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This may be the first legit piece of art on Vine | Death and Taxes

This may be the first legit piece of art on Vine | Death and Taxes Claire Pasquier  describes herself as a French artist living in San Francisco, and she may be one of the first people to drop a legitimate piece of art on Vine. Spreading the frames out over the course of over 9 months, she captures an entire pregnancy and resulting newborn in the course of a few-second time lapse. I can’t figure out why it’s so mesmerizing but I’ve been zoning out and staring at this thing for ten minutes.
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How successful were FIFA and its sponsors at protecting their brands during the World Cup?

How successful were FIFA and its sponsors at protecting their brands during the World Cup? This article reflects on how successful FIFA and its  sponsors  were at protecting their brands during this year’s FIFA World Cup. It also looks at the extent to which non- sponsors  were able to mobilise the online population behind their clever campaigns. BACKGROUND  In what was dubbed the first proper social media World Cup by The International News Media Association (INMA) 1 , observers were keen to see how successful FIFA’s ever-vigilant rights protection strategy would be in relation to its most valuable assets, its intellectual property, especially in light of the explosion in social media coverage. It is worth noting that FIFA’s IP Manual solemnly declared that “ FIFA’s  official  logos, symbols and other graphic trade marks may not be used on any social media platform ” 2 .  FIFA had already made its intentions clear prior to the start of the tournament by filing numerous trade mark re
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Deferred Prosecution Agreements | Prosecution Agreements

Deferred Prosecution Agreements | Prosecution Agreements : Deferred Prosecution Agreements Federal Organizational Prosecution Agreements Description This library collection contains scanned federal organizational prosecution agreements. It is intended to provide a resource for research concerning federal prosecution of organizations. The website was created by Professor Brandon Garrett (bgarrett@virginia.edu) and Jon Ashley (jaa6c@virginia.edu) and will be periodically updated to reflect additional agreements or other developments. We welcome any inquiries or feedback, including questions, corrections or suggestions for additional material to be added to the collection. The agreements, as indicated below, may be displayed by name of entity, jurisdiction or date. Additional information concerning organizational prosecution agreements is in a 2007 Virginia Law Review article. A more detailed version of the list below can be found in this Excel spreadsheet (last updated 6/7/2011). P
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Cover Story | Shop Nicole's Shoot | Magazine | NET-A-PORTER.COM

Cover Story | Shop Nicole's Shoot | Magazine | NET-A-PORTER.COM : At his concert on their wedding anniversary in Australia earlier this year, Urban dedicated a song to his wife with the words, ‘Eight years, baby girl. This song is for you. I love you so much.’ Even her friends, she says, were jealous of that one. “I had two girlfriends sitting with me and they were like, ‘Bitch!’” Kidman laughs. “I went, ‘Hey! I’ve been to hell and back!’” Hell was her 2001 divorce from actor Tom Cruise after 11 years of marriage and the loneliness she felt in its wake. She’s philosophical, though, about dealing with the pain. “Now I have the ability to go, ‘Okay, this too shall pass.’ Sometimes you’ve just got to navigate through pain and depression. Maybe you have a down day, but life is contrast. I’d rather feel it and know it.”
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Sarah Silverman Brought Liquid THC to the Emmys | TIME

Sarah Silverman Brought Liquid THC to the Emmys | TIME : Silverman says she doesn’t drink, but she’s managed to find other ways to keep herself entertained at tonight’s Emmy Awards. On the red carpet, Silverman retrieved what she said was liquid THC from her purse, showing it to an E! correspondent. When she was interviewed by NBC, she said that she had brought marijuana.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt 'Invasion of the Data Snatchers' (VX heaven)

Philip Elmer-DeWitt 'Invasion of the Data Snatchers' (VX heaven) : His colleagues were aghast, but the secret was out. And the revelation was further compounded by Dewdney's landmark article in the May 1984 issue of Scientific American, which described Core War and offered readers who sent $2 for postage a copy of the guidelines for creating their own viral battlefields.
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End the Tyranny of 24/7 Email - NYTimes.com

End the Tyranny of 24/7 Email - NYTimes.com : You might envy the serene workers at Daimler, the German automaker. On vacations, employees can set their corporate email to “holiday mode.” Anyone who emails them gets an auto-reply saying the employee isn’t in, and offering contact details for an alternate, on-call staff person. Then poof, the incoming email is deleted — so that employees don’t have to return to inboxes engorged with digital missives in their absence. “The idea behind it is to give people a break and let them rest,” a Daimler spokesman told Time magazine. “Then they can come back to work with a fresh spirit.”
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6 | 75% Of Ikea’s Catalog Is Computer Generated Imagery | Co.Design | business design

6 | 75% Of Ikea’s Catalog Is Computer Generated Imagery | Co.Design | business design : The best special effects are often the ones you never notice--which may make Ikea the most skillful special effects studio in the world. The Swedish furniture company has been aggressively ramping up its use of computer generated imagery in their catalogs. Ikea's first CG photo was a Bertil pinewood chair in 2006. By 2012, the Wall Street Journal reported that 25% of their products were CG. Today, that figure has ballooned to 75%.
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Giving Away Photos to Make a Profit

Giving Away Photos to Make a Profit : What we’ve done is move from selling a small number of images, 40,000 or 70,000, to a small number of customers — say 30,000 — to now selling to 1.3 million customers and, including all downloads, maybe 100 million images (last quarter). We’ve essentially moved from individual sales of picture rights for a period of time to many more all-you-can-eat subscription deals, plugging into the workflow of our customer base to being almost a part of them. As we’ve moved to a much lower price per picture to many more customers and pictures, we’ve also changed our source of imagery. We have over 200,000 contributors, whereas in the old days it would be 15,000, of whom 4,000 were active
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FIFA: Michel Platini not running for president in 2015

FIFA: Michel Platini not running for president in 2015 Reg - Paris - Thursday, August 28, 2014 - Highlights #24219 Michel Platini announced that he will not be a candidate for the presidency of FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) in 2015 during a press conference in Monaco on 28/08/2014, on the sidelines of the group stage draw for the 2014-15 Champions League. "I have chosen to follow my heart. I have chosen football. I have chosen passion. This is not the time, it is not my time. Not yet," said Platini on 28/08/2014. Platini added that he will run for a third term as president of UEFA (Union of European Football Associations). This election will take place in Vienna (AUT) in late March 2015. Michel Platini has been the UEFA president since 26/01/2007, when he defeated the incumbent, Lennart Johansson (SWE). During the 64th FIFA Congress in Sao Paulo (BRA) on 11/06/2014, Joseph Blatter, FIFA president since 08/06/1998, left little doubt regard
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Full text of the last email the Islamic State sent to the Foley family | GlobalPost

Full text of the last email the Islamic State sent to the Foley family | GlobalPost : A message to the American government and their sheep like citizens: We have left you alone since your disgraceful defeat in Iraq. We did not interfere in your country or attack your citizens while they were safe in their homes despite our capability to do so! As for the scum of your society who are held prisoner by us, THEY DARED TO ENTER THE LION’S DEN AND WHERE EATEN! You were given many chances to negotiate the release of your people via cash transactions as other governments have accepted,
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• Chart: Tim Hortons Makes Almost Three Times As Much Money As Burger King | Statista

• Chart: Tim Hortons Makes Almost Three Times As Much Money As Burger King | Statista : You will find more statistics at Statista
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Happier Consumers Can Lead to Healthier Environment, Research Reveals

Happier Consumers Can Lead to Healthier Environment, Research Reveals WASHINGTON — The pursuit of true happiness can lead people to lifestyles that will not only be satisfying but will be better for the environment, according to an overview of psychological research presented at the American Psychological Association’s 122nd Annual Convention. “For decades, consumerism has been on a collision course with the environment, with consumer appetites draining the planet of natural resources and accelerating global warming. One view is that we need to change consumption in order to save the planet,” said Miriam Tatzel, PhD, of Empire State College. “But what if we approached it from the other way around? What if what’s good for the consumer meets what’s good for the environment?”   Positive psychology, or the study of happiness, well-being and quality of life, provides the answers to what really brings happiness to consumers, Tatzel said. Several studies have determined that peoples’ basic p
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How Twitter Decides What to Place in Your Stream | Re/code

How Twitter Decides What to Place in Your Stream | Re/code : Sources familiar with the update say Twitter’s algorithm searches for popular tweets in your “social graph,” marked by actions like favorites and retweets. But it’s not showing you those tweets specifically because of one of your pal’s actions — it’s showing it to you because lots of your pals have shown interest in that tweet. This means that every tweet you favorite won’t appear in someone else’s feed — it would require engagement from a number of other people, too. Still, Twitter’s move might end up changing the way users treat the fave. Even if 50 other people favorite a tweet that Twitter surfaces, if your name is the one included in the label it certainly looks and feels like an endorsement, regardless of your intention. That’s one of the reasons people familiar with the algorithm say that Twitter is thinking about alternate, and hopefully less confusing,�ways to indicate why you’re seeing one of the tweets it fou
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Ofcom’s eleventh annual Communications Market report

The Communications Market 2014 (August) This is Ofcom’s eleventh annual Communications Market report. This supports Ofcom’s regulatory goal to research markets and to remain at the forefront of technological understanding. http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/cmr/cmr14/2014_UK_CMR.pdf http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/market-data-research/market-data/communications-market-reports/cmr14/?a=0
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UN Organogram

The United Nations System shows the organisation of all UN agencies, departments, bodies and related entities 
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Entertainment and media outlook – Internet and TV advertising: PwC

Entertainment and media outlook – Internet and TV advertising: PwC
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Entertainment and media outlook – TV subscriptions: PwC

Entertainment and media outlook – TV subscriptions: PwC
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Entertainment and media outlook – filmed entertainment: PwC

Entertainment and media outlook – filmed entertainment: PwC
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StartupWeekend SWISS (swSwitzerland) on Twitter

StartupWeekend SWISS (swSwitzerland) on Twitter
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Twitter / TheMindBlowing: 1994 vs 2014: http://t.co/aDcIE47XpB

Twitter / TheMindBlowing: 1994 vs 2014: http://t.co/aDcIE47XpB
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Apple $450 Million E-Book Settlement Wins Court Approval | Re/code

Apple $450 Million E-Book Settlement Wins Court Approval | Re/code : The publishers are Lagardere SCA’s Hachette Book Group, News Corp.’s HarperCollins Publishers, Penguin Group (USA), CBS Corp.’s Simon & Schuster and Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH’s Macmillan. They previously agreed to pay $166 million to consumers.
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Total US Ad Spending to See Largest Increase Since 2004 - eMarketer

Total US Ad Spending to See Largest Increase Since 2004 - eMarketer : Strong, steady growth in mobile advertising will push digital ads to represent nearly 30% of all US ad spending this year. Advertisers will invest more than $50 billion in digital channels in 2014 for the first time, an increase of 17.7% over 2013. Just over one-third of that will come from mobile, but by 2018, mobile will account for more than 70% of digital ad spending.
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Tesla Beats the Street, Breaks Ground in Nevada | Re/code

Tesla Beats the Street, Breaks Ground in Nevada | Re/code : Tesla said�it will exceed�35,000 car deliveries this year, as it ramps up capacity at its Fremont, Calif., plant, reiterating earlier projections.�It�expects the annualized delivery�rate to top 100,000 by the end of 2015.
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