My OperaValentine's day.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 4:30:14 PM
Tomorrow it is. I stay alone, but do not scared of facing my loneliness.
Love my love, that;s the way I feel happy.
P/S: My lesson. Paste it here to remind myself to......read it hehehee.
Hollywood writers have voted to end a three-month strike that crippled film and television production. As Mike O'Sullivan reports, Hollywood is breathing a sigh of relief after the worst labor dispute in decades.
Writers Guild of America, West members cast their ballots in Beverly Hills, 12 Feb 2008
Writers Guild of America, West members cast their ballots in Beverly Hills, 12 Feb 2008
The writers walked off the job November 5. Tuesday, Patric Verrone, president of the Writers Guild of America West, said they will end the 100-day strike.
"The membership has voted. Writers can go back to work," Verrone said.
Nearly 3800 members of the guild cast their ballots in New York and Los Angeles, with more than 92 percent voting to end the strike. The writers will be back on the job Wednesday. New episodes of television series could be available in four-six weeks.
The dispute centered on payment for movies, television shows and other creative work that is streamed over the Internet. Under a tentative agreement, the writers would get a maximum flat fee of $1,200 per program in the first two years, then two percent of a distributor's gross revenue in the third year. The union's board of directors approved the deal Sunday.
Leslie Moonves, chief executive of the CBS network, told the Associated Press the agreement was a fair one. Union officials say it was not all they wanted, but they can live with the deal.
Although the strike is over, Writers Guild members need to ratify the pact by February 25.
The end to the strike means Hollywood's annual celebration, the Academy Awards, can go ahead as scheduled, February 24. The threat of picketing writers had reduced the Golden Globes last month to a news conference.
The strike stopped production of dozens of television shows and slowed production on movies. One Los Angeles economist says it cost the local economy at least $3 billion.
Lesson 3 for the day after
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made a historic apology to the country's Aboriginal people for past mistreatment. Mr. Rudd said past policies of assimilation under which indigenous children were taken from their families were a 'stain on the nation's soul'. From Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory, Phil Mercer reports.
Prominent Australian Aborigine Lowitja O'Donoghue, left, and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd talk after official apology speech, 13 Feb 2008
Prominent Australian Aborigine Lowitja O'Donoghue, left, and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd talk after official apology speech, 13 Feb 2008
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has apologized to the 'Stolen Generations'.
These were Aboriginal children who were taken from their families in an attempt to dilute indigenous culture. They were the victims of an assimilation policy that began in 1910 and lasted into the early 1970s.
Mr. Rudd said it was a dark period in the nation's history and issued a formal apology in the nation's parliament in Canberra.
"For the pain, suffering and hurt of these 'Stolen Generations', their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry," he said. "To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for the breaking up of families and communities, we say sorry; and for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry."
The declaration has come 11 years after an official report on Australia's past assimilation policies, which urged the government to issue a formal apology.
The conservative former prime minister, John Howard, refused to take such a step, insisting that current generations of Australians should not apologize for injustices of the past.
Opinion polls have suggested that many Australians agree with Mr. Howard's stance and believe it was not necessary to say sorry.
Tribal elders are welcoming Prime Minister Rudd's apology, saying that for the first time they feel embraced and valued by Australian society.
Mr. Rudd says the problems faced by Australia's Aborigines - very high rates of ill-health, unemployment and imprisonment - are so serious that he plans to assemble a so-called 'war cabinet' to address them.
However, tackling such disadvantage has been beyond governments in the past. Indigenous people, who comprise two percent of the country's population of 21 million, have a life expectancy 17 years shorter than other Australians.
happy studying
Love my love, that;s the way I feel happy.
P/S: My lesson. Paste it here to remind myself to......read it hehehee.
Hollywood writers have voted to end a three-month strike that crippled film and television production. As Mike O'Sullivan reports, Hollywood is breathing a sigh of relief after the worst labor dispute in decades.
Writers Guild of America, West members cast their ballots in Beverly Hills, 12 Feb 2008
Writers Guild of America, West members cast their ballots in Beverly Hills, 12 Feb 2008
The writers walked off the job November 5. Tuesday, Patric Verrone, president of the Writers Guild of America West, said they will end the 100-day strike.
"The membership has voted. Writers can go back to work," Verrone said.
Nearly 3800 members of the guild cast their ballots in New York and Los Angeles, with more than 92 percent voting to end the strike. The writers will be back on the job Wednesday. New episodes of television series could be available in four-six weeks.
The dispute centered on payment for movies, television shows and other creative work that is streamed over the Internet. Under a tentative agreement, the writers would get a maximum flat fee of $1,200 per program in the first two years, then two percent of a distributor's gross revenue in the third year. The union's board of directors approved the deal Sunday.
Leslie Moonves, chief executive of the CBS network, told the Associated Press the agreement was a fair one. Union officials say it was not all they wanted, but they can live with the deal.
Although the strike is over, Writers Guild members need to ratify the pact by February 25.
The end to the strike means Hollywood's annual celebration, the Academy Awards, can go ahead as scheduled, February 24. The threat of picketing writers had reduced the Golden Globes last month to a news conference.
The strike stopped production of dozens of television shows and slowed production on movies. One Los Angeles economist says it cost the local economy at least $3 billion.
Lesson 3 for the day after
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made a historic apology to the country's Aboriginal people for past mistreatment. Mr. Rudd said past policies of assimilation under which indigenous children were taken from their families were a 'stain on the nation's soul'. From Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory, Phil Mercer reports.
Prominent Australian Aborigine Lowitja O'Donoghue, left, and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd talk after official apology speech, 13 Feb 2008
Prominent Australian Aborigine Lowitja O'Donoghue, left, and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd talk after official apology speech, 13 Feb 2008
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has apologized to the 'Stolen Generations'.
These were Aboriginal children who were taken from their families in an attempt to dilute indigenous culture. They were the victims of an assimilation policy that began in 1910 and lasted into the early 1970s.
Mr. Rudd said it was a dark period in the nation's history and issued a formal apology in the nation's parliament in Canberra.
"For the pain, suffering and hurt of these 'Stolen Generations', their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry," he said. "To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for the breaking up of families and communities, we say sorry; and for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry."
The declaration has come 11 years after an official report on Australia's past assimilation policies, which urged the government to issue a formal apology.
The conservative former prime minister, John Howard, refused to take such a step, insisting that current generations of Australians should not apologize for injustices of the past.
Opinion polls have suggested that many Australians agree with Mr. Howard's stance and believe it was not necessary to say sorry.
Tribal elders are welcoming Prime Minister Rudd's apology, saying that for the first time they feel embraced and valued by Australian society.
Mr. Rudd says the problems faced by Australia's Aborigines - very high rates of ill-health, unemployment and imprisonment - are so serious that he plans to assemble a so-called 'war cabinet' to address them.
However, tackling such disadvantage has been beyond governments in the past. Indigenous people, who comprise two percent of the country's population of 21 million, have a life expectancy 17 years shorter than other Australians.
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