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Out, Liberated and Proud… Klay S. Williams
Dear God, I Have A Secret
*By Klay S. Williams
Shhh…conceal it inside.
Shhh…inhalation from within….
Shhh…don't release the wind…the wind of destruction, separation, and pain…the dressing that covers the bruise of disclosure…the asylum that protects it…your secret.
You've moved violently through your limited days, resisting the beast that dwells in your soul…the monstrous fiend of biblical times that hounds the streets of Corinth.
Rock hard feeling…sentiment and sensation pursues the visual physique of the mortal that provides nourishment to your palate of fascination.
Heartbreaking discretion and dutiful murmurs of rejection irk the creature that usher screams inside your body of containment.
Never-ending bliss, lifelong nurturing, sexual aggression, and soundless pain bequeath your heart of embarrassment.
Whispers. Stares. Judgment. Confusion and hate remain in the swagger of your damaged stride. But you gently whisper….
Shhh…conceal it inside.
Shhh…inhalation from within….
Shhh…don't release the wind…the wind of destruction, separation, and pain…the dressing that covers the bruise of disclosure…the asylum that protects it…your secret.
Mind warp. Twilight Zone. Panic. Protection is found only in the respite of solitude and spiritual regulation from the universe of hallucination. Tender prayers and heartfelt tears of freedom hide the beauty of your shadowed silhouette.
The end. Help. Smother. Your restless nights add maturity to your adolescent body of past perfection and crumpled linen to your hills of collapsed smiles.
Beg. Kaput. Future. The walls of Jericho have finally tumbled down. Armageddon has inaudibly pierced the small crevice between your lips.
Furtive. Hush-hush. Covert. It's finally out. Ancient times are no more. Contemporary art hangs from the gray wall. Picturesque visions of Black and White surface. Immortal quietness no longer dwells within your clandestine spirit.
Numbness. Fear. Hope.
Shhh…conceal it inside.
Shhh…inhalation from within….
Shhh…don't release the wind…the wind of destruction, separation, and pain…the dressing that covers the bruise of disclosure…the asylum that protects it…your secret.
I could not have possibly loved myself by hiding behind a secret.
How did I move on and awaken to the fullness of my divinity?
I finally took a true look in the mirror and tried to utter the words, "I love you." The first month of using this exercise was very difficult, as I did not wholeheartedly believe my words. Nonetheless, I continued every day until the repetitive expressions connected to my soul—until I could literally feel a frequency growing, emitting from my heart. Repetition in any occurrence creates muscle, whether you're physically working out or expressing a feeling. The more one exercises a muscle of thought or of the body, the more a concrete substance is created. Muscle is a force, a power, and strength. We all have an opportunity to create the experience, life, and person that we would like to become through this important muscle. Whoever says that repetition of thought, affirmations, and awareness do not create reality has unfortunately missed an opportunity to use one of the strongest mechanisms given to us.
You might be wondering, "Well, how did you finally know that you loved yourself?" Several years later I knew, because for once in my life, I did not feel the need to hide my individuality, my sexuality, my specialness, and the unique person that I am. I was proud of myself and felt an overwhelming urge to celebrate the spirit within me. The steel ceiling that had previously entrapped me began to weaken and eventually shattered. The idea of going after my dreams were relived and I was purified as being whole.
I hear the Universe's melodic rhythm creating new and exciting passageways for me as I move closer and closer to my dreams. I hear and feel a beat so clear that beseeches me to design my own runway in life. People might look at me and want to know the secret to my determination, self-esteem, and powerful stride. It's simple: The freedom of loving myself. Freedom in loving yourself is one expression that comes without a price tag. The freedom to love, the freedom to receive love, the freedom to share love, the freedom to be love, and the freedom to be in love are all treasures that begin with you.
While we cannot control the mechanism that first triggered thoughts of inner loathing and destruction of love within ourselves, we do have the ability to control our response to the malady that caused it. Despite the pain, "I love me." Despite the environment, "I love me." Despite where I am in life, "I love me." Despite you, "I love me." What could really change in your life, if one day you decided that you were enough?
*Klay S. Williams, M.Div, is the author of There Is Only Plan A—A Journey Toward Self-Discovery and Renewed Purpose, and co-owner of Harrison Williams, a lifestyle-consulting firm based in New York City. Klay conducts personal and corporate client sessions, workshops, seminars and lectures nationally. Through his leadership and unique philosophy of "There Is Only Plan A," Klay has unlocked a singular powerhouse where individuals can learn how to live their complete and best life.
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Reggie Brown says he won't settle for being known only as the Barack Obama impersonator who was escorted off stage during a Republican conference Saturday night. Instead, Brown would prefer you think of him as the pre-eminent Faux-bama.
The Chicago native says he's ready to star whenever they make a film of the 44th president's life story.
"It's the role I was born to play," Brown says. "When the movie finally comes out and things like that, I'm trying to show people now what I can do. I don't think there's anyone better for it than me."
Perhaps he took a big step in that direction last weekend at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans. Contracted for what he says organizers called a 15- to 20-minute routine, Brown's mic went dead and the act was halted after his material shifted from Obama jokes to gags about some GOP heavy hitters. The ensuing news stories and video clips have made Brown something of an over-weekend sensation.


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Start In Business...
Without Turning Into A Low-Price Junkie
When you start in business, it is very easy to develop the new entrant mentality. This is something that I discourage in my clients. In fact, this week I was speaking about it to one of them, who has become very successful this year.
"Last year," I reminded him, "I discouraged you from using price discounts to enter your market until we could gain enough feedback from your prospects about how they viewed your new service.
"If they saw your service as a low-value proposition, then we'd need to elevate its perception by way of a stronger selling proposition. Plus we'd need to enhanced this new service with value-added products or additional services. This would transform your offering from its low-value perception into a high-value proposition to a specific segment of your local market."
Nevertheless, after receiving this feedback from the local market last year and a modest amount of growth as a result of this conservative approach, this year I encouraged my client to use pricing as a technique for entering the market.
We started with a 40% discount offer, moved next to a 30% and finally a 25% off offer during the most competitive months of the year. Demand for his services exploded! The business owner had to hire help and has been overwhelmed with work ever since. His customer base sextupled in a matter of 3 months. People now know there is a new business in town. However, for over 2 months this owner has not been able to dedicate the appropriate type of effort that may ensure the future viability of his business.
Whether he had seen it or not, his behavior now undermines his whole start in business. He is now behaving just like an employee, except in a manager role rather than as the lowest person on the totem pole. Granted, he is overwhelmed with work right now. He doesn't want to miss out on all the calls that his business has been receiving from the marketing campaigns that we've put together. I told him that this degree of devotion to meeting demand has been not only understandable but prudent on the whole, especially given that presently the business is at the peak of its annual cycle and should exploit all available opportunities.
But now the business is also de facto stuck in what is called the "feast or famine" pattern.
When this entrepreneur had his first start in business he experienced a bit of the "feast or famine" situation. In fact, it was early this year and I was there to see the panic in his eyes when the 7 skinny cows started eating his 7 fattened cows that he had gotten from a very lucrative opportunity that had arrived during the low season of the year. It was so low that this could easily have ended his venture, had it not been for the strong and unique selling proposition (USP) that we had worked on much earlier, which had placed him in excellent standing with his early clientele. He kept getting business, though at a far more diminished rate. This tremendously frightened him.
This week I told him that the skinny cows were coming for him again, because he is doing the very thing that encourages their return. What can you learn about this situation, if you want a start in business yourself that doesn't come with the seed of its own destruction planted within it?
Start In Business With A Readiness Not To Use Price Always To Your AdvantageThere is a price to pay for growth (call it an investment). You pay presently with fewer sales in order to have enough time to plan and execute a long-term strategy that can gain longevity for your business. In other words, unless you have the money to pay others to keep closing sales and delivering services on your behalf in the short-term, you will need to forgo some of those early sales to prepare your business for long-term viability.
The pricing discount strategy that my client and I executed this year works mainly because a local market consists of various segments with customers that display different purchasing behaviors. Some customers are loyal to their merchants. Other customers purchase based on convenience. Others want novelty, and others yet are price sensitive.
The latter respond well to price discounts. They're the kind of people who join Groupon and Living Social networks for the savings. Among them you might find a small proportion of consumers who might be willing to trade quality for lower price. This is the kind of market that you should want to go after when you start in business. They're the kind of people who are dissatisfied with your competitors and are willing to give you a try for a lower price.
As a recent entrant with a new service offering, you could expand the market base using a price discount. This way you can help grow the overall market and stimulate more awareness about the value of services like yours. But this pricing approach also stimulates more competition. And competition lowers prices any way. So, after a certain point you really need not compete on price. Once you've made your entry into the market, stop focusing on price. Once you're established in the market, you need a new strategy - one geared for growth.
In fact, in markets where there is little or no real perceived difference between the value of a new service and that of an established service, the new entrant is likely to be considered a threat by competitors, and these companies will aggressively defend against you. If you keep growing based on a low-price strategy, then you're going to get whacked by your more established competitors, who can cover more space for longer with a lower price strategy of their own.
This is called starting a price war, and it also reduces the profitability of everyone involved, plus it trains customers to judge your low distinction service chiefly on price. Customers who purchase based on price alone are also more frequently expensive and less profitable to serve than loyal customers. So, bottom line, competing on price (discounts, rebates, refunds) kills business profitability and defeats the point of your start in business soon enough.
Start In Business With A Focus On ValueYou need to compete on value not price. You might say to me "I don't know how to do that". Well, it's critical that you ask what you can do. It's only too easy for a momentarily successful entrepreneur, who is receiving good demand from an early market response to a low price series of promotions, to get into a narrow-minded mode, resist criticism, assert ignorance of what to do and then proceed as if closing on available business is all that needs to be done to make the business work out. After all, the money is just flowing in right now. What else do you expect one to do? Right?
However, the right attitude should be one of asking "What can I do to avoid continuing to give discounts to keep orders coming in?" You know you can't continue working like this and make your enterprise sustainable. The way things are right now with my client, he can't even get a cold without endangering his entire operation. He may not fully perceive it, but he is performing his services on the edge of a knife. He cannot slip up without seriously injuring himself and his business. So it'd be worthwhile if he continues to listen to sound advice.
At the start in business, when you find yourself in a similar situation, you need to develop a different mindset and put it into practice soon. You need to start thinking beyond delivering the one service you do. You need to start thinking about value-added services and promoting these with your clients and planning how to execute them as a top priority, hiring people to do this extra work for you upon your getting more than you can handle.
You've got to get out of the owner-worker practice and into the manager-entrepreneur mindset and practice. Your business can offer more than the one service that got your start in business. By adding additional service, you will gain more room for negotiating better pricing and packages due to value-add. It's more than knowing this. You must put it to practice and this will require reprioritizing your daily tasks and giving up some business to find new products, services or business alliances with which to produce value-add for your existing and future customers.
Without making this sacrifice you can easily spend a year since finding alternative ways to service your customers better and yet do nothing about it, despite evidence that creating a more comprehensive or unique offering could produce far more margin for you in the same amount of time and with the same amount of effort that you'd have to put into delivering your existing, low-differentiation proposition. And, yes, I know you can be swamped with work, that low-price strategy can produce a surge in demand. But that's precisely it.
Under a price discount-centric method of managing your business, you'll always be either too swamped or too famished - feast or famine - like a typical small business, and only a few weeks from bankruptcy, unemployment or from a deluge and getting flooded, which is a pattern that will ultimately exhaust you, unless you make time to stabilize your operation and flatten those peaks and valleys. This is a discipline and it takes time to master it.
As tempting as it may be to use a low-pricing technique to generate business, this is the wrong way to go once you've successfully made your entry into your local market. Instead, start in business by focusing on adding value to your service offerings to increase the perception that your services may be worth far more than what your competitors offer, and keep away from becoming a price discount junky.
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The North American International Auto Show kicks off this week, and apparently they started with a cattle drive. Or rather the new Chrysler LLC started with a Dodge Truck cattle drive as the new 2009 Dodge pickup was unveiled.
This new truck has a lot of design cues and features that show the company is continuing to evolve a machine that has been a solid performer for the company. The light-duty truck is also usually the first one changed before modifications are made to the heavy duty - and larger - models Dodge offers.
The new Dodge Ram 1500 for 2009 gets an even more aggressive look, a lowered drag coefficient and a long list of creature comforts. And the cattle in the background were part of the drive that brought the trucks to the North American International Auto Show in Detriot.
This new truck has a host of new features including a cargo handling system for the bed, a 380-horsepower Hemi engine, and a redesigned cab interior that tends toward even more creature comforts. That big-muscle Hemi is promising a 0-60 time of 6.1 seconds, according to Chrysler press reports.
While a light-duty truck isn't about getting work done on the farm, for a lot of folks they are a vehicle of choice for transportation. And if this 2009 light duty is any indication, the bigger machines are in for another change soon too. The video link below is from the Chrysler cattle drive that happened over the weekend and is provided by Crysler.


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Dow (24964.75,-1.01%) fell slightly yesterday. The 21-day MA on the daily line charts seems to be acting as a near term resistance and while that holds, Dow could possibly test lower levels of 24500 24000 in the coming sessions.
Dax (12487.90, +0.83%) continues to trade below 12600. While below 12600,near term looks bearish. As mentioned yesterday, trade within 12600-12300 levels looks possible.
Nikkei (22064.55, +0.64%) is almost stable and seems to have paused near current levels. A break above 22200-22400, if seen could be crucial as that could indicate some near to medium term upmove towards 22800. But there could be some chances that the index remains stable near current levels before coming off towards 21400 or lower. That if seen could lead to some weakness in Dollar Yen as well.
Nifty (10360.40, -017%) has immediate support at current levels and if that manages to hold, we could see a bounce back towards 10500 or higher in the coming sessions. Else a break below current support could turn bearish for the index for the coming weeks.
Sensex (33703.59, -0.21%) on the other hand closed below the immediate support on the daily candles and can test levels of 33250-33000 on Sensex and 10200-10080 on Nifty.
63 on the WTI (61.31) seem to be an important resistance that is likely to hold in the near term. While below 63, the price may trade lower and again head towards 60.
Brent (64.86) also could come off to re-test 63 while below 66. Near term look bearish.
Gold (1326.70) has fallen sharply from levels near 1360. While the immediate resistance near 1360-1370 holds, it would be difficult to move up towards 1380-1400 levels in the near term. A re-test of 1300 looks possible with another attempt back towards 1360/70 in the sessions to come.
Copper (3.1855) is down sharply and could come off towards 3.15-3.07 in the coming sessions.
As mentioned yesterday as well, the Dollar Index (89.78) is bouncing from support on daily candles near 88.5 towards important resistance just above 90 on the daily and weekly candles. As US bond yields touch new record highs (see Interest Rates below), we could see the Dollar Index touch 90.00-90.25 by Friday.
As per expectations, Euro (1.2338) tested 1.235 and is now trading at levels near 1.234. There is support on daily and weekly candles in the 1.2275-1.2315 range, which should be tested this week.
After seeing a low of 105.55 (support on daily candles) last Friday, Dollar-Yen (107.76) has bounced rapidly and is now targeting resistance near 108 on the daily candles this week itself. There could be crucial higher resistance near 109.00-109.25 on the weekly line chart, which could keep the upside restricted in the next week.
The Euro-Yen (132.96) is once again seeing a bounce from crucial support near 132 on the 3 day candles. Yesterday, we had spoken about the possibility of Euro Yen breaking below 132 this week if the Dollar Yen stays below 107.5 and the Euro touches 1.23. However, with a rise towards 108 and a dip towards 1.23 looking likely, we could expect Euro Yen to hover around levels near 132.8-133.0 this week.
Pound (1.3991) is pausing in its forecasted dip towards immediate support near 1.39 on the daily candles. Yesterday's prediction of a test of lower support near 1.38 on daily and 3 day candles would have to be postponed for next week.
Dollar-Rupee (64.7950): With yesterday's rise past 64.70 the long-term trend could be turning to the upside. Within that, there are chances of a near-term correction down to 64.55-50. If that does not happen, we may see 65.20 immediately.
US 10 Year Yield (2.8969), US 30 year Yield (3.1588), US 5 year yield (2.6566), US 2 year yield (2.262) : Yesterday's auction of US 2 Year notes fetched yield rates near 2.255%, which was a reflection of overall bearish sentiments on bond prices (largely driven by high inflation expectations). There is further auctioning slated in this week for the 5 year notes, which might just lead to a rise in the 5 year yield from the current 2.65%. We could expect a sustained elevation of both 2 year and 5 year yields to also pull up the longer term yields above their long term resistance levels. However, there is also a strong possibility of high yield levels attracting investors towards US debt and thereby pushing down yields from current levels. It will be interesting to see how yields behave in the next week.
For the moment, we retain our preference for a dip in the 2 year yield over the next week below 2.2%. (Long term resistance levels for the 4 yields earlier mentioned are as follows: 2.85-2.90, 3.20, 2.7 and 2.2 respectively – we have been expecting these levels to hold in this month.)


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Folio Literary Management:
- So you put up a MySpace page. Then what? You have to fiigure out what to do after that.
- Don't blow off your author questionnaire.
- No matter what we tell authors, they don't want to cough up the dough to do publicity right. They MUST understand there's a timetable for publicity, and get the sense of urgency.
Everybody talks like theirs is the next Big Book. But books can be a success without being stars. Eighty percent of a publisher's money is made off the backlist. For example, on the DorothyL mystery list, the majority of the books that members talk about are old. And those people buy books.
People usually have to see a product seven times for it to make an impression. The question is, how do you get people to see your book seven times without hiring a publicist? You can manage publicity, but you can't generate it. Inhouse publicists are good at managing publicity, but they can't do the daily recognition stuff. [That's up to a freelance pub and/or the author.]


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Boris and Zhenya clash over the custody of their twelve-year old son, only they are both trying to get rid of him because they are incapable of bringing him up. Upon realising that the young boy is missing they go to the authorities to help find him. What starts off as a Bergmanesque family drama is artfully transformed, by the director of "Leviathan", into a slow-burning mystery thriller through which Zvyagintsev expresses his dissatisfaction with modern day Russia. Won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
As their relationship moves towards the end, Boris and Zhenya fight over custody of their 12-year old son, Alyosha. Strange thing is that none of them wishes to gain custody, and as a result they come up with the most impossible excuses to get out of it. After an intense day, the parents, trapped in a world of their own, realize that their child is missing. They notify the authorities and the search for young Alyosha begins.
"Loveless" starts out as a Bergmanesque family drama with exquisite dialogues and convincing performances but turns gradually into a slow-burning mystery that keeps you nailed to your seat.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Screenwriters: Andrey Zvyagintsev, Oleg Negin
DoP: Mikhail Krichman
Music: Evgeny Galperin, Sacha Galperine
Editor: Anna Mass
Principal Cast: Maryana Spivak, Alexey Rozin, Matvey Novikov, Marina Vasilyeva, Andris Keishs, Alexey Fateev
Russia, France, Belgium, Germany | 2017 | Color | DCP | 127' | Russian


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Just a month after the 6GB RAM/ 128GB variant launch, Samsung has now slashed the price of its Galaxy S8+ smartphone. The 128GB Samsung Galaxy S8+ variant that was launched in India in June for Rs. 74,900, is now available on Samsung's official online store for Rs. 70, 900. This gives it a price slash of Rs. 4,000 in just one month since launch.
Whether this is a temporary price slash or a permanent one remains to be seen. We have contacted Samsung for clarification and will update this copy as soon as we hear back. Notably, established Mumbai-based offline retailer Mahesh Telecom claims that the new price is the new MOP – indicating a permanent price cut. Apart from the price cut, Samsung also lists many offers on the purchase of the 128GB variant from the online store. Reliance Jio is offering double data to all existing and new subscribers by recharging for plans of Rs. 309 and Rs. 509. The double data is credited to the users account within 48 hours, and will reflect in the My Jio app.
There's also an exchange offer listed that allows you to get further discount on swapping your old smartphone for a new one. HDFC is offering up to Rs. 3,000 cashback on its cards, and Samsung is also bundling a wireless charger worth Rs. 4,499 for free with the Samsung Galaxy S8+ purchase. Lastly, it is also offering a No Cost EMI option that start from Rs.4824.89/month.
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On March 31, 2016, the Federal Circuit issued its opinion in Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc. holding that, under Second Circuit law, a trademark owner can only recover profits of an infringer for willful infringement and that the equitable defense of laches applies to patent infringement actions.
Romag Fasteners, Inc. ("Romag") owns U.S. Patent 5,722,126, a patent for magnetic snap fasteners. Romag sells these fasteners under its registered trademark "ROMAG" but a licensed manufacturer, Wing Yip Metal Manufactory Accessories Ltd. ("Wing Yip"), manufactures them in China. Fossil, Inc. ("Fossil"), a fashion accessory brand and distributor, purchased Romag's fasteners for use in its products. Pursuant to an agreement between Fossil and Romag, Fossil directed one of its authorized independent manufacturers, Superior Leather Limited ("Superior"), to purchase ROMAG fasteners from Wing Yip and incorporate them into Fossil handbags. From 2008 to 2010, without informing Fossil, Superior purchased counterfeit "ROMAG" fasteners from an unlicensed manufacturer and incorporated them into Fossil handbags. In 2010, Romag became aware that retailers were selling the Fossil handbags with counterfeit fasteners.
Just days before the "Black Friday" shopping holiday in November 2010, Romag commenced an action against Fossil in federal district court asserting, inter alia, patent infringement and trademark infringement. A jury found Fossil liable for patent infringement and trademark infringement. The jury awarded Romag a reasonable royalty of only about $50,000 for the patent infringement, but for the trademark infringement, despite finding that Fossil's infringement was not willful, made an advisory award of almost $6.8 million of Fossil's profits.
The district court then held a bench trial to determine whether to adjust Romag's damages award on equitable grounds. The district court found that Romag unreasonably delayed in bringing suit to take advantage of the upcoming holiday sales season. Under the doctrine of laches, the district court reduced Romag's reasonable royalty damages for patent infringement to exclude Fossil's sales made during the period of unreasonable delay. Further, because the jury found that Fossil's trademark infringement was not willful, the district court held that Romag was not entitled as a matter of law to any award of Fossil's profits for trademark infringement. Romag appealed on both issues and, because of the patent issue, the Federal Circuit had jurisdiction.
Federal Circuit Opinion
Laches as a Defense to Patent Infringement
In its brief, Romag argued that the equitable doctrine of laches does not apply to patent infringement based on the Supreme Court decision in Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., 134 S. Ct. 1962 (2014), holding that laches cannot be invoked as a defense to copyright infringement. The Supreme Court has not addressed the issue of whether laches applies to patent infringement. However, before oral argument in this case, the Federal Circuit held en banc that "laches remains a defense to legal relief in a patent infringement case because Congress codified a laches defense to patent infringement in 35 U.S.C. § 282(b)(1)." SCA Hygiene Prods. Aktiebolag v. First Quality Baby Prods., LLC, 807 F.3d 1311, 1321 (Fed. Cir. 2015)(en banc). At oral argument, Romag conceded that the holding in SCA Hygiene Products controls for the application of laches as a defense in patent infringement. Accordingly, the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court's application of laches to Romag's patent infringement claim.
Willfulness as a Requirement for Profits Damages in Trademark Infringement
Romag further argued that the district court erred in finding that profits are only available as damages for trademark infringement when the infringement is willful. The Lanham Act allows a trademark owner to recover damages, including an infringer's profits, "subject to the principles of equity." 15 U.S.C. § 1117(a). While the Supreme Court has never directly addressed the issue, Courts of Appeal have split on whether a trademark owner must prove willful infringement to recover an infringer's profits under this section. Because this issue arises outside the context of the patent issue, the Federal Circuit applied the law of the circuit in which the case arose, the Second Circuit.
The Second Circuit has held that under the Lanham Act, a plaintiff must prove that a trademark infringer acted with "willful deception" to recover profits. George Basch Co. v. Blue Coral, Inc., 968 F.2d 1532 (2d Cir. 1992). However, Congress has since created a cause of action for trademark dilution and in 1999 amended the language of the Lanham Act to provide monetary damages for willful dilution. Therefore, Romag argued that Congress chose to make willfulness a requirement for monetary damages for dilution, but, by not inserting a willfulness requirement into the language relating to trademark infringement damages, Congress must not have intended for willfulness to be a prerequisite for infringement damages.
The Federal Circuit disagreed that the 1999 amendment to the Lanham Act changed Second Circuit law on this point. Notably, since the 1999 amendments, the Second Circuit has reaffirmed its willfulness rule in the context of false advertising under the Lanham Act. See Merk Eprova AG v. Gnosis S.p.A., 760 F.3d 247 (2d Cir. 2014). Further, the Federal Circuit found that nothing in the 1999 amendments calls into question the Second Circuit's willfulness rule as it relates to infringement. Congress intended to limit monetary recovery for dilution to cases that involve willfulness, but that does not mean that Congress intended to upset existing case law that, in some circuits, requires willfulness for a trademark holder to recover profits for infringement. The Federal Circuit thus concluded that the Second Circuit willfulness rule still applies and that the district court correctly ruled that Romag is not entitled to recover Fossil's profits. Of course, the Federal Circuit's ruling here does not resolve the circuit split regarding the need to prove willfulness to be awarded profits for trademark infringement.


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Investors in Japan's stock market have seen significant volatility over the past five years – but it looks as if their punt may finally be paying off.
The Nikkei 225 index bounced to its highest level since August 2008 overnight, breaching the 13,000-point level, after the Japanese central bank announced plans for a larger than expected monetary stimulus.
At one point the market had been nearly 5pc higher on the day but it ended the day up 1.5pc at 12,833.64.
The Nikkei has been on an upward trajectory since the election of new prime minister Shinzo Abe in December. Since the beginning of the year the index has risen more than 20pc. However, due to the fact that the yen has depreciated sharply over the same period – largely because of central bank intervention - the stock market risen less, by 10pc, in dollar terms.
The scale of monetary easing combined with structural reform of areas such as the energy sector should prompt further Yen weakening, according to Jason Hollands of Bestinvest, benefiting Japan's swathe of exporters who will become more competitive.
"Japanese stocks have been trading below their book value until recently, so the starting point of this remarkable surge in Japanese share prices has been very, very cheap prices. We are looking for a sustainable recovery in the market," he said.
Nathan Gibbs, manager of the Schroder Japan Alpha Plus fund, said the combination of policies adopted, the apparent change in attitude with the Bank of Japan and the prospect of further changes to policy in the future was sufficient to produce a strongly positive initial reaction in markets.
"To a large extent the Bank can now be seen to have "done its job" in the near term and attention will shift to Government policy and the issue of structural reform," he said. " This is desperately needed in order to ensure that any nascent economic improvement can be translated into a long-term revival in Japan's underlying growth prospects."
Earlier this week we reported that Japan funds returned most for British investors in March.
Japan funds filled nine of the slots in the ten top of performers. Legg Mason Japan Equity was the top performer across all sectors in March, returning investors 14.3pc.
Invesco Perpetual Japanese Smaller Companies was a close second, returning 11.3pc. In fact, AXA Framlington Biotech, which returned 6.3pc, was the only fund to make the top 10 that was not focused on Japan.
Japanese equity funds saw inflows of £17m in February – significantly less than the most popular equity class which was global funds, which raked in £297m. However, Japan funds did beat US funds, which saw outflows of £31m.
Simon Smith, chief economist for foreign exchange company FxPro Insights, warned that even with Japan's monetary stimulus the country will struggle to hit its 2pc inflation target.
"Deflation has a crippling impact on all three sectors of the economy," he said. "Households don't purchase today what they believe they can buy tomorrow at a lower price. Firms are discouraged from investing and increasing wages and governments see an ever rising real debt burden.
"For now it's a tall order to expect the 2pc inflation target to be achieved. The best hope is that we see signs of an end to the deflationary mindset that has gripped the economy."


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A few years ago I found myself in the jungles of Papua New Guinea listening to an extraordinary story – claims that a mythical tribal 'messiah' calling himself Black Jesus was drinking the blood and eating the flesh of his 'flower girls'.
They were teenagers who were among thousands of his 'disciples' who followed him through the jungles as he preached his own form of religion – denying the teachings of the Bible – to the people of remote villages.
This week Black Jesus, 38, was found guilty under his real name, Steven Tari, of raping four of his flower girls, but, despite claims from their relatives that he had also sacrificed young women, he escaped being charged with murder.
Tari's Christian-influenced cargo cult was first revealed to the world by me in the Daily Mail in 2007 when villagers and police told of the bodies of three 'flower girls' being buried in remote parts of the country.
One woman told police that she was present when Tari killed her young daughter by slitting her throat after which he drank her blood.
Interviewed in Madang's Boen Prison a year later after his dramatic capture, Tari defended his practice in the black arts and of sleeping with young girls who joined his cult, admitting that 'I got plenty – 430 girls'.
But he added: 'What I did is under and in line with my religion. It was religious and was not wrong.'
He will be sentenced later this month and police said they expected him to receive a long term in jail.
Black Jesus had gathered more than six thousand disciples as he travelled through villages in jungle-clad mountains, promising people they would receive gifts from heaven if they followed him.
He dressed in long white robes, like Christ, and stood on boulders declaring that he was the modern Jesus and evil would stay away from those who left their homes to follow him through the jungles.
But when word spread that he had sacrificed three young women, drinking their blood and eating part of their flesh as part of his bizarre ceremonies, the devotion of his followers began to turn to fear.
Added to concerns were claims by the relatives of a mother who was said to have fallen under his spell and drank her own daughter's blood.
My own inquiries in the remote villages of Papua New Guinea heard claims from thee family of 13-year-old Rita Hemen that she had been stripped naked, tied to a crude bed and raped by Tari before having her throat cut.
Her relatives said her blood had been drained into a coconut shell and drunk by Tari and his evil henchmen – and in a final horrific act they had eaten strips of her flesh.
Tari's wickedness came to an end when he reached the village of Matepi, where he was overpowered while sleeping in a hut.
A church pastor, Paul Makura, said it had been difficult for police to catch Tari as he never stayed long in one place.
'When he came here we heard that he had killed young women so we put a plan into action. We encouraged him to stay on and when he went to a hut to rest a group of eight villagers broke in, pounced on him and tied him up.'
Heavily armed police who made their way to Matepi found Tari tied to a tree. There was no sign of his bow-and-arrow-carrying bodyguards who, on a previous occasion, had engaged in a fight to the death with police.
Tari was still in possession of what he called his 'magic rod' – a knife – and a battered Bible, many of the teachings of which he had denied in his own sermons.
A spokesman for the Lutheran church, which is strongly represented in Papua New Guinea, said: 'We hope that the passage of time will erase memories of what this evil man has done.'
A merry Christmas and a happy new year to you all. I took this picture in the wilds of west Papua during a controversy over whether the blood of remote tribal people should be used to find out if there was a gene in it that killed cancer. American researchers were working on this 15 years ago – and the world is still waiting!
In the meantime these folks wished me to pass on their good wishes to the outside world, so I hope they'll be happy with me taking the liberty to include Christmas.


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The team of dedicated carers across Ferndown and the surrounding areas are chosen and trained at the branch, supported by expert guidance from a team of registered nurses and myself. We draw on our extensive knowledge of the area, having first launched Helping Hands in Warwickshire in 1989.
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A Source Sheet on Gender in Judaism
This source sheet was compiled by Abby Stein and is publicly available on Sefaria.
Creation Story
Genesis 1:27
(27) And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.
Genesis 2:18-24
(18) And the LORD God said: 'It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.' (21) And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the place with flesh instead thereof. (22) And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from the man, He made into a woman, and brought her unto the man. (24) Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
Deuteronomy 22:5
(5) A woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment; for whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
The Talmud says that what is prohibited is falsifying identity for the purpose of spying on the other sex. The great medieval commentator Rashi says that the prohibition is limited to concealing identity for the purpose of adultery. The Shulhan Arukh notes that cross-dressing is permitted on Purim because its purpose is simha (celebration, joy) and that it is forbidden if it is for the purpose of fraud. In limiting the prohibition to situations of fraud and deception, the Talmudic and medieval rabbis indicated that cross-dressing in a way that is true to the cross-dresser's identity is permitted.
Talmudic Texts
Mishnah - Codified in the 2nd Century
Mishnah Bikkurim 4:1
(1) An Androginus (a hermaphrodite, who has both male and female reproductive organs) is similar to men in some, and to women in other ways, in some ways to both, and in some ways to neither.
Rabbi Meir Says: Androginus is a (gender) category of its own, (because) the rabbis could not decipher whatever s/he is a man or or a women. However a Tumtum is not so, as at times s/he is fully male, and at times s/he is fully female (but we can't tell which).
(Literal translation by Abby Stein)
Midrash - Codified in the 6th Century
Bereishit Rabbah 8:1
(1) And God said: Let us make Adam in our image, in our shape: R' Yirmiyah ben Elazar said, when Hashem created Adam HaRishon, he was created as both genders; thus is it written, "male and female did He create them." R' Shmuel bar Nachman said, when Hashem created Adam HaRishon, He created him with two faces, one on each side, and [when He made Chavah,] He split him along the middle, forming two backs. They challenged him: but it is written, "And He took one of his ribs!" He said to them, ["mitzalosav" doesn't mean rib, it means] one of his sides, similar to that which is said, "and to the 'tzela' of the Mishkan," which is translated "the side of the Mishkan." R' Tanchuma said in the name of R' Benaya, when Hashem created Adam HaRishon, He created him as a lifeless mass able to reach from one end of the Earth to the other; thus is it written, "Your eyes saw a mass."
The midrash, classical Jewish exegesis, adds that the [first human] being formed in G-d's likeness, was an androgynous, an inter-sexed, person . . . Hence, our tradition teaches that all bodies and genders are created in G-d's image, whether we identify as men, women, inter-sex, or something else.
(Rabbi Elliot Kukla, "Reform Devises Sex-Change Blessings")
The Zohar - Traditionally - the 2nd century, historically the 13th century
Zohar 1:49b
Rabbi Simeon was journeying to Tiberias, and there were with him, Rabbi Jose, Rabbi Jehuda, and Rabbi Hiya. While on the way, they saw Rabbi Pinchus coming to meet them. After exchanging greetings, they all sat down under a great shady tree by a hillside.
Then Rabbi Simeon said: "It is written, 'and he went on his journeys from the south to Bethel unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai' (Gen. 13:3). It says, 'He went on his journeys' instead of 'his journey.' Why is that? There is a reference not only to his own journeying, but also that of the Schekina, who always went with Jacob, and therefore we learn that every person needs to be male and female at all time, for the sake of his faith, he ought not to think or imagine that the Schekina forsakes him in any way.
See, it has been said, a man ought always to cleave to his wife that the Schekina may always be with him, yet it is possible to go alone on a journey and the Schekina will still be with him. And when doing so he ought to direct his prayer to the Holy One that this may be, and in this way the male and female will always be associated in union with oneself.
(Translation by Abby Stein)
In this model, the individual mystic's soul, gendered feminine, first participates in an act of transgender-homoerotic mystical fellowship with those of hir fellow mystics in order to at once welcome in the Divine feminine (in some cases entering into erotic union with Her) and immediately switch gender roles to embody that Divine feminine for her congress with the male Godhead. This act of psychic double-transvestism is abetted by the Kabbalistic trope that casts God and Israel as the two lovers in the Song of Songs, or the two cherubs over the ark, with Israel taking the female role.
(Dr. Jay Michaelson)
Medieval Kabbalah
In the last few decades, Kabbalah has enjoyed an unlikely resurgence, from high-profile celebrities such as Madonna to many ''New Age'' seekers, including, notably, feminists and queer people interested in alternatives to traditional Western religious discourse. And Kabbalah often delivers: feminine God-language, experiential mysticism and mythic esotericism, and a richer notion of Eros than one typically finds in mainline synagogues or churches.
Is it possible to attempt queer readings of Kabbalistic text and symbolism that are at once honest with the texts and yet of use to a contemporary queer theology?
("Kabbalah and Queer Theology")
Maggid Meisharim 8:3
I have already revealed to you last Shabbat concerning your first two wives. Now I have come to reveal to you the secret of your third wife.
You should know that this woman was in the past, a proper male Torah scholar. However, he was stingy with his money and would not give charity. He was also stingy with his wisdom and would not teach others. He was therefore punished that his soul migrated into a woman, measure for measure…
Therefore, his soul was incarnated into a female, who is constantly receiving and needs someone to bequeath to her. Therefore you see, that she does abundant charity and loves you very much because you work to spread Torah and toil in writing books to teach others…because these things bring about the rectification of her soul, she therefore loves you…
It is because she has the soul of a male that you have not had children from her, because a male and another male cannot produce offspring. If you shall point out that she has children from her first husband, this is because the first husband has the spark of a female soul within him…
(The maggid explains at length above, that it is entirely possible for a male to have a female soul and vice versa.)
Sha'ar Hagilgulim, Chapter 9
Sometimes a man may reincarnate into the body of a woman because of a sin, such as homosexuality or something similar. This woman who has received the soul of a man will not be able to conceive and become pregnant
This woman will need great merit to enable her to become pregnant and give birth. The only way it can be done is that some other feminine soul must enter her as an ibur.
However, she cannot give birth to sons for two reasons. The first is [as follows:] There is a verse that says, "…If a woman puts forth seed, and a male child is born" (Lev. 12:2). In this case, the woman is a male, just like her husband. She cannot give birth to boys, but only to girls. The second reason is that the feminine soul that has entered her does so only as an ibur in order to help her become pregnant and give birth. Once this woman gives birth, that soul does not need to stay there any longer for no reason. At the time that she gives birth, that [feminine] soul enters into the fetus as an actual Gilgul, and not as an Ibur, like it was at first. That is why the child that is born must be female and not male.
Hasidism - Contemporary
''The Hasidic teaching is the proclamation of rebirth. No renewal of Judaism is possible that does not bear in itself the elements of Hasidism.''
- Martin Buber
18th Century Hasidut
It is known that when Issac was born, he was born with the soul of a female, as it is written in Or Hachaim, and through the akeidah (binding of Issac) he got a male soul that can influence (meaning, can impregnate). With that we can understand why they more infertile humans than animals, even though that they both got the same blessing "It will not be within you and within your animals infertility". But, this is known according to the Sod (Secret/Mysticism) of reincarnation - that at times, a female would be in a male body, because in the reasons of gilgal (reincarnation) the soul of a female would come to be in a male. ... that is why it says by Issac that Hashem answered to him and not to her (Rebecca), because he needed divine help to be bale to have kids.
(Translation by Abby Stein)
Even Bohan, Kalonymus ben Kalonymus
What an awful fate for my mother / that she bore a son. What a loss of all benefit!...Cursed be the one who announced to my father: "It's a boy! . . . "Woe to him who has male sons / Upon them a heavy yoke has been placed / restrictions and constraints. Some in private, some in public / some to avoid the mere appearance of violation / and some entering the most secret of places. Strong statutes and awesome commandments / six hundred and thirteen / who is the man who can do all that is written / so that he might be spared? Oh, but had the artisan who made me created me instead - a fair woman. Today I would be wise and insightful. We would weave, my friends and I / and in the moonlight spin our yarn / and tell our stories to one another / from dusk till midnight / we'd tell of the events of our day, silly things / matters of no consequence. But also I would grow very wise from the spinning / and I would say, "Happy is she who know how to work with combed flax and weave it into fine white linen." And at times, in the way of women, I would lie down on the kitchen floor, between the ovens, turn the coals, and taste the different dishes. On holidays I would put on my best jewelry. I would beat on the drum / and my clapping hands would ring. And when I was ready and the time was right / an excellent youth (husband) would be my fortune. He would love me, place me on a pedestal /dress me in jewels of gold / earrings, bracelets, necklaces. And on the appointed day, in the season of joy when brides are wed, for seven days would the boy increase my delight and gladness. Were I hungry, he would feed me well-kneaded bread. Were I thirsty, he would quench me with light and dark wine. He would not chastise nor harshly treat me, and my [sexual] pleasure he would not diminish / every Shabbath, and each new moon / his head would rest upon my breast. The three husbandly duties he would fulfill / rations, raiment, and regular intimacy. And three wifely duties would I also fulfill, [watching for menstrual] blood, [Sabbath candle] lights, and bread. . .
Father in heaven / who did miracles for our ancestors / with fire and water / You changed the fire of Chaldees so it would not burn hot / You changed Dina in the womb of her mother to a girl / You changed the staff to a snake before a million eyes / You changed (Moses') hand to (leprous) white / and the sea to dry land. In the desert you turned rock to water / hard flint to a fountain. Who would then turn me from a man to woman? Were I only to have merited this / being so graced by goodness ... What shall I say? why cry or be bitter? If my father in heaven has decreed upon me / and has maimed me with an immutable deformity / then I do not wish to remove it. the sorrow of the impossible / is a human pain that nothing will cure / and for which no comfort can be found. So, I will bear and suffer / until I die and wither in the ground. Since I have learned from our tradition / that we bless both, the good and the bitter / I will bless in a voice / hushed and weak / Blessed are you God / who has not made me a woman.
(Translated by Rabbi Steve Greenberg)


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Newsweek's recent article, "In Disney Crackdown, Disabled Kids are Collateral Damage" outlines difficulties faced by some parents following the removal of Disney Parks' Guest Assistance Card which moved its park visitors with disabilities to the front of the line. On October 9, following widespread abuse of the system, Disney unveiled the Disability Access Service Card. The new program lets families sign up for a scheduled time for each ride and, unlike the old system, does involve some wait times. Now that the DAS Card has been in effect for just over a month, we asked families in our community to tell us their experience using it. Although the majority of responses we received were negative, the consensus remained that Disney parks hold a special place in the hearts of their children.
The Disney Parks website says that if the new system does not meet the needs of guests, staff will work "individually with guests with disabilities to provide assistance that is responsive to their unique circumstances." This is crucial moving forward since it is a wide autism spectrum and no two individuals are the same. When the program was announced we asked families in the community to send us their experiences and we've passed those along to the appropriate Disney Parks people.
"We just went. It was sensory overload. It does not work for my son. We are also annual passholders to both Florida and Ca. I hope they work on this." -Elizabeth Wilson Haskin
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"We just got back from Disney. I have a son with autism. He actually does pretty well waiting in lines (if not too bad). The new system is much worse for us. He understands waiting in line, however, he doesn't understand walking around while waiting to return to a ride. Plus you end up back tracking and spending more time w nothing to do (another problem). The old way def worked better for us." -Melisa Timonere Sellers
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The Ugaritic Pantheon
Growing up in the church, you hear Bible stories about, for instance, Elijah and the prophets of Baal, and perhaps also the goddess Asherah. The Israelites are often rebuked for their worship of the Canaanite gods, gods worshipped by those that lived in and around the Promised Land when it was given to the Israelites by God. The Israelites had their one God, Yahweh, making them a relatively unique monotheistic religion in a world full of divine pantheons. Right?
Maybe. Maybe not. I earlier described the Documentary Hypothesis, which (among other things) dates significant portions of the first books of the Bible to the late seventh century BCE, and it is especially these portions that decry the worship of these other gods. Is it possible that monotheism in Israel was actually a rather late development? Let's look at some of the reasons that may be true.
In 1928, the ancient city of Ugarit was discovered, and with it a number of tablets that describe the Canaanite gods. With the limited reading I have done, I am not sure how much of what follows comes from those tablets specifically, and how much has been attested elsewhere, but I gather that this archeological discovery was relatively important in expanding our knowledge of the beliefs of this region in the second millenium BCE, roughly the time where the Israelites (supposedly) returned from Egypt. In any case, the Canaanite pantheon had as its chief god El with Asherah being his consort or wife. They had seventy divine children (all sons?), including Baal and possibly Yahweh.
I say "possibly" because some accounts I have read say yes and some don't say. For instance, in The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts, Mark Smith says "In the earliest stage, it would appear that Yahweh was one of these seventy children". Ugarit and the Bible also places Yahweh in this group of seventy. Other sources (that I have read) that describe the Ugaritic texts tend not to mention Yahweh, but neither do they list all of the seventy divine children, so this is a bit of an open question for me. However, we will encounter some other reasons to suspect that Yahweh was a member of this pantheon in a moment.
Before we get to that, though, there is one more word that requires some elaboration: "elohim". The elohim are the sons of El; it is plural. Some of you will recognize this word as being used in the Bible to describe God. Why plural then? Naturally there have been a variety of suggested explanations for this. But as we continue, consider how much sense that "sons of El" makes where "elohim" is used.
Let us consider then the hypothesis that the Israelites were polythestic until relatively late in their history, perhaps until approximately the time that the Deuteronomist did his work. We would expect, then, that earlier writing would retain references to this polytheism, even in the Bible. Are there such references? Here are some examples.
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When the Most High [El] gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel [sons of El]. For the LORD's [Yahweh's] portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance.
Here would we have El dividing up the nations among his sons, with Yahweh receiving Jacob's people. An interesting note is that the phrase "sons of Israel" is found in the Masoretic Text, but the Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint say "sons of God". So Yahweh would be the national deity for Israel, and other nations would have others. (This is an important point in Mark Smith's proposed explanation for the development of monotheism.)
One difficulty with some of these passages is that modern translations may be colored by modern expectations about what was meant. Not being able to read Hebrew myself, I cannot vouch for some of the translations below. I will compare them with a couple of common translations. Checking against some kind of Hebrew interlinear translation would be helpful, but I have not done that.
Consider these translations from Canaanite Gods Mentioned in the Bible:
- Psalm 82:1: Elohim has taken his place in the assembly of EL, in the midst of the elohim He holds judgment.
- Psalm 29:1: Ascribe to Yahweh, O sons of EL, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
- Psalm 89:6: For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh, who among the sons of EL is like Yahweh,
In the NIV, these are translated:
- Psalm 82:1: God presides in the great assembly; he gives judgment among the "gods"
- Psalm 29:1: Ascribe to the LORD, O mighty ones, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
- Psalm 89:6: For who in the skies above can compare with the LORD? Who is like the LORD among the heavenly beings?
And in NASB:
- Psalm 82:1: God takes His stand in His own congregation; He judges in the midst of the rulers.
- Psalm 29:1: Ascribe to the LORD, O sons of the mighty, Ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
- Psalm 89:6: For who in the skies is comparable to the LORD? Who among the sons of the mighty is like the LORD,
Over time, the roles of the various players seem to have changed. Eventually, Yahweh became (to the Israelites at least) interchangeable with El. Asherah (previously El's consort or wife) becomes associated with Yahweh, as two inscriptions from around 850 to 750 BCE relate:
I bless you through Yahweh of Samaria, and through his Asherah!
Uriyahu, the king, has written this. Blessed be Uriyahu through Yahweh, and his enemies have been conquered through Yahweh's Asherah.
(From Ugarit and the Bible)
As I said, this is not anything that I have studied extensively, and certainly I have not even included here everything that I have read. I do find it a very interesting hypothesis (that Israelite polytheism was normal and prevalent until rather late). Will continued research support this hypothesis? What would it mean for you if it could be proven?


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There is nothing we love more than greeting yourselves and your four-legged friends, whether you've come to stay with us for a break away or simply joining us for a re-fuel on a ramble through the New Forest.
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Our sister pub, The Drift Inn is situated in Beaulieu where wellies, walking boots and dogs are always welcome. It is the perfect pit-stop after a walk through the surrounding heathlands to enjoy traditional pub classics crafted by our chefs with locally sourced produce. There are also complimentary dog treats, towels and water at the ready, so they can feel at home too!
As for attractions, there are many across the New Forest that welcome dogs (as long as they are on a short lead) including: Exbury Gardens, Braxton Gardens, Breamore House, Highlife Castle, Lepe Country Park, Macpennys, Moors Valley Country Park, New Forest Centre and the Reptile Centre.
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Howling Bells return with their stunning new album, Heartstrings, on 2nd June. Recorded at London's Assault and Battery Studios with producers Catherine J Marks and Alan Moulder, the album is preceded by a single, Slowburn, on 7th April. The band will celebrate the release of the single with a live show at London's Oslo, also on 7th April.
Heartstrings is Howling Bells' fourth album, and the first they have recorded in their adopted hometown of London (the band's debut, Howling Bells (2006), was demoed in Australia and recorded in Liverpool, while Radio Wars (2009) and 2011's The Loudest Engine saw the band decamp to Los Angeles and Las Vegas respectively).
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2016 Volvo S60 is a brand new and innovative vehicle that is set to be released in near future. This luxury sedan will be particularly distinctive in terms of its layout of engines. It will be coming in various trims, each of them having distinctive features. One particular trim which is very interesting is 2016 Volvo S60 T6. This vehicle is another great variant of this model, with better performance and features than the base model. Also, this vehicle will be having better specifications.
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This vehicle will feature great style and design. Last year, exterior of this vehicle was updated with a completely new front grille, hood, bumper and even a new lighting system using LED running lights. Some small exterior changes are also expected to be included for 2016 model. Furthermore enhancements should also be provided for 2016 Volvo S60 T6 model. Front and rear part of exterior will be typically redesigned. It will also be having intermittent window wipers which have capability of sensing rain and functioning immediately accordingly.
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Starting this week, the UST law school will be hosting a book drive to benefit Books for Africa. For those of you who do not know about Books for Africa, it is a non-profit organization headquartered in St. Paul and is the largest shipper of donated books in all of Africa. Their mission is to help those in Africa to learn and improve their reading skills. In 2012 alone, they sent over 2 million books to readers of all ages.
So how can you help during this book drive? In one or more of three ways. First, any books that you may have that you are willing to donate can be picked up by me or dropped off in the collection box located on the second floor outside of the law library (Minneapolis campus). The books can be new or slightly used, educational or fun. Donate virtually any kind of book, from old textbooks (within last 10 years) to your favorite novel or the children's story that inspired you to read. If you wish, simply contact me (info below) to setup a time and I will be happy to come and get them from you.
Second, you can donate funds directly to the organization at: https://www.booksforafrica.org/donate/funds.html
Lastly, the book drive will close with a volunteer event at the BFA warehouse in St. Paul on April 20th from 10-2 and 12-2. On that day you can volunteer for a few hours helping to sort and pack the books so that they can be shipped overseas. If you are interested in volunteering please email Jim Skoog at firstname.lastname@example.com as space is limited. To find out more about Books for Africa please visit their website at: https://www.booksforafrica.org.
Any help you can lend in getting the word out is also appreciated. Please note, the book drive will end on April 19th. The Books for Africa warehouse is located at 635 Prior Ave. N. Suite 100, St. Paul, MN 55104.
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