Typically throughout a day you will go through a number of different emotions. You might wake up in the morning and feel energetic, ready for a new day. You might then end up running a little late because of traffic and you experience some frustration. You arrive at work and have an important sales meeting, and you feel a little anxiety. You're then relaxing a little when you have your lunch. After you've eaten you might be feeling a little sleepy as you sit at your desk.
In the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) these emotions are called 'states'. Humans constantly experience states. Somebody criticises us, and bang, we can go into an upset state. Somebody praises us and we go into a 'feel good' state. States are usually created in 2 main ways – one is by reacting to an outside incident. The other is by having thoughts about things.
You may have noticed when you stammer, or when you think about stammering, you usually feel a negative emotion inside you. This could be fear, worry, anxiety or nervousness. These are all in the language of NLP, known as states. The great thing about NLP is that a big portion of the field is about developing new empowering states, to replace disempowering ones. You can create new states to help you with your stammering.
1. Remember a time when you felt confident or happy. Just allow yourself to really fully experience this, right from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. Allow any images to come into your mind about your confident or happy situation. Just notice how it feels in different parts of your body. Just allow this 'state' to permeate throughout your whole body.
2. Next, amplify the state from step 1. If you need to, imagine turning the dial on a DVD player, which you use to increase its volume. In a similar way, increase your confident or happy state.
3. Once you're confident or happy state is real high, now apply this state to the emotion you had earlier. So, if you experienced anxiety, just allow your confident or happy state to completely layer on top of the anxiety.
4. Finally, notice how your anxiety has been changed. For instance, you might now feel less anxiety or none at all.
With the above steps you've just learnt a way to change your emotions for the better. Use it whenever you're feeling down or stuck to quickly change the way you feel in a positive way.


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From the Record Crate – Lou Reed: The Blue Mask (1982)
Matt Rice February 24, 2017 0 0
With The Velvet Underground, singer-songwriter Lou Reed latched onto a level of consistency and innovation that resulted in four incredible albums and enough leftover material that, in 2015, The Complete Matrix Tapes somehow revealed new layers to the band's genius. But after leaving the band in 1970, Reed went solo and his work became significantly rockier. His 1972 eponymous debut, though mostly consisting of songs Reed had written while still with The Velvets, is ruined by a basic, tiresome production. Its follow-up Transformer was an excellent if flawed take on the glam rock scene that, with some assistance from David Bowie, interjected much-needed new energy and sounds to Reed's singing and writing.
Transformer is rightfully canonized, but the rest of his '70s oeuvre is hit-or-miss, despite fine records like Coney Island Baby and Street Hassle. Berlin and Metal Machine Music lack in listenability what they contain in inventiveness, while Rock and Roll Heart and Sally Can't Dance show little quality control, even in the lyricism.
It wasn't until the 1980s that Reed actually began to regularly release albums that came somewhat close to living up to his work with the VU. This began in 1982 with The Blue Mask, the first (and best) of a trilogy of albums that deal with domestic life and marriage.
What remains fascinating about The Blue Mask is how little the drama, tragedy, and horror has faded from Reed's songwriting. While you would think that the influence of the suburbs would fail to produce work as intense as drug tales like "I'm Waiting for the Man" and "White Light/White Heat," "Underneath the Bottle" manages to conjure up plenty of the same paranoia and terror in its depiction of alcoholism. If "Heroin" finds as much life and joy as sadness in addiction, in the need and even want for junk, "The Heroine" is almost as gripping in its theme of getting off the stuff and trying to become a better person. The ideas present on this record feel realer and more honest than something like Berlin, which dwells on theatrical despair too often to be entirely truthful.
Throughout the album, Reed seems perplexed and distraught by the way everything is changing around him, as well as his hesitance to change with it. He explores these themes more on the later domesticity albums, 1983's Legendary Hearts and 1984's New Sensations, which show his growing fascination with his new life. But it's perhaps best shown on where he finds his nostalgia on The Blue Mask: the regretful sexism of his youth ("Women") and a presidential assassination ("The Day John Kennedy Died").
The Blue Mask was Reed's best solo album upon its release, and it remained his best until 2000's underrated Ecstasy (in many ways, a late-period update on his early '80s records). Beyond the themes and poetry, the music is a major advantage, with Reed's rhythm guitar colliding with the lead of the brilliant Robert Quine, creating a rich but not overpowering sound that fits the songs. The album sounds fantastic, never falling prey to either the banality or overproduction that plagued much of Reed's previous work.
Despite his clear hope of settling into his new life, it's not exactly surprising that the marriage that inspired The Blue Mask, that of Reed and designer Sylvia Morales, didn't last. Eventually, he managed to find bliss in his partnership with another genius, Laurie Anderson, which lasted for 21 years until his death in 2013. But like so many other incredible artists, Reed managed to adjust to change, finding as much engaging material in married life as he had in the drugs, sex, and violence of "Sister Ray."
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Movenda releases Let's Pizza for iPhone: Prepare & Eat a Delicious Pizza
February 8, 2009 in Entertainment (E)
[prMac.com] Rome, Italy - Movenda, "The Mobile Solutions Company", will present at Mobile World Congress 2009 (16-19th Feb. in Barcelona) its latest iPhone application, "Let's Pizza". Let's Pizza is the first and only iPhone application which transforms your iPhone into a traditional pizzeria, allowing to prepare and eat a virtual pizza step-by-step. It allows choosing your preferred ingredients, cooking and eating the virtual Pizza. It's very easy, very funny and delicious... and also really fat-free! When the Pizza is finally cooked just touch a pizza slice to grab it, then bring your iPhone towards your mouth to "eat" your favorite and fat-free pizza slice.
The application has been realized by Movenda SpA, an Italian company leader for development of iPhone applications, both for the AppStore and custom applications, tailored to the specific requirements of the business customers. Movenda is equipped with a think factory specialized in development of iPhone applications. Movenda's iPhone know how is the result from our marketing, engeneering, user experience and graphic areas.
"Movenda has always been following and creating new trends and innovations in the mobile market",said Marco Rossi, President and CEO of Movenda "and our latest iPhone Application "Let's Pizza" conjugates very well technology and old Italian traditions."
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Movenda S.p.A provides innovative software products for mobile applications and remote management. Movenda is equipped with a think factory specialized in development of iPhone applications. Movenda's iPhone Know how is the result from marketing, engeneering, user experience, graphic areas. With its products Movenda helps Mobile Operators, Handset, SIMCard manufacturers, Mobile Virtual Network Operator, Content Providers to accellerate the adoption of new technologies and services. Telecom Italia is a Movenda minority shareholder. Movenda was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Rome, Italy. Copyright 1999-2009 Movenda S.p.A. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.
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Professor Gilderoy Lockhart, O.M. (Third Class), (b. 26 January, 1964) was a half-blood wizard, a Ravenclaw student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and later a famous wizarding celebrity who authored many books on dark creatures and his encounters with them. Prior to his tenure as Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry during the 1992–1993 school year, he received many prestigious awards, such as Order of Merlin, Third Class; Honourary Member of the Dark Force Defence League; and five-time winner of Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award. He invented an Occamy egg yolk shampoo, which was too dangerous and expensive for open market; it subsequently became his dream to market these products. His favourite colour is lilac.
He never actually did any of the heroic acts he claimed he had done, but instead used his considerable talent in Memory Charms to force the actual people who had done them into forgetting what they did. Ironically, Lockhart lost all his memory on 29 May, 1993 due to a backfired Memory Charm cast by Ron Weasley's damaged wand and he became a permanent resident of St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. Following his hospitalisation, he dictated his final book entitled Who Am I?.
Gilderoy Lockhart was born on 26 January, 1964, to a Muggle man and a witch, and had two elder sisters, both of whom were Muggles (or squibs). Lockhart's mother loved him more than any of his siblings, and this, combined with the revelation of his wizardry and acceptance into Hogwarts, caused his vanity to grow like a weed. He and his mother forgot, in their excitement, that Hogwarts was a school for all British and Irish wizards, and thus his introduction into the school along with everyone else was, in his eyes, extremely dull.
He was Sorted into Ravenclaw on 1 September, 1975. He did, however, narrowly escape from being Sorted into Slytherin.
He had hoped to be greeted by whispers and stares, as in his mind he was already a fully-fledged genius with extreme magical prowess; the fact that he was merely ordinary disappointed him. He did have tremendous ability, and he was cleverer than most of his classmates, but he had a bad flaw in that he would not try unless he was the very best.
His vanity was such that he valued learning not for education, but because it granted him attention; he craved attention and prizes, and begged the Headmaster to start a school newspaper purely so he could see his own name in print. When these exploits failed to grant him attention, he took to grander, more dramatic means of garnering attention. Though he had never been popular with the other students, he did manage to achieve small notoriety by carving his name into the Quidditch pitch (earning him a weeks' worth of detentions), shooting a hologram of his own face into the sky like the Dark Mark, and sending himself eight-hundred Valentines, causing breakfast to be cancelled due to the number of droppings and feathers in the porridge.
After his graduation from Hogwarts in 1982 (with a faint sigh of relief from the entire school), Lockhart became an accomplished author, travelling to exotic parts of the world and, having mastered Memory Charms shortly after his graduation, tricking accomplished witches and wizards into revealing their greatest deeds and then erasing their memories. He then returned to Britain with a new book each time; known victims of his trickery included an Armenian warlock and a witch with a hairy chin. His books were very popular, and he reserved a special quill of peacock feather just for book signings. He also received many awards for his supposedly great deeds, and was invited to join the Dark Force Defence League as an honorary member, all the while managing to successfully hide his fraudulence.
According to Lockhart, he initially believed that the more exposure he got in the press, the better his career would progress. By the time he was writing his second bestseller, Gadding with Ghouls, he became overexposed, something that damaged his popularity. He, then, went mysteriously missing for three weeks, after which he leaked to the Daily Prophet that he had been captured by trolls in the wilds of Stockton-on-Tees. The story boosted his popularity once again.
According to Lockhart, one must be "sparing with [one's] public appearances, at first", as one might become overexposed as it happened to him during the time he was writing his second bestseller, Gadding with Ghouls.
Albus Dumbledore, the Headmaster during Lockhart's time, happened to have known two of the wizards whose memories Lockhart erased, and had a shrewd and accurate idea what was happening. He correctly believed that dragging Lockhart into a normal, school atmosphere would reveal his fradulence and, a vacancy in Defence Against the Dark Arts having opened up in June 1992, tracked down the author and, slyly hinting that teaching Harry Potter, who was a second-year student there at the time, would boost Lockhart's popularity beyond anything else, convinced Lockhart to return to Hogwarts (something Lockhart had not been too keen to do, as many of his teachers were still there and might have remembered his foolishness and ineptitude).
Lockhart thus became the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher for the 1992-1993 school year, and several of his books were assigned for the course that year, resulting in an unusually expensive book list. In August of 1992, Lockhart went to Flourish and Blotts to announce his employment; it was there that he met Harry Potter for the first time. He became quite excited and dragged Harry to the front, taking as many pictures as he could with the famous boy and then gifting him all of the set books in an attempt to garner some of Harry's affection. The incident, in fact, merely embarrassed Harry, who gave his books to Ginny Weasley, both because he could afford his own set and also because he did not particularly cherish his interaction with Lockhart.
Being the only willing applicant for the cursed position, Gilderoy Lockhart became Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry during the 1992–1993 school year. His classroom and office at Hogwarts were decorated with pictures and portraits of himself (even one of himself painting another portrait of himself) which moved and smiled. He also decorated the office with copies of his publications.
For his first lesson, he gave his second-year class a "little quiz" which had nothing to do with defence, but instead concerned his autobiography, Magical Me and the parts of his books just referring to him, such as his favourite colour and his ideal birthday present; he simply wanted to see how much the class has read his books. Despite his claim of "little", it ran for three pages with fifty-four questions and only Hermione got all of them correct. He then proceeded to release a cage full of Cornish Pixies into the classroom, causing a large amount of pandemonium, then irresponsibly instructing Harry, Ron, and Hermione to clean up after the mess while running back into his office. He was the least bit popular among his fellow Hogwarts staff members and constantly gave them unsolicited pieces of advice on their specialties. Harry and his friends also found him quite obnoxious and could not take him seriously as a professor. Even Rubeus Hagrid, the gamekeeper, who usually refrained from criticising teachers, showed public disdain for Lockhart. Many male students, such as Ron Weasley, also considered Lockhart to be annoying and incompetent, and gave him very little respect outside of his presence. However, Lockhart's charms had attracted many schoolgirls such as Hermione Granger and Susan Bones.
After the pixie chaos, Lockhart did not bring any more live creatures into class, but instead read from his books and re-enacted several portions of his "achievements," sometimes dragging Harry to help him with it. The only reason Harry agreed to do so was to get a signed permission from Lockhart for a book in the Restricted Section of the library, which Lockhart signed without even paying attention to what book they wanted. Due to Lockhart's overall poor performances, the class did not learn anything about true defence, and Ron claimed that he only learned not to set pixies loose, and would have dropped the course had he been allowed to.
For the majority of the year, Lockhart kept hounding on Harry, trying to use him to boost his own fame, much to Harry's humiliation and irritation. Lockhart made it look as though Harry was trying to use his fame of defeating Lord Voldemort to make a name in the wizarding world, that the Flying Ford Anglia he rode on to school was a publicity stunt, and that he was enjoying his companionship with Lockhart and ignored much of Harry's attempted contradictions to these ridiculous hypotheses.
Lockhart personally requested Harry to help him answer his fan mails for detention, while bombarding Harry with his advices for fame, and thought Harry would think of this as a treat, much to the contrary. In fact, Harry practically begged Professor McGonagall to help Ron's detention in assisting Argus Filch in cleaning the Trophy Room instead, though the strict Transfiguration teacher refused. Harry then suffered several long hours of dull boredom, addressing envelopes. When Harry heard mysterious voices during this detention, Lockhart thought Harry was merely tired. Following the disastrous episode in which he released pixies in class, Lockhart staged dramatic readings from his books and often chose Harry to participate in re-enactments, much to Harry's aggravation.
After a Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Slytherin, in which the Gryffindor Seeker Harry Potter had his arm broken by a rogue Bludger, Lockhart offered to help repair his arm, while ignoring Harry's refusal, but ended up removing all the bones in Harry's arm. Lockhart founded a short-lived duelling club for students. He made a fool of himself at the very first meeting by firstly being disarmed by Severus Snape and then claiming that he allowed Snape to do so. He also angered a snake conjured by Draco Malfoy by launching it into the air rather than vanishing it, causing it to aim at Justin Finch-Fletchley. Lockhart was also indirectly responsible for bringing out Harry's full-fledged Parselmouth ability, because if he had vanished the snake successfully, there would be no need for Harry to run at the snake and demand it to leave Justin alone.
When Hermione Granger was in the hospital wing for a malfunction dosage of Polyjuice Potion, Lockhart sent her a get-well card, with an unnecessarily long introduction of himself as a signature. Hermione slept with this under her pillow, much to Ron Weasley's disgust.
During Valentine's Day, Lockhart, wearing lurid pink robes, completely redecorated the Great Hall with pink flowers and raining heart-shaped confetti as a morale-booster to cheer up the mood against the Chamber of Secrets incident, much to the distaste of Ron Weasley and the teachers. Lockhart received at least forty-six valentines, one of which was from Hermione Granger, and made insensitive comments about Entrancing Enchantments and Love Potions towards Professors Flitwick and Snape, respectively. This made Flitwick bury his face in his hands in embarrassment, and Snape look as though he would force-feed poison to anyone who dare ask him for a Love Potion. He even had dwarfs wear golden wings and carry harps to deliver valentines throughout the school, which they do (even if they have to do so forcibly), much to Harry's embarrassment when one forced him to listen to one from Ginny Weasley by knocking him down. This event is, ironically, somewhat a repeat of his attempt to earn attention during his youth in Valentines Day, being equally annoying.
When the Chamber of Secrets was opened, Lockhart made false claims about that he knew where the Chamber was and what the monster of Slytherin is all along. He even claimed that he knew Rubeus Hagrid was guilty all along when the Minister for Magic arrested the former. While the other teachers were serious and tense from all the attacks, Lockhart was the only one who remained relaxed and uncaring about these security measures. In one instance walked up to a scene with a cheery personality and stated, "Sorry I'm late, what did I miss?"
On 29 May, 1993, when Ginny Weasley was taken into the Chamber of Secrets, the other teachers told Lockhart to go down to the Chamber and deal with the monster, in response to his arrogance and many claims that he knew how to solve the problem. Instead of trying to rescue Ginny, Lockhart attempted to run away from the school, but was caught by Harry Potter and Ron Weasley when they came to his office to give him information regarding the Chamber, and he accidentally revealed his life-style of fraudulence. Harry and Ron forced Lockhart to go down to the Chamber with them.
There, Lockhart seized Ron's broken wand and attempted to perform a total Memory Charm on Harry and Ron, planning on taking a piece of basilisk skin back up to the surface and tell everyone that he was too late to save Ginny and that the two "tragically" lost their minds at sight of her mangled body. The wand backfired and the charm hit Lockhart instead, causing him to lose all of his memories and become a permanent resident of St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. His departure from school was met with the joy and celebration of many students and teachers.
Despite his incapacitation, Lockhart continued his career as an author, after a fashion, getting someone to help him write the book Who Am I?
On Christmas, 1995, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger and Ginny Weasley saw Lockhart at St Mungo's in the Janus Thickey Ward. He had regained his memory to the extent that he could write in cursive ("with joined-up letters"), and still enjoyed signing autographs. Ron felt somewhat guilty, since his malfunctioning wand was responsible for damaging Lockhart's memories, but Harry felt less sympathetic, for it was Lockhart's attempt to remove their memories in the first place that resulted in this backfire. Overall, Harry observed Lockhart had not changed much and voiced this opinion, making Ginny giggle.
The Healer who looked after Lockhart, Miriam Strout, stated he never got visitors, suggesting that his family was either dead or did not care for him. However, Lockhart still received fan mail including weekly letters from Gladys Gudgeon, though he had no idea why. He also kept his peacock-feather quill, though it had become somewhat battered by that time, so that he could keep signing autographs.
Though he did retain some memories, Lockhart never fully recovered. Fortunately, however, he is known to be happier that way.
Gilderoy Lockhart was a foppish, blandly handsome wizard with wavy blonde hair and particularly straight and shiny teeth. He was known for wearing flamboyant and flashy robes in a wide assortment of colours.
However, during his moments of cowardice, Lockhart's handsomeness was lost, as he looked weak-chinned and foolish in the midst of his ineptitude.
Gilderoy Lockhart's defining characteristics were his exceeding vanity, narcisissism and self-obsession. He was a voracious self-promoter and claimed to have done many great deeds, though in actuality he was a fraud and merely took credit for other wizards and witches' accomplishments; he went as far as to claim his winning of the Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award five times in a row is more impressive than Harry Potter defeating Lord Voldemort. He also made claims and suggestions, whether about other people's professions or in times of danger, in order to make himself look more important and powerful than he truly was. Like Stan Shunpike, Gilderoy tends to come up with made-up concepts on the spot rather frequently just to impress his admirers. His attempts to earn himself more fame also led him to attempt spells without fully understanding them (such as removing Harry's bones instead of mending them, and launching a snake into the air instead of making it vanish). It is also speculated that he invented some incantations and names for spells that do not actually exist, such as Peskipiksi Pesternomi, the Transmogrifian Torture, and the Homorphus Charm. As part of his vanity, Lockhart was very proud of his books, and would always make reference to them whenever giving advice based on his so-called experience.
Lockhart's overbearing self-confidence and insensitive suggestions irked most of the people he encountered who were not included among his fans. His unprofessional behaviour earned him the dislike of the Hogwarts faculty, as well as many of the students. Lockhart was overall considered a joke by Hogwarts, and when he left due to memory loss, the majority (if not the entirety) of the school was elated to see him go.
He also seemed to be completely oblivious to the reactions he elicited from other people, or misinterpreted them completely. When Ron looked revolted at his ostentatious peacock quill, Lockhart thought Ron was admiring it. He ignored Harry's many attempts to contradict his theories of enjoying his company and attention, as well as Harry's pleas for Lockhart to leave his broken arm alone, and also completely failed to notice the looks of hatred he received from the rest of the faculty for his ignorance. He asserted that Hogwarts was safe from the monster of Slytherin after Hagrid was arrested, claiming extra security was no longer necessary, and though proven wrong almost immediately, Lockhart stubbornly refused to retract his earlier claims, and continued to complain about how the extra security was tiring him out.
When faced with true danger, Gilderoy showed his true cowardice. He attempted to flee from Hogwarts when the other teachers pressured him into entering the Chamber of Secrets after Ginny Weasley's abduction, and claim that his books can be misleading, contradicting his past vain support on them. Even after the location of the Chamber's entrance was discovered, he was willing to leave Ginny Weasley to die, attempting to modify Harry and Ron's memories to cover himself.
Although Lockhart started out as a clever and very skilled student, being sorted into Ravenclaw house, he had a critical flaw in never trying in his studies (or anything) unless he was the very best of it, having been spoiled by his mother's overly affection and his own vanity. Even in his childhood, he already expected the students and teachers to greet him with admiration and excitement, as he deluded himself into thinking he is a genius above all others of undeserved rights, and was very disappointed and dulled when he was not given any special treatments. He studied not for education, but for attention and awards, and spent much of his time with annoying antics for fame that instead earned him a small notoriety. This led his talents to be wasted away, as the only spell he focused on was the Memory Charm. His abilities were eventually deteriorated beyond the point of recovery.
Despite his ineptitude in most other areas of magic due to long-term neglect and misuse, Lockhart was skilled in Memory Charms, it being the one spell he focused on for his entire life, and was conniving enough to deceive other wizards and witches to thoroughly reveal their work to him before erasing their memories and claim the credits for himself. He also appeared to have been a skilled writer, publishing many books consisting primarily of his embellishments of other people's achievements, taking credit for them as his own. Given his propensity for lying, however, it cannot be said for certain that Lockhart himself actually wrote any of the books.
Although Gilderoy Lockhart was very skilful in his youth, years of misuse and abandonment had diminished and rusted his magical abilities nearly beyond repair.
Charms: Lockhart dedicated most of his life to learning and perfecting the Memory Charm, which he could eventually do without fail. He was also capable of performing, simple, minor enchantments such as the Verdimillious Duo Spell.
Potions: Lockhart was capable of creating some basic brews, such as an Occamy egg yolk shampoo, which was too dangerous and expensive for the open market. He claimed that he made the Mandrake Restorative Draught so many times that he could do it in his sleep, but this was a lie to garner more attention for himself.
Wand: Lockhart's wand was made of cherry and dragon heartstring. According to him, it was expensive. He lost it when Harry Potter disarmed him and Ron Weasley threw the wand out of an open window.
Luggage set: Lockhart possessed a large set of fine luggage to hold his many belongings from his years of fraudulent fame, mostly related to his vanity. These include his many robes of varying colours, portraits and photos of himself, and a false hair piece. He tripped over one of the trunks when Harry disarmed him.
Peacock quill: Lockhart possesses a quill crafted from a peacock's feather. He saved it for special occasions, such as signing autographs, and is rather proud of it. He completely misread Ron's revolt at the quill as admiration. After his memory loss, Gilderoy continued to use the quill to sign autographs, but it has become battered since.
Lockhart was an accomplished author, with twelve of his books shown. Although nine of them were supposed to be about eradicating dark forces, they were in fact just recollections of his experiences (of which he stole from other people) and his personal profiles, somewhat an extension of his autobiography. All of these were published before his stint as a Hogwarts professor (except Who Am I?). Due to the immense popularity, the books were very expensive; he gifted an entire set to Harry Potter as a publicity stunt, to which Harry donated to Ginny Weasley.
Lockhart assigned seven of these books to be his textbooks for his Defence Against the Dark Arts course, though it was simply an excuse for him to sell his works to the students, as none of them have any educational usefulness. He gave an overly long "little quiz" during the first lesson to test out how much his students took in from his collected works, but most show little interest and did poorly. After the first lesson ended up in disaster, Lockhart simply read from these books aloud and sometimes reenact the contents to the class in a theatrical manner.
Gilderoy was born in the Lockhart family, with a muggle father, witch mother, and two elder sisters, both of whom were muggles. His mother loved him more than she did her two daughters, which, when combined with Gilderoy's revealed wizardry and acceptance into Hogwarts, lead his vanity to grow like a weed. Both mother and son were too excited to remember that Hogwarts accepts all students from Britain and Irish, and she was as deluded as her son in thinking that he was special amongst all children of his age. Due to Mrs. Lockhart's overly love and pampering, she completely spoiled and deluded her son, which would lead to a very negative impact onto his future.
When Gilderoy was admitted to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries due to self-inflicted amnesia, none of his family members nor relatives visited, as his father and sisters are muggles and seemingly cannot enter. Why his mother is did not attend to him is unknown.
Most of Lockhart's fans were composed of middle-aged housewives, such as Molly Weasley, and young schoolgirls, such as Hermione Granger and Susan Bones. They were charmed by his looks and impressive claims, but neglected to notice other dimensions of his personality, like his narcissism and general incompetence. Lockhart's notable fans, such as Gladys Gudgeon and Veronica Smethley, regularly wrote him adoring fan mail. Once Lockhart was exposed as a fraud and suffered permanent amnesia, the majority of his fans most likely lost interest in him, though Gladys continued to send him letters.
During his time as a Ravenclaw student, Lockhart was already unpopular with the school's residents almost immediately due to his self-delusions and obnoxious vanity. He was expecting everyone to whisper and stare about him, and found it dull and disappointing when they did not. His attempts to gain himself more attention did him little good, instead made him more of an annoying troublemaker when he begged headmaster Albus Dumbledore to start a school newspaper solely for his own name to appear in its print, carved his name into the Quidditch pitch (earning him a weeks' worth of detentions), shooting a hologram of his own face into the sky like the Dark Mark, and sending himself eight-hundred Valentines, causing breakfast to be cancelled due to the number of droppings and feathers in the porridge. His squandering of his own talents and refusal to take his studies seriously also earned him the scorn of his teachers. Lockhart's graduation was met with a faint sigh of relief from the entire school.
When Lockhart had erased the memories of two wizards, Dumbledore eventually found out and decided to track him down and make him pay for his crimes. Dumbledore offered Lockhart a position as the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, under the correct belief that school is the best location to expose the fraud for what he is. Lockhart was reluctant at first, as he was aware that his former educators remain vigilant of his incompetence, but was instantly swayed when Dumbledore mentioned Harry Potter's fame, which Lockhart would believe as a boost to his own. Whether the other professors knew of Dumbledore's ploy against Lockhart is unknown, but according to Hagrid, the main reason for Lockhart's appointment was that he was the only applicant for the cursed position.
During his tenure in the 1992–1993 school year, Lockhart made an utter mess out of the subject due to his incompetence. He also annoyed most of the teachers (some of whom remember his time as a student) by making it look as though he was superior to them in every one of their fields, while proving otherwise with his consistently terrible performances. As such, his coworkers found him extremely obnoxious and could not take him seriously as a professor. Lockhart's insensitive nature embarrassed Snape and Flitwick on Valentine's Day, when he made comments about Love Potions and Entrancing Enchantments regarding them, respectively, while disgusting everyone else by just overdecorating the Great Hall, and releasing dwarfs throughout the school to deliver Valentines, interrupting classes in progress. By the end of the year, the other teachers were pleased to see him leave, going as far as to join in the students' applause of the announcement.
Even Rubeus Hagrid, who normally would never have criticised a teacher, publicly expressed disdain for Lockhart. Lockhart, on the other hand, did not seem to notice the resentment the teachers had for him, and instead kept on annoying everyone. When Hagrid was sent to Azkaban based on Cornelius Fudge's misguided beliefs, Lockhart adamantly believed Hagrid to be guilty of opening the Chamber of Secrets, despite future events and the continuous tension of the atmosphere prove otherwise. This might have been the result of Hagrid claiming that he never read Lockhart's books, and that Harry would not be giving out signed photographs, both of which made Lockhart disappointed.
Lockhart: "I'll make it. I must have done it a hundred times, I could whip up a Mandrake Restorative Draught in my sleep –"
Snape: "Excuse me, but I believe I am the Potions master at this school."
Gilderoy was particularly disliked by Professor Snape for not only taking the teaching post he coveted so much, but also for his constant and presumptuous attempts to advise Snape with largely nonsensical suggestions; Snape looked as though he was prepared to kill Lockhart during the duelling club, as Harry described, and something even Lockhart eventually saw when he looked at Snape's expression. When Ginny Weasley was taken into the Chamber of Secrets, Snape immediately sent Lockhart to deal with the monster within. The other teachers agreed unanimously, in the hopes of scaring Lockhart away, especially considering he had walked in obliviously while the other teachers were devastated by Ginny's impending doom. In revenge, they took Lockhart's earlier claims and used it against him, while ignoring his attempt to stammer his way out with feeble excuses.
While unpopular during his time as a student, Lockhart, as a teacher, had a mixed relationship with the students of Hogwarts: about half of them admired him for his celebrity status, while the other half resented him for being obnoxious and fake. However, by the end of the year, when Lockhart revealed his own fraudulence and left school due to his accidental self-induced amnesia, pretty much every student gave their round of applause at the news.
The half of the students who initially admired him were mostly girls like Hermione and Susan, who fell for his good looks, and people who actually believed in the accomplishments in his books, such as Justin Finch-Fletchley and Colin Creevey. They remained ignorant of Lockhart's true colours, even when he revealed them little by little throughout his terrible performances. When he was finally exposed as a fraud, they most likely abandoned their faith in him.
Much like most of the faculty, the other half of the students simply found Lockhart to be annoyingly unpleasant. His ineffectiveness in teaching them anything useful had caused a rift for their education experience. Draco Malfoy, while showing no sympathy either for or against Lockhart, mocked Harry for being dragged into the spotlight by the professor.
Harry Potter particularly disliked Lockhart for dragging him into the spotlight against his will (the moment they first met), beginning with the book-signing during which Lockhart made a spectacle out of Harry as a publicity stunt, and for making Harry seem as though he was constantly seeking attention; the only reason Lockhart returned to Hogwarts to teach was under the presumption that getting close to Harry would boost his own popularity. Lockhart only further infuriated Harry by doing far more damage than help when he removed Harry's arm bones instead of mending them when they were broken by Dobby's tampered Bludger, requiring him to use Skele-Gro. Their first lesson was enough to make Harry realise that Lockhart was incompetent, he would spend much of the school year avoiding Lockhart to the best of his power, and practically begged Professor McGonagall to allow him an alternate detention when he was assigned to help Lockhart answer his fan-mails, which Lockhart thought was a treat, when Harry thought otherwise. Lockhart would often drag Harry to the front of the class to reenact some of the more dramatic portions within the textbooks' contents in a theatrical manner, as part of the "lecture", something Harry would have refused if he did not have a very good reason then. Lockhart even offered Harry some private Quidditch lessons, to which Harry refused.
Harry would use Lockhart's ignorance against him, by requesting him to sign a permission slip for a library book in the Restricted Section that no other teachers would so easily do, and then have Lockhart return to class prematurely so Harry and Ron can sneak off from all security measures set. Neither Harry nor Ron had any qualms about attacking Lockhart and forcing him to enter the Chamber of Secrets, and they even made him go first as a buffer for any approaching harm. Harry didn't have much sympathy when Lockhart lost his memories after his Memory Charm backfired, as it was entirely his fault for attempting it on Harry and Ron in the first place.
Ron Weasley, who was already annoyed since the book-signing at Flourish and Blotts made it look as though his family was unimportant, saw Lockhart for what he truly was during their first lesson, when the professor gave a test completely irrelevant to the subject, and then released a boisterous group of pixies he was unable to contain. Ron's disgust deepened over the year, when Lockhart's continuous ineptitude annoyed him repeatedly, going as far as wanting to drop out of Lockhart's class because of it, feeling very revolted (alongside the rest of the staff) with Lockhart's over-decorative "morale booster" on Valentine's day, sickened by Lockhart's overly lavish peacock quill (something Lockhart completely misinterpreted as admiration), and reached a critical level when Lockhart attempted to flee while allowing Ron's sister to die in the Chamber of Secrets; when they finally discovered where the fabled Chamber was, and that Lockhart inadvertently admitted himself as a fraud, Ron demanded that Lockhart go first into the Chamber as a test subject. However, three years later, Ron felt somewhat guilty for Lockhart losing his memories due to his Memory Charm backfiring from using Ron's damaged wand.
Unlike Ron and Harry, Hermione Granger was a big fan of Lockhart, showing excitement at the prospect at meeting him at Flourish and Blotts, saying that he has written almost the entire booklist. When Lockhart taught at Hogwarts, Hermione dismissed his mistakes, when normally she would become impatient whenever anyone cast a single spell wrong, such as after Lockhart's first lesson, she insisted that Lockhart just wanted to give them some hands on experience by bringing pixies to the class, and refused to see that he did not know what he was doing. She also dismissed his blunders as the usual honest mistakes, such as when he deboned Harry Potter's arm, and talking about "all the amazing things he's done."
Ron Weasley also noticed that she had outlined Lockhart's lessons on her timetable with hearts. It was presumed she was shocked when Lockhart was exposed as a fraud. It was possible, however, that she simply fell for his good looks, as she was described to be breathless when she saw him at St. Mungo's, despite Lockhart already having been exposed as a fraud. Hermione claimed that she admired "the amazing things he had done", but she had showed signs that she only admired his good looks, no matter what she said to the contrary. Also, when she claimed that she didn't like someone just because they're handsome after their second year, Ron coughed the word "Lockhart".
When Gilderoy was admitted into St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries due to is self-inflicted amnesia, the healer in charge of his ward, Miriam Strout, took care of him. She was very motherly to him, catering to his condition with an affectionate tone, leading him back into his room when he slipped out while speaking kindly to him as though he was a child out of place. She also took pity on him for the fact that nobody visited him.
Gilderoy was a name that J. K. Rowling found in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. According to the dictionary, the name belongs to two different highway men who were both described as incredibly handsome.
Gilderoy is an Irish and Scottish name that refers back to Gilroy, which means "son of the red-haired servant", or "son of the king's servant."
J. K. Rowling found the name Lockhart on a war memorial at a church in Edinburgh.
Lockhart is portrayed by Irish actor Kenneth Branagh in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; he was originally to be portrayed by Hugh Grant, but due to scheduling problems he was replaced. One of Grant's middle names is, coincidentally, "Mungo".
J. K. Rowling has made it known that Gilderoy Lockhart is the only character in the series to be based upon a real person, and claims that she "barely exaggerated" the personality. She has refused, however, to specify who that is. Furthermore, she stated that basing the character on this man "made up for having to endure him for two solid years."
A rumour circulated that the character of Gilderoy Lockhart was based on J. K. Rowling's ex-husband, but this was roundly refuted on her website. She termed the rumour "toxic", "hurtful," and "damaging".
Lockhart's movie version seems to be more likable and comical than his book version, as he was willing to clear Harry from Snape's insinuations that Harry was involved in Mrs. Norris' petrification, informing that Harry was in detention with him. It may be due to the fact that Lockhart's useless classes and his most annoying treatment of Harry were cut from the film, but his fraudulence and willingness to let Ginny die in the Chambers still preserves him as detestable.
Lockhart was in an early draft of the Order of the Phoenix film, as he was in the book, but was written out of the final version. Had he remained, it would have been the first time Kenneth Branagh and ex-wife Emma Thompson were in the same film together since their divorce in 1995, along with Helena Bonham Carter, Branagh's former mistress.
In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, after losing his memory, Lockhart starts making tea. Also, he is the only teacher who is referred to by their first name. His hair is implied on many occasions to be a wig, as it keeps nearly falling off his head.
As well as this, he is the only Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher to have no connection with Lord Voldemort (Quirrell housed Voldemort in his head, Lupin's former friend Peter Pettigrew was Voldemort's spy, Dolores Umbridge worked for the Ministry after Voldemort took it over, Moody was impersonated by a Death Eater, then murdered by Voldemort and Snape was Voldemort's former Death Eater and a spy in his ranks). Lockhart has no known connection with Voldemort, because Ginny opened the Chamber of Secrets, and he never saw Riddle's diary.
Lockhart does, however, share Voldemort's trait of wanting to be special, as he was upset to find he wasn't the only wizard.
Observing his flamboyant clothes, it's not difficult to imagine Lockhart as an expert of fashion and a regular reader of fashion magazines (and indeed, many fans found him to be a stylish character in the film series). Furthermore, he received Britain's Best Dressed Wizard Award sometime before 1992. Considering that his secret ambition is to market his own range of hair care potions, he may also be an expert on hair care and, possibly, make up.
As one of Lockhart's stated ambitions was "harmony between magic and non-magic peoples," he may be in favour of greater rights for Muggles, though is not known to have done anything to specifically champion the cause. Given his ego he probably regretted that his fame was limited to the wizarding community.
J. K. Rowling has stated that Lockhart's name was taken from a church in Scotland.
In the video game adaption of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, it is very much evident that Lockhart is very vain as nearly the entire classroom is taken up by paintings of himself, as in the book, but it is much more exaggerated.
Lockhart's favourite colour is lilac.
Lockhart is similar, personality-wise, to Zapp Brannigan from the TV show Futurama," sharing good looks, fraudulent reputations, and nearly pathological self-obsession, along with being oblivious to how much they are detested by the other characters.
Lockhart's mysterious disappearance for a few weeks early in his career may be a reference to a real-life episode in the early career of Agatha Christie.
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↑ See this image, which shows Lockhart holding his wand aloft with a silvery-white vapour emitting from it.
↑ Lockhart wears Ravenclaw Quidditch robes in a photo taken for the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which can be seen in the "Lockhart's Classroom" feature on Disc 2 of the DVD, and in the picture-in-picture feature on Disc 1 of the Ultimate Collector's Edition Blu-ray.
↑ Lockhart is a character in the "Downloadable Character Pack" DLC for LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7. His character is called "Lockhart (Straightjacket)" because he is shown wearing the straightjacket he wore in St. Mungo's.
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GOP health care plan shifts benefits toward higher-income people
Guy Boulton
Cynthia Haq remembers the surge of patients she saw when the Affordable Care Act first expanded health insurance to millions of Americans.
"Hundreds of patients were streaming into our clinics for the first time, some who hadn't seen a doctor in 20 years," said Haq, a professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health who works in Milwaukee.
She also recalls the days before the law was passed, when she'd have to call fellow doctors to plead with them to treat an uninsured patient with, say, a broken jaw.
Republicans' current plan to replace Obamacare has her worried that those days may return.
"I'm nearly in a panic state about what's going to happen to my patients," Haq said.
Almost 200,000 people in Wisconsin gained insurance coverage when the ACA took effect, most of them with very low or relatively low incomes — such as people making $14 an hour, or about $29,000 a year.
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Many of them eventually stand to lose their health insurance under the Republican plan that was released Monday. And others who are older and who have relatively low incomes are likely to end up paying more for less coverage.
But the plan would benefit people with higher incomes who don't receive health insurance through an employer and who haven't been eligible for the subsidies available through the Affordable Care Act.
They account for an estimated 44% of the market in Wisconsin for people who buy health insurance on their own — about 147,000 people — based on research by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. Many of them saw their premiums soar under the Affordable Care Act.
The Republican plan also would make changes that some insurance executives believe are needed to sustain the market for insurance sold directly to individuals and families.
Broadly, the Republican replacement plan — titled the American Health Care Act — would hurt people with low incomes or who are older while benefiting people who have higher incomes or who are younger, said Justin Sydnor, a professor of risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
"Those are quite clear effects," he said.
A 40-year-old couple with two children and a household income of $150,000 would get tax credits totaling $10,000 under the Republican plan.
To put that in perspective, the lowest cost plan available in Milwaukee for that family costs $11,640 a year — with deductibles that can top more than $13,000.
That family doesn't get any tax credits under the Affordable Care Act.
It also doesn't receive the tax breaks granted to people who get health insurance through an employer. The Republican replacement plan, spearheaded by House Speaker Paul Ryan, would lessen that inequity.
The proposed plan, though, would be far less generous for people who have low incomes or who are older — and most policy experts believe that millions of people are likely to lose their coverage. That has prompted the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association and other medical groups to oppose the Republican replacement plan.
Parsing the winners and losers under the Republican plan gets complicated but hinges primarily on how tax credits are allocated.
The Obamacare way
The Affordable Care Act provides tax credits to low- and middle-income households and caps the percentage of their income that goes to pay for health insurance at 9.69%. People with very low incomes pay a lower percentage of their income for insurance and receive additional subsidies to offset deductibles and other out-of-pocket expenses.
People in low-wage jobs that don't provide health insurance made up the largest share of the uninsured before the law. And two out of three people who bought plans on the marketplaces set up by Obamacare receive the additional subsidies.
"There were many people prior to the ACA who were working full time and yet could not afford health insurance and didn't have it offered by their employer," Sydnor said.
Also, people with incomes below the poverty threshold — $11,880 this year — are eligible for Medicaid in the 31 states that have expanded their programs under the law. Roughly 11 million Americans gained health insurance in those states. Wisconsin wasn't among those states but still was able to cover an additional 144,000 adults because of changes in the law.
The GOP proposal
The Republican replacement plan changes all that.
It would provide flat tax credits tied to age, not income, up to much higher income thresholds. Starting in 2020, the credits would range from $2,000 a year up to age 29, and $4,000 for someone 60 or older.
Families could claim credits for up five people, up to $14,000 a year and up to an income of $290,000.
As under the Affordable Care Act, children under 26 could remain on their parents' plan.
The full credit is available for incomes up to $75,000 for an individual and $150,000 for a couple, then phases out.
But the proposed plan would end additional subsidies available under the Affordable Care Act to people with very low incomes.
It also would gradually cut off the additional federal dollars that 31 states have used to expand their Medicaid programs and that cover 11 million people.
Other changes would lower the cost of insurance for people who are younger while raising it for those who are older by allowing health insurers to charge older people five times more than young people. That's compared to the current cap of three times more under the Affordable Care Act.
"There is no scenario in which premiums won't go up for older people who are sick," said Colleen Grogan, a professor who specializes in health policy at the University of Chicago.
Appealing to youth
That change and others, though, would enable health insurers to design health plans that appeal to people who are young and healthy.
One of the flaws in the Affordable Care Act is too few people who are young or healthy or both have bought plans sold on the marketplaces — in part because many of them consider the plans too costly even with the federal subsidies. Healthy people are needed to offset the cost of insuring people with pre-existing health conditions.
The additional flexibility that the Republican proposal gives to insurers to design new health plans is a step in the right direction, said Coreen Dicus-Johnson, president and chief executive of Network Health, which is owned by Froedtert Health and Ascension.
That flexibility would enable insurers to sell low-cost plans with high deductibles that could appeal to healthy people who need insurance only to protect themselves from serious illnesses or injuries.
The $2,000 tax credit, for instance, then could cover the entire annual premium for a high-deductible health plan for someone in his or her 20s.
The problem with the proposed plan, Dicus-Johnson said, is it eventually eliminates the additional subsidies that offset deductibles and other costs for people with low incomes.
Another question is how much the Republican plan would cost, not to mention how it would be paid for.
The proposed plan repeals most of the taxes that fund the Affordable Care Act, reducing federal revenue by at least $600 billion over 10 years based on a preliminary and incomplete estimate by the Joint Committee on Taxation.
The Congressional Budget Office — the nonpartisan agency that analyzes proposed legislation — has yet to analyze the proposal.
"There's enough uncertainty about what this bill will mean that we very much need to see the CBO score to know the full impact," said Sydnor, the insurance professor at UW-Madison.
The legislation, which has the backing of President Donald Trump, is facing opposition not only from Democrats but also from hard-line conservatives in the House as well as from moderate Republicans in the Senate.
"It reflects the fact that there are no easy fixes — there is no low-hanging fruit to be had — in health care policy," Sydnor said.


After the couple exchanged their I dos, they continued the celebrations at The Fig House, which is a private event space in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles: Actress-singer Mandy Moore and Taylor Goldsmith married in an intimate boho-style backyard ceremony at her home here. The This Is Us star, 34, and the musician, 33, walked down the aisle at sunset in front of just 50 guests, including Mandy's co-stars Milo Ventimiglia and Chrissy Metz, three years after meeting on Instagram, reports dailymail.co.uk.
The actress is said to have arranged very boho nuptials with rugs on the floor surrounding the altar and a selection of beautiful floral arrangements. "It was an intimate backyard wedding at Mandy's home that started just after sundown on Sunday evening. There was a small group of family and friends that looked to be about 50 people," said an insider.
After the couple exchanged their I dos, they continued the celebrations at The Fig House, which is a private event space in the Highland Park neighbourhood of Los Angeles. Kelly, Milo Ventimiglia, Chrissy Metz and even Mandy's former flame Wilmer Valderrama were among the famous faces who turned out for the couple's big day. This Is Us is aired in India on Star World.


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Nevada District Court Clarifies Nevada Limitations Period for Laches Presumption
A Nevada District Court has clarified that, for purposes of determining whether the presumption of laches applies in a trademark infringement lawsuit filed in Nevada, the applicable statute of limitations period is four years. See Aristocrat Technologies, Inc. et al v. High Impact Design & Entertainment, et al, Case No. 07-cv-01033 (D. Nev. June 23, 2009).
Aristocrat Technologies, Inc. ("ATI") produces and sells gaming machines under the word and design trademarks ARISTOCRAT (here and here), which ATI has registered both in the U.S. and internationally. High Impact Design & Entertainment ("HIDE Nevada") had an agreement with ATI to purchase ATI's gaming machines – an agreement that clearly indicated that ATI retained all rights, title and interest in its trademarks, and HIDE Nevada had no such rights. In June 2003, HIDE Nevada (without ATI's knowledge) applied to register the ARISTOCRAT design mark in Venezuela. ATI discovered HIDE Nevada's Venezuelan application in December 2003 and demanded that HIDE Nevada withdraw the application; however, HIDE Nevada convinced ATI to wait until the mark had registered and then assign it to ATI later in order to avoid spending more time and money in registering the mark. ATI took no action at the time, and waited until it registered to HIDE Nevada's Venezuelan affiliate company. But when the mark registered, HIDE Nevada refused to assign the mark over to ATI.
ATI initially sued HIDE Venezuela in August 2007. In August 2008, ATI filed an amended complaint adding HIDE Nevada and some individual defendants to the action. The defendants' initial motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction was dismissed. Shortly thereafter, three of the Defendants (the "Moving Defendants") filed Motions to Dismiss Case not Commenced within Three Years
The Moving Defendants argued that ATI's Lanham Act trademark infringement claims were not timely commenced and therefore the doctrine of laches should apply to bar the complaint based on the nearly four year delay from the time ATI learned of HIDE Nevada's application for trademark registration in Venezuela and the date that ATI filed suit.
The court described the significance of the statute of limitations with respect to the defense of laches as follows:
While laches and the statute of limitations are distinct defenses, if the plaintiff filed a Lanham Act claim within the analogous limitations period under state law, courts strongly presume that laches is inapplicable. Reno Air Racing Ass'n, Inc. v. McCord, 452 F.3d 1126, 1138-39 (9th Cir. 2006). If the plaintiff filed suit outside the analogous period, courts have often presumed that laches is applicable. Id. at 1139. Because the Lanham Act contains no explicit statute of limitation, courts "borrow" the analogous state time period. Id. In determining the presumption for laches, the limitations period runs from the time the plaintiff knew or should have known about his cause of action. Id.
In this case, the Moving Defendants' position was that the analogous statute of limitations under Nevada law is three years, and because ATI waited more than four years to file suit, ATI's suit should be barred as untimely. The Moving Defendants relied upon the Reno Air case which cited to NRS §11.190(3), which provides for a three-year statute of limitations for actions involving fraud, as the applicable statute of limitations.
However, the court noted that the issue of the applicable statute of limitations was not really at issue in the Reno Air case:
The [Reno Air] Defendant asserted that the doctrine of laches should apply to bar the Plaintiff's claim, and the court specifically noted that the parties in that case had agreed that the three-year limitation period in NRS §11.190(3) should apply to determine the presumption for laches. Id. at 1139. Notably, as Plaintiffs in this case point out, the court in Reno Air did not specifically hold that the applicable statute of limitations for a Lanham Act claim is three years under NRS §11.190(3). Id. Rather, the Reno Air court accepted the parties' understanding without discussion, and undertook its analysis of the laches issue based on the fact that the parties agreed that the three-year period should apply. Id.
(bold italics emphasis added).
The court then went on to address which of Nevada's statute of limitations should apply – agreeing with ATI's arguments that it should be four years based on Nevada's four year statute of limitations period for actions under Nevada's deceptive trade practices laws:
By contrast, Plaintiffs in this case argue that the Court should look to the four-year statute of limitations in NRS §11.190(2) for actions involving deceptive trade practices in violation of NRS §598.0903 to 598.0999. (Pl.'s Opp'n (# 48) 4). They argue that both the Lanham Act and Nevada's deceptive trade practices statute are "designed to prevent consumer confusion and deception in the marketplace with respect to the source, sponsorship, approval, affiliation, connection, or association of goods and services" and therefore Nevada's four-year statute of limitations for deceptive trade practices is the most closely analogous. Id. at 5. This Court agrees. A review of the Lanham Act provisions regarding trademark infringement and Nevada's deceptive trade practices statute reveals that the two are indeed analogous and appear to address similar wrongs including the false or deceptive use of another's mark or product.
Accordingly, the court applied the four-year limitations period to determine whether laches is applicable in this case. In this case, accepting the Moving Defendants' assertion that Plaintiffs discovered the offending use in December 2003, the suit, filed on August 3, 2007, was within the four-year statute of limitations period, and therefore, the court presumed that laches was inapplicable.
The court added that, even though ATI's suit was presumed to have been timely filed, laches could still apply if the Moving Defendants could show that they suffered prejudiced as a result of the ATI's unreasonable delay in filing suit. The court noted that, given HIDE Nevada's assurances that it would assign the Venezuelan trademark upon registration, it was not unreasonable for ATI to delay in filing its action upon initially discovering the application in December 2003. Moreover, the Moving Defendants apparently had not shown any evidence of prejudice as a result of the alleged delay. Thus, the court denied the Moving Defendants' Motion to Dismiss.
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Jon Cryer is a very funny actor that starred in the hit TV show Two and a 1/2 Men. He is coming back to CBS to star in a new TV show called Dad's and Daughters.
Their are two Dad's. One is a reserved math teacher with mid western values and an the other is an outgoing personal trainer. They must move in together rather then splitting up their daughters because their common ex wife is a con artist and went to prison for credit card fraud.
This is going to be very funny. Watch out for the the new TV show.
And Another Baller is Made!


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Die Lokomotiven St. Andreasberger Kleinbahn 1 und 2 der St. Andreasberger Kleinbahn waren normalspurige dreiachsige Zahnradlokomotiven. Die beiden Exemplare wurden von der Lokomotivfabrik Jung 1913 hergestellt.

Sie wurden auf der Zahnradbahn bis zu deren Stilllegung 1959 eingesetzt und dann ausgemustert sowie verschrottet.

Geschichte

Für den Anschluss der Fahrgäste der Bahnstrecke Scharzfeld–St. Andreasberg zur Stadt Sankt Andreasberg im Oberharz wurden für die Zahnradbahn von der Lokomotivfabrik Jung 1913 die beiden Lokomotiven mit den Fabriknummern 1780 sowie 1781 gebaut.

Im Normalfall reichte eine Lokomotive für den Verkehr mit den beiden Personenwagen aus. Die Personenwagen hatten zusätzlich zur herkömmlichen Bremsausrüstung ein Bremszahnrad. Gelegentlich wurde ein Güterwagen mitgenommen. Die Züge wurden zum Stadtbahnhof geschoben. Die zweite Lokomotive war für den Fall des Ausfalles der Stammlokomotive beschafft worden.

Die Lokomotiven überstanden beide Weltkriege. Da der Bahnbetrieb danach unrentabel wurde, wurden die Strecke 1959 eingestellt und abgebaut, die Lokomotiven ausgemustert und verschrottet.

Konstruktion

Die Lokomotiven waren für den Reibungs- und Zahnstangenbetrieb konstruiert. Alle Zylinder waren außen übereinander angeordnet, sodass die Wartungsarbeiten wesentlich vereinfacht werden konnten. Da die Zylinder den gleichen Durchmesser besaßen, arbeitete das Zahnrad auf ein Vorgelege, wodurch sich bei Fahrten im Zahnstangenabschnitt in etwa die gleichen Kräfte am Reibungs- und Zahnradbetrieb ergaben.

Im reinen Reibungsbetrieb wurde der Abdampf durch eine Umstellvorrichtung direkt in das Blasrohr geleitet. Im kombinierten Betrieb arbeitete die Lokomotive als Verbunddampflokomotive. Das erforderliche größere Volumen in den Zylindern wurden durch kürzere Schwingenstangen der Steuerung des Zahnradtriebwerkes erbracht. Über eine Blindwelle wurde das Treibzahnrad angetrieben. Unmittelbar hinter der ersten Achse war ein Bremszahnrad vorhanden. Die Kreuzköpfe liefen auf einer einschienigen Gleitbahn.

Der Kessel mit einer kupfernen Feuerbüchse besaß einen Dampfdom. Die Feuerbüchsdecke war eben ausgeführt, da die Lok ständig mit der Rauchkammer in die Bergrichtung zeigte. Gespeist wurde er von zwei Strahlpumpen von Strube mit einer Förderleistung von 125 l/min. Die Armaturen der Lok entsprachen im Wesentlichen denen der Preußischen T 9.3. Nach den Steilstreckenvorschriften waren sie mit fünf Bremssystemen ausgestattet:
 eine Wurfhebelbremse,
 eine Westinghouse-Bremse,
 eine Riggenbach-Gegendruckbremse,
 eine Bandbremse für das Bremszahnrad und
 eine Bandbremse für das Vorgelegerad und das Antriebszahnrad.

Da die Gegendruckbremse mit erheblicher Geräuschentwicklung arbeitete, befand sich hinter dem Kamin ein in dessen Austrittsleitung eingeschalteter Schalldämpfer. Über einen Fliehkraftregler wurde beim Überschreiten einer zulässigen Höchstgeschwindigkeit automatisch die Westinghouse-Bremse ausgelöst. An beiden Fahrzeugen konnten für den Winterbetrieb Schneepflüge montiert werden.

Literatur

Weblinks

 Foto der Lokomotive St. Andreasberger Kleinbahn 1 auf eisenbahnstiftung.de
 Datenblatt über die Fahrzeuge der St. Andreasberger Kleinbahn mit Erwähnung der Dampflokomotiven

Einzelnachweise

Schienenfahrzeug (Jung)
Tenderlokomotive Achsfolge C
Zahnradlokomotive
Triebfahrzeug (St. Andreasberger Kleinbahn)

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Soldier makes it home just in time to be at his baby girl's birth
By Natalie Dreier, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Two days, 7 planes, 10 flights and thousands of air miles, but a soldier made it home just in time to be at his daughter's birth.
But he almost didn't make it.
U.S. Army combat engineer Francois Clerfe flew from Iraq to Kuwait to Turkey to Frankfurt to Baltimore then to Atlanta before finally landing in California, KSBW reported.
All of the flights and connections had to be timed perfectly.
Luckily, despite coming into the world early on New Year's Day, Julia Clerfe, Francois' newborn daughter, waited just long enough for her dad to be at the hospital with his wife, Natalia Svistunova, KSBW reported.
Julia was due to be born on Jan. 9.
Clerfe now has 30 days leave and an additional 10 days of paternity leave before he has to return to deployment, KSBW reported.
Natalie Dreier, Cox Media Group National Content Desk