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WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
ADMINISTRATIVE PANEL DECISION
WWF-World Wide Fund for Nature aka WWF International v. Moniker Online Services LLC and Gregory Ricks
Case No.�D2006-0975
1. The Parties
The Complainant is WWF-World Wide Fund for Nature aka WWF International, (formerly World Wildlife Fund), Gland, Switzerland, represented by Edwin�Coe, United�Kingdom of Great�Britain and Northern�Ireland.
The Respondents are:
(i) Moniker Online Services LLC, Florida, United�States�of�America; and
(ii) Gregory Ricks, Texas, United�States�of�America, represented by John�B.�Berryhill, Ph.d. Esq., United�States�of�America.
2. The Domain Name and Registrar
The disputed Domain Name <wwf.com> is registered with Moniker�Online Services,�LLC.
3. Procedural History
The Complaint was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the�"Center") on August�2,�2006. On August�3,�2006, the Center transmitted by email to Moniker Online Services, LLC ("Moniker") a request for registrar verification in connection with the Domain Name at issue. On August�8,�2006, Moniker transmitted by email to the Center its verification response. It advised that Gregory Ricks was the registrant (371299) and provided contact details for his administrative, billing, and technical contacts. In response to a notification by the Center that the Complaint should show Mr.�Ricks as another Respondent, the Complainant filed, under protest, an amendment to the Complaint on August�30,�2006. The Center verified that the Complaint, together with the amendment to the Complaint, satisfied the formal requirements of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the�"Policy"), the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the�"Rules"), and the WIPO Supplemental Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the�"Supplemental�Rules").
In accordance with the Rules, paragraphs�2(a) and 4(a), the Center formally notified the Respondent of the Complaint, and the proceedings commenced on August�31,�2006. In�accordance with the Rules, paragraph�5(a), the due date for the Response was September�20,�2006. The Response was filed with the Center on September�20,�2006 by Mr.�Ricks.
The Center appointed the Honorable Sir�Ian�Barker�QC, Mr.�Kiyoshi�I.�Tsuru and Professor�David�E.�Sorkin as panelists in this matter on September�29,�2006. The Panel finds that it was properly constituted. Each member of 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.
On September�21,�2006, the Complainant lodged with the Center a witness statement from its solicitor, Mr.�Clark, seeking to comment on one particular matter raised in the Response, namely the date on which Mr.�Ricks acquired the disputed Domain Name. This statement suggested that the disputed Domain Name had been acquired by Mr.�Ricks on January�20,�2003, and not "in late 2003" as stated by Mr.�Ricks in a statement annexed to the Response.
The Respondent, to whom the Complainant had copied the statement of Mr.�Clark, filed a memorandum both acknowledging his mistake and also commenting on additional material in Mr.�Clark's statement. The Respondent had alleged in his initial statement, made under penalty of perjury, that promptly upon purchase of the Domain Name, he had set up the Web Wrestling Forum. A later similar declaration claimed that he had "confused" the timeframe within which he had set up the Web Wrestling Forum with the time of purchase of the Domain Name and that his error had been unintentional.
The Panel, on October�6,�2006, issued a Procedural Order indicating that these two documents would be considered by the Panel which would then make a decision whether to admit them once it had consideration. The Panel noted that no application had been made for leave by the Complainant to file this document.
Parties have been reminded many times by WIPO Panels that there is no right as such to make supplementary filings and that the leave of the Panel should always be obtained rather than presumed. In the event, because the supplementary filings proved the date of the registration of the disputed Domain Name, an important fact in this case, the Panel has decided to consider these filings.
On October�13,�2006, the Panel requested comment from the parties on a demand that had been made to the Center by Moniker that it be removed from the proceedings on the ground that Mr.�Ricks was now shown in the WHOis information as the registrant. The Panel also sought a report from Moniker on how the registration had changed after the Complaint had been filed, if that was what had occurred. The answers provided have been considered by the Panel.
On October�20,�2006, the parties and Moniker sought to file further submissions. The�Panel refused this unmotivated request. The Panel considered that the parties had had ample opportunity to present their cases, including the filing of further submissions already.
On October�20,�2006, the Panel noted with concern and disapproval the unnecessarily large volume of documents produced by the Complainant in support of its Complaint. The exhibits weighed some five kilograms.
In the Panel's view, for example, it was not necessary for the Complainant to have exhibited the text of so many different trademark registrations (some in languages other than English – the language of the registration agreement) from a whole variety of countries with which the Respondent has no connection. One should have thought it sufficient for the relevant United States trademark to have been exhibited along with a summary of registration details of trademarks in other countries. In general, there was what can only be described as an "overkill" of documentation by the Complainant in areas where a summary would have sufficed. Such "overkill" is oppressive for both the Center and the Panel. Submission of such a large amount of documentation with a complaint gives rise to a prima facie presumption that the dispute is not readily susceptible to the streamlined adjudication process available under the UDRP.
4. Proper Respondent(s)
The name of the Registrant of the disputed Domain Name at the time when the Complaint was filed was Moniker Privacy Services. After the Complaint had been filed, the Center sought particulars of the registration and was advised by Moniker that Mr.�Gregory Ricks was the registrant and his details were provided immediately.
From the material before the Panel, it transpires that Mr.�Ricks acquired the disputed Domain Name through a privacy service operated by Moniker, known as Moniker Privacy Services. His aim in using a privacy service, as alleged in the Response, was to avoid unwanted junk and spam email and telephone solicitations made on the basis of information published in the WHOis database. Mr.�Ricks acknowledged that the Domain Name had been registered by him using the Moniker Proxy service. The�Complaint was amended at the request of the Center to show both Moniker and Gregory Ricks as Respondents. The Complainant had opposed this request but in the end went along with it.
Mr.�Ricks has acknowledged his involvement as the registrant and has invited the Panel to regard his conduct as that of the Respondent for the purposes of decision. It is accordingly appropriate to refer to him as the Respondent. References hereafter to the Respondent will be to Mr.�Ricks.
Mr.�Ricks used a proxy service to achieve registration of the disputed Domain Name. This is becoming an increasingly common occurrence. Under this arrangement the name of the true registrant is not displayed in the Registrar's WHOis database. It is said that proxy registrations have become popular with the rise of automatic harvesting of email and postal addresses and telephone numbers for the purpose of email spamming, direct marketing by mail and phone and also for fraud and identity theft. (See Fifth Third Bancorp v. Secure Whois Information Service, WIPO Case No. D2006-0696.)
In the early days of cases under the Policy, there were numerous instances where respondents had provided false or misleading contact information. The famous Telstra v. Nuclear Marshmallows, WIPO Case No. D2000-0003, is a good example. In almost all those cases, Panels were able to take a rather jaundiced view of the provision of false information by registrants hiding behind an alias or the name of some other person. However, there can be wholly legitimate reasons for a person wishing to protect privacy by means of a proxy service. Many reputable registration services now offer a proxy registration service.
Difficulty arises when an administrative proceeding is brought under the Policy, at which stage the domain name should become frozen pending resolution of the Complaint. Without addressing here the proper position vis � vis trademark owners making enquiries in the context of a possible complaint, it is for the Proxy to disclose the contact information of the beneficial owner to the dispute resolution provider and any Panel appointed by that provider. In the present case, full disclosure of Mr.�Ricks' beneficial ownership of the disputed Domain Name has been made by Moniker. But there could be difficulty if the Proxy did not do so. There is a potential for abuse by cybersquatters.
Clause 3.7.7.3 of the ICANN Registrar Accreditation Agreement is relied on by Moniker and provides as follows:
"Any Registered Name Holder that intends to license use of a domain name to the third party is nonetheless a registered domain holder of record that is responsible for providing its own full contact information and providing and updating accurate administrative contact information that it could to facilitate timely resolution of any problems that arise in connection with a registered domain name. A Registered Domain Name Holder licensing use of a registered name according to this provision shall accept liability for harm caused by wrongful use of the registered name, unless it promptly discloses the identity of the licensee to the party providing the Registered Name Holder reasonable evidence of actionable harm."
The Panel is not satisfied that the above clause really covers the proxy phenomenon. It seems to refer to the licensing of the use of a domain name in much the same way as to the licensing of the use of a trademark.
Once it was aware of the Complaint, Moniker should not have changed the publicly-available WHOis information as to the identity of the registrant, in addition to making the above-mentioned disclosure. It has taken on the responsibility of the registration of domain names on behalf of another and presumably, has obtained some business advantage for this service. One of the consequences of this mode of doing business is that during the pendency of a UDRP proceeding the Proxy as registrant cannot change the domain name registration or transfer it to the beneficial owner.
Under the Policy and Rules as presently worded, any transfer of the name of the registrant, no matter how well-intentioned, should not occur because of paragraph 8(a) of the Policy. Nor is proxy registration the same thing as naming the true registrant in the register but giving the registrant's address as being care of the Registrar. The Panel further notes that any transfers by proxy holders in the context of a UDRP case also raise questions as to how to ensure that the transferee was indeed the beneficial owner for whom that registration had been made.
If the Complainant were to prevail in this proceeding, then there would normally have to be a transfer from the registrant (in this case Moniker) to the Complainant in terms of the Policy, despite the underlying beneficial ownership.
The Panel in the Fifth Third Bancorp case considered that the party who registered the domain name is a proper respondent in a UDRP proceeding. However, this Panel disagrees with the view expressed in that case that the Policy does not contemplate in rem proceedings against the Domain Name as if it were a certain kind of property such as land or ships where the register is paramount. Because of the complications that may arise from the use of proxies or indeed from cases where wholly fictitious registration information has been provided and the true registrant cannot be known, then there is much to be said for considering the disputed Domain Name as an asset in rem susceptible to a cancellation or transfer order. That would make the system similar with, for example, land registration under the Torrens system (used in many common law jurisdictions) or ship registration. It may also offer a practical approach in the context of the UDRP to the increasing use of automated registration programs, which seem to make 'moving targets' out of registrants.
Indeed, the definition of Respondent in the Rules "means the holder of a domain name registration against which a Complaint is initiated". The Rules seem to contemplate only the holder of the registration as the respondent. The practice of having naming both the Proxy Service and the beneficial owner of the registration was followed in two recent WIPO decisions Midwest/GRS Inc and Others v. Moniker Privacy Services/Forum LLC/Registrant 187640 info@fashionid.com, WIPO Case No.�D2006-0478 and MBI, Inc. v. Moniker Privacy Services/Nevis Domains LLC, WIPO Case No. D2006-0550.
The procedure in proceedings involving a proxy WHOis service was described in Ohio Savings Bank v. 1&1 Internet, Inc. and David Rosenbaum, WIPO Case No. D2006-0881 as follows:
"When such circumstances arise, the Panel understands that the Center's current practice is typically to require the complainant to amend the complaint – either to name both the privacy service registrant and the party using the privacy service or to simply name the party using the privacy service. This practice is sensible and has the benefit of trying to get notice of the proceeding to the party that is most affected the proceeding. However, it may simply be that one of the disadvantages of using a privacy service – to be weighed against the advantages of using such a service – are delays or lack of notice of proceedings that rely on the information contained in the registration record to provide notice. By this the Panel does not intend to suggest that such a delay or lack of notice is insignificant, but that they may simple be one of the consequences of the choice to use such a service, particularly where proceedings under the Policy look to and rely on information in the registration record maintained by the registrar."
The practice of having two Respondents to a proceeding under the Policy where one is the entity against which any order has to be made and the other is the party vitally interested in the outcome and whose conduct is in issue is well-recognised in litigation and in rules of civil procedure – certainly in common law jurisdictions, as it helps to inform interested parties. This may not always be practicable, however, and in any event is not a requirement under the Policy or Rules, which are predicated on the responsibility of the registered holder of the domain name.
Moniker made a preemptory demand to the Center that its name be discharged from the proceedings. The Panel referred this request to the parties for comment. It also requested Moniker to advise whether the name of the registrant had been changed and its justification for so doing. The Complainant insisted that Moniker should remain and the Respondent submitted that it should not but it was indifferent. The Panel has considered these comments.
Moniker replied to this invitation somewhat acerbically. It challenged the right of the Center to make the enquiry. It relied on Clause 3.7.7.3 of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement, cited earlier, as a justification for showing Mr.�Ricks as registrant on receipt of the Complaint.
It is not part of the Panel's functions to adjudicate on a registrar's obligations except to the extent those obligations impinge on a UDRP complaint. The Panel, as indicated earlier, does not read that clause in that way, but this proceeding provides no forum for the proper disposition of that point of interpretation. All the Panel can do is make its own interpretation of the clause which does not, on its terms, permit a change in the publicly notified registrant while a complaint about the disputed Domain Name remains unresolved.
The Panel considers that this Complaint should proceed with both named parties for the reasons discussed above. It should be stressed that Moniker remains a pro forma respondent: that the conduct to be discussed in this decision is that of Mr.�Ricks and not that of Moniker and that Moniker has acted promptly in supplying Mr.�Ricks' details.
5. Factual Background
The Complainant is a Swiss-registered charitable organization founded in 1961 as World Wildlife Fund. It is now known as WWF Worldwide Fund for Nature and also as WWF International. It is the largest private international nature organization in the world. Via affiliated national organizations, it has virtually a worldwide presence, having some 5�million individual contributors. Over the last 10 years, it had been engaged in 3682 conservation programs in 184 different countries.
Generally, the Complainant uses the initials WWF with a depiction of a great panda. The initials with the Panda device are used to raise its profile through extensive merchandising activities throughout the world.
The Complainant owns numerous trademarks throughout the world for WWF and also for WWF plus the Panda device. Most of these marks were registered before the Respondent acquired the disputed Domain Name, including registrations in the United States long before that date. 261 out of 311 registrations of the letters WWF predate January�20,�2003, in 94 different countries – 385 out of 401 registrations of the letters WWF plus the Panda device in 108 different countries, predate January�20,�2003. The�national organizations affiliated to the Complainant are licensed to use the marks. These have been used on periodicals, reports and goods by licensees of the Complainant and/or its national organizations for many years, including prior to January�20,�2003.
No license to use any of its trademarks was ever given to the Respondent, by the Complainant or any of its authorized national institutions.
The disputed Domain Name was first used by a company originally called Worldwide Wrestling Federation, more recently, World Wrestling Federation ("the Federation"). In 1979, it traded under the initials WWF and its activities were broadly confined to the United States until the late 1980s. The key business of the Federation was live wrestling entertainment events. It marketed magazines, videos and other merchandise through the use of the WWF mark.
There had been a number of law suits between the Complainant and the Federation relating to trademark applications made by the Federation in various parts of the world which led to an agreement between the Complainant and the Federation dated January�20,�1994, over the use of the marks. In 1992, a Court in Switzerland had issued an ex parte injunction at the behest of the Complainant against the Federation, prohibiting the distribution of the Federation's WWF magazine. The Judge in that case noted that the Complainant had for some time been widely known as WWF and that various products had been marketed by the Complainant under this name with a high degree of recognition, both of the mark WWF both in isolation and also in conjunction with the panda image.
In 1999, the Complainant issued proceedings in the High Court of Justice in England against the Federation over its use of the initials WWF in alleged breach of the 1994�agreement, which had settled previous disputes regarding the use of the initials. On�August�2001, the Complainant was granted an injunction and other relief. Following unsuccessful appeals by the Federation, the injunction became effective on November�10,�2002. Part of the Court's order against the Federation was that it should take the necessary steps, at its option, to transfer to the Complainant or to cancel or change any of its domain names incorporating the initials WWF.
The legal proceedings against the Federation received considerable publicity and numerous media extracts were provided by the Complainant showing that this publicity was quite extensive in the United States, including in newspapers circulating in the areas where Mr.�Ricks resides. The thrust of the articles was to emphasize that the Complainant had prevailed over the Federation in the use of the letters WWF.
The Federation did not take the option of transferring the disputed Domain Name to the Complainant given to it by the judgment. Despite efforts by the Complainant to acquire the name via a domain name watching service, the disputed Domain Name was acquired from the Federation by one Frank Baach, trading as Newbrand, on December�1,�2002. It was offered for sale by him on an Internet domain name discussion forum for a minimum price of $10,000. The circumstances of Mr.�Baach's acquisition of this disputed Domain Name were made public on the "www.dnforum.com" website, then run by Mr.�Ricks.
The Complainant contacted Mr.�Baach with a view to negotiating a transfer and had prepared an administrative proceeding for submission to WIPO. However, on January�20,�2003, the Domain Name was transferred to Mr.�Ricks, trading as "Motherboards.com Inc.". Following this transfer, the Domain Name resolved to a website that provided links to other websites offering various goods and services. Later, the Domain Name resolved to a website carrying a discussion forum for wrestling entertainment fans.
The exact date on which the Web Wrestling Forum website first appeared is unclear. According to the Complainant's research into archival material, this may not have occurred before June�2004. Copies of the same page in June, October and November�2004, show links to third-party websites offering goods and services unrelated to wrestling. A website archive of April�2005 shows links to "World wild life fund", "Wildlife" and "conservation". The Respondent contends that the archived pages are not necessarily reliable.
On October�6,�2005 the website of the disputed Domain Name resolved to a series of links to third-party websites selling various goods and services. Some of the links have titles associated with the Complainant and its activities such as the link titles of "giant panda", "environmental education", "wild life" and "WWF". Since the Complaint was prepared, there has been a change in the content of the website.
The Respondent registered the disputed Domain Name on January�20,�2003. He�pointed to four WIPO decisions in 2000 where the Federation had successfully upheld its rights to the disputed Domain Name against parties other than the Complainant in the present case.
The Respondent in January�2003 owned <dmforum.com>, which he later sold. He has a history of operating multi-party, advertising-supported weblogs such as <dmforum.com>. He operated the Web Wrestling Forum until September�2005, when he had a disagreement with the administrator whom he designated to run the Web Wrestling Forum.
The Respondent, through affiliates, has been involved as Respondent in other UDRP proceedings both with WIPO and NAF (National Arbitration Forum). In the two WIPO decisions, Welch Foods, Inc., A Cooperative v. MSS, WIPO Case No. D2001-1065, and Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Domain Admin, WIPO Case No. D2005-0108, the Respondent filed no Response and was ordered to transfer domain names of well-known marks. He was also sued by the Playboy organisation over the use of one of its domain names. In the two NAF cases in which he prevailed, one was for a generic term and in the other, the mark was registered two years after the domain name.
The Complainant did not file this proceeding until some three-and-a-half years after the disputed Domain Name was registered. It claims it had prepared a Complaint against Mr.�Baach but did not proceed with it after Mr.�Baach had transferred the Domain Name. It then prepared an amended complaint, but before it was filed, the Domain Name referred to a website for wrestling. According to the Complainant's research, this did not happen until June�2004. No reason for the Complainant's inaction between January�2003 and June�2004 was given. The Complainant perceived this new use might make its chances of success more difficult. It claims to have been unaware of the transfer to Moniker "for some time".
6. Parties' Contentions
A. Complainant
The disputed Domain Name is identical to the numerous trademarks for the letters WWF owned by the Complainant and is identical to the numerous trademarks for WWF plus the Panda device.
The Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the Domain Name and was not granted any by the Complainant or by its national organizations nor is he commonly known by the initials WWF.
The date at which good faith should be considered is the date on which the Domain Name was acquired by the present Respondent, namely January�20,�2003.
Anonymous registration under Moniker's Domain WHOis Privacy Service is an indication of bad faith. The Respondent must have known of the success of the Complainant against the Federation in the English Court case because of the extensive publicity throughout the world including particularly on the Internet and in the United States media.
The Respondent's registration of a Domain Name corresponding to a well-known mark is evidence of registration in bad faith and the ongoing holding of such a Domain Name is evidence of use in bad faith.
By using the disputed Domain Name, the Respondent has intentionally attempted 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 its website. This is proved by the fact that many of the links have titles associated with the Complainant and its activities. It is well-known that persons in the position of the Respondent receive "click-through" commissions. After the Domain Name had been acquired, there was a period when the website was used for "click-through" purposes long before the Web Wrestling Forum website got under way.
The Respondent has previously engaged in a pattern of conduct of registering domain names in order to prevent a Complainant from reflecting marks in a corresponding domain name. Mr.�Ricks acknowledged, in the domain name forum discussion, that he had been sued by Playboy over his registration of <playboybunny.com>. In two cited WIPO decisions and one NAF decision, domain names registered by him had been ordered to be transferred.
Long before the Respondent's dispute with an employee in September 2005, he had used the website for "click through" sales of third party goods and services.
B. Respondent
The Complainant has historically not been associated with the letters WWF but the Federation has been. There were references to WIPO decisions in 2000, where the Federation had upheld its right to the disputed domain names against others than the Complainant in the present case. The Respondent purchased the disputed Domain Name from a party that had utilized a back-order service for abandoned domain names. The Respondent then established the Web Wrestling Forum which, as the Complainant acknowledged, point to a website containing discussion forum for wrestling entertainment fans.
The Respondent stressed that the Complainant stated in its Complaint that it had perceived "that this new use might make it more difficult to mount a successful administrative proceeding complaint".
As an archived page from November�13,�2004 shows, the Web Wrestling Forum had grown to encompass 5996 registered users and an archive of 151,472 messages posted. During this time, the only contact made by a third party to the Respondent was by a representative of the Federation to confirm that the Respondent was not representing himself to be the Federation.
The Respondent has a well-established history of operating multi-party advertising supporting web logs such as DN Forum. Current examples include "www.wallyworldsucks.com", an online forum devoted to discussions concerning the retailer Wal-Mart. Mr.�Ricks purchased DN Forum from its originator and has subsequently sold it.
The Internet archive shows that prior to notification to him of the dispute, the Respondent was using the Domain Name for a bona fide offering of goods and services i.e., the Web Wrestling Forum, which has nothing to do with wildlife conservation.
The Respondent was not a party to any agreement or judgment arising out of the litigation between the Complainant and the Federation. In September�2005, Mr.�Ricks had experienced difficulty with his administrator of the Web Wrestling Forum. Therefore he shut down the Forum and parked the home page pending its resurrection.
As to bad faith the Respondent provided a statement under sanction of perjury that he had no knowledge of the litigation or dispute between the Federation and the Complainant when he registered the disputed Domain Name in January�2003.
He operated the Forum with express knowledge of the former registrant, namely the Federation. His use of a proxy service is not per se evidence of bad faith. The situation is quite unlike that of the Telstra v Nuclear Marshmallows case which involved fictional Whois data expressly designed to evade notice and liability. Here the Complainant knows from its own research, the exact identity of the Respondent who has filed the Response and Moniker provided the information promptly.
The Respondent ultimately prevailed in one of the UDRP decisions mentioned by the Complainant and succeeded in three other named NAF decisions under the Policy, particulars of which were given.
The Respondent criticizes the Complainant's delay in filing this Complaint. It refutes the imputation that the use of the temporary, recent parking page suggests that the Respondent was badly motivated at the time when he acquired the disputed Domain Name. The reason for the parking page was that the Respondent's forum site had been sabotaged by a former employee and that the Respondent had therefore shut down the forum and parked the home page. He has no control over the links provided by the parking service which included, for a brief period of time, links relating to wild life.
Even if the situation relative to the Complainant's prior litigation was understood by the Respondent at the time of registration, it was not bad faith directed towards the Complainant. To persons such as the Respondent, not directly involved in the litigation between the Complainant and the Federation, the external appearance was that the Complainant was seeking to have the Federation cease all uses of WWF as its mark whether online or offline. The Complainant did not want to obtain a transfer of the Domain Name as a result of the litigation because it did not obtain an order expressly requiring the transfer of the Domain Name. It is a reasonable assumption that it did not want it. No mention was made to the Respondent by Mr.�Baach of any contact of him by the Complainant.
In summary, Internet users would naturally assume that the disputed Domain Name related to the subject of wrestling because that is what it had been used for over a period of 10 years. The Federation had protected its use of the disputed Domain Name over that period.
7. Discussion and Findings
A. Identical or Confusingly Similar
The disputed Domain Name is identical to numerous trademarks for the letters WWF owned by the Complainant in the United States and in many other countries. It is also confusingly similar to those marks which have the letters WWF plus the device of the Panda.
It matters not whether the disputed Domain Name was owned by the Federation until the conclusion of the litigation with the Complainant in 2002. The Policy merely requires that Complainant demonstrate that it has rights in trademarks registered or unregistered as at the time of filing its Complaint. It has clearly succeeded in doing just that.
There is overwhelming evidence that the Complainant owns a large number of trademarks worldwide. It has shown the indicia for a common law mark as well. Therefore the first criterion under the Policy is proved.
B. Rights or Legitimate Interests, Registration and Use in Bad Faith
Whilst it is clear that the Complainant or its national organization gave no rights to the Respondent, it is possible for a Respondent to demonstrate that it is not caught by this limb of the Policy if it can show that before notice of the dispute, he had made reasonable preparations for the conducting of a legitimate business using the disputed Domain Name. Consideration of this aspect is often linked with the consideration of bad faith. In this case, the two are so intertwined that the Panel considers them in tandem.
Under the Policy bad faith registration and use both have to be proved separately. There have been many cases where ample evidence of bad faith use has been able to justify the inference of bad faith registration.
A complicating factor here is that the Complainant did not file its Complaint until three-and-a-half years after the disputed Domain Name had been transferred to the Respondent. It is clear from WIPO jurisprudence that the date of bad faith registration must be assessed as at the date on which the current Respondent acquired the disputed Domain Name, which is established as January�20,�2003. Whilst there is no time limit for filing a complaint under the Policy, nor does the equitable doctrine of laches find any place in the Policy, it can nevertheless become more difficult for a Complainant to infer bad faith registration the greater the distance between the dates of registration and of the filing of the Complaint.
The Respondent in his first statement under penalty of perjury, said that his acquisition of the disputed Domain Name was "late 2003". When the Complainant pointed out that it was January 2003, the Respondent claimed to have made an error in his first sworn statement and to have confused the timeframe within which he had planned to launch the Web Wrestling Forum. The Panel does not find this explanation convincing. In a statement made under penalty of perjury, precision is to be expected. The relevant facts must have been readily available to the Respondent at the time of making the first statement.
The Panel notes that the Complainant apparently did not obtain an order from the Court in England requiring the Federation to transfer the disputed Domain Name to the Complainant, which allowed the name to become disused and, as happened, to be picked up by the various services which scavenge for discarded domain names. Be that as it may, the Complainant clearly knew from its dealings with Mr.�Baach that the Federation was trying to sell the name.
Any decision on the second two criteria under the Policy must focus in this case on whether bad faith registration occurred when Mr.�Ricks purchased the Domain Name from Mr.�Baach. It is difficult to see why a complaint could not have been made at that time. The situation could not have changed three-and-a-half years later. The Panel finds curious the Complainant's equivocation about filing a Complaint. The Complainant says that it considered that it had less chance of success because of the advertising of wrestling and the creation of a wrestling forum at the website of the disputed Domain Name but that did not occur until 2004 at the earliest, so it is hard to see why the Complaint was not filed before then.
It is only either in April 2005 or after the later falling-out between Mr.�Ricks and his employee that there was created a parking site which had click sites through to environmental websites which could have created confusion into thinking that the Domain Name was associated with the Complainant. That in the Panel's view could be evidence of bad faith use but, given the lapse of time between registration and April�2005, that fact does not help in assessing whether there had been bad faith registration.
Even if the Respondent had been aware of the dispute between the Complainant and the Federation he could well have been unaware of the details of the Court's order such as that relating to the use of the disputed Domain Name. He did know that the Federation had lost the case and that the Complainant had prevailed with its trademark rights upheld.
What the Panel finds unexplained by the Respondent is the fact, unchallenged by him, that his first use of the disputed Domain Name – well before the wrestling forum was instituted – was of a site offering goods and services by click-through.
The Respondent claims that, if he registered in bad faith, then that bad faith was directed at the Federation and not the Complainant. Yet he admitted in his first statement under penalty he knew that the Federation had resolved a dispute with the Complainant and that the Federation had changed its name because of legal action. He�claimed as his understanding at the time that any resolution of the dispute would have seen the Domain Name transferred to the Complainant rather than have the name available for purchase through a service for the sale of disused domain names.
The Panel is able to infer from the facts as follows:
(a) The Respondent is highly-experienced in domain name disputes under the UDRP.
(b) He must have seen considerable value in owning the disputed Domain Name for which he paid $10,000.
(c) That value lay not only in its being a 3-letter domain, but in its notoriety as letters representing the Federation which were now held by a Court, with worldwide publicity, rightly to belong to the Complainant.
(d) The fact that the disputed Domain Name was on the market and not transferred to the Complainant was an indication to the Respondent (and�anyone else) that the disputed Domain Name had not been part of any order made in the litigation. One�could not expect the media to carry, or the Respondent to know, the minute detail of the Court's order.
Bad faith at registration against the Federation cannot be inferred as bad faith against the Complainant. There is probably not bad faith against the Federation if that body elected to release the disputed Domain Name on to the market.
The interval between the Domain Name registration in January 2003 and the appearance of wild-life etc. links on the website some time after April 2005 is just too long to justify an inference of bad faith registration at the time of registration.
The Panel is faced on one hand with the Respondent's statement under penalty of perjury that he did not know of the Complainant's interest in the disputed Domain Name at the time. On the other hand, there is a rather weak inference that as at January�2003, Mr.�Ricks knew not just that the Domain Name related to the Federation, but that the corresponding trademark rights really belonged now to the Complainant. The Panel is in no position to find which stance is correct. There would have to be a finding made by a Court after hearing evidence.
In other words the Panel has not found it proved that there has been bad faith registration against the Complainant. It also means that if what the Respondent asserts is true, then he has shown "demonstrable preparations" to use the name in respect of a legitimate business (the Web Wrestling Forum) before notice of a dispute, thus bringing the Respondent within one of the provisions of paragraph�4(c) of the Policy. In that event, the second and third limbs of the Policy have not been proved by the Complainant.
The Panel finds it unproved that Mr.�Ricks' use of a proxy registration service is an indication of bad faith. There can be many legitimate reasons for using a proxy registration service, many of them consistent with good faith.
Although Mr.�Ricks does not comment on the Playboy dispute or the two WIPO decisions where he was found to be in default, there is insufficient evidence to infer a course of registrations of domain names in bad faith.
8. Decision
For all the foregoing reasons the Complaint is denied.
Sir Ian Barker QC
Presiding Panelist
Kiyoshi I. Tsuru
Panelist
David E. Sorkin
Dated: November�1,�2006


This introduces a series of four articles on overseers. It is being written by men who have this responsibility in local assemblies.
It is possible that the preservation and progress of the assemblies occupied a larger place in the heart of Paul than the initial faith in Christ of the believers. This is evident from his statement in 2 Corinthians 11:28 which forms the title for this series of articles dealing with the vital subject of oversight in a New Testament assembly. It is one thing to see blessing in gospel efforts; it is another to see those who have been saved continuing in ways that please the Lord. To this end, God raises up in each assembly brethren to shepherd and succor the flock so that none may depart or fall by the wayside. These writings are intended to challenge those who have this responsibility and to teach younger believers their spiritual response to such a ministry. None of the authors claims perfection, but after many years of seeking to discharge these responsibilities that have fallen to them, along with other elders in their respective assemblies, they write from what they have learned.
Genesis 33:13-14 reveals Jacob's shepherd heart. The wise man wrote; "Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, look well to thy herds" (Proverbs 27:23).


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I would like to not display those indicators, just view the content. Is ist possible to disable them in (neo)mutt?
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Obtaining consent: a clinical guideline for the diagnostic imaging and radiotherapy workforce [PDF]
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Seeking patient consent prior to undertaking an examination or treatment procedure is not only a fundamental, ethical and legal requirement of all healthcare practitioners, it is also a common...
The Diagnostic Radiographer as the entitled IR(ME)R Practitioner [PDF]
The Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2000 (Great Britain), (IR(ME)R) and the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 20002 (IR(ME)(NI)R) came into...
PET imaging in pancreatic cancer - recommendations
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Aims: This recommendation report may be useful to inform clinical decision making regarding the appropriate role of positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) imaging and to...
PET imaging in colorectal cancer - recommendations
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PET imaging in esophageal cancer - recommendations
Caring for People with Dementia: a clinical practice guideline for the radiography workforce (imaging and radiotherapy)
This clinical practice guideline is a comprehensive set of evidence-based recommendations for the whole radiographic workforce caring for people with dementia and their carers when undergoing...
Guidance for Radiographers providing Forensic Radiography Services
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This document updates Guidance for Radiographers providing Forensic Radiography Services published in 2010. Radiography for forensic purposes is a complex area of practice for the diagnostic...
Independent Practitioners: standards and guidance
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The term Independent Practitioner encompasses all those members of SCoR who are healthcare practitioners (whether registered with a regulatory body or not) and who are not directly classed as...
Safety in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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SCoR and BAMRR issue this guidance and advice document on safety issues in MRI. This second edition updates the 2007 document and provides direction on where appropriate information can be found.
Imaging Children; immobilisation, distraction techniques and use of sedation
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In 2015 Gary Adkins and Sonja Schick contacted Humanity & Inclusion UK about their upcoming wedding. They knew that guests would send them gifts that they probably didn't need so they decided to ask them to support our work instead.
We recently spoke to Gary about his wedding day and what his support for HI means to him.
When we decided to get married, Sonja and I combined two homes into one, so we ended up with double of everything. The last thing we wanted was another toaster or a kettle so we decided we would ask for donations instead of wedding presents.
How did you find out about HI?
Sonja had worked across South America so we wanted something that would benefit people in South America. Secondly, due to my disability and being in a wheelchair most of the time we wanted donations to go to a charity working with disabled people. That was our starting point.
We looked on the internet and researched various NGOs to see what they did. We contacted four charities by phone and after speaking to HI UK, one of the things that stood out was the emphasis they put on rehabilitation. None of the other charities that we considered provided rehabilitation.
We knew we wanted to support activities in South America and found out from HI that Colombia has some of the worst contamination by landmines anywhere in the world. These weapons are a significant cause of disability and young people are often affected.
When Irma stepped on a landmine, she hardly knew anything about the dangers posed by these weapons. Thanks to supporters like Gary and Sonja, she received rehabilitation care and emotional support from our team. The proud mum of a beautiful daughter, Monica, Irma is now an ambassador who visits people in their homes to raise awareness and reduce the risk of accidents with landmines.
Can you tell us more about why you wanted to support HI?
I've had personal experience of rehabilitation and it has done a lot for me; my mobility and my well-being as well. The focus on rehabilitation took HI to the top of the list of the charities we wanted to support.
It's all very well fitting someone with an artificial limb or giving them a wheelchair or other piece of equipment, but if they don't have rehabilitation they won't be able to make the most of it. When I first started using a wheelchair in 2008 I did everything I could to avoid using it. It wasn't until I started rehabilitation and motivational techniques to overcome the psychological impact of going from legs to wheels that I was able to regain my independence.
How did your wedding guests react when you said you wanted donations?
Some of them were a bit surprised, but when we explained that we had two properties-worth of things and every conceivable piece of kitchen equipment they were happy to send donations. We raised over £3,000.
You and Sonja were married on a boat off the coast of San Diego. Tell us about the wedding day.
We had guests coming from all over the world, particularly from Mexico where Sonja has a lot of friends. It wasn't feasible for lots of people to travel to Europe so we settled on San Diego. The weather was fantastic on the day and the sailing conditions were excellent.


The Debtor and Invoice Finance Association (DIFA) formed in 1994 to represent the major providers of the fast growing debtor finance market.
DIFA does not involve itself in matters relating to the commercial activities of its members, or the terms and conditions on which individual members conduct business with their clients.
Note: In March 2013, the Association changed its name from the Institute for Factors and Discounters of Australia and New Zealand (IFD) to DIFA to better reflect the changing market and the enhanced sophistication of its members' offering.
Factoring and Discounting are two options for businesses to improve their cash flow by accelerating the cash cycle.
Under a Factoring arrangement the provider additionally manages its client's sales ledger and collection of accounts. Therefore, under a Factoring arrangement the debtor is aware of the arrangement and makes payments directly to the provider.
Under Discounting, which is an undisclosed facility, the debtor is unaware of the arrangement and makes payments to the client, as per usual, but as the debt is owned by the provider, the client manages the collection process and then passes the revenue collected to the provider.
Generally, a Discounting arrangement would be utilised by larger businesses as they have in place the in-house resources to manage receivables collections and the reporting requirements of a provider. Conversely, smaller organisations often prefer a Factoring arrangement as they are alleviated of the responsibility of managing receivables collections, allowing management to concentrate on other business functions.
One of the attractions of both Discounting and Factoring is that they are self-liquidating facilities, meaning that a business isn't taking on additional debt per se, but rather accessing money that is already owed to it. The goods or services have already been provided, and while the facility needs to be repaid, this should take care of itself as a matter of course as the company's debtors settle their invoices over time.
3. A reduction in management time spent on chasing slow payers (through a Factoring arrangement), allowing managers of the business to concentrate on areas more appropriate to their responsibilities, such as driving new business.
The Australian Finance Industry Association (AFIA) is the leading industry advocate for Australia's finance sector.
AFIA represents more than 100 providers of a consumer, commercial or wholesale finance that operate across Australia.


The Bayside Toy Library is a not-for-profit toy lending service (for children aged between 6 months and 10 years), which provides families with access to a variety of educational toys to assist with childhood development.
Established in 1985, it recognised two fundamental truths: toys cost a lot of money, and kids lose interest in them fast!
With over 3,000 items on offer, the Bayside Toy Library can fascinate your child for years to come at a very low cost.
The philosophy behind the choice of toys is that they should be multi-functional and require kids to use and develop their own skills. Of course, they are also lots of fun!
The Bayside Toy Library is managed by a voluntary committee of members that are elected annually at our AGM.


Popular video game Fortnite's new season is here and so begins the season of malware scamming for cybercriminals. Unsurprisingly, Malwarebytes Labs has reported that scammers are trying their best to come up with a fake version of the game to con the users.
However, their current attempts cannot be termed as a mere con attack this time around because they are looking to steal data and bitcoin from unsuspecting users, and this is only one of their many objectives.
According to a new report from Malwarebytes Labs, new data theft malware is out in the wild that is targeting Fortnite gamers by disguising itself as a cheat tool and attempting to steal data once activated. There are multiple demos available that explain how the cheat tool attempts to attack users.
In one of the videos, Christopher Boyd of Malwarebytes, identified scammers trying to redirect Fortnite cheaters to a webpage on Sub2Unlock; this page connects the visitor to a YouTube channel, where the cheat tool can be purchased through subscribing.
When the victim subscribes, the channel then redirects to the download portal bt-fortnite-cheats(dot)tk, where the victim can download the cheat software. It is reported that the cheat software is downloaded over 1,200 times. The portal promises Fortnite users a full range of useful services such as many bogus cheats, aimbots, and wallhacks.
Hidden underneath all of them is a data-stealing malware, which is downloaded as the cheat tool. After the .EXE file is executed, it starts performing a number of enumeration on the infected computer and sends the data through a POST command to an index.php file in Russia using the IP address 5(dot)101(dot)78(dot)169.
Researchers at Malwarebytes were able to discover the campaign by scanning a substantial number of free passes for season six of Fortnite, which were actually free Android versions of the game. Apparently, the game was leaked and scammers were marketing it with "free V-bucks" loaded with additional content for the game.
Boyd also states that the malware scans for Steam sessions, Bitcoin wallets, and cookies to be raided and exfiltrated to the attackers. The YouTube channel has garnered over 700 subscribers so far, while the video received more than 2,200 views on the very first day.
Malwarebytes has detected the cheat file as Trojan.Malpack, and notes that the malware is unlike other malicious software because it can distribute multiple malicious tools and each of the malware payloads has a different data exfiltration capability.
However, all of them work in the same manner that is, invading the victim's computer and exploiting its resources as per a pre-set list. Then it uses a custom method of transferring the stolen data to the scammers. Since Fortnite players are the main target of this campaign, therefore, it is advised that you should not fall prey to the scammers' bait by attempting to download malware considering it to be the cheat tool.


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Evergreen Shrub with bright scarlet flowers that appear in winter and spring. Ideal as an informal hedge, windbreak or screen. Flowers attract nectar feeding birds and the prickly foliage also provides a safe refuge. Thrives in a sunny position and moist well drained sols. Tolerant of poor soils, dry periods and light frosts. Responds well to light pruning.


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Khroma are a band from Finland that mixes extreme metal with alternative, darkstep, and electro groove and this is a review of their 2014 album "Collapse" which was released by Inverse Records.
The album starts out with spoken word samples before going into a heavier extreme metal direction along with some aggressive vocals and a few seconds later electronic music sounds are added into the music and all of the musical instruments have a very powerful sound to them and you can also hear some melody in certain sections of the recording.
As the album continues the band stick to their extreme metal being mixed with electronic music sound as well as bringing in elements of groove and progressive metal and after awhile melodic vocals are added into certain sections of the recording and on a couple of the tracks they bring in small amounts of spoken word parts and clean playing and on the last song a brief use of melodic female vocals are utilized.
With this album Khroma combine extreme and mainstream metal with alternative, darkstep and electro groove to create a sound of their own and while it is not something I listen to on a regular basis, I still feel this band is very good at what they do.
Song lyrics cover dark and philosophical themes, while the production has a very strong, powerful, heavy and professional sound where you can hear all of the musical instruments that are present on this recording.
In my opinion Khroma are a very decent sounding mixture of metal, alternative, darkstep and electro groove and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Keep Your Whole" "Cypher" "Distorted" and "The martyr Acts". 7/5 out of 10.


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True Blood (2011-2012), Jessie (2011-2015), Free Agents (2011), Man Up! (2012), Rules of Engagement (2012), Last Man Standing (2012-2014), Castle (2012), Suburgatory (2014), Jennifer Falls (2014), Bad Judge (2014-2015), Dropping the Soap (2015), Mom (2016),
Bunk'd (2016-2017), Mr. Student Body President (2016-2017), Claws (2017-2019), Marlon (2017), Drive Share (2017), The Unicorn (2019). She also appeared in many films including Wheels of Fortune (2020), Lady Driver (2020), Roped (2020), Stuck (2018), Dirt (2018),
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Serial Dater (2012), Sperm Donor (2012), Searching for Fortune (2012), Bron to Race (2011), Delta Farce (2007), Complete Guide to Guys (2005) Without a Paddle (2004), Second Skin (1998), The Sore Loser (1997). In 2008 she married Jhon Ducey who is also an actor.
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Q: Alpha Vantage asyncio(tickers) from alpha_vantage.async_support.techindicators import TechIndicators
import asyncio

symbols = ['ADI', 'ADMA', 'ADMP', 'ADMS', 'ADNC', 'ADP', 'ADRA', 'ADRD', 'ADRE', 'ADRU',
'ADSK', 'ADTN', 'ADUS', 'ADVS',
'ADXS', 'ADXSW', 'AEGN', 'AEGR', 'AEHR', 'AEIS', 'AEPI', 'AERI', 'AETI', 'AEY', 'AEZS']
key = open('alphavantageAPI').read()

async def get_data(symbol):
ti = TechIndicators(key, output_format='pandas')
data, _ = await ti.get_sma(symbol=symbol, interval='daily', series_type='close')
await ti.close()
return data

if __name__ == '__main__':
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
tasks = [get_data(symbol) for symbol in symbols]
group1 = asyncio.gather(*tasks)
results = loop.run_until_complete(group1)
loop.close()
print(results)

I have 25 symbols (tickers). In Alpha Vantage you can receive 5 tickers per a minut.
I need to receive 5 tickers and wait 1 minut and than next 5 tickers. Maybe some one can tell me what I need to add or change in this code. Thank you,
P.S I know about Premium , but this is the task what I need to solve.

A: You can use the sleep function to wait between 12 and 15 seconds for each request.
Here's the pseudocode:
import numpy as np
from time import sleep

symbols = ['ADI', 'ADMA', 'ADMP', 'ADMS', 'ADNC', ...]

...
for symbol in symbols:
   data = getDataFrom(symbol)
   sleep(np.random.randint(12, 15))
...


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There are variations on the attribute selector, like instead of = you can do ^= to indicate "starts with this value". But for some reason, CSS doesn't have != or "not equal to this value". jQuery does! That's an example of a jQuery selector extension.
:gt(n) - select elements with a greater index than n. Also a shortcut for a more complex :nth-child() forumla.
Possibly the most useful selector extension of all is :has() - which limits the selection to elements which contain what you pass this pseudo selector (or is it a pseudo pseudo selector :) It's likely that someday in the future CSS will have something like this for us (I think it's going to be like pre ! code) but that's a long way off. Unfortunately I don't make a very compelling argument for it in this screencast, but you'll know when you need it! For instance "Select all .module's that contain an h3.sports-bar" - that kind of thing.
Select and do, select and do.
Thanks, Chris! I didn't know we can make our own selector extensions in jQuery before this episode.


It has been raining on and off all day here, so this card is definitely appropriate to share today!
I made it for a Rainy Day swap and I used the new sketch at Sunday Stamps.
I used these fun papers from Jillibean Soup to make my card. I paper pieced the the rain jacket and the umbrella, love doing this! I drew in a sidewalk to add to the scene (a bit wonky, but hey I tried lol!) I added a few Marshmallow sequins from Pretty Pink Posh to embellish the card.
I'm still doing LOAD, but haven't been able to post each day since I have been finishing very late.
I skipped the prompt of the day and scrapped more pictures of my sweet Amber 🙂 I used Sketch 470 from Scrapbook Challenges. In my scrapbook group, one of the challenges is to mix old and new products so I used several pet lines on this – Basic Grey Max & Whiskers (old), Bella Blvd Tail Waggers & Cat Nappers (old), Jillibean Soup Fur Fusion (new), Bella Blvd Rover (new), Echo Park Bark (new).
I get so wrapped up in collections that I rarely mix product anymore. This was a fun challenge to take part in and reminded me to re-visit my stash more often.
I'll post Days 12 & 13 shortly!


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Q: Process IMSManifest.xml with XPath and C# I am unfamiliar with XPath and I'm looking for guidance on simply selecting three values from a file: schemaversion, title and description.
The Xpath expression //title/langstring only matches the element value when I strip out the name spacing information from <manifest> and <lom>.
What is the correct way to search the contents for these values?
Unit test:
[Test]
public void TitleIsNotNull()
{
  var manifestManager = new ManifestManager("imsmanifest.xml");
  // Code which initializes object and calls GetTitle() is encapsulated.
  Assert.IsNotNullOrEmpty(manifestManager.Title);
}

System Under Test:
private string GetTitle()
{
  var document = XElement.Parse(_contents);
  const string XpathExpression = "//title/langstring";
  return (string)document.XPathSelectElement(XpathExpression);
}

_contents (excerpted):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.imsproject.org/xsd/imscp_rootv1p1p2
  imscp_rootv1p1p2.xsd
  http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsmd_rootv1p2p1 imsmd_rootv1p2p1.xsd
  http://www.adlnet.org/xsd/adlcp_rootv1p2 adlcp_rootv1p2.xsd"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:adlcp="http://www.adlnet.org/xsd/adlcp_rootv1p2"
  xmlns="http://www.imsproject.org/xsd/imscp_rootv1p1p2"
  version="1.0"
  identifier="ExampleIdGoesHere">
  <metadata>
    <schema>ADL SCORM</schema>
    <schemaversion>1.2</schemaversion>
    <lom xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsmd_rootv1p2p1
               imsmd_rootv1p2p1.xsd"
               xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
               xmlns="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsmd_rootv1p2p1">
        <general>
            <title>
                <langstring xml:lang="x-none">Example title goes here.</langstring>
            </title>
            <description>
                <langstring xml:lang="x-none">Example description goes here.</langstring>
            </description>
        </general>
    </lom>
  </metadata>

Tweaked Code Based on Steven Doggart's solution
//Revised
private string GetTitle()
{
  var xmlReader = GetXmlReader();
  var document = XElement.Load(xmlReader);
  var xmlNamespaceManager = GetXmlNamespaceManager(xmlReader);
  const string XpathExpression = "//y:title/y:langstring";
  return (string)document.XPathSelectElement(XpathExpression, xmlNamespaceManager);
}

//Private Helpers
    private XmlReader GetXmlReader()
    {
        var contents = new StringReader(_contents);
        var xmlReader = XmlReader.Create(contents);
        return xmlReader;
    }

    private XmlNamespaceManager GetXmlNamespaceManager(XmlReader xmlReader)
    {
        if (xmlReader.NameTable != null)
        {
            var xmlNamespaceManager = new XmlNamespaceManager(xmlReader.NameTable);
            xmlNamespaceManager.AddNamespace("x", "http://www.imsproject.org/xsd/imscp_rootv1p1p2");
            xmlNamespaceManager.AddNamespace("y", "http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsmd_rootv1p2p1");
            return xmlNamespaceManager;
        }

        return null;
    }

A: The problem you are having is that the element you are trying to select actually belongs to a certain namespace, but you are not specifying the namespace when you select it.  The title and langstring elements both belong to the default namespace.  In the XML document, the default namespace is defined as "http://www.imsproject.org/xsd/imscp_rootv1p1p2".  With XPath, there is no way to specify a default namespace.  If you do not provide a namespace, it always assumes you mean no namespace at all.  Therefore, to select that element, you will have to explicitly provide the namespace, like this:
XmlNamespaceManager namespaceManager = new XmlNamespaceManager(nameTable);
namespaceManager.AddNamespace("x", "http://www.imsproject.org/xsd/imscp_rootv1p1p2");
const string XpathExpression = "//x:title/x:langstring";
return (string)document.XPathSelectElement(XpathExpression, namespaceManager);

The trick, however, is getting the XmlNameTable to give to the XmlNamespaceManager.  Unfortunately, the XElement class does not provide a way to get the XmlNameTable for the document, so your best bet would be to load it via an XmlReader, which can provide that, like this:
XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(_contents));
XElement document = XElement.Load(reader);
XmlNamespaceManager namespaceManager = new XmlNamespaceManager(reader.NameTable);
namespaceManager.AddNamespace("x", "http://www.imsproject.org/xsd/imscp_rootv1p1p2");
const string XpathExpression = "//x:title/x:langstring";
return (string)document.XPathSelectElement(XpathExpression, namespaceManager);

Alternatively, you could use XmlDocument which is slightly easier when dealing with namespaces.  Or, you could also choose to use LINQ to select the element instead of XPath.


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A great many composers are skilled in summoning up pictures in their listeners' imaginations, but one work in particular surpasses them all.
Mussorgsky wrote Pictures at an Exhibition as a memorial to an artist friend, each of the movements evoking a work on display. Ravel's orchestration underlines the mood of each painting, from the woodwind chirpy chicks through to the reverberant brass in the catacombs, the percussive terror of the witch and the blazing brass and pealing carillons of the finale.
Ravel's set of four Spanish sketches easily brings to mind the hot sunshine of Spain. Although he had not yet visited the country when he wrote them, his mother was Basque and she regaled her son with memories of her homeland while he grew up near the border.
Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto is a stunning example of a composer at his most forward-looking, yet beautiful and elegant.


Kim Plofker, assistant professor of mathematics, was recently interviewed as part of a BBC Radio 4 program, "Nirvana by the Numbers" that examined Indian numerals.
In 2009, Plofker published Mathematics in India (Princeton University Press). The book draws on Plofker's work in India and elsewhere with Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian manuscripts in the mathematical sciences, surveying the development of Indian mathematical traditions from antiquity through the early modern period.
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On this 2002 recording of dulcimer instrumentals, Pam plays Appalachian dulcimer, fiddle, guitar, and flute. She is joined by Jumbol'ayuh and T-Acadie members Bill Olson, Jim Joseph, and Jumbol'ayuh percussionist Keith Garavoy, as well as by Turkey Hollow members Dave Rowe and Denny Breau. The dulcimer on this recording is cherry and butternut (pictured above) and was made by Jeremy Seeger.
This 1999 all-instrumental album particularly features Pam's fiddling and includes many of her own compositions that evoke images of the beauty of rural Maine. On this recording Pam also plays Appalachian dulcimer, mandolin, and viola. and is joined by members of Scrod Pudding, Lorraine and Bennett Hammond, David Kaynor, Tom Rowe, and Doreen Conboy. The dulcimer is a walnut and redwood "Swan", made by Dwain Wilder.
This release from 1995 features traditional and contemporary dance tunes from French Canada, the British Isles, New England, and Appalachia plus a few of our favorite songs. Pam Weeks (fiddle, mountain dulcimer, vocals), Jim Joseph (banjo, accordion, percussion, vocals), Bill Olson (bass, vocals), Greg Anderson (hammered dulcimer, vocals), and Eric Weest Johnson (guitar, vocals). Scrod Pudding still has a 3rd Saturday contradance at the Bowdoinham Town Hall in Bowdoinham, Maine, and performs around the New England area.
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Volea-Starîțka (în ) este un sat în comuna Starîci din raionul Iavoriv, regiunea Liov, Ucraina.

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Conform recensământului din 2001, toată populația localității Volea-Starîțka era vorbitoare de ucraineană (100%).

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The Brussels connection: Turning the tide on radicalisation
By Christian Nielsen
Belgium says it is working to combat radicalisation in Brussels. But is it doing enough to counter jihadist narratives and address exclusion?
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I almost felt sorry for Jan Jambon, Belgium's Interior Minister, as he tried not to stand out too much during a joint press conference on 16 November with his French counterpart, Bernard Cazeneuve, in the wake of the Paris terror attacks last week.
But even if he could shrink by 30cm, there would be no hiding from the evidence that Belgium's intelligence community may have dropped the ball… or were perhaps never in the game.
Belgium stands accused of being a "hotbed" for terrorists, or more euphemistically, disenfranchised Muslim youth, mostly in and around the poorer inner suburbs of Brussels, and that this is apparently not news to anyone in the intelligence community.
Only a few days before the Paris attacks, on 9 November, the Belgian interior minister claimed during POLITICO's What Works event that Belgium was making some headway, citing its actions to shut down a terror cell in Vervier last January, and its awareness-raising efforts or "counter-narratives" for would-be youth thinking of, for example, joining ISIS. He said a tailored, one-to-one approach is more successful than top-down narratives like ads and internet campaigns.
He spoke to POLITICO's Matt Kominski about the challenges he and the Belgian authorities face in dealing with ISIS fighters returning from Syria. Many don't come back more hardened and angry, but rather feel "disgusted" at what they experienced. This, he suggested, is a useful counter-narrative weapon.
But the audience wasn't buying it, asking why Belgium hadn't put these young people on television or in internet ads as powerful, personal testimonials, or tried more mainstream approaches to stopping the momentum towards radicalisation, such as investing more in rejuvenating poor neighbourhoods and helping to integrate immigrant families better.
By his own admission, Mr Jambon said: "People think that mosques are the places of recruitment, but I think that today, most of the recruitment is done by the internet… The mosques were too moderate and they find their 'truth' on the internet."
Then, as the saying goes, shouldn't you fight fire with fire? If the internet is the medium of choice for young people – and it clearly is – then well-meaning teachers and social workers are only going to have so much impact. The problem is, governments (not just in Belgium) are playing catch-up as they grapple to deal with the growth in online propaganda and extremism.
"Modern terrorists have embraced social media and 'weaponised the internet' to achieve their goals," Mark Wallace, former US ambassador to the UN, told journalists at the Brussels launch of the European arm to the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) in July this year.
Yet Mr Jambon argued targeted messaging like that might lack credibility or come across as government propaganda. Maybe this is true, but it would at least send 'a' message, rather than leaving everything in the hands of overworked social workers in Brussels communes like Molenbeek, which has been identified as something of a ground zero for several incidents, including the recent Paris attacks and possibly the Jewish Museum murders in 2014 and the Thalys attempt last August.
Belgium's Prime Minister Charles Michel said his government's efforts until now have focused on prevention but that they now realise tougher measures are needed against jihadists returning from the battlefields in Syria and Iraq to Belgium.
But in Belgium sometimes it takes a shock event like the Paris attacks – and the extra heat Belgium is now getting from its neighbours who will no longer accept excuses – to galvanise its people and the authorities into action.
Mr Jambon acknowledged during the POLITICO event before the Paris attacks that Brussels was a hotspot for trouble (and it is reported at one point to have had more foreign fighters in Syria than any other European country per inhabitant). He said information-sharing between federal, regional and communal police forces is complicated, and that terrorism is a cross-border issue which only exacerbates matters. Indeed.
The Daily Beast confirms this fragmentation problem: "Security services in the city of Brussels have another significant issue: for a population of 1.3 million inhabitants, the local police force is divided up in six police corps spread over 19 boroughs. Sharing security information in that setting could only be complicated."
In a piece about the role of the internet in dealing with terrorist extremism ('Defusing the social media time bomb'), I wrote: "At some point, probably at the lowest ebb, enough people (digital natives presumably) will have had enough of their youthful innocence being stolen from them by radicals and extremists… murderers hiding behind a perverted cause. But have we reached the lowest ebb?"
That was back in July and I wrote that it already seemed like we had reached that point. But I was wrong. A new low water mark has been reached. Can we turn the tide before it gets any lower? I certainly hope so.
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Russians are pissed at Putin for making them work longer. He's got no plan to fix it.
By Greg Walters Oct 11, 2018
Just a few years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin looked deep into a television camera and promised Russians that he'd never, ever raise their retirement age.
"I am opposed to raising the retirement age," Putin said in 2005, waving his forefinger decisively. "As long as I am president, such a decision will not be made."
On October 3rd, he broke that promise — unleashing a wave of discontent across Russia that some observers are calling one of the biggest domestic political challenges the Russian leader has ever faced. Though an initial round of street protests and arrests have subsided, the uproar has left lingering effects on Putin's poll numbers. And with no apparent plan to repair the damage, things could get worse, analysts told VICE News.
"I think this is catastrophic for Putin," Anders Aslund, a former economic advisor to Putin's predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, told VICE News. "He's in a big hole."
While no one expects average Russians to storm the Kremlin anytime soon, the backlash has battered Putin's public image as he enters his second decade in power. The share of Russians who say they "trust" Putin has plummeted 20 points over just a few months to 39 percent, according to a new poll by Russia's most-respected polling agency, the Levada Center.
Putin's popularity has, in the past, been buttressed by periods of strong economic growth, and by decisive action in national security crises. But there are reasons to think that both those avenues may be closed to him this time, analysts said.
Months after announcing the plan that spurred protests in dozens of cities, Putin finally signed a bill to gradually raise the retirement age for men from 60 to 65, and for women from 55 to 63. Russians oppose the bill by a factor of 9-to-1, according to recent polls.
The change has been widely interpreted as unfairly targeting the poor and powerless in a country with a massive income inequality, analysts said.
The retirement age increase effectively transfers almost a full percentage point of the Russia's economy away from the country's most impoverished citizens and hands it over to the wealthiest, according Aslund.
"This pension reform takes 0.8 percent of GDP away from the poor, and give it to the rich," Aslund said. "This is big money."
Russia's economy has been recovering lately thanks to higher prices for the country's key export, crude oil, but growth remains sluggish and poverty widespread. Putin was re-elected to a fourth presidential term earlier this year while promising to spur economic growth. But a serious economic plan has yet to emerge, analysts said.
The Kremlin's response to public discontent has, instead, largely amounted to a crackdown on the demonstrators, said Olga Oliker, director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"They go to the old tools, and the oldest tool is to threaten protesters," Oliker said. "Meanwhile, the plan to grow the economy is pretty much to hope that oil prices keep going up."
"The problem, foremost, is that there may be no other means of raising the approval rating besides fresh military adventures abroad."
Further stoking anger among Russia's classes is the relative selectivity of the new cutbacks. Select members of the state security services, for example, were exempt from the higher retirement age, including the police, pointed out Seva Gunitsky, associate professor at the University of Toronto.
"The police who were arresting the protestors can retire at 45," Gunitsky said. "So they have no sympathy for the people they're arresting."
Amid the outrage, Putin's overall popularity slid 15 points to 67 percent, the latest Levada figures show.
While that may be high for any American president, it's a relatively poor showing by Putin's famously atmospheric standards — and a significant decrease from the 82 percent approval he enjoyed shortly before the new policy was announced.
FOREIGN POLICY FALLBACK
More than once in the past, Putin's popularity has surged in the wake of his deft handling of a national security crisis or perceived foreign policy victories.
"The problem, foremost, is that there may be no other means of raising the approval rating besides fresh military adventures abroad," said Stepan Goncharov, a senior researcher for the Levada Center.
But Putin's ability to rally public support behind an expansive global outlook may be waning, following three years of Russian involvement in Syria's civil war, mounting economic sanctions from the U.S. and other foreign tensions.
U.S. President Donald Trump receives a football from Russian President Vladimir Putin as they hold a joint news conference after their meeting in Helsinki, Finland July 16, 2018. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor
In March 2016, 22 percent of Russians cited foreign policy among Putin's top strengths, according another Levada poll. By last July, that number had fallen to 16 percent.
Putin's popularity has now slid to a level not seen since Russia annexed the Ukrainian region of Crimea in early 2014, an event that booster his numbers and tapped into Russia's patriotic streak.
Russians have long admired Putin for rebuilding Russia's global prominence following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, including in cases where he's stood up to the West, as in Crimea.
But war-weariness in Syria and the prospect of even more sanctions may provide an incentive for Putin to turn towards diplomacy instead of military conflict or spycraft to pursue Russian interests abroad, said David Szakonyi, a professor at George Washington University and expert on Russian politics.
"I see a higher chance of Russia coming to the bargaining table," Szakonyi said.
Cover image: Russian President Vladimir Putin looks out of the window of a helicopter as he travels to the Rassvet agricultural company in Stavropol region, Russia October 9, 2018. Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via Reuters


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