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I haven’t posted in a few weeks because I may have been in close consultation with TheGoldCone’s crack legal department regarding the shocking introduction of Cold Stone Creamery’s Gold Cone Collection. Actually the introduction isn’t shocking, the misappropriation of a trademark which perhaps should not legally be theirs is a bit shocking. A lifetime of wondrous treats would be a reasonable offer.
It came as quite a shock to us here at TheGoldCone that they would appropriate what may or may not clearly be our trademark name. And I would have been in consultation with our crack legal department, except it costs one heck of a lot to even ask the questions. I also imagine in advance that it would be difficult to match their legal fees and overall killer instinct as a large corporation. I would imagine that rather than admitting they were wrong, they would drain our teeny budget and simply go on about their business.
So please stop sending the letters asking if we noticed the trademark infringement, of course we did. As a result of looking at their marketing information the entire GoldCone team may simply go to the local store and treat ourselves to one of their non trademarked (despite their cute use of the TM symbol) Gold Cone’s instead of whining about the injustice of them all.
Someone asked if I even sent a note to them to defend the trademark and alert them to possible legal action. I have not, karma is a difficult thing to manage, and we will continue to work to develop our product and our enterprise in a responsible manner, and behave nicely.
Have a great day and let me know if you like their cones as much as ours!
This article was in the Oregonian and is reprinted here for gold miners to find as mining for archival articles in online newspapers is awfully difficult. Please look respect the advertisers and look at the original article and of course the comments which aren’t reproduced here.
Developer lays claim to more than gold in Oregon wilderness
By Les Zaitz, The Oregonian, March 13, 2010, 8:00PM
 Courtesy of Dave Rutan
Camp Emily sits next to the Little Chetco River in southern Oregon’s Kalmiopsis Wilderness. CAVE JUNCTION — Three years ago, Dave Rutan opened a gold mining retreat inside the Kalmiopsis Wilderness of southern Oregon, bringing in helicopters, gas-powered dredges and paying customers.
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It is almost Spring and that means time for the snow to melt in the midwest and time for getting your GoldCone out and going prospecting.
Until then the GoldCone Marketing Guy is giving a paper at the Linux Cluster Institute.
You can see the program below.
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Professor David Bunde Shares in Computer Programming Patent | Knox College
Professor David Bunde Shares in Computer Programming Patent
1% speed boost is a big deal — for a supercomputer with 10,000 processors
October 13, 2009
David Bunde, assistant professor of computer science at Knox College, helps computers run 1% faster. That’s a significant improvement, when you’re talking about a supercomputer that has 10,000 processors in a massive network.
Continue reading Gold Cone Marketing Guy’s Summer 2009 Project
What the Marketing Guy is doing while the ground is to frozen to use The GoldCone!
Original Post on The Knox Student Online
Knox finishes 2-3 with wins over WIU and BU in memorial tournament
Freshman Jason McGeeney passes the disk upline past his defender from Northern Illinois University on Feb. 6 inside the T. Fleming Fieldhouse.
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Knox College’s Ultimate Frisbee Team hosted the annual Natalie Veneziano Memorial Winter Whiteout Tournament Feb. 6-7 in the T. Fleming Fieldhouse. Ultimate teams from schools across the state were in attendance, as well as club teams hailing from Chicago and Peoria. In total there were 10 teams and over 200 players, fans and friends in attendance.
Knox, led by junior co-captains Peter Walker, David Kurian and Liz Thomas, put up a good showing, riding their defense to wins against Western Illinois University and Bradley University. The team was close in every game it played, falling to the Knox Alumni in a tight game and then nearly beating Illinois State, who went 4-0 on the first day of the tournament. Knox’s team finished 2-3 overall and was ousted in the quarterfinals by eventual runner-up Eastern Illinois University.
“The team put up a great fight,” Walker said. “We wanted to come out and play our game, and I think we did that for the most part. We’re a young team, so we’re only going to get better from here on out.”
Northern Illinois University took home the title for the second year in a row, surviving an early surge by Eastern Illinois University in the championship game.
“We managed to win it again, but the competition gets tougher every year,” NIU captain Nick Nenni said. “This is one of the most fun tournaments around, and coming out here is always a blast.”
The Knox team also debuted its new moniker, “Baberham.” Paying tribute to Knox’s history with Abraham Lincoln, it was a welcome change from the four-year tenure of the team’s previous name, “Xonk.”
“We thought we’d change it up a bit. This is a young team and a new generation of Knox Ultimate. Plus, the name’s pretty sweet,” junior Eric Ballard said.
Baberham looks to take the momentum gained at the tournament into spring term, when both the men’s and women’s teams will vie for the Central Plains Sectional Championship and a spot in the Great Lakes Regional Tournament. The resurgent women’s team, led by Thomas, is gearing up for its first appearance at the tournament in two years.
“I’m excited about the women’s team we’re building,” junior Grace Fourman said. “We’re hoping to get a strong team together and have some fun at Sectionals.”
The Natalie Veneziano Memorial Winter Whiteout Tournament has been held at Knox since 1995 and is named in honor of a former Knox Ultimate player who lost a lifelong battle with leukemia in 2004.
Not much on the blog, but loyal followers if the worn bumper sticker with GPAA, which stands for Gold Prospectors Association of America, was any indication.
The Lost Dutchman’s Mining Association was founded by George, Wilma, Perry and Tom Massie in 1976 to provide places where men, women and their families could meet, prospect and mine for gold. Beginning with one historic gold property, Italian Bar in California’s Mother Lode, the LDMA now has an ever growing number of private properties and claims in several western states and also in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. Lost Dutchman’s private camps and claims boast some of the finest gold reserves and prospecting in this country.
One of the most important considerations when new properties are being evaluated for the LDMA is their gold-producing potential. Exhaustive tests are made in the area to ensure that Lost Dutchman’s members will have continued access to proven gold reserves. Members in past years have reported finding anything from a few flakes of gold to some very large nuggets on our properties.
LDMA members can prospect and/or camp on deeded, patented properties such as Stanton, Arizona, a gold rush town north of Phoenix that is being restored by volunteer members. Or, there’s our Scott River property, deep in the lush forests of northern California, where fog often drifts through the trees. The Klamath River itself provides gold-rich gravels in an unbelievably beautiful setting. An LDMA membership is something that you and your family will enjoy for many years to come.
LDMA members also have access to a multitude of valuable mining claims in some of the West’s richest mining areas. All of the gold that members find is theirs to keep!
The Lost Dutchman’s Mining Association represents more than just prospecting. Join us on holiday outings at historic gold mining camps. Enjoy prospecting and mining seminars, demonstrations, field trips, camaraderie and more!
Sought after since the beginning of recorded history, gold remains a highly valued metal, reaching record highs recently, climbing over 135% in value in the past year alone. The recent rise in the price of gold comes just as annual worldwide mine production has decreased – down by nearly 8% since 2001. In human history, only 161,000 tons of gold have been mined – more than half of that extracted in just the past 50 years.
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Green Oaks often serves as a site for community-building gatherings of students and faculty. Every spring, students and faculty from various disciplines take part in one of Knox’s most valued traditions, the annual 
