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Thursday, November 23, 2006
Dear Sangha:
My apologies for such a long time between posts but now that the Tassajara brochure is well on it's way (I cannot say "done" yet--not for quite a while,) there a little more space and time for this. The posts I dream of doing these next 10 days before sesshin:
On Why I Didn't Shave My Head
On Giving My First Dharma Talk
Is it a Form or a Pet Peeve?
Raising the Bar on Chanting the Women Ancestors
10 Things to Do Before Rohatsu Sesshin
But today is Thanksgiving and the pies (six pumpkin pies make with burnt sugar caramel and fresh ginger) need to be decorated and the heavy cream whipped, and there's a little art project I'm working on for the sangha, and it is a stunningly beautiful clear blue day (walk to the park) so I'll just leave it at this for now. May your day be warm and abundant and may you feel deeply the gratitude that comes from a full belly and good company.
Love and gassho,
Your Shuso
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Friday, November 17, 2006
Keigaku and Ninsho in the kitchen (top) Vicki poaches pears and the Benji gets her nursing license the same day she gets her student loan bill (bottom)
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Thursday, November 16, 2006
(clockwise from top: The Ino, the Abbot and Jisha, the King and his subjects. Sejiki 2006)
Dear Sangha--It's been a while since I've been able to post and I'm very sorry for that. And until I get the Tassajara brochure further along, it may be even longer before I can get some free time. So until then, enjoy these photos.
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Saturday, November 04, 2006
Miniature Earth
Visit this link for one of the most compelling (very short) films I've ever seen. Thank you Norbert for sending this.
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Friday, November 03, 2006
Does anyone know where the spiders are coming from? Last count I found 11 webs just like this one around the exterior of 300 Page Street. What does this mean? Personally, I kind of like it. I've been enjoying watching them, especially the ones outside the front office window where there are three big webs just a few inches apart from each other. For some reason this gives me a feeling of safety and protection. But then again, they're not in my room.
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Thursday, November 02, 2006
Here's another bit of fun for the knitters in the sangha--a genuine monk's hat pattern made for a "Busshist monk in Japan" ! (I'm not that great of a typist myself and it's only because of Tanya's keen eye that there aren't more typos in this blog.)
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A 20-year-old woman has died in a crash outside Richill in Armagh.
The PSNI say the female was a passenger in a car that collided with a lorry at around 3.35pm this afternoon.
The crash happened on the Legacorry Road.
The female driver of the vehicle has been taken to hospital for treatment to injuries which are thought to be "very serious".
Police investigating the circumstances of the collision would like to hear from witnesses. The number to call is 101.

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What is your role on campus?
As dean of students, I have responsibility for residence life, health and wellness – which includes campus counseling- and student development. Additionally I advise student government and I also facilitate the judicial council on campus. And then I help coordinate large scale projects like commencement and new student orientation and those sorts of activities.
I teach two first-year foundation courses, one in leadership studies, the other in American culture and values, which is a class that includes all of our first year international students as well as about domestic students. I also teach topics classes in sociology in the spring, so that's a part of my life outside of student affairs where I get to see students at a totally different level , as a student-teacher relationship.
What is the best part about your role?
Clearly, working with students, and I don't mean to sound cliché, as dean of students. I stay young just by working in my job. I'm very fortunate that I meet 500-600 new people a year and I get to watch them as first year students that grow and fulfill their hopes and dreams and graduate. All sorts of folks who have graduated come back, and talk to me. For me to feel that I've had some small part of their success is extremely gratifying.
Is there something people would be surprised to know about you?
I have two children who are both very musically oriented. My son is a musician in Philadephia and teaches at the University of the Arts but also plays in several bands, does studio work and goes between New York and Philadephia as a professional musician. And my daughter is in her first year of college to be an opera singer. So both are very musically inclined, and I credit that to having brought them up in a house of listening to all different types of music.
The other quirky little thing is that I originally went to school to be a weatherman. I started as a meteorology major, but changed as time went on.
What is your favorite pastime?
I play racquetball. And then a lot of it is traveling to Philadelphia, New York, Washington to either see plays, musical performances or something culturally oriented.
Did you ever consider becoming an artist, or a musician like your children?
I have very little talent. Frankly I played the accordion for about two weeks. It's remarkable that my son is a master of woodwind instruments and my daughter has a beautiful soprano voice, but I have none of those talents.
What is in your refrigerator right now?
I think whatever I can put ketchup on. If people eat lunch with me they will have seen ketchup go on just about everything. I was in a Parisian restaurant and the waiter brought me a plate, and I made the mistake of asking for a little ketchup for it, and that was particularly offensive to him. I consider it a food group.
Are there any television shows that you are currently watching?
For the most part it would be either watching the occasional football game and a little bit of the History Channel. I enjoy history, and the only show I would watch fairly faithfully is "The Office." I find it very funny, even as they change people out of it, it still continues to be fresh, that would be my favorite.
If you were an animal, what type of animal would you be?
It would probably be from the cat family I would think, because I picture a cat or a tiger or a lion as an animal that doesn't relax often, and given the nature of my work and even in home life I am continually busy with some things.
If you were to win a million dollars, what is the first thing you would do with it?
I would like to be totally philanthropic and give it to a variety of causes, but there's a piece of me that would want to make sure the mortgage and kid's loans and all of that were covered, but I certainly would want to put a large portion to worthy causes. I have been out in the community a couple of times with student groups, clearing basements, and just seeing the devastation — a large portion of that million dollars, would go immediately to those that are suffering around us.
What are you looking forward to in the future at Wilkes?
It's always exciting to see new growth, new building going on campus … and taking a look at the new science building, that's exciting, I think that kind of a project breeds enthusiasm among the community, whether you're a biology major or an English major, you see that growth and you feel like you're part of something exciting.


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Jennifer Lawrence, who just nabbed her fourth (!) Oscar nomination earlier this month, is clearly eyeing a fifth one with her recent decision to sign on for Marita. The film reunites Lawrence with American Hustle co-writer Eric Warren Singer and centers on the life of Fidel Castro's alleged lover and would-be killer, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Though Marita doesn't have a director currently attached, Sony is clearly pretty stoked on it and has already revealed a tentative 2017 release date.
Marita Lorenz, a legendary figure in Castro's history, survived being incarcerated in a concentration camp during World War II before meeting and engaging in an affair with Castro in 1959. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) later approached Lorenz to assassinate Castro, Variety reports. Though she did return to Cuba to carry out the killing, legend has it that the power of love ultimately convinced her otherwise.
Of course, the current JLaw Oscar buzz also stems from a real-life woman: Joy Mangano. Though Joy suffered less-than-stellar reviews from critics, Lawrence's performance as the iconic Miracle Mop inventor was widely praised. Joy ultimately earned Lawrence another Oscar nomination, sure, but that's probably pretty boring to her by now, right?


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As part of being a member of Influenster then sent me a coupon to save $1.00 on the new Sargento Ultra Thins and a lunch tote with colorful dots all over it. I brought the Mild Cheddar they also have Baby Swiss, Provolone, Swiss, Cheddar Jack and many more. These slices have just 45 calories or less and you will not sacrifice taste with these. I made a grilled turkey and cheese with this and it came out amazing. I also tried a slice by itself and they are great. They just have a hard time getting apart as they are so thin nails are needed to do so. Visit http://www.sargento.com/
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Faculty of BiosciencesBiosciences – Bachelor 100%
Biology considers the networked systems of the biosphere.
Facts & Formalities
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Course Content
The Bachelor's degree programme in Biosciences is research-orientated. Students develop an optimal basis for further study in a German or international Master's degree programme and/or doctoral programmes. The basic modules equip students with a solid understanding of fundamental biological principles, as well as key competencies. Topics covered include biodiversity and the evolution of plants and animals, physiology and developmental biology as well as biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology. Courses cover experimental techniques, and a broad range of methods used in modern biological research.
Course Structure
At the end of the Bachelor's degree, students must complete a Bachelor's thesis and present it in an oral defence. The course enables students to develop a specialism by selecting specific courses, placements and seminars.
Possible specialisms include:
- Molecular biology
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Modern battlefield
After the pilotless aircrafts, combat drones and the satellite monitored net centric warfare, the laser technology will dramatically change the way the soldiers of two rival nations fight.
The laser has been one of the most fascinating discoveries of 20th Century, which is now being put to use in military domain. The leading armed forces of the world are on the verge of entering laser age, which will determine the superiority of a nation in defending itself from offensive weapons ranging from ballistic missiles to fighter planes, guns and rockets.
The laser age will mimic the Star Wars concept of the eighties, and the US defence industry may probably take a lead in this as billions of dollars is being pumped in by the US armed forces.
Called the ultimate death ray weapons, the laser weapons, already in very advanced stage of development or already delivered to US armed forces, range from anti ballistic missiles to anti-drones and anti-aircraft to anti infantry vehicles and anti- guns on the ground. The rays emitted from the laser weapons will make the offensive weapons totally inactive, immobile and can be eliminated mid air.
High power laser
Since the lasers ammunitions in the form of Light molecules travel at the speed of light, the offensive systems launched by the adversaries will be destroyed in the enemy land itself. Since, the security perceptions in the present Century will be significantly dominated by Space Security and Missile Defence the High power laser will play a major role.
According to Amitav Malik who has directed the DRDO laser program, High Power Laser (HPL) has emerged as one of the very promising technologies that will have major impact on defence and security in the future. Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) using HPL has already converted the 'Ray-Gun' of science-fiction into reality. The DEW with its unique features is clearly the new generation weapon that will transform the concepts of defence and deterrence. HPL-DEW technology is very complex, multi-disciplinary and dual-use in nature.
In India work on laser weapon technology is being conducted in various DRDO laboratories like Defence Institute of Advanced Studies, Pune and a dedicated laboratory for laser research and development- Laser Science and Technology Center (LASTEC) has been established way back in 1998 which DRDO claims has achieved many important milestones and has put India in the world map of High Power Laser (HPL) technology.
Though DRDO has not revealed much about its real progress in finally developing a Laser Weapon capable of destroying a fighter plane or disabling a battle tank or destroying a ballistic missile mid way, the US Defence Industries seems to have reached the pinnacle of laser weapon technology.
Considering the lethality and accuracy of the Laser Weapons, the DRDO has identified laser weapon as among four focus areas for research and development. Laser technology is being given top priority and DRDO has given LASTEC the mandate to develop laser weapons for the armed forces. The Technology perspective and capability Roadmap prepared four years ago by the Defence Ministry has identified Directed Energy Weapon and Anti Satellite Weapons as principal focus area for 15 years. LASTEC is reported to be working on a 25 KW laser system which can hit a missile in its terminal phase at a distance of 5-7 kms.
But the US armed forces has already taken a lead as the US Navy plans to deploy its first laser on a ship in 2014 and also plans to test an electromagnetic rail gun prototype aboard a vessel by 2016.
The biggest advantage of laser weapons will be its cost and unlimited ammunition in the form of Light rays. Compared with missiles and bombs, the laser weapons will cost the negligible sum. The laser weapons will have endless stocks of ammunitions and will be able to launch continuous attacks on the enemy.
The first Laser weapons prototype to be deployed this year aboard the warship USS Ponce can be handled by a single sailor. The Ponce forms the part of the fifth fleet in the Persian Gulf. The US Navy plans to use the Rail Guns to replace or supplement the older generation guns which can fire projectile at six or seven times the speed of sound, enough to damage the enemy systems.
Presently the Rail Guns have some limitations due to weather or atmosphere, which loses their effectiveness due to rain or dust in the atmosphere and the Rail Guns need megawatt level energy production sources, which is difficult to mount on smaller warships. However the laser scientists hope to overcome these challenges and produce a killer weapon which will cost a fraction of the missiles deployed on the warships.
For example one missile costs around One Million US dollar whereas the laser weapon operating on a 30 kw of power source will cost only a few dollar per shot. The US engineers are also working on a battery system which can store required power for the laser weapon.
Development of laser weapons was facing major limitations in terms of the requirement for massive size, weight and power which put constraints for the deployment on many military platforms. However recently the prototype developed by Excalibur employed a 21- element optical phased array (OPA) with each array element driven by fiber laser amplifiers. This low power array succeeded in hitting a target at a distance of 7 kms. This technology can be further scaled up for high power testing for longer range kill ability. Due to atmospheric distortions the uniformity of laser beams are reduced which adversely affect the kill ability of the laser weapon.
According to US defence industry reports the US military dream of developing an ultimate ray gun which will very soon become true. The laser weapons developed by various US arms companies have shot drones, aircrafts and ballistic missiles out of the sky and ignited the hoods of trucks and engulfed an unmanned ship in flames.
These include the Airborne Laser Test bed (ALTB), placed on a Boeing 747 which has successfully destroyed three ballistic missiles mid air. The power generation source required for this is in the mega watt class but it is still classified. The laser ammunition can kill a missile target hundreds of kilometers away. This has been developed by the Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin. The development of this system took 15 years and cost billions of dollars.
Raytheon has developed a Laser Weapon System (LaWS) which can destroy UAVs, mortars rockets and artillery. This is supposed to replace the US Navy's 20mm Gattling bullets with photons. This will use a High Power Energy Laser used commercially and having a power source of 50 to 100 Kw, This can be deployed on Phalanx close in weapon systems (CIWS).
Boeing has developed a Free Electron Laser (FEL) which can kill an anti-ship cruise missile with a power source of 100 kw, The platform for this FEL will be naval ships.
The Lockheed Martin has taken a B-1 bomber as platform for the Electric Laser Large Aircraft (ELLA) which will use a 100 kw electric laser weighing over a thousand pounds and will take space of several refrigerators, which is still in the design phase. When finally developed, it will be used in air-to- air and air- to- ground role by the US Air Force.
The BAE Systems and Boeing are developing MK 38 tactical laser system for targeting air and surface maritime systems. Called Fiber Laser, this will use very low 10 kw power source and will be deployed on naval ships.
Thus the laser technology promises a metal and explosive free ammunition, not only for self defence but also to disable a weapon system whether a ballistic missile or a gun system deployed on warships, tanks or fighter planes.
However, the laser weapons will not eliminate the need for fighters or tanks or guns or infantry vehicles or modern well equipped infantry soldiers who will be used to capture an enemy territory.


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Brazil's Petrobras, which is at the centre of a massive corruption scandal, has posted its biggest ever quarterly loss due to the plunge in oil prices.
The state oil firm's net loss widened to 36.9bn reais ($10.2bn; £7.1bn) in the three months to December.
The company had to write down billions of dollars from assets like oil fields and drilling rigs after crude prices fell by more than 40%.
Petrobras shares fell by nearly 6% in after hours US trading on the results.
Its chief executive said in a press conference that 2015 was "an extremely difficult year for the oil industry".
Weak demand
Petrobras has also been trying to deal with the fallout from an expanding corruption scandal that has gone to the top ranks of government and seen some of its former executives jailed.
On Monday police arrested a man in Portugal they say was laundering payments for two of the jailed Petrobras executives.
Police say the man, Raul Schmidt Felipe Junior, may also have acted as an intermediary between some foreign companies and Petrobras.
Brazil is also mired in its worst recession in a century, which has led to weak demand at home for its fuel products.
To maintain its finances, the firm has drastically reduced its spending and investment plans. Petrobras is also looking to sell some of its assets in order to raise more than $14bn.


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PARIS — For a brief time, a former Catholic seminary on Paris' classy Boulevard Raspail was overtaken with a psychoanalyst's jubilee of art from self-taught creators who worked in secret or seclusion, in mental asylums or hospitals, or just from their own particular perspective of the world. The Museum of Everything is a traveling exhibition started by British filmmaker James Brett in 2009 that's been widely successful in its unique curation of overlooked art, having now collaborated with the Tate Modern and the Missoni fashion house. Its Exhibition #1.1 popped up from October 2012 to March 2013 in the Saint-Germain space of the Chalet Society, a project of Marc-Oliver Wahler, the former director and chief curator of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. I was lucky enough to catch it in its last days, and it was one of the most fascinating experiences I've had of viewing "outsider" art, as it's usually classified, from the sheer overwhelming density of the work to the truly talented, and truly bizarre, artists corralled into one alternative arts space.
After paying for a ticket (with just a Euro extra getting you a lifetime membership to wherever the Museum may be) at a fairgrounds-like booth, I received a piece of candy and proceeded down a corridor to a courtyard where bold red arrows pointed me up an exterior staircase. The first gallery immediately plunged my mind into a very different art experience with a whole room packed with the work of Henry Darger, the artist who worked as a janitor in a hospital and obsessively created in secret an epic work called The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion that is over 15,000 strange and surreal pages of drawings of girls who are boys, or boys who are girls. His work was discovered by his landlords after his death and has achieved a high level of fame for the unsettling drawings that twist American catalogue life, with the Vivian Girls in pinafore dresses alternately frolicking with trippy winged people with antlers, or being strangled by menacing soldiers. Pages from the book were exhibited as two-sided panoramas, the worn wood floors of the space giving them an appropriately unrefined display, setting the tone for the rest of the art that sprawled out over hallways, stairwells, ceilings, and all over the unconventional space.
The diversity of the art was staggering, with everything from Missouri-based Jesse Howard's cranky signs of block text Bible quotes first aimed at his despised neighbors and then later the world, to German artist Dietrich Orth who started doing art as therapy and paints imagined machines in simple shapes, complete with instructions on how to use them. The Museum of Everything's Paris showing was heavy on Americana and art inspired by Biblical punishment and doom, but what was really a link between all the work was art as a compulsion and inextricable part of the inner lives of the creators.
Russian artist Alexander P. Lobanov was a deaf mute who spent years in a psychiatric hospital, and used pencil and felt-tip drawings to repeatedly transform himself into a hero, later staging photographs where he posed with fantasy cardboard guns as if in victorious commemoration. ACM, the artistic pseudonym of French couple Alfred and Corinne Marie, build intensely complicated temples of whimsy from typewriter and electronic parts, and Chinese artist Guo Fengyi, a retired factory worker who used art as her outlet for her Qigong practice of balancing energy, stopped me in my tracks with her gorgeous drawings on scrolls of rice paper of visions that take the forms of towering, but soothing, diaphanous figures.
Really, every turn of the corner in the Museum revealed some unexpected art wonder, with installations like street preacher and blues singer Reverend Anderson Johnson's "Faith Mission" of painted parishioners that he created in his Newport News apartment, Pennsylvania artist William Blayney's vivid paintings that gave an aggressive Gothic air to the Book of Revelations, or Idaho artist James Castle who, unable to write, read, hear, or sign, sculpted works from soot, spit, and string that are strikingly modern.
The Museum of Everything's next stop is the Dasha Zhukova's Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture in Moscow where they'll open Exhibition #5 on April 25. At the Venice Biennale this year they'll have a showing right by Peggy Guggenheim's gallery. While a representative with the Museum of Everything told me they don't yet have any confirmed dates for an exhibition in New York, they do have it on their radar. Here's hoping I can use my lifetime Museum membership to get immersed again in this compelling conglomeration of artists who break all the art rules, by not knowing they even exist.
The Museum of Everything: Exhibition #1.1 was October 15, 2012 to March 31, 2013 at the Chalet Society in Paris. The exhibition travels to Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture in Moscow and the Venice Biennale.


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Blog staple Sky Ferreira does her best Garbage impression on her new buzz single "Red Lips". The song was produced by Greg Kurstin and co-written with Shirley Manson, which explains why it sounds like an old Garbage album cut. The music video, directed by sleazy fashion photographer Terry Richardson, is worth a look.
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Sky Ferreira – Red Lips (Music Video)
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I always love to see Montessori education in action. Here are some inspiring videos from Countryside Montessori School (Countryside Day School) in Northbrook, Illinois. The school is for children 16 months through 8th grade.
The "Learning for Life" video gives many clear images of children deeply involved in self-directed work. While the video is produced for parents considering a Montessori school for their child, the images and words give a clear introduction to Montessori principles and a glimpse of Montessori education in action. Whether you're interested in enrolling your child in a Montessori school or using Montessori principles at home, there are ideas you can gain from watching the video.
Learning for Life – Countryside Montessori School
If you're interested in knowing about all-day, all-year Montessori, Countryside Montessori School has some helpful videos. (Note: I think part 1 was deleted for being too long, but here are parts 2 and 3):
CMS All Year Montessori – Noon
CMS All Day All Year Montessori School – End of the Day
Read about "All Day – All Year Montessori: A Living Community" by Michele Aspinall at MariaMontessori.com.
There are many more videos on the Countryside Day School YouTube channel.
Have fun watching Montessori education in action! 🙂
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I've been having stutters in YouTube for a while. In troubleshooting it I discovered an extension manager that is awesome and so much better for this than anything I've found before: One Click Extension Manager -No Ads. Two great things about it: 1) it offers a "Disable all extensions" option and 2) you just click an extension in the list to toggle its enablement. Wonderful and easy!
In this particular case, it seems like uMatrix was causing the stutters. Which is really unfortunate because it has been by far the most effective and powerful extension I've found for blocking HTTP requests, cookies, etc. EXTREMELY granular and well designed interface. Maybe I'll just disable it when I want to watch video.


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Knights that fought for a lady's honor and slayed dragons may be legends of old, but these men still hold many of the ideals of what it truly means to be a man, to live a life fighting for the truth, upholding honor, and unafraid to stand against evil — essentially the opposite of the culture of 'toxic masculinity' today.
In his new book, THE CATHOLIC GENTLEMAN: Living Authentic Manhood Today, author Sam Guzman extracts from the Catholic faith and the example set by Jesus Christ on how to be a gentleman in today's world and eradicate the toxic masculinity that has gripped the culture.
At this point in history, when men have so clearly taken advantage of their power status, twisting the very notion of masculinity from one of service and sacrifice into one of abuse and self-satisfaction, THE CATHOLIC GENTLEMAN is a needed resource and guide for the culture.
Guzman is the founder and editor of The Catholic Gentleman blog and a marketing professional. His writing has appeared in various faith-based publications and websites, such as Catholic Exchange, Aleteia, and the Christian Science Monitor, and he is a frequent guest on radio programs. He and his wife have four children, and live in the rolling hills of the Oklahoma Ozarks.
Traditional gender roles have been eroding for decades but have been almost completely discarded in today's culture. Guzman makes a case for bringing back courtesy, politeness, courage, valor and honor into the very definition of masculinity in THE CATHOLIC GENTLEMAN.
"Very well-written, direct and packed with spiritual insight," Matt Fradd, host of Pints with Aquinas and author of The Porn Myth, says of THE CATHOLIC GENTLEMAN. "Our culture isn't suffering from toxic masculinity; it's suffering from a toxic lack of it. This book seeks to remedy that."


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30 Lip Art Designs You Should See Before Halloween
Halloween is exactly 30 days away, which means you've got only a few short weeks to figure out a brilliant, Instagram-worthy costume. And if you've got absolutely zero ideas, then oh, girl, do I have the perfect eye-catching costume for you: Perfect Lip art Halloween "trend" that's about to infiltrate your social feeds.
You don't even need to wear a costume with these Halloween lip art looks. It will make you wish that you could rock Halloween lip art the other 30 days of October.


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The Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award has named this weekend's game between USC and Oregon the marquee matchup of the week, as Matt Barkley leads the Trojans against Marcus Mariota's Ducks.
The two quarterbacks could not have had more different expectations on them entering the season: Barkley was the surefire Heisman candidate and potential top NFL Draft choice, playing in his fourth year after seeing his touchdowns go up and interceptions go down in each of his first three seasons as USC's starter. Meanwhile, Mariota was a redshirt freshman taking over the reins of Chip Kelly's offense, which hasn't historically required a superstar quarterback to achieve success.
Mariota's numbers aren't eye-popping - he's averaging less than 200 yards a game passing - but he's tossed 18 touchdowns against only five picks while keeping the team undefeated and contributing with his legs. Barkley's Heisman run took a hit as his team dropped a pair of games, but he's still been spectacular for the Trojans, including a 493-yard outing in their loss this past week to Arizona.
No. 4 Oregon and No. 17 USC play at 7 p.m. on FOX in Los Angeles.


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Gen 1:20-25
God created the great sea monsters and all kinds of swimming creatures with which the water teems, and all kinds of winged birds. God saw how good it was, Evening came, and morning followed - the fifth day. God made all kinds of wild animals, all kinds of cattle, and all kinds of creeping things of the earth. God saw how good it was.


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If you're looking for the perfect concert to see this summer, Why Don't We's, Something Different Tour is for you! The tour kicked off in Atlanta, GA, on July 11 and went until August 12. Find out what Corbyn Besson, Daniel Seavey, Jack Avery, Jonah Marais and Zach Herron told us about it – and see how you can catch their eye at a future show!
J-14: We're excited that you guys are touring this summer! What surprises do you have in store?
DS: It's going to be a tour to remember, for sure! We'll be performing a lot of new music.
J-14: Boy bands are always great at serenading their fans! Who's your dream celeb to sing to?
ZH: Hailee Steinfeld! She's so talented, humble and just absolutely gorgeous.
J-14: Since you guys will be traveling a lot, do any of you have something you take with you to help you feel less homesick?
CB: Yeah, my mom actually got me a ring that she said I should wear whenever I felt homesick. I ended up wearing it during every show on our first tour and in every music video we've done so far! It's like a little piece of home I can take with me wherever I go.
J-14: That's so sweet! How can fans catch your attention at your shows?
CB: We love seeing cool signs in the crowd and love how creative fans get with their homemade merch!
J-14: Do you have any pre-show rituals you do each night?
JM: We do a prayer circle, followed by a little chant. It gets us hyped!
J-14: Who would you love to go on tour with one day?
JA: I'd love it if we toured with Justin Bieber or Jon Bellion.
J-14: Be honest: Who takes the longest to get ready?
JM: Zach is most likely to take the longest to get ready!
Interview and story by Morgan McMurrin. "Trending: Why Don't We Is Hitting The Road" originally appeared in the September 2017 issue of J-14.
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Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- Now That Books Mean Nothing ("As much as I may want (or have wanted) it to be so, books haven't been a sufficient comfort or diversion as I prepared to lose my boobs, then lost them, and began trying to adjust to their absence from my body.")
- What Is a Book? ("These next few years will determine not if we preserve the history of print culture, but how.")
- A Foreign Policy for the Left ("The best and last example of leftist pretending is the insistence on the reasonableness of people who give no sign of being reasonable.")
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Lawsuit of the Week
- A Brooklyn woman has filed a lawsuit claiming that even though she's taped her husband's death certificate to the front door of her apartment (he died in 2006), the NYPD keeps raiding it looking for her husband
Legal Ruling of the Week
- An "inactive" Tennessee lawyer's effort to intervene in a Florida case seeking to force Florida to recognize gay marriage because he wants to marry his "porn-filled Apple computer" was denied by the federal judge
Bookish Linkage
- How writing creates the world
- Inside a North Korean bookstore
- Culling your e-bookshelves (something I really need to do)
- When SF turns real
- Why literary genres matter
- Bookish Lists: Best war and history books of all time; 12 dead authors you should follow on Twitter; this year's most overlooked books (so far); 10 words every book lover should know; and, 10 greatest SF novels written by women
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- 40 maps that explain the Middle East
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- For Mother's Day, 10 weird legal cases involving moms
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Blame is a Burden: Release It on Your Road to Addiction Recovery
Joe has been in treatment for his drug addiction for several weeks, and has come so far–he is already beginning to feel like a different person. Pride in himself, something he hasn't felt in a while, has begun to wash over him like a light breeze. He has done a lot of work in both individual and group therapies at Alta Mira, and has been able to recognize the unhealthy behaviors that could impede his treatment and recovery, and discovered that he still often blames others for his addiction and certain choices he has made–even if he doesn't say so out loud. He recognizes that when he has negative or blame-filled thoughts, his mood is affected, his therapy sessions don't feel as successful, and he feels a loss of control over his recovery.
Because Joe wants to fully commit to the recovery process, he knows that he must put a lot of effort forth in this area; he also knows that in order to really become a healthier person, he must be the one to accept full responsibility for his addiction and its effects. Joe decides right then and there that because he can't change the past or what happened in it, he is going to eradicate the word "blame" from his vocabulary, and instead become responsible for his bright future ahead. During every therapy session at Alta Mira, he works diligently with his therapist to release blame toward others and instead focus inward.
Understanding that playing the blame game can be detrimental to your recovery is key. Although the instinct to place blame on someone else is completely human, it takes away your power in claiming responsibility for your addiction, and can make the treatment and recovery processes more difficult. You have the power to control your choices and forgive yourself–which will make releasing blame easier.
Accept yourself for all of your faults and flaws.
This might be the hardest thing you will do in recovery, but accepting yourself as you are can drastically change the way you view yourself. Often, both personal shame and guilt can prevent us from fully loving ourselves the way we should, and self-love is an integral part of this process. When you release both the shame and guilt you feel about your addiction and its effects, you will feel more comfortable accepting yourself–every single piece! Because you are human, you have faults and flaws just like anyone else, and loving yourself in spite of both is the greatest gift you can both give and receive.
Joe really struggled with this part, and decided to try something new: for one aspect of his treatment, his therapist had him look at himself in a mirror, right in the eyes, and say, "I love you." It was strange for him at first, but he did it again before he went to sleep. The next day, he did it again. The following day, Joe did it twice. Soon, the self-love Joe had developed by doing such a simple task had given him the courage to accept himself and his past choices, allowing him to take the next important step.
Struggling with Drug Addiction?
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Recognize your loved ones as faulted and flawed humans, too.
No matter what the people in your life have done to contribute to your addiction, you must remember that they are faulted and flawed, too–and that is because they are human. This does not necessarily mean that others have not played a role in your addiction; it means that despite whatever role they may have had, you are ultimately taking responsibility for your past, and recognize that they may have been struggling with something, too.
We call our loved ones so because, well, we love them. Understanding that they face personalstruggles and tough choices every day, but choosing to love them in spite of both will help you bring a great sense of power and control over your emotions, making it easier to recover with love and acceptance over blame.
Understand that blame is a negative emotion that prevents healing.
Because our emotions are absolutely connected to our health, you can imagine that negative emotions don't have positive effects on our bodies. In fact, research has shown that just five minutes of a constant negative emotion can impair your immune system for up to six hours! While blame isn't technically an "emotion," it actually is worse–it is the result of a whole host of negative emotions: sadness, anger, guilt, shame, emptiness. Likewise, positive emotions can drastically improve the health of both our minds and our bodies, two things that are absolutely vital to recovery.
Think of Joe again: he is committed to recovering from the inside out, and is dedicated to replacing negative emotions with positive ones. At first, this was very scary for Joe–he didn't even want to think about things from his past. He soon realized that by giving voice to his negative emotions in therapy and journaling what he was feeling, he was able to recognize and understand them better–allowing him to let go of those shreds of blame that still existed. Through hard work, love, and the support of loved ones and staff members, he no longer let blame prevent him from truly healing.
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Resolve to bury the blame once and for all.
While saying goodbye to blame can be very difficult, it is also an empowering and transformative experience. Because you are making a conscious choice to let go of emotions that bring you down, you can begin to choose those that will make your recovery process much more fulfilling, and you, in turn, happier. With a combination of therapies during your stay at Alta Mira, learning how to say "no" to the blame game can become extremely easy.
While the emotional road to recovery is tough, it is one that is absolutely walkable with the right support. Don't allow blame to take over your life; instead, stop it in its tracks with the help of superior treatment here at Alta Mira. We have a team of compassionate, reputable addiction treatment experts in various disciplines who are dedicated to helping people break free from substance abuse. Please contact us today.


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Lincolnshire 2018/19Read more about Lincolnshire
This is HMICFRS's first annual assessment of fire and rescue services. This assessment examines the service's effectiveness, efficiency and how well it looks after its people. It is designed to give the public information about how their local fire and rescue service is performing in several important areas, in a way that is comparable with other services across England.
The extent to which the service is effective at keeping people safe and secure from fire and other risks is good.
The extent to which the service is efficient at keeping people safe and secure from fire and other risks is good.
The extent to which the service looks after its people requires improvement.
Zoë Billingham, Her Majesty's Inspector of Fire and Rescue Services
HM Inspector's summary
We are pleased with most aspects of the performance of Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service in keeping people safe and secure. But it needs to improve how it looks after its people, to give a consistently good service.
The fire and rescue service is effective at keeping people safe. It is good at:
- understanding the risk of fire and other emergencies;
- preventing fires and other risks;
- responding to fires and other emergencies; and
- responding to national risks.
Having said that, it needs to do better in the way it protects the public through fire regulation.
The fire and rescue service must also improve the way it looks after its own people. We are particularly concerned that it is not doing enough to ensure it has the right people with the right skills. It also needs to do better at:
- promoting the right values and culture; and
- managing performance and developing leaders.
It is, however, good at ensuring fairness and promoting diversity.
The fire and rescue service is efficient. It makes good use of its resources and it provides an affordable service.
We are encouraged by the positive aspects we have identified. We look forward to seeing a more consistent performance over the coming year.
How effective is the fire and rescue service at keeping people safe and secure from fire and other risks?
Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service's overall effectiveness is good.
The service has a good understanding of the risk of fire and is good also at preventing fires and responding to fires. This is enhanced by a number of communication systems and tools. These include using a risk matrix to assess and prioritise community risks, and a rigorous system for capturing and learning lessons from past incidents. This has helped the service to develop a comprehensive integrated risk management plan (IRMP). The plan seeks to make sure it has the right resources in the right place to manage the risks.
The service's understanding of the risk of fire and other emergencies would be improved further if it engaged more with communities, to improve its understanding of local risk. The service is good at preventing fires. But it could further improve its positive effect in this field by looking more closely at whether it uses its resources to target prevention activity at the people who are at greatest risk from fires.
The service's response to national risks is good, it understands national and cross-border risks well and is well prepared to meet them. Its work on protecting the public through fire regulation does need improvement. The service needs to look especially at whether it is making the right use of its enforcement powers. In the year ending 31 March 2018, the service audited one percent of known premises, which is lower than the England rate.
How efficient is the fire and rescue service at keeping people safe and secure from fire and other risks?
Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service's overall efficiency is good.
With a view to making the best use of limited resources to support its aims and objectives, the service has:
- cut its non-operational costs and reinvested the savings;
- made total cost savings of £3.1m since 2010; and
- developed a clear strategy to allow the service to meet its aims.
One problem that needs attention is the lack of clarity about how the service prioritises resources between prevention, protection and response. Some staff told us they see prevention and protection as under-resourced.
To improve its operations, the service has developed a new crewing model, known as the Lincolnshire crewing system. The service reports that this has improved response times between the 12 months to 31 March 2013 and the same period in 2018.
The service collaborates well with other blue light services and has plans to develop more joint working. Examples include:
- a shared headquarters with the police;
- plans for a shared control room and equipment with the police; and
- plans for more joint stations with the ambulance service.
The service's business and continuity plans are in place and are tested regularly.
The service is good at providing value for money. It has made cost savings, mainly through restructuring. The budget is stable until 2020. The service works hard to bring down non-pay costs, so that it can protect frontline services.
The service looks at good practice elsewhere when it develops efficiency-related initiatives and generates some income from its facilities at Waddington training centre.
How well does the fire and rescue service look after its people?
Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service requires improvement at looking after its people.
The service needs to improve the ways in which it promotes the right values and culture. We are concerned that there are weaknesses in how it ensures staff have the right skills.
The service has recognised it needs to improve and is making some progress. For example, it is establishing a wellbeing and inclusion board to better understand the workforce's needs; and it is making good use of a close working relationship with the police.
Staff feel supported in terms of their health and safety. Senior managers are described as visible and approachable. The service's culture is described as friendly and people-focused. The workforce clearly take pride in their work.
However, we found several areas for improvement. These include:
- access to specialist wellbeing provision;
- on-call firefighters' disconnectedness from senior management, the county council and the service's values;
- staff misunderstandings about the service's values and the concepts behind them; and
- inconsistent and unclear approaches taken towards resolution of grievances.
An area of particular concern is whether the service is doing all it can to make sure it has the right people with the right skills. We found:
- inadequate systems for assuring that staff are competent in critical skills;
- systems that fail to record all the training that staff have undertaken;
- crew managers providing training at stations (despite not being suitably trained to do so); and
- the service isn't doing enough to ensure the make-up of its workforce is representative of the diversity of the community.
On-call firefighters only get a group personal development review annually, which concentrates on the station and not on individuals. Non-operational staff say the opportunities for promotion are limited.
The service says that it is looking at ways to improve the promotion process but notes that the funds to help staff develop are limited.


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First, the fashion hits!
These beauties are all rocking their look in 2019. We have lots to share in the coming days. I can't wait!
And now a few misses ...
Look, as beautiful as they are, if you need a coat or jacket, you need a top.
Miss, miss, miss, miss!
And then there are these two we would normally say are misses, but they pull it off so well we think they may be hits. What do you think?
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Nothing Stops My Life, Now Even Transverse Myelitis!
Hi, my name is Helen Fincham (@helenfincham), I am 23 years old. In August 2016 I woke up with a neck ache and by mid-day my body attacked itself and shut down completely leaving me paralyzed from the neck down affected at c4 level, leaving me a quadriplegic. Doctors had no idea how it came about or why it happened and took two months of testing for them to tell me they have no idea still, but that I'll never walk and I have to just live with it. The diagnosis was Transverse Myelitis. I spent over a year in the hospital and rehab, but over the course of a few months I regained some movement in my arms, but my hands don't function at all properly. THAT doesn't stop me from still doing the same things I did before with my friends and family! I still go to the cinema, eat at restaurants, and go out at night.
Never Give Up!
You should not feel sorry for yourself, you can make good things happen. You just need to get up and find another way around doing it- you'll be so much happier!! Remember, there's someone out there who has it way worse than you. Always remember to make the most of what you have. Practice is key- remember you have to keep trying and never give up. I've found that having a great support group of friends, family and people around really helps me get through each day and make me want to better myself by not giving up.


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WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
Iowa Family Policy Center v. Basic Rights Oregon
Case No. D2011-1846
1. The Parties
Complainant is Iowa Family Policy Center of Pleasant Hill, Iowa, United States of America ("U.S."), represented by Mount, Spelman & Fingerman, P.C., U.S.
Respondent is Basic Rights Oregon of Portland, Oregon, U.S., represented by Stoel Rives, LLP, U.S.
2. The Domain Names and Registrar
The disputed domain names <marriagemattersoregon.com> and <marriagemattersoregon.org> ("the Domain Names") are registered with GoDaddy.com, Inc.
3. Procedural History
The Complaint was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the "Center") on October 26, 2011. On October 26, 2011 and November 3, 2011, the Center transmitted by email to GoDaddy.com, Inc. a request for registrar verification in connection with the Domain Names. On October 27, 2011 and November 3, 2011, GoDaddy.com, Inc. transmitted by email to the Center its verification response confirming that Respondent is listed as the registrant and providing the contact details for the Domain Names. The Center verified that the Complaint satisfied the formal requirements of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Policy" or "UDRP"), the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Rules"), and the WIPO Supplemental Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Supplemental Rules").
In accordance with the Rules, paragraphs 2(a) and 4(a), the Center formally notified Respondent of the Complaint, and the proceedings commenced on November 8, 2011. In accordance with the Rules, paragraph 5(a), the due date for Response was November 28, 2011. The Response was filed with the Center on November 28, 2011.
The Center appointed Harrie R. Samaras as the sole panelist in this matter on December 6, 2011. The Panel finds that it was properly constituted. The Panel has submitted the Statement of Acceptance and Declaration of Impartiality and Independence, as required by the Center to ensure compliance with the Rules, paragraph 7.
4. Factual Background
Complainant Iowa Family Policy Center is a nonprofit, religious organization that seeks to strengthen marriages for troubled people through education. It offers mentorships, educational seminars, entertainment programs and other events.
Complainant owns U.S. Trademark Registration No. 2,642,250 for the mark "MARRIAGE MATTERS" ("the MARRIAGE MATTERS Mark" or "the Mark"), which issued in 2002. Complainant has been using the Mark in fields of education, entertainment and public interest by providing educational training seminars and lectures, counseling, and radio and television programs. Complainant also acquired the domain name <marriagematters.org> on or before 2007 and has been using it since that time.
Respondent is an Oregon nonprofit organization that seeks to promote its message of marriage equality, the importance of marriage, freedom to marry and other matters related to marriage in Oregon. Respondent registered the Domain Names <marriagemattersoregon.com> and <marriagemattersoregon.org> on July 10, 2009.
5. Parties' Contentions
A. Complainant
The Domain Names are confusingly similar to the MARRIAGE MATTERS Mark in which Complainant has rights. Under the trademark and intellectual property law that governs Oregon (the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals), adding a location modifier following a trademark is confusingly similar to the trademark as a matter of law because it suggests a local subsidiary, franchise or affiliate relationship with the trademark owner.
Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in the Domain Names. Respondent has never applied for trademark protection in "marriagemattersoregon". Such an application would be rejected. For example, an entity recently applied to register the mark "marriagemattersjackson" (as in Jackson, Wyoming) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") but was denied the registration because the mark was found confusingly similar to Complainant's MARRIAGE MATTERS Mark.
Also, Respondent's first use of the Domain Names does not precede Complainant's first use of the MARRIAGE MATTERS Mark or the <marraigematters.org> domain name. Thus, Respondent has no common law rights or any expectation of such rights in "marriage matters". The Internet archive (Wayback Machine) shows the first use of the Domain Name <marriagemattersoregon.com> to be May 16, 2010, and of the Domain Name <marriagemattersoregon.org> to be November 15, 2009. GoDaddy.com, Inc. WhoIs records show that Respondent registered the Domain Names on July 10, 2009. Also, Respondent has never been commonly known by the Domain Names.
Further, Respondent's use of Domain Names that are confusingly similar to the Mark does not constitute nominative fair use. Internet users are automatically transferred to Respondent's "Basic Rights Oregon website" at <lovecommitmentmarriage.org>. Thus, the sole function for using the Domain Names is to direct traffic otherwise destined for Complainant's website to Respondent's website.
Respondents are purposely disrupting Complainant's business. Complainant advocates traditional family values and traditional marriage. Respondent advocates same gender unions. The positions of these organizations are diametrically opposed. Respondent operates the Domain Names only as a disguise or "bait" to transfer Internet users to a website that advocates competing positions. Respondent is attempting to leverage off the recognition, reputation and legitimacy of Complainant's Mark. It is essentially using the Mark to help it "steal" and influence parties, leveraging Complainant's investment in the Mark, rather than investing in its own. This constitutes unfair and illegal tactics in the worldwide cultural debate concerning marriage.
Respondent's use tarnishes the value of the Mark. Complainant has spent millions of dollars over the last decade building the reputation of the MARRIAGE MATTERS Mark. Association of the Mark with opposing positions casts the Mark in an unflattering light, one that is not viewed positively by Complainant's supporters. Respondent is well aware of the benefits it gains by leveraging Complainant's investment to "steal" people truly in need of marriage assistance. Further, Respondent's use of the Domain Names to "steal" market share of the public is working. A search using the Google search engine for "marriage matters Oregon" shows that the Domain Name <marriagemattersoregon.org> represents the second, third, and fourth hits. The first hit is Respondent's website at <lovecommitmentmarriage.org>, to which Respondent directs the Domain Names.
All sustainable entities, whether service or product, or for profit or not for profit, need income to survive. By redirecting potential clients and donors using the Domain Names from Complainant's website to Respondent's website, Respondent is "stealing" clients and potential donors for its own commercial gain.
Respondent has registered and used the Domain Names in bad faith according to the Policy by registering them primarily for the purpose of disrupting the business of a competitor or by using them to intentionally attempt to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to its website or other on-line location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with Complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of its website or location or of a product or service on Respondent's website or location.
Respondent, through its Executive Director Jeana Frazzini, has been informed numerous times of this dispute and has taken no action. Ms. Frazzini was first informed of the concern in mid-April, and stated in an April 21, 2011, email that Respondent thought it could "accommodate your [Complainant's] request in a timely manner." On May 12, 2011, Complainant's counsel sent an email inquiring again about the improper use. In response, Ms. Frazzini admitted that the use was improper, stating: "We are in the process of vetting a new URL to ensure that we don't end up in a similar situation with trademark issues." On June 6, 2011, Complainant's counsel again requested status of the change. Given the promises without action, Complainant's counsel sent a final cease and desist letter on August 31, 2011, demanding immediate assignment of all rights, title and interest in the Domain Names. As such, Respondent has had ample warning of the infringement and improper use of the Domain Names and has essentially admitted that the use is improper. Since Respondent operates its own website having a domain name, its continued use of the Domain Names are undoubtedly in bad faith with the intent of "stealing" market share, clients and donors without investing in its own marks and URLs.
B. Respondent
For purposes of this proceeding, Respondent does not contest that the Domain Names are confusingly similar to Complainant's MARRIAGE MATTERS Mark.
Notwithstanding Complainant's registration for its MARRIAGE MATTERS Mark, Respondent is using "marriage matters" descriptively in the Domain Names. The words or phrase "marriage matters" may be used to describe issues or matters relating to marriage or express that the act of marriage is important. Considering that Respondent is an Oregon non-profit organization that seeks to promote its message of marriage equality, the importance of marriage, freedom to marry, and other matters related to marriage in Oregon, Respondent uses the Domain Names consisting of the terms "marriage," "matters," and "Oregon" to describe its main purpose and best advertise its message. Prior UDRP panels have found that a party can establish a legitimate interest in a domain name by showing that the domain name consists of descriptive terms related to the content of the website at the domain name and the domain name was not registered in a trademark sense or with a particular trademark in mind. In addition, a number of UDRP panels have concluded that a party has a right to register and use a domain name to attract Internet traffic based on the appeal of commonly used descriptive words or phrases, even where the domain name may be confusingly similar to the registered mark of another party.
Respondent understands that Complainant's registration of the trademark MARRIAGE MATTERS grants it a presumption of rights in the mark, however these rights do not grant Complainant the sole authority to use the words "marriage" and "matters" in any capacity. If the words are used to evoke a source or origin for a particular good or service, then Complainant is well within its rights to enjoin such use. However, Complainant's rights do not extend to enjoining the use of the individual terms or phrase comprising their trademark, if those terms are used purely for their descriptive value, as Respondent is using them in the Domain Names. Moreover, Respondent had neither heard of Complainant's organization, nor did Respondent have knowledge of Complainant's registered trademark before registering the Domain Names. Without such knowledge, it cannot be said that Respondent registered the Domain Names with any particular trademark in mind, let alone with Complainant's trademark in mind. Complainant has provided no evidence to the contrary nor is there any basis from which to infer that Respondent targeted Complainant's trademark. Respondent registered the Domain Names simply because of their descriptive value.
In addition, there are several domain names using the terms or phrase "marriage matters" in a similar descriptive sense for websites containing information or counseling services related to marriage. Evidence that a number of third-party domain names use the individual words of a trademarked term in a descriptive manner supports a finding of legitimate use. For instance, the following domains all showcase counseling services for marriage and other family-related issues: <marriagemattersjackson.com>, <marriagemattersnow.com>, and <marriagematterstokids.org>. In addition, another domain name, <marriagematters.blogspot.com>, contains a blog discussing issues related to marriage equality and another domain name <mymarriagematters.org> is directed to a website that appears to be critical of marital affairs. None of these websites appear to belong to Complainant. It appears that the majority of these websites post content that is either neutral or aligns with Complainant's interests regarding their views on traditional and same-sex marriage issues.
It appears Complainant has decided to single out Respondent's Domain Names simply because their political stance clashes with Complainant's. Furthermore, Complainant merely argues that Respondent does not have a trademark for the phrase "marriage matters Oregon", does not have prior use rights in the term "marriage matters", and is not making fair use of the Domain Names. These arguments are not sufficient evidence to establish that Respondent lacks any rights or legitimate interests in the Domain Names. Respondent is not required to have trademark rights, or even prior rights to establish that it nonetheless has a legitimate interest in the Domain Names. Further, Complainant's fair use argument misses the point because Respondent is not using Complainant's marks in a trademark sense, but is merely using the terms in a descriptive sense to best describe its own offering to the public.
Complainant argues the Domain Names currently redirect users to <lovecommitmentmarriage.org> owned and operated by Respondent. Respondent uses this domain name to convey a similar message to what it previously made available to the public by way of the Domain Names. Until recently, the Domain Names resolved to active web pages presenting marriage-related issues. However, Respondent recently removed the material from the Domain Names after Complainant sent a letter threatening legal action. Because Respondent had built up goodwill and a reader base over the few years of active use, Respondent removed the material on the website and redirected the Domain Names to its other domain name in an attempt to avoid losing readers and political supporters until this matter was resolved. Respondent has a legitimate interest in a domain name, which simply transfers the user to another domain name and website owned by Respondent, where the latter domain name and website offer goods and services.
Respondent's use of the Domain Names is noncommercial. In considering whether a domain name's use is noncommercial, the Panel should consider the primary purpose of the website, which it may determine by examining the content. In cases involving non-profit organizations or other websites where the only financial transactions are in the form of monetary donations, the Panel must consider whether the financial transactions are a primary motive for the domain name and website or merely a secondary feature of the website such that the site retains is noncommercial status. Thus, just because a website may seek donations from the readers does not automatically render the website and domain name commercial. Respondent's primary purpose in choosing the Domain Names was to exercise its First Amendment speech rights to provide its view and information relating to marriage equality and freedom to marry. The material contained on Respondent's website illustrates this point. While the site may include a link for donations, that is clearly a secondary aspect to Respondent's primary purpose of educating the public about its cause.
With respect to Complainant's allegation of tarnishment, a party must show that the trademark is being misused and that the trademark is a famous mark. Respondent is not using the Mark in a trademark sense, so there can be no tarnishment. Further, Complainant has presented no evidence that the MARRIAGE MATTERS Mark is famous. Thus, Complainant has failed to show that Respondent has tarnished the Mark.
Prior UDRP panels have concluded that the conjunctive language in paragraph 4(a)(iii) of the Policy requires that a complainant conclusively establish both bad faith registration and bad faith use regarding the disputed domain name. Moreover, even if Complainant provides evidence showing that a domain name is currently being used in bad faith, such evidence does not support a showing that the domain name was initially registered in bad faith. In its Complaint, Complainant alleges that the Domain Names have been registered and are being used in bad faith. However, Complainant fails to provide specific evidence showing that Respondent registered the Domain Names in bad faith. All of the evidence and arguments are directed at Respondent's current use of the Domain Names. It appears that Complainant is attempting to circumvent the requirements of the Policy by showing that Respondent's alleged bad faith use establishes that Respondent initially registered the Domain Names in bad faith. Such tactics have been rejected by numerous UDRP panels because they conflict with the Policy and this Panel should do the same.
Moreover, since Respondent has established its legitimate, noncommercial interest in the Domain Names, it cannot be concluded that the Domain Names were registered in bad faith. Further, Respondent could not have registered the Domain Names in bad faith because Respondent did not know of the Mark when it registered them. Absent specific proof of an intent to profit from Complainant's Mark, bad faith registration cannot be established.
The Domain Names were not registered primarily for the purpose of selling, renting, or otherwise transferring them, nor has Respondent engaged in a pattern of conduct depriving others of the ability to obtain domain names corresponding to their trademarks. Further, Complainant fails to establish that Respondent registered the Domain Names to prevent Complainant from reflecting their mark in a corresponding domain name or primarily to disrupt Complainant's business. In fact, Complainant has already protected its commercial interests by registering and using the domain name <marriagematters.org>, which fully incorporates all the literal elements of its registered mark. At the time of registration, Complainant elected not to register additional domain names and it should not be given the opportunity now to rectify its decision, a few years after Respondent has already invested and developed good will in the Domain Names.
Because Complainant chose to register a phrase comprised of descriptive terms, it opened itself up to the possibility that others would use the terms or phrase merely as a descriptor to promote a message related to marriage. Complainant's trademark registration does not grant it a monopoly on the use of the words "marriage" and "matters" in all forms, especially when the public has no options to use other words to accurately describe their message regarding marriage. The lack of reasonable substitutes is illustrated by the numerous websites using these two words descriptively in conjunction with marriage-related matters. Any disruption or diversion caused in this case can be attributed to Complainant's choice in registering a trademark incorporating commonly used words and not to any bad faith on Respondent's behalf.
Complainant attempts to paint Respondent's response to the demand letters in a bad light, but such a characterization is improper. Respondent's response was reasonable and illustrates that Respondent was seriously considering the issues raised by Complainant. Respondent took the affirmative steps of vetting separate domain names in the event that Respondent decided to change domain names. This action, however, is not an admission "that the use was improper" as Complainant suggests, but merely a decision by Respondent to evaluate its options and determine whether and how to accommodate Complainant's request to avoid potential litigation or disputes. In the end, Respondent decided that it was in its best interests to remove the material from the website at the Domain Names, but maintain the Domain Names under its control so as to not lose its political supporters and readers. Nothing in these actions suggests that Respondent was acting in bad faith.
Complainant mentions that Respondent already owns the domain name <lovecommitmentmarriage.org> and that its ownership of additional domains demonstrates bad faith use of those additional domains. Respondent is unaware of any case law or panel decisions suggesting that a party can only own one domain name and that ownership of multiple domains suggests bad faith. In this case, Respondent is merely trying to spread its own message effectively and has decided that having multiple domain names would better serve its interests.
6. Discussion and Findings
Under paragraph 4(a) of the Policy, Complainant must prove each of the following three elements of its case:
(i) Respondent's Domain Names are identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which Complainant has rights;
(ii) Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the Domain Names; and
(iii) Respondent's Domain Names have been registered and are being used in bad faith.
A. Identical or Confusingly Similar
Pursuant to paragraph 4(a)(i) of the Policy, a complainant must prove that the domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights.
The Panel finds that Complainant satisfies this element by virtue of its U.S. Trademark Registration No. 2,642,250 for the mark MARRIAGE MATTERS. As stated in the discussion following Question 1.1 of the WIPO Overview of WIPO Panel Views on Selected UDRP Questions, Second Edition ("WIPO Overview 2.0") ("Does ownership of a registered trademark to which the domain name is identical or confusingly similar automatically satisfy the requirements under paragraph 4(a)(i) of the UDRP?"), the consensus view is: "If the complainant owns a trademark, then it generally satisfies the threshold requirement of having trademark rights.")
Furthermore, Respondent does not challenge Complainant's rights in the MARRIAGE MATTERS Mark, and for purposes of this proceeding, Respondent does not contest that the Domain Names are confusingly similar to the MARRIAGE MATTERS Mark.
The Panel therefore finds that Complainant satisfies Paragraph 4(a)(i) of the Policy.
B. Rights or Legitimate Interests
Because the Panel has determined that the Complaint must fail because Complainant has not carried its burden of showing that Respondent registered the Domain Names in bad faith, it need not decide the issue of rights or legitimate interests. However, because some of the Panel's conclusions for bad faith registration apply here as well, the Panel has addressed this element, and concluded that Complainant has failed to show that Respondent lacks rights or legitimate interests in the Domain Names.
Pursuant to paragraphs 4(a)(ii) and 4(c) of the Policy, Complainant is required to make at least a prima facie showing that Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in the Domain Names. Once that prima facie case has been made, the burden of production shifts to Respondent to show by concrete evidence, that it has rights or legitimate interests in the Domain Names. See, e.g. Document Technologies, Inc. v. International Electronic Communications, Inc., WIPO Case No. D2000-0270. The burden of proof always remains on Complainant to establish that Respondent lacks rights or legitimate interests in the Domain Names. See Section 2.1 of the WIPO Overview 2.0. Pursuant to paragraph 4(c) of the Policy, Respondent may satisfy its burden by demonstrating any of the following: (i) before any notice of the dispute, Respondent's use of, or demonstrable preparations to use, the Domain Names or a name corresponding to the Domain Names in connection with a bona fide offering of goods or services; or (ii) Respondent (as an individual, business, or other organization) has been commonly known by the Domain Names, even if it had not acquired trademark or service mark rights; or (iii) Respondent is making a legitimate noncommercial or fair use of the Domain Names, without intent for commercial gain to misleadingly divert consumers or to tarnish the trademark or service mark at issue.
Complainant alleges that Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in the Domain Names for reasons that include: (i) Respondent has not filed an application with the USPTO to obtain a registration for "marriagemattersoregon"; (ii) Respondent has no common law rights or any expectation of such rights in the Mark because of Complainant's prior rights in the Mark and Complainant's domain name; (iii) Respondent has never been commonly known by the Domain Names; (iv) Respondent's use of the Domain Names is not a nominative fair use; (v) Respondent's use tarnishes the value of the Mark; and (vi) Respondent's use of the Domain Names "steals" target clients and donors away from Complainant. The Panel finds that these allegations are sufficient to sustain the required prima facie showing that Respondent lacks rights and legitimate interests in the Domain Names.
Respondent's main argument in support of its legitimate rights stems from its assertion that the phrase "marriage matters" may be used to describe issues or matters relating to marriage or to express that the act of marriage is important. Respondent thus argues that because it is an Oregon non-profit organization seeking to promote messages related to marriage (e.g., marriage equality, the importance of marriage and freedom to marry) in Oregon, Respondent is using the terms "marriage," "matters," and "Oregon" to describe its main purpose and best advertise its message. In this regard, Respondent provided the Panel with the results of an Internet search showing that the phrase "marriage matters" is in common use on websites and in domain names for various messages relating to marriage. The Panel confirmed this by performing a similar search (discussed below). This however does not automatically show that the use of the phrase as part of a domain name corresponds to a bona fide offering of goods or services.
Pursuant to the consensus view for Section 2.1 of WIPO Overview 2.0 ("Does a respondent automatically have rights or legitimate interests in a domain name comprised of a dictionary word(s)?"), factors a panel tends to look for when assessing whether there may be rights or legitimate interests would include: the status and fame of the trademark; whether the respondent has registered other domain names containing dictionary words or phrases; and whether the domain name is used in connection with a purpose relating to its generic or descriptive meaning. Panels have recognized that mere registration of a domain name, even one that is comprised of a confirmed dictionary word or phrase (which may be generic with respect to certain goods or services) may not of itself confer rights or legitimate interests in the domain name. Normally, in order to find rights or legitimate interests in a domain name based on the generic or dictionary meaning of a word or phrase contained therein, the domain name would need to be genuinely used or at least demonstrably intended for such use in connection with the relied-upon meaning (and not, for example, to trade off third-party rights in such word or phrase).
As discussed in Section C, below, Complainant has failed to provide evidence demonstrating that its MARRIAGE MATTERS Mark is famous or well known. So there is no support for such a finding or for an inference that Respondent knew of Complainant's MARRIAGE MATTERS Mark when it registered the Domain Name and decided to register the Domain Names incorporating the MARRIAGE MATTERS Mark for its trademark value. Moreover, Respondent contends that it had neither heard of Complainant's organization, nor did Respondent have knowledge of Complainant's registered trademark before registering the Domain Names. Respondent maintains that it registered the Domain Names simply because of their descriptive value, like many others who are using the phrase "marriage matters" on their websites and in their domain names in reference to their websites relating to marriage. Without proof of Respondent's knowledge of Complainant's MARRIAGE MATTERS Mark, it is unnecessary for the Panel to make a finding on the extent to which such knowledge may or may not have supported Respondent's argument that it registered the Domain Names incorporating the MARRIAGE MATTERS Mark for its generic or descriptive meaning. Even had such knowledge been proven, Complainant would still had to have demonstrated targeting of its Mark in particular for profit.
As it is without proof of knowledge of Complainant's trademark, the Panel finds that Respondent, an active voice and promoter of issues such as marriage equality, the importance of marriage, and the freedom to marry in Oregon registered the Domain Names in connection with a purpose relating to the Mark's generic or descriptive meaning and, thus, had a legitimate interest in the Domain Names for purposes of the Policy.
For the foregoing reasons, the Panel finds that Policy, paragraph 4(a)(ii) has not been satisfied.
C. Registered and Used in Bad Faith
After carefully considering the totality of the circumstances in the record, the Panel does not find any evidence demonstrating that Respondent registered the Domain Names with the aim of profiting from and exploiting Complainant's rights in the MARRIAGE MATTERS Mark. While Complainant has established registration rights in the Mark sufficient to satisfy paragraph 4(a)(i) of the Policy, the MARRIAGE MATTERS Mark nonetheless comprises the common dictionary words "marriage" and "matters," which the record and the Panel's own searching indicates is subject to significant and widespread third-party use in its ordinary or descriptive sense.
The requirements of Paragraph 4(a) of the Policy are conjunctive, thus Complainant bears the burden of proof on each. Telestra Corporation Ltd. v. Nuclear Marshmallows, WIPO Case No. D2000-0003. If any required element is not established, the Complaint must fail. Document Technologies, Inc. v. International Electronic Communications Inc., WIPO Case No. D2000-0270 (denying transfer of the domain name because the complainant failed to prove bad faith registration).
Complainant alleges that Respondent has registered and used the Domain Names in bad faith citing to paragraph 4(b)(iii) and 4(b)(iv) of the Policy. More specifically Complainant claims that Respondent is purposely disrupting its business by leveraging the recognition, reputation and legitimacy of the MARRIAGE MATTERS Mark (in which it claims to have invested millions over the last decade) to "steal" Internet users away from Complainant's website (advocating traditional family values and marriage) and to divert them to Respondent's website (advocating same gender marriages). Complainant claims that this redirection is "stealing" clients and potential donors resulting in a commercial loss for it and a commercial gain for Respondent. Complainant also claims that Respondent's use of the Domain Names has tarnished the value of the Mark, which also affects its financial support (commercial loss) from donors. Further, Complainant has provided the Panel with evidence, by way of email correspondence, that it informed Respondent of its rights in the MARRIAGE MATTERS Mark and that Respondent continued to use the Domain Names despite repeated requests to stop. Indeed, one could conclude from the correspondence that Respondent was aware it might be infringing Complainant's rights in the MARRIAGE MATTERS Mark.
Regardless of whether Complainant may have an argument that Respondent is using the Domain Names in bad faith, Complainant has simply not provided the Panel with any evidence from which the Panel might infer bad faith registration of the Domain Names. To meet that burden Complainant must ordinarily demonstrate (not simply allege) that Respondent had actual knowledge of Complainant's mark and selected the disputed domain name to take advantage of it. Aspenwood Dental Associates, Inc. v. Thomas Wade, WIPO Case No. D2009-0675; see also Gibson, LLC v. Jeanette Valencia. WIPO Case No. D2010-0490 ("To prove bad faith registration, Complainant must show that Respondent was aware of Complainant's trademark when she registered the Domain Name and nevertheless registered the Domain Name with a bad faith intention, such as those that are listed in paragraph 4(b) of the Policy"). Complainant failed to provide the Panel with any such evidence.
In an attempt to give Complainant the benefit of the doubt, the Panel examined some of the statements Complainant made in alleging Respondent's bad faith. For example, Complainant states generally that it has "spent millions of dollars over the last decade building the reputation of the [MARRIAGE MATTERS Mark]" and that Respondent has attempted to leverage off the "recognition, reputation and legitimacy of the [M]ark". Even assuming these statements were made to show bad faith registration (Complainant did not address the elements of bad faith registration and use separately), there is no support in the record for such declarations such as evidence demonstrating: (i) that, in fact, Complainant made such expenditures for promoting the Mark; (ii) how such expenditures were actually used to promote the Mark in a manner that would have reached Respondent; and (iii) whether such expenditures resulted in the Mark achieving the renown Complainant represents it has at any time, but particularly in 2009 when Respondent registered the Domain Names. The Panel must weigh this lack of evidence against Respondent's clear representation that it had neither heard of Complainant's organization, nor did it have knowledge of Complainant's registered trademark before registering the Domain Names.
Moreover, Respondent maintains that it chose to use the descriptive terms "marriage", "matters" and "Oregon" to describe its main purpose, considering that Respondent is an Oregon non-profit organization that seeks to promote its message of marriage equality, the importance of marriage, freedom to marry, and other matters related to marriage in Oregon. Despite Complainant's United States Trademark for the MARRIAGE MATTERS Mark, it is comprised of common descriptive words that Respondent is using in accordance with their common meaning, even though Respondent's position on marriage differs from Complainant's position. From performing an Internet search using the Google® web search engine the Panel found (as did Respondent) that numerous organizations are similarly using the terms "marriage matters" alone or with a geographic identifier at least in the content of their website if not also in their domain names (e.g., <marriagematters.com>, <marriagematters.net>, <marriagematters.ws> and <marriagemattersjackson.com>). Thus, in view of Complainant's failure to adduce any evidence of bad faith registration, Respondent's denial that it knew of Complainant or the Mark when it registered the Domain Names, and Respondent's explanation for choosing the Domain Names in accordance with the descriptive meaning for the words "marriage", "matters", and "Oregon", the Panel cannot infer bad faith registration on this record.
Complainant has raised the Mark's United States Trademark Registration and its "indisputable status" although it has not argued specifically that Respondent had constructive notice of its rights when registering the Domain Names. Notwithstanding that, the Panel has considered whether there is any basis to make such a finding. As the panel articulated in Kellwood Company v. Onesies Corporation, WIPO Case No. D2008-1172:
"Constructive notice (with some limited exceptions) is usually not applied in a Policy proceeding. The exception stated in the WIPO Overview paragraph 3.4, is in the Panel's opinion somewhat over generalized. Most of the cases in which a Panel has found bad faith registration without proof or a reasonable inference of actual knowledge of complainant's mark involved either a distinctive mark, see, e.g., Champion Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Nokta Internet Technologies, WIPO Case No. D2006-0128 (WUNR); Biogen, Inc. v. Kel Ellis, KELCO, WIPO Case No. D2002-0679 (Avonex); Kate Spade, LLC v. Darmstadter Designs, WIPO Case No. D2001-1384 (Kate Spade), or some other indication of cybersquatting, e.g., Factory Mutual Insurance Company v. Valuable Web Names, WIPO Case No. D2008-1014 (link to complainant's website); Briefing.com, Inc. v. Cost Net Domain Manager, WIPO Case No. D2001-0970 (typosquatting). When the mark is an everyday word or phrase panels more often decline to find registration in bad faith based solely upon a claim of constructive notice, even when the parties are both American. E.g., Dr. Mitchell Mandel and Ms. Jill Slater v. CSC Laboratories, Inc., WIPO Case No. D2006-0719 ("Complainant's assertion that, pursuant to the constructive notice provision of U.S. trademark law, Respondent should be charged with notice of Complainant's rights in the SKIN DOCTOR mark as of its date of registration, i.e., May 23, 1995, is rejected by the Panel."
See also PC Mall, Inc v. NWPCMALL LLC, WIPO Case No. D2007-0420. Because the Mark is comprised of descriptive or everyday words, Complainant has adduced no evidence from which the Panel can conclude that the Mark is distinctive or well known, and there is no evidence of cybersquatting, the Panel is not prepared to find that Respondent had constructive notice of Complainant's U.S. Trademark Registration when it registered the Domain Names.
The Panel's finding on bad faith registration here does not mean that Complainant currently lacks valid trademark rights or lacked them when Respondent registered the Domain Names, or that Complainant's Mark has become so commonplace as to be unenforceable as a matter of trademark law. Complainant may pursue Respondent in court for infringement, where the nature of the adjudicative proceeding, the evidence uncovered, and the legal doctrines could favor Complainant. The Panel finds only that for purposes of this proceeding, under the Policy, that Complainant has failed to establish Respondent registered the Domain Names in bad faith.
The Panel has not addressed Complainant's arguments regarding bad faith use of the Domain Names because of the omission of proof on bad faith registration.
The Panel therefore finds that Complainant has failed to satisfy paragraph 4(a)(i) of the Policy.
7. Decision
For all the foregoing reasons, the Complaint is denied.
Harrie R. Samaras
Sole Panelist
Dated: December 20, 2011