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I will, from time to time, post some basics of entertainment law here. There are three elements to a copyright notice: 1, the word copyright, or the c in the circle symbol; 2 your name, or the name of your company, and 3, the year you created the work. If you don't put the notice on a copy of your work, it doesn't mean you lose your ownership or rights, but putting in on lets people know it...

5 Strategies to build the Best Year of your Life by Dwight Bain, Certified Life Coach...

“Hey, I’m home. What’s that I smell?” “Oh, that? It’s furniture polish. Bought a new kind… finished polishing just as you walked in the door. How was the golf? You and Booger win today?” "I swear. They oughta make furniture polish that smells like the inside of a new car.” “You say that about everything. I remember when you told your barber that he needed to invent...

“Methinks you’re lucky to be alive.” “What do you mean? How so?” “You’re lucky that you never ran into a wall, fell down a flight of stairs or an open manhole. This prescription that the optometrist sent over for you was pretty strong. From the looks of things, he thinks, you’re blind … an accident waiting to happen,” the technician says. Then she hands me a set of...

Rhonda Williams recently hit the jackpot! A few weeks ago, the Fairburn, Georgia resident was cleaning out her purse and discovered a lottery ticket worth a hundred eighty nine thousand dollars! A month prior, Irving Przyborski came across a lotto ticket that he’d bought and misplaced a year ago. The Chicago cab driver’s find was worth nine million dollars! Heartwarming lost and found...

Helping Kids deal with Stress after Natural Disasters By Dwight Bain, Nationally Certified...

You can hardly turn around lately without bumping into somebody from out of town, who has scurried in town to give a commencement speech. Last Sunday, Robert Gates, the Secretary of Defense congratulated and challenged the new graduates of Morehouse College. At the same time Gates was speaking, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice did the same at Spelman. A week earlier, Stephen Chu, U.S. Energy...

Strategies to Survive Holiday Stress By Dwight Bain, Nationally Certified Counselor & Certified Life Coach Have you ever wondered why traditional holidays are so stressful? Instead of being called the ‘most wonderful time of the year,’ it seems that we should rename it to be more accurately called the ‘most difficult time of the year’. I believe you can break the pattern of...

Parenting Launch Sequence Managing the change of letting go of children so they can launch into a successful life as young adults By Dwight Bain, Nationally Certified Counselor & Certified Life Coach Parents are told to give their children "roots and wings" from the time they are born until it is time to leave the nest, some twenty years later. I believe that the first...