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Go

2009-02-21T19:20:10Z

PaulEC: added professional go section

'''Go''' is a [[board game]] whose object is to defeat the opposing army by controlling the most territory for the least cost in captured soldiers. Go is a war of many battles, while chess is a single battle.

A two-player, strategic turn-based board game, go originated in [[China]], over two thousand years ago, and is very popular in [[Japan]] and [[Korea]] as well. It didn't reach [[Europe]] and [[America]] until the end of the 19th century. It was in Japan that a theory of Go strategy was developed, and numerous books have been published on the subject in Japanese.

The moves of the game are quite simple, involving the placing of black and white stones on the intersection of lines on a grid, and attempting to gain control of points on the grid by surrounding them with stones of one's own color.

Despite its simple rules, the game is strategically very deep, even more complex than [[chess]]. Unlike [[chess]], computer programs for playing Go are considered highly inferior to most human players.<ref>[http://users.eniinternet.com/bradleym/Compare.html "Comparison between Go and Chess"], Comparison between Go and Chess by Milton N. Bradley.</ref>.

Go also benefits from a good handicap system, which allows players of differing strengths to play competitive games against each other. The system involves allowing the weaker player to start with some stones already on the board, the number increasing with the difference in the players' strengths.<ref>[http://senseis.xmp.net/?Handicap Sensei's Library: Handicap]</ref>

==Professional Go==
Many people, mostly from eastern Asia play Go professionally. Their main source of income is winning tournaments and writing books. This can be extremely lucrative; the winner of the kisei tournament can win ¥42,000,000.<ref>http://senseis.xmp.net/?Kisei</ref>

==Reference==
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[[Category:board games]]

Debate: At what point does "Human" life begin?

2009-02-21T15:40:15Z

PaulEC: added viewpoint

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==Background==

One of the fundamental issues in the pro-life/pro-choice controversy is determining when human life begins, particularly in terms of being regarded as fully "human" in the eyes of the law. The catalyst for this page was the legislative initiative in North Dakota to define human life from the earliest possible stage. The bill declares that "any organism with the genome of homo sapiens" is a person protected by rights granted by the North Dakota Constitution and state laws. This interpretation would not only define unborn, developing fetuses in the womb as fully human, but also carry the label and legal protections of being fully human to fertilized human eggs or frozen embryos that have yet to be implanted in a mother's womb.

Others feel that life as a human begins once a baby is independent of the womb and can survive in that mode, even if significant medical assistance is required. In this context, a developing fetus still in the womb in the 7th month is not a human being, but if prematurely born at that time it becomes one because it is now independent of the mother's body.

Neither definition is satisfactory to people who stand fully behind being either pro-life or pro-choice, and each side has compelling reasons to support those positions. The purpose of this debate page is to allow those ideas and expressions to be given a fair and open airings, which will hopefully provide guidance to people who are unsure if the truth is one side, the other, or somewhere in the middle.

Please note that the section labels below do not represent the only options - they are placeholders to organize responses, so new sections can be added as appropriate.

==Human Life begins with a fertilized egg==

==Human Life begins with childbirth==

==Human Life begins at a certain stage of neonatal development==

==Human Life begins earlier than that==
Human life began 6000 or so years ago. The gametes in the sex organs are small parts of humans and are just as human as when they have fertilised an egg and grown into an adult, albeit less developed. In the same way that an unattached exhaust pipe is still part of a car, and a new car cn be built around it, all cells of a human are in themnselves human.

User:PaulEC

2009-02-21T15:34:11Z

PaulEC:

I'm a grad student at the university of York, Recently given up on well formatted userboxes on the grounds that they're all pretty standard and uninteresting ones anyway. I have one because I managed to get that one working.
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User:PaulEC

2009-02-21T15:32:42Z

PaulEC: added userbox

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User:PaulEC

2009-02-21T15:29:11Z

PaulEC: Created user page.

I'm a grad student at the university of York, on a quest to find out how userboxes work so that I can better describe myself. If I did know how they worked, the user to which mine would bare most similarity is probably TK.