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The 2020 winner of the coveted German Game of the Year or Spiel des Jahres award has been announced as Pictures. This is a family game where players have to model the picture on their card using the available components, e.g. shoelaces, coloured cubes, etc.; players get points for correctly guessing other players images and for other players guessing their image.
– Image adapted by boardGOATS from the
live stream video on spiel-des-jahres.de
The Kennerspiel des Jahres was awarded at the same time. This honours more challenging games and this year was awarded to The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine. This is a co-operative trick-taking game, where the players are astronauts on an uncertain space adventure. The Kinderspiel des Jahres award was announced last month and went to Speedy Roll (aka Hedgehog Roll) a game where players which players roll a Velcro ball to pick up goodies that help the move their hedgehogs through the forest, cooperatively or in competition. Congratulations to all the winners and nominees.
The nominations have been announced as usual though. There are three categories, the Kinderspiel (children’s game) , the Kennerspiel (“expert’s” game) and the most desirable of all, the family award, the Spiel des Jahres. The nominees for this year’s awards have been announced as:
Spiel des Jahres My City by Reiner Knizia Nova Luna by Uwe Rosenberg and Corné van Moorsel Pictures by Daniela and Christian Stöhr
In previous years the group has picked out the eventual winner well in advance even of the nominations, however, last year the games generally seemed to be light, almost party games. These are not our usual faire, and in recent years, the Kennerpiel des Jahres has been a better fit. The Kennerspiel nominees are not especially complex games, but are typically a step up from the light family games that are now being nominated for the “Red Poppel”.


Nail Al-jilehawi pleaded guilty to possessing 11 grams of synthetic marijuana.
An Erie man who hid synthetic marijuana outside the Erie County Courthouse before a criminal proceeding received a state prison sentence Wednesday.
Nabil R. Al-jilehawi, 50, was sentenced to serve one to two years in state prison. The sentence, from Erie County Judge Daniel Brabender, was in the standard range of state sentencing guidelines.
Brabender ruled the sentence will begin after Al-jilehawi completes a sentence of nine to 23½ months in prison he received in November for another drug case that also involved synthetic marijuana, according to information presented in court.
Al-jilehawi's lawyer, Assistant Public Defender Michael DeJohn, had requested that the new sentence run concurrent with the previous sentence.
"I don't know what I was doing," Al-jilehawi said repeatedly in court. He pleaded guilty in August to a felony count of possession with intent to deliver.
Al-jilehawi was charged after two Erie County employees reported on Aug. 18, 2016, that they had seen a man stash something in the bushes on the south side of the 100 block of West Sixth Street, according to the affidavit of probable cause.
An Erie County sheriff's deputy investigated and found a white shopping bag that contained 10 baggies containing the suspected drugs, according to the affidavit. Testing showed the substance contained synthetic cannabinoids.
Al-jilehawi was identified using surveillance video, the affidavit states.
Assistant District Attorney Michael Burns requested a state prison sentence at Al-jilehawi's sentencing.
"The defendant is hiding, within feet of this building, enough cannabinoids to deliver to another person," Burns said.
Al-jilehawi is eligible for the state's Recidivism Risk Reduction Incentive program, which would reduce his minimum sentence to nine months, DeJohn said after the hearing.
Madeleine O'Neill can be reached at 870-1728 or by email. Follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNoneill.


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Berekum Chelsea striker Kofi Owusu says he is hopeful of beating First Capital Plus Bank Premier League leading goalscorer Nathaniel Asamoah to the golden boot on the final day of the season.
Owusu, who scored a brace in their 2-3 defeat to Accra Hearts of Oak on match day 29, is just a goal away from equalling Nathaniel Asamoah’s total of 18, after the striker moved to Moroccan giants Raja Casablanca.
And he is confident of scoring on the final day against Wa All Stars to clinch the goal king.
“Before the start of the league ,I had set a target of scoring in every match, and with a match to end the league I have a great opportunity to become goal king and I’m going for it.”
“Becoming goal king was not my initial target but under the current circumstance I have to grab the opportunity.” the former Aduana Stars striker told Joy FM.
“I started playing in the Ghana premier league in 2010 and I feel this is my time to shine,” he added.
Berekum Chelsea will welcome Wa All Stars to the Golden City Park on final day of the season.
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The congressman spoke to conservative media outlet Newsmax on Christmas Day, first delving into what he called “the big Biden Christmas lie,” which seems to consist of the president not promoting GOP talking points.
“I mean, if he wants to tell it straight, he would speak about how our cities across the country have the highest crime rate that they’ve ever had,” Van Drew said. “He could talk about the fact that we have the supply chains problems that still exist, and in many cases have gotten worse.”
“He could talk about the fact how our border is broken open and literally we have people bleeding into the country who are sick, who are some of them diseased, some of them are criminals,” he continued.
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Cats are the bomb, but cats have their fair share of haters who can never keep it to themselves. These cat haters all have the same blanket excuses for disliking cats. One of these excuses is, “when you die, your cat will eat your dead body.” Well, to that, I say, I’m glad she will. If my cat didn’t gobble up my corpse in a desperate bid at survival, I would be disappointed, to say the least.
But let’s not think about that morbid side of cats. Let’s think of positive things! Sunshine, rainbows, and memes. Memes perfectly capture the adorable charm that all cats possess. Whether they are cultural icons like Grumpy Cat or a humble anonymous cat, cat memes will transform any former cat hater into a bonafide fan.

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Malta-based operator Kindred Group has entered into a strategic partnership with Mohegan Sun Pocono in Pennsylvania.
The deal covers an initial five-year period with the possibility to extend the agreement for another two five-year terms.
Kindred will offer sports betting in Pennsylvania under the Unibet brand. Kindred will also launch a Unibet sports betting lounge at Mohegan Sun Pocono.
Aviram Alroy, VP Interactive Gaming at Mohegan Gaming and Entertainment, said: “We’ve aligned with one of the best online casino and sport book operators in online regulated markets which will allow us to offer best in class experience to our existing customers as well as attracting new ones.”
Manuel Stan, SVP Kindred US, said: “We are excited and proud to extend our US footprint into one of the largest US states to regulate both online sports betting and casino.
“Finding a strong partner who shares Kindred’s dedication to customer experience and values has been critical, and I am delighted that we have found just that in Mohegan Sun Pocono.”
With this partnership, Kindred will be able to expand its presence into a second US state. Kindred currently has a presence in the New Jersey sports betting market last week.
This news comes just after Harrah’s Philadelphia launched sports betting operations in Pennsylvania.
There are currently six venues in Pennsylvania that offer legal and regulated sports betting.

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Wayne Rooney was gracious in defeat, admitting Derby County’s defeat to Coventry City was a “fair result” on the day.
The Rams have lost three of their last five games following the 1-0 defeat at the hands of the Sky Blues at St Andrew’s.
Only four points collected from the last 15 have left Derby 19th in the Championship and six points above the bottom three although Rotherham United, who are third from bottom, have two games in hand.
“I know this run of form cannot continue,” said Rooney.
“We have to get back picking points up and winning games.
“As I said when I came in, we will not be in the bottom three come the end of the season but we do have to seriously start performing better and picking up points.”
The only goal of the game against Coventry came after 11 minutes.
Nathan Byrne gave the ball away and Max Biamou moved into the area to beat Kelle Roos.
“We conceded a sloppy goal, a mistake by Nathan Byrne which happens. Nathan has been fantastic for us,” Rooney said.
“After that we didn’t really look like getting back in the game.
“We didn’t create enough chances, we didn’t pass the ball forward enough, we didn’t penetrate them enough and didn’t get enough quality in the box.
“I feel our game management has to be better.
“We knew the spaces would be there for our full backs, we didn’t use that enough. We didn’t switch the play enough.
“Overall I think the result was a fair one and we have to pick ourselves up and get ready for Wednesday (away at Barnsley).
“We have to be at our best in terms of energy, in terms of game management, in terms of bravery. If we are at our best, we are capable of beating any team in this league. If we are not, we are capable of losing.”
The win saw Coventry move level with Derby on 38 points.


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“It’s a what?” Faith asked. She was at the round table with all the other Scoobie-knights. She wanted to prop her boots up on it; the shine of the wood looked expensive and old and like it was meant for much classier people than her sitting at it. But that was this whole house, really. “Sorry, I didn’t catch.”
Willow repeated the word. Faith thought she heard about half of it. She wasn’t sure where the other half went.
“That’s not human,” Xander said emphatically. “Humans do not make those sounds.”
“It’s Bagnararilurian,” Willow said. Faith didn’t know whether that was agreement or disagreement. “But yeah. Autumnal equinox, balance, watcher and slayer, all that good stuff.”
“I don’t know that good is the word I’d use,” Giles said from across the table. He held his glasses out in front of him and squinted through the lens.
“Sorry,” Willow said. “But according to the what I’ve been reading, the world is a top, and sometimes it needs an extra push to keep it spinning.”
“A thrust, even,” Faith suggested. Xander snickered.
“So, Cliffnotes,” Buffy said. The table might’ve been round, but there was still no question which one of them was queen. “Slayer and watcher do the hokey-pokey, and the world keeps turning itself around.”
A long, thick, syrupy silence followed. Faith broke it by laughing, and everyone turned to glare. “What, like it’s going to be anyone except me and G?”
“He is the only living Watcher,” Willow agreed with a grimace.
“And he’s gonna get down and dirty with one of the baby Slayers? Or with Buffy?” Faith curled her lips around Buffy’s name. She took in Giles’ poorly-disguised revulsion with a grin. Buffy looked similarly enthused. “It’s gotta be me.”
The bickering that followed was inevitable, but so was the conclusion.
Giles found Faith in the kitchen the night before the equinox. He approached her with intent, and she braced herself: balanced shifted to the balls of her feet, shoulders back, spine straight. Finally he asked, again, “Are you sure?”
Faith kept her eyes on her grilled cheese. Didn’t want it to burn, right? “Are you?”
“Am I certain that I’m willing to do whatever necessary to prevent the world from unbalancing into utter chaos? Yes.”
She threw him a glance over her shoulder. “Right back atcha.”
“Yes, but I have no choice. I’m the only Watcher—”
“And there’s no better Slayer for the job than me.”
He didn’t deny it. He said, “I don’t want you to be uncomfortable.”
She spun and gave him a hard look in the eye. He seemed to be serious. “G. You send Slayers out to maybe get their heads torn off all the time. You sucked the powers right out of Buffy once and sent her to face a vampire alone, don’t lie and say you didn’t. She told me.” She watched Giles flinch and wasn’t sorry. “But this shit ain’t even dangerous. What’s the big deal?”
He looked past her. “Your sandwich is done, I think.”
“Shit. Shit.” Okay, so the one side was a little Cajun. That was okay. Faith dumped it on the plate. She poked at it and burned a finger in the process.
“It’s a line I never wanted to cross,” Giles said.
It took Faith a moment to track. “Hey, it ain’t a hardship, you know. You’re not that old.” There’d been a time once when she’d thought Giles was hot, even, before she’d killed a guy and gotten adopted by a giant snake and all that other cool yearbook stuff. She squinted at him now and tried to remember it.
“I shall endeavor to take some comfort in that fact,” he said. If he weren’t so starchy, Faith thought he’d have been smiling.
Faith’s alarm woke her an hour before dawn. She ate well – she planned to expend a lot of energy here shortly – and then she let Dawn and Willow dress her up in a clean white robe and a wreath made of plants. “Are you fucking kidding me,” she asked when she saw the wreath.
“It’s traditional,” Willow said primly.
“You know I’m not going to be wearing any of this shit for long, right?”
Willow looked ready to pretend that she didn’t, in fact, know that. She reached up to adjust the wreath on Faith’s forehead. “You have to do it right, or the world will fall over, remember?”
Like Faith was going to forget.
Finally Willow declared Faith good to go. Faith threw the room a wink and headed out with her head high, like she wasn’t about to have the freakiest, most high-stakes sex of her life. She made her way out to the garden under a gray sky just starting to pink in the east. Giles was already there. He wore a robe and wreath, too.
“Can’t believe we have to do this on the ground,” Faith said. Leave it to tradition to take as much fun out of this as possible.
“It would hardly be an authentic wiccan ritual if it didn’t involve outdoor nudity.”
Faith stared at Giles’ entirely straight face. Finally she cracked a grin. Giles looked pleased with himself, and Faith thought maybe this wouldn’t be so bad. “Okay, so?”
“So now we read.” Giles handed Faith a sheaf of papers stapled together. Someone had helpfully printed the ritual out in really large font, so Faith only had to squint a little in the pre-dawn light to make out the words. Giles said, “It’s call and response. I begin—”
“And I follow along like a good little Slayer. I got the memo.”
“—and then in the middle you take the lead,” Giles finished.
“…Oh.” Okay, maybe Faith had zoned before the explanation got to that point.
Giles cleared his throat and began to read. At his pause, Faith picked up the thread. The phrasing was awkward and the spelling didn’t seem quite right, but after the first few words they came easier. She paused at the end of a line that seemed right, and Giles began again.
It went on like that. She stopped stumbling over the words. They almost seemed to speak themselves, falling off Faith’s tongue in a solemn, inevitable rhythm. It thrummed in her. It pumped the blood in her veins; it rolled slow and certain through her clit. It beat the air, too low to hear, humming in her chest like a distant subwoofer.
She stood captive in it, but Giles didn’t. With each turn he took, he drew closer. He wasn’t even looking at the paper anymore.
And then, with a single word like the swinging of a door, momentum shifted. Now it was Giles caught in sway and Faith who advanced – like a predator? a tectonic shift? She came toe-to-toe with him, and the crown of her head still only came even with his chin, but she’d never felt so tall.
She cut off his final words with a kiss. She snatched them from his lips; she swallowed them, suddenly ravenous. His hands skimmed up her sides. “Down,” she said into his mouth. She pressed on the tops of his shoulders, and gracelessly he stumbled to his knees. She bent down and kissed him again. She knelt and seized his shoulders and pressed her hunger to his lips. Heat wound through her. “Off.” She shoved at the useless white robe that hung between her and what she wanted. The need of the world thrummed in her blood.
She managed to wrestle her robe off, and then she helped Giles with his, too. Well, “helped”; the robe wouldn’t recover. But once Giles was bare, his dick stood at the ready, flushed and thick, straining towards her. She kissed him again. He met her halfway, fierce, demanding.
Something stirred in her chest – something enormous. It shifted in her like gravity, undeniable, inevitable, far deeper than need. Certainty.
“Soon,” Giles said against her mouth. “We have to—”
“I know.” Faith shuffled forward, half into his lap. She wrapped her legs around him and gripped his shoulders with both hands. His hands closed around her hips, steadying her, and from a great distance the thought came: So that’s what a Watcher is for. Then she eased down onto his dick.
The burn of it woke her a little. She stared down Giles, his hair graying at the temples, his wreath askew, his mouth gapped open and his eyes nearly shut. He’d lost his glasses at some point. Time stretched without limit between night and day, past and future, and Faith stretched with it, but in that capsule of eternity, Giles remained only human. This was what she was supposed to protect - this fragile, perishable humanity.
An old, old memory of another Watcher surfaced. She hadn’t been able to save that one, but she could save Giles. She took his face in both hands and kissed him again.
“I know.” She brushed her thumb over his ear. Then she pulled him in close until his breath was warm on her shoulder. She began to rock, and he rocked with her.
That clarity was gone; Faith was swallowed up again in something far bigger than herself, far more present than the drag and thrust of Giles in her pussy. He groaned with the shifting of the earth, and she was a spring, a raging current. The entire salt sea flowed from her. Storms gusted from her lips on each exhale. They rocked back and forth, and together they wound the clockwork circuit of the stars.
Then, like the clock striking the hour, the sun broke the horizon, and Faith broke with it. She gripped the back of his neck and gasped into his shoulder as she came – as he came, too, shuddering beneath her.
When she opened her eyes, the sky was gold. She met Giles’s gaze. “Hell,” she gasped.
She clasped her hands around the back of his neck and tried to catch at her breath. Giles’s hands remained around her ribs, warm and sure. That thought floated up again: this was what Watchers were supposed to do. Although maybe not quite so literally. She started to giggle. The corners of Giles’s mouth lifted.
Her legs were still wrapped around Giles’s waist. “So, uh. I kind of just figured I was going to ride you. Was the freaky yoga sex thing your idea?”
Giles blinked at her. After a moment, sounding puzzled, he said, “Not that I’m aware.”
Faith found some comfort in that. “Not that I’m complaining, that was pretty good. Although kinda, uh.” She searched the lightening sky for a word.
“Cosmic?” Giles offered.
Faith huffed. “Yeah.” The memory of it was already fading, but when she concentrated, in her chest she still felt the vertigo of spinning planets. She closed her eyes. She breathed, in, out, unhurried– a leftover of the yoga sex, maybe. It took her four or five to realize Giles was breathing with her.
No one moved.
Faith peeked at Giles. “Did you—was it only me having mystical sex visions?”
Giles met her eyes, sober and serious. There was something of the weight of stars in that gaze – not a burden, but an anchor. Steadying. She got plenty of time to consider it before Giles finally said, “No.”
Suddenly his gaze made her squirm. “Yeah, I don’t really want to know what you saw.”
He looked—fond. Oddly, the fondness settled her. “My place in the universe, perhaps. As trite as it sounds.”
“Yeah,” Faith said.
She should have been freaking out. You don’t fix stuff by fucking it. She of all people would know. But there was a gear somewhere inside that felt like it had finally caught, and call her crazy, but she didn’t think that particular gear was going to slip again.
And meanwhile, here was Giles. And if fucking didn’t fix things, it went a long way to improving them, sometimes. “Uh, don’t freak out.”
Faith took Giles’s weather-lined face, his warm smile in her hands, and she leaned in and kissed him again. She had time to notice now how his lips were warm, how he tasted of slightly bitter tea. How he was a person who knew how to kiss. He wasn’t all tweed, she thought, smug. “This was what you meant, right?” she said against his mouth. “Your place in the universe?”
His grip around her tightened. “I—yes. Close enough.”
“Good. Because I’m going to do you so many different ways.”
He laughed outright. “But perhaps on a bed?”
“Sure,” Faith said generously.

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Investigators are learning new details in a sexual assault case out of Waverly.
Lancaster Sheriff's Deputies have arrested a man they believe is responsible for sexually assaulting a woman multiple times.
Investigators said 25-year-old Frederick Johnson is suspected to have held and assaulted the victim for five hours.
Captain Gary Juilfs says Johnson knocked on the victim's door just before 11 a.m. Saturday.
Juilfs says the woman recognized the man as an former employee of Ollie's Convenience Store, where she is a regular customer.
Reports indicate that Johnson asked to use her bathroom, he went in and came out with had a knife. Johnson allegedly took the woman to a rural area North of Waverly and sexually assaulted her several times, then returned to Waverly at 138th and Guilliford.
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Burscough Wharf opened in 2011 after a major refurbishment and redevelopment of its unique canal-side buildings.
Located in the centre of Burscough, the Wharf is steeped in history, its buildings were previously used as a veterinary centre for the horses that pulled barges along the canal.
Today it boasts a variety of independent businesses including places to eat and drink, fashion and retail shops.
Burscough Wharf is also a hub for arts and crafts, creative industries and the community and hosts regular outside events which take place in the courtyard; including food and drink festivals, heritage events, family and charity days and music and street entertainment too.
Just a short walk from the Wharf is Burscough Bridge railway station with regular bus and train services to Southport, Wigan and Manchester.

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Delhi police are planning a major recruitment drive for constables (executive) in the eight Northeastern states.
Jhajjar in Haryana is home to a large number of six-foot thullas who patrol the capital and staff its police stations. Circulars have been sent to directors-general of police of the eight northeastern states, asking them to nominate a nodal officer each to liaise with Delhi police team “so that this special recruitment drive can be accomplished on top priority basis.”
The circulars, signed by Delhi’s joint commissioner of police (headquarters) Nuzhat Hassan, have also asked the eight directors-general of police to nominate 10 men and 10 women constables each from their own recruitment process, to be inducted into Delhi police.
Delhi has nearly 89,000 police personnel, of whom 36,000 are constables. There are more than 2,000 vacancies for constables to be filled.
Police sources are unclear about how many of these would be filled from the Northeast.
However, a minimum of 160 constables will be inducted through nominations by their respective states.
Constables (executive) handle direct policing. Their role is different from specialised constables like bandsmen, buglers, dog handlers and mounted constables, which this recruitment will not cover.
Those nominated by their respective home state police forces will be exempted from conditions specific to general recruitment like mandatory knowledge of Hindi. They would, however, be expected to learn the language during training.
A senior police official said the drive was expected to take place in September. “Medical and written tests will take place on the same day in the respective state capitals. Only domiciles of the respective states, as per rules of that state, can apply. We’ve requested that the nodal officer be a non-local person of IPS cadre so that there is no favouritism.”
The last major recruitment from outside Delhi was done in 1989 at the behest of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. At present, there are only 41 personnel from northeastern states in the force. This does not include a single station house officer or assistant commissioner of police.
Joint commissioner of police (Northeast cell) Robin Hibu told this correspondent that those recruited would be posted in areas with high Northeast populations like Delhi University, Kotla Mubarakpur, Timarpur, South Delhi and Civil Lines.
The Northeast cell was set up in the police department after the death of Arunachal teenager Nido Tania in a hate crime last year to follow up on cases involving people from the region. The 1093 helpline has also been set up and 43 public volunteers work with district police units to help in registration of cases.
Tura MP P.A. Sangma welcomed the decision. “It was long overdue. Those who have faced discrimination will tell you that this will go a long way in changing attitudes,” he told The Telegraph.
“The Bezbaruah Committee had recommended increase in representation of people from the Northeast. Delhi has a heterogeneous population and these officers will certainly build confidence,” said David Boyes, convener of the Northeast India Forum Against Racism.
Unhappy over the exclusion of Gorkhas from the drive, Darjeeling MLA and former Andhra Pradesh chief secretary Trilok Dewan said the issue would be raised in the tripartite meeting with the home ministry and the Bengal government in July.
“We face the same discrimination as Northeast people and preference in police recruitment is clearly mentioned in the tripartite agreement of 2011,” he said.
Commissioner of Police Delhi is pleased to allocate the State – Wise 450 vacancies to be filled through Special Recruitment Drive form All North East States for the Post of Constable ( Exe.) Male and Female as under .
Standing Order Procedure at all NE states capital very soon.
Nodal Officers preferably direct IPS officer, non local for each state’s DGP office to coordinate with Delhi Police team coming to the eight Northeast state’s capitals.
8 Recruitment Boards with all recruitment paraphernalia to go to the eight states capitals for ‘on the spot recruitment’ both physical and written examination within one week, so that candidates need not go back home after physical test.
Only bonafide native candidates will be allowed to take part in this special File Imagerecruitment drive.
After selection, medical test of candidates will be done at respective states capitals. City SSP and DMOs will organise systematic medical test at state’s capital itself immediately after declaration of result.
Successful candidates will be given 10 months rigorous training at Delhi Police Training School. Once trained, they would be posted to places at the Capital where north east people are living in large numbers including Munirka, Burari, Mukherjee Nagar, Timarpur, civil lines, Kotla Mubarakpur, Lajpat Nagar, Safdarjung Enclave, Janakpuri, Vasant Kunj, Malviya Nagar, Sunlight Colony, Khirki Extension, South Campus, Maurice Nagar etc.
Senior rank Delhi Police officers will be positioned at state’s capitals during the physical test till the completion of recruitment to avoid any malpractice or complaints.
In order to check further malpractice, elaborate and scientific methods of checking like biometric, finger prints, identification marks, jamming of mobile at recruitment area, deployment of spies at recruitment grounds, ready police arrest team etc will be ensured.
Delhi Police Special Unit for North East Region at Nanakpura will provide information on FAQS through dedicated line, once it is formally announced.
While the proposed recruitment advertisements will be published at local media, TV, Radio, local cables in the eight states soon.
1. Arunachal Pradesh – 50 Nos
2. Assam – 100 Nos
3. Manipur – 50 Nos
4. Meghalaya – 50 Nos
5. Mizoram- 50 Nos
6. Nagaland – 50 Nos
7. Sikkim – 50 Nos
8. Tripura – 50 Nos
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For many of us, we are better at reading our family’s emotions than our own. Why is that and why does it matter? That’s the focus of this episode. We talk about the 6 emotional styles that actually disconnect us from those around us. We talk about why we need to feel our emotions and why that can be difficult. Are you ready to really feel your emotions so that you can have a more intimate relationship with your spouse? Let’s work on it together.
How in touch are you with your emotions? If you are anything like my clients and most people, you probably aren’t. How in touch are you with your spouse’s emotions or your kids? I bet you can recognize them better than you can recognize your own.
As human’s, especially in families, we are really good about reading each other’s emotions. In Brené Brown’s book Atlas of the Heart she talks about how when she was a child she thought she had magical powers of being able to predict the future. Not twenty years into the future, but 20 minutes for sure. She could see others emotions and the patterns and know how to show up and behave to control things in her favor. And I think a lot of us are that way. She says “people would do almost anything to not feel pain, including causing pain and abusing power, and I understood that there were very few people who could handle being held accountable for causing hurt without rationalizing, blaming, or shutting down.”
We all want to be connected to ourselves and others, but yet we often don’t see how we are getting in our own way of doing that. Especially when it comes to sex. One of the things that I work on a lot with clients is helping them recognize their own emotions and how those emotions are driving their behavior that either connect or disconnect them from their spouse.
Emotional Health is an important component to any healthy relationship. According to the Optimum Health Clinic, ignoring emotions may have an impact on your mental and physical well-being, as well as your relationships.
Oftentimes we are taught to ignore our emotions and that it’s not safe or ok to have them. Men especially are taught that they need to be the strong ones and not show emotions. We often see emotions as a problem instead of feedback on what is happening with us. And if ignored or suppressed, emotions usually intensify in order to get our attention. If we continue to ignore them, our body often uses it as a signal that something else major must be going on for us to ignore something so crucial and it uses a huge amount of energy to express them in more powerful ways.
Take irritation for example. If someone irritates us, but we don’t feel like we should be irritated or can be irritated and we shut it down, it will build and build and eventually probably come out as anger or rage.
Alex Howard, an Author the founder of the Optimum Health Clinic says “so much of the suffering we experience in our lives is all the things we do to try and get away from the feelings and emotions that we have not processed and not dealt with. We can’t be truly intimate and connected to someone if we are trying to hide parts of ourselves that we are ashamed of or haven’t processed.” So it’s not the uncomfortable emotions that are a problem but not dealing with them in a healthy way that is.
Today I want to talk about 6 Emotional Styles developed by Alex Howard that disconnect us in our relationships. Now, before we start out, I think it’s really important to say that we all do this. This is very normal and just part of being human. I don’t want anyone to walk away from this podcast feeling bad about themselves because they’ve been doing these things. This is about awareness. And when we know better we can do better. So, if you recognize yourself in one or more of these emotional styles, this is good information so that you can work to make the changes you want to, so that you can be more connected to yourself and your spouse.
- Avoidance and Distraction: Often when we don’t want to face our emotions we get busy. If we are busy then we don’t have to feel or focus on others. So, if you notice yourself cleaning a lot, being a workaholic, being on multiple devices at a time, or even something as simple as always having the TV or music on in the background most likely you are avoiding and distracting yourself from dealing with uncomfortable emotions. All the distractions stop us from feeling. And when we aren’t feeling we disconnect from ourselves and our spouse. I see this a lot in clients and I hear it described a lot for men. Instead of dealing with the discomfort of creating more intimacy in their marriage, being open and vulnerable and fully known, there is avoidance and distraction by work or chores.
- State Changing: This is what I call buffering. Using something like drugs, alcohol, pornography, gambling, shopping, food, exercise, Netflix, or even sex to change the emotions that we are having. This happens a lot with us as individuals but also in relationships. Sometimes it seems so much easier to just have sex than to actually deal with the problems we are having or the feelings we are feeling. Now some of these are obviously more destructive than others. And there’s nothing inherently wrong with some of these things but it’s how we are using them in an unhealthy way. Episode 100 I talked about how numbing out the bad emotions also numbs out the good emotions. We want both!
- Analysis: This is where we are too much in our heads and not in our bodies and emotions. Sometimes we are good at analyzing our emotions but not actually feeling them. We often appear to be emotionally healthy because we can talk about them but in fact are not because we aren’t actually feeling them.
- Blaming Others: This one I feel like is pretty self explanatory. We blame other people for how we feel. If you’ve listened to me for a while you know that I teach we create our own emotions by the way we think. Other people can definitely influence how we think and feel, but ultimately it comes down to us. And the way we disconnect from ourselves in this one is that we are so focused on the blame that we don’t take the time to feel what we are actually feeling, whatever that emotion is. And often we blame our partner which also disconnects us from them.
- Empath: This is where we feel everyone else’s emotions instead of feeling our own. This is what Brené Brown was describing in that she was reading everyone else’s emotions so she could manage situations and manage other people. We do this a lot as couples as well. We can sense our spouse’s desire for sex and work to manage the situation. We can sense our spouse’s anxiety around sexuality so we manage the situation. This is the one I recognized the most in myself. A few months ago I was asked to speak at a retreat. One of the attendees was an energy practitioner and I asked her to do a reading on me. I think I’m pretty healthy at dealing with my emotions and wanted to see what she came up with. I was really surprised with the emotions that she found because I hadn’t been feeling any of them. But what she told me was that these emotions weren’t mine and I had absorbed them from those around me. I consider myself to be pretty strong and be able to handle things well, so I had absorbed all the hard emotions that others weren’t able to handle and it was wearing me down. It was quite enlightening.
- Somatizing: This is where we feel our emotions as physical symptoms. Now we all do this sometimes. Instead of feeling the anger, we get a headache. Instead of feeling the worry, we get a stomach ache. Instead of being frustrated about something, we get lower back pain. A lot of times if we consistently don’t process our emotions they stay stuck in our bodies and manifest as physical symptoms. There are tons of books on this that are so interesting. The most popular one is called The Emotion Code by Dr. Bradley Nelson.
So now that we’ve gone through the 6 styles and you’ve probably recognized how you do one or more of these, what now?
It might feel very overwhelming to think about feeling your feelings after you have not felt them for so long. The thought of feeling frustration, anger, pain, disappointment, and shame can feel very scary. And for some, your brain actually interprets these feelings as if you are literally going to die (although you won’t). I know a lot of women I work with are very scared to feel passion and desire because they have suppressed it for so long. They are afraid of letting themselves feel these things because they are worried that if they do they will go down a path they don’t want to go.
Emotions are an important part of our human experience. I believe it’s one of the things that we are supposed to learn more about here on earth. Emotions can’t actually hurt you. But they are truth tellers. They are signals to let you know when something is in alignment with who you are and when it’s not. They are an inner compass that point us towards what is good and right for us.
Some things to remember:
- You are always in control. You get to choose whether to face these emotions or not. I remember that before I found coaching I felt so out of control with my emotions. I felt like they ruled my life. After I had been in coaching for about 6 months I asked my husband what changes he noticed in me. His response was that I had a lot fewer emotional breakdowns. And he was so right. I’ve come so far from where I used to be because I understand how to manage my emotions in a much healthier way most of the time.
- Go slow. You don’t have to learn how to do this all at once.
- You don’t have to do it alone. Some are able to do it alone and some need support going through this process. This is where a coach, like myself, can really be helpful. Learning to help you process these emotions in a safe and loving environment.
- Honor the resistance. Rather than seeing your emotions as a dysfunction that needs to be gotten rid of, see it as the intelligence that has protected you and kept you safe. When I am doing somatic work with my clients, this is one of the areas that we focus on. The emotions served a purpose, let’s find the purpose and be grateful for it.
- Be compassionate with yourself as you go through this process. If you are trying to heal anger, it’s not going to help you be angry about it. Give yourself what you need. Brene Brown says that “compassion is the greatest motivator for change.”
- An emotionally healthy life and relationship encompasses all emotions. Of course you are going to have moments where you feel angry sad, frustration. You are also going to have moments where you feel joy, happiness, and relief. All of this is normal and to be expected.
6 Steps to Tune Into Your Emotions
- Find a quiet moment, take a seat and breathe
- Notice what you’re feeling. Is there a sense of emotion?
- Get to know the emotion, follow it and breathe into it
- Emotions may shift, follow the energy – Ask: What are you trying to tell me?
- Invite curiosity, get to know the feeling
- Notice how you feel at the end of the practice
You can do this anytime you are feeling an emotion.
Connection to yourself and your spouse is emotional work. Once you do the emotional work it’s a lot easier to start doing the cognitive work that it takes to change things. And of course, if you want to learn more, get help and support, I do all of this within my membership. You learn all about it at amandalouder.com/membership

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Commercial Hardwood Flooring is one of the most affordable options when choosing your commercial flooring. They never have to be “replaced”. They are easily renewed by using a refresher to restore the shine, applying a light screen and coat with urethane and if all else fails, you have the option to sand and refinish your hardwood floors!
The process of hardwood floor sanding and refinishing may present a certain level of uncertainty for anyone who has not had first-hand experience with it.
There are many steps involved in sanding and preparing newly installed or pre-existing hardwood floors. Moreover, the refinishing process itself will present several possible options to achieve the results desired for your specific interior design concept. The following is a walkthrough provided by one of JanNet‘s specialist as to the various steps necessary to complete a hardwood floor service project.
Sanding and Preparation
Our well trained specialists begin by determining the proper grit sandpaper required and number of sanding passes necessary for each specific work site. Based on experience, the mechanics will recognize the grit needed to remove any old finish, scratches and/or embedded dirt within the wood floor. Yet still not allowing too much wood to be removed with each pass. The floor may need to be sanded two to four times depending on the age and type of finish, and the condition and species of wood being refinished. Newly installed unfinished hardwood floors will need to be sanded as well, due to slight milling imperfections and minor board edge unevenness.
We utilize flooring sandpaper all grit grades. The main areas of the floor are sanded with a large professional drum sander, while the perimeter is completed with a circular edge sander. A hand scraper is used to remove old finish from corners, bull nosing on steps or ledges and generally any small area our sanders cannot reach.
The floor is then vacuumed, and tacked (passed over with a dampened towel) to remove any dust, prior to stain or finishing polyurethane being applied.
Between polyurethane coating layers the hardwood floor is burnished with a sanding screen. The first coat of polyurethane commonly absorbs into the wood and raises the grain. This will give the dried coating a slightly irregular and rough feeling – which is perfectly normal. The dried polyurethane simply requires a ‘screening’, so the floor will be made smooth prior to cleaning and recoating again.
Types of Polyurethane
We utilize the two most common types of hardwood floor polyurethane coatings. These are an Oil Modified polyurethane and a Waterborne/Latex polyurethane.
Both of these finishes are available in Gloss, Semi-gloss or Satin sheens. The image below displays general representations of what your floor may look like when polyurethane is applied to your hardwood floor.
Maintenance Recoats / Top coating
Years after a hardwood floor are completely sanded and finished a maintenance coat is needed to sustain the floors performance and cosmetic appeal. This JanNet recoating procedure, commonly called a ‘topcoat’, will return a hardwood floor to its newly refinished condition – provided it was performed within the ample period of time necessary.
A ‘screening’ of the original polyurethane coat, with a silicon carbide sanding screen on an upright floor polishing machine, will remove any light scratches and surface dirt. This slight burnishing of the floor permits a new coating to properly adhere to the existing one. The screening process does not remove much of the existing coatings, nor does it expose the bare wood as in the full sanding procedure. It is the same as that which is performed on the last day of the original sanding and refinishing process listed above.
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One of the best things to happen to my garden was my native pipevine getting eaten to bits. That might seem like an odd statement for a gardener to make. A couple years ago I was outside grilling some turkey burgers and noticed that the lush, heart-shaped leaves of the pipevine growing along the deck railing were holey. At this point the damage wasn’t too obvious, but I quickly forgot about monitoring the burgers and shifted focus to figuring out what was munching on my plant. Following the tell-tale droppings along one stem, I flipped a leaf over to reveal a crazy-looking caterpillar. It was black with bright orange spots and was none to0 pleased with me for interrupting his dinner. Oh no—dinner! I thought, and quickly returned to what were now charcoal briquettes, not turkey burgers.
My husband quickly forgave the burnt meal when he came out to see my caterpillar discovery. We identified the guests as pipevine swallowtail larvae. Over the next week we watched as the army of caterpillars devoured the pipevine, not completely down to twigs, but pretty significantly. It was worth it to be a gracious host, though, especially when a month or so later the garden was filled with beautiful blue-black butterflies. The next year the pipevine plant returned unscathed, but regrettably we haven’t seen the caterpillars again.
The whole experience illustrated the importance of including host plants in my garden. The ones I do have are there simply by chance—plants I loved without knowing their secret ecological superpower. Sadly, I don’t have any milkweeds, the primary host plant of monarch butterflies. But after reading about several lesser-known native species in the recent article by Benjamin Vogt (Fine Gardening #200), I plan on changing that. Purple milkweed, with its brilliantly vibrant magenta blooms, is a new must-get plant for me, and I can’t wait to discover caterpillars hiding within its leaves. I also can’t wait to have another excuse for burning dinner, aside from my poor culinary skills.
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Millions of mobile device owners have downloaded Navionics apps before going out on their fishing trips.
And now they can enjoy the feature directly from their iPhone or iPad as Navionics and Vexilar have cooperated to integrate Navionics Boating with the Vexilar SonarPhone. This allows boat anglers to see their sonar and charts both in full and split-screen within the same app.
“For the first time ever, you can use the split screen view of charts and sonar display to monitor water depths and watch your position on the charts. The Navionics Boating app with integrated SonarPhone functionality is simply a natural evolution of smart technology,” said Steve Baumann, owner of Vexilar.
“Our company has pioneered many of the sonar technologies fishermen have been using for the last 55 years, from our introduction of the first LCD sonar to our flasher sonar technologies for ice fishing. Our breakthrough with SonarPhone WiFi is definitely where the future of fish finding technologies will be in just a few years. Navionics Boating and SonarPhone make for a robust and powerful team.”
Boat users will be able to save and send their sonar logs to Navionics and see a new chart, updated with the data, after about a week. For Navionics, this is a major advancement for SonarCharts™, the HD bathymetry map users can enhance, as it can be seen on plotter, mobile and even web. Any updated SonarCharts resulting from individual contributions are visible by the whole Navionics community on any comparable device.
“As we embrace wireless technology, our partnership with Vexilar creates a ‘wow’ factor by connecting sonar with charts on hand-held devices like iPhones and iPads at very low costs,” said Don Black, Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing at Navionics. “We are offering more and more ways to provide the greatest benefit for all so our users can improve charts anywhere they want more detail, anytime they choose.”
Any Navionics Boating, Marine or Marine & Lakes app currently on the market can be updated with SonarPhone functionality. It was released in August on the iTunes App Store for use on iPhone and iPad.
This enables the app to display data received from a SonarPhone T-Box WiFi transmitter, which is a device that must be purchased separately.
Navionics app users who buy a Navionics+ subscription for detailed Navionics charts, offered within the app from many worldwide regions, also have access to the improved SonarCharts.


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Two months later she turned 18, the required age to be on the team, just in time to accept that coveted purple and gold outfit.
For her performance in the series, she was nominated for Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television.
Moon is sure to attract a slew of sci-fi geeks, not to mention the admirers that were created after that Maxim spread last year, as well as those who flock to unofficial fan sites with names like hotmoonbloodgood.
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Alcatraz -- has there been a more infamous prison? Immortalized in movies from the likes of Point Break to The Rock, the Bay Area's notorious penitentiary hasn't featured in too many games, so it's exciting to see screenshots of Daedalic Entertainment's new adventure game 1954: Alcatraz.
Joe's plan relies on his wife Christine but she's being threatened by Joe's partner in crime Mickey, who want's to know where Joe stashed the loot. It sounds like a great idea; busting out of Alcatraz has been the stuff of myths and urban legends and the setup sounds like there's the opportunity to have multiple character's working in tandem. We'll see if Joe makes it out in late 2014.
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organizations' existing HPCs if his team ever decides to go down that road.
Participating in this Collaborative Cancer Cloud has facilitated two new collaborations for the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, one with Dana Farber and the other with the Knight Cancer Institute at the Oregon Health and Science University.
It's also led to research in a new emerging area of machine learning. How do you create new machine learning techniques for a federated data model?
The project has enabled the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research to engage in a large-scale meta-analysis. Boutros said his organization is looking at a critical question in prostate cancer research: If a patient is diagnosed, should he be treated or not? Clinicians will make mistakes about a third of the time, Boutros said. Some men get therapy that doesn't give them any benefit, and some men don't get the therapy that they need.
Intel's Olson has gotten the treatment to stem his cancer's growth because of genetic sequencing and research. Collaborating takes that to the next level.
"Even if a single hospital sequenced every cancer patient who is on file with them, they'd only have 1% of the cancer population data, because cancer population data is so dispersed across the United States," Olson said.
"No single hospital is going to solve this. The only way you are going to advance the science is if you can figure out a way to enable these cancer institutions all over the United States and all over the world to collaborate with each other and share. Then you can get access to this big data pool."

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Phoebe Bridgers Tweets “Fuck ACL” After Set Cut Short, Fest Apologizes
Over the weekend, Phoebe Bridgers’ Austin City Limits set hit a snag when the festival cut her sound while she and her band were performing their final song, the Punisher track “I Know The End.” “lol fuck acl,” Bridgers wrote in a since-deleted tweet shortly after the set concluded. There’s fan-shot footage of the moment, which shows the band being cut off but continuing to play.
Now, ACL has shared an apology, adding that festival organizers have donated to Texas Abortion Funds “to show our support for Phoebe and an organization close to her heart.”
The statement reads:
Unfortunately, due to a miscommunication on stage by ACL Festival personnel, the sound on the final song of (the) Phoebe Bridgers set was cut off during her ACL Fest weekend two performance. We wish this had not happened and extend our apologies to Phoebe. After positive conversations between festival organizers and the artist about the situation, ACL Fest has made a donation to Texas Abortion Funds to show our support for Phoebe and an organization close to her heart.
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Was top to bottom starting positions, so we were fairly close. I started south and my main army straid a bit far north due to a quest from the naga dwelling and because I wanted to steal a farm from him that was close to his frontline. In his turn he happened to move into vision and range of my army with a 6erstack that had all his heroes, a knight an arctic wolve and a cavalry. I had all my heroes a gryphon rider, a naga slither an elven sowrdsmen and a storm sister and two crows and thanks to nicely placed hasteberries he was within reach. first turn he managed to panick my leader who was out of the battle then and the fight turned into quite the slaughter with only my gryphon making it out alive. But I had razed an undefended city before and could keep up the pressure so in turn 26 he offered a 6vs6 stack fight which I took and killed his leader while I had his throne under my control. A very quick and nice game, especially nice because I was so damn lucky Thanks for the game BluePanther!


The good ole J-37 key served with the U.S. military during WWII, the Korean War, and through-out the Vietnam era. The J-37 key was the real workhorse during those years and carried the bulk of the action. The J-37 key has been built into many numerous and different configurations with the addition of different bases. One of these different styles is the J-45 in the picture below. Where does the J-37 name come from? Well, it was the U. S. Signal Corps that assigned their telegraph keys with the letter "J" and then a number. This practice started during the WWI era and ended in the 1950's. The number range begins at J-1 and ends at J-51.
The J-37 CW key featured on this page has some markings molded into it. Just to the left of the arm is "J-37" and to the right of the arm is "JFC". The JFC marking indicates that the key was made by the company "JFC. Elex INC". I have been told that they made this CW key from 1915 until the WWII era. The key is shown above removed from the leg strap.
The J-37 key in any of its configurations is a fun key to use. It is lightweight, portable and simply stated, as tough as nails. The J-37 key incorporates a leaf spring design that many folks find a pleasure to operate. Some believe that this leaf spring design gives the operator a smoother feel of the key over that of a coil spring design such as the J-38 key. The mechanical characteristics of the leaf spring, to some CW aficionados can not compare to those of the coiled spring design, even when modern keys such as a recently manufactured Nye Viking Speed-X CW key is used. I do wonder though, how well the leaf spring design would hold up to either a repulsion or attraction magnetic designed CW key in their eyes. It certainly would make for a fun and interesting conversation on the air.


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By Emily Hamann
The Bellingham Business Journal
After a long, exhausting legal dispute, which ended in a historic victory, a Bellingham business owner is gearing up to go back into battle.
After three years, Christine Palmerton won her trademark dispute with clothing giant Nautica in 2015.
Now Nautica is once again challenging her trademark, and this time Palmerton doesn’t have the free legal help she had the last time.
Palmerton, who lives and works in Bellingham, started NautiGirl brands, which she designed as a sassy lifestyle brand for female boaters.
At the time, she owned a yacht charter company, but she sold it to focus on growing NautiGirl.
She has since expanded her brand to include men, dogs and babies.
Her vision is to put her trademark on a huge array of products and even license it out; she wants NautiGirl to serve as an identifier of the boating community, in the same way Harley Davidson has become emblematic of people in the motorcycle community.
She filed for her trademark, and it was awarded in 2009.
Then in 2013, she got a cease and desist letter from Nautica, saying her brand was too similar to theirs.
When she didn’t shut down her shop, Nautica petitioned the U.S Patent and Trademark Office to cancel her trademark, which they could do, since she had held it for less than five years.
“That was a new revelation,” Palmerton said, “that you can pay for a trademark and then anyone can petition to cancel it for any reason.”
She went to see her local attorney, but he said that even though she was in the right, she couldn’t afford to fight the petition.
Eventually, she found Eve Brown, who was teaching at Suffolk University Law School in Boston.
The school has a law clinic, where third year law students, with Brown’s supervision, gained hands-on experience by taking on cases for free.
It took three years, but in the end, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board sided with Palmerton.
They found that the Nautica’s logo and the NautiGirl logo look so dissimilar, there’s no way customers can confuse the two.
Brown said it was the first time anyone had actually challenged Nautica over a trademark dispute and won.
Now Palmerton and Brown are gearing up for another lengthy battle.
Trademarks are granted for certain classes of goods.
So when Palmerton first applied for hers, she signed up for beverage ware, playing cards, and other categories of products that she sold at the time.
However, a lingerie company already held the trademark for “Naughty Girl” in the clothing category, so Palmerton didn’t register for that class, even though clothing makes up a large portion of her product.
Then that lingerie company gave up its trademark, and once the board sided with Palmerton in the Nautica case, she thought she was finally clear to start expanding her business, and applied to get her trademark to apply to the clothing category as well.
Once again, Nautica is challenging Palmerton’s application. Brown says she expects this fight to be just as long as the last one.
“We tried to do a motion to dismiss the case, because it had already been decided,” Brown said. But the board rejected her motion.
Nautica is making the exact same argument, that Palmerton’s trademark is too similar to Nautica’s and customers are likely to get confused.
In the original ruling, when the board sided with Palmerton, the decision does not mention the type of products being sold as having any baring on their decision.
The board ruled that the marks are nothing alike, regardless of the product the mark is printed on.
Brands like Nautica, which did not respond to a request for comment on this story, are sometimes called “trademark bullies,” because they try to shut down so many businesses over a trademark dispute.
“The goal of these companies that tend to trademark bully is to get a monopoly on a word,” Brown said.
Over the years, Nautica has opposed dozens of different trademarks from companies that use the letters “Nauti” in their name or incorporate a sailboat into their logo.
You can’t just trademark a word, though.
“The law is not ever going to let them do that,” Brown said. “‘Nautical’ is a generic word.”
So instead they send out cease and desist letters and challenge trademarks.
Brown said they’re hoping that the smaller businesses will just get scared and shut down.
And most of the time, they succeed.
“They file these oppositions knowing that the small businesses can’t defend themselves,” Brown said. “They were completely in the right, they just didn’t have the money to fight.”
Brown was inspired, in part, by Palmerton’s case.
She left her job at Suffolk to help found her own law firm that is dedicated to fighting these trademark bullies.
She gets fired up over these kinds of cases, where a tiny business is going up against a massive one, she said.
“I’ve been told I have an overdeveloped sense of justice,” she said.
Brown hopes that once these big companies realize they’ll actually have to spend time and resources defending these petitions, they’ll stop sending them out.
Her law firm, called Bricolage Law, in Boston, is specifically set up to be affordable.
They charge flat fees for services, because Brown said the bigger companies take advantage when they know the smaller businesses have to pay attorneys by the hour.
“They try to drag it out on purpose,” she said.
While Brown is trying to make it easier for little businesses like Palmerton to afford this legal help, she can no longer work for free.
Last time, Brown said that had she been paying for the legal work, Palmerton would have had to spend around $300,000 to win the case.
Cases like this can cost between $150,000 and $500,000, Brown said.
Palmerton has set up a GoFundMe page to help raise money for her legal case.
She said she hasn’t been able to grow her business the way she wants too since the trademark dispute started.
“We haven’t been able to get investors with this legal thing hanging over our head,” she said.
Also Palmerton said she’s seen copycats selling clothing with a similar version of her logo on it — but without the clothing classification for her trademark, there’s nothing she can do.
“If I don’t get my clothing classification, it will just suffocate my business,” she said.
Getting the trademark protection is key to scaling up her business.
She now also sells product under the brands NautiBoy, NautiBaby and NautiDog. She worries what will happen when she tries to register those trademarks, too.
Not only is the legal battle financially draining, but it’s also emotionally exhausting, Palmerton said.
The first time she went against Nautica, she had to turn over her business plan, financials and other sensitive information about her company.
“It’s so personally invasive,” she said. She dreads having to through that again.
But she, too, hopes that her case can help other small business owners, and send a message to the big businesses.
“It’s just bad for the economy to have a few corporations dominating,” she said.
She wonders how many companies have shut down, how many products never went to market, how many lives have been affected because of trademark bullying.
“It’s not just little me and Nautica,” she said. “It’s a huge national problem.”


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Think Tank is Capital Journal’s home for outside analysis from policy and political thinkers.
Maine Sen. Angus King, who ran as an independent but caucuses with Senate Democrats, announced last week that he would endorse not only New Hampshire Democrat Jeanne Shaheen–a move many might expect because, despite his efforts to avoid being pinned down, he almost always votes with the Democrats–but Maine Republican Susan Collins as well.
These bipartisan endorsements were the political play of the week, month and maybe the year.
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To be clear, the idea that Sen. King endorsed a Republican is not a game-changer; in fact, Sen. Collins is probably a shoo-in to win. But the political dexterity that went with this is impressive. He gets to add to his bipartisan credentials back home while suffering zero political blowback within the ranks of the Democratic caucus. The staffer who came up with this idea deserves a raise.
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Planned Parenthood keeps Title X funding in new Michigan budget
In a blow to anti-abortion advocates, the 2019 state budget Gov. Rick Snyder signed into law Thursday won't shift federal money for pregnancy prevention and family planning services away from Planned Parenthood.
The budget approved by the Legislature included language that would have moved federal Title X money for family planning services to health clinics and county health departments that do not provide abortions.
"The new language would have made it impossible for us to provide Title X services in any county where there was another non-abortion provider," said Ruth Lednicer, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of Michigan.
Already, state law requires that the money first be distributed to health care providers that do not offer abortions. Planned Parenthood of Michigan shares in the Title X money, but gets second dibs, receiving about 40% of its funding from Title X or Medicaid. Yet it says it provides care for 65% of the state's Title X patients.
“We thank Governor Snyder for his action today," said Lori Carpentier, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Michigan. "As he responds to the Legislature’s attempt to strategically prohibit Planned Parenthood’s Title X participation county by county across Michigan, it is clear that he recognizes the importance of access to comprehensive reproductive care for Michiganders and the role Planned Parenthood plays in providing that care."
Right to Life of Michigan was disappointed by the news Thursday, saying the language in the new budget would have fortified a law that's been on the books since 2002, but hasn't been fully enforced.
"We disagree with Governor Snyder’s opinion," said Chris Gast, director of education/communication for Right to Life of Michigan. "Our state law is clear that abortion providers should not be first in line for family planning funding. The budget simply provides instructions for the state to finally follow the law. We’re looking into our options on this moving forward."
Snyder told reporters: “We did a legal review of that, and it’s not enforceable, because it is trying to change another statute that pre-exists."
He said the language inserted into the budget by the Legislature would violate a constitutional provision that says if lawmakers want to amend a law, they have to amend that actual law, not just reference the law they are wanting to change in another bill, such as a budget bill.
In some parts of the state, if the governor would have allowed the budget provision to go through, it would have left only the county health departments offering family planning and pregnancy services to the poorest residents, those who qualify for Title X funding.
Emmet County would have been one of those places. Only Planned Parenthood and the Health Department of Northwest Michigan, which has oversight in four counties —Emmet, Charlevoix, Otsego and Anterim — serve residents who qualify for Title X funds.
If Planned Parenthood would have been pulled out of the mix, it would have been hard on residents, said Carrie Field, public information officer for the Northwest Michigan Health Department.
"We have such a provider shortage in northern Michigan, any time we lose any kind of providers, it’s something to be concerned about," she said. "Our Health Department would continue to fulfill our mission to serve the residents of Emmet County and provide the services needed, but the fewer providers there are, the bigger problem.
"In Emmet County, there is no public transportation system. We’re half an hour from the nearest Title X provider. Things like that can be a major hurdle for families. Also, the Health Department doesn’t regularly provide evening hours, whereas the local Planned Parenthood does.
"We would, if needed, expand our staff and offer more hours of family planning, but it’s always better to have multiple providers who can provide more options, open at different days and different times."
And in other parts of the state, there would be no health care provider at all offering family planning and pregnancy prevention, said Ruth Lednicer, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of Michigan.
Thursday's decision, Carpentier said, ensures continued reproductive health care for thousands of people in the state.
"I like to remind people that family planning and access to reproductive healthcare is working in this country," Carpentier said. "The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services just published a report that says we’re at an all-time low for teen pregnancy. And for abortions, we're at the lowest rate since 1973. And we celebrate that. It does show the success.
"This is what we want. We have good evidence that this is exactly what we ought to be doing."
Contact Kristen Jordan Shamus: 313-222-5997 or firstname.lastname@example.org. Follow her on Twitter @kristenshamus. Staff writer Paul Egan contributed to this story.


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Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes ,The GOP, Bush Operatives Exclude Rand Paul From Public Airwav (tags)
Though Rand Paul has been ahead of Christie, Bush and Kasich in the Jan 13th 2016 Des Moines Register and several other polls, the Fox tv network (part of Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp) has excluded him from the next debate.
FLASH! A Majority Now Favors Impeaching Bush (tags)
Between June and October, Zogby has found that support for impeachment of the president has risen from 42 percent of the public to 53 percent. When will the Democrats act?
Polls and the Power of Self-Manipulation (tags)
Does the polling process itself encourage participants to not tell the truth?
It's Ugly Out There (tags)
"Of course you terrorist loving piece of garbage are supporting Kerry...pigs like you should be rounded up and deported back to where you came from." -- Why did James Zogby's (Arab-American) endorsement of Sen. Kerry unleash such venom? Because it was posted on a number of right-wing websites in a provocative manner, designed to produce anger.
DESIGNED TO DEMORALIZE? SEVEN REASONS *NOT* TO TRUST PRESIDENTIAL POLLS. (tags)
Sick of the daily bombardment of polls showing Kerry running "neck-and-neck" with Bush? Feeling demoralized? Don't be! Most of the polls are a bunch of baloney. Here are seven reasons not to trust the polls -- along with some insights into why Big Media chieftains oppose and fear the Kerry/Edwards ticket. (Did you know that John Kerry and John Edwards OPPOSE media consolidation?)
Heralding the arrival of End Times for Bush (tags)
"who can miss the delicious irony that one of the most corrupt and lying administrations of modern times is now taking the unprecedented step of trying to get their religious backers to bring politics to their pulpits."
The Double-Whammy and the 50-50 Balance (tags)
Second- and third-generation Arab-Americans, many of them Christians who previously had little affinity for their ethnic roots, now find themselves under siege by the Bush administration -- and are fighting back in a united way.
The Iraq invasion has proved a gigantic disaster by almost every measure. (tags)
What has been the human cost of the invasion? The most authoritative estimate of Iraqi civilian war deaths puts the figure at between 7376 and 9178. Since the formal end of hostilities a further 2200 or so Iraqi civilians have died at coalition hands. Strangely enough, no one knows, even approximately, how many Iraqi soldiers were killed. The humanitarian group Medact recently suggested that the number might be as low as 13,500 or as high as 45,000.
Arab American Leadership Conference a Huge Success (tags)
Some media outlets decided to focus on the unfortunate outburst of a few, many of whom were not Arab American, instead of focusing on the rest of the conference which was a very positive experience.
All the President's votes? (tags)
A quiet revolution is taking place in US politics. By the time it's over, the integrity of elections will be in the unchallenged, unscrutinised control of a few large - and pro-Republican - corporations. Andrew Gumbel wonders if democracy in America can survive
UK Independent reports Republicans use E-voting systems to steal elections (tags)
If much of the worry about vote-tampering is directed at the Republicans, it is largely because the big three touchscreen companies are all big Republican donors, pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into party coffers in the past few years. The ownership issue is, of course, compounded by the lack of transparency. Or, as Dr Mercuri puts it: "If the machines were independently verifiable, who would give a crap who owns them?" As it is, fears that US democracy is being hijacked by corporate interests are being fuelled by links between the big three and broader business interests, as well as extremist organisations. Two of the early backers of American Information Systems, a company later merged into ES&S, are also prominent supporters of the Chalcedon Foundation, an organisation that espouses theocratic governance according to a literal reading of the Bible and advocates capital punishment for blasphemy and homosexuality.


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On Thursday night, A.J. Greer did his best to lay claim to a Bruins roster spot with a two-goal, seven-hit performance.
On Saturday, it was Marc McLaughlin’s turn to raise his hand. McLaughlin, the Billerica native and former Boston College captain, scored two goals to lead the B’s to a 4-0 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers at the Garden in the club’s third of six preseason games.
McLaughlin can still be sent to Providence without being exposed to waivers, and the B’s have a few players who need to go through waivers to be sent down. That group includes Oskar Steen, who like McLaughlin is vying for the fourth line right wing spot. But McLaughlin is making it difficult for GM Don Sweeney and coach Jim Montgomery to make what seemed like an easy decision at the start of camp.
“He had a real impactful game,” said Montgomery. “It’s great. We have a lot of depth up front and on the back end. So decisions are getting tougher and tougher and that’s what us as coaches and management is what we’re looking to see.”
Even before the two goals on Saturday, McLaughlin was having a solid camp.
“He’s a very conscientious young man. He tries to do everything the right way all the time, whether it’s practice or games and he pays attention to detail, so there’s a young man whose growth will grow as he understands how we want to play professional hockey,” said Montgomery.
McLaughlin signed with the B’s at the conclusion of his season at BC last year and had an immediate impact when he got the chance to play for the B’s, scoring three goals in 11 games.
Given his relative inexperience, McLaughlin feels he has to go above and beyond in order to stick.
“I’m young and I just got here. Obviously I played a little bit in the spring. But everything needs to be earned for me. I’ve kind of been keeping that mindset, that I need to earn everything. I’m still a young guy and I need to show up every day. I need to earn the spot. It’s not getting handed to me,” he said.
The B’s went with a top heavy lineup and, with some veterans like David Krejci and Patrice Bergeron playing their first game of the preseason, there was some noticeable rust to start.
But after surviving some Flyer power plays, the B’s took the lead at 7:09 of the second with the second power-play unit getting on the board. Newcomer Pavel Zacha won a puck deep on the left side and pushed it out high to Jack Ahcan. Ahcan let it rip and McLaughlin tipped it home from the slot past Troy Grosenick.
In the third, McLaughlin scored his second grimy goal of the game, jamming home a loose puck at the side of the net on a second effort.
While he’s not expecting anything to be handed to him, McLaughlin does feel like he belongs.
“Absolutely,” said McLaughlin. “I feel confident. I feel like my skating’s gotten a little bit better. I think I can manage the puck a little bit better. I think I was in the right areas today. That really plays to my game, getting to the front of the net, getting shots off and just being a big body. I was happy with that and I’ve just got to keep competing.”
Beecher pots a pair
McLaughlin wasn’t the only youngster to stand out. Johnny Beecher helped salt the game away with two goals in the final five minutes. The first one came when Derek Forbort banked a pass off his skate (had it been a regular season game, the officials may taken a second look at it for a kicking motion) and then he turned on his jets to score an empty-netter.
Beecher got better as the game went on.
“First game at TD Garden with the Bruins sweater. If you’re not nervous, then you’ve got bigger issues,” said Beecher. “Coming out of the second period, I wasn’t necessarily upset but I wanted more out of myself. I just had to sit there, take some deep breaths and realize I could do more. I think right from my first shift in the third period I turned it up a little bit.”
With Tomas Nosek and Jack Studnicka ahead of him on the depth chart, Beecher is most likely headed to Providence. Trent Frederic, on the other hand, has a little more pressure on him to secure a spot. He was dropped from the third line in favor of Greer in practice last week, and started Saturday’s game very slowly again. But like he did on Thursday, Frederic came to life in the third period. He wound up notching a pair of assists, two hits and a plus-3.
“(We’d like to see) a more complete 60 minutes. Start the game like you finished the third,” said Montgomery. “But he was really good in the third. I thought the second goal all started with him and his puck protection against (Rasmus) Ristolainen, an NHL defenseman. So that’s the kind of play we want for his game to continue to grow and his confidence to grow.”
Lysell, Hall dinged
Fabian Lysell and Taylor Hall left the game with what Montgomery described as “minor” injuries. That’s particularly good news for the youngster Lysell, who took a reverse hit from Ristolainen and, with the way he went off the ice favoring his right shoulder, it looked like it could be a long-term injury.
“We were fearful that it was his shoulder, but thankful it’s not. Also, the first 10 minutes I thought he was the best player on the ice,” said Montgomery, who said he might try to get him into another preseason game.
Odds and ends
Big defenseman Nick Wolff fought the puck early on, but he made his impact when Zack MacEwen cross-checked Nick Foligno. Wolff went right after the Flyers’ tough guy and gave better than he got, landing a couple of solid blows before eventually wrestling MacEwen to the ice. …
Linus Ullmark had a good game, especially in the early going when the B’s were trying to find their hands and legs. He made 21 saves for the shutout. Jake DeBrusk didn’t factor in the scoring but he had his skating legs, drawing a penalty.

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Iran, Pakistan to sign security agreement
Azerbaijan , Baku, Sept. 29 /Trend D.Khatinoglu/
Iran and Pakistan will soon sign security agreements, IRNA reported, quoting Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar as saying.
Iran and Pakistan are preparing security agreements due to growing bilateral relations and cooperation levels.
"Tehran and Islamabad have discussed issues concerning security, including security cooperation, combating drug trafficking, money laundering, and organized crime," Najjar stated at a press conference with his Pakistani counterpart Rahman Malik.
Najjar urged the Iranian Parliament to approve $100 million in financial contributions in order to help Pakistani citizens who have been impacted by the flood.
Pakistani Interior Minister confirmed that increasing Iranian-Pakistani security cooperation is necessary, saying that combating terrorism is IRI-Pak's main priority and first on the agenda.


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