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A journey through pain — a personal therapeutic saga
A psychiatrist traces a journey of pain-management through adjuncts selected to simulate the benefits of trance states and voluntary control over physiological parameters and discovers the importance of tapping the body-consciousness and working through the impasse created by the Inconscience.
Pain is an enigma, a reality and a dilemma. It is an enigma because knowingly or unknowingly it overawes us; a reality because, as the Buddha realised, it was inescapable and a dilemma because it can not only stimulate one to surpass oneself but can also be consciously turned into pleasure.
As a psychiatrist, my initial interest in pain was that not only one had physical pain, one also suffered psychological pain. To this, the nihilist added that pain arose from being bound to the cycles of life and death and ostensibly the relief lay in not being reborn again. However, as Sri Aurobindo professed a transformation of life instead of liberation from life, a consideration of such pain was vetoed out of my therapeutic considerations.
The concept of psychological pain proved to be more enigmatic than I had thought. A pure psychological pain in the realms of emotions, Freudian complexes or ethical conflicts would be a psychotherapeutic delight and there were no dearth of psychotherapists, practitioners, counsellors and even shamans and gurus. But there was this more difficult area of psychological factors manifesting as physical pain; the nagging hypochondriac pain, the atypical facial pain, the intractable chest pain, the unbearable headache, the colicky abdominal pain — all of which increased with piles of unfruitful investigations and endless doctor-shopping until one got some relief from a dose of anti-depressants. However, unless such pain was a symptom of depression, it also responded to anti-depressants but not so satisfactorily and without complete remission. Moreover, there were also the pains of a neuropathic nature, usually cervical and lumbar radiculo-pathies, typically presented in women past their fifties, an age when vulnerable to anxiety and depression and the occasional case with painful diabetic sensorimotor polyneuropathy who drop into the psychiatric clinic when there would be meagre relief with the usual interventions.
This led me to wonder if there would really be a situation where a cause for pain existed but no pain was felt even if the subject was not suffering from any condition like diabetic neuropathy which made the perception of pain difficult. It was not difficult to find, our culture abounds with fairs and 'melas' where it is usual practice for otherwise healthy aspirants to jump on a bed of thorns and nails in states of trance where one neither feels any pain nor suffers any bleeding. These trance states persisting for centuries provide an important field for consciousness research. It is interesting that once a subject came out of the trance state, which anyway was short-lived, one got back the pain and ability to bleed as before.
It is believed that the absence of pain and bleeding during trance states is mediated by endorphins. Endorphins are endogenous opioids released in the body during stress and react with the brain's opiate receptors to reduce the sensation of pain. If the stress is more, then high levels of endorphins are released, a reason why long-distance runners start feeling exceptionally happy (the runner's 'high') after they have run for a while. Could we not simulate the runner's high in pain-relief?
Acupuncture as an adjunct
I postulated that as there was some academic belief that acupuncture exerted its beneficial effects through endorphins, it could be used in a psychiatric set-up where we had instances of psychogenic pain syndromes. Moreover, acupuncturists were already treating a large number of subjects having lower back pain, a condition that does not always satisfactorily respond to drugs or physiotherapy. Besides, three decades back, acupuncture was being used as an adjunct to treat the body aches and insomnia of heroin withdrawal; it was a time when brown sugar abuse had attained nearly epidemic proportions among the youth in Calcutta.
We set up a separate acupuncture section in our psychiatric clinic and we dealt broadly with two types of pain. Cases of acute psychogenic pain like chest pain, acute migraine and tension headaches, atypical facial pain and atypical genital pain were simultaneously put on acupuncture sessions along with psychotropic drugs, usually anti-depressants. Initially, we had started with the older anti-depressants, tricyclics and tetracyclics, we later shifted to the new generation anti-depressants, SSRIs and SNRIs without much difference in efficacy. We had remarkable results. Chronic pain syndromes including those associated with depression, somatisation disorder and variants of arthritis were first given anti-depressants and later put on concomitant acupuncture therapy. We were careful not to give a false impression that we had magical cures, especially as such subjects had had multiple consultations before being recommended for psychiatric consultation. (We also administered acupuncture to other conditions where pain was not necessarily present, in insomnia, generalised anxiety, essential tremor, Parkinsonism, erectile dysfunction, psychogenic urinary incontinence, stress-linked hair-loss and benzodiazepine abuse). Surprisingly, our subjects who had a combination of acupuncture and psychotropic drugs had shown a high degree of compliance and we could render our acupuncture services for nearly twenty years till our acupuncturist retired.
Biofeedback as an adjunct
In chronic pain syndromes, acupuncture as an adjunct did not have as spectacular a success as in acute first-time presentations ; pain would be significantly reduced but needed periodic sessions at least twice a year. This led me to start biofeedback sessions too as an additional adjunct in selected cases. Biofeedback is a device that allows subjects to alleviate their own pain by means of instruments sensitive to small fluctuations in bodily conditions. The subject has to monitor and fine-tune the connections between emotions and health.
Three decades back, we had no biofeedback machines that could be purchased in Calcutta, so we constructed one with teenage enthusiasm after procuring a sketch of the biofeedback circuit. We decided to monitor sweat gland activity through a GSR biofeedback. We had sensors to monitor tiny changes in concentration of salt and water in the sweat gland ducts and translated back the tension into both sound and a flashy computer generated graph. If one were taught to relax, the readings from the electrodes dropped from somewhere like 7 to 3 micro volts. In ordinary life, one is not aware of these small changes but with a biofeedback device, one could do fine-tuning so that one became aware of the ability to voluntarily enhance one's own blood flow and release tension, abilities that usually are not under one's voluntary control. Once this ability became an ingrained habit after a dozen biofeedback sessions, one could invoke that behaviour whenever needed, to subside one's pain.
We used three types of relaxation-training depending upon the receptivity and preference of the subject; progressive muscular relaxation, guided imagery or silencing the mind, a variant of mindfulness. All our subjects received drugs too. We found biofeedback to be a useful adjunct except in cases where the subjects were compelled to lead rustic lifestyles. We continued with this homemade machine for five years till Dr A.S. Dalal gifted me his sophisticated biofeedback kit that he had been using at the Oregon Mental Health Center, USA before he finally shifted to the Ashram at Pondicherry.
The retirement of my acupuncturist, the late Benuda (Benu Dasgupta) also ended the experiment we ran. Retrospectively, I feel that Benuda had a personality that also went a long way in giving a healing touch to his subjects. He had a remarkable life; he grew up at the Ashram in Pondicherry where he returned after retirement for his final departure, learnt physiotherapy at CMC, Vellore, learnt acupuncture from the legendary Dr Bijoy Basu, associate of Dr. Kotnis, sharpened his acupuncture skills in China where he had fled as a Naxalite, but above all he was a dramatist and when as a youngster, he had come away from the Ashram, the Mother had recommended him to the late Mr. Ajit Basu, a devotee and a famous producer of films renowned for his flair in acting. We utilised Benuda's talent in conducting psycho-drama (drama therapy) sessions where usually a suffering subject was given an opposite role to act out. Reversal of roles brought out psychological conflicts and though in the West, it is conventional to describe extroverts as benefitting from drama therapy, in our Indian setting, introverts responded too. These sessions, as adjuncts also, went a long way in consolidating our therapeutic gains.
By the beginning of the 21st century, Duloxetine (a SNRI agent1) became available as an anti-depressant with some analgesic effects in chronic musculoskeletal pain and surprisingly, methylcobalamin injections also became popular in pain-relief and a sub-group of my patients who had responded excellently to acupuncture also responded remarkably to parenteral methylcobalamin. As increasing evidence points to a conglomeration of factors that produce pain-relief with methylcobalamin — improved nerve conduction velocity, nerve regeneration and inhibited spontaneous discharges from neurons in neuropathic pain states — I wonder if acupuncture provided relief through similar mechanisms!
My association with the Ashram and serious spiritual insights also gave me new insights into pain-management. I saw that physical pain of the most intense and intolerable type could be borne with magnanimity. I also had the experience of knowing selected people who even in the midst of severe pain could carry on in-depth meditation. There were also rare instances when pain after reaching an optimal point could get transformed into pleasure. This was not a masochistic pleasure, as it was not a sensual pleasure, but a pleasure felt first in consciousness and then elicited in the sensory matrix. Even masochistic pleasure at the level of the senses has a message, for in the Indian spiritual tradition, the lower functions are limited, distorted, deviated or perverse representations of higher archetypal attributes. In that sense, masochistic pleasure is a perversion and distortion of the Supreme Bliss-principle that sustains existence. This led me to speculate how physical pain could be understood in terms of consciousness.
Exploring the body-consciousness
In the meantime, I had already been working with consciousness paradigms of health and psychology since the 1990s. We had two overlapping groups. One group had its focus on developing the concept of Integral Health; the other group had as its main focus the building up of a foundation of Integral Psychology (Integral Yoga Psychology). There were basic zones of commonality between the two groups of which the most pragmatic and yet elusive was the work on the body-consciousness. Just as an individual has a unique mindset and a unique emotional representation which are known both to oneself and others (for example, a mathematical mindset may be associated with frequent emotional outbursts), one has also a unique body-consciousness of which one is ordinarily not aware at all. This subtle body-consciousness can be tapped and activated through a technology of consciousness to a point where a mental will can act upon it or the body-consciousness itself can work independent of the mental will (1). Exploring the body consciousness has enormous potentials for personal growth and perfection in life.
When we were probing different pathways to explore the body-consciousness, an interesting incident happened. A middle-aged lady presented herself to us with a rather refractory and intractable shoulder pain that had never been resolved fully. One of the therapists in our team concentrated on finding if the client's body would give some message; she placed her hand on the affected shoulder of the client and meditated for a few sessions. The therapist shortly had a dream of a person falling from a horse. The next day, she enquired with the client if she had actually ever fallen from a horse and, to her surprise, discovered that she did have such a fall and injured her shoulder when she was a teenager many years back. The body and not her mind had retained that memory. From the consciousness perspective, this was not surprising as the mind is non-local and hence theoretically, it can be spread everywhere. It is just a habit that we point to the head when asked about the location of the mind but we always get our basics wrong as we actually see the sun revolving around the earth though the opposite is the truth.
Emboldened by the power of the body-consciousness, I experimented next with a group session of middle-aged subjects, assuming that most of the people would have some bearable chronic pains and aches even if medical intervention was not warranted. The subjects were first exposed to mindfulness meditation to bring them to an optimal point of concentration. They were then told to visualise a subtle body behind each of their own physical body with an identical configuration. Once a second body was visualised behind the original body, subjects were told to transfer all the sensations, aches, pains and all the other minor involuntary bodily movements, twitches, tremors, stiffness and the like to the body behind which was now no more visually perceived but was simultaneously an experiential phenomenon. On cessation of the session after a few minutes of visualisation, some of the participants reported that their chronic pain in a joint or a nagging ache had suddenly been transferred to the imaginary body behind, giving instantaneous relief. The relief lasted from a few days to a few weeks showing that it is necessary to continue to have similar periodical sessions for sustained relief.
Consciousness-Force
These experiences propelled me to understand from the consciousness perspective why physical pain was so refractory and impervious to our willed suggestions. An exploration from the consciousness perspective, as explained by Sri Aurobindo, reveals that the Supreme Consciousness which creates and sustains the worlds is actually coeval with an inherent Energy or Force so that whatever is intended to be created is immediately and spontaneously executed with accuracy, precision and harmony. If this were not so, the universal harmony would have been missing and we would not have been able to construct laws that govern the universe. Sri Aurobindo calls this complex amalgam as Consciousness-Force or Cit-Śakti. However, during the evolutionary process, there develops a hiatus between Consciousness and Force, between Knowledge and Will, between awareness and action so that a variegated multiplicity develops to make the creation rich and vibrant, teeming with infinite possibilities and potentialities. This hiatus is present at every plane of consciousness. With a progressive evolution of consciousness, this hiatus is gradually worked upon so that at higher levels of consciousness, there is a new synthesis of Knowledge and Will in a new poise heralding perfection in human life.
At the level of the mind, the hiatus between Consciousness and Force is reflected in doubts and preferential thinking, in misplaced values giving rise to the conflict between knowledge and will. This dissonance between knowledge and will results in multiple investigations in chronic cases and doctor-shopping. Cognitive therapists act at this level in individual subjects to somehow make a working compromise, though a real improvement can come only when one lifts the consciousness above the thinking mind to higher cognitive matrices.
At the level of the vital (the emotional repertoire), the gap between Consciousness and Force is maintained by our desire-soul and the turbulence of passions. This is why probably anti-depressants can reduce physical pain in a significant number of cases. There are therapies that work at this level, especially those inspired by Buddhist teachings, though it is difficult to heal this gap unless one has access to the secret Bliss-principle that pervades all existence and forms along with Consciousness-Force and Existence the ultimate Reality-principle of Sachchidananda.
At the level of the physical consciousness, the Consciousness and Force are not as differentiated as at the planes of the mind and vital and the hiatus is filled up with inertia or tamas arising from the Inconscience. This is not surprising as evolution begins from the Inconscience and the physical consciousness unfolds before the vital and the mind manifest. The resistance offered by inertia against the transmuting changes of the higher planes makes it difficult for the human will (belonging either to the subject or to the therapist) to suggest or impose itself on the physical plane. That is why one finds it difficult to cure a purely physical problem like pain by one's willpower or through any form of psychotherapeutic suggestion unless temporarily one's focus is shifted elsewhere during a hypnotic trance which of course is successful only in highly selective subjects open to suggestions. Sri Aurobindo explains that:
"fundamentally, all pain and suffering are the result of an insufficient consciousness-force in the surface being which makes it unable to deal rightly with self and Nature or unable to assimilate and to harmonise itself with the contacts of the universal Energy; they would not exist if in us there were an integral presence of the luminous Consciousness and the divine Force of an integral Being (2)."
It follows therefore that the conquest of physical pain requires a tapping of the hitherto concealed body-consciousness coupled with a decisive working through the inertia of Inconscience, an endeavour that needs a new technology of consciousness to be developed. That is the new challenge posed to the practitioners of the 'greater psychology' of the future.
2. Sri Aurobindo. SABCL, Volume 18. 1970, p. 600.


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Dish Network urges FCC to kill Charter-Time Warner Cable megamerger
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 4:28 pm Wednesday, October 14, 2015 6 Comments
"Dish Network Corp said on Tuesday it filed a petition asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny the proposed merger of Charter Communications Inc and Time Warner Cable, citing substantial harm to competitors and consumers," Rosmi Shaji reports for Reuters.
"The petition said that the proposed deal would be no better for the public interest than the one proposed between Comcast Corp and Time Warner Cable," Shaji reports. "Dish also noted that a Time Warner-Charter merger would result in two broadband providers, the other being Comcast, controlling about 90 percent of U.S. high-speed broadband networks."
Shaji reports, "Dish also quoted Sling TV Chief Executive Roger Lynch, who said the proposed merger would harm other emerging competitive online video products and services, and also affect the performance of traditional satellite television service, ultimately reducing competition and choice for consumers."
MacDailyNews Take: The U.S. needs more competition in the broadband Internet and television content delivery, not less.
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TowerTone
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 5:35 pm
Well, Hell,….of course they do.
From my POV: I've been railing on Time Warner Cable to lose the blatant and consistent USER ABUSE. And to my total surprise, they've now publicly vowed to do exactly that!
At one point, while TWC were at their worst, I championed having Charter buy them specifically because Charter had a far better reputation. But now, Charter's rep has fallen, so I don't see the point.
∑ = I hope TWC can now stand on its own two feet again without having to stamp their customers into the ground. As ever: The Customer = Collaborator, or you're doing capitalism wrong.
BTW: Charter's first attempt to buy TWC was a few months before Comcast made the attempt. TWC like'd Comcast's offer better and turned down Charter's initial offer. After Comcast's offer got the boot, Charter reinstated its offer.
I love Dish Network. Just sayin'.
emmayche
Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 11:36 am
While the USA certainly needs more competition, it's not clear to me why preventing the merger of two entities whose service areas do not overlap in any case, and who are prevented from competing with each other, would stifle any existing competition.
Now if you're proposing that one should be able to select their cable provider as well as their telephone provider – well, now maybe you've got a point. But people in Anaheim can't choose Cox, and people in my area of San Diego can't choose Time Warner, because the service areas are exclusive. At the moment, it's the nature of the beast.
That should be "…would ENCOURAGE competition."
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Arizona State 72, Mississippi State 67
When: 11:00 PM ET, Monday, November 19, 2018
Where: T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada
Officials: # Lucas Santos, # Ray Natili, # Olandis Poole
Attendance: N/A
By Field Level Media
Kimani Lawrence scored a career-high 22 points, including a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 37 seconds remaining, and Arizona State beat No. 15 Mississippi State 72-67 on Monday in the semifinals of the MGM Resorts Main Event in Las Vegas.
The Sun Devils will play Utah State in the tournament final Wednesday. Mississippi State will oppose Saint Mary's in a consolation game.
Luguentz Dort had 17 points and nine rebounds for the Sun Devils (4-0), who lost all of an 18-point, first-half lead before recovering in the final minute. Remy Martin had 16 points and seven assists, and Zylan Cheatham had 12 points and nine rebounds for Arizona State.
Aric Holman compiled 22 points and 10 rebounds, Nick Weatherspoon had 13 points and Quinndary Weatherspoon had 12 points for the Bulldogs (3-1), who had risen two spots in the latest AP Top 25 released Monday.
Arizona State used a 26-6 run to take a 39-21 lead late in the first half. The Sun Devils were up by 15 at halftime before the Bulldogs opened the second half on a 10-0 run to get back in the game. It was close most of the rest of the way.
Holman's 3-pointer with 2:45 remaining got the Bulldogs within 65-63, and Nick Weatherspoon tied the game on a jumper with 1:02 remaining.
Lawrence's open 3-pointer from the right corner put the Sun Devils back in front, and Martin hit two free throws with 18 seconds remaining for a five-point lead. After Lamar Peters sank two free throws, Lawrence scored on a dunk.
Peters finished with 10 points.
Arizona State shot 44.8 percent from the field and limited the Bulldogs to 36.2 percent shooting. The Bulldogs made 8 of 30 3-point attempts to Arizona State's 7 of 17. The Sun Devils also had a 40-34 rebounding edge
Top Game Performances
Mississippi State Arizona State
Aric Holman 22 Scoring Kimani Lawrence 22
Lamar Peters 6 Assists Remy Martin 7
Aric Holman 10 Rebounds Zylan Cheatham 9
Nick Weatherspoon 3 Free Throws Made Remy Martin 6
Aric Holman 2 Steals Luguentz Dort 2
Abdul Ado 3 Blocks Zylan Cheatham 1
Team Stats Summary
Team Points FG% 3PM-3PA FTM-FTA Assists Rebounds Blocks Steals Turnovers
Mississippi State 67 36.2 8-30 9-10 16 33 5 6 10
Arizona State 72 44.8 7-17 13-18 15 37 2 5 12


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Brooke and Ridge Reach an Impasse After She Declares That Deacon Has Changed
Candace Young
Thursday, December 9th, 2021
Thursday, December 9, 2021: Today on The Bold and the Beautiful, Steffy and Thomas wonder what might have been, Bill doubles down on his advice to Liam, and Ridge predicts trouble.
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At Forrester Creations, Steffy apologizes to Ridge for what she said about Brooke — she's his wife. Thomas interjects that Taylor was too. Ridge says he loved Taylor very much they had many great years together. Thomas complains that Brooke ruined it. Ridge knows how difficult that was for them, but his love for them never wavered. Thomas says that doesn't change the fact that he chose a life with Brooke over a life with them and their mother. Talk turns back to the situation with Deacon and Thomas points out that Brooke is taking Hope's side against him. The Logans always do this. Steffy and Thomas remind Ridge that Taylor was always on his side and they are too.
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At the cabin, Hope is seeing the change in Deacon and thinks her mother is too. Deacon flashes Brooke a sly smile she can't help but return. He reminds Hope that Brooke's in a difficult situation. Hope snipes about Ridge making things more difficult. Deacon gets that Ridge sees him as a human bulldozer, there to wreck their lives. Hope hates that he thinks of her father that way. Brooke defends Ridge. Hope reiterates that, like she told Ridge, if she's wrong about her father — which she's not — she will live with the consequences. She doesn't want it to affect her mother's marriage. Brooke reassures her, but Deacon knows as long as he's in the picture there will be upset.
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At Il Giardino, Bill scoffs at Deacon trying to reconnect with his Hope — it's a con and she's falling for it. He's pushing all her buttons. He insists Liam will have to try harder — he cannot let Deacon get close to his wife and children! Liam can't just tells his wife what to do, but Bill gets heated warning that he's targeted Hope and his next target will be his granddaughter. "MY granddaughter!" Liam wonders how he thinks Hope will react to him drawing a line in the sand. Not only will it strain their marriage, it will push her closer to Deacon. Bill feels if he does nothing, Deacon will get further entrenched in their lives.
Bill offers, again, to step in, but Liam doesn't think that's a good idea and reflects that it wasn't that long ago Hope didn't want HIM around. He doesn't want to appear insensitive to her. Bill says he's a great husband, but he is not wrong about Deacon. Just because Hope doesn't see it, doesn't mean it isn't true. Deacon will always be big time trouble. Bill figures that Deacon's first plans to get in good with Hope and then he'll make his move, whatever it is. He urges Liam to protect his family — there's not fault in that.
At the cabin, Deacon assures Hope and Brooke he has no angles and isn't that guy anymore. He's realized that's what important is being in Hope's life as her dad, and being in Brooke's life as their daughter's dad. Brooke watches as Hope and Deacon embrace.
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At Forrester Creations, Steffy and Thomas want Ridge to see that Brooke is forcing him to make a choice again. They can see the toll it's taking on him. Thomas feels Brooke is always surrounded by scandal and Deacon's back for a repeat performance. Steffy says they'll always wonder what it would have been like if he'd stayed with their mother. "Do you wonder that too sometimes?"
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At Il Giardino, Deacon meets with a staff member named Paul who wants him to clean up. Deacon flashes to telling Hope he's realized what's important in life, sighs, and starts mopping.
At the cabin, Liam tells Hope he met with Bill. She muses that it's nice to have a fatherly presence; both of them grew up without their dads. He has Bill to rely on and… Liam knows that his dad, like Deacon, is no saint, but the difference is that Bill's callousness gets channeled into providing for and protecting his family, while for Deacon it's the exact opposite. Deacon Sharpe doesn't give, he takes. Hope is asking Liam to trust her as his wife. "I do believe in my dad."
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In Brooke's living room, she paces and stops to look at a framed photo of her and Ridge. Suddenly, he comes in. She tells him she was down talking to Hope and Deacon showed up. Ridge starts, "Yeah, well he never misses an opportunity…" Brooke doesn't want to talk about Deacon, she just wants him to know that he can't ask Hope to leave. He doesn't need to protect them; she's had her eyes wide open since Deacon came to town — but she has noticed a difference. "He has changed." Ridge scoffs that he'll find a bar, start drinking again, and in the end, someone's going to get hurt. "He hasn't changed at all."
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In the back room at Il Giardino, Deacon puts the mop away, rolls his neck and lays back on a chair. He thinks about telling Brooke how much it means that she stuck up for him and supported his relationship with Hope.
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Next on The Bold and the Beautiful: Taylor returns to Los Angeles.
As they veer toward another crossroads, look back on Brooke and Ridge's long and storied history in the photo gallery below.
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Brooke and Ridge met at an event where Brooke, a young woman from the Valley, was working as a server. When his marriage plans to Caroline fell apart when her father exposed his fling with a model, Ridge took up with Brooke and Caroline became engaged to his brother, Thorne. Much manipulation, a miscarriage, and proposals ensued and Ridge ended up married to Caroline, who died in his arms of cancer, but not before asking Brooke to look after him after she was gone.

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Brooke married Ridge's father, Eric Forrester, and together they had two children, Rick and Bridget, who was originally believed to be Ridge's. Ridge, meanwhile, fell for the late Caroline's doctor, Taylor Hayes, and married her. They went on to have a son, Thomas, and twin girls, Steffy and Phoebe.

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Amid the goings-on in their other relationships, Ridge helped Brooke celebrate the creation of her BeLieF formula by making love to her in the Forrester Creations lab, where there were — oops — cameras recording them. She was married to Eric at the time and he went on to marry Taylor.

When Brooke ended up at odds with the Forrester family, who wanted the rights to her BeLieF formula, Ridge stepped in to try and persuade her, but it backfired. Ridge was astonished as Brooke gained control of 51% of Forrester and took over with help from her lawyer, Connor Davis.

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When his wife Taylor was killed on a trip to the Middle East, Ridge married Brooke in a romantic ceremony on the beach at Point Dume. On their honeymoon, they were hosted by Prince Omar Rashid of Morocco at his palace, where Taylor turned up alive… because, of course she did.

Brooke and Ridge went their separate ways when she married Grant Chambers and he and Taylor went through an ordeal with psychotic Morgan DeWitt. When Brooke took up with Thorne, Ridge opposed the relationship along with his family, so tricked her into admitting she would always love him — with Thorne within earshot. Sound familiar? Years later, Katie would ovehear Bill confessing a similar sentiment to Brooke.

Though Brooke fired Ridge from Forrester for constantly clashing with Rick, they grew closer again after he went to work with Mossimo, who was later revealed to be his biological father.

After putting Brooke in charge of what had formerly been Spectra Fashions and renaming it Logan Designs, Ridge got down on one knee and popped the question. The pair were later married in the jungles of South Africa… where Ridge was kidnapped by Sheila and fell into a giant furnace. A grieving Brooke hooked up with Ridge's new half-brother, Nick Marone, and, unsurprisingly, another annullment ensued.

Though Nick was initially named as the father of Brooke's baby, testing ultimately revealed that Ridge was indeed the father. Brooke and Ridge named their son RJ or Ridge Jr.

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After nearly freezing to death whilst trapped in a mineshaft with Bridget, losing his memory after a fall from a barstool and being spirited away to Italy by Morgan DeWitt, Ridge was returned to his Logan. However, his mother Stephanie manipulated him into marrying Taylor. When some sordid revelations put the kibosh on that marriage, however, Ridge resumed his pursuit of Brooke. At one point, he flirted with Donna to get her attention. Ridge ended up proposing at a fashion show.

Ridge lost Brooke when he punched her son, Rick, and that kicked off a dark period that included Ridge going to jail for killing Shane McGrath, Brooke being raped by Andy Johnson, and Ridge's daughter Phoebe dying in a car crash. There was also a blip during which time Ridge and Brooke's latest marriage was ruled invalid due to a clerical error and Ridge made love to Taylor while on anti-anxiety medication. But despite the rather major setbacks, Ridge made peace with Rick and he and Brooke were remarried.

Ridge was understanding when Brooke inadvertently made love to her daughter Hope's boyfriend, Oliver, believing him to be Ridge behind his mask, but when she was stranded with his son Thomas after a plane crash, and his son declared that they'd been intimate, it was curtains for their relationship once again.

After Ridge learned that Stephanie had coerced Thomas into lying about having sex with Brooke by offering him her 25% stake in Forrester, he went back to her. While in Italy for Hope and Liam's wedding, Ridge proposed to Brooke beneath an olive tree in a particularly swoon-worthy moment.

Brooke and Ridge were married in the Forrester living room in what has become something of an, ahem, tradition in the family. In an unprecedented move, Stepahanie gave her blessing. Unfortunately, Ridge became miffed when Brooke took to texting with Deacon Sharpe about their daughter, Hope, and ran off to Europe for a year, during which time his mother died and he honored her request to stay away.

In a gushingly romantic scenario awash in rose petals and such, Ridge came home from Europe and surprised his "Logan", who was sitting by the fountain. He walked down the stairs toward her and took her into his arms as she looked into his face, which she hadn't seen in so long it almost looked new…

Ah yes, the new face… which Brooke proceeded to smack soundly once the romance of it all had worn off. Anyway, the two decided to — what else — marry again, but the plans hit a snag when Ridge learned that Brooke had an affair with Bill. Things eventually went as far as another living room ceremony, but Katie, who had fallen for Ridge herself, halted the action by faking a faint and having to be rushed to the hospital.

Ridge tried to stop Brooke's wedding to Bill in Abu Dhabi, spiriting her away up the beach to a helicopter… from which he was dumped into the sea by Bill's right-hand man, Justin. His resulting injuries led to him needing the help of young Caroline Spencer to draw, and they fell in love. Brooke and Ridge were apart until his marriage to Caroline ended when she had a son with Thomas. A grown RJ returned to town and helped his dad win Brooke over from Bill.

The often-marrieds tied the knot again, but not until Ridge made things right with Brooke after she caught him kissing Quinn in Australia, where they were attending Liam and Steffy's wedding together. Unsurprisingly, the pair were wed under Stephanie's portrait at the mansion.

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Q: Change figure numbering for appendix - when using endfloat and double spacing I am trying to change the format of the figure numbering for the appendix of my document.  I also want to use double spacing in the document and to use the endfloat package.  For the basic case of just changing the format of figure numbering, I can follow along perfectly with the example in this answer to this question: Change figure numbering for appendix.  But, when I try to add both the endfloat package and double spacing, the solution falls apart.  What is curious is that either on their own works fine.  Below is a minimal working example, based on the answer cited above.  If I make either of the below two modifications, the example successfully changes the format of the figure numbering, but lacking that, it does not:

*

*Comment out \begin{spacing}{2} and \end{spacing}

*Comment out \usepackage[notablist,nofiglist,nomarkers]{endfloat} and \processdelayedfloats
.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[notablist,nofiglist,nomarkers]{endfloat}  %% places all figures and tables at the end.
\usepackage{setspace} % Allows for double spacing
\begin{document}

\begin{spacing}{2}

Body Text.

\begin{figure}
\centering\rule{1cm}{1cm}
\caption{This is a figure}
\end{figure}

\processdelayedfloats

\appendix
\renewcommand\thefigure{\thesection.\arabic{figure}}
\section{Appendix}
\setcounter{figure}{0}

Appendix Text.

\begin{figure}
\centering\rule{1cm}{1cm}
\caption{This is a figure in appendix A}
\end{figure}

\end{spacing}
\end{document}

I also tried the solution suggested here.  I don't believe it worked, but the question was not set up with any kind of reproducible example, nor did the answer make very clear how / where it was to be implemented, so it is possible there is a mechanism using those techniques that is eluding me.

A: The nesting introduced by \begin{spacing}...\end{spacing} prevents \thefigure working as desired -- the change done with \renewcommand is only local, but not working outside, i.e. during the writing process with endfloat at the end of the document, i.e. beyond the spacing environment. The solution is to use \gdef\thefigure{...} to enable the change globally.
This will change any \thefigure of course, but since this is to be done in the appendix, this should not cause troubles, in my opinion.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[notablist,nofiglist,nomarkers]{endfloat}  %% places all figures and tables at the end.
\usepackage{setspace} % Allows for double spacing
\begin{document}

\begin{spacing}{2}

Body Text.

\begin{figure}
\centering\rule{1cm}{1cm}
\caption{This is a figure}
\end{figure}

\processdelayedfloats

\appendix
\gdef\thefigure{\thesection.\arabic{figure}}
\section{Appendix}
\setcounter{figure}{0}

Appendix Text.

\begin{figure}
\centering\rule{1cm}{1cm}
\caption{This is a figure in appendix A}
\end{figure}

\end{spacing}
\end{document}

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As we reflect upon the tremendous gifts that God grants to us, Easter is the time of utmost celebration for the Church. The resurrection show us of God's desire for us to have perfect reconciliation with Him. I encourage all of us to make our Sunday obligation of the highest priority as we gather together throughout the year to joyfully give thanks to that God is with us even through death and into eternal life. Continuing to allow God to gather us together as a family should.
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Q: Eclipse Error Debug I am new on the Eclipse, I am trying to debbug a simple code. But when I start the debug, some error occurs, and I dont understand why.]1
Here tell me that I am using obsolete methods. And have 2 variables that the debbug dont see that is "resultZero" and "resultOne"
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Exercise22.java
public class Exercise22 {

    public static void main(String[] args){

        int[] A = new int[20];
        float countZero = 0;
        float countOne = 0;
        float resultZero = 0;
        float resultOne = 0;

        for (int i = 0; i<A.length; i++){
            A[i] = (int)Math.round(Math.random() * 1);
            if (A[i] == 0){
                countZero += 1;
                } else {
                countOne += 1;
                }
             }
        for (int i = 0; i<A.length; i++){
        System.out.println("Value: " + A[i]);
        }

        resultZero = (countZero / A.length) * 100;
        resultOne = (countOne / A.length) * 100;

        System.out.println("Zero: " + resultZero + "%");
        System.out.println("One: " + resultOne + "%");

    }
}

A: This error message indicates that you are doing hot code replace, and that
the frames on the stack no longer match the class files in the running VM.
Restarting your debug session/target VM should suffice.
If this does not work.. then the second reason reason could be.. you are running the application before the build complete. Try once that , you can also change setting for that at
see Preferences

Run/Debug > Wait for ongoing build to complete before launching.

A: You were trying to change your code in the middle of the debug and eclipse some times launches that error when you run a code and the build isn't complete. Just create a new project and copy your code there. There's a more elegant solucion found here: "https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/57630/" but it will only work if you have a eclipse 3.0 or above. SInce you didn't mentioned the version you are using, I found best to give you alternatives.


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Popping Up: Diamond Rings
Erika Brooks Adickman | October 8, 2012 6:30 am
Diamond Rings (real name John O'Regan) wants to be a pop star. Scratch that, Diamond Rings is a pop star, most people just don't know it yet. But they will, once his second album Free Dimensional drops on October 22.
With his debut LP Special Affections, John O took elements of post-punk (gloomy-sounding vocals, shards of streamlined riffs) and channeled it through charismatic synth-pop for a cohesive blast of neon glam. At times whimsical, at times minimalist, the effort was always brimming with confidence. We caught up with the performer ahead of his sophomore album's release, and he promised this record is even sweatier and more confident. Watch our interview with him up top, and read on for more Diamond Rings shine.
FULL NAME: John O'Regan
HOMETOWN: Diamond Rings hails from Toronto.
HEIGHT: 6'5 (not including his hair)
SOUNDS LIKE: The disaffected baritone of Joy Division's Ian Curtis gliding over dance hall electro-pop. Tears For Fears crossed with Wham!. The Human League with an edge.
INFLUENCES: Musically: "Grace Jones…Madonna…N.W.A. Devo…Kraftwerk…Kanye…" With fashion, he's "drawn to artists who not only make great music but also have a real strong personal sense of style."
The pop artist even finds inspiration from professional sports having"[grown] up watching tons of hockey and basketball, really drawn to the colors and the logos and the iconography that goes with sports." Now that he mentions it…we're noticing the Brooklyn Nets logo (partly designed by Jay-Z) bears a resemblance to the Diamond Rings emblem. As the Canadian points out, "athletes and pop stars play in big stadiums, and it's about presenting an image that's strong and sophisticated."
ON TOURING WITH ROBYN: John revealed that he, "picked up a lot from her just by watching what she does in sound check and on stage and just as a professional." He also shared this little known fact about the Swede, "She also is really, really good at skipping [rope]." Now, when the Toronto-based crooner tours he packs a jump rope so he can skip and get his energy going before heading on stage with some of the tricks he learned from the Bodytalk songbird.
IF HE COULD COLLABORATE WITH A FELLOW CANADIAN?: It's not Justin Bieber or Carly Rae Jepsen, but fellow T.O.-based artist Drake. "I really like what he's doing, not just artistically, but for Toronto…For a long time Canadians were trying to, I think, imitate what was going on in America or what was going on in the U.K. I think part of the reason things are going so great back home right now is we're finally starting to embrace this idea that being Canadian is fine…It's about being real and owning where you're from." He credits all three with opening doors for artists like himself. And if Carly or JB gave him a call John wouldn't turn it down (of course), but Drizzy is "where it's at".
WHAT'S NEXT: For starters, Free Dimensional his upcoming album. Diamond Rings says the LP is "stronger" from a production standpoint, a lot more "confident" and "fun". "It's everything that the first album wanted to be, but couldn't," John explained to us. On his latest tour Diamond rings has live band for the first time which means "all [his] energy now is directed towards the crowd". (Lucky us!)
Diamond Rings talks Free Dimensional:
Are you taking a shining to Diamond Rings?
Tags: Diamond Rings, Featured Video, Popping Up, Rita Ora


The concept of a national broadband network (NBN) has been developed by governments around the world who are continuously examining the status of their infrastructure, assessing the sector and deciding whether existing networks need to be modernised or extended. This process of examination has given rise to the concept of an open fibre broadband network stimulated by government.
As part of its Regulatory and Policy Committee's mission, the FTTH Council MENA is committed to strengthening its cooperation with policy makers, governments and regulators in the region in order to positively influence relevant NBN policy development and have a positive impact on broadband deployment in general, and FTTH rollout in particular.
The FTTH Council MENA commissioned this report from Ventura Team to survey the current status of NBN policies in the MENA region in order to identify the most effective generic approach to help policy makers, governments and regulators make the right decisions in the matter of NBN policy and accelerate the FTTH deployment.
The Executive Summary briefly describes the key findings before getting into the full details of each section. It is recommended to use the summary for a quick overview and for public communication.
We believe it is worth to focus on the execution of NBN plans in each country due to the general circumstances in the region that are rapidly changing from business and political perspectives. This will help the acceleration of FTTH deployment in the MENA region.


As some readers of this blog may know , my company ArSol Software was hired by Igo Software to develop several multimedial units about culture and historic sites of Extremadura state on Spain.
To develop this project, I hired three squeakers from here, Argentina, and I'm really very happy with the results. The team is geographically disperse and I coordinated the work only by Internet, using mostly mail and some chat. Thanks you guys Alejandro, Javier and Francisco by your fantastic work!.
IGO Software provided the graphical, video and audio resources and we built the units (one Squeak application by unit) using the framework FMA, originally developed by Diego Gómez Deck.
Each unit will be available on 3 languages (Spanish, English and Portuguese) and will run on touch screens on different places of the Extremadura state. The target users are the tourists that want to have a quick trip by the historical sites, before doing the real trip.
All this project is yet in development phase, but we want to share thiese first screens of some of the units, until the moment that the Consejería de Cultura de la Junta de Extremadura release the complete applications.
These units show different sort of games, as trivia and puzzles, that the user must follow, learning lot of details of each topic. A voice help is available on any topic, to help responding.
As usual on the Extremadura projects, all the software is o pen sourced and is available to download from Squeaksource, under the name Albaplata project.


It was our 15th anniversary last week! Since we had already been out for dinner that same week (as mentioned in this post) we decided to cook at home. We both like doing that so it was fun for us, although we will probably go out to a restaurant for dinner sometime in the upcoming weeks too. We had originally planned to do some travelling to celebrate the momentous occasion but circumstance has caused us to postpone that until sometime in the spring.
The day began as they usually do, with Nick making some cappuccino. (He heats the milk in the microwave and makes the foam with the little gadget described in here post, and tops it with a sprinkle of mixed spices as described here).
You might think the mug with hearts was chosen especially because it was our anniversary, but the truth is that this, the only novelty type mug we have, has been in regular rotation since I picked it up as a little present for Nick for Valentine's Day a few years ago.
Then we had grilled cheese sandwiches made with Nick's homemade bread, some aged cheddar and sliced tomatoes. In case you're wondering, it looks like there are grill marks on the bread but these were made in a regular frying pan. The marks were a result of the pattern the knife made when cutting the bread.
The cotton hearts on sticks are something I made for Valentine's Day a couple of years ago (and showed on the blog here). They also do double duty as decorations for anniversaries.
I've mentioned before that I'm a fan of xbox games so I played a little while Nick popped over to get some groceries for our meal. Like any fellow gamers out there, you know you've really enjoyed a game when you see it through to the very end, what we call 'Seeing Credits' around here. The conversation usually goes something like, 'awe, I saw credits', which translates to mean that it was an excellent game and we're sad it's over. Anyway, so the credits rolled on the game I had played, a secondhand surprise find that we both loved, called 'Dishonored' from 2012. As you can see by the screenshot that Susan Sarandon and Carrie Fisher voiced a couple of the characters in the game.
Then we took a walk to buy ourselves a small anniversary souvenir. The traditional gift for a 15th anniversary is 'crystal' and we happened to need some wine glasses, so we got some crystal ones. Then we needed to get something to put into those glasses, so our next stop was the liquor store to get some wine to go with dinner.
The store we went to is at Spadina and King street, where I was excited to see this building under scaffolding. It was built as a hotel in 1873 and over the years had begun to show its age. (I did a post about it here so you can see what it looked like. Now it looks like it is going to be completely refurbished, which is excellent news. I so look forward to seeing what unfolds there.
Our walk home took us along King Street. As opposed to how the weather was on the day we got married, so warm that we didn't even need coats, this day saw our first light snowfall of the year.
A sneak peek at a beautiful building I will tell you about in an upcoming post soon.
When we got home I made us some chocolate covered strawberries for dessert, while Nick did some work in our home office.
Nick started on dinner by prepping some carrots and small potatoes for roasting in the oven, while I set the table.
The tablecloth with the hearts on it is something I got on sale the first year we were married, in the 'leftovers from Valentine's Day' section at Winners. It gets pulled out for the week of our anniversary and, of course, for Valentine's Day every year. I remember when I bought it, along with 4 matching napkins, that I had no idea how often we would use such a thing but it was inexpensive and the newly-wed in me took it home with dreams of many romantic dinners to come. In hindsight I am glad I got it way back then, as it has been an enjoyable little detail to have in our lives, which has now come to signify many happy years together.
We opened the wine, Zolo Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon from Argentina, and decanted it to let it air. We found the wine in the Vintages section of the store, and both really liked and would recommend it.
I stepped outside to pick the final herbs and quickly moved the rosemary and oregano plant inside, where I hope they'll live through the winter.
Our main course was Filet Mignon that Nick bought at a place on Queen Street West called The Healthy Butcher. Their mission statement is 'To ensure your food is produced the way nature intended.' He cooked it under the boiler, over a bed of finely cut white onions and chopped dates, that he topped the meat with for serving.
Here's a very important member of our household. Eddie has been with us from almost the beginning, after we brought him in from the streets 12 1/2 years ago.
We ended the evening with a spot of Netflix, watching a couple of episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine that our friend Andrea turned us on to. It's pretty hilarious.
And that wraps up our day in pictures. Having such a small family leaves us with few of the more traditional reasons that people celebrate in life, so we like to make a bit of fuss over our anniversary every year.
Nice! Happy Anniversary you two!
Happy Anniversary, you gorgeous pair! I love how much effort you put into celebrating, no wonder you're such a happy couple.
Aw, what an amazing day! Happy Anniversary, you guys. Your happiness makes me happy!!
You're so sweet Julie. Knowing you makes me happy!
It looks like your special day was full of love, and delicious food, and a cute kitty.
Happy Anniversary !! a lovely post with wonderful pictures to match.
Happy 15 Anniversary! So many lovely details to make it special and romantic. Such great pictures!
Aw how sweet! I'm a little late but Happy Anniversary!!


Home » Help » FAQs » How do different gene metadata, symbol (name) and description (function), works for the same gene?
How do different gene metadata, symbol (name) and description (function), works for the same gene?
The gene metadata are symbol (name), e.g., rpl2 or gprop5 and description (function), e.g., ribosomal protein L2 or long wavelength sensitive opsin. The choice of a gene name where there are alternative transcripts with their own names is made on the basis of which is the 'best' name, where 'best' is a ranking of 'species-specific name resource' > SwissProt > other stuff. Where there are 2 transcript names with the same rank ... it's random.
Note that some genes (or multigene families) are confusing because some community gene models may have been named differently by different scientist/labs - these different gene names can be found in the synonyms section of the gene page.


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BigFish offers alternative to conventional schools
New program for 12-19-year-olds opens in Dover Jan. 8
Martha Merrow news@fosters.com
DOVER — Keeping young students motivated and interested in their schoolwork can be a challenge. The opening of a new self-directed learning facility in Dover, BigFish Learning Community, presents a radical solution: Let the kids decide what they want to learn.
A few of BigFish's mantras are "learning is natural, school is optional" and "set a course, make a journey, recalculate, and set the course again."
The nonprofit community is part of the Liberated Learners Network, a system of alternative learning programs in the nation for unconventional students. BigFish plans to formally open its doors at the McConnell Center on Jan. 8, according to founder and director Diane Murphy. The alternative education community has already had a few contracted students.
Murphy was a public school teacher for more than 30 years, but left her position and decent salary when she began to see more and more of her students lose sight of their dreams and motivations, she said.
"Kids love to learn until it gets beaten out of them," she said.
She said she was able to take the risk and make the initial investment to get BigFish off the ground. Eventually, she hopes it will pay for itself. BigFish relies on tuition, donors and its board of directors, she said.
BigFish encourages students to act more like adults, and to think critically about how they use their time both in school and at home, Murphy said. "Sometimes you need to waste time, in order to learn how to use it," she said.
BigFish will offer a variety of classes, from traditional math and English to herbalism, rock climbing 101, and teen finance. Students can request to teach their own classes as well, with help from a mentor. There will be no grades or requirements, but students will be expected to make a commitment to what they choose to study, according to the BigFish website.
Holly Elkins, president of the BigFish board, said the learning community exemplifies the kind of environment she would have thrived in, if it had been available when she was in school. "I'm a liberated learner. I've continued to go back to school time and time again to research things that pop up on my pathway of learning," she said.
BigFish will have three paid teachers: Diane Murphy, Amy Trueworthy and Darren Tapp, along with help from a network of volunteers, mentors, and school teachers, Murphy said.
In lieu of grades, students and staff will keep an electronic portfolio of all the work they have done, Murphy said. This portfolio can be used as evidence when it comes time for students to apply for college if they choose to, she said. Murphy said mentors and teachers at BigFish will help students prepare for college-required standardized tests like the SAT and ACT, if needed.
Although the status quo at BigFish is relaxed, Elkins affirmed that students are receiving a meaningful education by thoughtful and qualified teachers.
"Everyone associated with us has multiple degrees and certifications from universities. We are responsible humans. And if students need to be qualified for something, the same standardized tests available to any other student are available to BigFish students," she said.
Amy Trueworthy said she has taught Spanish at the middle and high school levels in both private and public schools, but learned through teaching at BigFish that alternative education presents a new way of living through learning.
"Students in high school are constantly living for the future. Waiting for what comes next, waiting to do what they really want to do. But when graduation comes, what's next? What do you wait for? BigFish is about living and learning in the moment," she said.
Schools have always been an efficient system designed to reach the masses, Murphy said. "An industrialized system might work for some, but times have changed and we want to create something more personalized for students." According to Murphy, BigFish is a flip of that system and a place for teenagers who want to be in control of their own lives and learning.
One of BigFish's first students, a high school sophomore named Jeremy, said he left public school in February to receive treatment for anxiety and depression. When he returned, he had missed a considerable amount of work and felt overwhelmed by his school's expectations to immediately bounce back. "My school didn't seem to care about me, so I realized I had better options at BigFish," he said.
One of his first projects as a student at BigFish is building a tiny house with his mentor, Murphy's husband, Pat, he said. He hopes to take music and tech classes at the learning community, and he's open to creating his own course.
Murphy said Jeremy's mother feels as if she has her son back, and that he finally feels OK in the world. "He refused to sit in the herd and learn things he didn't find meaningful," Murphy said.
To enroll in BigFish, Jeremy and other students have to register as home schoolers, Murphy said. The facility will be open for classes fours days a week, with a Friday set aside every month for field trips in areas of the students' interests, she said.
BigFish will accept students as young as 12 years old, but they have to want to change their lives, Murphy said. "What do you want to learn? What do you think you can do? We can help you get there." she said.
BigFish will have enough space, time and resources for just 20 students beginning in January. The spots are already filling up, with more families signing contracts and enrolling their children, Murphy said.
According to Murphy, BigFish's tuition is $9,000 a year. For now, financial aid is limited, as funds to support the learning community are still growing, she said. However, Murphy affirms that she wants the community to be an economically diverse one. She said the board will try to adjust the tuition where it is needed, and provide payment plans for families.
Murphy also encourages students to apply for the N.H. Children's Scholarship Fund, a nonprofit that has given families in the state hundreds of thousands of dollars and a choice to leave public schools.
Murphy said the staff at BigFish has met with Dover economic developers and the mayor, and that everyone is excited for its arrival in the community.
"People want teenagers that are genuinely interested and engaged in society." she said. She encourages Dover businesses to invest in young people and their education, by donating to BigFish and scholarship funds.
Murphy said that in a way, BigFish plays a large role in the N.H. School Choice movement, a bipartisan coalition of N.H. citizens pushing for federal funding of scholarships for low- and middle-income families, so that students can have a choice to leave their public school systems.
Murphy mentioned that BigFish would be interested in partnering with schools in the area, but that public education is "a hard ship to turn course."
"It's all about efficiency, money, and not getting sued. Schools have an enormous weight. We know students that thrive in the system, but we know too many that don't. Give us those struggling students and we can do something great," she said.
To welcome the community into a conversation about self-directed learning, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2, Murphy said BigFish will be holding an information night with leaders and students in the Liberated Learners Network in Dover's McConnell Center.
According to Murphy, BigFish will open its doors at the McConnell Center from 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 7, 14, 21 and 28, to talk with community members about ways they can mentor, teach, support and participate in the BigFish mission.
Murphy explained the meaning behind the BigFish name. "We are all big fish in our own minds. As much as we want to collaborate with others, we are the center of our own universes. We experience 7 billion points of view. At BigFish, we want to honor your point of view. There is no one way. Let us listen to young people and how they want to be guided," she said.
To learn more about BigFish Learning Community, to enroll, volunteer, or donate, visit www.bigfishnh.org or call 617-8339.


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Sophie went on to divulge how they had ditched the conventional bandwagon on their trip to Europe and thoroughly enjoyed it. They had opted out of the clichéd tourist sites and set their hearts on 4 days and 3 nights stay at a cottage. A fishing trip in a yacht and adventure sports were thrown in good measure too, to raise the fun quotient. They had a unique lifetime experience and to top it all, my chatter box friend's (myself included) were actually listening, all ears popped up. She had come armed with ample ammunition; quirky experiences, novel anecdote, and delightful snap shots. So we didn't mind not listening to our own voices for a change. The point I am trying to make here is more about travelling experience and less about our listening skills. The clinched travel itineraries fail to charm today's tourists. New age tourists (sightseer) have transformed into traveler – an experience seeker. I read about the so called "terrorist tourism" not so long ago, with Sri Lanka attracting tourist wanting to have a peek at the places devastated by LTTE or counter terrorist troops. The morality and legality of such tours is again an interesting, wired and highly debatable topic. Where can the line be drawn for satiating a traveler's curiosity? What qualifies us more as a trespasser than a tourist? Each individuals taste and circumstance dictate what they wish to undertake, so there are no easy answers to these questions.
glimpse. I convinced my daughter to come see the Monalisa with me, and my fascination for the master piece received a cruel jolted with daughter quipping "All this push and shove for such a pint sized lady?." To arouse her interest I told her all the fascinating facts and stories surrounding "Monalisa- La Gioconda". We thoroughly enjoyed our pigeon feeding activity at all stop points. The kids would invariably feel hunger at such stops and ask for snacks, which ended up being a feast for the uninhibited birds. We even took a detour to Grevin Wax Museum (touted as the Madame Tussauds of Paris) to humor the kids. We had gone with little expectationbut ended up happily posing with wax repilica's of Marlin Monroe, Elvis, Queen Elizabeth, Spiderman, Ray Charles, other greats and didn't mind a very pallid looking Shah Rukh Khan. On our arrival at Paris we were greeted by the unpredictable August showers. We braved the rains and headed for the Eiffle Tower, encouraged by the fact that we had come prepared for such eventualities, with umbrella's and raincoats. Waiting at the long queue didn't bother us as we enjoyed the enthralling weather and breathtaking architectural marvel of Eiffle. By evening when we got back from the observatory the Eiffle was decked up like a new bride. As if to add to the revelry a band of street dancers marveled all with their athletic ability and unique moves.
I was particularly impressed by the endeavor put to preserve the grandeur of the past, while incorporating elements of the present for convenience. Had we been travelling light i.e , without kids, we would have opted for the incredible cycle tours of the city. There is nothing like experiencing the city at an unhurried pace, stopping at whim and relishing the diversity it offers. Europeans not only respect the past they have an amazing sense of conservation and respect for the environment. People here prefer to walk and do not shy away from physical activity. The effect is quite apparent in the fit bodies that people double our age have. A plastic mineral water bottle is way more expensive than a glass bottle- a commendable move to discourage plastic usage. In one of the shops we stopped by, I chatted up with a Sandra Bullock look alike cashier. She directed us to an Indian restaurant, as our system was frantically clamoring for some curry, dal, chapatti, riceee. The kids actually got cured of their pizza and pasta fixation at least for a few months following the trip. My love for muffins and pastries leaped and bound however, considering the divine delectable delicacies that enticed me at almost every food stop.


A wet weather pattern is setting up this week and will peak in activity on Wednesday. The jet stream is rather strong, which will help to push the bulk of the moisture into central Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. This area to our northeast is expected to pick up 8-11 inches through the week. However, some isolated heavy amounts could occur locally as well.
Today and Tonight: On the cool side of a front, expect near normal temperatures in the low to mid 50s as north winds of 10-15mph continue. The front is far enough south that rain coverage will be minimal, save for a few sprinkles, mainly south of I-10. Some sun is possible early, especially north of I-10. The front will be working back to the north overnight with thickening clouds and a few showers. Lows will be in the low 50s.
Up Next: Conditions will continue to degrade Tuesday. An upper level trough will push into the western Gulf, and will push moisture onshore from our southwest to northeast.
Locally, heavy rain and storm activity will pick up Tuesday night through Thursday, and associated instability and wind shear could even allow a few strong thunderstorms to develop. Within southeast Louisiana and southwest Mississippi, rain amounts are likely to be in the 3 to 5 inch range. Temperatures will warm above average as the frontal system stalls across the area. Next Saturday appears to be the earliest time at which the front and active weather may finally exit eastward.
With a cold front well south into the Gulf of Mexico, some light rain or sprinkles may occur today—especially south of I-10—but will not amount to much. A surface low pressure will then develop along the tail end of the front and pull the boundary back to the north as a warm front. An associated cold front will trail this system. However, the entire complex will essentially stall over the central Gulf Coast. Meanwhile, in the upper levels of the atmosphere, a deep southwest to northeast jet stream will provide a steady stream of moisture over this boundary will occasional disturbances kicking our more distinct rounds of rain. These scenarios can lead to some heavy rain and currently expect that to be the case just north and east of the Baton Rouge area. Locally, there will be a pretty sharp gradient in rain amounts, heaviest in southwest Mississippi and lowest near the coast. One week totals of 3 to 5 inches are possible where the heaviest action occurs with 1 to 3 inches over areas south of I-10. Additionally, as the line of rain and thunderstorms pushes over the area Tuesday night into Wednesday, some instability and shear will be supportive of thunderstorms with gusty wind and possibly a tornado. The Storm Prediction Center have placed the region under a 1 out of 5 marginal risk for severe weather Tuesday and Wednesday. A cold front could make it through the area Sunday but models do not agree with moving it through clean.