As co-founder of Full Spectrum Wellness in Manchester, Debra LeClair has a background in holistic health and education. Her personal mission, as stated at FullSpectrumWellness.com, is ?to spark hope, inspire positive progress and co-create sustainable fulfillment for those seeking to live their life?s purpose.? She became a licensed psychologist when she moved to New Hampshire in 2000 and then became certified as a life coach. She?s conducting a seminar called ?Secrets to Breaking Your Own Glass Ceiling? at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 18, at the Highlander Inn and Conference Center, 2 Highlander Way, Manchester. It?s the first of a series of accelerated networking dinners put on by eWomen Network for 2007 on the theme ?Breaking Records.?

A throne made of bottle caps, dozens of pipe cleaner dolls, and a totem pole-style wood carving of Muhammad Ali greet you at the Revolving Museum in Lowell, Mass.

Hope Jordan has helped put Manchester on the map as a poetry hot spot, helping to organize open-mike poetry nights at Bridge Caf?. Here she discusses the virtues of unsalted butter and food as a recurring character in her poems. Jordan works in development at Plymouth State University.

Well the five-point underdog Patriots again confounded the ?experts? on Sunday by beating the vaunted Chargers 24-21 in round two of the Super Bowl derby. I?m not saying they?re unbeatable, but when do you think the rest of America is going to finally get it?

Circumstances in my life have made it necessary to purge.

Yes, I simply have too many electronic goodies. By nature I?m a packrat, and you never know when you might need a 33.6Kbps modem or third-party defragmenting software for Windows 95. From tiny little USB flash drives to desktop computers I never use anymore, it?s time to get rid of it.

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