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The long list of unanswered questions about black holes contains one particularly surprising item: How do they eat? Unlike many of the riddles that black holes pose, this one seems so simple: What do you mean we don't know how things fall into a black hole?
The question makes sense when you stop thinking about black holes as cosmic vacuum cleaners—which they are not—and start seeing them as astrophysical objects that (in many cases) play by the same orbital rules as stars and planets. The earth doesn't fall into the sun. Likewise, all things being equal, an object orbiting a black hole at a safe distance should keep sailing peacefully and indefinitely along its path. And yet we know stuff falls into black holes all the time because as it does, its gravitational energy is converted to electromagnetic radiation—light—and the black hole shines.
Here's another way to think of the problem. "Black holes have this intense gravity, but they're trying to squeeze everything into this small volume," says Shep Doeleman, director of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). "There are not very many ways to do that. You compress gas and it heats up. Take all this gas and it's streaming toward the event horizon [the boundary of a black hole] and getting closer and closer together, it gets hotter and hotter and wants to fly away. Convincing all that gas to go through the event horizon is not a straightforward thing."
Astronomers with the EHT published results today in Science showing that magnetic fields are essential to this process. In observations conducted in 2013, the astronomers found ordered magnetic fields near the event horizon of a black hole called Sagittarius A*, the 4-million-solar-mass giant at the center of the Milky Way.
Here's how the process seems to work. As matter spins around a black hole it forms a flattened pancake, called an accretion disk. This gas, like pretty much all gas in the universe, is magnetized, and as the accretion disk forms, magnetic field lines thread through it. But an accretion disk is an intense place, where gas reaches billions of degrees and orbits at close to the speed of light. "The magnetic fields are dancing around as the accretion disk is torn apart by differential rotations," says Michael Johnson, an EHT postdoc at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and lead author on the new paper. This stretching and dancing creates turbulence in the accretion disc, which generates friction—and friction drags down matter that otherwise would continue orbiting uninterrupted. Through this process, the accretion disk becomes a vortex of doomed matter bound to drain from our universe.
This basic picture has been around in various forms since the mid-1970s, but until the Event Horizon Telescope trained three radio telescopes on the galactic center, these magnetic fields had never been directly observed.
The EHT uses a technique called very long baseline interferometry, in which scientists collect data at geographically distant telescopes and then combine it later, thereby mimicking the action of a much larger telescope. Each of the stations participating in this observation—the Submillimeter Array (SMA) and the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) on Mauna Kea*; the Combined Array for Millimeter-Wave Research (CARMA) in California; and the SMT telescope at the Arizona Radio Observatory—were equipped to observe two polarizations of light. Through a complicated process of cross-correlation, the astronomers isolated light with a telltale polarization signature—evidence that strong magnetic fields, some highly ordered and some chaotic, are present in the immediate environment of the black hole, where that light originated. And that is a big first—the direct detection of the long-postulated magnetic fields at the heart of some of the biggest mysteries about astrophysical black holes.
It'll be fascinating to see how theorists interpret these observations. And it'll be even more interesting to see what kinds of results—including detailed maps and images—the EHT reels in as it expands from the three-station array used in 2013 to an eight-station-plus Earth-spanning network of telescopes. More on those efforts in another post.
*In the original version of this post, I neglected to mention the participation of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). My apologies. The omission is doubly bad because only by using both the Submillimeter Array and the JCMT—each telescope recording a single polarization—were the astronomers on Mauna Kea able to observe both polarizations. So: although it's not true that each telescope that participated in this experiment recorded two polarizations, it is true that each station recorded both.


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I've been all over this easy chicken enchilada recipe for a while now and want to share it with you. One of my all-time fav things to do is to take recipes and make them both easy to make and often give them a healthy twist.
So these easy chicken enchiladas. You are going to LOVE them …
You're going to start by making a super delicious and easy to make red enchilada sauce. I love a tomato-based enchilada sauce, which is what this one is. It has so much more flavor than a tomato-less sauce. And let's be honest, it's ALL about the sauce. Oh, ya.
When the sauce is bubbling away, you're going to pop the chicken in a pot with some pureed chipotle peppers. Don't worry, this isn't a spicy dish. If you like spicy food (like me!) you can always add some hot sauce later.
Then all that's left to do is saute a few veggies, roll the enchiladas and pop them in the oven.
So easy!
Besides being easy to make, these chicken enchiladas are crazy tasty. I served them recently when we had my dad over for dinner and was told they were the best enchiladas he's ever had. Not going to turn down a compliment. 🙂
Want to know something else awesome about these enchiladas? They freeze very well. Seriously. All you have to do is make them up to the point where you are going to bake them and then cover them well and pop them into your freezer.
I like making a double batch so I can eat dinner twice while only doing the work once. #win!
Enchilada Sauce
- 2 tablespoons grapeseed oil or sub any neutral flavored oil
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour gluten-free, if needed
- 14 ounce can crushed tomatoes
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon each: pureed chipotle peppers in adobo sauce cumin, oregano, and brown sugar
- Sea salt to taste
Chicken Enchiladas
- 1 lb. chicken breasts see notes
- 2 tablespoons pureed chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
- 1 tablespoon grapeseed oil - or sub any neutral flavored oil
- 1 large onion minced
- 4 garlic cloves minced
- 1 bell pepper minced
- 2 cups frozen corn
- 15 ounce can black beans drained and rinsed
- 8 - 10 flour tortillas gluten-free, if needed
- 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- Cilantro to serve
Enchilada Sauce
- Add the oil and flour to a small pot over medium-high heat. Let it come to a simmer and whisk it constantly for 1 minute. Add all the remaining sauce ingredients to the pot and stir well.
- Bring to a boil then reduce the heat to a simmer, cover to prevent splatters, and let it cook for 10 minutes. Season to taste with sea salt.
Chicken Enchiladas
- While the enchilada sauce is cooking, start the chicken. Place the chicken breasts, chipotle peppers, and 1 cup of water in a small saucepan over high heat and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat, cover, and simmer for 20 minutes, or until the chicken has cooked through.
- Remove the lid from the pot, increase the heat to high, and let it boil rapidly until most of the liquid has evaporated. Shred the chicken using two forks.
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- While the chicken is cooking, prepare the rest of the enchiladas. Heat the oil in a large frying pan over medium-high heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until it is soft, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute. Add the bell peppers and cook until they are soft, about 4 minutes.
- Add the onions and bell peppers to a large bowl and stir in the corn, black beans and shredded chicken. Season to taste with sea salt.
- Pour a ladle of the enchilada sauce into a 9x11 inch baking dish. Divide the shredded chicken mixture between 8 tortillas and top with a sprinkle of cheddar cheese. Roll each enchilada tightly and place, seam down, into the baking dish. Cover with the remaining enchilada sauce and top with the remaining cheese.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes, or until the sauce is bubbling and the cheese has melted. Serve with a sprinkle of cilantro on top.
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WASHINGTON ISLAND (Mar. 1, 2013) – Come to beautiful Washington Island Friday and Saturday, August 23th & 24th for the second official Death's Door Bar-B-Q at the Washington Island Airport. Presented by the Washington Island Ferry Line and the Washington Island Chamber of Commerce, the Death's Door Bar-B-Q is a KCBS-Sanctioned Competition with 100% Certified Judges and $7,500 in Prize Money.
Just picture yourself crossing the beautiful Porte De Mort passage (Death's Door) connecting the waters of Lake Michigan and Green Bay, to the unspoiled beauty of Washington Island. Don't worry, our ferries can handle any size vehicle so whatever rig you have will easily fit on the boats.
Regular registration is FRIDAY, August 23, 2013 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Here's how to register.
Teams will be able to sell BBQ at the competition if they wish.
Death's Door Bar-B-Q opens to the public at the Washington Island Airport on Saturday, August 24th at10am with free admission, arts & crafts, kids' activities, live music, food vendors, and of course – Barbequed Chicken, Pork, Pork Ribs, and Beef Brisket as sold by competitors.
Shoreline Charters will be offering scenic island cruises from Kaps Marina during the Death's Door Barbecue Contest. This narrated one-hour cruise will take you to see the Plum and Pilot Island Lighthouses, local shallow water shipwrecks and other island landmarks. See eagles, pelicans, swans and other wildlife, and learn the history of the area while relaxing aboard the Shoreline. All tours start and end at Kaps Marina, right next to the ferry dock on Washington Island. For cruise times or to make a reservation please call 920-421-0922. We look forward to seeing you there!
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Dr. Kerr is a professor in the Department of Medicine, where she instructs medical students, residents and fellows at UC San Diego School of Medicine. She completed fellowships in pulmonary disease and critical care medicine at both UCSF and UC San Diego School of Medicine. She earned her medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine. She is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease and critical care medicine.
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A Senate committee tasked with implementing the federal health overhaul met in Tallahassee Tuesday to examine Massachusetts' experience with the law.
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The Pistol Annies are one of country music's great supergroups. Consisting of the megastar Miranda
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Was it something that took a long time to work on and produce or did you have a lot of the album written for some time?
It took forever. I wrote some of the songs 10 years ago. I've been through the grind of Nashville and never could convince a major label to take a risk on such raw material. After the success of Pistol Annies, I made the record and put it out on Slate Creek records, and independent label out of Texas. I was so relieved to finally share this music.
The albums theme suggests a lot of hard times and strife. Is it a deeply personal record to you?
Definitely. I lived every second of the record. I was born in a tiny coal town where survival was just a way of life on so many levels. I inherited hard times from my mountain ancestors. It's they're in my blood and I probably wouldn't be comfortable if I wasn't struggling in some way.
Who have been your biggest influences on your career and, in particular, this record?
Loretta Lynn, of course… I loved the Indigo Girls and Patty Griffin when I was in college and was lucky enough to become friends with Emily Sailers who sang harmony on Grocery Store. I also loved Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Etta James, The Beatles, James Brown, Janis Joplin, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton… I mean you name it… My tastes are all over the place.
You have a few co-writes on this record, in particular with the wonderful Lori McKenna,
how important is it for you to work with others on writing?
Very important. It's really a magical thing when you take an idea to someone and it blossoms into
something outside your own creative comfort zone. I have certain writers that I really connect with
and Lori is right at the top of the list. No one is better at getting to the heart of things.
Yourself and the other members of Pistol Annies have gone from being a great group
when you were together to almost a 'super group' following on from the success of your
solo careers. How has it felt to witness the individual rises of your friends?
Great. We were just hanging out the other night, writing and telling stories about all the great times
we had together. We really want to do it again and will find a way to work it out eventually. The
chemistry we have when we write is probably one of the greatest blessings of my life.
Did you find that starting out your performing career as part of a group was the perfect
Actually, it was like doing everything backwards. I went from playing in small listening rooms to playing in arenas and live on national television. It was a huge leap. I skipped the part where you get in a van and work your way up through clubs and into larger venues. That's what I've been doing this past year and believe me, that tour bus spoiled me rotten. There's nothing more humbling than getting dressed in a minivan in a dark parking lot and using the rear view as a make up mirror.
Do you still keep in touch with Miranda and Ashley?
Yes, we text all the time and we hang out when our schedules line up.
Will we ever see anything from Pistol Annies in the future?
Definitely. Just a matter of time.
You're about to embark on a UK Tour. How much do you enjoy visiting us over here?
I love it. I was walking around London today and got so many song ideas. The audiences are so respectful and kind. It's really special and I appreciate the opportunity to play my music for such a wonderful group of people.
Country music is getting a lot of attention and building a huge fan base in the UK, especially since the introduction of the Country 2 Country festival in 2013, have you felt that in your visits?
I've heard great things about C2C. Ashley and Miranda are both playing it this year. Maybe we'll all come back together next year.
Has visiting to UK and Europe always been important to you?
Yes, I've dreamed about traveling ever since I was a little girl. Also, I'm a direct descendent of the McCoy's from the famous McCoy and Hatfield feud. I did some research and traced my family all the way back to Scotland and Ireland so technically, I've been given the opportunity to come home and that's truly how it feels.
Have you any plans for the follow up to American Middle Class?
Yes. Big plans. I'm working on the new record now and I don't want to give too much away but I'll definitely be playing some of the songs on this tour so people will get an idea of where it's going.
What are your thoughts on the current state of country music for women after the whole 'saladgate' scandal last year?
I think the women in country music are strong, brave and honest, just like they always were. We never changed and I'm pretty sure we never will.
The likes of yourself, your fellow Annie's Miranda and Ashley Monroe, Kacey Musgraves, Brandy Clark and more seem to be flying the flag for women in country music. Is it an exciting time to be a female country artist?
Yes, I feel blessed to make music alongside women who make music that I love and am inspired by.
What are your plans for the next 12 months?
My plans are to make and put out my new record, do shows, go to a lot of little league games, host some star wars themed sleep overs and do what I have to do to keep breathing and getting the most out of this little life. I might love on my husband a little bit too if he acts right!
We'd like to thank Angaleena for taking the time to chat to us here at Six Shooter.
The album American Middle Class is available now. UK tour dates below:
Friday 22nd January – The Ruby Lounge, Manchester
Saturday 23rd January – Bodega Social, Nottingham
Monday 25th January – Bush Hall, London


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WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
LEGO Juris A/S v. Domains By Proxy, LLC/ Quest Commerce Inc. Quest Commerce Inc
Case No. D2012-0048
1. The Parties
The Complainant is LEGO Juris A/S of Billund, Denmark, of Denmark, represented by Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services, Sweden.
The Respondent is Domains By Proxy, LLC of Scottsdale, United States of America; Quest Commerce Inc. of Toronto, Canada.
2. The Domain Name and Registrar
The disputed domain name <legolandhotels.org> ("the Domain Name") is registered with GoDaddy.com, LLC.
3. Procedural History
The Complaint was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the "Center") on January 13, 2012. On January 13, 2012, the Center transmitted by email to GoDaddy.com, LLC. a request for registrar verification in connection with the Domain Name. On January 14, 2012, GoDaddy.com, LLC transmitted by email to the Center its verification response disclosing registrant and contact information for the disputed domain name which differed from the named Respondent and contact information in the Complaint. The Center sent an email communication to the Complainant on January 18, 2012 providing the registrant and contact information disclosed by the Registrar, and inviting the Complainant to submit an amendment to the Complaint. On the same date, the Complainant filed an amendment to the Complaint.
The Center verified that the Complaint together with the amendment to 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 the Respondent, Quest Commerce Inc (hereinafter "the Respondent") of the Complaint, and the proceedings commenced on January 19, 2012. In accordance with the Rules, paragraph 5(a), the due date for Response was February 8, 2012. On January 19, 2012, an individual named "Jamal Osman", apparently on behalf of the Respondent sent an email communication to the Center where he stated that the disputed domain name "[d]id not claim any copyright rights to "Lego" or "legoland". It is simply an information website which doesn't sell anything in particular". No further email communications from the parties have been filed with the Center. Therefore, on February 9, 2012, the Center notified the commencement of panel appointment process to the parties.
The Center appointed Nicholas Smith as the sole panelist in this matter on February 15, 2012. 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
The Complainant is a Danish company that owns the trade marks for LEGO (the "LEGO Mark") and LEGOLAND (the "LEGOLAND Mark") (collectively, the "LEGOLAND Marks"). These marks are used in connection with the famous LEGO brand of construction toys and other LEGO branded products. The Complainant licenses its intellectual property rights, including the LEGOLAND Marks to various licensees. One of the licensees of the LEGOLAND Marks is Merlin Entertainment, which owns and operates theme parks known as "Legoland" and hotels connected to those parks known as Hotel Legoland. Merlin Entertainment part-owned by a related entity to the Complainant. The Complainant registered the LEGOLAND and LEGO trade marks in Canada in 1972 and 1983 respectively.
According to the registrar's verification response, the Domain Name was registered on September 13, 2011, by Quest Commerce Inc., an entity based in Toronto, Canada. The Domain Name is currently connected to a website ("Respondent's Website") that provides information about Legoland Hotels and contains a number of advertisements for Hotel Legoland, competitor hotels, travel sites and other unrelated sites some of which are pay-per click advertising through Google.
5. Parties' Contentions
A. Complainant
The Complainant makes the following contentions:
(i) that the Domain Name is confusingly similar to the Complainant's LEGOLAND Marks;
(ii) that the Respondent has no rights nor any legitimate interests in respect of the Domain Name; and
(iii) that the Domain Name has been registered and is being used in bad faith.
The Complainant holds registered trade marks for the LEGOLAND Marks throughout the world. In particular, the Complainant holds registrations for the LEGOLAND Marks in Canada, where the Respondent is located, with the LEGOLAND Mark registered in 1972 and the LEGO Mark registered in 1983. The Complainant is also the owner of more than 1000 domain names that incorporate on or other of the LEGOLAND Marks. The Complainant licenses out the LEGOLAND Marks to a number of companies to operate elements of the Lego business, including Merlin Entertainments, the owner of a chain of Legoland parks.
The Domain Name is confusingly similar to the Complainant's world-famous trademarks LEGO and LEGOLAND. The addition of the descriptive suffix "hotels" does not have any impact on the overall impression of the Domain Name. In fact the addition of the word "hotels" serves to enhance the overall impression that the Domain Name is confusingly similar to the LEGOLAND Marks because the Complainant has a series of hotels known as Hotel Legoland.
The Respondent does not hold any registered trade marks or trade names corresponding to the Domain Name, nor is it commonly known by the Domain Name. The Complainant has been unable to identify any indication that the Respondent has been using LEGOLAND in any way that would give it legitimate rights in the Domain Name. The Respondent is using the Domain Name to link to a site that provides information about Legoland Hotels. The Respondent's Website gives the impression that it is connected with the Complainant through its content and the absence of a disclaimer and by containing a text inserted stating "© 2012 Legoland Hotels" at the bottom of the webpage. The Respondent's Website also contains a series of click-through advertisements that includes links to hotel chains that are competitors to the Complainant.
The Respondent does not appear to own or operate any hotels or have any connection with the hotel industry. It does not appear to operate any business in connection with the LEGOLAND Trade Marks. Rather the Respondent owns a large domain name portfolio of mostly generic domain names unrelated to the Complainant.
By reason of the fame of the LEGOLAND Marks, at the date the Domain Name was registered, the Respondent must have been aware of the Complainant's rights in its LEGO trademarks. This is supported by the reference to "hotels" in the Domain Name and the Respondent's website, which displays images of the Legoland Park in Windsor.
The Domain Name is not being used in a bona fide manner. Rather it is being used for the sole purpose of gaining pay-per-click revenue from Google and other hotel chains. In this case the use of advertisements is a factor indicating bad faith as the Respondent is using the Complainant's trade marks to attract visitors to its site for commercial gain. In The Jennifer Lopez Foundation v. Jeremiah Tieman, Jennifer Lopez Net, Jennifer Lopez, Vaca Systems LLC, WIPO Case No. D2009-0057 the Panel stated:
"The record further reflects the Respondent's use of the disputed Domain Names to attract Internet users to the Respondent's website in order to generate pay-per-click advertising revenues. The Panel concludes for the foregoing reasons that the Respondent registered and is using the disputed Domain Names in bad faith."
In such circumstances, the registration and use of the Domain Name must be regarded as registration and use in bad faith, inasmuch as it involves the Respondent using the Domain Name to misleadingly divert consumers for its own commercial gain. This amounts to a finding of bad faith within the scope of paragraph 4(b)(iv) of the Policy.
B. Respondent
The Respondent has not filed a formal response in this case. However, by e-mail of January 19, 2012, an individual named "Jamal Osman", apparently on behalf of the Respondent, sent a short e-mail response stating that the Respondent did not claim any rights to Lego or Legoland and that the website at "www. legolandhotels.org" is intended to be an information website with no intention to sell anything. No subsequent communication or formal response has been filed with the Center.
6. Discussion and Findings
A. Identical or Confusingly Similar
To prove this element the Complainant must have trade or service mark rights, and the Domain Name must be identical or confusingly similar to the Complainant's trade or service mark.
The Complainant is the owner of the LEGOLAND Marks, having registrations for LEGO and LEGOLAND throughout the world, including in Canada, where the Respondent is based. The LEGO Mark is also a well-known mark, as confirmed in previous UDRP decisions, including LEGO Juris A/S v. Rampe Purda, WIPO Case No. D2010-0840: "LEGO is clearly a well-known mark" and LEGO Juris A/S v. Domain Administrator, WIPO Case No. 2010-1260: "In the present case, the disputed domain names incorporate the Complainant's well-known registered trademark LEGO" and LEGO Juris A/S v. Reginald Hastings Jr; WIPO Case No. D2009-0680: "LEGO is a mark enjoying high reputation as construction toys popular with children."
The Domain Name consists of the LEGOLAND Mark in its entirety, with the addition of the descriptive and non-distinctive suffix "hotels". The suffix "hotels", when appended to the distinctive mark "LEGOLAND", is likely to be seen as a referring to hotel that is located at or operated by the owners of Legoland. Given that one of the licensees of the LEGOLAND Marks owns and operates theme parks known as "Legoland" and hotels connected to those parks known as Hotel Legoland members of the public, upon viewing the domain name could easily be confused into thinking that it was associated with the Complainant.
The Domain Name consists of the LEGOLAND Mark and a suffix that fails to distinguish the LEGOLAND Mark. The Panel finds that the Domain Name is confusingly similar to the Complainant's trademark
Consequently, the requirement of paragraph 4(a)(i) of the Policy is satisfied.
B. Rights or Legitimate Interests
To succeed on this element, a complainant must make out a prima facie case that the respondent lacks rights or interests in the disputed domain name. If such a prima facie case is made out, the respondent then has the burden of demonstrating rights or legitimate interests in the domain name.
Paragraph 4(c) of the Policy enumerates several ways in which a respondent may demonstrate rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name:
"Any of the following circumstances, in particular but without limitation, if found by the panel to be proved based on its evaluation of all evidence presented, shall demonstrate your rights or legitimate interests to the domain name for purposes of paragraph 4(a)(ii):
(i) before any notice to you of the dispute, your use of, or demonstrable preparations to use, the domain name or a name corresponding to the domain name in connection with a bona fide offering of goods or services; or
(ii) you (as an individual, business, or other organization) have been commonly known by the domain name, even if you have acquired no trademark or service mark rights; or
(iii) you are making legitimate non-commercial or fair use of the domain name, without intent for commercial gain to misleadingly divert consumers or to tarnish the trademark or service mark at issue." (Policy, paragraph 4(c))."
The Respondent is not affiliated with Complainant in any way and has not been authorized by Complainant to register or use the Domain Name or to seek the registration of any domain name incorporating the LEGOLAND Marks. There is no evidence that the Respondent is commonly known by the Domain Name or any similar name.
The Respondent acknowledges that the Domain Name resolves to the Respondent's Website, which provides information on Hotel Legoland. The Respondent argues that the Respondent's Website "is simply an information website which doesn't sell anything in particular". Given the content of the Respondent's Website, which includes photos of Legoland Windsor, in this Panel's view, it can be presumed that the Respondent registered the Domain Name with the full awareness of the Complainant and its rights in the LEGOLAND Marks.
Previous UDRP decisions have found that the operation of a legitimate, active, noncommercial and clearly distinctive fan site may give rise to rights and legitimate interests in a domain name; see e.g. Estate of Gary Jennings and Joyce O. Servis v. Submachine and Joe Ross, WIPO Case No. D2001-1042 and 2001 White Castle Way, Inc. v. Glyn O. Jacobs, WIPO Case No. D2004-0001.
This is not one of those cases. The Respondent's Website is not noncommercial. It contains several pay-per-click advertisements to hotel chains that compete with Hotel Legoland. It also contains a series of Google advertisements for which the Respondent would derive revenue. Secondly, the Respondent's Website attempts to pass itself off as being related to or connected with the Complainant. It does not contain any disclaimer as to its relationship with the Complainant rather it contains the inscription "© 2012 Legoland Hotels" at the bottom of the webpage. Finally, the evidence in the amended Complaint suggests that the Respondent is involved in the domain name industry and owns a large domain name portfolio from which it derives commercial gain, mostly consisting of generic domain names unrelated to the LEGOLAND Marks.
A respondent does not have rights or legitimate interests in expressing its view, even if positive, on an individual or entity by using an identical or confusingly similar domain name if the respondent is intentionally misrepresenting itself as being (or as in some way associated with) that individual or entity, or seeks to derive commercial advantage from its registration and use. The Respondent in this case is both intentionally misrepresenting itself as being associated with the Complainant and deriving some commercial advantage from the Respondent's Website. This is not a legitimate noncommercial or fair use of the Domain Name.
Therefore, the Panel finds that the Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the Domain Name under paragraph 4(a)(ii) of the Policy.
C. Registered and Used in Bad Faith
For the purposes of Paragraph 4(a)(iii), the following circumstances, in particular but without limitation, if found by the Panel to be present, shall be evidence of the registration and use of a Domain Name in bad faith:
(i) circumstances indicating that the Respondent has registered or has acquired the Domain Name primarily for the purpose of selling, renting, or otherwise transferring the Domain Name registration to the Complainant who is the owner of the trademark or service mark or to a competitor of that Complainant, for valuable consideration in excess of your documented out-of-pocket costs directly related to the Domain Name; or
(ii) Respondent has registered the Domain Name in order to prevent the owner of the trademark or service mark from reflecting the mark in a corresponding Domain Name, provided that Respondent has engaged in a pattern of such conduct; or
(iii) Respondent has registered the Domain Name primarily for the purpose of disrupting the business of a competitor; or
(iv) by using the Domain Name, Respondent has intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to your web site or other on-line location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the Complainants' mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of Respondent's web site or location or of a product or service on Respondent's web site or location.
The Panel finds that the Respondent at the time of registration of the Domain Name knew of the existence of the LEGOLAND Marks. The Domain Name resolves to a website that:
a) contains a series of sponsored links and Google pay-per-click links from which the Respondent generates revenue;
b) lacks a disclaimer that indicates that the website has no connection with the Complainant; and
c) displays the inscription "© 2012 Legoland Hotels" enhancing any confusion as to the identity of the owner of the Domain Name.
While the Respondent, as stated in the e-mail from "Jamal Osman", may not be selling anything from the website, the Domain Name is used to attract Internet users interested in the Complainant for the purpose of gaining pay-per-click revenue. Consequently, in this Panel's view, the Respondent registered and is using the Domain Name to intentionally attempt to attract, for commercial gain, internet users to a website, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the Complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation or endorsement of its website.
Accordingly, the Panel finds that the Respondent has registered and used the Domain Name in bad faith under paragraph 4(a)(iii) of the Policy.
7. Decision
For the foregoing reasons, in accordance with paragraphs 4(i) of the Policy and 15 of the Rules, the Panel orders that the Domain Name <legolandhotels.org> be transferred to the Complainant.
Nicholas Smith
Sole Panelist
Dated: February 19, 2012


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The cardiac anesthesia team is exclusively dedicated to anesthesia care to infants, children and adults with congenital or acquired heart disease. Each member of our team is a board certified anesthesiologist with subspecialty training and certification in pediatric cardiac anesthesia. The team provides care for patients undergoing cardiac surgery, cardiac catheterization, MRI and echocardiography. They also provide anesthesia care for any patient with significant heart disease undergoing non-cardiac surgery (such as ear tubes and tonsillectomies) or non-surgical procedure (such as CT scan or dental examination). Team members work closely with the cardiac surgeons, cardiologists and cardiac intensivists and are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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Children's also provides the Anesthesia Pain Medicine Service as a consult for acute and chronic pain. The Acute Pain Medicine team provides in-patient consultation for patient-controlled analgesia (PCA), epidural anesthesia and other postoperative and acute pain-related problems that include conditions such as sickle cell disease.
Children's National Pediatric Chronic Pain Program is an interdisciplinary, research-based pain program for children with long-term pain. This is one of only a few such programs in the United States and around the world. The Chronic Pain Medicine Program uses evidence-based methods that are safe, but also works toward collecting data that will uncover better treatments that are safe and effective.
Our Pain Medicine experts work with families and their physicians to help manage the pain so it doesn't "control" the child or the family. This takes the interdisciplinary team at Children's National working with the commitment and partnership of the child's family and primary care doctor to successfully manage a child's pain long term.
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Eugenie Heitmiller
Division Chief, Anesthesiology, Pain and Perioperative Medicine
Marjorie Brennan
Medical Director, Ambulatory Surgery Center in Montgomery CountyAnesthesiologist
Nina Deutsch
Associate Chief, AnesthesiologyAssociate Chief, Academic Affairs
Giuliana Geng-Ramos
Medical Director, Pre-Operative Care Clinic and Post-Anesthesia Care UnitAnesthesiologist
Nikhil Patel
Medical Director, Ambulatory Surgery Center in Prince George's County Anesthesiologist
Sophie Pestieau
Interim Chief, Anesthesiology, Pain and Perioperative MedicineAssociate Chief, Clinical AffairsMedical Director, Center for Surgical CareAnesthesiologistAcute Pain Specialist
Domiciano Santos JR
Medical Director, Perioperative Services Anesthesiologist
Caroll Vazquez-Colon
Director, Education for Anesthesia, Pain and Perioperative Medicine Anesthesiologist
Claude Abdallah
Abisola Ayodeji
Alla Bazini
Richard Bosco
Anna Brown
Chaitanya Challa
Ira Cohen
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Jessica Cronin
Robert Scott Dingeman
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Julia Finkel
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Richard Hardart
Ryan Haughey
Mark Hubbard
Kuntal Jivan
Angela Lee
Phayon Lee
Gregory Lessans
Paul Maliakel
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Daniela Perez-Velasco
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Thoai An Vuong
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Caroline Wright
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Alexis Lambros
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Elenora Mazover
Lead Certified Anesthesiologist Assistant
Brooke McDonald
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Heather Murray
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Scott Plunkett
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Jacob Schick
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Akash Sinha
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Jonathan Swink
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Brittany Ahuja
Yuriy Babayants
Eveline Mordehai
Susan French
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Nurse Practitioner for Chronic Pain
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Given the news spin cycle, is it any wonder that the presidency has been reduced to a talk show, or that March Madness has better ratings than the wars in the Middle East? But American presidents might think about adopting a SportsCenter model — snappy replays, contrite Tigers — and drop Rush Limbaugh and James Carville as their founding fathers. The continental divide in American history isn't that between Democrats and Republicans, or conservatives and liberals, but whether or not the president should be a good sport.
I realize that embracing a president by his or her ability to play sports, or least talk about them, would saddle the country with leaders like Derek Jeter, Scottie Pippin, or Peyton Manning. But my take on the run of political leaders since Teddy Roosevelt cluttered up the White House with big game trophies is that modern presidents have had a complicated relationship with the national pastimes. Maybe it was the German strategist Clausewitz who said that sports is the extension of politics by other means?
To be sure, presidents up to and including Barack Obama have played sports, and many have played their games well. I have no doubt that Bill Clinton shoots a reasonable, if erratic game of golf, or that former Yale baseball player George Herbert Walker Bush throws competitive horseshoes. But how many presidents would you have wanted in your fantasy league, and how many (think Richard Nixon) picked up the clubs only when a few photographers were in the rough?
To see if there is a correlation between good presidents and good sportsmen, let's sort out the players from the duffers. Those who could play the games: Teddy Roosevelt (rod and gun), Franklin Roosevelt (excellent at golf before polio, and sailing afterwards), Jack Kennedy (golf, girls, and touch football, although not in that order), Gerald Ford (football in college, tennis in the White House, the Pro-Am circuit in retirement), and the George Bushes (speed golf, cigarette boats).
On the bench, so to speak, place: William Howard Taft (of sumo proportions), Woodrow Wilson (hard to imagine him playing much pond hockey, although he did ride horses), Warren Harding (are cards considered a sport?), Calvin Coolidge ("harrumph"), Herbert Hoover (a fan of the medicine ball), Harry Truman (although he was brisk walker), Lyndon Johnson (beagle handling does not count), Richard Nixon (despite the bowling poster in "The Big Lebowski"and installing lanes in the White House), Ronald Reagan (lifeguarding, horseback riding, the original Brush Clearer), and Jimmy Carter (knocked silly by a killer rabbit).
I have my doubts about Dwight Eisenhower, who played 800 rounds of golf as president but still only had an 18 handicap, and Barack Obama, who despite his pick-up basketball and vacation golf has the shadow of a 37 (in bowling) hanging over his presidency. (Kids without barriers usually score better than 37. If the Birthers want proof of alien associations, they should look into this.)
Sports and politics came together harmoniously with Franklin Roosevelt, who could never walk after his 1921 bout with polio. When he ran for the presidency in 1932, however, he began his campaign with a long sailing trip in the waters off New England, and the image of Roosevelt at the helm quelled whatever fears there might have been about his incapacity. Roosevelt was, in fact, an excellent sailor.
Likewise, Jack Kennedy used sports to cover up a chronically bad back, Addison's Disease, and a host of other ailments that had him under constant medical care. Instead of a bed-ridden presidential candidate, the public saw a "vigorous" man playing touch football on the lawn at Hyannis Port or heading out in a sailboat. In retrospect, the images of a robust president were as manufactured as those of Family Man Kennedy.
The ability to talk about sports might add more to presidential success than the ability to play the games. Sports talk is one of the few common languages for much of the United States. Without any ability to speak it, a candidate on the campaign trail would find himself with a lot awkward pauses in the company of local politicos.
The former radio sportscaster Ronald "Dutch" Reagan could obviously talk a good game. For much of his broadcasting career, all he had were the wire service reports of the action, and he would have to conjure the play-by-play, much as he later was attracted to invented economic theories (the Laffer Curve) or history ("I did not trade arms for hostages"). Few had the Gipper's gift of small talk, and a lot of it revolved around sports.
By this logic, President Obama ought to be one of the more successful American presidents. He occasionally joins the broadcast at half-time in key college basketball games, he picked the NCAA champion in his 2009 bracket, and he seems to enjoy golf. Why, then, are his approval ratings on a par with presidents who never hit a three-pointer?
Part of the explanation can be gleaned in one of the many health care posts I have read recently. The correspondent was despairing of the President's ability to convince the American people that health care reform was actually good for them, which prompted a digression into Obama's wounded-duck throw with last year's All-Star ceremonial pitch (apparently George W. Bush threw high heat) and, of course, the 37. Meaning: he's losing the sports-bar, call-in radio constituency, which, when it comes to medicine, is only interested in steroids.
By my logic, Bill Clinton got impeached not for groping an intern but for boasting he had broken 80 in a golf game. (In the words of Jack Nicklaus: "Eighty with fifty floating mulligans.") Nor did Gerald Ford's presidency ever recover from his erratic tee shots. Doubts surfaced about W not so much over Iraq as when it was reported that he had watched the Super Bowl by himself.
The hope for the Obama presidency is that it will return to his sporting roots. On the campaign trail, he watched a lot of ESPN, and he is a long-time White Sox fan, perhaps even from the days of their Disco Demolition Night. After all, the athletically-challenged Nixon won four national elections on the strength of owning his own bowling ball (but was he a "sandbagger"?) and calling in a few plays to the Washington Redskins coach, George Allen (which, by the way, never worked.) Clearly, Obama has affection for his basketball, and my guess is that he spends more time than a president should thinking about the NBA draft. All are hopeful signs for his time in office.
Matthew Stevenson is the editor, along with Michael Martin, of The Rules of the Game: The Best Sports Writing from Harper's Magazine, published by Franklin Square Press, and the recently published Remembering the Twentieth Century Limited. He lives in Europe.


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Saybrook student Joel Sereboff is completing his Ph.D. dissertation this semester in the Creativity Studies specialization in the School of Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry. His research includes narrative inquiry and an autoethnographic exploration of his own creative process as an inventor. In this interview Sereboff explains his reasons for doing the research, and doing it at Saybrook.
Tell us a little about your background.
I am a first generation American, the son of Jewish parents who fled from the oppression of the Russian Cossacks. My parents owned a grocery store in which I worked from age seven. My mother was an unrelenting taskmaster while my father provided a stark contrast as a loving and creative man who encouraged me to learn to draw. I attribute my love of oil painting to my Dad as well as many wonderful teachers with whom I studied privately and at the Maryland Institute of Art.
My life's path took a fortuitous turn when I was employed as a caseworker at Spring Grove State Hospital near Baltimore, Maryland. I loved helping people. It was in my position at "the Grove" where my career in social work and psychology was spawned. I stayed in the state mental health system progressing to a position as Chief of Program Development for the State Drug Abuse Administration. When I tired of the politics of that position, I decided to go into the private practice of psychotherapy. I was a fellow in National Association of Social Workers, an approved supervisor with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and certified by the Gestalt Therapy Institute of Washington, D.C.
I enjoyed my work with people for many years until my wife became paralyzed from Guillain-Barre Syndrome. The pressure on her frail body was so damaging that her skin began to break down and she developed skin ulcers. It was difficult to watch her suffer, and I resolved to do something about it. After much study and research, I invented a new chemical composition to cushion my wife's body and prevent skin ulceration. I continued my practice and did my research until 1998, when I realized inventing required my full-time commitment. So, I closed my practice and embarked on a new life adventure as an inventor. Since then I have been awarded over 20 U.S. patents.
What made you decide to apply to the Creativity Studies program at Saybrook University?
I had many questions about invention as a creative process, and I wanted to do research to better understand the invention process and how I became an inventor. Ultimately, I want to write a book on creativity and invention, and I concluded the structure of a good doctoral program would be helpful to me to do the necessary research. I was particularly impressed with the Creativity Studies Program at Saybrook University. Impressive as well were those of the Saybrook faculty who specialize in creativity studies — Dr. Steven Pritzker, a talented, retired comedy writer and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Creativity; Dr. Ruth Richards, who has written many papers on creativity and authored the book, Everyday Creativity; and Dr. Stanley Krippner, whose writing I had admired for many years. I was drawn to Saybrook because of its humanistic orientation and impressive history. Beginning in 2010, I enjoyed creativity studies as the focus of my graduate work. I decided upon the following research questions for my dissertation:
- What key life experiences and cultural influences shaped how I express myself creatively and influenced my development as an inventor?
- How did I become an inventor, and were there attitudinal or value changes that fostered my becoming?
- How does invention come about?
What does creativity mean to you?
Creativity appears to be highly nuanced and, thus, I avoid any narrow, mechanistic bias. As an inventor, oil painter and writer, I gravitate to a broad meaning of creativity that is a blend of several views. Clearly, my creativity is expressive of my Self – an ontological issue that is part of the great puzzle of our being and a manifestation of consciousness. That view inspires my creative expression, which appears to involve a reorganization of general and specific knowledge with a resulting conceptual synthesis that brings novelty and utility to this world. I find great satisfaction in the novel end products of my creativity – my oil paintings and my inventions.
What is your doctoral research about?
My research used narrative inquiry and the lens of autoethnography to describe how I evolved as a creative person – artist, inventor, and writer. The study presents a relationship between the act of invention and creativity as a manifestation of consciousness. I describe the process through which my creativity became manifest in my painting, my work as a psychotherapist, and as an inventor. I discussed the dynamics that impacted my creative development in the various settings and stages of my life.
How is studying for your PhD a creative process?
My creativity studies enhanced my creative process. I discovered new ways to think about and investigate fascinating issues that emerged from seminars, and often I found myself following unique creative paths inspired by seminar speakers.
What is a piece of advice you would give on how to enhance creativity?
It is important to learn how to access consciousness that is transcendental to our "normal," everyday thought processes. It is beneficial to learn practices that enable expansion of consciousness. For me, meditation works wonders. Using meditation I stop trying to be creative, and I enable the free flow of creative energy.
Which creative person do you admire? Why?
It is difficult to choose one creative person whom I admire. There are so many from whom I have learned and whose creativity I have enjoyed. From Otto Rank I learned that creativity is a will phenomenon mediated by consciousness. I love the music of Leonard Bernstein and classic composers like Mozart, Chopin, and Beethoven. But that leaves room for the Grateful Dead. As a painter, I admire and learn from the works of Leonardo, and Rubens, as well as from Joseph Sheppard, and David Zuccarini, contemporary painters and my teachers, who inspire me in my creative painting process.
There are too many noted inventors whom I admire to narrow it down to a single person. But I must offer my deep appreciation to the philosophers, Epicurus and Lucretius as well as physicists, Schrodinger, Einstein and Bohm for their inspiring work.
What do you plan to do with the knowledge and experience you're getting in the program?
Now that I have done my research, it s time to write my book on the creative process of invention.


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"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever" (Heb 13:8)
Sunday, 26 February 2017
Worrying. 8th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A
We just heard in today's Gospel text a beautiful example of Our Lord's intimate and compassionate knowledge of our human nature. We heard Him speak about WORRYING –that thing that we can spend so much time and effort doing.
Over these past weeks we've heard Our Lord's teachings in the Sermon on the Mount:
Sometimes we hear Our Lord's words uttered as words of authority, of command;
sometimes we hear Him speak hard words that we know are not easy to follow.
But today, as I said, we hear this same Lord, who was and is both fully God and fully human, we heard Him speak very human words to us:
words about worrying, words that show He knows exactly what we are like.
Most of us have at least some occasions when we worry,
Some of us regularly lie awake at night worrying.
And worrying is an odd thing:
it's not like planning or decision making when we actually ACHIEVE something,
when we actually become better able to deal with what we must do.
No, worrying does not help us in any way. As Jesus beautifully put it, "Can any of you, for all his worrying, add one single hour to his span of life?"(Mt 6:27)
And yet, we DO worry, and we often spend great energy worrying.
Let me make three points.
First, the Lord points out that we often worry because we're focussed on the wrong things in life.
He says, very directly, that we focus too much on material things. And so He warns us that "you cannot be the slave of two masters... of both God and of money [mammon]" (Mt 6:24).
And the simple remedy He gives us is that we need to repeatedly remember that, "life means more than food and the body more than clothing"(Mt 6:25).
Second, there is the issue of whether we worry about things with a SELFISH focus, or with a focus that is on OTHER people.
Most of us have probably had moments when we realise that so often when we worry about something we worry about it because of how it will affect ME, not about how it will affect others -that even when we worry about family our worries can be filled with anxiety not for THEIR sake but because of some way in which we fear matters will affect us:
affect our time, our reputation, or something else.
This is one aspect of worry that the Lord calls on us to identify within ourselves and to seek to "let go", to detach ourselves from our SELFISH attachment, and to attach ourselves instead to GOD:
"see ye first the kingdom of God" (Mt 6:33).
The remedy to this is to be bold enough to seek to (1) love others first, and (2) love God first and foremost, because when we do this our worries often take on a much REDUCED significance.
Third, and finally, there is the issue that our worrying is caused our lack of trust in God. And here the Lord Jesus berated His disciples for being "men of little faith" (Mt 6:30). He pointed out that God cares for the flowers of the field and the birds of the sky, and yet God loves US much more than either of these.
This type of worry can often be rooted in a sort of mistaken attempt to do everything ourselves and by our own power.
The remedy to this is to (1) call on God's grace, (2) trust in His strength, (3) trust in His plan for our welfare.
"So do not worry about tomorrow", and as more literal translations put it in a beautiful parody of our own worrying: "tomorrow will worry about itself" (NIV) "tomorrow will be anxious for itself" (RSV),
"Each day has troubles enough of its own".
Priests are not immune from worry, as I'm sure you're aware.
Not even popes are immune from worry. As Pope John XXIII supposedly used to pray each night as he pondered the problems in the Church, "It's your Church, not mine, Lord. I'm going to sleep now".
If we seek to (1) put God's things first, (2) focus on the eternal values and not the merely material ones, then we should be able to take the good pope's attitude for ourselves:
it's His world, His problems, and we can entrust them to Him.
1 comment:
- Michael said...
Father, thank you for posting to this sermon about worry. It is most helpful. By-the-way, you have a world wide audience. I am in Cincinnati, Ohio.
- 5 March 2017 at 01:06:00 GMT
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