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ABQ Dean Appointed to Dean's Position in Amarillo
Dr. J.B. Boren, currently the dean of the Wayland Baptist University campus in Albuquerque, N.M., has been named the new dean of the campus in Amarillo, effective in February.
Boren replaces Dr. David Bishop, who became dean of the Lubbock campus this month. Established in 1976 as a branch of the Plainview headquarters campus, the Amarillo campus of Wayland serves a primarily adult population with classes in the evenings and on weekends, in four 11-week terms annually.
"Dr. Boren's experience with Wayland's external campuses, coupled with his understanding and knowledge of the Texas Panhandle and South Plains, make him an ideal dean for the Amarillo Campus," said Dr. Bobby Hall, provost and vice president of academic and graduate services. "He is a strong academician who has strengthened Wayland's campus in Albuquerque, and he will adapt quickly and effectively to continue WBU's long record of quality service to the educational community in Amarillo and the surrounding region."
"We are fortunate indeed to have Dr. J. B. Boren as the new dean at Amarillo," added Dr. Elane Seebo, associate vice president for external campuses. "Dr. Boren is a seasoned dean who will bring a vital depth of understanding and breadth of experience to his new position. Although he will be sorely missed at Albuquerque, Dr. Boren is consummate professional academician who is ready for the challenges and opportunities of his next Wayland assignment as Dean of the Amarillo Campus."
Boren has served in Albuquerque since 2003, coming to Wayland from a teaching position at Missouri Baptist University. He served as associate professor of sports medicine, director of the Sports Medicine program, and division chair for the Natural and Health Sciences at MBU for eight years. He had also served as an adjunct graduate professor in exercise physiology at the Maryville University School of Physical Therapy. He served in other teaching positions both at MBU and while doing graduate work.
A clinically certified exercise specialist through the American College of Sports Medicine, Boren earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Texas Tech University in 1987 and his Master of Science degree in exercise physiology from Baylor University in 1988. He then earned the doctorate in physiology of exercise from Texas A&M University in 1993.
Boren himself is looking forward to the new challenges of the Amarillo campus.
"I am very excited to moving over to the Amarillo Campus. Dr. Bishop has done an outstanding job putting that campus together, and he has a top-notch staff in place. The new facility is very well done, and I can't wait to get back into a science lab again," Boren said. "I look forward to meeting the staff and faculty and continuing the work that Dr. Bishop has started. The Amarillo campus has a great opportunity to continue to project Wayland across the Texas Panhandle and I am excited to be a part of Wayland's ministry and mission there."
Boren adds that the panhandle region is quite familiar, as he grew up in Stratford, where his family farmed in Kerrick. He is a graduate of Stratford High School.
"I'm glad to be coming home. My parents still live in Kerrick, and they are thrilled about getting to see their grandkids more often, so it's a great move for my family," he said, adding the move will have benefits for his job as well. "Moving to Amarillo will allow me to be more involved with the Plainview campus, which is something to which I look forward. I've always enjoyed academic service as well as teaching and administrating, so I'm glad to have the opportunity to serve WBU by becoming involved at the main campus."
Boren received the Governor's Excellence in Teaching Award for Higher Education from the State of Missouri in 1997, and in 1996-97, earned the Missouri Baptist College Teaching Excellence Grant. He served on numerous committees during his time in higher education and has been on the BSOE Review Committee for Wayland for the past two years.


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In 1992, Spencer Dunn won a record 11 matches to qualify for that season's World Championship. These qualifiers were, for reasons unknown, played in September – nearer the previous season's event than the one the players were competing in.
It helped create some surprise qualifiers: Dunn, John Giles and Shaun Mellish, who earned the distinction of becoming the first player to sport an earring at the Crucible.
Among the other qualifiers were Karl Payne, who later appeared on TV singing as Rick Astley on 'Stars in Their Eyes', and some teenager by the name of Ronnie O'Sullivan.
Most years you get at least one qualifier who is, even to many snooker fans, a complete unknown.
Last year it was Zhang Anda. In 1992 it was Chris Small, who won eight matches to qualify before beating Doug Mountjoy in the first round.
John Parrott has qualified more often than any other player, a total of nine times. Tony Drago and Nigel Bond can equal this record if they make it through this year.
Were Bond to lose in the final qualifying round he would equal Michael Judge's record for most defeats – seven – at this stage.
For more – much more – of all this I can recommend Chris Downer's excellent Crucible Almanac, available through Snooker Scene's mail order service.
Of course it means a hell of a lot to get through to the Crucible, which is why the snooker is not always the most free flowing.
A decade ago I sat with a handful of other poor saps in Newport waiting for the final match of the final qualifying round to finish.
At 1.40am, Gary Wilkinson duly beat Jason Ferguson 10-9. Their contest clocked in at 11 hours, 38 minutes duration, the longest ever best of 19 frame encounter.
Gary (who won 10-9) is now working diligently backstage for World Snooker – waiting for everyone else to finish – while Jason has become WPBSA chairman.
The rest of us present that night formed a support group and meet regularly in a church basement.
Jimmy White starts out today as he bids to reach the Crucible for a 26th time.
It's 27 years since White was first in the world final. Many players on the current professional circuit were not even alive.
Some weren't even alive when he played Stephen Hendry in their first final 21 years ago but they, like Jimmy, are fully aware how special the World Championship is and how much it would mean to be part of that 32-man field when the draw is made on March 21.
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I'm sure Jimmy White used to wear an earring back in his early days. Probably 1982.
- 8:32 am
For the record I know of a player who appeared at The Crucible (once) who wore a ring through a different appendage that his earlobe.
He announced his retirement recently.
- 9:04 am
- Matt Lester said...
Great stuff Dave and anoymous you're right Jimmy did wear an earring. I'll be there tonight Dave if you're still around?
- 11:03 am
Think Gary Wilkinson and Jason Ferguson's record is under threat!
Lawler and Wallace which to be fair was never going to be over in a flash is still 1-1 after 2 hours 40 minutes. Looks like being 3 hours for 3 frames. Dave can I request that you stick rigidly to this match and keep us all up to date as I'm sure many of us will want to know every twist and turn!
- 12:42 pm
Will you be commentating on the Hainan Classic Snooker and do you have any idea of what Eurosport will show?
thanks very much
- 1:19 pm
- Dave H said...
Yes but I don't know the specific matches yet
- 2:06 pm
- jamie brannon said...
I can't believe Lawler and Wallace are still at 4-4, didn't they start at ten?
I hope Jimmy can pull through. Three years ago went to watch Jimmy play Mark King at the qualifiers and it was a packed house, I would imagine not far off today.
Wattana v Burnett looks tasty, both seem to be scoring well of late.
- 4:54 pm
Just over 7 hours for 9 frames - That is actually slower than the longest best of 9 match which was 434 minutes for the 9 frames between Foldvari (who made Griffiths look like Drago - well nearly!) and Williamson.
However, if the match stays close, it needs about another 4 and 3/4 hours to beat the longest for a best of 19 frame match.
Wattana will need to beat Burnett and Wenbo to secure his place on the tour - results of players around him has meant he needs a bit more. Tough task, but he seems to be playing well and if he can beat Burnett, then Wenbo seems lacking confidence - He has certainly had some good results since getting back on tour and it is a shame they are doing the top 8 on the PTC staying on rather than the overall one year list as he would be fine on it.
- 5:11 pm
- jamie brannon said...
Yeah, would love to see it happen but feel that Burnett has raised his game since all the controversy. He reached the final of Shanghai, let's not forget.
I thought three wins might be enough. There are other routes back onto the tour, but obviously would prefer to guarantee it.
- 5:35 pm
Steve James wore an earring in 1991.
- 6:59 pm
- Janie Watkins - SWSA Media Officer said...
This "poor sap" must take issue Dave!
That match in Newport didn't finish as early as that - In your dreams!
It was much nearer 3am. Because I had a 45 minute drive home and I walked in the house at 4am!
Pity the poor ref - I think it was Paul Collier who was scheduled to be reffing at 9am in the Challenge Tour the next morning in - HARROGATE!! They were good to him and told him to be there by noon!
Did we ever find out the name of the stray wino who made up 50% of the late night audience!!
- 7:14 pm
If Wattana beat Burnett he regains his top 64 place and that would also knock Igor off tour, as he's hanging on at no 8 on the ptc list.
- 7:15 pm
I hope for Wattana as well. When I was backpacking around Asia 20 years ago, all the thai snooker halls - even those built of a few pieces of wood at a small village in the northeast - were full of posters showing the national hero then. This was the time when I fell in love with snooker, a sport not many people gave attention here in germany when becker and graf served.
But concerning the new regulation (PTC instead of Top 8 one year list): They gave a chance to all pros as well. and wattana missed a fair couple of events (would have loved to see him at Fürth where he did not entry). So who is to blame???
- 7:16 pm
Hi Janie et al,
With regards to Wattana, he is provisionally 66th on prosnooker blog. When Michael White's points go in, he drops to 67th.
Even if he beats Burnett and M.White, Chuang and Song all lose, he would only overtake White, thus be 66th. Another win - over Wenbo, would lift him above, Chuang, Song, Haneveer and McCulloch - so he definitely does need to get to the crucible.
I still think it should be all events that count towards the one year list and not just the PTC.
- 12:10 am
If all the events counted then it would be the top 72 qualifiers. The PTC inclusion gives the chance for new blood as the PTC is open to all. Long live the PTC!
(Although a money list based final stages is the logical way forward).
This Chuang - reached the Crucible at 17 and gave Ronnie a scare. Dark horse.
- 11:12 am
Hi anon 11:12
If all events counted, it would not be the top 72 - as it would be the one year list, not the two year list, so would give more of a chance to those who performed in the big tournaments in the 2010/11 season rather than just the PTC, but of course the PTC would be part of that.
Well, Wattana doing well atm 7-5 up on burnett with a slight lead in frame 13. He may have a big game against Wenbo to qualify for crucible and stay on tour - he has certainly been stronger in both second halves of the seasons.
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As he notes, this is psychologically understandable. It's all about "loss aversion." People feel a sense that they "own" something which they really do not -- and that's often boosted by the concepts of intellectual property that really spread the idea that you can, in fact, own an idea (and, yes, technically neither copyright nor patents apply directly to "ideas," but that's a nuance that most people fail to grasp when they see how content and inventions are considered "owned" under the laws of today).
The video then talks about the continued expansion of copyright laws, and the more nefarious effort to continue to ratchet things up through trade agreements like ACTA and TPP. But he also points out that this is somewhat ironic, since in its early years, the US refused to sign similar trade agreements, and was a "pirate nation" that ignored copyrights from around the globe.
The video doesn't just cover copyrights, but digs into patents as well -- with specific attention paid to broad software patents that do little to contribute any knowledge to the world, but instead take broad concepts and seek to lock them up for the purpose of suing and trying to extract settlements from those actually creating and innovating.
From there he breaks out the original purpose of both copyrights and patents under the US system. In both cases, they were about benefiting the public: to encourage learning or to promote the progress of "useful" arts (inventions). But when the laws fail to do that, then we should see the system as broken and seek to remedy it.
All in all, Ferguson's series is a great introduction to many of the issues we cover around here. I don't fully agree with everything in all of the videos -- and the latest one has a slight undertone suggesting that capitalism and markets in and of themselves are bad (which I think is conflating a few different issues). But overall the videos are fantastic -- and in terms of production quality, it seems like each one in the series is better than the previous one. He keeps maturing as a video maker, which is cool to see. Ferguson is now moving on to a new project, called This is Not a Conspiracy Theory, for which he's raising funds on Kickstarter, so check it out.


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Private contractors working on the troubled federal health insurance marketplace told a congressional committee Thursday that they needed several months, but only had two weeks, before the launch date to fully test what could be the most complex government IT system in U.S. history.
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Committee Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., expressed the feelings of most Republicans when he described the website as "not ready for prime time."
After Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, repeatedly questioned a witness on whether an obscure website disclaimer would violate a federal privacy law regarding personal health information, Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., angrily called the hearing a "monkey court," noting that the health privacy law wasn't at issue because the website doesn't seek any personal health information from applicants.
A one-stop, online shopping center to purchase health insurance required under the Affordable Care Act, the federal marketplace is not a standard consumer website. Databases for numerous federal agencies, more than 170 insurance companies and information on more than 4,500 health plans in 36 states are integrated into the system. It also determines consumers' eligibility for government health plans and federal subsidies that help pay for private insurance.
Government reports indicated that testing for the complex system was months behind schedule, due in part to delays by the administration in drafting guidelines for marketplace operation. But in numerous appearances before the committee, HHS officials and contractors indicated the project was proceeding on schedule with no problems.
"This is on us," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said during his Thursday briefing. "And that goes from the president on down. This website needs to work effectively for the American people. And we need to get the product that they so clearly desire to them as efficiently and effectively as possible."
At the hearing, Cheryl Campbell, senior vice president of CGI Federal, the contractor that designed and developed the federal marketplace, testified that the system passed eight technical reviews before going live on Oct. 1. She said her team never suggested delaying the site launch because that decision was up to HHS, which served as the site development manager.
"Our portion of the application worked as designed," Campbell told Upton during direct questioning.
But in earlier testimony, she said, "We acknowledge that issues arising in the federal exchange made the enrollment process difficult for too many Americans."
Those problems, Campbell said, stemmed from issues with the "front door" to the marketplace, where people register and create personal accounts. That application, designed by Quality Software Services Inc., "created a bottleneck preventing the vast majority of consumers from accessing" the marketplace, she testified.
Andrew Slavitt, executive vice president of Optum, which owns Quality Software, explained the front door bottleneck to lawmakers: "It appears that one of the reasons for the high concurrent volume at the registration system was a late decision requiring consumers to register for an account before they could browse for insurance products. This may have driven higher simultaneous usage of the registration system that wouldn't have otherwise occurred if consumers could 'window shop' anonymously."
Campbell testified that she believed the window shopping feature was ordered to be disabled in August by Henry Chao, deputy director of the Office of Information Services in HHS' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Julie Bataille, communications director at the center, known as CMS, called the move a "business decision" to make sure that users understood their eligibility for a tax credit before enrolling in a plan.
Slavitt said he raised concerns with CMS about the risks associated with the lack of system testing on several occasions during the site construction process. He said he was told they "understood the concerns "
But Bataille acknowledged the fully integrated system – not just its individual parts – wasn't tested properly. "Due to a compressed time frame, the system just wasn't tested enough," she said in a telephone briefing Wednesday.
While testing of the fully integrated system didn't occur until two weeks before the Oct. 1 launch, both Campbell and Slavitt said that several months of testing would have been optimal for a project this complex.
Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., said he believes "political appointees manipulated the system to hide (test) data they didn't want the public to know. And we're going to find out who that is because that's the crux of this problem."
At the White House, Carney dismissed a question of whether the administration was so wedded to the Oct. 1 rollout that it didn't allow adequate testing. He called the question "Monday morning quarterbacking."
"The fact that some critics of the Affordable Care Act, who have worked assiduously for years to try to do away with it, repeal it, defund it, sabotage it, are now expressing grave concern about the fact that the website isn't functioning properly, I think should be taken with a grain of salt," he said.
Meanwhile, at the hearing, Slavitt said Quality Software fixed the registration application to meet the site's "unexpected demand." By Oct. 8, he said, the system was processing personal accounts "at error rates close to zero."
But Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., said the complaints about "unexpected demand" were bogus and that other websites routinely handle similar, if not greater, volumes. "That really sticks in my craw," she told Campbell and Slavitt. "I think that's really kind of a lame excuse. Amazon and eBay don't crash the week before Christmas and ProFlowers doesn't crash on Valentine's Day."
Campbell said she believes the website will be functioning properly in time for people to purchase coverage by Dec. 15, the cutoff date to enroll in coverage that begins on Jan. 1, 2014. The Obama administration is preparing regulations that allow coverage under the health law for 2014 to be purchased up until March 31, 2014, the end of the open enrollment period.
To date, 700,000 people have completed applications and gotten determinations on their eligibility for government coverage and federal subsidies to buy private coverage. The administration has said that in November it would provide the number of people who have so far signed up for coverage on the federal website.
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with the only difference being in speed and hair loss/frustration.-Renegade (August 02, 2012, 11:23 AM)
If speed and ease are important, and you don't want much of a learning curve, then often Windows is better.-Renegade (August 02, 2012, 11:23 AM)
If speed and ease are important, and you don't want much of a learning curve, then often Windows is better.-Renegade (August 02, 2012, 11:23 AM)But only if you ignore the fact that most people already have a significant amount of Windows learning under their belt whether they realize it or not.One advantage Microsoft has being the desktop 'standard' is that millions get exposed to it early and often.All operating systems and system tools need to be learned. You're not born knowing how to use a command line - or a GUI for that matter. You learn them. But when you're exposed to something as often as you are a Windows desktop and mouse, you forget just how much you've actually have learned over the years in order to use it effectively.Since most people's Nix exposure often comes well after they've become proficient in Windows, they're more consciously aware they're learning something new. And occasionally they also find themselves needing to "unlearn" Windows conventions which they had previously assumed were the only "correct" way to do things on a computer. Small wonder Nix can seem "hard" to someone who's conceptual framework and workflow has been strongly shaped and influenced by Microsoft's vision of how to do things.Linux is no harder to use (on the desktop level) than Windows. And beneath the hood, it's not really any harder to master either. (If you don't believe it, try tackling the Windows Registry, Group Policies and Objects, or Active Directory components before you say Linux is difficult to understand or work with. Especially when something goes wrong. Or when you start getting into serious shell scripting. ) Linux doesn't, however, hide its underpinnings and clockwork like Windows does. You can get into much deeper levels in Linux than Windows will allow. But that doesn't mean it's more complex. It just means the complexities are more accessible. Underneath the pretty GUI, Windows is every bit as complex - or possibly even more complex - than Linux is. But that's only to be expected. Operating systems are complex beasts. No getting around that. No matter who wrote it. How deep into it you need to go, and how much complexity you need to deal with, will be determined by your individual interest and needs.It's no different than anything else that's "technical" when you think about it. -40hz (August 02, 2012, 12:42 PM)
Windows on the other hand is pure simplicity.
Windows on the other hand is pure simplicity. I have to disagree on that part. Windows 8 anyone? -mahesh2k (August 02, 2012, 06:16 PM)
That Said I personally found enlightenment the ugliest manager ever. -mahesh2k (August 02, 2012, 06:16 PM)
I LOVE the Enlightenment desktop... oh god... It's just divine! Best one I've ever seen.-Renegade (August 02, 2012, 02:06 PM)
I meant that exclusively in relation to creating software distribution packages, i.e. installers, setup files, packages, whatever anyone wants to call them. If you know something I don't about how to sanely create a package for Linux, please, do tell me~!
...If you know something I don't about how to sanely create a package for Linux, please, do tell me~! -Renegade (August 02, 2012, 10:17 PM)
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Microsoft gets help in patent case
NEW YORK -- The inventor of the World Wide Web has come to the aid of Microsoft Corp., asking the government to revoke a patent he says could disrupt millions of Web pages worldwide.
Microsoft is making technical adjustments to its Web browsing software as it appeals a $520 million federal jury award and ruling that it had infringed on a patent held by Eolas Technologies Inc.
The patent, owned by the University of California and licensed exclusively to Eolas, covers technology that allows Web-page authors to embed and start certain specialized interactive programs.
This week, World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee urged the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to re-examine the patent's validity.
The standards-setting World Wide Web Consortium, which Berners-Lee heads, has found at least two documents that claim to describe the same technology more than a year before the patent application was filed.
Berners-Lee said he worries that Microsoft's browser redesign "would render millions of Web pages and many products of independent software developers incompatible." He fears Web developers would respond with their own tweaks that ignore longstanding Web standards.
Eolas Chairman Mike Doyle said the documents in question were presented to jurors in the Microsoft trial. "It appears they have not read the actual trial testimony," he said.
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Web patent critics spotlight old technology
The Web community is rummaging desperately through dusty technology archives, in a bid to overturn a sweeping patent verdict that could force major changes on the Internet's most popular software products.
Companies and standards bodies are hoping to unearth technology that predates the patent and performs essentially the same functions--a legal concept known as "prior art."
If Web technologists can find the right example, they believe they can help set aside a federal jury's recent finding that Microsoft had violated a patent held by tiny Web developer Eolas Technologies. The so-called '906 patent describes a way that a Web browser can call up a separate application from within a Web page.
Prior art has been key to the case since its inception, but the issue is once again on the front burner, after an unusual filing by the leading Web standards body this month to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The filing, from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), asks the USPTO to re-examine the Eolas patent in light of HTML+, which is technology previously considered by the judge in the Eolas case as potential prior art but barred from evidence at trial.
"In view of the invalidity of (Eolas') claims and the considerable adverse impact the '906 patent will have on the larger World Wide Web community, a Director-initiated reexamination is appropriate," the W3C said in its Oct. 23 filing.
Eolas gained international attention with its $521 million patent infringement victory over Microsoft, a judgment that has focused the attention of the software industry in a way few other patent cases have. Microsoft has already detailed plans to change its Internet Explorer browser, which could force countless Web developers to rewrite their Web pages.
Fear of the implications of the patent has inspired vendors of plug-in technologies--including Macromedia and Sun Microsystems--and Microsoft's direct competitors in the browser market to rush to Microsoft's defense.
The case has brought together not only people who are professionally dependent on Internet Explorer and the way it handles plug-in applications, but also entities--activist groups, companies and standards bodies alike--that have taken up a philosophy that is restrictive of patents, if not outright hostile to them.
The W3C, for one, recently underwent a lengthy, public and polarizing re-evaluation of its patent policy, opting in the end to severely restrict the use of patented technologies in its recommendations.
Calls to restructure the patent system led this week to recommendations by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that patents be made easier to challenge--in part through changes to rules on the consideration of prior art.
Eolas this week lambasted the W3C for attempting to reopen arguments about prior art with the patent office, calling the consortium's filing politically motivated.
"The W3C has a public policy against software patents," Eolas founder Mike Doyle said in an interview. "And what they're doing now is driven by their political agenda to fight against the whole concept of software patents. It's clear that they're trying to circumvent the rules to overturn a ruling by a jury in a federal lawsuit."
Determinations about prior art are typically the province of lawyers, judges and juries. But in this case--perhaps an indication of how severely the Eolas patent has rattled the Web industry--seemingly everyone is getting into the prior art act.
Since the Eolas verdict in August, software engineers meeting in online newsgroups have been digging through old technologies, in a somewhat belated search for prior art. In September, Lotus Notes co-creator Ray Ozzie issued a prior art call to arms, urging others to re-examine decade-old applications and detailing ways in which Lotus Notes might be relevant to the search.
While Microsoft seeks to take its prior art claims back to court as part of preliminary moves to appeal the patent verdict, the W3C has bypassed the courts to argue its prior art case to the USPTO itself.
The agency rarely revokes patents on reexamination, although such an action is not unprecedented. In 1994, the USPTO rejected a patent for multimedia search technology from Compton's NewMedia on rexamination. Other examples include a patent covering advertisements on computer displays that was rejected on rexamination in the midst of a dispute over a screen saver featuring the Eveready Energizer bunny.
The W3C--which in May reiterated a policy that all but bans the use of patented technologies in its recommendations--did not return calls for comment. Microsoft declined to comment for this story, citing the ongoing status of the case.
But one W3C participant who testified in the Eolas patent trial on Microsoft's behalf lauded the consortium's filing, given that the judge disallowed testimony about prior art to the jury.
"My feeling was that we never got to argue whether there was prior art," Dale Dougherty, a vice president of online publishing and research at Sebastapol, Calif.-based publisher O'Reilly & Associates, said in an interview this week. "At the end of the day, it's a ruling by a court, and has more to do with procedural things than anything else."
The refusal by U.S. District Judge James Zagel for the Northern District of Illinois to allow evidence of prior art followed detailed examinations of various technologies brought forward by Microsoft during the trial's evidentiary hearing. These included the Viola browser, written by Perry Pei-Yuan Wei, an artist, software engineer and then a student at the University of California at Berkeley; and the HTML+ specification written by W3C staff member Dave Raggett.
Unpicking prior art
Microsoft's attorneys have highlighted the Viola browser in their request for a new trial. By contrast, the W3C bypassed the Viola software altogether in its USPTO filing and concentrated instead on the Raggett technology.
Raggett's HTML+ draft, according to the W3C, proposed a tag called "embed" that would let a browser display, within its own window, data rendered by another application. It also described a way in which external editing applications could let someone interact with that data, still within the browser.
The Raggett draft falls far short of prior art, Doyle contended.
"It is as if they are trying to completely ignore the elements of the patent claims that require the embedded application to enable interactive processing of the data while it is being displayed within the Web page," Doyle wrote in an e-mail interview. "Raggett was focused on a tool that would make it easier for a Web page author to create static images for Web pages. Our invention, on the other hand, transformed the end user's interactive experience, which was a paradigm shift over what Raggett was suggesting."
Prior art comes in two types: anticipatory and obvious.
Prior art that anticipates a patent does so completely. That is, a single piece of technology encompasses all the claims of the patent and predates it.
Claims of obvious prior art, by contrast, pick and choose elements from various products. They typically say that while there is no single example that predates the patent in its entirety, all the parts of the idea are in plain view. Putting them together is an obvious move, goes the argument, not a patentable invention.
In addition to mounting an anticipation argument based largely on the Viola browser, Microsoft also raised an obviousness claim, which the court also declined to let the jury hear. With its filing to the USPTO, the W3C raised its own obviousness argument, citing elements of the Raggett draft and elements of the Mosaic browser (designed in part by Marc Andreessen).
Patent proof
An attorney for Eolas said prior art defenses against the '906 patent were wishful thinking.
"There's no good prior art against this patent," Martin Lueck, an attorney with Chicago-based Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi, said in an interview. "And wishing that there was doesn't make it so. Microsoft can appeal the various rulings that the court made, but when you get down to it, we don't believe there's any good anticipation analysis, and they never proposed to the court or the jury a proper obviousness argument."
Lueck gave the obviousness claim poor odds of succeeding either in Microsoft's appeal or in the W3C's request for re-examination by the patent office.
"If the invention is so obvious, why didn't the W3C think of it?" Lueck asked. "They invented this that and other, so why not this? Everyone wants to rail against the patent, but the W3C didn't come up with it. Microsoft and Netscape didn't come up with it...It's entirely fair that the patent owner and Eolas be compensated for the extent of Microsoft's use of the invention in protecting its Windows franchise."
Among Eolas' critics, Microsoft is the least committed to an antipatent stance. With a formidable patent arsenal of its own, the company in some cases has removed its technologies from the auspices of the W3C in order to take them to standards organizations with fewer restrictions on the use of patented technologies.
For many of Microsoft's defenders, however, the case against Eolas is a case against software patents--a view that frequently surfaces in the battle over prior art.
"The fundamental design and implementation of the World Wide Web, which we all benefit from today, was not patented by Tim Berners-Lee and many others who contributed separate inventions that became part of it," Dougherty noted in an e-mail interview.
Dougherty, who testified on Microsoft's behalf in the trial, pointed to the collaborative spirit of the Web's early development to explain why legitimate instances of prior art were not considered.
"Unfortunately, the (Patent and Trademark Office) didn't have access to a lot of the materials about the Web's early development, and Doyle himself did little to call attention to projects like Viola which helped advance the Web," he wrote. "I hope that the re-exam of the EOLAS patent will cause the PTO to looker deeper into the available sources and see that Doyle's claims are too broad, if not completely inaccurate."
Doyle dismissed antipatent advocacy as the reflection of Microsoft's corporate public relations strategy, and defended the use and fairness of software patents.
"There are a number of cases in point where companies like Microsoft essentially cloned other people's innovations, and they had no recourse," Doyle said. "A lot of the public sentiment you're hearing now is the result of a well-funded public relations campaign. And I think that people are reacting to that very carefully crafted PR message without considering the fact that the patent laws are there to protect the little guys against the theft of their ideas by large, powerful, well-funded companies."


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France's Yellow Vest Protesters Just Won Against Macron (HBO)
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According to local media in France, Macron's government announced a moratorium on the hike in fuel prices today. The U-turn comes after Saturday's riots in Paris which the government said were the worst they had seen in 50 years. It marked the third week of "gilet jaunes" or yellow vest protests across France, named after high-visibility safety jackets the French are required to keep in their cars. The movement first came together on social media to protest an increase in fuel taxes. But among chants of "Macron Resign! Macron Resign!" at the protest, it was obvious it had become about working and middle class being hit hard by the economic policies of President Emmanuel Macron. "We need a balance between the rich and poor in France," Jimmy Moreno told VICE News among tear gas and water cannons at L'Arc de Triomphe. Jimmy came to protest peacefully and voted for Macron in the 2017 election but says he wouldn't vote for him again. "He has shown himself to be cold-hearted and inhuman, little more than a banker, with no place governing a nation," Jimmy said the day after the protest at his home in the Paris suburb of Argenteuil. "What\'s happening now because of the government\'s violent actions and the yellow vests\' violent reaction, is representative of French history. Every time there is a shift in governance or a revolution, there is violence, it\'s unavoidable," he added. The government struggled to negotiate with the yellow vests which is an a-political grassroots movement that has no clear leadership. But smashed shop windows, graffiti, and cars burning in the street...


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The High Court says you can be charged with insider trading even if it turns out you were acting on dodgy information.
The unanimous ruling came as the court threw out an appeal from Perth businessman John Kizon and his investment partner Nigel Mansfield, who said they shouldn't face an insider trading retrial because they were allegedly fed false information.
Kizon and Mansfield will now face a retrial on insider trading charges related to the Perth-based online sex shop AdultShop.com in 2002.
The District Court in Perth initially acquitted the pair in March 2010.
But the Court of Appeal ruled in June 2011 that the district judge was wrong to say it was necessary for the alleged insider information acted on to be "truthful or a factual reality" and it ordered a retrial.
Kizon and Mansfield appealed against that ruling to the High Court but their case was dismissed on Wednesday.
At a hearing in May before five judges, the High Court heard the managing director of AdultShop, Malcolm Day, allegedly had various conversations with Mansfield and Kizon in 2002 in which it was alleged he told them separately the company's profit and turnover forecast had more than doubled.
It was alleged that, acting on this information, Mansfield and Kizon bought AdultShop shares.
But counsel for Mansfield and Kizon told the court this information turned out to be untrue.
They argued that prosecutors had to establish the information passed on was factual for insider trading to have taken place and that "a lie cannot constitute information".
The High Court's judgment said the central question was whether Mansfield and Kizon knew something about the company that was not generally known - not whether that information was true.
"If the alleged conversations took place, each appellant possessed information about AdultShop that was information not generally available," the judgment says.
"That the knowledge was not true does not deny that it is 'information'."
The High Court said it was up to a retrial to decide whether, if that information about the profit and turnover forecasts had been publicly available - true or not - it would have affected the value of AdultShop's shares.


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Around the small village of Vinh Kim, located in the Mekong delta 130 km south of Hô-Chi-Minh City, the vu sua tree produces a large quantity of fruits in the month of November. Part of the harvest is sold in local markets but the size of the trees' production means the villagers cannot profit from all the fruits that reach maturity. By buying part of the unsold harvest, Clarins provides the inhabitants of Vinh Kim with a precious source of revenue which is all the more important since local infrastructures are little developed. Clarins is a partner in their development and in this way has financed the rebuilding of a primary school which the village was unable to fund itself.


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Region 3 Decision on the Status Recommendation for the Northern Cavefish (Amblyopsis spelaea)
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Bloomington, Indiana, Ecological Services Field Office has reviewed the relevant published and unpublished data for the northern cavefish over its entire range. Based on that review the Bloomington Field Office has recommended that the status of the northern cavefish (Amblyopsis spelaea) not be elevated to the status of a Candidate Species, but that it remain as a regional "Species of Concern." The endangered species program staff in the Region 3 Office support that recommendation; therefore, Region 3 has determined that the northern cavefish will not be elevated to the status of a Candidate Species at this time.
The Field Office Status Recommendation indicates that long term population data is not available and therefore a population decline cannot be documented. Additionally, the species exists today over essentially the same geographic range that it has occupied since its description in 1842. The Status Recommendation concludes that the majority of the species' habitat is in fairly good condition. However, known threats to the species, the documented loss of 49 historical sites, and the northern cavefish's narrow environmental requirements make it a species that warrants continued monitoring. Resource agencies in Indiana and Kentucky, the only states in which it occurs, intend to initiate population monitoring programs. This monitoring will provide data to establish population trends and to better assess threats to the species and its habitat. The results of several years of this monitoring will be used to perform another evaluation of whether candidate status is warranted for the northern cavefish. The reevaluation should be carried out within five years.
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Congratulations to Dmitry Povolotsky, who was presented the Roger Smith Shorts '09 (Festival Workshop) Bronze Sculpted Creativity Award for his film "Clean the Room" on Saturday, August 22nd. The Judges Panel, which included James Knowles (President, Roger Smith Hotel), Ben Famiglietti (The Weinstein Company), Neil Alumkal (5WPR), Adam Neuhaus (Original Media) and Tommy Popps (Independent Producer) based their decision on 3 criteria: vision, craft and execution.
After deliberation, the judges decided on "Clean the Room" for it's simple but concise execution; as with all the films, this modern day Cinderella story takes place all within the hotel, in which a dream comes true while a maid cleans the room, all under 6 minutes.
About the Director
Dmitry Povolotsky is a writer, director, and choreographer living in Brooklyn. At the age of ten, he was selected to attend the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow to study classical ballet. After graduating from the academy nine years later, Dmitry was awarded a full scholarship to Juilliard in New York City where he received a BFA in modern dance and choreography.
Dmitry remained in New York City to perform with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet for eight seasons and to teach ballet and choreograph for inner city youth at the Harlem School of the Arts.
After making his first short film in 2003, Dmitry left the dance world to study film at Columbia University Film Division. PAL/SECAM, his thesis film, has played at 40 film festivals all over the world, has won several prestigious film awards and was sold to 6 territories so far.
"Clean the Room"
Written and Directed by Dmitry Povolotsky
Story Idea by Bilge Ebiri
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Maid – Susan Brady
Bobby – Michael Mason
Superstar – Sarah Lilley
Director of Photography – Christina Voros
Art Direction – Julia Cairo
Assistant Director – Rebecca Conroy
Sound – Marin Conroy
Editor – Julia Kots
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New Zealand's High Court Steps Into Extradition Fight Over Kim Dotcom
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Of course, to some of us, that suggests that the DOJ hasn't yet looked at the evidence -- and thus it shut down the company and arrested its staff first, without even knowing if a crime had been committed.
Either way, that months-long delay presented a problem, since New Zealand had scheduled the extradition hearing for August 6th, and the Megaupload legal team deserved some time with the evidence to formulate its defense. The latest, however, is that New Zealand's High Court has agreed to an "urgent review" of the original ruling. The court also told the US to start the process of putting together the evidence to hand over to Dotcom's lawyers, but that it can wait until the High Court has reviewed the case before actually handing them over.
No matter what, this is once again showing the US's hubris in this case -- assuming it could waltz into New Zealand, with highly questionable evidence, shut down a company, and extradite the executives to the US without anyone asking questions. With each move in this case, more questions are raised about the competence of the DOJ staff who worked on this case, led by Neil MacBride -- a former "anti-piracy VP" for the copyright industries, who may have let his biases and previous (and future?) employers' interests get the best of him.


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U.S. Stock Futures Gain
Stock futures rose, helped by broad gains in overseas markets and a rebound in commodities prices, as investors digested mixed results from a number of blue-chip companies. Brendan Conway reports. Photo: AP.
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It was an incredible and historic fall season for the California High girls volleyball team.
The galvanized Grizzlies won the East Bay Athletic League title and their first North Coast Section crown in 30 years in Division I. They also advanced to the Northern California Division I semifinals with a thrilling five-game win over Homestead-Cupertino on Nov. 20 before falling to Granite Bay.
Moreover, playing on center stage revealed the Grizzlies' team harmony, talent and resilience.
In a mesmerizing match against Homestead, the Grizzlies (30-4) nearly let the Mustangs off the hook. The final scores were 26-28, 25-22, 25-11, 23-25, 18-16.
But the Grizzlies did not wilt even after squandering a two-to-one lead for the first time this season.
"This was only the third time we've been five all year," California coach Todd Baham said. "We usually close teams out. We lost 21 games before tonight out of 94, so we weren't used to being in this position, so it was shocking to me. It really was. But give Homestead all the credit in the world."
The match featured City Beach club 17 Open teammates and buddies, Emily Reed of Homestead and Sabrina Clayton of California. Neither star disappointed. Reed, who is headed to USF, had a match-high 32 kills, and Clayton, bound for Santa Clara, passed well and had 26 kills and 12 digs.
California's backup setter Devon Haley gave a strong performance as she started for Caitlyn Quindoy, who came in as a substitute because she missed a practice, Baham said. Of course it was Quindoy (31 assists, eight digs) who assisted Clayton on her match-winning kill.
Clutch serving by Morgan Gilfillan spurred a Grizzlies' rally in a back-and-forth fifth game, in which California overcame deficits of 7-3 and 8-5. "Overall they beat us. We didn't lose. They beat us," Homestead coach Gary Carroll said.
The amazing Clayton also had 29 kills and 11 digs in the NCS championship win over San Ramon Valley, but the essence of Cal's memorable season was team unity and dedication.
AMADOR FINISHES STRONG: Even though the season ended with a loss against De La Salle in the NCS Division I semifinals on Nov. 24, the Amador Valley football team accomplished its two main objectives: advancing to the section playoffs and ending its long losing streak to Foothill.
It was a successful season for the Dons (8-5), who upended EBAL co-champion San Ramon Valley 28-25 in the NCS quarterfinals after it beat Castro Valley 45-27 in the first round.
On a rainy night against the Wolves, the Dons' stout offensive line paved the way for runners Alejandro Apodaca (161 yards) and Sam Peters (113). The Dons line consisted of Clint Mankins, James Moore, Josh Pease, Jesse Cerdas, and Nate Vickers.
Amador also topped rival Foothill 28-24 to conclude a sweet EBAL season, snapping a seven-game losing skid against the Falcons. The win came after consecutive come-from-behind victories over Granada (34-28) and highly ranked Monte Vista (24-21).
Overall, the Dons epitomized coach Rick Sira's "Big Team, Little Me" persona.
tennis, anyone?: Credit Monte Vista ace Kaitlyn Haithcock and the Mustangs doubles duo of Betsy Main and Danielle Yancey for recovering from semifinal defeats to prevail in third-place wins at the NCS Division I singles championships.
The No. 2 seeded Mustangs, which won the NCS team title, will face either Lowell-San Francisco or Foothill-Palo Cedro in the second round of the Northern California team tournament on Nov. 30 at the Natomas Racquet Club in Sacramento.
Another big story at NCS was the unseeded Dublin duo of Myiesha Simmons and Vi Nguyen's stunning run to a Division I championship. Simmons, the best singles player in the doubles tourney, has pro tennis aspirations.
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Drinking The Kool-Aid
Kool-Aid, Kook-Aid, tastes great, Kool-Aid Kool-Aid, can't wait!
Do you remember that slogan? You may also remember the nice frosty pitcher in the advertisement with the smiley face drawn on it.
Does anyone still keep a pitcher of Kool-Aid in the fridge for all the youngsters and sometimes adults, or has that been replaced with Gatorade and other flavored waters?
Remember when that was one of the first things Mother allowed you to make?
We must have drank gallons of the stuff – and that was before "sugar free." That was before anyone could even conceive the thought that sodas and sugary drinks of large container size might be restricted.
Of course, Kool-Aid was and is made in your own home, so that is a rule we don't have to worry about. Please pass the Kool-Aid.


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2013 and the months ahead:
Anet have been posting Q&A and articles on what they plan to do for 2013. Seems pretty promising. Example; WvW is getting a "progression" system and the new best grade of gear (ascendant) is getting put in as well. Along with a whole bunch of AoE rebalnce etc. Sounds good....
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/coli ... ths-ahead/
Dev QA transcript 1: http://dulfy.net/2013/01/17/gw2-dev-liv ... ranscript/
Fractals and Dungeons are also getting reworked and more rewards based out in the open world.
Lots of changes happening to GW2 this year!
If people want to jump back into the game. WvW is still run nightly on JQ server where competition has been really heating up.
People more interested in PvE, the website http://gw2lfg.com/ has put together a very widely used tool for finding groups.
You can basically post a group for anything, and it will be filled in minutes. Fractals in seconds usually....
Bigman and I still try to play most nights
Hope to see some more people online.
Plans for GW2!
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Steam: MrSecro | PSN: Secro
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I'll be there, been busy building my custom Iron Man cosplay (YEH IM THAT MUCH OF A NERD ) but I'm always up for something to do..if they fixed Necros id be playing all the time, but in their current state im just playing with my thief
Re: Plans for GW2!
I've been looking at roping in a few cheapskates to play this as its pretty good for casual.
Anyone here still playing much?
Anyone here still playing much?
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Hi Usa
I stopped playing it personally. Anet care more about the gem store than making a decent game.
I stopped playing it personally. Anet care more about the gem store than making a decent game.
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Facebook honcho and newly married dude Mark Zuckerberg might be dealing with Facebook stock headaches, but he can take solace in one thing: If his social media business goes south, he can always get unpaid work as an extra in Chinese documentaries. Unpaid? Oh, right, never mind!
While visiting Shanghai this past March, Zuckerberg and his then girlfriend (and now wife) Priscilla Chan were filmed as they walked behind Chinese cops on the street. A kwinky-dink!
Zuckerberg, of course, was wearing his trademark hoodie.
You can watch some of the documentary, which is heavy on slow motion explosions and light on 28-year-old billionaires, in the link below.
Mark Zuckerberg Appears in CCTV Police Documentary [ChinaSmack]


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Catherine Elms
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Catherine Elms (born 27 September 1989) is a musician, theologian, zine writer and zine editor.
Catherine was born and raised in Swansea, UK. She studies theology at the University of Nottingham. Catherine writes quarter-sized feminist perzine Here. In My Head, and is the editor of the University of Nottingham's Women's Network zine, Artemis.
Catherine is an unsigned singer/songwriter, who released her debut five-track demo, the Not Sorry EP, in August 2009. She is currently recording a full-length album, due to be released in summer 2010.
Music Releases
- Not Sorry EP (2009)


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How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with You.—Psalm 139:17-18
No matter how insignificant he may have been before, a man becomes significant the moment he has had an encounter with the Son of God. When the Lord lays His hand upon a man, that man ceases at once to be ordinary. He immediately becomes extraordinary, and his life takes on cosmic significance. The angels in heaven take notice of him and go forth to become his ministers (Hebrews 1:14). Though the man had before been only one of the faceless multitude, a mere cipher in the universe, an invisible dust grain blown across endless wastes-now he gets a face and a name and a place in the scheme of meaningful things. Christ knows His own sheep "by name."
A young preacher introduced himself to the pastor of a great metropolitan church with the words, 'I am just the pastor of a small church upcountry.' 'Son,' replied the wise minister, "there are no small churches." And there are no unknown Christians, no insignificant sons of God. Each one signifies, each is a "sign" drawing the attention of the Triune God day and night upon him. The faceless man has a face, the nameless man a name, when Jesus picks him out of the multitude and calls him to Himself. We Travel an Appointed Way, 19.
"Lord, I pray this morning for that discouraged pastor of the 'small church upcountry.' Let him see how much You care for him, and how significant You see his ministry to be. Amen."
Reprinted from Tozer on Christian Leadership by A.W. Tozer, copyright © 2001 by Zur Ltd. Used by permission of WingSpread Publishers, a division of Zur Ltd.
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Tozer on Christian Leadership was compiled by Ron Eggert.