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Legislation to limit distracted driving will be up for debate in a Missouri Senate hearing in the coming weeks and you have a chance to help move the bill forward. …

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A staff member at a Missouri prison in Bonne Terre was stabbed today and flown to St. Louis for treatment. The incident marked the third stabbing in three days at the Eastern Reception and Diagnostic Correctional Center.…

GLEN CARBON – Dr. Julie Steinhauer, OD, FCOVD, owner of Vision For Life and Success in Glen Carbon, and one of a select group of functional vision doctors in the nation, says syntonics (the use of light therapy) should be utilized in any customized vision therapy program to help patients recover from the loss of eyesight due to a brain-related injury or other conditions impacting binocular vision. Syntonics utilizes eyewear, similar to 3D-looking glasses, with various colored lenses. The lenses can include one of 25 syntonic filters each playing a specific role for various functions such as first calming the brain after trauma, and/or retraining the eye and brain connection to regain as much visual field as possible Dr. Steinhauer says syntonics has proven to be highly effective for patients seeking to regain vision after a stroke and for those with binocular vision disorders such as convergence insufficiency, strabismus and amblyopia (lazy eye). “Syntonics can help balanc

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St. Louis may be in the midst of its annual winter doldrums, but the city's restaurant scene has been doing its darnedest to give us sparks of joy during these gray days. Thanks to Brandi Artis and her three business partners, we got a jolt of New Orleans-inspired flavor courtesy of their new concept, 4 Hens Creole Kitchen, which is the latest addition to the Food Hall at City Foundry.…

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Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan celebrates his 60th birthday today. Born David Rashbaum, Bryan is a co-founding member of Bon Jovi and also has co-written several of the New Jersey band's…

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Hamm took the "1" and a "9" scores on his card for Pietrangelo and awarded the former Blues blueliner 19 points, enough to give Pietrangelo the win.

Republicans met for hours Monday to come up with a compromise to redraw Missouri’s eight congressional districts. But the divide between GOP leadership and the conservative caucus in the Senate proved to be too much, sparking a filibuster by Republican senators determined to force through a map splitting Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s Kansas City […]

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One is in critical condition and the other suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

Have you struggled to find the right mentor during the Covid-19 pandemic? The St. Louis Business Journal is again putting together a Mentoring Monday event featuring some of the region's highest-achieving women leaders. You'll get the chance to virtually meet and mingle with 35 potential mentors at our annual event — taking place Feb. 28 — through casual group sessions lasting 10 minutes to 15 minutes each. Register for the event here. Mentoring Monday offers attendees the opportunity to…

The awards honor the "numerous contributions and achievements of women who work in or support the arts in St. Louis." A ceremony is set for April 25.

There has been some significant movement on two key Midtown projects in recent days. At the Armory District, a development spearheaded by...

Over a decade ago, we wrote about how Google had to edit out the Australian Aboriginal flag from a logo because of copyright concerns. An 11-year-old girl had won a contest to design a Google logo for Australia Day, and her logo included a simple drawing of the popular Aboriginal flag. Harold Thomas created a (fairly simple) flag design "as a symbol of unity and national identity" for the Aboriginal people in Australia. The flag became quite popular... and then Thomas basically became a copyright landlord, demanding payment for pretty much any usage.

In 2019, Thomas did a big licensing deal with a clothing company and proceeded to send out a bunch of cease-and-desist letters to others. It got so bad that the Australian Senate sought to have the government figure out a way to make sure the public could use the flag.

Apparently it took over two years, but the "deal" has been worked out -- and it involves the Australian government paying over $20 million to basically buy out the copyright and the former licensing deals, but that still doesn't mean the flag is truly in the public domain:

Mr Thomas will retain moral rights over the flag, but has agreed to give up copyright in return for all future royalties the Commonwealth receives from commercial flag sales to be put towards the ongoing work of NAIDOC.

A commercial company will keep its exclusive licence to be able to manufacture Aboriginal flags for commercial use, but the government said the company would not stop people from making their own flags for personal use.

So, given that he retains the moral rights, that suggests he will still have the power to stop anyone from using the flag in a way that he, personally, disapproves of. And the fact that there's still a license for commercial use, means that the government is still effectively enforcing the copyright.

So, in the end this was $20 million of taxpayer money... to basically pledge not to go after people for personal use.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the flag would be managed in a similar manner to the Australian national flag, where its use is free, but must be presented in a "respectful and dignified way".

"All Australians can now put the Aboriginal Flag on apparel such as sports jerseys and shirts, it can be painted on sports grounds, included on websites, in paintings and other artworks, used digitally and in any other medium without having to ask for permission or pay a fee," Mr Morrison said.

"We’ve freed the Aboriginal Flag for Australians."

With a whole bunch of caveats. If it's used in a manner that someone disapproves of, you better believe that it won't be seen as "free" for use. Hell, even the Google example from a decade ago probably wouldn't work, because I would bet the Australian government would argue that was a "commercial" use.

Mr Thomas said the flag's design was his dreaming story.

"The Flag represents the timeless history of our land and our people’s time on it. It is an introspection and appreciation of who we are," he said.

"It draws from the history of our ancestors, our land, and our identity and will honour these well into the future."

Seems just slightly ironic for a landlord who claimed ownership of a concept and then locked people out would call that a representative sample of "the timeless history of our land."