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New York - Nike Inc beat its rival Reebok International in court on Wednesday in a legal pile-up over the use of popular National Football League quarterback Tim Tebow's name and number on shirts of his new team, the New York Jets.
A federal judge in New York converted a temporary order of March 28 into a preliminary injunction stopping Reebok, a unit of Germany's Adidas AG, from making, selling and shipping Tebow's green Jets No 15 jerseys and T-shirts.
Nike sued Reebok on March 27, arguing that it is authorized and licensed to use Tebow's name on football-related products. Reebok, Nike said, tried to capitalize on "short-lived intense consumer appetite for such products" after Tebow's surprise March 21 trade to the Jets from the Denver Broncos.
"Instead of Tim Tebow being associated with the Nike swoosh, Reebok would be the beneficiary of the association" if further production or sales of the apparel were not halted, U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel ruled from the bench.
"This is a situation where money damages would not make Nike whole," said the judge, who will preside over the litigation as it continues between the sports apparel companies.
Tebow's No. 15 Broncos uniform had been among the NFL's top-selling jerseys before his trade to the Jets. He moved when the Broncos signed star quarterback Peyton Manning, who had previously played for the Indianapolis Colts.
A January poll by Walt Disney Co's ESPN rated Tebow the No 1 favourite active professional athlete in the United States. The 2007 Heisman Trophy winner, who played for the University of Florida, is also an evangelical Christian who prays on the football field in a pose known as "Tebowing."
Nike also said Reebok has no current agreement to sell Tebow-related Jets products and that a Reebok merchandising license with the NFL players union expired at the end of February. Reebok argued that the company had the right under an agreement with NFL Players Inc, the licensing arm of the NFL Players Association (NFLPA), the players' union, to use names and numbers of players changing teams during March.
As of April 1, Nike has an exclusive five-year contract with the NFL to sell apparel for all 32 teams in the league. The apparel was unveiled on Tuesday but won't be available until late April.
"It is a minor hardship for New York Jets and Tim Tebow fans to have to wait to get their jerseys," Castel said in his ruling.
Reebok said it made 6 000 jerseys and 25 000 T-shirts bearing the logos of Jets and the NFL and the name and number of Tebow. Of those, only about 400 jerseys had Reebok's name or logo, the company said in court documents. The 25 000 T-shirts and the remaining 5 600 jerseys did not have any Reebok markings, the court documents said.
Reebok lawyer Julian Friedman told the judge there were 31 000 units at stake with total estimated revenues of $500 000 that cannot be sold.
The judge denied Nike lawyer Randolph Foster's request for an order to destroy the merchandise. "It can't be sold so that's not necessary," the judge said.
The case is Nike Inc v Reebok International, US District Court for the Southern District of New York No. 12-2275.


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CEO Peter Egelberg comments the recent special issue of Cytometry part A and its importance to PHI and medical science in general.
Cytometry part A is the official journal of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC). The journal publishes original research articles related to cell measurement and analysis. Occasionally special issues are published, covering novel and hot topics of particular interest.
Continual change is a hallmark of life. Our lives as multicellular organisms are the collective results of billions of tiny cell lives that are born, that grow, interact, reproduce and finally die, just like we do. Cytometry is the quantitative analysis of these tiny lives.
Leap of understanding
As a layman (swe: lekman), it is natural to assume that cell biologists already have the tools to observe and quantify how these tiny lives play out over time. However, this is not the case.
Traditionally, cells are killed ("fixated") before they are observed. Cells are increasingly being observed alive. But, these live cell imaging methods rely on that the cells are either genetically modified or "labeled" with toxic fluorescent stains, affecting cell behavior. These and other practical limitations have forced scientists to study the life of individual cells by interpreting a few snapshot images.
We realize how difficult and misleading it can be to comprehend a life from snapshots when we look at the few pictures our grandparents left behind. Obviously, our understanding of their lives would have been dramatically more true and complete, if we instead had the opportunity to watch a movie of their entire lives, secretly recorded to not affect their behavior.
A similar leap (swe: språng) of understanding is what label-free time-lapse cytometry offers to medical science, and is what motivates this recent special issue of Cytometry part A:
HoloMonitor in the special issue
In the special issue May of Cytometry part A, various applications of quantitative phase imaging and label-free time-lapse cytometry are presented in a number of scientific articles. HoloMonitor is featured in three articles by scientists at Northeastern University, Boston Children's Hospital and by our scientists at PHI:
- Applications of label-free, quantitative phase holographic imaging cytometry to the development of multi-specific nanoscale pharmaceutical formulations
- Characterization of dormant and active human cancer cells by quantitative phase imaging
- Label-free high temporal resolution assessment of cell proliferation using digital holographic microscopy
The promise
The special issue and the increasing number of scientific publications by HoloMonitor customers, and others, leave no room for doubt. Label-free time-lapse cytometry has begun to fulfill its promise to medical science — a leap of understanding.
- May 2017 issue of Cytometry part A
- Editorial: Quantitative phase imaging for label-free cytometry, Cytometry part A May 2017

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My 1916: 'Why those haunting ballads of 1916 mean so much to me...'
The songs of the Easter Rising can still be heard in pubs across the country. Graham Clifford hopes they never die
A hush falls over the stout-drinking crowd. 'Respect for the singer' is the code of the country pub and as I lick my lips and close my eyes, my time has come to tell a story through song.
Nestled in a corner of the Wagon Tavern in the Cork town of Fermoy, an area which saw its fair share of fighting and turmoil from 1916 to the end of the Civil War, I flick through the record player in my mind before deciding that a local tune is called for.
There's a pause while the fiddler fixes a string, and as glasses clink in another corner of this fine establishment, the lyrics start to flow.
"I joined the Flying Column in 1916/In Cork with Seán Moylan/In Tipperary with Dan Breen/Arrested by Free Staters and sentenced for to die/Farewell to Tipperary said the Galtee Mountain Boy."
Bodies sway and backing singers come out of the woodwork.
While the ballad, made famous in recent decades by Christy Moore, is predominantly about the Civil War, its roots, as described in the opening line, refer to 1916, like so many such rebel songs.
There's something about the 'Galtee Mountain Boy' which has always intrigued me. It's a song of bravado and purpose, the narrator claiming "we were outlawed but free men", but tinged with the sadness of a young man bidding farewell to the hills that kept him safe.
Indeed all songs of 1916 share these sentiments.
As British forces marched Irish revolutionaries out of a crumbling GPO, the romantic vision of these men and women grew with every step they took. Days later, when Irish rebels were executed, a shocked nation reacted by immortalising these men through song.
Peader Kearney, who wrote 'Amhrán na bhFiann' in 1907, composed 'Erin Go Bragh'.
One verse goes: "God bless gallant Pearse and his comrades who died/Tom Clarke, MacDonagh, MacDermott, McBride/And here's to James Connolly who gave one hurrah/And faced the machine guns for Erin go Bragh'.
For the politically inclined, these words make the hairs stand on the back of the neck, for others they celebrate an unnecessary battle which resulted in the deaths of 254 civilians, including many children.
But to me, songs such as 'Erin Go Bragh' provide vital snapshots of history. And undoubtedly I'm intrigued and proud of these ordinary men and women who were willing to risk their lives in the pursuit of freedom.
When singing a ballad where 1916 features, I'm mindful that there might be some present who link Republicanism with the Provisional IRA and other paramilitary groups and perhaps feel uneasy with hearing such songs. But I feel confident that the likes of the 'Galtee Mountain Boy', and indeed my own grandfather, who was a member of the Old IRA in South Kerry, would certainly not condone the atrocious actions of those Republicans who would follow them decades later. I explain this before I start.
The ballads of 1916 remember ordinary Irish people who hoped to achieve extraordinary things, and to lose these songs would be a cultural tragedy. And so, in recent months, when my children have asked about 1916, I've tried to explain to them the massive and tragic human impact on all sides - for the rebels, the soldiers, the policemen and the civilians.
To do this I find the song 'Grace', written about Grace Gifford and Joseph Plunkett who married in Kilmainham Gaol a few hours before he was executed for his part in the Rising, especially useful.
My eight-year-old daughter Molly frowns and asks why did Plunkett want to shoot at other Irishmen just because they were in British uniforms. But then she asks why the British would want to shoot Plunkett.
"That's so mean," she told me the other night. But always 'Grace' herself receives the most sympathy.
As I discuss the complexities of 1916, its legacy, the ballads and the upcoming commemorations with another local, a booming voice from across the bar startles me.
It's Tom, the owner of the pub: "Clifford, less of the talking and more of the singing," he jokes.. and so off again I go. Eyes closed, lips licked.
The three most popular 1916 ballads
Perhaps the most well-known and stirring song which commemorates the events of the 1916 Rising. Connolly's execution while tied to a chair in Kilmainham Gaol is emotionally recalled.
Written in 1919 by Canon Charles O'Neill, a parish priest of Kilcoo and later in Newcastle, Co Down. The hard-hitting song reflects the thoughts of Irish nationalists who believed Irishmen who fought for Britain during WWI should have stayed at home and fought for Irish independence. O'Neill sums up this feeling in the lines: "Twas far better to die 'neath an Irish sky, Than at Suvla or Sud el Bar".
Despite being penned as recently as 1985 by Sean and Frank O'Meara, this ballad captures the human cost of the Rising as lovers Grace Gifford and Joseph Plunkett marry just hours before his execution. Made famous by the recently departed Jim McCann.
Irish Independent


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