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This is not cochineal, and lapis lazuli, and Indian lac, and alum, and linseed oil.

The human being who made this image is not chlorine, and carbon, and magnesium, and sulfur.

This is not 0′s and 1′s.

The copy of this art is not 0′s and 1′s.

The extraordinary human experience of art is not 0′s and 1′s.

Sarah Beach is today’s sponsor. Thank you so very much for your partonage!

I am grateful for every tip in the jar. Don’t be shy. Drop in a dollar. They add up.

Artists, arts administrators, lawyers, and students may purchase a 1-year All You Can Learn Pass which will grant them access to as many VLA classes as they would like to attend within one year of purchase.

Once you purchase a 1-year Pass, you need only submit a registration form for the class you would like to attend, stating you are a All You Can Learn Pass holder and that’s it. You’re all set. Take as many classes as you’d like and as many times as you’d like. It’s that simple.

Learn about copyright, trademarks, contracts, licensing, for-profits, non-profits, and how they relate to music, film, fashion, art, dance, theater, and writing. All you can learn for one year!

**Excludes VLA’s Annual Career Panel; Mediation and Negotiation Training; Mark Litwak’s Self-Defense and Risky Business Film classes; or Legal & Business Bootcamp. Pass holders will enjoy discounts to these four events.

1-Year All You Can Learn Pass Fees:

Students: $49
Artists/Arts Administrators: $99
Attorneys: $199 (includes CLE classes)

For more information on this program, please contact VLA’s Kathleen Mallaney at 212.319.2787 x 12 .

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Since 1969, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts has been the leading provider of pro bono legal services, mediation services, educational programs and publications, and advocacy to the arts community in New York. The first arts-related legal aid organization, VLA is the model for similar organizations around the world. For more information about Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, please see www.vlany.org.

If you are interested in picking up a copy of this fine tome, try to get the first printing. Far better quality paper.

JK Rowling donates 10 million pounds to new multiple sclerosis research center.

The world-famous children’s writer made the generous donation in memory of her mother Anne, who suffered from the degenerative condition and died in 1990 at the age of 45.

Can the iPad Save Spider-Man?

Single issues regularly topped a million in sales during the Depression; last year, the top 300 comics sold in the United States combined added up to less than 75 million copies. Hard-core collectors may still flock to dedicated comic shops, but even the comic-book movie craze hasn’t drawn mainstream fans to the oft-impenetrably serialized monthlies. And while more sophisticated, complex graphic novels have charged into bookstores, it still can’t compare to the widespread accessibility comics enjoyed during their old newsstand days.

Does Peter Parker Have a Moral Responsibility to be Spider-Man?

If we were consequentialists and thought that the rightness and wrongness of actions depends entirely on the good or bad outcomes produced, we would believe that Peter is morally obligated to be Spider-Man, at least on the assumption that being a superhero produces more overall good than being a good scientist, boyfriend, etc. As appealing as consequentialism might seem at first blush, it’s riddled with problems.

Jane Austen had punctuation issues.

“Austen hardly punctuates at all, so what you get is a much more urgent form of language, which becomes more restrained when it is edited,” he said.

“There tends to be an awful lot of clauses and sub-clauses. There is the odd comma, but they aren’t always in the most rational places. There are no paragraphs.”

I used to get a ten-point deduction for every comma splice.

Jane Austen and her homies fight it out.