so many people through his writing and creativity and his encouragement of Irish music talent throughout the years.

"He has made a unique contribution to Irish culture and to this industry as a whole”.

Healy, originally from Sandymount in Co Dublin, started his career behind the cameras in RTE and eventually presented shows including Hoot'nanny (1969) and Twenty Minutes With (1968).

His big break came in 1980 when he penned the song What's Another Year, which went on to win at the Eurovision Song Contest with Johnny Logan.

It was the TV series Nighthawks (1988-1992) that showcased his down-to-earth style and rapport with musicians and people from all walks of life, of which Healy said, "they were the best four years of my working life”.

Over the years he has worked with a3 dead, including suspect, after shooting at Northern California Ford dealership Police found the suspect dead upon arrival.

Three people, including the suspected gunman, died at a Ford dealership in Northern California on Tuesday night, police said.

Authorities responded to the Morgan Hill Ford Dealership just after 6 p.m. and found two employees with gunshot wounds, according to a statement from the Morgan Hill Police Department.

Both men later died on scene. The suspect was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot, police said.

Sgt. Bill Norman, a supervisor for the investigation team, said there were no other suspects and that the scene had been secured.

The suspect's motive is not yet known.


weren't given imo.

Jrod backed off from a challenge that missed his foot and in the process he lost his balance and fell forward. No contact on the replays but we deserve to be in front as we have been the better side.

not a bad first half, villa look like a school side chasing the ball all over the pitch lets get settled and just sneak a second goal then close the game out

not a bad first half, villa look like a school side chasing the ball all over the pitch
lets get settled and just sneak a second goal then close the game outStroppy_gramps

not a bad first half, villa look like a school side chasing the ball all over the pitch lets get settled and just sneak a secondShaw which led to him being stretched off) that, if anything, Halsey helped Villa gain a significant advantage. Luckily, Villa's strike force were pants and our defence held firm. For those asking for Adkin's head, did you hear the fans singing his name loud and clear at the end? It's called support, you should try it! COYR!

Phew! We rode our luck but deserved it today.
Fans - magnificent
Players - brilliant
MotM? Rickie or ....... wait for it ..... Boruc (he finally turned up), but Jay and Spiderman were also fantastic.
I can understand the Villa fans' frustration but there were so many slightly late challenges by Villa players in the second half that they got away with (such as the player continuing his run into Shaw which led to him being


Newton & Anderson relegated as Thorton overcomes Taylor

Wes Newton and Gary Anderson were relegated from the McCoy's Premier League Darts on Judgement Night at the Brighton Centre on Thursday, as Robert Thornton's dream season continued with victory over Phil Taylor.

Newton and Anderson entered the ninth league night in the ten-player tournament knowing that they had to gain a result from their games with Andy Hamilton and James Wade if they were to avoid elimination at the expense of Adrian Lewis or Simon Whitlock.

However, both suffered losses as they drop out of the event, leaving the remaining eight players to battle for places in the top four over the next five weeks ahead of May's Play-Offs.

Newton, a Premier League debutant this season, went down 7-5 to Hamilton as theat times why finishing's the easy part of the game."

"I can still improve on this performance and it's good to still be in the top four at this stage of the season."

Van Barneveld had kicked off the night in Brighton with a superb display of finishing as he defeated Adrian Lewis 7-2 - a result which left the two-time World Champion sweating on his own place in the tournament for a while.

Lewis had hit five 180s in the game but missed ten darts at a double, and van Barneveld won five of the game's final six legs to claim the points.

"I hit some really crucial doubles with my last dart and I'm very pleased with that," said van Barneveld.

"Adrian missed a lot of doubles and maybe if he'd


This had a heavy impact on the brand as a whole, hence they decided to pull a somewhat unorthodox move. The new Buick Regal that goes under the Sportback moniker is now a hatchback. The Euro-styled intermediate will also be available as the TourX wagon, while the good old sedan remains a Chinese market exclusive.

The Ford Mustang Boss 429 is one of the rarest of the hot cars on our list. In fact, it is one of the rarest muscle cars ever built. There were only 1358 built in 1969 and 1970. The Boss 429 was built for racing at a time when Ford was getting its ass handed to it in NACAR’s Sprint Cup Series by the 426 Hemi-powered Chrysler cars. At the time, NASCAR rules requiredWhat matters more in getting cited — what you say or how you say it? In our first episode of the show we’re visited by Ryan Kelly from the University of Washington’s School of Marine and Environmental Affairs. He talks with us about his article “Narrative Style Influences Citation Frequency in Climate Change Science,” published in the December 2016 edition of the open-access journal PLoS One, along with co-authors Annie Hillier and Terrie Klinger.

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poets of Holz's own Wedding neighborhood in Berlin. Holz had worked on the poems throughout his creative life, often amending, casting aside, and revisiting his varied texts. A typographical feature of the poetry is that all the lines are centered on an axis giving both a right and left ragged edge (common in the modern day of computers but rare at the time). For example, the following (practically untranslatable) passage about St. George's Church in Rastenburg, from "Childhood paradise"

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Friday, August 27, 2010

It's His Story and He's Sticking To It

Former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin was interviewed by Matt Lauer on NBC's "Today" show this morning. He again stated that he didn't order a mandatory evacuation because they didn't know Katrina was headed for New Orleans until Max Mayfield called him at home Saturday evening August 27th (Katrina struck on Monday morning). I tell the behind-the-scenes story of what went wrong during and after Katrina in Warnings.

Below are the National Hurricane Center's public forecast maps from 4am and 10am Saturday, August 27, 2005. Both show Katrina moving right over New Orleans. Mayfield called Nagin because Mayfield was shocked that Nagin had not ordered


no route number for the Bruckner Expressway past there) before the current numbering took place by 1970, with I-895 designated onto the Sheridan Expressway (which was subsequently downgraded to a state highway in 2017).

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PEORIA, Ariz. (Tuesday, April 21, 2014) – Arizona United Soccer Club forward Jonathan Top has been named USL PRO Player of the Week for Week 5, as he scored the match-winning goal in Arizona United SC’s, 2-1, win against Sacramento Republic FC on Saturday night in front of 3,014 fans at the Peoria Sports Complex. The victory was Arizona United SC’s first win in club history.

The sequence for Top’s match-winning goal started in the 85th minute when he collected a pass on the halfway line, attacked space, and played a through ball to teammate Paolo DelPiccolo. Top then made a clever run up the Sacramento Republic FC midfield, and held


up inside the box, as DelPiccolo found Matt Kassel, who curled a cross to the back post. Second half substitute Kadeem Dacres, who made his professional debut in the victory, headed the cross back into the middle of the box for Top, who finished from close-range for his first career USL PRO goal.

Top is joined in the Team of the Week by teammate and Arizona United SC captain Kassel, who filled in at right back for the suspended London Woodberry. In the 35th minute Kassel’s cross set up Brandon Swartzendruber, who found the back of the net for the first goal in Arizona United SC franchise history.

For their efforts on Saturday, Swartzendruber and Dacres both earned USL PRO Team of the Week Honorable Mention.

Saturday’s match was the secondpublished so far, dating from the distant past to as recent as 2008.

Much like maps that achieve viral popularity today, classic maps seen in Mode’s collection often sought to provoke shock or outrage. Examples include oddly familiar broadsides against wealth inequality: an 1877 cartoon in the German edition of Puck magazine showing the oligarchs William Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Cyrus West Field, and Russell Sage carving up the country into pieces; a 1884 political poster by the Democratic Party accusing Republicans of giving away 38 percent of the United States to railroad corporations (the real amount was closer to 9 percent, Mode notes, adding that “the effect of the deception was massive”). Even the deepest skeptic of alcohol prohibition would be struck by this 1888 map of taverns in


and a sense of humor. During the movement to enfranchise women nationwide, a Puck magazine graphic entitled “The Awakening” shows Lady Liberty astride the newly incorporated western states and territories—where women had the vote—looking back at yearning masses of women in the East.The August 1895 cover of Judge magazine, a rival to Puck and its timeless Thomas Nast cartoons, shows the U.S. as a curious Uncle Sam—his eye Washington, D.C., his nose Florida—peering intently down at Cuba, where an insurgency had just begun, and where Theodore Roosevelt would later lead an invading force to wrest the island from the Spanish.

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"The Awakening"Newly incorporated western states gave women the vote well before those in the East, partly for the purpose of increasing their electoral power. This 1915 cartoon from
Puckregime in Angola, this is not true”, says Paulo de Carvalho,
professor of the Faculty of Social Science of the Agostinho Neto University, in
Luanda. He made this statement at a conference organised by the Centre for
African Studies of the Institute of Political and Social Science in Lisbon
(ISCSP), under the theme “Democracy and citizens’ rights in Angola”. In order
to substantiate his belief, Paulo de Carvalho referred to an event which had
taken place a while back in the Mário Soares Foundation in Lisbon, where the
journalist and human rights activist had criticised the Angolan regime, and the
scholar had replied to him thus: “If there was a dictatorial regime in Angola,
you, my friend, Rafael Marques, would not be here speaking on our behalf,
rather we would be crying at your graveside”.

This story comes from


Therefore, Pinochet’s regime
was a democracy.

Dilma Roussef, the current president of Brazil, was
imprisoned in the early ‘seventies by the military regime which took over that
country in 1964. Nevertheless, the military did not kill her. Therefore, that
particular military junta was a democracy.

The assassination of the youths Isaías Cassule and
Alves Camulingue, in May 2012, by the Intelligence and Security Services of the
State (SINSE), is a detail that doesn’t seem to bother the sociologist Paulo de
Carvalho. According to this strange logic, if a democrat manages to voice his
opinion without being killed, then there is democracy – even when all the other
voices have been silenced.

Yes, Salazar had Humberto Delgado (and so many others)
killed. But he spared Mário Soares. Therefore, the Salazar regime was a
democracy. Yes, Pinochet had the singer/songwriter Victor Jara assassinated,
but heconvictions. In a democracy, to allow others to disagree
is not a sign of tolerance (or affection) – rather it is the essence of the
system. The quality of a democracy may be measured by the diversity of freely
expressed opinions.

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when of the release of her last book, the Rainha Ginga, a report of "as the Africans they invented the world". In declarations to the Portuguese agency, José Eduardo Agualusa said that her new book, that he "wanted to write


there is a long time", the answers "an inquietude" of the Angolan ones, that you want to know her past, in a new perspetive. Agualusa explained that it "took time" to write it, because he had of "informing more" and he needed to "put in the head of the it Swings, in her universe", pointing out that "everything happened in a time very retreated."

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The bank millennium in the street king Katyavala, in Luanda, Angola, has the generator at night to do a lot of gas and in the daytime, and the residents are with the windows and closed doors, but even so they are impeded of they live her normal life. The residents already complained but in vain. They areFelice Calabro'/Associated Press

Nineteen years after he first left the club where he cut his playing and managerial teeth, Rafael Benitez is finally set to return to the Santiago Bernabeu and into the Real Madrid hot seat. The presentation will be this week.

A former player with Castilla and then a coach from the age of 26, who worked his way up the ranks via the under 19s, reserves and then as assistant to Vicente del Bosque, Benitez comes home with the blessing of top man at the club, Florentino Perez, after the advice of his No. 2, Jose Angel Sanchez—the man who runs the day to day of the club.

Club vice-president Eduardo Fernandez de Blas appeared to confirm the appointment over the weekend, telling Diario AS (h/t the Press


Association, via the Guardian): "I’ll tell you one thing, Carlo Ancelotti is a real phenomenon. We give our thanks to him. Until three days ago, he was, for me, the best coach in the world, just as two years ago it was Jose Mourinho, and as from this week will be Rafa Benitez."

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Twice Perez tried to lure Benitez away when he was at Liverpool, only to be rebuffed on both occasions. Finally it’s third time lucky for the president, who you sense always had Benitez in his sights from the moment he had decided that Carlo Ancelotti had become surplus to requirements.

But has he made the right choice?

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Well, actually, I think he has, because in my opinion Rafa Benitez is the perfect manager forReal Madrid.

First and foremost, he is a man who understands completely what Real Madrid is all about and what managing a club like this entails from the fans, to the players, the board and the media.

Many of the playing squad greeted the news of Ancelotti’s departure with disappointment and by issuing a number of farewell plaudits. As heart-warming and uplifting as that might seem, particularly for the outgoing Carlo, it is not necessarily a good sign.

Players are always sorry to see the back of a manager that has always shown a respect for the hierarchy and the modus vivendi in existence at the club. New managers might well be tempted to get the ball rolling with a dose of double training rather than to permit the squad to


over-defensive coach.

Explaining his philosophy some time ago in an interview with Marca, Benitez was quick to point out that those that believed that did not understand the difference between organised—which was how he perceived it—and defensive.

Ignoring for a minute the titles he has won—which include two La Ligas (Valencia), a Champions League (Liverpool), two Europa Leagues/UEFA Cups (Chelsea and Valencia), and FA and Italian Cup finals (Liverpool and Napoli)—Benitez claims that the figures all point to the fact that his sides are set up to score goals but are also organised in such a way so as not to concede.

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Trophies, he maintains, are not won by the mere act of scoring but also by that of not conceding. The two are inseparable. Talent, he adds inthe interview, is all well and good, but in the end you have to organise it.

Never one to look at reinventing the wheel, he has nonetheless always been a master at using and adapting to what he has available to him, not least at Valencia and then at Liverpool, where his transformation of Steven Gerrard to a prolific goalscoring midfielder playing behind the predatory genius of Fernando Torres was the stuff of legend.

He was also one of the major trailblazers of tactics like squad rotation and zonal marking, methods we accept as totally normal these days but that, at the time, were as controversial as they were innovative.

Many followed his lead yet he never received the credit due to him for being one of the chief pioneers of


The operon as paradigm: normal science and the beginning of biological complexity.
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Houzz Excursions: 5-Day Outside Makeover

Design Blogger Coco from COCOCOZY realized there is nothing nothing like a last minute visitor to encourage a fast house makeover. Coco sprung in to action and gave her outside space a makeover in only five days when a buddy who lives in a magnificent New Orleans Garden District mansion was traveling across the nation to remain in her little Hollywood Hills bungalow.

She previously thought of her 1940s residence as “a treehouse,” as it is little and nestled among tree-tops over town. She understood she would need to take advantage of her lawn to expand her entertaining and living area.

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The scandal at Matilija junior high school, which culminated in an emotional meeting with parents and school officials Monday night, has sparked intense debate in a region that has experienced a sharp increase in reported antisemitic incidents.

The middle school in Ojai, a small city 80 miles north-west of Los Angeles, told parents in a letter in December that officials had discovered photos showing “nine students laying on the field together to form the shape of a swastika during lunch”. Administrators said the images appeared in a group chat that was active in November and December and featured “racist, sexually


inspired others to come forward with their own stories, said Silverman, who moderated this week’s public forum with the school and families. One mother who spoke at the meeting said that her son, whose father is Jewish, had received a threatening antisemitic text message that referenced the Holocaust, according to Silverman. Another speaker, a young man of color, talked about experiencing racism and being “jumped”, she said.

An assistant superintendent also said at the meeting that the district had seen an increase in students with anxiety and depression, according to a reporter with the Ventura County Star.

Some at the meeting voiced concerns about the culpability of the parents of the students in the chat. Silverman said she felt the problem was wider than individual families: “Biased behavior is learnedBernard Pollard is staying in Tennessee. The safety tweeted that he would be a Titan for the next couple of years. "Ill be a Titan for the next couple years!!! TitanUp." The 29-year-old had 77 tackles and three interceptions for the Titans last season, his first in Tennessee. Prior to that Pollard spent time with the Kansas City Chiefs, Houston Texans, and Baltimore Ravens. Dylan Bundy Jersey . New York (16-9-8) took over first place in the Eastern Conference and has the best record in the league with one game remaining. Houstons five-game unbeaten streak was snapped, and the Dynamo (13-11-9) are sixth in the East with one game remaining. Eddie Murray Jersey . Last year, Islanders forward Colin Mcdonald released a "Do It For Colin" campaign to


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If looks could kill! Scratch, a solo black bear and long time visitor to Anan Creek Wildlife Reserve, and sporting a savage scar across his nose, stands in the cascading falls for over half an hour, plunging his head into the frigid water and coming up empty.

Elegant Mom, strolls down to the river for the second time, enthusiastic youngsters waddling behind and leans into the water from the bank, plucking a writhing salmon from the creek in seconds. A few drops of water drip from her neck, a spray of water from the struggling salmon. She strolls off to a quiet spot under the tree to continue the family picnic. The cubs follow in anticipation with even more spring in their step as


A WORLD-CLASS female bodybuilder who was crowned Miss UK has died aged just 43.

Mum-of-two Elaine Thorpe, from Ingleby Barwick, racked up trophies at bodybuilding world championships and won prestigious national competitions.

On Wednesday she was admitted to James Cook University Hospital.

But doctors were unable to save her and she died there the same day.

Her body was identified by husband, Richard, 44, and an inquest was opened at Teesside Coroner’s Court yesterday.

The community midwife who worked at James Cook University Hospital, had two young sons, Daniel and Christopher.

Four years ago she was named Miss UK at the World Amateur Bodybuilding Association’s contest in Lancashire.

She also competed in the English Federation of Bodybuilding Championships in Warrington.

And just weeks later, she came second in the world championships.

Mrs Thorpe pitched herself against bodybuildersfrom all over the world, including New Zealand, France, Brazil and Germany and her success was reported by the Gazette.

At the time of her Miss UK success she trained at Bill Boyd’s Gym in Stockton and stuck to a specialist high protein diet while training. She then trained five times a week for 45 minutes, did an aerobic workout every morning and shunned sweets, biscuits, cakes and milk.

The hearing was adjourned for further inquiries and a full inquest will take place at a later date.


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He led the Red Wolves to a 9-3 record, a Sun Belt Conference title and a berth in the GoDaddy.com Bowl, then parlayed that into a job in the powerhouse Southeastern Conference.

Several hundred fans greeted Malzahn's plane, and he rushed along the line exchanging high-fives. He promised to get Auburn "back to winning championships."

"I'm just tickled to death," he said. "It's a true honor for me to be the head coach of the Auburn Tigers. I spent three years here and I can honestly say it's the best three years of my life. I feel connected forever."

The 47-year-old Malzahn returns with his fast-paced, no-huddle offensive style. He replaces former boss Gene Chizik, who was fired one day after a 49-0 loss to No. 2 Alabama to


complete a 3-9 season.

Malzahn hasn't ruled out coaching in the bowl game for Arkansas State, which said he had a $700,000 buyout.

Athletic director Jay Jacobs declined to say who else he interviewed, but said it didn't matter.

"The characteristics that he brought to the table were head and shoulders above everybody else," Jacobs said.

Auburn also showed interest in Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart, who interviewed for the job on Monday. But sources told ESPN that Smart was informed earlier Tuesday that Auburn had decided to hire Malzahn.

Before his arrival at Auburn in 2009, Malzahn had spent two seasons as Tulsa's offensive coordinator. He was the offensive coordinator at Arkansas for one year after a successful run in the Arkansas high school ranks.

Auburn had the nation's 115th-ranked offense last season,Image copyright Ellie McCandles Image caption 19-year-old Ellie McCandles knew "something wasn't right" about the messages she received

Fake social media accounts have been used to deceive teenage girls into sending indecent images of themselves.

Snapchat profiles were set up in the name of Base Models, a legitimate company, not involved with the activity.

Girls received messages from the accounts, from someone who claimed to be recruiting models for the agency.

Base Models said anyone approached online by someone who claimed to work for them should contact their office.

Base Models, a London model agency, said it had received more than 40 reports from girls who said they were contacted online by someone claiming to work for the company as a model scout.

'Lingerie shots'

Using Snapchat accounts named after the company, somebody posing as


BBC heard from the mother of a 14-year-old girl from Hunwick, County Durham, who was "disgusted" to discover that her 14-year-old daughter, a child model, had been targeted.

The mother said: "They messaged her saying they worked for Base and wanted to hire her as a model, so she sent some headshots."

The girl told the "scout" she was 14 but was still asked to send lingerie shots - so she told her mother about the exchange.

The girl's mother said she was "immediately suspicious" about the messages, so she contacted Base Models, who confirmed the messages were fraudulent.

She said she was worried that others who were less knowledgeable about modelling could be more easily deceived.

'Kardashian fame wave'

"If you tell a child who knows nothing about the business that they couldearn up to £50,000 [working as a model] - they might think that it sounds like a great opportunity," she said.

A 19-year-old student based in Manchester, Ellie McCandles, said she had received an almost identical approach on Snapchat.

After she was asked to send pictures of herself in her underwear, Ellie declined and contacted the agency.

"Something didn't feel right about it," the student said.

Base Models managing director Max Ridd said the rise of celebrity culture had made model agencies an "easy target" for those looking to deceive young girls.

Mr Ridd said: "Young people have always been seduced by the idea of fame and celebrity - but especially today with the Kardashian fame wave going on.

"Modelling is seen as a first step on the fame ladder - and I think


10 Best Quotes From "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" by Laura Hillenbrand

In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channelled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when World War II began, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight on a May afternoon in 1943. When his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, against all odds, Zamperini survived, adrift on a foundering life raft. Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperationLegal aspects of nurse anesthesia practice.
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CTU plans presence at October 24 Board meeting... Challenges to school closing plans begin now

George N. Schmidt - October 23, 2012

The Chicago Teachers Union is planning a presence at the October 24, 2012 meeting of the Chicago Board of Education. The Board's agenda, which was released on October 22 in conformity with the Illinois Open Meetings Act, includes the revised budget, but does not include approval of the new contract which was approved by the CTU members in a referendum held on October 2.

In an email to union members on October 23, Norine Gutekanst, the CTU's organizing chief, wrote as follows:

Dear Teachers, PSRPs, and friends,

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the Indians' ballboy, however, the ball wound up in the hands of a Cubs fan named Joe Wright. Apparently, after landing in the seats a Cleveland fan tossed the ball back onto the field. Once the ballboy retrieved it, he spotted Wright and threw it to him.

MLB.com Real-Time Correspondent Hailey Ellis caught up with Wright for the photo atop this post, as well as some great context about what brought him to Game 6.

A Chicago native, Wright comes from a lineage of Cubs fans on his father's side, and went to all three of the World Series games at Wrigley Field last weekend. He'll also be back on Wednesday for the drama and emotion of an all-important Game 7.

He was at Game 6 with his friend, David Abramowitzits antagonist, the triceps, releases. When the triceps works to open the arm at the elbow, the biceps releases. The biceps and triceps are an antagonistic pair.

Your hamstrings and quads muscles in your legs are an antagonistic pair as well. Check out this animation of the muscles that are active during walking. While walking is a much more complicated movement than a biceps curl (this animation also includes the iliopsoas, the glutes, and muscles of the lower leg called the tibialis anterior and calf) you can see the quads and hamstrings taking turns during the gait cycle. If you find the action of the muscles hard to follow, watch the bars of activity on either side of the walking figure.

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The first couple of band rehearsals went well. When we joined the cast for the sitzprobe we were on stage for the first time. Follies tells the story of a reunion of old theater performers, and the director Gary Griffin had decided to put the musicians on stage with the actors, so that we seemed like the reunion band. Space was pretty tight: the band was terraced up the back of the stage. I was down on the lowest terrace between Ben on harp and Jill on cello. There wasn’t a lot of space between my music stand and my chair. Iand told him the parable of the centipede who tried to control all one hundred legs consciously and ceased to be able to walk at all. I tried to convince him that the first step was to leave himself alone. He needed to practice “non-doing:” it would give him a chance to observe himself and see if he could discover if his movement habits contributed to his neck problem.

One lesson I finally succeeded in getting him to stand quietly, leaving himself alone. I had just placed my hand where his head meets his neck and was helping him experience a “free neck”—moving his head gently back and forth in the “no” direction—when his pager went off. At the sound of the buzzing, his neck tensed dramatically, the back


average head weighs about 10 pounds. When your neck is free and the head is poised on a lengthening spine, it has a functional weight of 10 pounds. But for every degree the head is held forward—whether towards a cell phone, a computer, a book, a music stand, or a musical instrument—its functional weight increases dramatically. As this study by Kenneth K. Hansraj found, a 10 pound head held 30 degrees forward has a functional weight of 40 pounds.

So what we do with our heads has an enormous impact on the health of our necks, shoulders and backs. With my doctor student, the anxiety around the insistent and unbidden summons of his pager caused a spasm of tension in his neck, jerking his head back into his spine.Remembering a BioWare legend

BioWare said goodbye to veteran developer Corey Gaspur yesterday. The company made the announcement over a blog post, sending their best to Corey's family.

"Corey was a talented designer and an even better person. We offer our condolences to Corey's family and everyone that knew him."

Corey had been with the studio since 2007, his first project being BioWare's collaboration with Sega, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood.

He would go on to make a name for himself working on the Mass Effect series and most recently Anthem, which is slated for release in 2018.

Remembering Corey Gaspur [BioWare Blog]


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do not need probable cause to arrest. You just need a reasonable suspicion to make the stop."

The department released the officers' names earlier: Lt. Brian Rice, 41, who joined the department in 1997; Officer Caesar Goodson, 45, who joined in 1999; Sgt. Alicia White, 30, who joined in 2010; Officer William Porter, 25, who joined in 2012; Officer Garrett Miller, 26, who joined in 2012; and Officer Edward Nero, 29, who joined in 2012.

Of the six officers, three were on bikes and initially approached Gray, another made eye contact with Gray, another officer joined in the arrest after it was initiated and one drove the police van, Capt. Eric Kowalczyk said.

Another person, who was inside the prisoner transport van carrying Gray, is a witness in a criminal investigation,so his name won't be released, police said.

"The investigation, as it stands, will be turned over to the State's Attorney's Office for review on May 1, 2015," the statement said. "As with any criminal investigation, detectives will continue to pursue the evidence wherever it leads, for as long as it takes."

Protests continue

The emotions are raw and protests are growing in Baltimore, where a community wants answers in the Gray's death.

As protesters chanted, "No justice, no peace!" Tuesday evening, Gray's distraught mother, Gloria Darden, collapsed in tears at the spot where her son was arrested this month. She was whisked away.

Gray, a 25-year-old black man, died of a spinal injury on Sunday, one week after he was taken into custody.

The demonstrations are gaining momentum. The crowd was back late


him, Murphy said. Less than an hour later, he was on his way to a trauma clinic with a spinal injury, where he fell into a coma.

The family has not seen the autopsy report yet, Murphy said. The medical examiner's office told CNN it could take up to 90 days to release the report, which is typical.

On Wednesday afternoon, the medical examiner cleared the body to be released to the family, Gray family co-counsel Jason Downs said. The family intends to have a second, private autopsy conducted once Baltimore police turn over the body, the attorney said.

What the police say

Police, according to their own timeline , spotted Gray, gave chase, caught him, cuffed him and requested a paddy wagon in fewer than four minutes.

"The officers that I sawthere were not out of control. They weren't causing him any pain ... And when they lifted him up they grabbed him under his armpits and they moved him as best they can," Police Commissioner Anthony Batts told CNN affiliate WJZ

The transport van left with Gray about 11 minutes afterward, police said, and another 30 minutes passed before "units request paramedics to the Western District to transport the suspect to an area hospital."

Murphy and angry residents of Baltimore want to know what happened in those 30 minutes.

When cell phones began recording, Gray was already on the ground with three officers kneeling over him. He let out long screams.

"Our position is something happened in that van. We just don't know what," said Davey, the attorney representing the officers involved


in the incident.

He also said he does not think Gray was wearing a seat belt inside the van he was placed in after his arrest.

Police said Gray requested medical attention, including an inhaler, and an ambulance took him to the University of Maryland Medical Center's Shock Trauma Center.

"He lapsed into a coma, died, was resuscitated, stayed in a coma and on Monday underwent extensive surgery at Shock Trauma to save his life," Murphy said. "He clung to life for seven days."2014 \[[@CR17]\]. In 2015, the prevalence of stunting in Colombian children under 5 years old was 13% in the capital city, Bogotá, and 10.8% nationwide \[[@CR18]\].

In 2018 and 2019 infants with, and at risk of, stunting were identified in three localities of Bogotá by an intersectoral intervention from government, health, social assistance, and private sectors \[[@CR18]\]. In Bogota the provision and administration of health, education and social services are devolved services overseen by the corresponding District Secretariats under the coordination of the Mayor's office.

The specific aim of the intervention was to promote interaction between the health and social assistance sectors in order to standardize nutritional practices and harmonize knowledge of infant and young child feeding (IYCF) national guidelines across these sectors. It had four main focus points. First, to


provide access to good quality health services and the training of health professionals in IYCF practices. Second, to enable access to social assistance programs and training of social assistance professionals in good IYCF practices. Third, to educate caregivers in nutrition practices. Fourth, community empowerment to address stunting. The private sector played a key advocacy role by liaising with stakeholders, providing financial support and access to human resources for implementation of the intervention.

The intervention was developed as a "before and after" study to assess the change in anthropometric measurements of infants identified at risk of stunting or already stunted. The intervention also had an educational component in nutrition for parents and caregivers and was supplemented with food vouchers for those participants. In parallel, this case study was conducted toperceptions of the reasons for growth faltering, and which sectors they considered most important for infant nutrition. Workshops and focus groups were conducted during April and May 2019.

### Semi-structured interviews {#Sec6}

Interviews were audio-recorded and then transcribed verbatim. Seven committee stakeholders composed of representatives from the health, social assistance, and private sector and three members of the intervention who conducted the fieldwork were interviewed between June and July 2019. Three representatives of health insurance companies agreed to be interviewed to explain the coordination barriers that impeded their participation in the intervention. One representative from the local town hall, and two representatives from the district education sector offered their ideas about how these sectors could contribute to the prevention and treatment of stunting in the localities where the intervention was


recruiting participants, we approached the Colombian Family Welfare Institute who also sent a representative*". Another member of the committee explained: "*we started this project with a view on intersectoral actions, since we had to \[coordinate between\] two Secretariats -- social integration and health -- and the third actor that was the private sector*". Although the health, social assistance, and private sectors were invited to participate, some members of the committee felt that additional sectors could have been invited, such as the education sector, economic development, and perhaps the District Secretary for Women. The sectors for the intervention were selected based on their institutional mission statements regarding infant nutrition, those that complied with this requirement were the health and social assistance sectors, and two private institutions.

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Asan example of "political will", a member of the committee highlighted that the Mayor of Bogota authorized the implementation of the stunting intervention through the collaboration of the health and social assistance secretariats. The main role of the health secretariat was to identify infants at risk or with low Height-for-Age Z score (HAZ) registered in their database. The main role of the social assistance sector was to cross-check this information to identify infants affiliated to their programs and include them in the intervention. Helpfully, a member of the committee from the social assistance sector was already working on public-private partnerships, especially on technical support and supervision of legal agreements between the two, which facilitated ISA in the intervention. The private sector assumed a notable advocacy role by promoting


the intervention within national and local government entities.

Lack of the following factors limited the ISA, legislative support, full engagement of the health sector, decentralization of local health services, and lack of social participation. In regard to the lack of legislative support for prevention of stunting, a member of the committee from the health sector mentioned that "*unfortunately, in the current plans \[of the District Health Secretary\] stunting is not an explicit goal. When we talk about prevention of stunting, we talk about breastfeeding, about which we do have a goal.*" The same barrier was highlighted in the workshops, and participants mentioned the lack of legislative support for surveillance of stunting in the city. Wasting or low weight for age (WAZ), is a priority for many sectors. For stunting,in this case study can aid researchers and stakeholders in the design of intersectoral partnerships with robust conceptual frameworks and efficient monitoring of ISA strengths and weaknesses.

This study must be interpreted acknowledging some limitations: Recall bias could have been present from the single cross-sectional design of the interviews and the response rate of the questionnaire on general opinion of stunting was low.Response rate for workshops was particularly low, but at least one representative of each sector participated. Information saturation of the relevant sectors to address stunting in the city was achieved.The adapted Checklist for Intersectoral Partnerships for Health Promotion was applied only at the final stage of the intervention thereby precluding insights from comparison to its application in the early stages of the partnerships and during implementation. The


their insights about ISA for stunting in the territory. We are very thankful to Patricia Caro from the Ministry of Health and Social Provision and Juliana Quintero from FSFB who revised questionnaire adaptations, and to anthropologist Magda Juliana Murcia who gave advice on the qualitative component of the research. To Jennifer Uribe and Santiago Uribe for their thoughtful comments.

NBT: Conducted data collection, data analysis and writing of the manuscript. GPAZ: data analysis and writing of the manuscript. ARV: data analysis and writing of the manuscript. All authors have read and agreed on the final version of this manuscript.

The study was funded by Fundación Éxito and the Population Health Division of Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá. The funding sources had no involvement in the study design, data collection, analysisand will run on TV during the U.S. game against China, which is airing tonight on Fox Sports 1. Gatorade will also run the spot on its digital channels.

Her call to "forget I ever existed" is an unusual refrain in a sporting world in which stars often seek to remain relevant with brands and fans way past their prime, into retirement. Look no further than LeBron James, who just inked a lifetime endorsement deal with Nike in a move that suggests he will still be appearing in ads after he hangs up his basketball shoes.

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There are plenty of people in Washington, DC, advocating on behalf of corporate industries, or well-endowed universities, or the idiosyncratic interests of wealthy donors. A much smaller number spent their days monomaniacally focused on addressing the needs of the poor.

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August
14, 2000

THE
BUCHANAN MOMENT

As
the confetti fell, and the last phrases of Buchanan's
acceptance speech echoed against the rafters of the
Long Beach Convention Center, the near universal hiss
from pundits on both the left and the right rose up
like a chorus of cicadas. Pat's appearance on Meet the
Press with the obnoxious Tim Russert is typical of what
we must come to expect: here is the only presidential
candidate talking about the vital foreign policy issues
 the uniquely presidential issues  that will concern
the next chief executive of the United States, and what
does Russert ask him? What else but the Liberty Lobby?!

THE
USUAL CRAP

It
seems that the Liberty Lobby  a minuscule racist and anti-Semitic
organization run by the lunatic Willis Carto  has been publishing
literature in the name of an organization they call "Americans
for Buchanan" without Pat'ssay is: Folks, come on
over; there is plenty of room in Reform.'"

LOOKING
BEYOND NOVEMBER

Looking
beyond the range-of-the-moment, beyond November, Buchanan
is fighting to preserve the conservative movement as an organized
political force. The Republican Party, for its part, would
just as soon celebrate the extinction of conservatism as an
effective force on the national stage, bury it in the wave
of political correctness and pandering that promises to dominate
American politics in the new millennium. After all, the role
of the Right in the GOP has always been to lick the envelopes,
do the precinct work, get out the troops  and shut up until
after Election Day. Buchanan's great achievement is to end
this charade  for good.

NEVER
AGAIN

Never
again will we have to stand by and just take what is handed
to us by the mandarins of "moderation." Never again will


crashing down."

GOING
WILD

The
crowd went absolutely wild! People stood on their chairs and
cheered their lungs out, waving placards, and then  erupting
from the depth their deepest desires, like a subterranean
stream bursting through to the surface  the cry went up:

"Bring
them home! Bring them home! Bring them home!"

The
troops, the commitments, the billions in "foreign aid" and
bribes  bring them home! Bring them home! The crowd roared,
as one, and Pat himself, up there on the podium, took up the
chant that rose to the ceiling like a prayer, an invocation
before God and man:

"Bring
them home!"

A
BUCHANAN MOMENT

It
was a Buchanan moment, a Reform Party moment  a moment that
will be remembered, when the history of this election and
this era is written, as a turning point not only for conservatives
but for all Americans. This week, emerging fromengineer, who was one of the pioneers of Google's self-driving car efforts (before they were rebranded as Waymo), and later defected to Uber. The companies got into a legal battle over confidential documents that Levandowski allegedly took with him, and he was briefly barred from the autonomous driving industry during the trial. The companies settled the case early this year.

The technology isn't "perfectly autonomous," Levandowski said. And, he added, "The age of autonomous vehicles crisscrossing the country by themselves is still quite a ways off."


Next Friday, March 31, Phish will unveil the group’s latest live archival release, St. Louis ’93, featuring official recordings of the quartet’s two 1993 stops at the American Theatre in St. Louis. Today, JamBase is pleased to premiere one of the many highlights from the 6-CD set.

The audio below comes from April 14, 1993, the first of the two 1993 Phish shows showcased on St. Louis ’93. In the middle of the first set the quartet launched into “Stash” and pretty quickly it became apparent this would be no ordinary version of the A Picture Of Nectar live staple. Phish was in an exploratory mode as they moved from one inventive jam space to the next.

The band had been on the road for over two months at thisVictims of sexual abuse by priests will no longer be able to sue the Catholic church for damages if a landmark judgment rules that priests should not be considered as employees.

In a little publicised case heard this month at the high court, the church claimed that it is not "vicariously liable" for priests' actions. The church has employed the argument in the past but this was the first time it had been used in open court and a ruling in the church's favour would set a legal precedent.

The use of the defence raises further questions about the church's willingness to accept culpability for abuse. It follows a damning report into abuse at the diocese of Cloyne in Ireland which prompted the Irish president, Mary McAleese, to call on


actions of one of its priests is nothing short of scandalous," said Richard Scorer of the law firm Pannone, which specialises in abuse cases. "The Catholic church would be better served by facing up to its responsibilities rather than trying to hide behind spurious employment law arguments."

The ruling is being made as part of a preliminary hearing into the case of "JGE", who claims to have been sexually abused while a six-year-old resident at The Firs, a children's home in Portsmouth run by an order of nuns, the English Province of Our Lady of Charity. "If we fail, it would mean that no other victims of Catholic priests would be able to be compensated," said Tracey Emmott of Emmott Snell, a specialist in working with sexual abuse claimswho is representing JGE.

JGE alleges that she was sexually abused by Father Wilfred Baldwin, a priest of the Roman Catholic diocese of Portsmouth and its "vocations director", who regularly visited The Firs during the 70s. Her legal team claim the nuns were negligent and in breach of duty, and that the diocese was liable for Baldwin's alleged abuse as he was a Catholic priest engaged within the work of the diocese.

Previous hearings in the House of Lords and the court of appeal relating to other church organisations have found that ministers should be treated as employees. But there has been no judgment yet on whether the relationship between a Catholic priest and his bishop is akin to an employment relationship.

"They claim that the relationship between the bishop of


Holy Mutations

Deformed animals born in developing nations often attract streams of pilgrims, seeking to touch a creature considered divinely blessed. In December, a five-legged cow in Raipur, India, had supposedly "caused" the last 30 women who touched it to give birth to boys. A day after that report came one from Phuket, Thailand, of a newborn gecko with six legs and two heads said to be a magnet for folks seeking clues to winning lottery numbers.Lok Sabha member C S Puttaraju has been slapped a fine of Rs 40.69 lakh by the department of mines and geology as the charges of illegal mining activities at Bebi Betta forest range near Pandavapura stand proven.

Right to Information (RTI) activist K R Raveendra had recently lodged a complaint with the Lokayukta in Bengaluru, against STG Mining Company and other firms for illegal quarrying activities at Bebi Betta.

The STG company, in which MP Puttaraju is a shareholder, is owned by his nephew and zilla panchayat member C Ashok. The Lokayukta had directed the department of mines and geology to conduct a probe. After investigation, the department found the allegations of illegal quarrying to be true and senior scientist Nagabhushan levied a penalty of Rs 90.81 lakh on


18 people involved in illegal mining.

According to reports, STG company has been involved in illegal mining since May 6, 2013, and is found to have transported around 3,900 tonnes of stone. This is a clear violation as per the Karnataka Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 1994.

Raveendra said the officials had shirked from their responsibility by just levying fine on the companies. The whole district administration and Puttaraju have been involved in illegal activities. As this is a serious crime, it must be handed over to CBI for a probe, he said. Puttaraju should resign as MP and face investigation, he demanded. Puttaraju was not available for comments.

This Asian American Still Life

This series was based off existing masterpieces with an Asian American twist to them. I found a strange and simplistic beauty in extending Asian American representation to commonplace objects so many of us grew up with.

#RepresentasianMatters

Political Postcards

Illustrated postcard of the Statue of Liberty, with each spike representing the seven countries of the Muslim Ban.

This postcard was a collaboration with five other artists to create a political postcard set to encourage people to write the current administration after the 46th President’s first 100 days in office.


is subconscious and is activated in split-second decisions we make…judgments about others.

RACISM AND THE POLICE: The Shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson. Systematic racism has been made evident again in the shooting of an unarmed young Black man, Michael Brown, by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Pulling stories directly from recent news headlines is one way to get students’ attention and demonstrate the abundant relevance of the sociological perspective. The New York Times has a timeline of the events that serves as a useful starting point (from the mainstream media) to share the events with students that may have not kept up with the story.

THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF RACE: BLURRY DISTINCTIONS AND CHANGING CATEGORIES. The social construction of race is made evident when we see how thefar from simply a sporting event or even just the final game of a season. The Super Bowl is a sociological phenomenon. It is a great teachable moment using an event that everyone has at least heard of and many of our students will be watching… or at least at a social event where the game is playing on the television. While many of our students will be highly engaged in the event, few may have thought about it from a sociological perspective. Below are some interesting resources from sociology and other disciplines that can help reveal the sociology in the Super Bowl.

SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE BODY: The nipple Examples of the social construction of the body are prevalent in the media’s objectification of the female body in


the complexity of the design on the banner.
Stewart testified that she originated most if not all of Flag Fables' designs in the early years of the business. Most of the designs at that time, however, were not marked with the copyright symbol, a "c" enclosed in a circle. Stewart's first brochure, issued in 1985, also lacked a copyright mark, but all subsequent brochures, beginning in late 1985, were so marked. At some point, (the exact date is unclear), Stewart also began sewing her name, the year and the copyright mark on her banners.
On August 22, 1988, Stewart registered three of her designs with the United States Copyright Office. The designs are entitled: "Sailboat" (VAu 137-693), "Pineapple" (VAu 137-694), and "Standing Welcome Goose" (VAu 137-689). In the fall of1988, Stewart sold the company to her business manager, Wendy Diamond ("Diamond") in *1169 part, she said, because of the controversy with the Fedes.
Three more designs were registered by Diamond on January 3, 1989: "Shaker House" (VAu 146-284), "Welcome Spring" (VAu 145-945); and two designs on February 24, 1989: "Welcome Bear" (VAu 148-199), and "Mallard" (VAu 148-196). Since certain of Flag Fables' designs were registered in Stewart's name, Stewart transferred all rights, title and interest in her designs to Flag Fables on April 17, 1989. The transfer was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office on April 20, 1989.
Of the registered designs, the plaintiff claims the following have been infringed upon: "Sailboat" (also known as "Sailing, Sailing"), "Standing Welcome Goose," "Shaker House," "Shamrocks," "Welcome Bear," and "Mallard." In addition,


between her banners and the plaintiff's was "mere happenstance."
The testimony of Fede, Stewart and others revealed that the defendant Fede sells her flags at the same craft fairs as the plaintiff. However, all Country Flags are priced at $40, below the prices charged by Flag Fables.
Examination of the exhibits during the hearing reveals that Fede has begun placing copyright symbols on her banners, but has not applied for registration of her designs at this time.

C. Relationship Between the Parties
Stewart testified that she first became aware of the defendants' banners in the fall of 1986, when she saw Fede's banners displayed in a crafts store called Blue Bird Acres in Springfield, Massachusetts. After Stewart saw Fede and her banners at two craft fairs in the spring of 1987, herhusband, Bob Stewart, wrote the Fedes a letter requesting that they stop selling flags which infringed on the Flag Fables product line. The Stewarts received no reply to this letter.
Just over a year later, on July 28, 1988, Attorney Holland wrote a "cease and desist" letter to the Fedes, giving notice of the copyrighted status of the Flag Fables designs and warning of possible penalties for continued infringement. Attorney Holland received a reply from Attorney Leonard Michelman, the defendants' attorney, on August 9, 1988. In his reply, Attorney Michelman stated that since objects in nature cannot be copyrighted, Stewart had no right to protection.
Flag Fables' new owner, Wendy Diamond ("Diamond"), also wrote the Fedes on January 31, 1989, stating that in light of the Fedes' persistent sale of


made before or is made within five years after the publication without notice, and a reasonable effort is made to add notice to all copies or phonorecords that are distributed to the public in the United States after the omission has been discovered....
Defendants state that since each of Stewart's original designs was "published without notice" of copyright, the plaintiff bears the burden of showing that the omission has been "cured." Curing is accomplished by registering the work within five years of publication without notice, which under these circumstances occurred when Stewart sold her first banner containing each design.
The testimony at the hearing and in the record tends to show that each design at issue was first published without notice in late 1984 or early 1985. With the exceptionto the expression of this idea: background color, color of the various design elements, shape of the watering can, number and shape of flowers, and general arrangement of the design on the banner.
The Court concludes that an ordinary observer would find substantial similarity between the two designs.

ii. "Standing Welcome Goose"

(Plaintiff's Exhibits 23 & 23a)
The idea at issue is a goose on a banner with the word "welcome." The Court finds the following articulable similarities with respect to the expression of this design: background color, general shape of the goose, shape and position of the goose's beak and feet, the use of plaid for the bow, the placement of a heart at the rear of the goose, and the curving of the word "welcome" on the banner.
The Court concludes


that an ordinary observer would find substantial similarity between the two designs.

iii. "Sailboat"

(Plaintiff's Exhibits 24 & 24a)
The idea at issue is a small sailboat on a banner. The Court finds the following articulable similarities with respect to the expression of this design: background color, color of the boat's hull, and general arrangement of the design on the banner.
The Court concludes that an ordinary observer would find substantial similarity between the two designs.

iv. "Shaker House"

(Plaintiff's Exhibits 25 & 25a)
The idea at issue is a Shaker house on a banner with the word "welcome." The Court finds the following articulable similarities with respect to the expression of this design: the background color, the color of the house and accent hearts, the placement of the various details on the house, theshape and size of the accent heart(s), and the curving of the word "welcome" on the banner.
The Court concludes that an ordinary observer would find substantial similarity between the two designs.

v. "Shamrocks"

(Plaintiff's Exhibits 26 & 26a)
The idea at issue is a white shamrock on a Kelly green banner. The Court finds the following articulable similarities with respect to the expression of this design: the background color (the colors could have been reversed), the color of the shamrocks, the shape and size of the various shamrocks, and the general arrangement of the design on the banner.
The Court concludes that an ordinary observer would find substantial similarity between the two designs.

vi. "Welcome Bear"

(Plaintiff's Exhibits 27 & 27a)
The idea at issue is a teddy bear with the word "welcome." The Court


finds the following articulable similarities with respect to the expression of this idea: shape and location of the bear and caption, shape and location of the bow, expression and features of the bear, and bear's sitting position.
The Court concludes that an ordinary observer would find substantial similarity between the two designs.

*1174 vii. "Mallard"

(Plaintiff's Exhibits 28 & 28a)
The idea at issue is a mallard on a banner. The Court finds the following articulable similarities with respect to the expression of this idea: background color, shape and size of the mallard and accompanying reeds, and the placement of the mallard and reeds on the banner.
The Court concludes that an ordinary observer would find substantial similarity between the two designs.

viii. "Scottie"

(Plaintiff's Exhibits 29 & 29a)
The idea at issue is a ScottishId. at 196.

b. Plaintiff Made a Reasonable Effort to Cure
Testimony received by the Court at the preliminary injunction hearing in June 1989, suggests that the founder of Flag Fables, Pam Stewart, "discovered" the omission of copyright notice sometime in early 1985. Transcript at 34-35. Stewart testified that at the advice of a market consultant, she began placing copyright notices on her banners within about six months of starting her business. Id. She also stated that the copyright notice consisted of her name, a "c" in a circle and the date. Id. at 36.
The defendants, however, have submitted affidavits tending to show that the plaintiff sold banners after "discovery" of the omission which allegedly did not contain a proper copyright notice. See Affidavits of Phillip Champagne, Kathleen Hill and


[Surgeons among the pirates in the 17th century].
The memoirs of ship's surgeons that sailed with the Caribbean buccaneers and pirates of the 17th century are an important source of information on how they lived and worked. The surgeons enjoyed a full-fledged position among the egalitarian buccaneers. Known buccaneer surgeons whose memoirs have been preserved were apparently not entirely qualified according to the traditional guild system. Besides the usual work of ship's surgeons in general, the buccaneer surgeons had to be able to cope with the specific demands of the tropical climate. Botanical knowledge obtained from the Indian tribes played an important role in surviving the jungles of Central America. In addition, they were required to assist with duels, which played an important role among pirates and buccaneers inSince announcing my campaign to defeat Bob Casey for the United States Senate six months ago, I have travelled throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, speaking with thousands of the people who sent shock waves through the political world last year by electing Donald Trump.

The people I have met voted for the president because, for too long, Washington insiders and special interests have benefited greatly, while hard-working Pennsylvanians have seen their jobs shipped overseas, their savings reduced to nothing, and the staples of middle-class security – health care, home ownership, and education – harder to achieve.

I can report that what was true a year ago remains so, namely that Pennsylvanians from all walks of life and both political parties continue to embrace the president’s reform agenda.

That said, the truck


drivers, farmers, factory workers and miners I have met, whether they live in East Stroudsburg, New Castle, Sayre or Kittanning, remain angry with career politicians from both parties. Increasingly, this anger is directed at Republican leadership in the United States Senate, especially Mitch McConnell.

I understand their frustration, both as a candidate and as a former donor to Mitch McConnell. Nine months into the new Administration, Senator McConnell has failed to win passage of the pro-growth, pro-American, pro-reform agenda that Pennsylvanians are demanding.

The effort to repeal Obamacare is Senator McConnell’s highest profile failure. For seven years – longer than the time America spent fighting and winning World War II – Republican insiders promised that they would repeal Obamacare.

With the election of a Republican president, Senator McConnell finally had theRoad to Death and Definition of Insanity (updated)

Remember that scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail, where the cowardly one of the Knights of the Round Table, Sir Robin, is at a cross-roads, and in one way are signs to 'Certain Death 1 km' and every sign in that direction is 'Certain Death 1 km' while the opposite direction is the road to 'Camelot 54 km' back to safety and his friends.

In real life there rarely is a situation of a genuine road to certain death. Even in some very dire military situations, like say when German General von Paulus found himself encricled by the red Soviet Army in the city of Stalingrad, that was not yet certain death. Hitler promised relief and to supply von Paulus via air,


future of the handset industry is smartphones. Nokia invented the smartphone. Nokia had aggressively pursued its transition from 'dumbphones' to smartphones and was ahead of the curve, ie Nokia's internal handset sales migration rate from dumbphones to smartphones - was ahead of that of the global industry. The USA reached the half-way point last year, when half of all new phones sold were no longer dumbphones, they were smartphones. Europe reached that point in 2010, here in Hong Kong and other advanced Asia-Pacific region countries, we did that already in 2009. Worldwide, 32% of all new phones sold currently are smartphones. By this time next year, the world will be at half-point. Sony and Motorola will become the first traditional dumbphone manufacturers to complete the transition to becomingonly smartphone makers, this year. Samsung, LG and the others, are all pushing hard to move from low-cost dumbphones to the higher margin smartphones.

Whatever Nokia might do in the low cost dumbphone sector, the future of Nokia hangs on its success in smartphones. So, what happened. Sixteen months ago, at the end of 2010, Nokia's market share in smartphones globally was 29%. Nokia was massively bigger than any of its rivals. Nokia in its smartphones alone, was more than twice as big as its nearest rival, Apple's iPhone. And regardless of what you may think of Nokia's 'obsolete' Symbian or its 'failing' appeal to customers, the facts don't lie. Nokia was growing unit sales of smartphones (actual smartphone handset sales) AND growing smartphone revenues, AND growing average sales


1970s when IBM towered over its computer-maker rivals known as 'The Bunch' for Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data and Honeywell. Yes, just over a year ago, Nokia was literally more than twice the size of its nearest rival and .. Nokia was profitable .. and Nokia was growing its smartphone business enormously. Nokia's smartphone unit grew smartphone unit sales by 36% in the previous year. And yes, under Elop's leadership, in Q4 of 2010, Nokia's smartphone unit set a Nokia-record sized profit in the smartphone business. Anyone who tells you Nokia was in any way 'in trouble' or 'losing to Apple' or 'falling behind' in the smartphone races is patently wrong and clueless about the global races in smartphones. In the USA yes, Nokia was nowhere. China iseven improved up it. He created in effect a series of Osborne Effects. Elop yes, Out-Osborned Osborne. (The Osborne Effect ruined the Osborne Computer company and is studied in MBA classes as one of the classic management blunders leading to certain doom, never to be repeated).

Elop then decided it was not bad enough, he then copied the Ratner Effect. But just like with Osborne, Elop further made the Ratner Effect worse, by not just calling his own products crap (as Ratner did, factually true, Ratner's jewelry was of lousy quality), Elop went further, he invented problems Nokia's products did not have, he in fact called his products worse than they really were. He out-Ratnered Ratner! (The Ratner Company almost died, and was saved by total rebranding and firing


of the CEO. The Ratner Effect is studied in MBA classes as another of the classic management blunders leading to certain doom, never to be repeated).

What did I say about a Road to Certain Death? Nokia CEO discovered a map. On it there was not one Road to Certain Death, but two Roads to Certain Death. He decided not to avoid one or the other. He decided to take BOTH of the Roads to Certain Death. Again, readers, I did not invent the Osborne Effect. It caused Osborne Computer company to go bankrupt. I was not the only one who looked at the Elop Effect and saw it was clearly the modern era most blatant copy of the Osborne Effect - and by every measure, it was stupidof Elop to embark on that mission. It was idiotic. There was a clear road-map to that path. It was a clear Road to Ruin. He decided to take it.

And worse, the parallel and equally damaging Ratner Effect. Elop also embraced this method of destroying Nokia and he copied the Ratner Effect, not just meticulously, but he 'improved' upon it, he made it even more powerfully - destructive - to Nokia. Elop out-Osborned Osborne while also out-Ratnering Ratner.

WORLD RECORD DESTRUCTION

Nokia's Q1 results are out. Nokia's smartphone sales have utterly collapsed. From 28 million smartphones sold in Q4 of 2010, the industry has grown by 60% - if Nokia only held its market, it should now be selling 45 million smartphones per quarter (Apple's iPhone is projected to sell


Think of British Airways fiasco with Terminal 5. Think of the Tylenol scare. And of Mercedes Benz A-Series the car that was too dangerous to drive into curves. Think of the BP oil spill, or the previous global oil spill disaster, the Exxon Valdez. Never. Never in the recorded history of business, has a global market leader lost 75% of its business in a period of one year! I have been asking my readers to submit their worst cases they can remember, and we have not been able to find one instance of a company that was the global leader of its industry, which in a one year period lost even HALF of its customers, far less three out of every four!

And Nokia came to this situation notas a badly damaged weakling on the brink of collapse. Nokia was dominant, towering over rivals - many of whom were generating operating losses in their handset business like SonyEricsson, Motorola and LG - while Nokia's smartphone unit was vastly profitable - profits which alone would qualify at rank 175 of Fortune Global 500 in profits - and growing smartphone sales - while towering over its rivals like Apple and Samsung.

This has never happened before. Not in smartphones, not in overall telecoms industry, not in high tech, not in any industry ever. That the market leader lost more than half of its customers in a period of 12 months, that the market leader lost 75% of its market in a period of 15 months. This is a world


record in management failure. Literally. A world record.

SNATCH DEFEAT FROM JAWS OF VICTORY

The market reaction has been brutal. Before the Elop Effect, in the first five months that Elop was in charge as CEO of Nokia, the Nokia overall sales grew, overall profits grew, the Nokia smartphone migration rate had progressed (from dumbphones to smartphones), the market share in smartphones was 29%, Nokia's smartphone unit sales grew strongly, the revenues of smartphones grew strongly, the average prices of smartphones set a Nokia record in growth and yes, the profitability of the smartphone unit jumped at a Nokia record. The investors of Nokia appreciated this new CEO so much, that they rewarded the Nokia share price with a climb of 11% in value in just 5 months. The previousCEO, Kallasvuo, had seen Nokia go from profits to losses, and seen the share price fall by 55% over a three year period and was fired. Elop had already in just 5 months, recovered one tenth of the value that Kallasvuo had destroyed. Elop was a hero.

Nokia's ratings by the three independent ratings agencies were all at one notch below perfect. Nokia was clearly on the come-back under Elop. The brand value of Nokia globally was ranked 8th most valuable brand on the planet! Not of tech brands, of all brands, by the Interbrand annual survey.

Then the Elop Effect. Since that fateful February, Nokia's climb-back in the share price took a suicidal dive. Last time Nokia lost 55% of its share price value over a 3 year period,


EVERY BIT OF NEWS IS BAD

Nokia has set a world record in destroying its market share in the future of the business it invented, the smartphone business. A business so lucrative, it drove Apple to become the most profitable company on the planet, but Nokia now produces record-level losses in its smartphone unit. A year ago Nokia was bigger than its two biggest rivals combined, now its less than a third the size of either. Nokia has managed to frighten away 75% of its loyal customer base in less than 15 months, establishing a world record in the obliteration of a loyal customer base. This has also resulted in Nokia abandoning its leadership in the overall handset industry. So how is this performance then rated?

Nokia's ratings by thein early phones. This was something that was supposedly fixed by the time Elop came in. So, then Elop in his infinite wisdom promised that Lumia series smartphones would be delivered in record time.

I did warn on this blog that pushing such fast delivery dates threatens the quality of new Nokia phones. It was exactly the problem that had plagued Nokia quality and eroded its reputation. So I said that some of Elop's early Lumia phones might have production problems. Now we see massive catastrophic problems with each of the first Lumia phones. Each of them. The 'flagship' Lumia 900 had so big problems in the USA and Canada, that Nokia had to resort to a 100 dollar rebate coupon. A 100 dollar discount on a phone that