Yale Fights to Keep Famous Van Gogh Painting
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CN) - Yale University has accused the great-grandson of a Russian aristocrat of falsely trying to claim ownership to Vincent van Gogh's renowned "The Night Café" painting bequeathed to the university by a famous art collector alumnus.

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April 17 Public Hearing in Washington, DC to Focus on Intellectual Property
News release: The Federal Trade Commission announced the fourth in a series of public hearings exploring the evolving market for intellectual property. These hearings, to be held April 17, 2009, in Washington, DC, will explore how corporations, inventors, and patent intermediaries value and monetize patents, strategies for buying and selling patents, and the role of secondary markets for intellectual property. Some of the most significant recent changes in markets for intellectual property have occurred through the emergence of new business models involving the buying, selling and licensing of patents. The April 17 hearing also will showcase some of the recent academic scholarship about the development and functioning of markets for intellectual property and the policy implications surrounding them.

The White House announced on March 26 that Social Security recipients will get their extra $250 payments from the stimulus plan in May. Those who receive Social Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits don't need to take any action to get the cash, which will be sent separately from the person’s regular monthly payment. The middle-class tax cut of $400 for most workers and $800 for couples is to appear in paychecks starting next week. http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2009/03/social_security.html

Report: Show Us the Data - Most Wanted Federal Documents
Show Us the Data: Most Wanted Federal Documents A Report By Center for Democracy & Technology & OpenTheGovernment.org, March 2009
The Top Ten Most Wanted Government Documents
Public Access to All Congressional Research Service Reports- Legislative Branch
Information About the Use of TARP and Bailout Funds - Executive Branch
Open and Accessible Federal Court Documents Through the PACER System - Judicial Branch
Current Contractor Projects - Executive Branch
Court Settlements Involving Federal Agencies - Judicial Branch
Access to Comprehensive Information About Legislation and Congressional Actions via THOMAS or Public Access to Legislative Information Service - Legislative Branch
Online Access to Electronic Campaign Disclosures - Legislative Branch
Daily Schedules of the President and Cabinet Officials - Executive Branch
Personal Financial Disclosures from Policymakers Across Government - All Branches
State Medicaid Plans and Waivers - Executive Branch and State Agencies

The 174-year-old Ann Arbor News will cease to exist as a daily and will shut down the presses in July, the company said. The newspaper will be replaced with a Web-based, media company called AnnArbor.com which will produce a twice-a-week newspaper, published on Thursday and Sunday, and a total-market coverage product once a week. http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Ann-Arbor-News-close-July/story.aspx?guid=%7BC3D8D1F5-6DD3-4703-85F0-E015907598BC%7D

The Seattle Times Co. is providing some help to its longtime rival, The Hearst Corp., as Hearst launches an online successor to its shuttered Seattle Post-Intelligencer. For its first 30 days, the revamped Seattlepi.com will receive "consulting and transition services" from The Times as part of an accord terminating the joint-operating agreement (JOA) that had linked the two newspapers for 26 years. The companies have not made the three-page "termination and settlement agreement" public, but a copy was obtained from the office of Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna. Among other things, it says The Times and Hearst won't sue each other in the future over any matter arising from the JOA.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008892020_joa20.html

The University of Michigan Press sent shock waves through the academic publishing field March 23 when it announced it is switching to a primarily digital format to publish scholarly monographs. The press expects that within two years, most of the 60 monographs it publishes each year out of a total 140 new releases will be published only in digital editions. Print on demand (POD) books will be made available. http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6646124.html

zwieback (ZWY-bak, ZWEE-, SWY- SWEE-)
noun: A crispy, sweetened bread made by slicing a loaf and baking it a second time. Also known as a rusk.
From German Zwieback (twice baked), from zwie (twice) + backen (to bake). The word biscuit has a similar origin. It was twice-baked (or used to be), from Latin bis (twice) + coquere (to cook). The name of the color bisque owes its origin to a biscuit.
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March 27 is the birthday of Roman poet Ovid, (books by this author) born Publius Ovidius Naso in what is now Sulmona, Italy (43 B.C.). He loved the literary scene in Rome, where both Virgil and Horace were living He was famous for his love poems, the Amores (circa 20 B.C.) and his masterpiece, the Metamorphoses (finished circa 8 A.D.), his tales of love and transformation. For no known reason, Ovid was abruptly exiled to Tomi, a Black Sea outpost on the edge of the empire. He never returned to Rome.
March 27 is the birthday of Henrik Ibsen, (books by this author) considered the "founder of modern prose drama," born in the village of Skien, Norway (1828). His father had a prosperous merchant business, but when Henrik was eight, the family's finances collapsed. They were forced to move out of their great estate into a rundown farmhouse, and their friends and social acquaintances deserted them. He became the artistic director of a new Norwegian theater and staged dozens of plays, but the theater went bankrupt after only five years. He wrote several of his own plays, but they failed to attract much attention. Discouraged, he left Norway for 27 years of voluntary exile.
Ibsen moved to Rome, where he was extremely productive, writing two of his best-known works: Brand (1866) and Peer Gynt (1867). In 1868, he moved to Germany, where he wrote The Emperor and Galilean (1873) and Pillars of Society (1877). Then he moved back to Rome and wrote A Doll's House (1879), which brought him fame and controversy. The Writer’s Almanac