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Consistent with this notice, you are welcome to make ‘fair use’ of anything you find on my Cold Water Flat blog. However, if you wish to use material that is copyrighted by others that you find on this site for purposes of your own that go beyond ‘fair use’, you gotta obtain permission from the copyright owner, dude!
This notice is a modified version of the one that I proudly swiped from the Texas Moratorium Network (http://texasmoratorium.org/).


