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The Spirit of Recovery is Wildness.
There are some things that just don't live up to the hype.
You know, things that everyone talks about and tells you that you just have to do or visit or eat or else you're totally missing out. Things like overpriced restaurant meals that you get to the end of and think, "This is so not worth the bill I'm about to cringe over." Or movies you see expecting to have your mind blown only to leave feeling like you wasted two hours of your life trying to follow a plot you didn't care about anyway. Or tourist traps that end up being 80% gift shop promotion, 15% battling traffic, and only 5% interesting things to see and learn about.
Yosemite is not one of those places.
No, I took my first trip to Yosemite this past week and I'm still reeling from it. Its enormity is unlike anything I've ever been witness to before, to the point where I was constantly questioning if it was real or not. The mountains are so incredible in their height and beauty that it feels like you've been transplanted onto a movie set, or been surrounded by painted walls like you are in Disneyland. There were so many moments over just the three days that we were there that made me stop and think, "I can't believe all of this is real."
Being present to that kind of beauty is incredibly humbling. Humans have accomplished a great deal of things-medicine, technology, art- and yet all of it pales in comparison to what nature has organically created. No one man carved these mountains from stone. There is no human that can take credit for the beauty that comes from the simplicity of time and water and earth.
Try as we might as humans to dominate this planet, we will never be as mighty as its untamed magnificence.
I thought about this as I sat 5,000 feet above sea level, peering over the edge of a mountain I had just climbed. There is a desperate drive for control that we as a society share seemingly from the moment we gain a conscious awareness of our place in the world. There's a desire to control how we are perceived by others, to control how "powerful" we are in our social circles, to control how we look and how "beautiful" within the confines of cultural expectation.
When we're younger we seek control over our identity and how we're perceived as we struggle to find our place in the world. And then once we get older we struggle to control the aspects of aging deemed unseemly and ugly; like the lines on our faces and the softness of our bodies. And throughout all of this we grip and hold so tightly onto everything that gives us a semblance of control that it oftentimes makes us sick with anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and even just the simple toxicity of stress.
There's a reason why one of the main tenants of yoga is nonpossesiveness, or Aparigraha.
The harder we grip and hold on to control, the sicker we become. In Yosemite, I could see this so clearly it was almost as though I could feel it through the vibration of the rock beneath my feet. This land is wild, this land is bigger and greater than human hands could ever create: and the entire planet was once this way. As humans we've torn down forests, polluted bodies of water, and even caused the deaths of entire species of animals, all in our quest for control.
And in our bodies this grip slowly strangles us the same way. We starve and punish our bodies in hopes that once they are as "beautiful" as we want them to be, we'll feel in control. We slave and obsess over grades or wages, thinking that once we have enough money or enough accolades we'll control our happiness, whether we wanted these achievements for ourself or for those in our ears telling us it's what we should want. We grip onto who we used to be and how things used to be, thinking that if only we could turn back time things would be better.
But throughout all of this, we're holding our breath waiting for that moment where we think we should or will be happy, only to find ourselves starving for oxygen and completely oblivious to the beauty we passed by along the way.
The funny thing is, we think this clinging on makes us free, because it makes us feel in control. In reality, all it does is hold us captive to expectation and blind to what lies in front of us if we're willing to slow down and be in observance of it.
As I peered over the edge of that mountain, I was in awe of my body. Nothing but my body brought me up this high. Nothing but my legs and my breath and the blood in my veins got me up here, above the clouds and the waterfalls and the trees. Nothing but the raw power of the vessel that harbors my soul accomplished this feat.
At the peak of my eating disorder, my first day in the hospital, I remember taking all my clothes off and peering at my body in the bathroom mirror.
There it was: the body I had fought so hard to control. The result of trying to override my human necessities of eating and resting. The bones gaining control over the flesh that once hid them. The body that had tried in its wild defiance to cling onto nourishment, only to be forced to slowly eat itself away as I stood over it victoriously in control, thinking I'd somehow won.
What I remember to this day so vividly is thinking, "And I'm still not fucking happy."
I wasn't. My body was thin, I'd relished in the high of self-control for months, and I still wasn't happy. Worse than that, I was dying. I was festering in an empty shell of a human, once vibrant and flourishing and wild. A body that ate when it was hungry, and stopped when it wasn't. A body that took on its own unique shape and form as I aged. A body that, like the wildness of Yosemite, was more beautiful in its nature than I could ever carve with my two hands and a heart desperate for control.
It took me years, of course, from that moment of realization to get to a place where I felt truly recovered. But even at my sickest I was a witness to how ill possessiveness makes us. Humans are not at their happiest when they are most "in control." They are they're happiest when they find what it means to truly let go. To let go of expectation. To let go of rigidity. To let go of hate for our bodies and appearance simply because their natural form isn't what society has decided is "beautiful" for the next ten minutes.
I have decided that the spirit of recovery is wildness.
The spirit of recovery is embracing the beauty of our body's natural form. The spirit of recovery is re-connecting to the natural hunger cues and desires we were born with, so that we can eat for nourishment and pleasure without guilt or shame. The spirit of recovery is relieving ourselves of the burden of controlling every aspect of our lives until we become so ill that we our blind to the beauty we are destroying. The spirit of recovery is realizing that simply being alive is an incredible occurrence, and nothing we ever do will compare to the raw magnificence that is being who you were born to be.
That is being wild.
You were born enough, and you will always be enough, exactly as you are. There is nothing about you that requires change to be worthy of self-love. Yes, we are ever-evolving humans who grow and learn and change, but that worthiness of acceptance and admiration never falters throughout that. Yosemite was born wild and beautiful, and it still is, even if we now have to use laws and designated parking spots to keep it that way now. The circumstances may change over time, but the unfiltered beauty of your existence is unwavering throughout it all.
Recovery is embracing this idea of gratitude for our wild state; embracing that who we are is something to be grateful for, not ashamed of.
I'm still learning this. I'm still learning how to abandon the idea that I'd be happier if I looked or ate or wrote a different way, even if it doesn't resonate with who I know I was born to be inside. I'm still learning how to travel without over-planning, how to live without expectation of the experience I will have. I'm still learning how to let go of control so that my palms are open to receive all that life has to offer for me.
Yes, I'm still learning how to be wild. But every taste of it is sweeter than the last.


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By Jamie Lyon, head of corporate sector, ACCA
We've been talking about finance transformation for some time. The early 1990s witnessed the first moves towards business shared service operations, and yet our programme of work suggests many finance departments are still in the early years of adoption; remarkably some haven't even started yet.
You could be forgiven for thinking finance transformation should be an art that has been mastered by now. It hasn't, because enterprise change is difficult and amongst many other things, it's about people change. All the experience and all the evidence continues to point to massive change challenges in changing the finance enterprise to drive down cost (and yes, its still a cost play, contrary to what some may say), and improve efficiency and value. ACCA is currently leading a global programme of research on how finance functions can become more effective. Its smart finance function campaign seeks to understand what practices the CFO organisation is adopting to drive more value for the organisation. Finance transformation has been, and continues to be, one of the ways in which the value equation can be addressed. But truth be told, many enterprises and CFOs continue to struggle to deliver all the benefits once promised. So what goes wrong? Perhaps my colleague Deborah Kops of Sourcing Change hits the nail on the head: 'One of the biggest challenges for finance leaders is acknowledging that there's no set of regulations for change. Mastering what is often considered 'soft stuff' is key to transformation success. It's generally not comfortable for a profession that lives by rules.'
ACCA's think-tank on business and finance transformation, which includes senior executives from some of the world's leading enterprises that has decades of change experience such as Deloitte, Shell, Accenture, Unisys, Pearson, and GSK, has just released its latest report on finance change, and identifies 10 key requirements needed for effective finance function change to take place.
They are:
- Establishing the vision – the criticality of spending time conveying the transformation vision and goal.
- Buy in – The importance of CEO and senior management support and sponsorship of the programme.
- Communication – The need for constant communication on what is changing and the rationale for change.
- Preparation – Ensuring finance teams are bought in and committed to the change, and having an effective plan to manage the change process.
- Resources – Access to adequate programme resources at each critical stage of the transformation process, from developing strategy to achieving 'business as usual' acceptance.
- Patience – Accepting that large finance transformation initiatives can be revolutionary and evolutionary with most change processes taking longer than expected.
- Organisation redesign – Remembering that redesign and use of finance shared services or outsourcing necessitates change in the retained finance function too – the imperative of changing the finance enterprise in its entirety.
- Maintaining middle management – Successful change management is key to retaining the middle layer of finance management that is critical to core processes. Yet all too often, middle managers' numbers are aggressively reduced to justify a business case for shared services and outsourcing, or they are lost in the shuffle.
- Alignment between capability and ambition – Often finance leaders overstretch themselves to realise a vision that is way beyond their, or their enterprises', ability to achieve. Being realistic about the organisation's change potential is essential.
- Working within the culture – Those who implement complex, multi-scope, multi-geography finance transformation programmes, particularly in business-line-led organisations, will experience the greatest change challenges. Gauging the type of change the culture will allow is an imperative.
Find out more about our Smart Finance Function campaign at www.accaglobal.com/smart.
This blogpost was first featured in CFO World in July 2014


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Deciding to make a commitment to myself, to a year of rejuvenation in public, feels both exciting and daunting. What if I fall miserably? Let's start with weight loss. All of my past attempts at formal boot camps of self deprivation and exercise has been mostly miserable failures. My only success happened when I was wasn't really trying during my Shameless Journey when I found out that what I was really missing, was living a sexually integrated and whole life. It was on and off a massage table, that the pounds slipped away because I was finally feeding myself what I really needed which was sensual touch that was all about me.
And so, I went from being a plus size two, to a mere "Large" or a size 14/16. And that is where my body stayed.
Frankly, I am not miserable at all at this current weight even if it is bigger than some. The mountain of flesh that I hid behind had melted into curves and valleys. I feel pretty damn sexy.
But when I think back to the body that I once had, way back before I had kids, I kind of feel cheated. I had no idea how physically beautiful I was in my younger years - but it didn't matter. I didn't feel hot at all. In fact, I didn't even feel warm. Introduce the expression "Youth is wasted on the young". Right now I so get that!
Now switch up the conversation from my cliche to the next! You know the expression,"If you don't have your health – you don't have anything?"
Well, hyper-tension¸acid and non acid reflux and a stomach that is not empty properly is now creating major health problems that are starting to get in the way of my new found "hotness" in the imperfectly perfect skin I am in.
It is hard to feel really sexy in the middle of a dinner when you are choking on your steak! I had to do something – and I really didn't know what.
I started where most of us start when we are in the midst of a health crisis – I googled my symptoms and I didn't like what I had to read. Apparently, the diet Coke that was my mainstay may have actually contributed to the swallowing issues. I had to give up diet Coke? Really? And drink what? Water? Like from the sink?Everyone knew that plastic wasn't good for you either!
I was immediately unhappy. I loved my diet Coke, but in that moment I knew that I had popped my last can. Then it was off to the specialist. Guess what? More diets and more restrictions. I was given the GERD Diet. Now, how sexy was this? I was a hot smoking mama – and I was now on a GERD Diet?
What that meant is that I now unable to eat or had to deeply curtail my consumption of chocolate and red wine!
Okay – now they were talking sex food! Were they kidding? And my afternoon Starbucks latte? Gone. I had to lift the head of my bed so I didn't die in the middle of the night from reflux into my lungs, and I had to stop eating about three hours before bed. Fabulous – sign me up for the early bird special! Now…I must be honest – none of this was fitting with my hot, sexy, shameless image. I was starting to feel pulled down. And then came the clinker…I had to lose weight if I really wanted to get better. Apparently my belly fat that I had finally made peace with was pushing on my stomach and making all of the health issues worse.
Diets have never worked for me. The doctor started to talk about putting a rubber band around my stomach to help me diet. That made me feel like an even bigger failure – but I started to consider it – and then rejected it again. People diet. People lose weight on their own – I was a smart girl – why couldn't' I see this as dieting in a completely new way. For the first time I was not going to dieting to look or feel sexy – I got that already. This was for my health. But I started to wonder about the changes in my body.
What about losing 40 pounds at 50? Wouldn't I hang or sag? What was I going to be left with if on the off chance that I was successful? I became clear that if I was going to do this I was going to lose weight as the completion of my journey to a healthy second half of life that was filled with being sexuality alive.
Could I really do that for myself?
Let's face it – I still had some body images – could I move past the rest of it?
But was dieting the only answer? The more I thought about this crusade, the more I thought about this being a year of rejuvenation.
What would I need to build a team to really bring in all the aspects of rejuvenation? Yoga? Walking? A Food Coach? Massage? Plastic Surgery? Vitamins? What would a total plan look like? The one thing I am clear about is that in order for me to be successful - I need a team! I started in two places....one obvious place - Weight Watchers. I felt main-stream and as if just the signing up for the program signaled doom and failure. What was I doing? Is this the food plan I want to be on? I am not sure - but it was cheap and easy and on line so I am a member.
And the not so obvious place is Dr. Bart Rademaker, the plastic surgeon. That I wrote about the other day. Dr. Rademaker specializes in regenerative plastic surgery. And yesterday I got this done!
Tomorrow I will write about the cookies and the needles! And for now- I am trying to unwind the story for you as I face my fears - and begin the process. I promise to share all the steps on the journey....
If Shameless was any indication - this is going to be one hell of a ride!


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I sure did! I went to San Diego to be with my girl, Jazz, and my grandsons. Holy cow! What a great time! Lots of wonderful presents, marathon board games (yeah, we get them started early in our family!), and a wonderful party with food cooked by my girl.
Geez...you never really know how you did as a parent until you watch them in action running their own homes, directing their own kids...
For any of you that follow me, you'll know my website went down. Uh-huh. This girl didn't know that you have to renew your website as a separate gesture. And, to get it back up? Oh, well. You don't want to know and I don't want to recount it.
Suffice it to say its up now and that's good.
I've spent some time working on my goals for 2014 -- especially with regard to writing.
I need to work on the last three books for the Grantham series which you all know started out with the Dance Series. And that morphed into Human Hieroglyphix and then onto Bewitchments. Golly! What started out as a 'I can do better than that' kind of thing, has kind of taken on a life of its own, hasn't it?
Just like all the other books I've written!
Here's what I've got planned so far...
- Slow Dance - Is there anyone else out there that wants to know about Jake's former business partner, Dale? Why was he so upset about Jake and Cait's relationship? Does it have anything to do with Sara Davidson moving back? I'm curious as hell about that relationship and wondering if it is as much of a hot mess as we've seen.
- Human Hieroglyphix III - When we last saw Benny he was still healing from his surgery and had met a girl at Crys and Gabe's wedding. We know he lost his wife at an early age and seems to only date college age girls now but from the attraction that was seen between Benny and Vicki, I think there's a story there. Especially when you add-in Vicki's adolescent daughter, Lauren.
- Wynter's Vicious 2 - Turner has been whispering over my shoulder for months now (...and, believe me, that isn't a complaint!) about how his life changed after Denny Wynter's death. Funny how people change when whiskey, women and wealth burn down to nothing but wasteland.
- HMCM will be a new series and done at the request of more than a few readers that have emailed me. Hellion's Motorcycle Club/Missoula will feature a book on Trey, one on Mel and the last on Dare which were characters from Hiding in Plain Sight. I'm with you ladies! Trey absolutely deserves his own book and I, too, want to see how Mel's life unfolds...and then there's Dare. *sigh*
But, that's not a bad thing, right? Because, as I've often said, it's just a name...not an adjective.
Until next time...Smiling and waving your way,


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The securities at the crux of the Securities and Exchange Commission's case against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. inflated the credit bubble, leaving even more losses when it popped, structured-finance experts and investors said in the wake of the recent civil-fraud charge against the investment bank.
'The process went on for years, and culminated in a crash that caused wealth destruction amounting to trillions of dollars. It cannot be allowed to continue.'Some called for the synthetic collateralized debt obligations -- which are baskets of derivatives known as credit-default swaps -- to be banned.
"Derivatives and synthetic securities have been used to create imaginary value out of thin air," George Soros, chairman of $27 billion hedge-fund firm Soros Fund Management, wrote in a column posted on his Web site last week.
"More triple-A CDOs were created than there were underlying triple-A assets. This was done on a large scale in spite of the fact that all of the parties involved were sophisticated investors," he added. "The process went on for years, and culminated in a crash that caused wealth destruction amounting to trillions of dollars. It cannot be allowed to continue."
"Synthetic CDOs should be abolished," Janet Tavakoli, a structured-finance specialist who wrote a book about CDOs in 2003, said in a recent interview. "They're too complex and provide no real benefit. They only existed to game the system or hide losses."
The SEC alleged that Goldman Sachs GS, -0.85% didn't tell investors in a synthetic CDO called Abacus 2007-AC1 that hedge-fund firm Paulson & Co. helped structure the deal, and also was betting against it. Goldman and Paulson have denied wrongdoing. Read about the charges.
Sell Goldman shares, advise S&P analysts
• Will Goldman clientele melt away? (First Take)
• Feds reportedly mulling criminal charges
Goldman's day on the Hill:
• Abacus doesn't add up to fraud: Blankfein
• Tourre's almost fabulous testimony (First Take)
• Goldman traded short in '07, shifted in '08: CFO
• Goldman bankers disagree over duty to clients
More on the Goldman case:
Goldman charged with fraud
The SEC charges Goldman Sachs and one of its vice presidents with defrauding investors in matters relating to subprime mortgages.
• U.K. regulator launches formal Goldman probe
• CDO case steals profit thunder (First Take)
• 'Fab' emails revive broker conflict concern
• Goldman moves quickly to protect reputation
• Goldman latest to join subprime-infamy list
• Why gold and Goldman case are linked
• Goldman's glitzy new home (WSJ.com)
• Personal Finance: 'God's work' vs. muddlers
Because they weren't based on real assets, such investments were tricky to value. When the housing market collapsed, the existence of such hard-to-value securities in the financial system caused havoc as counterparties struggled to find out who had lost money.
Fabrice Tourre, the Goldman banker named in the SEC's case, described such problems in a January 2007 email, just as the subprime-mortgage meltdown was gaining steam.
"I'm trading a product which a month ago was worth $100 and which today is worth $93 and which on average is losing 25 cents a day," Tourre wrote, according to recent Goldman disclosures.
"When I think that I had some input into the creation of this product (which by the way is a product of pure intellectual masturbation, the type of thing which you invent telling yourself: 'Well, what if we created a 'thing', which has no purpose, which is absolutely conceptual and highly theoretical and which nobody knows how to price?') it sickens the heart to see it shot down in mid-flight," Tourre added in the email. Read about other emails from Goldman executive charged by regulators.
Synthetic CDOs sat at the end of a long chain of boom-time transactions that began with the origination of mortgages and other loans. These assets were packaged up by investment banks and sold as asset-based securities, including residential mortgage-backed securities, or RMBS.
CDOs were created by taking pieces of RMBS and other securities, packaging them up again and reselling them.
Demand for such investments was so strong during the credit boom that there weren't enough underlying assets to build new ones. So Wall Street came up with a way of creating CDOs that didn't need actual assets.
The result was synthetic CDOs. These are formed by writing credit-default swaps on bits of RMBS and other asset-backed securities. (These swaps pay out in the event of default.) Once enough of these derivatives contracts were written, investment banks bundled them up into new CDOs and sold them.
More than $110 billion worth of synthetic CDOs were sold in 2006 and 2007, according to Thomson Reuters data.
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Morgan Stanley MS, -0.77% and BNP Paribas (BNP) were the leading underwriters of synthetic CDOs in 2006. The year after, Barclays Capital BCS, +1.09%, Goldman and Merrill Lynch, now part of Bank of America Corp. BAC, -0.60%, were the top underwriters, Thomson Reuters data show.
The beauty of these products was that they could be churned out without creating underlying assets.
"You don't have to wait for bonds to come to market; you can create your own exposure -- and that flexibility is in both the long and the short side," said Joseph Mason, an expert on financial crises at Louisiana State University. "Synthetic CDOs added information to the markets and the information they added was that there was a bubble."
Broader problem
The SEC's suit against Goldman highlights a broader problem with structured finance - the business of packaging assets and selling or securitizing them, according to Sylvain Raynes, an expert in the field and co-founder of R&R Consulting.
"Structured finance is nothing," he said in an interview. "It's always been nothing. We were always on the edge of the abyss and what kept us from going over the edge was Moody's."
Raynes, who used to work at Moody's Investors Service MCO, -0.09% and co-authored a book on structured finance, said the rating agency put AAA ratings on many parts of CDOs, giving investors the confidence they needed to buy the products.
"You needed a third party to analyze the structures," he added. "That's what provided the value for these deals."
In the case of Goldman's Abacus 2007-AC1 CDO, the firm got a third party called ACA Management to have the final say on what assets went into the deal. Without ACA's involvement the deal would have been difficult to sell because investors were getting worried about the mortgage market, the SEC alleged in its complaint against Goldman.
The SEC claims Goldman misled ACA into thinking that Paulson & Co. was going to be a long investor in the deal, when in fact the hedge fund firm was betting against the deal. Goldman denies it misled ACA. ACA has declined to comment about this.
In court
Other CDO deals have also ended up in court.
HSH Nordbank, a German lender, sued UBS AG UBS, +0.70% in February 2008 after losing roughly $500 million on a CDO called North Street 2002-4 that was arranged, underwritten and managed by the Swiss banking giant.
HSH alleged in its original complaint that UBS made $120 million the day the CDO deal closed. The Swiss bank pulled this off by deliberately picking securities that had already lost value but hadn't been downgraded by rating agencies yet -- a strategy known as ratings arbitrage, the suit claims.
Later on, UBS replaced relatively stable assets with riskier collateral then bet against those credits. That effectively transferred default risk from its own balance sheet to the North Street CDO, HSH claimed.
UBS has said that it stuck closely to all its contractual obligations in the deal and that HSH was sophisticated enough to understand potential risks.
Rabobank sued Merrill Lynch in 2009 after suffering $45 million in losses from an investment in a hybrid CDO called Norma. A hybrid CDO includes some real assets and some synthetic parts.
"Norma was never intended by Merrill Lynch to be a secure investment vehicle for Rabobank or anyone else," the suit alleged. "Rather, Merrill Lynch created Norma as a dumping ground for many millions of dollars of subprime securities (including tens of millions of dollars of other Merrill Lynch-structured CDOs backed by subprime mortgage securities) that Merrill Lynch knew were already impaired and wanted to get off its own books."
Merrill has said that Rabobank was aware of the risks and should have done its own homework on the assets in the CDO, rather than relying on the investment bank.


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Shoe Spat Sparks Discussion About Color Trademarks
Plaintiff Christian Louboutin's (left) and
defendant Yves Saint Laurent's red soled shoes
The Washington Post Thursday reported on an interesting trademark lawsuit.
Women's shoe designer Christian Louboutin has sued designer Yves Saint Laurent in the Southern District of New York over the latter's use of red soles on its women's shoes.
Christian Louboutin has a registered trademark for the color red in connection with the shape of the soles of women's shoes. It's Reg. No. 3376197; it's been on the books in the United States since January 2008, with a claimed priority date of March 8, 2006. The complaint alleges Christian Louboutin has been the substantially exclusive user of red soles on women's shoes in the United States since 1992.
Christian Louboutin alleges that Yves Saint Laurent's soles are confusingly similar with plaintiff's "Red Sole Mark." The complaint goes so far as to allege that YSL is selling counterfeit Louboutin shoes.
But back to the article. It provides a good summary of the trademark principles at issue, something I love seeing in the mainstream press.
In short, Louboutin's Red Sole Mark needs to have secondary meaning if it's to be protected under U.S. trademark law as a color mark. That's from the Supreme Court's decision in Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Prods. Co., 514 U.S. 159 (1995). But if the color mark has acquired secondary meaning — meaning that consumers associate the color with a single source — and the color serves no functional purpose, including an aesthetic purpose, then the color is perfectly protectable as a trademark. Think Tiffany's robin's egg blue color, also a registered (and extremely valuable) trademark.
Whether Louboutin's red soles function as a trademark and don't serve an aesthetic purpose remains to be seen. If its Red Sole Mark isn't protectable as a trademark, it can be freely copied — at least as far as trademark law is concerned.
The fact its color mark is registered means the court will presume it's protectable.
That said, for my money, the color's part of the shoe's aesthetics. But I claim no expertise in women's footwear. None whatsoever.
The case cite is Christian Louboutin S.A. v. Yves Saint Laurent America, Inc., No. 11-2381 (S.D.N.Y.).


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Muslims nervous about King hearings
American Muslim leaders, who have struggled to present a clear public voice or organize politically in the decade since Sept. 11, 2001, are increasingly apprehensive about the direction Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) plans to take when he convenes hearings next month on the threat allegedly posed by radical Islam in America.
King, new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, plans to focus on the Times Square bombing attempt and the Fort Hood shootings, both involving American-born Muslims, as well as other incidents and on what he sees as the failure of Muslim leaders to combat extremism.
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King has been critical of the Obama administration for failing to take the threat of domestic terrorism seriously and has sparred with Muslim leaders since soon after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks for not taking steps to combat it.
"The leadership of the [Muslim] community is not geared to cooperation," King told POLITICO.
His upcoming hearings have caused deep concern and consternation among many of the Arab and Muslim advocacy groups across the country who fear King's witness list will help define, for the purposes of the American public conversation, which Muslim leaders are legitimate, and which should be regarded as extremists.
"You can definitely say overall the hearings are seen with great apprehension, suspicion and distaste — sometimes sorrow," said Khaled Abou El Fadl, an expert on Islam and Islamic law at UCLA. "These hearings have a history of stigmatizing whole groups of people."
King insists that the goal of his hearings is not to stigmatize Muslims but to confront the threat of home-grown terrorism and explore the role of Muslim leaders in dealing with it.
"This isn't a question of scoring points," said King. "It's the fact that there's a real threat coming from this attempted radicalization of the community, and it's in many ways coming from overseas."
In a move that will come as a relief to Muslim leaders, King told POLITICO that he's not planning to call as witnesses such Muslim community critics as the Investigative Project's Steve Emerson and Jihad Watch's Robert Spencer, who have large followings among conservatives but are viewed as antagonists by many Muslims.
He aims, he said, to call retired law enforcement officials and people with "the real life experience of coming from the Muslim community." Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the first Muslim to serve in the House and a critic of the hearings, will likely be a minority witness, King and Ellison both said.
The focus, King said, will be on — among other topics — reported complaints from Somali Muslims that the Council on American Islamic Relations and other groups discouraged them from talking to the authorities about young men who had left to fight for the Islamist cause in Somalia, and on cases like that of the imam who — while ostensibly cooperating with the FBI — allegedly tipped the Times Square bomber off to an investigation.


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Pakistan militants bomb police complex in Lahore; 30 dead
A powerful bomb ripped through a police complex in the city of Lahore on Wednesday, claiming at least 30 lives and injuring some 250, the first major attack since Pakistani forces launched an offensive against the Taliban.
A car bomb outside a police emergency call center and the adjoining city police headquarters, at 10:30 a.m. local time, reduced the buildings to rubble. Dozens could yet be found under the debris. The local office of Pakistan's premier spy agency, Inter-Service Intelligence, located nearby, was also badly damaged.
A month ago, the army started an operation against Islamic extremists in the north west, in the Swat valley and neighboring districts. Commentators had previously expressed surprise that there had been no big reprisal so far. Lahore, the main city of the country's most populous province and a metropolis regarded as the cultural heart of Pakistan, suffered two terrorists attacks in March, one on a visiting cricket team and another on a police academy.
"I believe that anti-Pakistan elements, who want to destabilize our country and see defeat in Swat, have now turned to our cities," Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters.


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Well, I am going back into the Van and back to the "Good land" Goleta Ca. I love it there and actually this is the best decision for me right now. I am moving into the van on the first of April. I will be getting a Mr. Heater and or a electric Blanket.. The blanket is cool cuz it plugs into your cig lighter.
This is going to be a great move and I am going to try and get the ceramics biz off the ground by either getting a Corp. Sponsor to put me into a Tattoo Shop or getting Vocational Rehab to buy all the major equipment back and help me get into biz again. I just got another order today for one of my Tiger Urns. It really pisses me off because I hate to receive calls to make a urn for $375.00 when I can't make them, kinda like seeing a big fat juicy steak and not being able to eat it.
I have some health crapola going on too and you can't beat the FREE County health care Santa Barbara has.. Or in my case right now the medical bills they are allowing me to continue to rack up and still treat me.. ;) I have faith dammit and I know God is going to bless me with some very cool shit, very soon! Actually he already has.. A great van that runs good and the money to trick it out so I don't have to sleep in the bushes or a shelter (for a while at least).. ;) I can still be a productive member of society as well and continue to work on California Homeless Resources and finish the site in a few months. This may be able to finance the art biz as well in the near future.
You never know what tomorrow will bring and it is an exciting adventure and I am reminded of the song by Kid Rock "Times Like These". It is times like these we must embrace.. It makes us who we are in times like these. I am going to Goleta and going to make my dream happen - NO Matter what. I have decided and it feels good, no great to decide to do something that is being true to yourself and what you and your soul needs to do.
I have given all of the rest of the donations that were in the van to the Harbor Church. I have found in the short time I have been here in Ventura that these people and this organization does some incredible work for the Ventura Homeless. I have updated the websites donation page with this new information. I will no longer be picking up donations ion Ventura only in Goleta form this point on.
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1. The Best Black Bean Soup In The World* (that is now a Friday afternoon tradition at Fuel).
2. Melissa wearing the cutest expression of all time at Closed For Business.
3. Brick streets are just the beginning of why I'm in love with this city.
4. Pecha Kucha nights full of inspiration also top that list.
5. Late night truffle potato soup (plus french bread and butter) that rivals these truffled fries.*
6. November weather warm enough to walk along the battery in short sleeves and a skirt.
7. Happy 50th Birthday to my beautiful, graceful, momma/ best friend, who truly does not look a day over 30. Ditto everything I said last year. (disclaimer: this is not a Charleston scene, it's a D.C. scene)
*it has really been a soup kind of week.


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Mary Gostelow's Hotel of the Week: Six Senses Douro Valley
canadian pharmacy generic tadalafil Aerial view of Six Senses Douro Valley.
click here Part of a weekly series featuring luxury hotel expert Mary Gostelow's hotel pick of the week. Photo Credits: Six Senses.
Want the latest of health and wellness, plus a great spa, super food and wines, and a once-off tree-climbing experience? Book a trip now to Portugal's Douro Valley. Fly into Lisbon, take a train to Porto, just under three hours, and rent a car for the easy and scenic 90-minute drive along the Valley. You are headed for the three month-old Six Senses Douro Valley, the company's first new-look product.
Room 406 with its soaking tub and a view.
Designed by New York-based Clodagh, the interiors of the 57-room centuries-old quinta palace are a harmony of taupes, natural fabrics and decorative elements like large cork fruit bowls in room. My favorite rooms are 401, with a big dining space, and 406. Both have original balconies overlooking a courtyard with fountain and rows of vines. I stayed in 406, and I loved the freestanding bathtub separating the bed, with the most amazing mattress and luxurious taupe cashmere throw, and the living area, with enough sofa seating for at least ten (also taupe hued).
The open kitchen set for breakfast.
The courtyard level is free flow from library to wine room to bar to dining room to open kitchen with traditional range to yet another wine room. You might get waylaid by snooker, board games in the bar, or paired tastings in a wine room. The breakfast buffet is mainly served in the open kitchen.
The spa, in serene taupes and an inviting ambience.
The spa is also sensational. The indoor pool complements the year-round outdoor pool, where you have a 360-degree view of the finely-terraced vineyards as you finish your laps. The spa's ten rooms have full walls of windows looking into private gardens. Have an Organic Pharmacy facial; thanks to a really really skilled local therapist I felt better than I had for ages. There are many other must-dos here. Walk the vineyards. Take a serious rock-style climb over 30 feet up a tree to look at the 360-degree views. Have a private yoga class, and ask instructor Lisa Yarnell for an integrative wellness session. In 45 minutes she uses the internet, advanced skin response, blood pressure and an oxymeter (a little finger capsule that fits on tightly, and instead of actually drawing blood, measures oxygen saturation and pulse waves). In case you are interested, I achieved 97 points out of a maximum 120, just missing 'optimal health' – I got full marks for my heart, my fat composition, my cholesterol level and my liver. Perhaps that tree-climbing exertion helped. I will celebrate with a nice big glass of Douro red! GM is Nick Yarnell.
The indoor pool with view of the manicured yards.
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General Moon is a fictional character in the James Bond film Die Another Day (2002), played by Kenneth Tsang. He is the father of Colonel Tan-Sun Moon, who would later become Gustav Graves by way of gene replacement therapy.
Father to Colonel Moon, General Moon is a wise moderate man who assists in Bond's release back to the West. The North Korean general wishes for a peaceful reunification of Korea, whereas his son is bent on war. When Bond seemingly assassinates Colonel Moon, the general has him imprisoned and tortured for more than a year. He eventually releases him in exchange for the release of Zao, who had been captured by the West for terrorism.
Towards the end of the film, tensions escalate between the Koreas and the hardliners stage a coup in North Korea, arresting General Moon. He is later to be accompanied by Gustav Graves as he demonstrated the power of the new Icarus heat-ray in Iceland. On Graves' giant plane, while he and his officers are having a conversation with Graves, Graves tries to convince the him that the General himself is his father by saying the General's personal memorized tactics. Now the General learns that Graves is actually the new identity of his still living son, Colonel Moon, hiding behind a new face thanks to gene therapy.
Graves hoped his demonstration of power to break the Korean Demilitarized Zone in order to invade South Korea would impress his father, but instead Moon realizes that his son is insane and threatens to kill him with one of the officers' Makarov, saying that the plan will instead destroy themselves and his real son died long ago. Graves disarms his father and, stating his disappointment in him, shoots him in the chest, killing him as other officers seeing their comrade getting murdered by his own son. Graves then coldly removed his Order of Freedom and Independence, Korean equivalent of 'Medal of Honor', provoking Bond, enraged at seeing the death of the general who spared his life back in North Korea, to try and kill Graves on the spot.


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Mountain Biking Photography in North Wales
mtbgus.com is no longer being updated, I'd like to thank everyone who has supported me and the site over the years.
I will continue to post photos on my facebook page + the facebook photography groups and the mountain bike group - Venture.
The back catalogue of photos can be browsed through here, all new photos are on my Facebook page.
Venture (North Wales MTB) - A friendly Facebook group for mountain bikers based in North Wales


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How does Hermite normal form (over $Z$) vary in families? I.e. if I have an $n\times m$ matrix $M$ whose entries are integral polynomials in some integral variable $x$, how does the Hermite normal form of the integral matrix $M(p)$ (obtained by setting $x$ equal to $p$) vary as a function of $p$? What about the special case that the entries are (at most) linear in $x$?
The question is a bit open ended so answers could be of several kinds, eg: (i) how certain integer programming problems associated to $M(p)$ depend on $p$; (ii) by explaining how the answer can be expressed in a way that generalizes Ehrhart theory; (iii) by specializing to an important case that is well-understood; (iv) in some other interesting way.
I would also really appreciate a pointer to any relevant literature.


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Fundraising page created in response to devastating Lincoln youth centre fire
A Facebook group has been formed to raise funds for community groups who used a Lincoln youth centre which was burned to the ground last week.
St Giles Youth Centre in Lincoln was deliberately set on fire on the evening Friday, September 2.
A Facebook group has been created to give members of the community the opportunity to donate and help raise funds to re-build the centre after the loss.
A number of people and businesses are also fundraising to help the centre.
This includes both Newark Road and Wragby Road Tesco, which have collection buckets outside their stores to help raise funds for the centre.
As previously reported, emergency services received calls that the building was on fire at around 10.30pm on Friday, September 2, with firefighters putting out the blaze well into the early hours of Saturday morning.
No arrests have yet been made and Lincolnshire Police are appealing for anyone with information to call 101.
Eileen Crosby, one of the admins for the group said: "This group has been created to provide support and share ideas of how to help with any fundraising after the devastation of the fire, which has destroyed the youth club.
"[The youth centre is] A place that provided support and opportunities to many children over the years.
"Please join to help rebuild the children's future.
"Let us show the kids there is always hope."
Alternative accommodation
Lincolnshire County Council, who own the centre, said they are looking into alternative venues for young people and community groups to visit.
So far St Giles community centre and St Giles Parish Church have agreed to accommodate groups which previously used the youth centre.
Jo Kavanagh, Service Manager, Lincolnshire County Council, said: "Like the local community, we are shocked and dismayed by this needless vandalism.
"St Giles Youth Centre was not only a base for youth hub staff and storage of vital equipment but also a place where activities where provided for young people.
"The centre was also home to a local children's football club, Lincoln EST, with whom we will be working closely to offer additional support.
"In these difficult circumstances, staff are working hard to find a quick solution for the community so that young people in the area can still access activities."


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The following is a release from the Upper Moreland Library.
Where, I ask you, can a family of four enjoy a light meal and entertainment for only $20? The answer is at the Upper Moreland Library on Park Avenue. The Friends of the Upper Moreland Free Public Library are proud to announce the second annual First Friday in February Family Fun-Raiser. This family-friendly event will take place Friday, February 5, 2010 from 6-8pm. (more…)


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De Iraanse dichteres, vertaalster en mensenrechten-advocate Sheema Kalbasi werd geboren op 20 november 1972 in Teheran. Zie ook alle tags voor Sheema Kalbasi op dit blog.
Middle East
I dreamt that I was innocent
my naked skin
in touch with reality
and my soul was in search
to hear your -worldly- murmur: Peace
I offered you my love
wrapped in honesty
(pure to catch up with you)
shrunk with disbelief
I -asking you: Know me
with your gorgeousness
as you played with the waves
breaking one after another
taking them into your hands
touching them one after another
I wanted to be called with your name: just
what color was Peace?
the one you chose to paint me?
the one you narrowed into my heart and nested in my grave,
what color was it?
I am longing in my grave
to receive the flowers
with your hand written note: rest-in-peace- Middle East
I don't care if you are you and I am I. I am not some exotic flower. Whatever coat you have on, I will put it on to warm me… and the shoes however small… I will walk in them to balance our height difference. You don't need to convert for me; I have already converted to you. You see I never had a religion to begin with. I was born naked from all religions but your love.
I know that was not the point. I know there is no conversion. There is no coat, no balance, no shoes but the naked truth of me finding you first, not you finding me. You, whom will never know who I was when I was sitting on the white sheets.
Y o u, not b e s i d e m e.
And the words that are already written. The words that are already said, are already felt, and are already gone.
And I try to take them back into my empty bowl of hands. To put my hands on the chest. The chest into rest. The rest in to the heart. The beat back to the soul. The soul, back to what it was before you.
Alas! I am 5.7
Sheema Kalbasi (Teheran, 20 november 1972)
De Zuidafrikaanse schrijfster Nadine Gordimer werd geboren op 20 november 1923 in Springs. Zie ook alle tags voor Nadine Gordimer op dit blog.
Uit: No Time Like the Present
"He can't see far among the bodies pressed around him. There are white hands among those raised in the stomping, chanting, so he couldn't be so noticeably there, the absorption in purpose is blindly fervent, he knows from political rallies. In the mass you have no direction of your own, he is carried along in a surge towards the main gates of the campus. Outside between the street and the gates, another gathering—a few pausing in curiosity before turning away, others, some black men and women literally throwing their yelling weight about. All cling to gates too wide, tall and strong to shake: they've joined the students' action.
He tries to make a way to other parts of the campus but progress is against powerful currents as urge drives each limb of the great body to join that. He reaches only the science block from where he had set out.
Did any of his academic colleagues to whom he'd been advised to kick arse attempt to be along with the uprising against tuition fees most of their students couldn't pay (so the cell phones worn like ear ornament, who pays for the serial calls). The faculty coffee room may say, factually, the university couldn't exist without tuition fees to supplement the government's inadequate grant; 'funding free education is that government's affair'. No dereliction of the university's responsibility towards students?
Did he have a place down there (he's back up at his window again). Claim it—claim on him—because of his part, his deci- sion to get mixed up in providing scientific know-how and ingredients to make bombs, his Jabu, his children gestated in a black womb. There are bonfires signalling here, there, like the Guy Fawkes ones of his childhood commemorating a revo- lutionary arson he and his siblings had never heard of. One of the bundles of whatever was being fed smoking to the flames was very near the archeological museum where tooled stones are the reminder that young men rioting are the descendants of peoples who had skills before invaders brought others; he had a sudden fear not for himself but for what is an extension of self, the work, research that was in progress in the science faculty. What if they burst into the laboratories where climate change is being studied for solutions that would save their own existence on this planet."
Nadine Gordimer (20 november 1923 – 13 juli 2014)
De Russische schrijfster en scenariste Viktoria Tokareva werd geboren op 20 november 1937 in Leningrad (Sint Petersburg). Zie ook alle tags voor Viktoria Tokareva op dit blog.
Uit: Korrida
"- How much does a she-goat weigh? Sixty kolograms? asked Anikee.
– I don't know, answered Lil'ka.
– No. You weigh sixty. That's like a pig, but a goat weighs less. About thirty kilograms. I'll have to ask Granny Panya about that. Granny Panya! – Anikeev called out.
When he came back, he saw that Lilka was standing in jeans and wearing a coat. She was pushing the puncho "fieruchello" into a denim backpack. She also shoved the terri-cloth robe and slippers into it.
– Where are you going? –Anikeev was surprised. –To the sauna?
– I am leaving you.
– Where are you going?
– I am leaving you and never coming back.
Anikeev put his arms around Lilka's knees and under her arms. Picked her up and grunted.
-Don't… –Lilka became frightened. –I am heavy. Like a pig. Fifty kilograms."
Viktoria Tokareva (Leningrad, 20 november 1937)
De Engelse dichter en schrijver Thomas Chatterton werd geboren op 20 november 1752 in Bristol als zoon van een koster. Zie ook alle tags voor Thomas Chatterton op dit blog.
February (Fragment)
Whilst Envy, on a tripod seated nigh,
In form a shoe-boy, daubs the valu'd fruit,
And darting lightnings from his vengeful eye,
Raves about Wilkes, and politics, and Bute.
Now Barry, taller than a grenadier,
Dwindles into a stripling of eighteen;
Or sabled in Othello breaks the ear,
Exerts his voice, and totters to the scene.
Now Foote, a looking-glass for all mankind,
Applies his wax to personal defects;
But leaves untouch'd the image of the mind,
His art no mental quality reflects.
Now Drury's potent kind extorts applause,
And pit, box, gallery, echo, "how divine!"
Whilst vers'd in all the drama's mystic laws,
His graceful action saves the wooden line.
Now– but what further can the muses sing?
Now dropping particles of water fall;
Now vapours riding on the north wind's wing,
With transitory darkness shadow all.
Alas! how joyless the descriptive theme,
When sorrow on the writer's quiet preys
And like a mouse in Cheshire cheese supreme,
Devours the substance of the less'ning bays.
Thomas Chatterton (20 november 1752 – 5 augustus 1770)
Thomas Chatterton door Henrietta Mary Ada Ward, 1873
De Amerikaanse schrijver Don DeLillo werd op 20 november 1936 geboren in New York City als zoon van Italiaanse immigranten. Zie ook alle tags voor Don DeLillo op dit blog en ook mijn blog van 20 november 2010.
Uit: Cosmopolis
"Steam came venting from a manhole through a tall blue stack, the most common sight, he thought, but beautiful now, carrying the strangeness, the indecipherability of a thing seen new, steam heaving from the urban earth, nearly apparitional. An old industrial loft building stood on the southeast corner, 10 storeys, blocklike, a late medieval sweatshop and firetrap. There were scaled windows and scaffolding and the sidewalk was boarded off. Ibrahim nosed the car farther right, keeping a distance from closed-off areas. A vehicle pulled out in front of them, a lunch van, un- likely at this hour, one, two, three in the morning.
Then lights came on, dead ahead, flaring with a crack and whoosh, great carbon-arc floodlights that were set on tripods and rigged to lampposts. A woman in jeans appeared, flagging down the car. The intersection was soaked in vibrant light, the night abruptly alive.
People crisscrossed the streets, calling to each other or speaking into handsets, and teamsters unloaded equipment from long trucks parked on both sides of the avenue. Trailers sat in the petrol station across the street. The man in the van ahead lowered the fold-over side, for meals, and it was only now that Eric saw the heavy trolley with movable boom attached, rolling slowly into place. Installed at the high end of the boom was a platform that held a movie camera and a couple of seated men.
The crane wasn't the only thing he'd missed. When he got out of the car and moved to a spot that wasn't blocked by the lunch truck, he saw the elements of the scene in preparation."
Don DeLillo (New York City, 20 november 1936)
De Russische dichteres en schrijfster Zinaida Nikolaevna Hippius werd als kind van uit Duitse familie geboren op 20 november in Beljov bij Tula.(Niet op 8 november) Zie ook alle tags voor Zinaida Hippius en Zinaida Gippius op dit blog.
In haar verdorven, schamele geslepenheid
Is zij als as zo grijs, als stof is zij.
Ik sterf aan die verstikkende benepenheid,
Aan die verbondenheid van haar en mij.
Ze zit vol stekels en is niet inschikkelijk,
Gelijk een slang is zij, koud en gevlekt,
Haar kromgebogen schubben zijn verschrikkelijk
En hebben mij met wonden overdekt.
Log is ze, afgestompt en niet ontvankelijk,
O, drong een scherpe angel door tot mij!
Ze is zo lusteloos en ontoegankelijk,
Niet te benaderen en doof is zij.
Ze kronkelt vleiend rond me, de aanhalige,
Ze smoort me haast, dit duistere reptiel.
En dit vasthoudende, en dit onzalige,
Dit angstaanjagende – dat is mijn ziel!
Vertaald door Mieke en Mouring Lindenburg
Zinaida Hippius (20 november 1869 – 9 september 1945)
Zie voor nog meer schrijvers van de 20e november ook mijn blog van 20 november 2011 deel 1 en eveneens deel 2.


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Fellow Golfers
We are pleased to announce the 2014 Management Committee of the Barbados Golf Association as follows:
Cally Boyea, new President of the Barbados Golf Association
We take this opportunity to thank all of those members who turned out in their numbers to the recent AGM of February 27, 2014, and hope that this attendance would be a trend in years to come. We again sincerely apologize for the standing-room-only accommodation and the diminished refreshments during the meeting; the turnout was way beyond our expectation.
Notice is hereby given that the 45th Annual General Meeting of the Barbados Golf Association,
will be held at the Conference Room of the Barbados Olympic Association, Garfield Sobers Sports Complex,
Wildey, St. Michael on Thursday 27th February 2014 at 6:30pm.
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All the Cool Kids are Doing it
Happy Mother's Day! Here's a quick update: I had no idea how many of us are closet shawl-wanters! Your outpouring of support for my shawl saga is absolutely rocking my world. Thank you thank you thank you, intrepid shawl makers who have joined me on my maiden quest! For those on the fence, let me enable encourage you to participate this way: Send me photos of your progress (and carnage of your frogging, if need be), and I will post them so everyone can share successes! There is no deadline, no trophy for finishing first (except for my undying respect), and no pressure of any sort. And though I'm a rank amateur, we have Maria's experienced hand for guidance, should things turn dodgy.
Here's my progress so far. I have to admit a degree of surprise: there is a certain "potato chip" quality to this project. Way more compelling than I would have imagined. It doesn't hurt that I really love working with handspun yarn - just an added bonus.
If you are hesitating, come on in! The water's fine!


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You do not have to be a foodie to recognize from the moment you walk in the doors to MOXIE that you are someplace special. Judging from the name alone, one might imagine you were in for something bold and bodacious…Chef Tom Gray and his team do not disappoint. From a highly serviceable layout with interesting personal touches at every turn, to the carefully sourced ingredients used in the lunch and dinner menus…from the energetic, knowledgeable, and committed staff in both the front and back of the house to the connection with both local and artisan producers, Moxie brings guests great food with swagger!
Al Fuentes, Executive Sous Chef, maintains a daily connection with the many purveyors that MOXIE sources their ingredients from to ensure the best of local, organic, natural and sustainable products. With an ever evolving menu, these farm partners are a vital part of the restaurant and guests receive the benefit of top quality and optimal freshness. Local food is sourced and served every day. Farm partners include: Cognito Farm, Bacon Select Produce, Sweet Grass Dairy, Black Hog Farm, and The French Pantry, …. just to name a few from their growing list.
Not only do the food and cocktails employ this devotion to perfection but the entire building was designed and created with careful thought and many owner-inspired additions including the use of reclaimed wood from Maine, where Chef Tom claims his family roots, and a fabulously personal map panel that depicts the many experiences that Chef Tom and his wife, Sarah Marie have shared over the years. MOXIE has their own in house water filtration system and employs recycling and ecofriendly practices at every turn. In a word, MOXIE is the epitome of Slow Food and you will be glad you have taken time out to pay a visit.
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(The Adventures of Alexis Davenport #1)
Publication Date: June 17, 2014
Paperback, 214 pages, Booktrope Editions
Genres: YA, Sci-Fi
Alexis Davenport wants to go home. She hates her new school, her mother for moving her away from her friends, and her father for walking out.
To make matters worse, Alex is haunted by images of strange girls reflected in her mirror. It's bad enough juggling homework, a relentless bully, boys, and a deadbeat dad; now, she must save the world from an evil presence hell-bent on changing the past – and our futures. Who knew her A+ in history was going to be this important?
My Review
Sings to self: "When will her reflection show who she is inside?" Now that that's over, Imma get to the actual review.
Time travel, inter-dimensional travel, heck, even road-trip travel haven't been even close to my favorite types of books to read lately. I've actually been trying to avoid them. And unfortunately, this book didn't change that avoidance any.
Dangerous Reflections is about a girl who looks in the mirror and sees past reincarnations (I think that's what they're supposed to be anyway, the book never really gets to the bottom of this). She then can travel through the mirror into the reincarnations. Think of a less creepy version of Bloody Mary mixed with a dose of Outlander.
The main character, Alexis, does all of this time travelling and moves to a new school, makes new friends, and tries out for a school play, all in less than 220 pages. So basically, the book needed to chill out and take a breath. I felt like I had a nervous fast-talker telling me a story and I couldn't understand a word he/she was saying. It just needed to slow down and go into detail, instead of trying to get out so many miniscule plot points that really did nothing to further the plotline. These miniscule plot points included a jerky crush; a stereotypical mean girl; friends who shouldn't be friends with someone who's so naïve, selfish, and ridiculous (that naïve person would be Alexis, btw); and, as I mentioned earlier, an oddly placed audition for a high school play. Honestly, none of the events in this story really connected to each other.
I also have to mention that I could tell the book was written by an author. What do I mean by that? Well, it doesn't sound like a fifteen-year-old girl is narrating this story. I'm sure it didn't mean to sound this way, but it almost sounded like the author was making fun of today's teenage girls. Every action performed by a teenager was an overreaction. And MySpace was mentioned. MySpace!
One thing I did like about this book was the actual time travel. Alexis goes back into the different periods and recreates history. I liked reading about the different historical settings and characters, I just didn't like how I couldn't understand what Alexis was really doing there, or what she was. But the characters in these scenes were cool and more developed than Alexis and I wish more time was spent on these scenes, instead of scenes where Alexis whines.
All in all, this book wasn't one of my favorites and I wouldn't recommend reading it unless you are a big fan of time travel, because other than that aspect, it didn't really have a lot going for it.
*Note: I received a copy of this book to review from the author. This in no way altered my opinion/review.


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My younger daughter is subject to cravings. Two summers ago, when she was with her grandparents at their lakehouse, she had a craving for chicken tikka masala. New Hampshire is great for lobster, clams, and haddock, but Indian food is not easy to find. I had to make it for her, along with naan bread.
The other night, we had a lot of leftover lobster, so I made lobster ravioli in a tomato cream sauce. I bought potsticker skins and wonton skins, so I could make the ravioli quickly. I only used the potsticker skins, so there was still a pack of wonton skins in the fridge.
This morning, Christina, who does not like lobster and thus did not eat the ravioli, saw the wonton skins in the fridge and said, "What are you going to make for me? I could really go for pork or beef wontons."
I rooted around the fridge and found some leftover sirloin steak, cream cheese, and cheddar cheese. I knew we also had tomatoes from my brother-in-law's garden. A filling was born. I diced the tomatoes and made a quick salsa of them with minced garlic and some lime juice, as I wanted the tomatoes to pick up more flavor. I diced the steak and added minced garlic, parsley, and chives. Then I added some cream cheese to act as a binder and a little cheddar cheese for flavor. Salt, pepper and the tomatoes from the salsa (I didn't add much of the salsa juice, as I didn't want my filling to be wet), and I was done. A picture of the filling is below.
The beauty of any kind of filled dumpling -- wontons, potstickers, empanadas, pierogis, etc. -- is that the sky is the limit when it comes to filling. You can stay traditional or you can stray and make a different yet tasty filling. The filling I made today gives a slight nod to Mexico, but the combination of beef, cheese, and tomatoes makes sense. If I had leftover gravy, carrots, and potatoes, I might have gone toward a beef pie filling. If I had feta and leftover veggies, I may have stuffed them with those.
You can use whatever you have around, as long as the filling tastes good.
A few tips...
When you are making a filling:
- Your filling should be moist but not wet. Wet fillings and frying in oil don't go too well together.
- Cream cheese is a great neutral binder. It adds a creaminess to your filling when the wontons are cooked.
- Make your filling a little on the salty side, as the seasoning has to flavor the wonton skins too.
- Make a couple test wontons.
- Put about a tbs. in the near center of the wonton. You will know after making a few wontons what is too much or too little. You want a balance between filling and wrapper.
- Take out only a few wonton wrappers at a time. Cover the rest with a damp paper towel, so they don't dry out.
- Use egg white to seal the wontons. Egg white acts like glue, and it's important to have a good seal on the wontons that will be fried. Use a brush or your finger and lightly brush the edges with egg white.
- When you seal the wonton, bring the top points of the triangle together and press together. Then starting from the filling, press outward toward the edges. You want to start pressing from the filling out, so that you can get rid of any air bubbles. Make sure that no stray filling is breaking your seal. If you leave air bubbles or your wonton is not fully sealed, the wonton is likely to break open during cooking.
- I use a big, deep skillet and fill it with about 1 or 1 1/2 inches of oil -- just enough to cover the wontons.
- I fry at around 365 degrees F. If I don't have a thermometer, I use a small piece of bread to test the heat of the oil. If I put it in and nothing really happens, the oil is not ready. If I put it in an it bubbles really quickly and browns in less than a minute, it's too hot. If I put it in and it bubbles merrily and browns within a couple minutes, then it's the right temperature.
- The filling is already cooked, so the wontons only have to cook a few minutes. I flip them when the underside is browned, and when the other side is down, I put them on a paper towel-lined plate.
Filling of your choice
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Make a filling. Tips are above.
Create a wonton-making station at your kitchen table with a plate, the wonton skin package (opened) and covered with a damp paper towel, a bowl with egg white, a pastry brush, and a foil-covered baking sheet. If another person is helping you, they can have their own plate, but you both can share the bowl of egg white.
Take out three or four wonton skins and place them on the plate. Put about a tbs. of filling in the center of each wonton. Brush the edges of the wonton skins with the egg white. Take one of the wontons and bring two opposite points together to make the top of the triangle. Seal the rest of the wonton by sealing closest to the filling and working your way out, getting rid of any air bubbles along the way. Make sure no filling is compromising the seal. Please the wonton on the baking sheet and repeat the process until down.
Fill a large, deep skillet with 1 to 1 1/2 inches of oil and heat to 365 degrees F. Put in as many wontons as you can without crowding them. Cook until browned on one side for a few minutes, and then flip over.
When done, place on a paper-towel lined plate to wick away any excess oil.
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The Basics of Sperm
Sperm, the term comes from a root Greek word "sperma" meaning "seed". Sperms or sperm cells (biologically known as spermatozoa) are the reproductive cells found in male semen that are essential for human reproduction (and all other mammals). Millions of sperm (spermatozoa) are released in each millimeter of semen ejaculated from the urethra of a male. Therefore, the miracle of a new life starts from one healthy active and fast sperm.
Where sperms are made?
Sperm are produced in healthy males after puberty, around the age of 11 to 13 years and are made in your testicles. Hence, your balls are important for fertility because this is where sperm and the male sex hormone testosterone are made. After sperm are made in the testicles, they travel with a few drops of fluid through the male reproductive system. As they move through the system, the sperm mix with more fluid made by the prostate and seminal vesicles, until the sperm are released (ejaculated) at the time of sexual climax (orgasm).
How do sperms look like?
Each sperm cell has simple three separate parts: the head, middle and tail. The head of the sperm contains half of the man's DNA. To enter the egg, the head of the sperm has a tip designed for penetration known as the acrosome. Energy used by the sperm to propel itself has its origin in the mitochondria wrapped around the center portion of the sperm. The mitochondria uses a simple sugar (fructose) ejaculated in the semen with the sperm to produce energy for the sperm's movement.
What is the most important function of sperm?
Sperms are needed to fertilize the egg in a woman's body in order for a human being to be created. Without sperm, fertilization of the female egg is impossible. For couples that have fertility issues, sperm banks provide clients sperm donations that come from individuals who have been medically screened. The sperm from sperm donors are tested for HIV, AIDS, hepatitis and other sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs).
How does a sperm fertilize an egg?
Sperm are designed to be strong swimmers as they must travel from the opening of the cervix at the tip of a woman's uterus to the fallopian tube to find the egg to fertilize. The acrosome at the tip of the head of the sperm helps it to pierce the female egg. The head of the sperm contains the DNA. Its body contains special structures called mitochondria that provide the "fuel" to move, and the tail helps propel the sperm towards the female egg.
How do sperms move?
The tail of the sperm uses energy produced through the mitochondria's metabolism of sugar to whip back and forth. Sperm only move a mere .12 inches (3 mm) per hour. Over 1,000 movements of the tail propel the sperm cell forward ½ an inch, but the sperm requires thousands of movements of its tail to allow it to reach the woman's egg inside her (1.25 cm).
How long do sperm live?
Sperm can live up to three to five days after ejaculation, if they are ejaculated into the vagina. There they can reside in the mucus around the cervix for three to five days while they are waiting for the egg to come along. They can make their way up through the uterus and into the fallopian tubes and fertilize the egg three to five days after sex. Outside of the vagina or any warm, moist place, they're not going to live as long. They'll only live for a few hours, maybe even a few minutes.
What is the difference between sperm and semen?
Many men often confuse the word "sperm" with that of "semen". However, while interrelated, both terms are different in form and function.
Semen is the cloudy white body fluid that is emitted from the urethra of the penis during ejaculation and contains "sperms". Most of the fluid in semen is made up of secretions from male reproductive organs. Usually, each milliliter of semen contains millions of spermatozoa (sperm). The purpose of semen is purely for reproduction, as a vehicle to carry the spermatozoa into the female reproductive tract.
Hence, sperm is the microscopic male reproductive cell while semen refers to the seminal fluid that contains millions of sperms. Also, sperm cells are microscopic and not visible to the normal eye but semen is a viscous liquid easily visible. Hence, semen is the "liquid" medium that contains and facilitates the passage & entry of "solid" sperms from the make penis and into the female vagina
Normal values of sperms
Sperm concentration: 20x106 spermatozoa/ml or more
Total sperm count: 40x106 spermatozoa or more
Motility (movement): 50% or more with forward progression or 25% or more with rapid progression within 60 min after collection
Morphology (form): Should be 30% or more with normal form and shape
Vitality (life): Should be 75% or more live
White blood cells: Should be less than 1x106 /ml
Sperm analysis
The examination of a sample of sperm is an important element in investigating infertility in men and can help examine the motility of sperm, and if an individual suspects he has abnormal sperm, having a sperm sample tested is one way to determine if he is correct.
If there are too many sperm in a sample, or white blood cells appear, which can mean there is an infection, further testing can be done. The semen is produced by masturbation after a period of 2-3 days' abstinence. The sample can be produced in the centre or at home, but in the latter case, it must be brought to the lab within an hour.
There are many factors that can interfere with healthy sperm and interfere with fertility, such as recreational and prescription drug use. Use of tobacco and alcohol can also reduce motility and fertility. If your sperm is less than you want it to be, there are ways to increase it. In addition to quantity, take into consideration the quality as well, which can be impacted by your lifestyle.
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Tying Knots Art Studios
Founded by Matthias Pascal Clad and Peter Varga in 2015, Tying Knots is a Norway-based independent production company.
Our name symbolizes the connections and relationships we have, are going to have and are looking for in and with our work. A knot between friends, family members and new people we meet. A bond between team mates. A transparental bridge between two parts from different sides.
Our logo which is based on the ancient Tibetan "endless knot" symbol belongs strongly to our name, easing the weight of interdependence and bondage while keeping the trust and dedication.
Matthias Pascal Clad
Matthias, born in 1991, is a German-Norwegian NTNU-student, filmmaker and media consultant. His biggest project was creating a new advertisement DVD for Valdres Folkehøgskole, which included all the filming, edit and design. The final product increased the application rate for the school drastically. His short clip "One year at VFHS" was awarded the kreativ-strek prize.
Beside his travels to Africa, New Zealand and 15 countries in Europe, he has competed for 9 years for the German national team in Roller-skating, where he won medals at both the European- and the World-championship.
Peter Varga
Peter, born in 1980, is a Hungarian traveler, travel writer and -photographer. Co-founder of Kepesita(.org) and founder of the Kepesita Collection(.com) art project. Author of an upcoming novel based on his 952 day-long hitch-hiking journey across 3 continents. Co-maker of several short films, among them 2 festival shortlisted and a 3. prize winning work.
He has spent several years among/working with sled dogs and done numerous trips under extreme conditions in different countries. Since 2012 he is an employee in a rock fall prevention company in Norway.


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Deadline: 15/02/2018
Horse and Art Research Program
We are looking for artists interested in horse culture, as well as riders interested in art.
DATES I 22 May - 3 June I 27 June - 9 July I 27 July - 8 August 2018.
LOCATION on the North side of Lake Balaton in the village of Barnag in Hungary.
PROGRAM an intensive residency designed for artists interested in combining equine studies and visual arts. We are looking for artists interested in horse culture, as well as riders interested in art. The work will include daily practice and lessons of horsemanship, horsearchery, anatomically correct riding. Discussions and lectures will be held with the main focus on fine art research and a focus on printmaking and drawing. The program is running since 4 years in a series for years to come and is centered around different research themes. This summer we will held three different programs with a focus on drawing and printmaking. Guest lecturers will be invited, excursions will be organised, works made can be exhibited.
AIM to deliver our interest into the field of international artistic research with opening up connections between equine culture and art. We would like to rethink art today in relation to horsemanship and riding. We are open for artistic practices coming from both, western and eastern traditions.
PROGRAM LEADERS Veszely Beáta (DLA) is an artist and researcher and Szmrecsányi Márton is a horse trainer and horsearcher. Both are dedicated to research the knowledge of old riding masters, the history of equine imagery in art old and new and to develop their riding and horsearchery next to teaching.
ACCOMMODATION in rural life settings is offered in traditional Hungarian style yurts.
PREMISES in Barnag are centered around a 19th century small holding partly the home of the Szmrecsányi family neighbouring a National Park. There is an outside arena suitable for schooling and an official horsearchery track approved by the Kassai Horsearchery World Association, where two world cups each year are organised.
HORSES six horses are at the premises, all owned by the Szmrecsányi family. All horses are started with natural horsemanship and trained academically.
FEE for a two-week program for international participants is 980 euros per person. The fee includes all costs, but it does not include travel costs to Hungary.
APPLICATION Please only apply if you are interested in both: art and equine studies, if you are happy to try rural living and if you are open for discussions with others. Please write an email of interest for an application form to Veszely Beáta at email@example.com.
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A journey of love unfolds as two strangers meet to celebrate the festival of love.
Presenting Aayush Sharma and Warina Hussain.
Loveratri is a contemporary love story of Sushrut and Manisha, which revolves around the festival of Navratri.
Directed by Abhiraj Minawala & produced by Salma Khan
starring Aayush Sharma and Warina Hussain.
Release Date: 5th October 2018
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Introducing Carson
Hey Troops,
We're back and tonight we've got a live one for you in the War Chest Update. This guy is full of personality and loves to show off on camera. He's got an ass to fucking die for. You know me, I love a nice, tight bubble butt and I spend plenty of time behind Carson getting to know his ass, I mean -- him, him. He's also got another thing going for him when it comes to getting in good with the director and that's the fact that he's a shorty, too. We all know I like them short and Carson stands about 5' 7" and weighs in at around 160 lbs. This little compact hottie is not only sporting a gorgeous ass, beautiful smile and a nice cock, but he's also got a set of abs so defined you could wash your dirty laundry on them.
Aside from being the perfect package, Carson has a personality that lights up the room and he's very interactive with the camera. This guy is a total ham and you can tell he loves every second that the camera is on him.
We chit chat while he jerks it and he never misses a beat. Throughout the video (while he keeps jerking his cock) we learn about his first blow job and the time a girl tried to stick a finger in his butt, but he cut her short and told her he's the one that should be doing her in the butt. I think you'll beg to differ and agree with me that with an ass like Carson's, he definitely needs to reconsider. Don't worry, I'm already working on it, troops. Give me time.
You're going to really fall for this little tough guy as he grabs your attention from the very beginning and plays with your heart strings all the way to the explosive cum shot. His cock is so rock hard all the way through that even after he blows his massive load it's still standing at full attention. He ends things out by saying, "I hope you enjoyed my cock!" And indeed I'm sure you did.
Keep your eyes open for Carson as I'm sure you'll be seeing more of him sooner than later.
And, don't forget to check out an amazingly huge new gallery of photos of Carson. You're gonna love 'em!
Until Sunday keep those guns clean,