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You cannot fix yourself
You cannot fix pain pathways. You can only implement strategies that cause your nervous system to heal and become an observer of your own healing. The harder you try to "fix" pain pathways the stronger they will become.
Bent forward
Terry is a middle-aged mother of two children who I met about seven years ago. For reasons that are unclear her spine just tipped forward in her lumbar area. She came into my office severely bent forward and tipped to the left side. She had understandably developed chronic pain and on top of years of disruptive anxiety. Her medications included 900 mg of oxycodone and 160 mg of Oxycontin per day. She would come in every two weeks and we would have the worst time getting her prescriptions filled at that dose. We worked for almost six months on getting her meds somewhat stabilized. I had just begun working with the DOCC project and there was a lot I did not understand. She worked on the negative writing, sleep, and David Burn's book "Feeling Good". Her coping skills improved as well as her pain.
Standing up straight
She then underwent about nine hours of surgery through her abdomen and back. I fused her from the second lumbar vertebra to her pelvis and she was able to stand up completely straight. With a combination of physical therapy, working with a counselor, staying with the basic DOCC concepts, and generalized conditioning her pain improved and I was able to wean her down to 60 mg per day of Oxycodone. But I could not get her off of it. Her anxiety remained fairly high. She continued to work with a counselor and pain specialist to wean her off narcotics but she could never come off of them.
About three years ago she decided to attend the Hoffman process, which is an eight-day, in-house, intense somatic workshop. Through a combination of writing, visualization, mindfulness, music, and art the process creates a major shift in your nervous system out of anxiety-driven anger. She had a good experience with marked improvement in her both pain and anxiety. But they still persisted.
Bent forward again
I lost track of her for a couple of years. She continued to work with my friends at the University pain center as well as with a psychologist. She returned to me about a year ago and her spine had "fallen over" again above the prior fusion. Her pain was moderate and her meds remained stable at around the 60 mg of Oxycodone per day. Determined not to have more surgery she worked very hard with physical therapy. Her anxiety continued to be quite significant.
Calming down
It became clear about six months ago that we were going to have to do the surgery to straighten her spine. We both decided that she would re-engage in the DOCC project concepts before surgery as post-op pain is much less with a "calmed down" nervous system. She also continued to see her pain psychologist regularly.
The transformation
She came in this week transformed. She was beaming. Something had changed and her lifelong anxiety all but disappeared. She had felt it leave over a matter of hours. It had occurred a couple of months ago and she was still feeling great. She still had pain and was bent over to the right – quite severely. It just was not bothering her much and she was having the best time being with her family and not being strangled by anxiety. She put her hands to her throat and released them several times trying to demonstrate what she could not put into words.
I was overwhelmed. I had assumed that her anxiety was something that was just not solvable and my focus was on keeping her functioning in spite of the pain and deformity. I had given up but she had not.
What happened?
She could not explain what specific factors made the difference. She was finally able to talk to her psychologist about the adversity she had experienced with the nursing staff after her first major spine operation. That seemed to help. She was also using the verbal version of expressing her negative thoughts. Dr. Wegner in 1987 pointed out that just saying disruptive thoughts is an effective alternative to writing them down and throwing them away. David Burns in his book, Feeling Good, recommends a similar exercise where you stand in front of a mirror and express the thoughts you have about yourself to the person in the mirror. I personally have found that experience both effective and disconcerting. You would never talk to another human being like you talk to yourself.
We had the best talk for half an hour and I "showed her off" to my staff. She even looked 10 years younger. She will still require the major fusion to correct the deformity but her post-op pain will be less with a quicker rehab.
Never just one answer
Most patients that experience relief of their pain have it occur within a few months. Changes usually begin to occur within a few weeks. I have had several other patients I have "given up" on email me a year or two later relating how their pain markedly decreased or essentially disappeared.
The answer to chronic pain is that there is not one answer. All aspects of pain must be addressed simultaneously. There is never one "fix" and that includes surgery. The neurological pathways always win. Just stay in the game. Keep using the tools that work for you and let yourself heal.


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There are a number of other Article 4 Directions across the District, for instance there are several aimed at preserving the appearance and Green Belt function of the land by controlling development such as enclosures, others aimed at preserving the 'open plan' appearance of an area, and some restricting the use of land. For more information about these restrictions, please see the Where I Live Maps section of the website.
The Council is also using Article 4 Directions - Employment Areas to control loss of business premises to residential in some employment locations in the District.

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This email made my day today around 3pm. If you are in it for the money you've got it all wrong, this type of feed back is why Les and I play the game. Details of how this went down coming in a video clip testimonial soon. (sadly/fortunately Fran was busy to day) They ended up selling a balloon arch for this event to a guy at google who did a google search and found them! Thanks for sharing Fran…we love hearing it! and we take...Read More
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Dominate your Niche, Tell your story.
Dominate your Niche. Its easy if it is in fact YOUR niche. If it is what you choose to do, then do what it takes to dominate it. If it is just something that you kinda like, or it's just your job, you'll suck at it. You won't dominate it. If you love it, you should be able to dominate it. This sounds so easy. But it's not. There is a 4 letter word that gets in the way of all of this. It's a word called...Read More
Excited about WWWWW tomorrow.
Today was a good day for the WWWWW. (Wunderful Weekly Wednesday Web Workshop) It is starting to get traction, I can feel it. Tomorrow is the 4th one! I invited some of our beloved clients today. Jeff Gibson of Sound Travels DJ can't make it, but he's excited about the next one. Same deal with Kendra at a Ultimate Lawn and Landscape. (future client) It's just a matter of time…. But why am I pumped about this?...Read More
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I loved Friday's Tedx Conference. It was great, much needs to go out to everyone who was involved in getting it rolling. I think Kent Lewis was the horse, but there are probably others… GREAT JOB. The Ted Conference series takes place all over the US. Below is video from one that I found interesting. Why did I particularly love this event. One word. Passion. Everyone who spoke, spoke with passion about what they were talking...Read More
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I just got off of the phone with Adam Martin of Adam Martin designs. Figured I'd spread some love… I love talking to Adam. He's in my reverse mentorship program and Adam is out there hustling just like me to help young blood take over Lexington little by little. I've known Adam for over 2 years now from all kinds of networking events. He too has a new baby which we often talk about. A few weeks back Adam posted...Read More
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Sales Director
- Recruiter
- Rule Recruitment Ltd
- Location
- Covent Garden
- Salary
- £120,000 per annum
- Posted
- 13 Apr 2019
- Closes
- 18 Apr 2019
- Job Function
- Director
- Industry
- Consultancy
- Position Type
- Permanent
Sales Director- Digital Recruitment- London- West End
Basic DOE- up to £120k base + profit share OTE £200k +
The Company:
Our client has been trading 5 years and in that time have become an award winning agency. They currently employ c 50 staff with the ambition of getting to 90 fee earners in 2018.
Our client works across the digital spectrum recruiting for Creative, Marketing, Tech and Analytics.
With a GP of £3.2 million for the first 6 months of the year, our client is keen to grow this significantly by building upon their contract offering.
They have a great dress down culture are not KPI heavy. Our client has excellent pedigree in their SMT with one of the founders having set up and sold a multi national recruitment firm.
The Role:
- Execute a growth strategy in terms of headcount and revenue set out by the board (which you will sit on)
- Relay information to your management team
- Day to day management and running of the business working closely with the CEO
- Help train and develop the consultants alongside the internal trainer
- Target new growth areas
- Build the brand presence within the market
The Candidate:
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- Ideally you will have worked in one of their key markets
- A proven biller who has risen through the ranks of a previous firm
- A candidate who does not need to run a firm through KPI's etc. The candidate who will fit in this culture will have excellent management skills and lead from the front
- You will ideally have 7 years plus recruitment experience
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Now it's 2012 and the JS engine has better hooks that allow you to use debugging APIs without causing the code to come to a screeching halt in terms of performance (with the proliferation of setTimeout-based tests, drastically slowing down JS execution causes a surprising amount of tests to fail). So I started by using a modified version of Gregory Szorc's patch for development, but that immediately ran into several bugs with the JS debugging API. It also requires major contortions due to current limitations of the API. After complaining enough in #jsapi, I was pointed to some bytecode counter hooks enabled in the JS API. After finding and temporarily working my way around more bugs (I've been told that most of this stuff isn't necessary with compartment-per-global, but no one has been ripping this stuff out yet…), I produced a patch (see the previous linked bug) which hooks into xpconnect and automatically does code coverage for all JS run on the xpconnect runtime.
Since the pc counts just dumps out raw counts of hits, I need further processing to make it work; this comes in the form of post-processing script. There is also related issues that counts can't be generated for scripts it never sees, so there's also logic in my ever-growing code-coverage building script to compute all functions that get run. This is the most fragile part of the process right now, as many things can cause it to break. In addition, I ended up writing a partial replacement of lcov in python since I was getting extremely tired of its poor performance. This goes so far as actually reading the gcno and gcda files output by gcc itself, since gcov has problems reading one of them.
So the final result is posted now, and, like usual, I have a treemapified version as well. In that, I went ahead and implemented a feature which lets the URI specify the directory to start in, so you don't have to bear with several long script dialog warnings to view into a specific directory.


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The other day I realised that living as a Chattel gave me certain freedoms, ironically as a Chattel by definition is being someone's property/slave.
Let's be clear I do not want to be a Chattel and hate this Victorian law that labels me as my ex husbands property until I remarry, he settles or either of us die (although he can do what he likes).
However there are certain perks, the primary one is I don't have to be anyone else's chattel, I can not make the same mistake again. No rushing into marriage or co-habitation for me. My codependent and romantic nature cries out to be some bodies 'the one', but my chattel status removes my ability to form a committed relationship, so I don't have to commit, or worry if I'm sure or doing the right thing and neither does a lover. The stakes are so high I can live in a permanent state of never having to risk being owned by anyone else.
I could remarry and lose the stake in a business I helped set up but I'm not going to give away what's rightfully mine for a marriage that despite my commitment could be thrown away by someone else's wandering cock, like last time. I don't have young children and won't have more, so the need for marriage isn't there. I admit my conditioned nature of social norms sometimes dreams of marriage and happy ever after but my chattel status squashes that down to an uncomfortable niggle. People change and I'm not sure if I want to or need to take that risk again. My chattel status gives me (and any lover I have) the perfect excuse to never address the future, to live in the moment.
When your options are reduced life becomes simpler, freedom? Why would I want that?


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The guys from Punch-It Entertainment will be on hand at Dragon's Lair Comics & Games in Millard on Sunday, July 17th, from Noon - 4pm demoing their innovative new card game!
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Wilderness - Review
Review by Richard Goodwin
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES: Cast & Crew Interviews; Behind The Scenes Footage; Trailers.
AFTER brutalising a fellow inmate at a youth offender's institution a group of male young offenders are sent to an uninhabited island as punishment for his resultant suicide.
Led by warden Sean Pertwee, the group encounter a similar group of girls on the island under the supervision of Louise (Alex Reid).
Expecting a group bonding-style weekend, they soon discover that they're not alone on the island and, before long, are being hunted by a particularly sadistic psychopath equipped with crossbow and assorted booby traps.
Infighting soon breaks out among the inmates as they attempt to survive and ultimately escape the island.
Michael J. Bassett (of Deathwatch fame) directs this Brit horror flick with economy and flare, creating a taut, edgy atmosphere that never lets up.
He's aided by an accomplished young British cast led by more experienced pro's Sean Pertwee and Alex Reid.
Of the younger stars, Toby Kebbell gives a brooding performance as loner Callum, and there's notable support from Stephen Wight as the unstable bully of the group.
Wilderness boasts a number of tense set pieces that are punctuated by some truly gruesome deaths (watch out for a particularly gory ravenous dog-aided disembowelment) that should keep gore hounds satisfied.
The film doesn't quite reach the heights of recent British horror efforts such as The Descent, however, as much of the good work is undone by an underwhelming plot twist that ultimately leaves the film limping towards something of an anti-climax.
It also suffers from the fact that there's nothing new here – the Lord of the Flies influence is particularly keenly felt – leading to a nagging feeling of déjà vu for any self respecting horror fan.
But for anyone willing to take such criticisms in their stride, Wilderness is suitably gruesome and tense throughout and a worthy addition to the recent British horror revival.


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Work + Cleaned my room + Worked on some to-do's around the house
Even though I bought this dress MONTHS ago (Yeah I bought it in April or something like that and have only worn it twice....), I am still completely in love with it. The print is just breathtaking.
I spent a whole chunk of my afternoon cleaning my room. I'm not sure if I have ever mentioned it on my blog, but I am most definitely a clean freak. When things are out of place, I feel very stressed out and upset. In fact, I frequently wake up in a bad mood when I see my room messy. So I'm so happy I managed to organize today! (I still have a lot left though.... sigh)


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It's crucial to find balance between your circle of friends, when we get to keep only some of them. So, a few weeks ago, I went out with my sister, Faye, and my high school friend, Khyncer. It was exactly what I needed.
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Chana Milk Halwa (Besan Burfi)
If you're familiar with French pâtes de fruit or fudge, you'll want to try the Indian / Middle Eastern equivalent, called halwa. Halwa literally means "sweet" in Arabic. It can be made with different ingredients such as carrots, pumpkin, yams, beets, semolina and many types of beans, lentils or nuts.
Daddy (my father-in-law) had a craving for some chana dal halwa, so my mother-in-law made several batches this weekend. To the chana dal, she added roasted cashew nuts (Kaju in Urdu) for flavor and texture. This particular recipe also calls for a large quantity of clarified butter, or ghee. Ghee is popular in Indian cuisine and can be found at almost any Indian grocery store. This dessert is definitely not low fat or low calorie, but the taste and texture are extraordinary. Store-bought halwa cannot compare.
We made a huge batch and stored them in tins in the refrigerator. The girls placed the sweet candy in cellophane gift bags and tied a pretty bow around them to give away to their friends and teachers. Whether or not you decide to share the dessert with others, you should definitely find time to make some. Your efforts will definitely be rewarded.
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Garam Masala Spice Mix Recipe
Garam Masala is often used in Indian cooking. It's a blend of several Indian spices like cumin, cinnamon and turmeric. It takes a little time but it's so worth it. The result is so much more fragrant than the store-bought jars. It is used in a variety of Indian dishes, such as Tandoori chicken, palak paneer, dahls (lentils) and my Tandoori glazed roasted white seabass.
Masala in Urdu means "paste" and garam means "hot", and oh boy, believe me, it's full of spices!
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NY Tech Meetup organiser, former BricaBox founder, and long-time SAI contributor Nate Westheimer has a new job. After several months as an entrepreneur in residence at Rose Tech Ventures, Nate is now VP of product at NYC- and Jerusalem-based AnyClip. (He'll still organise the meetup.) From his post on Innonate:
Today, I'm also proud to announce a new Facebook App that we've built over the last month, called Casting Couch. Casting Couch is a way to tag your friends in famous movie clips, as if they were the characters in those very clips. Go check it out!
So, what is AnyClip and what does Casting Couch have to do with it?
At AnyClip, we're building the world's most comprehensive, high-quality, and legal database of scenes from the world's favourite movies. Launching later this year, AnyClip.com will show off this database and allow you to browse through the top scenes of your favourite movies. AnyClip will allow us to relive the moments from films that help us make sense of our lives, the scenes which make us laugh, and the scenes which help us communicate with our friends.
Casting Couch is a great demonstration of what you can do when you have a great database of scenes. With this new app on Facebook, you can find scenes which mimic your life or are just plain funny; when you find the clip you want, you can then tag your friends as the characters in those scenes. Remember the sophomoric conversations you had with friends in high school? Tag your friends in American Pie clips and those moments come to life. Had a fight with your therapist? Tag yourselves in analyse This!
We'll need some time to check out (and handicap) AnyClip. But in true NY Tech Meetup fashion, we'll enlist the crowd in the meantime. Does this one have legs? Let us know in comments.
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A major public art installation Trading Words and pop-up exhibition is set to be officially unveiled on 22 February at London Dock.
Inspired by the historic cargo records the installation will be over 300m long and span the length of the new London Dock development in Wapping. An accompanying free pop-up exhibition will run from 22 February to 30 April, providing insights into the history of the location and the creation and installation of the artwork
Trading Words is a major public art installation by renowned artist Gordon Young, unveiled at a new development in Wapping, designed by architects Patel Taylor.
Derived from historic rates and tariff-books which list the goods imported and exported via London over the last 400 years, Trading Words is a floor-based typographic installation made of granite, integrated into the public realm through the buildings of London Dock. Young's concept is inspired by Piet Mondrian's graphic clarity and Umberto Eco's The Infinity of Lists. The lists of words include such commodities as the more obvious 'ale' or 'pickles', as well as more peculiar goods such as 'dragon's blood' which was a treatment for stomach bugs as well as a varnish for instruments; or 'bear's grease' which was popular in the nineteenth century and widely believed to prevent hair loss, originally made from the fat of the brown bear.
Trading Words is the first work in London for Young who is renowned for his large-scale installations, including The Comedy Carpet in Blackpool. The artist specialises in creating public art works which become part of daily life and reflect his passion for literature and poetry.


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I caught one of the last shows of The Last Ship, a new musical scored by Sting, at the close of its opening run at Chicago's Bank of America Theatre. The musical boomed, a deep, personal artistic expression of songs and characters rich in emotion and personality, all said to be inspired by the British musician's own childhood experiences and former album The Soul Cages.
Sting's 1991 concept album focused on the loss of his father, as the artist developed a writer's block shortly after his father's death and was finally able to overcome his affliction by dealing with his issues through music. Most of the songs had motifs related to sailing or the seas – Sting's father had always regretted not becoming a sailor – with references to Newcastle, the part of England where Sting grew up, forming the backdrop and infusing riveting themes for the current musical production.
As to the undercurrents, love, loss of community, a search for usefullness in work and meaning life all run throughout, as well as, "fatherhood, exile, alienation, religion, redemption, mortality, passion and the courage that sometimes emerges from desperation", according to Sting. The album marks his first release of original material since 2003's Sacred Love, citing another fallow period of writer's block, and crediting The Last Ship as a reason to write songs again. The creation of the piece was itself again a form of therapy that allowed its creator to forge the currents of his psyche's own psychological resistances and welcoming a return of his Muse.
Language of Birds
But his soul was still trapped in the cage son,
While the birds they soared to the sky,
But he couldn't find his own way out,
Least not 'til the day he died.
Oh, a man builds a cage with the tools he is given,
His casket is sealed with a riveter's gun,
This solitary madness is where he is driven,
It was him who was trapped in the soul cage son,
It was him that was trapped in the soul cage.
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What are Rundll Errors?
Rundll errors are usually experienced by almost all computer users. They occurs when there is confusion in the DLL (dynamic-link library) command line. To understand Rundll errors, it is important to discuss first the cause of these errors. It all starts with DLL. Basically, DLL files are system files integral to any and all programs written and developed for the Windows environment. These files can be compared to many codecs, libraries with important information, and data and codes used by programs for reasons as simple as it is a necessity to the operation.
DLLs are shared by many different programs. It is considered as a centralized databank that programs can access. What is the reason for this? If every program has its own exclusive language and code, they would singularly operate against one another, hiding information from each other and cause the main system to be extremely slow. DLLs are used by Windows to run many programs and functions. By reusing instructions and codes within these there is greater efficiency and speed.
Now, how do Rundll errors occur?
Rundll errors occur mainly when there is confusion in the command line. Basically, this occurs when Windows attempts to load a DLL file that is not there, which means the inability to locate or find the DLL file a program is trying to launch or execute. In simple terms, DLL have a set of different instructions that Windows listens to, in order to launch applications and programs properly. An error occurs when there is a DLL code or file within a certain file that is missing, thereby causing an error and system crash.
Possible Causes of Rundll Errors
Rundll errors are usually caused by malicious spyware and malware, or even certain virus files that have successfully infiltrated the computer. These pirate executables and programs basically take over the files that are being shared by different rundll applications. Certain malware programs change the structure of shared DLLs, transforming the code lines or causing them to become totally inaccessible. Likewise, Trojan attacks put in fake or rogue .dll files within the Windows system folder, causing the malicious program to further corrupt or infect the .dll library. Rundll attempts to access these .dll files when the applications or programs are launched. The new conflicting .dll instructions, missing code, or missing files can cause the rundll error message to appear and this can result in total system crash.
You can use anti-virus and anti-spyware programs that can mitigate or alleviate the situation. These programs can track down all bad software, viruses, and malware, and delete them totally from your system. However, this is not that effective. What about the damages and tracks left behind? A big part of these faults is actually left in the Windows database. This large database records each and every task happening on the computer. Malware and bad programs, when trying to hijack or change DLLs, leave their traces within the registry. Thus, you need a reliable Windows database optimization and cleaning tool to fully track down all the rundll errors and automatically resolve them.


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Happy News Of The Day; now it is more easier to share documents that too this time it can be done through WhatsApp, both on the Android and iOS versions of the app.
WhatsApp introduced 'Share Document' feature in yesterday, but you will be unable to share any document if the other users got an outdated version. One of the best part about it is the document sharing option, that is also available for groups on WhatsApp as well.
In order to share a document, just tap on the share attachment option in iOS or Android and one of the tabs should reflect Share Documents. In iOS, you'll be able to share documents from iCloud, Google Drive, OneDrive, if they are installed on your smartphone. In Android, WhatsApp lets you share documents from the File Folder itself.
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For you, the open G center rule - to be only in places that you like - is even more important. Then you will be with the right people and get the love you seek. Your total openness can make you at times almost invisible to others. Without knowing the mechanics of your design, you may feel deeply disappointed in life. But this very openness is a potential for a great wisdom, if you learn how to work with it correctly. You are here to sample life.
To successfully apply this knowledge, Reflectors have the need to study and intellectually understand the Human Design System.
Any kind of pressure is detrimental to your health. Take your time to make important decisions and don't let anyone pressure you.
Life for you is an impersonal experience. As you go through life, learning the truth of "this isn't me" again and again, your greatest potential is that of complete transparency. Your openness can be energetically exhausting so it is important to have your own space where you can relax. The same advice regarding sleep applies for you as for everyone else with an undefined Sacral: go to bed as soon as you begin to feel tired and if at all possible, sleep alone.
You are a lunar being, tied to the lunar cycle, so the strategy for you is to wait 29 days before making any major decision . During these 29 days, talk with different people about your decision - and listen to what you yourself say about it. That's how you find something different and how you get to be SURPRISED.
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Famous Reflectors
H.G. Wells, Sandra Bullock, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ammaji (hugging Amma)
Reflectors make up less than 1% of the population and so are the rarest Type in Human Design.
You are completely open to the world and others. As there are no defined centers in your design, you take in the definition of everybody else. It's like seeing the world through their eyes, sampling their particular frequency and reflecting back the other.
You are like a mirror and the reflection of other people constantly changes your perception.
One moment you may feel extremely emotional, the next moment it's gone. Then you may et all these ideas and a strong sense of knowing where you're going in life, and then it's gone again, and so on and so forth. That's why it's very important for you to choose your friends and partners carefully, as they will have a great impact on your feelings and your experience of yourself.
What Makes You a Reflector?
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You've probably heard of ES File Explorer before, even if you've never personally used it. The original developer of that app seems to have resurfaced on XDA with an alpha app that you might want to check out. fooView runs a small floating button that you can use to get around the phone, take screenshots, and perform searches in a snap. Well, in a swipe, I guess.
After installing fooView, you'll have to enable a few system features to let it do its thing. You can swipe the button to trigger back, home, and notifications. Swiping up opens the fooView UI where you can use gestures to open apps and web addresses. Probably the most impressive feature is when you drag the button out and hover for a moment. It lets you capture a part of the screen by drawing a box. A pop-up has options for searching for the image, saving, sharing, or translating based on text recognition.
I should point out, we can't say for sure this dev is truly the original maker of ES. The XDA account was created for this app (fvalpha) and the alpha is not hosted in the Play Store. However, the YouTube account does have some ES videos from a few years back, and the testing has been ongoing for a few weeks without anything fishy. At any rate, you can download the alpha of fooView and sideload it right now. It does seem pretty neat.
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With a stay at Belle Hotel Russell Square, you'll be centrally located in London, steps from Cartwright Gardens and minutes from British Library. This hotel is close to King's College London and Trafalgar Square.
Stay in one of 10 guestrooms featuring LCD televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and digital programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with showers feature hair dryers and bathrobes. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.
Make use of convenient amenities, which include complimentary wireless Internet access and tour/ticket assistance.
Take advantage of the hotel's room service (during limited hours).
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In the middle of a long holiday
weekend, Sunday night didn't attract many viewers to network television, but NBC still ended up on top.
NBC's "Sunday Night Football" -- TV's highest-rated show -- still carried the night, although much lower than the week before. The game -- where the Seattle Seahawks bested the San Francisco 49ers -- had a Nielsen preliminary 5.3 rating/15 share among 18-49 viewers. This was way down from the 8.7 rating of a week before.
Overall, NBC earned a 4.6/14 on the Sunday night before the Christmas holiday.
Fox was next at a 3.0 rating/9 share -- virtually doubling its 1.5 rating/5 share result of a week ago. Fox benefited from a healthy NFL afternoon game, which ran over into prime time. The New York Giants/Baltimore Ravens game pulled in a 5.6/19 for the 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. half hour.
Fox did air the only two scripted series for the night: "Family Guy" scored a 2.5/7, down 18% from its last original episode, and "American Dad" posted a 1.9/5, down 17%.
CBS went in the other direction -- losing about nearly two-thirds of its overall audience to 6.4 million, from 17.0 million viewers the previous week.
Against last week's "Survivor" finale, as well as in the absence of its own big NFL afternoon lead-in this week, CBS went into rerun mode for its regular scripted Sunday night programming, in addition to "60 Minutes." This gave it a 0.9/3 on the night, versus a 4.9/12 the week before.
ABC's annual telecast of "The Sound of Music" earned a 1.1/3 between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. This was up over 20% from the 0.9 rating of a year ago.


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It's totally time to dance again! Live dance bands are where it's at, and The Other Tribe are Bristol, UK's darlings! Only thing this band is missing from what I can tell is a drummer on a kit - if they had that, I am sure their live show would be out of this world. Still, it's fun and I would love to see this band live....shit now I am really going to have to get back to the UK....soon!
I was just kindly informed that The Other Tribe indeed have a live drummer, which was pretty much what I was hoping for! Now that I have all the facts straight you can get the whole picture of awesomeness! Could you imagine these guys playing with Art Vs Science.....I think my head would explode!!


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Things You Should Know Before Investing With Someone.
This article I just read reminded me of something my Dad once told me when I was a kid (will explain below). The article was discussing how investing in or with a friend or family member can be a risky proposition. There are all sorts of problems that can crop up in terms of your relationships outside of the money issues themselves. To be better prepared, you might want to have a checklist of things you should know before you sign on the dotted line.
Some questions to get answers to:
This is according to an article in Kiplinger, but I can give you an example of a contract that I once had to sign. When I was 14 I wanted a new guitar amp so I could play louder in my new rock "band"..if you could call us that. But my parents were not about to go out and just buy me a $800 amp and I did not have that kind of money. So they made me sign a contract saying I would pay them back X amount of dollars every week until it was paid off, and I happily signed it as I wanted the amp. This taught me something very valuable at an early age about getting things in writing in order to make things go smoothly and to have backup to any verbal discussions. The same goes for any high investment or business you choose to get involved with, even if it is your best friend or your parents…contracts and agreements are king.
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Dear Mom,
Today, July 18th, marks the anniversary of the day you gave birth to me…it also marks 600 days since you found you peace. 600 days.
Your departure greatly altered my life. For the first time in my life I feel lonely. Never realized how attached I was to you till you left. So today for the 2nd year I celebrate my birthday without a cake that was baked or bought by you. Three years ago you got your doctor to give you permission to leave the hospital so you can take me to our favorite restaurant so you can celebrate my birthday…that was the last time I actually had a cake on my birthday. I didn't last year…and I am not planning to this year. I'm not ready yet…yes, I have moved on…I do laugh again…I am quite cheerful…but I still can't do the things I used to do with you without you…I have moved on in the sense that I left Kuwait so I am no longer forced to go to places I used to go with you…I don't watch Indian movies anymore coz that's the sort of thing I used to do with you…but I have moved on…I do listen to Indian songs…and at times I can hear you singing along with the song 🙂 I did celebrate Nowroz this year coz you asked me to…you loved nowroz 🙂 … but don't know why celebrating my birthday without you is just way too painful…maybe coz the memory of my last one 2 years ago with you…maybe coz a birthday without you is meaningless…or maybe coz i don't feel like being joyful on the 600th day of your departure.
Missing you,


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Harden's survey result
"Always top of its game and up there with the best" is how we've customarily reviewed this glam Mayfair haunt, just around the corner from Claridges, which perennially attracts a Côte d'Azur-style crowd with its sunny, gorgeously light sharing plates and easygoing "busy and buzzy" glamour. Its ratings took a bit of a dip this year, however – it's always been "a bit too expensive" but hitherto no-one has seemed to mind.
"Stunning French (but not stereotypically French) sharing plates" that really "taste of their ingredients" help induce a happy, if "noisy" buzz at this little piece of the Côte d'Azur, just around the corner from Claridges. "It caters to a Mayfair clientele, who obviously love it (and can afford it)", and "whilst it's ridiculously expensive, it's always enjoyable".
"The wonderful flavours of Southern Europe" ("sharing plates, that are not your typical French food: much lighter and fresher", prepared to "an incredibly high standard" and with "everything tasting of its ingredients and the sun!") – plus a "fantastic", Côte d'Azure atmosphere to match, inspire "simply outstanding" feedback on Arjun Waney's "busy and noisy" Mayfair haunt… even if "prices are flabbergasting" and "it's something of a hedge fund canteen".
"You're whisked to the South of France", when you visit this "sophisticated", "noisy" and "crowded" Mayfair haunt; few seem to begrudge the dizzying prices, as the "gimmick-free" Mediterranean-style sharing plates are "simply stunning" – "appealingly light" and so, so fresh.
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La Petite Maison Restaurant Diner Reviews
"Really nice ambience, lovely food and good (though not exceptional) service. Pricey but worth it!"
"Really nice ambience, lovely food and good (though not exceptional) service. Pricey but worth it!"
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Not often do you get four national newspapers reviewing the same new restaurant on the same weekend. All raves too. Must be something special going on. Bungs? No way: with the price of a bent review starting around £10k (according to one leading critic), costs would quickly become excessive,
No, the reason is that La Petite Maison has form. You've probably never heard of Arjun Waney, but he's the main man behind Knightsbridge's Zuma. As smash hits don't get much more bigger than that, it's not surprising that critics all wanted to pile in to his latest opening. And the 'back' story is good too. The original La Petite Maison is in glamorous Nice, so the critic can impress with his or her worldly-wiseness, (or, failing that, regurgitate the bit in the press release about how Elton John goes there).
We visited before it became clear that this was going to be one of the most synchronised raves of the year, and we'd have to say the place struck us as thoroughly pleasant. Handily sited just off Bond Street, it's light, bright and elegant in a classic style that the French can do so well, and service is generally entirely in keeping.
The food was good too. Classic provençale dishes, largely in a trendy small-plate format, but with a few bigger dishes for those who want them (or, as one is instructed, for sharing). In fact, everything was fine and dandy, but not quite to the point that we shared the delirium that seems to have seized so many other reviewers. But that's really beside the point. With this location, this backer, these reviews and the hype machine in full swing this place is going to be where the action is for the next few months. Until something hotter comes along, of course.
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Ten 10-Minute Plays on Tap at SWOSU
Students in Southwestern Oklahoma State University's Play Directing & Production and Lighting Design courses will present their final projects—10-minute plays—on Thursday and Friday, April 20-21, on the Weatherford campus.
Performances are at 7 p.m. in the SWOSU Hilltop Theatre, and admission is free.
In Steve Strickler's Play Directing class, the students have been learning a technical method for examining the structure of all play scripts in order to show how plays are made and how directors can prepare. The students have put those skills to work on their own individual projects.
There will be a total of ten 10-minute plays presented.
"Fortunately, the students have chosen a wide variety of plays," Strickler said. "Therefore we are going to be able to offer a mixture of comedy, drama and mystery."
The student-directors have the unique opportunity to work with students in Jessica Salmans' Lighting Design course to experience the process of directors and lighting designers collaborating on a production. Thus, the designers get to see a fully realized design process.
The two courses are offered through the Department of Art, Communication, and Theatre.
Directors for the productions include William Appel, Carlyn Magness, Donna McCuistion, Chante Randle, Parker Russell, Lindsee Scott, Chandler Seaton, Cheyanne Smith, Kattie Snow and Micaelah Thompson. The lighting designers are Ian Appel, William Appel, Carter Baker, Olivia Brookshire, Parker Charping, Grant Crews, Randle, Brooklyn Reed, Shannon Sanders, Allee Thiessen, and Micaelah Thompson.
Strickler said this production will not have advance tickets available. For more information, call 580.774.3082.


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Of all the companies and brokers who in recent years have implemented technologies and tools to support novice investors, eToro is definitely the one that has invested the most in the social aspect.
The Markets section, and all that until recently was called OpenBook, is the technology that eToro has developed to enable social interaction among users, joining all the investors of the community.
(Would you like to find out more about how eToro works? Read our eToro tutorial from the beginning)
To integrate the social activity with trading and investment, eToro is made up of several sections and sub-sections, ranging from the personal profile of a trader to that of the single underlying.
With our course we will review them all, to provide the knowledge and tools to make proper assessments and to fully exploit the potential of eToro.
In this lesson, we will focus on the eToro Markets section, what once was the OpenBook Markets. To access it you just need to click Markets on the menu in your profile on the left.
65% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider. You should consider whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.
What is the eToro Markets section?
On the main page of the eToro Markets section you have access to all the underlying you can negotiate through this broker.
This eToro section has several functions, some practical and some social:
- It brings together all the underlyings on which you can invest with eToro through its CFDs;
- It gives you a chance to begin to operate on them;
- It brings together all the social activities of the eToro community concerning the underlying in question. You will see the opening and closing investors' positions, the reasons, the percentage of profit or loss, you can read analyses on the underlying and any comments or like. In short, all the feed dedicated or that in some way relate to that particular underlying;
- It is one of the only two channels to access to the stock market, as these instruments have not yet been included in the WebTrader platform, except through its search function (as we shall see in detail in the next lesson).
How the eToro Markets section looks like
The Markets section has two main areas.
- The upper part, where you can find the menu with the four asset classes of the negotiable underlying instrument and an advanced research tool;
- The central part, where eToro shows various underlyings divided by category or in alternative way, such as the Featured or Trending markets. Anyway, the actual CFDs in this part are displayed randomly.
For each of these modules you can go into the full list by clicking on the button: "View all".
– STOCKS section
In the Stock category of the eToro Markets Section you have access to all the available equity underlyings.
Given that the eToro offer really focuses on Stock CFDs, and since they are many, this is where the Advanced search tool seen before, or the filter shown in the image above (they are the same thing), become really useful.
You can search for stock CFDs using two main filters.
- The stock exchange where they are listed the below:
- New York Nasdaq
- New York NYSE
- London
- Frankfurt
- The sector the firm or society belong from:
- Basic Materials
- Conglomerates
- Consumer Goods
- Financial
- Healthcare
- Industrial Goods
- Services
- Technology
- Utilities
Selecting a specific sector or a specific stock market can see a list of all the underlying relative.
Eg. Selecting Frankfurt, eToro will list all the CFDs whose underlying assets are quoted and traded in the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
As you can see from the image, the underlying assets are placed in a table with some columns, in detail:
Market: with the TICKER the share, that is the abbreviation of recognition, the company name and the logo of the same.
Change: it shows the variation in percentage and in pips of the underlying price in relation to its reference price. By default it displays the change of the last day (i.e. from the closing price of the day before), but clicking on it you can change and show also the last week or last month.
Alongside there's also a chart of the time frame you are viewing.
Sentiment: the percentage of eToro investors and traders who at that instant are positioned Long or Short, i.e. buying or sellling, on that particular CFD.
Bid and Ask: the two best prices for buying or selling the CFD. Clicking on them you will open the pop-up for the order entry. We will see this part in a dedicated lesson.
Beside each stock CFD, but it will be the same for currencies, indices and commodities, you can find a button with the + symbol. Clicking on it you can add all the CFDs you want to your WatchList, so you can follow the progress of your favorite underlying directly from your profile, without having to come back here every time.
– CURRENCIES section
The Currencies category is as shown in the image. As you can see, the columns are exactly the same as stock CFDs, with the same data reported.
– COMMODITIES section
As with the other two, also for commodities you will land directly on the page that displays a list of all the negotiable underlyings, that in this case, at the moment, are only three, oil, gold and silver.
I will not describe the characteristics of the columns, since the available data are the same I have already described for the stocks.
– INDICES section
The indices offered by eToro through its CFD are many, but certainly not all. Anyway, the major, the most important and most famous are all present.
What type of trader are you?
66% of retail CFD accounts lose money
The underlyings of the Markets Section
For more details on an underlying of your interest, being it currency, index, commodity or stock, just click on any of them to access the board of the single CFD (what once was the OpenBook page of the underlying).
This board of the underlyings products is a very interesting social tool. In addition to providing preliminary information on the nature of the instrument and giving you the opportunity to negotiate it, it offers you a view on how the eToro investors community is negotiating that instrument and who are the investors who are doing it.
It may not seem, but they are all elements that, in constructing a diversified portfolio, can come in handy when you have to identify the popular investor that are right for you.
Always visible at the top we can find:
- Name and Ticker: the trading acronym of that particular CFD;
- Current price;
- Changes in terms of pip and percentage from the closing price of the previous day;
- The + button to add it to the WatchList;
- The Trade button to show the form for opening the order.
Below, the structure of the board dedicated to the individual CFD is practically standard for all. It consists of two sub-pages: the Feed, which is always displayed first by default, and the Chart.
Let's look at both.
The Feed page of the CFD
The central part is dedicated to the Live Feed, a key element for real Social Trading. Here you can see all that has been said and done by the eToro community regarding that single underlying, the opening and closing of operations, the analyses and comments, all with the name of their authors.
This way you can see if for the underlying of your interest there are professional investors who say or do things you may like, or that can direct and help you make better operational decisions. In short, real Social Trading activity within the community, in the true sense of the word.
You can choose to display only the Top Feed, i.e. the most important ones chosen by eToro based on merit and popularity, or to see them all indiscriminately.
On the lateral sidebar instead we find other details:
- Chart: linear and of the last month. Here for all the stock CDFs there is also a small description of the company or firm.
- In the section below we can see the number of eToro investors who added that product to their Watchlist (Followers), those that are materially investing money on the CFD (Investors) and the usual Sentiment between buyers and sellers.
- Related Markets: a random extract of the other underlying belonging to the category of the instrument in question.
- Investors: a random extract of some of the investors who have opened operations in real money on that particular CFD.
The Chart Page of the CFD
The other page of the CFD board is dedicated to a chart tool.
In the old version of eToro these types of charts were accessible only by the WebTrader, while in the OpenBook of the single CFD there was only a small chart on which it was impossible to work.
With the new update of eToro now you have access from here to a real chart for studying, without the need to use those of the WebTrader.
Then clicking on the button at the top right (as shown in red) you activate the Full Screen mode, as well as get access to all the tools of management, customization and studying that can be used on the chart (marked in blue).
From the Time Frame, to the chart type (if linear or candle sticks or bars), to the studies and indicators, with these tools you can work on the chart in great depth (if you are a professional trader of course).
To Conclude
As you may have noticed, the new Markets section is the heart of the eToro Social Trading.
Being able to focus on only one item at a time, to study it in depth looking at the comments, advices and the views of different investors, can definitely be a very important point of strength for your journey of growth, not only in Social Trading, but in the world of financial investment in general.
This section will also come in handy when you'll want to look for those particular investors who focus on specific underlying assets, in order to find those investment profiles that might be suitable for your investment portfolio.
It's definitely an approach of analysis and research not to be underestimated, especially if you want to build a diversified and balanced portfolio that can meet the different and difficult market conditions, combining the presence of different types of investors, from different investment techniques and various financial instruments.
As you will discover in the next lessons, one of the main activities of a social trader is precisely the research, study and identification of the investors that may fit his risk profile and be suitable for his investment portfolio.


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|EDINBURGH: (5 burial sites)
For information on the Jewish community and congregations of Edinburgh, Scotland's capital, see also Edinburgh on JCR-UK.
Oldest Jewish cemetery in Edinburgh. Oldest tombstone may date from 1832. Sciennes House Place (formerly Braid Place Cemetery): "In 1816 a piece of land was purchased in Braid Place (now Sciennes House Place) and became the first Jewish Cemetery in Scotland. Dr. Daiches in his account, The Jew in Scotland mentions that in the early years Glasgow Jews brought their dead to Braid Place for burial until they acquired a burial place of their own. The cemetery is small, with about 29 headstones, and is situated between a tenement and a disused police station. ... When the cemetery became full a portion of land was acquired in Echo Bank Cemetery (now Newington Cemetery) and when that too became fully utilized the Jewish community purchased a piece of ground in Piershill Cemetery." Source Alan Wilson [November 30, 2000]
Some authorities refer to the cemetery only being in use from 1820.No burial records survive. Headstone records are searchable through the the JOWBR Database on JewishGen.
See also Cemetery Scribe - Sciennes House Place Cemetery, which includes images of a number of headstones. [August 2016].
Scottish Jewish Cemeteries website (http://www.scottishjewishcemeteries.org), researched and maintained by Derek Tobias, includes a searchable database in respect of 29 burials at this cemetery. [August 2017]
ACCESS: Locked but visible through railimg. Visit by arrangement with Edinburgh Synnagogue.
Cramer's* record [see BOOK below] of 130 burials in Echobank (Newington) Cemetery, Edinburgh (1869-1945) is the only list extant. Those buried here include Rosetta Defries (born in Amsterdam in 1778; died in Edinburgh in December 1869) as well as the rabbi for 40 years up to 1918, Jacob Furst and his wife
"Newington was allowed to fall into disrepair until the city council was forced to step in and place a compulsory purchase order on it. In places the vegetation is so thick that it is impossible to walk and in the few areas that have been cleared it appears that some headstones have also been tidied away. Near the entrance on Dalkeith Road is the Jewish section, this became the main Jewish burial ground in Edinburgh once the cemetery in Sciennes House Place was full. When Newington became fully utilised a plot of ground was purchased at Piershill Cemetery." Source; Alan Wilson [November 30, 2000]
Of particular interest are the number of headstones of members of the Spark and Camberg families, which have been restored by Robin Spark, son of British novelist, Muriel Spark. The cemetery is now well maintained by the Edinburgh City Council. Headstone records are searchable through the the JOWBR Database on JewishGen. Source: David Shulman, Webmaster JCR-UK, {August 2016]
See also Cemetery Scribe - Echobank Cemetery, which includes images of a number of headstones. [January 2017].
Scottish Jewish Cemeteries website (http://www.scottishjewishcemeteries.org), researched and maintained by Derek Tobias, includes a searchable database in respect of "about 130 burials" at this cemetery. [August 2017]
Also see: Avotaynu, Winter 1995, p.57; submitted by Dan Orzech. About 1200 graves.
"Piershill is an unremarkable cemetery (from a photographic viewpoint), the majority of the headstones being 20th century and all looking very similar. There were however two things which interested me here, the grave of The Great Lafayette and the very crowded Jewish section ... This is the third Jewish graveyard in Edinburgh, Piershill being used once Sciennes House Place and then Newington became full." Source: Alan Wilson [November 30, 2000]
The cemetery is privately is privately owned by Eastern Cemetery Co. Ltd., Source: David Shulman, Webmaster JCR-UK, [August 2007]
Scottish Jewish Cemeteries website (http://www.scottishjewishcemeteries.org), researched and maintained by Derek Tobias, includes a searchable database in respect of "over 1,820 burials" and a layout plan in respect of this cemetery. [September 2016, updated August 2017]
Sukkat Shalom Edinburgh Liberal Jewish Community has reserved plots in the new part of this cemetery, with an entrance on the corner of Queensferry Road and Dean Path. The plots are at the far end of the cemetery surrounded by trees. [July 2019, congregation's website:https://www.eljc.org/].
"In 1795, the Town Council sold a plot of ground on the Calton Hill to Hermon Lyon, a Jewish dentist, to provide a burial place for himself and his family. In 1816, a synagogue was opened at 4 Salisbury Road, and a cemetery acquired." Source: The Jewish Travel Guide. London: Jewish Chronicle, 1992.
"I have photocopied Mr. Cramer's manuscript records of Scottish Jewish gravestones that are in the library of the Scottish Genealogy Society (SGS, of which I am a council member). I have begun to check Mr. Cramer's records against the stones that are now visible. I photographed all the readable stones at
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I'm taking a short break now. Letters of Note — and Lists of Note, and Letterheady — will resume in 2012, at which point my batteries will have recharged. I hope you all have a fantastic Christmas.
P.S. I'll still be active on Twitter.
P.P.S. The Letters of Note book still isn't funded. Take a look and please help if you can!
First image courtesy of Houdini Himself; second image courtesy of Boston Public Library.
Image: Houdini Himself; Larger Version
Image: Boston Public Library; Larger Version


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Pocket as many pool balls as you can before the time runs out!
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There are no awards for this game!


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The news broke on Twitter last week, but I wanted to officially announce that there will be a Complete Love and Capes collection from IDW this summer. It's going to include all 24 issues of the series. The only new story page will be the one-page "Hostess" ad I did with Just Jenn (which is the only post-baby story so far). I'm going to put some rarely-seen things in the back matter, including the complete collection of Love and Capes con prints, art done by some comics pros that haven't been seen before, all the t-shirt designs and more.
It's going to be quite the package of goodness. You can preorder the book on Amazon here.


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Who Needs Hollywood?
Each of our lives is remarkable, especially to the people who love us. When I talk about what I do, I often hear: but my life just isn't that interesting.
I've been privileged to learn the intimate details of what World War II veterans and Holocaust survivors experienced, how charismatic men built business empires, how a career baker developed a new kind of marbled cheesecake that sent Frank Sinatra over the moon, etc.
But I've also had the privilege of learning about quieter stories that may not make exciting Hollywood movies or bestselling books, yet still sparkle with the authentic joy and drama of a life well-lived, a person much-loved.
My friend Sylvia, for example. Born in 1923, Sylvia didn't have to fight in a war, and she didn't rub shoulders with celebrities. From the outside, her life might seem ordinary. But the truth is that she was an extraordinary woman. She fell in love; she raised four children; she became a great-grandmother of nearly thirty. She was a writer, a musician, an athlete, a friend, a sweetheart, a lover of family, people and life. Her very presence added light to the world.
When you dig down into the details, her story brims with poetry. There is a richness and meaning that no Hollywood movie could ever match. It's true for each of us. Our stories are worth telling, and LifeStory is a wonderful way to do that. We want these stories because they help us understand where and whom we come from. And because we love our families.
Every now and then, I like to write a blog on a topic relevant to LifeStory and the notion that immortalizing our stories in print is invaluable to future generations.
April 2019


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Summary of Roger Martin v. Sandra Blevins, Social Design
(WIPO Case No. D2016-0181)
Filed: January 28, 2016; Decided: April 7, 2016 (Panelists: Andrew D. S. Lothian; Robert A. Badgley; D. Brian King)
Disputed domain name: <strategicchoicearchitecture.com>
The Parties
Since 1998, Mr. Martin has operated a management consulting business named Strategic Choice Architecture. The business has earned revenue in excess of $18 million, and has consulted for Proctor & Gamble, American Express, and others. Mr. Martin claims unregistered service mark rights in the name of the business. [Ironic-in-Hindsight Book Title Spoiler Alert: Mr. Martin is also the author of a book titled Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works.]
Complainant Roger Martin and Respondent Sandra Blevins were married (to each other) from 2010 to 2013. While "[t]he Parties dispute the extent of their professional relationship," it appears to be undisputed that Ms. Blevins provided marketing and business development services for Mr. Martin during the course of their personal relationship, including website design and domain name registration. For example, in 2009, Ms. Blevins registered both the domain name <rogerlmartin.com> and the disputed domain, presumably on behalf of Mr. Martin. Both domains were registered in her personal name.
The Parties entered into a separation agreement in 2013. Purporting to "settle[] all issues between the Parties," the agreement called, in part, for Ms. Blevins to transfer the <rogerlmartin.com> domain to Mr. Martin, which she did. The disputed domain name was not addressed in the agreement, and Ms. Blevins did not transfer it to Mr. Martin.
Identical or Confusingly Similar – N/A
In light of the Panel's finding on bad faith (below), it does not address this prong.
Rights or Legitimate Interests – N/A
In light of the Panel's finding on bad faith (below), it does not address this prong.
Registered and Used in Bad Faith – No
The Panel finds a lack of evidence of bad faith registration, given the "intertwined" nature of the Parties' personal and professional relationships. Though Ms. Blevins registered the disputed domain in her own name, that does not necessarily demonstrate bad faith intent in registering the mark, given the nature of the relationship. And "[t]here are no other facts in the record pointing in the direction of registration in bad faith."
The Panel then steps back to note the "far wider issues which have been placed before the Panel." In particular, questions arise regarding the nature of the Parties' relationship (whether a "joint adventure," subcontracting arrangement, or otherwise). The separation agreement would also need to be addressed, including the term making it the "full and final settlement of all issues between the Parties" despite addressing only one of two domains registered, ostensibly for Mr. Martin, by Ms. Blevins.
While taking no position on the merits of "any wider dispute between the Parties," the Panel notes that these "commercial" or "family law" issues are "not suited for resolution under the Policy," which is designed to address "clear cases of abusive cybersquatting." Accordingly, the Complaint "must fail."
The complaint is denied.
The Panel, not surprisingly, declines to jump into a fact-intensive, personal dispute between a divorced couple. This falls into the "Soured Relationships" category of cases I blogged about back before I let this blog fall by the wayside in (ahem) 2011. Speaking of which, it's good to be back.
Of course, Mr. Martin gave the Panel an out by offering no evidence of bad faith registration. On the one hand, he asserts that he retained his wife to provide "marketing and business development services, including website design and domain name registration," and that she registered the disputed domain for him in that capacity. On the other hand, he claims that she "knowingly registered the disputed domain name for herself" in bad faith by listing herself as the registrant.
Yet there is no suggestion that she intended to register the domain for anything other than Mr. Martin's benefit, and the fact that he was presumably able to freely use the domain for years afterwards for his business would seem to counter this theory of bad faith registration. Is the idea that she was playing some sinister long game? Sounds like a great premise for a domain-name-themed psychological thriller.
On June 20, ICANN approved its much-discussed plan to allow generic top-level domains. Sometime in the next year or two, the 22 generic top level domains we all know and love (".com," ".org," etc.) will be joined by an ever-growing set of custom top-level domains (TLDs). Applicants will be given the opportunity to pay a $185,000 application fee to register TLDs corresponding to corporate names or phrases, community interests, or anything else.
Mashable has posted a great overview of the new process called "9 Things You Need to Know About ICANN's New Top Level Domains."
Peter Lando, one of the partners at my firm, hosts the IP Counsel podcast. He recently discussed ICANN issues, including the new gTLDs, with Mary Wong. Wong is a Professor of Law at my alma mater, the University of New Hampshire School of Law, and Director of the School's Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property. On a personal note, I took Professor Wong's practical course on copyright licensing as a student and enjoyed it immensely.
The podcast is accessible here:
ICANN's expansion of generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)
I highly recommend giving this engaging discussion a listen, and would recommend the same even if Peter weren't signing my paycheck.
Summary of Hutchinson Wines v. Amphora Wome Group Pty Ltd, William Howard
(WIPO Case No. DAU2011-0008)
Filed: March 2, 2011; Decided: April 21, 2011 (Panelist: Michael J. Spence)
Disputed domain name: <amphorawines.com.au>
The Parties
Complainant Hutchinson Wines ("Hutchinson") is a California winemaker. Since 1998, it has been using AMPHORA as a mark for wines sold in the United States, including through a website at the domain <amphorawines.com>. According to the Panel, "the term 'amphora' is a generic term that refers to an ancient form of vessel used to store and transport wine, amongst other products."
Respondent Amphora Wine Group Pty Ltd, William Howard ("Amphora") have been operating under their current business name since 2008. [The decision does not state when the domain was registered.] The business generates AU $3.2 million annually in sales to Australia, China, Hong Kong, New Zealand, amd Tonga.
Identical or Confusingly Similar
The Panel notes that "there can be no doubt" that Hutchinson has demonstrated its rights in the mark AMPHORA, though it has not established rights in AMPHORA WINES. In the Panel's view, the difficult question is whether the disputed domain is confusingly similar to the mark. The Panel asserts that the common element between the marks, "amphora," is a "generic" word used in relation to wines for over 8,000 years. Nonetheless, the Panel accepts that it is "plausible" that the mark and the disputed domain name are confusingly similar. Given its decision on the second prong, however, the Panel does not decide this issue.
Rights or Legitimate Interests
In the Panel's view, Hutchinson failed to overcome Amphora's assertion that it chose its name (and the disputed domain) in 2008 with the "generic" meaning of the word "amphora" in mind. Thus, Hutchinson failed to make out a prima facie showing that Amphora lacked rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain.
In light of the Panel's decision on the second prong, it declines to consider the third prong.
The complaint is denied.
In my view, this decision took the wrong turn at every opportunity. First, I'm not convinced that the term "amphora" is generic for wine. At most, it was generic at one time for a container not usedwith Hutchinson's wine. The proper inquiry is whether consumers would view the term as generic. I think it's safe to say that most people would have no idea what an amphora is. One article on the genericness of obsolete words gives this example: "[W]e suggest that the term 'bodkin' for knives [quoting from Shakespeare's Hamlet] would be a perfectly acceptable trademark." A. Greenbaum, J. Ginsburg & S. Weinberg, A Proposal for Evaluating Genericism after "Anti-Monopoly," 73 Trademark Rep. 101,125, n. 63 (1983). Of course, those authors were considering an obsolete term directly describing a non-obsolete good, whereas here the obsolete term describes an obsolete container for the good. Accordingly, the fact that Hutchinson (along with every other winemaker in the United States) does not use amphoras to sell its wine seems to preclude a finding of genericness.
Even more puzzling, if one accepts that "amphora" is generic, then how does Hutchinson have trademark rights in the term, as the Panel finds?
If asked (I wasn't), I would analyze the case as follows: As I understand the term's current meaning as it is likely perceived by relevant consumers, AMPHORA seems to be inherently distinctive for wines. Since Hutchinson has used the mark continuously since 1998, it has common law rights in the mark to assert against junior user Amphora. Under the first prong, the disputed domain can be rendered for our purposes as "Amphora Wines", with the inherently distinctive term "Amphora" being the dominant portion of the mark as opposed to the generic term "wines." Thus, "Amphora Wines" is confusingly similar to the AMPHORA mark. In fact, the addition of the actually generic term "Wines" to Hutchinson's mark only adds to the confusion, since Hutchinson also sells wine.
In the end, this decision would probably turn on bad faith, and there appears to be very little evidence of Amphora's intent in adopting the disputed domain name. Thus, since the complainant bears the burden of proof on that issue, the outcome may very well have been the same. And of course, it goes without saying that I didn't see the evidence of record. Still, I can't say that I agree with the Panel's approach here.
Summary of The Moody Blues c/o PAID, Inc. v. Credit Card Marketing Center
(WIPO Case No. D2011-0343)
Filed: February 18, 2011; Decided: April 7, 2011 (Panelist: Frederick M. Abbott)
Disputed domain name: <moodyblues.com>
The Parties
Complainant PAID, Inc. ("PAID") claims to offer "World class celebrity services." It offers brand management, marketing, and merchandising services to dozens of entertainers including Aerosmith, Motorhead, Weird Al, and–relevantly–the Moody Blues. Its complaint alleges that it has "full and complete rights in the registered trademark Moody Blues."
Respondent Credit Card Marketing Services ("CCMS") registered the disputed domain name on February 23, 2004. There is no evidence to suggest that the disputed domain has ever been used.
Identical or Confusingly Similar
The Panel takes "administrative notice" of the musical group "The Moody Blues". Complainant PAID, Inc., has provided no evidence of an association with that musical group.
Though CCMS claims to own a trademark registration, it has not submitted any evidence thereof. The Panel sua sponte searches the USPTO's records, but finds nothing tying PAID to the musical group. The Panel notes it has discretion to require additional factual submissions from PAID in order to clarify this point, but declines to do so. Instead, it dismisses the complaint.
Because PAID has not succeeded on the first (or "zeroth") prong, the Panel does not consider the second and third prongs.
The complaint is denied.
It's surprising that representatives of the band that gave the world "Nights in White Satin" would screw up so badly on something as basic as standing.
Summary of Lorenzo International Limited v. Tucows.com Co. / Tucows Inc.
(WIPO Case No. D2010-2254)
Filed: December 23, 2010; Decided: March 15, 2011 (Panelists: Desmond J. Ryan, Dan Hunter, and David E. Sorkin)
Disputed domain name: <lorenzo.com>
The Parties
Established in 1983, Complainant Lorenzo International Limited ("Lorenzo") is a Hong Kong-based designer and retailer of "conceptualised lifestyle furniture." Lorenzo claims to be the owner of 41 trademark registrations in 21 countries for the mark LORENZO, the earliest dating to May 1989 in Singapore.
Respondent Tucows.com Co/Tucows Inc. ("Tucows") is a Canadian domain registrar. As part of its NetIdentity service, it has registered over 42,000 domain names consisting of surnames in order to provide personalized email addresses to persons having that surname. Tucows registered the disputed domain name in October 1996, predating all but the Singapore registration for LORENZO. The disputed domain points to a website relating to the personalize email address service.
Identical or Confusingly Similar
The Panel notes that Lorenzo is not listed as the owner of the trademark registrations it has submitted. Nonetheless, the Panel is willing to draw an inference that the listed owner and Lorenzo "are related and have a common interest in the protection of the LORENZO trademark." Accordingly, the disputed domain is identical to the LORENZO mark.
Rights or Legitimate Interests
There is no evidence that Tucows knew of or had reason to suspect Lorenzo's possible rights in the LORENZO mark when it registered the disputed domain name in 1996. Only the Singapore registration predates the domain registration, yet there is not "strong evidence of use and notoriety" to suggest that Tucows was aware of the mark.
The Panel accepts Tucows' assertion that its personalized email service is a bona fide offering of services, and attempts to determine when that offering began. Though in some decisions panels have held that the disputed domain was registered on the date it was transferred to the respondent, the Panel here finds that approach to be inappropriate when, as here, the domain is used in conjunction with an ongoing business. Accordingly, the date of registration is considered to be the date of first registration, i.e., 1996. Even if registration were placed at the date of transfer, there is no evidence that the use was not bona fide on that date, as Tucows claims to have been unaware of Lorenzo until it received the complaint.
Accordingly, the Panel finds that Tucows has a legitimate right and interest in the disputed domain name.
Bad Faith
In light of the previous finding, the Panel does not consider this ground. However, the Panel notes that it "would not find bad faith registration or use" based on the above findings.
The complaint is denied.
Substantively, I have no quarrel with this decision. However, the opinion is full of typos and inadvertent substitutions of "Respondent" for "Complainant" and vice versa. I found that somewhat disconcerting, especially considering that this was a three person Panel. You'd think at least one of them would have noticed the phrase "bone fides."
Only in Texas: Registrant of texaslotterylive.com proves rights or legitimate interest through bad faith use
Summary of Texas Lottery Commission v. CyberIntegration, LLC
(Nat. Arb. Forum Claim No. 1370321)
Filed: January 31, 2011; Decided: March 1, 2011 (Panelists: Hugues G. Richard, Karl V. Fink, and Diane Cabell)
Disputed domain name: <texaslotterylive.com >
The Parties
Complainant Texas Lottery Commission ("Texas Lottery") is the official operator of the Texas state-run lottery. Since 1992, it has used the registered marks TEXAS LOTTERY & Design (registered in 1993) and TEXAS LOTTERY (registered in 2003) in connection with the those lottery services, including the website it operates at <txlottery.org>.
Respondent CyberIntegration, LLC ("CyberIntegration") registered the disputed domain name on July 31, 2006. It uses the disputed domain name in conjunction with a website that displays results of drawings conducted by Texas Lottery, as well as links and content from competitors of Texas Lottery.
Identical or Confusingly Similar
Texas Lottery has established rights in the mark TEXAS LOTTERY, through its trademark registrations and its continuous use of the marks since 1992. The disputed domain name is composed of Texas Lottery's mark plus the "generic" term "live."
Accordingly, Texas Lottery has satisfied the first prong.
Rights or Legitimate Interests
The Panel finds that Texas Lottery has made a prima facie case that CyberIntegration lacks rights and legitimate interests in the disputed domain name. In particular, CyberIntegration's service of providing lottery results is a bona fide offering of goods and services. "While [Texas Lottery] asserts that it is the only entity authorized to advertise, offer for sale or sell lottery related goods or services in the state of Texas . . ., nothing in the law prohibits anyone from displaying the results of the lottery."
Though there is "substantial evidence of bad faith use", the Panel argues that the rights-or-legitimate-interests prong is different than the bad faith prong: "The adjective bona fide was intended, in the opinion of the majority of this Panel, as a descriptor of Respondent's goods and services, not of Respondent's state of mind or legal rights. This is why the phrase bona fide is used instead of such adjectives as 'good faith' or 'non-infringing.'" [I think someone needs to brush up on their Latin.] While there may be a viable trademark claim here, "the UDRP was not intended to substitute for a court of law in determining rights between rival competitors." [Is there any other kind of competitor, really?]
For these reasons, Texas Lottery has not satisfied the second prong.
Bad Faith
Because CyberIntegration is making a bona fide offering of goods or services, "this Panel cannot conclude that the registration of the Domain Name was done in bad faith." Therefore, the majority of the Panel finds that Texas Lottery has not satisfied the third prong.
Relief shall be DENIED. It is Ordered that the disputed domain name REMAIN WITH Respondent.
Dissenting Opinion
Panelist Fink dissents from the majority's finding that CyberIntegration is making a bona fide offering of goods or services. As he graciously points out, "Bona fide means done or made in good faith." In his view, "bona fide refers to the good faith intent in using the domain name," and "[k]nowingly using the mark of another in a domain name to market services or products does not constitute a bona fide offering of goods or services." He cites decisions where rights or legitimate interests were found to be lacking where the respondent offered pay-per-click websites and sites marketing competing products.
This decision is kind of a head-scratcher for me. The Panel admits that "there is substantial evidence of bad faith use" by CyberIntegration, but nonetheless finds that that it has rights or legitimate interests in the domain. This finding is based on the Panel's reading of Paragraph 4(c)(i) of the Policy as requiring only bona fide goods or services, "not [a bona fide] state of mind or legal rights." I'm not sure I even understand what bona fide goods or services are. Will the respondent always win on the second prong, so long as they are not selling illegal fireworks or Cuban cigars? Paragraph 4(c)(i) of the Policy allows a respondent to overcome a prima facie case that it lacks rights or legitimate interests by showing the following:
before any notice to you of the dispute, your use of, or demonstrable preparations to use, the domain name or a name corresponding to the domain name in connection with a bona fide offering of goods or services
The plain language of the Policy requires a bona fide offering of goods or services, i.e., a non-bad-faith offering. The Panel found substantial evidence of bad faith use here. Therefore, CyberIntegration should not have been able to overcome Texas Lottery's prima facie case that CyberIntegration lacked rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name.
The dissenting opinion is absolutely right: [k]nowingly using the mark of another in a domain name to market services or products does not constitute a bona fide offering of goods or services." Of course, Texas Lottery would still have to prove bad faith registration…


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2016 Advent Calendar
Hi, all! I want to let you know about an exciting holiday project I've got going on at my food blog, Minimally Invasive, right now. I'm teaming up with Darcie Hunter, a local food stylist I've worked with on several projects over the past year, to bring you an all-new Advent Calendar. We'll be sharing one new post each day until Christmas, with everything from gifts to drinks, sweets and small bites.
I hope you'll join us — you can find the first post with a recipe for Brigadieros (pictured above) here!


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Do you believe in ghosts? Pay a visit to Rose Hall Great House and you might have an encounter with the White Witch…
Rose Hall Great House was built in the late eighteenth century by John Palmer, a British planter who set about creating a large sugarcane plantation. Years later, the house was left to his grandnephew (also John Palmer) and he and his new wife Annie took charge of it.
Annie, also known as the White Witch, was feared and hated by the slaves of the house. John Palmer, as well as Annie's next two husbands, died under mysterious circumstances. Rumor has it that she also took on multiple slave lovers and killed each one as she got bored with them.
Not only did she dispose of her husbands and lovers, but she supposedly also enjoyed watching her slaves get tortured. Eventually, her evil ways caught up with her, however. She was killed in bed by an angry lover, who sought revenge for Annie having killed his granddaughter.
We learned about Annie and the house by taking a tour set up by Real Tours Jamaica. Norris, our guide, picked us up bright and early from the Holiday Inn Resort in Montego Bay. It was great to see him again, as we had already done two tours with RTJ already.
As we walked up to the colonial style home, the two flights of stone steps leading to the entrance hall caught our attention. It really is a grand home, with beautiful views of the ocean.
The two story house has a formal drawing room, dining room, and multiple bedrooms upstairs. There was also a dungeon underneath the house, which has since been converted into a small museum and restaurant.
Many people believe that Annie still haunts the house. There have been many sightings, strange noises, and even mysterious deaths on the property. While we were there, we didn't see anything. But just hearing about Annie's evil ways was enough to give us goosebumps.
We definitely recommend a visit to Rose Hall Great House. The tour takes about an hour, you learn a lot, and you get to see some really interesting items inside the house.
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Looks like a great place! So elegant and colonial despite all the morbid history around it. If only walls could speak huh!
This woman sounds insane!! Crazy to you can visit the house knowing that kind of history – it wouldn't surprise me if it was still haunted – she would probably get her kicks out of terrifying tourists lol
I do not believe in ghosts but if I stayed at that hotel I still do not wanna stay by myself, haha. Would love to visit with somebody, though. Very interesting to have a place with a "history".
Not the typical post about tours in Jamaica! What an interesting place to visit. We tend to stay away from haunted houses as the kids are still very young with extremely wild imaginations but when they are a older I can see us being very interested in visiting this place.
I had never heard of Rose Hall Great House but reading about evil Annie gave me goose bumps. Nevertheless, I feel it would be an interesting place to visit and learn more about the history.
What a gorgeous mansion and what an interesting story! A ghost gives a lot more appeal to the place, doesn't it? I would love to visit Jamaica and if I ever make it there I'll make sure to visit the Rose Hall Great House. Looks like a beautiful place with a lot of history.
Wow, what an interesting and beautiful place. Lovely photos and post, thanks for sharing.
Happy travels 🙂
Yikes! I have the creeps through my computer! I love visiting historical places and often assume there are ghost stories that go along with an old property. But, I would not like to meet Annie's ghost! Too scary for me.
Fascinating story about the history of the house and Annie Palmer. Not sure I believe in ghosts, but would not want to spend the night in the house anyway 🙂
Ahh I always love ghost stories. Not sure if I actually believe in them but then again, why not …
White witches are supposed to be nice!