The estate of screen legend Marlon Brando has reached a deal with Harley-Davidson Motor Company to resolve a lawsuit that alleged the motorcycle giant infringed the actor's publicity rights in selling a line of boots called "The Brando." The deal marks the second major settlement for Brando Enterprises in the past month in ongoing efforts to protect the late acting legend's name.
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Jack Kerouac's Letter To Marlon Brando: 'On The Road' Movie Plea
Video: Brando & Panthers at Bobby Hutton's Funeral
Brando & Panthers at Bobby Hutton's Funeral (Updated six months ago) KTVU News report by Carlton Cordell on April 17th 1968 featuring Marlon Brando, Bobby Seale and Kathleen Cleaver giving speeches by Lake Merritt in Oakland, following the funeral of Black Panther Bobby Hutton. A somber Brando declares to crowds: "It's up to the individual to do something to force the government to give the black man a decent place to live, a decent place to bring his children up in ... and I'm gonna start right now to inform white people about what they don't know. The Reverend said the white man can't cool it because he's never dug it. And I'm here to try to dig it because I myself as a white man have got a long way to go and a lot to learn."
Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson and Marlon Brando 'drove across the U.S. in a rental car after 9/11, eating KFC'
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Marlon Brando Estate Settles Lawsuit With Harley-Davidson Over 'Brando' Boots
Saturday, April 14, 2012
A New Microchip Knows Just Where You Are, Indoors and Out
According to Technology Review:
Broadcom has just rolled out a chip for smart phones that promises to indicate location ultra-precisely, possibly within a few centimeters, vertically and horizontally, indoors and out.
The unprecedented accuracy of the Broadcom 4752 chip results from the sheer breadth of sensors from which it can process information. It can receive signals from global navigation satellites, cell-phone towers, and Wi-Fi hot spots, and also input from gyroscopes, accelerometers, step counters, and altimeters.
The variety of location data available to mobile-device makers means that in our increasingly radio-frequency-dense world, location services will continue to become more refined.
In theory, the new chip can even determine what floor of a building you're on, thanks to its ability to integrate information from the atmospheric pressure sensor on many models of Android phones. The company calls abilities like this "ubiquitous navigation," and the idea is that it will enable a new kind of e-commerce predicated on the fact that shopkeepers will know the moment you walk by their front door, or when you are looking at a particular product, and can offer you coupons at that instant.
Gunter Grass Is Vilified by Israeli Authors for a Poem Harshly Critical of Israel
After the Nobel laureate published a poem suggesting that Israel might be plotting to destroy Iran, the state banned him for life. Several members of the country’s literary establishment also condemned the poem, but some also say that Israel overreacted.
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Günter Grass says Israel ban reminds him of East German Stasi
12m - Next Global Action 12 May 2012. We are the 99%....
The next global protest is happening on 12 May 2012. Join us in protesting the current crisis in the world, against the corruption of politicians, bankers, big corporations, demanding our basic rights as human beings!
http://international.democraciarealya.es/12m/
http://interoccupy.org/globalspring/BCN
http://occupytogether.org
http://takethesquare.net
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