Ringling Bros. vs Sephora!!!

Oh no they didn't!!!





Ringling Bros. Sue NYC Retailer Over Trademark Use



(CBS/AP) NEW YORK The Greatest Show on Earth is finding no amusement in what it claims is improper use of its circus trademarks, filing a lawsuit Tuesday to bring down the curtains on a holiday sales pitch by a beauty products company. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan against Sephora and its parent company, the Paris-based LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA. The circus' lawsuit seeks to stop Sephora holiday advertising that it says uses its trademarks, including the phrase it uses heavily in its program books, coloring books, playing cards and stuffed animals, "The Greatest Show on Earth." It also seeks unspecified damages relating to profits by the San Francisco-based Sephora or lost business of its own along with $5 million in punitive damages. It said it has used the trademark "The Greatest Show on Earth" continuously since the 1890s. According to the lawsuit, the circus learned this month that Sephora was using "The Greatest Gift Show on Earth" and other circus references and designs in its holiday advertising in stores, on billboards, in catalogs and on the Internet. Sephora displays circus-style lettering on one Web page that includes a circus monkey and five icons containing links to products it's selling, the lawsuit said. Another online animation shows a model made to appear to be a trapeze artist swinging across the screen, it said. "CIRQUE DE BEAUTE," Sephora's Web site says. "THE GREATEST GIFT SHOW ON EARTH." Telephone messages left with spokeswomen for Sephora were not immediately returned Tuesday.



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J

Beauty Find of the Weekend!!

This lotion,Calgon Vanilla Swirl, is so great and it smells tasty!!I found it at Wal-Mart while looking for the Calgon Holiday collection. I scooped this up with the matching spray.

J

What I want for Christmas....2006

I've been working on this Christmas wish list for two weeks. Like I'm going to get something.:( But it's fun to dream.... And now for J's What I want fo' Christmas:

1st- For my kids to have the best Christmas ever!!! As a child I was always loaded down with lots and lots of toys and clothes. My dad used to say that Toys R Us relocated in our living room. I want my children to have all of what I had. Well not Barbie's Dreamhouse,they are boys:) but to wake up to mass splendor.I have been eating salads and skipping the Starbucks Doubleshots just for them...

Now The List:

Gift Certificates with at least $25 on them from:

Victoria's Secret-Now I can get me some underwear from there again!! and VS Laundry Detergent

Belk-for the MAC counter

Target- for whatever...you know how Target will get you.

Amazon.com-for books and CDs

Nordstrom-just in case I get some balls to go back to Charlotte

BBW-for Goldie stuff and Tutti Dolci l/gs

Starbucks-so I can pay my monthly rent for my car parked at the drive thru.

The Fresh Market-So I can get my Bolthouse Mango Lemonade,Sushi,Brownie Pillow Cookies and Cashew Butter)

Philosophy Amazing Grace Parfum-I'm on my last drop.This is my fail proof scent.

Lindt White Chocolate Truffles-I saw the huge bag of them at Marshalls...I need them

Hershey's Kisses in Cherry-Have you tasted these? They are so good!

ANTM Season 1,2,3 on DVD- after Cycle 3, it makes no sense.

Project Runway Season One DVD

Armani Code Eau de Toilette

Juicy Couture Charms for my bracelet

Boomerang DVD

a fruit basket

cookies and brownies

Lots of Christmas Cards

Journals and stationary

batteries(AAA)- for a my Nano.I think it eats batteries for breakfast.

a new digital camera

New York & Company City Luxe Tunic in Black and Grey

Subscription in Vibe Vixen and Essence-can u believe...I don't get Essence

Mani and Pedi @ V.I.P Nails

Lunch or Dinner with My crew:I go through these stages where I miss those hoochies

AKA Grad Chapter Yearly Due Money-Got to keep up with my Silver Star count.I already got ten years...

Devil Wears Prada DVD-I'll have it before Christmas...

Becca Hypontise Set

J

Super Rave:Maryam's Soap Nook and all her Divineness!!

Okay...this whole post is going to sound like I'm screaming because the excitement about the products that I'm about to review is boiling over. I feel like one of Oprah "venue-ette"(I think they call them that) that comes on before the show or as a commercial with the special effects and Oprah hollering over it all. Maryam's Soap Nook...just please...get your credit cards, money orders, Rush Debit cards out for this!!

Hand made soap in Pomegranate and Wild berries and Sleeping Beauty- Handmade soap is the best.It makes you forget all of the Caress bars you have bought the past. Besides these bars being pretty, the scents are awesome. Made with palm oil,olive oil,goats milk,shea butter,monoi de Tahiti oil and Vitamin E, there will not be a dry patch in sight after you towel off.

Whipped Shea Monoi Body Butter- My mother is corporate buyer,USC educated and also a body butter thief. This great moisturizer comes in a 8 oz jar and she dipped a tablespoon in it and stole half of it and put it in a Tupperware mini bowl and took into her bathroom. I asked her why did she do it, she said "That cream made your bathroom smell so good, I needed some it!"The Whipped Shea Monoi Body Butter in Ginger Cardamon will lead your mother to a life of beauty product crime!

Japanese Camellia Blend Body Oil in Sensual- You not need a perfume for layering for this great oil because it so powerfully scented. I used this on days that I'm curling up in Juicy Couture tracksuit( still wear em' homies) and it has such a beautiful feel.

Luxury Body Mist-My cousin tried to get me for this. I call it a dry oil,I actually put it on one day as a moisturizer and it worked for me. I have the Tahitian Pearls scent.

I've have more of her products to review next week. Please visit her great and also informative website @ http://www.maryam-soap-nook.com/ !!!!!

J

R.I.P Bebe Campbell Moore

Bebe Moore Campbell (February 18, 1950- November 27, 2006) was the author of three New York Times bestsellers, Brothers and Sisters, Singing in the Comeback Choir, and What You Owe Me, which was also a Los Angeles Times "Best Book of 2001." Her other works include the novel Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and the winner of the NAACP Image Award for Literature; her memoir, Sweet Summer, Growing Up With and Without My Dad; and her first nonfiction book, Successful Women, Angry Men: Backlash in the Two-Career Marriage. Her essays, articles, and excerpts appear in many anthologies.
Ms. Campbell's interest in mental health was the catalyst for her first children's book, Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry, which was published in September 2003. This book won the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) Outstanding Literature Award for 2003. The book tells the story of how a little girl copes with being reared by her mentally ill mother. Ms. Campbell was a member of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and a founding member of NAMI-Inglewood. Her latest book, 72 Hour Hold, also deals with mental illness.
Ms. Campbell's first play, "Even with the Madness," debuted in New York in June 2003. This work revisited the theme of mental illness and the family.
As a journalist Ms. Campbell wrote articles for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Essence, Ebony, Black Enterprise, as well as other publications. She was a regular commentator for Morning Edition a program on National Public Radio.
Ms. Campbell was born and reared in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and received a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in elementary education from the University of Pittsburgh. She lived in Los Angeles, California with her husband, Ellis Gordon Jr. and had a son, Ellis Gordon III and a daughter, actress Maia Campbell. She was an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorported.
Campbell died at the age of 56 from brain cancer. Her favorite quote on being a writer: "Discipline is the servant of inspiration."

Rest In Peace,Soror!!

J

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