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Increasingly more San Joaquin Valley raisin growers are converting to dried-on-the-vine production to reduce labor costs. The new arbor or gable systems may also helping reduce late season water use.
Larry Williams, University of California, Davis viticulture professor, who specializes in grapevine physiology and vineyard irrigation, compared water use for grapevines on overhead trellis systems for dried-on-the-vine raisins to standard trellis systems for tray-dried Thompson Seedless grapes. He is using the information to develop seasonal crop coefficient values for DOV raisins grown on overhead trellis systems to help growers better schedule irrigations.
Seasonal vine water use can be determined by multiplying evapotranspiration rates from CIMIS data by a crop coefficient for raisin and wine grapes in the San Joaquin Valley. The crop coefficients were developed in past research based on traditional single-wire or crossarm trellises used in the San Joaquin Valley, and assume vines are not stressed for water.
Several factors can impact crop coefficients, including canopy size, seasonal growth, and spacing between rows. Overhead trellis systems generally develop larger canopies intercepting more solar radiation and higher vine water use compared to standard trellis systems.
Williams' most recent research at the UC Kearney Agricultural Center in Parlier during 2006 and 2007 has shown that water use declines significantly once DOV fruiting canes are cut.
Williams said this could potentially save on water and pumping costs during a period of typically high demand for grapes.
Using a weighing lysimeter to measure plant transpiration and soil evaporation, Williams determined that water use of DOV vines fell from 12 gallons of water per day at veraison to about 5.3 gallons of water per day after canes were severed.
"In July or August at mid-day, vines are using in excess of 2 gallons of water per hour, so it's like water being sucked through the vines and into the atmosphere — it's quite a lot of water," he said. "As we expected, severing canes reduces water use quite dramatically since a grower is reducing the transpiration surface of the vine, so water use is cut in half."
As a result of these findings, Williams believes that growers with overhead type systems can calculate water use of DOV vines using a crop coefficient of about 1.3 prior to cane cutting and a crop coefficient of about 0.6 after cutting the fruiting canes.
"You can deficit irrigate your vines and still maximize yields, especially if you deficit irrigate after veraison. So, if you want to reduce pumping costs do you need to apply full ET throughout the growing season to maximize yield on this trellis system? The answer is, probably not," he said.


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Older News » Tax time tipsLast updated 10:55 AM on 15 September 2011
Tax time is here again – time to get some tips and tools for managing your finances.
As any financial counsellor will tell you, managing money is easy - it simply means not spending more than you earn. The problem is that very few of us actually ever do this. With a little bit of knowledge from the experts, a commitment to a budget and making the most of loose change, you'd be amazed at what a difference a few simple adjustments can make.
The main thing is to try to avoid the common mistakes families make. According to Delia Rickard, ACT Regional Commissioner from the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC), the common mistakes families make are not budgeting, not having enough insurance and not talking about money with their children.
With these in mind, you can find the hints and tips you need to make a fresh start for the new financial year in Beating the Budget Blues in the School Parents ezine. You can also have your say, by posting a comment.

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Bred in the Ukraine, born in Krakow and raised in Ontario, Daria Werbowy is the girl with the golden measurements (standing 5'11" at 34-24-34) and the unforgettable face. She rocketed to fame with Prada's 2003 campaign, going on to land every blue chip campaign available: Dior, YSL, Chanel, Versace, Missoni,etc. If Natalia Vodianova is this generation's Christy Turlington, then Daria is Linda Evangelista: familiar but exotic, unconventional, striking, almost fascinatingly beautiful, with a face you could look at for hours.


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Cajun Running Back Montrel Carter Injury Update
An MRI on Montrel Carter's knee confirms the worst.
In a recent interview with the Advertiser, Louisiana Head Coach Mark Hudspeth revealed the redshirt freshman tore two ligaments in his left knee during the game against Lamar on Saturday. The running back will be out for the rest of the season.
Hudspeth said the surgery will likely be done next week.
Carter has three years of eligibility remaining, and can apply for a medical waiver to get an additional fourth year from the NCAA.
The Cajuns still have quality running backs on the depth chart in Alonzo Harris and Effrem Reed.
When asked if this is going to affect the Cajun's season, ESPN 1420's Steve Peloquin said,
I think it's going to affect the Cajuns depth wise, but Harris and Reed are going to pick up the slack... I'm not worried about the season."


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Miley Cyrus' engagement ring cost an estimated $250,000, according to a new report.
The singer/actress announced on Wednesday her boyfriend Liam Hemsworth had proposed on 31 May after a three-year romance.
She was later snapped out and about in Beverly Hills, California sporting a diamond-and-gold ring on the third finger of her left hand, and an expert values the jewelry at a quarter of a million dollars.
Kenneth Lejman, a senior appraiser at the Gemological Appraisal Laboratory in the Big Apple, tells the New York Daily News, "Assuming it's reasonably high quality, I would estimate it at $250,000."
Jeweller Neil Lane, who designed the 3.5-carat piece for Australian actor Hemsworth, adds, "He wanted something really romantic and beautiful… It's all handmade with a 19th century cushion-cut diamond."
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Miley Cyrus' engagement ring cost an estimated $250,000, according to a new report.


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Pasadena/Cologne/Berlin – Today, at 18:44 CET, the US/European space probe Cassini will come closer than we have ever been to Saturn's largest moon Titan. The NASA/ESA spacecraft will fly over Titan's dense, cloudy atmosphere at a speed of over 6 kilometres per second and at a height of just 1200 kilometres to perform a wide range of scientific experiments. Scientists are particularly interested in the pictures that will be taken by the spectrometer for visible light and near infrared (the Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer or VIMS). This instrument is able to see through Titan's atmosphere, so dense it is impenetrable to the human eye, and give us a glimpse of the moon's mysterious surface. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is directly involved in evaluating the data from the spectrometer. "With a resolution of 20 – 30km per pixel, the mapping spectrometer can identify very specific chemical elements and molecules. I think we're on the right track to unlocking a few of Titan's secrets," says Dr. Ralf Jaumann from the DLR's Institute for Planetary Research in Berlin-Adlershof. "We're about to enter one of the most exciting phases of the Cassini mission!"
Saturn's moon Titan: almost as complex as a planet
Within the Saturn system, the Saturnian moon Titan is an extremely complex world in its own right and many of its characteristics make it seem almost like a small planet of the inner solar system. With a diameter of 5150 kilometres, it is larger than the planet Mercury and the second largest satellite in the Solar System after Jupiter's moon Ganymede. Titan circles Saturn at a distance of more than one million kilometres and is mantled by dense clouds of nitrogen and hydrocarbons (such as methane and ethane) as well as traces of water and ammonia. Because the temperatures around Saturn, 1400 million kilometres away from the Sun, are extremely low, chemical reactions happen much more slowly and the movement of the relatively volatile, gaseous molecules is also much slower. This means that Titan does not lose its atmosphere immediately to space, as happened with Mercury, for example. On the surface of Titan temperatures reach as low as -180º Celsius, while in the stratosphere (above a height of 60 kilometres) it is 20º to 40º warmer
Surface of Titan: solid or liquid? Landing of European Huygens probe on 14 January 2005 to uncover some secrets
But one of the most exciting questions in planetary research has to do with the characteristics of Titan's surface. Since the two American Voyager probes made brief fly-bys of Saturn and Titan in 1980 and 1981, it has not been clear whether Titan's dense atmosphere and the 200km-thick methane smog above it conceal beneath them a solid surface or flat oceans of ethane and methane. After its arrival in the Saturn system on 1 July 2004, Cassini passed by Titan just a few days later at a distance of 338 000 kilometres and transmitted the first important data back to Earth. Dr. Jaumann, a member of the Cassini spectrometer team, explains: "At 150 kilometres per pixel, the resolution of the spectrometer data wasn't enough to identify any details on the surface, but it was sufficient to enable us to pick out large structures."
A circle-shaped structure spotted near the equator (330º west, 11º south) with a diameter of around 1500 kilometres is believed to be an impact crater created as the result of a violent collision between Titan and another object. Researchers have already named it 'Xanadu'. A number of wide structures, several hundred kilometres in length, and large connected areas can also be seen. Reflection from the surface in an infrared wavelength of 2.0 microns (thousandths of a millimetre) shows that the darker regions contain a lot of ice, while the brighter areas contain less ice and thus other materials (hydrocarbons, with perhaps even rock-forming silicates). In the south pole region, the surface is covered by a bright cloud of methane. This cloud changed in shape over time and was moving at a speed of about 170km/s. After a few hours, it dissipated.
The observations of the American Voyager probes in the early 1980s gave scientists much to puzzle over – but also gave rise to some extremely interesting ideas. The chemical components found on Titan and the theoretical possibility that there could be warmer liquid layers beneath its surface make this body an extraordinary kind of laboratory. At this distance from Earth we can study processes as they may have happened in the first few hundred million years in the inner solar system, right up to point where life appeared, having perhaps formed in a 'primeval soup' like this one. The further examination of these fundamental questions is the key task of the European Space Agency's Huygens landing probe, which is due to separate from Cassini on 25 December and descend through the clouds of Titan before touching down on the moon's surface on 14 January 2005.
The mapping spectrometer VIMS (Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer) on board Cassini can map a surface in 352 'colours' simultaneously in wavelengths of between 0.3 microns (blue) and 5.1 microns (medium infrared). All materials reflect light in a unique way. This means that we can identify molecules and compounds by the characteristic way in which they reflect or absorb 'discrete' colours of specific wavelengths. This is how the VIMS team will be identifying the composition of the atmosphere and surface of Titan after the fly-by. The VIMS team is made up of scientists from the USA, Germany, France and Italy and the VIMS centre is located at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.


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- Traditional Animation
- Tôei Company Ltd., Hiromi Productions
- Animation Studio: Tôei Animation
- Distributed by: National Education Television
- Cartoon Characters: Megu Kanzaki, Non, Mr. Kanzaki, Mami, Chou-san, Rabi, Apo, Mr. Omatsu, Saturn, Furu Furu, Emi-chan, Roko.
- Voice Actors: Rihoko Yoshida, Noriko Tsukase, Hiroshi Ôtake, Nana Yamaguchi, Sanji Hase, Keiko Yamamoto, Sachiko Chijimatsu; Full Voice Cast ...
- Directed By Yugo Serikawa, Minoru Okazaki, Hiroshi Shidara, Teruo Kigure, Satoshi Dezaki; more Directors ...
- Animated By Shingo Araki, Shinya Takahashi, Minoru Maeda.
- Written By Hiroyasu Yamaura, Shunichi Yukimuro, Masaki Tsuji, Tomohiro Ando, Fumihito Imamura, Kiyoshi Matsuoka.
- Music: Takeo Watanabe.
- First Aired on May 27, 1974.
- Originally Aired on NET, TF1 (France), RAI2, Polonia1.
- Running Time: 25 minutes.
- Episode Number: 09
- Season: 1
- Color
- Japan
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The Securities and Exchange Commission's revolving door is spinning as feverishly as ever.
Lawyers who leave the SEC for private law firms often immediately begin lobbying on behalf of their new corporate clients, frequently trying to weaken agency regulations or proposed reforms, according to a new report.
The issue of top officials leaving the agency has been a concern for years in public-advocacy circles. It is common for young lawyers to put in a few years at the SEC or other government agencies before leaving for far more lucrative jobs in private industry or with high-powered law firms.
Among the concerns: that erstwhile SEC staffers will use their personal connections or up-to-date knowledge of agency initiatives to gain unfair advantage for clients. Also, there are worries that current staffers may go easily on SEC-targeted companies in hopes of currying favor for future employment.
QUIZ: How much do you know about the stock market?
The swinging door from the SEC to private firms – and sometimes from the firms to the SEC – has gotten greater attention recently with President Obama's nomination of Mary Jo White to become the new chief of the SEC. White is a partner at Debevoise & Plimpton, representing some of Wall Street's most powerful financial institutions.
From from 2001 through 2010, the report from the Project on Government Oversight found that 419 former SEC staffers filed 1,419 disclosure statements indicating plans to lobby the agency on behalf of their companies or clients.
In one case, a top enforcement-division official who left the agency's San Francisco office in May 2010 filed paperwork less than two weeks later to represent the bank in investigations conducted by her former office, according to the report.
Several former SEC lawyers were involved in Wall Street's full-court press last year to derail proposed reforms to money-market mutual funds proposed by now-departed chief Mary Schapiro. That effort failed when Schapiro could not garner enough support from her fellow commissioners.
"The revolving door between the SEC and the firms it oversees is so pervasive that it threatens the integrity of our regulatory system," said Michael Smallberg, author of the POGO report. "The relentless flow of SEC officials to and from industry can enable powerhouse firms to shape the SEC's culture and sway policies."
Dow Jones industrials close above 14,000
IRS delays issuing tax refunds; fiscal cliff to blame?
SEC wins a partial victory in its case against a money-market fund
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has commissioned an industry study on the agency's estimate of U.S. stockpiles of corn to address widespread concerns about the accuracy of the bellwether quarterly report, USDA chief economist Joseph Glauber said on Thursday.
"The presumption from a lot of people is the survey is wrong," Glauber told Reuters on the sidelines of a grain industry meeting in Chicago. "I have a project ongoing right now looking at that issue. I contracted out some work."
The study focuses on why trade expectations have diverged so much from USDA's reported data, Glauber said. But he would not give details about the USDA-commissioned industry survey or when results would be available.
Glauber acknowledged that grain industry complaints of an inaccurate count for the largest U.S. crop had persisted for the last couple of years. But he expressed confidence that USDA was doing its best to track stockpiles in a rapidly changing corn marketplace, where ever more grain is being held "off-farm" and less subject to the department's farmer surveys.
Disconnects between trade expectations and USDA stock estimates have occurred off and on historically but the frequency has increased in recent years, analysts say. Since March 2010, 12 of the past 14 quarterly corn stocks figures have been well out of sync with private estimates, generating huge price swings in Chicago Board of Trade corn futures markets.
"When NASS does its survey they essentially do a census of all the commercial operations," Glauber said, referring to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service which does the count.
"So you would think with more grain being held off-farm, those numbers should be even better. Whereas on the farm they do it by survey, so there are some inherent sampling errors. But there's been a lot of theories why those expectations vary," Glauber said. "I don't know that there will be an answer."
"What I've been looking at is trade expectations relative to the reports," said Glauber, adding there have been "surprises" between expectations and the actual numbers.
"There's no question that a lot has changed in the corn market over the last 5-6 years. Ethanol is now a major factor. Trying to estimate feed use is difficult. We know corn for feed has declined, while distiller's dried grain have come in. That's one issue," he said.
Ethanol, which now consumes up to 40 percent of the U.S. corn crop, produces a byproduct called distiller's dried grain (DDG) which in itself has become a massive new source of livestock feed for home and export markets.
"With the corn stocks, increasingly a larger portion is being held off farm - some for ethanol production," Glauber said. "These are trends. To explain the discrepancies, I haven't found a smoking gun yet."
Glauber said USDA is looking at every "theory" it could about why traders were questioning USDA's corn stocks.
"For example, we are seeing a lot more corn being grown in areas where it wasn't grown before. Years like last year, there's more corn coming on early - more corn planted in the South," Glauber said. "As a consequence, there are thoughts that some of the new crop could be fed in the fourth quarter, which would explain the discrepancies. However, that should balance out when you get to first quarter stocks for the next year. We have seen a little of that."
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Welcome to edition No. 30 of my blog on HoustonDynamo.com.
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Amazingly, the season is upon us. The first MLS match is tonight when Seattle hosts Los Angeles (8:30 p.m., ESPN).
The countdown is on for our match against Philly this Saturday at Robertson Stadium (7:30 p.m., Buy Tickets). Needless to say, we are very excited and go into the match and season with a lot of hope and anticipation.
The preseason was a success. The team worked hard, presented a great attitude, stayed mostly healthy, and produced good results. We played 12 matches and had a record of 8-1-3. The results are nice, but the most important thing is how we played and what we learned from the matches. Overall, I think it is fair to say that the team gelled nicely and is ready.
I am very excited to watch the team's development. In particular, I am looking forward to seeing …
- Tally Hall taking the reins in goal.
- Kofi Sarkodie and Will Bruin's contributions and growth.
- Colin Clark's return to action and Dynamo debut.
- The revamped defense, led by newcomers Jermaine Taylor and Hunter Freeman.
- Geoff Cameron leading the central midfield attack.
- Brad Davis performing at the top of his game.
It is a very busy week, so I'm going to quickly run through some items.
All Dynamo games are on TV in 2011. There will be eight games nationally televised on ESPN2, Fox Soccer Channel, TeleFutura, or Galavision. Locally telecast games can be seen in English on KHOU 11.2 and FOX Sports Houston or FOX Sports Houston Plus. KHOU will air 26 games and is primarily available on Comcast. FSH and FSH Plus will simulcast 16 games and are primarily on Comcast, DirectTV, Dish Network, and AT&T Uverse.
We will announce a new Spanish TV partner this week, and it will be good news. The schedule of games on TV can be seen here on our schedule page, and monthly schedules of all programming can be found here.
The first meeting of the Dynamo Fan Advisory Board is tonight. I'd like to thank the board members for their participation and look forward to working with them on improving the fan experience.
We are playing Sporting Kansas City in a U.S. Open Cup game on Wednesday, April 6, at Texas A&M (Buy Tickets). In 2007, we played a CONCACAF match there and drew a big crowd. We hope to duplicate results this time around. Moving the game provides us a chance to extend our brand and helps avoid a cluttered soccer schedule.
There are many great Countdown to Kickoff events happening all week. For a schedule, click here.
We have made some changes to our camps, now known as the Dynamo Pre-Academy. Information and camp dates are now available by clicking here.
Stadium construction continues … the roads have been removed, and underground work has begun. The first key step is relocating an underground sewer line that currently runs down the middle of the stadium.
I hope you share the excitement over the new season and are ready to support our team as we look to return to form in 2011.
See you at the final opening day at Robertson Stadium this weekend!
As always, feel free to email me with questions or comments at email@example.com.


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Bimota has pulled a fast one on us all with their unveiling of the new Bimota DB8 sportbike. Instead of releasing what was expected to be a naked version of the DB7, the Italian brand has instead taken the DB8 in a new direction.
With a biposto (two-seat) configuration, and cheaper price tag, Bimota hopes the DB8 will serve as the brand's entry level motorcycle instead of the Ducati Streetfighter killer we thought it would be. Pictures, technical specs, and more after the jump.


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effing the ineffable since 1977
Book 7 prediction!
Book 7 prediction!
Harry Potter
Okay, I'm blogging this one more with a view to pointing back to it after book 7 is finally released and saying "look, I had it 3 days after
was released!"
Click through for the prediction. MAJOR SPOILERS for HBP inside.
We know that Voldemort was looking for items belonging to Ravenclaw and Gryffindor to complete his Horcrux collection.
We know that Dumbledore believes that "the only known relic" of Gryffindor's - presumably the sword - is safely in his office. Note that he uses the singular here.
We know that Voldemort showed up at Hogwarts - in Dumbledore's office no less - to request a job that he knew Dumbledore was not going to give him. Dumbledore called him on this, but he gave no true reason. We also know that his hand flicked to his wand in Dumbledore's office.
But - and here's the crucial part - we know that Dumbledore is
that there's only one relic of Gryffindor's remaining in existence. Remember the Sorting Hat's song from
"Twas Gryffindor that saw the way,
He whipped me off his head:
The founders put some brains in me
So I could choose instead."
So here's the prediction:
While Dumbledore may have forgotten that the Hat is a Gryffindor relic, I'm sure Voldemort didn't. I'm not sure how exactly he managed to kill somebody (necessary to make a Horcrux) with his hand and wand in his pocket in Dumbledore's office, but I'm absolutely convinced that that's what he did.
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Helix Biopharma Announces First Patient Enrolled and First Dose Administered in Polish Phase I/II Clinical Study of Its Lung Cancer Drug Candidate L-DOS47
Published: Oct 24, 2012
AURORA, ON--(Marketwire - October 23, 2012) - Helix BioPharma Corp. (TSX: HBP) (FRANKFURT: HBP) ("HBP"), a biopharmaceutical company developing drug candidates for the prevention and treatment of cancer, today announced that the first patient has been enrolled and first dose administered in its ongoing Phase I/II clinical safety, tolerability and preliminary efficacy study of L-DOS47 in Poland.
"We are very pleased that patient enrolment and treatment has commenced in this important clinical study for Helix," said Robert Verhagen, Chief Executive Officer of Helix BioPharma Corp. "I am hopeful for steady patient enrolment in the months that lie ahead and I look forward to the outcome of this trial, with a view to demonstrating the potential benefits to patients for our L-DOS47 drug candidate and our DOS47 platform in general."
L-DOS47 is Helix's first immunoconjugate-based drug candidate in development based upon the Company's novel DOS47 platform technology, which is designed to use an innovative approach to modify the microenvironmental conditions of cancer cells in a manner that leads to their destruction. L-DOS47 is currently being clinically evaluated as a treatment for certain patients with non-small cell lung cancer ("NSCLC").
About the Clinical Study
The Phase I/II clinical study is an open-label study to evaluate the safety, tolerability and preliminary efficacy of ascending doses of L-DOS47, initially as a monotherapy, in patients with inoperable, locally advanced, recurrent or metastatic, non-squamous, stage III/IV NSCLC. The study has commenced with a starting dose of 0.12 micrograms of L-DOS47 per kilogram of patient body weight.
Patients enrolled in the study will receive two weekly doses of L-DOS47, administered as an intravenous infusion, over 14 days, followed by 7 days' rest (one treatment cycle is 3 weeks). Therefore, the first enrolled patient described herein has, thus far, only received the first dosing administration of this planned sequence.
For each patient enrolled in the study, treatment with L-DOS47 will continue until the patient experiences disease progression or unacceptable toxicity, the patient withdraws consent, or the patient has completed four treatment cycles and does not wish to continue with additional cycles, whichever occurs first. After four treatment cycles, at the discretion of the treating investigator and in consultation with the medical monitor, patients who experience clinical benefit may be eligible to continue L-DOS47 for as long as the treatment is well tolerated and the clinical benefit is sustained.
The Company currently anticipates that the study will enroll an estimated 48 to 68 patients receiving L-DOS47 as a monotherapy. Study patients will be male or female, at least 18 years of age, with histologically confirmed NSCLC. Patients will have an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of 0 - 2 at the screening visit for this study, and will have at least one site of measurable disease per RECIST version 1.1. Efficacy evaluation of L-DOS47 will be based upon response rate using the RECIST version 1.1 criteria, disease progression and survival. Monitoring will include radiologic evaluations every second treatment cycle.
The study is being conducted at four Polish centers under the direction of Prof. Maciej Krzakowski, MD, PhD at The Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Centre & Institute of Oncology as the overall coordinating investigator, together with three other principal investigators: Prof. Cezary Szczylik, MD, PhD at the Military Medical Institute, Prof. Elzbieta Wiatr, MD, PhD at the National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute and Dr. Aleksandra Szczensa, MD, PhD at the Mazovian Center of Pulmonary Diseases and Tuberculosis in Otwock.
About Helix BioPharma Corp.
Helix BioPharma Corp. is a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the field of cancer therapy. The company is actively developing innovative products for the prevention and treatment of cancer based on its proprietary technologies. Helix's product development initiatives include its novel L-DOS47 new drug candidate and its Topical Interferon Alpha-2b. Helix is currently listed on the TSX and FSE under the symbol "HBP".
Forward-Looking Statements and Risks and Uncertainties
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements and information (collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws. Forward-looking statements, which may be identified by words including, without limitation, "will", "may", "anticipates", "estimate", and other similar expressions, are intended to provide information about management's current plans and expectations regarding the conduct of the clinical study.
Although Helix believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, such statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated and no assurance can be given that these expectations will be realized, and undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. Risk factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements include, without limitation, (i) the inherent uncertainty involved in scientific research and drug development; (ii) the risks associated with delay or inability to complete clinical trials successfully and the long lead-times and high costs associated with obtaining regulatory approval to market any product which may result from successful completion of such trials; (iii) need to secure additional financing on terms satisfactory to Helix or at all; (iv) clinical trials that yield negative results, or results that do not justify future clinical development; and (v) those risks and uncertainties affecting the company as more fully described in Helix's most recent Annual Report, including under the headings "Forward-Looking Statements" and "Risk Factors", filed with the Canadian Securities Administrators at www.sedar.com (together, the "Helix Risk Factors"). Certain material factors or assumptions are applied in making the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, that the Helix Risk Factors will not cause Helix's actual results or events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements and information are based on the beliefs, assumptions and expectations of Helix's management on the date of this news release, and Helix does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statement or information should those beliefs, assumptions or expectations, or other circumstances change, except as required by law.
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Ind. court upholds 253-year sentence for molester
Ind. court upholds 253-year sentence for molester
ANDERSON, Ind. —
An Indiana man sentenced to 253 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to 19 counts of child molesting has lost his bid to have his sentence shortened.
The Indiana Court of Appeals this week upheld the sentence issued to 39-year-old William Everage Jr. in July 2012 by a Madison County judge.
The Herald Bulletin reports Appeals Court Judge Cale Bradford wrote the sentence was appropriate because the evidence against Everage was overwhelming.
The victims' families said Everage manipulated them so he could get close to their children, one of whom is autistic.
One woman said she helped Everage molest her own 11-year-old daughter.
Everage told an investigator he started molesting children when he was 17 years old.


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UAS makes safety a top priority and it expects its students to take a responsible attitude toward their own safety and the safety of their fellow students. Crime prevention and safety is the primary responsibility of UAS, but it takes the cooperation of all members of the campus community to achieve a safe environment. The three campuses of UAS are very safe, as compared to many universities, but safety should never be taken for granted. Victims and/or witnesses of crime, no matter how small, should report incidents to the police and to UAS officials, to maintain the safe living and learning environment.
The municipal police department has the responsibility to enforce the law and to respond to all reports of criminal activity. The University 's Facilities Services department has jurisdiction over the UAS efforts to promote safety and security on its campuses.


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What: Alfalfa's Market at the Center Court Village Shopping Center
When: Grand opening is 9 a.m. Friday. Regular store hours are 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week.
Where: 785 E. South Boulder Road, Louisville
More info:alfalfas.com
A few years ago, Louisville residents hoping to lure Boulder-based Alfalfa's Market to their city mailed the natural grocer hundreds of letters packed with the tiny seeds of the company's namesake plant.
"We got alfalfa seeds all over our desks, but it got the point across," Alfalfa's CEO and chairman Mark Retzloff said this week.
On Friday, Louisville will reap what those letters helped to sow when the "Alfalfa's 2.1" store — as Retzloff refers to it — opens at the northwest corner of South Boulder Road and Centennial Drive.
It will be the first new store for Alfalfa's since Retzloff and his partners resurrected the brand in 2011 at its original Boulder location on the corner of Broadway and Arapahoe Avenue following a long hiatus after the first 11 Alfalfa's locations were acquired by Wild Oats Markets in 1996.
The 28,000-square-foot Louisville store — which includes an estimated 19,000 square feet of retail space — will employ 135 full- and part-time employees. It is the anchor of the Center Court Village development, replacing the vacant parking lot and closed-down Safeway store that long occupied the corner.
Opening day begins at 9 a.m. Friday.
"Louisville is a great community. It's continuing to grow," Retzloff said Tuesday as he walked through the soon-to-open grocery store. "We're excited to be here."
The store is part of growing number of such businesses taking root in Boulder County outside the longtime market hotbed of Boulder.
Including the Alfalfa's, there are now eight naturally focused grocery stores operating in Longmont, Niwot, Lafayette, Superior and Louisville. And another is on the way, with Whole Foods signing on as a major tenant planned for the redevelopment of Longmont's former Twin Peaks Mall.
The Alfalfa's opening is also indicative of a larger national trend, according to experts including Carlotta Mast, senior director of content and insights at Boulder-based New Hope Natural Media.
"This proliferation of natural and specialty grocers is being fueled by the overall growth of the natural, organic and healthy products market in general — and represents growing mainstream interest in healthier products," Mast wrote in an email.
Mast cited statistics from the Nutrition Business Journal showing that in 2013, the natural, organic and healthy products market grew 9 percent in the U.S., making it a $153 billion business. The journal projects the market to grow another 64 percent, up to $252 billion a year, by 2019, Mast said.
"Boulder is home to some of the nation's best natural products retailers," she said. "These companies have fine-tuned their approach to serving a health-conscious community such as Boulder over the years and are now taking this learning to other communities."
Aaron DeJong, Louisville's economic development director, said a natural grocer was "a missing link" in the city's retail offerings. Neighboring Lafayette is home to both a Sprouts Farmers Market and a Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, and Superior has a Whole Foods location just off U.S. 36.
"Residents were traveling further distances to get these sorts of products," DeJong said. "So having this in our community for our residents was certainly an important thing. It was important for our fiscal health to keep food purchases that residents make in town."
Louisville did provide Alfalfa's with some incentives to come to town, including a sales tax rebate agreement capped at $850,000, DeJong said. The city also agreed to rebate building permit fees and construction use taxes for the project and provided a $150,000 grant for construction of a community room on the second floor of the store that will serve Louisville's space-strapped nonprofits, among other groups.
Among the green building practices, zero-waste efforts and many other features of the Louisville store, one thing Retzloff proudly touts is Alfalfa's commitment to locally sourced produce, meat and other products it sells.
The company, which is 90 percent owned by Colorado shareholders, will be buying products from more than 240 companies that are headquartered or produce their products in Colorado, Retzloff said.
All of the store's signature coffee is roasted by Boulder-based Ozo Coffee. All of the organic gelato that will be sold at the store's juice bar is from Boulder Ice Cream. Even the decor features pictures of Boulder County farmers and bee keepers.
"Certainly there is a huge movement to local, and local really feeds into this market," said Daniel Fabricant, CEO of the Natural Products Association. "Folks feel like they are doing something good if they buy local."
Fabricant also sees a bright future for natural grocers and the natural products industry as a whole.
"I think it's been mainstream for a while now, but I think what's really happening is it's almost getting to the point where it's taking over the mainstream," he said. "You're now seeing the younger generation with more disposable income as they advance in their careers. They've been living under the concept of doing things more naturally, getting away from synthetics and getting away from things that could damage the environment."
Contact Camera Staff Writer Joe Rubino at 303-473-1328 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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- Premier League round-up
New year but old habits as both Manchester clubs win
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Premier League table and results
League leaders Manchester United began the year of 2013 by maintaining their seven-point advantage at the top of the Premier League table, exorcising a ghost from last season's failed title bid in the process.
Rivals City also picked up three points at home to Stoke while Tottenham kept up their pursuit of a top-four finish as Arsenal faltered, but relegation-threatened Aston Villa were denied victory at the death against Swansea.
Manchester United lost a pivotal encounter at Wigan during the ultimately doomed 2011-12 campaign, handing City the lifeline they needed to eventually claim their first Premier League crown. There was to be no repeat at the DW Stadium on New Year's Day, with United comfortable 4-0 winners thanks to braces from Javier Hernandez and Robin van Persie.
Sir Alex Ferguson continued the easing-in process of Nemanja Vidic after the defender's return from injury by leaving him on the bench at kick-off, but top scorer Van Persie was restored alongside Hernandez up front as both men got on the scoresheet before half-time.
The opener came in the 35th minute after Ali Al-Habsi, who looked shaky in the Wigan goal all afternoon, parried Patrice Evra's shot to Hernandez, allowing the Mexican a simple task of converting the rebound. Van Persie then made it 2-0 at the break with a glorious strike, stepping inside Ivan Ramis to bend one in with his right foot.
Arouna Kone thought he had halved the deficit for Wigan just before the hour, only to be correctly flagged offside, and Hernandez quickly killed the game off with a predatory volley after Van Persie's free-kick hit the wall. The last say came from the Dutchman, who converted Danny Welbeck's pass after poor defending from Wigan.
Manchester City continue to battle to defend their crown after they deservedly beat Stoke 3-0 at the Etihad Stadium. James Milner and Joleon Lescott replaced Samir Nasri and Matija Nastasic for the hosts, whose goals came from Pablo Zabaleta, Edin Dzeko and Sergio Aguero.
Roberto Mancini's men were excellent without scoring for the first half-hour in front of their home fans, Aguero hitting a post with their best effort. The breakthrough arrived two minutes before the interval when Zabaleta followed up Milner's effort to poke past Asmir Begovic.
Another Begovic save led to City's second as Dzeko this time pounced on the crumbs of Aguero's initial shot, and it was game over in the 72nd minute when Steven N'Zonzi pulled back Silva, allowing Aguero to convert City's third from the penalty spot. The only stain on the day's action for City was the sight of Aguero limping off late on holding his hamstring.
In the day's evening kick-off, Southampton edged out of the relegation zone at the expense of Arsenal's Champions League qualification aspirations, as they drew 1-1 at St Mary's.
An upset fleetingly looked to be on the cards as Gaston Ramirez fired the Saints into a 35th minute lead, but parity was restored just five minutes later as Guly do Prado headed into his own net shortly prior to half-time.
It was the third such self-inflicted wound Southampton had managed against the Gunners this season - they scored two own goals in the 6-1 drubbing they received in north London earlier in the campaign - and it was ultimately what cost them all three points, with a well-taken second Ramirez goal disallowed after the dynamic midfielder appeared to push Laurent Koscielny out of the way.
Arsenal grew into the contest as the clock marched on, but some stout Southampton defending ensured the points were shared - rising them above Wigan and out of the bottom three, as Arsenal were left four points behind rivals Tottenham in third, albeit with a game in hand.
Tottenham's push for Champions League football continues at a pace after they beat Reading 3-1 to chalk up a seventh win in their last nine league fixtures. Michael Dawson, Emmanuel Adebayor and Clint Dempsey got on the scoresheet as Spurs somewhat nervily came from behind to move above Chelsea into third.
Andre Villas-Boas' side were stunned in the fourth minute by Reading, who led through Pavel Pogrebnyak's close-range strike after Ian Harte's free-kick rebounded off the bar. However, the lead lasted five minutes as Dawson scored his first goal at the Lane for four years with a clever flick.
Spurs then led five minutes into the second period when Adebayor powered home a fantastic header for his second league goal of the campaign, but they needed Dawson to clear off the line as Reading pressed in vain for an equaliser. A huge slice of luck finally settled the contest, with Dempsey's strike deflecting over Adam Federici for 3-1.
West Brom's hopes of keeping pace with the top four suffered a big setback after they were beaten 2-1 by Fulham at the Hawthorns. Steve Clarke's side are now five points adrift of fourth-placed Chelsea courtesy of goals from Dimitar Berbatov and Alex Kacaniklic.
A dire first half was punctuated by the first goal of the new year in the Premier League as Ashkan Dejagah provided a piece of wizardry down the right, cutting the ball back for Berbatov to sidefoot past Ben Foster. West Brom replied four minutes after the break with almost a carbon copy, Billy Jones embarrassing Matthew Briggs to square for Romelu Lukaku.
Lukaku and Zoltan Gera then both hit a post as West Brom threatened a turnaround, but they were stunned against the run of play as Kacaniklic took advantage of a stranded Foster to win it for Fulham on the hour.
At the bottom of the table, Aston Villa picked up a valuable point in their battle against relegation, drawing 2-2 at Swansea. The result moves Villa a point clear of the bottom three, although they were only seconds away from a much-needed victory.
Paul Lambert could only shake his head in dismay as Villa made a horror start at the Liberty Stadium, falling behind inside ten minutes. The visiting defence was all over the place as Wayne Routledge ran clear to score, and Michu then hit a post as the Swans missed chance after chance.
Villa punished their hosts' profligacy on the stroke of half-time through Andreas Weimann, and they grew into the contest as neither team grasped a stranglehold of the second period. With seven minutes left Weimann won a penalty for Villa from Nathan Dyer, converted by Christian Benteke, but Danny Graham struck in injury-time to break Villa hearts.
Elsewhere, West Ham leapt above Norwich into 11th thanks to a 2-1 win at Upton Park. Strikes from Mark Noble and Joey O'Brien did the damage for the home side.
The Hammers led as early as the third minute when Winston Reid won a penalty under the challenge of Ryan Bennett; Noble sending Mark Bunn the wrong way from the spot. Norwich almost responded when a Robert Snodgrass free-kick hit the frame of the goal, but they were punished again by West Ham - albeit controversially - as O'Brien netted while Alex Tettey was grounded with a head injury.
Russell Martin's 90th-minute response proved nothing more than a consolation.


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Yum Brands (NYSE:YUM), the parent of popular fast-food chains KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, is playing defense after food regulators in China said certain samples of its chicken contained unusually high level of antibiotics.
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A late Friday announcement by Yum Brands defending its food quality comes after the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration said it was determining whether the company has taken corrective measures since finding abnormal levels of antibiotics in a sample of KFC chicken.
"Publicity has resulted in moderate sales impact the past few days," Yum said. "We take food safety very seriously and the China team is diligently working to resolve this issue."
Louisville, Ky.-based Yum Brands said the suppliers being investigated represent "an extremely small percentage" of product to KFC. It doesn't anticipate a shortage of product supply.
According to the SFDA report, eight of the 19 batches of chicken samples Yum Brands sent to a testing laboratory in 2010 and 2011 contained high levels of antibiotics.
The public relations blow to Yum Brand's image comes in the highly competitive, fast-growing Chinese market where KFC faces intense rivalry with Taiwanese-owned fried chicken chain Dico.
Shares of Yum Brands closed down about 4% Friday to $65.55 and are down about 13% from January.


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Matt Pepdjonovic became the all-time career leader in rebounds for the Great Northeast Athletic Conference during the Rams basketball team's 78-65 victory over Mount Ida College Mustangs on Tuesday.
Pepdjonovic recorded his 56th career double-double, scoring 16 points and collecting 19 rebounds as he surpassed the 1,192 career total of Albertus Magnus College's Raymond Askew ('12) to become the league's top rebounder.
In 99 career games, Pepdjonovic has 1,208 career boards. He entered Tuesday's contest needing four to surpass the mark and reached it six minutes into the game with an offensive rebound. In fitting fashion Pepdjonovic scored a layup on the play. He already holds the GNAC's record for rebounds within conference games, with a career total of 856.
Pepdjonovic also holds Suffolk's all-time career rebound record, a mark he set on Nov. 20, passing Christos Tsiotos' ('77) total of 1,015. Pepdjonovic and Tsiotos are the only two players in the basketball program's 65-year history to score at least 1,000 career points while also collecting 1,000 career rebounds. Pepdjonovic is one of three GNAC players to reach the grand total in both categories during a career.
The 6-foot-6-inch senior forward set the league's career mark on Jan. 21 for blocked shots -- previously 209 -- and had 231 through Tuesday.
He is ranked eighth in Suffolk men's basketball history with 1,419 career points, while his 585 field goals made him seventh among all-time Rams scorers.
Pepdjonovic has been a force among NCAA Division-III men's basketball players:
- GNAC Rookie of the Year for the 2009-10 season
- Ranked third nationally in 2010-11, with a 13.3-rebounds-per-game average, earning first team All-Conference GNAC honors
- Ranked second in the nation in double-doubles in 2011-12, recording 21 in 25 games, averaging 17 points per game; had second highest Division-III rebound average, with 13.6 per game
In four seasons Pepdjonovic holds averages of 14.3 points per game and 12.2 rebounds per game.
Through Feb. 12, Pepdjonovic was averaging 9.9 points per game and 10.1 rebounds in 23 games on the season.


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Bridgestone has issued a response to Sony's lawsuit claim, stating that Jerry Lambert was in no way possible portraying the Kevin Butler character in the alleged commercial.
Sony has meanwhile claimed that Jerry Lambert's appearance is part of what makes the Kevin Butler character, and are thus making that the main basis of their complaints.
This has got to be the funniest lawsuit ever. Stupid move from bridgestone and Kevin butler himself. They were asking for a lawsuit...
The Keven Butler character is Jerry Lambert in a suit. In Bridgestones commercial he is Jerry Lambert in a lab coat. Now with out reading the contract the question comes down to when Jerry could start shooting with other game systems,
It's not even a question though. Whether the contract is valid or not, it's up for a judge to decide whether Bridgestone (and Nintendo) have benefited from a character created by Sony.
If Sony can prove damages to their brand, it's an open and shut case. And given that around the web people were saying "hey look, Kevin Butler advertising Nintendo," it shouldn't be that hard to prove.
sony's contract with Jerry Lambert ended at the end of august 2012. the bridgestone commercial with him playing the wii started in september three days after his contract ended.
"was entered into on 7th August 2009 and contained an exclusivity clause that prevented Lambert from working for PlayStation competitors, such as Nintendo. The contract expired at the end of August 2012. The Bridgestone ads appeared on TV three days later"
sony's just acting like a jilted lover who has been dumped by their girl and found out she's dating someone else days later. it's just pathetic on sony's part
Sony could only copy right Keven Butler as a vp of sony, not Jerry Lambert natural looks.
Its just like everyone knows Fonzie from Happy Days, that doesn't stop Henry Winkler from still being an actor.
Nobody is talking about copyrighting anything. What I'm saying is, Sony could easily say that Nintendo (through Bridgestone) is trying to cash in on the goodwill/publicity that Sony has built (which is what they ARE saying) and that Jerry Lambert was accomplice to that.
All it would take is for a judge to rule that the above was their intention - and given Lambert's popularity as Kevin Butler, it's not going to be hard for their lawyers to build a case.
It's nothing like Henry Winkler. It WOULD be like Henry Winkler if a company put millions of dollars into turning him into a icon for a certain product or brand and then another company used Henry Winkler in advertising a rival product.
Sony isn't a person, it's a company and it's going to react if it has been screwed over. Using your own analogy though, this situation is more like maxing your credit cards trying to impress a girl and then finding out she's gone and used the dresses and jewellery you bought to impress your sports team rival. Wouldn't you want a little of that cash back?
quoting from article Sony, citing a breach in US trademark law, reckons the ad "depicts a Bridgestone employee who consumers reasonably perceive to be Kevin Butler
Sony can only trade mark the character not Jerry's normal appearance ie Face and normal body size.
I've never said sony is a person. I said they are "ACTING" like a jilted lover.
"this situation is more like maxing your credit cards trying to impress a girl and then finding out she's gone and used the dresses and jewellery you bought to impress your sports team rival"
that's not the case at all. because nintendo didn't hire jerry lambert to promote the wii. jerry contract was up at the end of august. so he was free to do whatever he wanted.this will in no way hurt sony. because it's sells wasn't dependant on kevin butler or wasn't purchased because he was their mascot.so in no way is sony screwed over. since their business isn't hurting because of this.
so as you put it. sony maxed out their credit card buying sexy outfits only to findout that after the breakup she's wearing it for someone else. sorry buddy but you can't get anything back from that. if that was the case, I'm sure every man could get back everything he spend on a past relationship.
Lambert was making ads for Bridgestone long ago, this suit is going because Bridgestone had a WII in their ad with Lambert, but Sony doesn't own Lambert's face.
Exactly. Sony are saying that Nintendo (through Bridgestone) are using the goodwill and publicity of the Kevin Butler character to advertise a rival product. It doesn't matter if the contract is up, that's just not on legally.
It has nothing to do with Lambert's likeness per se, but to do with what that likeness currently means. If you want proof that people think of him as Kevin Butler, you only need to see the articles when the video was aired. That alone proves Sony's point.
(Note: it'd still be a trademark issue even if Sony aren't strictly using his likeness as a trademark)
His contract has nothing to do with it and if that's the defence Lambert/Bridgestone are using - they're going down in this case. He's played an iconic character that represents a brand, and if anybody really thinks that's going to go away after three days of being out of contract, they just have no chance.
There are people that simply don't realize that Jerry Lambert is a person. He's Kevin Butler. And to see Kevin Butler advertising a Nintendo product is confusing a brand. That might not out and out hurt Sony, but it certainly undermines years of advertisement.
At best, this isn't a very bright thing for any of the involved parties to do. At worst, this was a specific move by somebody to get a bit of cheap publicity by using the Kevin Butler actor in advertising a rival product. Either way, whatever you might think of it, there's no way Sony is going to lose this. All the articles and comments saying "Kevin Butler advertising Nintendo?!" prove that the suit is valid.
No, but they have the legal right to sue if they feel their money and hard work is being used to promote a rival brand, and it's fair to say that that's how it turned out (no matter what the original intentions).
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So let's say Major Nelson leaves Microsoft and starts using his website to promote Sony games. Microsoft has the right to sue, because the website came to get a following thanks to their promotion and support.
Jerry Lambert was a figurehead for the PlayStation brand, and to then advertise a Nintendo product despite people knowing him as that PlayStation figurehead was ill-advised.
The second his contract was up, he was free to work wherever he pleases. That he is recognized as Kevin Butler is no consequence, that is a character he played, he is not that character for the rest of his life.
By your logic, Hugh Laurie is now unable to act again because he's firmly recognised as Gregory House and that hurts the owners of the House brand despite him now being out of contract. It's nonsense, absolute nonsense. He is an actor, and Sony have no right to dictate where and ion what capacity he works after his contract with them has run out. If he was still currently under contract with Sony, that would be different as he'd still be bound by the terms of their agreement.
He's not. Butler is a suit and tie, not a lab coat. As for line delivery, Sony do not entirely own that, part of that IS the actor playing the role. Unless you're trying to claim that Sony can now own inflection and attitude.
His contract is up, they don't own the mans face or voice, and they cannot restrict him from working for whoever he wants.
Well being my last bubble I think that this will end with bridgestone settling for both parties out of court That Jerry never works for sony again, and sony takes a pr hit.
Do you even listen to yourself? Jerry is not Sony's property! As soon as Jerry's contract is over he can work for whom he damn well pleases. Sony has to prove that the character he played is Kevin Butler VP of whathever in order to win the lawsuit. Good luck with that since it wasnt given an identity to the character Jerry played on the Bridgestone commercial. Sony only has rights to that fictional character but has right to decide what Jerry can or cant do in his professional life.
Im also astounded that someone disagreed with cl1983 comment "Sony could only copy right Keven Butler as a vp of sony, not Jerry Lambert natural looks." Does Jerry need to make a plastic surgery to land a new job? Really? What is this? Bizarro world?
See, this is what people are getting wrong. Butler wasn't just a role that Lambert played, it was a character in a series of advertisements. He was selling a brand. Comparing Lambert to Laurie in House is completely off-base. You won't ever see Rowan Atkinson advertising a debit card that isn't from Barclays using a character similar to Johnny English; you won't ever see "Monkey" advertising Sky TV or Virgin Media.
If Laurie finished his contract with L'oreal however, and then started advertising some rival brand of male product three days later, you can bet your bottom dollar that L'oreal would be fairly angry and they WOULD sue.
The fact that his contract expired isn't necessarily important (although it might be, we'll have to see what the judge says). It all comes down to whether Sony's image (via the Kevin Butler character) has been damaged by Bridgestone and Nintendo. Since that's what Sony are complaining about, the contract probably doesn't matter anyway.
I do agree with cl1983 though, in that there's little chance this will go to court. Bridgestone released an edited/reshot commercial, right? If they've done that, I imagine they've probably already made an out-of-court offer as well.
No, Sony has prove that the character in the Bridgestone commercial could be mistaken for Kevin Butler. It could, it was. Take a look on comments here and on YouTube.
And further to that, Sony has no problem with Lambert working. They DO have a problem with the face of Kevin Butler saying how great Nintendo is. And it just so happens to be a problem that will easily go in their favour if it goes to court.
This is getting retarded. I don't really care that much for the guy (not funny in the slightest bit). Yet, what Sony is doing is downright foolish.
Sue the guy who did like 90% of the advertising for you this generation for appearing in another commercial that was loosely about another game console (mostly about tires), is just fucking retarded.
I hope Sony looses this case.
Sony does not own a person. If they win this lawsuit things could get really bad. First you have corporations being ruled as having the same rights as a person. Then if Sony wins this lawsuit, it sets the precedent that corporations can legally own the rights to a person? WTF has this world come to?
sony will lose because they have no case. There are very fine details people are missing. He was not specifically playing the wii in the commercial nor was he really advertising for it.
The commercial is for a tire company to which he had done other ads prior to this one. It wasnt like all of a sudden bridgestone says, lets get that butler guy to be in our commercial.
he made other commercials related to tires and unrelated to sony. That is what this commercial is about as well.
What will happen if it goes to court and fails...sony will have to recoup those losses the only way they know how. from the consumers.
edit: I was wondering, besides the faithful on N4G. How well did those Butler ads do on "TV"? I hardly ever saw them but sure as hell saw lots of them on the web.
And my kids saw them too and never once exclaimed, hey dad its that sony guy doing a tire commercial. go figure, you would think it would be the younger audience that would notice such things.
"And further to that, Sony has no problem with Lambert working. They DO have a problem with the face of Kevin Butler saying how great Nintendo is. And it just so happens to be a problem that will easily go in their favour if it goes to court." That is NOT Kevin Butler face. That is Jerry Lambert face. You do realize that we're talking about a real person dont you? Kevin Butler is a fictional character and could be played by you, me or any other man in the World. Sony doesnt own Jerry Lambert face or acting style and its preposterous to think they do. As soon as Jerry Lambert contract was over so were his obligations to Sony and like you and me he is a free man and can live his life the way he wants to.
if you're Bridgestone and you let the guy, who's mainly known to play Kevin Butler the PS guy, to play the Wii for our commercials you know you're just being stupid.
imagine if Mayhem or Flo were seen doing other commercials with just an extra lab coat on doing commercials against All-State or Progressive respectively.
it's just not a smart move, common sense people.
You are arguing with Sony fan-boys. They all think that Jerry Lambert can only do Sony commercials as Kevin Butler.
@ cl1983:
Yeah, just like your girlfriend/wife is only your GF when she's with you. But when your not around, well, who cares right? She's not violating anything if she didn't expect you to find out about that party last night, right? Right?
I blame Sony's recently fired PR department:
Use the guy more and he wouldn't have to go somewhere else to help pay his bills and live his life.
Im pretty sure that sony will loose this if they are suing on the basis that the actor cant do anything without out them being able to claim he is using the "kevin buttler" character when he is just an actor.
If sony could win this then other actors would be getting sued all the time. If daniel craig did anything with action besides james bond, and he does, then they would sue him saying he is being James bond in some other movie every time he acts in a movie besides james bond.
And he also wasnt working for sonys competitors, he was working for a tire company who was giving away a wii.
Most people seem to confuse Sony's suit,they are suing because they fell bridgestone commercial with wii is being promoted by Mr.Lambert,who most recognize as Kevin Butler,if anyone sees the edited and unedited version you would notice his inclusion isn't needed and it's a bit suspicious or a coincidence that he's used in the promotion for the wii and if this is a petty suit the people at Sony would've sued sense he was on a tv show not long ago,I assume the commercial is either cash-in on his notoriety as a direct or indirect promotion because most did not know who he was until Sony,this is not a diss on his acting abilities but he was not known until he was used to sell games.
Bridgestone should thank Sony for the lawsuit
now millions know who and what Bridgestone is.
i did not know anything about them
....Bridgestone is probably the biggest tire company in the world.
@ Bimkobelrusto:
That might be true, but in some areas all you hear is about different tires.
In Detroit/Grand Rapids Michigan, All you hear about is Michelin tires and Goodyear (due to sports ads), next with Sears as far as tires. Bridgestone is known, but if someone merely says "Bridgestone" out of the blue, I don't think anyone would be thinking about tires.
Tempe/Phoenix Arizona, maybe;
In Chicago, Illinois everyone's probably still talking about Davins; I don't think tires are favored there except that whitewalls may be out of season (clashes with Davins).
honestly, I really can't tell the difference. Sometimes I figure that's just the way he has always been even before Kevin Butler.
"The contract between Sony and Wild Creek, Lambert's company, was entered into on 7th August 2009 and contained an exclusivity clause that prevented Lambert from working for PlayStation competitors, such as Nintendo. The contract expired at the end of August 2012. The Bridgestone ads appeared on TV three days later. Sony said Lambert started work for Bridgestone in February 2012 while still under contract with SCEA, and so Sony claims a breach."
Not sure what to think of it.
But Jerry didn't work for Nintendo he worked for bridgestone, so again need to actually read the contract or at a least a 3rd party lawyer to read it.
I'm pretty sure the contract is formulated in a way that it was not allowed for him to promote other consoles. In that case I think SONY is absolutely right to sue. But on the other hand the contract ended before the new spot aired and so I think it's fine for the guy to do whatever he pleases.
What makes me a little unsure is that the spot was produced while the contract was still in effect. I think it's a little stupid from both sides. Jerry Lambert shouldn't have produced the spot but also SONY shouldn't have sued since the airtime was fine and if the spot was produced in the 2 days before everything would have been fine.
If thats the case Sony has to sue Jerry Lambert, the person that breached the contract. Why is Sony suing Bridgestone?
Baseless and greedy by Sony in my opinion. I guess people can start using the $ instead of an S......So sad when people think they own something like a face.
I guess you weren't paying attention,this is not exactly about money but of how Mr.Lambert's acting in the bridgestone commercial may confuse people who thinks he's advertising wii's.
was he REALLY advertising the wii? Or was he simply standing to the side while someone else played?
I also dont see why sony think this will "confuse" consumers. Gamer commercials vs tire commercials. One is for younger audiences, one is for older audiences.
By some slim chance that an older audience member watches kids shows or specifically the sony butler commercials (which, made more of a boom on the web than real tv) then they will think to themself...
gosh, now im confused on who this guy really is...'scratches head' is he sony vp or tire guy #2?
Did people actually believe he was VP of anything at Sony? Seriously, Slash isn't real, Santa Claus isn't real, Kevin Butler isn't real either.
He's an actor, if you saw him in a movie or television show and he wasn't acting like Kevin Butler, would you associate that with the Kevin Butler character?
His contract was up, he was in a tire commercial. If Sony wanted to retain his services they could have.
Umm, what is Bridgestone talking bout here? Clearly he was in their ad UNTIL they digitally altered their videos recently :L
Anyways, I feel bad for Jerry Lambert/Kevin Butler, stuck in the middle of this whole mess :C
Bridgestone is saying that they had Jerry Lambert in their ad but not Kevin Butler.
Oh, my mistake then. This whole debacle is just confusing.
Jerry Lambert is an actor who portrayed Kevin Butler. Bridgestone did not have Kevin Butler in their comercial, they had Jerry Lambert. Just because he played Kevin Butler dose not mean he is now and forever Kevin Butler. The only place that character and name will follow him is on his resume along with all the other roles he has played. This would be like saying Christian Bale ruined The Dark Knight because he also played in Terminator Salvation, Sony is claiming they are hurting the Playstation brand because Jerry Lambert was in the bridgestone commercial. Jerry's contract was over with Sony before the commercial aired so this whole lawsuit is completely pointless and stupid.
I agree. I hope Lambert and Bridgestone counter-sue and win. Sony is being really immature here.
My God, this is ridiculous and will end up in just losing an entertaining mascot, plus, p**sing off an actor who basically isn't allowed to be himself in any other advertising scheme.
Seriously, Sony drop it. The advert got edited, people learned, that should be it. You're chasing employees away and ruining chances with any other agencies.
Everyone know their advertising has been pretty crappy this generation. Then they go and attack their only 'good' actor that did commercials for them. Sony likes to dig their own grave.
If Bridgestone edited the ad then they know they're in the wrong otherwise they would've never changed it.
So,what saying is,they have to "believe"in what they're doing.
@Parappa, no but it's just good business to correct any potential wrongdoing, even before a decision has been reached.
Your conclusion is just silly.
So Sony is basically saying that it owns Jerry Lambert's body and voice? Even after their contract expired? Can he at least keep his soul?
I am afraid that Sony will lose this case. Sony can't prove Kevin Butler was in the Bridgeston commercial. Only his "likeness" was in the commercial. You can't stop a business from hiring an actor just because the actors face is well known for a different product.
He's an actor. He acts.
Sony, just save those $$$ on lawyer fees, you need $$$ too much right now then to spend in on hopes of making more $$$ by suing other companies for hiring actors that you once used for your own marketing and advertising purposes.
How do you know what Sony or Bridgestone can prove? Or who will win for that matter? You're just a regular Joe looking in, I think it's best to let the judges sort it out out since it's their profession. Until we see the full contract page by page how could you or I know what's fair?
Edit: @ Parappa
Exactly, why did Bridgestone edit Lambert with the Wii out of their commercial?
You're kidding right? Is the name "kevin butler" used in the commercial? NO so how can Sony prove that it's Kevin Butler? Actors can't change their face for every commercial because it was used in some other commercial.
You don't see movie studios suing other movie studios because an actor is being used that was once in their own movie.
Don't be foolish. What is presented in the commercial is the ONLY case Sony can bring to the table. There is NOTHING there. Only a the of an actor.
Use your head.
"Exactly, why did Bridgestone edit Lambert with the Wii out of their commercial? "
Due to the lawsuit. Until the final verdict, there was most likely a cease of all commercials with Jeremy Lambert implemented by the courts while investigations move forward. So instead of pulling all the commercials, he was just edited out. This is standard procedures in court battles.
Dante112, so you're questioning Lvl_up_gamer since he doesn't know the contract, but yet you agree with Parappa? Is Parappa part of Sony's legal department that he would know the contract 'page by page'?
"I am afraid that Sony will lose this case. Sony can't prove Kevin Butler was in the Bridgeston commercial. Only his "likeness" was in the commercial. You can't stop a business from hiring an actor just because the actors face is well known for a different product.."
Wow, you know nothing about these kinds of cases or the clauses actors get. You think this is a first? Read up on trademark law and what exactly it does and tries to curb. While you're at it, tell Andrew Garfield to show up in a Spider-man likeness in Avengers 2 even though Sony/Columbia owns the Spider-man IP for film and Disney owns the Avengers. It's all Marvel right? He's just an actor right? Can't stop him from working. Yeah, no.
The Naked Cowboy successfully settled with M&Ms when he sued them for using his 'likeness' in an M&M commercial, and that was an animated parody. Robert Burck doesn't look like a milk chocolate pellet in real life. They didn't call the M&M by the guy's name either...yet bang...they paid him off in the end.
It doesn't take much to prove brand confusion in this case. One only has to google to see the Kevin Butler name all over his story. You helped Sony inadvertantly by saying "they only used the Kevin Butler likeness." That's all ya need. If the Old Spice guy ever pops up in the background of a Goodyear commercial, half naked applying some speedstick when he has no sanely reason to even be there with a Speedstick in the first place, Goodyear will be makin' some quick edits and settling out of court with OldSpice too.
Sony will lose its case against Bridgestone. They have ZERO leverage there. They merely dragged Bridgestone in as part of the deep pocket principle. In a lawsuit you try to include as many people as possible including any companies possibly linked that have deeper pockets for settlement purposes. Sony figures there is an opportunity to make a quick buck here.
Jeremy Lambert unfortunately is the one that is potentially liable here. The real argument is going to come down to what the courts will deem "working for a competitor" in Jeremy's chosen profession. Does the mere act of recording and working in the production commercial constitute breach or is it the actual airing of the commercial that is a breach...and if the later is the case then being that it aired 3 days after the contract expiration then is this lawsuit frivolous given the contract was null and void at the time of airing?
That's all true, although it would depend on the actual complaint if they would judge that issue to put it into precedent.
It would also depend on if Lambert had some sort of non-compete clause in his contract. Something akin to saying he could not work either directly or indirectly with a competing brand for a specific period of time after the contract ended...typically 6-12 months in the game industry. I imagine with how high-profile he was for the company he definitely would have had one of these, and it possibly could have been longer than 12 months.
I imagine if there was no Wii in this commercial then there would not have been a lawsuit. That in itself is what got Sony's attention I think. The rest may just be legal wordings in order to proceed with the case.
As far as the character goes he plays it pretty well, so if Bridgestone was looking for that kind of quirky character he already had the resume to prove he was the guy. However if Bridgestone purposely sought him out as "that PS guy" then they and Lambert could both be held liable.
I'm very interested in how this case will turn out, and I'm reserving judgment until more facts come out. I'm not holding my breath though, as it will probably be settled out of court and the records sealed.
It's a shame because I would have liked to see more Kevin Butler.
Well I personally was confused when I saw Kevin Butler in the Bridgestone commercial playing the Wii. It totally wacked out my senses and free thinking and I automatically switched sides in the great console war.
The power of television!
/s (do I even need to put that tag)
So if it is all cut and dry as people seem to think it is then why did Bridgestone edit him out. They obviously have something to hide or else they wouldn't have bothered to do that at all and just cry foul. As per usual no one knows the details but are so eager to say 'Sony bad' that they don't care.Besides who really cares if they win or not? What does this have to do with gaming? I wish we would talk more about gaming then lawsuits and business data. Microsoft acted like monsters and greedy bastards for years and they are still here pretending as if they weren't. So why the doom of Sony because of this one thing? No one cares. I just want to know when my games are coming out.
What Bridgestone sees:
Jerry Lambert
Bridgestone Engineer
What we, the gamers, see:
Kevin Butler
VP, Sony Computer Entertainment America Marketing
I'm a gamer and what I see is an actor who's been in Geico, Bridgestone, and Holiday Inn commercials. Not to mention making numerous TV sitcom appearances. Kevin Butler is not the only character Jerry Lambert has been known for.
I am a gamer and all I saw was Jerry Lambert the actor playing a Bridgestone engineer.
WTF is a trye??? Oh, this is from eurogamer... right....
Sony: Desperate times comes with desperate measures. They need money!
If proven that Jerry breached his contract and was working on the ad with Bridgestone last Feb 2012 before his contact expired last April 2012, then Sony may win this case. Otherwise, I don't see how Sony can prove their claims that Jerry was acting like Kevin Butler in the ad.
I think there's some people on N4G who really think this guy is Kevin Butler


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1 16-ounce Cool Whip
1 8-ounce cream cheese
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