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An Indian trek from Bharmour to Manimahesh is a unique trek which reveals a combination of adventure & religion.
Our trek starts from Bharmour to Manimahesh which is a Holy lake at 4115 m, the beautiful Manimahesh Lake, located at the base of Mount Kailash or Chamba Kailash (5775 m).
It is known as Abode of Lord Shiva. In Bharmour, visit the village of Chatrari, which has 2 temples dedicated to Shakti Devi and Lakhna Devi.
The sculpture of the idols is of ancient vintage and superb quality. This place is also famous for its Gaddi clan and temples which are more than 1000 years old.
Bharmour has been the capital of the region for more than 400 years. Before touching Manimahesh, you will cross Gauri Kund "the lake of Goddess Parvati". It is a lake where females can dip in Ice cold water.
Manimahesh is 34-km away from Bharmaur, at a height of 4,170m. The view of the mountain top of the Manimahesh Kailash and its reflection in still waters of the lake are enthralling.
Trail down carefully; this will bring you to Dhancho.
Trek Grade: Easy
Chaurasia: Chaurasia temples have 84 shrines, it is believed that 84 Siddhas had passed through the area to Manimahesh to settle down and meditate.
There is a shrine devoted to Lord Shiva, in Manimahesh. It is a brass sculpture of Nandi, the holy bull.
Kugti: The famous Kugti Pass sets at an altitude of 5040 meters. It is a difficult trail from Bharmaur to Keylong.
Kugti has rest house which offers an impressive panorama of the coniferous forests. Visit the famous temple of Keylong Wazir, 2 kilometers away from here.
Please note: Major attractions also include the wooden architecture and the metallic idols of Bharmour.
By Air: There are airports in Gaggal, Pathankot, Chandigarh. All these places are close to Chamba.
By Train: Closest railway station is Pathankot, well connected to main cities in India.
By Bus: Chamba has the bus station which is around 3 km away from the heart of the city. Chamba is well linked by public channel system to all nearby cities.
Best time to visit: June to October
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Welcome to my practice
I like to think of my practice as a warm and welcoming shelter from the cold, where those parts of ourselves that feel so unlovable and not good enough out there in the world can feel welcome and respected, seen and heard.
My hope is that I might offer you a little respite from the world: a sensitive, gentle, non-judgemental companionship. Somewhere you can feel at ease to explore any matter that's troubling you.
In the safe space of my counselling room you can be confident in the knowledge that whatever you share is treated confidentially and held with the utmost respect.
My way of working is particularly suited to you if you're experiencing any kind of anxiety - including social anxiety, panic, depression or relationship issues.
I am a qualified Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapist with a Masters degree in Person-Centred Counselling. I am a registered member of BACP.
I offer a free 30 minute no-obligation initial consultation to all prospective clients. I do this from an ethical commitment to enable you to explore and find the right therapist for you without it being a costly process.
It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.
We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.
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What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.
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Be assured that no issue is too small or insignificant to bring to a counselling or psychotherapy session. If something is troubling you then therapy sessions are appropriate and can be of help.
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Counselling or Psychotherapy?
Person-Centred Counselling is the foundation stone of my counselling practice. It can be offered singularly in it's pure form or it can be combined with other therapeutic interventions depending on the client's preference.
Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy is intrinsically compatible with and informed by Person-Centred Counselling. Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy grew out of extensive research in Person-Centred Counselling in the 1950s and 60s. It is common to combine these therapies.
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Everybody is unique and each client comes with a different issue/s to be addressed. For this reason it is not possible to say how many sessions you will need.
Some clients find 6 sessions to be adequate; other clients continue to have therapy for several years.
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Having never had any counselling before, I was really nervous about starting. But I can honestly say, from the first moment I met Sara, she made me feel at ease with her gentle voice and calm, accepting manner. The work that we did together was so helpful and enabled me to make changes in my life which I didn't even realise were an option!
Sara's a fantastic therapist, she introduced me to focusing which was new to me. I really enjoyed the sessions and felt much stronger about managing the things in my life that were so difficult at that time.
Thank you Sara, you have helped me to overcome so much and start believing in myself!

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Pastor Buzzkill
Pastors are always more than a little apprehensive during weddings. Why? Because even though the couple you just married are thrilled that after months of preparation they have finally been pronounced man and wife, that moment is immortalized on film.
There in the background, behind the obvious joy of the moment, is pastor buzzkill-caught with a disapproving scowl on my face even as the newlyweds express their heart-felt joy.
I'm glad this charming couple has found humor in this photo--they teased me with it--and I'm sure they know there was nothing about that day of which even remotely I disapprove.
Here is yet another reminder that the camera catches all, including my lunch backing up, or that moment when I started to relax, or even when my thoughts began to turn to what it is that I was to do next in the ceremony.
Whatever I was thinking or digesting, here I am, pastor buzzkill in all my glory! The moral to the story, "smile!" Even when it hurts to smile!
And don't eat fast food in a rush before conducting a wedding . . .


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A blog about the ins and outs of living in a foreign country with a husband and two kids.
Saturday, December 27, 2008
The Agrodome, Rotorua
Gemma and Angus jumped on the sheep dog as soon as we arrived.
And then on the Kiwi!!
Angus was waiting patiently for the farm tour to begin.
Our first stop was to feed the ostriches and emus. I have to say interacting with the animals is always a highlight of any trip for me.
They also have an organic farm in the Agrodome where they grow kiwis, olives, and feijoa. This picture is of the kiwi vines. It is summer here, so you can see the small fruits on the vines which will be ready for picking in a couple months.
We also got to see this deer which has over bred itself in New Zealand. They now raise them for the velvet from their antlers to make medicine and for their meat. Here are a few of the deer resting in the pasture.
On a side note it has been wonderful to see all of the sheep and cows in the pastures grazing across the country. I rarely see that even in my home state of Nebraska.
Angus and Lily checking out the sheep and alpacas.
They also had alpacas which I absolutely adore! Their coats are so soft and it makes the most divine wool for knitting. There was on alpaca that was quite friend and I was able to run my fingers through its wool a few times.
Three very sweet alpacas.
We also saw several varieties of cows. The black one is none other than the Black Angus!
Here is a gorgeous Highland Cow that came to New Zealand from Scotland.
The sheep sheering show was extremely entertaining and also a tongue twister (you don't even want to know what Jonny kept calling it!). The sheep shearer brought out 20 different varieties of sheep to the stage. I didn't even know there were that many and that probably would explain why I thought all the sheep in Ireland looked so different from our American sheep! The sheep that was in the top row center was a Merino sheep, which has almost as divine of wool as an alpaca.
The Sheep Shearer and his victim. They put them on their back to shear so they cannot get away.
It took him about 2 minutes to shear one sheep and he will receive US$1.75 for the wool off 1 sheep.
Jonny and a Drysdale.
I was extremely impressed with the Agrodome and would highly recommend it to anyone who was visiting Rotorua. I think as a knitter you really can appreciate a place like this, but it is also great for city kids to see how things are done on the farm.
Te Puia, Rotorua
We went to Te Puia to see what they had to offer in regards to Maori culture and decided to come back in the morning for one of their tours and Maori Cultural shows. We also went to a Polynesian Spa, where there was a family area.
The next day we were up early and headed to Te Puia. We began our day with a tour of the grounds which sit in a geo-thermal valley.
The geyser was beautiful. Each color on the rocks represented oxidation of different chemicals.
Gemma really thought this was really stinky!!!
Gemma and Lily trying to escape the smell.
Gemma and Angus with the geyser.
We also went to this mud pool which was boiling hot.
Te Puia also had a Maori carving and weaving school located on site. Here is one of the carvers hard a work. Even though he was carving with an axe he was amazingly accurate.
This woman was an incredible speaker taught us about Maori weaving in a very short amount of time. They use flax to weave with and the finished product was once compared to Irish Linen.
The Cultural Show is about to begin. We are going to be invited into their community house.
I didn't find the invitation very inviting and Angus was definitely a bit freaked out, but we went with it anyway.
Lily was one of the first volunteers for the first dance they performed.
Jonny also volunteered to learn how to do the Haka.
Some of the performers in the Cultural Show.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Christmas Day at Waihi Beach
We had an incredible greeting when we arrived with lots of hugs and kisses when we arrived. It was such a warm greeting and it helped us feel right at home. Mark's parents rented a beach house to get the entire family together for Christmas. Mark is the youngest of 5 and we had the pleasure of spending the holidays with his parents, 3 brothers, 1 sister, their partners, 1 cousin and 14 nieces and nephews. Needless to say Gemma and Angus were so happy to have such a large group of kids to spend Christmas with.
A view of Waihi beach from the house where we spent Christmas.
The New Zealand Christmas tree, the Pohutukawa tree. These trees live along the coastline and they have gorgeous red flowers.
Yeah!!! Lily and Mark!
On Christmas Day morning I did my best to help Mark's family prepare the Christmas feast. When I was trying to come up with things to add to their Christmas menu it was a bit difficult since I was so used to making Christmas dinner in a cold climate I was trying to think of things that were a bit more beachy and bbqy. I helped out with a few of my recipes which included my bruchetta, guacamole, and potato salad which I think by the warm reception turned out well. Dinner was absolutely amazing! We had cold leg of lamb that was raised by the MacDonald family, the best smoked ham I have ever tasted, white bait fritters, chicken mignon, boiled potatoes, green bean salad, and glazed carrots.
Our New Zealand Christmas Buffet!
Santa Lily
After I ate more than my fair share of food I took Angus for a little nap because he was over tired from playing so hard and not in the best of moods. I fell asleep with him for 2 hours and it was the best little post Christmas dinner nap I have ever had! We were happy to see dessert was on the table and that we didn't miss out on our Christmas sweets.
The MacDonald clan having drinks on the deck! That is my kind of Christmas!
Lily and me enjoying the beach.
The great thing about NZ in the summer is that it stays dark really late. The kids went to the beach in the early evening to do some boogie boarding and Gemma really loved it! She really took to the sea water last Christmas and she keeps getting more and more daring. Here are a few shots of her with the board.
Gemma catching some waves!
Gemma made a ton of friends on our two days at the beach. Here are her with her new friends Paige, Skye and Brie.
Us with the MacDonalds! We are looking forward to hosting them all in Chengdu in the very near future!!!
The entire Christmas Clan. What a fabulous Christmas we had and what welcoming hosts!!!
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Waitomo Caves
The family inside Ruakuri Cave.
Today we went to Waitomo Caves to see the glow worms, stalactites and stalagmites. I do have to mention that on our way to the Caves we stopped in a small little village on the way to have an Original Kiwi Pie. Now I have had meat pies in my life, but I had the best chicken pie I have ever had! The crust was flaky and light and the chicken filling was extremely tasty.
We had a nice day at Waitomo Caves. We opted for the two cave package of the Glowworm Cave and Raukuri Cave. There are so many things that you can actually do at Waitomo Caves, but it is definitely for people who are more adveturous (than me anyway) and someone with adveturous older kids (10 & up). You can do everything including caving, black water rafting, abseiling, and much more. The Glow Worm Cave was a 45 minute tour with a 10 minute boat ride out of the cave. We were able to see thousands of glow worms. It was a cool thing to do around Christmas because it looks like the cave is lit up with thousands of Christmas lights.
The second cave was a longer tour of Raukuri Cave which included a close up look at the Glow Worms along with amazing stalagtite and stalagmite formations. Here are a few pictures of our day.
A column, when a stalagtite and stalagmite join together.
One interesting fact was that it takes 300 years for a stalagtite to grow one cubic inch!
This is how they grow. There are minerals in the water which cling to the existing formation.
I thought these stalagtites were the most beautiful. They reminded me of icicles and what a better place to see icicles than at Christmas in a country where it is summer!
Here are the fishing lines (as our guide called them) of the Glow Worm Larvae. This how they catch their food.
Glow Worm hanging from the rock formation.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Our First Day in New Zealand
On our way back to Hamilton we stopped at Bridal Veil's Fall which was also a nice little walk and gorgeous scenery.
I have already charged my batteries and put in the memory card into my camera, so I hope to have pictures to post of our adventure tomorrow. We are heading down to Waitomo Caves to check out the glow worms.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Christmas Trip to New Zealand
We left on Saturday afternoon for Hong Kong and wait for our flight to Auckland. After a 10 hour flight and a little over hours drive to Hamilton we arrived at our hotel and quickly called our friends Mark and Lily, who we had come to visit.
They came over to our hotel where we had a few drinks and caught up with the latest news from Chengdu. We then went out to get a few groceries and back to the hotel for some take away Indian food. It was a great way to start our Christmas Holidays!
Here are a few pictures of Mark and Lily:
Tomorrow we are heading to Raglan beach to watch the surfers and play on the beach. I hope to get some great photos tomorrow!


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In Georgia, Russia appears to break pledge to pull back
POTI, Georgia — Digging into Georgian territory despite promises to withdraw, Russian forces plowed ground Wednesday for what residents feared were two new checkpoints near this strategic Black Sea port.
Tractors turned over fresh earth along a riverbank outside Poti, while Western news reporters said Russian soldiers in central Georgia appeared to be building a sentry post 30 miles from the Georgian capital, Tbilisi.
Russian military officials in Moscow said they planned to construct a "security zone" along the border of South Ossetia, the pro-Russian breakaway province where fighting began on Aug. 7, that will include 18 checkpoints manned by hundreds of soldiers.
A cease-fire agreement between Russia and Georgia allows Russia to maintain troops along the South Ossetian border. But the activity outside Poti, 170 miles west of Tbilisi, was well outside that zone and appeared to be in defiance of the agreement, which calls for Russia to withdraw its forces to pre-Aug. 7 positions.
In a clearing just outside Poti, where two Russian tanks sat alongside mounds of freshly dug soil, a Russian officer refused to say what his troops were building there. He shooed away a handful of Western reporters by saying he wasn't authorized to answer questions.
Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, the deputy head of the Russian military's general staff, told reporters in Moscow that Russian actions were part of a peacekeeping mission to monitor South Ossetia and another pro-Russian separatist region, Abkhazia, 20 miles north of Poti, where there's been limited fighting.
"Russian peacekeepers are fulfilling their functions and we are also preparing to set up additional checkpoints," Nogovitsyn said, according to a transcript.
Under the terms of last week's cease-fire agreement between Georgia and Russia, however, Russia has been able to define who its peacekeepers will be and what "security measures" they may take. In addition, the accord, brokered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, doesn't refer to preserving the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Georgia.
The conflict, which began when Georgia mounted an offensive in South Ossetia and Russia responded by sending troops into Georgia, has set off a diplomatic confrontation between Russia and Western nations reminiscent of the Cold War.
President Bush continued to back ally Georgia, saying in a speech in Orlando, Fla., that South Ossetia and Abkhazia were part of Georgia and that the U.S. would work to ensure the country's territorial integrity. Bush administration officials have said that the Russian withdrawal needs to proceed faster.
Russia continues to have its way on the ground, however. While Nogovitsyn said that troops were pulling back from South Ossetia and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said that all his forces would be withdrawn by Friday, little of that was apparent to Westerners in Georgia.
Georgian soldiers who were captured in a raid on Poti's seaport Tuesday remained in Russian custody in the western town of Senaki, officials in Poti said. The port's director of operations, Vladimir Khokhbaia, who visited the prisoners late Tuesday, said that 22 Georgian soldiers had been captured, two more than was originally reported.
The men — many of whom were bound and blindfolded as they were carted away aboard Russian armored personnel carriers and four U.S.-made Humvees taken from an adjacent coast guard pier — were being held at a Georgian military base that's been taken over by Russian soldiers.
Russian commanders in Senaki told Georgian officials that they'd release the men Wednesday afternoon, Khokhbaia said. By nightfall, however, the men were still being held.
Members of the Russian media were invited to the military base Tuesday to photograph the captives, who were wearing full or partial Georgian military uniforms, Khokhbaia said. Georgian officials who visited the Senaki base were told that Russian troops acted in their capacity as peacekeepers monitoring Georgia's border with Abkhazia.
As for the seized Humvees, which were used in joint U.S.-Georgian military exercises recently and due to be shipped back to the U.S., Nogovitsyn seemed to indicate that Russia would return them.
"We don't need trophy arms," he said. "It's not our style."
(McClatchy special correspondent Julie Sell in Vienna contributed to this article.)
More from McClatchy:
Pentagon, White House at odds over aid to Georgia
NATO takes no decisive steps to force Russian withdrawal
Russia-Georgia war sharpens voters' doubts about Obama, McCain


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Summer camps have long been an avenue for increasing kids' skills and tapping into their passion areas, but did you know that summer camps exist especially for students with learning disabilities?
The site Kids Camps.com has a unique directory of such camps that parents can peruse to find special summer opportunities for their kids with learning difficulties. This directory provides links to the various camps, each camp's contact information, and an option to send the camp information to a friend.
Another directory of camps for kids with special needs can be found at the SummerCamps.com site. This site details each camp, then shares a list of activities the camps provide, and pertinent information like cost, capacity, and camp type (residential vs. commuter).
Parents interested in finding camps for their children with ADHD and learning difficulties can also check out this article from ADDitude magazine, which provides strategies for helping parents find the best camps for their kids.
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Body Sculpt Lighter Legs is a new generation of products designed to reduce swelling sensation – "anti-water effect".
Clinical Results from a treatment course :
- Up to -3.1cm reduction in one single session,
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*Self assessment from volunteers.
Like Skeyndor facials the body treatments also work with active ingredients to obtain maximum results from each session. The actives involved with the Body Sculpt Lighter Legs are:
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- Hardangerjokulen Glacier Water (Norway) – formed over 10,000 years ago, reinforces freshness perception and prevents heaviness and swelling sensation.
A course of four 50 minute sessions are recommended. One or two sessions during three or four consecutive weeks.
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Body Sculpt Destock is a new generation of anti-cellulite products. They contain more potent formulas, targeted to different types and formates of cellulite, and mode of application.
Formulas designed for the more demanding consumer who wants immediate results. They contain active substances that "burn fat" and reduce the bloated feeling, with and "anti-water effect".
Clinical results from a treatment course :
- A reduction of up to -1.5cm in just 15 days,
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A course of six 75 minute sessions are recommended. one weekly session for at least six consecutive weeks,
Cost from £55.00 per treatment.
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Mesoslim fights against stubborn fatty areas, remodels the figure and reduces cellulite and oedema. Ideal for all skin types with cellulite and liquid retention, and also flaccid skins.
Mesoslim cotains a selection of active ingredients with the renowned efficacy with the necessary size, polarity and affinity to optimise their performance.
Enriched with substances of low molecular weight, increases the opening size and times of the channels created with the virtual mesotherapy techniques, by multiplying the effective cellular absorption of the active ingredients.
A course of four to eight 1 hour treatments are recommended. One or two sessions in a four to eight week consecutive basis.
Cost £50.00 per treatment.


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Bright and spacious, NE facing 2 BDRM & DEN 270 degree corner, top floor podium unit at Wall Centre Central Park's latest Tower 3. Features engineered hardwood floors, elegant built-in kitchen appliances, S/S gourmet gas range, garborator, quartz and marble counter tops, in-suite laundry, large balcony, parking stall, storage locker, fully equiped gym, and more. Conveniently located a short stroll to shopping, restaurants, Skytrain, Central Park, and just a minutes ride to Crystal Mall and Metrotown Mall. OPEN HOUSE SUN 3:00-5:00PM.
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Sophie Conran for Portmeirion White Bistro Plate set of 2
This set of two porcelain bistro plates is perfect for a cosy dinner for two, and makes a classy housewarming gift for couples. The signature ripple-effect design is wonderfully tactile and gives the tableware a uniquely hand-thrown look. Whether you're laying the table for a last-minute lunch or an elegant date night at home, these refined bistro plates add a touch of charm to your setting. The plates are conveniently safe to use in the microwave, dishwasher, freezer and oven. Pair them with matching salad bowls and side plates from Sophie Conran's collection for Portmeirion.
- Diameter: 31.5cm/12.5 inches
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"It is a versatile system to build tunnels featuring big sizes, quick installation, easy transportation and a minimum impact on the surface".
Tunnel Liner
It is a system to build tunnels using corrugated steel plates designed to allow the assembly from the inside minimizing the impact on the surface.
Tunnel Liner allows the quick, safe and low cost construction of culverts, ventilation tunnels, chimneys, mine entries and utilities conduits. Tunnel Liner structures are bolt assembled and may be fitted for the project requirements.


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I found this to be very interesting. Most people were wondering what something like a "White in America" documentary would look like. Well, here's your chance to actually see.
I saw this at Macon D's blog:
August 6, 2008 at 6:45 pm · Filed under Cultural, Different Prospective, Misconceptions, Politics, Race, Relationships and tagged: Abuse, America, Angery white men, anorexia, Austria, Beauty, binge drinking, bulimia, Caucasian, College, Cults, Drugs, dysmorphic conditions, Europe, European, Gays, Hate crimes, high school, Incest, Internet, Kidnapping, Macon D, Meth, Murder, Neglected Older white women, Predators, pregnancy pact, Rapist, Rush Limbaugh, School Shootings, Serial Killers, Sexuality, STDs, Violence, white America, White In America, White men, white teenagers, White women, Workplace violence, Zoophilia
I found this to be very interesting. Most people were wondering what something like a "White in America" documentary would look like. Well, here's your chance to actually see.
I saw this at Macon D's blog:
White in America, is always on. It's called life in America. It even has it's own channel, Fox News.
Yes, i saw the link. I was just making a general statement.
Don't think that "unaired" documentary would be that different from the actual "Black In America" one. All both would/did do was focus on dumb stereotypes that only further lead other races to assume they received some type of explanation for the stereotypes that are only reinforced by pieces like those.
Shame at you for thinking i"d reply without first reading everything. lol
I thought about one of our discussions today. I was getting an oil change and Cosby was on Oprah, being just as non-informative as usual.
LOL–you just don't like Cosby huh. Well, in the words of someone whose name escapes me right now–"I was never more hated than when I told the truth"
On a lighter note, I've been hankering to post new material BUT I'm in vet school now–nothing but studying, 15 min breaks, and sleeping—eating occasionally lol. Maybe this weekend.
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" There's no other love like the love for a brother. There's no other love like the love from a brother."
– Astrid Alauda
" Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply."
– Jane Austen
Pregnancy seems designed to prepare you for life as a mother. You start making sacrifices nine months before the child is born, so by the time they put in an appearance you are used to giving things up for them.
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I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle. (Vincent Van Gogh)
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. (A.A. Milne - Winnie The Pooh)
"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts." ―Washington Irving


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Travel reviews by Mr G & Miss R from Kent
Namibia Trip Oct 2013
On this trip, I visited Namibia between 9-Oct-2013 and 20-Oct-2013 and I travelled with 1 other person.
We had a fantastic time in Namibia and would certainly recommend it as a place to visit for adventure and stunning scenery. The whole experience was made very enjoyable from start to finish by the expert help and advice from Tracy. Tracy was extremely helpful in recommending excellent accommodation which suited our itinerary and budget and giving us very knowledgeable information about the different areas we were wanting to go to.
We hired our car through a different company, but would definitely recommend paying the extra for a 2x4 car as this gives extra comfort and road clearance which gives more confidence when driving in Etosha and on some of the gravel roads.
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I stayed at and have reviewed:
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|Olive Grove, Namibia
9-Oct-2013 review: Comfortable stay at Olive Grove
|Kulala Desert Lodge, Namibia
10-Oct-2013 review: Fantastic stay at Kulala Desert Lodge
|Beach Lodge, Namibia
12-Oct-2013 review: Beach Lodge right on the coast
|Doro Nawas, Namibia
14-Oct-2013 review: Fantastic Elephant Safari at Doro Nawas
|Ongava Lodge, Namibia
16-Oct-2013 review: Ongava Lodge, great location and safari
|Onguma Tented Camp, Namibia
17-Oct-2013 review: Luxury at Onguma Tented Camp
|Erongo Wilderness Lodge, Namibia
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Mortgage bankers reported a sharp increase in quarterly profits at the end of June, according to data released Tuesday by the Mortgage Bankers Association.
Net gains on originations jumped nearly sixfold, to $954, compared to a loss of $194 in the first quarter.
The swing in profits was driven by higher origination volume, according to Marina Walsh, the group's vice president of industry analysis.
"The gains seen in the second quarter come after first-quarter losses that were likely triggered by a variety of factors including the implementation of new Dodd-Frank regulations and extremely low origination volumes," she said in a news release Tuesday.
"Some loan closings may have been pushed into the second quarter, resulting in an increase in profitability," Walsh said.
Purchase loans accounted for 74% of total originations, up from 68% in the first quarter. Jumbos accounted for 7% of originations their highest level since the trade group began tracking the quarterly data.
Loan production expenses dipped 14%, to $6,932.


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Last time we learned how to get Flask set up. In this article we will learn how to add a database to our music data website. As you might recall, Flask is a micro-web-framework. That means it doesn't come with an Object Relational Mapper (ORM) like Django does. If you want to add database interactivity, then you need to add it yourself or install an extension. I personally like SQLAlchemy, so I thought it was nice that there is a ready-made extension for adding SQLAlchemy to Flask called Flask-SQLAlchemy.
To install Flask-SQLAlchemy, you just need to use pip. Make sure that you are in your activated virtual environment that we created in the first part of this series before you run the following or you'll end up installing the extension to your base Python instead of your virtual environment:
pip install flask-sqlalchemy
Now that we have the Flask-SQLAlchemy installed along with its dependencies, we can get started creating a database!
Creating a Database
Creating a database with SQLAlchemy is actually pretty easy. SQLAlchemy supports a couple of different ways of working with a database. My favorite is using its declarative syntax that allows you to create classes that model the database itself. So I will use that for this example. We will be using SQLite as our backend too, however we could easily change that backend to something else, such as MySQL or Postgres if we wanted to.
To start out, we will look at how you create the database file using just normal SQLAlchemy. Then we will create a separate script that uses the slightly different Flask-SQLAlchemy syntax. Put the following code into a file called db_creator.py
# db_creator.py from sqlalchemy import create_engine, ForeignKey from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship, backref engine = create_engine('sqlite:///mymusic.db', echo=True) Base = declarative_base() class Artist(Base): __tablename__ = "artists" id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True) name = Column(String) def __repr__(self): return "{}".format(self.name) class Album(Base): """""" __tablename__ = "albums" id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True) title = Column(String) release_date = Column(String) publisher = Column(String) media_type = Column(String) artist_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey("artists.id")) artist = relationship("Artist", backref=backref( "albums", order_by=id)) # create tables Base.metadata.create_all(engine)
The first part of this code should look pretty familiar to anyone using Python as all we are doing here is importing the bits and pieces we need from SQLAlchemy to make the rest of the code work. Then we create SQLAlchemy's engine object, which basically connects Python to the database of choice. In this case, we are connecting to SQLite and creating a file instead of creating the database in memory. We also create a "base class" that we can use to create declarative class definitions that actually define our database tables.
The next two classes define the tables we care about, namely Artist and Album. You will note that we name the table via the __tablename__ class attribute. We also create the table's columns and set their data types to whatever we need. The Album class is a bit more complex since we set up a ForeignKey relationship with the Artist table. You can read more about how this works in my old SQLAlchemy tutorial or if you want the in-depth details, then check out the well written documentation.
When you run the code above, you should get something like this in your terminal:
2017-12-08 18:36:43,290 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine SELECT CAST('test plain returns' AS VARCHAR(60)) AS anon_1 2017-12-08 18:36:43,291 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine () 2017-12-08 18:36:43,292 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine SELECT CAST('test unicode returns' AS VARCHAR(60)) AS anon_1 2017-12-08 18:36:43,292 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine () 2017-12-08 18:36:43,294 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine PRAGMA table_info("artists") 2017-12-08 18:36:43,294 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine () 2017-12-08 18:36:43,295 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine PRAGMA table_info("albums") 2017-12-08 18:36:43,295 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine () 2017-12-08 18:36:43,296 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine CREATE TABLE artists ( id INTEGER NOT NULL, name VARCHAR, PRIMARY KEY (id) ) 2017-12-08 18:36:43,296 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine () 2017-12-08 18:36:43,315 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine COMMIT 2017-12-08 18:36:43,316 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine CREATE TABLE albums ( id INTEGER NOT NULL, title VARCHAR, release_date DATE, publisher VARCHAR, media_type VARCHAR, artist_id INTEGER, PRIMARY KEY (id), FOREIGN KEY(artist_id) REFERENCES artists (id) ) 2017-12-08 18:36:43,316 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine () 2017-12-08 18:36:43,327 INFO sqlalchemy.engine.base.Engine COMMIT
Now let's make all this work in Flask!
Using Flask-SQLAlchemy
The first thing we need to do when we go to use Flask-SQLAlchemy is to create a simple application script. We will call it app.py. Put the following code into this file and save it to the musicdb folder.
# app.py from flask import Flask from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy app = Flask(__name__) app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'sqlite:///mymusic.db' app.secret_key = "flask rocks!" db = SQLAlchemy(app)
Here we create our Flask app object and tell it where the SQLAlchemy database file should live. We also set up a simple secret key and create a db object which allows us to integrate SQLAlchemy into Flask. Next we need to create a models.py file and save it into the musicdb folder. Once you have that made, add the following code to it:
# models.py from app import db class Artist(db.Model): __tablename__ = "artists" id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True) name = db.Column(db.String) def __repr__(self): return "<Artist: {}>".format(self.name) class Album(db.Model): """""" __tablename__ = "albums" id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True) title = db.Column(db.String) release_date = db.Column(db.String) publisher = db.Column(db.String) media_type = db.Column(db.String) artist_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey("artists.id")) artist = db.relationship("Artist", backref=db.backref( "albums", order_by=id), lazy=True)
You will note that Flask-SQLAlchemy doesn't require all the imports that just plain SQLAlchemy required. All we need is the db object we created in our app script. Then we just pre-pend "db" to all the classes we used in the original SQLAlchemy code. You will also note that instead of creating a Base class, it is already pre-defined as db.Model.
Finally we need to create a way to initialize the database. You could put this in several different places, but I ended up creating a file I dubbed db_setup.py and added the following contents:
# db_setup.py from sqlalchemy import create_engine from sqlalchemy.orm import scoped_session, sessionmaker from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base engine = create_engine('sqlite:///mymusic.db', convert_unicode=True) db_session = scoped_session(sessionmaker(autocommit=False, autoflush=False, bind=engine)) Base = declarative_base() Base.query = db_session.query_property() def init_db(): import models Base.metadata.create_all(bind=engine)
This code will initialize the database with the tables you created in your models script. To make the initialization happen, let's edit out test.py script from the previous article:
# test.py from app import app from db_setup import init_db init_db() @app.route('/') def test(): return "Welcome to Flask!" if __name__ == '__main__': app.run()
Here we just imported our app object and the init_db function. Then we called the init_db function immediately. To run this code, all you need to do is run the following command in your terminal from within the musicdb folder:
FLASK_APP=test.py flask run
When you run this, you won't see the SQLAlchemy output that we saw earlier. Instead you will just see some information printed out stating that your Flask application is running. You will also find a mymusic.db file has been created in your musicdb folder.
Note that the init_db() call doesn't always seem to work, so you may need to run the db_creator script I wrote in the previous article if your SQLite database file isn't generated correctly.
Wrapping Up
At this point, you now have a web application with an empty database. You can't add anything to the database with your web application or view anything in the database. Yes, you just created something really cool, but it's also completely useless for your users. In the next article we will learn how to add a search form to search for data in our empty database! Yes, there is a method to my madness, but you'll have to keep reading the series to figure it out.
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- Part I – Flask 101: Getting Started
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Calm down, dears – it's only a referendum hangover. And yet it seems as if an earthquake has torn apart the political landscape. Pundits of the Left have all but conceded the next election, and probably the one after that, wailing that this will be the Tories' century. Pass the wormwood and don the sackcloth and ashes. The future is certain to be blue.
Whether or not that scenario comes to pass, this is a glorious moment for David Cameron. Our pantomime politics, with its line-up of goodies and baddies, had slotted the Prime Minister and the Chancellor into villainous roles as the flinty-hearted toff who betrayed the people and the most reviled Treasury occupant in memory.
Now the script has been rewritten and the roles recast. Even Labour front benchers are in awe of Mr Osborne's untouchability, while the referendum and the local elections have conferred on Mr Cameron the status of a demigod. Meanwhile, Ed Miliband is being portrayed as wan, and the once-idolised Nick Clegg attracts a venom normally reserved for tyrants and terrorists.
Absurd as some or all of these stereotypes may be, Mr Clegg was never going to get away with embracing the politics of the Right when his party's centre of gravity tilts leftwards. The charge sheet against the Lib Dem leader is well-rehearsed, but too little has been made of the error, constantly pointed out by Labour, of holding local elections on the same day as the referendum.
The Lib Dem vote collapsed, and no wonder, given that 43 per cent who supported Mr Clegg at the last general election defined themselves as centre-Left, while only 7 per cent said they preferred Right-wing policies. But Mr Clegg was also a victim of the stampede of Tory supporters who had turned out to vote No in the referendum but thought they would give the Lib Dems a kicking in the local polls while they were at it.
In Harpenden, where tumbleweed might normally blow through the streets on voting day, electors were queueing at polling stations at 10am. One southern Lib Dem councillor, who saw six colleagues defeated, tells me that all but one of those losses were the result of Tory No voters turning out in their masses. Labour has its union base, the Tories have their City friends and donors. For Mr Clegg to lose his only buttress, the Lib Dem councillors, may yet prove deadly.
And so, tomorrow, he will attempt to shore up his position in a speech asserting that the Lib Dems are an independent force that will not be in thrall to either of the major parties. Since Mr Clegg is actually in government with one of them, this is a difficult case to make, but he will attempt it with some vigour.
"We are not a Buy One, Get One Free party," says a source close to the leader. "We are not going to be dictated to." Hence the disagreement over health reforms and the suggestion that the Deputy Prime Minister may disavow Andrew Lansley's Bill unless he gets the concessions he wants on plans to give more than 60 per cent of NHS funding to GP consortia. This sounds like a synthetic revolt, not least because Mr Cameron will be delighted to have the excuse to water down Mr Lansley's almost universally unpopular measures.
As for Mr Clegg's constitutional programme, voter recall of MPs will be popular, but his dream of House of Lords reform looks distant, if not impossible. Though allies maintain that legislation is imminent, they admit that the Deputy Prime Minister's cherished scheme is no longer "a defining issue".
As Disraeli said, even successful coalitions find "that their triumph has been brief". This one will limp on, but the cross-breeding experiment between Tories and Lib Dems has failed. As one Cleggite says: "Cameron is never going to remould British politics. The new politics has been blown away." Labour and the Lib Dems need one another if the centre-Left is to stage a comeback. A pity, then, that they are conjoined in mutual detestation.
Ed Miliband, now exhorting Lib Dems to side with Labour on health and other issues, set himself on a collision course with Mr Clegg even before the Labour leadership election. He used an interview in The Daily Telegraph to up the stakes, describing the Deputy Prime Minister as "a slightly tragic figure". The events of the past week have exacerbated hostilities.
The loss of Scotland to the SNP, the demolition of the Yes campaign Mr Miliband backed, and constituency boundary changes that will favour Mr Cameron have all made Labour's position more precarious. Last week I wrote that a 35 per cent share of the local vote for the Tories against 39 per cent for Labour would give Mr Cameron a tight grip on power. In the event, Labour secured only 37 per cent and a two-point lead.
Mr Miliband has not done badly. He is proficient, thoughtful and in many ways enlightened, but he will have to promise and deliver much more if he is to lead Labour back to power. For a start he should embrace a Lib Dem party headed, as it will be for the foreseeable future, by Mr Clegg, who has also had more success than his public image allows. On the health service, on schools and on Lords reform – where Labour might yet scupper a scheme for a mainly elected upper chamber by demanding nothing less than 100 per cent – the two parties are natural bedfellows. They are agreed, as a member of the Miliband camp says, that Mr Cameron is "an aggressively Right-wing [figure] whose cover has been blown".
But as this Milibandite also puts it: "The Lib Dems are prostrate on the floor." The question is whether Nurse Ed, who is hardly responsible for Mr Clegg's plight, will supply mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. In an overture of peace tinged with a trace of guilt, Cleggites profess now to understand Mr Miliband's animosity. "I can see why Labour feels betrayed by us," says one. "But they're stabbing us in the back at every opportunity." While Mr Clegg is keen, if not desperate, to forge the roots of a future alliance, Mr Miliband has seemed much less eager for a rapprochement. He will have to change his mind.
Should the centre-Left disintegrate, some will ascribe its downfall to Mr Cameron being a political magus, or Mr Osborne becoming an Einstein among Chancellors. The truth is that, in modern politics, who dares wins. Policies may matter, but as long as they fall short of disaster, personalities matter more. The politics of love and hate do not favour the effete or the whinger, and both Labour and the Lib Dems risk becoming exemplars of both.
If this does become a new Tory century, it will not be because Britain is a Conservative nation, or because Mr Cameron, a PM without a full mandate, has a monopoly on wisdom or the public's heart. It will be because the centre-Left has bickered its way to extinction. The moment has come for Mr Miliband and Mr Clegg, however squeamishly, to kiss and make up.


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By Emma Meyers
Lately, I've been making my way through Columbia alum Jonah Lehrer's science-meets-art book Proust Was a Neuroscientist. In it, Lehrer lauds the many artists, writers, and composers who, through their art, tapped into the human brain in ways modern neuroscientists are only recently discovering. Despite whatever controversy now surrounds Lehrer's name, the book is anchored on some fascinating ideas, and, while possibly a bit overstated, his claims really set me thinking.
Mostly, I was dismayed by Lehrer's easy dismissal of the artist Claude Monet in a chapter focusing on Paul Cézanne, a painter whose style developed out of Monet's Impressionist tradition. In this account, Cézanne takes advantage of the brain's ability to visualize a scene as a whole – to integrate its disparate and sometimes abstract elements into a single coherent image – and relies on the juxtaposition of bold swaths of color to imply, rather than state outright, the image the viewer sees. Monet, his apparently-less-neuroscientifically-inclined predecessor, merely plays with light to create pretty but simple scenes.
But, in defense of my favorite painter on the Art Hum syllabus, Monet was also a neuroscientist.
The Impressionists' goal was to depict the world not exactly as it was, but as we see it – our impressions as we move through it. While capturing these impressions involved more than just understanding how sunlight plays on water and grass – Monet brilliantly imbues his paintings with the motion of the breeze and the warmth of the sun – the visual experience is certainly at the forefront of his work. And the light and shadow, which Monet so expertly manipulates in his art, are critical components of how we distinguish objects in a scene. At their core, all of our visual perceptions are built upon the contrasts between light and shadow so that what we're seeing is an object wholly created by light. Or, to use Monet's words, "it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives objects their real value."
Like all sensory receptors in our bodies, the cells of our retinas have specific receptive fields, specific regions or patterns of stimuli (light, in the case of our eyes) that they respond to. When a stimulus falls in a neuron's receptive field, it can either be excited (it fires more) or inhibited (it fires less).
Research in the 1950's showed that the receptive fields of retinal cells are arranged in a concentric circular pattern of contrasting inhibition and excitation called "center-surrounds." When light falls in the receptive field of the neurons in the center of the configuration, the cells are either excited or inhibited; when it hits the receptive fields of the outer "surround" cells, it will have the opposite effect. Because the inhibition and excitation of each center-surround unit can cancel each other out when it's uniformly drenched in light, this arrangement means the bulk of the visual information that reaches our brain encodes edges – abutting contrasts in lightness or darkness (for a great explanation with visuals, watch this video of neuroscientist Margaret Livingstone). Our visual world, then, is constructed primarily of borderlines, the contours between light of different intensities; we can only understand what we're looking at through higher level processing and integration of this crude light information.
Monet clearly expresses this total reliance on light in his art. Take, for instance, these three paintings from a series of the façade of the Rouen Cathedral:
All three of these paintings are of the same face of the building viewed from the same spot at different times of day. The church itself has very little mass – it is blurry and airy, no real detail. These paintings are, however, rich with the contours of light and shadow that define its façade. In the first two images, the recessed doorway and round window above it are defined not by line, but by the gradient of light to dark. In the third rose-tinted one, the columns at the base of the façade are not columns at all, but swaths of bright paint next to darker colors. Just as our retinas would abstract the edges from a scene like this, the gross lines between different levels of illumination, Monet recreates the scene in broad strokes and soft gradations. While obviously based on a simplified visual system – Monet, after all, was not actually a neuroscientist – these paintings manage to acknowledge how we see on the most fundamental level.
For more on the neuroscience of art, watch this awesome lecture by neuroscientist Margaret Livingstone. It's long, but worth it.


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Hot off the back of his triumphant performance at the NME Awards tour, Miles Kane takes his live act back on the road for what is set to be an unmissable eleven date tour - and he will be playing Birmingham's O2 Academy on Saturday, June 1.
Kicking things off on May 4 and tearing his way around intimate venues up and down the country, Miles will be previewing songs from his eagerly anticipated new LP 'Don't Forget Who You Are' out June 3, including the title track and new single released the same day.
An anthemic blast of modern pop, the new single, 'Don't Forget Who you Are' will undoubtedly establish itself in Miles' live set as another crowd sing-along classic.
Miles Kane's band are Jay Sharrock – drums, Ben Parsons – keyboards, Phill Anderson – bass guitar and George Moran – rhythm guitar/vocals).
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BOSTON, Mass – The Wentworth Institute of Technology women's basketball fell just short to Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) frontrunner Roger Williams University, 62-51, Saturday afternoon inside Tansey Gymnasium.
The Hawks stay on top of the conference at 12-2 and improve to 18-3 overall, while the Leopards dip to 1-13 against league opponents and 2-19 this season.
Prior to the game, the Wentworth and Roger Williams community honored the late James Stowe, a member of the Hawks' club hockey team and brother of Ashley Stowe '14, who tragically passed away form testicular cancer. To learn more about James' fund, and how you can help towards Testicular Cancer research, please visit https://because.massgeneral.org/fundraiser/1156958.
Despite a quick 4-0 spurt from Roger Williams to open the contest, a trey from freshman Erin Morton (Norway, Maine) pulled Wentworth within one, before senior Courtney McCormick (Hanson, Mass.) put the hosts up by two, 6-4. The game featured three ties before Roger Williams closed the first quarter on a 6-0 run, all off the hands of sophomore Sam Leone (Ashland, Mass.) , to give the Hawks a 17-13 lead.
Roger Williams carried its momentum into the second stanza, as seniors Teagan Dunn (Burlington, Conn.), Mariah Nicholas (Acushnet, Mass.), and Anna Walther (Northampton, Mass.) put the visitors up by nine, 22-13, with 5:57 left in the half. The Leopards squashed the Hawks' chance at a double-digit lead, as two freebies from Morton and a layup from junior Michelle McCloskey (Madison, Conn.) trailed the Hawks by five. A three-pointer from Hawks' sophomore Gabby Jerahian (Quincy, Mass.) put the Hawks up by nine, before freshman Stephanie Mini (Topsfield, Mass.) answered with a deep trey of her own to cut the score 28-22 with 3:46 on the clock. Nicholas gave Roger Williams its first double-digit lead with 38 seconds to go, before Leone sank a three to beat the buzzer with the Hawks leading 35-24 at halftime.
The Leopards were down but not out, as a 10-0 run pulled the hosts within a single point. Morton sank two jumpers before Mini stayed hot behind the arc with consecutive treys, with the Hawks holding a 35-34 advantage. With 5:19 left in the third, Morton found McCormick, who drained another three for the Leopards, tying the score 37-37. Sophomore Sam McGibbon (Pembroke, Mass.) returned the favor, putting the Leopards up by two with a three-pointer, but the Hawks turned a 9-2 run for a 49-44 lead heading into the final 10 minutes of play.
McCloskley opened the final quarter with an offensive board and a layup, cutting the score by three, but the Hawks outscored the Leopards 13-7 to hold on for the 62-51 final. With 2:19 left in the game, Nicholas scored her 1000th point in a Hawks uniform, and finished with 16 points overall.
Nicholas also added a game-high 16 boards in the victory, while Leone also finished with a double-double of 18 points and 13 rebounds. Dunn pulled down 16 boards of her own, as Roger Williams collectively held a 64-31 advantage on the glass.
Mini led the Leopards with 13 points, nine coming from behind the arc, while senior Haley Sabino (Topsfield, Mass.) rounded out double-digit scoring with 11 points. McCloskey led the home team on the glass with nine rebounds.
Wentworth returns to action on Wednesday, February 7 at 5:30 when it hosts the University of New England.
For the latest on Wentworth Athletics, follow the Leopards via social media on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Fans can also download the Wentworth Leopards "Front Row" mobile app, powered by PrestoSports, on iTunes and the Android Market.


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Well, we got our first glimpse into the Breaking Bad Extended Universe tonight, with Walter White (in full meth-makin' gear) pop up in an Esurance commercial, posing as a pharmacist.
Is this insurance commercial canon? Is Heisenberg still out there, replacing some guy named Greg behind a pharmacy counter? So many questions.
But Heisenberg wasn't the ONLY one to return during Super Bowl Sunday - Jesse Pinkman also made an appearance (well, his voice did) in a WeightWatchers commercial, that implied food addiction was basically drug addiction.
Breaking Bad...we're not ready to let you go.
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Review: Figma Samus Aran
Hey everyone, hopefully by the time you're all reading this, you'll have checked out our new store location, a mere four stores down from our previous location. If not, BOO, BOOOO YOU! I suggest that you do so as soon as possible, because it's REALLY nice and fancy like. Well fancy for a comic shop. The floors are real nice, and if you try real hard, you can still get a contact high from the new pant/varnish (NOTE: I AM KIDDING, DO NOT DO THAT, THERE ARE PLENTY OF BARS NEARBY THAT SERVE AS A BETTER ALTERNATIVE). To celebrate our new location, I'll be taking a week off to visit Maine. Yeah that really doesn't have to do much with toys. So I guess I'll just have to review a new collectible or something.
((Luckily for everyone, I came prepared.))
It's been a long time coming, but finally, someone (Max Factory) made a Samus Aran figure worthy of the Metroid franchise. One of video game's most beloved and celebrated franchises, not to mention oldest, Metroid is a little bit of the black sheep of the Nintendo family; overshadowed by the likes of Kirby, Pokemon, Mario, and Zelda. And not exactly as heavy in the merch department as those franchises. Oh sure there's been a handful of statues, but there's been all of ONE action figure from over tears years ago, and it's quite terrible. Luckily Max Factory has delivered the figure we all wanted.
The first of 3 announced Nintendo Figmas (The other 2 being Link from Skyward Sword, and Pitt from the 3DS Kid Icarus game), Samus Aran is based on her appearance from "The Other M", the Wii game that's arguable the weakest in the series. I'd complain about that a bit more, but beggers can't be choosers, especially when the figure is this damn good.
Like I said, the figure is damn good in terms of sculpt and paint job. And it's pretty damn sturdy too, not feeling as fragile as previous Figma, Samus looks like she should be taken out of the box and posed/played with. Which is great, considering she fairly posesable, and looks good on display. In terms of accessories, she comes packed with 5 different left hands, changeable missile tips for her arm cannon, and 2 different blast effects ( a single shot and a double shot). Also, like every other Figma in existence, she comes with a plastic bag and stand. To be honest, I'm a little bummed out that there's not an alternate head without helmet on it, or at least a Metroid. It's slightly annoying. HOWEVER, this is redeemed by the addition of one accessory…. Continue reading


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Republicans in one hour donated $300,000 to a person who is exactly like Obama.
This $300,000 dollars went to Mitt Romney but he really is Obama. Obama and Romney both wanted the mandate on Obamacare at the time of it's creation.
Obamacare is Romneycare and if you believe Romney is going to get rid of his own healthcare plan then you need a mental check.
Romney helped create Obamacare and even gave Obama advice to help him create Obamacare. This right here is the reason why Obamacare is Romneycare.
Romney is one of the core reasons why Obamacare has a mandate, and shouldn't be seen as an escape route for Obamacare.
Romney says he will get rid of Obamacare, but also Romney is a known flip-flopper and may just change his mind.
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Today, October 11th, is National Coming Out Day, so I thought I'd post a little information from the Human Rights Campaign web site. For those who have yet to come out, know that there is support out there, sometimes where you'd least expect it. And for those of you like myself, who have "come out" as straight supporters of GLBT rights, keep your voices strong. This is an issue of common sense, common decency, compassion, and most of all love.
T.R. Knight PSA for GLAAD
From the Human Rights Campaign web site:
About Coming Out as a Straight Supporter (from the HRC web site)
A straight ally is someone who is not gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (GLBT) but personally advocates for GLBT equal rights and fair treatment. Straight allies are some of the most effective and powerful advocates for the GLBT movement. These allies have proven invaluable personally and politically, and are increasingly important in the fight for GLBT equality. Indeed, their voices often have been heard while those of GLBT people have been ignored.
Coming out as a straight ally may be an extremely challenging experience, but many find that it is unexpectedly rewarding. Some may think that advocating on behalf of GLBT equality is solely the responsibility of those who are affected by the inequality.
But as straight ally Caleb Baker has put it: "U.S. Representative John Lewis once said that the next great movement in America would be the gay rights movement. His words make me remember there are white people fighting for black people's rights in the civil rights movement. There are men fighting for women's rights in the feminist movement. I would be greatly ashamed if there were no straight people fighting for gay rights in our movement." (GLSEN's Students and GSA's Yearbook)
Like GLBT people, straight allies will find that coming out is not a one-time event, but rather a lifelong journey.
Opinion polls show that people who know someone who is gay or lesbian are more likely to support equal rights for all gay and lesbian people. Anecdotal evidence also suggests that the same is true for people who know someone who is bisexual or transgender.
A couple of reminders…
Cyndi Lauper on The View discussing True Colors Tour 2007
Cyndi Lauper on The View singing "True Colors"
(***Added 6/19/07: LOGO will air a True Colors special beginning this Thursday, June 21st.***)
Thanks to a VERY generous and spontaneous friend (Thanks, Jackson ;)), I'll be hitting the True Colors Tour 2007 when it makes its final stop in Los Angeles at the Greek Theatre on June 30th. Totally something to look forward to, for so many reasons (especially after finding out just today that The Cliks are rearranging their own tour schedule in order to add the last three True Colors gigs–woo-hoo!), but especially since it will be a incredibly memorable time spent with fabulous friends.
Btw, the LA stop is SOLD OUT (Not sure if more tickets have been released or what the deal is, but TicketMaster is no longer showing the LA show as sold out), so I would highly recommend jumping on tickets for the other remaining shows NOW!
I'll let the following Cyndi Lauper interview on The View fill you in on what the True Colors Tour 2007 is all about, and I'll include links to the MySpace pages of several of the scheduled performers. I do have to say, though, that I continue to shake my head in disgust, dismay, and ultimately sadness, over the fact that so many people continue to harbor such hatred toward others just due to one's sexual orientation. Sigh. Life is far too short, folks. Appreciate the incredible diversity around you (who on earth wants to be just like everyone else?), embrace it, and for crying out loud just get out there and enjoy the heck out of life!
Cyndi Lauper on The View discussing True Colors Tour 2007
Cyndi performing an acoustic version of True Colors
MySpace Pages
- Human Rights Campaign
- True Colors Tour 2007
- Cyndi Lauper
- Margaret Cho
- Debbie Harry
- Erasure
- The Dresden Dolls (Seriously obsessed with this fascinating duo over the past 24 hours!)
- The Gossip (What a powerful voice their lead singer has!)
- The Misshapes
- The Cliks (just added to the San Diego, San Francisco, and Los Angeles shows)
- Jeffree Star
True Colors lyrics
You with the sad eyes
Don't be discouraged
Oh I realize
It's hard to take courage
In a world full of people
You can lose sight of it all
And the darkness inside you
Can make you feel so small
But I see your true colors
Shining through
I see your true colors
And that's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
True colors are beautiful,
Like a rainbow
Show me a smile then,
Don't be unhappy, can't remember
When I last saw you laughing
If this world makes you crazy
And you've taken all you can bear
You call me up
Because you know I'll be there
And I'll see your true colors
Shining through
I see your true colors
And that's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
True colors are beautiful,
Like a rainbow


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AWS AppSync simplifies application development by letting you create a flexible API to securely access, manipulate, and combine data from one or more data sources. AppSync is a managed service that uses GraphQL to make it easy for applications to get exactly the data they need.
With AppSync, you can build scalable applications, including those requiring real-time updates, on a range of data sources such as NoSQL data stores, relational databases, HTTP APIs, and your custom data sources with AWS Lambda. For mobile and web apps, AppSync additionally provides local data access when devices go offline, and data synchronization with customizable conflict resolution, when they are back online.
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AWS AppSync is generally available. If you would like try building data driven mobile and web applications, watch the re:Invent session video to learn more and open the AWS AppSync console to get started. For pricing details, please see the pricing page. AWS AppSync is available in multiple regions. For details on region availability, please see the regions detail page.
Customers using AWS AppSync
Use cases
Real Time Collaboration
Data Broadcasting
You can use AWS AppSync to enable scalable, real-time collaboration use cases by broadcasting data from the backend to all connected clients (one-to-many) or broadcasting data between clients themselves (many-to-many). For example, you can build a second screen scenario where you broadcast the same data to all clients, and users then respond in real time by voting and commenting about what's on the screen.
Reference Architecture: Sample Code
Chat Applications
You can use AWS AppSync to power collaborative and conversational applications. For example, you can build a mobile and web application that supports multiple private chat rooms, offers access to conversation history, and enqueues outbound messages, even when the device is offline.
Reference Architecture: Sample Code
Internet of Things
You can use AWS AppSync to access IoT device data sent to AWS IoT. For instance, you can build a real-time dashboard in a mobile or web application to visualize telemetry from a connected car.
Data Layer
Polyglot Backend Data Access
You can retrieve or modify data from multiple data sources (SQL databases in Amazon Aurora Serverless, NoSQL tables in Amazon DynamoDB, search data in Amazon Elasticsearch Service, REST endpoints in Amazon API Gateway, or serverless backends in AWS Lambda) with a single call. Query and create relations between data sources using GraphQL connections. Provide real-time and offline capabilities to web and mobile clients.
Microservices Access Layer
You can use AWS AppSync as a single interface to access and combine data from multiple microservices in your application, even if they're running in different environments such as containers in a VPC, behind a REST API on Amazon API Gateway, or behind a GraphQL API on another AWS AppSync endpoint.
Offline Delta Sync
You can use AWS AppSync to provide a seamless experience to mobile and web users when devices go offline, as well as automatically reconnect and sync data when the device comes back online. With delta sync, AppSync syncs only the modified data, instead of the whole data set.
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Can The Wolf change his ways? After a life of shady Wall Street deals, drugs, and hookers, can a person truly change and do a complete 180 towards a better way of life? Jordan Belfort the featured character in the controversial movie by Scorsese, "The Wolf of Wall Street" was based off Belfort's own book. It reveals the fast paced lifestyle he lived. Taking advantage of unwary investors and leaving their lives in shambles. In this interview we take a closer look at a man who made millions and lost it all…… overnight.
The interview is quite interesting. He seems to have an upbeat attitude about life despite being prosecuted by federal authorities for his illegal actions. Jordan talks about the highs and lows of his life as a criminal. Over the years he claims to have discovered his ability to inspire people, and now is in the business of doing motivational seminars for those seeking to become successful. He talks about what it takes to become successful in all endeavors of life. He reveals his mistakes and triumphs candidly, and speaks about his formula of what actually made him rich.
Jordan Belfort's Daughter Has a Few Words
His daughter's scorching letter in LA Weekly seems to caution the public about who this man really is. In the letter, she makes it a point to shame Hollywood for glorifying a man who has only brought harm to this world. Emphasizing that this destructive attitude has brought down American's financial system, and put the economy at risk. She verbally bashes DiCaprio and his co-stars for playing roles in this movie. She clearly states that the "Kings of Hollywood have been conned". Jordan Belfort is not viewed highly by his own daughter.
This Activity May Still Go on Today.
Belfort has engaged in what is know as the "Pump and Dump" scam. The firm acquires penny stock shares of a highly illiquid stock, and gets unsuspecting investors to buy shares. The buying action of investors pushes the stock price up, then Belfort's firm starts to sell out at higher prices. Soon there after, because of selling, the price of the stock comes crashing down leaving the investors with huge losses.
Believe it or not, this scam still goes on. If anything should be learned from the movie, don't trust a fast talking broker on the phone. It would be wise for investors to seek prudent investment opportunities and stay away from ideas that can make you rich quick. While Belfort was sent to prison for doing this, many firms who still do this scam operate within the boundaries of the law. So, yes it may be perfectly legal for companies to do this type of illicit activity. Always check the reputation of the company you are dealing with. It would also be wise to check the legal standing of the companies you are investing in to see if they actually exist.


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If you used Razor in a previous Puppet Enterprise (PE) environment, upgrade Razor to keep your PE and Razor versions synched.
After a PE upgrade, your
pe_razor class continues to operate normally, but we recommend upgrading Razor as soon as possible to avoid unintended effects.
Note: If nodes are actively provisioning during upgrade, provisioning might fail. You can resume provisioning after
pe-razor-serverrestarts and – for upgrade from 3.8.x only – after a Puppet run completes.
The upgrade process varies by PE version.
Upgrade from 3.8.x to later versions
An upgrade script handles upgrading Razor from PE 3.8.x to any later version. The script carries out these tasks:
- Performs pre-verification, including checking that:
- The script is being run as root.
- The
puppet-agentclass is installed. The script exits if not.
- The Razor node has sufficient disk space available. The host's disk space must be at least three times the size of the Razor database.
- Shuts down the
pe-puppet-agent(agent) and
Backs up the
pe-razor-serverPostgreSQLpostgres database.
Note: This might take up to several minutes for larger databases.
- Shuts down the
- Replaces existing software repository with the new, downloaded repository.
- Moves the following files to align with the updated file system layout:
- Installs software packages.
- Completes a Puppet agent run to initialize new postgres databases and tablespaces.
- Starts
pe-postgresqlservices and restores the backed up database.
- Starts the
- Starts a Puppet agent run, then starts Puppet.
Before you begin
Follow these steps to prepare to upgrade:
Upgrade your monolithic or split PE infrastructure, including the Puppet master, PostgreSQL database, and console.
Verify that the Razor server has access to the internet.
Tip: If you want to upgrade Razor offline, follow the instructions here.
Verify that no services are active on the agent or Razor server. Services are stopped during upgrade.
Ensure that no custom or modified tasks, brokers, or hooks exist inside
/opt/puppetlabs. If they do, move them to a directory in the appropriate class parameter (
broker_path, or
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Run the upgrade script
The Razor upgrade script upgrades your Razor server node to match the version of PE you're running.
- SSH into your
razor-servernode, then run
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Upgrade from 2015.2.x or later
Upgrading from 2015.2.x or later is a mostly automated process that replaces the software repository, installs software packages, and migrates the Razor database.
Upgrading to 2016.2 or later requires manual migration of any custom configuration from your config.yaml file to class parameters in the
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Before you begin: If you're upgrading to PE 2016.2 or later and you've modified your config.yaml file – for example, by changing
protect_new_nodesor customizing tasks, brokers, or hooks – make a note of the modified settings.
- Upgrade the Puppet master.
Upgrade the agent on the Razor server node.
pe-razor-serverservice automatically restarts.
(Optional) If you're upgrading to 2016.2 or later, transfer any customized configurations to class parameters in the
Note: To prevent accidentally overwriting machines during upgrade, the default for
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truein PE 2016.2 and later. If your environment and workflows rely on provisioning all new nodes, you must manually change
falseafter upgrade, then run Puppet and restart the pe-razor-server service.
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text: adidas has released a pair of new takes on Mark Gonzales's adi Ease Gonz for spring. Optioned in yellow or grey, both canvas and suede have been utilized on the upper of the skate lows. Contrasting trim can be seen on both sets, as tonal laces round out the drops. Check your nearest adidas skateboarding dealer to purchase. [via FRESHNGOOD]


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Thought I would bring this funny item out that is well documented in movies etc. as a fatigue cap (heavily used by commandos) but most don't know that it starts as an issue scarf! I don't have any idea how they fold it to make hat! Date is readable a well as 1940 date but not the manufacturer. Hope you will enjoy! Barron
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Nice. Rich A. in Pa.
Hi Barron
I have two Cap Comforter / Scarf in mint condition not folded itself to form the cap and one, dated 1941, originally folded.
Here is my Cap Comforter / Scarf dated 1941 as originally folded
I try to explain to you how it has been folded by the soldier:
1) approximately at 2/5 of its lenght fold it into itself towards the inside. As the the part slipped into the interior is longer, fold another time. You can see it folded inside.
2) now you fold the scarf, near the open side, at about 4 cm.
3) fold another time at about 13 cm.
the cap has done.
Last edited by zip3120 (17-02-2016 17:17:53)
Thank you for the demo! Very useful! Will have to try it myself soon! Barron
very nice hat !