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Not sure how recent this news is, but the website of the SpringRTS based FOSS RTS Zero-K states that their online campaign metagame PlanetWars is now in BETA.
This is a screenshot of the webbased planet overview, which shows how well you (and your clan-mates) are progressing in taking over the galaxy.
Game-play of Zero-K does not change much with this game-mode, but it puts each game into a greater perspective so to say ;) But check out their own description of what PlanetWars is here.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Zero-K PlanetWars meta game
Not sure how recent this news is, but the website of the SpringRTS based FOSS RTS Zero-K states that their online campaign metagame PlanetWars is now in BETA.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
OpenDungeons 0.4.8
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Naev 0.5 beta
Naev, the excellent 2D space combat and trading game, recently released a huge milestone (0.5 beta). It adds a far larger universe with more planets, more gameplay aspects such as electronic warfare, gui improvements and lots more. It also added new features to the game's engine giving developers more tools and features to play around with.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Vertigo Beta
Vertigo is a rather awesome and visually stunning 3d tunnel racing game. It has multiple gameplay modes that give the game quite a bit of variety, although the core gameplay still essentially consists of rolling down a tunnel and dodging/colliding with things :)
Friday, April 22, 2011
Humble Indie Bundle's Source Releases
- When a game has a source release, which is not FOSS-compatible (shy source), contributions will only come from people with high interest in the game. This will improve the game.
- When a game has a FOSS-release, in addition contributions will come from people who think that the game enriches the community. This will improve availability and usability of the game.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Panda Engine Book, Blendswap Upgrade, Avoision Ad
Panda3D 1.7 Game Developer's Cookbook has been published.
Blendswap has more features now. Artists have more control for one thing and can edit their submissions for example.
I suspect that many visitors use Adblock, so let me share this ad that appears on Free Gamer today:
Friday, April 15, 2011
STK 0.7.1, CC to OF, SaRII 2.2.0,jCRPG, CC TXT, OSM and TitA
- SuperTuxKart 0.7.1 released! [great changelog!]
- Former CubeCreate lead dev will now work on OctaForge (so far #octaforge chat is the only piece of infrastructure)
- Search and Rescue II has improved sound and uses OpenAL now
- jClassicRPG's developer wrote short-term goals for the project (also forum registration now works)
- Creative Commons licenses are now officially available in .txt format (for easy inclusion in Your Game Project)
- Adam Drew of Red Hat will webcast about Linux/Open Source music production April 20
- Steampunk MMO project Tempest in the Aether will have an OpenGameArt-featured art contest during Weekend of April 30th - a todo list will be released on April 20th
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Maquetta, IBM's open source WYSIWYG HTML-5 editor
Short quick news related to (more game focused HTML5 editors and game creators) tools we discussed earlier:
Our all beloved corporate overlord IBM, has handed over their internal WYSIWYG HTML-5 editor Maqetta, to the open-source dojo foundation so that it will thrive and be expanded by the community.
The feature list is already quite impressive, and even though I am no HTML-5 programming expert I assume it could be used for game creation already. But of course some extra specific extensions, pre-made game code and easier java-script integration would probably go a long way in making this tool even more user friendly for the game-dev. crowd.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Nikki and the Robots
Nikki and the Robots is an incredibly cute platformer developed by people with exotic taste for revision control [Darcs repo] and programming language (Haskell). Read more on joyride's code page. There's a nikki wiki and a bug tracker.
A story mode is in development, which will be proprietary and for-pay.
Code is under LGPL and free-version-art under CC-BY-SA.
I made a little level pack:
Also: t-shirts!
Friday, April 08, 2011
SDL.License = "zlib"; SDL.License != "LGPL"; TRUE
SDL is now zlib-licensed [announcement].
Galaxy Gameworks will no longer be selling licenses to SDL, but will continue to support our existing customers.
SDL development will continue, but will largely be community driven and Ryan and I will continue to coordinate patch integration and SDL releases. We will be working to make it easier to contribute in a variety of ways, and are looking for people interested in helping out.
This piece of info came from @icculus and by the way: I didn't even know that SDL originated in Loki Software before icculus' talk. Wikipedia's SDL history is an interesting read (two paragraphs only too :) ).
The company behind SDL's commercial licensing has been Galaxy Gameworks for the last 2-3 years. The company will close doors to enhance a family's life if I read this post correctly.
(Have fun complaining about my source code title. I don't even know how to C. ;) )
PS: Would anyone like to contribute (to) a post about GSoC? I know how to compile a list of game projects that are involved but have never been involved with it in any form or even talked about it much with a participant about it.
icculus' "Gaming on Linux" (adjusted for open source context :) )
A 1-hour talk. By a pretty cool guy called @icculus called Ryan C. Gordon. About games and open source.
Teaser: "We only did this because Linux gives us a woodie."
More talk recordings from the Flourish conference 2011 are here. If you have trouble with playback in the browser, you can always download the .m4v or .ogv files.
I enjoy watching Machinima's All Your History series. The 5-part id Software history is slightly relevant here, since you know.. open source fps engines.
Thursday, April 07, 2011
Myst Online Finally goes Open Source
They also re-opened their servers for anyone to play for free, so sign up, check it out, and donate! Unfortunately no Linux support at the moment, but hopefully a porting effort gets started soon (linux client here: http://plasmaclient.info ?)
To contribute, check out their development site here: http://www.openuru.org/
Edit: Kaelis, a long time community member, asked people to check out https://github.com/H-uru/Plasma as well, being run by a different group of people
Monday, April 04, 2011
Search and Rescue I 1.3.0 and SaR II 2.0.0
The 1.3.0 release of Search and Rescue mostly contains improvements from the fork SaRII and I'm not sure why the forking happened but I'm glad to read that it happened without bad blood. :)
SaRII aims for better looks and ease of use and it seems that SaR will take improvements from the fork but will also try to maintain backwards compatibility.
There are many ways to collaborate with the project [SaRII]:It'd be great for SaR to be easier to get started with.
- Designing new scenario files (no deep programming knowledge required)
- Designing some new missions (no deep programming knowledge required)
- Designing some new graphics and backgrounds for the menus.
- Finding and fixing bugs
- Improving documentation
- Adding new features
- Porting SaR II to other OSs
- Donating some cash
I will use page2rss.com to track changes of these two projects.
Sunday, April 03, 2011
Stunt Rally 1.1
Stunt Rally now compiles on Linux!
There is a two-part text-commented video tutorial for making new tracks on youtube [p1 | p2]. Check out this channel if you want to see more videos of the game.
Technology-wise the game is VDrift + Ogre + Pagedgeometry (also used in DungeonHack) + MyGUI.
Thumbs up to the project website following the "big screenshots on main page"-philosophy!
Friday, April 01, 2011
Free Gamer = Freeware Gamer
I was thinking of writing an April fool's post but then started thinking over how confusing the terms "Free Software" and "Free" and "FOSS" often prove to be and after a quick chat that included all the authors of Free Gamer we will turn to Freeware because there are many more games in freeware space and it's much easier to deal with games when you don't care about licenses too much.
So I present to you: Freeware Gamer (site redesign and re-branding pending).
Stay tuned for lots of updates on games we played on Newgrounds and Facebook!


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Joint Meetings 2009 — day 1
Well, I made some good non-academic contacts already. I'd rather not go into details, since being too talky might be a problem when prospective employers look to Google and find me as the top hit for my name and subject. But I'm feeling good about my prospects, even without looking at the wilds of federal government and contracting jobs.
Anyhow, as for mathematics there were a number of good talks, but most of them were either what was expected from the speaker, or felt pretty technical. One, though, really grabbed me. Kerry Luse, formerly a student of Yongwu Rong's at George Washington, spoke about "A transition polynomial for signed Feynman diagrams". She started with the chord diagram of a knot and added a sign to each chord. If you read the signs as orientations, you get Feynman diagrams for a single species of noninteracting, non-self-dual particles. Alternately, you can interpret the diagrams as arising from RNA secondary structures, as she did. Either way, she was looking for a polynomial invariant to be calculated from such a diagram, and she came up with some really interesting results from her choice. One property in particular was the fact that the resulting polynomial (as applied to chord diagrams arising from knots) is multiplicative under connected sums of links. This makes me think it's got something to do with the Alexander polynomial.
She also mentioned chord diagrams for links, with more than one loop, which I don't think I've ever considered as such. Immediately this made me think of extending to tangles (naturally), and then that these chord diagrams may themselves form a category of their own. Is there some sort of duality here? If so it might turn connected sum on one side into disjoint union on the other side, which could provide a fascinating connection between classical and quantum topology…
See, I'm not going to be stopping research, and definitely not stopping this project here (thanks, btw, for the comments), but I just need to get out of the academic game I've been playing the last few years.
Anyhow, since it's been weeks since I've been at home cooking for myself (thanks to Dad insisting on doing it all), I figured I'd have a bonus "I (Didn't) Made It!":
At the Afghan Grill, just around the corner from the Marriott, I'm having the mantoo, and across the table from me is the lamb qabili palao. So who ordered the Afghan equivalent of biryani?
This guy! I also ran into Jesse Johnson this morning. Oh, and if Sarah from John Hopkins is reading this and is at the meetings, she really needs to drop me an email so she can join the fun.
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Well, there are all kinds of teaching opportunities outside, as you say, academia. Here's one (somewhat glorified, but still…) view of direct instruction like you do on this blog. Practically, I guess teaching on the interwebs you can be as independent as you like or as cheaply as you can live–or as generous as your students are via paypal (donations). From http://edge.org/q2009/q09_2.html:
"There are many scary things about today's world. But one that is truly thrilling is that the means of spreading both knowledge and inspiration have never been greater. Five years ago, an amazing teacher or professor with the ability to truly catalyze the lives of his or her students could realistically hope to impact maybe 100 people each year. Today that same teacher can have their words spread on video to millions of eager students. There are already numerous examples of powerful talks that have spread virally to massive Internet audiences.
Driving this unexpected phenomenon is the fact that the physical cost of distributing a recorded talk or lecture anywhere in the world via the internet has fallen effectively to zero. This has happened with breathtaking speed and its implications are not yet widely understood. But it is surely capable of transforming global education.
For one thing, the realization that today's best teachers can become global celebrities is going to boost the caliber of those who teach. For the first time in many years it's possible to imagine ambitious, brilliant 18-year-olds putting 'teacher' at the top of their career choice list. Indeed the very definition of "great teacher" will expand, as numerous others outside the profession with the ability to communicate important ideas find a new incentive to make that talent available to the world. Additionally every existing teacher can greatly amplify their own abilities by inviting into their classroom, on video, the world's greatest scientists, visionaries and tutors. (Can a teacher inspire over video? Absolutely. We hear jaw-dropping stories of this every day.)"
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North Carolina Driver's License & Permit FAQ
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- Proof of Social Security Number
- Proof of Residency
- Driving eligibility certificate or high school diploma
- Driver's education certificate (younger than 18)
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Regent Seven Seas Cruises Launches New Blog: Luxury Goes Exploring Chronicling the Culture, Cuisine
Posted on January 15, 2013
At the Condé Nast Traveler Exchange - The Travel Specialists Summit in Grand Cayman, Regent Seven Seas Cruises announced its new blog, Luxury Goes Exploring. The blog, which launches today, celebrates the tastes and traditions of the places that the all-inclusive luxury line visits along with valuable insider tips and destination information guests can use when planning their cruise vacation.
"Our discerning guests share our passion for exploring the world and learning more about the people, the culture and the food of the more than 300 ports of call we visit a year," said Randall Soy, the line's executive vice president. "The new blog and our enhanced social media efforts on Facebook and Twitter will provide guests with fascinating and useful information about the ports they will visit and give them a more intimate experience with cultures and customs of the world."
As part of this effort, the line announced the appointment of Mara Papatheodorou as its special contributing editor. Papatheodorou, a taste and traditions expert, will provide a regular blog feature called Sail, Sip & Savor. A former editor at Bon Appétit magazine who oversaw the magazine's international and entertaining stories, Papatheodorou will explore the history of cuisine and culture in popular ports of call and will also provide suggestions on where to dine locally and shop for special ingredients and other products unique to the region.
From Papatheodorou's extensive travels with a culinary perspective, she knows it is all there for the tasting whether it is limoncello in Capri, pizza in Naples, herbs in Provence, honey in Greece, whiskey in Scotland, paella in Valencia or gelato in Florence. As Papatheodorou says, "the joy of travel mixed with the intrigue of ingredients of a country's culture and cuisine is a delicious and unforgettable combination." She will also share her insights on the line's Facebook page and Twitter feeds.
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Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "Yo Invito" This episode covers phrases used when ordering food in a restaurant.G
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Clifford The Big Red Dog "Fan Mail/Hooray for Cleo" Clifford's Big Idea: Believe in Yourself Emily Elizabeth writes a fan letter to her favorite pop star and discovers - with the help of Mr. Bleakman - that sometimes wishes do come true. (Literacy episode.) HOORAY FOR CLEO - Clifford's Big Idea: Be Honest Cleo withholds information and makes everyone think she's a beachball playing star. D
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Arthur "Based on a True Story (Part 1 & 2)" There's a new kid in town: Ladonna Compson, the Louisiana native with the gift of gab. Ladonna charms Arthur and friends with her amazing "true" stories. But are her stories really fact. D
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Martha Speaks "Wagstaff Races/The Missing Metal Mystery" Wagstaff Races - Wagstaff City's environmental club is having a "Go Green Go-Cart Race," fueled by alternative energy. Using sun, wind, and pond scum, the gang gathers at the starting line. Who will win the trophy - and most importantly, how? Vocabulary: (E) energy, solar, alternative, convert, generate (I) cart, (re)use, green, power, parts. D
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Curious George "Honey of a Monkey/Curious George's Egg Hunt" Honey of a Monkey - George and Steve are in a sticky situation when they accidentally eat all of Betsy's honeycomb. Will their homemade beehive produce enough honeycomb in time for Betsy's Earth Day presentation, or will she be buzzing mad? Curious George's Egg Hunt - George and Allie have discovered an egg in the grass with no nest in sight. Where is the egg's mother? They search high and low to find the right bird's nest but no egg will match. D
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Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Pick Your Friends/ Finola's Farm" Pick Your Friends - It's Valentine's Day and Nick and Sally disagree hotly on how to decorate the card they're making for the Cat. Does this mean they aren't really best friends? The Cat takes them to meet Sheldon, a tortoise who knows all about friendship. They learn that Sheldon's best friend is completely different from him and that being best friends doesn't mean you always have to agree. D
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Super Why! "The Prince and the Pauper" Whyatt thinks his house is too loud while Princess Pea believes her home is too quiet! Would the friends be better-off if they switched places? To look for a solution, Super Why and his friends encounter two friends just as they are about to switch houses. A prince on the farm and a pauper in a castle soon leads to chaos and confusion! Where will everyone be the happiest? Educational Objectives: To learn to appreciate where you're from. Kids will experiment with the alphabet, celebrate spelling and use the power to read to change the story. D
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Dinosaur Train "Dinosaur Big City, Pt. 3/Dinosaur Big City, Pt. 4" Dinosaur Big City Part III - The Dinosaur Train arrives in Laramidia, the Dinosaur Big City, and Buddy and the Pteranodon family explore the crowded "dinosaur metropolis." At the Theropod Convention, our kids reunite with Annie Tyrannosaurus and her parents Dolores and Boris, and they all meet the multi-horned mayor, Mayor Kosmoceratops! Dinosaur Big City Part IV - Buddy and Tiny help King Cryolophosaurus overcome his fear of performing in front of his biggest audience ever, and he wows a large dinosaur audience when he sings his new song, "Whole Lotta Theropods" at the Theropod Convention in Laramidia, the Dinosaur Big City. D
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Sesame Street "Great Vibrations" Bob is conducting a class of kids playing different musical instruments. Abby walks by and is amazed by the beautiful music. Bob offers to teach her, but first, she needs to choose an instrument. D
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Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood "Friends Help Each Other/Daniel Helps O Tell A Story" Friends Help Each Other - Daniel spends the day at Katerina Kittycat's house. Katerina is excited to show Daniel a birthday tea-party she set up all by herself for her stuffed animals! Katerina accidentally knocks the tea set on the floor, and is very upset that she ruined the party. Luckily, Daniel is a helpful friend and they reassemble the party together. D
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Sid The Science Kid "Save The Stump!" Sid is super excited because his Dad is clearing out space in the yard for a basketball court! While Sid and Dad are surveying the land, Sid notices a big stump teeming with little creatures! During a special field trip to The Science Center, Sid and his friends discover that there are animal habitats all around us, even in old stumps, and if one habitat is destroyed, all of the other habitats and animals are affected. (Educational objective - Habitats). D
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WordWorld "Dog's Having A Party/Dog Wants to Play Ball" Dog's Having a Party - Dog and Duck want to throw a house party at Dog's house. But all they have is the letter H, and they don't know what to do with it! With the help of Sheep they soon realize that H is a fabulous letter; with it they can make hotdogs, hats, hula-hoops and a great party indeed. Hurray! Dog Wants to Play Ball - Dog wants to play ball, but he's having trouble communicating with his friends because they won't stop and listen to him. D
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Caillou "Thoughtful Caillou" Helping Mrs. Howard: Mrs. Howard has sprained her ankle, and Caillou wants to help her around the house. Only, Caillou worries that his "help" is creating havoc - until Mrs. Howard explains that Caillou has been a big help - simply by being there as a friend. Educational Objective: Friendship is often the best form of help. D
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Barney & Friends "Big Brother Rusty: China" Barney's excited to find out that Rusty's family is adopting a new baby girl from China; however, Rusty feels differently. He's not sure if he's going to be a good brother, and he doesn't know much about China. Barney takes him, BJ and Baby Bop on an adventure to China where he can learn more about his new sister's heritage. D
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Thomas & Friends "Wild Weather" It's a rainy day on the Island of Sodor. Big puddles are everywhere. Thomas decides to have a game of splashing puddles with Rosie. D
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Curious George "Honey of a Monkey/Curious George's Egg Hunt" Honey of a Monkey - George and Steve are in a sticky situation when they accidentally eat all of Betsy's honeycomb. Will their homemade beehive produce enough honeycomb in time for Betsy's Earth Day presentation, or will she be buzzing mad? Curious George's Egg Hunt - George and Allie have discovered an egg in the grass with no nest in sight. Where is the egg's mother? They search high and low to find the right bird's nest but no egg will match. D
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Martha Speaks "Wagstaff Races/The Missing Metal Mystery" Wagstaff Races - Wagstaff City's environmental club is having a "Go Green Go-Cart Race," fueled by alternative energy. Using sun, wind, and pond scum, the gang gathers at the starting line. Who will win the trophy - and most importantly, how? Vocabulary: (E) energy, solar, alternative, convert, generate (I) cart, (re)use, green, power, parts. D
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The Electric Company "Electric Accompany" Annie hypnotizes Keith to sing an annoying jingle. The Electric Company needs to cure Keith in time for him to perform the song he wrote for his dad's birthday. D
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WordGirl "Victoria Best/Showdown at the Secret Spaceship Hideout" Victoria Best - New student (and villain) Victoria Best wins all but one of the trophies at the school assembly. When Becky's trophy goes missing, WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face come up with a contest that will thwart Victoria's evil trophy stealing plans. Showdown at the Super Secret Spaceship Hideout - During the latest encounter between WordGirl and Dr. Two Brains, Two-Brains hits himself with his snooze-ray. D
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Wild Kratts "To Touch A Hummingbird" Martin and Chris realize that the Hummingbird might be the ultimate flier in the Creature world and ask Aviva to create a new power disc with its powers. The only problem - it's not easy to touch Hummingbird!. D
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Cyberchase "Designing Mr. Perfect" Frustrated that she can't find Mr. Perfect, The Wicked Witch sets out to design him, by turning a frog into her Prince Charming. Unknowingly, however, Wicked captures and transforms Digit instead of a frog. Her sympathetic wand, Wanda (Danica McKellar), secretly alerts the CyberSquad who jump into action. D
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Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman "Eureka' Is Not A Brand of Dog Food" Ruff's owner is running him ragged making him fetch, so he sends Emmie and Shreya to build him a vehicle he can ride on so he doesn't have to run. He then sends Jay and Marco to invent another device that will make his life easier. D
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Nightly Business Report Tonight on Nightly Business Report, stocks soared to record highs thanks to comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Nuveen's Bob Doll tells us where he's finding the best investment opportunities now. And, predictions of pain at the pump. D
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FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany — This year's AERO attracted 32,600 visitors from around the world, according to organizers.
The largest general aviation show in Europe, AERO boasted 630 exhibitors from 35 countries.
Everything that flies — except commercial airliners and military aircraft — was represented at Lake Constance: Ultralight and Very Light Aircraft (VLA), one and two-engine aircraft, turboprops and gyrocopters, kites and trikes as well as the entire world of suppliers and service providers. Maintenance, avionics and the latest business jets in general aviation were there, complemented by electric aircraft and helicopters. The show organizers credit the presence of exhibitors from the glider industry, who returned in 2013, for this year's marked increase in visitor numbers.
The aviation show is the number one show in Europe for companies in general aviation. As project leader Roland Bosch puts it: "The show at Lake Constance is an especially important meeting for industry experts. This is where engineers and builders meet; there's an exchange of views at a very high level. This is especially evident at the conferences and international meetings, but also in the special shows dealing with different propulsion systems, research flights (observe by air), and flight control and navigation devices. This is where experts can put the newest equipment to its first real practical test.
Christian Dries, CEO, Diamond Aircraft Industries GmbH: "The AERO Friedrichshafen is just really good. Internationally, and I'm not the only one who says this, it is the most important and best general aviation trade show in the world."
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LG has taken something that was first considered a concept into consumer reality by announcing that it will start taking pre-orders for its 55-inch Curved OLED TV in South Korea. Consumers who scoop one up will begin receiving them as early as next month, though no official timetable has been released, nor any word of when, or if, the TV will hit Stateside.
LG has plenty of retail stores in South Korea, and 1,400 of them have already begun taking pre-orders today, where customers have been paying the equivalent of $13,500 U.S. each.
The curved model (55EA9800) was shown at CES in Las Vegas in January, but at the time, was considered only to be a conceptual design showing the flexible properties of OLED screens. This announcement marks the first time a manufacturer has begun selling both a curved and flat OLED TV, the latter of which began selling in February, but has since been delayed in the U.S. market.
Featuring what it calls "an 'IMAX-like' viewing experience in the home," LG says more than five years of research went into developing the perfect curvature to ensure "the entire screen is equidistant from the viewer's eyes" in order to eliminate any potential problems with screen-edge visual distortion or an apparent lack of detail. LG didn't outright suggest what the best viewing distance would be for the TV.
The TV is just 4.3mm thin, weighs only 37 pounds, and features LG's proprietary WRGB technology, a four-color pixel system made up of a white sub-pixel that works in tandem with the usual red, green and blue palette to create the right color output. An "exclusive color refiner" adds another level of tonal depth for extra vibrancy in images onscreen.
As is to be expected in any OLED TV, contrast ratio is essentially infinite with unimpeded viewing angles. The speakers will reside in the crystal clear stand rather than the panel itself. LG didn't address it in its announcement, but it appears the curvature and speaker placement may preclude the TV from being wall-mountable, despite its light weight and thin profile.
The OLED TV market still remains very nascent, and DisplaySearch believes the segment will grow to seven million units by 2016, a paltry number when compared to LED-LCDs or even plasma, but a likelihood unless prices come down considerably.


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The Central Connecticut swimming and diving team was named a 2014 Spring College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-America team on Thursday. The Blue Devils posted a team grade point average of 3.21, third among all teams in the Northeast Conference.
This marks the 41st time the Blue Devils have won the award in the last 44 semesters. The Team Scholar All American Award is presented to college and university swimming and diving teams, who have achieved a team grade point average of 3.0 or higher.
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SN's Hall of Fame college basketball writer answers five questions burning on college basketball's landscape:
1. The two biggest free agents on the market, Andrew Wiggins and Tarik Black, are off the market and at the same school, Kansas. Reassess just where you think the Jayhawks belong in the Top 25 after this haul. Surely not 16th?
DeCourcy: I find it interesting that oddsmakers have moved Kansas to what the English call "second favorite" as the result of Wiggins choosing KU. As much as I admire Wiggins, and I wrote recently that he will be one of the greatest pure athletes in NBA history, it seems a lot to ask for any player to elevate a team that does not have a returning starter to being expected to reach the Final Four.
I'd put KU on the fringe of the top five, given Bill Self's accomplishments as coach and the talent – however inexperienced it might be – collected on the Jayhawks roster. I'd give KU a great chance to reach the Final Four and an outside shot at a national title. That's always going to be in reach with a future pro star such as Wiggins in the rotation.
The greatest concerns with the Jayhawks are that they won't have a true defensive stopper at the back and, more important, that point guard Naadir Tharpe might not have championship stuff. But Wiggins can block shots and Wiggins can make plays, so maybe neither ends up mattering.
2. Speaking of Black, the graduate transfer rule has essentially created free agency for some quality players looking for new homes. Black is the most recent and prominent example. Should players like him even get that chance, when the spirit of the rule calls for any move to be for academic reasons?
DeCourcy: I've had this argument with coaches I respect, but there are so few rules in the NCAA handbook that are written to benefit the athletes that I just can't see a problem with this one giving young men freedom of choice if they meet the standard of earning a degree.
If I'm a basketball player who earns a degree with eligibility still to spend, I've got a lot of great options. I can leave to turn professional if I'm gifted enough. If I'm happy with how my career has progressed, I can stay at my current school and either seriously pursue a second major or graduate degree, or I can essentially loaf through the year academically and just play ball. The academic requirements for a graduate can be really slender.
Or, if my career has not progressed well -- and it certainly did not for Black – then I can see if there's another place where I might be coached differently, where I might be used differently, where the needs of the program might suit what I can provide. If I find the right place, I can transfer and play immediately.
Nearly all of the arguments against the grad transfer rule are made by coaches. Most of those complaints involve bad behavior by coaches – such as tampering -- that results. Is the problem the rule, then, or that coaches behave badly when given the chance?
3. We're heading into summer league season, and you'll soon be scouting some of the nation's top prep players. Who's the best high school talent you ever seen play?
DeCourcy: Because Sonny Vaccaro's Dapper Dan Roundball Classic brought nearly every great prep talent to Pittsburgh for roughly three decades – I attended each of them from 1976-1992 – I was fortunate enough to see most of the best talents when they still were in high school. I saw Ralph Sampson, Patrick Ewing, Alonzo Mourning, Shaquille O'Neal. And then I began attending the Nike All-American Camp and its various successors, so I've seen most of the best talents since.
The player who topped all of them was Kevin Garnett, who arrived at the Nike Camp not terribly well known and tore the roof off of the RCA Dome for the better part of a week. I saw him again in the Hoop Summit following his senior year, and he was every bit as great. It looked like he might hold the title for a long time. He didn't even last a decade.
I missed my chance to see LeBron James play at the Five-Star Basketball Camp following his ninth grade year; elite talent scout Tom Konchalski implored me to stick around and see him, but I was in Pittsburgh on a family visit and my hall pass was about to expire. But I was there in New Jersey at Vaccaro's ABCD Camp when LeBron played as a junior-to-be. I wrote after watching James play one game that it was like "seeing Magic Johnson's head on Michael Jordan's body." One columnist from James' hometown paper criticized me for overhyping him. I kind of underrated him, because James eventually acquired Karl Malone's body while retaining Jordan's athleticism.
I'm pretty sure writers will be calling prospects "the best since LeBron" for decades to come.
4. Mike Rice is reportedly getting anger management help from John Lucas' Wellness Center in Houston. Does he deserve another shot as a Division I head coach, and will he get one?
DeCourcy: This is a terribly difficult issue. Whether or not Rice deserves another shot is totally up to the 340-some Division I schools individually. It's not up to them to forgive Rice for his actions; that's for the players who were affronted. It wouldn't be say they'd have to overlook what occurred with Rice and Rutgers – which we've all seen too many times to count.
It's more a matter, perhaps, of what they can look past. Schools have looked past NCAA transgressions, active investigations and the whole Larry Eustachy debacle from his Iowa State days, which he later attributed to alcoholism.
In other cases, though, there generally was a significant track record of success that, in the school's judgment, made hiring that particular coach worth the negative publicity that would result. Rice won at Robert Morris, but he made no real progress in elevating Rutgers: three consecutive losing seasons, never more than a half-dozen Big East victories.
Mike Rice is a good basketball coach. He made two NCAA Tournaments in a row at RMU. There certainly are poorer coaches in Division I. But is Rice bigger than his problems? That video is going to be hard to look past.
5. Be an overbearing parent and send your imaginary son to play ball for any coach in the country. Who do you pick?
DeCourcy: The beauty of this question is that it is entirely theoretical. I do not have a son. I have a cat. A female cat. So I can use this to demonstrate that there is no one specific answer to this question. There are terrific coaches all over the nation, and those terrific coaches are an ideal choice for specific players in specific circumstances.
Is my kid a top-five player with designs on moving quickly to the NBA? The obvious choice is John Calipari at Kentucky. His track record with such prospects is impeccable.
Does my son play best in an uptempo game? He'd love playing for Roy Williams at Carolina. Would he flourish in a family atmosphere with a lasting reach into the future? You know who I'm talking about here: Mike Krzyzewski at Duke.
Is my kid a homebody? I live in Cincinnati, so he could play for either Chris Mack at Xavier or Mick Cronin at Cincinnati, depending on whether he would fit better at a large state school or a small private one. But if I lived in Seattle I'd be comfortable sending my son to play for Lorenzo Romar; if I was in Indianapolis Tom Crean at Indiana or Brad Stevens at Butler would be great choices. If I were back in Pittsburgh, Jamie Dixon would be an excellent choice.
Does my kid need to be pushed in order to achieve? I could send him to Sean Miller at Arizona or Tom Izzo at Michigan State.
The best answer to the question, though, is to say that in the unlikely event I had a son, and in the far more unlikely event he would be a top-100 sort of basketball player, the best thing to do would be to allow him to choose for himself what suits him. Unfortunately, that sort of thing doesn't happen enough.


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The University of Oklahoma and Fox Sports announced a 10-year partnership Wednesday to air programming of Sooners sports, including live broadcasts of basketball, baseball and softball games.
The agreement allows Fox to air at least 1,000 hours of sports programming each year. Much of the content will be available to about 9 million television homes in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana over Fox's regional sports networks. Some select programming will air nationally on Fox College Sports.
The deal includes pregame and postgame shows for football games, Bob Stoops' weekly television show and coverage of the annual spring football game.
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DELORES HOBLEY and LATRICE HARDY,
1. An appellate court has unlimited review over the legal question of whether the district court had personal jurisdiction over a defendant pursuant to K.S.A. 60-308(b).
2. Kansas courts liberally construe K.S.A. 60-308(b) to assert personal jurisdiction over nonresident defendants to the full extent permitted by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
3. In determining whether a defendant had the minimum contacts with Kansas necessary to justify extending long-arm in personam jurisdiction to that defendant, the facts must establish that (1) the nonresident defendant purposefully did some act or consummated some transaction in Kansas; (2) the claim for relief arises from, or is connected with, such act or transaction; and (3) the assumption of jurisdiction by the court in Kansas must not offend traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice, consideration being given to the quality, nature, and extent of the activity in Kansas, the relative convenience of the parties, the benefits and protection of the laws of Kansas afforded the respective parties, and the basic equities of the situation.
4. It is the duty of the courts to sustain the legality of contracts in whole or in part when fairly entered into, if it is reasonably possible to do so, rather than to seek loopholes and technical legal grounds for defeating their intended purpose. The paramount public policy is that freedom to contract is not to be interfered with lightly.
5. An independent contractor is one who contracts to do certain work according to his or her own methods, without being subject to the control of the employer except as to the results or product of his or her work.
6. The test for validity of a noncompetition agreement is whether the competitive restraint is reasonable under the circumstances and not adverse to the public welfare. While courts defer to the basic freedom of contracting parties, only legitimate business interests may be protected by a noncompetition agreement since such an agreement is in derogation of the system of free and open competition that is the hallmark of our society.
7. Since noncompetition agreements in an employer-employee setting can have draconian results for a suddenly unemployable former employee, such agreements are strictly construed against the employer.
8. An employer has a legally protectable interest in customer contacts and customer relationships.
Appeal from Wyandotte District Court; DANIEL A. DUNCAN, judge. Opinion filed March 24, 2006. Affirmed.
James H. Scott, of Kansas City, Missouri, for appellants.
Rick Rehorn, of Thomas Richard Rehorn, III, P.A., of Kansas City, Kansas, for appellee.
Before GREEN, P.J., McANANY, J., and BRAZIL, S.J.
McANANY, J.: Delores Hobley and Latrice Hardy appeal an order of the district court enforcing a noncompete agreement. Finding no error, we affirm.
Caring Hearts Personal Home Services, Inc. (Caring Hearts), located in Kansas City, Kansas, is a certified home health care agency licensed in Kansas and Missouri. It provides in-home nursing services to elderly patients throughout the Kansas City area. Its services are usually paid for by Medicare. It is authorized by Medicare to provide these services within 100 miles of its offices in Kansas City, Kansas. Its patients are referred by physicians who create plans that dictate the treatments the patients are to receive from Caring Hearts. Hobley and Hardy (mother and daughter who are licensed practical nurses) began working as independent contractors for Caring Hearts on February 10, 2003.
Hobley and Hardy chose to work for Caring Hearts as independent contractors as opposed to employees. They sought and obtained advice of counsel before signing their contracts with Caring Hearts. They contracted with Caring Hearts to make in-home visits to patients and to treat them according to a doctor's orders. They were each paid $30 per visit for patients they had referred to the agency and $25 per visit for patients that they had not referred to the agency. All of the nurses that worked for Caring Hearts were given a $100 referral fee for each patient they recruited for Caring Hearts.
As a condition of working for Caring Hearts, Hobley and Hardy also signed noncompetition agreements which bar them, for a period of 2 years after leaving Caring Hearts, from treating patients they treated during the time they contracted with Caring Hearts. The agreement also contained a 100-mile radius restriction, which is of no moment in this appeal since it was not considered by the district court when it enjoined the competitive activities of Hobley and Hardy.
In December 2003, Hobley and Hardy expressed concerns about whether the patient referral fees violated federal Medicare laws and regulations. They also questioned whether their independent contractor status violated Medicare regulations. When the issues were not resolved to their satisfaction, they terminated their contracts with Caring Hearts in July 2004 and began working for another home health care agency called MPSS, where they continued to treat patients they had treated while under contract with Caring Hearts. Caring Hearts brought this action to enjoin them from this conduct alleging it was in violation of the noncompete agreement.
The district court overruled the motion to dismiss of Hobley and Hardy, which was based upon the claim that the court did not have long-arm jurisdiction over them because of their Missouri residency and Missouri licenses and the fact that the patients they visited were all located in Missouri. The district court also overruled their summary judgment motion. The case was tried to the court.
At trial, Dr. Lawrence Craig, Caring Hearts' president, testified that he contacted the Office of the Inspector General which oversees Medicare Regulations and Guidelines. An attorney in that office advised Craig that Caring Hearts' referral fees were not in violation of federal law. Craig also confirmed this with local attorney Bob Beechy, who specializes in Medicare regulations. He also testified to the supervision over Hobley and Hardy by a patient's attending physician and a registered nurse. Kimberly Craig, an LPN employed by Caring Hearts, testified that she observed Hobley and Hardy treating patients who had previously been patients of Caring Hearts. Hardy and Hobley admitted they continued to treat a number of Caring Hearts' patients covered by the noncompete agreement after going to work for MPSS.
The trial court found in favor of Caring Hearts and enjoined Hobley and Hardy for a period of 2 years from continuing to treat certain specified patients whom they had cared for while working for Caring Hearts. Hobley and Hardy now appeal.
Personal Jurisdiction
We have unlimited review over the legal question of whether the district court had long-arm personal jurisdiction over Hobley and Hardy. See Mid-Continent Specialists, Inc. v. Capital Homes, 279 Kan. 178, 185, 106 P.3d 483 (2005). In conducting this review we first determine if there is jurisdiction under K.S.A. 60-308(b), the Kansas long-arm statute. If so, we then must determine if the exercise of personal jurisdiction complies with the due process requirements of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In the first part of this analysis, we liberally construe K.S.A. 60-308(b) to assert personal jurisdiction over nonresident defendants to the full extent permitted by the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution. Kluin v. American Suzuki Motor Corp., 274 Kan. 888, Syl., 56 P.3d 829 (2002).
K.S.A. 60-308(b)(5) states that any person, whether or not a resident of Kansas, submits to the jurisdiction of this state for any cause of action arising from entering into an express or implied contract with a resident of this state, by mail or otherwise, to be performed in whole or in part by either party in this state.
While arguing that they only performed nursing services in Missouri, Hobley and Hardy ignore the issue of any contract performance by Caring Hearts. In fact, all of Caring Hearts' performance of this Kansas contract occurred in Kansas. Accordingly, the district court did not err in finding that the Kansas long-arm statute applied.
Moving to the second step in this jurisdictional analysis, we must examine whether Hobley and Hardy had the minimum contacts with Kansas necessary to justify extending long-arm in personam jurisdiction to them.
"'[T]here are three basic factors which must coincide if jurisdiction is to be entertained over a nonresident on the basis of transaction of business within the state. These are (1) the nonresident must purposefully do some act or consummate some transaction in the forum state; (2) the claim for relief must arise from, or be connected with, such act or transaction; and (3) the assumption of jurisdiction by the forum state must not offend traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice, consideration being given to the quality, nature and extent of the activity in the forum state, the relative convenience of the parties, the benefits and protection of the laws of the forum state afforded the respective parties, and the basic equities of the situation. [Citations omitted.]'" St. Francis Mercantile Equity Exchange, Inc. v. Newton, 27 Kan. App. 2d 18, 22, 996 P.2d 365 (2000).
Here, Hobley and Hardy purposefully entered into contracts in Kansas with a Kansas resident. Caring Hearts' claim for relief arose out of the claimed breach of those contracts. Hobley and Hardy presented no evidence that assumption of jurisdiction by Kansas courts caused them any inconvenience or hardship. They reside in Kansas City, Missouri. The patients they treat are in the Kansas City area. Having to travel with their witnesses to downtown Kansas City, Kansas, as opposed to downtown Kansas City, Missouri, for court proceedings is certainly insignificant. The district court's assumption of jurisdiction in this instance does not offend traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice. The district court had personal jurisdiction over Hobley and Hardy.
Viability of the Noncompete Agreements
1. Claimed Illegal Kickbacks
Hobley and Hardy claim their employment relationship with Caring Hearts was illegal because Caring Hearts paid them a fee for patient referrals in violation of the anti-kickback provisions of 42 U.S.C. §1320a-7b (2000). They also claim that their independent contractor status violated the supervision requirements of 42 C.F.R. 484.30 (2005). They claim these infirmaties render their noncompete agreements unenforceable.
Hobley and Hardy misplace their reliance on the applicability of the rule in Early Detection Center, Inc. v. Wilson, 248 Kan. 869, 811 P.2d 860 (1991). In Wilson, Dr. Wilson and another medical doctor formed a professional corporation for their medical practice. Ownership of an interest in the corporation initially was limited to doctors licensed to practice medicine in Kansas. The articles of incorporation were then amended to change the professional corporation to a general corporation and to allow persons not licensed to practice medicine to become owners of the corporation. Wilson then left the corporation to begin his own medical practice in violation of a covenant not to compete with the corporation, and was sued. The Kansas Supreme Court held that the corporation, as reformed, with directors and shareholders not licensed to practice the healing arts, could not provide medical services or act through licensed practitioners in an attempt to do so. Thus, if the corporation could not lawfully engage doctors to provide medical services, it likewise could not lawfully prevent doctors from engaging in their own medical practices and thereby competing with the corporation in an activity that the corporation was not permitted by law to do.
Hobley and Hardy do not claim that Caring Hearts had no authority to provide home health services through nurses it retained. Unlike in Wilson, Caring Hearts is not seeking to enjoin competitive activity in an arena in which it is not entitled to operate.
While the rule in Wilson has no application, Hobley and Hardy would have us vitiate their noncompetition agreements because of a claimed regulatory violation incidental and tangential to the basic purpose of their contracts. Hobley and Hardy point to no binding case authority in point that would bring about this drastic result. Further, they ignore the significant evidence in the record that the referral arrangement at Caring Hearts is not illegal. There was evidence presented that experts engaged in either the interpretation or enforcement of Medicare's requirements examined the Caring Hearts arrangement and found it not to be in violation.
If we assume for the moment, however, that the Caring Hearts arrangement violates federal Medicare laws and regulations, what are the consequences for Hobley and Hardy? If they believed this compelled them not to be a party to such an arrangement, they had three options: (1) continue to recommend the services of Caring Hearts to prospective patients but decline the $100 fee and the $5 per visit bump; (2) continue to provide in-home services but refuse to make recommendations and refuse the $5 per visit bump for past referrals; or (3) terminate their relationship with Caring Hearts. Having chosen option (3), however, they are not free to ignore their obligations under the noncompete agreements.
The noncompete agreements state:
"This agreement is in addition to Contracting and does not purport to include all of the terms of the contractor relationship. It is intended, however, that the obligation of the parties to adhere to and abide by the terms of this Agreement is unconditional and does not depend on the performance or non-performance of any terms, duties, or obligations not specifically recited in this Agreement."
The noncompetition agreements do not extend only to patients referred to Caring Hearts by Hobley and Hardy, but to all Caring Hearts' patients they cared for during the course of their relationship with Caring Hearts. It is that universe of patient relationships the agreements intend to protect. Caring Hearts' protectable interest is in its relationship with all of these patients, not merely the ones that Hobley and Hardy claim came to Caring Hearts under what they perceive to be a cloud of illegality. Hobley and Hardy do not claim that providing home health services to Medicare-eligible patients is illegal. They do not claim they were not paid pursuant to their contracts for the work they did. As stated in Weber v. Tillman, 259 Kan. 457, Syl. ¶ 6, 913 P.2d 84 (1996):
"It is the duty of the courts to sustain the legality of contracts in whole or in part when fairly entered into, if reasonably possible to do so, rather than to seek loopholes and technical legal grounds for defeating their intended purpose. The paramount public policy is that freedom to contract is not to be interfered with lightly."
This attack on the viability of the noncompete agreements based upon claims of illegal kickbacks fails.
2. Independent Contractor Status
Hobley and Hardy next argue that their independent contractor status with
Caring Hearts
violates 42 C.F.R. § 484.30, which applies to home health care agencies that receive
from Medicare. 42 C.F.R. § 484.30 states:
"The HHA [home health care agency] furnishes skilled nursing services by or under the supervision of a registered nurse and in accordance with the plan of care.
"(a) Standard: Duties of the registered nurse. The registered nurse makes the initial evaluation visit, regularly reevaluates the patient's nursing needs, initiates the plan of care and necessary revisions, furnishes those services requiring substantial and specialized nursing skill, initiates appropriate preventive and rehabilitative nursing procedures, prepares clinical and progress notes, coordinates services, informs the physician and other personnel of changes in the patient's condition and needs, counsels the patient and family in meeting nursing and related needs, participates in in-service programs, and supervises and teaches other nursing personnel.
"(b) Standard: Duties of the licensed practical nurse. The licensed practical nurse furnishes services in accordance with agency policies, prepares clinical and progress notes, assists the physician and registered nurse in performing specialized procedures, prepares equipment and materials for treatments observing aseptic technique as required, and assists the patient in learning appropriate self-care techniques."
Hobley and Hardy argue that since an independent contractor is defined as one who contracts to do certain work according to his or her own methods, without being subject to the control of the employer except as to the results or product of his or her work (see Hartford Underwriters Ins. Co. v. Kansas Dept. of Human Resources, 272 Kan. 265, 32 P.3d 1146 [2001]), an LPN cannot provide Medicare-paid home health services while working as an independent contractor without violating 42 C.F.R. § 484.30.
Hobley and Hardy do not argue that they were not properly supervised, but that the very nature of their independent contractor status makes their employment arrangement with Caring Hearts illegal. They argued in support of their summary judgment motion:
"[A]s a matter of federal law, the defendants Hobley and Hardy cannot be delegated, via Plaintiff, the autonomy necessary to achieve the status of an independent contractor. Thus the contract into which they entered is illegal and as a matter of public policy should be voided, since the result of such contract would be harmful to the health, safety and well-being of the public."
This topsy-turvy argument is misguided. When it comes to patient care, the hierarchy in the Caring Hearts system is attending physician, registered nurse, then licensed practical nurse. Hobley and Hardy do not contest that they were supervised in a manner consistent with the Medicare requirements, but argue that such supervision conflicted with their independent contractor status. However, they do not claim that they quit because Caring Hearts refused to give them the autonomy that their independent contractor status entitled them to have. What troubled them was the label on their relationship with Caring Hearts, regardless of how that relationship played out in their daily contact with patients. Their argument is one of form over substance. The home health services they provided were properly supervised in accordance with Medicare standards.
Standards for Injunctive Relief
Hobley and Hardy next argue that the district court erred in granting injunctive relief because the noncompete agreement was overly broad, unreasonable, and contrary to public policy. It is important to note that they do not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence to support the injunction. However they do criticize the district court for performing its analysis without specific reference on the record to any of the Weber factors. While it is always better to do so, the district court need not spell out its detailed analysis under these circumstances. On review our court must presume the district court found all facts necessary to support its judgment. Graham v. Cirocco, 31 Kan. App. 2d 563, Syl. ¶ 3, 69 P.3d 194, rev. denied 276 Kan. 968 (2003).
We examine de novo the question of whether the agreements violate public policy. Weber, 259 Kan. 457, Syl ¶ 1. The test for validity is whether the competitive restraint is reasonable under the circumstances and not adverse to the public welfare. While we defer to the basic freedom of contracting parties, only legitimate business interests may be protected by a noncompete agreement since such an agreement is in derogation of the system of free and open competition that is the hallmark of our society. And since noncompetition agreements in an employer-employee setting can have draconian results for a suddenly unemployable former employee, such agreements are strictly construed against the employer.
In testing an agreement's reasonableness, we seek to answer the following questions: (1) Does the covenant protect a legitimate business interest of the employer? (2) Does the covenant create an undue burden on the employee? (3) Is the covenant injurious to the public welfare? (4) Are the time and territorial limitations contained in the covenant reasonable? See Weber, 259 Kan. 457, Syl. ¶ 5.
As to question (1), it is well established that an employer has a legally protectable interest in customer contacts and customer relationships that justifies such a restraint. See Eastern Distributing Co., Inc. v. Flynn, 222 Kan. 666, 671, 567 P.2d 1371 (1977). Caring Hearts had a legitimate business interest to protect by restricting the ability of Hobley and Hardy to compete after they ended their relationship with Caring Hearts by soliciting and serving Caring Hearts' customers.
With regard to question (2), the agreements prevent Hobley and Hardy from providing nursing services for 2 years to clients that they had worked with while they were under contract with Caring Hearts. They do not prevent Hobley and Hardy from obtaining other employment in the home health care industry or in caring for other patients. The court's injunction applied to about 80 patients. Hobley and Hardy have the entire remainder of the population of the metropolitan Kansas City area (or elsewhere, for that matter) to draw upon for prospective client-patients. There is nothing in the record to indicate that their relationship with MPSS, their subsequent employer, was jeopardized by the threat of an injunction being entered against them. Both Hobley and Hardy are making more money per patient visit now than they did while they were engaged by Caring Hearts. The noncompete agreement does not create an undue burden on Hobley or Hardy.
As to question (3), there is no evidence that public welfare would be harmed by enforcement of the agreements. Hobley and Hardy did not present evidence at trial that the desires of any of their former patients would be thwarted if an injunction were issued and they were denied care that they specifically desired to receive from Hobley and Hardy. But even if there were such evidence, the issue is public welfare, not the private welfare of an individual patient. Hobley and Hardy fail to identify any evidence in the record that the welfare of the public would be jeopardized by enforcement of the agreement because of a shortage of LPNs working in the home health care industry. There is no evidence that enforcement of the noncompete agreement is injurious to the public welfare.
With respect to question (4), the 2-year time period of the restraint is clearly within the accepted range for the duration of post-employment restraints in situations similar to this. See Graham, 31 Kan. App. 2d 563, Syl. ¶ 7. This time limitation is not unreasonably broad. The 100-mile radius of the restraint is not at issue since the agreement and the court's injunction cover specific patients served by Hobley and Hardy in the past in the Kansas City area.
The district court did not err in enforcing the noncompete agreements.


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Have you ever thought how your life would change if you were worth a million dollars? What if your net worth was $5 million or $10 million? How about $20 million? In this increasingly hyper-competitive commercial environment being a thought leader is unquestionably one of the most effective and powerful business development strategies available to individuals, companies, associations and even countries. Being a thought leader therefore can prove amazingly instrumental in helping you personally attain millionaire status. However, as we've dissected, scrutinized and enhanced the thought leadership process we find that being a thought leader is rarely enough to become a millionaire.
Being a thought leader, in and of itself, is only part of the equation that can make you a millionaire and very possibly a millionaire many times over. Even if you expertly and efficaciously develop the intellectual capital that you then transform into high-caliber thought leadership products, which creates a gushing pipeline of new business, this alone will not necessarily result in you personally becoming wealthy.
Another integral part of the private wealth creation equation is millionaire intelligence. Having extensively researched what it takes to become a mere millionaire to the thinking and courses of action required to become a heralded billionaire, we've been able to delineate the mindset and behaviors that translate into modest as well as very significant personal fortunes. We refer to this unified collective of perspectives, psychological strategies and behavioral methodologies as millionaire intelligence.
What becomes very clear from studying the spectrum of personal wealth creators and those striving for noteworthy financial success, is that while being a thought leader can set the stage for amassing meaningful if not truly substantial riches, unless you're concurrently employing millionaire intelligence, then you're going to very likely let the opportunity for great personal wealth pass you by. While our purpose here is not to detail the multiple interrelated components of millionaire intelligence, we do want to hone in on one of the core foundational elements, which is also essential to becoming a thought leader.
Do You Really Want to Be a Millionaire?
How important is it to you to become wealthy? Think about it for a moment. We find that many people quickly say becoming wealthy is very important to them. But, when we critically evaluate their thought processes and actions, we find this isn't the case. At the same time, we find that few people are engaging in activities that have a better than completely random probability of making them millionaires.
In contrast, when we ethnologically study the self-made super-rich (net worth = $500 million or more), we regularly find that central to their very being is a desire to become spectacularly rich. We refer to this as their "commitment to extreme wealth." Among those who are quite well to do but don't reach the financial heights as the super-rich, there's still a very powerful need and want for pecuniary success. While there are exceptions to the rule, meaningful personal wealth creators are indeed acutely focused on the money.
To become wealthy usually takes a great deal of ambition and determination. This drive can manifest itself in a wide variety of ways from building a successful business to developing and commercializing an innovation to becoming a thought leader to simply being highly motivated to become very wealthy. But, without a serious intense commitment – without the drive – your ability to join the roll call of millionaires is most likely a function of just lucking out. It's this drive that enables people to persevere through the seemingly obligatory adversities and failures of business.
Most people simply do not have the drive. This is why relatively speaking, very few people – and that includes quite a few of the foremost thought leaders – will ever become millionaires. So, do you have the ambition and determination to excel?


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by Clark Groome
When composer and lyricist Michael Friedman moved to New York after graduating from Harvard University, the 37-year-old Chestnut Hill native said in a recent interview, "There were people working on Broadway. There were people working in the commercial theater. In the smaller not-for-profit realm, however, there was a little niche for me. There weren't a lot of people doing incidental music for theater on the scale I was working. I got to know a lot of playwrights and a lot of directors that way. I was lucky."
His latest composition will be part of the Philadelphia Theatre Company's world premiere production of "Stars of David," which begins previews Oct. 17, opens Oct. 24 and runs through Nov. 18 at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, Broad and Lombard Streets.
The show, based on Abigail Pogrebin's book, "Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk about Being Jewish," turns the original interviews — of Gloria Steinem, Aaron Sorkin, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Joan Rivers, Norman Lear, Tony Kushner and Wendy Wasserstein, among many — into songs. Each song has a different composer, including William Finn, Sheldon Harnick, Marilyn and Alan Bergman and one of the last songs written by the late Marvin Hamlisch. Friedman took the interview with playwright Tony Kushner ("Angels in America") from Pogrebin's book and turned that material into a song.
Friedman's interest in music goes back to when he was about 5. He began piano lessons then and continued all the way through school. He also studied the cello and composition while a student at Germantown Friends School, which he attended from kindergarten through 12th grade. He was part of every musical and theatrical program they offered, according to GFS's theater head Lisa Hemphill Burns. She noted that his talent was evident early and that he was bright, energetic and a delight to work with.
As a youngster, Friedman took piano lessons at Chestnut Hill Academy as part of its Suzuki program and also sang in the kids choir at St. Paul's Church, which is right up the street from his family's house.
After graduating from GFS in 1993, he entered Harvard where, four years later, he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in history and literature.
"Elizabeth Swados, a composer, writer and director, came to Harvard and was in residence there when I was an undergraduate," Friedman said. "We worked together. When I got to New York, she asked if I wanted to work on something with her. One thing led to another. That's most important in terms of what I do now."
A lot of his work since arriving in New York has been writing incidental music for dozens of plays, ranging from Shakespeare to more modern playwrights like Kushner, John Guare, Theresa Rebeck and Sarah Ruhl. His selection in "Stars of David" came from having written incidental music for "Angels in America" at New York's Signature Theatre and for Kushner's "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures" at Minneapolis' famed Guthrie Theatre.
Along the way he has worked at theaters all over the country and with many of the American theater's most prominent directors, including Andrei Serban, Moisés Kauffman, Des McAnuff and Mike Nichols. He has also served as music director and arranger on several shows.
He has also worked extensively as a composer and lyricist. He wrote the highly acclaimed "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson," which was first produced in 2008 and reached Broadway in 2010. The show was honored for its score by the L.A. Theater Critics and was named best musical by New York's Outer Critics Circle. It also received the Off-Broadway League's Lucille Lortel Award as best musical
The New York Times' chief critic, Ben Brantley, wrote in his review that "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" was able "to stake a claim as the most entertaining and most perceptive political theater of the season."
Friedman does not have any one favorite musical theater composer or influence. He's a "great fan of the giants," among whom he includes Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein and Frank Loesser. "On each project I'm dabbling in different traditions. Not having one major influence I wouldn't say makes me have a more individual voice, but it allows me to draw from a whole lot of voices. On every project I start at a very different place depending on the material. I let the music come from the material itself."
Friedman's interest in musical theater grew out of his passion for music, which he shared as a visiting faculty member at Colorado College in 2006-2007, at Princeton in 2007-2008 and again in 2009-2010 and at the University of California, San Diego in 2011. Earlier he had served as an adjunct faculty member at New York University and Marymount Manhattan College.
Friedman's career hasn't brought him to Philadelphia very often, although he and his family have a long-term relationship with the Philadelphia Theatre Company. His father, John Friedman, is a past chairman of the theater's board. Michael "made my Philadelphia theater debut playing a street urchin offstage in PTC's 'Citizen Tom Paine,'" which starred Richard Thomas, in 1987. He has also done a show at the Prince Music Theater and at Pig Iron Theater.
"I've been very very fortunate to make a living doing what I'm doing," the native Hiller insisted. "In the end for me, what I like about this is the collaborative element. I don't like working by myself. I like the input of other people. One nice thing about theater as opposed to film or television [is that] when you're the composer/lyricist on a show, you're right in the thick of it with your collaborators from beginning to the end. I've been really lucky in the collaborators I get to work with. That's the thrilling part of it."
For ticket information to "Stars of David," call 215-985-0420 or visit philadelphiatheatrecompany.org


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Chargers agree to deal with free agent QB Hermann from RPI
SAN DIEGO – The San Diego Chargers agreed to a contract Thursday with rookie free-agent quarterback Mike Hermann from Division III Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
The 6-foot-5, 250-pound Hermann was a two-time Liberty League Offensive Player of the Year and first-team all-conference pick. He threw for 2,366 yards and 23 touchdowns as a senior, with eight interceptions.
In four seasons, he threw for 7,177 yards and 57 touchdowns, with 31 interceptions. He also rushed 435 times for 1,935 yards and 29 scores, including 15 rushing touchdowns as a junior.
He'll be fourth on the depth chart behind Philip Rivers, Charlie Whitehurst and seventh-round draft pick Brad Sorensen.


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Art/Place kicks off 31th celebration in elegant 'Winter White'
Like the proverbial cat with nine lives, Art/Place is rebounding again -- celebrating its 31st anniversary season in a new home, with eight new members.
One of the oldest nonprofit artist cooperatives in the state, Art/Place has learned in recent years that perseverance pays off.
The gallery's longtime home had been in the southbound Southport train station, from its founding in January 1982 until the building was destroyed by fire in early 2008.
For a time, the organization relied on the generosity of kindred souls, presenting guest exhibits at such venues as the Fairfield Arts Council Gallery, the Carriage Barn in New Canaan, the Greenwich Arts Council Gallery and the Housatonic Museum of Art in Bridgeport. Then Art/Place reopened for a while at 11 Unquowa Road, in the heart of downtown Fairfield. But that rental location proved to be a bit pricey.
Like a "phoenix rising from the ashes, that's us," artist-member Dave Pressler has said on numerous occasions about their ability to regroup and move forward.
The new gallery is at 70 Sanford St. in Fairfield, in a building shared by the Fairfield Theatre Company.
More InformationIF YOU GO: Art/Place Gallery's new space is at 70 Sanford St., in a building shared by the Fairfield Theatre Company in downtown Fairfield. Hours are Thursday through Saturday from noon to 4 p.m., and during some performances at the FTC. 203-292-8328; http://artplace.org/
In its newest of homes, Art/Place will kick off the year with "Winter Works: Mostly White," an exhibition that will run from Thursday, Jan. 10, through Saturday, Feb. 23. A free public reception is slated for Sunday, Jan. 13, from 3 to 5 p.m. Also planned is a Brown Bag Lunch on Tuesday, Feb. 12, at noon; artists will be on hand to discuss their works and styles.
As the new year begins, Art/Place ... "is celebrating the new energy provided by eight new members elected by a jury of artist-peers as well as its anniversary and its recently acquired new gallery space," members said in a statement.
In addition to presenting shows by its members and sponsoring public outreach events, the group exhibits the work of nationally known artists (such as Sol Lewitt, Antonio Frasconi, Philip Trager and Gabor Peterdi) and annually hosts "Artists Invite Artists" exhibits that feature local and regional nonmembers.
A total of 22 members includes painters, printmakers, photographers and mixed-media artists. New members are Ishita Bandyo, of Branford; Mollie Keller, of Trumbull; Grace Scharr McEnaney, of Newtown; Bevi Bullwinkel, of Fairfield; Demitri Papolos, of Fairfield's Southport section; Ruth Kalla Ungerer, of Westport; Elizabeh Nagle, of New Canaan; and Paul G. Larson, of Greenwich.
Chairing the winter show are Florence Zolan, of Bridgeport, and Diane Pollack, of Fairfield. Other longtime members are Pressler, of Shelton; Phyllis Clamage, of Stratford; Carole Cole and Elisa Khachian, both of Fairfield; Susanne Keany and Barbara Bernstein, both of Weston; Toby Michaels and Mary Elizabeth Peterson, both of Westport; Cate Leach, of Darien; Sandra K. Meagher, of Rowayton; Mary Louise Long, of Stamford; and Martha Reinken, of Greenwich.
Zolan, the only original co-founder who is still active in the cooperative, has said the group was established "for the camaraderie of other artists," for the sharing and exchange of ideas with colleagues, as a place that would benefit both the artists and the community and to give artists the freedom to create and experiment without worrying whether a commercial gallery would find their output "sale-able."
The theme, "Winter Works, Mostly White," inspired a variety of subjects including landscapes, the winter solstice, a wedding and an old mission church in San Antonio, Texas, the latter by new member McEnaney, a representational watercolorist and commercial illustrator.
"Art and design have been a driving force in my life for as long as I can remember," she said. "I was drawn to the watercolor medium because I love its fluidity and how, when paint met the paper, it glistens."
McEnaney said she became interested in Art/Place membership following a recent vacation to New Mexico and Arizona, where art cooperatives are quite popular.
"The concept appealed to me -- so I checked out a few cooperatives here in Connecticut. Art/Place is established in the community and although the work is mostly abstract (and I'm a representational artist) I like what is being shown there. I think it will be a great place to come together and experiment."
A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology (associate's degree) and the University of Connecticut/Stamford, with a bachelor's degree in general studies, McEnaney said: "Creating art for me is a personal journey of self-discovery.
"It is connecting to the deepest part of ourselves, connecting to that `vast electrical sea' (as described by artist/author/poet Julia Cameron) and then trusting that place and embracing it. When I get there, things just flow," she added.
IF YOU GO: Art/Place Gallery's new space is at 70 Sanford St., in a building shared by the Fairfield Theatre Company, in downtown Fairfield. Hours are Thursday through Saturday from noon to 4 p.m., and during some performances at the FTC. 203-292-8328; http://artplace.org/
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Two pounds, reasonably fresh raccoon*, cut into one-inch cubes.
One-half cup homemade French dressing.
Two green peppers, cut into squares.
One large onion, cut into one-inch pieces.
One-third pound mushroom caps.
Place raccoon cubes in a ceramic bowl and pour dressing over cubes. Let marinate two or more hours. Remove cubes, reserving marinade. Alternate raccoon cubes with pepper squares, onion pieces and mushroom caps on skewers. Brush all with reserved marinade and broil over hot coals until done to desired degree. Turn frequently and baste with marinade as needed.
Serves six.
* if the raccoon wasn't lying there on your way to work then it's reasonably fresh.


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