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Bible. Hebrews--Criticism, interpretation, etc.Lenten sermons.
Kramer Chapel Sermon - November 13, 1995
by Rev. Edward Fehskens
Hebrews 11:8Hebrews 11:9Hebrews 11:10Hebrews 11:11Hebrews 11:12Hebrews 11:13Hebrews 11:14Hebrews 11:15Hebrews 11:16
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Kramer Chapel Sermon - October 04, 2004
by Rev. Dr. David P. Scaer
Hebrews 11:1Hebrews 11:2Hebrews 11:3Hebrews 11:4Hebrews 11:5Hebrews 11:6Hebrews 11:7Hebrews 11:8Hebrews 11:9Hebrews 11:10Hebrews 11:11Hebrews 11:12Hebrews 11:13Hebrews 11:14Hebrews 11:15Hebrews 11:16
by Rev. Dr. James G. Bollhagen
by Rev. Scott Stiegemeyer
Kramer Chapel Sermon - October 5, 1998
by Rev. Dr. Daniel G. Reuning
Bible. Hebrews--Criticism, interpretation, etc.Faith--Sermons.Pentecost season--Sermons.
Kramer Chapel Sermon - September 19, 2005
Lutheran Hour Sermon: Know Where You Are Going
by Rev. Dr. Oswald C. J. Hoffmann
Hebrews 11:1Hebrews 11:8Hebrews 11:9Hebrews 11:10Hebrews 11:11Hebrews 11:12Hebrews 11:13Hebrews 11:14Hebrews 11:15Hebrews 11:16Hebrews 11:17Hebrews 11:18Hebrews 11:19
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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (First Look Features) DVD Review
Ian Jane
Released by: First Look Features
Released on: September 14th, 2010.
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloe Sevigny, Brad Dourif, Udo Kier, Michael Pena, Grace Zabriskie
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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done – Movie Review:
The first collaboration between David Lynch, here serving as producer, and Werner Herzog, handling directorial duties, 2010's My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? is a weird film. You'd expect it to be, given the fact that it's from the men who gave us Eraserhead and Even Dwarves Started ...
JSA - Joint Security Area (Arrow Video) Blu-ray Review
Released by: Arrow Video
Released on: January 19th, 2021.
Director: Park Chan-wook
Cast: Lee Young-ae, Lee Byung-hun, Song Kang-ho
JSA - Joint Security Area – Movie Review:
Park Chan-wook has received a lot of critical acclaim not only in his homeland of South Korea but also on the international cinema circuit for his revenge dramas, Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy and Lady Vengeance but his star first really started to rise in 2000 with the military thriller JSA or, Joint Security ...
Giant From The Unknown (The Film Detective) Blu-ray Review
Released by: The Film Detective
Director: Richard E. Cunha
Cast: Ed Kemmer, Sally Fraser, Morris Ankrum, Bob Steele, Buddy Baer, Gary Crutcher
Giant From The Unknown – Movie Review:
Directed by Hawaiian born filmmaker Richard E. Cunha, the same man who gave us Frankenstein's Daughter and Missile To The Moon, is set in and around the small California mountain town of Pine Ridge. The locals are in a bit of a huff lately, as they've found some animals torn to bits and, more recently, ...
Gambling City (No Shame Films) DVD Review
Released by: No Shame Films
Released on: July 26th, 2005.
Director: Sergio Martino
Cast: Luc Merenda, Dayle Haddon, Corrado Pani, Enrico Maria Salerno, Lino Troisi
Gambling City – Movie Review:
Luc Merenda (the handsome French star of Sergio Martino's earlier The Violent Professionals and Joe D'Amato's Tough To Kill) stars in this thriller from Sergio Martino that walks the line between an Italian crime film, a drama, a comedy, and a thriller.
Merenda plays Luca Altieri. When we first meet Luca, he's decked out in jeans and a sweatshirt but still ...
Lady Frankenstein (Nucleus Films) Blu-ray Review
Released by: Nucleus Films
Released on: April 17th, 2019.
Director: Mel Welles
Cast: Rosalba Neri, Joseph Cotton, Paul Mueller, Herbert Fux, Mickey Hargitay
Lady Frankenstein – Movie Review:
Long a staple of budget releases and multipacks thanks to its 'public domain' status, Lady Frankenstein stars the gorgeous Rosalba Neri (credited as Sara Bay) as Tania Frankenstein, the daughter of the infamous Baron Frankenstein (Joseph Cotton). When we meet her, she's just been accredited as a surgeon and is ...
Half Baked (Umbrella Entertainment) Blu-ray Review
Released by: Umbrella Entertainment
Released on: November 4th, 2020.
Director: Tamra Davis
Cast: Dave Chapelle, Harland Williams, Jim Breuer, Rachel True, Guillermo Diaz
Half Baked – Movie Review:
Tamra Davis, who a few years earlier gave us the gift that keeps on giving that is Billy Madison, directed Half Baked in 1998, a film that stars a pre-Chapelle's Show Dave Chappelle as Thurgood Jenkins. Ever since he was young, Thurgood ...
I Am Thor (Dark Sky Films) Blu-ray Review
Released by: Dark Sky Films
Director: Ryan Wise
Cast: John Mikl Thor, Mike Favata, Keith Zazzi, Steve Price, Pantera
I Am Thor – Movie Review:
Directed by Ryan Wise, I Am Thor starts in the early days of one Jon Mikl, later to become better known as Thor, the real life Canadian heavy metal superhero. We learn how Jon was obsessed with comic books and superheroes as a kid, even going to class dressed as Superman. From there, through his older brother, he got into ...
Mad Max (Kino Lorber) 4k UHD/Blu-ray Review
Released by: Kino Lorber
Released on: November 24th, 2020.
Director: George Miller
Cast: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne
Mad Max – Movie Review:
Directed by George Miller in 1979, Mad Max stars Mel Gibson as Max Rockatansky, a cop in the Australia of the dystopian future who works as a highway patrolman with the MFP, or if you're formal, the Main Force Patrol. Max is the best at what he does and what he does is chase down bad guys, when the movie ...
King Kong (Umbrella Entertainment) Blu-ray Review
Released on: October 2nd, 2020.
Director: John Guillermin
Cast: Charles Grodin, Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lang, John Randolph, Rene Auberjonois, Julius Harris, Jack O'Halloran
King Kong – Movie Review:
This 1976 take on the classic story, directed by John Guillermin for producer Dino De Laurentiis, begins when Fred Wilson (Charles Grodin), the man in charge at Petrox Oil, puts together an expedition to head out to a newly discovered island ...
I Start Counting (Fun City Editions) Blu-ray Review
Released by: Fun City Editions
Director: David Greene
Cast: Jenny Agutter, Bryan Marshall, Simon Ward, Clare Sutcliffe
I Start Counting – Movie Review:
Directed by David Greene and released in its native English in 1969 (originally with an X-rating!), I Start Counting stars a young Jenny Agutter (of Walkabout and An American Werewolf In London fame) as a fourteen-year-old teenaged girl named Wynne. She lives with her adopted mother (Madge Ryan), grandfather ...
High Plains Drifter (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray Review
Released on: October 27th, 2020.
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Billy Curtis, Mariana Hill, Geoffrey Lewis, Vera Bloom
High Plains Drifter – Movie Review:
Directed by Clint Eastwood in 1973 and written by Ernest Tidyman, High Plains Drifter begins with the ominous image of a lone stranger (Clint Eastwood) on horseback emerging out of a desert mirage of sorts. He arrives in the small town of Lago and heads into the saloon, followed by three men who obviously intend to do him harm. As they follow him around ...
Requiem For A Dream (Lionsgate) 4k UHD Review
Released by: Lionsgate
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Keith David
Requiem For A Dream – Movie Review:
Directed by Darren Aronofsky in 2000 and written by Hubert Selby Jr., who wrote the screenplay based on his own novel of the same name, Requiem For A Dream is set in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Here we meet Sara ...
Ghost Story (Nucleus Films) Blu-ray Review
Director: Stephen Weeks
Cast: Larry Dann, Murray Melvin, Vivian Mackerall, Penelope Keith, Leigh Lawson, Anthony Bate, Marianne Faithfull, Barbara Shelley
Ghost Story – Movie Review:
Set in an undetermined time period somewhere in the 1920s or 1930s, Stephen Weeks' Ghost Story begins when two former collage acquaintances, the quiet and practical Talbot (Larry Dann) and the somewhat brash and snooty Duller (Vivian Mackerall), meet at a train station. They travel together to the countryside where they get off the train in a small English village. Here they a third former schoolmate, ...
The Last Starfighter (Arrow Video) Blu-ray Review
Director: Nick Castle
Cast: Lance Guest, Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Preston, Norman Snow, Dan O'Herlihy, Chris Herbert
The Last Starfighter – Movie Review:
A film that's often forgotten about in the shadow of massive eighties blockbusters like the Indiana Jones films and the Star Wars sequels, Nick Castle's 1984 family-friendly sci-fi picture has never the less remained a popular film in the memories of those who saw it hit screens that summer… some of us even ...
The Mondo Cane Collection (Blue Underground) DVD Review
Released by: Blue Underground
Director: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi
Cast: N/A
Year: 1962/1964/1963/1966/1971/2003
The Mondo Cane Collection – Movie Review:
The filmmaking duo of Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi shocked the world with the release of their 1962 documentary, Mondo Cane. Both critically acclaimed and condemned, the film did well enough at the box office to inspire the pair to keep working within the genre, and to follow up the film with a few equally, if not more, shocking follow ups. Called 'Perhaps the most devious and irresponsible filmmakers who have ever lived' by Pauline Kael of The New Yorker, Blue Underground brings us fully restored versions of five (seven if you include the alternate versions as separate entries) of their films with a ton of extra features and an all new documentary on the team that made them.
MONDO CANE:
Mondo Cane literally translates into English as 'dogs world' which is an apt title for this film, the own that spawned the so-called 'mondo' genre of shockumentary filmmaking.
What it claims to be, essentially, is a series of loosely knit incidents of a bizarre and unusual nature, masterfully edited into a structured documentary film with some narration thrown over top of it to attempt to place it into a social context or some sort.
What it is in reality is a sort of hybrid between a legitimate study of the strange world we live in, and the crassest of exploitation films. Littered with quite a bit of human brutality, very gratuitous animal violence, and what could be very easily construed as racist overtones, Mondo Cane is, ...
Mondo Magic (Massacre Video) DVD Review
Released by: Massacre Video
Released on: August 12th, 2014.
Director: Alfredo Castiglioni, Angelo Castiglioni, Guido Guerrasio, Oreste Pellini
Cast: Marc Mauro Smith
Mondo Magic – Movie Review:
Mondo Magic (or Magia Nuda if you prefer) opens with a boat cruising through Africa while the soothing sounds of 'When A Child Is Born' playing over top. The sophisticated narrator explains to us that the purpose ...
Killing Birds (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review
Released by: Vinegar Syndrome
Director: Claudio Lattanzi, Joe D'Amato
Cast: Lara Wendel, Robert Vaughn, James Villemaire, Leslie Cumming, Lin Gaithright
Killing Birds – Movie Review:
Shot on location in Louisiana in 1987, when this film (also known as Zombie 5: Killing Birds and Raptors) begins, a military man hitches a ride to a remote house out in the swamp. Here he slits the throat of a man as he sleeps in bed next to his wife. She's next, and then he kills another, older ...
The Last Wave (Umbrella Entertainment) Blu-ray Review
Released on: September 2nd, 2020.
Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow, Vivean Gray
The Last Wave – Movie Review:
Peter Weir's 1997 picture, The Last Wave, is set in the director's native Australia and begins when, after we see some Aboriginals produce some paintings, a schoolhouse in the Outback is absolutely pummeled by a freak hailstorm that seemingly comes out of nowhere. From here, we meet a lawyer from an unusually ...
Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway (Arrow Video) Blu-ray Review
Director: Miguel Llansó
Cast: Daniel Tadesse, Agustín Mateo, Guillermo Llansó, Solomon Tashe, Gerda-Annette Allikas
Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway – Movie Review:
Shot between Ethiopia, Estonia, Latvia and Spain, director Miguel Llansó's 2019 picture, Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway, is a trip. Set in the future of 2035, the picture introduces us to Special Agent Gagano (Daniel Tadesse), a man with a deformity who works for the government but yearns to quit his job and start his ...
Memorial Valley Massacre (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review
Director: Robert C. Hughes
Cast: John Kerry, Cameron Mitchell, Karen Russell, William Smith, Mark Mears, Mark Caso
Memorial Valley Massacre – Movie Review:
When this 1988 picture begins, The Memorial Valley Campground is set to open for the first time, right on Memorial day! The line of cars outside the gate indicates to land developer Allen Sangster (Cameron Mitchell) that things are going to be a big success, and he's got ...
Action U.S.A. (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review
Thrilled this film lived up to the trailer. A lot of fun. I got a Mad Foxes vibe from the opening...
Jason C 01-18-2021 12:08 PM
Dynamic:01 The Best Of David Lynch.com (Subversive Cinema) DVD Review
He loves his lamps. I love his sink.
Mark Tolch 01-16-2021 10:57 AM
Buck Rogers In The 25th Century: The Complete Collection (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray Review
I already had the DVD set (which is one the coolest packages sitting on my shelf) but I still found...
Jason C 01-16-2021 10:14 AM
^^ "Buck Rogers night" . That is awesome :up:
La Femme-objet (Pulse Video) Blu-ray Review
R2-D2 is a very naughty boy!
Killer Meteor 01-16-2021 04:04 AM


With little of the fanfare it deserves, the new edition of Cohen's "Handbook of Federal Indian Law" is beginning to show up in law school libraries and, one hopes, on the bookshelves of federal courts around the land. This handsomely bound, nearly 650-page-long and quite expensive volume has been almost 12 years in the making, and it arrives in the nick of time. It celebrates the true legacy of Felix Cohen (1907 – 1953), the great champion of Indian rights whose spirit has been greatly abused of late in the federal courts.
But the first appearance of the handbook as an internal government document was just the beginning of a struggle against oppression. Cohen personally campaigned against injustice toward Indians and other vulnerable groups until his early death in 1953. (Like his colleague, John Collier, a fellow architect of the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act, Cohen also protested ill treatment of immigrants. He spent most of his last day alive writing an article on civil rights for immigrants.) In addition to his eloquent and often sardonic writing, he represented a number of tribes in ground-breaking litigation.
Indian law scholars have struggled ever since to recover the real Cohen. A facsimile edition in 1971 rescued the original 1941 handbook. Congress mandated an updating of the work in the 1968 Indian Civil Rights Act, and the project was finally completed with substantially new content in 1982. The federal courts, notes the current edition, have exploited the differences in tone. The Supreme Court majority in the infamous Nevada v. Hicks decision in 2001 cited the anti-sovereignty edition of the handbook, while the dissent cited the original.
The prestige and strategic importance of this reference inspired the current edition. Credit goes to Sam Deloria of the distinguished Dakota family. As director of the American Indian Law Center at the University of New Mexico, he sponsored the 1982 edition and in 1993 began to organize an update. He ultimately delegated the project to professors Robert N. Clinton and Nell Jessup Newton. After Clinton left the project in 1998, Newton carried on with the encouragement of Cohen's widow, Lucy Kramer Cohen. While dean of the University of Connecticut Law School, Newton pushed a large group of contributors through "marathon editorial and writing sessions" and had the draft substantially done by the end of 2004.
The work is published by LexisNexis Matthew Bender as the 2005 edition. The editors promise that it will be updated every two years, so a 2007 edition is already in the works. But word is spreading so slowly that the current edition is just beginning to circulate. Even though the Yale Law Library holds Cohen's personal papers, for instance, it acquired the new handbook only this May. Newton and her group of authors deserve far greater recognition for their work.
But Cohen drew his inspiration from the very first advocates of Indian rights. He repeatedly quotes Francisco de Vitorio, the 16th century Spanish theologian who by now should be a familiar name to our readers. A seminal essay in 1942 cites "The Spanish Origin of Indian Rights in the Law of the United States," crediting Vitorio with the doctrines of Indian equality and tribal self-government. Cohen might have exaggerated Vitorio's influence on the landmark decisions of Chief Justice John Marshall, as Professor Steven Newcomb maintains, but Vitorio's influence on Cohen is manifest.
We can infer another source for Cohen's Indian advocacy as well. He undertook his great work in the shadow of the Nazi drive to exterminate his own people. He explicitly saw the Indian's role in America in terms of the Jewish experience in Europe. This brings us to the second source of his fame in Indian country. He might be best known for his comparison of Indians to "the miner's canary" who warned of odorless carbon monoxide in the mineshaft. A Google search of "Felix Cohen canary" brought up 42,400 hits, many of them misquotations and misattributions.
The forces that Cohen fought are still active today, even in the guise of his liberal Democratic co-religionists, and his writings are just as important as ever. The new legal handbook that bears his name should be as widely distributed as possible, and so should his essays.


WILLEMSTAD - The police are looking for the 15-year-old Bieness Saintcyrilia Jaqueline Saint Cyr. She left home last Saturday at two o'clock in the afternoon and did not return.
Bieness is 1 meter 68 long, slender stature and has an afro haircut. On the day she left home she had a pair of jeans and a jacket in camouflage colors. She wore white with silver slippers.


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// original java class/interface

package org.orekit.python;

import org.orekit.files.general.EphemerisFile;
import org.orekit.files.general.EphemerisFileWriter;

import java.io.IOException;

public class PythonEphemerisFileWriter implements EphemerisFileWriter {

    /** Part of JCC Python interface to object */
    private long pythonObject;

    /** Part of JCC Python interface to object */
    public void pythonExtension(long pythonObject)
    {
        this.pythonObject = pythonObject;
    }

    /** Part of JCC Python interface to object */
    public long pythonExtension()
    {
        return this.pythonObject;
    }

    /** Part of JCC Python interface to object */
    public void finalize()
            throws Throwable
    {
        pythonDecRef();
    }

    /** Part of JCC Python interface to object */
    public native void pythonDecRef();

    /**
     * Write the passed in {@link EphemerisFile} using the passed in
     * {@link Appendable}.
     *
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     * @param ephemerisFile a populated ephemeris file to serialize into the buffer
     * @throws IOException if any buffer writing operations fail or if the underlying
     *                     format doesn't support a configuration in the EphemerisFile
     *                     (for example having multiple satellites in one file, having
     *                     the origin at an unspecified celestial body, etc.)
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    public native void write(Appendable writer, EphemerisFile ephemerisFile) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Write the passed in {@link EphemerisFile} to a file at the output path
     * specified.
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     *                     format doesn't support a configuration in the EphemerisFile
     *                     (for example having multiple satellites in one file, having
     *                     the origin at an unspecified celestial body, etc.)
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    public native void write(String outputFilePath, EphemerisFile ephemerisFile) throws IOException;
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Q: How to play a video in background using YTPlayer in iOS app? I am getting the following error message...

Terminating app due to uncaught exception
  'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[YTPlayerView playerView]:
  unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fd77bd41f80'

and here is my code..
- (void)applicationDidEnterBackground:(NSNotification *)notification
{
    [_playerView performSelector:@selector(playerView) withObject:nil afterDelay:0.1];

}

- (IBAction)didTapPlayPause:(id)sender {
    self.btnPlayPause.selected = !self.btnPlayPause.selected;
    if (self.btnPlayPause.selected)
    {
        self.title=self.strngvideotitle;
        self.playerView=[[YTPlayerView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,375,290)];
        [self.playerView loadWithVideoId:self.strngvideoId];
        [self.view addSubview:_playerView];

      [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(applicationDidEnterBackground:) name:UIApplicationDidEnterBackgroundNotification object:nil];

   }

A: Your code fails at this statement
[_playerView performSelector:@selector(playerView) withObject:nil afterDelay:0.1];

The statement expects that your _playerView object will call the method playerView after a delay of 0.1 seconds. But the class YTPlayerView does not have a method called playerView. You might want to check the actual method name and replace it in the selector name.

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Her Majesty the Queen has instructed her staff to let any rioters do what they want because she's had enough.
Amid reports of plans being drafted to evacuate her to safety in the event of rioting after Brexit, the Queen has told palace staff not to bother.
One close confidant of the Queen, Sir Simon Williamsby-Toffington, told us, "Her Maj is not on board with plans to evacuate her to safety, let me tell you.
"For a few reasons: Firstly, Philip would also be evacuated to the same secret location, and the thought of being couped up in a safe house with him without the option to hide in one of several hundred rooms would drive her insane.
"Secondly, she's just too tired to care anymore. She's ruled Great Britain through many trials and tribulations, and to be honest, she is a bit bored. If some peasants want to try and storm Windsor Castle or Buckingham Palace then at least it would be interesting.
"Thirdly, she's even told me in the past that if she was killed by rioters then it wouldn't be a bad way to go – being lynched by members of the working classes dressed in all their JD sports or yellow vest finery would certainly stand out in the history books.
There are rumours that Queen Elizabeth II has her fastest horse standing by to give the revolting peasants something to chase, but has instructed Philip to try and outrun the rioters in his car.


Our education system has many problems that urgently need addressing. The Labour Party has rightly made education a key issue in their General Election campaign. Education workers and trade unionists have long been highlighting the crises in curriculum, funding and teacher retention; crises that the Tories have no answers to.
1. Curriculum changes and student welfare.
During his time at the Department for Education (DfE), Michael Gove overhauled the National Curriculum and revised all key qualifications (SATs, GCSEs and A Levels). He intended to add "intellectual rigour" into schools and became obsessed with getting the UK to the top of international league tables.
This so-called rigour has horrendous consequences in the classroom. Due to the new grading system, neither pupils nor staff have any idea of what marks to predict. The exams have become so difficult that in scores collected nationally by one exam board, the average on a mock maths paper was near 11%. The chief examiner for another board advises students spend 15 minutes reading English extracts in their exam – extracts which she then spent nearly 20 minutes reading herself. I am a trilingual teacher and yet failed the Year 6 spelling and grammar SATs paper. Sceptical teachers and governors were dubbed "sherry pouring, cake slicing" "enemies of promise".
This has led to an alarming rise in mental health issues among students as young as six. The DfE's reaction? Sack their Schools' Mental Health tsar when she linked this rise to education policy. As school performance measures toughen next year and exams get even harder, this situation will only deteriorate.
Theresa May and Justine Greening claim that education has never had so much funding. While this is true, we've also never had as many students. Research by the National Union of Teachers and the Alliance of Teachers and Lecturers has found that 99% of schools will have their funding cut per pupil. Where I teach in Birmingham, this equates to £107m by 2019, the equivalent of 2898 teachers. The government has already cut money to local authorities used for pupils with special educational needs, and for important child protection measures such as DBS checks. There are hints from the DfE that this will get worse as additional funding for disadvantaged students will likely be incorporated into the new funding formula.
This is happening against a backdrop of astronomical spending on Free schools and Grammar schools. The DfE is paying head teachers' salaries before schools even open, in a bid to secure their creation. They've spent £863m on land for Free schools and expect to spend a further £2.5bn by 2022, putting them in the same spending bracket as the UK's top five home builders. A cross-party report recently condemned this "incoherent" spending, highlighting that most existing schools are over 40 years old, riddled with asbestos and requiring £7bn in restoration costs. And let's not forget that Gove scrapped all plans to rebuild England's schools, a move which he took almost overnight and later said was a mistake.
Teaching Assistants are being made redundant and class sizes are rocketing. A friend of mine teaches a class of 72. Heads are talking of giving their most experienced teachers "super sets" of 100 plus. These are the direct results of Tory deregulation and savage budget cuts.
3. Teacher recruitment and retention.
Whilst working with young people is an immense privilege, the current pressures of the job are untenable for many. Since 2010, we have seen a huge increase in teachers leaving the profession. Some 73% of school leaders have recruitment and retention issues and in 2015, 1 in 10 teachers left the classroom altogether. That's a total of 50,000 qualified teachers. Some 100,000 people train and then never teach. The teacher drop-out rate after five years is 30%. Labour Party analysis estimates that English schools spent £56m on advertising for vacant posts, a 61% increase from 2010. Of those still teaching, half are considering leaving.
Some schools are becoming rolling doors of trainees and unqualified staff who teach for one year and then leave. In the context of bigger classes, new exam specifications and hardened school accountability and performance measures, this spells disaster for our children.
The Tories' education policy plays to its voter base, using the life chances and futures of deprived children for its own political gain. The expansion of grammar schools, flying in the face of all research, is a key part of this. These schools do not admit enough pupils from low income families, and admit even fewer of those with special educational needs. Indeed, the Tories' own white paper, which promised excellent schools for every child, made no reference whatsoever to pupils with special educational needs. This, combined with Local Authority cuts totaling £600m on top of those outlined above, means that these pupils have very little hope of accessing the services they need.
Put simply, the Tories do not care for those students. Their right-wing so-called meritocracy dismisses our most vulnerable and disadvantaged students, providing funds and teachers only for those 'willing to work' for entrance exams. It's the exact same ideology that scapegoats welfare recipients, except this time, the target is children. They have no agency and no control over the mess that this government has created. They deserve better.


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Even while writing this post, me and the rest of thefanboyseo.com team are still at a loss for the death of the Disney Princess we deserve, Carrie Fisher, who passed away a few hours ago. Her "space twin" Mark Hamill who plays Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars franchise had initially commented "no words" on his twitter account before sharing a poignant "eulogy" for Fisher.
We'll really miss OUR Princess Leia. She's now truly with the Force.


Columbus leads the Eastern Conference's final wild-card spot by one point after Montreal's 3-1 win in Philadelphia.
Coach Jim Montgomery reunited the Stars' three top scorers on the first line during the first period. In addition to Radulov's two goals and an assist, Jamie Benn had a goal and two assists and Tyler Seguin assisted on all four goals.
The Stars remained in position for the Western Conference's first wild-card spot and stayed within two points of third-place St. Louis in the Central Division.


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There is an old idiom "pull out all the stops," which references the use of all the resources or force at one's disposal in order do everything they possibly can to make something happen in the way that they want it to, and a look at some of the news we are seeing this past week, shows us that the media, big tech and liberals (Yes, I know they are all the same thing) are doing exactly that ahead of the midterm elections in order to manipulate the outcome.
A number of seemingly unrelated events are occurring simultaneously which when one takes a step back and looks at them all as a whole, rather than separate occurrences, indicates something huge is coming as we near the midterm elections.
Since that article, we have noted another strange form of protest by an unhinged, deranged Las Vegas, liberal professor who thought that shooting himself on school property was a good way to protest President Trump.
Big Tech Censors #WalkAway Founder: As many know by now there is a new movement that has become huge after a gay hairdresser from New York, Brandon Straka, created a viral video explaining why, after voting for Barack Obama, twice, he walked away from the Democratic party. Thousands started using the #WalkAway hashtag on Twitter to tell their stories of when they too felt the need to #WalkAway from the Democratic and why.
The media then went into full damage-control mode and started claiming that "Russian bots" were behind the #WalkAway campaign and hashtag.
Then Americans started using video to explain that 1) They are not Russian bots, and; 2) Why they needed to #WalkAway. Powerful testimonials, citing liberal media bias, the violence being perpetrated by the left against MAGA supporters and conservatives, lies they had been told and only discovered them after they started to research on their own and stopped trusting the liberal establishment media.
The movement exploded online and offline and the founder, Brandon Straka decided to organize a #WalkAway March for October, and has been working towards that goal for weeks.
Straka said the suspension comes ahead of his planned march on Washington, D.C. and cuts him off from over 180,000 members of his #WalkAway campaign (the #WalkAway Facebook group has just over 76,000 likes).
"I'm devastated right now. WalkAway Campaign is a grassroots movement. We don't have corporate sponsors. We don't have backers. We are raising the money and the awareness for our event ourselves. We use GoFundMe to raise money. And today Facebook took away my ability to communicate with the 180,000 members of the campaign leading up to the March," Straka told right-wing outlet the Gateway Pundit.
"This is going to smash my ability to provide information, answer questions, raise money, and rally with my people," he continued.
Note: One does not have to agree with Alex Jones to be disturbed by the coordinated censorship and the deliberate attempts to limit his online visibility, because big tech disagrees with his messaging and his opinion. The banning of Straka for nothing more than promoting his own interview regarding his #WalkAway movement is even more blatant as big tech attempts to prevent more Democrats from awakening to his message and perhaps deciding to #WalkAway themselves.
Reddit Joins Big Tech In Censoring: In another act of blatant censorship, from an unexpected source and unrelated to Straka and the #WalkAway movement, we see a number of coordinated media reports about Reddit banning a QAnon subreddit.
Disclaimier: While we at ANP do not report on the mysterious Q messages, we do watch, observe and research them as we do everything else, and whether the unknown person is what they call a "LARP" (Live action role-player) or someone really in the know, is of no consequence to the main point.
The point is censorship, preventing a large number of people, and this Q-person has a huge following, even if many do not subscribe to the belief that he/she is anything more than someone pretending to be "in the know."
When dozens of liberal establishment media outlets coordinate to report on the same story, all within hours of each other, there is always something afoot.
Now when you click any one of those subreddits, the message on the screen states "This community has been banned," and as of this writing, they all say "Banned 20 hours ago," meaning they did a sweeping ban, (censored) all subreddits at the same time, for supposedly violating their content policy.
Just as I said about the coordinated ban against Alex Jones and InfoWars, one does not have to agree with them, nor believe in all their theories or messaging, to be abhorred by the blanket ban of discussion on any topic or person that others wish to discuss online.
Twitter Declares Legal Term 'Illegal Alien' To Be 'Hateful Content: The definition of "illegal alien" is "a foreigner who has entered or resides in a country unlawfully or without the country's authorization. The DHS definition of terms also defines the word "alien" as "Any person not a citizen or national of the United States."
It appears Twitter doesn't care about proper terminology, nor legal terminology, as the Center of Immigration Studies has now been blocked from promoting any post that includes the term "illegal alien," as described in a recent set of tweets explaining Twitter's censoring of their posts.
Via their Twitter account on September 11, 2018: "1/ Twitter is not allowing us to promote any tweets including the phrase "illegal alien(s)", citing it as Hateful Content. However, the phrase "illegal aliens" has been used in both federal law and by the Supreme Court."
"2/ From Arizona v. United States (2012): "There is no reason Arizona cannot make it a state crime for a removable alien (or any illegal alien, for that matter) to remain present in Arizona. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-182b5e1.pdf"
"4/ US District Court Judge Andrew Hanen, 2015: "There is a certain segment of the population that finds the phrase 'illegal alien' offensive. The court uses this term because it is the term used by the Supreme Court in its latest pronouncement pertaining to this area of the law."
"We've reviewed your tweets and confirmed that it is ineligible to participate in the Twitter Ads program at this time based on our Hateful Content policy. Violating content includes, but is not limited to, that which is hate speech or advocacy against a protected group."
Google Leaked Video Shows Employee Snowflakes Melting Down After 2016 Election: Last but not least, Google the "biggest" of big tech, is reeling from a leaked video that Breitbart published showing Google employees, crying, group hugging and bemoaning the loss of their favored candidate, Hillary Clinton after the 2016 presidential election.
Warning: Hour-long video, and many readers will need many breaks, especially after the pathetic "group hug" so everyone can feel better after seeing Clinton lose.
They have ramped up all lines of attacks against Independent Media and conservative messaging to prevent open and free discussions online.
Bottom line here is that if these tech companies and social media platforms are getting so blatant in their open censorship, something huge is coming because they feel the ramifications later are not as important as manipulating the upcoming midterm elections.
In a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt, former Secretary of State John Kerry admitted that he's been working behind-the-scenes to salvage the Iran nuclear deal. "What I have done is tried to elicit from him what Iran might be willing to do in order to change the dynamic in the Middle East for the better," he explained. Kerry's backchannel with Iranian Forei12.8KShare219TweetEmailgn Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif has not been a one-time deal. "I think I've seen him three or four times," Kerry said, and acknowledged that his talks were occurring without the Trump administration's approval.


I'm using an array of floats in my game to represent money, if there is only 1 decimal place in a float I want to add a zero, how would I do this? For example, £1100.7 should look like £1100.70.
...you get to decide how many fractional digits to keep. In your case, you'd set the min/max to 2.
It uses Integer values so in your case it would be the integer number 110070 with the Currency code GBP You can find all the currency codes in ISO 4217 if you need others.
Forgot this thing existed; it was deprecated some time ago. It used to mess up the currency code being on the left/right of the value. If it is working as intended now, this is an elegant solution when working with bulk data.
The old AsCurrency(int) and AsCurrency(float) are deprecated yes. But the simple version where you can only input an Integer and a Currency code should work as expected.


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> > > > Craig is trying to use. So I expect this script won't work for him.
> > > package to see how it daemonizes the process.
> > > functionality he is trying to add to the system.
> > package - sometimes can't see the forest for the trees.
sysV - heck, I could just as easily start it up in rc.local.


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Fox Woman... searching through the rubble for my duck feet
The children's book writer Theodor Seuss Geisel, who wrote under the pseudonym "Dr Seuss", had other pseudonyms too. In one of his lesser known books I Wish that I Had Duck Feet, he goes by Theo. LeSieg (LeSieg is Geisel backwards).
I began reading I Wish that I Had Duck Feet to my kids before I had actually previewed it, and was appalled by the end of the book, how the story turns, and how it ends. I didn't know Theo. LeSieg was another name for Dr. Seuss, so I didn't have my irony hat on. I even said to myself, "wow, that is sort of the antithesis to Dr Seuss!"
If I could ask him, I would inquire if he really thought young kids could grasp this kind of extreme irony.
In the book, there is a little boy who wishes he had duck feet, and then antlers, and then a whale spout, then a tiger tail, and then an elephant trunk for a nose. In each case he imagines, the boy arrives at the conclusion that either his mother, or society, would end up rejecting him. Then, he dreams about having the duck feet, antlers, whale spout, tiger tail and elephant nose all at once, and on that page, there is an illustration of him being mocked by proper folk, and arrested by police on the street. He begins to realize that none of these wild accoutrements have any place in his world. So at the end of the book, he has nothing of the wild left, and a crowd of well-adjusted, civil folk are beaming at him with pride, and approval. The very last page is of him walking away from a trash can, full of wild things.
Knowing a bit about Dr Seuss, I can't possibly believe he would have written this book as a lesson to teach children to be tame and proper. It's almost like a code for the opposite.
This week, my husband Ian, listened to one of my favourite recordings of mythologist Martin Shaw, telling the story of the Fox Woman, so we've been having wonderful conversations about the story.
Here is an excerpt telling of the Fox Woman Dreaming story, from Dr Martin Shaw's essay Turning our Heads from the Pelt:
Once upon a time there was a lonely hunter. One day, exhausted, returning to his hut over the snow, he saw smoke coming from his chimney. When he entered the shack, he found a warm fire, a hot meal on the table, and his threadbare clothes washed and dried. There was no one to be found.
The next day, he doubled back early from hunting. Sure enough, there was again smoke from the chimney, and he caught the scent of cooking. When he cautiously opened the door, he found a fox pelt hanging from a peg, and woman with long red hair and green eyes adding herbs to a pot of meat. He knew in the way that hunters know that she was fox-woman-dreaming, that she had walked clean out of the Otherworld. "I am going to be the woman of this house" she told him.
The hunters life changed. There was laughter in the hut, someone to share in the labour of crafting a life, and, in the warm dark when they made love, it seemed the edges of the hut dissolved in the vast green acres of the forest and the stars.
Over time, the pelt started to give off its wild, pungent smell. A small price you would think, but the hunter started to complain. The hunter could detect it on his pillow, his clothes, even on his own skin. His complaints grew in number until one night the woman nodded once across their small table, her eyes glittering. In the morning she, and the pelt, and the scent, was gone.
It is said that to this day the hunter waits by the door of his hut, gazing over snow, lonely for even a glimpse of his old love.
For me, because I am a daughter of the Christian household, I can't help but often look through that lens. Meaning… when I hear the Fox Woman Dreaming story, I often think of the wildness of the garden and the attempted taming of God. In other words, when I hear the story, I sort of invert the common Eden telling, which usually assumes that everything was nice, and tame, prior to the infamous fruit eating, and only after the fruit eating, is when everything became wild. But what if buried deep in that story, is a forgetting of a primordial part of ourselves that must be remembered, for recapitulation?
And of course, we could say, this tempering the wild, is a necessary part of evolution. Dealing with the lizard brain. Finding practices to aid us with irrational fight or flight reactions. Yes, right, of course, but that does not rule out the question: are there more sides to the evolutionary coin? In our process of evolving beyond the lizard brain, have we also tamed imperative wild parts of ourselves, wild creation, and God too? I'll warrant that this sort of taming is in desperate need of a major course correction.
For mythologist Martin Shaw, particularly schooled in his place in the world, Devon, he does see that there is a bridge from the wild to "conviviality" or what he would call "gallantry". In his language, real, whole, wildness is connected to whether or not we are initiated. This is my language, too.
We have traded the wild and the hearty, for uninitiated civility - and in most cases, we have called this civility, "Christian".
I recently mentioned being at my friend's place, and seeing a nerve gas mask from WWI, hanging on the same wall as an elongated ritual mask of an indigenous origin. These side-by-side images are still haunting me.
My great uncle had to wear one of those nerve gas masks. And one of the times he wasn't, the nerve gas overcame him, in some filthy trench.
When I used to sit on his knee, I could feel how shaky his body was, and I would look up at the part of his eye that had been grazed by shrapnel.
There he was, born into the story of violence in the name of civility. He had been swept up into the machine of the uninitiated, that would catapult technology into the unimaginably fast pace we find it today.
For some time now, I have been haunted by the concept that our relationship with, and financial investments in technology, has had something to do with separating wholes, and sundering sacred unions, in order to destroy. Like, in order to have God-like powers to destroy life, we need to pull apart and tamper with the building blocks of life.
Then, when I was recently on pilgrimage to Iona, I listened to John Philip Newell speak of his mentor George McLeod. I was truly awestruck by McLeod's mysticism, as I soaked in his palpably present legacy there in that place.
This quote of McLeod's pummelled me even further than I've ever gone, into the haunted longing for initiated union with the wild, and with the God of that wild. It made me yearn for a different story. One in which innovation merges into a union with nature.
This longing never ceases, and is like a prayer.
Here is a quote from Daily Readings with George McLeod, page 68-9,
Suppose the material order, as we have argued, is indeed the garment of Christ, the Temple of the Holy Ghost. Suppose the bread and wine, symbols of creation, are indeed capable of redemption awaiting its Christification. Then what is the atom but the emergent body of Christ?…
The Feast of the Transfiguration is August 6th. That is the day when we 'happened' to drop the bomb at Hiroshima. We took His body and we took His blood and we enacted a cosmic Golgotha. We took the key to love and we used it for bloody hell.
Nobody noticed. I am not being cheap about other people. I did not notice it myself. I was celebrating the Feast of the Transfiguration, in a gown and a cassock, a hood, a stole, white hands, saying with the whole Christian ministry, 'This is my body. This is my blood.'
The while our 'Christian civilization', without Church protest, made its assertion of the complete divorce between spirit and matter.
One man noticed. When the word came through to Washington of the dropping of the atom bomb - 'Mission successfully accomplished'- Dr Oppenheimer, in large degree in our name its architect, was heard to say, 'Today the world has seen sin.'
I recently listened to the podcast Another Name for Everything with Richard Rohr, Brie Stoner and Paul Swanson. It was the episode from the second season, on parenting. I found myself weeping when Richard said, "if you're a Christian, sing Jesus Loves Me to your children." He was speaking about children needing to enter into the Mystery through the particular. Ever since then, I have been singing it every day with my young kids. One time this week, they even sang it with me to the rhythm of my milking our Jersey cow, Lady Susan. It doesn't get more "particular" than that.
This song Fox Woman, can be heard at many levels. And I am daring to "interpret" the story through song in the first place. What comes up for me with this story is how much we fear the wild, certainly, but mostly, how much we fear death. And maybe even through insular walls, we fear a Creator with both feminine and masculine fire, that would indwell in oneness, with such a wild, fertile, unpredictable world. The voice in this song could be Mother Earth herself, baring her dark breasts, levelled by industry, and showing us her commodified womb, running dry.
For my part, I sing Fox Woman with the longing I have for collective reunion, with our wild creator, and with this wild world. We are causing all kinds of extinction, through the severance story we tell ourselves. And to be at least a bit gentle to people... it is very likely that this severance story resulted at the dawn of human consciousness of mortality. And maybe the reunion story will happen, when we make peace with death.
In the meantime, the lie of separation muffles the cry of the earth, the cry of the wild, and the cry of you, yourself. Because your cabin in the woods, is the Fox Woman's cabin. And she may very well still be stirring a stew at the fire, but has only left your awareness.
We will be forever haunted... we are atomic garments of Christ.
To close, I want to mention again the book I Wish that I Had Duck Feet, written by Theo. LeSieg.
I wonder if perhaps Dr Seuss had heard a rendition of Fox Woman Dreaming, and then perhaps put his tongue in his cheek, and gave civilization what it was looking for. A tame child, who leaves wild things behind. But I wonder also, if he might have written a secret last page we will never see, and on that page, the child grows up to then pick up a gun, or a bomb, as though that is the appropriate, civilized next step, that we all ought to accept.
Look at the image below, of all the wild things in the trash can. If you look more closely, you will see a set of paint brushes, a guitar, and a manuscript, of a novel, or book of poetry.
And although he aches for those wild things, the grown up boy's parting line will be,
"long live short term profits".
Bearing Witness... is true witnessing.
This is a sermon I've prepared to preach at the Erickson Lutheran Church tomorrow.
14But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed,
knowing from whom you learned it, 15and how from childhood you have
known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through
faith in Christ Jesus. 16All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for
teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17so that
everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good
work. 4:1In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living
and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I solemnly urge
you: 2proclaim the message; be persistent whether the time is favorable or
unfavorable; convince, rebuke, and encourage, with the utmost patience in
teaching. 3For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound
doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers
to suit their own desires, 4and will turn away from listening to the truth and
wander away to myths. 5As for you, always be sober, endure suffering, do the
work of an evangelist, carry out your ministry fully.
2nd Timothy 3:14-4:5
I want to respond to the 2nd Timothy text this morning, but I'm going to arrive at the text in a round about way.
Two weeks ago, I was on pilgrimage to the Isle of Iona, Scotland. This island is a place where the ancient history of Celtic Christianity bridges a gap into the very ancient indigenous world of the Hebrides and Scotland.
I sat with other pilgrims in the ruins of St Columba's hermitage and learned that when Columba and his brother monks went off to evangelize on mainland Europe in the 5th Century, they went around recognizing the light, the essential goodness and giftedness, of everyone they met. Almost like being a Christian was more about bearing witness to God's beauty and holy purpose in each person, rather than "witnessing" to them.
These days, a part of my journey is digging back into my own heritage, Scottish, Polish and British, to understand, to heal trauma, and so on.
Back in 2009, I was performing a concert in Ullapool, Scotland and was able to travel north from there, to Achmelvich, which is far west and north of Inverness, by the ocean. That is where my McRae ancestors come from. Where my great grandmother grew up.
There was some strange pull there, like my cells were somehow tied to the place, and really ever since then, I have been drawn to understand not only my Christian roots, but also my pre-Christian roots. Like there are pieces to the puzzle that were dropped as we began to tell our story of separation from God and each other.
There has been traditionally, an inclination to interpret this reading in 2nd Timothy, as a shutting off of our pre-Christian history. This text has been used to shy us away from being tempted to mine the wisdom and practices that were passed down from our ancestors.
I want to tell just a few stories I've been exploring, to show you the beauty we can find in prehistory.
After the last ice age, in the Scottish highlands and in the Hebrides, there was a people who began venturing there in the summertime. Other inhabited regions between the mainland of Europe and the British isles, which were once attached to the mainland, were eventually covered by the sea and it is believed that some of the people who began hunting and gathering in the summer months in the land we now call Scotland came from lands and cultures that are now under the English channel.
As the region began to warm, and the land, although harsh and challenging, became more inhabitable, and huts began being built and ways of life became more solidified, expressions of culture and spirituality began to emerge. First through rituals held in caves, invoking more feminine gods, and then through standing stones, stone carvings and eventually timber pole circles.
On one island, from around the 4000BC, there are mass, grass covered mounds to this day, that contain the shells of various shell fish, which it is thought, represented a ritual expression of gratitude for the bounty of the sea. Human bodies are buried within the mounds, and due to other burial expressions it is thought these burials are an expression of people giving back to what sustained their lives while they lived. A sort of circular invocation of gratitude.
In other tombs, people are buried with their hand holding a seal fin. It is thought, this most likely indicates that the seals would bring the spirits of the people into the deeps of the sea that fed them.
Another burial site was found in Northern Scandinavia of a mother and her baby, who probably both died during childbirth, and the baby is buried in the cradle of a swan's wing.
It is interesting that the word inhabit, holds the word "habit". Historians use the term "enduring habits" for expressions of culture that cannot be traced back to their origin, but have been practiced by a people for a very long time.
In the Shetland Islands, the practice of a bird hunt has been going on since the folks on the island can remember. The hunt involves men scaling down vast vertical cliffs to get to the area where they catch the birds. The practice of this develops a certain set of muscles and skeletal structure in the men.
More recently, a tomb was found where the men buried there, along with skeletons of this particular bird, had the exact same body development as the men who practice this bird hunt today. It indicates that this ritual has been practiced at least since about 4000BC, and until that tomb was found, it was simply a habit practiced by the people, because they carried the tradition within them.
In my research, I've also learned that the last of the tribal Picts in Scotland, were found living in a cave in 1915. These people, living in a traditional way, were forced out of their home, and cave dwelling was immediately outlawed.
There is in each of us, a wildness that was punished, shamed, and "put to rights". But something that comforts me is that I see this very wildness, in the person of Jesus.
In the 2nd Timothy reading, because we've been trained to take the word at its word, to a fault, most of us will be very quick to hear it as a teaching that would tell us to remove our own cultural history from under our feet. In that context, these enduring habits that have been passed down from generation to generation, quickly and flatly become the myths we're are told not to have itching ears for, and not to wander away to. In other words… this text, and many others have been used out of context, to annihilate the cultures of people. To disempower the ways and stories and habits that enrich our lives and connect people to community and to our ancient past.
But what happens when we place this same text within the context of the myths of the Greco Roman power structure instead?
When Rome invaded Britain in 46AD, Britain didn't go down without a great fight. One of the leaders who fought, was a woman named Boudica. The reason I bring Boudica up, is because she actually led a charge on the Temple of Claudius, which brought it to rubble.
Now, what is interesting about this, is that once Constantine had Christianized the Western Roman world, the very first church in Britain was built on the foundations of the Temple of Claudius.
It stands today in Colchester, England.
See, Constantine's Christianity is about exceptionalism and victory. It is about the church triumphant. In other words, by building a church for Christ on the foundations of the temple of Claudius, he superimposed the Jesus figure onto the Roman teaching that once a Caesar had died, they became a god to be worshipped. It perpetuated the hierarchy of royalty and oppression. This is not to say that Jesus wasn't God incarnate. It is to say that we've generally followed the lead of worshipping Jesus like a Caesar, instead of as the self-emptying, outpouring, interwoven God Jesus exemplified.
What if we were to read this 2nd Timothy text once a day for the next week, and examine how we "wander off" to the myths our civilization tells us?
Or rather, because I love the word "myth" so much, I'll say, how do we wander off to the lies our civilization tells us?
Here are a few of the lies.
That there is never enough.
That life is a race to be won at whatever cost.
That we are not intricately connected.
That the suburban family nucleus is the only model for living that has ever existed.
That everything must and always be, institutionalized.
That we are either "totally depraved" as John Calvin taught us,
Or as science often teaches, that we are generic blobs, in competition with each other, and there is no inspirited nature to the universe.
What if we considered that these are the lies that we wander off to?
What if doing the work of evangelism and not wandering off to the lies, is, like Columba and his brothers, and I daresay Jesus, to recognize the light and abundance of gifts in ourselves and others?
What if the very "myths" we have been told to be rid of, are the rich, cultural stories we actually ought to be developing? Many of our cultural stories are the ones that tell us that we are, as Charles Eisenstein says, "people of the Gift". People of life. Of sunshine. Of water. Of the earth.
Julien of Norwich even says "we are made of God". Not just by God.
I was recently at a friend's place and he has this beautiful, elongated mask from, I believe, an indigenous tribe in South East Asia. Hanging on the same wall, is this complete, elongated nerve gas mask from World War 1. And I was struck by how quickly we've made one mask "savage", and the other one "civil". Almost no stories or ritual belong to the WW1 mask. And it comes from the result of believing the lies of our civilization. The other mask, no doubt, has a rich, deep ritual, and probably a story… most likely pointing to interconnection.
The Waterboys have a great song that simply says,
I'm gonna look twice at you
Until I see the Christ in you
Till I'm looking through the eyes of love
That is true evangelism. It isn't persuasion. It is simply the way you look at the world.
And the way we look at the world is the story we tell ourselves. What if there really is joy, texture, richness and inspirited truth in every atom in the universe?
The way we collectively look at the world is how the world is.
Carrying out our ministry fully, is more about not living the lie that we are truly and completely prosperous, when others are enslaved. It is about no longer saying matter and spirit are separate. And in that case, I will go so far to say, carrying out our ministry is about encouraging the recovery of myths and stories and languages that were lost, quite possibly at at the hands of a bad interpretation of this very 2nd Timothy text.
If we can remember our original instructions of interconnectivity, we will be able to move forward into a more Christ indwelling world. "For I shall put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people." "No longer will they teach one another, or say to each other "Know the Lord", for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord, for I shall forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more."
Balance Needs Diversity - a lament, and a hope
* If you are reading this and your experience is as a colonized person, your journey is especially precious, as you navigate healing and taking your stand. This piece was not written to you, so much as in respect of you.
I recently did a pilgrimage to Iona, Scotland that was led by one of the great Celtic Christian voices in the world, John Philip Newell. John Philip stands in the wondrous lineage of George McLeod, Alexander Scott, George MacDonald, St Brigid, Eriugena, Pelagius and Columba as well as a host of Eastern mystics who have lit up his life in the last 30 or so years.
One of the reasons I applied for the scholarship to attend this pilgrimage, is because I was once told by an Anishinabe woman that it wasn't so much that she wanted me to "go back to Poland, or Scotland", (the land of my ancestors), but that she believes that white people need to find out who they are. "Because most white people I've met have a sickness in them", she said. To be clear, I hadn't asked her the cliche question "what, do you want me to go back?" She brought it up, and I deeply appreciated it.
After hearing her say that, it reminded me of Thomas Merton, (in his talk on Sufism to his novices), saying that, "the war in Vietnam is America working out its own neurosis."
A good part of my journey to the Hebrides was connected to this longing we all have… that reaches back into our own past, to retrieve a cultural wisdom that was suppressed and outlawed, but still found ways to spring back up and resurrect through the cracks.
The other part of my journey also carried the complexity of wanting to wrestle with the demons of being born a colonizer ("We are Legion"). If I am to do the work of untying knots and picking up lost threads, I have to "go there", and look it straight in the eye. There is no getting around it. There is no smoothing it over. It is difficult, serious work, and it shows up in every facet of life, once you can see it.
I have to face these demons with the Muses and ancestors companioning me, so I don't flatten the intricate terrain, into an oversimplification. For those of us who have been enchanted by white privilege, we really have no long game, and can often be entitled, when we want change. We as oppressors-who-are-waking-up, can end up in a sort of insipid, spoiled, trance, that makes us flimsy and whiny when in a pinch. Our muscles for subtlety and music are often drastically atrophied, because they haven't had to be fine-tuned. We need wise leaders of colour, many of whom are women or lgbtq+, to be the most heard, the most watched, and the most followed, for what lies ahead. The decentralized, must be held as our center.
And we need to dig down into our own histories.
What was perhaps most striking and surprising from my journey to Iona, was my encounter with Brigid, the goddess from the Celtic druidic tradition, and also the 6th Century Abbess of Kildare, St Brigid. Although most of Brigid's wells were filled in throughout Scotland, seen as heretical by the Church of Scotland, there is still one of Brigid's wells, on the Isle of Iona.
It was, for lack of a better description, a mystical experience, being touched by that well. Like some squelched, primordial creature (the Divine Feminine?) that had been long stuck in my throat, was unfettered and released.
I tasted a bit of the freedom that had been there, in the beautiful, organic syncretism before the State interfered with celtic paganism, and celtic Christianity in the 6th century.
I had visions of Brigid suckling the Christ child, as I stood on the highest hill in Iona, Dùn, knowing that the picking up of what has been long forgotten, is needed for the road ahead.
For Brigid, whose druidic lineage had an understanding of "Animism", the Christ mystery would have been seen as an affirmation. A Mirror that had traveled across vast lands and waters to meet with her ancient wisdom and intuition.
Brigid happily called Christ her Druid, which was to place him in the highest prestige she could.
The Celtic imagination seamlessly could call Brigid the midwife, or foster mother of Jesus, with images of her as his wet nurse. As though she was one of the necessary bridges for pre-Christian wisdom to be carried forward into a widening sphere of acceptance and belonging in that region and culture.
I speak of the legend of Brigid, to point out that somewhere in there, deep under the roots of British colonialism, is a vibrant, plethora of expressions and colours, not conforming to the corruption of the uniform, and the bland.
I wrote this new song White, White World, as a lament - that conformity and vapid monoculture, has driven the complex garden of Creation into such painful imbalance.
I have a theory that the earth's imbalance and power-lust, is 100% connected to the avoidance of untended wounds.
In other words, the balance of the climate, of power, of the earth herself,... will not occur until those of us who "fit in", (in other words, who have built-in power), let the Big Grief come, and give ourselves away. Including giving away, a whole lot... of actual, physical possessions, and property.
I really believe climate change won't be healed with technology, but is a direct result of the imbalance of who gets to steward our breathtakingly beautiful earth.
Perhaps a good measuring stick for blindness to imbalance, is how much time we spend, trying to please and find acceptance in this society. Somewhere in there, for every single one of us, "fitting in" sits uncomfortably, because, it really isn't who any of us are.
Jiddu Krishnamurti said, "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Most people who judge others as "broken" or "fallen", are the most broken inside. Hiding behind apparently respectable lives.
Every time I am tempted and desperate to fit in to what is seen as normal, there is some Voice in me that calls me back out to the edges... and that has perhaps been my most truest Christ encounter. Not everyone has the luxury of choosing the edges like I do. That's just where they're put.
None of the gospels were written in a privileged vacuum. They originated during the excruciating pain of occupation, and after the horrors of temple destruction, and civil war. When the writers remembered in their own way, the rebel of colour, who lived in nonviolent defiance of "civilization".
And somehow, this wisdom was passed on... that defiance of the kingdoms of this world, was a God thing. Which is why the gospels looks so ugly and SO boring, when possessed by the dominant culture.
I just can't do it.
So, probably very much like you, I seek. I sit in the Unknown. I journey. I long. For a radical balancing, that will challenge me, and that, I hope... will effing rock this world back into vibrancy.
As Martin Luther King said in this NBC interview, most white folk want "more of an instalment plan for equality". But that's not how Christ works. That's not how Symbiosis and Nature works either.
Monoculture is killing our planet.
So... it's time to drop the instalment plan, and go for the gusto.
For the love of God, I guarantee it will be more interesting.
PS-
*As a regenerative farmer of white settler heritage, and a songwriter with an AMAZING audience, I have committed to raising awareness about land reparations for Black, Indigenous and People of Colour. Please consider supporting Randy and Edith Woodley to resurrect their farm Eloheh/Eagle's Wings. After being attacked by a white supremacist group and having to move, they are ready to begin doing their healing work again, this time in New Mexico.
I can hear the land weeping for their presence. This is the tangible balancing that I speak of!
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The Complainant is NetEarth Group, Inc of London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, internally represented.
The Respondent is Stichting1 OpenTLD WHOIS Proxy of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
The disputed domain name <netearthone.biz> is registered with OpenTLD B.V. (the "Registrar").
The Complaint was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the "Center") on March 11, 2015. On March 11, 2015, the Center transmitted by email to the Registrar a request for registrar verification in connection with the disputed domain name. Following a reminder from the Center, the Registrar on March 16, 2015, forwarded an email to the Center stating that the "the domain has been deleted" and that it would soon be available for registration again. The Center on March 18, 2015, sent an email reminding the Registrar of the requirements of paragraph 3.7.5.7 ICANN Expired Domain Deletion Policy.
Subsequently, on March 20, 2015, the Center noted with concern the Registrar's failure to provide a full response to the Center's request for registrar verification, and requested a reply on or before March 23, 2015. On March 24, 2015, the Registrar forwarded a response to the Center, indicating that "the domain name has been deleted at the Regstry [sic]". The Registrar answered "yes" to the question whether the disputed domain name was or would be placed on Registrar lock and would remain so during the course of proceedings under paragraph 8 of the Policy.
In accordance with the Rules, paragraphs 2(a) and 4(a), the Center formally notified the Respondent of the Complaint, and the proceedings commenced on March 24, 2015. In accordance with the Rules, paragraph 5(a), the due date for Response was April 13, 2015. The Respondent did not submit any response. Accordingly, the Center notified the parties of the panel appointment process on April 14, 2015.
The Center appointed William R. Towns as the sole panelist in this matter on April 28, 2015. 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. Due to exceptional circumstances, the date for the Panel to submit its decision to the Center was extended to May 19, 2015.
The Complainant and its subsidiary companies (NetEarth One, Inc., NetEarth UK Limited, and NetEarth LLC) provide Internet related services in the Americas, Asia and Europe markets under the names NetEarth and NetEarth One. These services include domain name registration services. NetEarth One, Inc. is an accredited ICANN registrar, and NetEarth UK Limited is an accredited Nominet registrar. The Complainant owns a Community Trade Mark ("CTM") registration for NETEARTH, filed on November 17, 2008 and registered on June 16, 2009. The Complainant and various subsidiaries offer their services under the NETEARTH mark. The Complainant and its subsidiaries also own a number of domain names which consist of or incorporate the NETEARTH mark.
The Respondent named in the Complaint appears to be a privacy protection service affiliated with the Registrar OpenTLD B.V. ("OpenTLD"). OpenTLD trades under the name "Freenom". The disputed domain name was registered on August 14, 2014. Prior to the filing of the Complaint the disputed domain name was used to divert Internet users to a website soliciting Complainant's customers to switch to the Freenom,2 which in turn redirected to a page on Freenom's website ("www.freenom.com/en/resellers"), offering domain name services similar to those provided by the Complainant and its subsidiaries.
WhoIs records provided by the Complainant reflect that on August 14, 2014 – the same day the disputed domain name was registered – either OpenTLD or its affiliated proxy service Stichting OpenTLD WHOIS Proxy registered no less than six (6) other domain names corresponding to trade names or trademarks of domain name service providers with whom OpenTLD/Freenom competes.3 OpenTLD was the sponsoring registrar for all such registrations. A use similar to that made with <netearthone.biz> in this case was made with these domain names.
The Complainant submits that the true registrant of the disputed domain name is OpenTLD (d/b/a Freenom), and not the proxy service shown in the WhoIs records. The Complainant advances this argument given the use to which the disputed domain name has been put, OpenTLD's registration of additional domain names corresponding to trademarks of its competitors, and the similar use of these domain names.
The Complainant submits that the disputed domain name is confusingly similar to the Complainant's registered mark NETEARTH, and that the addition of the common or descriptive term "one" does not serve to distinguish the disputed domain name from the Complainant's mark. According to the Complainant, its NETEARTH mark is inherently distinctive and in no way descriptive of the services provided under the mark. The Complainant further notes that the disputed domain name is virtually identical to the trade name of one of its subsidiaries, NetEarth One, Inc. (an accredited ICANN registrar).
The Complainant maintains that the Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the disputed domain name. According to the Complainant, the Respondent, a direct competitor of the Complainant, is not and has never been connected to the Complainant and is not licensed or permitted to use the Complainant's registered trade mark. The Complainant asserts that it is "utterly inconceivable" that the Respondent was unaware of the Complainant and its rights in the NETEARTH mark, given that the Respondent has operated in the same commercial field for a number of years.
The Complainant reiterates that its NETEARTH mark is inherently distinctive and in no way descriptive of the services being provided either by the Complainant or the Respondent. The Complainant submits that consequently there is simply no legitimate or justifiable reason for the Respondent to have registered the disputed domain name. The Complainant points to the Respondent's registration on a single day of multiple domain names corresponding to the names and trademarks of competitors as further evidence that the Respondent is not making a bona fide use of the disputed domain name.
The Complainant contends that the Respondent registered and is using the disputed domain name in bad faith. The Complainant maintains that the Respondent and the Registrar (OpenTLD) are one and the same. According to the Complainant, this conclusion is supported by the use of the disputed domain name firstly to resolve to a website that seeks to entice the Complainant's NetEarth One customers to switch to the service provider "Freenom" with the words "Ever wondered if it's just One Earth Network? Enter Freenom's new world and get domains at cost price"; which then automatically redirects to the webpage "www.freenom.com/en/resellers". On that page, the Respondent offers services that compete with those provided by the Complainant under its NETEARTH mark.
The Complainant urges that bad faith also is clearly indicated by the Respondent's registration of six other domain names corresponding to trademarks of other competitors of the Respondent, and by the use of these domain names in a manner similar to how the disputed domain name has been used. The Complainant maintains that the public would likely expect the disputed domain name to resolve to a website operated by the Complainant. However, the Complainant explains that entering the words "netearth" or "netarthone" into a search engine generates a list of websites that includes the Respondent's website, which contains advertising actively targeting the Complainant's customers.
In view of the foregoing, the Complainant submits that the Respondent registered and is using the disputed domain name to generate revenue and to divert consumers looking for the Complainant's services to a website offering competing services. The Complainant submits bad faith registration and use within the meaning of the Policy is demonstrated in at least the following respects: (1) the disputed domain name was registered primarily for the purpose of disrupting the business of a competitor; an (2) in using the domain name, the Respondent is intentionally attempting to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to its website by creating a likelihood of confusion with the Complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of the Respondent's website, or of a product of service on that website.
Although cases of this nature are somewhat unusual, UDRP panels consistently have held that a registrar who registers a domain name, either for its own account or through a subsidiary, can be the "holder of a domain name registration against which a Complainant is initiated" under paragraph 1 of the Rules, and thus a proper respondent in a proceeding under the Policy. See, e.g., Pernod Ricard v. Tucows.com Co, WIPO Case No. D2008-0789 (three-member panel); General Electric Company v. Marketing Total S.A, WIPO Case No. D2007-1834; DAVIS VISION, Inc. v. Demand Domains, Inc., NAF Claim No. 1142731; and Paxar Americas, Inc. v. eNom, Inc., NAF Claim No. 980114. See also Markel Corporation. v. Tucows.com Co, WIPO Case No. D2007-1750.
"If this were not the case, then domain name registrars could, with impunity under the Policy, register and use domain names in a manner that inflicts harm on legitimate rights holders. Such a result would lie directly contrary to the very goals of the Policy -- recognition and preference to the legitimate rights of trademark holders as against abusive domain name registration."
Based on the undisputed facts in the record, including the identification of the WhoIs registrant as a privacy service affiliated with the Registrar (OpenTLD B.V. d/b/a Freenom), and the use of the disputed domain name by the Registrar as reflected in the record, the Panel concludes that the Registrar is the actual or true registrant of the disputed domain name, and thus the proper Respondent in this case.
The Panel considers the Respondent's conduct in its capacity as the Registrar highly suspect. As noted earlier, the Registrar delayed for five days before providing any response the Center's initial request for registrar verification of March 11, 2015. The Registrar's initial reply on March 16, 2015, did not respond to the Center's request for registrar verification other than stating that the disputed domain name had been "deleted" and would "soon be available for registration". On March 18, 2015, the Center reminded the Registrar of paragraph 3.7.5.7 ICANN Expired Domain Deletion Policy. When on March 24, 2015, after further reminders from the Center, the Registrar finally made an ostensible effort to address the specifics of the Center's request for verification, the Registrar indicated that "the domain name has been deleted at the Regstry [sic]", but answered "yes" to the question whether the disputed domain name was or would be placed on Registrar lock and would remain so during the course of proceedings under paragraph 8 of the Policy.
The Panel is persuaded from the record that the delays on the part of the Registrar were intentional. The Registrar appears to have violated paragraph 8 of the Policy by deleting the disputed domain name during the pendency of this proceeding instead of placing the domain name on Registrar lock. See Funix B.V. v. Domain Administrator, WIPO Case No. D2009-1048. While the Registrar represented on March 24, 2015, that the disputed domain name had been or would be placed on Registrar lock, the Registrar's representation is dubious. The Panel notes that the Registrar failed to afford the Complainant the opportunity to restore the disputed domain name in contravention of paragraph 3.7.5.7 of the ICANN Expired Domain Deletion Policy, even after receiving a reminder from the Center.
The Panel further considers the Registrar's conduct as described herein tantamount to the abusive and bad faith practice of cyberflight. At some point after becoming aware of the Complaint, the Registrar deleted the disputed domain name (with the expiration date still some six months away), with the stated intention of that the disputed domain would become available for registration. See Fifth Third Bancorp v. Secure Whois Information Service, WIPO Case No. D2006-0696 (defining cyberflight as "an attempt to avoid or delay judicial or UDRP proceedings by changing domain registration details or registrars after learning of a complaint"). See also Funix B.V. v. Domain Administrator, supra.
In Fifth Third Bancorp, supra, the domain name at issue was registered using the registrar's privacy protection service. Shortly after receiving a letter from the complainant's attorney, to which there was no reply, the registrar informed the Center that the domain name had been "deleted" at the request of the registrant (whose identity was not disclosed). The following month the domain name was registered by a new owner and registrar. While the Panel is not aware that the disputed domain name at issue here has been registered to a new owner, the Registrar's conduct is consistent with cyberflight, and seems to be calculated to avoid or delay proceedings under the Policy. As noted above, the Registrar is the Respondent herein, and faces the same scrutiny and liability under the Policy for its conduct as would any domain name registrant.
The Policy is addressed to resolving disputes concerning allegations of abusive domain name registration and use. See Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation v. Bay Verte Machinery, Inc. d/b/a The Power Tool Store, WIPO Case No. D2002-0774. Accordingly, the jurisdiction of this Panel is limited to providing a remedy in cases of "the abusive registration of domain names", also known as "cybersquatting". See Weber-Stephen Products Co. v. Armitage Hardware, WIPO Case No. D2000-0187. See also Final Report of the WIPO Internet Domain Name Process, April 30, 1999, paragraphs 169 and 170.
Paragraph 4(c) of the Policy in turn identifies three means through which a respondent may establish rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name. Although the complainant bears the ultimate burden of establishing all three elements of paragraph 4(a) of the Policy, panels have recognized that this could result in the often-impossible task of proving a negative, requiring information that is primarily if not exclusively within the knowledge of the respondent. Thus, the consensus view is that paragraph 4(c) shifts the burden of production to the respondent to come forward with evidence of a right or legitimate interest in the disputed domain name, once the complainant has made a prima facie showing. See, e.g., Document Technologies, Inc. v. International Electronic Communications Inc., WIPO Case No. D2000-0270.
The Panel finds for purposes of paragraph 4(a)(i) of the Policy that the disputed domain name is confusingly similar to the Complainant's NETEARTH mark, in which the Complainant has established rights through registration and use. In considering the question of identity or confusing similarity, the first element of the Policy operates essentially as a standing requirement.4 The threshold inquiry under the first element of the Policy is framed in terms of whether the trademark and the disputed domain name, when directly compared, are identical or confusingly similar.
In this case, the disputed domain name incorporates the Complainant's mark in its entirety. The inclusion of the common or descriptive word "one" does not serve to distinguish the disputed domain name from the Complainant's mark. In that respect, the Panel also notes that NetEarth One is the name of one of the Complainant's subsidiary companies. Although a generic Top-Level Domain ("gTLD") may in appropriate circumstances be considered when evaluating identity or confusing similarity, gTLDs may also be disregarded, and usually are not taken into consideration when evaluating the identity or confusing similarity between the complainant's mark and the disputed domain name. See Magnum Piering, Inc. v. The Mudjackers and Garwood S. Wilson, Sr., WIPO Case No. D2000-1525; Rollerblade, Inc. v. Chris McCrady, WIPO Case No. D2000-0429; Phenomedia AG v. Meta Verzeichnis Com, WIPO Case No. D2001-0374.
As noted above, once the complainant makes a prima facie showing under paragraph 4(a)(ii) of the Policy, paragraph 4(c) shifts the burden of production to the respondent to come forward with evidence of rights or legitimate interests in a disputed domain name. The Panel finds that the Complainant has made a prima facie showing. It is undisputed that the Respondent has not been commonly known by the disputed domain names. The Respondent, without the Complainant's authorization or consent, has registered a domain name appropriating the Complainant's NETEARTH mark. The Respondent has used the disputed domain name to divert Internet users to a website where the Respondent offers services that are competitive with those provided by the Complainant under its marks.
Based on the record in this proceeding, the Panel is persuaded that the Respondent was well aware of the Complainant's rights in the distinctive NETEARTH mark when registering the disputed domain names. The Panel concludes that the Respondent did so in order to trade on the goodwill and reputation of the Complainant's marks through the creation of Internet user confusion. Internet users could easily expect that the disputed domain name, which appropriates to the Complainant's distinctive mark, would be linked to the Complainant's website or another website that is affiliated with, or has the endorsement or sponsorship of, the Complainant. See Levantur, S.A. v. Media Insight, WIPO Case No. D2008-0774.
It is not a legitimate or fair use for the Respondent to register a domain name appropriating the Complainant's trademark (as well as trademarks of other competitors), undertaken without the trademark owner's consent, in order to create Internet user confusion and divert consumers seeking the Complainant's services to a website on which the Respondent's promotes its own competing services. In light of the foregoing, the Panel finds the Respondent's registration and use of the disputed domain name to be male fide; the Respondent's actions undermine any claim by the Respondent to have used, or made demonstrable preparations to use, the disputed domain name in connection with a bona fide offering of goods or services. The Panel further considers that the Respondent's highly questionable conduct when acting as the Registrar underscores the Respondent's lack of rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name.
For the reasons discussed under this and the preceding heading, the Panel considers that the Respondent's conduct in this case constitutes bad faith registration and use of the disputed domain name within the meaning of paragraph 4(a)(iii) of the Policy. As noted above, the Panel has determined that Respondent was well aware of the Complainant and the Complainant's mark when registering the disputed domain name. For the reasons noted earlier, the Panel concludes that the Respondent's primary motive in relation to the registration and use of the disputed domain name was to capitalize on, or otherwise take advantage of, the Complainant's trademark rights through the creation of Internet user confusion.
In that regard, the record amply supports a finding that the Respondent registered the disputed domain name for the purpose of disrupting the business of a competitor. The record further reflects the Respondent's use the domain name to intentionally attempt to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to its website or other online location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the Complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement. In addition, the record reflects actions taken by the Respondent's that, as discussed above, the Panel considers tantamount to the abusive and bad faith practice of cyberflight.
For the foregoing reasons, in accordance with paragraphs 4(i) of the Policy and 15 of the Rules, the Panel orders that the disputed domain name <netearthone.biz> be transferred to the Complainant. For purposes of implementation of the Panel's order and any appropriate actions required, the Panel requests that a copy of the Panel's decision be provided to NeuStar, Inc., the .biz Registry Operator, and to ICANN, as the accrediting authority.
1 Stichting is "Foundation" in English.
2 The website featured the following advertisement: "Ever wondered if it's just One Earth Network? Enter Freenom's new world and get domains at cost price".
3 The domain names were: <rrpproxy.me>, <key-systems.cc>, <resellerclub.tk>, <resellbiz.biz>, <godaddy.cf> and <resello.ws>.
4 See WIPO Overview of WIPO Panel Views on Selected UDRP Questions, Second Edition ("WIPO Overview 2.0"), paragraph 1.2.