Leek Variety Trial 2014

Megaton was an excellent performer for yield both years, with strong establishment and uniformly large leeks. DP-12-02 and Tadorna also did well both years; moderate yields are due to the smaller size of these leeks relative to Megaton. DP-12-02 is a very tall, thin, green leek that is well suited to bunching sales in late summer and early fall, but loses quality when harvested late. Tadorna and Autumn Giant were the most winter hardy, and were generally good performers except for a tendency to variable size and a high percentage of unmarketably small leeks. Rally was only tested in 2013 but shows real promise as a leek for fall harvest

Onion Variety Trial 2014

In 2012 we trialed 18 yellow storage onion varieties, three red onion varieties, and one sweet onion. The 2013 trial included 17 yellow storage onion varieties, 3 sweet yellow onion varieties, one sweet white variety, and 7 red onion varieties. The onion varieties were evaluated for yield, quality, storability, and suitability to plasticulture. All of the onions were started from seed in the greenhouse and transplanted into raised beds covered with plastic mulch. In 2012 transplanting took place on April 13 and beds were covered with conventional plastic mulch. In 2013 transplanting took place on April 30 and beds were covered with biodegradable BioTelo plastic mulch. In major production areas onions are direct-seeded into bare ground, however, this production system requires extensive use of herbicides and frequent hand weeding. The use of transplants and plastic mulch essentially eliminates weeding within the beds. Varieties differ in how reliably the bulbs form above the mulch, and bulbs that form partly or entirely below the mulch are at increased risk of thrips damage, bulb rot, and mis-shaped bulbs. Each 4-ft bed contained 3 rows of onions, with an in-row spacing of 4 inches. All fertilizers were incorporated during bed construction; water was provided by rainfall supplemented with overhead irrigation

Garlic Variety Trial 2014

Based on the 2012-13 results, soft neck garlic is a viable crop for southern New England. The best varieties did as well as the best hard neck varieties. For both types of garlic approximately ¼ of the bulbs were culled because of insufficient size. The cause of the small bulbs is unclear; they may have been due to competition from the oats that failed to winter kill, or they may have been because the planting stock had not adapted to our conditions. Bulb rot is more of a problem with soft neck garlic, but appears to be controllable with careful selection of varieties. The larger trial and colder winter in 2013-14 should provide more information on the suitability of soft neck garlic

Leek Variety Trials, 2012

Variety trial of leek varieties conducted at Kingston, RI, in 2012

Effect of Sulfur Amendments on Yield and Quality in Alliums

In conclusion, sulfur fertilization appears to offer little or no benefit for allium vegetables in Rhode Island. Variety differences were much greater than the fertility effects, and growers who are experiencing issues with yield and storage life are encouraged to consider switching to better varieties

Brief of Amici Curiae Intellectual Property Law Professors in Favor of Judgement as a Matter of Law

Plaintiff’s false designation of origin and false endorsement claims, such as they are, rest on the assertion that defendants falsely represented themselves as the origin of intellectual property on which the Oculus Rift is based. Those claims are barred by Dastar v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., 539 U.S. 23 (2003), which holds that only confusion regarding the origin of physical goods is actionable under the Lanham Act

Building an Antiracist Law School: Inclusivity in Admissions and Retention of Diverse Students—Leadership Determines DEI Success

Penn State Dickinson Law has been leading with an Antiracist admissions philosophy and corresponding plans for implementation before the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. Arguably, this approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)was not identified explicitly as a vision priority for the law school until July 2019, when Dickinson Law welcomed Danielle M. Conway as the first Black Dean and first woman Dean in the law school’s 186-year history. Dean Conway outlined four vision priorities to accomplish within her first five years at Dickinson Law. Vision priority number two calls upon the law school’s administrators to move the needle substantially on DEI within the student body and among faculty and staff. While Admissions Team members were eager to embrace the worthy objective of Antiracist enrollment management, their efforts were aided by the cultural shift happening within the larger context of the Dickinson Law community. The three central elements integral to Antiracist enrollment management at Dickinson Law include: (1) embracing visionary leadership with clear prioritization of DEI goals; (2) utilizing data-driven recruitment and strategic resource allocation; and (3) explicitly articulating cultural shifts within the law school community (see Proposals 2 and 3) to prospective students. Dickinson Law has historically defined diversity broadly, to include racially and ethnically minoritized communities, women, individuals with disabilities, students of nontraditional graduate school age, members of the LGBTQ community, individuals from rural and under resourced communities, veterans, and any other individuals who have experienced marginalization or subordination in educational settings. While we aim to craft a student body that represents multitudes of these—often intersecting—identities, this paper focuses specifically on our ability to recruit, enroll, and retain racially and ethnically minoritized students

Brief of Amici Curiae Intellectual Property Law Professors

Untethered to a sufficient public policy interest, right of publicity claims have exploded nationwide. Plaintiffs have asserted claims against inspirational plaques featuring civil rights icons, Rosa and Raymond Parks Inst. for Self Dev. v. Target Corp., 812 F.3d 824 (11th Cir. 2016),artwork commemorating significant events, Moore v. Weinstein Co., LLC, 545 Fed. App’x. 405 , 407 (6th Cir. 2013); ETW Corp. v. Jireh Publ’g, Inc., 332 F.3d 915 (6th Cir. 2003), Wikipedia edits that truthfully connected an astronaut with the watch he wore on his Moon walk, Scott v. Citizen Watch Co. of Am., Inc., 17-CV-00436-NC, 2018 WL 1626773 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 4, 2018), docudramas, de Havilland v. FX Networks, LLC, 21 Cal. App. 5th 845 (2018), and depictions of a company named for its founder, Virag, S.R.L. v. Sony Computer Entm’t Am. LLC, 699 Fed. App’x. 667 (9th Cir. 2017), among many other uses. This Court has the opportunity to keep Indiana’s right of publicity law within more appropriate bounds by focusing on protection of performers against unauthorized recordings (similar to common-law copyright, as recognized in Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co., 433 U.S. 562 (1977)) and unauthorized use of identities in advertising (protecting against false endorsements). The Court should take that opportunity, because a free-floating right of publicity operates as an unconstitutional, content-based regulation of otherwise truthful, protected speech. Given the First Amendment value of truthful, nondefamatory speech, courts should not lightly give the subjects of such speech control over it. Thus, the right of publicity must be carefully limited to avoid becoming a right to control public discourse. Cf. Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46, 50 (1988) (refusing to allow the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress to evade the strict requirements of defamation as applied to editorial speech). Although the doctrine of constitutional avoidance might justify finding that these defendants’ activities do not fall within the scope of the Indiana statute, the statute is unconstitutional to the extent that it goes beyond advertising and unauthorized recordings of performances