| Itinerary | ||
| Date | Flight | Routing Details |
| Sun Jan 25 | 1160 | Depart SAN FRANCISCO CA (SFO) at 1:20 PM Arrive in CHICAGO-MIDWAY (MDW) at 7:40 PM |
| 891 | Change planes in CHICAGO-MIDWAY (MDW) departing at 8:25 PM Arrive in HARTFORD CT (BDL) at 11:20 PM |

Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse.
The Lovers represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made.
Originally, this card was called just LOVE. And that's actually more apt than "Lovers." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that the you have or will come across a person, career, challenge or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.
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The Senate has passed an Orphan Works bill on behalf of huge companies as a way of gaining money after the recent crash on Wall Street. This bill forces copyright holders to subsidize giant copyright databases run by giant internet firms, basically taking copyrights held by small business owners and artists for their own.
As I understand it, the bill would create enormous searchable databanks of copyrighted artistic works. Anyone who wished to register their copyrighted works would be charged a fee by these databases. Downside #1.
Downside #2: Anyone wishing to use a copyrighted work could theoretically search these databanks and, if their search came up with a copyrighted image, the databank would take a cut from the holder when payment for use was made. So what before was a basically simple business deal -- I pay you, I use your image -- now becomes "I pay you and this company that has charged you to register."
Downside #3 is that if the image was not found, it would be assumed that the copyright no longer held and the image could be used without any further diligence. Which would mean that if you don't pay to put your copyright into this bank, anyone who wanted to use your work for profit could do so quite easily under the assumption that your work was not in fact copyrighted.
To make #3 that little bit more evil, the bill also redefines an "Orphan Work", currently identified as a work where the copyright holder or creator has died, as any work by any author that any potential user ever finds hard to find. Which means that if you don't feel like looking very hard, and someone didn't pay to put their images into the databank, you get a free pass. Which is pretty much like saying if you're too lazy to do your homework, you get an A.
The bill is being hotlined through Congress. It's incredibly easy to tell them they're being assholes: just go HERE.
There is more information at Jean and Twirly's journals, both reputable artists in fandom.
The Illustrators Partnerships has more information here: http://ipaorphanworks.blogspot.com/.
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