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10 Years after Katrina, New Orleans Is More Vibrant than Ever Before

I made my first trip to New Orleans in late July, a month shy of the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. While waiting to board my flight at JFK, my thoughts drifted to the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra performance I’d seen earlier this year at Lincoln Center, where band members jumped off the stage and into the audience during the encore, exuberantly marching through the aisles as they blew their brassy horns.

Top German court rejects Apple touchscreen patent appeal

Apple Inc patents covering the “slide to unlock” feature on smartphones are invalid, Germany’s highest appeals court ruled on Tuesday, reaffirming a 2013 decision rejecting the U.S. company’s claims by a lower court. The ruling by the Federal Court of Appeals in Karlsruhe covers one of the Apple iPhone’s most popular defining features, of which makers of rival Android-based phones have developed their own versions. In a statement, the appeals