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Jack likes Fay's surprises, until he meets Fay's mentor - Tanya.
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Gail's first experience with anal sex
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Fay and Jack get to know each other much better...........and Fay springs a surprise.
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Try it, you'll like it!
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She was living every girl's secret dirty fantasy. She was standing in the middle of a crowd of onlookers, trying to stop the madness while at the same time secretly and shamefully loving it. "Back off," Matty was yelling, "she's mine." "Like hell she is," Jake was yelling in reply as he pushed Matty. "Guys, just stop it," she tried feebly to be heard over the noise. Matty was...Read On
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The Hidden Passage Awaits
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Her husband brought her to meet me...
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Once the strange lady sets her eyes them, she likes it
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Sometimes all it takes is a little truth or dare.
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Sophie's bathroom trip takes an unexpected turn
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Morning Sexual Desire
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Out in the galaxy of stars, a Young Ensign gets a rough fucking from her superiors.
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Mutual release after a long day
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Siobhan pays the price for her overdue work.
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A storm delay and an unexpected meeting leads a happily married woman to adulterous anal sex
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Bad boy
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Ex-girlfriend arrives at the wrong time... (or the right???!!!)
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She arrives late... and he doesn't like that too much.
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(or, Anal Syrup and Pussy Pancakes) What a woman is willing to do for love...
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Two enjoy deeply
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Buying my son's birthday present proved harder than I expected
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Michael has an overnight visit from the sexy Juliette
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Shelley and Cal celebrate ten years after first making love in Paris.
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James gets what he always wanted.
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A celebratory event leads to sincere appreciation...
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Her Santa is coming up the chimney this year
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Don't get mad, Get Even!
Ever had that summer job you hated beyond anything? That one, horrible job, that paid for something you needed while making you want to jump off a bridge at the same time? Well, that is my summer job, only there is no bridge high enough around here. My name is Jenny, I'm 18, and I usually live in Minneapolis, but this summer was different. I heard through a few friends about this job in...Read On
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And so the story ends with a bang.
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Amy and Tim Discover The Joy of Anal Sex.
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The things a glass of wine makes us do...
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2011: In the early 21st century, attempts to visualize such complex ephemeral phenomena as ocean currents, wind direction, and speed grew increasingly sophisticated, as the volume of real-time data increased and supercomputers proved capable of processing it. This ocean surface current visualization was produced by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Greg Shirah, Horace Mitchell, Hong Zhang and Dimitris Menemenlis/Courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio hide caption itoggle caption Greg Shirah, Horace Mitchell, Hong Zhang and Dimitris Menemenlis/Courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio 13.7: Cosmos And Culture Seeing Heaven: The Beauty of Cosmigraphics December 16, 2014 If you were asked to picture the universe, you might conjure up images of stars and swirling galaxies. Commentator Adam Frank says one new book succeeds in showing you what past generations imagined.
iStockphoto 13.7: Cosmos And Culture Something To Be Thankful For This Thanksgiving November 25, 2014 Commentator Adam Frank says that no matter what your year has been like — no matter what you may have lost — you can always be thankful for the miracle that is planet Earth.
Strontium atoms floating in the center of this photo are the heart of the world's most precise clock. The clock is so exact that it can detect tiny shifts in the flow of time itself. Courtesy of the Ye group and Brad Baxley/JILA hide caption itoggle caption Courtesy of the Ye group and Brad Baxley/JILA Science New Clock May End Time As We Know It November 3, 2014 Scientists working to create the perfect atomic clock have a fundamental problem: Right now, on the ceiling, time is passing just a bit faster than it is on the floor. Listen Loading… 5:38 Download Playlist
Maymo the beagle. Jeremy Lakaszcyck/AP hide caption itoggle caption Jeremy Lakaszcyck/AP 13.7: Cosmos And Culture Cute Dog Video Answers Mystery Of The Cosmos. Maybe September 2, 2014 Newton's laws, quantum mechanics, information theory — the fundamental rules of existence — find expression in the human world for human purposes, says commentator Adam Frank.
iStockphoto 13.7: Cosmos And Culture The Universe Is Still Dark After All These Years August 27, 2014 We've learned so much, yet we still don't know the composition of 95 percent of the cosmos. Commentator Marcelo Gleiser says it is good to stay humble and keep an open mind as the search continues.
Physics is full of big, interesting questions about phenomenon such as black holes. This illustration shows the supermassive black hole at the heart of the active galaxy NGC 3783 in the southern constellation of Centaurus. M. Kornmesser/ESO hide caption itoggle caption M. Kornmesser/ESO 13.7: Cosmos And Culture Physics Feels The Pull Of Nature's Biggest Mysteries July 9, 2014 We don't have all the answers; many big questions hang over the world of theoretical physics. Is this business as usual? Or symptom of a major crisis in our understanding of nature?
iStockphoto 13.7: Cosmos And Culture Do Aliens Play Ball? June 20, 2014 The World Cup is on, a festival of amazing teamwork and theatric tribalism. Billions of humans love soccer. Are games a mark of intelligence, something we should expect to find across the cosmos?
The National Science Foundation's South Pole Station, home to the BICEP2 telescope. Steffen Richter/Harvard University hide caption itoggle caption Steffen Richter/Harvard University 13.7: Cosmos And Culture Listening To The Echoes Of Creation March 26, 2014 Scientists last week revealed evidence of gravitational waves from the very beginning of the universe. Commentator Marcelo Gleiser asks: Are we closer to understanding creation itself?
The BICEP2 telescope at twilight, which occurs only twice a year at the South Pole. Steffen Richter/Harvard University hide caption itoggle caption Steffen Richter/Harvard University 13.7: Cosmos And Culture A New Window On The Big Bang Has Been Opened March 17, 2014 The very first moments of the universe hold secrets we'd very much like to know. Commentator Adam Frank says news today takes us a step closer to understanding the origins of the cosmos.
Are humans, and our fellow travelers on Earth, latecomers to the game of life? Illustration/iStockphoto hide caption itoggle caption Illustration/iStockphoto 13.7: Cosmos And Culture Eureka! First Life In The Universe February 4, 2014 When did it first become possible for life (as we know it) to appear in the cosmos? The answer seems obvious now. But it arrived, unexpectedly, in the shower. It's a story that tells us a lot about how creativity works in science.
We think that life came from non-life, from the increasing complexity of chemical reactions between biomolecules present on the primordial Earth. But what about the universe? How did it come to be if there was nothing before? iStockphoto hide caption itoggle caption iStockphoto 13.7: Cosmos And Culture Why We Need A Science Capable Of Explaining Itself December 18, 2013 What was there before the universe began? It's not a question we can really answer with the science we have at hand, says commentator and physicist Marcelo Gleiser.
Part of the ALMA array on the Chajnantor plateau of Chile points skyward to the Milky Way, our own galaxy. The center of our galaxy is visible as a yellowish bulge crossed by dark lanes, which are themselves huge clouds of interstellar dust. José Francisco Salgado/ESO hide caption itoggle caption José Francisco Salgado/ESO 13.7: Cosmos And Culture Why We (Should) All Love The Stars November 20, 2013 Life on Earth is connected to the stars in ways we couldn't imagine a thousand years ago. Physicist Marcelo Gleiser says the journey to understanding our relationship with the cosmos has transformed how we see ourselves and all that surrounds us.
The hunt for dark matter started with astronomer Fritz Zwicky's observations of the Coma galaxy cluster in the 1930s. This recent image of the Coma cluster combines optical and X-ray observations from the Chandra mission. J.Sanders et al/NASA/CXC/MPE/SDSS hide caption itoggle caption J.Sanders et al/NASA/CXC/MPE/SDSS 13.7: Cosmos And Culture A Darker Universe November 6, 2013 The hunt for dark matter started in the 1930s and shows no signs of ending any time soon. But physicist Marcelo Gleiser says our inability to pin down this key component to reality only makes it more alluring.
Your direct connection with the stars and all of the space in between them. iStockphoto.com hide caption itoggle caption iStockphoto.com 13.7: Cosmos And Culture Eternity: How To See Forever On Your Dirty Car October 29, 2013 Carl Sagan, an astronomer with the soul of a poet, liked to remind us that we were all made of "star stuff." It was, without a doubt, one of his most beautiful images. Astrophysicist Adam Frank says it's not just an abstract concept; you can reach out and feel it in the space dirt covering your ride.
iStockphoto.com 13.7: Cosmos And Culture The Two Faces Of Science October 22, 2013 Science is radical and conservative at the same time, almost as if it exists in a quantum state. Commentator and astrophysicist Adam Frank says this is the tension at play today as his community struggles with whether to keep faith in the laws that determine the one universe we see or jump ship for the promise of the multiverse.
Even if we find other life out there, in the depths of space, life here will still be a rare gem that must be worshipped and preserved at all costs. ESO hide caption itoggle caption ESO 13.7: Cosmos And Culture Alone Among The Stars, For Now October 16, 2013 The Earth has existed for nearly 5 billion years and, to this point, no other forms of life have been identified in the seemingly boundless expanse of outer space. Commentator Marcelo Gleiser says this simple fact has deep implications for who we are and how we should treat life here on our home world.
iStockphoto.com 13.7: Cosmos And Culture How Does The World Work: Top-Down or Bottom-Up? September 29, 2013 Can everything that happens in the universe (like the working of your mind) be understood merely as an expression of interactions at the level of elementary particles? Astrophysicist Adam Frank doesn't think so. He's skeptical of reductionism and takes heart from a new theory that sees cause-and-effect flowing both ways.
A bubble in space: Abell 39 marks the death of a star like the sun. Wind from the aging central star pushes into the surrounding interstellar gas, building up a dense shell that glows blue in this image. After 36 years of travel, the Voyager spacecraft is just now reaching the edge of the sun's own wind-blown bubble. WIYN/NOAO/NSF hide caption itoggle caption WIYN/NOAO/NSF 13.7: Cosmos And Culture The Bubble At The Edge Of The Solar System September 17, 2013 Science, at its most fundamental level, is about telling the story of all that is around us. In this installment, astrophysicist Adam Frank tells the story of the stellar wind and the bubble that Voyager has just exited on its journey into interstellar space.
Gold exists, just as it really is, just as the physicist knows it to be, and that has nothing to do with us. Michal Cizek/AFP/Getty Images hide caption itoggle caption Michal Cizek/AFP/Getty Images 13.7: Cosmos And Culture The Physicist's View Of Reality September 13, 2013 We find ourselves drawn to the belief that physics alone investigates the basis of the universe, reality as it really is, beyond parochial human interests and values. Alva Noë asks if we can actually accept this, or if there is more to the universe than the particles and fields of physics.
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How much leveraging power do I have with the "buyback" status of the car, and about how much $$ would that status knock off the price of an idential car that wasn't a "buyback?"
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I'm looking at buying a 2011 BMW 335 Manufacturer buyback that was originally from California. I've gotten over the stigma of buying a "buyback,' since the car has been repaired by BMW, is still under warranty and the price is a lot closer to what I'm willing to spend. The reason it was bought back was for an "extended crank" issue, which has been completely resolved. However, I feel like comparing the price for this car to the "Instant Market Value" is not accurate because it's like comparing apples and, well, lemons!
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DavidH25 answered about a year ago
Not much if any. Ok, maybe some, but the dealer is not going to give you a huge discount if that's what you are thinking. Your leverage is there, but small. I had some experience with this, is the only reason I responded to you. When I was looking at 2013 Ford trucks, there was "buyback" that the buyer complained of rattling noise, the dealer never did find a noise, rattle anything, but under Calif. law they are forced to 'buyback' or provide an identical, new vehicle within 120 days of purchase , even if the complaint is unfounded and the buyer just wants to be a, uh, not allowed to use the word I want to. They offered me $500 off of a $45,000 truck
DavidH25 answered about a year ago
The lemon law is currently under revision by the way. Too many people "buying" cars and trucks, driving them 110 days, then demanding their money back, not even a identical vehicle. Taking advantage of the system.
Haley answered about a year ago
I believe the Ford situation is a little different than the BMW situation, since there was a inordinate amount of BMWs that had to be recalled because of their fuel injection system, and other issues related for 2007-2011 3 and 5 series models. The particular dealership I've been shopping with sells tons and tons of these "buyback" BMWs (it seems that it has become their specialty), and as a result they are all priced way below the normal market value. The ones that they have that are not "buybacks," are all priced a lot closer to the "instant market value," so I feel like the status does have quite a bit of an effect on the price. The normal instant market value of the one I'm looking at is around $37K, but is listed at $33K... so I'm stumped when trying to figure out what they are basing their pricing off of. Almost none of this car dealerships listings have market values on Car Gurus, so I'm guessing it's unsure due to the "buyback" status and the value is not considered to be as much.
DavidH25 answered about a year ago
OK, point taken Haley. Makes sense. I even went to the Calif lemon law site to do some reading but it is so 'dry" legalese I gave up on trying to cite particulars for you. I could not find an explanation in layman's terms
Js08016 answered about a year ago
Be careful. Some time ago a friend bought a '98 Thunderbird that had been bought back by Ford for a brake problem. The brakes were never right. Always had a low spongy pedal. He got rid of it as soon as it was paid for. HTH. -Jim
DavidH25 answered about a year ago
Jim, we have another Tbird thread going on, about a belt. it's titled something about overheating on the main page...Do you feel like taking a look and throwing in what you think?
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Patriomanis americanus was a species of pangolin that lived in the late Eocene era, some 30-40 million years ago. A pangolin is a small, peculiar mammal that is covered in broad scales made of keratin (the same material as fingernails), which act as armor. The eight species of modern pangolins are restricted to Africa and Asia. P. americanus is the only pangolin known from the western hemisphere and lived in western North America (Emry 1970). Studies show that this early form was already very similar to modern pangolins, differing in only small skeletal characteristics, though it is most closely related to an Asian fossil pangolin, Cryptomanis gobiensis (Gaudin 2006). Fossil evidence of pangolins is very sparse, because this group is adapted to eating colonial insects and has no teeth (which comprise the most common fossils) (Gebo and Rasmussen 1985). Its first fossils were found in Alcova, Wyoming, and initially mis-identified as an "immature carnivore" (Emry 1970).
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A Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book
From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s daughter, Dr. Bernice A. King: "My father's dream continues to live on from generation to generation, and this beautiful and powerful illustrated edition of his world-changing "I Have a Dream" speech brings his inspiring message of freedom, equality, and peace to the youngest among us--those who will one day carry his dream forward for everyone."
On August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, Martin Luther King gave one of the most powerful and memorable speeches in our nation's history. His words, paired with Caldecott Honor winner Kadir Nelson's magnificent paintings, make for a picture book certain to be treasured by children and adults alike. The themes of equality and freedom for all are not only relevant today, 50 years later, but also provide young readers with an important introduction to our nation's past. Included with the book is an audio CD of the speech.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968) was a famous leader of the American civil rights movement, a political activist, and a Baptist minister. In 1964, King became the youngest man to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work as a peacemaker, promoting nonviolence and equal treatment for different races. On April 4, 1968, Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1977, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter. In 1986, Martin Luther King Day was established as a United States holiday. Dr. King often called for personal responsibility in fostering world peace.King's most influential and well-known public address is the "I Have A Dream" speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Kadir Nelson is the widely acclaimed illustrator of many books for children, including "Thunder Rose, " written by Jerdine Nolen, which received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award; "Ellington Was Not a Street, " written by Ntozake Shange, which received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award; and "Hewitt Anderson's Great Big Life, " written by Jerdine Nolen, which won the 2005 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. He is also the illustrator of Deloris Jordan and Roslyn M. Jordan's "Salt in His Shoes" and Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee's "Please, Baby, Please" and "Please, Puppy, Please". Kadir Nelson lives with his family in San Diego, California.
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Entertainment Weekly, December 5, 2012:
"This picture book stands a notch above others thanks to Caldecott Honor winner Kadir Nelson's beautifully rendered and sincerely moving paintings."
School Library Journal Best of Children's Books 2012
Publishers Weekly Best of Children's Books 2012
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Starred Review, School Library Journal, November 2012:
"Even after 50 years, this seminal address still has the power to move listeners, and this handsome illustrated version will be welcomed in all collections."
Starred Review, Publishers Weekly, September 24, 2012:
"A glorious interpretation of a bedrock moment in 20th-century history."
Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews, May 15, 2012:
"An award-winning artist captures the passion and purpose of this most notable 20th-century American speech in beautifully realized oil paintings…. A title for remembrance and for re-dedication to the dream."


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In our last call, I said that during this extended period of slow economic activity, we are focused on managing our assets effectively to generate increased earnings per share and not growing assets by taking undue risk. In the news release, you saw that we increased our return on average assets again this quarter by 6 basis points to 0.97%.
I also mentioned the importance of our return on equity last time. This quarter we saw improvement in both our returns on common and tangible common equity. Our capital position remains strong. We intend to deploy that capital profitably for the right opportunities at the right time. However, until we see stronger indications that the economy is rebounding and until those right opportunities present themselves, we will build capital through organically-generated retained earnings and deploy it prudently to support future organic growth and potential future dividend increases.
Residential mortgage sale gains contributed nicely to non-interest income again this quarter. The persistently low interest rate environment along with our excellent reputation as a mortgage lender in our markets has enabled us to maintain a steady level of both refinanced and purchased activity. Our reputation is also helpful as we seek to attract and hire additional mortgage originators throughout our footprint to help us grow our mortgage business.
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Maybe you have noticed fewer posts by your favorite Facebook pages lately, it's because of more of those changes they keep making... I know how to fix it now!
For all of those people who have wanted to change a comment on Facebook but couldn't: You can know edit your comments on Facebook! Hip hip, hooray!
Misty Roberson, like many of us do, uses Facebook to keep in touch with friends and family, and that's what she was doing when she posted about her sick child.
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Tony Falzone is the Deputy General Counsel at Pinterest, Inc. Read more » about Anthony Falzone
A healthy copyright system must balance the need to provide strong economic incentives through exclusive rights with the need to protect important public interests like free speech and expression. Fair use is foundational to that balance. It's role is to prevent copyright from stifling the creativity it is supposed to foster, and from imposing other burdens that would inhibit rather than promote the creation and spread of knowledge and learning.
The Fair Use Project (FUP) was founded in 2006 to provide legal support to a range of projects designed to clarify, and extend, the boundaries of fair use in order to enhance creative freedom and protect important public rights. It is the only organization in the country dedicated specifically to providing free and comprehensive legal representation to authors, filmmakers, artists, musicians and other content creators who face unmerited copyright claims, or other improper restrictions on their expressive interests. The FUP has litigated important cases across the country, and in the Supreme Court of the United States, and worked with scores of filmmakers and other content creators to secure the unimpeded release of their work.
Tony Falzone is the Deputy General Counsel at Pinterest, Inc. Read more » about Anthony Falzone
Brett Frischmann's expertise is in intellectual property and internet law. After clerking for the Honorable Fred I. Parker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practicing at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC, he joined the Loyola University Chicago law faculty in 2002. He has held visiting appointments at Cornell and Fordham. Read more » about Brett Frischmann
Lauren is an experienced attorney, frequent speaker and start-up advisor who has worked in the field of Internet law and policy since 1995. She is the founder of BlurryEdge Strategies, a legal and strategy consulting firm located in San Francisco that advises technology companies and investors on cutting-edge legal issues. Read more » about Lauren Gelman
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This post is cross-posted at Concurring Opinions, which is having a blog symposium on Marvin Ammori's excellent article on First Amendment Architecture. Next week, the Stanford Technology Law Review is holding its "First Amendment Challenges in the Digital Age" conference and one of the panels also will center on the piece. So it is getting a lot of attention!
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The idea of the Library of Alexandria has powerfully expanded over the centuries, embodying the dream of universal wisdom and knowledge centralized in one single place. Digitization projects, such as the Google books project, are reviving the hope that this dream may come true. Moreover, the ubiquity of the networked environment promises to open access to this uber-library to everybody with an Internet connection. Today the entire collection of human knowledge may be only one click away. Read more » about Google Books Rejected: Taking the Orphans to the Digital Public Library of Alexandria
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""The idea that you're going to get an injunction and a finding of infringement based on speculation of security harms without any actual facts to support that concern, the court showed it has no reason to accept it," said Julie Ahrens, director of copyright and fair use at Stanford Law School's Center for the Internet and Society." Read more » about Library Ruling A Good Sign For Google In Next Book Case
""I was wondering if it was evil or stupid," New York University Law Prof. Christopher Sprigman said. "I realized I didn't have to decide — it's both."
No corporation could force pi to stand in for their brand like the swoosh does for Nike, because it's already part of the everyday language, he said — people see the symbol and think of the math constant, not Ingrisano's clothes.
"Trademark law is a dangerous thing," Sprigman said. "It gets taken too far a lot, and this is one of those cases."" Read more » about Brooklyn entrepreneur says he's receiving death threats for using the pi symbol to brand his clothing line
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DPLA West—taking place on April 27, 2012 in San Francisco—is the second major public event bringing together librarians, technologists, creators, students, government leaders, and others interested in building a Digital Public Library of America. Convened by the DPLA Secretariat at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and co-hosted by the San Francisco Public Library, the event will assemble a wide range of stakeholders in a broad, open forum to facilitate innovation, collaboration, and connections across the DPLA effort. DPLA West will also showcase the work of the interim technical development team and continue to provide opportunities for public participation in the work of the DPLA. Read more » about Digital Public Library of America - West
Come see the Bay Area screening of Documentary Film Program participant No Way Out But One. This inspiring true story is about Holly Collins and her children—the first U.S. citizens to be awarded asylum by the Netherlands for protection from domestic violence.
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CIS Affiliate Scholar David Levine will be speaking on a panel at UNC about online privacy. Read more » about Searching for a Middle Ground: Can We Stop Online Piracy While Still Protecting Speech?
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December 12, 2013 - Copyright and Fair Use Issues in the Visual Motion Arts
The song you sampled for an intro sequence that you don't have the license for-
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You can use those in your production, because they're all covered by Fair Use ... right? Read more » about The Key to Fair Use: Transformation
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