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Employers can plow all the rebate money, including the workers' share, back into the company's health plan, or pass along part of it.
The government says some 4 million people who are due rebates live in households that purchased coverage directly from an insurance company, not through an employer, and experts say those households are the most likely to get a rebate check directly.
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The government says the rebates have an average value of $151 per household. But employers, who typically pay 70 to 80 percent of premiums, are likely to get most of that.
Romney » "Obamacare raises taxes on the American people by approximately $500 billion."
The Facts » The tax increases fall heavily on upper-income people, health insurance companies, drug makers and medical device manufacturers.
People who fail to obtain health insurance as required by the law will face a tax penalty, although that's expected to hit relatively few because the vast majority of Americans have insurance and many who don't will end up getting it. Also, a 10 percent tax has been imposed on tanning bed use as part of the health care law. There are no other across-the-board tax increases in the law, although some tax benefits such as flexible savings accounts are scaled back. Of course, higher taxes on businesses can be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices.
Individuals making over $200,000 and couples making over $250,000 will pay 0.9 percent more in Medicare payroll tax and a 3.8 percent tax on investments. As well, a tax starts in 2018 on high-value insurance plans.
Obama » "Because of the Affordable Care Act, young adults under the age of 26 are able to stay on their parents' health care plans, a provision that's already helped 6 million young Americans."
The Facts » Obama is overstating this benefit of his health law, and his own administration knows better. The Department of Health and Human Services, in a June 19 news release, said 3.1 million young adults would be uninsured were it not for the new law. Obama's number comes from a June 8 survey by the Commonwealth Fund, a health policy foundation. It said 6.6 million young adults joined or stayed on their parents' health plans who wouldn't have been able to absent the law. But that number includes some who switched to their parents' plans from other coverage, Commonwealth Fund officials told the Los Angeles Times.
Romney » "Obamacare is a job-killer."
The Facts » The CBO estimated in 2010 that the law would reduce the amount of labor used in the economy by roughly half a percent.
But that's mostly because the law will give many people the opportunity to retire, stay at home with family or switch to part-time work, since they will be able to get health insurance more easily outside of their jobs. That voluntary retreat from the workforce, made possible by the law's benefits, is not the same as employers slashing jobs because of the law's costs, as Romney implies.
The law's penalties on employers who don't provide health insurance might cause some companies to hire fewer low-wage workers or to hire more part-timers instead of full-time employees, the budget office said. But the main consequence would still be from more people choosing not to work.
Apart from the budget office and other disinterested parties that study the law, each side in the debate uses research sponsored by interest groups, often slanted, to buttress its case. Romney cites a Chamber of Commerce online survey in which nearly three-quarters of respondents said the law would dampen their hiring.
The chamber is a strong opponent of the law, having run ads against it. Its poll was conducted unscientifically and is therefore not a valid measure of business opinion.
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The Duchess of Cambridge is spending her second day in hospital with severe morning sickness as the nation celebrates the news that she is pregnant.
Her husband arrived at the King Edward VII Hospital on Tuesday morning, heading straight into the building without acknowledging the waiting media.
Months of speculation about a royal pregnancy were ended on Monday afternoon when the couple announced the news.
However the excitement about the eagerly-anticipated arrival was tinged with concern after it was revealed the Duchess was admitted to the London hospital for hyperemesis gravidarum - very acute morning sickness.
The Duchess had a number of engagements this week, including a visit to London's Docklands for a charity fund-raising session on a brokers' trading floor, but they have all been cancelled, said St James's Palace.
It is understood that the pregnancy has not passed the 12-week point and the announcement was prompted by the Duchess's medical condition.

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Jay-Z + Lil' Wayne - Summer in Brooklyn (Quincy Jones Cookin' Soul Remix)
smoothing it out
This "contest" is now bordering on abuse.
Yo-Yo (feat. Ice Cube) - You Can't Play with My Yo-Yo
I don't even like this song.
Never Leave You (Uh Oh) (remix) - Lumidee ft. Busta Rhymes & Fabolous
Molls, you brought this upon yourself.
Positive K - I Got a Man
This is good. You know? This is why I asked you. I think we can have some fun with this.


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Good ideas with bad execution, or good execution of what should be bad ideas - an analysis of inferior, off-beat or malfunctioning products, and how other people's failures can help us design better stuff.
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Miniature artificial house shaped clouds are created 'on the fly' in order to critique the global fallout as a result of the bursting of the US housing bubble. Size and frequency of cloud generation render local housing capacity to consumption ratios into a stream of lighter than air clouds.
The work consists of a mobile enclosure that uses a special surfactant infused with helium and air to extrude artificial clouds into the air. Local housing data related to housing capacity vs consumption controls the timing of the cloud generation.


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Investing in Emerging Markets : Brazil
Piyush is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
This article is about investing in Brazilian companies. But I'm not going to tell you how wonderful and rosy its growth prospects are, when they are not. In fact, analysts at Barclays have lowered their FY13 GDP growth estimates for Brazil to 2.5%. Furthermore, the Brazilian Real has depreciated by around 36% over the last 2 years, which is adding to the woes. With these numbers, Brazil isn't the most attractive investment destination at the moment. But its export-related companies are benefiting from this economic uncertainty.
Companies To Avoid
To begin with, Vale (NYSE: VALE) and Petroleo Brasileiro (NYSE: PBR) are certainly not those companies. Vale is an industrial metals and mining company that has largely been under pressure due the poor domestic industrial production. The company exports its metals and minerals, and the weakening Brazilian Real results in forex gains.
But Vale is operating with a debt/equity ratio of 42%, which comes to a total long term debt of $29.94 billion. That said, the company with a market cap in excess of $72 billion, has been navigating times like these since 1942, and can comfortably withstand economic headwinds for years.
But the bottom line remains that most of its debt is external, and the depreciating Brazilian Real is inflating its total debt. Its long term debt has appreciated by nearly 47% over the last 5 year, and will continue to inflate if the Brazilian Real continues to depreciate.
Even Brazil's largest oil and gas company, Petroleo Brasileiro, has been bleeding. The company imports mainly diesel and gasoline, which is later sold in Brazil. However, unlike most countries, the oil and gas sector in Brazil is regulated by its government. This means that the government decides the prices of petroleum products, instead of following the price of imports.
Naturally, buying expensive and selling cheap results in losses, which are nonetheless subsidized by the Brazilian government. But it too has a subsidy budget, and when subsidy costs exceed the budget, oil and gas companies start bleeding. These losses totaled $5.6 billion in FY12, and there is absolutely nothing to suggest that these losses will decline.
It is for this reason that S&P cut its rating for Petroleo Brasileiro from stable to negative.
A Wonder Company
But despite the economic uncertainty in the country, shares of Brasil Foods (NYSE: BRFS) have appreciated by nearly 40% over the last year. It has a global presence in over 110 countries, and is ranked as the world's 10th largest food company by volume. The company generates 56% of its total revenues from exports, and the Real depreciation is proving to be a boon for the company.
It's debt/equity ratio of 68% is relatively higher than the previously mentioned companies, but most of its debt is domestic and isolated from currency fluctuations. Its total long term debt comes to $4.52 billion, most of which is due to its $3.8 billion acquisition of Sadia SA in 2009.
To meet its short term liabilities, Brasil Foods raised $500 million last month by issuing 10 year bonds at an interest rate of 4.135%. It also issued BRL 500 million worth of 5 year domestic bonds last month, with an interest rate of 7.75%, which would be due for maturity by 2018. According to management, this cash would be used mainly for overseas expansions and to boost its overall profitability and revive growth.
Final Words
Over the last 4 years, Brasil Foods' gross profit margin has improved by 56.4% due to improving efficiency. This has resulted in a 354.3% spike in its quarterly gross profits over the same period. Naturally if Brasil Foods continues to improve its profit margins, its shares would continue to soar. And adding to the delight, the depreciating Brazilian Real is adding to its margins, which is why analysts estimate its annual EPS to grow by 19.1% over the next 5 years.
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Peach-and-Tomato Gazpacho with Cucumber Yogurt
Photo: Jennifer Davick; Prop Styling: Lindsey Ellis Beatty
This soup captures summer in a bowl. It's light and refreshing--the perfect balance of sweet peaches and ripe tomatoes.
Yield: Makes about 5 cups
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- 5 large peaches, peeled and divided
- 3 large tomatoes, cored and divided
- 1/2 medium-size sweet onion, coarsely chopped (about 1/2 cup)
- 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
- Kosher salt and freshly ground white pepper to taste
- 3/4 cup finely diced English cucumber
- 1/3 cup plain Greek yogurt
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Garnishes: fresh chive pieces
- 1. Quarter 4 peaches and 2 tomatoes. Process quartered peaches and tomatoes and next 2 ingredients in a food processor until smooth.
- 2. Chop remaining peach and tomato. Stir into pureed mixture. Season with kosher salt and freshly ground white pepper to taste. Cover and chill 1 hour.
- 3. Meanwhile, combine cucumber and next 3 ingredients in a medium bowl. Season with kosher salt and freshly ground white pepper to taste. Cover and chill 1 to 24 hours. (Chilling can dull the seasoning, so you may need to add more salt and pepper before serving.)
- 4. Ladle gazpacho into bowls. Spoon cucumber mixture over gazpacho. Drizzle each serving with about 1 tsp. extra virgin olive oil. Serve immediately.
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"What the shit? They made a Battle Royale for kids? I give up" I believe that right there, was my exact quote after seeing the trailer for The Hunger Games. But despite my obvious disdain, I went and saw the movie and walked away…ambivalent. It was better than I thought it was going to be, but yet still wasn't impressed. A month later, during a trip to Seattle, I really wanted to go see a movie at the Cinerama (and if you live in Seattle, then you know how awesome that place is). Guess what was playing? That's right, The Hunger Games. Knowing that my options could be a lot worse and my desire to see a movie at the Cinerama greatly outweighing my ambivalence, I saw it for a second time…and was totally won over! Yep, that second viewing showed me things that I just wasn't paying attention to the first time, things that I came to really appreciate, thus turning my ambivalence to admiration. Fast forward to today, after having read the books, seeing the trailers and I'll admit it, eagerly looking forward to Catching Fire, does that admiration hold up? Yes it does.
Catching Fire improves upon The Hunger Games. It wipes away any of the silliness that at times plagued the first movie (with most of that silliness coming from both Liam Hemsworth as Gale and Josh Hutcherson as Peeta). And the movie, being the all important set up man for the closer that will be Mockingjay, avoids The Matrix Reloaded award for most awkward way to end your set up movie. I was a little skeptical at first at director Francis Lawrence's ability to make a movie that would end up being better than its predecessor, but he does so in the most subtle of ways. That's no easy feat mind you, as the thinking most of times is to go bigger and more spectacular with your sequels (I'm looking at you Fast and Furious). Not here, Catching Fire is like The Empire Strikes Back, letting the reveals do the talking. If you read the book though, those reveals won't be as cool, but Lawrence still makes good use of creating the element of surprise.
Catching Fire takes place after the events of The Hunger Games, Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) is back home in District 12, about to go on her Victory Tour with Peeta (Josh Hutcherson). But her plans quickly become complicated when a visit by President Snow (Donald Sutherland) ends with the not so subtle threat that her family and Gale (Liam Hemsworth) will suffer consequences if she doesn't convince the other districts that her act of defiance at the games was in fact, really for love. But with Katniss not one for playing by the rules and the districts feeling that they can create an uprising against the Capitol only grows. With the help of a new game maker, Plutarch Heavansbee (Phillip Seymour Hoffman), make the new Hunger Games competition one that will feature all the former winners. The hope being that the districts will see that Katniss is not one of them, but someone loyal to the Capitol. But it's during the games that Katniss and Peeta will find unlikely allies, unexpected obstacles and reveal or two along the way.
What impressed me the most with Catching Fire was Lawrence's ability to create moments of tension, even for the people who have already read the book. The bad thing about adaptations is when you're privy to the source material; you already know the outcome, there by eliminating that tension. But there are moments in Catching Fire where I felt like Lawrence and crew were going to throw you a curve ball (luckily they didn't, as that might have been disastrous). But playing that slight of hand made the movie a better experience. The emotional part of the story is also improved upon from the first movie. Most the credit for that goes to Jennifer Lawrence, Woody Harrelson, Hoffman and Sutherland. Francis Lawrence gets credit for Peeta not being such a pussy and for Hemsworth not being so stilted.
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During our brief time in the Seattle area we made our way to one of my favorite places, Pike Place Market. I picked up some dried fruits and a beautiful bouquet of fresh flowers for our hosts as we enjoyed the bustling city on a Saturday morning. We sampled fresh honey crisp washington apples and chocolate covered hazelnuts as we walked around the market, enjoying the company of good friends in the excitement of a new city.
One of my favorite parts of this recent trip was getting to explore the city with a local. My favorite way to travel is to explore, get lost, find the hidden gems, and see a new place from the perspective of local culture. We were spoiled to be in Seattle at the same time with some friends of ours who lived in the city for a while. They showed us the hot local spots, took us to a great lookout, took us on public transportation, and shared a few great meals together at local favorites. Here are some of their recommendations plus some other folks have recommended to me. Hope you can enjoy Seattle with a local someday!
Restaurant Recommendations:
Pink Door – Homespun Italian-American food with French circus decor
Salumi- Tiny downtown deli serving fresh-made salami
Cyclops – American brunch and late night cafe at the Ace Hotel
Crumpet Shop – European crumpet shop by Pike Place
Delancey – Pizza shop opened by local food blogger Orangette
The Walrus and The Carpenter – Seafood and Northwest cuisine
Cafe Besalu – Bakery and coffe house
Boat Street Cafe – American
Agua Verde – Waterfront taco cafe
Bakery Nouveau- Bakery
Dick's Drive In – Seattle's classic American burger joint
Eat Local - American Northwest
Sitka and Spruce - American Northwest
The Corson Building – American Northwest
Springhill - American Northwest dinner and brunch
Staple and Fancy - Rustic Italian
La Carta de Oaxaca – Mexican
Volunteer Park Cafe – brunch or sandwich lunch
Sitka and Spruce – a popular restaurant in Melrose Market
Things to do and beautiful views of the City:
View the City from the Queen Ann neighborhood
Space Needle
Pike Place Market
Seattle Public Library
Paper Source – fun stationary store
Georgetown – antique district off the beat n' path
Susan Wheeler and Kirk Albert upscale vintage decor stores in Georgetown
Melrose Market – fresh food, flowers, and housewares
Places to Stay:
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i could do well without the parka but the shoes, mmh
Monday, March 1, 2010 by Darryl Natale
i could do well without the parka but the shoes, mmh
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Really love the whole look – lace, parka and suede! But especially Alaias:)
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I like it!
So cute! I think the parka makes the ensemble.
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Too much lace, sorry! 2009 is over…
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Beautiful dress!
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Please use a spell checker. I am not the grammar police, nor the spell checker policy, however, 3 typos in this short post is horrible. MSWord or some other word processor program does this with ease. I would expect more from the WSJ.
I'm upset that this has been so upsetting for JKR, and that this has gone all the way to court. Anyone who loves HP enough to create a companion book (whatever the nature, that isn't important) obviously loves JKR's work. If JKR asked me to not publish something, I'd just stop. Obviously the lexicon wants to publish, but challenging JKR enough to take it this far makes them seem to me not like the Potter fans I thought they were. I hope that this can be resolved soon.
This really should not be posted without a proper spell check. It's the WSJ for God's sake!
As much as I hate the copyright enforcement crowd, in this instance I must agree with Ms. Rowling.
While others noted to other errors being apart of this article the most notable of which was the mis-spelling of never.
She "set aside" her children. That instantly means that she doesn't get my support. And preparing for the trial caused her to lose plot threads? Please!! Write it down. That's what paper is for. Besides, I thought she wasn't doing anymore HP books. So, these allegedly lost plot threads are irrelevant.
I agree with Rowling. Only she should have control over what happens in the HP universe. I'm glad she cares enough to protect it. Tolkein allowed his son to continue on with middle earth…I think we all know those stores are genuine drivel. I suspect these handbooks will be more of the same, and the vast majority of our discerning public will understand the difference between what is "real fiction" and "fictional fiction."
I think there are more important things about this article than the lack of spell-checking, don't you? And I'm inclined to believe that it was necessary to write it quickly.
Either way, there's a point to the article and it isn't the spelling. I sincerely hope Ms. Rowling prevails.
Anon, first of all, this is her work, and many women every day "set aside" their children to go to work. It's just the nature of having a job.
Second, just because the Harry Potter series is done, that doesn't mean she isn't still writing. Creative flow can be tempermental and scratching things down on a piece of paper is not the same as producing.
Seeing as how J R Rowling was hardly original, but openly borrowed old witchcraft lexicon, spells, potions, from established sources, seems to me that the "lexicon" is fair use, not to mention fair game!
I really hope Mrs. Rowling wins this case. Her team is right; this is not simply a companion piece. It offers no original ideas. The entire book is just a collection of J.K. Rowling's work. I just can't believe the Lexicon is willing to take advantage of their beloved author in this way.
It's a freakin' blog, not a newspaper article. If you read the blog and all you saw was the spelling errors, you may be the very embodyment of "not seeing the forest through the trees."
Seriously, I would like to thank you for your post. I completely agree. On the other hand, I simply cannot agree with the post by Constance E. Cumbey. Yes, J.K. Rowling does use bits of witchcraft that is common in other literature. However, the majority of her plot is completely original. Besides, the Lexicon is not writing a new story simply using the same old elements of fantasy. They are reposting her plot word for word. That is where the problem resides.
Was robert Reich there arguing? A lectern is not a podium; for former is for papers and the latter for feet.
may the best lawyer win…
constance E. cumbey, your incorrect. jk rowling didnt steal her potions, she created them from a book of horticulture she found that explores uses, real and mythical, to construct her potions. her spells are all cobbled latin, with a few other languages thrown in such as aramaic, and as for magical creatures, those are not copyrightable. she can however copyrights the ones she created, or specific breeds, such as dragon. also, she didnt steal old witchcraft lexicon, cause you cant copyright that, nor did the magic in her books exist in the same manner as they are in her books.
this is about someone taking her hard work and trying to profit from it after stating for years it would be illegal and rude to jk rowling and a insult to a fan. the author demanded a job from jk rowling, she refused, and he took the first offer he could get out of spite and demanded his publisher indemify him so he cant be held legally responcible, cause he knew it was illegal in the first place. if he knew it was legal, there would be no reason to indemify himself.
In response to Anon's comment, "setting aside" one's children can mean a variety of things, including simply acknowledging time spent working on a novel that could otherwise have been spent with one's children. No parent is 100% focused on one's children, to the exclusion of everything else. And if they are, those are going to be unhealthy children. Honestly.
And whether or not Rowling is doing more Potter books, she is a writer, and "plot threads" most likely refer to a NEW novel she's working on. Imagine. It's possible she may write something outside of Harry Potter.
I'm a published author (with a toddler son) and I think your comments reveal you to have very little insight into the creative process. Write it down? Please believe that something as disruptive and upsetting as this lawsuit/trial undoubtedly is would most definitely disrupt a writer's ability to work.
Whasssamatter wif a cupppla spellin (*HIC*) errers? Imean, it wazn't like Ashleee shot sumbuddy or nuthin! Hargh! (*HIC*)
IT ALL BELONGS TO JKR… The End.
I don't think JK knows what a lexicon is… A lexicon is just a reference to her work and will obviously have close ties to the books. If it had new content than the writer would have been altering her work. They couldn't say for example that Harry Potter is a girl at Hogshorts that would make it inacurate. A lexicon is like an encyclopedia it is a factual reference of a particular subject and it is just that, a reference book. She admited that she checked the website herself for info but for some reason now it's a book there's a problem? Give me a break and retire with only 100 million instead of 101…
Feh. Rowling needs to stop being such a tightwad. If it was never about money, why didn't she just go to the author, tell him that he needs her permission and she would be willing to work with him in helping to make it more accurate, and that be that.
No. Instead, she chose to disrupt her own writing by bringing about this lawsuit when the whole thing could have been nipped in the bud by simply making a phone call.
Mrs. Rowling, there is one thing that any artist who works on books, movies, music, or anything else will tell you: your stories do not belong to you. They belong to us. Without us, your stories would have no purpose.
We eagerly spend our hard earned cash to buy your books. We very happily made you one of the world's richest women. We were extremely proud to know that we were able to make YOUR life a better one, because you made our lives better.
You shouldn't bite the hand that feeds you.
JRK hasn't objected to any of the many other resource materials that have been published on her books. She doesn't have a track record of trying to shut that sort of thing down. It seems to me that if this book would just take quotes directly from her series to categorize people, places, events of that series, she's well within her legal rights to object. From what I've read, it offers nothing in the the way of new content – no critique, no analysis, no commentary – nothing. It's just a lazy way to make a buck by someone who clearly spent a little too much time reading her books.
WSJ with a FOX attitude, Rupert would be proud.
can anyone in the public attend the hearing?
JKR "borrowed" the Harry Potter story from Jane Yolen's Wizard's Hall, the story of young Henry, who at a school for magical children, discovers that he is destined to defeat the greatest evil wizard of all time. Yolen has talked openly about her decision not to sue Rowling, maybe Rowling should be as gracious.
JK Rowling and her team tried to contact RDR and Steve Vander Ark for almost 2 months asking to see a copy of the Lexicon Book. RDR stonewalled them. The suit was filed at the on October 31st to prevent a November publication date.
According to the expert that JK Rowling hired, about 146,000 words from the Lexicon Book come directly from the world of Harry Potter. This is mostly in the form of condensation or paraphrasing. Considering the Lexicon Book is only about 160,000 words long, this is a little much.
Give the guy a break on the misspellings, he is blogging on a recess so he was in a hurry. Would you rather have no news or a few typos.
As for JK Rowling making money on the encyclopedia she plans to write, she has said many times that the proceeds from it will go to charity.
Firstly, why do some people go on Jk Rowling news articles if they are going to comment against her?
Next to the person who said something about her wanting the money!.. Jk was going to donate the profit from her encyclopedia to charity so why should someone else who never put any work into it get all the profit! Why should charitys who are just trying to help other suffer?
Thirdly, to the person who said 'ithought all the harry potter books were finished so whats she on about lost plot threads for'… Jk can write other books after harry potter you know! She was actually half way writing a novel before she got rudely disturbed. Like i ahve said over and over again… any true harry potter or JKR fan will wait for the proper encyclopedia to come out so that charitys benefit and jk gets the praise she deserves. Thank you. Good luck jk. Behind you all the way.
Can i please have some back up below!!! Thanks HARRY / JK fans xx
Okay. She did ask him to stop wrtting the book and he refused, after wich she decided to go to court. And Yes her books belong to her. Did you write the Story? No. So without her no sotry! And the money she was to make with the encyclopedia was to go to charity. And it's still not right for him to just take all she's said and rearrange it. Bacause no one knows what is truely right other then her. And who know what J K Rowling was going to put in the book. She could put more in then what she has said in public and more then this guy knows.
Just because some of you would be milking it for all it's worth and making as much money as you can doesn't mean she is.
Constance E. Cumbey, if you're going to criticize someone's writing, you have to read it first. All of it. Otherwise you have no room to talk, because you have no idea what you're talking about.
This woman is a greedy rat. Who cares if the book is inaccurate. Make a better 'lexicon' and win the marketplace.
Her books are horrible. If you want fantasy read Tolkien, or how about growing up and reading a book you can't buy at the grocery store? Don't waste your time on Rowling's hackneyed characters and stolen plots.
JKR did go to rdr and ask then not to publish the work, they refused and if they really cared about harry potter they should have listened to the author. also the encyclopedia she wants to right will be for charity, she said all the proceedes from that when she rights it would be soley for charity. Also what no one seems to understand here is that is JKR loses copyright laws will be come more strict than you can possible imagine, not just for her but for all writers, a loss for JKR will only result in stricter laws so say good bye to your fan sites and your podcasts, and your fan art it will all be gone for all books not just hers. lexicon has made a huge mistake here in not realizing what would happen if they do indeed win. writers everywhere will have to make sure even more than they do now that thier work is protected.
so not only do i want jo to win for the moral stand that it is her work and they have made a mess of it but for all fans of all books and movies for that matter because if she loses being an avid fan will be sure to change
I read Tolkien. He put me to sleep. But thanks for the recommendation.
I don't see how anyone can think this is about money, given that Rowling could have quite easily waited until the book was published, then sued for millions in damages instead. Far more profitable.
It has nothing to do with greed on her part. Now, I can't say the same for Mr. Vander Ark.
It seems to me purely common sense that her creations should stay her own. Mr. Vander Ark's mere reorganization of her themes can hardly be called original work. He needs to back down and stop trying to make money off of someone else's hard work.
I agree about the copyrights- if this is lost it is going to make the HP "fandom" disappear. Everything will just have to be approved by JKR directly, and considering that she is a very busy woman it is unlikely that she will have time to approve anything.
Living with a nerd, are you actually suggesting that artists don't have any ownership over the art that they create? That's ridiculous. That's why people have to pay royalties to play writes. Its why WB couldn't just produce the Harry Potter movies without buying the rights.
From all the froth you'd think this was important stuff? JKR tearing up? Fantastic! It worked for Hillary – why not for her? So she's donating the proceeds of her lexicon or encyclopedia or whatever to charity? Nice tax strategy to shield other income. JKR has come a long way from her 'clipping coupons' days – she is as corporate as Exxon and she is protecting her franchise. No more – no less
I doubt that, Rachel. Considering she's allowed a hundred other "companion" books to be published, I don't think she'll frown on more, if they come along. Her problem is that the "Lexicon" has no original ideas in it. It's not an analysis, a discussion, a comparison…it's merely a rearrangement. Her work, almost completely her work, categorized. That's the problem. There's nothing to it that adds to what's in the books. It simply IS the books, only in a reorganized from.
She's allowed, even praised, companion books before but this one is a copyright violation. Even Vander Ark's lawyer concede that point.
Its not just JKR whos going to crack down on people taking from her work its going to be all writers. A loss for JKR will be a huge influence on all writers to protect their work better. I dont think lexicon has considered the consequences of them actually winning this lawsuit aside from their own financial gain. this lawsuit in its self may entice writers to protect their work more no matter who wins but a loss for JKR will most definately entice all writers to put more protection to their work. JKR isn't doing this because of greed or money she just doesnt want to see her work destroyed by someone else. JKR in the last month has done a lot for charity and she will continue to do more, she spent 17 years of her life devoted to these books and lexicon is wrong for trying to fight her on this.
When someone says "it's not about the money," you can bet it is.
Ed Wood. shut up about that. everyone needs to stop saying jk rowling is greedy. ever since we first heard jk rowling speak of writing the encylopedia, back in 2000, about 7 years ago, she stated it would be to raise money for charity…
damn you jk rowling and you sick greed, saying your encylopedia will raise money for charity, along with the millions of dollors you have already given to charity, and the many more millions of dollors your companion books and auctions have raised for charity… how dare you jk rowling for being cheritable and raising and giving money to good and worthy causes. HOW DARE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
okay, back to anwsering questions. recently, jk rowling gave a interview where she laid out what her encylopedia was to include. of course it would lay out her plots, her characters, her spells, and her inventions, but it would also explore the mythological inspirations, the etymologys of her spells and potions and such, and go deeper into certian aspects of the stories she couldnt in the books.
the offical, legal encylopedia will include plots that had to be cut, such as why florean fortiscue was murdered, which she didnt go into detail during the interview, but said it was a subplot that had to do with the elder wand. it will go into characters that were cut, and her experince writing the books. she will detail things about the books that she considered, but didnt put in the books.
here is a rundown of the lexicon book, which i have read in part as it was posted as evidence by rdr. it is a series of small, undetailed entries, many ripped verbatim from jk rowlings books, and froom other copyrighted encylopedias, such as entrys on cities in britian. most all of the book is verbatim from jo's copyrighted works, and there are very few entries that has anything that constitutes commentary or new incites. unlike other fan made encylopedias on the market and not challanged by jo, very little new information exists, such as mythological references and such, much of which is easily found.
sorry for my long rant, but i think i said everything i need to say at this point to counter pointless posts from people who have little understanding of the issue, or the book in question.
If Vander Ark was a true Harry Potter fan he would have stopped when JKR asked him to. If Vander Ark does win I for one will not buy his book. The encyclopedia that JKR is writing will include so much more than whats in her books, and that is something that Lexicon could never include. Also, about the typos, there are newspapers that have editors that still hav typos so forgive a few typos in a blog and focus on whats important.
Good Luck JKR your true fans are behind you!
Hey, Livingwithanerd…If you knew anything about the background about this case, you would realize that you are way out of line. #1 Van der Ark has mentioned several times in articles and podcasts over the years that writing a Lexicon without JKR is illegal – then turns around & does it anyway. #2 He did ask for her permission to do it or to help her write one – she said NO. #3 He was begging her for a job because he wanted to move to England & work for her – she said NO. #4 When she and her attorneys asked him to cease and desist, RDR made up various excuses not to get back to them, but at the same time was signing contracts with European publishers to publish this book. It's not about the money – it's about copyright laws. He is breaching her copyright because the Lexicon does not offer anything other than a regurgitation of her books in an encyclopedic form, which is illegal. She is trying to keep fans involved in fandom. If she loses this fight, authors will be very stingy about allowing fans to have fanfic or anything else on the Web because they can then just print it up & profit. Look at Ann Rice for one! She needs to win this because it will set precedent for fansites in the future.
The Lexicon website is fair game because he isn't making a profit, however he can't sell the book to make profit. This is the problem, selling someone's creation as your own.
The legal issue is copyright infringement. The Lexicon is simply taking her work, reorganizing it and calling it their own. Their "encyclopedia" has no original input, that's why companion books have survived and been published.
It's not the Lexicon's place to publish an encyclopedia just because there isn't one already out there.
On the "he's greedy/she's greedy" argument: I think it is Vander Ark; so you have a lexicon and want to publish. Why not spend some time researching and writing one's own thoughts on each entry as well? Very simple, and as long as one can write, very easy, although a bit time consuming (like all other books). It seems like this would then remove any idea of copyright infringement. Yet, after a lengthy volley between the two camps, Vander Ark and the publisher failed to attempt this. To me, that is a glowing indicator of their true goals.
I fail to understand how anyone could think Rowling is wrong for protecting her work. Her financial interests are irrelevent. Whether or not she will profit from her own, lexicon, which she won't, matters not.
The fact is that this is her work. She created it. So what if she's rich. Hasn't she earned it? Hasn't she done the work thats gotten her where she is. She has paid her dues, and deserves every penny she's earned, and every penny she earns in the future.
The issue here is whether or not she has the right to protect her work, and I think anyone with half a brain would agree that she does.
I have no doubt that she will win this case.
she's the one who sould write this book, she's the one who work her ass off to create the Harry Potter world. That other guy has no right to steal her creation and make money over it. The copyright law are not there for nothing. If she loose this case, this will mean that copyright is no longuer taking for granted and we'll be able to steal whatever work from others and make money over them.
i would rather buy the book writen by JKR because the information writting in it will be more accurate than the other guy. There's things that he doesn't know, that she wants to publish.
anyways she's the author and it's her right to win over him. Like I said, the copyrights law are not there for nothing…
I am a lawyer, a 10 year litigator, and also a HUGE Harry Potter fan. What I can say, for what it's worth, is that the legal standard for this issue is unclear. Is it fair use? I have no idea, and I don't envy the jury (if there is one, this may be a bench trial). The amount of the work used is formidable, however the character of the use is seemingly innocent. My concern is the effect on the market. JKR has repeatedly stated that she wants to write her own encyclopedia, incorporating the history and deleted plot-lines of her characters for charity. I want that. I think millions of others, and that's not an exaggeration, want that as well. If this prevents her from writing that, I say too bad RDR.
Actually a lot of Rowlings work isn't original and I think she is rude not thanking all of her sources of inspiration or Ursula Le Guins from who she stole the idea (Earthsea trilogy) and all the other books she's torn ideas from, what a hypocrite.
Amicus Curiea Brief on Behalf of the Plantiff:
Our Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office has determined that Mr. Vander Ark and his cohorts at RDR are guilty of theft and of misuse ("fraud" in the Muggle world) in their attempt to peddle their blatantly harmful transfigurment of Ms. Rowling's work as their own for profit. Should Ms. Rowling (and the Court) desire, we are happy to make an exception for these Muggles and send the dementors to whisk the offenders off to Azkaban. Please advise by return owl.
Very humbly yours,
Kingsley Shacklebolt
Acting Minister of Magic
PS: Have you checked the Defendants' forearms for the Dark Mark?
In response to http://www.livingwithanerd.com' comment: I have one question to ask you: Do the words plagiarism and copyright laws mean ANYTHING to you. The work belongs to J.K. Rowling. When you purchase a Harry Potter book, or any book for that matter, you are purchasing the right to posess a copy of the book, NOT the right to claim ownership to its material. That's why we buy copies of books. For Mr. Vander Ark to create a lexicon on her work, especially when one of her own is in the making, he needed to ask for her permission to proceed before he went ahead with it. In sum, you need to get your facts straight.
Hey Who cares..if you don't like the books don't read them but don't come in here and trash her like that.Just go and read 1 of the books you think if appropriate and leave this board in peace.
Now on to more important stuff..I think she and Warner Bros are right in what they are doing.I read the article here and totally missed the typos To those that saw them and commented..SHAME on you let them be and actually read not critique.Not everyone is so perfect as to look for other people's faults.
Jo deserves to have her work be her own. Steve Vander Ark does not have any right to do anything she disapproves of. I used to be a fan of his both with the Lexicon and when he was on Canon Conundrums on Pottercast, but now I have no respect for him whatsoever. No matter if he wins or loses, no true Harry Potter fan will ever buy his book. Shame on him and Go Jo!
To all you conspiracy theorists who claim Jo Rowling's work is 'stolen' from some other author: I find it hillarious that you can't even agree on which story she supposedly stole. Danielle Sharp says it is the Earthsea trilogy and Bill says the story is from Wizard's Hall.
The fact is that Jk Rowling has created a READABLE series enjoyed by children as well as adults. I enjoyed Tolkein as a 20 year old, but when I attempted it as an 11 year old it was worse than a sleping pill. And when I read Tolkein now, I wish he had Rowling's editor. The Harry Potter series is a cultural phenomenon and deservedly so. She's created a generation of readers from kids who used to be glued to the nintendo.
All us writers and authors are behind you, JKR!
I'm an Artist and I too hate when people claim my work as there own.
What Jo Rowling intends to do with any money she makes is besides the point, That she has taken bits and pieces from other works is besides the point (everything we think of is influence by everything we've read/heard/seen/experienced).
The point is that the lexicon is almost entirely comprised of cut & pasted passages from Jo's books, it offers no new information, no insight, no explanation, nothing original, which is against the terms of 'Fair use' and should therefore not be allowed.
Whether your a fan of Jo's work or not shouldn't come into it, think how you would feel if someone ripped off YOUR work as their own, or tried to profit from rehashing your own work.
April 15, 2008
Ms. "Howling" Rowling sounds like a spoiled billionaires child. She has earned more than ONE BILLION selling a bizarre tale of anti-Christian fantasy and now she wants no one to profit from her! Sounds like another loser-liberal wanting to keep the little guys in their place!
Signed, a "Bitter American"
There is not Their! Learn the difference!
To Thomas J. Zaleski –
The books are actually a christian allegory. JK Rowling openly stated that the christian imagery in her books was blatant in numerous open book tours and interviews. If you read the series, through to the finale (the seventh book), it is quite evident the books are about as anti-christian as C.S. Lewis' "Chronicles of Narnia" :).
"Bitter American": I can't imagine Ms. Rowling has frequently been labelled "Howling". A spoiled billionaire's child has done nothing to earn their parents' millions; she has. And I know from experience that – I'm struggling not to use stronger wording – attempting to reason with somebody already positive that the books are anti-Christian is usually futile. I can only quietly hope that you are not too vocal about your beliefs unless they are well-founded.
I could also quickly point out that, far from being a "loser-liberal" (though I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean), Ms. Rowling has allowed many more original works to be published without complaint; it's purely due to the parrot-like nature of the Lexicon that she is taking action in this case. She, of course, has a famous story by now: from state-dependent, struggling single mother to successful philanthropist. She is the last person I would accuse of "keeping the little guys in their place".
Finally, can I ask whether you have any basis for your comments? You don't seem to have provided any.
Those who say JKR is greedy are just jealous and suffer from "loser's lurgy".
This collection of comments wonderfully illustrates the effects of reading Harry Potter as one's sole literary endeavor on one's writing and reading comprehension.
Thank you so much for that comment, Anonymous. It added SO very much to the discussion. Say, if you happen to get your nose out of the air long enough, perhaps you'd like to come in and actually discuss this rather interesting case. :)
Technically, it is plagarism. In any university, in any part of the world he would have been 'charged' with plagarism. So I don't see what the diffrence is here, (except) that its the real world and he should be punished more severly.
He's using someone elses work for his own gain. No matter who it is, or what it is its still very wrong.
By the way, uh…actually there is no orginal story out there. Its called intertextuality.
The only other comment I have at this point is that the plaintiff's motion, drafted by a partner at O'Melveney, is surpisingly poorly written.
Thomas J. Zaleski a Bitter American, I should know better than to respond to such rubbish as you've written, but I'm going to anyway. For what it's worth, J.K. Rowling is a Christian herself. The Harry Potter series, as you've obviously never read it, is a tale of life and love, and the power of love to overcome evil. Is God not love? Also, and this really annoys me, regarding your use of the word liberal: Wikipedia's "Liberalism" article states "Broadly speaking, liberalism emphasizes individual rights and equality of opportunity." Our nation became great through liberal thinking, with our society working together to accomplish common goals. It is liberals who stand up for "the little guys." Read a book. Turn off the T.V. And for heaven's sake don't open your mouth if you're just going to say something stupid.
Bill…I must disagree with you. I have looked at this book that you claim JKR stole and the only similarity that I can see so far is magic, a boy, an evil dark lord thing, and a prophecy. Did you ever stop to think that those are all components to a book that is in the genre of Gothic Novel? Furthermore, I can tell right now from reading what the book is about that Henry is only saving the school, not himself and the entire wizarding world from something evil. Also, if I remember correctly JKR started writing Harry Potter in 1990, how could she copy a book that was not published until 1991? And, she was turned down the first time she wanted to publish it because it "wouldn't sell"..why would a publishing company tell her that a book of that nature would not sell if there was already one out similar to it? Check your facts before you accuse Bill. As far as I am concerned JKR owns Harry Potter and nobody has the right to try and publish things she doesn't want published. SVA is not a true fan of Harry Potter if he can't take JKR's wishes and do as he's told.
When Steven Vander Ark's publisher, RDR Books, told him it was okay to publish a printed version of Vander Ark's Harry Potter Lexicon Web site, which is largely derived from work by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, Vander Ark accepted that without further question and proceeded with the project. That cavalier attitude is no surprise when one considers he had been trying to market this idea to two other publishers.
When did it become okay to lift someone else's copyrighted material and present it as one's own? That's why, "in the name of scholastic pursuit", I've made a copy of Vander Ark's Web site to use as my own Web site. Oh, it's okay. I've changed the name of the site and reorganized it a little. My version is called Harry Potter's Maxicon. Different enough, right?
Lexicon publications have a long and distinguished literary precedence, which have been helpful to both scholars and the casual reader. My own library sports indispensable lexicons to the works of Dickens, Trollope, and Montaigne. The Cambridge Companion series has enjoyed a long presence in the literary world despite the varying quality from work to work.
Ms. Rowling sniffs that Vander Ark's lexicon is *sloppy* and *lazy*. However, that is not for her to decide. The reader/consumer will decide whether to relegate this book to the bin or the remainder pile. And if all her fretting and hand-wringing over this book has interfered with her work, she needs to get a grip, and not look to the Courts to regain her mojo. Professor Falzone is right on point.
Rowling is overstepping her bounds. She has confused the adaptations of a work, which she does own, with discussion of her work, which she doesn't. Rowling owns both the original works themselves and any effort to adapt her book or characters to other media—films, computer games, and so on. Textually, the law gives her sway over any form in which her work may be "recast, transformed, or adapted." But she does not own discussion of her work—book reviews, literary criticism, or the fan guides that she's suing. The law has never allowed authors to exercise that much control over public discussion of their creations.
Such guides have been around forever—centuries if you count the Bible, and more recently for complex works like the writings of Jorge Borges or The Lord of the Rings. As long as a guide does not copy the original work verbatim, it falls outside the category of "adaptation." And that's why it is largely unnecessary to discuss the more complex copyright doctrine of "fair use." Rowling's rights over the guide don't exist to begin with, so we don't need to go there.
The closest relevant legal precedent is the 2002 Beanie Baby decision by Judge Richard Posner (who has a taste for cases involving stuffed animals). Ty, the producer of Beanie Babies, doesn't like unauthorized guides to the Beanie Baby universe and their unflattering tendency to criticize the company, so it sued. Ruling against the company, Judge Posner used the same analogy that I have, comparing the guides to book reviews: "Both," he said, "are critical and evaluative as well as purely informational; and ownership of a copyright does not confer a legal right to control public evaluation of the copyrighted work."
It would be strange to say that since Fodor has written a perfectly good guide to London, we don't need the Lonely Planet or, for that matter, Wikitravel. Giving Rowling what she wants would be like giving Egypt the power to control guides to the pyramids. (Its insane!)
Bizarrely, Rowling says that the fan guide would prevent her from writing her own guide to the Potter world. "I cannot," she said in a statement "approve of 'companion books' or 'encyclopedias' that seek to preempt my definitive Potter reference book. …" To begin with, Rowling sounds entirely too much like a Death Eater in this quote. More generally, two products in the same market isn't called pre-emption—the word is competition. Why not let consumers decide which guide they like better? Rowling might object that the fan's guide will be strewn with errors or poorly written; but it is hardly the job of copyright to protect us from bad execution. And the fan's guide might actually be better, or at least different.
But a general rule of the kind she is asking for isn't so generous: It would, by necessity, give copyright owners power over the content of Wikipedia and other online encyclopedias that discuss their works. Not the end of the world, but certainly a subtle form of thought control.
by Tim Wu, Thank you for reading, Ed
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Until recently one could order this decaf already ground. Now one can order only the caffeinated ground. I find this to be a real drag. PLEASE go back to grinding this for us!
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Wow, a GOOD decaf!
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Didn't realize there was such thing as excellent-tasting decaf until I happened to find this in my local supermarket. Love the aroma. No cons. A satisfying cup of coffee.
tasty decaf, plays well with others
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This is a very nice basic decaf coffee that tastes great on its own but also mixes very well with full-caffeinated coffees. My favorite mix is the House Blend Decaf with the Ethiopian Yirgacheffe.