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NOTE ON APPELLATE DEVELOPMENTS
(Posted May 11, 2018) Let's take a quick scan of the countryside and identify some matters of interest in the appellate world.
New Fourth Circuit Nominees
The president has nominated one judge and one lawyer to fill seats on the Fourth Circuit. US District Judge Marvin Quattlebaum and AUSA Jay Richardson were tapped to replace Judges Dennis Shedd, who took senior status recently, and William Traxler, who will do so this summer. Both nominees are on the young side; Quattlebaum is in his early 50s and Richardson is in his early 40s.
Given Republican control of the Senate and the elimination of the filibuster rule, I expect both nominations to receive the Senate's consent before the midterm elections six months hence.
Lawyers Hall of Fame
Virginia Lawyers Weekly has created a hall of fame for Virginia judges and lawyers. The publication recently announced its inaugural class of 33 members.
I will confess that upon reading the list of honorees, I was struck by what I perceived as a geographic bias in favor of lawyers and judges from Richmond and the State of Northern Virginia. Fully 75% of the names on the list were from those regions; Tidewater, by contrast, got only three (attorneys Anita Poston, Conrad Shumadine, and Hunter Sims, each of whom richly deserves the honor). Summoning all the righteous indignation I could muster, I fired off a complaint e-mail to my pal Paul Fletcher, the publisher of VLW, citing the obvious bias.
Of course, Paul set me straight: He pointed out that roughly ¾ of Virginia's lawyers work in those two regions. Tidewater's paltry delegation actually approximates our percentage of members of the state's bar. And while I had listed examples of several fully qualified Tidewater lawyers, VLW didn't receive nominations for them, so that explains their omission from the list.
Thus chastened, I wrote back to Paul and admitted defeat. But just you wait: Next year, the nominations will be awash with folks from the correct side of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel.
Two last points: None of the lawyers on the list hail from Virginia's most populous city, a surprising development in my view. And it's conspicuous for its absence of appellate practitioners. There are no appellate lawyers and only one appellate jurist (Senior Justice Liz Lacy, also a well-qualified honoree). We'll have to do something next year about that, too.
A new stats feature
Unless you're very new around here, you know that I'm not afraid of numbers. I devour statistics and am only too happy to dive into the appellate courts' annual statistical reports, to see what insight I can divine from them.
Over the past few years, I've sensed a jurisprudential shift in the Supreme Court of Virginia. A far as I know, no one else posts statistical analysis of the court's holdings. (It's different for the Big Supremes in Washington; for them, there's a wonderful site known as Empirical SCOTUS, which I recommend highly. Virginia posts a few stats in its annual State of the Judiciary report, but that's focused on workload, not outcomes.) So it's probably up to me to report on what I see.
I have written here recently, though irregularly, about the Supreme Court's rightward shift in its published opinions over the past several years. Not all rulings have a right-left axis, of course; there's no "liberal" side to a boundary line dispute, an equitable-distribution ruling, or a collection on a commercial surety bond. But many of the SCV's decisions come in cases that have a reasonably definable big-guy-vs.-little-guy dynamic. We can analyze those over time to see how the court's rulings have changed. And I have.
First, a word about what comprises each camp. The one for the big guys includes most circumstances where the government is one of the litigants – criminal appeals, tax challenges, tort-claims-act litigation, and so forth. It also includes insurance companies and manufacturers in tort cases, employers in wrongful-termination suits and Workers' Comp claims, and so forth. You get the idea. I have taken to referring to these two camps in my own mind as David and Goliath – just to indicate their relative size, without any moral judgments.
You don't have to go back very far to find a time when the two were fighting on even terms. From 2005 through 2009, Goliath won 51% of the time, about as close to a dead heat as you can get. In theory, trial judges who err should do so in favor of David or Goliath in roughly equal numbers, so that 51/49 split seems normal.
That began to change as the decade turned. From 2010 to 2015, Goliath won about 65% of the time. The number of cases is statistically significant, in my view; this shift isn't an aberration. It probably represents a rightward vector in the court's composition, with correspondingly more rulings favoring Goliath.
But Goliath was only building up momentum. In 2016, he forced David to accept the appellate silver medal in 82% of published opinions. In 2017, we got the same result, 82% in Goliath's favor. Where David was once able to hold his own, these days he's losing nine out of every eleven appeals.
This trend is proving durable enough that I've decided to make it a continuing feature here. Every three months, I'll post what I call the David-Goliath Index, a sort of scoreboard of the quarter's appellate outcomes – at least, those that are published – with the percentage of appellate victories by David and Goliath, respectively. For the first quarter of this year, the Index is 30/70. So far in 2018, David is putting up a good fight.
Controversy in an unusual locale
The national appellate guild has been abuzz about the recent SCOTUS argument in Trump v. Hawaii, involving the president's travel ban. Solicitor General Noel Francisco concluded his argument by insisting that the president "made crystal-clear on September 25 that he had no intention of imposing the Muslim ban."
What's wrong with that? Well, let's start with the fact that, as a few reporters showed, the president made no such statement on September 25. He did give a speech that day – in Saudi Arabia – but never mentioned the travel ban. That very public disclosure prompted the SG to deliver a letter to the SCOTUS Clerk, stating that he had misspoken; he meant to say January 25. On that day, the president spoke with David Muir of ABC News:
"You're about to sign a sweeping executive action to suspend immigration to this country," Muir said.
"Right," Trump answered.
"Who are we talking about? Is this the Muslim ban?" Muir asked.
"We're talking about — no it's not the Muslim ban," Trump answered. "But it's countries that have tremendous terror. It's countries that we're going to be spelling out in a little while in the same speech. And it's countries that people are going to come in and cause us tremendous problems."
This letter shifted the discussion topic to whether these words were a "crystal clear" repudiation of a Muslim ban, especially when compared with the president's many statements to the contrary, both before and after the interview.
It is not my purpose – nor is it within my power – to sort out the underlying dispute. For you, my dear readers, it is only to mention that this short statement has focused attention, probably unwanted, on the Office of the Solicitor General. As I've mentioned here before, the SG is the highest-ranking person in the government who actually practices law, as we conceive it. His two bosses, the Attorney General and the Chief Deputy AG, are administrators who don't write and sign pleadings or argue cases. The Solicitor is, from a law-practice standpoint, It.
I'm here to assure you that the Office of the SG does not admit schnooks into its employ. These are some of the highest-quality lawyers in government anywhere. The Solicitor himself is often referred to as "the tenth Justice," reflecting the respect the Court has for the Solicitor's views. The problem with the SG's misstatement is that, if the Robes perceive it is truly inaccurate, it will impair the credibility of the office and the official. This is unfamiliar territory for these folks, and they probably figure that the sooner they get back out of the public eye, the better.
By the way, I can't let this go without a practice tip for you. If you do "misspeak" in one of your oral arguments, it is entirely appropriate to write a prompt letter pointing that out, and correcting the error. But if you do so, be sure to keep it as short as humanly possible, and do not use the letter as an excuse to expand upon your argument. Here, in full, are the "guts" of the Solicitor's letter to the Clerk, as an illustration of how simple to keep it:
Dear Mr. Harris:
At oral argument in this matter last week, I referred during my rebuttal to a statement by the President "on September 25." Transcript 81:17-19. I intended to refer to the President's statement on January 25, 2017, that is cited in the government's reply brief at page 28, note 8.
I would appreciate if you could distribute this letter to the Members of the Court.
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Because of his absence last week Dennis didn't get the chance to go off about the whole Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien debockle. And then as things heated up this past week and threats were made by NBC toward Conan if he didn't comply this just added fuel to Dennis' flame. It was hard for him this week... waiting until Monday's show to let out the pure venom toward the chinned late-night dumb ass. But finally the day arrived and without missing a beat our co-host ranted ... Más informaciones like never before. It's a rare occasion on our show that any one of us talks without being interrupted or spoken over for more than a few sentences, but today, Dennis sets a Who Asked You? record for NOT being interrupted. A record we'll never break. He lets Jeff Zucker, Jay Leno and NBC have it for nearly sixteen minutes. We jump in for a moment or two here and there. But for most of this quarter hour, Dennis is solely responsible. We'll note this day in the Who Asked You? logs and maybe someday we'll break the record. Probably when a new Star Wars trilogy comes out and Mike loses his mind. Or when JJ Abrams' next Star Trek releases and Chase starts mailing death threats. We'll see what the future of unabridged rants holds for the crew.
Once all that is out of Dennis' system we move along to the latest news regarding Spider-Man 4 and how this will be the last news regarding it from this day on. Why is that you ask? Well, it's not because we're boycotting the film out of some specific anger. Or because all the news for it is done and now it's ready to start shooting... in fact, it's quite the opposite of that. Tune in to hear why.
And we've received trillions of E-Mails asking us to update you on the purchase of the Terminator franchise since we last talked about it. Clearly there is a huge amount of interest in the film's future... and clearly, text on a webpage has once again ineffectively conveyed sarcasm. Whether it's important or not, we mull over the facts, prices and future home possibility of our favorite T-101.
And we've also got a story today that's just too funny to spoil here. We want you to tune into the show to hear this one. All we'll say is it involves a pretty well known actor and an unfortunate event that occurs during shooting. And the title of today's episode is a reference to part of this story. Now we know your interest is peeked!
This episode of the show also features another round of Who Fact You?. We haven't done it in a while so we thought we'd fill time with non-sensical data. Wait... that's pretty much every episode... let me try that again. We're doing Who Fact You? on today's show so get ready to learn some fun factoids.
Finally, someone has taken the time to learn whether or not fish actually do remember things for more than three-seconds. The results are startling and can heard in a segment we introduced a few weeks back called According To A New Study. Dennis however, has a Who Fact You? moment of his own and fills us in on the dangers of Asian Carp and what state governments are doing to stop them. Riveting!
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The Hoppip Family
Immediately after Sudowoodo comes an actual grass type, and it's a reasonably interesting one, I suppose. Its concept is a sort of weed that can fly, like a helicopter, by spinning its two jagged leaves. Cute, although the leaves would have to be a separate piece spinning around in some sort of socket. How does that work?
I do like that the body of this grass type is sort of a completely nondescript animal. It really is a "plant monster" in that sense. Nowadays, most grass types are either a pure plant creature or some specific animal, sometimes even a human.
Hoppip goes from a leafy weed to a buttercup-like flower when it evolves into Skiploom, and now uses its ears more like wings as it parachutes on the wind.
Wouldnt JumPUFF have worked a little better as the name? What the heck is "pluff?" In any case, Jumpluff represents something like a dandelion seed, and it's certainly cute enough. It actually looks a lot like Oddish, complete with red eyes, though they had an anime episode in which an Oddish believed it was a Hoppip, rather than one of these.
Isn't it also kind of odd that a seed is the final stage in this line? It's interesting, certainly, but it doesn't really add up, does it? It should technically go seed, plant, flower, right? Jumpluff is still the most interesting of the three, so I wouldn't change the order, but it doesn't exactly work as a "life cycle."
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Quiz Bowl and Speaker Highlight Double Virtual Oxford Science Cafe
Audience participation event, lecture scheduled for March 16 and 25 via Zoom
March 9, 2021 by Edwin B. Smith
Staci Bilbo, professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University, will lead the second Oxford Science Cafe presentation for the month, on March 25. Submitted photo
Gavin Davies, UM assistant professor of physics and astronomy. Photo by Christian Johnson/Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services
Two separate events – including a science-focused trivia contest – will make up the virtual Oxford Science Cafe for March at the University of Mississippi. Both events, sponsored by the Department of Physics and Astronomy, are free and open to the public.
The first event will be a quiz bowl in which participants – including the audience – can test their knowledge of science trivia in a battle of wits. This event begins at 6 p.m. March 16 and will be hosted by resident quizmaster Gavin Davies, UM assistant professor of physics and astronomy.
The second program will be a March 25 presentation by Staci Bilbo, professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University. Bilbo's talk, which begins at 5:30 p.m., is "The Mind-Body Connection and the Secret Life of Your Immune System."
"Activation of the immune system via illness, poor nutrition or a stressful environment in youth can alter early brain development and impact adult mood, physical health and ability to think, and can influence health outcomes like obesity and drug use," Bilbo said. "Understanding how the immune system interacts with the body and brain to produce these results guides our ability to lessen their harm.
"Social factors like poverty, pollution and addiction contribute to activation of the immune system. Thus, it is also important to work with communities to dampen the devastating influence of these social factors on the growing brain."
Topics to be addressed during the 45-minute webcast include research in an animal model examining the impact of combined environmental stressors during pregnancy on offspring mental health outcomes.
"In addition, I'll talk about how these impacts may be mitigated by targeting the immune system," Bilbo said.
To view both Science Cafe programs, visit https://olemiss.zoom.us/j/97568315885.
For more information about the Department of Physics and Astronomy, visit https://physics.olemiss.edu/.


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Q: maclaurin series $\ln \left(\frac{1+x^2}{1-x^2}\right)$ I know that the Maclaurin seriess is: $\sum_{n=1}^\infty c_n(x)^n$ and $c_n = \frac{f^{n}(0)}{n!}$
$\ln \left(\frac{1+x^2}{1-x^2}\right)$
$f^0 = \ln (1+0) - \ln (1-0) = 0$
$f^{(1)} = \frac{4x}{(1+x^2)(1-x^2)} = 0$
$f^{(2)} = \frac{12x^4 + 4}{(1+x^2)^2(1-x^2)^2} = 4$
$\frac{0x^1}{1} + \frac{0x^2}{2!} + \frac{4x^2}{3!} ...$
I must have done a mistake, because I can't find the answer with that and $f^{(3)}$ seems insane.

A: Since the function is defined for $|x|<1$, you can write it as
$$
f(x)=\ln(1+x^2)-\ln(1-x^2)
$$
You surely know the Maclaurin series
$$
\ln(1+t)=\sum_{n\ge1}\frac{(-1)^{n+1}t^n}{n}
\qquad
\ln(1-t)=-\sum_{n\ge1}\frac{t^n}{n}
$$
and so
$$
\ln(1+x^2)=\sum_{n\ge1}\frac{(-1)^{n+1}x^{2n}}{n}
$$
and
$$
\ln(1-x^2)=-\sum_{n\ge1}\frac{x^{2n}}{n}
$$
Hence
$$
f(x)=
\sum_{n\ge1}\frac{(-1)^{n+1}x^{2n}}{n}+
\sum_{n\ge1}\frac{x^{2n}}{n}
$$
What are the terms that "survive"?

Only those with odd $n$, so you get $$\sum_{\substack{n\ge1\\n\text{ odd}}}\frac{2x^{2n}}{n}=\sum_{n\ge1}\frac{2x^{4n-2}}{2n-1}=\sum_{n\ge0}\frac{2x^{4n+2}}{2n+1}$$

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Victor L. Wooten, author of The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth through Music, answers our book club readers' questions.
The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music is a story about a struggling bassist in Nashville interrupted by an eccentric wise man – and the unexpected journey that ensues. Connect: 21CM Book Club selected the book for its September reading, and now Mark Rabideau speaks with the author about the ideas that went into his book, and how we can apply them to our own musical lives. He also presents Wooten with the questions that readers submitted.
Regaled as the most influential bassist since Jaco Pastorius, Victor is known for his solo recordings and tours, and as a member of the Grammy-winning supergroup, Béla Fleck & The Flecktones. He is an innovator on the bass guitar, as well as a talented composer, arranger, producer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist.


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The spectroscopic basis of fluorescence triple correlation spectroscopy
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Ridgeway, William, Ph.D. in Biology, Scripps Research 2003 - 2011
Ridgeway, William
Millar, David
Journal of Physical Chemistry B Journal
We have developed fluorescence triple correlation spectroscopy (F3CS) as an extension of the widely used fluorescence microscopy technique fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. F3CS correlates three signals at once and provides additional capabilities for the study of systems with complex stoichiometry, kinetic processes, and irreversible reactions. A general theory of F3CS was developed to describe the interplay of molecular dynamics and microscope optics, leading to an analytical function to predict experimental triple correlations of molecules that freely diffuse through the tight focus of the microscope. Experimental correlations were calculated from raw fluorescence data using triple correlation integrals that extend multiple-tau correlation theory to delay times in two dimensions. The quality of experimental data was improved by tuning specific spectroscopic parameters and employing multiple independent detectors to minimize optoelectronic artifacts. Experiments with the reversible system of freely diffusing 16S rRNA revealed that triple correlation functions contain symmetries predicted from time-reversal arguments. Irreversible systems are shown to break these symmetries, and correlation strategies were developed to detect time-reversal asymmetries in a comprehensive way with respect to two delay times, each spanning many orders of magnitude in time. The correlation strategies, experimental approaches, and theory developed here enable studies of the composition and dynamics of complex systems using F3CS.
Exoribonucleases
Spectrometry, Fluorescence
10.1021/jp208605z


This method is a versatile test where two similar laces are abraded together.
Laces should be stored in a standard controlled atmosphere for at least 48 hours before testing. One of the two laces used at each of the six stations has both ends of the lace clamped in the carrier provided. The second lace is threaded through the loop created by the first lace. One end of the second lace is fixed to a moving carrier while the other is attached to a weight that tensions the lace to 2.45N.
When the machine is started the action of the moving carrier causes the two laces to abrade. The machine moves each lace a distance of 35mm at a frequency of 60 cycles per minute. Each station has a separate counter and, when a lace breaks, the count is stopped on that station. When all six laces have broken, the machine will stop. STM 439 is provided with hand control for ease of setting and is fully guarded to comply with European Health and Safety requirements.
The same machine can be used to test the abrasion effects of rubbing the lace through a lace carrier or hook, for example eyelets, D-rings, ski hooks and others.


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Home > News > Blame it on the rain!...
Blame it on the rain!
It's often said in cricketing circles, that if you're about to host a big cricket match, be prepared for the rain to come along too.
This year the international cricket series with the West Indies has been seriously affected by inclement weather up and down the country.The first test was almost a washout in Dunedin. Napier was one of the few places where the gods smiled for the whole match.
The first one dayer was abandoned in Queenstown, hail halted play for some time in the 2nd match in Christchurch, Wellington escaped without interruption although it was windy and Auckland yesterday started off dry and humid but the cloud and rain rolled in later.
What must be frustrating for the organisers is that either side of the scheduled matches, the weather has often been brilliantly fine and in some cases, very hot.
Last summer however was a different story with the touring England team and almost no play was stopped by bad light or wet weather. It's just one of those things that we can't control but it can be so frustrating for the officials, players and of course the fans.
There have been occasions however when rain has come to the aid of a side that has been struggling and about to lose a match. The game ends up being a draw when the heavens have opened but if you're on the winning team, you'd be wanting to build an indoor arena asap!
On one occasion in England, a first class game was called off due to snow on the pitch…let's hope that doesn't occur for the remainder of the summer here!
Fingers crossed that the last match in the series on Tuesday in Napier is fine but there is the risk of a shower with a coolish southerly at this stage. The touring Indians arrive in a few weeks time – on current form perhaps the Black Caps might want to pray for rain!!
Weather Analyst – Richard Green


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Neptune was named after the Roman sea god Neptune. The name fits well, because it has such a beautiful blue color, just like the sea.
It is also very cold there, -214 °C. Here on Earth we think it's cold when it is -20 °C.
Uranus and Neptune are often called Ice Giants to distinguish them from the Gas Giants.
Neptun fikk navnet sitt etter den romerske havguden Neptun. Det passer jo, for den har så fin blåfarge, akkurat som sjøen.
Det er også veldig kaldt der, -214 °C! Vi her på Jorda synes det er kaldt med -20 °C.
Neptun er så stor, at nesten 60 jordkloder kan få plass inni den!
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My Daughter and I got a 2nd Place for "Picture Books 6 & Older" and a Honorable Mention for "Education", for our educational picture book "The Universe a Work of Art". A children's book about astronomy. Check it out on Amazon or iBooks.
My other awards can be found here.
The strangest planet must be Uranus. It lies at an angle, so that the north and south pole is where most other planets have their equator.
Uranus was not discovered until 1781. It has a blue-green color due to the presence of methane gas.
Uranus has the coldest planetary atmosphere in the Solar System, with a minimum temperature of approximately −224 °C.
Uranus takes 84 years to orbit our Sun.
Den merkeligste planeten må være Uranus. Den ligger på skrå, med ringene i en uvant vinkel. Uranus ble ikke oppdaget før i 1781. Den har en blågrønn farge som skyldes metan.
Metangassen sluker nemlig rødt og gult sollys, men sender tilbake blått sollys.
Uranus bruker hele 84 år på å gå i bane rundt Sola.
Hittil er det funnet 27 måner og 13 ringer rundt Uranus.
Saturn is the second largest planet in our Solar System and is about 800 times larger than Earth.
Saturn takes approximately 29.5 years to orbit our Sun. Currently, there have been 62 moons found around Saturn.
Saturn has the second largest moon in our solar system. It's called Titan.
Titan is the only object in space other than Earth where clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found.
Saturn er den nest største planeten i vårt solsystem, og er omtrent 800 ganger større enn Jorda.
Saturn bruker omtrent 29.5 år på runden rundt Sola. Det er foreløpig funnet 62 måner rundt Saturn.
Saturn har den nest største månen i solsystemet vårt. Den heter Titan.
Det er den eneste månen i solsystemet som har en atmosfære med skyer og regn.
This shows how small Earth is compared to Jupiter, which is the largest planet in our Solar System.
"The Great Red Spot" you see on the left of Jupiter, is a huge whirlwind (hurricane) that has raged there for over 350 years!
Jupiter has at least 79 moons. One of Jupiters moons, Europa is covered in ice.
Her ser du hvor liten Jorda er i forhold til Jupiter som er den største planeten i Solsystemet vårt.
Den store røde flekken er en virvelstorm som har rast i over 350 år.
Det er til nå funnet 79 måner som går i bane rundt Jupiter.
Den ene månen, Europa, er dekket av is.
My plan, this past summer, was to work on one story and get it polished and ready for rejection by Alaska Quarterly, One Story, and Glimmer Train, some of my favorite journals.
That's an inside joke for the Rejection Club, four writers who decided to send out work at a fast clip and to keep score and compare notes, with the winner (loser) assigned to treat the rest of us to a bottle of wine in our favorite pub at the end of a year.
I had traditionally sent out one story to one journal and waited for a response. Sometimes it was months in coming. Sometimes it never came. "If this happens, they are just not interested in your work" is the general wisdom. At this rate, months become years and the work waited patiently in my computer. My three writer friends followed more or less the same routine.
It was on my calendar to take a workshop with Lisa Romeo at the Writers' Circle called Submission Strategy. Lisa's spreadsheet was a revelation to me. I began to keep better records of what I sent, where I sent it, the date, the outcome—rejection, yes, but as Lisa said, garner any feedback you get.
generations; and I was bringing my chapters of a novella to workshop to be picked over for problems of consistency, tone, and point of view. In addition, we all had stories, essays, short-shorts, and other bits and pieces in reserve.
We proceeded to build our attack. We met and exchanged literary journals, to improve our knowledge of what they published and what the editors liked. I came home with an armload of Ploughshares, which I had never read despite its reputation, and I passed out copies of Chattahoochee Review, where I'd been lucky in the past. I had a lot of back issues of One Story for the taking. I picked up copies of Gulf Coast, New Letters, and Bellingham Review.
We also exchanged lists of journals looking for submissions or running contests. One member subscribes to Literistic, a good source. I subscribe to Practicing Writing, Erika Dreifus's daily blog, for the Monday list, and her monthly newsletter The Practicing Writer. There's Publishing . . . and other Forms of Insanity. And of course Poets & Writers is available to all of us, magazine or online, a great guide and vetted by P&W—no ripoffs there..
I got two rejections in a week. I'm surging ahead!
Do you know how many editors have "loved" this story but rejected it anyway?
Five agents have decided not to represent my novel.
I'm getting rejections from journals I don't even remember submitting to!
"Your submission was read with interest." But WAS it?
But we learned a lot. First, to take any word of encouragement as an invitation: "We liked your long story but there was no room for it in this issue." Or, better, "Try us again." A scribbled note in pencil on a standard rejection was to us fit for framing.
We got better at matching our work to certain journals. We send out work in batches, not one solitary story bearing our hopes for publication. Our common effort has lessened the pain of rejection—has actually given us many laughs. We're ready to start a new wave of stories flying in all direction, electronically and by snail mail.
It's going to work. It has already worked! A few days ago I received news that I had won the Faulkner-Wisdom Competition for The Novella. My writing friends will soon follow with their acceptances. And that bottle of wine is waiting.
Stonehenge, England, built more than 5000 years ago. The heavy stones, are called bluestones, because of their blue color. They were dragged all the way from the Presell Mountains in South Wales, 402 kilometers away. Still, some people think : The aliens built it!
Here you see our Earth, Moon and Sun.
Earth is the third planet from the Sun. I think its the most beautiful planet in our solar system, and we should take better care of it. The Moon's gravity is weaker than Earth's. That means you can jump six times higher on the Moon.
Her ser du Jorda, Månen og Sola.
Jorden er den tredje planeten fra Sola. Jeg syns det er den fineste planeten i vårt Solsystem, vi burde ta bedre vare på den. På Månen er tyndekraften mye svakere enn på Jorda. Det betyr at du kan hoppe 6 ganger høyere der.
Monthly facts brought to you from the book: The Universe a Work of Art.
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Photographic portraits of various artists: Ivan Miro, Fernand Leger, Yves Tanquy (by Man Ray), Alberto Giacometti, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Braque (2 copies), Max Ernst, Picasso (by Man Ray). Also includes a photograph of Dame Honour Fell and one featuring an unidentified individual.
Black and white photographic portraits, mostly of artists, Undated. Papers of Conrad Hal Waddington, Coll-41/9/5/7. Edinburgh University Library Special Collections. http://lac-archives-live.is.ed.ac.uk:8081/repositories/2/archival_objects/15527 Accessed April 25, 2019.


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Pakistani Church deplores suicide blast at Quetta hospital
The suicide blast left at least 70 people dead and more than 120 injured
The Catholic Church in Pakistan has condemned a suicide blast at a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, where at least 70 people — many of them lawyers and journalists — were killed and more than 120 injured.
The August 8 blast was carried out at the entrance of the emergency department of the hospital when the body of Bilal Anwar Kasi, president of Balochistan (provincial) Bar Association, was being taken after he was shot by two unidentified gunmen while on his way to court.
A faction of the Taliban, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, claimed responsibility for the hospital attack and the killing of Kasi. However, ISIS has also said it carried out the bomb attack.
"Killing innocent people is (an) inhuman act and totally unacceptable," said the National Commission for Justice and Peace, a rights-based organisation of the Pakistan Catholic Bishops' Conference, in a statement condemning the "tragic killing."
"The commission and the Catholic Church stand firmly with the people of Balochistan in this hour" and asked the government "to bring the perpetrators of this heinous crime to justice," said the Church statement signed by justice and peace officials, including Bishop Joseph Arshad of Faisalabad, chairman.
"This tragic incident has caused bereavement throughout the country," the statement said, offering prayers for peace and condolences to the families of the victims.
Pointing out that Balochistan province has experienced more than 1,400 incidents of violence and targeted killing over the past 15 years,
the statement urged the government of Pakistan to improve security measures.
"This is terrible," Cecil Shane Chaudhry, executive director of the justice and peace commission, told Catholic News Service from Lahore.
"The atmosphere is getting frightening. Lawyers and journalists are targeted like this."
While Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif expressed his "deep grief and anguish" over the killing, lawyers and journalists held protest demonstrations across several cities. According to local media reports, the slain Quetta Bar Association chief had condemned the early August killing of a lawyer and announced a two-day boycott of court sessions to protest the death.
On August 8, 2013, gunmen shot dead a police official in Quetta, and a suicide blast at the funeral claimed the lives of nearly 30 people, including several police officials.
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Malaysia's Anwar in Stress, Under Fire
Our Correspondent May 29, 2010
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, under the stress of a long-running trial accusing him of sexual perversion, is under increasing strain as the point man for his Parti Keadilan Rakyat, or People's Justice Party as he continues to be harried politically as well.
"Some analysts would point out that Anwar has to get PKR's house in order," a think-tank analyst in Kuala Lumpur told Asia Sentinel. "There is growing frustration within Anwar's coalition and his own party." In particular, PKR has lost five members of parliament and five statehouse members to defections in the two years since the Pakatan Rakyat opposition coalition stunned the Barisan Nasional, or ruling national coalition by breaking its two-thirds hold on parliament. By contrast, Parti Islam se-Malaysia and the Democratic Action Party have only lost one each.
With a number of PKR state assemblymen now wavering and clearly considering defecting, it is possible that the opposition coalition could lose the states of Selangor and Kedah, which they won in the 2008 election. The state of Perak has already been reclaimed by the Barisan although critics say it was through skullduggery rather than legitimate political action.
"Because it is Anwar's party, Keadilan was supposed to be the anchor, but it has been weak from the very start," said a source in Kuala Lumpur. Parti Keadilan is largely made up of young, urban professional ethnic Malays.
"The problem is that Keadilan, like Anwar himself, are mostly ex-members of (the United Malays National Organization) and a lot of them are in there for a quick buck – like Umno itself, I guess. Anwar is bogged down with his legal sodomy case-but more importantly, there is a loss of confidence in his leadership."
What should have given a wakeup call to both Anwar and his colleagues in the opposition Democratic Action Party, which is largely ethnic Chinese, was an announcement earlier this week that Parti Islam se-Malaysia the fundamentalist Islamic party with its roots in the rural northeast, will take in non-Muslim members and even allow them to stand as PAS electoral candidates.
As Asia Sentinel first reported last November, it is PAS that is capitalizing on the situation, rather than the Barisan Nasional, or ruling national coalition. Despite defections, the opposition coalition has won eight of 11 by-elections since the March 2008 general election. The latest was in Sarawak on May 16 when, despite three visits by Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and a cornucopia of educational goodies, voters again turned away from the Barisan, an indication that the Barisan and particularly UMNO continues to suffer from perceptions of corruption and political favoritism to cronies.
PAS's latest move, announced last week, was to allow members of its Supporters Club to become full members of the Islamic party, with the right to attend annual meetings as delegates. The Supporters Club has some 20,000 members, almost all of them Chinese, who have turned away from the Barisan Nasional. According to the think tank source in Kuala Lumpur, PAS may have more Chinese voters than the DAP
The Chinese, says the source, -- an ethnic Chinese as well -- are comfortable with PAS despite the Islamic party's emphasis on fundamentalist Islam because, unlike the Barisan and particularly UMNO, PAS has no designs on the Chinese business community's ownership of the economic sinews of the country. The country's New Economic Policy, in place for four decades, has been designed to transfer as much as 30 percent of the economic activity of the country to ethnic Malays.
"The proof is that we recognize supporters as our official party wing," PAS leader Abdul Hadi Awang told his party's newspaper Harakah Daily. The Islamic party has already placed a non-Muslim in a Terengganu constituency to contest as a PAS candidate.
"Whether this is for real or a political gambit, it is hard to say," the analyst said. "But it does suggest PAS is going after the Chinese vote."
That isn't to say there won't be tension. There are plenty of Islamic firebrands in PAS who detest Chinese dietary freedom – to eat pork and drink beer, for instance -- and lack of discretion in dress for women. There have been attempts by PAS to limit beer sales in some communities. Nonetheless, the source said, PAS may have even wider resonance among voters than the Chinese-oriented Democratic Action Party, another leg of the opposition coalition.
In the meantime, Anwar and Parti Keadilan have come under constant criticism for the quality of the candidates they have fielded and for disorganization and political infighting in the party itself. Abdul Hadi Awang and DAP national chairman Karpal Singh, among others, have urged Anwar to look into the weaknesses in his party that have caused the defections. Anwar has repeatedly spoken of the need to find better candidates.
Anwar has been under a cloud since June of 2008, when a then-24-year-old former aide, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, filed charges accusing the 62-year-old opposition leader of forcible sodomy. Sodomy in Malaysia is punishable by caning and up to 20 years in prison. The charges have since been reduced from forcible rape to consensual sex, which is still illegal under Malaysian law. The trial has droned on in a Kuala Lumpur courtroom for months, with Anwar's lawyers seeking delay after delay that has frustrated his followers, a growing number of whom say the trial so far appears to have been conducted on its merits rather than the previous sodomy charges brought against him in 1998 that put him behind bars for six years.
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In August, I created and launched the Ebook Writing Workshop, which brought in $2,474.20.
But the income is not the point of this article. The point is that you can create your own information product rapidly and without getting stuck in perfectionism.
It's easy to get stuck in the details when you're creating an ebook, a course, or an online workshop.
I want things to be perfect, and it has been a big problem for me in the past.
However, I've come up with a way to bypass all of that.
And in this article I'll share a 12-step process for how I do that.
Keep in mind that this is just one example of you can create and sell an information product. I'm constantly experimenting and learning, so things change over time.
But as you keep reading, you'll see what it can look like, and that will help spark ideas of your own.
Before we dive into the blueprint, let's briefly cover what an information product is.
To me, an information product is simply a term for teaching something via products, which could be delivered as text, audio or video.
For example, my Live Your Passion Course uses audio and video along with workbooks.
Another example is my membership community, you get text, audio, video, access to me, and a like-minded community. You get training, but you also get to ask as many questions as you want.
Now let's dive into the process for rapidly creating an information product that sells.
In order to sell an information product successfully, you have to solve a problem.
I've been doing this for a while, so I knew that people wanted to learn how to write and sell ebooks. It's something people have been telling me for years.
If you have an audience, you could survey them, or even offer free coaching calls to a few people to really get into what they are struggling with.
If you don't have an audience, look at forums in your niche, books on Amazon (and the reviews people leave), or other blogs and the comments there.
Find a problem people have that they are willing to pay for, and solve it.
Action Step: Pick one of the strategies above and see what problem you can solve that people are willing to pay for. It helps if you're passionate about the subject.
The next step is to see who's interested.
For this particular launch, I created an ebook called The Ebook Formula, which I made available for around 14 days.
After that, I deleted it.
I did this to encourage people to take action. It's easy to put things off when there are no deadlines.
The Ebook Formula was a short report. I created a separate page on my blog, where people could sign-up and grab it.
Action Step: Think about what you can give away that is valuable and relevant to the problem you're solving. If you help new moms lose their post-pregnancy weight, maybe you could give away a report on the common mistakes, or an interview with an expert.
Within a few weeks, I had several hundred people on that list. I also made sure to set the right expectations by telling them that I had a paid workshop coming.
I did not have any affiliates or partners helping me. I did all of this internally.
If you don't have your audience yet, you'll have to hustle more.
It's always going to be tough if you don't have an audience, which is why I recommend building a small audience before you launch your first information product.
Once your freebie is in place, and you've got a page up for it. Start telling people. If you have an audience, this is going to be easy.
Action Step: Send people to your freebie. Tell your blog readers. Send an email to your list. Recruit partners or ask friends for help.
Before the first person joined my email list, I set up an automatic welcome message with a simple question to help discover what people were having trouble with.
Derek Halpern has a great blog post on how to use simple questions to figure out what people want to buy from you.
Welcome to the exclusive Ebook Writing List.
Here's the link to The Ebook Formula.
Right-click and choose save as to save it to your computer.
I have a few things to cover first.
On August 20th, I'm opening the doors to the Ebook Writing Workshop.
In it you'll discover how to create an ebook in 31 days or less.
Even if you don't think you can write.
Or if you think you aren't an expert in anything.
There's going to be some fast-action bonuses available, so the sooner you get in, the more goodies you get.
I'll tell you about it on Monday!
Now, before you start reading The Ebook Formula, I have a quick question for you.
This question will help me deliver some nice exclusive content in the coming weeks.
What is your biggest obstacle/frustration/problem with writing and selling ebooks?
Thanks in advance for answering this.
If you have any questions, just hit reply and I shall be at your service, okay?
Feel free to copy that and use it as you wish.
When people reply, I'll often ask follow-up questions and try to learn more. I want to get the juicy specifics of what's holding people back.
Action Step: Set-up your email welcome message with a question, so you can learn more about what people are struggling with.
The next step is to develop a promise for your information product.
In other words, what will people get if they apply the information in your product?
In my Ebook Writing Workshop, people learn to write and sell an ebook in 31 days or less.
Your promise doesn't have to be huge, but it does have to tell people what they can expect. The bigger the result you can promise, the better, but you don't want to enter hype-land.
Making a promise will make you uncomfortable, because it puts the pressure on you. Make a promise you know you can deliver on and go from there.
Action Step: What result can people expect if they buy and implement what you have? This can be tough and scary, but it will make a world of difference once you sell it. If you aren't confident in what you have to sell, why should anyone else be?
By now, I have a pretty good idea of what people want, but I don't rely solely on the feedback I get, because people don't always know what they need to reach their goal.
In my Ebook Writing Workshop (no longer available, at least not always), I have one goal, and that is to help them take action and get their ebook done.
I use the feedback I get, but I also use the experiences I've gained throughout the years, and I boil it all down into simple, actionable steps.
The biggest mistake you can make at this point is to start adding in information that detracts from the main goal.
More information is not better, because the more you have in there, the more overwhelmed people will be, and the less action they will take.
Action Step: Open up your favorite word processor. Write your promise at the top. And start outlining the steps you will need to cover to get people to their goals.
Next, I write my sales page.
I used to dread writing sales pages, but now I view it more like writing a long article. I guess that's what happens when you write a dozen of them.
The trick is to not try and write them from scratch. Most sales pages follow the same template, so find a sales page you resonate with and use their structure.
I've used almost the same structure for all of my workshops, so I just take a look at the previous workshop sales page and use it as a springboard.
Action Step: Find a sales page you resonate with and use it as a starting point for your own. Look at the structure and fill in your own words.
A mistake I made with my first workshop was to wait too long before I started working on my first class.
On one occasion, I had to release a class on Monday, and when Sunday came rolling around, I hadn't gotten anything done.
I had to spend the whole day creating the class, and it wasn't fun, but I got it done. Ah, the power of deadlines.
Since then, I've started drafting my classes ahead of time. I leave myself wiggle-room so I can add in material depending on what people want.
Drafting ahead of time allows me to fill in most of the information I want to cover and it eliminates a lot of the stress.
Action Step: Start jotting down ideas you have for your classes. Create outlines, fill them in, and add ideas as you get them.
Building buzz is something I dismissed for a long time.
I assumed people would buy my information product if I just put it out there and it was good, but it doesn't quite work that way.
People miss emails. They're busy. They don't understand what's happening, or what you're offering.
There are so many reasons why people don't buy, even when they want to buy.
And you should do it several times.
You see this with Hollywood movies. They start building buzz many months, sometimes years ahead of time. They release short trailers, long trailers, and other goodies to get people excited.
Tell people 2-4 weeks before you launch what you're working on. Start dropping hints and give more and more details as you get closer to launch day.
Action Step: Tell people on your interest list what's coming, when and how it's all going down. And do it several times in different ways.
Once I've got everything in place, it's time to launch. And I say in place lightly, because nothing is really ever in place.
Launching information products this way is both scary and exciting, because you're slapping perfectionism right in the face.
By building buzz, your audience should already know when the launch is happening and what's going to happen.
Before launch day, I make sure everything is working. I test all the links, make sure the payment processor is up to par and that it's redirecting people to the right place.
On launch day I send out an email and tell people that it's open.
Action Step: Send everyone on your list an email and announce your launch. And remember to follow-up, because people don't always take action right away.
As I take my customers through my workshops, I ask them for feedback.
I let them know that if they have any questions, problems or random comments, they can shoot me an email.
I do this because I want to know what's missing, so I can make my product better.
If someone complains, I listen to them. I ask for more details, because I want to get better, and I want to help people get results.
To do this, you have to leave your ego at the door, because the ride can get bumpy.
Action Step: Constantly remind your customers that they can email you. Encourage them to ask questions and leave feedback, because that's how you'll improve.
Once you've taken people through the first round, take a deep breath and pat yourself on the back, you've just created your information product.
What I do at this point is make it into a home-study.
I gather all the materials, make sure they look good and tie up any loose ends, I then make it available to the world.
I now have an information product that anyone can buy at any time.
I did this with a handful of workshops I used to have, but I moved all of that into my membership community: Lifestyle Liberation Academy.
It's been an evolution for me. I started with small ebooks, which turned into courses, which turned into a membership site. I didn't plan this. I simply listened to my customers, and tried to help them even more.
Action Step: Wrap everything up, make sure your customers are happy, and create your first home-study. And voilá, you now have your own information product that you can keep selling over and over again.
Creating and selling your own information product takes a lot of work, which is why most people never do it. It may also be scary.
But the rewards are amazing.
If you're serious about turning your passion into a real business, one of the best ways to do it is to create your own information products.
Your first product will never be perfect.
Instead, look at it as an experiment. You're learning the process. You'll make mistakes, but you'll also get better.
I've created dozens of products, and I'm still learning. I'll never stop learning.
I constantly want to get better and help my customers get better results.
You've just read a lot of information, and it may be overwhelming, so take just one thing from this article and apply it.
And if you have any questions, feel free to drop them in the comments below and I'll answer them as soon as possible.
Hey Henri, you definitely know how to push the right buttons my friend.
The bit about "Making a promise"… oh boy, the solely thought that I HAVE to make a promise for my own course (and deliver it) gives me goosebumps and not in a good way.
The other thing that I really liked was setting a deadline just like you told me back on my blog.
I know from experience that this works so I guess I wanted to be comfortable by NOT setting a deadline for launching my training, something that is about to change.
Building buzz is something that I have never really cared about but I'm happy that you mentioned it here because I was wondering if people would just arrive to the sales page and buy.
It certainly doesn't looks like what it would happen in reality.
Anyway, awesome post bro, I enjoyed every single bit of it, concise, clean yet highly informative with zero fillers, gracias and keep up the good work!
Something I did when I was creating my first few products was to eliminate things that overwhelmed me.
That meant I didn't build a lot of buzz, for example. When you're first starting out, focus on getting the thing done, by whatever means possible. If that means setting a public deadline, then do that.
But even when you don't get it done, you learn and adapt, which you've done.
Love #1, it's the place where most people don't come from with their business and it's why they aren't successful. They know the solution, but, they aren't clear on the actual problem they are solving. Great to see that you outline this as the start to creating a product.
Ohhhh #5 really got me thinking and I realize I often underestimate the results because when I look at the results my clients receive it's substantially more, I need to work on this step!
Looking forward to sharing this with my community!
Good stuff, Tera. And yes, #5 (Your Promise) is a crucial one.
Simple steps, yes. What's the best way to build a list without buying traffic?
I'll probably write about this in the near future, so look out for a post on this.
Thanks Henri for sharing this informative article.
what is the very first step seeing i don't even have a website.
Please assist and keep up good work.
The first step would then be to find your niche. Find the intersection between what you love to do and what people are willing to pay for.
I'm going to have a lot more tutorials coming up on how to set-up everything from scratch, so make sure you come back regularly.
I wish I would have read this article a year ago before I wrote my first e-book. Now that I have these tips, I plan on taking your outline one step at a time for the next e-book. You site has been very inspirational. I keep finding myself gravitating to see what is next. I have a lot of work ahead of me, and now I am starting to understand which parts of the puzzle I was missing. I can't thank you enough for all your help.
Thanks for dropping by, Terri.
Excellent article. Having build a few lifestyle businesses here in Denmark, I'm just about to launch own information product (membership site) and I'm also writing on a book that should make it out last in the year.
One think people tend to forget is to make the freebie right now instead of waiting until they are launching the product.
I have a free ebook for people that sign up for my list and I did this even without knowing what I eventually would use the list for. But now that I'm getting ready to launch, it's great to have a ton of subscribers that I can send my offer to.
So if nothing else I would recommend that people created a freebie right now and started building a list!
I completely agree. Start building an audience/list as soon as possible. Even if you move to another niche, you can take the people with you that are interested.
Great Blog! I really enjoy reading your posts. You are a great communicator.


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Amy Schumer, Senator Chuck Schumer Team Up for Gun Control in Wake of Trainwreck Theater Shooting
"These shootings have got to stop," Amy Schumer said, holding back tears.
In an unlikely pairing, comedian Amy Schumer and her cousin, New York senator Chuck Schumer (D), held a joint press conference on Monday where they announced an actual comprehensive plan to tackle gun-control laws.
While Senator Schumer has long been an advocate for gun control, the issue became "extremely personal" for the actress after a mass shooting left two dead and nine injured. The shooting took place at a Louisiana screening of her new film, Trainwreck.
"These shootings have got to stop—I don't know how else to say it," she said during the conference, holding back tears. The deaths of Jillian Johnson and Mayci Breaux at the hands of John Houser—"I'm not gonna even say his name" said Amy—made her both "devastated" and "angry," and while she was unsure why Houser had decided to commit the shooting at her movie, she wasn't going to stop with a statement.
"My heart goes out to Jillian and Mayci, to the survivors, to the families, and everyone who was tied to the tragic, senseless, and horrifying actions of this man who shouldn't have been able to put his hands on a gun in the first place," a visibly upset Amy said.
The "Schumer & Schumer" plan has three parts: first, Senator Schumer will author legislation calling for an incentives system for states that submit background-check information to the federal government. (Essentially, states that submit that info get money; states that don't submit get some sort of penalty.) Second, the two called on Congress to fully fund the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and finally, they asked the Justice Department to author a report analyzing how states hold mentally ill patients in "involuntary commitment."
While Senator Schumer wryly noted that he almost never gets this much attention during his own press conferences, Amy Schumer said that, as she already receives plenty of death threats for her comedy, she would likely get the same reaction for her gun-control comments.
Tina Nguyen is a reporter for The Hive, covering politics and the media.
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Democrats say they are emboldened to renew previously-failed negotiations around police reform as some Republicans open the door for modest changes. "How many of these tragedies do we have to see on video before we say, 'We have a problem, America?'" Nichols' family attorney said.
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Finnair Cargo plans supply chain as Covid-19 vaccine gets closer
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Finnair Cargo is stepping up preparations to transport Covid-19 vaccines around the world.
The company has noted that several pharmaceutical companies have stated they are in the latter stages of testing a vaccine for Covid-19. As such, the time is right to start planning the supply chain, Finnair believes, with air cargo expected to be a key player.
Finnair Cargo became the first airline in the world to receive IATA's CEIV Pharma certificate in 2015, and the company's head of global sales Fredrik Wildtgrube believes this track record, along with a newly-built terminal, puts Finnair in a strong position.
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Preparations are underway at Finnair Cargo to distribute potential Covid-19 vaccines.
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"Rethinking Money, Rebuilding Communities. A Multidimensional Analysis of Crypto and Complementary Currencies".
The overall goal of this special issue is to stimulate the debate on the experiences of monetary innovation emerged after the 2007 financial crisis, exploring in depth their multiple social, economic and political dimensions.
In particular, the special issue aims to provide a theoretical interpretation and an empirical survey of Crypto Currencies and Complementary Currencies, understood as innovative social technologies that have the potential of charging social and economic relations of new meanings, enabling the pursuit of a set of collectively defined goals which the exclusive circulation of official money could not achieve.
We assume that, in the current context of economic and environmental crises, social innovations in the monetary field could play a fundamental role in building connections among communities and in triggering virtuous mechanisms of wealth creation and distribution that better respond to local needs. However, ongoing experiments are still too marginal and its concrete effects largely uninvestigated.
Complementary Currencies are generally portrayed as tools able to enhance the resilience of local communities, strengthening exchanges, trust and cooperation among its users. However, there still is little empirical evidence on its socio-economic impact, also due to the persistence of unsolved methodological controversies. In any case, evaluation models should not be limited to the identification of quantitative variables and indicators, but attempt to bring to light the multiple social and political implications of the phenomenon.
Crypto Currencies are a different, and in many aspects more controversial, phenomenon. However, its underlying technologies have opened new interesting possibilities that are now being explored also in more socially-oriented experiences which call for attention.
In both cases, focusing on the strictly intertwined social, economic and symbolic dimensions of the ongoing experiments is fundamental to gain insight and to provide helpful recommendations for practitioners and policy makers.
This special issues aims to nourish the academic and public debate on monetary innovations with rigorous analysis based on an interdisciplinary approach, integrating sociological, political and economic perspectives. It welcomes papers that investigate the socio-economic impact of Crypto Currencies and Complementary Currencies, exploring their limits and potentialities, as well as the underlying participation processes, possible conflicts and contradictions.
identification of best practices and analysis of the possible role of institutions in supporting experiences of monetary innovations.
Articles should be no longer than 10,000 words, including notes and references. A maximum of 10 articles will be published.


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MyHeritage has made major updates and improvements to the company's DNA Matching service.
Anyone who took a MyHeritage DNA test, and anyone who uploaded DNA data from another service, will now receive even more accurate DNA Matches; more plentiful matches (about 10 times more); fewer false positives; more specific and more accurate relationship estimates; and indications on lower confidence DNA Matches to help focus research efforts.
The company also also added an initial release of the long-requested chromosome browser.
More information can be found in the MyHeritage Blog post at: http://bit.ly/2mtj0ZO.
Fewer false hits? I got 3260 false hits and only 2 accurate matches. I keep track of cousins up to 8th level.
This is fantastic news for those of us who use this site for the international DNA matches. I get far more on My Heritage for my Aunt's DNA than on any of the other sites.
One thing missing from My Heritage is shared matches. I use this function on Ancestry to help categorize matches without family trees.
YEAH!!! Doin' the Genealogy Happy Dance. GREAT NEWS!!! They added a chromosome browser. Now if they would just use black or dark grey for their text so I could read it, I would be sooo happy.
And Maureen, they do have shared matches. Click the expand button. Now with the chromosome browser, we can have real matches, not possible or probable matches like we have on Ancestry. Please remember that with Ancestry, we have NO provable matches.
I still can't find the chromosome browser for my MyHeritage DNA matches – unless it is somehow hiding in the extremely tiny pale gray text that borders on the invisible. Until I read the comments here, I thought maybe the blog announcing the chromosome browser was premature, and the browser itself had still not been put into production. The rest of the blog is worth reading, too. It concerns me that there is so much fiddling with the DNA data behind the scenes, and so little technical documentation about exactly what is happening and what the consequences are.
The chromosome browser data is located on each individual DNA Match page. From your DNA Match page, next to each match, on the far right hand side of the screen, you will see a purple button that says "Review DNA Match". If they have a tree, there is also a "View tree" button. Click Review DNA Match to see your surnames in common (and ancestors if applicable) matches in common, ethnicity and at the bottom, the Chromosome Browser. You can download the match in a spreadsheet – especially useful for 1st or 2nd cousin matches with multiple matching strings.
It's not perfect, but is still 500% better than any of the pseudo matching tools offered by Ancestry. Thanks MyHeritage.
I'm having a problem with smart matches and record matches. I don't want to confirm anything I haven't researched but am just starting out so I don't have a lot of information going back. Do I say "don't confirm" even if some of the names are in my tree?
No, I don't confirm those smart and record matches either, even if it is in my own tree, because when I pull each match up there simply is no visible source match information to confirm it. That is a really huge data gap. If I am doing something wrong, somebody educate me please.


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Doctor Who Fic: Homecoming (Donna, Tenth Doctor)
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Post subject: Doctor Who Fic: Homecoming (Donna, Tenth Doctor)
Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 11:11 pm
Title: Homecoming
Characters: Donna, the Doctor
Summary: The connection between Donna and the Doctor is much more complex than we thought. Set post the Journey's End fix of your choice.
A/N: written for the lovely Katherine_b, who owns my soul from the Support Stacie Auction.
"Here we are, Donna, the no-longer-lost Moon of Poosh!" the Doctor declares, pulling on his duster as he strides down the ramp.
She follows him, grinning. "Next stop on the stolen planet tour, I presume? I hope it goes better than the last one."
He looks back at her, wrinkling his nose. "Perhaps Pyrovilia was a bad idea, yeah," he agrees. "Still, they might have been more grateful," he adds as he opens the doors and steps out. He stops short just outside the doors and Donna bumps into his back, but he only sways under the impact.
"Oi, what are you doing?" she asks, giving him a little push. When he doesn't move, she pushes her way around him, looking up at him curiously. He's staring at their surroundings, his mouth open, uncharacteristically silent. When he doesn't look down at her, despite her tugging at his sleeve, she follows his gaze to see what has affected him so profoundly.
Tall, exotic-looking buildings tower around them, tipped with domes and spires that rise impossibly high into the sky. The city seems to be encased in a dome, although she can't be sure it's not a trick of the light. She squints up into the sunlight, and she gasps at the sight of two suns, one setting, one still high in the reddish-coloured sky.
"Where are we?" she asks, breathlessly. He doesn't look at her, but reaches out his hand toward her, groping blindly. She quickly grabs his hand, holding on with both of hers. "What is it? What's wrong?"
As her hands close over his he finally turns to look at her, and she catches her breath again at the look in his eyes. "It's impossible," he says, not quite focusing on her. "It can't be."
"What is?" She squeezes his hand, trying not to panic. "Please, tell me where we are," she says, slowly, hoping that if she remains calm he will too.
He turns, stepping back into the TARDIS, pulling her with him. He releases her hand as he sprints for the console and grabs the viewscreen, spinning it around to him. Donna follows him, peering over his shoulder as he slides his spectacles onto his nose. She can't decipher the clockwork symbols and swirls on the screen, but there is a picture of a red-tinted planet floating in the corner of the screen.
"No, no, no, no, it's impossible."
Donna crossed her arms over her chest. "You use that word a lot, and I don't think you know what it means. Now, please tell me what the hell is going on!"
He turns to her, removing his glasses and returning them to his pocket. "We're on Gallifrey."
She stares at him for a moment. "But, you said it burned – it was lost – how—"
"It did – it does – it will." He rubs his hand over his face distractedly. "I watched it burn. It's gone.
We can't possibly be here."
"Did we somehow – I don't know – break the timelock?"
He shakes his head. "No – at least, I don't think so. Dalek Caan managed it, but went mad in the attempt."
"Yes, I know that. Then it's an illusion, or a trick. Someone's set a trap for you, right?"
"No, no, that's just it. It's not a trick. It's not just what we can see, which is clearly the center of the Citadel, by the looks of it. I can feel them all up here," he says, pressing his hand to his temple.
She covers his hand with hers, closes her eyes, and for a moment she can hear them, feel them. She can't make out any words, only the sense of a crowded room with everyone talking at once, so briefly she could almost believe she imagined it. She feels his mind clearly, though, sharp against hers, and familiar. An electric tingle runs through her fingers and she pulls away.
She opens her eyes to find him staring at her. "How did you—" he asks.
She shrugs. "I don't know. Must be something left from the metacrisis."
"Nothing's left from the metacrisis, I made sure of that."
She's not sure that's true, but doesn't argue. "Maybe leftover from the Oodsphere, then."
"But you heard them, felt them," he asks, and when she nods he lets out his breath in something like a sigh. Relief, she thinks, that he's not going mad. That the empty place is filled again, however impossible that might be.
She rests her hand on his arm, squeezing lightly. "Well then, shall we go have a look around? I know I don't want to pass up a chance to see the legendary Gallifrey."
He takes her hand as they walk down the street, but she hardly notices. She's too busy trying to memorize what everything looks like, and to get a glimpse of the other people walking by, trying not to stare. Time Lords, she thinks in amazement.
"Will they recognize you, do you think?" she asks softly, and he leans down to catch her words.
"No idea," he replies, shaking his head. "They might detect that I've crossed my own timeline, but I honestly don't know."
"They?"
"The High Council."
"Oh. Have you?" she asks. "Crossed your own timeline, I mean?"
"If I'm right about when we are, then yes I have. And that could be very bad."
"Does that mean there's another you running around here somewhere?" She laughs. "That's bonkers! What will you do? Walk up to yourself, and say 'Hello, I'm the Doctor?' and he'll answer, 'Yes, so am I'?"
He chuckles. "Not exactly. Actually, if I'm right, and I usually am, then we're here before I became the Doctor. When I was just—"
"Theta!" A woman's voice calls from an open doorway, and the Doctor freezes, clenching his fingers around Donna's. He turns his head slowly toward the voice, and Donna follows his gaze. A tall, blonde woman stands in an open doorway, a cross look on her face as she calls again, "Theta!"
"No," the Doctor whispers.
"I'm sorry, but have you seen a small boy as you were walking?" the woman calls to them.
"No, I'm sorry, we didn't," Donna answers, when the Doctor appears speechless.
"Well, if you do see him – about seven years old, dark hair, probably running madly – would you tell him his mother wants him?"
"Yes, of course," Donna replies. The Doctor is still staring silently at the woman, every muscle tense, and Donna tugs at his hand. "What is it?" she asks softly, as the woman goes back inside. "Who is she?"
He looks down at her, and Donna feels a lump in her throat at the sadness in his eyes. "My mother," he says, finally.
"Oh my God!" she breathes, looking back at the now-closed door. "Is that your house? Are you in there?"
"No, no, that's my aunt's house. And no, I'm not in there. I'm the one she's looking for, you see."
"She didn't recognize you, though. Shouldn't she have?"
"She wouldn't recognize this face, no. No reason for her to think I'm anything but some bloke walking by, is there?"
"So where are you then? Where were you hiding?"
"I don't remember." He rubbed the back of his neck, and Donna could feel him thinking. "Oh, yes, I do remember. But there's something I want you to see first." Donna struggles to keep up with him as he strides down the street, turning and heading toward the edge of the dome. Most of the other people on the street ignore them, but some give them odd looks as they pass, and Donna smiles apologetically.
They finally reach the edge of the dome and the Doctor stops, looking out. A large mountain range dominates the horizon, and a very large, imposing building nestles near the foothills.
"The Mountains of Solace and Solitude," he says, sweeping his arm at the view.
The sunlight is glinting off of the mountains, making it look like the trees are aflame. "It's beautiful," she says at last. She turns to him, takes his hand. "Really beautiful."
"I didn't appreciate it while I was here – I was in such a hurry to run away, seek excitement. I didn't really see it. Now I see it in my dreams."
"I know." She knows he sees this in his dreams, and the world burning in his nightmares. "It's even more beautiful than I imagined."
His hand is trembling a little in hers, and she squeezes it tighter. "Still, it must have been difficult, growing up in their shadow. I mean, 'The Mountains of Solace and Solitude' is pretty pompous, don't you think?"
He laughs a little, "Yeah, I suppose it is."
"What's that giant building there, then?"
"The Academy," he replies. "I went there when I was eight, and ran away after I graduated."
"Eight? That seems so young."
"It was, it is. I hated it, all of it. The rules, the snobbery, the bureaucracy. The pompousness. I scraped by, wanted to graduate so I could escape."
She lets go of his hand to slide her arm through his, leaning her head on his shoulder, just looking out. "So, Theta?"
He rubs his hand over his eyes. "I was hoping you wouldn't remember that."
"Your name is Theta?"
"Sort of. It's the name I was given just before going into the Academy. Which is when we are. I'm about a week from going, which is why I've run away from the family gathering. Everyone was talking about how wonderful it was that I was going away, and I couldn't bear it. So I ran. Not the last time I would do that."
He rests his head against hers, and she can feel him relax a little as he tells her the story. "What made you come back that time?"
"I'm beginning to remember. Which is why we have to go find the young me, in my favourite hiding place."
She tries to imagine him as a child, the child who was frightened by thunder, and who didn't want to leave his family. "I can't quite picture you as a child."
"No? I can see you, quite clearly. Ginger pigtails, skinned knees, bossing the other children around?" He turns to her, tilting her face toward his. "Freckles, of course. And probably had your father wrapped around your finger. Am I right?"
She can see the dusting of freckles over his nose as he looks down at her, and she thinks how impossibly young he looks there, in the sunlight. His eyes still look old as they meet hers, and she realizes she hasn't answered his question. "You must have been sneaking peeks at the family albums the last time we were in Chiswick," she says lightly.
Laughing, he shakes his head. "Come on, I know where I'm hiding, and you need to be there." He tucks her arm through his again, keeping his pace slow this time as they walk back the way they came. He walks confidently, clearly remembering his way around the familiar streets. She thinks of the planet on fire, and remembers walking through the streets of Pompeii, knowing it, too would burn. There's no way to warn them, this time, she knows. Nothing she could say that can change what will happen, and she shivers a little.
The Doctor's grip on her arm tightens. "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine," she says quickly. "I was remembering Pompeii."
He nods. "Yeah. We can't change things here, either."
"I know. I'm sorry."
He's silent as they walk another block. "Thank you," he says, finally.
They round a corner and are at the entrance to a little garden, which is full of statues of imposing looking people, most of whom seem to be wearing cloaks with elaborate collars. Well-manicured trees provide shade, with leaves that include every colour of the rainbow. Donna counts a few picnic tables under some of the trees. The park is quiet and deserted, and a welcome respite from the towering buildings just outside.
"I see why you liked it here," she says, as they walk toward one of the tables at the far end of the park.
"I found it by accident one day. Whenever we were in the city after that, I would try to get here alone."
"You didn't grow up here, then?"
"No, we had a house outside the citadel."
"Right, so, I'm hiding under that table over there. Now I can't touch me – him – but it's okay if you do."
"What happens if you touch him?"
"I'd rather not find out, but I'm pretty sure it would be bad."
"Okay," she says slowly. "What are we going to do? Aren't we changing history by looking for him?"
"Not exactly," he replies.
Before she can ask him what that means, he's ducking his head under the table and she stoops down next to him. "Hello!" he says brightly, and the little boy hiding under the table jumps in surprise, turning to look at them, eyes wide.
"Are you trying to scare him to death?" Donna asks, giving the Doctor a whack on his arm. She reaches out her hand to the little boy. "It's alright, sweetheart, we didn't mean to scare you. I'm—"
Before she can say her name, the Doctor interrupts her. "I'm John Smith, and this is my friend. We were just walking by and we saw you under here." Donna looks at him curiously when he doesn't say her name, but doesn't protest
"You're strangers here. You don't belong."
The Doctor nods. "Yes, we're just passing through. Now then, does your mother know where you are?"
The boy looks at the Doctor, then at her, solemnly. "No, I've run away, and she won't find me."
"She's probably worried about you, you know," Donna says gently.
"I won't go back, because they're going to send me to the Academy, and I don't want to go."
Donna sits cross-legged next to him, ducking her head. "What's so bad about the Academy?"
"It's too many rules, too many people, and I won't go." He crosses his arms over his chest, pouting his lip out a bit. Donna quickly stifles a smile, as she's seen that look on the Doctor's face more than once.
"Will you miss your family?" she asks.
He ducks his head, then meets her gaze evenly. "Yes. And that doesn't make me a baby."
"Of course not, it's perfectly natural to miss them," she says, looking over at the Doctor, who is watching her intently. "They'll miss you, I'm sure. But think how proud they'll be, knowing you're at the Academy, learning marvellous things." She hopes that's true.
He shakes his head. "No, they won't be."
"Well, we'll see about that." She decides to try something different, remember what the Doctor had said. "What happens when you graduate?"
"I'll take a position on the high council, probably, and be stuck here forever."
"Well now, is that your only choice? What if, after you graduated, you could do anything you wanted. What would you do?"
His eyes light up. "Travel. I want to see everything that's out there."
The Doctor chuckles, and Donna smiles at him. "Somehow I knew you'd say that. Well, after you've learned everything they can teach you, you could do whatever you wanted with that knowledge, couldn't you?"
The boy looks at her, and she can see him considering her words. "I hadn't thought of it that way."
Donna looks nervously at the Doctor, wondering if she's taken this too far. She knew the Doctor had in fact gone to the Academy – he'd told her as much – but did it need to be his decision? He smiles encouragingly at her. "You're doing fine," he says quietly.
She turns back to the young Doctor. "There you are, then. Feeling better?"
He nods. "Yes. But what if—once I'm there..."
"What if you get lonely, or scared?" She thinks for a moment. "Then, just remember that the people we love are never far away, as long as we can think of them."
The Doctor stands, reaching down to help Donna to her feet. He clears his throat. "Right then, you'd best be off home, and we'll be on our way."
Donna stands, keeping hold of his hand. "It was nice to meet you," she says to the boy, who scrambles out from under the table.
"Just some friends," Donna answers. She looks back over her shoulder to smile at him as they walk away.
They walk down the street again, hand in hand. "So, what was that back there? Didn't we just change your own history?" Donna asks, watching him curiously.
"That's the thing, Donna, we didn't. I had forgotten, after all these years, but what happened that day, when I ran away, was that two strangers found me, and convinced me to go to the Academy."
"What? You're saying you remember this? You remember me talking to you?"
"I remember a beautiful woman with ginger hair, who was very kind to me, and knew exactly what I needed to hear. She didn't tell me her name, and her friend who was with her said he was John Smith."
Donna stops, stunned. "But, that's impossible!"
"No, definitely not. I told you before, our lives are connected. I just didn't realize until now how far back that connection went."
"But, you hated the Academy. Why did you want me to convince you to go?"
"It made me what I am, and made the life I'm living now, possible. I learned things there I needed to learn, and then put them to my own use. Just as you said." He reached his hand up to cup her cheek. "So thank you, once again."
"Don't go getting all sentimental, spaceman," she says, but her voice breaks as she speaks, and she can feel tears prickling behind her eyes.
"There's one more thing I'd like to show you, if you're up for a walk, that is," he says, turning and tucking her arm through his again.
"When you said 'walk' you really meant 'hike up a steep mountain,' didn't you?"
He grins at her. "Yeah, sorry about that."
"Well, what's up here then."
They climb over yet another rise, and the Doctor sweeps his arm out. "This is where I grew up."
The house seemed a part of the mountain, rising organically from the side of it and blending with the surrounding rock and vegetation. The view was breathtaking, and Donna thought how wonderful it must have been to grow up here, so far away from the city.
"It's wonderful," she says, sliding her arm around his waist.
He smiles down at her. "Worth the walk?"
He turns to her, taking her hands in his. "Donna, I don't know how we ended up here, of all places, but I think I know why."
"To convince you to go to school?" she offers.
"More than that. Our lives are connected, in ways we may ever understand. But even more than that, now you will remember this place, my home."
She thinks how hard that will be, to be one of only two people who remember this beautiful place, the place that created him, and all he is.
"When I had to take my memories from you, part of me wanted to leave you these memories, so I wouldn't be the only one who knew how the mountains looked in the sunlight, or what the air smells like, or the faces of the people on the streets."
"I would never have believed those ridiculous looking collar things, I can tell you that," she says.
He smiles briefly. "I mean it. I'm glad to share this with you."
"I'm glad, too." She squeezes his hands. She turns to look back over the way they came, at the sun glinting off the dome of the citadel, and he puts his arm around her shoulders.
"How long can we stay?" she asks, finally. She wonders how he'll be able to bear leaving this place again, for what must surely be the last time.
"Not long. If the council knows we're here, they'll be looking for us. But we have some time before we have to leave."
She puts her arm around his waist again and leans against him. "Good."
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The Summoner – Short Film Review
by redshirtjamie on 28/06/2017
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James Secker
Adam McNab, Mhairi Calvey, Alexandra Hansler, Kate Marie Davies, Mike Carr.
Great cinematography
Fantastic cast
Face melting soundtrack
Minor issues with visuals / time setting
A brilliant short film from new director James Secker. I enjoyed every minute of it, and the minor grumble I had with the fleeting moments of seeing modern elements is over in a heartbeat.
The Summoner is a tightly wound little beast of a movie, with low rumbling and threatening intentions.
"In a world where spirits of the dead are the most pervasive and dangerous threat we face, the public must call upon the skills of an enigmatic ghost-hunter who gets more than he bargained for facing the most deadly threat of his career."
Imagine if The Exorcist was stuffed into a blender with a Greggs pasty, then cranked up to puree. Halfway through a cassette tape stuffed with 80s fuelled synth music is tossed in there for flavour. The end result would be The Summoner, the new short film from writer and director James Secker, the man behind ForceVideo.
The Summoner in action.
At a lean 20 minutes, the film wastes no time it making it's intentions clear. Shot digitally and then heavily trashed in edit it looks like and old VHS tape found in a slightly damp Poundshop bargain bin, with harsh colour tones and heavy contrast. This blends perfectly with the incredible soundtrack to capture that 1980s vibe which is currently trending hard on Netflix.Adam McNab plays the title role, and does great work with very little dialogue. We quickly establish that the summoner is a broken man, hard drinking and smoking with busted knuckles and a set jaw. I was surprised to hear a thick Northern accent emerge, as the film has a very American vibe but this added to the surreal nature of the project.
The editing is tight, fight scenes are kept simple but effective and the attention to detail with authentic props and costumes help round off the retro aesthetic. My only criticisms is that a vehicle used in the film, plus some very modern road signs in a driving montage pulled me out of the 80s for a brief moment. Although I don't believe that the time setting of the film is established, it was momentarily jarring to have such beautiful detail interrupted but it soon passed. Another scene sees a bystander to the events shout some abuse at our questionable hero, and I wanted to know a little more as to why he attracted such hatred. Again, the moment zipped by and we were back into the satisfying action quickly. It wasn't by any means a weak moment in the film, it just felt as if it established some potential backstory that we don't get to see. Perhaps this will be further explored if the project is expanded.
Exorcisms are brutal work.
The Summoner was made on an incredibly small budget, but it doesn't show in the final product, and is now in submission to festivals around the world where I wish it the best of luck. James Secker is a talented director with a great style and I'm excited to see what will come next. The film will be made available for viewing online in the future, and I urge you to keep an eye open for it.
Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NjUJFHUaIo
Original Soundtrack: https://lazerdiscs.bandcamp.com/album/the-summoner-original-soundtrack
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