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Monday, July 2, 2012
Polygamy, Morality, and Lot's of other "-y"s
There?s a small town in the middle of America called Round Town, USA, with white picket fences, church-going townspeople, a beautiful Main Street, and rambling rose. Round Town certainly is the epitom? of the All-American experience. There?s at least four baseball fields, a brand new public high school, Round High, a prestigious Catholic college, St. Thomas More Liberal Arts Academy and Seminary, a classic town hall, and a cute little farmer?s market.
But Round Town is hiding a secret. A little ways off from town is a family. A large family. The Lorraines came to town about ten years ago, and instantly fell in love with everything. The Lorraines enjoy Friday night baseball games, send their kids off to Round High, attend various churches throughout the town, participate in local government, and enjoy Saturday mornings at the farmer?s market. They appear to be quite a happy family. But there?s one thing that hasn?t escaped the townspeople: there seems to be more adult-Lorraines than the original count. Though Lorraines have yet to officially open up about their family life, it is well-known the Lorraines are polygamists.
Can the Lorraines prove that it's possible to unite such a large family, despite all their human faults and dynamic relationships? Can they do it before the town tears their family apart? Will their family tear itself apart? Or will the Lorraines be able to successfully convince Round Town that they can be perfectly normal members of the community?
We Still Have One Heart is a literate+ RP devoted to the inner workings of a multi-faceted family in classic America. Characters are based on many interchangeable faceclaims, and role-players are welcome to come and create living, breathing avatars. Reservations last two days and are renewable. This RP will be slow-paced, so it can be juggled with any number of RPs. The GM, although new, is ready to help, entertain and immerse all players, as he draws from years of many different kinds of RP as well as outside life experiences.
Note: This RP is inspired, but not based on, the Sister Wives television series on TLC, which features the Brown family of 1 husband and 4 wives. This family is FLDS, but the religiosity in We Still Have One Heart is fluid and dynamic, and any character of any creed (or lack thereof) is invited.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to PM lom.conor (that's me! :D). If you feel I'm a DB, then you can still PM but I ask that you don't :D!
Thank you for your time!
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China court: Apple pays $60M to settle iPad case
FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2012 file photo, a man walks by an advertisement of Apple's iPad 2 in Shanghai, China. Apple has agreed to pay China's Shenzhen Proview Technology $60 million to settle a dispute over ownership of the iPad name, a court announced Monday, July 2, 2012, removing a potential obstacle to sales of the popular tablet computer in the key Chinese market. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2012 file photo, a man walks by an advertisement of Apple's iPad 2 in Shanghai, China. Apple has agreed to pay China's Shenzhen Proview Technology $60 million to settle a dispute over ownership of the iPad name, a court announced Monday, July 2, 2012, removing a potential obstacle to sales of the popular tablet computer in the key Chinese market. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
BEIJING (AP) ? Apple has paid $60 million to settle a dispute in China over ownership of the iPad name, a court announced Monday, removing a potential obstacle to sales of the popular tablet computer in the key Chinese market.
Apple's dispute with Shenzhen Proview Technology highlighted the possible pitfalls for global companies in China's infant trademark system. It also posed a challenge for the communist government, which wants to attract technology investors to develop China's economy.
Apple Inc. says it bought the global rights to the iPad name from Proview in 2009 but Chinese authorities say the rights in China were never transferred. A Chinese court ruled in December that Proview still owned the name in China. Proview, which is struggling financially, asked Chinese authorities to seize iPads in an apparent effort to pressure Apple to settle.
"The iPad dispute resolution is ended," the Guangdong High People's Court said in a statement. "Apple Inc. has transferred $60 million to the account of the Guangdong High Court as requested in the mediation letter."
China is Apple's second-largest market after the United States and the source of much of the Cupertino, California-based company's sales growth.
Proview hoped for more money but felt pressure to settle because it needs to pay debts, said a lawyer for the company, Xie Xianghui. He said Proview sought as much as $400 million and might still be declared bankrupt in a separate legal proceeding despite the infusion of settlement money.
"This is a result that is acceptable to both sides," Xie said.
The dispute centered on whether Apple acquired the iPad name in China when it bought rights in various countries from a Proview affiliate in Taiwan for 35,000 British pounds ($55,000). The December court ruling said Proview, which registered the iPad trademark in China in 2001, was not bound by that sale, even though it was part of the same company.
The settlement should be good news for both Apple and its customers because it clears a potential obstacle for the company to start selling the new iPad 3 in China, said You Yunting, a lawyer for the DeBund Law Office in Shanghai.
"It is a good deal for Apple, because sales of iPads, which are in great demand, can compensate for this $60 million cost," You said.
Apple has yet to announce a China release date for the iPad 3 but the country's telecommunications equipment certification agency approved the tablet in May.
The case gave Chinese authorities a chance to show that their courts could impartially resolve intellectual property disputes but also raised the possibility that technology investors might be put off by a negative outcome for Apple. Chinese regulators said Proview clearly owned the mainland name rights under Chinese rules.
Without a formal ruling, it will be hard for companies to draw lessons about how Chinese courts will handle such disputes in the future, said Stan Abrams, an American lawyer who teaches intellectual property law at Beijing's Central University of Finance and Economics.
"It's such an atypical case," he said. "Certainly, the details and specifics of this kind of commercial dispute aren't going to give us any long-term lessons."
The outcome reflects Chinese courts' preference for encouraging adversaries in commercial disputes to settle instead of pushing for a ruling, Abrams said. He said the relatively small size of the settlement by Apple's standards suggested Proview gave in, possibly under pressure from either its creditors or the court.
All of Apple's iPads are made in China by Foxconn Technologies Group, which employs more than 1 million people in sprawling factories. Brazil's government says Taiwan-based Foxconn plans to open factories there to produce iPads and other products.
Shenzhen Proview Technology is a subsidiary of LCD screen maker Proview International Holdings Ltd., headquartered in Hong Kong.
A Hong Kong court ruled in July that Proview and the Taiwan company both were "clearly under the control" of the same Taiwanese businessman, Yang Long-san, and had refused to take steps required to transfer the name under the agreement. The judge said the companies acted together "with the common intention of injuring Apple."
However, that judgment had no automatic force in the mainland case because Hong Kong, while Chinese territory, has a separate legal system.
Apple also ran into a trademark dispute before it launched the iPhone in 2007.
Cisco Systems Inc., the maker of networking hardware, had owned the trademark since 2000 and used it for a line of Internet-connected desk phones. After Cisco sued, the companies reached an undisclosed settlement and the phone launch went off as planned.
The dispute came amid complaints Beijing is failing to stamp out rampant unlicensed Chinese copying of goods ranging from music and Hollywood movies to designer clothing and pharmaceuticals.
But unlike "trademark squatters" who register names of products already sold abroad and then demand foreign companies pay for the Chinese rights, Proview registered the iPad name long before Apple planned its tablet computer.
"The only thing companies really should take form this case is, be careful when you do transactions, be careful with your contracts," Abrams said. "Be careful you're doing it the right way or you could pay a lot for your mistakes."
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AP researcher Fu Ting in Shanghai contributed.
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Chinese leader draws sneers in Hong Kong
Chinese president Hu Jintao was the object of sneers and ridicule from Hong Kongers on Saturday, as he prepared to mark the 15th anniversary of the territory's handover amid unusually tight security.
ON the second day of Hu's visit to the former British colony, which returned to China in 1997, the official Facebook page of the Hong Kong chief executive was flooded with anti-Beijing comments.
"Get out of Hong Kong!" one writer told the Communist party and the People's Liberation Army (PLA).
Another said that Beijing was "really out of touch with HKers. Can't blame... them, dictators care not, know not."
The security arrangements for Hu's visit have been a particular topic of comment, with one user comparing them to "war time" measures.
Hu said on his arrival: "In the coming two days, I hope to be able to walk more, see more and personally feel the development of Hong Kong, understand the life and expectations of the Hong Kong people."
But giant barricades have been erected around Hu's five-star hotel and a convention hall where key celebrations, including the inauguration of the city's new leader, will be held.
Police manned every intersection and building entrance nearby, part of an enhanced security presence visible around the city.
The blue and white barriers are more than two metres high - a size last used during protests against the World Trade Organization in Hong Kong in 2005 - and are likely to defy Hu's expressed wish.
Metal fences set up to keep potential demonstrators in a so-called "petition zone" and "protest zone" are so far away that Hu and his delegation are unlikely to see or hear any protests, a fixture of Hong Kong's daily life.
"Are we celebrating the handover anniversary or staging a war?" one Hong Konger wrote on the social networking site Facebook.
Others users said the Asian financial hub had been turned into a "city of barricades", while some likened the measures to the Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall.
"The Berlin Wall separated East and West Germany, let's hope this wall of barricades can separate Hong Kong from China forever," one user wrote, underscoring a sense of growing discontent among Hong Kongers toward Beijing.
The right to protest is part of the cherished freedoms enshrined in the "one country, two systems" model that has applied to Hong Kong since its return to Chinese rule.
The city of seven million people maintains a semi-autonomous status with its own legal and financial system.
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Sunday, July 1, 2012
Palestinian leader Abbas postpones Israel meeting
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