It wasn't until last March that Chatfelter noticed the $212.50 charge on his bill. He accepts that he should have spotted it sooner, but said that, like many people, he seldom looked closely at his statement.
Whatever the case, once Chatfelter realized that he'd paid $4,037.50 for the unwanted service, he contacted the bank and canceled his membership in the program. Then he asked for a refund.
A service rep promptly offered to give back six months' worth of payments, or $1,275, which the bank did. The remainder would depend on the outcome of an investigation by the bank.
In April, Chatfelter was informed that "the records maintained by Bank of America indicate that you enrolled for this protection during a customer service call on Sept. 3, 2010."
The bank's records also indicated that Chatfelter was mailed a "welcome package" spelling out the details of the plan.
He wasn't impressed. Chatfelter contacted the bank again to reiterate that he'd never agreed to enroll in the program and that he didn't recall any "welcome package." He once again asked for all his money to be refunded.
In June, BofA sent a letter stating that its records indicated that Chatfelter enrolled in the credit-protection program on Sept. 6, 2010 — three days later than the bank stated in its prior correspondence.
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At 54, he responded to many requests and founded a sort of monastery of scattered cells. Again like Francis, he had great fear of "stately buildings and well-laden tables."
At 60, he hoped to be a martyr in the renewed Roman persecution of 311, fearlessly exposing himself to danger while giving moral and material support to those in prison. At 88, he was fighting the Arian heresy, that massive trauma from which it took the Church centuries to recover. "The mule kicking over the altar" denied the divinity of Christ.
Anthony is associated in art with a T-shaped cross, a pig and a book. The pig and the cross are symbols of his valiant warfare with the devil—the cross his constant means of power over evil spirits, the pig a symbol of the devil himself. The book recalls his preference for "the book of nature" over the printed word. Anthony died in solitude at 105.
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Even the great Emperor Constantine wrote to him, asking for his prayers. Anthony told his friends, "Don't be surprised that the emperor writes to me—he's just another man, as I am. But be astounded that God should have written to us, and that he has spoken to us by his Son."
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Beyonce Knowles pulled the biggest crowd of the weekend at T In The Park 2011 tonight (Saturday), unleashing a volley of her
biggest hits in diva style.
Cheeky Hackney rapper Professor Green proved the perfect hangover cure for a struggling crowd on the final day at T.
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo amazed a soaked Scottish crowd by jumping off the Main Stage and singing hits like 'Say It Ain't
So' and 'Hash Pipe' from within the arena.
Arena filling English urban star Tinie Tempah battled miserable conditions and a muddier sound to prevail at T In The Park.
Jarvis Cocker sent the T In The Park crowd into uproarious applause this evening by wiping his arse with the last ever edition
of the News Of The World.
As 85,000 fans watched Foo Fighters, Calvin Harris, Deadmua5, mud wrestled or slept a 'little known' band called Eels played
to a crowd a campsite busker might expect.
The Foo Fighters solidified their standing as the greatest rock band on the planet at T In The Park with a set that reached
even more explosive heights than the fireworks that closed the festival.
Dance superstars Pendulum set the benchmark for Swedish House Mafia and Deadmau5 with a rampant Radio 1 / NME Stage headline
set at T.
Opening with 'Fairwell to the Fairground', White Lies seem a passing attraction to the sparse but waiting T crowd.
Alex Turner and Co took to the stage for their Friday headline slot with the now familiar 'Library Pictures', belting through
their first three tracks - including 'Brianstorm' - with an ease that they have become accustomed to.
2ManyDJs played to a King Tuts tent that was ready to burst as more than ten thousand fans crammed in to bounce and rave until
they dropped.
New X-Factor queen Tulisa and N-Duz band mates Dappy and Fazer brought the sex and glamour to T In The Park 2011.
T In The Park 2011 festival-goers are being warned about ecstasy that is reportedly six times the strength of normal pills.
Fans barged past helpless security guards and 'Tent Full' signs to witness the farewell party hosted by The Streets in a rammed
Slam Tent.
Manic Street Preachers brought the musical sunshine to the cloudy T In The Park 2011 arena this afternoon (Saturday).
Rock hero Slash packed his early evening T In The Park 2011 set with Guns N Roses favourites as the skies opened for the weekend's
first real rain.
OFWGKTA blast their way into their T In The Park 2011 set with a steely determination that grabs the few hundred that bothered
to turn up to watch them by the - as they say - "short and curlies".
The Strokes took their latest bow at T In The Park like they've never been away.
Crammed and bursting before a baseline had been struck Chase & Status owned the King Tut's Tent at T In The Park 2011.
Wales' Sir Tom Jones won round an early evening crowd as the sun defied the weather forecast.
A suited and booted Plan B showed Tom Jones and new age suave as he effortlessly glided through his set on T's premier stage.
Weather forecasts for T In The Park 2011, Sonisphere 2011, NASS 2011, Wakestock 2011, T4 On The Beach 2011 and Lounge On The
Farm 2011.
We've teamed up with our good mates at Tennent's to give you a first look at the all-new 'Tennent's Presents' behind the scenes
action from T in the Park.
It's set to be a rainy weekend in Kinross, where Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay and Beyonce are set to perform at T in the Park.
T In The Park 2011 will host a "people's premiere" of 'You Instead' on the festival's Thursday night (7 July).
Reports suggest Noel Gallagher will be added to the T In The Park 2011 line up tomorrow (Wednesday).
Jessie J has cancelled a number of festival shows including T In The Park 2011, Oxegen 2011, T4 On The Beach 2011 and Lovebox
British Sea Power and Parade are among the latest names for T In The Park 2011, which returns to Balado from 8-10 July.
Patrick Wolf, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, Rival Sons, Alice Gold, Thrum, Romance and Molotov Jukebox are to join those already billed
at T In The Park 2011 which returns from 8-10 July.
London hip-hop trip N-Dubz have been confirmed to appear at T in the Park festival which takes place from 8-10 July at Balado
Airfield in Scotland.
Five new acts have been added to T in the Park 2011 line-up.
Pete Doherty should be released from prison in time to play the Reading And Leeds Festivals, it's emerged today.
British electronica legends, Leftfield, techno veteran Dave Clarke and The Streets have been added to the Slam Tent line-up
at T in the Park 2011 which takes place from 8-10 July at Balado Airfield, Scotland.
Metronomy and Clare Maguire are among the latest acts for T In The Park 2011, which takes place from 8-10 July at Balado Airfield,
T in the Park judges have picked 16 unsigned acts from Scotland to appear on the T Break Stage at this year's festival which
takes place from 8-10 July at Balado Airfield, Scotland.
Reading and Leeds 2011 tickets are currently going for well under face value on secondary ticketing sites like viagogo.
Professor Green are among the latest acts confirmed for the T In The Park 2011 line up, with the event to return to Balado,
Kinross-shire from 8-10 July.
Liam Gallagher has vowed to "never" go to Glastonbury again.
Tennent's Lager will again run its popular on-site 'Be Chilled' service, offering fans the chance to order drinks online to
be collected at the festival.
Beyonce will ramp up her UK festival appearances to three this year adding T In The Park 2011 and Oxegen 2011 to her schedule.
T in the Park 2011, Scotland's biggest music festival, is set to welcome an array of local talent when it returns to Balado
Airfield in Kinross from 8-10 July.
The Airborne Toxic Event and Big Country have been added to T In The Park 2011, which will run from 8-10 July, when it returns
to Balado, Kinross in Scotland.
A new "pop-up hotel room" company for this year's festivals could represent the last chance for festival-goers to get a ticket
for Glastonbury Festival 2011.
Blink 182 have cancelled their performances at T In The Park 2011 and Oxegen 2011 because they haven't finished their new
The Strokes and Slash top the latest additions for the T In The Park 2011 line-up.
Less than a week remains for musicians to send their demos and win a slot at T In The Park Festival.
American pop sensation Ke$ha is to tour the UK this summer and has self-confirmed for appearances at both Glastonbury 2011
and T In The Park 2011.
Bruno Mars, the American pop singer who has recently exploded onto the UK scene, will play T In The Park 2011.
More dance acts announced for Scottish festival from 8-10 July.
Organisers of Oxegen Festival 2011, held at Punchestown Racecourse in Ireland from 8-10 July, have released the first wave
of acts to play at the festival.
Tennents and T In The Park are giving 16 acts the chance to play in front of Scotland's largest festival audience at this
July's T In The Park.
Sheffield's likely lads, the Arctic Monkeys, have topped our weekly poll to find out which T In The Park 2011 act you're most
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We asked last week which act, out of our five 'ones to watch' tips, did you think would be the biggest new band of 2011.
Scotland's largest festival has announced a string of new acts including Pulp and Beady Eye.
Double Brit-winning rapper Tinie Tempah has revealed he'll be making his T In The Park debut this summer, or should it be
"pee in the park"?
Irish pop-rock outfit The Script have turned on their fellow T in the Park colleagues, Pulp, in a recent interview.
The movie, 'You Instead', which was shot at last year's T In The Park, is set to be premiered at Glasgow Film Festival on
Friday 25 February.
Red Bull Bedroom Jam, the weekly live music webcast, is back for a fifth year and looking for aspiring musicians to launch
in to the spotlight.
Virtual Festivals would like to wish all of our users a very Merry Christmas and an ecstatically happy New Year.
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As predicted, Blink 182 will headline T In The Park 2011, when the music festival returns to Balado, Kinross-shire in Scotland
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US rockers Blink 182 have been confirmed as the final headliners for Oxegen 2011.
Early Bird tickets for T In The Park 2011 have sold out, organisers have announced.
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Spring is here and the flowers are blooming. It's time to get out there.
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Eureka Springs, Arkansas, is rich in colorful history. From time to time, we will devote a blog to some of the more interesting aspects, a lot of which you can learn about first hand on a visit to Eureka. As you walk this beautiful town, you will come across historical plaques and photo placards that allow you to look at a site in person, to see how it has changed. Here is a photo of Mud St. (now known as Main St.), which is quite different from what you see today:
Verbiage that explains this photo: "Mud Street" is shown taking a rather deep grade downward. The building at right just past the City Drug Store shows its "pilings" that hold it in place. All the buildings on the right side are suspended across the Leatherwood (Creek) Branch which "Mud Street" runs parallel to. The buildings at left butt up to limestone walls that holds up Spring Street fronting the Basin Spring.
More than a dozen laborers and onlookers are in this Main Street scene." This photo was reportedly taken between 1882 and 1884.
Today, folks find it hard to believe that there is a creek that runs the length of Main Street, under all those buildings (on the right), including the Courthouse and the Auditorium. You can go into the basement of the Auditorium and open trap doors that look down into the creek. "Mud St." was built up a level in the late 1800′s, due to the flooding of that creek, which caused that street to be very, well… muddy! So there is a whole level of buildings down below street level, most of which are closed off to the public today (but we hope will be opened up in the future, as part of the Underground Tour). For a nice view of one of these buildings underground (and a fabulous lunch!), go eat at the Mud St. Cafe.
Remember, it's a lovely walk from Bridgeford House Bed and Breakfast to the historical downtown, with many sights to see along the way, so come join us soon!
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programs and campaigns strategy in 2007
Climate and Energy; building a movement for climate justice and developing alternatives to achieve energy sovereignty.
Forests and Biodiversity; linking community-based initiatives to protect and manage forest and biodiversity resources with international campaigns to stop destructive logging and monoculture plantations.
Food, Agriculture, GMOs; building on our effective and inspiring work to stop the spread of genetically modified organisms to campaign broadly for food sovereignty.
Economic Justice – Resisting Neoliberalism; bringing together our campaigning on trade, international financial institutions, and multinational corporations to resist the drivers of neoliberal globalization and win economic justice.
Gender; bringing a gender perspective to all FoEI campaign and network activities and highlighting the contributions of women at all levels of the environment and social justice movement.
Water; defending water territories and upholding the right to water as a human right. [note: while FoEI works on water issues at national, regional, and international levels, the international program has not convened yet.]
Extractive Industries; bringing together community-based struggles and international campaigning on oil, gas, and mining. [note: while FoEI works on extractives issues at national, regional, and international levels, the international program has not convened yet.
In order to implement the new program structure, international campaigns and regions took responsibility for mapping strategies and activities to establish frameworks for each program that would establish international campaigns and activities that were responsive to grassroots and national priorities. We convened strategy meetings for the Economic Justice – Resisting Neoliberalism program (Uruguay, March 2007), the Forests and Biodiversity program (Cameroon, September 2007), and the Gender program (The Netherlands, September 2007). FoEI was also able to support and strengthen Southern member groups' capacity in taking on international program coordination for Forests and Biodiversity (Costa Rica and Cameroon), Climate and Energy (Colombia), and Gender (Uruguay and the Philippines).
In 2007, we also convened a Program Integration Team (PIT) to facilitate communication and strategies across programs and to coordinate cross-program campaigns, such as the new agrofuels campaign, which involves several programs. The PIT will also coordinate alliance-building for the federation.
Connected to the strategic planning sessions in Swaziland, FoEI held a strategy meeting on agrofuels. Throughout the year, there was also a Food, Agriculture and GMOs program strategy meeting in Mali; an Economic Justice – Resisting Neoliberalism program strategy meeting in Uruguay; a Forest and Biodiversity program strategy meeting in Cameroon; and a Gender meeting in Amsterdam.
Building the new program structure did not stop us from day-to-day campaigning on today's most urgent environmental and social issues. FoEI campaigns won many inspiring victories at the national and international level, standing up to corporate giants and raising the voice of communities affected by environmental and social injustices. Read about some of these international and national successes here.
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On Wednesday, Dolly Parton announced to the world plans that have her theme park, Dollywood, would be receiving $300 million dollars in upgrades and expansions in the next 10 years. Included in these plans are two new additions to the park which are the family friendly rollercoaster, Firechaser Express and a 100 acre themed resort in 2015 called the DreamMore Resort. More details can be found in their press release which can be found below.
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