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Blurred Lines makes $16.68m –
Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams made more than $5m (£3.26m) each from Blurred Lines, according to figures revealed during a copyright trial. Total profits for the biggest track of 2013 are $16.68m (£10.87m), with rapper TI getting a $704,000 (£459,000) share according to the Hollywood Reporter. The trio are being sued for copyright infringement by Marvin Gaye’s family, over similarities to Got to Give It Up. [BBC]
American footballers to donate brains to science –
Two American Football stars say they will donate their brains for medical research after their deaths. New York Giants punter Steve Weatherford and former Seattle Seahawks receiver Sidney Rice want to support studies into brain injuries. Many former players in the sport suffer degenerative brain disease. “There are a lot of issues that stem from brain injuries and it’s not just professional athletes. This affects everybody,” Weatherford said. Rice won the Super Bowl with the Seattle Seahawks last year before retiring – at the age of 27 – over fears for his long-term health after absorbing so many blows to the head. Both he and Weatherford said they hoped their commitment could persuade others to support research into brain injuries. [BBC]
Seattle Seahawks receiver Sidney Rice
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Lines from the film “The Man With Two Brains” starring Steve Martin as Dr Hfuhruhurr
- [A recurring scene in the operating room…]
- Dr. Hfuhruhurr: Metzenbaum scissors!
- Nurse: Metzenbaum scissors!
- [A cat meows.]
- Dr. Hfuhruhurr: Get that cat out of here!
- [Dr. Brandon is arguing with Dr. Hfuhruhurr about his performing the operation on Dolores.]
- Dr. Hfuhruhurr: But there’s only one other person I’d trust to perform this operation — Beckerman!
- Dr. Brandon: Well Dr. Beckerman was murdered in Europe! You know that!
- Dr. Hfuhruhurr: Exactly! Not only is he dead, he’s six thousand miles away!
- Dr. Hfuhruhurr: The only time we doctors should accept death is when it’s caused by our own incompetence!
- Dr. Necessiter: Nonsense! If the murder of twelve innocent people can help save one human life, it will have been worth it!
- [Dr. Hfuhruhurr is rowing with Anne’s enjarred brain, complete with sunhat and sunglasses, along an idyllic creek.]
- Anne Uumellmahaye: I don’t think there’s a girl floating in any jar anywhere who’s as happy as I am! Oh, Michael, you do so much for me, and I do nothing for you!
- Dr. Hfuhruhurr: Are you out of your head? [pauses] Sorry, I forgot.
- [Dr. Hfuhruhurr removes Anne’s brain from the oven Dolores tried to bake her in. He tries to cool her off in the sink.]
- Anne Uumellmahaye: I… I think I’m alright.
- Dr. Hfuhruhurr: Count to ten!
- Anne Uumellmahaye: 1… 2… 3… 4… 5… 6… 7… 8… [pause] 10.
- [Dr. Hfuhruhurr turns to Dolores in a rage.]
- Dr. Hfuhruhurr: You! You cooked her nines!
- [As the police try to stop the experiment…]
- Inspector: You are playing God!
- Dr. Hfuhruhurr: SOMEBODY has to!
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- Disasters and accidents
- A chemical fire forces the closure of the Port of Vancouver (Canada’s largest and North America’s fourth largest port). Authorities later manage to contain the fire, and identify the chemical as trichloroisocyanuric acid. (CBC)
- South of Sicily, Italy‘s Coast Guard saves 941 trafficked migrants aboard five motorized dinghies and two larger vessels near southern Italian ports. Ten people are unaccounted for. (AP)
- At least 33 miners die in a suspected gas explosion at the Zasyadko coal mine in rebel-held Donetsk region of Ukraine.(BBC) (Reuters via News24)
- Turkish Airlines Flight TK726, landing in dense fog in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu, skidded off a slippery runway, however, there are no serious injuries. (ABC News)
- Science and technology
- Scientists report the finding of a 2.8 million-year-old jawbone (the ‘Ledi jaw’) forming a potential link between the 3.2 million-year-old hominin (human-like primate) Lucy (Australopithecus) found in the same area, and the 2.35 million year old remains of Homo habilis found at Hadar. If assigned to the genus Homo, the new remains represent the oldest known human, some 400,000 years older than previously found. (BBC)
- World War II:
- Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his team of researchers find the Musashi, one of Japan‘s biggest and most famous battleships on the floor of the Sibuyan Sea, which was sunk by American forces in 1944. (CNN)
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