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i dont really have one , since i moved into my own place , i rarely see or speak to any of them going to vist my dad tomorrow be the first time i have seen him in over a year , bar the odd phonecall we're just not that close
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i dont really have one , since i moved into my own place , i rarely see or speak to any of them going to vist my dad tomorrow be the first time i have seen him in over a year , bar the odd phonecall we're just not that close
I don't really have one. It's kind of a hate hate relationship no matter what kind of things I try.
Pretty bad with dad, due to the fact that he's an alcoholic who ran out on me and my mom.
Okay with mom: I see her every weekend or so, but being away at college has definitely made things hard. She's moving into a 1-bedroom and getting rid of my room soon, unfortunately.
Sorry to be a downer. xD
They hate me no matter what I do. Now all I get to do is harbor hate for someone that I actually looked at like I didn't hate him and that thought disgusts me I hate the fuck so much.
Massive abuse on someone who was only made to look like they actually deserve it.
Granted a lot of Japanese speak English very well. But people who can get a US security clearance and speak fluent Japanese? Not so many.
Or do gobs of Marines learn the language while they're there? I guess I don't know.
As for the college thing, well, they might just be trying to help. There is a bit of wisdom in majoring in something useful and minoring in what you love. Alternatively you could try looking up employment rates and median incomes for what you want to do. Some things like that aren't as bad as one might think, even if the job you might get isn't exactly your dream. (I.e. a music composition major teaching high school band.)
I typically get along with my family rather well, my brother and I get along in a best friend sort of way (we're 2 years apart), my younger sister is sweet as can be (she's 9 years younger than me) so we get along well of course, my father is a great guy but we butt heads a lot on certain things like politics and religion (I'm an agnostic who's not particularly politically biased and he's a christian conservative), I also get along with my mother well as of late, I've been building a good relationship with her over the past 2 years since she stopped drinking and finally started being an actual mother.
Were not close at all.
I rarely spend time with them, and when i do we hardly speak to eachother...
Nahh we do a lot together and get along great.. Its mainly because he was always there when I was a little kid. I hate to admit it but I hardly remember my mom in my childhood at all! So Ive always just been closer with my dad.
When I'm reincarnated I want to put all rednecks in camps
With a gut of richies on every corner of every camp
Well, it's not easy when you live in 5 cities within 7 years and I will be moving again at the end of next month to another part of Japan. She stays back in my home town with my family. I don't want her changing schools 6 times by the time she's in second grade. Plus, Japan is the most expensive country in the world and it's tough enough to provide for myself here. Plus, I don't get home until pretty late.Quote:
Wait. So are you going to send her away while you stay in Japan? While moving is hard, if she stays there she might get to be bilingual without all the classes and whatnot, which is quite an edge in and of itself, and can get you a good job alone.
Granted a lot of Japanese speak English very well. But people who can get a US security clearance and speak fluent Japanese? Not so many.
Or do gobs of Marines learn the language while they're there? I guess I don't know.
As for English speakers in Japan, in terms of English education in all of Asia, Japan ranks the second lowest just above Cambodia!! To the Japanese, they only learn English just to pass a test and not for practical use. There are a good number of English speakers in Japan, but the Japanese are really shy around foreigners and speaking English.
I never said I worked with the government or the military. When I was living next to Iwakuni, a Marine base outside of Hiroshima, none of the Marines I was friends with at all spoke that much Japanese. I can only visit home during winter vacation and sometimes my family visits during summer vacation depending if I am free or not.
very different to my family, they don't understand me and never will, they think i'm crazy but they're used to me, it's all good
out of all my family members, i think i've always gotton on best with my grandmother, sadly she has passed away though
And as for school, Well I got accepted to a school to study makeup artistry and special effects makeup for movies, and that is what I want to do, I don't want to work in a salon doing suburbia moms, or bridezillas, I want to do the big gore movies. and my uncle keeps telling me to take a community collage course first rather then attend this private school, No community collages offer the same type of course as the one I am looking at and its kind of disappointing, I used to want to be a lawyer and now I just don't.
I couldn't survive with out my mom, shes my best friend.
As for the rest of the family, I'm kinda the black sheep, avoided in conversations.
althoe i have a bad relationship with my dad i heard he was in the hospital the past 11 days so i went to visit him and brought him an apple juice and i told him i loved him and he said he loved me to. now that realey made me sad. it was the first time he said that to me and that broke my heart and realey made me sad
I have a great relationship. Nothing wrong in it at all
It's pretty good. We just rip on each other most of the time.
it's all in good fun though.
Being the youngest in the family... I love them so much. :)
I don't see being the youngest in the family has anything to do with loving them. >.<
Kinda fragmented I guess since my parents got divorced I only see my dad every now and then but still on good terms, my mom I see often but this is where things get complicated since lately her boyfriend seems to misunderstand my humour for actual statements and end up arguing. This has led to a steady down hill view on him for me and personally I barely tolerate him and the only reason I do is for my mom's sake. My brother I get along with no problems these days since he moved into his flat a few years back we get along much better.
Pretty comfortable with my parents- I mean, I still kiss them goodnight despite being in my teens! XD
My mom and I don't see eye-to-eye on everything, but I don't tend to let her know that for the sake of keeping down any sort of tension that might arise from arguing over something. For example, one time she ran into my manga collection while cleaning and asked me sort of 'Why do you have chinese cartoons?'. I just said that I have them because I like them, and then hid them better. She's probably forgotten about them by now, and I hope she never asks. If she does, I have a bit of a better answer this time around! On other stuff, I find it interesting how our relationship is changing as I become an adult- I've started to look out for her more instead of only depending on her, y'know? Sort of mutual support.
As for my dad, we're really great. He and I see things closer, and we like doing stuff that my mom doesn't care for when she's not around- like when I was younger my mom freaked out that I had taken so many fantasy books out of the library so she asked my dad to filter my books. He did it like two times, with a sympathetic eyeroll, and then 'forgot' from then on. Nowadays we blast terrible pop music in the car when we're alone and lambast it all the way! XD (She doesn't like pop). I guess I inherited more of him than my mom, so the similarities bring us together.
My sisters.. I have one that knows how to push every button, and hates everything I do, basically, and yet doesn't see that she's similar to me in many ways. It's kind of hilarious, but annoying. Very rocky relationship with her, and I don't think it can get better unless she changes as she grows more mature.
My other sister, we get along very well, because she's the peacemaker type, doesn't stir up trouble if she can help it, though she can get whiny and stressed out fast. We're not that close, but we do well.
My little brother is fun, but doesn't know how to stop and leave me alone when I need peace and quiet. He's only about five, so I'll cut him slack.
As for extended family, I get along better with them than they do with themselves, I think. Certain people I can sense I'm going to have a confrontation with if I end up talking about certain things- sort of like with my mom, yeah?
Anyway, that's my family, and I love em, even if they get on my nerves sometimes.
My family is kind of divided. This is including distant family. I get along with a couple of my cousins without any problems, and one aunt. I get along with Mom pretty well, Dad and I do too for the most part. The rest of the family aren't involved in my life, and that's my decision to keep them out. That's pretty much all there is to mention. At least I think it is.. should be.
A strained, estranged, hazardous, rocky, volatile, unforgiving, merciless, I-feel-like-we've-been-over-this, depths-of-Hell kinda relationship.
. . . Does that adequately answer the question?
For the most part we get along, but since I came out to them, things have been a slight bit awkward. For a while my sister was extremely rude about it, and that really made it hard for me to want to be around her anymore. But she stopped with those comments after a while. It's been a couple of years since she made them now. It's not that I've really forgiven her, because I still haven't got an apology, I just have tried to leave it in the past to the best of my ability.
I'm a mama's boy. My mom is my best friend and has always had my back.
I'm the black sheep of the family but she never gives up on me unlike the rest of them.


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|Portal Now Available On Linux
|Saturday May 04, 2013 @01:31PM
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|Wednesday February 06, 2013 @02:29PM
|Valve and JJ Abrams Collaborating on HalfLife, Portal Movies
|Sunday July 22, 2012 @08:59PM
|Portal 2 is officially in spaaaaaaace!
|Thursday June 21, 2012 @01:01PM
|Valve Unveils Steam For Schools, Portal In the Classroom
|Thursday June 21, 2012 @08:04AM
|Valve unveils Steam for Schools, Portal in the classroom
|Monday May 14, 2012 @10:18PM
|Student makes real-life Portal turret
|Monday January 16, 2012 @07:56AM
|Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Wireless Catch-and-Release
|Thursday September 22, 2011 @03:37PM
|An FPS Minus the Shooting
|Monday June 27, 2011 @11:46AM
|Moon Dust Back In NASA's Hands
|Sunday May 29, 2011 @09:21PM
|Cleaning Up Japan's Radioactive Mess With Blue Goo
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|NASA Sting Busts Woman Selling Purported Moon Rock
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|Tech Experts Look To Help Save the Postal Service
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Gun Control Can Survive the Supreme Court
Gun Control Can Survive the Supreme Court
I have to agree - even with the new demand for controls in the wake of the Newtown Massacre the only limits and regulations that possibly can pass will be minor ones that can also withstand the scrutiny of the Supremes.
It's a sign of the legalization of American politics that activists worry about being thwarted by the Supreme Court even before they've managed to pass anything: Although they haven't yet squeezed any new regulations through Congress or the state legislatures, gun-control advocates already fear that the Supreme Court will invalidate whatever progress they achieve.
They should stop sweating. Despite its turn to the right on gun control, the Supreme Court should almost certainly uphold any of the new regulations that have a chance of being enacted, according to the logic of its decisions in District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago. Both liberal and conservative judges, from Justice John Paul Stevens on the left to Judges Richard Posner and J. Harvie Wilkinson on the right, denounced the decisions when they were handed down. But both decisions were relatively narrow, prohibiting states from imposing total bans on the firearms in the home. They shouldn't be read to threaten the kinds of regulations that states and the federal government are currently debating—including an effective federal database for permit holders. The problem with the constitutional debate over guns, in other words, isn't the Supreme Court's Second Amendment decisions but an over-reading of them by a handful of lower court judges—mostly notably, Posner himself.
Heller and McDonald struck down the two most restrictive gun regulations in the country—Chicago and D.C.'s total bans on gun possession in the home. No other state or municipality had similarly sweeping bans on private gun possession, and in this sense, the Court was playing a familiar role of bringing state and local outliers in line with a national consensus. Since the decisions came down, there have been hundreds of civil and criminal challenges to gun control laws, and the vast majority of them have been unsuccessful. Unfortunately, a few lower courts have seized on language in Heller and McDonald to strike down state laws that forbid felons from possessing firearms, for example, or that require applicants for concealed carry permits to show a "good and substantial reason."


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School: Perrysburg
Year: Senior
Sports: Soccer
Note: Midfielder helped lead Yellow Jackets to a perfect season (23-0-0) and a Division I state championship as Perrysburg outscored opponents 108-5; finished third on the team in points — five goals and seven assists; led the team to a third straight Northern Lakes League title; All-Ohio first team; will play at Ohio University
School subject: Math
Car: Toyota Camry
Facebook or Twitter? Twitter
Store: American Eagle
Musical artist: Passion Pit
Song: "Take a Walk," by Passion Pit
TV show: One Tree Hill
Movie: Rudy
Actor: Tom Hanks
Actress: Hayden Panettiere
Magazine: Seventeen
Radio station: 99.9 FM
Food: Mexican
Beverage: Gatorade
Fast food: Taco Bell
Can't resist snack: Cheez-It
Place to visit: Tennessee
Athlete: Landon Donovan
Baseball team: Tigers
NFL team: Vikings
NBA team: Pistons
Person I most admire: My dad, Keith
Person I'd like to meet: Oprah Winfrey
It really bothers me when: People snap their gum
In 10 years I hope to be: Living the life I love, whatever that may be
My No. 1 goal this year: Winning a state championship
Top sports moment: Winning a state championship
Ohio State or Michigan? Michigan


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TOPS--the acronym for Teaching Opportunities in Physical Sciences--is a six-week summer program for sophomore and junior physics majors who are considering careers in pre college physics teaching. The goal of TOPS is to give these students an opportunity to prepare and teach material at the middle school and high school levels under the supervision of experienced teachers. Middle school students are taught in a one-week program at the Boston Museum of Science. High school students are taught in a two-week program at MIT. In addition, TOPS provides contact with ongoing physics research in the Center for Ultracold Atoms, much of which illustrates basic concepts of energy, temperature and light that are central to the material being taught. TOPS, which is now in its seventh year, involves two groups of four students, each working with a skilled high school teacher. The goal is to help inspire teaching careers for some of tomorrow's outstanding teachers in the belief that over the years even a small number of outstanding teachers can have a big influence. The Center for Ultracold Atoms is supported by the National Science Foundation.
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"Today Mozilla and the Rust community are releasing version 0.1 of the Rust compiler and associated tools. Rust is a strongly-typed systems programming language with a focus on memory safety and concurrency. This is the initial release of the compiler after a multi-year development cycle focusing on self-hosting, implementation of major features, and solidifying the syntax. Version 0.1 should be considered an alpha release, suitable for early adopters and language enthusiasts. It's nifty, but it will still eat your laundry."


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Law enforcement center discussed
A special meeting was held by the Nolan County Commissioners' Court on Monday morning, April 18, 2011 at the Nolan County Courthouse.The meeting was a workshop on the potential construction of a new law enforcement center and jail for Nolan County. Local city officials and law enforcement were in attendance to determine the current standing on the matter and what steps to take in order to move forward.Four proposed sites around the community were presented to the commissioners for the new facility. It was also noted that contact between various architects and engineers and the city has been continuously made.Sheriff David Warren gave a letter from the Texas Commission citing jail house standards and offered a future outlook. Warren also presented a report drafted by him listing reasons on the need for a new sheriff's office and jail.Overcrowding is a major reason; however, Nolan County has been housing prisoners out for the past 11 years to other counties resulting in additional, unforeseen costs. An issue of gender has risen, with the current female prisoner population standing at 30%. The number is projected to grow and according to state standards, female inmates must be separated by "sight and sound" from males.The current jail does not have any designated holding cells and it only has one "separation" cell. Thus, proper inmate classification and housing is limited for inmates with a variety of medical, mental, suicidal and disciplinary issues.The Nolan County Jail also has no medical isolation cells or a "negative pressure" cell — which houses inmates with diseases like tuberculosis or staph infection. Furthermore, the jail is not handicap accessible, nor are the cells "ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) Compliant".In addition, the existing jail is operating under two significant variances: the lack of remote controlled access for cell doors and inadequate size of single cells. However, the variances are meant to be only temporary and should they continue, the county could suffer strong consequences.The kitchen and laundry facilities are also a concern. Laundry has become a continuous operation as it is cleaned in a residential sized washer and dryer set. The kitchen is undersized and storage for refrigerated items, frozen foods and dry pantry items are well above capacity.Other concerns stem from the lack of storage for inmate files, commissary, inmate issue items, mattresses and tools, as well as a lack of workspace and adequate offices.Warren stressed the fact that the issue at hand was not when the room in the facility will run out, but that it already has. He also mentioned that the new building would also prompt consideration of additional staff. However, from a financial standpoint, the money that has been currently spent on maintenance would discontinue through the construction of a new facility.Also presented were the financial aspects of building a new law enforcement center and jail. Estimated cost figures, possible funding and property tax estimates were discussed, and it was stated that there would be no reason to increase property value.The workshop ran throughout the day, but the notion was made that once the current and future financial standing was determined, the possibility of holding a public hearing would be considered.


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A pair of red-hot Northeast Division rivals will meet Thursday in Boston, as the Bruins host the Ottawa Senators in a showdown at TD Garden.
The Senators are in the midst of a five-game winning streak while Boston has won its last four outings to improve to 12-2-2 on the season. The clubs are tied for second in the division with 26 points each, three back of first-place Montreal.
Thursday's contest is the first of five scheduled encounters between the Bruins and Sens this season. Boston has dominated the series recently, winning nine of the last 10 matchups overall. Ottawa was able to halt a four-game losing streak in Boston with a 1-0 decision at TD Garden on Feb. 28, 2012.
Ottawa's current winning streak is the club's longest since winning six straight from Oct. 20-30 of last season. The resilient team has gone on this hot streak without the services of star defenseman Erik Karlsson, who went down with a season-ending Achilles injury on Feb. 13.
The Sens also posted the last two wins without the help of No. 1 goaltender Craig Anderson, who is dealing with a sprained ankle. Ben Bishop has been excellent in Anderson's place and is expected to get a third straight start on Thursday.
Ottawa's most recent win came after Peter Regin's goal in the fifth round of the shootout, but a 44-save effort from Bishop was also key in Monday's 2-1 decision over the visiting Montreal Canadiens.
Bishop stopped 12 shots in the first period, turned aside 18 more in the second and finished with 15 saves over the third period and overtime.
"Bishop to King-3, Checkmate," Ottawa coach Paul MacLean said with a smile. "It was all Ben Bishop tonight."
Dave Dziurzynski scored in regulation for the Senators, who improved to 9-1-2 on home ice.
Thursday's tilt marks the start of a five-game road trip for Ottawa. The Sens are just 3-5-0 as the visiting team in 2013.
The Bruins have more than doubled up the opposition during their winning streak, outscoring teams by a combined 15-6 margin over the last four games. The four consecutive victories also came at the end of a five-game road trip, improving Boston's record as the guest this season to 8-1-1.
Boston will play three straight and five of its next six games at home and is 4-1-1 in Beantown this season.
The Bruins are coming off Tuesday's 4-1 win over the New York Islanders. Brad Marchand and David Krejci tallied in the second period to lead Boston to victory and improve the team's February record to 7-1-1.
Adam McQuaid scored in the first period and Gregory Campbell added a late marker for the Bruins. Tuukka Rask made 36 saves and is now 10-1-2 on the season.
"Good to get the win," said Rask. "You've got to be confident when you're winning, but you've got to realize we're not playing a full 60 minutes."
Next up for the Bruins is Saturday's contest against Tampa Bay. That will mark the first meeting between the clubs in Boston this season since the initial encounter at TD Garden on Feb. 9 was postponed due to a blizzard. The postponed game was rescheduled for April 25.


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Well Hamilton has a Plus Plus glove and a Plus Arm for sure. He could be special. Like game changing at the top of the lineup Andrus special... That like 3 ESPN # 1 plays in 2 weeks.
Lohman should be moved to 2B. Hamilton needs to get as many reps at SS as he can and his bat and defense would carry better there. If he ends up in Dayton next year with Yorman and crew I am getting Season tickets.


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Cutting Government Spending Creates Jobs
WWII officially ended (All theaters) on 9/2/1948. Between 1948 and 1952, over 15 million soldiers returned to the workforce. What happened to them? How were they employed? It would appear that unemployment remained well under 4% from 1948 (the earliest year that data was available from BLS.gov) through 1954, except for a 2 year period that averaged 5.6%, with a very brief peak of 7.9%. Considering the huge amount of new jobs that would have been required to employ such a deluge of returning soldiers – this seems to be rather astonishing. Bush and Obama spent trillions in stimulus, and were unable to create a single net job, and in fact lost many millions of jobs. So what was different after WWII?
Let's also examine Tax rates… clearly the impressive job creation was not a result of tax cuts.
So what else could it be?
Austrian economists know that government cannot create something without first taking it from someone else. So let us examine total government spending… After WWII, there's a dramatic cut in spending levels – from around 52% of GDP down to 22% in just about 2 years. It looks like the way to create jobs – is to stop confiscating the people's money and wasting it on government spending, which is inherently non-productive, wasteful and kills jobs.
So it would seem that the Keynesian Economists (like Obama) are completely and utterly absurd in their belief that government spending can create jobs. It also would seem that Chicago school economists (Supply-siders, Republicans, Laffer, Friedman) who claim tax cuts alone are responsible for creating jobs – don't quite have the whole picture.


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Kickoff: Saturday, 8:30 p.m. ETLine: Texas A&M -5.5, Total: 74.5
No. 9 Texas A&M prepares for a high-scoring affair when it heads to Oxford as the road favorite over Ole Miss in a key SEC game.
Both of these teams are 2-3 ATS to start the year with Texas A&M covering in two of its past three games. The Aggies' dynamic offense averages 49.2 PPG, the fourth most in FBS, but the defense has be an issue, giving up 30.8 PPG (87th in nation). Ole Miss is coming off back-to-back SU and ATS defeats, as it was shut out by Alabama 25-0 and lost 30-22 as a two-point favorite to Auburn last week. The Rebels are giving up 25.2 PPG while scoring only 27.2 (85th in nation), but have played four of their first five games this year on the road. Last season, the Rebels were one of the few teams to actually figure out how to contain QB Johnny Manziel, holding A&M to a relatively meager 481 yards of offense and forcing six turnovers. Manziel needed two late TDs in that meeting to give the Aggies the win. In each of the four games in which Manziel has played completely this season, the Aggies have surpassed 40 points and 520 yards of total offense.
Will Ole Miss end its losing skid and pull off the upset over a top-10 team? For the answer, connect to College Football Best Bets for all the StatFox Experts picks throughout the 2013 regular season and bowl season. The four experts continue to thrive in college football Best Bets with a combined 58.1% ATS record (61-44-3) for the season. StatFox Gary is a sizzling 82% ATS (9-2-1) in college football Best Bets over the past four weeks and 67% ATS (10-5-1) this year. StatFox Scott is 67% ATS (10-5-1) on Best Bets in the past three weeks and 60% ATS (18-12-1) for the season. StatFox Dave is 75% ATS (9-3) on Best Bets in the past two weeks and 56% ATS (22-17) for the season. StatFox Brian is 52.4% ATS (11-10-1) in Best Bets this season.
The Aggies rank sixth in FBS with 365 passing yards per game, and most of that credit goes to Manziel, who is completing 71.4% of his passes for 1,489 yards (10.6 YPA) this year. In 140 attempts he has only four interceptions while finding the end zone 14 times through the air. He has added three rushing touchdowns as the teams leading ball carrier with 314 yards on 48 attempts (6.5 YPC). In last year's win over Ole Miss, Manziel threw more picks (two) than touchdowns (one), but he still had 191 passing yards and 142 rushing yards. Joining him on the ground are RBs Ben Malena (57 carries for 303 yards, 7 TD) and Tra Carson (41 carries for 229 yards, 4 TD), who are effective weapons that give Manziel a much-needed break once in a while. Malena rumbled for 142 yards (7.9 YPC) and a touchdown last year versus the Rebels. Through the air, nine different Aggies have receiving touchdowns this season, but WR Mike Evans (28 catches for 691 yards, 5 TD) is by far Manziels favorite target. He also has been able to find WRs Derel Walker (19 catches for 264 yards) and Malcome Kennedy (23 catches for 242 yards, 4 TD) when needed. Where A&M needs to step up its game is on the other side of the ball, giving up a whopping 6.1 YPC, which is 0.6 YPC more than they accumulate themselves. It doesnt get better against the pass where they surrender 7.1 yards per attempt.
Ole Miss junior QB Bo Wallace is nowhere near the type of weapon Manziel is, completing only 59.0% of his passes for 1,143 yards (6.9 YPA), 6 TD and 2 INT. During his team's two-game losing skid, Wallace has completed just 53.2% of his passes for 495 yards (6.3 YPA), 2 TD and 2 INT. He also didnt have a rushing score in either of those games while adding three of those in the first three games. In last year's loss to A&M, Wallace totaled 326 yards and two scores, but also threw two picks, including one returned for a touchdown just before halftime. RB Jeff Scott is the teams most dangerous weapon, averaging 8.7 YPC on 49 carries for 424 yards 2 TD. Hell have to carry the load against this weak Aggies defense and help control the clock by keeping the ball out of Manziels hands. He was able to that last year with 108 yards on 21 carries (5.1 YPC) and a touchdown when he faced the Aggies. Wallaces top receiving options this year are WRs Donte Moncrief (23 catches for 355 yards, 4 TD) and Laquon Treadwell (24 catches for 250 yards). The Ole Miss defense has been better its its counterpart, but the numbers aren't great, giving up 4.4 YPC and 6.4 YPA. Notably, through the air, opponents are completing a whopping 67% of their passes, which must make Manziel happy going into this game.


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Few details in Mont Vernon police shootingBy NANCY BEAN FOSTER
Union Leader Correspondent
January 07. 2013 8:39PM
MONT VERNON - Few details have been released in the officer-involved shooting of an apparently suicidal man on Sunday evening as the New Hampshire Attorney General's office and the State Police continue their investigation.
Police were called to the home at 15 Pond Road on Sunday around 5 p.m. for the report of a suicidal man. Officers from Mont Vernon, Amherst, and Milford responded to the call, and when the first officers arrived on scene, they encountered Geoffrey Bidwell who was allegedly suicidal, according to Senior Assistant Attorney General Jane Young.
Bidwell apparently engaged in an altercation with police and during that interaction, was shot and wounded by a Mont Vernon police officer. Bidwell was taken to a Massachusetts hospital where, as of Sunday night, he was in stable condition.
A local resident familiar with Bidwell who asked not to be named said Bidwell lived with his parents at the Pond Road address. According to Bidwell's Facebook page, he grew up New Hampshire and attended Milford Area Senior High and worked in the computer industry. According to court documents, Bidwell was arrested twice in the mid-1990s in New Hampshire for driving under the influence, but aside from those convictions has no other criminal history in the state.
Mont Vernon Police Chief Kyle Aspinwall wouldn't comment on the incident because the case is being handled by state police and the Attorney General's office. Aspinwall would also not release the name of the officer involved, however, he said it is standard protocol for any police officer involved in a shooting to be placed on paid administrative leave during the initial phase of an investigation.
Pond Road, a small side street with just a few houses located off of Route 13 north of Mont Vernon village was closed to traffic on Monday. The investigation is considered ongoing.


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PORT HUENEME, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/02/13 -- Stellar Biotechnologies, Inc. ("Stellar" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: KLH) (PINKSHEETS: SBOTF) (FRANKFURT: RBT), the world leader in sustainable manufacture of GMP-grade Keyhole Limpet Hemocyanin (KLH), today announced that the Company will present at the Biotech Showcase 2013 conference in San Francisco at 9:00AM Pacific Time on Monday, January 7, 2013.
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In countries which have a "life plus 70 year" copyright term for authors' works, New Year's Day each year sees a batch of authors' works falling out of copyright protection. Among those who died in 1935, and whose works are no longer protected in life + 70 jurisdictions as from tomorrow morning are the following:
* French anti-militarist and revolutionary writer Henri Barbusse (right);
* Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior, distinguished American jurist sometimes known as The Great Dissenter, pictured (left) as a young man;
* Lawrence of Arabia (a.k.a. T. E. Lawrence, right, real name Thomas Edward Lawrence), the Englishman who helped the Arabs fight the Ottoman empire for their independence and who wrote The Seven Pillars of Wisdom;
* Alban Berg, the depressive Austrian composer (painted, left by Schonberg), who wrote a very moving Violin Concerto;
* Paul Dukas, the French composer whose Sorcerer's Apprentice was immortalised by Walt Disney in the original version of Fantasia (the apprentice being Mickey Mouse's best-known film role);
* Auguste Escoffier, left, celebrated French chef and author, known as the King of Chefs and the Chef of Kings.
The IPKat says, feel free to post the names of your favourite died-in-1935 authors, artists, composers and dramatists in the Comments slot below. Merpel says, what about the "life-plus-50 years" countries? Let's hear it for people who diied in 1955 too!
Saturday, 31 December 2005
Friday, 30 December 2005
The Times reports that Google is being sued for patent infringement over its Google Talk service. Rates Technology Inc has brought a case in New York, claiming that the technology used by Google's Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service infringes patents that RTI was awarded in 1991 and 1995. Even if the claim is successful though, it may not prove a major setback to Google since it now owns a 5% share in AOL which may enable it to use AOL's internet speech technology.
The IPKat notes that Google has been in the wars when it comes to IP, with the Google Print controversy and the UK battle over the Gmail trade mark and now this. Perhaps this is inevitable though, considering the wide range of information-based services Google provides.
More kitty litter
The IPKat has found another gem of IP rights confusion in this piece from the Mumbai Mirror, India:
"The ancient Indian rural art of Madhubani painting is next in the race to be patented after the Pochampally sari design. National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard), a facilitator for rural artisans, is pushing the case for Madhubani.Getting a design patented as a GI is a real triple whammy, says the IPKat. But how come there was no mention of copyright ...?
The style Pochampally, tie-and-dye silk woven saris made at the Pochampally village near Hyderabad, got the Geographical Indication (GI) status early this year. Scotch and Champagne are the other commonly known items that have the GI status.
"Getting Pochampally design patented by the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks under the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999, was a first of its kind achievement for grassroots level artisans. Madhubani paintings are acclaimed worldwide and has a big international market. It is the need of the hour to get it patented," said TS Raji Gain, Deputy General Manager (Women and Environmental Cell), Nabard.
Out in the cold?
EconomicTimes has reported that Intel may be dropping its long-standing "Intel Inside" tag line and logo, which has been a large part of Intel's branding. Some sources in Intel say that a change is in the offing, and internal documents are learnt to have already started using the new logo. The new launch is expected in the first week of January. Of discussion among Apple users is whether Apple would participate in the co-branding push that has been adopted by PC manufacturers. This participation is reportedly rewarded with marketing dollars by Intel.
The IPKat wonders whether Intel's move has been forced upon it by the increased use by third parties of the simple logo, with its highly descriptive text, for parody purposes, which the illustrations on this blog suggest may be something of an annoyance or distraction.
No, says Merpel, it's because people just assume that their hardware has Intel Inside unless the contrary is proven, so a new slogan is needed.
Intel inside here
Intel in court here and here
TCM reports that the Japanese Patent Office is increasing the maximum penalty for infringement of intellectual property rights by businesses from 150 million yen to 300 million yen (just under £1.5 million). Meanwhile, the maximum penalty for private defendants will be increased to a maximum prison terms of five years or fines of up to 5 million yen. The changes will be put before the Japanese Parliament next year and are expected to come into force during 2007.
The IPKat welcomes the changes to the extent that they are used to provide awards of damages that are truly compensatory.
Thursday, 29 December 2005
Nokia hit by expensive arbitration
The IPKat has been reading excitedly this little item in The Register (Biting the hand that feeds IT") on the confirmation by a US federal judge yesterday that Nokia must pay $232-$252m in disputed patent royalties to InterDigital, having unsuccessfully contested a decision made in June by the International Court of Arbitration in respect of GSM handsets and network equipment sold between 2002 and 2006 (assuming there will be a 2006 ...).
The IPKat notes that this was a case in which the parties were obliged to arbitrate under the terms of InterDigital's licence of its technology to Nokia. The licensor will generally opt for arbitration as a cheaper and more discreet alternative to litigation, particularly where other licensees might otherwise be eagerly watching for the terms of a court judgment that would have a direct impact on the enforceability, or issues of liability, under their own, similar licences. Here Nokia, having contested the terms of the award, only seems to have delayed the inevitable payment by six months or so. Merpel adds, I wish I could delay paying my phone bills for six months ...
Great delays here and here
The great delayer here
Top ten IP sources?
The IPKat stumbled across an outfit called Top Ten Sources (whose methodology is explained here), which lists what it calls the Top Ten IP sources. Even allowing for the fact that Top Ten assumes that IP begins and ends in the United States, it has a few surprising choices in its list, in addition to some of the IPKat's favourites (among which are the excellent Patently-O and Patent Baristas).
The Top Ten list includes Patently Silly (see logo, left) which is, as its name suggests, patently silly and quite good fun - but hardly an information source for anything except silly patents. There is however no room for such highly useful US sources as
* the highly informative and indeed provocative Trademark Blog by Marty Schwimmer;
* Legislating IP, which has some useful information and comment on US IP litigation in progress;
* the perhaps underrated Pierce Law IP blog, which keeps its entries short and sweet;
* Lessig Blog, on which vigorous debate as to controversial copyright issues can be found;
* Berkeley's bIPlog, which gives a West Coast/academic perspective to high tech IP developments;
* John L. Welch's TTABlog, which provides unbeatable and accessible coverage of TTAB decisions.
Outside of the US there exist some excellent websources (even apart from the IPKat). These include the software-savvy TechnoLlama (left), Markenbusiness, not to mention Domain Name/Nom de Domain ! from Cedric Manara (right) and the umbrella service of MultiReg.com. The Kat could mention more, but Merpel hates lists and tells him to quit now that he has made his point.
The IPKat notes Top Ten's claim that its staff is
"... comprised primarily of editors, researchers, and very friendly technologists. The Top 10 editorial team employs an iterative methodology with a constant core -- combining technical metrics with nuanced editorial judgment -- to draw together and contextualize the freshest, most relevant content on the web. Editors and researchers have developed subject matter expertise and track closely the communities on the web that are established, and constantly re-established, around ideas and topics".If that were indeed true, and assuming that Top Ten's anonymous staff actually exists, the list of sites selected is surprising indeed.
Wednesday, 28 December 2005
The IPKat has learnt from AXcessNews that Google is reportedly being sued for trade mark infringement by Jews for Jesus. A blogger named Whistle Blower has established a blog located at the domain name http://jewsforjesus.blogspot.com/. The blog is powered by Blogger software, which is provided by Google, which offers bloggers the opportunity to choose their own domain names in the form http://xxx.blogspot.com/ – hence the action against Google. The website in question is critical of Jews for Jesus' activities.
The IPKat is rather concerned about this. He's intimately acquainted with the workings of Blogger since that's what powers his blog. The beauty of the software is that it allows bloggers to do things for themselves. Google neither exerts control over the content of sites, nor the urls that they operate under. If they had to in order to escape legal liability, it's unlikely that Blogger would remain a free service, limiting a valuable channel of free expression. Whistle Blower could have chosen a url that made clear that his blog was critical of Jews for Jesus, rather than being connected with it, but it's hard to see how Blogger could have enforced such a requirement.
Tuesday, 27 December 2005
The IPKat promised to bring you further information about the UK Trade Mark Registry's ruling in the FCUK revocation decision and lo and behold, here it is!
French Connection holds the registered trade mark FCUK in relation to goods in various classes. Mr Dennis Woodman applied for the mark to be invalidated for goods in Class 14 under s.47 of the UK Trade Marks Act 1994 on the ground that it was an immoral mark that was barred from registration under s.3(1)(f) of the TMA. He argued that that the FCUK mark was intended to be mistaken for the expletive fuck. French Connection argued that its mark was not of a sort that could be barred from registration. Although a degree of word-play was possible, the origin of the mark was as an acronym for French Connection United Kingdom, and there had been a number of other acronyms that had been used internally (such as FCUS, standing for French Connection United States) to refer to the various branches of the company. Numerous traders had associated their products or events with the FCUK mark, or had sold FCUK goods. There had only been a few instances of complaints to organisations such as the Advertising Standards Agency, and most of these had focused on the use of the FCUK mark in particular contexts, rather than to the mark itself.
As the Kat has already informed his readers, the application for revocation was rejected.
*Since Woodman's case was that the public would misconstrue the FCUK mark as the word fuck, the initial question to be answered was whether fuck would be barred from registration as a trade mark on morality grounds. If the word fuck would be registrable, then French Connection would have no case to answer.
Was the word "fuck" registrable as a trade mark?
*The word fuck would not be registrable as a trade mark. The fact that it was commonly used in everyday life did not make it acceptable. It was more than merely smutty and would cause outrage among a significant section of the public. [IPKat NOTE: Note the similarity in the reasoning to the US KATRINA BLOWS, BUCK SUCKS decision, which the IPKat mentioned in his initial post on the FCUK decision]
Would the FCUK mark be mistaken for the word fuck?
*In judging whether the word FCUK would be construed as the word fuck, the hearing officer examined the visual, aural and conceptual impact of the mark on consumers. [IPKat NOTE: so far as he knows, it's unprecedented for criteria for comparing marks in infringement/opposition cases to be deployed in immoral marks cases]
*It was not disputed that usually FCUK would be pronounced as its individual letters, rather than as a word, so aurally they would be quite different.
*The conceptual meaning of the mark depended on whether the mark would be seen as fuck, either spelled correctly or mis-spelt. While the word fuck would cause offence to a significant section of the public, the offence was not caused by FCUK itself. Rather the possibility of offence arose through word play, mistake, or misconstruing of the letters, the mark though would enable the mark to be seen as the word.
*It would not be right to see the mark as objectionable because it was capable of being seen as something that was not. There was no evidence that establishes that the trade mark FCUK solus was seen as the expletive amongst an identifiable section of the public.
At what point should the offensiveness of the mark be judged?
*There was nothing in s.47 that allowed for the invalidation of a mark that had become objectionable on absolute grounds through the use that had been made of it post-application. Thus, the fact that French Connection had educated the public to view the mark as the objectionable word was not relevant to the hearing officer's decision. However, the context in which FCUK had been used may have contaminated the term FCUK, causing the term itself to become offensive. This could be relevant to the hearing officer's decision. [IPKat NOTE: This seems right – if you can educate consumers to see a descriptive word as a trade mark, you should be able to educate consumers to view neutral words as having taken on an offensive meaning.]
*In judging whether this had occurred, the reaction to the mark on the market proved a good barometer. Respectable traders had traded in FCUK goods with hardly any adverse response from members of the public. Also, there had been few complaints from the general public about the FCUK mark, and those that had been made tended to focus on the use of FCUK in a particular context, rather than on the term itself.
The IPKat notes a number of examples of novel reasoning in the hearing officer's deicision, particularly with regard to comparing plays on immoral words with the immoral words themselves, the point at which the immorality of the mark must be judged and the comments on educating consumers about the meaning of words. Merpel wonders why the revocation action was limited to jewellery and watches. If it's offensive for them, surely it's offensive for all goods?
Private Eye, public icon
Under the caption "Bush iPod confusion" satirical British magazine Private Eye runs the photograph and speech-balloon on the left. If there's any doubt that trade marks are cultural icons that belong to the general public as much as they ever do to their registered owners, this picture should remove it.
Hands off our neem tree, say Indians
The IPKat found this item on BusinessWeek Online. It begins:
"For thousands of years Indian villagers have used an extract from seeds of the neem tree as an insecticide. So when a US company patented a process for producing the substance in 1994, India reacted with outrage. After spending millions of dollars in legal fees to successfully overturn the patent, India's government now is creating a 30-million-page database of traditional knowledge to fend off entrepreneurs trying to patent the country's ancient lore".The database, called the Traditional Knowledge Data Library, will make information available to patent offices around the world to ensure that traditional remedies are not presented as new discoveries. "If societies have been using it for centuries why should it be patented?" said Shiv Basant, a senior official at the Health Ministry's Department of Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy, India's traditional health and medical disciplines.
Why neem trees are good for you
How to tell good trees from bad trees: St Matthew explains
Bad tree here
The IPKat has come into possession of a copy of January 2006's issue of the European Intellectual Property Review.
This month's issue is rather patenty in flavour. The goodies on offer are:
- Pat Treacy and Anna Wray (Bristows) on the prospects for EU wide criminal sanctions in IP cases;
- Fiona Bor (Carpmaels & Ransford) on the exceptions given to patent infringement applied to biotechnology research tools under s.60(5) of the Patents Act 1977;
- Paul Ganley (Baker & McKenzie) on the Supreme Court's Grokster decison and the future of P2P;
- Amanda Warren-Jones (University of Liverpool) on the use of empirical evidence in judging morality in biotechnology patent cases;
- Iris H-Y Chen (University of Leicester) and Will W Chen (LSE) on IP protection of printed circuit boards;
- Alisa Carter and Simon Aryton (both Bristows) on patent entitlement and Markem v Zipher;
- David Thomas (BUAV and Bindman & Partners) and Georgina A Richards (University of Southampton) on the EPO Technical Board of Appeal's decision in the Oncomouse case;
- Stephen Kon and Thomas Heide (both SJ Berwin) on the Court of Appeal's decision in the British Horseracing Board v William Hill database case;
- The usual collection of notes on national cases and book review.
This IPKat commends this issue as a perfect Bank Holiday Tuesday read.
Monday, 26 December 2005
Copyright World
The December 2005/January 2006 issue of Informa's Copyright World has now been published. It leads with a piece by Withers' solicitors Hugh Devlin and Romain Dourlen on the subtle difference between fashion-inspired clothes design and direct copying. The IPKat has never understood the fashion market. If no-one copies you, it means you're unfashionable; if everyone copies you, you sue - but it's the fact that others copy you that makes you the fashion trendsetter. Merpel adds: is there a prize for most annoying law firm website? If so, can I nominate Withers?
There's also a report on the UK's ratification of the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty by Manches' Alasdair Taylor and a useful article by Lovells' Wolfgang Büchner and Thomas Schafft on some recent German decisions on internet-based personal video recorders which seem to make rather heavy weather of some fairly unexceptional factual situations.
Welcome, Human...
There's a new blog on the block: Justin Patten's Human Law. The blog is named after the law firm that Justin (right) established in 2002. His particular interest is the interplay between law, technology and people and his practice takes in both trade marks and domain names.
Here's what Justin has to say on the subject of copyright infringement when best-selling journalist/author Thomas Friedman attacks piracy but appears to make an unlicensed use of this painting (left) by Ed Miracle on the cover of his book The World is Flat. Incidentally, Ed has instructed Justin in this matter.
The IPKat welcomes all new IP blogs and wishes Justin the best of luck.
Sunday, 25 December 2005
Sorry if you got deluged!
Many of you who receive our email notifications will have received 50 or so notifications of the IPKat's blog last night. This appears to have been the result of a malfunction of Google's normally reliable notification software. If it's any consolation, the IPKat and Merpel were deluged with a multiplicity of unwanted emails too, including a large number of Out of Office messages that normally get filtered out of the email circular system.
Please be patient with the IPKat. He's doing his best and, if anything goes wrong, he suffers just like you!
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Another JCL&E emerges
It may be late December, but the golden leaves and balmy autumnal evenings in Oxford are conjured up by the late appearance of the September 2005 issue of Oxford University Press's Journal of Competition Law & Economics.
The IPKat is a firm believer that intellectual property law only makes sense against a background of competition law and that it is primarily an economic right, not a moral one. He is saddened, however, that most economists either steer clear of IP law or seem to misunderstand its hugely subtle operation. That's why he was so pleased to see the critical analysis by Ariel Katz (right, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto) of the collective administration of copyright. In his abstract Professor Katz writes:
In most countries the right to publicly perform music is not administered individually by the copyright holders but rather collectively by performing rights organizations (PROs). The common explanation behind the proliferation of collective administration is that some aspects of copyright administrations are natural monopolies. It is often argued that individual administration is impracticable or at least non-economical. Collective administration is therefore promoted as the most efficient method for licensing, monitoring and enforcing those rights. In addition, because the market is a natural monopoly, regulation, rather than an attempt to foster competition, is thought to be the optimal regulatory response. This is the first in a series of two articles that critically analyse this natural monopoly argument. In this article I argue that the case for PROs is not as straightforward as it is assumed to be. I show that many of the underlying cost efficiencies that are attributed to PROs are usually simply assumed and, in many cases, could be equally achieved under less restrictive arrangements.Biographical details of Ariel Katz here
Full list of contents of the current issue of JCL&E here
The IPKat wishes all his readers the best compliments of whatever season they're celebrating. Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah or just a plain old Happy New Year.
Bring on the turkey here, here and here
Frying tonight here, here and here
Hedging your bets here
Saturday, 24 December 2005
BoAs GET NEW HEAD; JBL LATEST
The IPKat congratulates Paul Maier (right) on his appointment as President of the Boards of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market for another five years. Paul, a native of Strasbourg (where he was born in 1958) has served as Head of OHIM's Designs Division and is known to be a nice guy.
Journal of Business Law
The first issue of Sweet & Maxwell's Journal of Business Law for 2006 has now been published. The IPKat notes an interesting article by Hazel Fleming (Lecturer in Law, University of Stirling) entitled 'An End to Brandsharing?', in which she analyses current European legislation to suppress the practice of using tobacco brands on non-tobacco products (somewhat inelegantly termed brandsharing, or brand-stretching). Hazel warns that the tobacco companies may yet find ways around even the stiffest restrictions, if the experience of France is anything to go by.
Friday, 23 December 2005
Lipitor in Spain
The IPKat notes that the battle between Indian pharma manufacturer Ranbaxy and other generic producers on the one side, and original drug developer Pfizer on the other, over the heart and soul of Lipitor (see IPKat blog here, here and here) has spread to Spain, where the Court of First Instance in Madrid has ruled that the claims of Pfizer's patent covering atorvastatin are valid and enforceable. This time the challenge to the patent was brought by Ratiopharm Espana SA. Lipitor is sold in Spain under the brand names Zarator and Cardyl.
The IPKat thinks this is significant. There was a time when patent validity decisions outside three or four key jurisdictions were hardly ever picked up on by the world's media. But now Spain is in the spotlight. With laws on patent validity that are compliant with the European Patent Convention, and with an increasingly vibrant IP profession, Spain can legitimately say that its rulings - which are not binding on those of courts in other countries - are at least of some persuasive value.
Merpel adds, the linked news item says that Lipitor is "widely used by Americans and people throughout the world". What's the difference between Americans and people?
Click here to visit Litigation Notes and see Calvert Crary's take on the most recent US Lipitor decision.
What is cholesterol? Click here for more information .
Pulling the wool ...
Agneau de Sisteron is the subject of a recent application for Protected Geographical Indication status. According to the application,
"Sheepfarming in France has its historic birthplace in the south-east of the country. For over 6 000 years sheep have been grazing on its pastures. Rooted in this ancient tradition, the name 'Agneau de Sisteron' first appeared in the 1920s and 1930s, on the initiative of Sisteron's wholesale butchers, who traditionally obtained their supplies in the defined PGI area. The regional and national renown of the name has gone on growing and literally soared in the 1950s and 1960s. Sisteron is the focus of this renown but the lamb is born, reared and slaughtered across the whole of the PGI geographical area. The region can be said therefore to have acquired the historical local expertise.The IPKat is a little surprised at this remarkable incidence of spontaneous mentions of Sisteron as being the place where lamb is purchased. A Google search of 'Sisteron' yielded 319,000 hits; 'Sisteron' plus 'agneau' gives just 889 (the less attractive 'mouton' gives 636 hits). However, 'Sisteron' plus 'vacances' (holidays, in French) gives 53,300 hits; add 'vin' and you get 14,000 hits. Even 'Sisteron' plus 'sex' notches up 1,560 hits. Not much evidence of spontaneous association with sheepmeat, then ... Merpel agrees. Consumer surveys are great, but is this one being used for pulling the wool over our eyes?
A recent public awareness survey conducted by an independent consultancy, together with numerous accounts (newspaper articles, etc.) confirm that Sisteron lamb is very widely known among consumers (1 regional consumer in 8 spontaneously mentions Sisteron as the place from which lamb that has been purchased comes)".
HYPERION PAYS £££s
The IPKat is grateful to Graeme Fearon of Thring Townsend for pointing him in the direction of this story in the Guardian. Music company Hyperion has settled the costs following its dispute over copyright with Lionel Sawkins. Hyperion made use in one of its recordings of a edition of Lalonde's Music for the Sun King which Sawkins had edited into a form that could be played by modern performers. Sawkins sued Hyperion for copyright infringement. Both the High Court and the Court of Appeal found in Sawkins' favour, and came to the conclusion that Sawkins' editing of what was a pre-existing work amounted to an original musical work.
Now it appears that Hyperion will have to pay costs in the region of £950,000 (pretty much equivalent to a year's "music-making" budget). As well as its own costs and damages, this includes a hefty bill from Sawkins' solicitors, Carter-Ruck. Sawkins' costs were governed by an "uplift" agreement, by which, if he won, he would have to pay additional costs in order to subsidise the "no-win, no-fee" arrangement of other clients of the firm.
Various musical luminaries have condemned the costs bill, arguing that the future of a small music company should not rest on a misunderstanding on the company's part about the scope of copyright law.
The IPKat says that ignorance of the law is no defence. However, he does think it quite harsh that a losing party should be made to subsidise the costs of cases lost by other clients of the winner's solicitors, with whom the losing part has absolutely no connection.
The Old Man and the Suit
The IPKat received this piece from his friend Miri Frankel. It appears that the estate of the late Nobel Prize-winning novelist Ernest Hemingway has commenced legal proceedings against bar owner Jeff Schleuning, who named his Greensboro (North Carolina, USA) premises Hemingway Downtown. Schleuning says he named the six-month-old business after an English bulldog he had as a boy. Says a lawyer for the estate:
"Regardless of who the establishment was named after, it really would not matter. The question is whether there is consumer confusion over the source of the name".Schleuning responds:
"We're actually the kind of bar he would despise coming to. From what I know of him, he liked little dive-type bars".The bar in dispute, located near a cluster of dance clubs and bars, targets an older, upper-class clientele who pay a membership fee to sip specialty martinis and smoke cigars.
Hemingway's famous titles include The Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell to Arms
The IPKat wonders whether drinkers would associate the name Hemingway exclusively with Ernest and not with Mariel and Margaux, who both achieved a degree of celebrity in their own right.
Bad faith - in Dutch
The IPKat congratulates Alexander Tsoutsanis on the successful defence of his doctoral thesis, 'Bad Faith Trade Mark Applications' (in Dutch, 'Het merkdepot te kwader trouw') earlier this month. The thesis reviews the law relating to bad faith in trade mark filing in of all the EU member states.
Dr Tsoutsanis, currently a member of the Department of Company Law & Intellectual Property Law at the incredibly beautiful and historical University of Leiden, joins prestigious Dutch IP boutique Klos Morel Vos & Schaap in January.
A Dutch edition of the thesis has been speedily published by Kluwer, containing a 12-page English summary. More to the point, this thesis is likely to be published in English early in 2007. If you'd like to be kept informed when the English version is ready, can you email Alexander and let him know.
The IPKat is grateful to Florian Leverve of QMIPRI for tipping him off about this story. The International Herald Tribune reports that the French National Assembly sat late into last night discussing whether to legalise downloading for private use.
Oooh look - it's a French bill (left)
The Socialist Party attached amendments to the copyright bill that is currently going through the French Parliament that would allow unlimited downloads for private use by individuals once they have paid a one-off fee.
Members of the Socialist Party have said:
We are trying to bring the law up to date with reality..It is wrong to describeand
the eight million French people who have downloaded music from the Internet as
We are only leading in a direction that is inevitable for the law everywhere…YouSome have condemned the amendments though, pointing out that the moves would severely limit the revenue that artists could obtain from P2P activities. The French film industry is expected to suffer particularly, since it relies on pay-per-view television stations for much of its funding. If the films were legally downloadable from the internet, there would be no incentive to pay to view them.
will see other European nations adopting such laws in the future because they
just make sense.
The IPKat reckons that this proposal makes little sense conceptually unless there are moves to legalise uploading as well (not that he's recommending that this should be done). If downloading is legalised but uploading isn't, then France would be recognising a legitimate market for films to download, but then saying that it would be illegal for anyone to meet the needs of that market by uploading the films ready for downloading.
Thursday, 22 December 2005
Trademark World
The IPKat has just been thumbing through the December 2005/January 2006 issue of Informa's Trademark World . What has he found?
This issue is well supported by contributions from Rouse/Willoughby. Tony Willoughby himself writes on the need for brand owners to participate in consultations with the UK government over possible relaxations of Part 9 of the Enterprise Act 2002. Part 9 limits the circumstances in which public authorities such as Customs and Trading Standards offices can disclose information for civil litigants (eg IP owners) if it has been gathered for the purpose of criminal proceedings. Then Ranjan Narula (left) and Rachna Bakhru (right) of Rouse International's Dubai office review some of the sticky issues relating to likelihood of confusion between pharma trade marks.
One other feature that the IPKat particularly liked was a review by Wim Alberts (John & Kernick, Jo'berg) on sabotage marketing, a highly dubious cousin of the more legitimate, fun-loving ambush marketing, and on the means by which the law can stamp on it.
This little PGI went to market, this little PGI went to court ...
Yesterday was a big day for Melton Mowbray pies, following Northern Foods plc v Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [2005] EWHC 2971 (Admin), a Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court) decision of Mr Justice Crane.
The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) forwarded to the European Commission an application by the to register the words 'Melton Mowbray Pork Pie' as a protected geographical indication (PGI) under Council Regulation 2081/92 on the protection of geographical indications and designations of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs. Northern Foods, objecting to the narrow definition of the geographical area in the application's specification, sought judicial review of the decision to forward the application to the Commission.
Crane J dismissed the application for judicial review. In his view the words 'originating', 'originate' and 'origin' in the Regulation referred to where Melton Mowbray pork pies came from in the past, not to where they currently came from. Essentially, a foodstuff had to originate in a named geographical area and it also had to have a link with the geographical origin. If they were different concepts, one might then be geographically wider than the other.
The IPKat is most impressed at the ability of PGI and PDO law to turn back the clock and draw back into controlled usage a term such as "Melton Mowbray" that was very widely used with no apparent distress to the great pie-eating public. The same is happening with Feta. But who is speaking up for the consumers' interests?
This little piggy went to market ... here
Old Elizabethan Pig Pie here


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Thousands of people are scouring the Internet for birds as part of Audubon's Birding the Net social media campaign. If you've been following the conversation on Twitter, you've probably noticed the enthusiasm it's generated. But it's possible that few participants are more passionate than two kids from Louisiana's bayou country: The Hall sisters—Siarah, 11, and Savanah, 12—are avidly involved in the action.
Audubon learned about the girls when Siarah sent an email expressing her excitement. "I have now found 22 birds on Birding the Net and can't wait to go in real life," she wrote.
The innovative social media campaign has energized the sisters' interest in birds, according to their mother, and they're planning birding expeditions around their home in the small town of Many, Louisiana.
"The girls and our son, James, have taken after me and are true bird fanatics," said their mother, "We love, love, love birds of all feathers."
Birds represent a new chapter in the girls' lives which have, until recently, been "tumultuous," according to their mom. In and out of foster care for several years, they only recently saw their adoptions finalized.
Audubon's president, David Yarnold, was delighted to hear their story. "I think all of us at Audubon are humbled to hear that our work has touched the lives of people like Siarah and Savannah," he says. "We've long understood birds to be inspirational and an amazing way for people to come together. But when you see it happening first-hand, it's really moving," he said, adding, "We hope that Birding the Net is just the beginning of a long and amazing adventure in nature for Siara and Savannah."
The sisters' favorite bird is the brown pelican, which swoops across Birding the Net websites just as it glides over coastal waters near their home. After last year's devastating oil spill in the Gulf, Savanah, then 11, started painting a series of artwork involving two characters she created called Peli and Pelie. "They are a brother and sister Pelican team," said her mother, "She describes [them] as 'ambassadors' for all the flighted creatures of the world." Sounds like the sisters could one day fulfill similar roles.


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Donnita C. Anderson, 45, of the 1300 block of Sycamore Road in DeKalb, was arrested Monday, Dec. 24, on a failure-to-appear warrant for domestic battery.
DeKalb County
Sean T. Akins, 22, of the 100 block of Jackson Boulevard in Sycamore, was charged Monday, Dec. 24, with driving under the influence of alcohol, driving under the influence with a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit, and improper lane usage.
Sean Grimoldby, 40, of the 300 block of West Locust Street in DeKalb, was arrested Monday, Dec. 24, on a warrant for violation of parole.
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David J. Tellner, 18, of Montgomery, Ill., was charged Saturday, Dec. 22, with possession of marijuana.


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LEWISBURG, Pa. – Bucknell University today rolled out the new BU ID, a multipurpose identification card that may be used for a wide range of campus services, including library borrowing, bookstore purchases, dining, athletics events, and the campus box office, as well as for entry to residential and other campus buildings.
Students, faculty and staff received the new BU IDs this past week along with information on how they may be used, including as debit cards to pay for all campus dining services as well as for copiers and, soon for students, laundry. The card also serves as identification for the library, recreation facilities and events, and other Bucknell offices.
The BU ID also is used for entry to all residential buildings (except for housing at Bucknell West) and a few academic areas with protected equipment. An associated card reader system was installed this summer at the entrances of many campus buildings.
Using the BU ID, students will be able to enter their own residence hall at any time. Students, faculty and staff will be able to enter other buildings as needed during normal business hours.
BU ID replaces a Bucknell identification card that supported some campus services but not keyless entry.
For the new BU ID, the University has assigned each member of the campus community a unique number that is associated with the card. When the BU ID is presented at a card reader, the database matches the card to a user and confirms usage and entry privileges.
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For Release: March 7, 2007
DOE Launches Web Site for Spanish-Speaking Families
A Web site designed to provide Spanish-speaking families with greater access to information about New Jersey's education system and the various state resources that are available has been launched by the Department of Education, officials announced today.
The Web site, http://www.state.nj.us/njded/bilingual/parents/spanish/, contains information on scholarships, English as a second language classes for adults, resources for children with disabilities, the No Child Left Behind Act and educational rights. It also offers general resources for parents to help their children become better students.
"It is essential that we help all parents in New Jersey become engaged in their child's education," the Commissioner Lucille Davy said. "Our hope is that this Web site will increase the number of families who can take advantage of the wealth of information and resources that the Department makes available."
Commissioner Davy said the Hispanic student population increased by over 40,000 students from 2001 to 2006, with many of these students coming from Spanish-speaking homes.
"More than 13 percent of our state speaks Spanish at home," Commissioner Davy said. "As the second-largest language group and a significant portion of New Jersey's population, it is important that we provide access to information that will help these families support and participate in the education of our youth."
For more information, please contact the Department of Education Public Information Office at (609) 292-1126.


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High winds cause power outages, fan firesBy DAN SEUFERT and APRIL GUILMET
Union Leader Correspondents
April 24. 2014 9:15PM
A dose of winter-like weather blew into the Granite State on Thursday, causing power outages, fanning brush fires, and dropping 5 inches of snow on Mount Washington.
The National Weather Service issued a "special weather statement" for parts of the state, warning that an ocean low centered south of Nova Scotia would produce strong northwest winds of 20 to 30 mph, along with gusts up to 45 mph during the day. Wind gusted to 103 mph on Mount Washington.
A brush fire started by a fallen power line on Hazelton Avenue in Manchester was spread by high winds and caught a nearby house on fire, according to Manchester Police spokesman Lt. Maureen Tessier.
The blaze began after a tree fell onto a utility pole at Hazelton Avenue and Faith Lane about 1:30 p.m. The fire spread to the rear of the house at 2 Faith Lane, eventually engulfing the single-family home and igniting a small grilling propane tank at the rear of the home.
Officers evacuated some of the surrounding homes as Manchester firefighters got the brush fire and house fire under control.
The high winds caused problems throughout the state, especially with power lines.
"Our crews are very busy," Public Service of New Hampshire's Martin Murray said. "There are numerous scattered power outages throughout the state; we're experiencing fairly strong wind gusts."
The New Hampshire Electric Cooperative also had customers without power Thursday afternoon, mostly in the Meredith area.
"The wind has been very strong, particularly in Meredith, it's coming in off the lake," said the co-op's Clint Hutchins.
A fire in Meredith on Swain Road brought four Lakes Region fire departments to the scene.
"It was difficult because the winds were blowing hard," said Laconia Fire Dept. Lt. Lisa Baldelli, whose crews helped to stop the brush fire from spreading.
Brush fires were also reported in Durham, Plainfield, Andover and Peterborough.
Winds also fueled a fire that destroyed a shed and damaged a home at 33 Lover's Lane in Auburn just after 6 p.m., Fire Chief Bruce Phillips said.
"I think the wind may have played a part in it," he said.
He said the fire appears to have spread to the shed from an exterior wood-fired boiler. Phillips said the fire was under control in about 20 minutes.
Phillips said damage was estimated at $30,000; there were no injuries.
Stray cigarette, heavy winds lead to Londonderry shopping plaza fire
Heavy winds and a discarded cigarette led to a series of small fires in the parking lot of Londonderry's Market Basket store Thursday afternoon.
Londonderry Fire officials had already responded to over a dozen weather-related calls throughout the day when a local shopper called to report a bark mulch fire at the 34 Nashua Road plaza, Fire Lt. Donald Waldron said.
Fire crews arrived shortly before 3 p.m. and found that three of the parking lot's landscaped islands had caught fire.
Waldron said the three firefighters staffing the responding engine were able to deploy two hose lines and use a portable extinguisher to begin putting out the fires.
"However, due to the heavy wind gusts blowing embers across the parking lot, a total of nine parking lot islands quickly caught fire," Waldron said, noting that an additional engine company and incident commander was then summoned to the scene.
The fires were declared under control at 3:17 p.m., with crews remaining on the scene until almost 4 p.m.
Fire Chief Darren O'Brien urged citizens to be cautious in their disposal of smoking materials, noting that cigarettes shouldn't be discarded anywhere "other than approved ashtrays and receptacles."
Earlier on Thursday, Londonderry fire crews had responded to a fallen tree incident at Devonshire Lane. Officials said the tree was uprooted by wind shortly after 11 a.m. and damaged the roof of a single-family home, though no one was injured.
Cold temperatures
Granite Staters who are sick of the winter-like weather have good reason to grumble. According to the National Weather Service, March was the fourth-coldest month on record for the state. So far, April's temperatures are about average, said the weather service's Chris Kimball.
Friday will bring temperatures in the 60s.
"But it will be cold again on Saturday," Kimball said, adding that temperatures will likely barely rise above 50 degrees in the coming week.
"It's normal to have periods of cold weather this month; the warm air to the south and the colder air from the northwest are battling," Kimball said.
Union Leader Staff Writer Pat Grossmith contributed to this report.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Around 150 new Illinois laws take effect on Jan. 1, ranging from bans on the possession of shark fins to prohibitions on employers asking job applicants for their social-media passwords.
Another new law increases the fees on Illinois license plates to help fund overdue state-park repairs. Basic license-plate fees will increase $2, to $101 annually. That should raise as much as $20 million for state parks.
Shark fins are used to make a pricey soup. They aren't harvested in landlocked Illinois, but Chicago has a thriving market. Environmentalists say harvesting the fins is inhumane and threatens the world's shark population.
Among other new laws is one that lets authorities use wiretaps during a felony drug investigation if approved by a state's attorney instead of a judge.
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Drama forms a valuable part of community life at Marlborough. Performers work with outstanding teachers to hone their skills, rehearse pieces and, ultimately, to face the challenge of performance. Drama is both exuberant and rigorous; standards are high and much is expected of those who undertake this testing but fulfilling process.
The Drama Department works under the direction of the Head of Drama. The department comprises two full time teachers as well as a full-time technical team; production manager, lighting designer and costume designer. The graduate director-in-residence program allows the students to work with young professionals at the cutting edge of theatre practice.


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Ex-pat IT pros have oversized packages
Japan and India pay more, but your wage may go further in developing nations
Ex-pat IT bosses working in Asia receive a gross pay package of more than $230,000 (£144,566) a year on average, but those fancying relocation may be better off financially if they head to less well-known parts of the region, according to new research from ECA International.
The consultancy, which helps firms manage international assignees, has released its latest MyExpatriate Market Pay Survey, revealing that Japan is home to Asia's largest ex-pat packages with an average of $374,000 (£235,000).
Second came India with an average just shy of $300,000 (£188,569) followed by Korea and Hong Kong who both hit around the regional average.
However, headline pay rates can be deceiving, as ex-pat compensation packages typically combine take-home pay, benefits and sometimes extra adjustments for tax, according to ECA's regional director for Asia, Lee Quane.
In Hong Kong, for example, a healthy package of around $230,000 may actually be eaten up by international school fees, accommodation and other costs to the point where the amount given to an employee in benefits outweighs their take-home pay.
Similarly, Japanese cities have some of the highest costs of living anywhere in the world.
Ex-pat IT professionals might instead find better financial incentives are offered to them in developing markets, Quane told The Reg.
"To a certain extent it's about whether packages include allowances designed to incentivise you to go to a location. Hong Kong and Singapore don't because they don't feel they need to incentivise you," he said.
"But places like India, Korea, Vietnam and Thailand include some kind of hardship allowance – a pure financial incentive which makes sure that person is better off."
India, for example, has seen salary hikes of around 18 per cent over the past year, closely followed by Indonesia and Vietnam, ECA said.
Salaries aside, those locations may also offer more opportunities because local companies cannot rely on a well-trained local IT workforce to fill those senior roles, said Quane.
In any case, the fat cat packages of old are on their way out, with "home based" deals – where the individual is compensated so they are earning the same amount where they end up as they would have at home – generally rare these days.
More commonly ex-pats will be paid according to local market rates, with the potential of those added incentives in 'developing' locations.
"Just because you have a really high pay package in Japan doesn't mean you're better off," Quane argued.
"It's what you can buy with your salary that matters. You might not be much better off than someone in Cambodia." ®
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2002 Track and Field
FAMU Relays
Bluffton finishes spring break at FAMU RelaysBy Derek Stanley and Tim Stried
March 9, 2002
After a long week of hard practice and even a little fun in the sun the Bluffton College track and field squad finished up their spring trip with a competition at Florida A&M University. The weather was beautiful on Friday and Saturday with sunny skies and temperatures in the mid-80's.
"It was a pretty long week of training and traveling and I think it took its toll on the athletes in this meet," said Coach Derek Stanley. "You could tell they were running tired."
Notable performances on the men's side came from Kevin Ross who PR'd again in the shot put, throwing 42-6, as well as the discus, throwing 125-0. Ben Osterland ran a 55.68 in the 400-meter dash and Fred Yoder put it together in the pole vault and cleared 12-5, good for eighth place.
On the women's side, Amanda Habegger continued her improvement in the 400-meter dash, running a season PR of 64.43, as well as running less than a second off the school record in the 400m hurdles (71.20). Rachael Szydlowski PR'd in the 1500 meter run finishing in 5:43.80. Finally, Rachel Noirot continued her record breaking performances in the pole vault finishing seventh with a vault of 7-5.


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Sangster's swan song will be at Aldrich
"Don't forget the certificates," says Paula Lavigne.
William Sangster looks to where his secretary points. Two framed documents, mileposts in his 42-year career in education, are on the wall beside a practically empty set of shelves. He removes them and lays them down on his desk; its polished surface reflecting the florescent lights of his office. Like the rest of the office, it has been stripped bare.
Sangster, who for the past three years has served as assistant to Superintendent Peter Horoschak, is packing up. But he isn't leaving Warwick schools just yet.
Sangster, 64, wants to put in one more year before retirement. And for his swan song, he is going back to where he started in Warwick schools seven years ago – Aldrich Junior High School. And he is going back to his former job as principal.
Sangster's move all comes about as a rotation of administrative positions.
Dennis Mullen, who left as principal of Pilgrim to head the Warwick team assessing the state's new teacher evaluation system, is moving into the assistant superintendent slot. Sangster was on his way out until he learned Aldrich Principal John Livsey wanted to pick up where Mullen had left off. It's a one-year assignment and then Livsey would presumably return to Aldrich.
Sangster wanted to go back to Aldrich. He applied for the post and by a 3-2 vote; the School Committee gave him the job.
"It would really put a star on the top of my career," said Sangster.
Sangster, who came to Warwick from Ashland, Mass., where he was principal of the junior-senior high school, finds it difficult to leave Warwick schools.
"There's plenty of room for everybody. It's easy to be accepted and you never feel like you're locked in," he says of the system.
"There's always movement," he adds, "if you just wait, you'll get your chance."
Sangster really wasn't looking for the assistant superintendent job.
An avid golfer, Sangster was about to tee-off on the Myrtle Beach course three summers ago when he got the call from Horoschak.
"When you're asked, you usually don't say no," Sangster said.
He moved into the job uncertain of what to expect and, as he confesses, feeling like the "estranged husband."
His first day was among his worst as an educator. It was when Pilgrim students Bella DiPalma and Elanna Zuller were killed in an automobile accident.
"There isn't any worse day in this business than losing a child. We all felt it," he said.
It's hardly a surprise that Sangster accommodated Horoschak's request. He's a former Marine who served two tours in Vietnam and is used to following orders of his superiors.
Sangster's parents worked in the factories of Leominster and Fitchburg. He was an average student who had hopes of going to college but no means to do so. He joined the Marine Corps in 1966. When he was discharged, his wife encouraged him to pursue his dream and he discovered, as a Vietnam veteran, he was entitled to a semester of college. He said vets were given a free semester "to prove themselves" and if they didn't, they were dropped from the program.
Sangster attended UMass Amherst and upon graduation started a teaching job on the Cape at the Sandwich school system. He remained there for 23 years before going to Ashland.
Sangster has liked his top administrative job. It has given him the opportunity to see the complete district and to solve problems that haven't been resolved at the building level. That hasn't always been easy and his approach has been to get the parties to look at his perspective, although they may not necessarily agree with him
"I say to parents, respect my decision," he said.
Further, he adds, his aim is to let parents know he "is the solution to the problem, not the problem."
Sangster is excited for Mullen and says he's the right person to fill the assistant superintendent's position. He points to distinctions awarded Mullen, the most recent being selected as the state's top high school principal.
"He knows everything about secondary education. He's on top of his game," said Sangster.
And Sangster is excited about getting back to Aldrich where he looks forward to being a building administrator and working with teachers and getting to know students and their parents.
"I'm still following my dreams and now I get the chance to wake up in one," he said.
And as for being among the senior principals in the system, an observation some might make, Sangster questions if you were in stormy weather and you were waiting to take off, "Wouldn't you like to see a captain with gray hair?"


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Rio Grande to host Art Lanham Day
January 24, 2013
RIO GRANDE, Ohio – The name Art Lanham has been synonymous with Rio Grande athletics for more than 50 years.
The 80-year-old former multi-sport coach, athletic director and Athletic Hall of Fame member will be honored Saturday, Jan. 26 with Art Lanham Day as the University of Rio Grande / Rio Grande Community College hosts a basketball doubleheader against Georgetown College.
"He's a great man, and he was a father figure and a coach to all of us," said Mike Burcham, a 1965 Rio graduate and member of the baseball team. "I've been a coach for 47 years and I've continued a lot of the things he did, because he made kids want to play and he treated them right. I love him dearly, and I'm tickled to death that they're doing this for him."
Burcham retired this year after 47 years with Ironton High School, where he served as athletic director, head baseball coach and assistant football coach. The 69-year-old, however, will miss Art Lanham Day as he will be among the inaugural class of Ironton High School Athletic Hall of Fame inductees at a ceremony also on Saturday.
Festivities are scheduled to begin at noon with a wine & cheese social, sponsored by the Fraternal Order of Archon Alumni Association, in the Ron Glover Booster Room at the Paul R. Lyne Center. The women's basketball game against the 13th-ranked Tigers tips at 2 p.m. Lanham, or "Coach Man" as he was known during his 21-year tenure as the men's coach and athletic director (1960-80), will be honored shortly before the tip of he men's game schedule for a 4 p.m. start.
Art Lanham Day concludes with a 6:30 p.m. dinner in the Rhodes Student Center food court. Dinner tickets are $15 and can be purchased through the athletic department at 740-245-7293 or 740-245-7485.
"He touched the lives of so many people during his time here," said Jeff Lanham, Art's son and current Rio Grande athletic director. "It's an opportunity for him to come back and reminisce with those people. Dad played an integral role in the development of the athletic programs and facilities here at the University of Rio Grande."
Along with coaching men's basketball, Lanham also served as coach of the baseball, golf and track & field teams. Whether serving as a coach or athletic director, Lanham also helped usher in the women's basketball, softball, golf, swimming and track & field programs. Golf and swimming no longer exist. He also oversaw construction in 1969 of the Lyne Center, which now houses two gymnasiums, an indoor pool, a fitness center, racquetball courts, classrooms and the Rio Grande Athletic Department. Rio's original track and baseball facilities also were built under his watch.
For more information about the University of Rio Grande / Rio Grande Community College visit Rio.edu or call 800-282-7201.
The University of Rio Grande / Rio Grande Community College is the only combined private university and public community college in the country. Serving more than 2,400 students annually, dreams become reality while nestled into the beautiful rolling hills of Southeastern Ohio.
For media inquires please contact Eric McKinney, Director of Marketing & Communications, at firstname.lastname@example.com or 740-245-7225.