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The big example is a line of cases in NJ in which the NJ supreme court read its own (ie NOT the US Const) as going further than traditional notions of 1AM requirements as regards freedom of speech in a private setting. To whit, this issue related to passing out flyers on the private property of a regional (huge) mall. Even though it was private property, the NJ supreme court reasoned that since the mall was acting as a pseudo-public entity anyway (malls replacing downtowns as places of congregation, malls advertising themselves and providing services as such, etc..), it had to accept limited and appropriate acts of free speech in certain areas -- notwithstanding the fact that this was private property.
There's also some US Supreme Court stuff like this regarding free speech in "company towns" but it's much more strictly limited than the big NJ deal I just mentioned.
If it were earlier in the day I'd look up the citations for the NJ case. IIRC, it was New Jersey Coalition Against War In The Middle East v. J.M.B. Realty from 1994, but I'm not 100% sure.
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Consider slashdot itself. Most users browse at +1 or higher, so anything moderated below that is effectively censored (ACs have a default score of 0, but they choose to post at that level).
There's a lot of crap at the 0/-1 level, but there are also a lot of valid criticisms and opinions that the moderating community doesn't agree with.
True, but if the thread is flagged by the editors as a troll, you will lose your mod points and never be able to moderate again. It's called $rtbl, or "Real Time BlackList". Flamebaits and crapfloods may be blatantly obvious targets, but there are some crafty trolls that generate a lot of comments where you won't know what's troll and what's not.
My point is this: it up to the editors and fanboys what is insightful, and what is crapflood. Joe_User has very little control over what they see here. Sure, setting your preference to -1 will let you see everything, but try finding the rare gem among the crapfloods and goatse links. Yes, they do occur, because moderation abuse is rampant, particularly among anti Debian and Gentoo posts. Browse the next Debian or Gentoo story at -1 and observe every post critical of those two distros wind up in the shitter, no matter how interesting they may be.
I'll probably get modded down for this, but WTF, I'm $rtbled anyway.
The censorship in The Sims, however, reminds me of malls. Laws vary from state to state regarding whether malls (almost always private property) have the right to censor speech by preventing public demonstrations, speeches, leafletting, etc... I think the point to remember is that as public spaces become enclosed and property rights are extended to more areas the public gathers, it is important that free speech rights allow democratic dialogue to continue.
Most users browse at +1 or higher, so anything moderated below that is effectively censored (ACs have a default score of 0, but they choose to post at that level).
And who decides what score a post gets? The moderators, that's who! I chose not to moderate, because I prefer not to judge, but I do metamoderate some. I meta-mod friends and fans up, and that's it. Other than that, well, it's beside the point.
The point is, slashdot itself doesn't decide what to mod each post as, and osdn doesn't decide
I thought it was your ass.
Do you think the creators of TSO don't want to sell access to as many people as possible? Their simple desire to make as much money as possible guarantees that they will craft their policies such that they will be appealing to the largest number of consumers.
It doesn't take collectivism to acheive a result that benefits the maj
This might seem like a minor distinction to many, but it's the difference between saying "Nothing in the Constution gives you the right to do X" and "Nothing in the Constitution grants the federal government the power to restrict X". Those are really, really major differences. Living under one model is vastly different than the other.
If we see government as the grantor of our rights, we have to go begging to the federal government every time we want to do something new and hope they'll take pity on us. If we see the Constitution as a contract between government and citizens where citizens grant a specific number of powers to government, no begging is required when something new comes up that government hasn't already restricted.
Specific to the
We are the collective of the people, or "We, the People", who have the rights (government only has powers), who can make this internet anything we want it to be, by becoming a part of it's infrastructure or paying to be members of this virtual community. Who's stopping you, unless you're a "subject" or citizen of a country where you've been fooled into believing that the source of your rights is some government?
The US Bill of Rights does not "allow" you any rights. It recognizes specific rights that are never to be taken away.
NOt entirely true. It spells out a few rights, then says that any rights not spelled out there and not expressly delegated to the government are reserved by the states.
Personally, I'm a big fan of States' rights. Problem is, the Civil War taught us that states have no rights. So it's been over a hundred years since we needed a new constitution.
Excuse me? The Constitution doesn't allow me anything. It tells the government which rights I possess naturally and puts limits on the government to prevent them from abusing my rights.you have your government's charter/constitution which allows you rights
Well, since the "virtual world" is privately owned, requires money to participate in, isn't tied to government in any way, etc...I'd say it's pretty clear cut; freedom of speech doesn't apply on private property.
Let's get real here folks- what's next, arrest for murder if I cut your Massively-Multiplayer-whatever-the-hell-it-is character's throat? Jeeeeeeezus...
I'm a big fan of meatspace and the rights provided me by my government (or at least the government I attempted to vote for in the last election). However, when I check into a online game, regardless if it is a first person shooter or cooperative environment, I make no illusions that the rules that govern my life will be (or should be) transferred to a place I'm taking a "time out" in.
Maybe I'm a pimp in The
And that's just the problem. It's not clear that he *did* violate the EULA and TOS. What is clear, is that EA is very uneven in enforcing the same, and that goes all the way back to the Beta.So Peter Ludlow violates a game's EULA and TOS and gets kicked out because he's caught. This is news?
A group of people gets together under the premise of starting a virtual community. They let it grow, and eventually a fully fledged society emerges. Lo and behold, that society has evolved to the point where a breed of prostitution exists. It causes no harm unlike in meatspace, where STDs, rape and other types of violence are common. Since those of us in meatspace have linked all of these together under one disreputable roof, it stands to reason that prostitution online must fit in the same category. Let's censor it.
Let's censor it in desperate hope that nobody notices that the evil notion of selling sex really has turned out to be quite a human trait, not something derived from the devil as some religions would have us believe. Let's censor it so that nobody notices that true human nature just might not be mirrored by our current society's value system.That's censorship. It's a layor of makeup to hide our "flaws."
I'm kinda surprised they don't have this in the game.
The #1 problem with Democracy is the same problem with your post.
Change always starts in a minority, for better or for worse. The American Revolution was led by a minority, and there were many colonists who opposed it. Many more were indifferent as long as it didn't hurt business. But when it comes down to it, all change starts in a minority, and when you allow the majority to decide what's acceptable, you block out change. Which leads to decline.
Now, I could sue my employer for unfair termination, particularly if they had not detailed or educated me on their sexual harrassment policy.
But legislation has provided that operators of online forums have extensive safe harbor protections. For a while there, this was sketchy (see Stratton Oakmont v. Prodigy [google.com], where an investment firm successfully sued Prodigy over a defamatory post and Prodigy lost because it was ruled they took such an active hand in controlling board content that they became lost Safe Harbor protection), but later legislation broadened safe harbor provisions to such an extent that EA/Maxis can boot anyone, clean things up as they see fit, or leave them messy, and they have little or no legal liability to the people who got booted or the people harmed/offended by content that stays. IANAL, but AFAIK, they've got a pretty free hand and the only thing to govern their actions is the free market.
Of course, it's quite possible they were just getting in over their heads when they created the online world they did.
A friend of mine was talking at work Friday about a friend of hers who would create new Sims Online characters just to bring them back to his primary character's residence, kill them, and bury them in the living room.
When the world devolves to a place where a man can find a willing victim for cannibalization online [bbc.co.uk], it's hard for weirdness not to filter into online worlds. When a search for "grief players" on Google turns up 1,800 results, you know that this is no limited phenomenon.
Perhaps the question is not whether there should be freedom within alternate worlds (or as absolute as you can get within the bounds of the program), but how you have to balance freedom against other needs and wants.
How much freedom is necessary to not only complete the objectives of the game, but make the game a fun place to hang out? Should you limit interaction between avatars to only that which is needed to complete game objectives and otherwise phase out community aspects? Can you take out the elements that grief players exploit and yet leave the game with enough oomph to make it popular with a big enough mass of people for it to be profitable?
It's too easy to just lash out at EA and Maxis for booting this guy. Given, it may be a knee-jerk reaction and probably wrong on a moral or ethical level, but virtual worlds are pretty new and the optimal construction and management of them for maximum player enjoyment with minimum grief player exploitation is not a set formula by any stretch of the imagination.
Honestly, a smart move would be to create a virtual world based on that "Manhunt" game they've been advertising on TV or based on GTA. Make a world of pimps, whores, seedy strip joints, dominatrixes, S&M clubs... Make a world where giving grief to others without getting grief is the challenge, and throw in a bunch of sex and sleaze to boot.
I'm not saying this is necessarily a big commercial draw (though it probably would be), but it would probably be a great way to siphon away grief players from other games.
No city ever completely cleans up its red light district or skid row necause they need them. People are going to sell and buy drugs. People are going to sell and buy sex. People are going to fall into the gutter and be more interested in staying there than getting out. These districts serve a purpose... keeping that stuff out of the suburbs and better urban neighborhoods.
That's the sociology of the games. If you conside
When I was beta testing TSO, I started to get a few ideas about what might be possible with this sort of game. Obviously, the sexual deviance mentioned in the article occured to me (not in any vivid detail, I assure you). I thought the more interesting possibilities lied in more normal, healthy human relationships, however. For example, I was then (and am still now) involved in a long-distance romantic relationship. I began to contemplate the idea of a virtual date with my girlfriend. We could eat out, go see a show, take a romantic walk in the park. Of course, it doesn't compare to any of these activities in real life, but a virtual date, or "proxy intimacy", as I'll call it, is light-years beyond AIM as a communication medium for lovers. Of course, for single sims, nothing says you can't meet someone actractive at the club and begin a whole online relationship (once again, much more interesting than the lurid creepiness of singles chatrooms).
Unfortunately, my dreams for this sort of interaction never panned out. TSO, while trumpeted as being freeform and open-ended in the extreme, wound up digging itself into a rut pretty quickly. Some of its problems lie in the fact that it ranks users on ladders, and introduces systems of competition which are entirely artificial to a game which attempts to emulate "real life". Case in point: statistics on the richest and most popular sims. In the former case, you have a bunch of hyper-capitalists trying to outpace eachother in the generation of a hyperinflating virtual currency (more on the economic problems in TSO later). In the latter, you see an even more bizarre and surreal sort of competition, wherein online characters do whatever they can to get a "friend" designation from other players and then, for the most part, ignore those characters (what an odd definition of friendship).
Another difficulty is introduced in the zoning system used for property. On a basic level, there is none. This sounds good enough, as it should theoretically enable the construction of any sort of enterprise. The unfortunate result of this, however, is that most places just look more or less like houses. There's no concept of shared or leased property, either, as every property has a distinct owner or owners (thus, there are no apartment buildings, no malls, no office parks, nothing). And, although the game lays out properties with physical locations on a map of your chosen city, these locations have no real meaning whatsoever. Properties are not connected to adjacent properties in any special way, and thus the concept of a neighborhood is utterly nonexistent (the lack of anything approximating geography in-game is a very significant barrier to the formation of actual communities). Travelling anywhere in the game is a point-and-click affair, so there's nothing like walking down the street to the drugstore, or taking the subway cross-town to the nightclub. Similarly, you can't walk over to Bob's for the barbeque.
To be sure, people do hold many social events in the game world, but conducting them with friends (in the traditional sense, no the wierd in-game definition) can be difficult. There is very little consistency to online relationships, as the only people you're likely to run into with any frequency in a particular establishment (without having made prior plans) are the owners. Locations are no help, due to the fact that each is a node unto itself (I actually never met any of my neighbors in Alphaville. I doubt many people have). The chance of repeatedly encountering someone by chance then becomes exceedingly small. This, I think, contributes to some of the romantic and sexual wierdness of the game. In TSO, you can't see that cute girl at the Deli a few times during lunch and then work up the nerve to strike up a conversation with her. Better ask if she wants to do the make out action now while you can! Now, if TSO behaved like a more realistic analogue of life, there wouldn't be such a market for prostitution in the gameworld, as people would probably be dating and even
A privately-owned-and-operated virtual reality is no different from a privately-held TV station: the owner can restrict the content. That's probably not a Good Thing, but the same thing is happening in actual communities, with public spaces disappearing. The solution is to create more public spaces (virtual or actual, same difference) where public rules still apply.
I think a far more interesting question applies to conduct in virtual reality, because what we "do" in a simulated environment is not something we're doing in actual reality. If I beat up someone in The Sims Online, that's not actual assault and battery. And it sounds to me like what's becoming a problem in this situation is what people are doing, not what they're saying. Even free-speech absolutists will usually support restrictions on conduct (killing, theft, etc.) in actual reality. But what about virutal reality?
"Whether I'm standing on an actual street corner shouting about The Truth, or I'm sitting at a computer typing The Truth for an avatar to shout on a simulated street corner, I'm still an actual person saying the same things to actual people. I have the same free speech rights and social responsibilities. The same rules (whatever the right ones are, that's a separate question) not only should apply to virtual reality... they do!"
Sorry. Wrong answer. If you go to a local mall and create a disturbance, t
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The sixth-ranked LSU Tigers head to the Lone Star State this Saturday for a pivotal SEC Western Division matchup with the 20th-ranked Texas A&M Aggies.
LSU opened the season with five straight wins before suffering its lone setback with a 14-6 loss at Florida on Oct. 6. With their national championship hopes taking a serious hit, the Tigers gathered themselves and rebounded with a 23-21 win over previously unbeaten South Carolina last weekend, setting the stage for an interesting next couple of games as they will not only take on Texas A&M this week, but will play host to No. 1 Alabama two weeks later.
The Aggies are enjoying an impressive start to the 2012 campaign, their first as members of the SEC, as they come into this contest sporting a 5-1 mark, their lone loss also coming against Florida in their season opener back on Sept. 8. Texas A&M battled non-league foe Louisiana Tech in Shreveport last Saturday, prevailing in a wild 59-57 final. The loss snapped the Bulldogs' national-best 12-game regular-season winning streak. The Aggies will also face Alabama this year, doing so in Tuscaloosa on Nov. 10.
LSU leads the all-time series with Texas A&M, 27-20-3, and won the most recent meeting in the 2011 Cotton Bowl (41-24).
Led by QB Zach Mettenberger, the LSU offense ranks in the middle of the SEC pack in terms of scoring (32.0 ppg), which isn't anything to sneeze at considering the potent teams that call the conference home. Still, Mettenberger would like to be more consistent as he is completing just 59.8 percent of his passes for 1,322 yards, six TDs and four interceptions. He spreads the ball around, with Odell Beckham, Jr. and Jarvis Landry both logging 22 catches for a combined 604 yards and three TDs. The run game accounts for 206.9 ypg, and features a talented stable of backs, led by Kenny Hilliard (415 yards, six TDs). In all, six guys have rushed for at least 100 yards this season.
The LSU defense is as formidable as ever, with foes averaging just 14.0 points and 219.6 yards per game. The Tigers ranks just below Alabama in the SEC in both run defense (89.3 ypg) and pass defense (130.3 ypg), and they also rank second in the league in sacks (20). Kevin Minter has been LSU's most active defender to this point in the season, logging 63 tackles, of which 8.5 have taken place behind the line of scrimmage. Sam Montgomery leads the hit parade on opposing quarterbacks, securing four sacks.
Coming off its first regular-season loss in 18 games, there were some who thought the Tigers might not respond favorably in last week's showdown with South Carolina, but respond they did as they earned a hard-fought victory in front of a raucous home crowd. Jeremy Hill was the star of the LSU offense, rumbling his way to 124 yards and a pair of TDs, while Mettenberger went 12- of-25 for 148 yards with an interception. He did however, make some heady plays as he helped the Tigers convert 11-of-19 third-down attempts.
On the heels of the Florida loss, it was important for the Tigers to play well last week, and Mettenberger believes that goal was accomplished.
"I think we executed a lot better. That showed on the scoreboard and in the yards we put out. Really, that's what we should have been doing all year because we knew we could do it. From here on out, we just got to show up with the same mentality and attitude we had this past week and just keep looking to get better."
The LSU defense stood tall throughout, yielding a mere 34 net rushing yards and only 211 yards of total offense. LB Lamin Barrow had a career-best 12 tackles while Minter finished with nine. The Tigers tallied four sacks, two of which were credited to Montgomery. They also came up with a pair of picks while holding the Gamecocks to 3-of-13 success on third down.
Texas A&M is the top offensive team in the SEC, averaging a robust 47.0 ppg on the strength of 543.7 total yards per contest. Both figures are far and away the highest in the league, and the Aggies present a balanced attack that typically generates 235.8 ypg on the ground and 307.8 ypg through the air. QB Johnny Manziel isn't playing like your typical freshman, as he leads the conference in rushing (112.7 ypg, 10 TDs) while ranking third in passing (.674, 1,680 yards, 14 TDs, three interceptions). Mike Evans has been Manziel's go-to guy more often than not, as he currently sits third in the league with 36 receptions, 549 yards and two TDs.
As for the A&M defense, it allows an average of 21.8 ppg to rank sixth in the league, and the team's effort against the run (124.7 ypg) has been much better than its showing against the pass (280.8 ypg). Led by Damontre Moore's 8.5 sacks (tied for second in the country), the Aggies have taken down the opposing quarterback 19 times. However, the unit has come up with only seven turnovers to date.
Manziel accounted for six TDs in leading the Aggies to their thrilling win over Louisiana Tech last week. The young signal-caller ran for 181 yards and three TDs and threw for 395 yards and three more scores, as the A&M offense churned out 678 total yards. Evans was once agains high man among the receivers, hauling in four balls for 137 yards and a TD. The Aggies were a highly-efficient 15-of-22 on third down.
LaTech simply would not go away last Saturday, the Bulldogs rolling up 615 yards of total offense, 450 of which came via the pass. The Aggies allowed just 5-of-17 third-down opportunities to be converted successfully, and Moore had another outstanding game in posting 17 tackles.
Even with his defense giving up a ton to LaTech, which is a very good offensive football team, A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin was more upset over the 19 penalties his team committed.
"That is stuff we have been talking about since we got here with ball security and penalties. That is something we have been working on and emphasizing, but obviously we have done a poor job and we did a poor job of that tonight. I have never ever been in a football game with that many penalties."


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AN ATM glitch has prevented customers getting their money, even though their records show the money has been withdrawn.
The RediATM network suffered an outage across Australia on Saturday, infuriating shoppers preparing for Christmas just two weeks away.
Customers reported that money had been deducted from their accounts, despite an error message appearing on the ATM screens declaring the transaction had failed.
The network claims to be one of Australia's largest, with more than 3000 machines.
One customer, Christopher Griffiths, tried to withdraw $100 from a RediATM in Sydney on Saturday morning. When the transaction failed, he tried the Westpac and St George ATMs nearby, which also did not work. He checked his online Credit Union account soon after to find a total of $200 from two separate transactions had been deducted.
''If there is a network problem they have to shut it down if money is being taken away,'' Mr Griffiths said.
''I was going to buy groceries and petrol but now I'm stranded at home waiting for my dad to bring some extra cash.''
NAB was aware of the outage and advised RediATM customers to use NAB machines.
''We do not operate the RediATMs, that's done by our partner company,'' a spokesman said. ''Other banks also have a a similar partnership.''
Customer service instructed people to submit a complaint form on Monday and have assured them IT staff were fixing the problem.
One customer claimed on Facebook that he was told he would have to wait 90 days for the money to be recovered.


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MILLEDGEVILLE, GA. – The Coker women's basketball team extended their win streak to four on Sunday (Dec. 30) evening when they defeated UNC Pembroke 65-59. The Cobras improve to 7-2 on the year.
Coker only surrendered the led one time when the Braves scored the first basket of the game and went up 2-0. Coker however, went on a quick 6-0 run and regained the lead for the remainder of the game.
The Cobras were led by Autumn Lau who scored a game high 16-points. Lau also collected eight rebounds and tallied five blocks. Behind Lau was her twin sister Amber who contributed 14-points with a team high five assists. Hailey Yohn had game high nine rebounds and seven points.
As a team, the Cobras shot 40-percent from the floor, and 77-percent from the charity stripe. Coker also snatched up 47-rebounds and had a season high seven blocks on defense.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The 36th season of varsity women's lacrosse begins Saturday, with the Bulldogs paying a visit to Holy Cross for a noon game.
Yale is undefeated (14-0) against Holy Cross, though last year's game was the closest in the history of the series. After jumping out to a 6-1 lead in the season opener at Reese Stadium, the Bulldogs withstood a second-half rally by the Crusaders and came away with an 8-5 win. Sophomore midfielder Devon Rhodes (E. Northport, N.Y.) led the team with three goals, while junior goalie Whitney Quackenbush (Manhasset, N.Y.) made 11 saves.
Those two went on to have All-Ivy caliber seasons for the Bulldogs last year, with Rhodes earning second team All-Ivy and Quackenbush honorable mention. Rhodes led the team in goals (27) and points (35), while Quackenbush's .493 save percentage placed her 15th in the country.
All told, 10 starters from last year return as the Bulldogs look to continue to move up in the Ivy standings and national rankings. In addition to Rhodes, the Bulldogs also return their second-leading scorer, senior midfielder Kaitlyn Flatley (Berwyn, Pa.). Fellow senior Fielding Kidd (Atlanta, Ga.), Yale's captain, returns to lead the Bulldog defense. Flatley and Kidd are part of a senior class that also includes midfielder Logan Greer (Berwyn, Pa.), defender Augusta Hixon (Cambridge, Mass.), defender Mahi Trivellas (Chadds Ford, Pa.) and attacker Myra Trivellas (Chadds Ford, Pa.).
Holy Cross (0-2, 0-0 Patriot League) has dropped a pair of close games at the start of the season, 12-10 to UMass in overtime and 8-5 to New Hampshire. The Crusaders are led by five-foot-five attacker Taylor Zebrowski, who has three goals and an assist. Goalie Amy Martin has a .286 save percentage and a 9.52 goals-against average.
After the game at Holy Cross, the Bulldogs have an unexpected home opener. Yale's game that was originally scheduled to be played at Boston College next Wednesday has been moved to Reese Stadium due to the impact the winter weather has had on BC's field. This will be Yale's third season at Reese Stadium, which has recently undergone a major renovation. Reese will be dedicated on Saturday, Apr. 9, as part of a day that includes a Yale women's game vs. Princeton and a Yale men's game vs. Dartmouth.
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- Silverstone Test - Day One
Water leak cuts Ferrari's day short
Pedro de la Rosa says the opening day of testing at Silverstone was going "fantastically well" for Ferrari until it was cut short by a water leak.
The test was the first time de la Rosa has been behind the wheel of the F14 T, on a day where he carried out tyre testing duties for Pirelli. Ferrari only added one lap to the 48 it completed in the morning session, but de la Rosa thinks the team was competitive in the stint it did complete.
"Yes," de la Rosa said when asked if there was a problem. "It was all going fantastically well; we had a very good morning and then in the afternoon we had a water leak with the cooling system so we had to call it a day … it was something we were not expecting but it cut our day a bit short."
As Tuesday marked de la Rosa's first experience with a V6 era car, he is pleased with the way he adapted to life behind the wheel of the F14 T.
"It was pretty good I would say. The fact that I jumped in to the car and immediately in a new car with a new regulation - because we should never forget that 2014 is very new, I am experienced but with the V8s and this is a completely new Formula for me as well - I was straight on there feeling very comfortable doing competitive lap times straight away.
"So I am pleased because of that, it means the correlation is pretty good. It still has to improve and we have to push and we have to make sure that we make it better but it's a good starting point. I'm pretty proud of the work we have done in-house."
On top of de la Rosa's efforts at Silverstone, the Spaniard says fellow countryman Fernando Alonso was doing work of his own in the Maranello simulator.
"We've done mainly correlation work. I was working before this work doing the correlation trying to set up the simulator and all the tyre models; everything just as close as we could. Today Fernando was checking that it was like the race, so we were doing some testing in both directions."


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Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng (陳光誠) is set to arrive in Taipei tomorrow for a 20-day visit, which is plenty of time for Beijing to get riled up about something during his stay. Chen's visit will provide an opportunity for Taiwanese to reflect on the freedom and rights that they enjoy and what risks lie ahead in the rapid progression of closer cross-strait ties. He should be welcomed with open arms.
For Taiwanese, Chen will be a visible reminder of the extent to which Chinese officials will go to harass, intimidate and silence critics; and that Beijing's promises cannot be trusted.
Pan-green and pan-blue lawmakers have found themselves in uncommon agreement over the issue of visitation rights to Taiwanese detained or imprisoned in China. Until Beijing is willing to guarantee visitation rights for Taiwanese officials stationed in China, they do not want the government to sign any kind of deal on opening up cross-strait representative offices. The kind of illegal detainment and abuse Chen has suffered at the hands of village and provincial authorities — and that his family members continue to suffer — is clear evidence that Taiwanese visitation rights in China should remain a deal-breaker.
Before Chen left the US embassy in Beijing, where he sought refuge in April last year, Chinese authorities promised then-US secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton that they would investigate reports of extra-legal activities against him and his family. Instead, his nephew was arrested and imprisoned after a three-hour trial for defending himself against the thugs who invaded his home, beating up his father and himself. Other relatives have been told that they too will face charges.
There is no doubt that the abuse of his family is designed to pressure Chen to give up on his criticism of China's human rights abuses. Such actions show that Beijing cares more about intimidating its opponents than keeping its promises.
Chen's visit to Taiwan, long in the works, is important for another reason: It comes at a time of uncertainty for him and his family, days after he made headlines because of controversies over his stay in New York and allegations of spyware surveillance. The Chens have been living in New York City since May last year, after he was given a research fellowship at the New York University Law School. The fellowship ends this month and where Chen will go next is apparently still under discussion.
His recent complaint that the university was forcing him out because of pressure from China has been rejected both by a school spokesman and Jerome Cohen, a law professor at the school who helped arrange Chen's study there.
However, Chen's comment on Monday that Beijing has been waging an "unrelenting" campaign against academic freedom echoes previous criticism that foreign universities have laid themselves open to pressure from Beijing by allowing the establishment of China's Confucius Institutes on their campuses and the ever-deepening network of ties with Chinese institutions.
China is a major source of foreign students, whom cash-starved universities around the world are eager to snap up. In Taiwan, private universities have proven themselves just as eager to fill desks, as Taiwanese student numbers decline due to the nation's falling birthrate. This growing thirst for Chinese students means that schools could become increasingly wary of doing something that might offend Beijing, prompting it to curb the outflow of students. This is something that few schools in Taiwan, or government officials, appear to have given much consideration to. They clearly should.
Taiwan's government has trumpeted its many cross-strait agreements with Beijing, but these deals rely more on China's goodwill than legal niceties. Chen is living proof that neither Beijing's goodwill nor its legal system can be relied upon.


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Your post is labeled informative, but it is so filled with jargon that is missing any nice links to references that explain it that I find it quite unhelpful.
I think the premise that this tech is based on 3G multicast is wrong too.
Dr Papandriopoulos paper [ulos.org] suggests the algorithm works by iteratively lowering power, and therefore reducing crosstalk. The reduced crosstalk allows faster protocols like VDSL to be used on the copper that was previously only capable of ADSL2.
Err... That is exactly what I described (without even reading the article).
IMHO not patentable due to being bleeding obvious. The sole reason it is not being done at present is that till recently it was impractical. You just about handled one wire with one chip. Handling a bundle and running a "cool" algo on them was simply beyond what the electronics could do.
As far as the likelihood with 3G: 3G does something quite similar using the signal in a feedback loop. As a result echoes from buildings and reflections from earth (aka multipath) which in other technologies decrease your signal to noise ratio are used to increase the signal to noise ratio.
For example you have the following sequence of bits: 1 1 1 0. Once you get past the first 1 you get the same sequence arriving reflected from a different source. As a result you get slightly better signal to noise on the next 1 1. After that you have a 0. It overlaps with a reflected 1. As a result you get garbled input. If you use a delay shift register and optimise where do you need to add your signal from 1,2,3,4 units of time before that to yourself you can actually eliminate this and improve your signal to noise based on reflections instead of garbling the signal. In addition to that the output of the filter is used also in guess what - power control: telling the mobile to adjust its power.
What this chap is doing is doing the same by applying signal from wire N to the signal from wire Y as a digital filter. Which means exactly what I said - in order for this to be of any use all wires in the same bundle should be handled by the same ASIC. I should probably do the math but they should probably also run the same line protocol. If you have a third party provider running an ADSL in the middle of your "precious" DSL2 bundle this nice scheme fails.
Pity actually, while not particularly original this is a cool way of using a well known existing way of improving signal to noise ratio (including the power control part of it).
If I hadn't already posted to this story I'd be trying right now to figure out how to use my two remaining mod points to mod you both funny and insightful.
Well, if you're using like, then it's actually a simile.
That being said, I think the appropriate metaphor for your post would be "flogging a dead horse".
m != M
No, this guy's just finally managed to get 200 millibits per second. Get yer bits, once every 5 seconds...
Both linked articles are a little scarce of details, but it's an interesting concept.
There's a big difference between the theoretical limits on information transmission and the practical limits imposed by economics and the current state of technology. I saw 9.6k full-duplex modems in widespread use in the 1970s. They were available to anyone who could afford their steep price ($20K each).
Shannon-Hartley theorem [wikipedia.org]
C. E. Shannon (Jan. 1949). "Communication in the presence of noise". Proc. Institute of Radio Engineers vol. 37 (
The slashdot summary and linked articles are rather short on details. A little googling located some details:
NOTE: I did a quick skim of it and had not seen any empirical evidence of the advance; seems to be entirely theoretical. I don't mean to lessen his accomplishments, but my experience is that reality usually has unforeseen factors. I certainly hope he IS on to something here!!
(*) I didn't know anyone used the <blink> tag any more.
It seems a bit unlikely this one guy has made 200x of progress over what scads of EE's and Shannon and Nyquist and innumerable PHD's have worked out over the years.
You mean like those that might be implemented in software?
Can't wait for the anti-software patent zealots to get a hold of this!
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NATCHITOCHES, La. (AP) -- James Hulbin scored 19 points to lead four Northwestern State players in double figures to beat Oral Roberts 85-73 in a Southland Conference game Thursday night.
Shamir Davis scored 14 points and Gary Roberson and DeQuan Hicks each had 12 to help Northwestern State (15-6, 9-2) win its fifth straight game.
Hulbin, Roberson and Hicks were part of a strong second unit that gave the Demons a 48-6 advantage in bench points.
Though Oral Roberts shot 49.1 percent (27 of 55) compared to Northwestern State's 45.6 percent (31 of 68), the Demons led by as many as 17 points in the second half.
Northwestern State recorded 21 steals and Oral Roberts (14-9, 9-2) turned the ball over 28 times resulting in 34 points for the Demons.
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The South Tama/East Marshall girls soccer team traveled to Pella to take on Pella Christian on Monday for a 6 p.m. start. ST/EM started the game with Sam Earley in goal; Sadie Kavalier, Hailee Weiss, Megan Wanatee and Cynthia Lares in defense; Araceli Angel, Kylee Hoskins, Guadalupe (Mona) Nunez and Dani Stubbs in the midfield; with Kristi Lasley and Ericka Dunning up front. Due to injuries, we have had to move people around and pull first-year players into starting lineup.
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The second half found the ST/EM team with the wind and again creating scoring chances, but unable to find the back of the net. Nunez had a hard shot that was just inches wide of the far post. Kylee Hoskins setup a good shot, but again no one could get a solid foot on it. Wanatee had a good run from the backline but again the shot was right at the PC keeper.
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The ST/EM girls played well tonight. With some of the injuries to the more experience players, others stepped in and played very well. Kylee Hoskins filled in very well in her first start in midfield and did a good job there. Wanatee was dropped back to defense and played well there, as did the rest of the team.
We were aggressive again tonight and we're controlling the tempo for the majority of the game. The defense continues to play very solid soccer, with young players in the defensive line. We were winning the loose balls, but still learning what to do when we do get these chances. We were trying to make the runs and cross the ball to the weak side, and when it did connect, we had good things happen.
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Location: East Boston, Massachusetts
Age: 28
An Engrossing Title?
Hey everyone, I've been on the sidelines of the anime scene for a while watching random series every couple of months, but I'd like to get back into the hobby a bit if possible.
What I'm looking for isn't particularly specific but it must meet one requirement: it is engrossing. I want to be pulled into the plot/characters/world (any of the three) and keep coming back for more. This is my problem with anime lately; it just doesn't catch my interest enough to suck me in.
So please suggest any titles that completely drew you in, whether that means you would watch as many episodes in one sitting as possible, or you were always looking forward to the next time you can watch an episode. The genre isn't particularly important, but I think certain types of anime are more engrossing than others: fantasy, drama/romance, and sci-fi come to mind.
Also, if you don't mind could you write down why you find the series so mesmerizing, whether it be the plot, the characters, the ambiance, etc.
Thanks a lot.
PS: Unfortunately, I've already seen a lot of anime, but I haven't seen too many from the past 3 years or from before 2002 (though some of my favorites are classics).
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Beautiful fighter.
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: England, UK
Age: 31
Are you watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood? Because if there's one thing that show can do, it's pull you in. Everything about the show, from the plot, the character development is just seriously well written. I'd actually recommend you the manga over it, though you're looking for an anime, so i went with that. It's been a pretty damn good adaptation, and there's just one episode to go (64 in total).
Though the best series in my opinion for pulling the viewers in and never letting go would be One Piece. I'm sure you've heard the reasons as to why already.
|2010-07-01, 12:47
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Yeah it is actually one of the series that got me into anime back when it aired (and posting on this forum actually). I've been keeping up with Brotherhood but I've already finished the manga so I haven't seen the past two episodes. Definitely one of my favorites, but since I've been exposed to the concept for 7-8 years now the novelty has worn off a bit.
One Piece I probably have to give another go, I've watched bits over the past few years but never really gave it enough of a chance. Thanks for your suggestions.
|2010-07-01, 13:17
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And, your opinion is really all I'm looking for. So it is worth a lot.
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Age: 31
My first suggestion was FMA: Brotherhood, lol.
Hmm...I have no clue what you've watched or when you stopped watching but here are my suggestions...
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kobe, Japan
Cross Game - which is nowhere near as conventional as the premise suggests. Truly engrossing because the characters are beyond real and complex and the writing is so sharp.
Seirei no Moribito. Everything about it was engrossing for me - the complex, layered fantasy world. The characters are as good as any in any series. Incredible animation and music. Really, for me it's the whole package.
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I suppose I'll say what the best plot-driven animes I've watched <2002 and >2007: (I'm more into romances than other genres so you'll see me biased towards those)
Crest of the Stars
Martian Successor Nadesico
Fruits Basket
Cowboy Bebop
Angelic Layer
Haibane Renmei
Rurouni Kenshin + OVAs
Hoshi no Koe - Best romance I saw within a movie's timeframe
Onegai Teacher
Hunter x Hunter
Slayers + Next and Try
Princess Tutu - For a mahou shoujo the story pleasently surprised me
Clannad - This is the only anime that made me CRY. And by cry I don't just mean 'eyes tear up'.
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - I think this came out in 2007... Anyway, a must watch. Ever wonder how strong you can get just by being AWESOME?
Macross Frontier
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni + Kai and Rei
Kaiba - it looks weird, but trust me it's really good
True Tears - seconded
Code Geass - if you love...
Death Note - .... anti-heroes
Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo
Gundam 00
|2010-07-01, 20:05
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: USA
Age: 31
Ah! How could I forget Code Geass!? That was an epic series. The sheer scope of it all. I second that, along with Macross Frontier, Gundam 00, Toradora and Bakemonogatari. Oh, Death Note was really good too.
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Komrades of Kitamura Kou
Join Date: Jul 2004
Age: 33
Also I will second any and all mentions of Cross Game and Tatami Galaxy in this thread.
|2010-07-03, 11:54
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Cross Game - I need more
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: I've moved around the American West. I've lived in Oregon, Washington, Utah, and Oklahoma
Age: 38
Neon Genesis Evangelion.
It may screw with your mind, but it's certainly engrossing. Both for the strongly developed characters, and for the dense and confusing plot.
Haruhi Suzumiya is pretty engrossing too. At least the plot parts of it. Don't bother with watching all the Endless Eight episodes.
Mirai Nikki should be coming out in fall I think... that will be another one.
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Age: 26
I'd say any mainstream shounen fits, but of them I'd like to second One Piece and put up a recommendation for D. Gray-man. D.Gray-man starts out a little slow, but once it hit episode 40 something I couldn't stop watching. And One Pice i'd have to say is my favorite shounen out there, on certain arcs, the action and story is simply irresistible.
Some other series I felt that I couldn't stop watching
Claymore - Great action, good characters and plot (Fantasy, drama)
Great Teacher Onizuka - Love the characters, good story (but the ending is kinda rushed - read the manga after the Okinawa arc around volume 14 or just read the manga) - no fantasy or sci fi, there mainly drama
Fate/Stay Night - Great overall, I enjoyed every minute of it. There is some epic action, mixed with some heart-retching drama, romance and fantasy. It has a really original plot too. Just a good watch.
Monster - a MUST watch
Code Geass - When I finished the first season, the wait for the second season killed me, but your lucky the entire series is finished.
Bakemonogatari - Senjougahara is the greatest
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Well it is my favorite series, but I'm not sure if it fits into "engrossing"
Cross Game - What's engrossing isn't the strength of the plot, but the the character's interactions coupled with the plot. The main character is pretty great as he is almost always calm and composed, he is also very sharp and dependable. The two main females are also very cutesy and lovable. I'd say this anime has great strength of character.
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|2010-07-05, 18:01
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: East Boston, Massachusetts
Age: 28
So, from all these suggestion minus what I've seen already I got:
17 series is great, so thanks a lot. I'll probably rewatch Hikaru no Go as well, that one was very engrossing and I completely forgot it.
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Motorola Solutions is expanding its PartnerEmpower channel program to include a new segment called Industrial Mobile Computing, focused on the sale of ruggedized tablets, RFID readers, and the other technologies the company acquired through its $200 million purchase of Psion last year.
The new segment, according to Motorola, will not only house the nearly 1,300 partners it on-boarded through the Psion deal, but also allow legacy Motorola partners to better target vertical markets, including retail, field services, transportation and distribution. The Industrial Mobile Computing program will be available starting in the fourth quarter of this year, with exact launch dates varying by region, according to Motorola, Schaumburg, Ill.
"The plan is for us to start integrating the Psion channel into Motorola PartnerEmpower late this quarter, beginning of Q4. The way we are doing that is ... the program allows partners to self-select into different technology segments," said Juliann Larimer, vice president, channels and sales operations, Motorola Solutions, in an interview with CRN. "We are creating an Industrial Mobile Computing segment in PartnerEmpower to house our legacy Psion partners, who can enter very easily and be grandfathered into the PartnerEmpower program."
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Larimer said Motorola has spent the past 10 months since the Psion deal closed putting in its "due diligence" to make sure the transition for Psion partners into PartnerEmpower was a smooth one.
Motorola -- which today has roughly 3,800 North American channel partners of its own -- also views the new Industrial Mobile Computing arm as a door-opener for legacy Motorola partners, particularly within the vertical markets Psion traditionally targeted with its ruggedized devices. Motorola partners will, however, have to meet certain training and certification requirements before being able to sell Psion products, Larimer said.
"There will be requirements for training, certification and then some demonstrated capability -- possibly by hitting some sales volumes or committing to some particular numbers -- to say, 'Yes, I have a demonstrated expertise in this space,' " Larimer said. "What we don't want to do is create this new arm in Empower and have everybody move into it and create unnecessary channel conflict."
Details of these training requirements are still in the works, Larimer said.
David Bissonnette, executive vice president of Strategic Systems & Technology, a Suwanee, Ga.-based solution provider and longtime Motorola partner, said he welcomes the addition of the Psion product line and new Industrial Mobile Computing arm.
"The Psion product line really helps us fill one gap in the portfolio, which is more of those rugged, industrial applications," Bissonnette said. "It's actually a really nice fit and is a welcomed addition to the product line."
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As promised, here's some pictures from the trip... *****es.
The view of the Pentland hills from Edinburgh Castle
Sort of the same perspective but reversed, a view of Edinburgh Castle from the top of the National Museum of Scotland
Wallace Monument in Stirling
The freakin 18th hole at the Old Course. I felt the ghosts of Bobby Jones and Old Tom Morris just standing there.
Nice pics BH...well framed dealt with the grey sky pretty well
What camera/lens are you using?
The bonnie banks of Loch Lomond. It was cold and rainy but for a brief second the clouds broke and lit up the snow covered peaks. This view was awe-inspiring.
Many miles away, something crawls to the surface of a dark Scottish loch.
Gordon Sumner
Cauze I like hawses, alod. I own hawzes and like hawses and dat pictcha needs hawses which I like, ogay. Some pictchas....dey doan have hawses, which I doan like. I like da ones with hawses. Put yew on a hawse.... an we can tawk, ogay, cawse I wud like dat ogay, alot.
An no trottas, thorabreds. Yew onna Trodda wud be inszane, trottin aroun the wawta. PUt a thorabread wit yew onnit but on the shaw of da mountins ogay, not on the wawta which would be unbelieebable, ogay.
The fah distint shaw wit yew on a tree yeah old, ogay. Nod tree yeahs old like my son Jack who also likes hawses, tree yeahs old like a young hawse, which is big, ogay, really big.


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Conditions replicating the sauna of Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium and batting on the pace and bounce of Perth's famed Waca wicket - that's the idea behind a $5 million climate-controlled centre proposed to New Zealand Cricket.
It's best described as a cricket simulator for top players.
The vision is to base the centre at Bruce Pulman Park near Papakura, just over 20 minutes from Auckland Airport, and is the brainchild of Eden Park turf manager Mark Perham. The complex would simulate conditions and surfaces to help players prepare for tours anywhere from the sub-continent to England to Australia. Estimated building time is less than 18 months.
Blocks of soil would be imported. Humidity would be controlled via air-conditioning or through 4m-high retractable walls. Light can be maximised during winter through a movable roof similar to that in Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium - which lets in 97 per cent natural light and where grass grows easily.
The idea has been under discussion for more than a year as NZC tries to woo investors. Perham commissioned international architectural firm Grimshaws to prepare a draft - which includes 1900sqm of natural turf, 19 practice wickets, astroturf surrounds and is also expected to be suitable for tennis and lawn bowls. Other renowned Grimshaws projects include Paddington Station, elements of Britain's Eden Project and a couple of Heathrow Airport terminals. They did the preparation work for free.
"We constantly hear about teams being unprepared for tours in winter," Perham says. "Here is an opportunity to do something about it.
"The key points of difference are the use of clay bases and natural sunlight which can be concentrated during winter. We'd import soils. You wouldn't produce whole blocks; just two to three strips of each which would cost around $10,000.
"$5 million might seem a lot of money but then how do operations like the velodrome get off the ground in Cambridge? It requires vision. NZC just needs a suitable backer."
NZC chief executive David White was unavailable but Ian McKendry, general manager of grounds and facilities, says they're weighing options. "We're pleased with the match pitches around the country but we can create better facilities for players to prepare. Creating a high performance centre on natural turf has to be beneficial.
"We've looked at partnerships such as private investment and district councils but not many sports organisations build complexes worth $5 million where a decent return is required."
One reason to invest is the complex should help produce better results overseas. If the New Zealand team gather momentum then fans are likely to buy tickets thus increasing revenue.


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The Palo Alto County Sheriff's Office has recovered two stolen vehicles this week.
Acting on a repot of a trapper about a vehicle in the Des Moines River, Palo Alto County deputies recovered the stolen 2005 Dodge Ram truck that was taken from the 1500 block of South Street in Ayrshire on Monday. The truck was located in the 2900 block of River Road on the west side of the river.
The truck was driven to the river's edge and allowed to go over the river bank nose first. It did not roll or flip and there was no damage from water.
However there was damage to the front drive side and undercarriage of the truck from being placed in the river. There was also extensive damage to the rear of the truck. It is believe d this damage was sustained in the incident at Sparky's in Mallard on Monday, when a vehicle was seen ramming the west wall of the gas station.
The truck was examined and items located inside will be sent to the Department of Criminal Investigation Lab in Ankeny for testing.
The truck sustained an estimated $8,500 in damage.
Wednesday morning at 7:45, the Palo Alto Sheriff Office received a call from a concerned citizen in reference to a truck sitting in a field in the 2900 block of 435th Avenue.
While investigating the call, it was determined the truck, a 2009 Dodge Ram 1500, was stolen from the 400 block of North Brown in Graettinger. The truck had damage to the front bumper and sustained scratched to the paint on the passenger side-approximately $3,500 in damage.
Addition investigation of the truck owner's home reveled it had been ransacked after breaking in the front door. At this time, it is unknown if anything was taken from the truck r house.
The incident occurred in a 24-hour period starting at 7:45 a.m. Tuesday.
This is the second vehicle stolen in the past three days in Palo Alto County and the sixth burglary. She sheriff's office reminds all county residents to remove all keys and to lock both vehicles and homes. Citizens are asked to report any suspicious activity while it is taking place or as soon as possible.
Any information about these crimes can be reported to the sheriff's office at 712-852-3535.


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North Dakota Board Members
Thomas Bettenhausen, DVM
Bismarck, ND
Dr. Thomas Bettenhausen graduated from Kansas State University in 1981 with his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree. He was licensed in the state of North Dakota in 1981. Dr. Bettenhausen is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association, American Animal Hospital Association, and the American Association of Equine Practitioners. His specialities are orthopedic surgery, TPLO for anterior cruciate rupture, and triple pelvic osteotomy for hip dysplasia. He owns a mixed animal practice and he also enjoys large animal practice.
Terms: 5/1/2010 - 6/30/2012, 7/1/2012 - 6/30/2015, 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2018
Gerald Buchholz, DVM
Bismarck, ND
Dr. Gerald Buchholz has been serving as a veterinarian in Bismarck for 30 years. He received his Bachelor's degree from North Dakota State University and his doctorate in veterinary medicine from the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine. His professional interests include orthopedic surgery, ophthalmology, and ultrasonography. He spends his free time with his wife Cindy and daughter Andrea. He enjoys hunting, fishing, and spending time at the lake cabin.
Terms: 7/1/2013 - 6/30/2016, 7/1/2016 - 6/30/2018
CarolynWoodruff, DVM
Beulah, ND
Dr. Carolyn Woodruff graduated from The Ohio State University with a doctor of veterinary medicine in 1978. She completed a large animal surgery internship at the University of Minnesota the following year before entering private practice. Since that time she has been a mixed animal practitioner in North and South Dakota. Surgery and behavior medicine are her special interests. She shares practice ownership and balancing family time with her husband, Dr. Morgan Dallman. She enjoys being an outdoorswoman, hunting, traveling, and work on their earth home construction in her spare time.
Terms: 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2017, 7/1/2017 - 6/30/2020
Lynn Priebe, LVT
Valley City, ND
Lynn grew up on a farm in Sauk Centre, MN. She graduated from NDSU in May 1993 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Veterinary Technology and got her license in June of 1993. Lynn has 2 cats, Cali and Shy, a dog named Gigi, and owns a few cows with her parents. Lynn enjoys working with both large and small animals. Lynn's interests include vegetable and flower gardening and sewing. Lynn also teaches dog obedience classes in Valley City and in Lisbon. Lynn is an active member in the North Dakota Veterinary Technician Association.
Terms: 7/1/2013 - 6/30/2016, 7/1/2016 - 6/30/2019
Carmel Miller, Public Member
Carson, ND
Carmel Miller graduated from North Dakota State University with a B.S. degree in Animal Science and a M.Ed. in Agriculture Education. She and her husband Todd operate a cow/calf operation in Carson. She also teaches in the Agriculture, Technology and Natural Resources Department at Bismarck State College. Interests include being a mom to daughters Jayden and Addison, perennial flower gardening, new technology, reading and roping.
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This is a discussion on Making Your Corvette Invisible within the Corvette forums, part of the Vehicle Specific category; Making Your Corvette Invisible We recently ran a press release for the new K40 Electronics Calibre Radar and Laser Defuser ...
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We recently ran a press release for the new K40 Electronics Calibre Radar and Laser Defuser protection. Due to the ever-present threat of speed traps and the tendency for Corvettes to exceed the speed limit, we decided to try this new product out on Project Shark Attack. K40 promptly sent us their Calibre SL with the Front Laser Defuser system. On a basic level, the K40 protection system is minimally invasive as it uses the new Blue Tooth technology to ease your installation woes. This saves quite a bit of time during the install. There are no holes to cut or drill for cabling, plus there is less wiring to conceal. The K40 interior network module is easy to place, and we all know how limited the interior compartment and underdash area of Corvettes are. The Blue Tooth technology not only saves wiring time under the dash and externally, but the K40 Blue Tooth signature is unique so it won't interfere with the multitude of RF signals occurring under the C4, C5, and C6 Corvette dashes. That is a huge plus when compared to competing systems.
Installation can be completed in one day depending on how fancy you get with the receiver installation. The front and rear radar receivers use a 12-volt battery or ignition power so there's flexibility in the wiring, and the only other wire to install on the car itself is the ground wire. We decided to use ignition power from the cooling fan relays to power our radar receivers. If battery power is easier to access on your project, you can use that. Wherever you decide to mount the receivers, keep in mind that although they're not heavy, a good sturdy mounting point ensures long, dependable receiver life. If the radar receivers or laser defuser move out of position, erroneous info will be given, and you may not get the radar info you need.
After the K40 system was installed, a road test was in order. We first began with the system start-up, and the initial wakeup sequence went into action. We made our initial system selections and then headed out for the testing. The very cool K40 Calibre remote control allows you to switch from low to high volume (or mute if you prefer) along with voice and tone modes. The remote is simple to operate and easy to understand with its voice prompts. The first thing we noticed was the Calibre's city mode was quiet heading to the highway, as very few false signals were triggered. We switched over to the highway mode, and Calibre verbally announced "highway." We then picked up speed and cruised with the rest of the pack on the interstate.
Although the K40 Electronics Calibre system is relatively new to PSA, we're impressed with the few false alerts and the many warnings on the open road that proved we were under radar surveillance. We'll be testing the system extensively during the upcoming show season, as you all know how it is when you're on the open road. Speeds tend to creep up, and you can get zapped when you least expect it. As we learn more about the Calibre system, updates will be forthcoming.
K40 Electronics feels so strongly about their Calibre system that a speeding ticket warranty comes with the product. Obviously, the parameters are limited somewhat as K40 will not pay a speeding ticket issued for excessive speed in a school zone, construction zone, or if a DWI/DUI is involved. We all realize that no one ever goes over the posted speed limit, but out in the real world try going 65 mph on the interstate. If you're not cruising at 80 mph, you'll be run over. You got to go with the flow, and the Calibre system helps you do just that!
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DENVER (AP) - The Denver Nuggets went into halftime knowing they had an opportunity to put the New Orleans Hornets away with a quick start to the third quarter.
A dominant effort did the trick.
Iguodala scored 23 points, Kenneth Faried had his eighth double-double of the season and the Denver Nuggets beat the struggling New Orleans Hornets 102-84 on Sunday night.
``That's a point we wanted to ... make sure they didn't have a chance to make a late-game run,' Denver guard Ty Lawson said of his team's third quarter strategy.
Denver made 11 of 18 shots and outscored New Orleans 32-20 in the third quarter - using a simple principle.
``Pay attention to detail,' Lawson said. ``We came in here at halftime and the coaches gave us adjustments we needed to make.'
It was the second straight game the Nuggets used a third quarter surge. They had outscored Golden State 31-17 Friday to put away the Warriors.
During the first half Sunday, we were pretty good except for about a four-minute stretch where we had a nine-, 10-point lead and gave it right back,' Denver coach George Karl said. ``After that we built it back up (in the third quarter) where I felt the flow of the game was more like we like it and where we got a lot of guys involved.'
Iguodala was coming off a 29-point effort against Golden State. Faried had 14 points and 12 rebounds for Denver, winners of four straight.
Lawson had 17 points and six assists for the Nuggets who are 4-1 at home.
Reserve Brian Roberts led New Orleans with 17 points. Ryan Anderson added 16, but was held scoreless in the second half.
The Hornets have lost seven straight.
``Not any good thing to take from a game like this,' New Orleans coach Monty Williams said.
The Hornets avoided their most lopsided loss of the year. New Orleans had lost by 22 to the New York Knicks.
``We are having problems right now,' Hornets point guard Greivis Vasquez said. ``We are just embarrassed.'
``We didn't play well in the third quarter,' Vasquez said. ``We had a lot of deflections and I turned the ball over and they turned them into dunks.'
Lawson had 11 points in the quarter, and made three consecutive shots, the last a 19-footer off a pass from Kosta Koufos with 3:50 left to boost the Nuggets lead to 78-50.
Roberts scored six points in the last 3:47 to get the Hornets to 83-61 at the end of the quarter.
Denver turned the game over to its substitutes early in the fourth quarter. Only Koufos was on the floor at the finish.
New Orleans made the most of it. Roberts hit a wide open shot from the wing, closing the gap to 94-75 with 4:43 left. Corey Brewer and Evan Fournier hit jumpers to get the lead back to 98-76.
New Orleans' Jason Smith's basket tied the game at 26 early in the second quarter, the last time the Hornets trailed or led. It was a quarter of 10-0 runs. Andre Miller put the Nuggets up 38-28 with a pair of free throws, but Robin Lopez's dunk ended a ten-point rally to cut the deficit 40-38.
The Nuggets started to pulling away and held a 51-41 edge at the break. They continued to roll into the third quarter when Faried started the second half with a jam off a steal.
``The NBA is a cruel league,' said Williams. ``They try to embarrass you every night and that's what you saw tonight.'
NOTES: Olympic swimmer Missy Franklin was awarded the game ball before the tip. .. There was no update on the progress of Hornets center/forward Anthony Davis (left ankle). ... Colorado State alum Smith played after being poked in the eye in the team's loss to Phoenix. ... Smith a Kersey, Colo., native was relieved to have only a dozen requests for tickets from the town of 2,229. ``Much different from the first time through when the whole town seemed to be here.' ... Denver was without forward Wilson Chandler (left hip) for the sixth straight game. ... Iguodala used both hands to drop a dunk a minute after clanging a one-handed slam.


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Senior Retail Interior Designer
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We are currently recruiting for a Senior Retail Interior Designer for a busy studio based in Leicestershire. The organisation are an award winning agency, with a track record of designing and developing attractive retail spaces for a number of national and international brands.
Ideally the candidate will be able to highlight a number of years experience working on retail interiors projects, and specifically on the more creative and conceptual ends of a project. The successful candidate will be experience working directly with clients, developing novel design briefs and be able to highlight in their portfolio a very strong creative flair. Experience with full store packs, from initial concepts to completion, is essential.
The successful candidate must able to use AutoCAD, and have had worked with 3D design software, such as 3DS Max.
The salary package is very flexible, which is dependent on experience. The role would suit a middleweight designer looking to make the step up to a senior designer, but of course would also suit a senior designer who is looking for a new challenge.
To apply or for more information, please contact Sam Gittins on 01162538097
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Negotiable Instruments (LAW-616-001)
There are no notices at this time.
On its most basic level, this course analyzes and applies the rules governing the "payment systems" of negotiable instruments, funds transfers, and credit cards.
We will focus primarily on the processes by which a party's paper or electronic promise (note) or order (draft) to pay money can be acquired– by gift, purchase, fraud, theft, or windfall– by subsequent parties in turn, and what the respective rights and liabilities of the parties are in such situations. Almost immediately, for instance, we will be discussing practical concerns– a number of which are unfamiliar even to many lawyers– about drafting, indorsing, and depositing checks.
Practical themes of the course include: the identifying characteristics of notes and drafts; the non-colloquial definitions of "signature" and "forgery" under the Uniform Commercial Code; procedures to prevent or limit personal liability with regard to transactions involving "commercial paper," including situations involving fraud; the role of banks in honoring and dishonoring checks; and the ways in which the Code treats negotiable instruments both as contracts and as pieces of personal property.
On a more general level, we will work extensively with many different sections of Articles 3 and 4 of the Uniform Commercial Code. This brightly-lit legal landscape, marked by centuries-old pathways of practice, contains few places for the shadows of ambiguity to lurk. Many students find a refreshing precision and logic in the provisions of the Code, and a sense of satisfaction in mastering their interpretation, interlocking, and interaction.
As in chess, in the law of negotiable instruments complex situations can easily emerge from a limited number of elements and rules; there exist operational strategies to evaluate, analyze, and resolve even the most complicated of these situations; and the student must actively engage in problem-solving practice to master the art of identifying and applying such strategies.
Finally, this course examines the ways in which commercial practice and the Code have evolved in response to the transformation from purely paper-based payment methods to credit card payments and electronic funds transfers, and to the new technological systems of debit cards and stored-value cards.
This course does not require any previous knowledge of, or experience with, business or business law. The Sales and Secured Transactions course(s), which address other Articles of the Uniform Commercial Code, are not prerequisites for Negotiable Instruments.
Textbooks and Other Materials
The textbook information on this page was provided by the instructor. Students should use this information when considering purchases from the AU Campus Store or other vendors. Students may check to determine if books are currently available for purchase online.
Nickles, Matheson & Adams, Modern Commercial Paper
Brook, Payment Systems: Examples and Explanations, 4th ed. (2009)
Chomsky et al., eds., Selected Commercial Statutes 2012
ISBN # 978-0-3142-8255-2 (available in July)
I recognize that this collection of books, plus a one-time charge for the semester's handouts ($10; payable at the Course Materials Distribution Office at the beginning of the semester), is a substantial expense.
For those who do not wish to purchase the Examples & Explanations book, several copies of it will be on reserve in the library throughout the semester. It is possible to use a statutory supplement from a recent year instead of the current Chomsky supplement, but there is no guarantee that the material will be exactly the same.
A copy of the casebook will also be on reserve in the library.
Because the University Bookstore has not always reliably obtained required books on time, you might consider other (including online) options.
First Class Readings
For our first class session, please read the material indicated in Section 1A of Syllabus 1 and the material in the Section 1A portion of Handout 1. Handout 1 and related materials will be available at the Course Materials Distribution Office (outside Office 465) beginning on Monday, August 13.
The first syllabus (#1 of 3) is available below.
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New Wii console in time for Christmas? That's just great.
Apparently too many consumers are saying, "Wii Who" because Nintendo is launching a new console, Wii U. And you guessed it; the latest and greatest will likely be out just in time for holiday giving. However, some are saying the product won't be available until first quarter 2012. Either way, parents, prepare for no doubt the marketing campaign to our young'uns that will launch about the time you finish reading this column.
If you're like me — Wii'ed to the max with cabinets, containers and closets of Wii remotes, light sabers, guns, wheels, nunchucks and balance boards, as well as the rubber protective gear to go with it all, not to mention CD case after CD case of Wii games — the news of yet another Wii, the Wii U, will make you curse.
I have no interest in reWii-ing by reinvesting in new gear to go with a new console. It's like always having to buy a new car charger every time I upgrade my cell phone.
Apparently Nintendo anticipated such a push back from old faithfuls like me because this new Wii console utilizes old Wii gear. Of course, there is new Wii gear for you who get the "U," but all of the ancillary and totally necessary expensive pieces of equipment purchased during the last few years in order to play the Wii games will work with Wii U.
In fact, the console can be played simultaneously with new and old remotes. Players, up to four, can use the old Wiimote (or Wii controller to the uninitiated) while another player uses the new controller, which is rechargeable.
Also, the favored games, like MarioKart, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Epic Mickey and the hundreds of others released during the last six years of Wii-ing, will still work with the U. Nintendo continues to release new Wii games like Cars 2: The Video Game and Wii Play Motion, both available June 21. These games will be compatible on the Wii U, too.
At this point, Nintendo has only announced one game specifically developed for the U, and that is LEGO City Stories, a game already getting outstanding reviews. It allows players to drive around life-sized cities on varying missions and in different LEGO vehicles. The game will also be available on the DS.
This Wii U, announced and demonstrated in early June at the Electronic Entertainment Expo or E3 in Las Vegas, has an iPad-like controller with a 6.2-inch display and eight buttons, two analog sticks or Circle Pads, speakers, microphone and a camera. It really looks like a large DS with a touchscreen and Wii and DS buttons merged onto one handheld controller.
The console itself is 1.8 inches tall, 6.8 wide and 10.5 long. It has a single self-loading media bay that plays 12-centimeter proprietary high-density optical discs, as well as 12-centimeter Wii optical discs.
What's revolutionary about the Wii U is its interaction with the television as well as its standalone capabilities. The touch screen can be manipulated to zoom in on what's on the television screen, be it a video game or a Web site. The controller can also act as a game itself and work independent of the big screen television.
The controller comes with a stylus as well as a motion controller, and it's all High Definition (HD). You'll be able to see the fleas in Donkey Kong's fur and Mario's nose hairs, right?
Such detail will surely cost U, but Nintendo has not said how much. Estimates on the price for the Wii U range from $299 to $400. What's worse than another high-priced video console? It marks the beginning of the launch of other high-priced video consoles. Surely, Sony and Microsoft will follow suit shortly.


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Walgreens Jerks You Around When You Try To Buy Plan B
A reader's girlfriend tried to buy Plan B yesterday, but the Oxford, MS Walgreens pharmacy seemed to go out of their way to make it has hard as possible. Mere incompetence doesn't explain what happened. Instead, it sounds more like a consciously decided system of policies designed to discourage people from buying the pill…
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I live in Oxford, MS, and my girlfriend and I researched the availability of Plan B in this state. We knew there might some puritanical problems with purchasing it here in Mississippi – we have all kinds of arcane alcohol laws and only one abortion clinic in the state, after all – and from what we could tell, a pharmacist can refuse to sell Plan B to a woman on religious/moral grounds. But otherwise pharmacies do carry it, and it should be available to a woman as long as she can prove she is over age 18. As this is a university town and a top-ranked party school, we supposed it wouldn't be as hard to get Plan B as in other really small, ultra-conservative rural towns. And we also figured that a corporate pharmacy such as Walgreens would be less troublesome to deal with than a mom-and-pop one.
Well, the other day we decided to be extra-safe and to get the Plan B pill from Walgreens here in town. My girlfriend went and requested Plan B, equipped with the knowledge that it's a non-prescription drug available with ID. She said the pharmacy worker started asking for proof of insurance in order to get the pill. My girlfriend refused and asked to speak to someone in charge. The pharmacist then came, and my girlfriend told him she simply wanted Plan B and that her ID should be good enough. The pharmacist then went about getting the pill, but they also seem to have a policy, a lá abortion clinics, of forcing a waiting period of an hour and giving adoption literature to the person requesting the contraceptive. Now, Plan B is just an additional spermicide, not an abortion pill, but that's another can of worms. In the end, my girlfriend demanded the Plan B immediately, and she got it, but not without a fair amount of interference on Walgreens' part. They also insisted on writing down her driver's license number.
I'm wondering how much trouble other people may have had with Walgreens (or any other pharmacy) over acquiring Plan B. There are several other Red States that make allowances for the pharmacists' "moral concerns" to get in the way of getting Plan B. What are our rights in getting this pill right away? Walgreens' website didn't indicate that they could possibly get all high-and-mighty with her when she went to make the purchase. Could they also get uppity when you buy other kinds of contraception?
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Beautiful Breakfast Tortilla
A Spicy Way to Start Your Day
This will definitely get you going in the morning, especially if you use fresh chiles and chile sauce like Jamie Oliver has done here. If that's not your thing, feel free to adjust this to suit your taste — it will still be delicious. Great with a mug of strong coffee.
Cooking Directions
Roughly mash your avocado with the juice of 1 of your limes and a good pinch of salt and pepper, and put aside. Arrange the rest of your topping ingredients on a plate: the tomato, chile, cilantro leaves, and grated cheese.
Quickly reheat the tortillas in a hot dry pan for 20 seconds on each side until warmed through. Wrap them in aluminum foil to keep them warm while you get on with your eggs.
Beat the eggs in a bowl with the minced scallions and a good pinch of salt and pepper. Melt the butter in a large frying pan on a medium heat and pour in the eggs. Lightly tip the pan as the eggs cook, and when you see a layer forming on the bottom of the pan, sweep a rubber spatula around so you get little handkerchiefs of cooked egg surrounded by wonderful custardy egg. Keep an eye on it and stir gently for a minute or so, until the eggs are starting to scramble but are still loose.
Get your 2 plates and lay a warm tortilla on each one. Divide the scrambled egg between them, top with the chopped tomato and mashed avocado, and sprinkle over your chile, cilantro, and grated cheese. Lay another tortilla on top, and drizzle over some chile sauce. Cut your remaining lime into wedges for squeezing over and dive in.
Recipe Summary
Main Ingredients: eggs, avocado, chiles, cheese, scallions, tortilla


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England skipper Wayne Rooney has revealed he aims to follow the example set by former-Manchester United captain Roy Keane when he leads out Roy Hodgson's side against San Marino on Friday night.
The Manchester United forward has been handed the England captaincy by Hodgson, as one of the most senior players in the squad.
Rooney has 76 caps for his country, and is still just 26-years-old, and the Manchester United forward has emerged as one of his country's best players.
When asked which former skipper he most admires Rooney picked his ex-Old Trafford colleague.
"Roy Keane, without a doubt, having played with him for a couple of years and seen how he played on the pitch and dealt with things off it," Rooney told manutd.com.
"He was vocal on the pitch and helped me off it. He was a great captain."
Rooney will skipper the Three Lions for the first time in a competitive international fixture, following the withdrawal of injured Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard and the suspension of first-choice captain Steven Gerrard.
The Manchester United striker returned to Sir Alex Ferguson's side last month after recovering from a nasty gash sustained against Fulham in August.
And Rooney quickly built up a rapport with new United signing Robin Van Persie, setting up both of the Dutchman's goals against Cluj in the Champions League.
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The Little Dog [1]
The big dog trots across the southern sky on winter nights — the constellation Canis Major. It's conspicuous for its leading light — Sirius, the Dog Star, which is the brightest star in the night sky. It's low in the southeast at nightfall, and well up in the south in late evening.
Canis Major is escorted across the sky by the little dog, Canis Minor, which is to the upper left of the big dog in early evening.
If you have a fairly dark sky, it's not hard to see Canis Major as a four-legged animal. But Canis Minor is another story. On most starcharts, it's drawn as a single line connecting two stars.
One of those is quite easy to spot, though, because it's also one of the brightest stars in the night sky: Procyon, a star whose name means "before the dog." The name indicates that from mid- to high-northern latitudes, which includes most of the United States, Procyon rises before Sirius.
Like Sirius, Procyon is a close neighbor — a bit more than 11 light-years away. The star itself is similar to Sirius, so it's bigger, hotter, and brighter than the Sun. And also like Sirius, it has a "dead" companion — a crushed stellar core known as a white dwarf. The original star was more massive than Procyon, so it burned out more quickly. The companion is too faint to see without a telescope. And even with a telescope, it's so close to Procyon that it's quite difficult to spot through the glare.
We'll have more about the big dog tomorrow.
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