Everyone wants to see the Himalayas when they come to Nepal. After three visits and four months in Nepal, I can assure you: they are definitely worth it. But what are the best places to see the Himalayas in Nepal? And where can you see them without wandering too far from comfortable accommodation options?
You cannot get a good view of Himalayas from Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. However, some other towns offer great views of the Himalayas. Scroll down to see six other towns in Nepal where you can see the Himalayas, ranked from worst to best.
The Himalayan range from the view tower of Daman Mountain Resort.
The village of Daman is located along the quiet Tribhuvan Highway at the altitude of 2300 meters. Getting there on a bus from Kathmandu takes about four hours, but the buses don't run very frequently. For seeing the Himalayas, Daman is an offbeat choice, as there are just a few guesthouses by the side of the road. Besides the views, there's not much to see or do in Daman.
The Lonely Planet guide claims that Daman boasts "arguably the most spectacular outlook on the Himalaya in the whole Nepal". A bold statement, isn't? Definitely – and I don't really agree with it. On a clear day, the view tower on the yard of Daman Mountain Resort offers a very wide panorama of the Himalayas, but the mountains look too distant to really give a spectacular impression.
The view north from a hiking path near Tansen.
I really like the lively town of Tansen, which combines authentic local culture with great views and hiking trails. The Shreenagar Hill above the town has a new viewing tower that offers great views to all directions, and you can even see the Himalayas in the north if you're lucky.
However, if you just come to see the Himalayas, there are better options available. The problem with Tansen is that it is quite far away from the central sights of Nepal. Situated between Pokhara in the north and Lumbini in the south, getting to Tansen from either of these places takes about four hours. If you're passing through the Siddhartha Highway, Tansen is a great stop in the middle. For others, Tansen might be a bit too remote stop in a limited time period.
Annapurna South peeking between clouds.
Pokhara is the second biggest city in Nepal and one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country. The beautiful lakeside area gathers both trekkers and hippies to hang out in a relaxed atmosphere. If you're lucky, you can catch a glimpse of the mountains from the town as you look across the lake. For better views, you have to get up to either the hill Sarangkot or the viewpoint of the World Peace Pagoda.
While the vies from Pokhara are great, they are hard to catch. The ride to Sarangkot takes a lot of time, so unless you book an accommodation at the top, catching the sunrise can be a drag. The weather is an even bigger issue: Pokhara is the most rainy town in Nepal, and the blue sky is often blocked by clouds. During the last few years, the monsoon season has lasted longer than before, so coming on September instead of July might not offer any relief.
A glimpse of the mountains from the yard of Hotel at the End of the Universe, Nagarkot.
The touristy mountain village of Nagarkot is one of the best places to see the Himalayas in Nepal. Getting there from the capital Kathmandu takes just a few hours, and the views from the altitude of 2200 meters can be stunning. For me, Nagarkot is like a second home where I return time and time again. Still, I don't think that Nagarkot is the best place to visit for the Himalayan views.
Spotting the Himalayas around Nagarkot used to be easier, but the construction is getting out of hand. If you walk along the roads, you just can't see the mountains, because every potential viewpoint is blocked by a new hotel or a construction site. Higher hotels are rising all the time, so you need to choose your accommodation carefully if you want to see something. When I first came to Nagarkot in 2013, the view from the Mahakali Temple close to many hotels was still impressive, but now it's almost completely blocked by trees and buildings.
While Nagarkot itself offers only limited views, you may find open areas if you stroll a bit further. There's a simple view tower 4 kilometers south from the main junction of the village, and some hiking trails might offer good views.
An outlook of the mountain range from a village between Nagarkot and Dhulikhel.
Nagarkot and Dhulikhel are perhaps two of the most popular places to see the Himalayas in Nepal. Both places are easily reached from Kathmandu, and it's even possible to hike from one village to the another in one day. While Nagarkot is more popular of the two, I'd rather recommend Dhulikhel for a few reasons.
Nagarkot mainly exists because of the views, but Dhulikhel has a lot more going on. And while Dhulikhel plenty of accommodation options, it doesn't feel too touristy. The views might also be a little bit more impressive. Dhulikhel stretches along the northern side of a hill, so there's nothing blocking the view to the north, so you get a stunning view of a valley below and the mountains at the horizon at the same time.
Children playing football in Bandipur.
The best town for spotting the Himalayas in Nepal? My vote goes to Bandipur. Easily accessible from the main highway between Kathmandu and Pokhara, Bandipur is a historical mountain village with plenty of renovated old buildings. It also offers multiple good viewpoints to the Great Himalayan Range.
Bandipur has a great central location and walking around in the town is very enjoyable. Bandipur also has one benefit that ranks it higher than places like Pokhara and Nagarkot. To see the Himalayas, you don't need to wander far from the village, so you don't need to wake up too early to see the sunrise. If the weather looks clear, you can just go for a walk and reach great viewpoints in five minutes.
Back to your blog – and enjoying it! I wonder why I have not returned to Nepal though I liked it a lot. In India though I have been three times (and not liked it so much).
I hope to find more information on your book in the next posts. Traveling and writing is a lovely combination – if you find a good place to settle down. I know a few around the world if you need a tip for the Philippines. Guatemala or Senegal for example.
Welcome back! 🙂 Nepal is definitely worth more than one visit. It's sometimes difficult to find the right places for stopping. My next stop is Brunei, which seems too expensive for longer stays, but I hope to find something more suitable in Malaysian Borneo and Indonesia.
This statement is not true. The elevation of Bandipur is only 1030m whereas Nagarkot being 2175m.
The expression "ranking higher" doesn't mean altitude. It means that Bandipur has something that makes it a more recommendable choice than Pokhara and Nagarkot.


Pendulum monsters are some of the oddest cards in Yu-Gi-Oh!, boasting multiple effects and applications. There are a ton of moving parts, such as maintaining scales and knowing which combo pieces can survive disruption. Due to this, Pendulum-based decks can be disrupted easily. Additionally, because of their need for a mix of combo pieces and scales, the room in their deck to counteract disruption is limited. For the purpose of this article, I'm going to refer to Pendulum Magicians as currently they are the most relevant Pendulum deck.
Despite the need for scales, Pendulum Magician has incredible consistency. Between Wisdom-Eye Magician, Pendulum Call and Duelist Alliance – we got searchers for your searchers! – you'll rarely ever brick. This consistency extends to combo pieces as well, since Heavymetalfoes Electrumite can "search" any Pendulum card. Pendulums do not need to go out of their way to make link arrows, since Electrumite is such a boon anyway.
Pendulum decks in general have an innate floatiness. As long as you continue to have scales, you get one monster from the Extra Deck every turn. Finally, Pendulum Magicians have access to incredible Extra Deck options. XYZ options like Supreme King Dragon Dark Rebellion and Number S39: Utopia the Lightning provide OTKs. Defensive options like Number 41: Bagooska the Terribly Tired Tapir or Norito the Moral Leader can protect the board. Harmonizing Magician also easily provides hard-hitting synchros, like Supreme King Dragon Clear Wing, PSY-Framelord Omega, and Beelze of the Diabolic Dragons.
Hand traps are definitely a main concern. Specifically, Electrumite is suspect to a plethora of hand traps. Going second can be a struggle, since resources must be carefully split between scales and combo pieces. A disruption of either part could lead to not having a proper way to break an opponent's board. In late game, the popping of scales can result in floundering to get anything on board.
The worst of this is that due to the nature of Pendulum decks – one that always needs scales and combo pieces – it is difficult to justify the inclusion of non-Pendulum cards, as it will affect consistency. In this sense, Pendulum decks will always have an inherent ceiling.
Let's go through a sample play to see how susceptible Pendulums are to hand traps.
Activate Oafdragon Magician as a (2) Scale.
Activate Duelist Alliance to search for Pendulum Call.
Activate Pendulum Call, discarding Supreme King Dragon Darkwurm, search Black Fang Magician and Harmonizing Magician.
Activate Supreme King Darkwurm's GY effect, special summon it and search Supreme King Gate Zero.
Normal Summon Purple Poison Magician. Link Summon Heavymetalfoes Electrumite using Darkwurm and Purple Poison.
(Optional) Use Electrumite's Link Summon effect, sending Wisdom-Eye Magician from Deck to the Extra Deck.
Activate Supreme King Gate Zero as a (0) Scale.
Activate Electrumite's effect, targeting and popping Gate Zero, and adding Gate Zero back to your hand. Draw a card due to Electrumite's (3) effect. Activate Black Fang Magician as an (8) scale.
Pendulum summon Harmonizing Magician and Gate from hand, and Wisdom-Eye and Purple Poison from Extra Deck to Electrumite's arrows.
Activate Harmonizing Magician's effect to Special Summon Xiangke Magician from the Deck.
Synchro Summon Psy-Framelord Omega using Harmonizing Magician and Wisdom-Eye Magician. Use Psy-Framelord Omega's effect to banish itself and a card from the opponent's hand.
XYZ Summon Odd-Eyes Absolute Dragon by overlaying Xiangke Magician and Supreme King Gate Zero.
Link Summon Zefra Metaltron by using Heavymetalfoes Electrumite and Odd-Eyes Absolute Dragon. Use Absolute's effect to summon Odd-Eyes Vortex Dragon to Zefra Metaltron's arrow.
Use Oafdragon's pendulum scale effect to add Harmonizing Magician from the Extra Deck to your hand.
The most effective hand traps are Droll & Lock Bird and Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring. They can disrupt the entire combo by decreasing consistency. Clearly, pendulums are crippled by hand traps. There are plays that can skirt around it, such as not activating Electrumite's effect in step six. However, if you are in a position to not have to have a search before you Pendulum Summon, then it's likely that you already drew a very good opener.
Pendulums are capable of OTKS via the use of Extra Deck monsters, such as Dark Rebellion or Borrelsword Dragon. If given a hand that includes Harmonizing Magician, it is totally capable of breaking most boards. If you don't draw Harmonizing, then you'll need to search it with Pendulum Call or Electrumite. Electrumite can be stopped easily, but Pendulum Call (and by extension, Duelist Alliance) is stopped by Ash Blossom, Droll, and Thunder Dragon Colossus. Pendulum Call being stopped is a death sentence.
Sustainability should theoretically not be an issue in a deck that gets two-ish cards free per turn. In between cards like Oafdragon, Harmonizing and the mechanic of Pendulums, the deck can manage to drop a Synchro or XYZ each turn. This, however, assumes that you have proper scales.
The current meta is unkind to continuous spells. Tornado Dragon can bully high or low scales, Twin Twisters is common, and decks have in-archetype ways to pop scales. Without the ability to Pendulum Summon, the deck will flounder. With access to only a normal summon, Pendulum monsters become bricks in the hand. You can extend with cards like Dragon Ravine, but that needs to be drawn. Link monsters are difficult to make after Electrumite, limiting board creation.
As a simple logical conclusion, if you do not have proper scales, you cannot Pendulum Summon. Therefore, a Pendulum deck is more consistently able to Pendulum Summon if it runs a large amount of Pendulum monsters. If Pendulum monsters are taken out for cards to break boards like Kaijus or strong non-pendulum monsters like Apex Avian, the consistency lowers.
This is the inherent flaw that caps the potential of Pendulum decks. Pendulum decks that rely on Electrumite for consistency will always be weak to hand traps, because playing cards like Called by the Grave lowers consistency. Combo protection cards are useless if you brick and can't pull off the combo in the first place. Essentially, a Pendulum deck must be made of draw, search, and Pendulum monsters above all else. This is what I believe is the most limiting factor of any Pendulum deck, and creates a ceiling: it simply does not have the space for cards to cover its weaknesses.
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Have you ever taken up running?
And I thought I was going to die. My heart burned, my muscles ached, and I was fairly certain my lungs would explode. I did it a few more times before I wimped out my previously ski-injured knee wacked out and I quit.
Buuuut from what people tell me it gets better. You force yourself to keep going time after time and each run you go a little farther. Your lungs hurt less. You don't melt into a puddle of sweat three houses down from your driveway. You turn that corner, they say, and soon you're running a mile. Or two. Or if you put in enough effort and time, you've got a 5K or a 10K or heck, even a marathon under your belt. And then you look back and it seems crazy that when you started you could barely limpjog a block without stopping.
That's what those runners say anyway.
I'm gonna just take their word for it.
That's what that first baby is in so many ways.
You think you might die some days. For many of us it is the first taste of real selflessness. I mean, yeah, you lose a part of yourself in a glorious way when you get married and it should be a constant training in selflessness but you still for the most part get to do what you want to do and you're dealing (hopefully) with a rational, self-sufficient adult. But motherhood? Totally different. The full 24/7 intensity of the situation of caring as mother for another completely dependent human being can be world shaking and mind blowing at the beginning. I mean, you want to and you know it's good and you love this little person to death but man, it really does some days feel like your lungs might explode with the intensity of it all.
Because motherhood is a muscle.
That first run starts out with grand intentions and you know it's good and love the idea of health but then when you actually start doing it? It seems impossible. So it goes for many of us with that first baby. We plan for it, pray for it, and yearn for it. The idea of motherhood is beautiful and we want to do it and do it well. But then those first few days, months, years come with a complete paradigm shift and a whole lotta trial by fire. And it's harder than we ever imagined. We doubt that we can even do it.
Yet somehow we make our way through, some days skipping, many more slogging. Through the type of tired that you never felt before and through the world shifting to all new perspectives. Through the emotional stress of loving someone in ways we never experienced and through the stunning realization that you are now completely responsible for another real human and you often can't even just sit down and use the bathroom when you want to anymore. We keep on going day after day after day. We put in the time and training and suddenly we're that runner looking back and amused that it seemed so hard at the beginning. You get used to that level of training. It's true that once you've been at the motherhood thing a while and added more than a few kids to the mix you can look back and laugh a bit. I wonder just what the heck I did with all my time back then and why I freaked out at the thought of taking a newborn to the grocery store.
The more you do it, the more you can handle. Those first few years are the first few runs down the block. They're the first few excruciating (and possibly embarrassing) times at the gym. You think you're not cut out for it. You think there must've been some huge mistake. You realize that you don't know what you're doing and maybe everyone can tell. You think you need to reevaluate just how many children you were open to anyway. But whether or not it feels like it in those excruciating moments, you're building muscle. You're being broken down so that you can become stronger.
There's nothing wrong with you for feeling the pain at the beginning because all it means is that you've started and that it's hard. There is no shame in that. It means that you know this is a good and worthwhile work and that you are giving your all to do it. And in the day after day, week after week, you are getting stronger.
And I tell myself that again.
Because while there is nothing like that first few weeks of running, the process and strength training are designed to continue. If St. Paul is correct, then we are in training until we die. And this vocation here is where we train.
Just as in running, you push yourself more or new obstacles are placed before you. Five year me-as-mother looks back with a smile at the one year me-as-mother. Eight years me-as-mother smiles back at that five year mother. A few years more pass and I stand simultaneously noticing that it's not nearly as hard as it was at eight years and yet I feel pushed harder still. We get stronger. We can handle more. And then we go further.
There is no condescension looking back. I look with appreciation for the journey and the realization that the design is working. If this is our vocation then we are meant to grow stronger each day. If we started out at the end goal, there'd be no point. Each time, each season comes with new challenges and we are pushed still farther. But we do it. And it somehow is easier and harder all at the same time. Another baby, another illness, a family stress, another trial with one of the children. They all keep us growing in virtue, breaking us down to build us up stronger.
So if you're feeling the exploding lungs and tearing of muscle, sweet lady, don't give up.
Your stamina is increasing. Your strength is growing.
Keep running that race, sweet strong sister.
"Let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith."
I tried to post a tearfully smiling emoji giving the thumbs up but it only showed question marks. Nice article. I'm already shocked at how long chores and am everything took a year ago when I was a new mom.
Oh, wow, Mary....I loved this! This is so true and you said it so well :) Blessings to you and your family!
This is so good. I have some friends who are new moms and in that desperate "I don't know what I was thinking" stage. It definitely makes us stronger.
Those moms need so much encouragement that it's okay and normal because it can definitely be a scary, overwhelming thing to go through.
This is so true, well said. Motherhood requires a different sort of stamina. Like C.S. Lewis said of experience, motherhood can also be described as "the most brutal of teachers, but you learn, my God do you learn."
You will. His grace is so good. Hope you're feeling better soon and congratulations!
Wonderfully, beautifully said. It can be hard to talk about motherhood in a way that acknowledges the challenges while also claiming the joys- you nailed it!
Thank you so much. I appreciate that a lot!
What a smart, perfect analogy. And it's encouraging to women in any stage of motherhood, because just like how you can always find a challenging workout no matter how strong you are, there are always new challenges in parenthood. It's never stagnant. (Because our workouts are also our trainers, and they're people.) So, so, so good.
Thanks, Jessica. Yes, the workouts keep going and are always changing!
This is perfect. And you need to give running a second try!
Totally needed this today... It's been such a tough week. I'm going to keep running.
This is one of the best motherhood articles I've found, and it came at the perfect time! My husband and I welcomed our first child two and a half months ago, and it turns out taking care of a baby is pretty darn challenging! I was just starting to get in that maybe-we-should-rethink-that-big-family-plan mindset when I read this... thank you for this much-needed dose of hope and encouragement!


I won the Mother of the Year Award – the one for which my girlfriends and I rigorously train and compete – the year I took my son to his preschool graduation, stayed for the picnic at the beginning and then suddenly remembered I had to grocery shop, and took him away before the actual ceremony and concert. The ceremony and concert for which the class had practiced for 4 months. The ceremony and concert for which my son, the one who has massive expressive and receptive language disorder, had learned all the words. To perform. For me.
Yep. Mm hm. I did that.
It was a brain hiccup of massive proportions. Somewhere in my pregnant mommy brain, I'd already checked off the Attend Preschool Graduation box, and, despite evidence to the contrary, thought we were done. And so we left.
When I realized a few hours later what I'd done, well, it was the gasp of horror heard around the world.
YOU WILL NEVER BELIEVE WHAT I JUST DID, I shouted to the Girlfriends in the phone. IF I DON'T WIN MOTHER OF THE YEAR FOR THIS, I QUIT!, I hollered. And they all agreed – yep; horrific enough for the sure win.
And as guilty as I felt (pretty darn), their knowing laughter and been-there sympathy was the first step toward forgiving myself.
Of course, it also helped knowing there had been other epic winners before me. Like the year Leanne took the prize for being so exhausted she slept through picking up her oldest from elementary school. And slept so deeply she didn't hear the calls from the school. And so her husband had to leave work to get the kid to rush home to find out what was wrong with his wife to open the door to find their toddler cheerfully smearing feces on absolutely every surface of their home – walls, furniture, floors, herself – while his wife slept blissfully on. Heh heh heh. I love Leanne.
One of my favorite things we do here on the blog is 5 Quick Questions. You don't know this, but I spend weeks reading and rereading your answers every time we play, because you are smart and funny and wise and inspiring and I learn something profound from each one of you. But I also read and reread for the mamaraderie. Because, oh, friends you so get me.
The Mother of the Year Award is one of my top strategies for keeping my sense of parenting humor.
How do you keep laughing when the going gets rough?
Anyone need a group of friends to share your Mother of the Year story?
Encouragement Friends I'm an enormous idiot. Just For Fun My brain quit. Schadenfreude Yeah but are we there yet?
Oh I'm terrible about perspective.
But I am working on taking their daily catastrophes a little more in stride. Lately whining especially has become a thorn in my flesh, and I'm trying not to let it make me quite as crazy. Last week we were on our way somewhere, and one of my kids just wouldn't stop whining. I turned on Ice Ice Baby at full volume and imagined myself in a movie – with the music as the background for a montage of my own life (think gangsta rap in Office Space) and laughed so hard the whole way there, it totally turned the vibe in the car around. It's hard to keep whining when your mom won't quit laughing in the front seat.
i think the best way of dealing with the craziness of having kids (aside from this fabulous list, seriously, doesn't get much better than this) is polling friends online for whether they have dealt with similar situations…and they ALWAYS ALWAYS HAVE!!!!!! it helps to remember we are NEVER ALONE, folks! never! our kid is *never* the first one on earth to come up with a crazy tactic/potty problem/school issue/developmental delay/etc, and we are *never* the first mom to epically fail…even if we do come up with, ah, *creative* ways to do so… 🙂 it helps me to take a step back and breathe deeply when i see that other people have lived through this and worse and in fact, i will too, even if i can't see the end in sight yet. the lady who ran the breastfeeding moms' group i used to go to with our first used to say, "no matter what they're doing, whether it's bad OR good, it will change." so may as well take a deep breath and just remember, this too shall pass. 🙂 and absolute best thing to remember: you're never alone!! hugs all around.
When my youngest daughter was 9, she had what I thought was a stomach virus. She had a belly ache, and since she was the youngest of five and I was a little jaded, I told her to lay down and it would feel better. This went on for about 3 days. On the last day, she crawled into my bedroom at 5:00 a.m. and asked if the Dr's office was open, and if we could go there as soon as they did open. Finally she had my attention, since this kid hated to go to the doctor's office. Her appendix had burst. She stayed in the hospital for 2 weeks. After that whenever she had a stomach ache I was able to say, "Just go lay down; it can't be your appendix." Mother of the year, that's me.
Whenever we did something regrettable at least we could take a step back, laugh, forgive ourselves and move on!
all of theses are really great suggestions, I especially can relate to #8. Not that I have arrived at letting go of some of the control, but of wanting to. I know that clinging to the control as parent is not very effective in living a joyful life and experiencing freedom-for everyone in the family, but I just don't know how to let it go. I'm too scared. I feel like everything is going to be screwed up and it's going to be all my fault. I can't seem to escape the guilty feelings that come with meeting my kids needs and meeting my needs. It feels constantly like it's not going to be "okay" and I desperately want it too. I feel like I'm completely unhinged lately as a mom and I have NO idea what to do. I'm sure I sound like a crazy lady even sharing this on a blog's comments, but I'm desperate for hope. I don't know how to feel loved or trust that I am loved and it's causing me to unravel…sorry for the downer of a comment.
Say you're sorry when necessary. Take deep breathes. Tomorrow is another day to try again. It's just hard sometimes. Big mommy hugs to you.
Thank you Christina. That was a very encouraging note and really hit me where it counts. What you said. "Control is such a painful issue because it comes from such a negative place of anxiety, insecurity, self-doubt and lack of self-esteem." that. That is where I'm at. I feel way less joyful and such a lack of everything that I feel like a Negative Ninny wherever I go and I couldn't feel worse or more helpless that I am most likely passing this on to my kids…..
This whole parenting gig is so overwhelming. I am just hoping I can make it through and learn something along the way and that somehow my kids will be ok even though I don't feel ok…..that feels pretty impossible at the moment. I hope you're right that the more it hurts the more it's doing me (us) good; cause this little dip in the roller coaster really freakin' hurts! Thanks again for the honest and encouraging words.
April, I relate to all of this! The Mommy Guilt–been there. The coming apart–been there too. The feeling unloved thing–yep. And I've lived through it and I'm on the other side, mostly.
Give yourself room to learn. You wouldn't get mad at your baby for not being able to walk at 6 months–that isn't a reasonable expectation. It's not always reasonable to expect to know how to handle the current parenting challenge immediately either–sometimes it takes time to figure it out, or time to develop the patience you need. You'll get there!
I've really struggled with feeling unloved, too. It set up a bad feedback loop in my family: I'm not happy so I make everyone around me unhappy so nobody is showing anybody any love or support. Break the loop: Don't focus on your need for love. You can enjoy your own efforts at showing love without expecting any return. Smile, even if it's fake at first, not because you are happy but because you love your family and they feel loved and supported when you are pleasant. Gradually it'll come true and you'll start to see their love for you again. I have found so much peace this way! Especially with my husband.
April! I am so afraid to offer advice to anyone because the truth is I could be SO wrong and I just don't know it- I feel like things change and I learn something new all the time- but I want to reach out to you because I think I hear in your comment the desperation that I have felt and STILL FEEL sometimes.
I can't even tell you how many times I've woken my husband in the middle of the night because I can't stop crying. Sometimes I get so afraid of all of the things that might go wrong and all of the things that happen every day that I THINK I just can't stand any longer and I feel PANICKED and LOST and I just need someone else to be awake with me. I love those kids SO MUCH and they walk around in this world separate from me all day long. It kills me- I can't control the choices they make (even when they're standing two feet from me) and I can't control the way people treat them or what happens to them, and the older they get the worse it's going to get.
The thing is, though, I trust them. It seems kind of dumb to say that- just last week I discovered that my 12 year old doesn't wipe when she pees- but I don't know, I see something good in them. They betray my trust all the time, and they have consequences for that, but the thing I realized is that the world doesn't end every time they don't do what I was hoping they'd do. And they keep growing and they just keep getting better.
I have wept. I have written letters to strangers over the internet about how I am so much less than I ever thought I was going to be as a mother- as a person! But I have decided that the best thing I can do for my children is love myself, because I truly believe that they are going to watch how I treat myself and there's a good chance that's how they'll treat themselves when they grow up. My children are never going to be perfect either, and I hope they don't beat themselves up for it.
It is HARD. Believe me, I can't do it all the time. But I've found things that make me feel good and people that make me feel better. I read blogs like this, including the comments, because they remind me that I am not alone. I'll occasionally boycott Facebook and pinterest, and even sitcoms about families sometimes- because if I'm in a sensitive place they make me feel inferior or inadequate.
If you really feel unhinged right now, if you feel broken or desperate, I have been there- and from what I've read, I think most of us have. I want you to know that I think you are AMAZING. That might not be meaningful to you because I don't really even know you, but the thing is that I really truly believe it- I believe it because you are HERE. You are sharing and being vulnerable and that is BRAVE.
I don't know if I can give you hope, but I can hope for you. I hope you have people in your life that build you up and make you feel loved. I hope you do things for yourself that make you feel accomplished and proud. I hope you sit in your home at night, after your children are asleep, and you say to yourself "right now, in this moment, everybody is ok, and I am grateful for that." I hope you can let go of fear, at least some of it, at least some of the time, so you can relax. I hope you realize that you don't have to make everything perfect for everyone for their entire lives- but every good day you have together is a day no one can ever take away from any of you.
My goodness Jessica, Rachel and Rebekah, I can't even tell you how right on you were with your input. Just, all of it. It so articulates how I feel, how I continue to loop back around and feel again and again (sometimes hormones contribute the whole nasty thing and sometimes not). I have also boycotted facebook and pinterest and shut off anything that is making me feel the need to compare myself. I know who I want to be and I keep trying, but I HATE so much messing it up; falling short or making a mistake. I feel like such a fraud when I say the "right" things to my kids, but I am no where near truly believing them for myself. But I really liked what Rebekah and Rachel said; just choosing to be kind and even making loving choices even when it's freakin' tough and the feelings are not there, just doing that much to start putting one foot in front of the other might help me reach the opening of this crater I find myself in just a little sooner. Love and kindness is waaaay tougher than I ever realized, that makes me feel very ignorant.
Rachel, I also have 3 kids in 3 years and my oldest is 4 right now! I never knew that parenting gets harder as they get older, but it really does. All of mine are crazy! Seemingly melting or complaining or some other not awesome thing happening and I have NO clue what I'm doing to manage all of the emotion and attitudes and everything. I was under the impression, you help them master something once, like manners, and then there good to go for, ya know, life. Guess not.
Honestly, I don't really care about the house looking good or even if the kids have clothes that match or whatever, although that can sometimes be hard to get passed the feelings of judgement, it's the heart issue stuff that is so important and scary and unknown and seems kinda out of my control…..
I am so so grateful that there are others out there who feel the same out of control feeling as I do. Thank you fellow mamas; I gonna choose to receive the hope and hugs 🙂 And thanks Beth for being so nice and non-judgey about people here or elsewhere. All signs point to you being a quality individual and I am thankful!
Oh, April, don't feel bad about sharing your struggle! I'm pretty sure you couldn't find a better group of people to listen and say "Oh my GOSH, do I ever know what you mean!" I certainly do.
I don't have any really sage advice, but I will suggest one thing that sometimes helps my perspective: talk to yourself like a friend. If a good girlfriend came to you and told you she was feeling all the things you were saying in your comment above, what would you say to her? I'm betting it would be something supportive and encouraging. We'd never tell a friend that she's failing and her kids are doomed–so why do we say it to ourselves? Give yourself the same love you would give to a friend.
And hang in there. You're SO not alone on this rough road.
Everyone else's comments are great and spot on! As someone who has struggled with major control issues (which seem to naturally result in trust problems) reading everyone's comments were a good reminder to me. I have 6 kids ranging from 2-17 and have been learning to let go out of necessity. (learning – no where close to mastering) One thing I have found that has helped is not only lowering my house-keeping expectations, but to include the kids in it. For example, if I don't care that the laundry is perfectly folded, then it doesn't matter that the 3-year old folded the pants while I folded shirts. (actually now my kids do their own laundry because I got tired of folding all the laundry. It only worked because they have been helping me with laundry for years.) I have front loading machines and the 2-year old thinks it is a game to move stuff from the washer to the dryer – so I let him while I'm working on another task nearby. He thinks he's big stuff, which makes me feel good too. (I never asked him to do this – he saw his brother do it, so he had to do it too). Recently I was frosting a cake for a birthday party, a job that has always been mine. One of the girls asked if she could help. Here came the growth for me – I took a deep breath and handed her a spatula. After all, we were going to destroy/eat it in a few hours, so did it have to be "perfect?" Gave a huge boost to her 12-year-old ego (hard to do). Next thing I know, the birthday boy is in and finishes the decorating (adding candies, etc to turn it into a castle). What is normally a 2-hour back breaking job for me turned into a 1-hour family event that was fun for everyone. And the cake – one of the best we have ever had – because I took the brave step to trust the kids and let go. None of these were planned (the point is letting go of control). It is looking for LITTLE opportunities, reminding yourself to ask "what is the point", and let go. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But when it does – oh it is so worth it and makes it a little easier to try the next time.
Christine-that totally happened to my first grader just last week! And I felt so bad for him but also like I failed as a parent because he didn't feel safe enough to go tell the teacher. Then, he did it at church that night and didn't tell anyone there either!
Oh I need that today. My first grader has trouble with poop sometimes. Today he pooped his pants. And didn't tell anyone after. And it was the second time this school year.
I can't laugh about it – I'm having a hard enough time not crying. Why does my kid's failure feel like I failed?


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No One Dies in Lily Dale  is a 2011 film directed by Steven Cantor.

Synopsis
The documentary focuses on residents of Lily Dale, a small town in upstate New York with an unusually high number of mediums.

Background
According to the documentary, Lily Dale has the highest concentration of mediums in the world, and has 25,000 visitors annually.

Reception
The documentary received mostly positive reviews from critics. Robert Lloyd of Los Angeles Times called it "colorful and engaging if not deeply illuminating or historically comprehensive." Cynthia Fuchs of PopMatters gave it a rating of 7 out of 10.

Joe Nickell, in a review published by the Center for Inquiry, rated the film 2 out of 4. Nickell wrote that it explored "the poignancy of the human longings that draw people there" but did not interrogate the underlying superstitions involved.

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2011 documentary films
HBO documentary films
Documentary films about spirituality


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How secure is your website? If you're collecting sensitive customer information like passwords or credit card information, what are you doing to ensure and reassure customers it's all safe?
If you haven't already added a SSL certificate to your site, and haven't yet made the switch to HTTPS, the secure version of HTTP, it might be time to step up.
Why? Apart from the obvious reason of making your site more safe and secure, you'll also avoid having your site marked as "Not secure" for every potential customer to see.
Google has announced that from Chrome version 68 (Released in July 2018), the browser will label any site that isn't using HTTPS as "Not secure". (Previously, Chrome had shown this warning only for sites handling sensitive information such as personal details and contact forms).
Here's an unsecured website example warning.
So you don't have to worry about Google blocking HTTP websites, but this is still a less than ideal situation.
Considering the amount of hard work and effort it takes to attract prospects to your site, the last thing you want to do is drive them away the second they enter because of an unsecured website warning.
And you can bet your rivals are busy securing their websites: Google says that over 68% of Chrome traffic on both Android and Windows is now secured, rising to 78% for Chrome traffic on Chrome OS and Mac.
In this post we'll explain why HTTPS has become vital to any businesses' credibility and safety online, as well as how to get started making the switch from HTTP to HTTPS.
But before we get any further, what exactly are HTTPS and SSL?
HTTPS (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure) is a secure version of HTTP. It's most often used for ecommerce sites to make secure transactions. If you've visited your bank's website and noticed a padlock icon in the top right corner, then you can rest easy knowing that the site is secure.
SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. It's a protocol that provides secure connections for transmitting files. In simpler words, SSL isn't used to encrypt a file but the connection.
https://www.example.com – You'll know that it's encrypted and secure since it uses HTTPS.
http://www.example.com – You'll know it's unencrypted and non-secure as it's HTTP.
Do HTTPS sites get an SEO boost over HTTP sites?
Some years ago, Google announced HTTPS as a lightweight ranking signal. This means they started showing preference for HTTPS in the search engine results page (SERPs). In other words, sites using SSL certificates are considered more secure, so they're more trusted, which means they also deserve to get a small boost in the rankings.
However, you shouldn't expect switching to HTTPS to have a huge impact on your search engine rankings.
Who should make the switch to HTTPS?
If you own a simple business site, HTTPS can prevent intruders from being able to passively "listen in" on any communication between your site and your users.
Is SSL necessary for B2B websites?
Then you need to protect that information, and an SSL allows you to do this.
Should I install SSL for a blog?
Again, for most blogs the answer is probably "yes, you will need an SSL". Things such as contact forms and comment sections are prevalent on blogs and you need to ensure the any information transmitted via these methods is protected. To do so, your blog will need an SSL.
As you can see, there are lots of reasons of complying with the Google HTTPS requirement no matter what type of website you have.
On top of a small boost in search rankings, increased security and credibility online, you also get a pretty lock symbol that immediately tells visitors your site is safe and secure.
Find out what type of SSL is suitable for your website. The SSL certificate you choose depends on the type of website you have. For example, if you're a start-up business the Domain SSL would be the right solution for you. But if you have an online shop, we'd recommend the Extended SSL as this helps ensure that all data is protected and secure against online threats; plus, it adds the green bar to your site with extra company details to help increase trust.
What's very important to know is that it's not just your domain that needs to be covered and protected. If you also have subdomains like blog.yourname.com or deals.yourname.com, these need to be protected as well, which means you'll need a SSL certificate like the 123 Reg Wildcard SSL that covers your domain as well as any subdomains you might have.
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Buy your SSL. Once you've decided on the right SSL for your site, purchase it. You will then receive a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) file.
Apply your SSL. This process might be a bit different depending on your chosen provider, but it basically involves getting your certificate approved. Here's how to apply an SSL Certificate on 123 Reg.
If your provider asks you to submit a CSR, this is how you can generate it from your server, although most providers, 123 Reg included, will take care and generate this for you.
Next you will need to update your website to work with HTTPS URLs. This might involve some dev work so if you don't have the skills, it's best to find someone with the expertise needed to help you.
When making the move, make sure to protect your SEO as a big mistake can result in a drop in rankings, and you don't want that.
To make things easier for you, check out this SEO HTTP to HTTPS migration checklist that outlines the steps you need to take to ensure everything goes smoothly.
If you're migrating to HTTPS hoping for a significant boost in rankings, think again. Since HTTPS is a small ranking factor, you won't notice much of a change in rankings. It's not unlikely for it to become a more important ranking factor in the future, considering Google's constant push for a more secure web.
What you can expect is increased security for your site. This includes communication and data exchange and collection between you and your visitors. And anyone visiting your site will know that your site is safe and secure. This means that switching to HTTPS also comes with increased trust and credibility for your brand, which are now critical to a businesses' success online.
If done correctly, you should see any fall in your website's SEO rankings because of the switch. You can see John Mueller of Google confirm that here.
However, if you do experience falling rankings check out this guide from Moz to help you understand what could've gone wrong and how to fix it.
Here's the thing: it's not just Google that wants a more secure web. We all do. So if the search engine giant is encouraging "all website owners to switch from HTTP to HTTPS to keep everyone safe on the web," what's stopping you from making the move?
HTTPS may be a small signal for now, but if Google believes it's needed to enhance users' experience, expect it to eventually play a bigger role in the search algorithm.
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Grand National rebrand
Thisaway has designed a new visual identity for the annual racing event, using big, mud-splattered type to evoke the energy of the race course.
To mark its return to normality, the Grand National is launching its first standalone visual identity – previously, the horse race was branded and promoted under racing organisation the Jockey Club. The event has been running since 1839, with some of its 30 fences, for example Becher's Brook, considered iconic.
Thisaway has tapped into the event's "grand proportions" for its type-led branding, using it to reflect the huge audience – 10 million people watch the Grand National in the UK, and 600 million around the world – and epic race course.
"We gave the brand a bold typographic feel that aims to reflect their stature and immediately speaks to what the race is known for," said the studio in a press release.
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Songs for the Deaf - płyta zespołu Queens of the Stone Age wydana 27 sierpnia 2002 roku. Gościnnie na płycie jako perkusista wystąpił Dave Grohl, były członek zespołu Nirvana, a obecnie wokalista zespołu Foo Fighters. Tak jak przy poprzedniej płycie zespołu Rated R projekt wsparli wokalami Mark Lanegan i Nick Oliveri. Od czasu do czasu słychać też audycję radiową.

W Wielkiej Brytanii album sprzedał się w nakładzie 100 tys. płyt otrzymując tym samym status złotej płyty. Utwór "No One Knows" znalazł się na ścieżce dźwiękowej gry komputerowej NHL 2003.

Lista utworów
 "The Real Song for the Deaf" - (hidden track)
 "You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire" (Homme/Lalli) – 3:12
 "No One Knows" (Homme/Lanegan) – 4:38
 "First It Giveth" (Homme/Oliveri) – 3:18
 "Song for the Dead" (Homme/Lanegan) – 5:52
 "The Sky Is Fallin'" (Homme/Oliveri) – 6:15
 "Six Shooter" (Homme/Oliveri) – 1:19
 "Hangin' Tree" (Johannes/Homme) – 3:06
 "Go with the Flow" (Homme/Oliveri) – 3:07
 "Gonna Leave You" (Homme/Oliveri) – 2:50
 "Do It Again" (Homme/Oliveri) – 4:04
 "God Is in the Radio" (Homme/Oliveri) – 6:04
 "Another Love Song" (Homme/Oliveri) – 3:15
 "Song for the Deaf" (Homme/Lanegan) – 6:42
 "Mosquito Song" (Homme/Oliveri) – 5:37

Twórcy
 Joshua Homme – śpiew, gitara
 Nick Oliveri – śpiew, gitara basowa
 Mark Lanegan – śpiew
 Dave Grohl – perkusja

Single
Do każdego z nich nagrano wideoklip.
 "No One Knows" - 2002
 "Go with the Flow" - 2003
 "First It Giveth" - 2003

Przypisy

Albumy muzyczne wydane w roku 2002
Albumy Queens of the Stone Age
Albumy Interscope Records


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Michael Foreman's Book Of Playtime Rhyme
Michael Foreman has won the Kate Greenaway Medal twice, most recently for "War Boy", the Kurt Maschler Award, the Children's Book Award, the Bologna Graphics Prize and, on two occasions, the Francis Williams Prize.
Michael Foreman is one of the world's leading illustrators. He has written and illustrated many children's books and won several major awards, including the Kate Greenaway Medal twice (most recently for War Boy), the Kurt Maschler Award, the Children's Book Award, the Bologna Graphics Prize and, on two occasions, the Francis Williams Prize. For Walker he has illustrated Creation: Stories from Around the World (compiled by Ann Pilling) and Michael Foreman's Nursery Rhymes.
PreS-K-An impressive collection of songs, rhymes, and activities. Old standards such as "This old man, he played one" are side by side with lesser-known selections such as "Two fat gentlemen met in a lane." An abundance of illustrations adds to the fun, with combinations of characters from zoo, wild, and farm animals to 18th-century farmers and Kate Greenaway-style young ladies dancing or frolicking with modern-day children or with highly imaginative personified creations (a scarecrow, snowman, and the man in the moon). The watercolor-and-pastel spreads sometimes offer clues as to the upcoming selections. A golden teddy bear appears randomly throughout and children will have fun spotting it. Instructions for some of the activities are appended, but there is no indication in the body of the book which ones are included. Since many of the pieces are songs, one can't help but wish that the music were provided. Still, this is an entertaining and useful book for storytimes or one-on-one sharing.-Marlene Gawron, Orange County Library, Orlando, FL Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
"This is not only a wonderful exhibition of self-assured draughtsmanship... it is also an ingeniously dynamic piece of book-making... Go out all of you and get a copy of this book." The Times "This anthology is one to be treasured... A magnificent book." Practical Parenting
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In an attempt to revive his dearly departed friend, young medical student John Watson becomes obsessed with replicating the work of Dr. Victor Frankenstein—the legendary corpse engineer whose research produced the only re-animated corpse to possess a soul. But when his illegal experiments put him at odds with the British government, Watson is drafted into a worldwide race to find the lost research notes of Victor Frankenstein before the secrets of the human soul fall into the wrong hands.
Victorian era London, steampunk, beloved literary characters and mix in some undead and you have yourself a recipe for a great film that ends up leaving you wanting a lot more. First the animation is beyond beautiful which we have come to expect from WIT studios who brought us series like Attack On Titan and Seraph Of The End. This film is a series of 3 called Project Itoh.
'The Empire of Corpses', 'Harmony', and 'Genocidal Organ' are a trio of works by the late Japanese science fiction writer Satoshi Itō, under the pseudonym 'Project Itoh'. The novels have been (or are in the process of being) adapted into films. While Funimation announced the licenses to all three films, they are stand-alone works rather than a true trilogy! We will talk more about Project Itoh later.
Watson is trying desperately to discover the secret to Victor Frankenstein's success with bringing the dead back to life with a soul. The undead that are currently reanimated are missing a soul, they only have the equivalent of computer punch card sequences embedded in them to run some basic functions. Watson wants to bring back his dear friend Friday who passed away before they could finish their research. While not explicitly forward on the question of Watson and Fridays relationship, it seems pretty clear they were more than just friends and colleagues.
This sends Watson off on a dangerous journey across the world trying to find Victor's notes which hold the key to his technology. The story goes back and forth between the deeply disturbing and genuinely emotional moments between our characters that leaves you reeling at the end wanting it not to be over as you really want there to be a happy ending for everyone involved. And thats not to say you don't get a happy ending, but you get an ending that may require you to watch it twice.
The series had Indiana Jones elements to it with Watson, Friday, Nikolai (Russian), Burnaby (British) and Hadaly (American) who travel around the world in an effort to not only stop Victor's monster from destroying humanity with the notes but also to learn if Watson can finally answer the question of the human soul.
The one thing about this film that will leave you head scratching is the never-ending references to other great characters in literary history that don't seem to have a real connection or relevance in the film. For example Friday's corpse code name is Nobel Savage 007 (reference to James Bond). Paul Bunyan (American folklore), Thomas Edison (the inventor), or Ulysses S. Grant (US President) are also mentioned without really tying them into the story. However, the film is still unique and intriguing with a story plot that will leave you thinking long after you watch it.
Don't forget to watch past the credit scenes because there is a post-credit scene which makes all of this culminate into a great introduction into what I hope could be a future sequel. On another note, the voice cast for this film was some of my favorite of Funimation's voice actors. The one I want to call out the most is Micah Solusod, who voiced Nikolai. As anime fans will know Micah's voice is very unique and has voiced some really popular anime characters including Yuichiro on Seraph Of The End, Soul from Soul Eater and Yukine on Norgami (plus so many more). However this time he had a Russian accent which made me double take a few times until I recognized it was him. On twitter I asked him what it took to prepare for that accent.
During his career as a web designer, he wrote a novel called Genocidal Organ and was nominated to Nihon SF Taisho Award in 2007. However, Itoh had been diagnosed, and dealing, with recurrent cancer since 2001 and hospitalized frequently for treatment. Itoh continued to write novels during his last several years, including Harmony and The Empire of Corpses, and passed away on March 20, 2009. Later on in 2012, Toh Enjoe, a fellow award-winning science fiction writer who had often appeared with Itoh at conventions and in interviews, announced at a press conference that he would complete Itoh's unfinished novel The Empire of Corpses. Later, Noitamina adapted Project Itoh's three novels into animated feature films. All three films were directed and produced by different directors and studios.
Did you get a chance to go see this in theaters? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below. Be sure to follow me for all the latest anime reviews and new releases on Twitter @RobertWPrentice or @ThreeIfBySpace.


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WUSA's Kristen Berset to take leave of absence to fight second bout with cancer
(Screenshot via WUSA 9)
Jake Russell
Sports news aide
Jan. 17, 2017 at 2:47 a.m. UTC
Kristen Berset has been through this before. That's why she was able to make the tough announcement with an even voice and a smile on her face.
Berset, a sports anchor with CBS affiliate WUSA-9, announced on the air Monday that she will be taking a leave of absence to face a second bout with breast cancer.
"During my time here at WUSA-9, I've spoken openly about my previous battle of breast cancer as diagnosed in 2009 at the age of 27, underwent surgery and treatment and was declared cancer free two years ago. But it appears the celebration is short-lived," Berset said. "Just before Thanksgiving, I was diagnosed with breast cancer again. Now the prognosis is great but it will require me to step away from the anchor desk for several weeks as I undergo surgery and treatment."
"I'm going to miss you guys, but I'm going to be back," she told her co-anchors on the WUSA-9 set before seeing anchor Lesli Foster tear up. ". . . I'm going to be back stronger, healthier, happier than before."
She later elaborated on in a Facebook post, which she ended with "I am ready for this new fight. I'm ready to kick some Cancer butt once again."
"You have been there for us and we're going to be there for you," anchor Bruce Johnson said on-air Monday.
"You are family and we have your back regardless of what happens," Foster added. "We have you tonight and we have you at 11 and you have us always."
"Your support has meant so much to me and I'm going to feel that love and those prayers over the next several weeks," Berset said.
Well wishes have already poured in for Berset through social media.
Pulling for my friend, @kristenberset
A post shared by Francis Abbey (@francisabbey) on Jan 16, 2017 at 4:17pm PST
Berset has been with WUSA-9 since 2011. Before that she was with WBFF in Baltimore. She was first diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer in 2009 and has used her public platform, including her personal website, as a way to spread breast cancer awareness since.
"I'm given such an incredible platform that reaches so many people, being in the public eye," Berset told The Post in 2013. "Not for one second did I think about not sharing my story."
Berset married Comcast SportsNet reporter Brent Harris on Dec. 30, 2016, and is the stepmother to his two daughters. According to her Facebook post, the couple had plans to "expand" their family but appears to have put those on hold for now.
"I have an incredible support system that has only grown over the past several years," she wrote. "I now have a husband and two beautiful step-daughters who have been nothing short of amazing. My family and friends have been there with love and support every step of the way."


We were extremely dissapointed with our stay at the El nido B&B. It was very noisy, not so clean and all the proprietors wanted to do was drink. I found the hot water was was non existant and the bugs were a big problem. It was very hard to get a good nights sleep. I will not be back.
Cant wait for our next vacation!
I've been traveling the world for 6 years and this is the nicest place I've stayed in.
"By far the best old Mexico experience in Cabo"
This private 6 room B&B / resturant/ beauty salon/ spa/ cantina was by far the best we ever experienced in all our stays in Cabo San Lucas. We walked to everything we wanted to see. The resturant while very upscale, provided us every nite with the best food choices, had no desire to go anywhere else during our 5 nite stay. The staff was wonderful and bi-lingual as well. Great local conversation and felt very comfortable at our second home. Great ambiance. We will return soon!!!!


Do You Start with What's Cool or What's Possible? ~ HELLO, my name is Blog!
Lester Young was the original king of cool.
In the late twenties, not only did he originate the hipster ethos with his cool tenor sax style, he literally coined the word "cool" in jazz circles as a slang term for someone, someplace or something that created a smile in the mind.
Nearly a century later, cool still matters. In fact, cool matters more than ever. With the end of mass, the rise of tribes and the popularity of social sharing applications like Pinterest and Instagram, people don't just know it when they see it – they share it when they see it.
And while cool isn't a guarantor of success, a substitute for quality or a panacea to anonymity or, it's certainly a powerful accelerator to help our ideas travel.
Can you imagine what our world would look like if Steve Jobs thought that way?
He didn't design for practicality – he designed so customers would lick their computers. Literally. Apple products belong in our mouths. If that's not cool, I don't know what is.
The point is, if we plan to change the world, we need a reasonable amount of irrationality.
Starting with what's possible can be profitable, but starting with what's cool can be priceless.
How cool do people think you are?
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Q: How Can I choose count the data in one column based on other column? I have two dataframe as below:
df1 = DataFrame({'a': np.random.randint(10, size=2)})
df2 = DataFrame({'a': np.random.randint(10, size=100)})

There is two numbers in df1, and I want to count the two numbers'  amount in df2. The answer is in the right of df1['a'].
I use for in, but there is a error:Length of values does not match length of ' 'index.
Anyone can tell me how to slove this question?
I use df2['a'].isin(df1['a']).sum(), but it give me the result that the amount of two numbers together.
I want the result like:

No  Amount
8   3
1   2

instead of :

No  Amount
8   5
1   5

A: df2.a.value_counts().reindex(df1.a)
Out[369]:
a
4    11
5     5
Name: a, dtype: int64

Add sum
df2.a.value_counts().reindex(df1.a).sum()
Out[370]: 16

A: If I understand correctly:
In [22]: df2['a'].isin(df1['a']).sum()
Out[22]: 18

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n+1 Magazine reviews several 70's-based novels.
A wonderful look back at North America's punk ground-zero – CBGB, via the nostalgia-focused website, Flashbak.
Each year, Earth Day — April 22 — marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.
Jerry Waters is a long-time resident of Charleston, WV who created and maintains My West Virginia Home – a website featuring photos of his hometown spanning several decades, including some great seventies-era shots.
Captain Fantastic is an arcade pinball machine designed by Greg Kmiec and produced by Bally in 1976. A semi-sequel to Bally's earlier Wizard!, and named after the chart-topping album by Elton John, it features John dressed as the Local Lad from the rock opera movie Tommy.
23 Style Moments That Defined The Decade
Marie Claire highlights the greatest icons of 1970s fashion.
Summer in the Seventies with Andy Warhol
Eothen – the Long Island estate which served as Andy Warhol's summer home in the seventies, is currently on the market for a cool $85,000,000. Back in the day, It became a welcoming haven for Andy's rich and famous friends, including The Rolling Stones, who spent time there during the summer of 1975, planning a tour and casually enjoying the Montauk scene.
Family is an American television drama series that aired on ABC from 1976 to 1980.
Carrie – Stephen King's First Published Novel
Carrie is author Stephen King's first published novel, released on April 5, 1974. Set primarily in the then-future year of 1979, it's focused on Carrie White, an outcast, bullied high school girl who uses telekinetic powers to take revenge on her tormentors.
Goodies in Albums
Remembering the good old days of vinyl – when albums sometimes came with terrific, free extras.
Stephen Biko
Anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko died on September 12 1977, after 22 hours of interrogation and torture, following his arrest at a police roadblock in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Since his death, he is viewed as a martyr of the anti-apartheid movement.
The 1977 Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II was a celebration of the 25th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne. It featured large-scale parties and parades throughout the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth throughout the year, peaking in June with "Jubilee Days," coinciding with the Queen's official birthday.
REMEMBER DUANE ALLMAN
Duane Allman, guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band, died October 29, 1971, from injuries in a motorcycle accident on Hillcrest Avenue in Macon, Georgia. In 1973, four fans carved a seven foot high "REMEMBER DUANE ALLMAN" in a dirt embankment along Interstate Highway 20 near Vicksburg, Mississippi. It remained visible for ten years.
The Who Cincinnati Concert Tragedy
On December 3rd, 1979, 18,500 fans had gathered outside the Coliseum in Cincinnati for a much anticipated concert by The Who. The show was general admission, which meant the best seats were up for grabs. The festive and energetic pre-show gathering outside the venue soon turned to tragedy.
Space Fidgit
The Space Fidgit was an interesting 70's toy that consisted of a colored, creamy gel-like liquid encased in a transparent plastic half-bubble. When the user slid their fingers over the flat back of the bubble, the movement and body heat would generate a kind of morphing liquid light show.
Frank Wills was the security guard who alerted the police to a possible break-in at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., leading to the now-historical scandal and resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974–1975 season. It starred Darren McGavin as Chicago newspaper reporter Carl Kolchak, who investigated mysterious crimes which the local police normally chose not to follow up on. The cases usually entailed supernatural or science-fiction elements.
Taylor Camp
In 1969 Howard Taylor, brother of Elizabeth, bailed out a motley group of thirteen young Hawaiians jailed for vagrancy and invited them to camp on his ocean front land. It wasn't long before word spread and scores of hippies, surfers and troubled Vietnam vets migrated to Taylor Camp and built a clothing-optional, pot-hazed treehouse village at the end of a road on Kauai's North Shore.
Mark Fidrych
Nicknamed "The Bird", Mark Fidrych was an eccentric right-handed major league baseball pitcher who had a brief but memorable career with the Detroit Tigers between 1976 and 1980.
NYC Blackout 1977
On July 13, 1977, a series of lightning strikes at Buchanan South, a substation on the Hudson River, resulted in a 2 day electricity blackout covering all five boroughs of New York City.
Canada's Largest Art Theft
Canada's largest art theft occurred on Labor Day in 1972 when three armed bandits broke into the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts through a skylight under repair and stole 18 paintings and 37 objects of decorative arts and jewellery. All but one of the stolen paintings – a small Jan Breughel painting – remain missing today.
Love Canal
Love Canal is an aborted canal project branching off of the Niagara River about four miles south of Niagara Falls, NY. It is also the name of a fifteen-acre, neighborhood built directly adjacent to the canal. From 1942 to 1953, the Hooker Chemical Company, with government sanction, began using the partially dug canal as a chemical waste dump. At the end of this period, the canal contained approx 21,000 tons of toxic chemicals, including at least twelve that are known carcinogens. Hooker covered the 16-acre hazardous waste landfill in clay and sold the land to the Niagara Falls School Board, attempting to absolve itself of any future liability by including a warning in the property deed.
Ripping Yarns
Created by Michael Palin and Terry Jones following the end of Monty Python's Flying Circus, Ripping Yarns was a British television series featuring tales of adventure, mystery, suspense and drama – a BBC production that ran for two seasons. Each episode had a different setting and characters, all focused on a different aspect of British culture and parodying pre-World War II literature aimed at schoolboys.
Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies
One of the earliest professional rock critics, Robert Christgau is known for his terse reviews, published from 1969 to 2013 in his Consumer Guide columns. He also spent 37 years as music editor for The Village Voice, during which time he created the annual Pazz & Jop poll.
His book, "Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies" was published in 1981 and contains a multitude of his brief and often sarcastic reviews of 70's era albums.
Heavy Metal Magazine Debuts 1977
Heavy Metal magazine, which made its début in 1977, is an American version of the French science-fantasy magazine Métal Hurlant, which began publishing two years earlier. It initially presented translated versions of the French edition's illustrated stories.
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La Vallée is a 1972 French film written and directed by Barbet Schroeder. The film stars Bulle Ogier as Viviane, a woman who goes on a strange and accidental voyage of self-discovery through the New Guinea bush. Pink Floyd recorded the album, Obscured by Clouds, as the soundtrack to the film.
The Club Scene – Fort Walton Beach, Florida
A terrific Flickr album of photos from the 70's Fort Walton Beach, Florida entertainment circuit.
Jay Adams
Called "The Chosen One" by his peers, Jay Adams was a member of the legendary Zephyr Competition Team – better known as Z-Boys, a group of skateboarders in the mid-1970s from Santa Monica and Venice, California.
Apollo 17 – Last Manned Trip to the Moon
Apollo 17 was the final mission of the United States' Apollo space program, the enterprise that landed the first humans on the Moon. Launched at 12:33 am Eastern Standard Time (EST) on December 7, 1972, with a three-member crew consisting of Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt.
Best known for his work on posters, logos and album covers for musicians, Roger Dean's images for such bands as Yes, Budgie, Uriah Heep, Gentle Giant and other bands, have become synonymous with early to mid-seventies progressive rock.
Many of the most colorful and fondly remembered children's television series of the 1970s were Sid and Marty Krofft creations. Their innovative, live-action fantasy productions were enjoyed by countless pajamaed kids on countless Saturday mornings.
Pop Rocks Debut 1975
First offered to the public in 1975, Pop Rocks are, according the official Pop Rocks website – small pieces of hard candy that have been gasified with carbon dioxide under superatmospheric pressure. When these gasified sugar granules come in contact with moisture, in someone's mouth or in water, milk, soft drinks, etc, the candy dissolves and the gas retained inside the carbon dioxide bubbles is released, causing characteristic crackling and fizzing sounds.
American Style Through the Decades: The Seventies
There's a nice article on the Apartment Therapy website, touching on seventies interior style and design trends.
Seventies Pinterest Boards
LimeGong tracked down a bunch of 70's related Pinterest boards. Enjoy.
70s Style & Design
Written by Dominic Lutyens and Kirsty Hislop, and Published by Thames and Hudson, "70s Style & Design" is a 224 page book with over 400 illustrations. The authors have gone beyond the usual discussion of flares and platform shoes to address the design aesthetic of the decade as a whole.
Mavis Hutchinson
Never heard of her, right? You're not alone. In 1978, she became the first woman to run across the United States, from Los Angeles to New York City – at the notable age of 53. The route took her 2871 miles over 69 days, 2 hours and 40 minutes.
Skycycle X-2
The Skycycle X-2 was the steam-powered rocket owned by Evel Knievel and flown during his infamous Snake River Canyon jump near Twin Falls, Idaho on September 8, 1974.
Jim Croce Dies September 1973
A fixture on early 70's radio, Jim Croce was an appealing, unpretentious singer-songwriter who only had time to record a few albums before dying tragically in a plane crash in September 1973.
Magician Doug Henning
After graduating from university, Canadian Doug Henning was awarded a Canada Council for the Arts grant for the purpose of studying magic. He went on to develop the magic-based stage show "Spellbound", which ran successfully in Toronto before transitioning to Broadway as "The Magic Show". Debuting in 1974, the show ran for four and a half years, and earned Henning a Tony Award nomination.
This is Jim Rockford. At the tone, leave your name and message. I'll get back to you.
Some classic messages left on Jim Rockford's answering machine – as heard at the top of every episode of The Rockford Files.
Miller Lite – First Mainstream Light Beer
Essentially the first mainstream light beer, Miller Lite began as a product of the smaller Meister Brau brewery, which was later purchased by Miller, who then introduced the light beer concept to the masses in 1973.
Miller Lite's famous "Great Taste…Less Filling!" ad campaign was ranked by Advertising Age magazine as the eighth best advertising campaign in history.
Future Shock is a book written by the futurist Alvin Toffler and published in 1970. Toffler defined the term "future shock" as a certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies. A short definition as stated by Toffler – a personal perception of "too much change in too short a period of time". The book stemmed from an article "The Future as a Way of Life" in Horizon magazine's Summer 1965 issue.
The Concert for Bangladesh
The Concert for Bangladesh was organized by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar and performed at 2:30 and 8:00 PM on Sunday, August 1st 1971 to a total of 40,000 people at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
The shows were organised to raise international awareness and finance relief efforts for refugees from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), following the Bangladesh Liberation War-related Bangladesh atrocities.
Directed by William Friedkin and released in the US on December 26, 1973, The Exorcist is an Oscar-winning psychological horror and drama, inspired by true events.
The film was notable for being one of the biggest box-office successes in film history – surpassing The Godfather (1972) as the biggest money-maker of its time. It is cited by many critics as the greatest horror film of all time.
Sydney Opera House Opens 1973
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia that officially opened in 1973 after 14 years of construction. The performance venues are among the busiest performing arts centres in the world — hosting over 1,500 performances each year attended by some 1.2 million people.
Who is Louise Brown? She was the world's first "test tube baby".
Louise Joy Brown (born 25 July 1978) is an English woman known for being the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
In 1972, ABC Television hired song publisher Don Kirshner as an executive producer and consultant for their new "In Concert" music series which ran every other week in The Dick Cavett Show slot. The show, featuring acts like Alice Cooper, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry and The Steve Miller Band, was highly successful, even occasionally topping NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. The following year, Kirshner left "In Concert" to launch his own syndicated weekly rock program, "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert." On September 27, 1973, "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" premiered featuring The Rolling Stones first American television performance in over four years.
Face on Mars Discovered 1976
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When the Viking 1 mission returned photos of the Martian surface in 1976, the image of a rocky face in the Cydonia region captured the public eye. Was it a trick of light and shadows? A remnant of an ancient civilization?
Blizzard of 1977
On Friday, January 28, 1977 the western New York and southern Ontario areas were pummelled by a fierce winter storm that continued for 3 days. Daily peak wind gusts ranging from 46 to 69 mph were recorded by the National Weather Service Buffalo Office, with snowfall as high as 100 inches recorded in some areas. The high winds created snow drifts of 30 to 40 ft. There were 23 total storm-related deaths in western New York, with 5 more in northern New York.
Shark Jaws was a video arcade game created by Atari and released in 1975, an obvious attempt to ride the massive popularity wave of Steven Spielberg's film "Jaws", while skirting licensing regulations.
Atari head Nolan Bushnell attempted to officially license the name Jaws for the game, but was unable to secure a deal with Universal Pictures. Undeterred, the company used the "Shark Jaws" name, using tiny print for "Shark" and large all-caps "JAWS" on the game cabinet.
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull, written by Richard Bach, is a fable in novella form about a seagull learning about life and flight, and a homily about self-perfection. It was first published in 1970 as "Jonathan Livingston Seagull — a story." By the end of 1972, over a million copies were in print, Reader's Digest had published a condensed version, and the book had reached the top of the New York Times Best Seller list, where it remained for 38 weeks. In 1972 and 1973, the book topped the Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States.
Duel – 1971 TV Movie
Duel is a 1971 television (and later full-length theatrical) thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Richard Matheson, based on Matheson's short story of the same name. It stars Dennis Weaver as a terrified motorist stalked on a remote and lonely road by the mostly unseen driver of a mysterious tanker truck.
First American Pocket Calculator
The Bowmar 901B.
The first hand-held calculator manufactured in the U.S.A, it was introduced in 1971. Bowmar was a manufacturer of LED (Light Emitting Diode) displays which moved into calculator production in the early 1970s.
Space Mountain Opens 1975
January 15, 1975: Space Mountain officially opens at Disney World's Magic Kingdom.
The Space Mountain concept was a descendant of the first Disney "mountain" attraction, the Matterhorn Bobsleds at Disneyland, which opened in 1959. The Matterhorn's success had convinced Walt Disney that thrilling rides did have a place in his park.
Precious and Few: Pop Music of the Early '70s
A lively look back at the era that gave us "Hooked on a Feeling", "Dancing in the Moonlight", "I Am Woman", "Seasons in the Sun", and more. The authors, true-blue '70s fanatics, have lovingly crafted a creatively categorized overview of the pop music that drifted from countless transistor radios 40+ years ago.
Written by Canadian brothers, Don and Jeff Breithaupt (who've both maintained thriving, but somewhat under the radar music careers) and published in 1996, "Precious and Few: Pop Music of the Early '70s" is an insightful look back at at era of pop that never gets enough credit.
Originally conceived in 1968 as a radio and television communication platform, Toronto's CN Tower was constructed between 1973 and 1976. For 34 years, it stood as the world's tallest free-standing structure and largest tower. In 1995, it was declared one of the modern Seven Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Now mostly forgotten, comedian Flip Wilson was a huge television star who Time magazine labelled "TV's first black superstar". During the early seventies, the hour-long Flip Wilson Show aired on NBC to huge audiences. During its first two seasons, it was the second most watched show in the US.
Although it first became available in 1965 and was awarded "Toy of the Year" in 1967, Spirograph is firmly planted in the memory banks of countless seventies kids.
Invented by British engineer Denys Fisher, the original US version consisted of two plastic rings, both with gear teeth on the inside and outside. Smaller plastic gear wheels, each with holes to accommodate a ballpoint pen, could be placed inside the larger rings and rotated with the pen, creating complex geometric patterns on the paper beneath.
Concorde's First Flight 1976
Concorde, the supersonic passenger jet jointly developed and produced by Aérospatiale and the British Aircraft Corporation, made its first flight on January 21 1976.
Rainbow Gathering 1972
For over 40 years, "Rainbow Gatherings" have taken place the first week of July throughout the world. Strongly associated with counterculture and hippie subculture, they serve as a sort of communal protest against consumerism, capitalism and mass media, while encouraging peace, love, respect, harmony, freedom and community. The first gathering took place in July 1972 at Strawberry Lake near Granby, Colorado.
Summer Jam at Watkins Glen
The Summer Jam at Watkins Glen was a 1973 rock festival which once received the Guinness Book of World Records entry for "Largest audience at a pop festival." An estimated 600,000 rock fans came to the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Raceway outside of Watkins Glen, New York on July 28, 1973, to see the Allman Brothers Band, Grateful Dead and The Band perform. (Wikipedia).


"Just call me 'Kay,'" he said.
"How do you say your real first name?" I asked.
I say it a few times until I get it right. I can hear his infectious smile on the phone.
Kay grew up in Nigeria where he witnessed poverty first hand: "Kids roamed the streets, the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. There wasn't a middle class," Kay explains.
Kay knew what a privilege that was. Daily he saw kids, some even younger than him, sell things on the streets to try to feed themselves and their families.
Kay understood at a young age that many of the problems were due to a poor governmental infrastructure, and he decided to do something about it....Read the rest of the story on the Pearson Students Blog.


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A slight change of plans, for some Wisconsin utility crews. Ten crews from Wisconsin Public Service were slated to leave for Houston this morning, according to WPS spokesman Kerry Spees. "We got a call from American Electric Power in Ohio, saying that they needed helps as well," says Spees, who adds that more than 500,000 people are without power in that utility's service area.
Spees says WPS decided the crews would be of more use in Ohio, so the decision was made to send them there. Spees expects they'll be in place and ready to work by sometime Tuesday morning. "The fastest rout there is not a route we're going to be able to take," Spess says. "Because the Chicago area has been inundated with rain, and there is heavy flooding, we're going to have to go around." The crews, a total of 23 people from nine WPS offices, left from Wausau for Ohio this morning.


Honiton-based, long-serving rugby referee Richard Steggall is just one game away from chucking his kit bag in the attic and hanging up his whistle for good, writes Conrad Sutcliffe.
Steggall, a youthful looking 51-year-old, started refereeing for the Devon Rugby Referees' Society way back in 1994.
Official records of games refereed are not kept by the Society, but Steggall was a three-times-a-week official in his younger days and reckons he clocked up more than a thousand games.
Steggall, now the referee appointments official for the DRRS, went back to where it almost all began yesterday to whistle the Devon One game between Buckfastleigh and Exeter Saracens.
On Sunday (January 27), Steggall will be at Topsham's Bonfire Field ground to referee the Lily Partridge Memorial Match. That will be the last time he is the man in the middle.
Steggall, who played for the now-defunct Axminster club and odd games for Honiton before taking up the whistle, said there was symmetry to his last two games.
"I will be finishing where I started as my first competitive, league game was Buckfastleigh v Exeter Saracens," said Steggall.
"When looking through the fixtures at the beginning of the season I decided that it would be my last game.
Steggall has long been an enthusiast for the women's game and the Lily Partridge Memorial Match is particularly significant for him.
Lily, who played for Topsham-based Exonian Ladies, collapsed and later died after suffering an accidental head injury during a training session. She was just 22.
The game has been played in her memory annually since her death in December 2015.
"It is a sad but happy day that illustrates what the rugby family and its values are all about," said Steggall.
Essex boy Steggall played for Chelmsford as a youngster before joining the army and training in catering at the Army Apprenticeship College, Aldershot.
He played rugby while based with 29 Signal Regiment in Berlin and for Axminster after returning to Civvy Street and training as a paramedic.
Steggall switched refereeing in 1994 and has never regretted it.
"When I first picked the whistle up my only ambition was to referee at a better level that I played at," said Steggall.
Steggall started at the bottom, third and second team games in Devon, then advanced up through the levels of county and regional appointments to the South West Group.
The next step was the National League panel, which is where Steggall got stuck.
"I was top referee for two of the five years I was on the South West Group and managed 12 National League games, but did not quite cut the mustard," said Steggall.
Steggall has refereed across the spectrum from under-13 cup games to women's internationals and representative games.
Whatever level the game has been he has always tried to adopt the same approach, although some inevitably stand out more than others.
"I pride myself on every game being as important as the next, but there have been some highlights," said Steggall.
"My first National League game was at Blackheath, the oldest club in England.
"Oxford University versus University of South Africa was the only game I wanted to stop for my own 'injury'. I didn't actually have one; it was very quick.
Rugby also has a social element to game playing and Steggall has pitched himself into those matches with gusto.
"For 18 of the last 20 years I have refereed the Boxing Day game at Withycombe and managed a drop-goal, a few tackles among them a try saving one on Adam Pearce, and a try to boot," said Steggall.
"I have enjoyed six tours to the Rocky Mountain Referee Society in the United States, mainly with (Cornish referee) Ian Pengelly.
"The first time we went in 2003 I referred their cup final, only the second non-American to do so in 36 years.
During 25 years as an active referee, Steggall has served the referees' society and Devon RFU in numerous capacities.
Over the years Steggall has been a DRRS executive committee member before graduating to joint training officer with Simon Lane, discipline secretary, appointments officer and the top job of president.
He was also on Devon RFU as a club representative for a couple of years.
Steggall readily acknowledges the help he had progressing through the refereeing ranks from coaches Tim Mahoney and David May. For that reason he is switching from refereeing to coaching.
"Having put in what I think is my fair share of years, and the way the game is changing, I have decided to coach referees," said Steggall.