Apr 3, 2021
History has to begin somewhere. In this docuseries, presented by St. David s HealthCare, we take you behind the scenes of the team s first preseason in club history, as Head Coach Josh Wolff and his staff look to build Austin FC.
Apr 1, 2021
The Nets spotted the Rockets a 24-to-6 lead, but rallied for a 120-108 win at the Barclays Center. Kyrie Irving led the way with 31 points and 12 assists for Brooklyn, which lost James Harden to hamstring tightness. The Nets have won three in-a-row and 19 of their last 22 games. They now lead the Sixers by a half-game atop the East. Kevin Porter Jr. paced the Houston attack with 20 points. The Rockets fell to 13-and-34.
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San Antonio professor wins award for cracking the concrete code
Camille Sauers for MySA
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There’s a new king in town the king of concrete.
Or at least that’s what some might want to call Wassim Ghannoum, associate UTSA professor and winner of the American Concrete Institute’s (ACI) Wasom Medal, or most meritorious research paper award.
According to UTSA Today, the associate professor in the University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has spent the last 10 years perfecting a unique method to strengthen and repair faulty bridges and other flimsy concrete structures. Documenting his work with carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRP) and concrete in a research paper for peer review to the ACI, Ghannoum’s decade long developments were lauded with the prestigious accolade.
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Whether under the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”) or under state law uniform trade secrets acts (“UTSA”), assessing monetary damages in trade secret misappropriation cases is rarely easy. By definition, trade secrets lose their value once they lose their secrecy, but the lost value is often difficult to monetize. Calculating damages for misappropriation should account for the lost value of the trade secret “asset,” but courts often lose sight of this calculus in fixing damages. Lost profits, unjust enrichment, and reasonable royalties are common measures of damages in trade secret misappropriation cases, but there is another rarely considered measure of damages: the diminution in value of a plaintiff’s trade secret caused by the misappropriation. Damages for the diminution in value of a trade secret are a form of compensatory damages, though some courts will grant injunctive relief due to the difficulty in valuing t