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The U.S. Department of Justice has come out against the proposed
agreement to settle copyright lawsuits that authors and major
publishers filed against Google over the search company's book search
"This Court should reject the Proposed Settlement in its current
form and encourage the parties to continue negotiations," reads a
filing the DOJ submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Southern
District of New York late on Friday.
The proposed settlement must be modified by Google and the
plaintiffs so that it complies with U.S. copyright and antitrust laws,
the DOJ said in its filing, a 32-page Statement of Interest.
The DOJ's opinion is likely to be seen a major blow against Google,
which has been in court over this matter for about four years and is
eager to get the case settled.
The DOJ had until Friday to submit a written report to the court on
the findings of a formal investigation over whether the proposed
agreement violated U.S. laws.
Rumors that the DOJ had started reviewing the proposed agreement
surfaced in April. The DOJ confirmed that it was conducting a formal
investigation in July.
Those following the case have been widely anticipating the result of
the DOJ's probe of the proposed agreement, which has been loudly
praised and criticized since it was announced in October of last year.
Book authors and the Authors Guild filed a class action lawsuit,
while five large publishers filed a separate lawsuit as representatives
of the Association of American Publishers' membership.
The lawsuits were brought after Google launched a program to scan
and index sometimes entire collections from the libraries of major
universities without always getting permission from the copyright
owners of the books.
Google made the text of the books searchable on its book search
engine, claiming it's protected by the fair use principle because it
only showed snippets of text for in-copyright books it had scanned
without permission.
However, after two years of negotiations, Google and the plaintiffs reached middle ground, hammering out a wide-ranging settlement agreement
that calls for Google to pay US$125 million and in exchange gives the
search company rights to display meatier chunks of these in-copyright
books, not just snippets.
In addition, Google would make it possible for people to buy online
access to these books. The agreement would also allow institutions to
buy subscriptions to books and make them available to their
A royalty system would also be set up to compensate authors and
publishers for access to their works via the creation of the Book
Rights Registry. This would be an independent, nonprofit entity
entrusted with distributing payments to copyright holders earned
through online access to their works. Revenue will come from
institutional subscriptions, book sales and ad-revenue sharing.
The Registry, whose board of directors would be made up of an equal
number of author and publisher representatives, would also locate and
register copyright owners, who in turn have the option to request to be
included in or excluded from the project.
A big portion of Google's $125 million payment would go towards
funding the Registry, while the rest would be used to settle existing
claims by authors and publishers and to cover legal fees.
Google, the Authors Guild and the AAP maintain that the proposed
settlement will be beneficial to authors, publishers and readers by
making it easier to find, distribute and purchase books, especially
those that are out of print.
However, critics have raised several objections, including what they
perceive as excessive control by Google over prices and over so-called
"orphan works." The latter are books that are under copyright but whose
owners can't be found because the author has died or the publishing
house disappeared.
The court where the case is being heard allowed hundreds of backers
and critics of the proposed agreement to submit opinions for several
months. That comment period closed earlier this month.
Consumer Watchdog, a
consumer protection organization that earlier this year urged the DOJ
to get involved, filed a 30-page document opposing the agreement,
saying it will "strip rights from millions of absent class members,
worldwide, in violation of national and international copyright law,
for the sole benefit of Google."
There should be a competitive book-search market, while the U.S.
Congress must solve the orphan works problem, according to the group.
"The parties simply cannot justify this 'solution' which does not
adequately protect the Rightsholders and unfairly benefits a single
party," reads the Consumer Watchdog statement.
Meanwhile, the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) came out in
favor of the deal, saying the new book search services will be
"extraordinarily valuable, and will make available to the public a vast
amount of knowledge and information that is largely inaccessible
today." The CDT tempered its endorsement by stating that the new
services create "serious privacy concerns" and that the court should
take "affirmative action" during the settlement process to make sure
reader privacy is protected.
On Oct. 7, Judge Denny Chin will preside over a hearing where Google
and the plaintiffs will have a chance to offer oral arguments in favor
of approving the agreement. Those opposed will also have a chance to
voice their opinions.


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- french chateau next to Dalian American International School
As I sit here trying to get caught up from the past three weeks I hear the
fireworks. It is 6.30 AM Sunday. This is China – fireworks and more fireworks.
They love their fireworks. Anytime of the day or night there will suddenly be a
barrage of them. Whether here in the countryside, or in downtown Kai Fa Qu or
along Golden Pebble Beach, downtown Dalian, or where we shop locally in Jinshitan
(which is also Pebble Beach – go figure) there will be smoke and ashes and
noise of the fireworks.
The water to Pebble Beach (Dalian Golden Pebble Beach National Resort is the
first National Resort approved by the State Council of P.R China, the main
function of which is for hosting foreign guests) was turned off for a couple of
days. We filled our bath tub and every bucket we could find but since it was
Friday we decided to go into Dalian City (about an hour away) for the weekend
when school let out. Two other couples went with us. We took a car in (our driver
we call Jack, not that we know who Jack actually is, we just all have Jack's phone number on our phone and we ring Jack wherever we are and a car soon arrives and we are taken where we want to go. It is often a different driver each time. We just go up to the car
and say Jack? and they nod and off we go. We try not to look out the window when in a car. It is the scariest thing you could imagine. Where there are three lanes marked, 'Jack', or the shopping bus, or whatever we are in, often makes a fourth lane. Drivers rarely signal and everyone goes really fast, beeping horns and coming so close to constant disaster. I had to go into Dalian for some medial stuff last week and my driver was easily doing close to a hundred coming back – it was a van. We came to a blocked area of the freeway so instead of patiently (there is no patience in our neck of the woods) he made a sudden turn off the freeway up a dirt construction road around a hill and got
back on the freeway further up where there was no traffic jam. It was absolutely terrifying. Oh, and he was on his cell phone most of the time. I suppose he felt he had to have me back at school as quick as possible so I won't miss any work. And of course there are no seat belts.
So this past Friday, with no water into our building or the whole area we went
into downtown Dalian. Outside of too many dealings with government officials to
get my working visa finally through we had not been in Dalian, except for one
night we had a school trip to Brooklyn, the expat pub and pizza diner in downtown Dalian. Once our driver fought his way through the heavy traffic going into the city (we went in two cars for eight of us, four couples, and six of us ended up at the same hotel) and dumped our bag in our rooms we went out in search of a meal. Our Chinese lessons begin next week so for now we depend on our electronic translator. We went into a restaurant that covered several stories. When we made enough gestures to prove without any doubt that we were starving we were sent up to about the fifth or sixth floor. After being herded
into a small room the food started coming out and we cooked it in boiling somethings on our table. I have a video (and photos) that I will post soon on my Dalian Page http://dalian.neuage.us/ that shows what would be too difficult to explain. Needless to say the food was really good and we had some of the best laughter up to that time.
So after dinner everyone seemed to be in the mood for a drink (it is difficult to
keep people over 55 from partying) and we went off into the night. Near our
hotel was a 30+ story hotel with a name very similar to ours (so we initially thought
we had booked into the wrong place) and we were riding up and down the elevator
looking for a pub type of area and on the fourth floor saw a sign that seemed
to mean a place to have a drink. We barged into a room that had a bar and lots
of alcoholic bottles on the shelf only to instantly be met by about a dozen
women with tight red dresses. Realizing that we must be in the wrong area we
looked into another room with the same response. (I have a video of this too
but I think we were laughing so hard – damn rude Westerners, that it may be a
bit shaky – it will soon be on my Dalian page in the video section). The third
room seemed better as no women in red tight dresses greeted us. We sat down at
a long table on comfy sofas and hoped that someone would soon be in with the
drinks menu. Instead two people came in and started handing out microphones and
put on the large TV screen, we realized then that this was actually a karaoke
bar/room and Shawn, one of our traveling mates/teachers/new found friend, said
that we had a friend downstairs waiting for us and off we went into the night
again. We never did find a place to drink. Like pirated DVDs prostitution is illegal in
China and like pirated DVD's they are everywhere. We saw girls with flashing
neon badges dressed to the nines and signs that read 'sex' with large arrows.
The next day, Saturdaywe headed to Zhonshan Square and had lots of fun shopping, hopped on a falling apart bus because we were so tired to go to the Ike store outside of downtown Dalian. We showed the driver an Ike shopping bag and he held up three fingers
so we paid the three yuan (47 cents USD, 45 cents Australian) and as all drivers he made his own lane which in our case was the opposition direction lane. Somehow he squeezed back into the lane that was our direction as cars came racing toward us and next we knew there was Ikea. I wanted to go see the aircraft carrier that China is building which is only a few blocks in back of Ikea but with all the bags of stuff we had purchased and five tired old
people trailing behind me it was not going to happen. We ended up just buying lots of Swedish food because we need a change from Chinese food and then Narda and I went to the Decathlon sports store next to Ikea and bought really good bikes and helmets an locks and etc. which will be delivered in a couple of days. Hopefully we won't get killed ridin our bikes on these incredibly dangerous road ways. We plan on doing lots of riding. Then we took the light rail, so crowded that we barely got in – New York City subway you hold nothing on a crowded Chinese tram.
The shopping bus leaves Campus Village (where we live) on Tuesday and
Thursday evenings and Saturday morning. It stops in Kai Fa Qu on the way into Dalian. We use to go in during the week but after a day at work we just go in on Saturday to Kai Fa Qu. Two weeks ago we walked the hour hike to the light rail that starts in Jinshitan
(there is a planned station for our school but it may be another year or two before it happens) and took the 4 yuan half hour ride and fortunately got a seat in and after buying way too much stuff we took the shopping bus in the afternoon back home. Home is great. It is like living at a four star (five star for China) resort/hotel. We are sparsely furnished but it is OK– our heap of junk we shipped from NYC won't be here until October. We have a two bedroom apartment with a balcony (there is or will be a video in our video area of my Dalian site) for some photos see http://dalian.neuage.us/photos/Aug%2012%202011/
(sorry about the URL will fix it sometime). We have a gym on the first floor,
it is not the New York Sports Club which I took a liking to for the past five years but there are some machines and heaps of free weights so I get to stretch and groan every day. Then there are the guards. Not sure why. It is safer here than most places we have lived. The whole property, Campus Village and the school have a large fence all around and there are guards at every entrance and every building. Twenty-four hours a day. They are not the doorman they are guards usually dressed in army uniforms. Whether they are protecting us or being sure we do not suddenly move out I am not sure but they are friendly and we have learned to say ni hao (hello) but I said hee haw for the first couple of weeks – probably means something not nice.
Narda and I found a small shopping area twenty minutes walking away. It is so local, and so cheap. We both got haircuts for 15 yuan – about $2.50 both haircuts look quite Asian.
School so far is great. After teaching at the NYC Charter school, Ross Global Academy (the Courtney Sale Ross, widow of Steve Ross, the former C.E.O. of Time Warner, experiment in education which was closed down by the city of NYC for its momentous failure) this is such a contrast. The kids are behaved, want to learn and we are having a great time. I make big mistakes such as asking if anyone could speak Korean as my student was not following me at all only to be told by a Korean student that 'he is Chinese'. And names? Forget it. Most of the Asians have taken on names like Tony and Oscar. Our life-saving secretaries, Snow and Sunshine keep things rolling. I still have not had time to set up a VPN so I can get on Twitter and Facebook and post my new lots of video on youtube but I have an eighth grade student who has found a Japanese VPN that he is setting up on my
machine. I have several students whose parents work for Intel nearby. Campus Village not only houses the teachers for DAIS but for the big overseas companies that are moving into this area which is kind of a Silicon Valley of China. They live in townhouses and we live in apartments so there is a difference but we are not complaining. Narda likes having a maid and getting our house cleaned and clothes washed and ironed but I am not sure – though it is cheap, it seems a bit unnatural to me.
The building around our area makes me dizzy but in the midst of it all, across the road,
five minutes away, is the Blueberry Farm. A very large area with a pub, tea rooms, lake, streams and a great restaurant. Nine of us trekked up to the restaurant a couple of Fridays ago. Nothing was in English, fair enough, this is China. I managed to get across I was a vegetarian and the first eight or nine dishes that came out were so amazing, some of the best food I have ever have had. There was so much food, and beer, and soda and at the en it came out to about eight dollars USD each. I have a couple of photos http://dalian.neuage.us/photos/BlueberryFarmDAIS/
and will put a video soonish in the video area of my Dalian page.
We rarely watch the news. There is just too much going on here. We get about 35 channels, mostly Chinese but we do get HBO, BBC, CNN and an Australian channel so I have gathered some of the males over to watch Aussie Rules Footy. It looks pretty grim in the States. I know we have lost about 15% on investments in less than a month and we have no intentions of selling houses.
We are becoming quite removed from the rest of the world and we are happy with
that. We have a two year contract which we may or may not renew or maybe they won't want us. It does not matter now. We feel like we are on a holiday and life is just great. We have begun planning our trip to Hanoi for our October week break. Everyone here, being from the States, or in our case, Australia-States, the talk of travel is the number one conversation (after the academics of course – hey we are working) and where everyone is going is compared and shared. We are off to Australia for Christmas than to the ice festival in Harbin in January and maybe India for spring break then the States for a couple of weeks for summer than on to Australia then back here. I am so happy I managed to stay alive this long. There were some very rough years and for now life is great.
Well Narda is off with some 'girls' to get a foot massage in Jinshitan. They have rung 'Jack'
and several cars are on the way to collect them. Me? I am finally having a bit of time to myself, think I will work on so many dozens of videos I have started and perhaps do some lesson planning for next week and edit some photos, go to the gym, take a walk, take a nap – it has been such a full-on three weeks, make tofu burgers for din din and try to figure out how to use my soy milk maker that Narda bought for my 64th birthday eleven days ago.
Next weekend we have been invited to a Chinese wedding so that will be fun. Apparently
it is a good thing to invite or have westerners at a Chinese wedding and these are big events here.
Narda has a great blog – well she has posted some and more is waiting to
be posted after her foot massage today. blog.narda.us


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A shiny kitchen, then down a dingy hallway
To a wide pantry. There's no plaque,
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It is hard to make public transport interesting, but Miami-Dade Transit in Florida is certainly giving it a go!
Their Metromover automated people mover is the most successful downtown people mover in the United States, and it is free!
Their Metrorail and some of their Metrobus services have on-board wifi (based on cellular service), and it is free.
They have smartphone Transit Tracker apps for iOS and Android devices allowing passengers to get realtime information on arrival times, station information and trip planning.
And they plan to make more improvements still. One of the ideas I particularly liked is outlined by Carmen Suarez, an Enterprise Architect with Miami-Dade Enterprise Technology Services Department at 01:30 in the video above.
The idea is to send push notifications to the smartphones of people who have the Transit Tracker app on their phone. The notifications would advise people of special offers/discounts from local businesses near their destination. It sounds simple enough, but as Carmen points out in the video it gives people yet another reason to use public transport, it helps reduce traffic congestion, and it promotes economic development in those areas. Win, win, win.
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Educational Attainment: Educational profile of Australians
Level of attainment In 1996, the most common types of qualifications held by men were skilled vocational certificates (19%), bachelor or higher degrees (11%) and, to a lesser extent, associate or undergraduate diplomas (5%). Among women, on the other hand, while similar proportions had a bachelor degree or higher (10%), and slightly higher proportions had an associate or undergraduate diploma (7%), relatively few had a skilled vocational qualification (3%). Women were more likely than men to have a basic vocational qualification (4% and 2%, respectively). Those aged between 25 and 44 years in 1996 were the most highly qualified - many of those in younger age groups were still students, and many of those in older age groups had had fewer opportunities to obtain a post-school qualification. Among those aged 25-44, older men (those aged 35-44) were more likely to have a post-school qualification than those aged 25-34 (58% and 55% respectively). For women, however, the younger of the two age groups were more likely to have a post-school qualification. The difference by age is more pronounced among men and women holding a degree or higher qualification, to the extent that a higher proportion of women aged 25-34 had a degree or higher qualification than men. The level of attainment of those aged 15-24 compared to those in older age groups indicates further change. In the 15-24 years age group, a slightly higher proportion of women than men had attained a post-school qualification, and women were more likely to hold a bachelor or higher degree (7% compared to 4%). PROPORTIONS WITH A POST-SCHOOL QUALIFICATION, 1996
Source: Unpublished data, 1996 Census of Population and Housing.
Field of study Australia has a diverse economy and a well-developed system of tertiary level educational institutions allowing qualifications to be obtained in a broad range of fields. Some fields of study are associated with courses conducted at particular levels of study, and this is reflected in the types of qualifications attained by men and women. For example, in 1996, people who held qualifications in the broad field of architecture and building usually held them at the skilled vocational level (84% of those who stated their level). On the other hand, people qualified in natural and physical sciences mostly did so at the bachelor degree level or higher (72%). Other fields of study were more evenly distributed. For example, people were about as likely to hold a qualification in business and administration at the associate or undergraduate diploma level (31%) as at the basic vocational level (28%) or at the bachelor degree level or higher (36%). Among people with bachelor degrees or higher, the most commonly held qualifications were in the fields of society and culture (357,800 people), education (278,500), business and administration (227,000) and health (213,600). Aside from the field of business and administration, there were more women than men with higher educational qualifications in these fields (particularly in the fields of education and health, where 70% and 66%, respectively, of all those with degrees were women). Among the 846,500 people whose highest qualification was an associate or undergraduate diploma, the three most common fields of study, all dominated by women, were business and administration (194,700 people), health (176,200) and education (155,400). The two major fields of study among people, mostly men, with skilled vocational qualifications, were engineering (835,600 people, 96% of whom were men) and architecture and building (291,800, 99% of whom were men). These two fields alone, while covering a diverse range of specialised skills, accounted for 76% of all people with a skilled vocational qualification. Among the 398,700 people whose highest qualification was from a course designed to provide a basic vocational skill, almost two thirds (65%) were women, most of whom had completed courses in the fields of business and administration, and health. Within the broad field of business and administration (142,300 women and 34,800 men), women were more likely than men to have a qualification concerned with providing management support services (73% compared with 9% for men), particularly keyboarding and shorthand (56%, compared with 3%). Men, on the other hand, were more likely to have a basic qualification in management (38%, compared with 4% for women), sales and marketing (24%, compared with 8%) or financial services (15%, compared with 3%). PEOPLE WITH POST-SCHOOL QUALIFICATIONS, BY TYPE OF QUALIFICATION(a), 1996
(b) Includes those whose field of study was not stated or inadequately described. Source: Unpublished data, 1996 Census of Population and Housing. State and Territory differences The educational attainment profile of people differs according to the geographical region in which they live.2 The extent to which people in the towns and cities of each State and Territory have access to institutions offering certain qualifications may be part of the reason. However, as particular industries need and attract people with specialised skills, differences in the regional mix of industries are likely to be important in determining whether high proportions of people in any one region have certain types of qualifications. The populations of the States and Territories also have different age profiles, affecting the proportions of people with a post-school qualification. In 1996, the proportion of people aged 15 years and over with a post-school qualification was highest in the Australian Capital Territory (51%). The proportions in New South Wales, Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Victoria ranged between 42% to 44% while those in Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania ranged between 38% and 39%. The comparatively small, mostly urban population of the Australian Capital Territory, which has a high proportion of people working in the government and education sectors, had the highest proportion of people with a bachelor degree or higher (23%) and with an associate or undergraduate diploma (7%). The proportion with a bachelor degree or higher was generally more than twice the proportion in each of the other States and Territories. People with a degree in society and culture (which includes arts, humanities, social and behavioural sciences and law) were highly represented (8%), as were those with a degree in the natural and physical sciences (4%). Among the other States and the Northern Territory, the proportions of people with degrees, diplomas and skilled vocational qualifications were not greatly dissimilar. The proportions of their populations with qualifications in the most popular fields of study were also much the same. In the field of business and administration, Tasmania had a lower representation of people with degrees and diplomas, 1.6%, which in the other populations ranged from 2.2% in South Australia and the Northern Territory to 3.5% in New South Wales. However, this was among the larger of the differences. PROPORTION OF PEOPLE AGED 15 YEARS AND OVER WITH THE MOST COMMON TYPES OF QUALIFICATIONS(a), BY STATE AND TERRITORY, 1996
(b) As a proportion of all persons. Includes those whose field of study was not stated or inadequately described. (c) Includes those for whom both level of qualification and field of study was not stated or inadequately described. Source: Unpublished data, 1996 Census of Population and Housing. Endnotes 1 Australian Bureau of Statistics 1998, Social Indicators 5, Australia (see p.127), cat. no. 4101.0, ABS, Canberra. 2 Australian Bureau of Statistics 1998, Australia in Profile: A Regional Analysis, Census 1996, cat. no. 2032.0, ABS, Canberra.


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Hello! I have another CAS card!
Oh this is so cute! It didn't come out right in the picture but it is CA-YOOT! I have used Pie Lane self adhesive holographic gems here as leaves, in my previous cards I used them as butterfly's body. These gems are BEE-UTIFUL!!! They sparkle and give out the most amazing colours! They kinda look like Swarovski crystals.
Here is a close up:
Absolutely stunning lil things! LOVE THESE!
The flowers are punched. The ribbons and pearls are from my stash.
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Originally published by the New York Daily News by Dan Friedman on 8/10/14
Committees representing 9/11 survivors and first responders are demanding the museum rewrite three of the panels in the 'After 9/11' exhibit because they say they contain inaccurate information about the connection between exposure to toxic dust and widespread health issues.
WASHINGTON — The government has recognized that first responders became ill from working near Ground Zero — but the 9/11 Museum isn't so sure.
Responders and surviving family members are furious that panels at the museum's "After 9/11" exhibit present the connection between the toxic dust around Ground Zero and the subsequent health issues of many workers as uncertain.
It's the latest in a long list of complaints about the museum's management and mission by victims' families and responders, who point out that the 2011 James Zadroga Act, which helped cover victims' health needs, settled the issue.
"It is inexcusable that the museum would project skepticism about the link between health impacts and WTC exposures, despite overwhelming medical evidence," write the chairs of two committees created to help beneficiaries of the Zadroga Act in letter sent to museum head Joseph Daniels on Friday.
Museum spokesman Michael Frazier said the letter was under review. "Among our visitors have been tens of thousands of 9/11 rescuers and recovery workers. Anyone who has come to the museum knows their story and what they have endured is of great importance to us," he said.
Kimberly Flynn and James Melius, who respectively chair committees of 9/11 survivors and responders, demand the museum rewrite what they say are three inaccurate panels before the upcoming 13th anniversary of the attack.
Flynn, whose committee includes downtown residents affected by the attack, said a group of survivors who toured the museum were jarred out of quiet contemplation into outrage by the exhibit.
"It looked like it had been vetted by Christie Todd Whitman's attorneys," she said, referring to the Environmental Protection Administration administrator who declared the air safe after the tragedy.
One panel says the Zadroga Act ensures medical treatment and compensation "for those with health conditions claimed to be related to the World Trade Center Disaster."
"The word 'claimed' implies doubt on causation and contradicts the well-established fact that severe widespread health impacts have resulted from exposures to 9/11 smoke and dust," Flynn and Melius write. They note federal programs are offering care to 67,000 people, including 2,800 cancer victims, whose illnesses are certified as tied to the attacks.
Another panel notes federal and city officials "were criticized for allegedly not providing timely and accurate information about air quality in Lower Manhattan."
The EPA's Inspector General was among those who concluded government officials misled New Yorkers about air quality.
A third panel cites findings that dust from building materials, industrial chemicals, electronics and jet fuel residue was "hazardous."
Use of quotation marks around the word unnecessarily questions the established danger of the air, Melius and Flynn say.
The sick "have to read on a museum wall that they only claim they are sick from breathing 9/11 toxins," Flynn said. "That is just completely unacceptable. It's an insult. It's a lie. And the museum has to fix it now."


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First and foremost, a million thanks to the amazing Lyn Midnight for presenting me with The Versatile Blogger Award yesterday. YAY! I feel like I just won an Oscar. I'd like to thank the Academy…
Kidding! On a more serious note, I'll be passing it along myself later in the week to three fantastic bloggers. So more on that later!
Now on to the main attraction.
Many of those who've never written a novel like to think that those who have must have all day to just sit around and write. "How nice," they think. "I wish I had the time to sit down and write a book."
Truth is, we don't have any more time than anyone else. As much as we'd like it, writers aren't gifted with the ability to cram more hours into the day (though if anyone figures that one out, totally let me know).
This is no secret to us writers. Finding the time to get words on paper isn't an easy task. If you're a student, it means writing before (and sometimes during) class. If you're working full-time, it means getting up early to get some words in that WIP, or staying up late in the night to finish that chapter. When your friends are going out for the weekend, sometimes it means staying home to edit yesterday's writing.
Fact of the matter is, we all have lives. We have friends and family and work and school and a million other responsibilities that compete with the time we have for writing. Some days it's impossible to get anything in, and that's ok.
The best writing advice I ever read was simple: make a writing quota and stick to it.
For me, it's writing 1,500 words a day or 10,500 words a week. If I miss a day, which happens, it's fine because I know I can make it up another day. As long as I make 10,500 words a week, I'm happy. And if I don't? That's ok too; I can make it up the next week.
The daily/weekly writing quota has helped me finish many a manuscript. It keeps me honest, and it saves me from the guilt of wondering whether or not I wrote enough that day.
Even more recently however, I discovered something that changed the way I approach writing completely. There used to be a time when I'd sit down and write until I met my quota. This was painful. Some days it'd be easy and I'd be done in no time. Other times I'd sit at the computer for hours, checking every five minutes to see how many words I'd written. This led to screaming in frustration when after an hour I only wrote 500 words (or on really rough days, even less *shudder*).
It turns out, you DON'T have to write it all at once. Whoa.
Let me say that again: you DON'T have to write your quota all in one sitting.
My new method was stemmed from a little beauteous Twitter hashtag known as #wordmongering. I intend to write a full post on this later (because it's just THAT amazing), but it's basically a thread where writers get together at the beginning of every hour and write for a half hour, then compare word counts. We cheer each other on and there's virtual confetti.
Ok, a LOT of virtual confetti. Like an ocean of virtual multicolored strips of paper. Though that may be partially (read: completely) my fault.
Anyway, its effectiveness blew me away. Writing in spurts, it turns out, is much less stressful than trying to get it done at once. With just a few half-hour rounds a day, I've been able to get my word goal down without a problem.
So. If you haven't assigned yourself a word count, I challenge you to do it. Try it for a week. It could be a 100 words a day or 5,000 words a week or 15,000 words a week. Whatever it is, stick to your guns and get it done.
You just might be surprised by how rewarding it is.
So let's see it! What are YOUR word count goals this week?


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Legislation to Crack Down on Employee Misclassification in the Construction Industry Approved by New York State Senate and Assembly
George Onorato
July 1, 2010
- Labor
- Labor
State Senator George Onorato
Chairman, New York State Senate
Standing Committee on Labor
FOR RELEASE: June 30, 2010
CONTACT: Janet K. Kash (518)455-3486 email@example.com
Measure Seeks to Stop Employer Practice that Drives Tens of Millions
of Tax Dollars into New York's Underground Economy Each Year;
Next Stop is Governor's Desk for Approval
State Senator George Onorato (D-Queens), the chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Labor, today announced that the State Senate and Assembly have given final approval to his legislation (S.5847-F/A.8237-D) that cracks down on the practice of employee misclassification in the construction industry and will help to prevent the siphoning off of tens of millions of dollars in state tax revenue each year into New York's underground economy.
"It is very clear that action must be taken to stop unscrupulous employers from misclassifying workers as independent contractors – a practice that costs the State at least $90 million a year, and that hurts both workers and honest employers," said Senator Onorato. "With the Senate and Assembly passage of this legislation, and with the Governor expected to sign it into law, we are just one pen stroke away from bringing an end to this unfortunate practice. Particularly in light of these tough economic times, we cannot continue to turn a blind eye to employer behavior that robs our state of badly needed revenues." When fully implemented, the legislation is expected to provide the State with up to $92.3 million a year in savings from lost unemployment taxes and workers' compensation assessments.
The legislation approved by the Senate and Assembly would enact the "New York State Construction Industry Fair Play Act." Under this measure, all construction industry workers would be presumed to be employees unless they meet three specific criteria that would lead to their classification as independent contractors. This "ABC test" is used in several states throughout the country where employee misclassification has also diverted millions of dollars into their underground economies. The bill would also provide workers with notice of their classification status, protect them from retaliation for reporting violations, and impose penalties against employers and corporate officers who knowingly allow violations to occur.
In addition to Senator Onorato, the legislation is co-sponsored by Senator Brian X. Foley, who is a prime co-sponsor, and Senators Joseph Addabbo, Neil D. Breslin, Liz Krueger, William Larkin, Diane J. Savino, Eric Schneiderman, and William T. Stachowski.
"There is no question that employee misclassification is a serious and pervasive problem that has broad economic and human ramifications," said Senator Onorato, noting that the practice is particularly common in the construction industry. "Employers who knowingly misclassify workers deprive their employees of basic labor protections, including access to unemployment insurance and workers' compensation. Misclassification also hurts honest employers who lose work to companies whose low bids are directly tied to employee misclassification fraud. And this practice ultimately hurts all of New York's taxpayers in terms of millions of dollars in lost state revenue."
"We must do all we can to put an end to unfair labor practices that hurt our workers and our state as a whole," said Senator Brian X. Foley (D - Blue Point). "Creating a clear and concrete litmus test for determining under what circumstances a construction worker is an independent contractor rather than an employee will make it easier to find and address those situations in which the employee has been misclassified by the employer in an effort to avoid having to provide adequate protections. It will also provide access to proper benefits, such as unemployment insurance and workers' compensation, to hundreds of construction workers who presently cannot access those benefits due to being misclassified as independent contractors. Correcting this issue will protect hardworking New Yorkers, as well as bring additional revenue to the state, both of which are important in these trying economic times."
Senator Onorato also pointed out that a 2009 report by the New York State Joint Enforcement Task Force on Employee Misclassification found 12,300 instances of employee misclassification throughout the state, and more than $157 million in unreported wages. These violations, at the time, led to the recovery of $4.8 million in unpaid unemployment taxes, more than $1 million in unemployment insurance fraud penalties, more than $12 million in unpaid wages, and more than $1.1 million in workers' compensation fines and penalties. Most of the violations, statewide, were found in the construction industry.
In conclusion, Senator Onorato said, "The issue of employee misclassification needs to be addressed before the problem gets even worse, and now it appears that it will be. If we were not to take action, it would be tantamount to condoning tax evasion, encouraging dishonest employers to misclassify even more workers, and looking the other way while workers are being hurt and our state is being cheated of millions of dollars in needed revenue."
The legislation now goes to Governor David A. Paterson for his signature. The bill, approved by the Senate on June 25 and by the Assembly on June 29, is expected to win his approval.
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3 Glorious Results of Being Free in Christ
There is lasting freedom—infinitely valuable soul-freedom—for those who are in Jesus Christ.
And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. (Col 2:13-14)
The apostle's goal in these verses was to cement each believer's feet in the reality of his or her union with Christ so that they would no longer be led astray by the false teachings that threatened them. We now are instructed by his words as he reminds us of the spiritual bondage from which we have been delivered. "And you, who were (past tense) dead in your trespasses" takes us back into our memory bank. He wants us to remember the state of spiritual death and bondage in which we once were held (as he did in Eph 2:1-3).
Sin is the realm in which we lived prior to our conversion. We could not help but sin in the sense that we were willingly, and willfully, in bondage to our rebellion. Our wills were not fully free. Instead we were spiritual corpses, unable to respond to God apart from His rescuing grace (Eph 2:4-5). When God saw our hopeless condition He took the initiative to make us alive together with Christ. Man cannot be the initiator in salvation because he is dead. As believers we rejoice that even though we were dead in our sins, God made us alive "together with Him." Spiritual life is only found in union with Christ. It is because He died and rose again that we are made alive when we come to Him in repentant faith, which results in the reality of three kinds of freedom.
We are free from the guilt of our sin. "Forgiven" comes from the same word-family from which we get our word grace. Forgiveness is based on God's grace, not our merit. It is not based on anything we have done, or can do, for God. It is by His grace alone that we are saved. To be forgiven is to be released from a debt. How many of our sins have been forgiven? All of them—if we are in Christ. If you have not been born again in Christ, then none of your sins have been forgiven. All of them are still being held against you, by God. But there is Good News! If you repent and turn to Jesus Christ then all your sins will be forgiven.
We all dream of someday being financially-free, but spiritual debt-free living is already a reality for those who are united to Christ. God will not require any believer to pay Him back for any sin (Ps 103:8-12). The reason God does not deal with us according to our sins is because He has already dealt with Christ according to our sins. He has already punished His Son. God, in Christ, released us from sin's guilt. Our union with Christ, therefore, renders it impossible for God to hold any of our sins against us. It is quite true that God often lets us reap the consequences of our sin, but that is discipline that trains, not punishment that alienates. Our Savior's nail-driven hands are proof that payment has been made in full.
We are free from the enslaving power of the Law. God also canceled "the record of debt." He has effectively wiped out the memory of an experience, annulled a law, and cancelled a written acknowledgement of debt. This debt consisted of "legal demands," binding laws that "stood against us." Paul surely has in mind two forms of law.
— The Law of Moses – Jesus said, "Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill" (Matt. 5:17). Jesus perfectly fulfilled God's law and by doing so broke down the barrier between God and man and removed the wall between believing Jews and Gentiles (Eph. 2:14-15). Jesus's perfect obedience to the Law made the offering of His life and death acceptable to God. Therefore, by fulfilling the Law and meeting its requirement of death, Jesus put to death the hostility between God's law and us. It perished with Him (Rom 10:4). By virtue of our union with Him, God no longer sees us as law-breakers, but as adopted children.
— The Law of Conscience – The Jews were given the Law of Moses, but all men have a law that condemns them. It is the internal law of the conscience (Rom. 2:14-15). Whether Jew or Gentile, man has broken God's law—His written Law and the law He wrote on all human hearts by means of the conscience. As a result that law also stands against us. The conscience accuses us when sin lurks within us that has not been dealt with biblically. But when our conscience has been cleansed by the blood of Jesus then it defends us. It reminds us that God is no longer angry at us and instead receives us as His children. So, apart from Christ there is no way to be free from the accusing power of our conscience. But union with Christ by faith sets us free (Heb 10:21-22).
We are free from condemnation. – He has taken the record of our sin-debt out of the way, having nailed it to the cross—through the flesh of His Son. Now we are free! We who were once slaves of sin have been set free in Jesus. What previously condemned us now instructs us. The Law still exposes the wickedness of our sinful hearts, and thus serves as a tutor to lead us to Christ, but it no longer hangs over us like a dark shadow. This great truth is beautifully expressed by Philip Bliss in the hymn, Once for All. "Free from the Law – O happy condition! Jesus hath bled and there is remission; Cursed by the law and bruised by the fall, Grace hath redeemed us once for all."
When the Roman soldiers drove those three nails through our Savior's limbs God nailed our sins to the cross. He also nailed our guilty consciences and His own law's pronouncement of condemnation. All those who trust in Jesus Christ are now free. In Him, we have a freedom that can never be taken away. Therefore, we rejoice in the words of our Savior, "So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed" (Jn 8:36).


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Besides dreaming up legalistic syllabus warnings that could never hold up in court, my primary strategy for dealing with the end of the school year (that is, for avoiding all the grading and administrative tasks and firefighting) is to dream of endless aestivation. Of course in academic lingo aestivating means researching and writing, albeit at times with a mojito near to hand. I've just plotted out my own summer engagements:
- MAY: draft an essay on Chaucer's dreams of chivalric identity and its alterities, with an emphasis on possible bodies and the lure of inhuman forces. Promised this for forthcoming Oxford Handbook to Chaucer.
- EARLY JUNE: "An Abecedarium of Virtu," a weird piece I am composing for the special issue of Postmedieval that I'm co-editing with Cary Howie on New Critical Modes.
- LATE JUNE: "The Sex Life of Stone," on geosexualities, for a queer theory conference in Berlin and later for an edited collection called Stones, Worms, and Skin: Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe.
- JULY, late evenings: my NCS-Siena paper, on blogging and new media
- AUGUST: return to that stone sex paper, because there is no way I've given myself enough time to complete it in June into July. Problem is, I'm abroad and then away much of that month ...
- SEPTEMBER: breath a sigh of relief that the fall term has started and I can stop aestivating, it's exhausting.


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ESA PR 44-2013: Liftoff for ESA's billion-star surveyor
19 December 2013
ESA's Gaia mission blasted off this morning on a Soyuz rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on its exciting mission to study a billion suns.Soyuz VS06, carrying the Gaia space observatory, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport, French Guiana, on 19 December 2013. Credit: ESA |
Gaia is destined to create the most accurate map yet of the Milky Way. By making accurate measurements of the positions and motions of 1% of the total population of roughly 100 billion stars, it will answer questions about the origin and evolution of our home Galaxy.
Gaia: launch to orbit. Credit: ESA - C. Carreau/ ATG medialab. (Click here for further details and larger versions of this video) |
The Soyuz launcher, operated by Arianespace lifted off at 09:12 GMT (10:12 CET). About ten minutes later, after separation of the first three stages, the Fregat upper stage ignited, delivering Gaia into a temporary parking orbit at an altitude of 175 km.
A second firing of the Fregat 11 minutes later took Gaia into its transfer orbit, followed by separation from the upper stage 42 minutes after liftoff. Ground telemetry and attitude control were established by controllers at ESA's operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany, and the spacecraft began activating its systems.
The sunshield, which keeps Gaia at its working temperature and carries solar cells to power the satellite, was deployed in a 10-minute automatic sequence, completed around 88 minutes after launch.
Gaia is now en route towards an orbit around a gravitationally-stable virtual point in space called L2, some 1.5 million kilometres beyond Earth as seen from the Sun.
Tomorrow, engineers will command Gaia to perform the first of two critical thruster firings to ensure it is on the right trajectory towards its L2 home orbit. About 20 days after launch, the second critical burn will take place, inserting it into its operational orbit around L2.
A four-month commissioning phase will start on the way to L2, during which all of the systems and instruments will be turned on, checked and calibrated. Then Gaia will be ready to begin its five-year science mission.
Gaia's sunshield will block heat and light from the Sun and Earth, providing the stable environment needed by its sophisticated instruments to make an extraordinarily sensitive and precise census of the Milky Way's stars.
Gaia mapping the stars of the Milky Way. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab; background image: ESO/S. Brunier |
"Gaia promises to build on the legacy of ESA's first star-mapping mission, Hipparcos, launched in 1989, to reveal the history of the galaxy in which we live," says Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA's Director General.
"It is down to the expertise of Europe's space industry and scientific community that this next-generation mission is now well and truly on its way to making ground-breaking discoveries about our Milky Way."
Repeatedly scanning the sky, Gaia will observe each of the billion stars an average of 70 times each over the five years. It will measure the position and key physical properties of each star, including its brightness, temperature and chemical composition.
By taking advantage of the slight change in perspective that occurs as Gaia orbits the Sun during a year, it will measure the stars' distances and, by watching them patiently over the whole mission, their motions across the sky.
The position, motion and properties of each star provide clues about its history, and Gaia's huge census will allow scientists to piece together a 'family tree' for our home Galaxy.
The motions of the stars can be put into 'rewind' to learn more about where they came from and how the Milky Way was assembled over billions of years from the merging of smaller galaxies, and into 'fast forward' to learn more about its ultimate fate.
Gaia sunshield deployment time lapse sequence. Credit: ESA. (Click here for further details and larger versions of this video.) |
"Gaia represents a dream of astronomers throughout history, right back to the pioneering observations of the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus, who catalogued the relative positions of around a thousand stars with only naked-eye observations and simple geometry," says Alvaro Giménez, ESA's Director of Science and Robotic Exploration.
"Over 2000 years later, Gaia will not only produce an unrivalled stellar census, but along the way has the potential to uncover new asteroids, planets and dying stars."
By comparing its repeated scans of the sky, Gaia will also discover tens of thousands of supernovas, the death cries of stars as they reach the end of their lives and explode. And slight periodic wobbles in the positions of some stars should reveal the presence of planets in orbit around them, as they tug the stars from side to side.
Gaia will also uncover new asteroids in our Solar System and refine the orbits of those already known, and will make precise tests of Einstein's famous theory of General Relativity.
After five years, the data archive will exceed 1 Petabyte or 1 million Gigabytes, equivalent to about 200 000 DVD's worth of data. The task of processing and analysing this mountain of data will fall to the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium, comprising more than 400 individuals across at scientific institutes across Europe.
"Where Hipparcos catalogued 120 000 stars, Gaia will survey almost 10 000 times as many and at roughly 40 times higher precision," says Timo Prusti, ESA's Gaia project scientist.
"Along with tens of thousands of other celestial and planetary objects, this vast treasure trove will give us a new view of our cosmic neighbourhood and its history, allowing us to explore the fundamental properties of our Solar System and the Milky Way, and our place in the wider Universe."
"After years of hard work and determination of everyone involved in the mission, we are delighted to see our Gaia discovery machine on the road to L2, where we will continue the noble European tradition of star charting to decipher the history of the Milky Way," adds Giuseppe Sarri, ESA's Gaia project manager.
The spacecraft was designed and built by Astrium, with a core team composed out of Astrium France, Germany and the United Kingdom.
About the European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe's gateway to space.
ESA is an intergovernmental organisation, created in 1975, with the mission to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space delivers benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
ESA has 20 Member States: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, of whom 18 are Member States of the EU.
ESA has Cooperation Agreements with eight other Member States of the EU. Canada takes part in some ESA programmes under a Cooperation Agreement.
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By coordinating the financial and intellectual resources of its members, ESA can undertake programmes and activities far beyond the scope of any single European country.
ESA develops the launchers, spacecraft and ground facilities needed to keep Europe at the forefront of global space activities.
Today, it launches satellites for Earth observation, navigation, telecommunications and astronomy, sends probes to the far reaches of the Solar System and cooperates in the human exploration of space.
Learn more at www.esa.int
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On Monday 22nd November 1993,
two Department of Transport Inspectors, Alan Singleton and Simon Bruno, were shot dead while carrying out a
routine inquiry at a garage in Stockport.
men had arranged a 3.30pm appointment at Chestergate Motors and were shown into
a small, greasy office to wait for the manager. They were killed within minutes of
arriving and the killer apparently fled the scene in a bright red Ford Sierra.
were two main witnesses at the scene - garage manager David Mitchell, and a
fitter, Howard Ridgeway. They
gave mendacious and inconsistent accounts of exactly what had happened to the
MOT men and eventually incriminated two brothers: Walter and Thomas Bourke who
owned a chain of "quick-fit" style garages in the town.
This was a case in
which ALL the prime players – police, witnesses, lawyers and jury - have
been wittingly or unwittingly duped – a case corrupted by shady deals
between agents of the State and kingpins of the illegal drugs trade in the North
West of England.
To this day no one
knows why the MOT men were singled out for assassination. But crucially, the jury never heard that
a bent police officer was complicit in targeting Alan Singleton's address
weeks before the murders.
It was clear, even at
trial, that the case against Thomas Bourke was flimsy since it depended upon
the testimony of criminals who, by their own admission, were complicit in these
murders. So flimsy, indeed, that
Richard Ferguson QC strongly advised Thomas Bourke – a man of unblemished character - not to give evidence.
This strategy
backfired when, shortly before the judge, Mr Justice Sachs, came to sum up the
evidence, a gun was found in Strangeways prison. This was the culmination of a long
planned conspiracy to prejudice the jury by transforming Thomas into a
gangster. No juror could have
failed to link stories in the local press and broadcast media about the
'Gun in Strangeways Prison' with the sudden appearance of armed
police officers and prison guards at the court and during their
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evidence. These payments were
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in murder, these witnesses were given immunity from prosecution.
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- Graduates of Yeomyung School, a South Korean charter school for North Korean defector children, created the most successful online petition to date. At www.savemyfriend.org, a petition to the officials of the United Nations, European Union and the United States has garnered more than 127,000 signatures so far. Please take your time to sign the petition, and share them on your Facebook and Twitter. It will only take a minute.
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David Stallings's play Dark Water is the tale of a mother turtle as she and her son negotiate the sea along with a host of other animals — like a land-loving dolphin, a vain heron, and a gluttonous gull — to save her daughters, who have been trapped by the titular menace. Director Heather Cohn's production features a colorful (and largely recycled!) set, music, puppets, and inventive projections to tell the moving tale of these animals.
Don't let that description fool you — this isn't a kids show.
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At the performance on March 20, Robin Madel and Kyle Rabin of Grace Communications Foundation were on hand to lead a talkback on the environmental issues of the show. It was a great way to follow up the performance, and GSAS! was there to record it — it's presented here in its entirety.
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Edward Snowden remains a fugitive from U.S. authorities over leaking secret documents about its surveillance programs. Now he's asking Russia to extend the one-year term of asylum the country granted the former NSA contract worker last summer.
Snowden's asylum, which was granted last August, is set to expire at the end of this month. His lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, says they've filed papers for an extension.
"We have gone through the course of receiving temporary asylum. On July 31, this term ends. We have submitted documents on the extension of his stay in Russia," Kucherena said, according to state-run news agency Ria Novosti. We won't say yet in what status we would like to receive the extension because that decision is up to the Federal [Migration] Service."
Last December, Snowden said he wanted to gain "permanent political asylum" to give him the freedom he needs to discuss U.S. surveillance activities more openly. And in March, he said his attempts to gain asylum in European Union member nations had been frustrated by the U.S.
When Russia granted Snowden asylum after he spent weeks in a legal limbo at Moscow's international airport, the White House said it was "extremely disappointed" in the decision, saying that Snowden "is not a whistleblower."
Documents provided to the media by Snowden exposed a broad U.S. surveillance program. And the records were cited today by reporter Glenn Greenwald, in a story that asserts the National Security Agency and FBI "monitored the emails of prominent Muslim-Americans—including a political candidate and several civil rights activists, academics, and lawyers."
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