Friday, April 18, 2008

Kluwer Academic PublishersKluwer Academic Publishers
Ghost marks are trade marks which closely simulate ordinary words or phrases used in the course of trade, and which are not intended to be used as genuine trade marks.
In the case of Imperial Group v. Philip Morris 1982 FSR 72, the plaintiff endeavoured to register the trade mark "MERIT" for cigarette products, but was unable to do so on the grounds that the trade mark was too descriptive. Instead, it registered the mark "NERIT", without any intention of using the mark, but in order to prevent other traders from using the mark "MERIT" because it would be considered too similar to the registered mark "NERIT". The intention was the obtain a de facto monopoly over the unregisterable mark "MERIT".
The defendant began using the mark "MERIT" for cigarettes and was sued by the plaintiff for infringing its mark "NERIT".
The court struck down the registration for "NERIT" on the basis that the plaintiff had no genuine intention to use the mark (despite some "trivial and insubstantial" efforts at launching a NERIT-branded product).
Prior to the decision in Imperial Group, ghost marks were a commonplace tactical procedure for trade mark owners. Ghost marks are now rarely filed following this decision. A somewhat similar protection to that offered by ghost marks are available through the use of defensive trade marks.

Thursday, April 17, 2008


The Adventure of Black Peter is a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle. This tale is in the collection, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, but was published originally in 1904 in the Strand Magazine and Collier's.

The Adventure of Black Peter Trivia
Forest Row, the setting for this frightful murder, is a real place just east of East Grinstead. It is also only 11 km from Crowborough, where Arthur Conan Doyle lived for many years.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Geology of DorsetGeology of Dorset Downland
Between the bands of limestone and chalk are wide Tertiary clay vales with large flood plains, which sustain many small settlements and dairy farms. The most notable of the valleys are those of the Stour and Frome. The Stour flows into the north of the county at Gillingham, into a wide basin, the Blackmore Vale, where it collects from many small tributaries. The river then flows south, through a gap in the chalk and across the healthand of south east Dorset. The Frome collects water from the aquifer of the Dorset Downs, forming in the hills in west Dorset, and flowing through Dorchester into a wide estuary, Poole Harbour, where it reaches the weak sands in the south east of the county.

Valleys
South-east Dorset, around Poole and Bournemouth, and the New Forest, lie on very unresistant Tertiary beds: Eocene clays (mainly London Clay and Gault Clay), sands and gravels. These thin soils support a heathland habitat which supports all seven native British reptile species. Dorset Heath, a species of the genus Erica, grows in this area, and in 2002 was chosen as a symbol of the county by Plantlife's "county flower" competition.
The River Frome estuary runs through this weak rock, and its many tributaries have carved out a very wide estuary. At the mouth of the estuary sand spits have been deposited turning the estuary into Poole Harbour, the second largest natural harbour in the world (after Sydney Harbour, though since artificial expansion Sydney's claim is disputed). The harbour is very shallow in places and contains a number of islands, notably Brownsea Island, famous for its Red Squirrel sanctuary and as the birthplace of the Scouting movement.
The harbour, and the chalk and limestone hills of the Purbecks to the south, lie atop Britain's largest onshore oil field. The field, operated by BP from Wytch Farm, produces a high-quality oil and boasts the world's oldest continuously pumping well (Kimmeridge, since the early 1960s) and longest horizontal drill (5 miles, ending underneath Bournemouth pier). The clay pottery produced by Poole pottery from the local clays is famous for its quality.

Coastline

Dorset
Geology of England
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List of Dorset beaches
List of Wikipedia images of Dorset
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Sheng Kung Hui
Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui (HKSKH) (traditional Chinese: 香港聖公會), also known as Hong Kong Anglican Church (Episcopal), is the Anglican Church in Hong Kong and Macau. It is the 38th Province of the Anglican Communion. The Most Reverend Paul Kwong is the second Archbishop and the Primate of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui and Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong Island. In addition, there are two other bishops. The Bishop of the Diocese of Eastern Kowloon, The Rt. Rev. (Louis TS TSUI) (traditional Chinese: 徐贊生) and the Bishop of the Diocese of Western Kowloon, The Rt. Rev. (Thomas Yee-po SOO) (traditional Chinese: 蘇以葆).

Dioceses
Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui consists of three dioceses and one missionary area. The dioceses are:


  • All Saint's Church 諸聖堂

  • The Church of the Epiphany 基督顯現堂

  • Church of the Divine Love 主愛堂

  • Crown of Thorn's Church 荊冕堂

  • Kei Oi Church 基愛堂

  • St Andrew's Church 聖安德烈堂

  • St. Joseph's Church 聖約瑟堂

  • St. Matthias' Church 聖馬提亞堂

  • St. Peter's Church 聖彼得堂

  • St. Philips' Church 聖腓力堂

  • St. Thomas' Church 聖多馬堂



(The last two dioceses are divided by the KCR East Rail line.)
The missionary area is:

The Diocese of Hong Kong Island
The Diocese of Eastern Kowloon
The Diocese of Western Kowloon
All Saint's Church 諸聖堂
The Church of the Epiphany 基督顯現堂
Church of the Divine Love 主愛堂
Crown of Thorn's Church 荊冕堂
Kei Oi Church 基愛堂
St Andrew's Church 聖安德烈堂
St. Joseph's Church 聖約瑟堂
St. Matthias' Church 聖馬提亞堂
St. Peter's Church 聖彼得堂
St. Philips' Church 聖腓力堂
St. Thomas' Church 聖多馬堂
Macao Missionary Area

Monday, April 14, 2008

Don Burrows
Donald Vernon Burrows, AO, MBE (b. August 8, 1928) is an Australian jazz and swing musician, playing the clarinet, saxophone, and flute. His best-known group is the Don Burrows Quartet: Don Burrows (multiple woodwind), George Golla (guitar), Ed Gaston (bass) and Alan Turnbull (drums). Burrows has played with world-renowned musicians such as Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie and Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson, James Morrison, Tony Bennett, the Sydney Symphony, Stéphane Grappelli, and Cleo Laine.

Awards
Burrows lives near Paynesville in the Gippsland Lakes district of Victoria.
He has had a lifelong hobby of black and white photography, beginning in his 20s as an active participant in the Sans Souci and Caringbah camera clubs in Sydney. He sees the creativity of music and photography having significant similarities.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

North-East Fife
North East Fife may mean or refer to:
North East Fife (UK Parliament constituency)
North East Fife (Scottish Parliament constituency)
North-East Fife, a former local government district

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (born January 14, 1965) is a British celebrity chef and TV presenter, noted for his mildly eccentric antics and back-to-nature philosophy.
Hugh's mother is gardener and writer Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall. Born in London and raised in Gloucestershire, Fearnley-Whittingstall first became interested in cookery as a young child but he chose to study at St Peter's College, Oxford University, after attending Eton College, and then began his career with conservation work in Africa in preference to commencing a career as a young chef.
After the work in Africa he spent a brief period as a sous-chef at The River Café, but was made 'redundant', although Whittingstall has made references to his being fired for 'being messy' and 'lacking discipline', he regards it an event that has since helped shape his current career. a nettle-flavoured ale, with the Hall and Woodhouse brewers.