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By BARRIE MCKENNA and PAUL WALDIE AND SIMON AVERY
Saturday, January 28, 2006 Posted at 1:44 AM EST
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
It's the kind of story even a careful newspaper reader might overlook. Tucked at the bottom of an inside page of The Wall Street Journal was a four-paragraph item beneath the innocuous headline: Pager Maker Gets Patent for E-Mail Delivery.
Canada's Research In Motion Ltd. was suing U.S. rival Glenayre Electronics Inc. to enforce a newly acquired patent on its BlackBerry wireless device.
BlackBerry knockoffs will now need a licence from us, RIM co-chief executive officer James Balsillie warned. The amateurs out there have to stop.
That was May 18, 2001. And the now-ubiquitous BlackBerry was just emerging in the United States as a hot new toy for busy executives, politicians and, most notably, lawyers.
That same day, Donald Stout was reading the paper in his spacious 18th-floor office in Arlington, Va. Out his window, the morning sun was just starting to burn the fog off the Potomac River below, giving the veteran patent lawyer a clear view of the Washington Monument and the Capitol dome beyond.
He caught his breath when he saw the RIM story. For a decade, Mr. Stout and his long-time client, Chicago inventor Thomas Campana Jr., had been patiently sitting on a batch of patents for a system to send text messages from computers to wireless devices.
Knockoffs. Amateurs. Who was RIM kidding? That's our technology, Mr. Stout thought. He picked up the phone, setting off an improbable chain of events that has ignited one of the most celebrated intellectual property showdowns in U.S. history. The fateful call put two proud inventors one Canadian and one American on a collision course that goes to the essence of what it means to develop something new, claim it as yours and then make it wildly popular, even indispensable.
An obscure patent case that could have been settled for a few million bucks has morphed into a billion-dollar dagger hanging over RIM, an enigma for investors and a distraction for legions of hooked BlackBerry users. A U.S. judge has threatened to shut down RIM's BlackBerry network next month for violating a handful of a dead man's patents patents that U.S. authorities now concede may not be worth the paper they're printed on.
How it all happened is a twisted tale of bold inventions, hubris, pride, backroom lobbying and one colossal legal blunder by a sometimes naive Canadian startup eager to make it big in the vast U.S. market.
The stakes couldn't be higher. High-ranking U.S. government officials and members of Congress say nothing less than the national security of the world's lone superpower hangs in the balance. Two prominent former U.S. ambassadors to Canada James Blanchard and Gordon Giffin have joined an army of pedigreed lawyers and lobbyists whose reputations are now on the line in this epic battle. The case has even spurred momentum for sweeping reform of patent laws in the home of the planet's biggest technology consumer.
Who knew?
Mr. Stout had a hunch he was on to something good. Even before reading to the end of newspaper story, he knew who Mr. Campana should pursue to enforce his patents. There was no doubt. He called his client.
I thought RIM's claim was strange because we had the position on that stuff, Mr. Stout, 59, recalls. We looked at their patents. The choice was made.
RIM the brainchild of Mike Lazaridis, an engineering whiz kid was one of several companies spawned by the University of Waterloo's vaunted tech incubator in the 1980s. By 2001, the company was in a headlong rush to make its BlackBerry a must-have accessory for the executive on the go, even giving away thousands free, including to members of the U.S. Congress.
More than a year earlier, Mr. Campana and Mr. Stout had sent what amounted to a form letter, warning several companies RIM among them that they were infringing on wireless e-mail patents. The letter politely invited recipients to negotiate licensing rights with NTP Inc., an unknown company based in Mr. Stout's Virginia home. The initials stood for New Technologies Products. At the time, it was owned jointly by Mr. Stout and Mr. Campana. Its only notable asset was a drawerful of dusty patents.
In the world of patents, you're not going to get any traction unless you're willing to enforce them, Mr. Stout explains.
Without a target, or a lawsuit, NTP lacked leverage. And according to later court transcripts, RIM apparently didn't take the threat very seriously. NTP said RIM ignored the letter. The Canadian company countered that an internal review concluded it wasn't infringing on NTP's patents. RIM officials insisted they told NTP that. But RIM couldn't produce any evidence at trial that it had ever acknowledged NTP's inquiries one in a series of costly mistakes that would later turn the judge and the jury against the company.
If RIM didn't think much of NTP's Jan. 27, 2000, letter, the formal notice in November, 2001, that NTP had filed an infringement case in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia sure got its attention. It prompted a terse RIM news release the first hint to outsiders of the battle to come. A defiant RIM said the infringement claim was unsubstantiated and dismissively characterized NTP's earlier licensing demand as a collection of seemingly random marketing materials printed from RIM's website.
RIM apparently couldn't look far enough into the future to see the train wreck ahead. Going after the maker of the BlackBerry was a stroke of legal genius. Until zeroing in on RIM, Mr. Stout and Mr. Campana didn't have a prayer of persuading a reputable law firm to litigate the case, particularly on a contingency basis (where lawyers get expenses and nothing else unless they win). But finding a law firm to pursue the maker of the Blackberry a favourite toy of young lawyers proved a relatively easy sell. NTP quickly hooked up with James Wallace of Wiley Rein & Fielding, a Washington intellectual property lawyer who conveniently happened to be between big cases. Some of his associates were avid BlackBerry users.
The die was cast. Unless RIM quickly conceded something to NTP admit infringement and pay a licensing fee it would be in for a protracted legal fight and an inherently risky trial.
True to form, RIM's entrepreneurial bosses stood their ground. They regarded NTP as a vile patent troll a company with dormant patents that preys on successful technology companies to extort fees from a hot-selling product.
Settlement is lawyer-speak. And the RIM and NTP saga isn't just about lawyers. It's also about two proud and determined inventors, and a growing pile of cash.
The lives of Mr. Campana and RIM founder Mr. Lazaridis are almost like bookends: Two working-class kids whose early tinkering with computers drew them into a life of invention and a passion for wireless gadgets. And yet their common bond a drive to make a mark as innovators is also what would turn a routine legal dispute into an ill-fated battle of wills. One of them wouldn't live to see the dramatic climax.
Mr. Lazaridis and Mr. Campana were born nearly a decade apart, but they had a lot in common. They grew up on the Great Lakes, 500 kilometres apart, one in Windsor, Ont., and the other on the south side of Chicago. They lived in working-class homes and would spend hours in their basements building gadgets. Working in isolation, they quickly developed a fascination and a passion for wireless technology.
From the time he was boy, Tom Campana loved fixing things. While others played baseball or joined Boy Scouts, Mr. Campana spent his time tinkering with appliances around the family home in Chicago or heading over to a neighbour's house to work on an old car.
Nothing made him happier than to fix something that wasn't working, says his father, Tom Campana, Sr. He had a curiosity about everything.
Mr. Campana was the oldest of four children born to Tom and Kathleen Campana. The elder Mr. Campana spent the war as a radio operator on a U.S. Air Force bomber crew stationed in England. Just 18 years old when he enlisted, Mr. Campana Sr. flew 29 bombing missions over Germany. After the war he returned to Chicago and got married but had few job prospects.
Mr. Campana Sr. finally got a job delivering milk and eventually started his own milk delivery business. Mr. Campana was born on Jan. 26, 1947. Thanks in part to his father's wartime experience with radios, he developed a fascination with all things electronic. As a boy he fixed transistor radios, lapping up everything his father could teach him about how they worked.
His son, Tom Campana III, remembered his father building the family's television set from a kit. He still has a stereo his father built. He was always looking at how to improve things. It was just his nature, says Mr. Campana III, who works for a Chicago company that builds home theatres.
The elder Mr. Campana fondly recalls the time his son and a friend built a crude computer in the basement of the family home. They scrounged parts from AT&T, International Business Machines and anywhere else they could find them, Mr. Campana Sr. said. The contraption was built into an old cabinet that stood more than six feet high and was two feet wide.
I couldn't tell you how, but it worked, Mr. Campana Sr. recalled with a smile. After high school, Mr. Campana followed in his father's footsteps and joined the U.S. Air Force. He was discharged in 1971 and returned home to Chicago, where he soon landed at job at the Argonne National Laboratory as a technician working on the particle accelerators. In his spare time, he started his own company Electronic Services Associates, or ESA. The company specialized in developing communication systems and early forms of pagers. But Mr. Campana was an inventor at heart and the business struggled financially. It went under once, but Mr. Campana managed to relaunch the company in the late 1970s.
He was not the greatest businessman in the world, Mr. Campana Sr. concedes. Even when his business was going broke his employees never missed a day's pay. He went home without paying himself.
By the early 1980s, ESA found its niche and the company became Mr. Campana's full-time occupation. One of ESA's big breakthroughs was developing a paging system that could be used nationally. At the time, pager companies operated on different frequencies, making it impossible to use the same pager in a different city. Mr. Campana created a receiving system that worked on radio waves and allowed pagers to be used across the country. The device was among the first of 50 patents ESA took out.
Around 1985, Mr. Campana helped start another company called Telefind Corp. and ESA became its engineering arm. The two companies developed more innovations to ESA's paging system, including one that could receive up to 14 text messages with a maximum of 500 characters each. That was followed by a device called Child Finder that used pager technology to help parents to monitor the movements of their small children.
Mr. Campana wasn't the only inventor fiddling with ways of matching the wireless capabilities of a pager with the power of a computer. A professor in Hawaii, Norm Abramson, a company in Arizona and officials at the U.S. Department of Defence were also hard at work trying to send text messages via pager.
So was AT&T, which wanted to integrate wireless technology into a new laptop computer it was developing, called Safari. In the summer of 1990, AT&T executives caught wind of what Mr. Campana was up to with Telefind and gave him a call.
AT&T executive Murali Narayanan still remembers meeting Mr. Campana in his Chicago office. He was a kid at heart, Mr. Narayanan recalls. He was excited about the technology.
Mr. Narayanan liked Telefind's products, thinking they might fit well with the Safari project. AT&T had an e-mail system and a prototype computer; what it lacked was a paging service that could put the two together. But after a year of flirting with Telefind, even demonstrating Telefind's system at the Comdex computer show in Las Vegas, AT&T opted for a larger partner in Skytel.
With no partner and scant resources, Telefind folded at the end of 1991. Owed nearly half a million dollars, Mr. Campana walked away from the bankruptcy with much of Telefind's paging technology.
That's when Mr. Campana hooked up with Mr. Stout, the Washington lawyer. Mr. Stout had spent four years as an examiner in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office before opening his own successful practice. He'd heard about Telefind from a lawyer friend while they played a pickup basketball game at a local YMCA.
In 1992, Mr. Campana and Mr. Stout agreed to form NTP. The company was never about making things or selling things. It was about protecting potentially valuable ideas, some of which dealt with sending messages to wireless devices. And for nearly a decade, Mr. Campana's patents lay dormant, just waiting for RIM to produce the BlackBerry.
Across the border in Canada, Mr. Lazaridis was also destined to become an inventor. But unlike Mr. Campana, Mr. Lazaridis would surround himself with talented people and figure out early how to make money in the wireless business. Along the way, he would create a Canadian tech success story, with a product that has become to the wireless Internet what the iPod is to music.
He is a modern Leonardo da Vinci, says Ken Wood, a childhood friend who is now assistant director of Microsoft Corp.'s research lab in Cambridge, England.
Mr. Lazaridis arrived in Canada at age 5 with his Greek parents and three suitcases. His father, Nick, who had been a clothes salesman in Turkey, took a job on the line at the Chrysler factory in Windsor while his mother, Dorothy, worked as a seamstress.
The young Lazaridis quickly gravitated toward technology. He constructed a working pendulum clock out of Lego at age 8. As they entered high school, he and his friend Mr. Wood had built their own computer and programmed it using primitive toggle switches.
Around the age of 10, the two diehard sci-fi fans were inspired by Star Trek to see whether it was possible to build force fields. They gathered chemicals, electricals and other materials, but after months of work, in a rare admission of defeat, they eventually gave up.
That's one of the things that, however much tenacity either of us had, we never managed to finish, Mr. Wood acknowledges.
Mr. Lazaridis's passion for wireless technology began in his high-school electronics class. His teacher, John Micsinszki, ran the local amateur radio and television club, and Mr. Lazaridis would work in his labs sending signals between Windsor and Detroit. In court testimony, Mr. Lazaridis recalled his teacher predicting that one day wireless devices and computers would be combined to make something special.
He and a friend won top prize at the Windsor science fair with a solar-powered water heater that tracked the sun. When he headed off to the University of Waterloo in the early eighties, he financed his first year with the proceeds of a buzzer system he had developed and sold to schools' Reach for the Top teams.
When he showed up at university, Mr. Lazaridis was already thinking far beyond the heavy course material and partying that occupied most of his fellow electrical engineering and computer science students.
RIM was part of a long-term plan for Mike Lazaridis, said Larry Smith, an associate economics professor at Waterloo and an early mentor of Mr. Lazaridis. He always intended to start and operate his own company.
Mr. Lazaridis impressed Mr. Smith from the beginning. He was smart, focused and full of purpose. But there was no single characteristic that stood out in the undergraduate that suggested he was destined to become one of the country's greatest entrepreneurs.
He had a maturity of judgment that was unusual for someone in their early 20s. Most young engineers focus on applied research, but Mr. Lazaridis talked knowledgeably about the power of basic research and about constantly making things work better.
He understood from the beginning the importance of economic viability, Mr. Smith says. But for him it was never about making $100-million.
In the mid-1980s, Waterloo was a breeding ground for young engineers and computer geeks with big ideas. In between partying and co-op work terms, they wrote computer code for Microsoft and dreamed of how to make it big.
But by 1984, Canada was in the midst of recession and Mr. Lazaridis, like many of his classmates, fretted about becoming jobless graduates. He urged others to go out and start their own companies, and a friend finally called him on it: Mike, if you feel so strongly about it, why don't you start a company?
In his final year, 1984, Mr. Lazaridis joined the entrepreneurial parade, dropping out of Waterloo just months before graduation. He won a $600,000 contract from General Motors to make assembly line display terminals that could receive wireless updates.
Mr. Lazaridis wanted his company to be called something Research. But all the good names seemed to have been taken by others. So he flipped it around Research In Motion a name that would aptly fit his breakthrough product and his rush to succeed.
Mr. Lazaridis later won an honorary doctorate of engineering from Waterloo. But he now tells aspiring techies that it's not the degree he really wanted.
The only thing I regret is not finishing, Mr. Lazaridis reflected earlier this month as he prepared to speak to a group of university students in Richmond Hill, Ont. After a short pause, he added: [But] I'm not sure it would have made much difference in the scheme of things.
Mr. Lazaridis, 44, looks more like a restaurant owner than a business icon. Stout, with thick, prematurely silver hair, he's quick to smile and supremely confident.
Mr. Lazaridis poured the money he got from GM into other projects, including a barcode reader for motion picture film called DigiSync a nifty device that would later earn RIM both Emmy and Academy awards for technical achievement.
Mr. Lazaridis quickly learned that RIM's future would be in wireless communications making devices smaller, more user-friendly and more portable. E-mail was finally becoming mainstream, wireless technology was established, and phone companies were expanding their wireless networks. But consumers were still not ready for RIM's cutting-edge technology.
It took 10 years before anyone knew what e-mail on my business card meant. And it took another 10 years before it became mainstream, Mr. Lazaridis says.
Getting from there to the BlackBerry would be a story of numerous dead ends over nearly a decade, the work of hundreds of engineers and some serendipitous business alliances.
RIM's big entrée into wireless came after it was hired by Rogers Cantel to write software for an industrial wireless data network it had just bought from Ericsson, called Mobitex. Getting consumers to bite was a tough sell, but its ties with Cantel and Ericsson would bear fruit.
There wasn't really any perceived value in doing this, said David Neale, Rogers Cantel's director of marketing for Mobitex at the time and now vice-president of service development at Rogers Communications Inc. In 1990, it was so incredibly primitive and the notion of a connected universe was so foreign.
At a time when the phone firms were focused on expanding their networks to carry wireless voice, RIM was relentlessly trying to persuade executives about the vast potential of wireless data networks.
The other milestone in the RIM saga was the 1992 hiring of Mr. Balsillie, a Peterborough, Ont., native with a Harvard MBA. He was put in charge of business development and strategy, a critical job when the BlackBerry was introduced six years later. He and Mr. Lazaridis made a highly creative and very tenacious team, Mr. Neale says.
After a few false starts, RIM rolled out the BlackBerry predecessor in 1996. It was called the Inter@ctive Pager, and was the first pocket-sized two-way messaging pager.
With constant hectoring from RIM, Rogers Cantel committed to investing tens of millions of dollars to upgrade its network so it could carry RIM's service. In 1998, RIM signed contracts with Rogers Cantel in Canada and Bell South in the United States its first deals to supply the devices to phone firms. The BlackBerry was on its way.
The breakthrough device was the first BlackBerry, the 950 model. (A marketing firm used by Apple suggested it be called the Strawberry. That wasn't macho enough for Mr. Lazaridis, who opted for BlackBerry.) It was small enough to fit on your belt, big enough to let people type quickly, and so smartly engineered that it could run on one double-A battery for more than two weeks. It also provided wireless access to contacts and calendars.
Scroll forward to 2002. RIM was making a name for itself with its wildly successful BlackBerry. NTP was still just three initials in a RIM press release. It was the billion-dollar success story versus the hard-luck inventor.
But that was about to change as RIM and NTP hurtled toward a court date in Richmond, Va. RIM hired a large, venerable Cleveland-based law firm, Jones Day Reavis and Pogue, which had a track record for wearing down less well-financed opponents with paper filings and delays.
From the outset, RIM and its lawyers didn't seem to take NTP seriously. The company was convinced NTP's patents were junk because they codified technology that was already widely in use by RIM and countless others. In legal jargon, NTP's patents were prior art, and therefore invalid.
But the federal judge assigned to the case, former state prosecutor James Spencer, wasn't impressed. He pushed the case swiftly to trial.
And on Nov. 4, 2002, the two inventors stepped into a court room. It was the first time Mr. Campana set eyes on Mr. Lazaridis.
What aggravated him most was when they went to court with the lawsuit, his father recalled, saying his son felt that RIM was underestimating him. And he said that more than anything hurt me' and he said I made up my mind that if they didn't co-operate I was going to close them down.' RIM's case hinged on proving that Mr. Campana's patents were not valid because other people had already invented wireless e-mail by the time he applied for his patents in 1991. One of RIM's key witnesses was David Keeney, whose company TeckNow had mastered an e-mail process called System for Automated Messages, or SAM, in 1987.
To prove his point, RIM's lawyers had Mr. Keeney perform a dramatic demonstration for the jury. Using two old laptop computers and a pager, he explained how he could send a text message using SAM. Then he typed Tommy, the deal is closed which quickly appeared on the pager.
The demonstration was crucial for RIM because it proved that Mr. Keeney's work had predated Mr. Campana's by at least four years and it made his 1991 patents invalid.
The only problem was that to get the demonstration to work, TeckNow and RIM had secretly swapped in newer software. NTP's lawyer spotted the discrepancy and cornered Mr. Keeney and RIM officials during cross-examination. After a few more minutes of struggling to explain how the newer version was installed, Judge Spencer cut Mr. Keeney off and told the jury to leave the room. I'll count to 10. I don't want to yell at you, the judge said, admonishing RIM's legal team for the deception.
Then he called the jury back in and told them to disregard the RIM demonstration the demo that was supposed to seal its case. It was the turning point in the trial: A judge telling jurors that the defendant's key piece of evidence was fabricated.
It was a pretty nifty demonstration, said Mr. Wallace, NTP's lead lawyer. There's no doubt about that. It was just fraudulent . . . The jury now knows they tried to pull a fast one.
It took the jury barely four hours to reach a verdict. They found not only that RIM had infringed on NTP's patents, but that its conduct had been willful. The court assessed damages of $23-million (U.S.) and a royalty based on the number of BlackBerrys RIM sold in the United States.
NTP applied to Judge Spencer to have the damages enhanced, in part because of RIM's actions during the trial. He agreed, citing the botched demonstration, calling it fraudulent and said RIM had consistently engaged in a variety of questionable litigation tactics throughout the course of this action.
The judge's ruling swelled the damages to $53-million plus about $4.5-million in legal fees. He also increased the royalty to 8.55 per cent.
Through arrogance, blunder and bad advice, RIM's potential bill had shot up from a few million dollars before the trial to roughly $20-million when its case headed south at trial, to now hundreds of millions of dollars.
And still Mr. Lazaridis and RIM didn't settle. Friends and colleagues say Mr. Lazaridis is uncompromising by nature. Mike is the kind of guy who doesn't make business compromises. You know how people plead guilty, even when they know they're innocent, just to get a reduced sentence Mike wouldn't do that, says Bill Frezza, who worked with RIM on prototype wireless devices in the early 1990s while he worked at Ericsson Canada Ltd.
RIM's legal hole grew deeper still. Judge Spencer issued a surprise order barring the sale of BlackBerrys in the United States. He agreed to stay the injunction if RIM would put an amount equal to the damage award in escrow. The total is now more than $240-million.
NTP wasn't an acronym any more. It had become a serious threat to RIM. By the time Judge Spencer issued his ruling, Mr. Campana had sold ESA and was battling esophageal cancer. A heavy smoker all his life, Mr. Campana underwent radiation treatment and surgery that removed much of his esophagus. He died on June 8, 2004, at the age of 57.
Even in the last few months of his life, Mr. Campana remained proud and defiant, his father recalls. When I asked him how's it going, he said I don't know dad, you know what? I'd just as soon shut them down because I don't want to see them get away with something like that.' He was a stubborn bugger. He wasn't going to let them get away with it. He was a typical Bill Gates of electronics. He came from out of nothing. What he did, he did with his hands and his mind. I must say I can't blame him for not wanting to get cheated.
Mr. Lazaridis and Mr. Balsillie were equally bent on winning. Immediately after the trial, RIM fired its lawyers and launched an appeal. But that too failed, and so at the end of 2004 the company's new lawyers, Howrey LLP, urged its client to raise the white flag. The result was a $450-million settlement.
But the deal collapsed within months. Rather than improving its offer, RIM launched yet another appeal this time to the U.S. Supreme Court. That too would eventually fail.
Around the same time, RIM also mounted a major lobbying and public relations push in Washington. It was eager to convince policy makers that it was the victim of patent trolling gone wild and a dysfunctional patent system. It hired two Americans it knew well former ambassadors Mr. Giffin and Mr. Blanchard and their respective law firms to persuade members of Congress to save the BlackBerry.
They were beginning to recognize that the public policy environment can affect their business in the United States, says Mr. Giffin, who was the U.S. envoy in Ottawa from 1997 to 2001.
Mr. Giffin, who heads the public policy and regulatory practice of Atlanta-based law firm McKenna Long & Aldridge, explains that his job is to offer RIM a bit of strategic advice on the Washington environment.
The job of Mr. Blanchard, who was ambassador from 1993 to 1996, and his colleagues at Washington-based DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary was to push the cause of patent reform in Congress, and more specifically, to sway the famously sluggish patent office into speeding up its review of NTP's disputed patents. RIM calculated that Judge Spencer would never turn off millions of BlackBerrys to protect invalidated patents.
RIM and its defenders in Congress played their trump card invoking the spectre of another major terrorist attack in Washington. Several lawmakers, impressed that their own BlackBerrys had not failed on Sept. 11, 2001, while cellphones everywhere went dead, warned in hearings that shutting off the devices threatened national security. Even House Speaker Dennis Hastert the top Republican in Congress and an avid BlackBerry user intervened on RIM's behalf.
The gambit worked. Soon the patent office was spitting out reviews in record time, calling into question the validity of NTP's patents and giving RIM its first bit of good news in years. RIM's reviews had jumped the queue at the notoriously apolitical patent office, surprising even experienced Washington intellectual property lawyers.
The endgame isn't over. Legal experts still expect RIM will have to cough up hundreds of millions of dollars to end its nightmare. Even with most of NTP's patents in technical disrepute, the U.S. justice system has made them legally valid.
A clutch of people are about to become very, very rich. Two-thirds of any settlement would go to Mr. Stout and Mr. Campana's widow and second wife, Joletta, plus a handful of investors who helped finance the case. The rest would go to Mr. Wallace and his team at Wiley Rein & Fielding, which fronted a large chunk of the legal costs in return for a third of the eventual proceeds.
They're holding a lottery ticket they want to cash out, explains a legal source with knowledge of the dispute. You're going to see Bentley dealers do very well when this case is over. This case isn't worth that much. It should have been settled a long time ago.
Mr. Stout insists he's not in a hurry to wind up the biggest case of his long career. The notoriety has brought him several new clients. He and his wife have three cars and a nice house. Their kids are out of college.
You can get mesmerized by the amount of money involved, if that's what it's all about, Mr. Stout says. The money isn't in anyone's chequing account. You can't spend what you don't have. So it's business as usual.
Mr. Stout, who used to talk to Mr. Campana almost daily, says the money will mean a lot more to Mr. Campana's widow and the Campana family. And it will affirm the value of his life's work, which his family complains has been publicly trashed by RIM.
I don't like seeing NTP referred to as a patent troll company, says Tom Campana III, Mr. Campana's son. I take it personally.
Today, more than five years into the fight, Mr. Lazaridis has learned how to handle the emotional ride. But behind the calm demeanour, it's clear that for him, too, this fight is personal. It's his word against that of a rival inventor who still threatens from beyond the grave to destroy the BlackBerry.
There's a tremendous amount of innovation and hard work that goes into taking an idea and realizing it and then making it into a product, Mr. Lazaridis says defiantly. There are 16 million lines of code in BlackBerry. Sixteen million. It's hard to imagine 16 million lines of code. They all have to work in harmony and perfection to make this thing do its job. Are you trying to tell me that one little concept is more important than another little concept, and that it didn't take man-years and man-years of effort to make all that stuff work?
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kozel wanderingjew Kozel, I thought this was a thread about people who have passed on, not about people who choose to no longer post If I remember correctly, he is or was ancient. Not sure if he ever had any personal contact with anyone here that can report on his health. I'm hoping for the best but assuming the worst. If I'm wrong, I'd gladly apologize.
wanderingjew Kozel, I thought this was a thread about people who have passed on, not about people who choose to no longer post
WarToad For whatever reasons, Seafarer John and I had a fun and friendly rapport on this forum. I do miss his always kind words. Much in his style, he wrote his own obituary for those who care to read further. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/poughkeepsiejournal/obituary.aspx?pid=163778138#sthash.fhY6Ldoz.dpbs
NYNM How do you know they are in the Big Meet and Greet? Are some of them just chowing down elsewhere?
Foodbme A very interesting Obituary and insight into a man's life. Leaves me feeling like I know him.
buffetbuster Thanks so much to WJ for calling and letting me know of Dennis Brown's passing. Like he and CarolinaBob mentioned, Dennis was one of the good guys. He was very frank about his health, yet remained in high spirits and loved to talk Carolina bbq. He will be missed!


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Scientists Warn of Risks From Growth Hormone
Studies suggest healthy older people live longer with lower levels of HGH
Does human growth hormone have antiaging powers? Or does it contribute to heightened cancer risk and earlier death? The complex science in the area suggests the answer is yes to both.
Growth hormone, a biochemical that helps stimulate cell growth and division, is given to children and teens with low natural supplies to increase their growth. Increasingly, healthy older individuals also are taking it to improve the appearance of skin, increase muscle tone and for other purported benefits....


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Uncyclopedia:Anniversaries/September 21
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September 21: Cola Wars Armistice Day, International Sweat like a Rapist day
- 454 - Roman Emperor Valentinian III assassinates his general Aëtius after a dispute over the merits of Coke and Pepsi.
- 1066 - Harold is disgusted to find he has got sweat patches on his favour armour. As he is changing behind a tree a stealth agent shoots him in the eye.
- 1780 - American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point and the secret formula to Coke.
- 1828 - That Guy, not This Guy is born in Lower Throat-Warbling, Kent
- 1918 - Treaty of Cadbury-Schwepps marks the cessation of violence in the first Cola War
- 1947 - The Coke plan is set up to aid falling Coca Cola sales in Europe. Pepsi will have none of this, condemming it as cola sales imperialism.
- 1952 - Pepsi introduces the "So much better than Coke that it makes me feel sick" plan, and sets up 'Pepsicon'. Coca Cola is banned from the USSR. This triggers the Cold Cola War.
- 1972 - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos issues Proclamation No. 1081 placing the country under martial law and making Pepsi the official drink of the Phillipines.
- 1978 - Earth, Wind, and Fire remember the 21st night of September. They then proceed to drinking Coke.
- 1983 - Ferdinand Marcos directs a confused man to the local garage to purchase Pepsi.
- 1985 - Coca Cola invents Mountain Dew, Infringing on Pepsi's trademark, starting Cola War II.
- 1986 - Colonel Sanders surrenders his forces to PepsiCo at the Battle of Kentucky; Chicken Little announces that "the sky is falling!"
- 1987 - Hershey's mediates a treaty between Pepsi Cola and Coca Cola, ending Cola War II after much bloodshed in Central American plantations.
- 1992 - Coca Cola creates Dr peper, in a retaliation to Pepsi's Root Beer creation. The war continues with much hard earned, rapist like sweat
- 1998 - 7-Up nominated for Oscar
- 1999 - The impending Millennium celebrations force Royal Crown Cola to formulate a strategy to take down its opposition.
- 2001 - Rioting in Paris. Rioting ensues.
- 2006 - Royal Crown Cola declares war on Pepsi Cola and Coca Cola, proclaiming "Death to the American Capitalist Swine".
- 2007 - The day Tetris broke. Anti-bullying day occurs, the masses dress in pink and Pepto Bismol drips to death, pink unicycle spotted on national television.
- 2009 - Rola Cola assassinates Royal Crown Cola, Coca Cola and Pepsi, in that order, they never stood a chance.
- 2009 - Laugh at Rhys's misfortune day.
- 2010 - Highly anticipated racing game, Test Drive Unlimited 2, scheduled for release, but is postponed due to turbulent Coca Cola-Pepsi relations.


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Foxhole Pickin' Party http://www.foxholebluegrass.com
"The Foxhole Pickin' Party" is a week long musical event held in the Catskill Mountains of New York every July. The venue is a 50 acre field on a working hay farm on top of a hill with panoramic views of the surrounding hillsides and valleys. Attendees are bluegrass music musicians and enthusiasts of all ages who enjoy camping, picking and listening to bluegrass music http://www.foxholebluegrass.com
We are targeting folks interested in acoustic music, socializing, and camping. The goal is to create interest in the event and to provide a fun time for all those who join us. The folks that attend this event are a mix of serious musicians and music festival enthusiasts. The atmosphere is relaxed and lazy for those that enjoy music and camping with several hundred friends, Think friendly diluted deadheads.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals court indicated that the bitter legal tussle between business software maker Oracle Corp. and rival SAP over a jury's $1.3 billion copyright infringement verdict should head back to a trial court for more litigation.
The three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco heard oral arguments in the case on Tuesday.
The 7-year-old legal battle revolves around SAP's $10 million acquisition of a small software services firm TomorrowNow that had promised to help corporate customers and government agencies maintain the applications that they had purchased from Oracle. After SAP took over TomorrowNow in 2005, Oracle uncovered evidence that TomorrowNow was breaking into Oracle's computers to steal instruction manuals and other technical information about copyrighted software.
Oracle filed a lawsuit in 2007 and trial started three years later. SAP acknowledged much of the misconduct alleged by Oracle, but argued damages weren't much more than $40 million.
A jury decided otherwise and awarded Oracle $1.3 billion. But a trial judge in 2011 called the verdict in favor of Oracle excessive and reduced it by about $1 billion. Oracle appealed to the 9th Circuit.
On Tuesday, 9th Circuit Judge Susan Graber said the final award ``seems low given the evidence.'' Graber's colleague, Judge William Fletcher, also expressed disagreement with damages awarded Oracle. None of the three judges on the panel offered a figure of their own and the case could be sent back to the trial court judge for another trial over damages.
SAP lawyer Greg Lanier argued against reinstating the $1.3 billion or sending the case back to the trial court. Lanier said the U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton was right to reduce the jury's verdict because jurors were "inflamed by a lot of evidence of theft." Lanier argues that the jury based its verdict on what SAP would have paid Oracle if SAP properly licensed Oracle's software. But SAP argues that's an incorrect way to calculate damages because Oracle would never have licensed its software to a fierce rival like SAP.
Oracle lawyer Kathleen Sullivan argued that her client should be compensated for the "fair-market value'' of the software copied and that the jury's verdict should be reinstated.
SAP lawyers counter that the trial court judge got it right in reducing the verdict, ruling that Oracle would never have licensed its software to a direct competitor.
A written ruling from the appeals court is expected in the coming weeks.


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Sirolimus in Treating Patients With HIV-Related Kaposi's Sarcoma
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00450320
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : March 22, 2007
Last Update Posted : August 29, 2014
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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as sirolimus, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Sirolimus also may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth and by blocking blood flow to the tumor.
PURPOSE: This pilot study is studying sirolimus in treating patients with HIV-related Kaposi's sarcoma.
|Condition or disease
|Drug: sirolimus
|Phase 1
- Determine the safety and toxicity of sirolimus in patients with HIV-related Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) receiving protease inhibitor (PI)-based or nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI)-based highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) regimens.
- Estimate the dose(s) of this drug required to achieve target trough sirolimus plasma concentrations of 5-10 ng/mL in patients receiving PI-based or NNRTI-based HAART regimens.
- Evaluate the clinical response of KS in patients treated with this sirolimus.
- Determine the effects of this drug on mTOR-dependent signaling in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and KS tumor biopsies.
- Determine the serum cytokine profiles pre- and post-treatment with this drug.
- Determine the effects of this drug on HIV and KS-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) viral loads.
- Determine the effects of this drug on T-lymphocyte subsets.
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study. Patients are assigned to 1 of 3 treatment groups.
- Group 1 (patients receiving PI-based HAART regimen with ritonavir): Patients receive oral sirolimus 0.0015 mg/kg/day once daily on days 1-28 for 6 courses as long as KS is stable or the disease is continuing to respond to treatment. Patients may receive 6 additional courses provided they meet criteria for response in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with no more than stable disease after 6 courses are discontinued from treatment.
- Group 2 (patients receiving PI-based HAART regimen without ritonavir): Patients receive oral sirolimus 0.003 mg/kg/day as in group 1.
- Group 3 (patients receiving NNRTI-based HAART regimen): Patients receive oral sirolimus 0.05 mg/kg/day as in group 1.
Blood samples are collected periodically and analyzed for sirolimus levels via LCMSMS.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 10 patients will be accrued for this study.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|7 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Pilot Study of Rapamycin in Patients With HIV-Related Kaposi's Sarcoma
|Study Start Date :
|October 2007
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|September 2009
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|September 2009
Active Comparator: Rapamycin
The target rapamycin trough level will be 5-10 ng/mL. The initial dose will be dependent upon the type of HAART regimen.
Drug: sirolimus
The target rapamycin trough level will be 5-10 ng/mL. The initial dose will be dependent upon the type of HAART regimen. Subjects will continue on study protocol for six cycles as long as their KS is stable or continuing to respond to study medication. Treatment will be extended for up to six additional cycles if the subject has met criteria for a response. Subjects with no more than stable disease will have treatment discontinued after six cycles. Protocol treatment will be discontinued if the subject develops tumor progression, unacceptable toxicity or develops one of the protocol-defined reasons for treatment discontinuation at any time during the study.
Other Name: rapamycin
- Safety and toxicity [ Time Frame: All study visits ]
- Dose of sirolimus required to achieve target trough sirolimus plasma concentration [ Time Frame: Days 8, 15, 21, 29, 43, 57, 85, 113, and every 28 days thereafter ]
- Clinical response [ Time Frame: Days 1, 29, 57, 85, every 28 days thereafter, at treatment discontinuation, and at study discontinuation. ]
- Effect of sirolimus on mTOR-dependent signaling in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) tumor biopsies [ Time Frame: baseline, days 1, 15, 29, 57, 113, every 28 days thereafter, study discontinuation ]
- Serum cytokine profile [ Time Frame: baseline, days 1, 15, 29, 57, 113, every 28 days thereafter, study discontinuation ]
- Effect of sirolimus on HIV and KS-associated herpesvirus viral loads [ Time Frame: Days 1, 15, 29, 57, 113, every 28 days thereafter, study discontinuation ]
- Effect of sirolimus on T-lymphocyte subsets [ Time Frame: Baseline, Days 29, 113, and at treatment discontinuation ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Biopsy-proven Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) involving 1 or more of the following tissues:
- Skin
- Lymph nodes
- Oral cavity
Gastrointestinal tract and/or lungs, if the disease meets the following criteria:
- Asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic
- Require systemic cytotoxic therapy
At least five measurable, previously non-irradiated, cutaneous lesions (indicator lesions)
- Three non-indicator cutaneous lesions ≥ 4 x 4 mm accessible for 3-mm punch biopsy
Serologic documentation of HIV infection (i.e., positive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, positive western blot, or other federally approved licensed HIV test, or a detectable blood level of HIV RNA)
- CD4 count > 50 cells/µL
- Serum HIV RNA level < 400 copies/mL
- KS that is either stable or progressing in the 4 weeks prior to study entry after being on stable antiretroviral therapy for ≥ 12 weeks with a PI-based or NNRTI-based regimen of ≥ 3 drugs, with no intention to change the regimen within 8 weeks of starting study drug
- Karnofsky performance status 70-100%
- Life expectancy ≥ 3 months
- Hemoglobin ≥ 8.0 g/dL
- Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,000/mm³
- Platelet count ≥ 75,000/mm³
- Glomerular filtration rate > 40 mL/min
- Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN) (≤ 3.5 mg/dL if due to indinavir therapy and direct bilirubin normal; no limit if due to atazanavir therapy and direct bilirubin is normal)
- AST and ALT ≤ 2.5 times ULN
- Fasting triglyceride ≤ 400 mg/dL (4.5 mmol/L)
- Total cholesterol ≤ 300 mg/dL (7.8 mmol/L)
- Spot urine protein:creatinine ratio ≤ 0.5 and/or proteinuria ≤ 500 mg
- No other prior or concurrent malignancy except for treated basal cell skin cancer or carcinoma in situ of the cervix
- No evidence of infiltrate, cavitation, or consolidation (i.e., due to infection or other serious medical illness) on chest x-ray within the past 3 months
- No known hypersensitivity to sirolimus or its derivatives or macrolide antibiotics
- No New York Heart Association class III-IV cardiac disease (e.g., myocardial infarction within the past 6 months)
- No other concurrent severe and/or life-threatening medical disease
No acute or known chronic liver disease (e.g., chronic active hepatitis or cirrhosis)
- Hepatitis C with documentation of no or minimal fibrosis on liver biopsy allowed
- No concurrent active opportunistic infection
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective barrier-method contraception during and for 3 months after completion of study therapy
- No prior sirolimus
- No acute treatment for infection or other serious medical illness within the past 14 days
- No anticancer therapy for KS, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or biological therapy within the past 4 weeks (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C)
- No local therapy for any KS indicator lesion within the past 60 days, unless the lesion has progressed since treatment
- No investigational therapies within the past 4 weeks
- No major surgery within the past 2 weeks
No prior or concurrent treatment with agents or medications, other than antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV infection, that would interfere with the metabolism or excretion of sirolimus, including, but not limited to, the following:
- Antifungals (e.g., voriconazole, itraconazole, or ketoconazole)
- Antibiotics (e.g., erythromycin, telithromycin, clarithromycin, rifampin, or rifabutin)
- Cidofovir
- Cisapride
- Diltiazem
- Cyclosporine
- Grapefruit juice
- Hypericum perforatum (St. John's wort)
- No other concurrent anticancer therapies, including chemotherapy, biological therapy, or radiotherapy
- No concurrent systemic corticosteroid treatment, other than replacement doses
- No other concurrent investigational therapies
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00450320
|United States, California
|Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center
|La Jolla, California, United States, 92093-0658
|United States, Massachusetts
|Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
|United States, New York
|Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
|New York, New York, United States, 10065
|Study Chair:
|Susan E. Krown, MD
|Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
|Principal Investigator:
|Dirk Dittmer, PhD
|UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Responsible Party:
|AIDS Malignancy Consortium
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00450320 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
U01CA070019 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
CDR0000536481 ( Other Identifier: NCI )
WYETH-0468X-4420 ( Other Identifier: Wyeth )
|First Posted:
|March 22, 2007 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|August 29, 2014
|Last Verified:
|August 2014
AIDS-related Kaposi sarcoma
recurrent Kaposi sarcoma
DNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sarcoma, Kaposi
Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Herpesviridae Infections
Neoplasms, Vascular Tissue
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Antibiotics, Antineoplastic
Antineoplastic Agents
Antifungal Agents
Immunosuppressive Agents
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs


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Scald the possum, skin the squirrel and broil the mullet. South Florida's pioneers are comin' for dinner.
Old cookbooks published by historical societies in Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale and Pompano Beach dish out delicious bits of history about this region's past. With wacky recipes and illustrations, the books feature ingredients from a bygone era and side orders of interesting stories about the Seminole Indian wars, the Barefoot Mailman and Christmas feasts on the shores of Lake Worth from a hundred warm winters past.
"These cookbooks are like little time capsules," says Merrilyn Rathbun, research director of the Fort Lauderdale Historical Society. "Through the recipes, you can learn how South Floridians lived back in the day."
Look for the books at the historical society headquarters and websites for taste of the rich history rooted in South Florida's swamp and sugar-sand.
"The Pioneer Cook in Southeast Florida," Boca Raton Historical Society (bocahistory.org)
This 70-page gem, published in 1975 and authored by late Florida Atlantic University professor Donald Curl, is in the historical society archives and at the Boca Raton library. It's being republished for sale by the society later this year, says Susan Gillis, curator at the Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum.
Recipes for turtle egg pancakes and mango chutney are shared alongside photographs and stories about pioneers dining on 'possum, biscuits and prickly pear pie on the shores of Lake Worth in 1972.
"Fort Lauderdale Recipes," Fort Lauderdale Historical Society (FortLauderdaleHistoryCenter.org)
The 241-page illustrated cookbook, a bargain at $5, is in its fourth reprinting since being published in 1964. The book, compiled by the society, is filled with recipes from founders and prominent families.
Ivy Stranahan, who along with husband Frank helped establish the city, shared her prize recipe for Orange Marmalade. Green Mango Pie came straight out of the kitchen of Annie Beck, who helped found the Fort Lauderdale Garden Club and All Saints Episcopal Church. The book tells about the massacre of Williams Cooley's family in the New River Settlement in 1836.
"Tasteful Traditions" Pompano Beach Historical Society PompanoHistory.com
Neighbors and friends in Pompano Beach raked their prized recipes into a pile to celebrate the city's centennial in 2008, and the resulting cookbook is available for $15.
The cover of the 106-page, spiral-bound edition sports a vintage image of Pompano peppers and tells how the town got its name from the tasty fish.
"We have some alligator appetizers and Blanche Ely's Apple Cinnamon Dressing," says Judy Knoebel, a society member who edited the book, referring to the noted black educator and activist. "The high school is named after her."


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I've just upgraded my Ubuntu 12.10 to the new 13.04 release (32 bit). I have a P4 @3.04GHz, 2GB of RAM and an AMD Radeon HD6670. After installing the new release I've restarted my computer and since then I've got the AMD Unsupported hardware watermark.
Since I've had some graphics issues (pixels jumping around) under 12.10, I've done the same thing as before, which has fixed the problem (changed the graphic display driver from the Ubuntu release to the proprietary one).
So I've done that again but, instead of leaving the proprietary one I've changed it to the Ubuntu driver (which I thought would be newer). I've restarted my computer and since then I can't see anything properly, just some random yellow bars flickering after the "ready to login" sound. I can't even login or anything.
This release (and the 12.10 after this one) is working great in my other computers (Asus EEE PC 1015PEM and Core email@example.com - 64 bits). I've just experienced such problems under the mentioned config.
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Sunday, April 15, 2007
RaceDay On SPEED: Jimmy Spencer Goes Off!
During this season, RaceDay has been the best NASCAR-themed television show on any cable or broadcast network, hands down. This two hour extravaganza plays host to very serious discussions of NASCAR issues one minute, then features Kenny Wallace completely goofing on something ridiculous. Earlier this season, The Daly Planet referred to it as "Speed-a-palooza." Host John Roberts and reporter Wendy Venturini have established themselves as top TV professionals in the sport through their performance on this series.
Normally, Jimmy Spencer knows his place. As a retired driver with a questionable reputation, Spencer is a great foil for both Kenny Wallace and the numerous guests that appear on the program. He has kept himself well-informed, and grown into a much better television personality with each passing season.
On Sunday, Wendy Venturini presented an excellent two-part feature on Max Siegel, the new President of Global Operations for DEI. During the report, Mr. Siegel and Venturini mentioned Dale Junior's sister Kelley, who is his agent and business manager. It is no secret that getting the two Earnhardt "camps" together is Siegel's key goal. The end of the report led back to the set, where Jimmy Spencer waited. Then, all hell broke loose. And Jimmy Spencer may wind-up regretting it.
"Theresa Earnhardt gave Dale Junior his opportunity to race." It was with those ominous words that Spencer began his comments. After making sure that Junior knew his place, Spencer moved on to Dale's sister, Kelley Earnhardt Elledge. "I am shocked that she kept her middle name. Why keep Earnhardt? I think her ego is so big and she is backing Theresa and Max (Siegel) into corners. She's not a good negotiator. If she was working for someone else they would probably fire her."
Spencer continued his comments with "I think she is using ego to control this direction, and Dale needs to be careful about it." Now done with Kelley, Spencer switched his aim back to Dale Junior, and was very eager to invoke the name of Dale Earnhardt Sr. as the basis of his argument.
"There are a lot of true Dale Earnhard Sr. fans who will lose respect for Dale Junior (if he leaves DEI)." Spencer stated "I don't think Dale Junior needs to leave the organization. I don't like what Kelley (Elledge) is doing...how she is putting them (Theresa and Siegel) in corners."
Spencer closed with "Dale and Theresa and Max need to sit down and get this worked out. If the old man was still living, he would kick Earnhardt (Junior's) butt. I would hate to see that organization fall apart."
Whatever Spencer's motivation, his attack on Kelley Elledge was poorly timed. It has been well-documented that she had just undergone serious surgery, and is in the process of recovering. While she was on-hand at the opening of JR Motorsports new shop this week, she is far from full strength. In addition, RaceDay has always gone out of the way to be fair to all parties involved in NASCAR issues. This time, there was no Earnhardt Junior or Kelley Elledge standing by with Wendy Venturini to address this discussion. Had they been there, Spencer may have been singing a completely different tune.
I believe we have not heard the end of the reaction to these comments on national television. If the print media takes the ball and runs with it, there may be bigger issues on the horizon for Jimmy Spencer than his apparent hatred for Junior's sister.
UPDATE 9PM EASTERN TIME SUNDAY 4/15/07: On the Victory Lane program airing Sunday night at 8PM on SPEED, Jimmy Spencer issued an apology to Dale Earnhardt Junior's sister, Kelley Elledge. In reference to the comments detailed above, Spencer said he "kind of took it personal and he is sorry for what he said to Kelley." From this quote, I believe we can assume that Spencer felt he was somehow representing the interests of Dale Earnhard Sr. in his commentary during the RaceDay program. We can only see what repercussions these strong comments, and this brief apology, have on both the Earnhardt family and the fans.
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- Karen said...
Wow! I think that Jimmy Spencer really overstepped his bounds with his comments about this whole situation (and I'm usually a Jimmy Spencer fan and agree with most of his opinions). First off, none of will ever know how Dale Sr. would have felt about this situation because he isn't here to vocalize his opinion. I also believe that people in the media should really avoid attacking someone's personal choices (as was Jimmy's opinion about Kelly's option to keep her maiden name as part of her name). In point of fact, if Dale Sr. were alive, this situation wouldn't even be happening (in my opinion) because Dale Jr. wouldn't feel the need to have control of situation because someone that he, Dale Jr., loved and trusted would be at the helm of the company that he worked for. As far as Dale Jr. losing the respect of Dale Sr.'s fans, I don't think that has any bearing either. Everyone who was a Dale Sr. fan has different reasons for cheering for Dale Jr. Myself, I was a Dale Jr. fan from the time that he begain driving a late model stock car back in North Carolina and he gained even more of my respect when he stepped up to the plate to be a very sad, but mature young man when the man that he idolized died very suddenly doing something that they both loved. I think it is very shocking and sad that Jimmy Spencer felt it was necessary to personally attack Kelly Earnhardt Elledge and I think the she deserves an apology for his very personal attack .... If I were him, I would avoid the pits of the 8 team for a while!
- April 15, 2007 at 4:45 PM
- toro rosso 83fan said...
How does Jimmy Spencer keep that job? He is unproffesional and constantly talks out of both sides of his mouth(when he is not talking out of other body parts) I do not watch this show anymore because of him.
- April 16, 2007 at 7:28 AM
- RacerX said...
First of all, he keeps his job because he says stuff like that. The media loves controversy and they will pay through the nose to find someone who can toe the line of decency without tripping over it (Don Imus). But I do agree that Jimmy's comments were way off base. First of all, if Dale Sr. were still with us and in control of DEI, Junior would not feel that he needed control to ensure the proper direction of the team. In my opinion, Junior wants majority control because he believes his vision for DEI is closer to the one his father had in comparison to Theresa's vision. I don't think for a minute that he wants control so he can get more money. And you cannot gauge the success of a negotiator until the negotiations are complete. I believe that when the dust clears, Junior is going to get exactly what he asked for.
- April 16, 2007 at 7:54 AM
- bamaheart2 said...
I think Jimmy did right. He called it as he saw it. No other team plays contract issues out in the media and that was the whole purpose of his comments. Dale JR and Kelley both are being spoiled little brats. There are 4 kids in this family. And they are playing on the fans to get pressure put on Teresa and Max. That will backfire. I have lost alot of respect for JR as of late with so many pictures being posted about his life and party and drinking with underage girls at Whiskey River. And the bad point is Kelley is in alot of these pictures. JR does not surround himself with the most qualified people personal or professional. No one wants to see the driver drunk, partying and shooting birds to everyone with a camera much less his famous shocker sign. He needs to keep his private life off the internet and make sure his friends do the same. If he wants ownership, grow up and act like a 32 year old professional. Not some frat boy.
People need to look at JR closely before they jump in his corner. I have been and always will be a Dale Sr fan. I was hoping Jr would show the same class.
Both Jr and Kelley are playing the sympathy card in a lot of this and it just want work in alot of ways.
For those doubters check out the flickr website for pictures. You will find plenty to open you eyes with.
- April 16, 2007 at 8:43 AM
- GinaV24 said...
I understand that controversy is the name of the game with the media these days, but some of the uninformed spouting off that goes on with these shows is a real turnoff for me. Sometimes Spencer and Wallace are funny and sometimes their form of humor (like some of the other shock jocks) just wears thin. Spencer does talk out of both sides of his mouth depending on who is around when he's talking. He could also try and come into the 21st century -- lots of married women keep their maiden names -- its not a real big deal unless you are dealing with someone who has such a fragile male ego that he can't handle it. My opinion -- Dale Sr established DEI for his family -- all of them and Junior is the primary focus of that organization these days. Maybe he's capable of running it, maybe not, but I can see why he wants to make sure that he AND his other family members have a say in how things are run.
- April 16, 2007 at 11:04 AM
- Anonymous said...
I think bamaheart2 hit it right on the head..The pathetic thing is in this day and age.People can't speak their opion without fear..Jimmy was right about 90% of what he said..But guess people can't handle truth..Dale Jr is a good driver.But no means what he is hyped up to be.There are too many people living their Dale Sr dream through him. And lets be real does he really need his sister to talk for him.If hes so bright why not just do his own talking. I think its pathetic that they are trying to gain 51% in the first place. This is a guy that has not even won a chapionship.While his the best of the 2nd teir drivers hes not even in the same class as Jeff G,Tony S,Jimmy J,Matt K.. And Karen get a grip you think a person is mature who does nothing but drink all the time..Has a bar in their basement that he throws parties all the time for..Gets drunk in public and acts a fool..This is mature..hmmm What are you his sister posting this blog undercover...
- April 16, 2007 at 11:45 AM
- Cheryl said...
First, DEI was established by Dale and Teresa. They have always been listed as co-owners. The company was started two years before they were married. Teresa has had a big of stake in this company as Dale Dr. did. Had the company gone bust you can bet she had as much to lose. Who knows where it would be if Dale Sr was still living. I know many women that keep there maiden names, but they utilize them as there last names. I was once told by a college professor to retain your maiden if you married after establishing yourself professionally. I see very few who go around saying my name is Jane Doe Blank. If she said Hi, I am Kelly Ellredge who would know who she is. I think Kelly is using hers so you know she is an Earnhardt.
- April 16, 2007 at 11:52 AM
- Anonymous said...
"Mr. Excitement" has always been "Mr. Two-Face" (witness his critical comments when Michael Waltrip failed to qualify on time for the Daytona 500 vs. how bubbly he became after Waltrip raced his way in); now it looks like he's becoming "Mr. Liability." His insincere apology may as well have included the phrase, "They told me to say this."
- April 16, 2007 at 2:38 PM
- Anonymous said...
So, just because she's recovering from surgery means she's not allowed to be criticized? Please. Let's get over being a bunch of sissies.
- April 16, 2007 at 4:46 PM
- Anonymous said...
Kelley sure is doing the interviews right and left for the cause. And was at the opening. Recovering nicely it seems.
- April 16, 2007 at 5:53 PM
- Anonymous said...
Jimmy spoke the truth. As a long time Dale Sr fan I'm very disappointed in his kids. I think their ego's are cloudung their views. They have forgotten their father's vision and integrity.
- April 17, 2007 at 10:47 AM
- Anonymous said...
I think Sr. left the company to Teresa, because he was expecting Jr. would leave any way. The problem is Jr. doesn't actually want to leave. Trying to run a company while your racing doesn't work too well any more. Just ask Waltrip and Petty. I know they don't have near the talent, but still it can be a distraction. I believe Teresa was more or less running DEI (especially day to day operations) when Sr. was still alive anyways. Look at what Harvick and Jr. have done already with their teams. Delana pretty much runs KHI and Kelley pretty much runs JR motorsports. Does anyone else think if Jr. had signed with Hendrick or Gibbs last go round, he would quite likely have a championship under his belt at this point? But it is hard to leave your father's legacy.
P.S. I think the whole idea of running for RCR is out the window, because who knows if Childress will still be in the game when junior is ready to retire. His father's team effectively is no more, so I think the idea is mute (Although he may change car numbers with whatever team he has at that point). I think the non-point races or April 30/May 1st race for the 2011 could be an idea (Sr. would have turned 60 and if the schedule stays the same for that day it would be at 'Dega)
- April 20, 2007 at 12:21 PM


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Kip Hottmanis a Spanish teacher for the World Language Department at Fern Creek High School (Jefferson County) and was a state fellow for the Hope Street Group from 2013 to 2015. Gail Sowell is the literacy coach at Oldham County High School, and she partnered with Hottman as a peer in his classroom last school year. While this experience exceeded the minimal requirements of peer observation as defined through PGES, Sowell and Hottman were both convinced of the power of the experience to facilitate teacher growth. http://www.kentuckyteacher.org/leadership/guest-columns/2016/03/making-peer-evaluation-work/
Each of the peer observations stirred my passion for teaching and opened my eyes to different strategies for the classroom. The trust and partnerships built through my district's opportunities for peer observation have already helped me grow as a teacher, and I am confident that as I continue to observe other teachers in their element and learn more and more of what works, I will continue to become more effective as a professional."
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