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Justice Breyer Uses Trans Restroom Case to Revive “Courtesy Fifth Vote”

Last week, in Gloucester County School Board v. G.G., the Supreme Court stayed lower court rulings that had required a school board in Virginia to permit a trans student to use the restroom corresponding to his gender identity (here male). The Supreme Court’s intervention may prove temporary. By its terms, the stay lasts only until the Court receives a petition for review from the school board and resolves the case, either by denying review or, after granting review, deciding it on the merits.

Moreover, the high Court’s action sends no clear signal about the justices’ views on the question whether existing anti-discrimination laws forbid schools or other entities from barring trans students from using the restrooms that correspond to their gender identity. A mere stay to grant the petitioner time to file for Supreme Court review sets no precedent, and there is special reason to treat this particular stay as equivocal. Although the bottom-line vote to stay the lower court injunction was 5-3, Justice Breyer wrote a separate concurrence indicating that he cast his vote as a courtesy to his four colleagues—Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito—who wished to hear the case on the merits.

Should the Court grant review and give plenary consideration to the Gloucester County case, there will be time enough to discuss the important questions it raises about the relation between trans equality and laws forbidding sex discrimination. In this column, however, I will focus on Justice Breyer’s courtesy vote and the broader practice it apparently seeks to revive.

A Fifth “Courtesy” Vote in Capital Cases

Under the Supreme Court’s procedures, it takes the votes of at least four justices to grant a petition for review. However, it takes a majority vote of five justices for the Court to act on the merits, either by reversing or affirming a lower court ruling or by granting some sort of temporary relief. The difference between four and five can be decisive.

Suppose that a petitioner seeks review of a state or lower federal court judgment upholding a death sentence against him. Suppose further that his execution is scheduled to take place in a week. Now imagine that four justices think his case raises enough important issues to warrant granting review. They vote to take the case, or as Supreme Court aficionados say, to “grant cert” (short for the writ of certiorari), which places the case on the Court’s docket. To preserve the status quo—that is, to keep the petitioner alive—while they consider the case, these four cert-granting justices will also vote to stay the execution pending resolution of the case by the Supreme Court. If the petitioner wins, the stay will be replaced by some other order, such as a remand for resentencing; if he loses, the stay will be lifted and the execution can proceed; but either way, the Court will be able to consider his case in an orderly fashion.

What happens if the other five justices think the petitioner’s case does not warrant review? They will vote to deny cert. And if they also think that the petitioner’s arguments are likely to fail, they will also vote to deny the stay of execution. Under the “rule of four,” the case is placed on the Supreme Court docket for review, but because it takes five votes for the Court to take any further action, the petitioner in my example will be executed a week after review is granted, just as he would have been had the Court not granted cert. The difference between the necessary four votes to grant cert and the absence of the necessary fifth vote to grant a stay of execution will mean that the case is mooted by the petitioner’s death.

The foregoing grisly scenario has happened at the Supreme Court. For a time, a practice developed under which one or more of the five justices who voted to deny the cert petition would nonetheless vote to grant the stay as a courtesy to the four colleagues who wanted to hear the case. This practice broke down in the 1990s, however, so that a number of executions were carried out after the Supreme Court voted to hear the condemned’s case.

The current status of the courtesy practice is not entirely clear. In a 2007 blog post, attorney and SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein wrote that the practice of a fifth courtesy vote had been re-established, at least where there were four votes actually to grant cert, rather than merely four votes to grant a stay to give a condemned prisoner time to file a cert petition. However, Goldstein himself noted that the re-established practice was quite limited in scope, and subsequent cases have showed the limit. For example, in 2008, four justices wanted to hear the views of the Solicitor General before deciding the merits of Medellin v. Texas, but no fifth courtesy vote could be found to stay the execution long enough to receive those views. Justice Breyer, who was one of the four, lamented in dissent that none of his colleagues in the majority granted the fifth and decisive courtesy vote for a stay.

In a 2015 law review article, Hofstra Law Professor Eric Freedman carefully reviewed the past and current practice of the Court, concluding that Mr. Goldstein’s observation may be technically correct—there are no recent cases in which a courtesy fifth vote was withheld where four justices voted to grant cert in a capital case—but that courtesy fifth votes were not readily forthcoming in any other context. Professor Freedman proposed a general rule that would automatically stay an execution whenever four justices wanted more time to consider a case, for whatever reason.

Justice Breyer’s Dubious Expansion of the Courtesy Vote

In his short concurrence in the Gloucester County case last week, Justice Breyer explained that he was casting a courtesy vote. He relied on his own prior dissent in Medellin as authority for doing so. In addition to the fact that four of his colleagues had voted to stay the lower court ruling, Justice Breyer invoked the fact that the Court is currently in recess and added that “granting a stay will preserve the status quo.”

Justice Breyer’s Gloucester County courtesy vote may have been meant to prod his colleagues into informally adopting something like the rule proposed by Professor Freedman. In a future case, one can imagine Justice Kennedy or Chief Justice Roberts trying to decide whether to cast a courtesy vote to stay an execution and thinking “well, Steve Breyer did us a solid in the Gloucester County case, so I guess I will return the favor.” If that is indeed what Justice Breyer is attempting, and if it works, then I take my hat off to him. It is positively ghoulish that the Court allows any of its deliberations to be mooted by the execution of a party before it, and an indirect route to Professor Freedman’s rule is better than the current practice.

However, evaluated on its own merits, Justice Breyer’s courtesy vote in Gloucester County was ill-advised. For one thing, the fact that the Court is in recess should count for little. True, the Court does not hear full oral arguments between the end of June and the beginning of October (except in extraordinary circumstances, as when it held a reargument in Citizens United v. FEC in early September, 2009). But the Court conducts the sort of business at issue in Gloucester County as a matter of routine regardless of where the justices are. After all, even when they are all in the Supreme Court building, the justices communicate with one another on motions matters mostly in writing. Wherever they are, they have email and telephones. And their law clerks remain in D.C. throughout the steamy summer.

Justice Breyer’s other reason for granting a courtesy fifth vote was equally unpersuasive. In a capital case, a courtesy fifth vote to “preserve the status quo” is a vote to prevent the state from killing a human being and thus mooting the case. In Gloucester County, by contrast, there was no risk of the case becoming moot for lack of a stay. If Justice Breyer had voted to deny the stay but, after the filing and granting of a cert petition, briefing, and oral argument the Court had ruled against respondent G.G., the absence of a stay would not in any way prevent the Court from ordering relief. At that point, the school board would be entitled to exclude G.G. from the boys’ restroom.

Put differently, in a capital case, the risks of erroneously granting a stay of execution and the risks of erroneously denying a stay are asymmetrical. In an ordinary case like Gloucester County, however, those risks are symmetrical. In this kind of case, the usual procedure for deciding whether to grant a stay is to determine whether the party seeking the stay will likely prevail on the merits and suffer irreparable harm without the stay. Whatever view one takes of the merits, it is laughable to suggest that a school district will suffer irreparable harm from accommodating one trans student’s desire to use the restroom that matches his gender identity. Indeed, the harm from the granting of the stay—in the form of shame and potentially worse for G.G.—seems much more serious.

Justice Breyer should be commended for attempting to bolster a practice of courtesy on the Supreme Court. But he erred by doing so in a case that validates an extreme lack of courtesy shown by a school board to one of its students.

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  • tuckerfan

    But it is not the school district that will suffer the harm, it is the young men whose privacy will be invaded by having a biological woman share a bathroom and/or other facilities with them. The author is correct the school district will suffer no harm, either way, this is merely an exercise in rule making for them. For the students involved they are being asked to shoulder the burden of giving away their most intimate right to privacy in favor of the subjective self identification of a woman who wishes to be a man. GG was not “assigned” a gender at birth ( unless she was in the astonishingly rare group of intersex births), she was objectively born female. Unlike gay rights, which seek the proper goal of eliminating bias against persons based on their own private conduct, the transgender movement seeks to compel everyone else to give up their right to privacy to accommodate the transgender. The issue is far more than compelling the school board to extend a courtesy to one of its students, Plaintiff seeks the right to compel all students to validate GG’s rejection of her biology at the expense of their privacy.

    • Joe Paulson

      The school district is “harmed” if it is inhibited from passing rules and regulations that fit the needs of its students, if only because if it does a bad job of it, it might be sued or some other negative responses would entail. The rules also affect teachers who have to enforce these things.

      Why is this completely different from gay rights? Partially, this argument is a result of shifting over time of accepted arguments. For decades, and today as well to some degree, I have heard privacy arguments being used to warrant limits on gay rights. It was used, e.g., to argue against acceptance of gays in the military — gay males, for example, would be in close intimate quarters with those they are possibly sexually attracted to, and the non-gay individuals would find this a privacy invasion. In time, the next civil rights argument will say “well of course trans is okay … never had a problem with that, but …”

      There are various “objective” criteria used to determine gender in this context and it is not merely “subjective identification” or a matter of intersex births. Scientific analysis has shown that sex is a complex matter that is not limited to secondary sexual characteristics and that sex also includes things internally such as in the brain. I do not know the specifics of this one case, but see, e.g., the book “Becoming Nicole” for a fuller discussion. Suffice to say that Nicole herself was not the only person who believed she was a female before her transition surgery — there were objective criteria involved there.

      The privacy invasion regarding a bathroom is minimal. The only thing that truly comes to mind there are urinals. Some bathrooms don’t even have them — they just have stalls. It seems rather easy, especially to balance the needs of trans students, to block off the urinals from view if that is the stickling point. There are multiple trans students — how many are enough before their rights are important? Does this apply to other things? Religion, e.g., is more subjective than this. Many accommodations are made here. Is a similar tone applied there by the critics here?

      • tuckerfan

        As you note, arguments over mere proximity have fallen by the wayside. Likewise, as you note many men’s rooms have urinals. Men’s locker rooms often have communal showers. While it may be sexist, American society has long been more protective of female privacy then male privacy, apparently proceeding from the presumption that men are more comfortable being naked or partially naked around other men then women are around other women.

        The person who is biased against gays can not elaborate any harm, merely because he knows the person in front of him engages in acts he doesn’t approve of – in the privacy of a bedroom. With the call for transgender rights to use the facilities of their choice the objector must give up the right to privacy in the bathroom or shower to accommodate the actual presence of the person in their private space.

        I am aware that the soft sciences are formulating theories to explain, and normalize transgender expressions, but it remains objectively true that GG was born female. GG is, in a free country, free to reshape their body as they wish – the plastic surgery business continues to boom. GG wants to go further and impose on everyone else a duty to support and affirm that decision, including my giving up constitutionally recognized rights to privacy. If gay marriage proponents began to demand compulsory gay relations, in order to foster acceptance of their lifestyle we would all object, yet many folks are willing to strip the rights of the majority to accommodate the decisions of a tiny minority. Iowa’s Humans Rights Commission is attempting to make it unlawful to say or do anything that might make a transgender person feel “unwelcome”. Equal under the law means we must not treat the gay or trans-gendered differently than everyone else, but everyone else has to use the restroom that conforms to their objective gender, why not GG. Why is it wrong for the school to designate a transgender single occupant restroom?

        • Joe Paulson

          I didn’t, full stop, note that the arguments “have fallen” — noted “today” there still are arguments to that respect. Arguments that are “sexist” should be taken with a large grain of salt. As to “partially naked,” norms greatly changed there. What is allowed at beaches normally, e.g., shows this.

          The privacy arguments raised in that context was not based on people committing acts in front of them. They were based on the lack of comfort in being in close contact, including nude/semi-nude, with those that are attracted to the same sex. This included extended involvement such as in the military. What game changer is at stake here for the short time people are together in bathrooms, very well fully clothed if the urinal issue is addressed, is unclear to me. If anything, this is more minor given the limited exposure for the few minutes involved. A person offended can more easily, e.g., avoid being in the bathroom here than those who felt their privacy was violated by having gay people share their locker room in gym class.

          I cited brain chemistry in my discussion as to determining gender — this is not a matter of “soft” science alone, without granting that deserves second class emphasis in classifications here. To determine “objectively” if a person is a “male” or “female” would be a matter of secondary and non-secondary characteristics. Using such criteria, “objectively,” it is not a matter of subjective sentiment alone. I cited a book that discusses the details though other sources can be found. The very question is what “privacy rights” require here and confusion in this respect doesn’t help clarify matters.

          GG is trying to use a restroom that “conforms to objective gender.” The rights of others are not be “stripped.” Simply by blocking off urinals, people are not even being exposed (though I don’t go around looking when others urinate in front of me when I use them myself) to genitalia at all. Again, when religious groups subjectively argue they should be accommodating, which often involves affecting others in various ways, including “tiny minorities,” does this sort of negative tone come up? At times, perhaps, but opponents of trans rights often find it offensive.


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21 Easy Healthy Living Tips

healthy lifestyle tips vidya sury

If there is one word that immensely appeals to me especially in the area of developing healthy habits or healthy living tips, that word is “EASY”.  I do not want to jump hoops and climb mountains to improve my lifestyle – unless there is the view of a placid lake from the top from the vantage point in my log cabin and a big mug of hot strong coffee within easy reach.

I am living with type 2 diabetes for some months now and I can tell you that the transition to a different lifestyle wasn’t easy. It wasn’t as though I lived an “un” healthy lifestyle; it is just that I had to make some major tweaks to what I ate and what I did and this involved a transformation and these 21 healthy living tips helped.

What I found is this:

  • it is not difficult
  • it is not expensive
  • it is doable
  • it is a win-win in the long run
  • it feels good

Now, that’s pretty good motivation to make the effort, right? So here are…

21 easy healthy living tips

If you don’t practice one already, that is. Most of us will probably fall somewhere in the spectrum and score at least some out of the 21. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but it can get one off to a pretty good start.

  1. Drink lots of water. I can never overemphasize this! Staying hydrated solves and prevents many healthy issues Add green tea to your beverages.
  2. Make sure you enjoy a big breakfast, a decent lunch and a small dinner. You know what they say – breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.
  3. Include fruits and vegetables and other natural ingredients in your diet. Mother Nature is at your service.
  4. Exercise regularly. Walk. Swim. Bike. Jog. Maintaining a healthy weight is important to keep off health complications. Burnout is not fun and neither is stress. If you think you don’t have the time, consider this:easy healthy lifestyle tips
  5. Read. Lose yourself in a book.
  6. Go to bed earlier. You need enough sleep to function efficiently. Did you know inadequate sleep can lead to weight gain? Isn’t it nice to sleep it off instead?
  7. Give your Inner Critic a kick up its butt. Stop thinking negative thoughts – about yourself or others. Your energy is better spent on productive things or things that make you happy.
  8. Move on from the past. Let go. If you want therapy, try diary-writing and pour your heart out, or write a book about what hurts. It doesn’t matter if you publish it or not. If you do decide to, great!
  9. Enjoy the little things in life. I mean, every little thing. And appreciate the presence of the things you take for granted.
  10. Stop judging or comparing yourself to others.
  11. Start meditating or try yoga. You have to quiet that mind.
  12. Minimize on processed food. And hey, save money in the process!
  13. Pay attention to your oral hygiene. Your oral health influences your overall health, you know.
  14. Copy your cat. Or your neighbor’s. Ever notice how cats purr and stretch? Don’t forget to stretch daily. It is good for your back, your digestion and your blood circulation. Flexibility of body is just as important as flexibility of the mind.
  15. Listen to music. Experience the peace.
  16. Clear that clutter and keep your space organized. Spring cleaning can be fun, you know. Plus you burn those pesky calories and get a free workout.
  17. Give away /sell what you don’t need.
  18. Wear clothes that make you happy.
  19. Go out more. Spend more time face to face with people than with technology.
  20. Avoid procrastination. Don’t put things off. That includes saying your “I love yous”. You never know what tomorrow holds.
  21. Remember that all your effort now will pay off, eventually, some way or other. Life balances out.

Bonus tip: Practice gratitude. Everything looks better when you do.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”- Melodie Beattie

What’s your score? How many of these 21 healthy living tips do you follow?

Which of these do you intend to start doing now?

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My next post is up at the Blogging Betties and is called “Why Managing Your Blog Is Like Organizing Your Kitchen” Please do check it out and let me know what you think!

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    July 2, 2014 at 7:33 pm

    Love that list Vidya. Need to include meditation. That’s the most important thing I’m missing out in life. Maybe one day…..

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    Tarang Sinha
    July 2, 2014 at 8:35 pm

    Wonderful and very useful post! Enjoyed 14th point…:)

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    July 2, 2014 at 10:23 pm

    There are some points that I follow and some that don’t at all. Nice post, worked like a reminder for me to follow the points mentioned, and make life easier to live. 🙂

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    Sebastian Aiden Daniels
    July 3, 2014 at 12:09 am

    I have 15 of them that I do on the regular. That comic made me laugh out loud. Thanks for sharing that.

    All I drink is water and juice once in a while. I get OCD about water if my urine starts to get yellow. I always try to keep it clear haha.

    The hardest one for me is the second one. I tend to do the opposite but I am trying to change it.
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    Laurel Regan
    July 3, 2014 at 3:19 am

    Brilliant! There are sadly far too many things on that list that I neglect and need to shape up. Thanks for the inspiration!
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    July 3, 2014 at 9:19 am

    Excellent tips Vidya and thanks for the reminders. Still working on the getting enough exercise part, as well as the sleeping (insomniac) and procrastination issues. 🙂
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    Corinne Rodrigues
    July 3, 2014 at 11:41 am

    Love the list. But then you always excel at this!
    The stretching is something I must do more of!
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    July 3, 2014 at 12:38 pm

    I quite like the list Vidya. But that one point – spend time face to face and less on technology – is like a mammoth task [specially not spending time on technology!!!]
    Tina from The Sunny Side of Life
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    July 3, 2014 at 3:57 pm

    An excellent list. Gonna be a cat from tomorrow. thanks for sharing Vidya.
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    Sundari Venkatraman
    July 3, 2014 at 4:20 pm

    That’s simply awesome Vidya. I follow all the tips you have mentioned, except for going out and socialising more. Thanks for the tips. Will definitely share this post 😀
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    July 3, 2014 at 7:31 pm

    Great Post Vidya,

    So packed full of great solid advice and steps to get there! I will share this in my groups. Love this 🙂
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    Inderpreet Kaur Uppal
    July 3, 2014 at 11:01 pm

    I have to do 11 and 12 and of course exercise regularly. Great post.
    I think you are gonna know all my secrets soon 😉
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    July 3, 2014 at 11:01 pm

    A wonderful list, Vidya. I love the idea of wearing clothes that make me happy and giving away what I no longer need.

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    July 4, 2014 at 5:44 pm

    These are excellent tips for staying healthy. Everyone should follow these tips as we all know prevention is better than cure.

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    July 4, 2014 at 7:49 pm

    I think I’m going to print them and put them on the wall. It’s all true. Something you know but for some reason the busy life makes us forget!
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      Vidya Sury
      July 5, 2014 at 3:27 pm

      Welcome, Franny! And thanks so much for your comment! The simplest things are the easiest to forget!

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    Sunila Vig
    July 4, 2014 at 10:58 pm

    Great List Vidya 🙂 I follow all of them except 8 and 16 which need extra effort from me and they,re related aren’t they, Letting go of the past letting go of clutter, ‘letting go’- the pebble in my shoe 🙂
    Recently I’ve begun to sleep late so that needs to be remedied too n Social media -that mammoth double edged sword needs watching too 🙂

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    Monica Deshpande
    July 5, 2014 at 3:09 pm

    A brilliant list, Vidya. I need to focus my energies on 6 and 14. 🙂
    I’ve started working on a ‘Stop doing, Start doing and Continue doing’ list to help.
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      Vidya Sury
      July 5, 2014 at 3:26 pm

      Very well said, Monica! I love that.‘Stop doing, Start doing and Continue doing’ list.

      Thank you!

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    Proactive Indian
    July 6, 2014 at 3:38 pm

    Great list! I’m quite happy with my 15/21 score, but will work on the remaining 6!
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    Sreeja Praveen
    July 8, 2014 at 3:25 pm

    Many things which I do consciously, many which I do by habit and many that I don’t do. Need to re-organise 🙂 Such a wonderful list, this is.
    I looovee stretching. I do it on my office seat, too 😛 And the one sitting opposite to me asks, are you a cat or what 😀
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Days started early, Simon (BBQ Champ Winner) and I would enjoy a weary eyed breakfast together before everyone assembled and getting the minibus to location.

First I'd report to make-up (yes, even the men wore make-up, although I was told it was only to make us less shiny!), I'd then trudge along to wardrobe to find out which checked shirt I was wearing that day! Once everything was all signed off and everyone was ready, filming would begin and time to put on my game face.

Coming up with recipes was the hardest thing about the whole experience. We didn't have weeks of notice of what every challenge would be to prepare a recipe.

My experience on ITV's BBQ Champ

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UK BBQ Mag Winter 2016/2017 - Page 44

The reverse sear method involves cooking a steak indirectly, usually at low temperatures and often with the aid of a temperature probe to ensure the meat is cooked to perfection inside.

Once the desired internal temperature is reached (or, more usually a few degrees less), the steak is then seared. This method is perfect for those indulgent, thickly sliced steaks. The combination of indirect and finish over direct heat ensures desired doneness throughout the entirety of the steak and a great Maillard crust, considered essential for a good steak.

To start, set up an indirect environment on your BBQ to a temperature of approximately 120C / 250F (although, there’s lots of play here, given you won’t generally be cooking indirect for hours). You could opt to add some wood to the coals to give the meat a quick wisp of smoke.

Place the steak onto the indirect zone and monitor the internal temperature, ideally with a wired probe placed inside the meat, or occasionally with something like a Thermapen until a couple of degrees shy of your desired doneness. Once there, transfer immediately to a finishing method of choice (grill, cast iron, dirty etc) to quickly sear the outside. The couple of degrees leeway will allow for the heat gained whilst searing and resting.

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Thunder gods for Hollyweird

Remakes, re-imaginings, reboots, re-inventions; Hollywood seems to like re-cycling of ideas and have been in serious innovation drought for years. I know, remakes of classic (and not so classic) movies are nothing new, neither are sequels – but there are a few things they could do in order to inject some imagination into their fantasy films.

oldthorFortunately, the sci-fi and fantasy film genres have been spared the biggest remake waves. Horror has been hit much worse, with classics such as Carrie, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hitcher, Friday the 13th, and Helloween having been remade, among many others. Even Evil Dead was remade not long ago. Is nothing holy to Hollyweird?

Fantasy films are in a slightly different position. While horror movies have been huge since the 1970s and established long before that, fantasy and science fiction films were mocked and looked down upon longer, and it wasn’t until the mid or late 1990s that fantasy in literature became the foundation for a wave of movies. Granted, fantasy movies have been around for a long time but in fact the growth in the 90s in numbers of young people who read fantasy stories paved the way for movie adaptions of popular novels. With The Lord of The Rings and Harry Potter it was proven true that popular fantasy books could translate well to box office success.

In other words, the makers of fantastical cinema have a vast library of already proven stories to choose from, a library that is not yet empty. They don’t need to recycle, but still it was just a matter of time before remakes of popular 1980s movies started to appear; we already got Total Recall, and V was remade for TV. They have been preparing a remake of He-Man, and reboots of comic franchises Superman and Batman are coming out every few years.

So, Hollyweird, let me give you some advice. A free tip, an original and new idea you have not explored much before. You can pay me a hefty royalty if you want. Here it is: Nordic mythology.

I am not talking about Viking movies. Vikings have appeared in front of the camera since at least the 1920s, usually with a large dose of, shall we say, artistic freedom. Adaptions of Viking history are, if not a staple, at least well known among movie fans. No, I am talking about Nordic mythology; the gods, beliefs, myths and legends of the Vikings. You know, Thor, Loki, the giant jotnar creatures, Odin, the eight-legged horse Sleipnir, etc. Also, a whole range of worlds and universes inhabited by magic, spirits and supernatural creatures. There’s much to dig into!

I am not suggesting a mough not as a rule when making fantasy films inspired by the past, or even when making “plain” Viking epics. Tolkien took alot of inspiration from ancient Scandinavian culture when writing both The Silmarillion and The Rings trilogy, in fact so much that the mythology crept into popular culture and has become clichés. The John McTiernan-directed The 13th Warrior (1999) is borderline historical fantasy as it involves the fictional and non-historical cave cannibals attacking a Viking village, and Outlander (2009) sees Vikings and space aliens clashing, a rare thing even in fantasy movies. None of these two movies draw much from actual Norse mythology per se, but perhaps Hollyweird could look to Scandinavia for some juicy inspiration for original stories. It has been done before, in all fairness, althg mythology, though no doubt they were more original than your typical Viking-massacre action film. Beowulf (2007), which is often considered a classic Viking fantasy story, is not really Viking at all, since it’s an English poem from several hundred years before the Viking age, but the many adaptions deserve thumbs up for trying.

Apart from the Thor comic books from Marvel Comics, Nordic mythology is not exploited enough in popular entertainment. In stead, Greek legends, Arabian folk tales and Asian history forms much of the basis for fantasy epics, with the occasional dip into Britain’s Merlin or American Indian folkore. I guess there is a lot to explore in sub-Sahara African legends too (Tarzan aside – it wasn’t really an African legend) but being a Norwegian myself, I’d like to see more Nordic mythology on the big screen.

So there you have it, Hollyweird. Why don’t you google or wiki terms such as Jotun, Yggdrasil, Valhalla, Ragnarok, the vættir, Freya. You don’t even have to pay authors any rights, because all Nordic mythology is in the public domain, one could say.

I am of course available as historical consultant, and won’t charge you more than you can afford.


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Farnsworth House

Vince Michael served as a Trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation from 2006 to 2015, completing three full terms and serving as Vice-Chair of the Preservation and Sites Committee and Vice Chair of the Diversity Task Force. Vince was involved in the preservation of Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House both through his work on the Board of Landmarks Illinois and as a Trustee of the National Trust, which took over ownership of the Farnsworth House from Landmarks Illinois in 2010. Dr. Michael was named to the Technical Advisory Panel for the Farnsworth House in 2012 and continues there, working to find solutions to the increased flooding risk at this iconic 1951 glass house.


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Blog Archives

7 Reasons Why Most Authors Fail

This is a fabulous article on self publishing that ALL writers need to read.  Here’s the link to the webpage; however, I copied and pasted the article below:

Now that the Self Publishing Podcast is almost 2 years old (old enough to drink and sell sexual favors, in podcast years), we’re beginning to notice some definite trends. We focused on a lot of the things that work in our self publishing bookWrite. Publish. Repeat, but it’s time to turn things around and bum everybody out.

Knowing what doesn’t work is just as important, because we all have defense mechanisms that let us justify tons of stupid crap.

Time to tip that sanctimonius cow over.

“I’m not doing what the guys suggest in Write. Publish. Repeat because I have my own ways but am obeying the same principles,” you may be saying, “so why am I not getting anywhere?”

Well, are you doing any of what follows in addition to all that “different but still correct” stuff? Because if you are, then Houston, you definitely have a problem.

Here the biggest reasons that self-publishers fail.

1. Not Starting

Let’s start with the most obvious one. It kills me even to include it, but there are actually people out there saying you can be a writer without writing, so I feel the need to step up and lob that idiot ball back into the idiot court.

InertiaIf you do not write, you are not a writer.

That’s all there is to it. I can’t believe there is feel-good bullshit out there claiming that writing can be “within” you and that you can go around, wear a beret, and claim to be a writer even if you’ve written nothing.

Oh, those words are inside you? They’reincubating? Well, whoopity fucking doo for you! Good luck with spreading your ideas. Good luck getting sales. Good luck paying rent. Good luck getting your spouse or significant others to support you in spending time away from grunt work to do it.

Most people don’t put metaphorical pen to paper because they’re afraid. I get it. We’ve all been there. We’re not bashing you for being afraid — afraid of failing, afraid of being judged harshly, afraid that everyone will laugh at you. We understand that fear, but the only way to be a writer — especially a successful one — is to get past the fear and start. Your sweating ridicule, though understandable, is probably exaggerated. In most cases, nobody is paying attention to whether you succeed or fail.

If you write, you’re a writer. You’ve started. Excellent job. Now do more, and pour in the hours to do it better.

2. Not Finishing

This one should also be obvious, but we see it all the time. In these cases, writers aren’t surprised that they’re not successful, but are incredibly frustrated. We understand. Before joining the podcast, I couldn’t finish a second book. Before meeting Sean, Dave hadn’t finished his first. The phenomenon of the writer with great ideas but no clue where to take her story is all too familiar.

But take heart. The toughest nuts crack if you just keep trying. We also hope our upcoming Kickstarter project Fiction Unboxed will show a few frustrated “can’t finish” writers a few tricks by opening up every detail of exactly how Sean and I make the donuts.

Sometimes, though, it’s not a matter of not knowing how. Most cases of writer’s block, in our opinion, can be easily reduced to simple fear. Again, we understand. Once you finish your book, you must either publish it or confess to your fear. Once published, everyone will be able to read the language of your soul … and, in a few cases, criticize it.

You must push past this. Don’t worry about making your book perfect, because it never can be. Make it professional (see the next section) and get a good edit and generally make it as clean as you possibly can, but don’t sweat the story over and over and over at the expense of shipping. Sean has said on the podcast, “perfect is the enemy of done.” And it’s true. Don’t be perfect. In most cases, it’s best to be finished.

If you must use a pen name because you’re so terrified that what you’ve written is terrible, do that. But you have to ship it. You can’t move on until you do.

Finish, then finish more.

Keep moving, and improving.

3. Treating Publishing Like a Hobby or a Pure Art

We said in Write. Publish. Repeat. that we believe books and stories should be born as art, then sold as products. Be an artist first, but quickly switch hats and be a businessperson second. Fail to switch that hat and you’ll be too attached or timid about giving the book the exposure and marketing cues it needs to succeed. Do that, you’ll be sunk.

The same goes for treating writing like a hobby. Don’t get us wrong: writing as a hobby is fantastic. If you have no desire to publish or make an income but want to express yourself, go ahead and hobby it up. But if you want to build a career as an author, hobby-thought will kill you.

Set yourself a schedule. Personally, I write for four hours every weekday morning starting at 6am. If you have a day job, you might only be able to manage an hour a day, or four hours on the weekends. But whatever your quota, set it, put it on a calendar, and abide by it. Your writing hours should be unchanging and immutable, because this is a business.

Writing BusinessWould you go into your day job whenever the mood struck?

Would you produce nothing and call yourself a plumber despite not actually doing any plumbing (because the pipes are marinating in your soul)?

Would you spend without thinking, and sell with no plan?

Would you attempt to do your day job while your kids climb all over you, interrupting you every two minutes, instead of having a decidated space that you insist they respect?

Of course not. So if you want to have a chance in self-publishing, treat it like a business. That means schedules, a marketing strategy, deadlines … the works.

Before we leave this section, let’s add that part of treating writing like a business instead of a hobby means presenting yourself professionally. Don’t make shit book covers yourself to save money. If you believe in the book, invest in your work! Don’t half-ass your product descriptions. Don’t have a writer’s website on MySpace filled with animated gifs of cats unless that’s your brand (Sean wants to meet you if you’re making that work).

That said, don’t act like an overly-pro robot. Don’t take “be professional” to an illogical extreme. Be loose but look good. A person with an engaging smile in a suit is still a pro at a business meeting, after all, whereas a stiff is a stiff.

4. Not Having Fun

I only have seven of these (because I’m a pro, and believe in schedules and deadlines … see what I did there?) and I’m devoting one to fun. Strange, right?

Not really, in our humble opinion. The ability to have fun — to enjoy what you’re doing — is instrumental to success. Even Dave, who seems to scrape his fiction from the black places inside his soul with a rusty garden trowel, has “fun” in his own way. He enjoys telling the dark stories he writes. He enjoys crafting tales. He even enjoys going into the shadows that frighten him, because it’s cathartic. Fun doesn’t need to mean balloons and streamers.

Sean and I are probably more obvious examples of having fun while working, though. We have so much fun, we made it part of our brand. What one attribute characterizes every book we release through genre-agnostic Realm & Sands?

Whether we’re writing sci-fi or horror, fantasy westerns or straight (adult) comedy, we had fun writing it and bet you will have fun reading it.

Take your business seriously. But don’t take it so seriously that it gives you an ulcer. Your writing must be fun. It should feel like inspired play. Often, we see people who are trying too hard to shove square pegs into small round holes, writing what they don’t want to write because they’ve heard it will sell better. That’s a recipe for failure. If you are forcing your stories, readers will be able to tell. If your books aren’t fun to write (again, adhering to a definition of “fun” that includes Dave’s darkness), they won’t be fun to read.

There’s a bit of the author’s soul in every book, and nobody wants to hang out with the soul version of a bitchy asshole.

Our business is a good time. Even the stuff we don’t like, we like because it’s part of a whole that we love. Our horror, told with a straight face, is fun to dream up. Our comedy makes us laugh out loud. We honestly can’t spend enough time doing what we’re doing.

And when you want to do more and more of something — strongly enough that you can bulldoze through the rough and uncertain times — guess what tends to happen?

5. Sweating the Small Stuff

Here’s an unpleasant fact: You’ll never get to everything you could be doing to improve your writing, get better at publishing, and win more fans.

Should you write more? Of course! Should you work on your marketing? Naturally! Will social media strengthen your reader bonds and earn you some new eyes? Yep! How about joining Goodreads, creating audiobook and foreign language versions of your books, writing lead-in short stories, perfecting your covers and product descriptions, blogging, podcasting, answering fan email, creating Twitter accounts for your characters, creating paperbacks and hardbacks, doing author signings … whew, are you tired yet?

This problem only gets worse the more dedicated you are, leading to an ironic circle: The harder you work, the more it’ll become obvious that you can’t do it all.

Sean, Dave, and I are full-time authors. We have all day on most days — excepting family and personal time — to build our empires. Chances are, you aren’t quite as lucky. Most of our listeners only have a handful of hours a week to work on their businesses. If that’s you, the extra bad news is that as crunched as we feel, you’ll feel it tenfold.

So what’s the solution?

There isn’t one — not if the question is “How can I do it all?” That’s the question many flailing self-publishers ask, but it’s the wrong query. Asking how you can do it all is a downward spiral. You can’t do it all. You can only do your best.

Stop trying to do everything that may work. We talk to people all the time who are flustered by our refusal to engage in some tactic or another.

Shiny Penny“But it’ll gain you fans!”
“It’ll get people talking!”
“Do you know what you’re missing?”

Not exactly, and the first two are probably true, but it’s equally true that you’re a mortal human with a finite number of hours at your disposal. Stop asking if a tactic will work, and start asking which will work best for the time required. Stop asking what you should do, and start asking what you should do most.

If you haven’t heard of the Pareto Principle — the holy “80/20 rule” — look it up. Study it. Tattoo it on your arm. Then commit to doing the 20 percent of activities that will get you 80 percent of the results relative to the time required to do them … and in most cases, spending hours on Facebook isn’t on the list.

Write more. Market better. Build your machine to be more airtight, and more compelling.

Only mind the smaller (but still somewhat effective) details when you have time left over.

6. Thinking Short-Term

You’ve been writing for a year. You’ve published a few books. They’re good books, and they have fans. Yet, you’re still only making a few hundred dollars a month, if that. What’s wrong?

In all liklihood, nothing; you just haven’t given things enough time to percolate. Building an army of ravenous fans and strong, viral word-of-mouth for your work is anything but an overnight endeavor. The problem is that our quick-fix, give-me-$97-and-I’ll-show-you-the-magic-button society has conditioned us to believe that everything should be easy.

If something isn’t easy, things aren’t working and we should really quit.

If you’re writing good books and building a fanbase — even if it’s only growing at a rate of two people per month — you’re doing things right. If you write a sequel and the people who bought the original (all three of them) are dying to read it, you’re doing things right. If you’re well-reviewed, love your fans, and aren’t afraid to tell them about your new stuff, you’re doing things right. But as The Smiths sang, these things take time. You have to wait. Sorry.

Failures are impatient and quit even things that are working simply because they aren’t working fast enough. Those who ultimately succeed understand that they are in their endeavors for the long haul. You may have a book perform terribly. Your website may go down. You may sell well, then find yourself suddenly broke. You may work for months on end with no reward. It may look like you’re going the wrong way, and I won’t lie; it’s possible you are. But that’s how it looks when you’re going the right way for a long time, too.

If you want to make a career as an author, understand that you are playing a very long game. Don’t try to take shortcuts that cut off your nose to spite your face (unless you’re Sean; he has beak to spare). Don’t make choices that work today at the expense of tomorrow.

Before I started working with Sean and Dave, they did something that I admire to no end — something I wonder if I’d have had the fortitude to do myself. They finished the first season of Available Darkness, then moved to the next project without marketing it at all. They did it because they knew that long term, it was smarter to save their marketing push until they had a few projects rather than blowing their wad on only one with no follow-up.

Sean, working with another writer, also completed a full season of a project — over 80,000 words — and then trashed it without a thought. He did it because the project wasn’t good enough in the long term, and he thought he could do better down the road.

Fortunately for me, that project was The Beam. I reimagined The Beam with Sean a year later, and now with the release of The Beam: Season 2, it’s our biggest series.

I’m so glad he was patient enough to wait.

Perisistence7. Failure to Do the Work

This is the big one. Like the bonus round in a game show, I almost feel this item is important enough to render steps 1-6 moot.

Why do most people fail? Because they don’t do the work. They don’t put in the hours. As the expression goes, “Everybody wants to go to Heaven but nobody wants to die.” And similarly, everyone wants success but few are willing to bust nuts (or nut equivalents) hard enough for long enough to make it happen.

And yes, there’s such a thing as working smarter rather than harder, and I definitely don’t want to work hard forever. But in reality, most of the people who say “work smarter, not harder” are waffling. They’re justifying mediocre, half-assed work with an aphorism. You can’t out-smart a lack of hard work. Work hard first; make it smarter later.

Making it as an author — even in the ebook age Nirvana — is hard fucking work. You will write hundreds of thousands of words, then release them and make a few dollars. You will erase huge swatches of text because it sucks, then must summon the fortitude to start again. You will send emails to your list and get no response. You will spend hundreds of dollars on a cover and an edit then fail to recoup it. You will watch people with less than a tenth of your talent lap you. You will see others get lucky, while you get nothing.

If you want to succeed, you must keep working. And working. And working.

You can complain, but you can never stop … not until you have what you want, and that could take decades.

So if you’re doing the above things, knock it off. You’ll feel so much better once you start to have some of the success you deserve.

(Because you do deserve it, don’t you?)

We do this work every day, and in our upcoming project “Fiction Unboxed,” we’re going to let you watch every little detailwhile we do it for 30 days straight.

I really have to admire authors who can pump out story after story.  I know it takes A LOT of practice, but I just have to drop my jaw in awe and say “wow.”

I put my name in to participate in a horror flash fiction “contest,” and I gotta say I’m a little overwhelmed.  We were given 3 days to finish it, but I begged and pleaded to make it a week instead.

I know what you’re thinking.  You could write at least 3 stories in that amount of time, right?  In my lowly defense, I’m a stay-at-home full time mom, a stay-at-home full time employee, a stay-at-home college student taking distance education courses, and between all that I have to cook, clean, and write.  I might be able to read a story here and there.  As I take a deep breath and calm my anxieties of realizing how much of a life I really don’t have, I’m determined to remember that I don’t have to be like everyone else.  I think that’s a serious road block in my writing:  The feeling of having to be like the author who just dropped a 1,000 word story in less than an hour or the novelist who has the New York Times Bestseller every 3 months.  That’s just not me.

So, for you all-or-nothing writers, I once again tip my hat.  For all you depressed writers out there who don’t feel like you can compete, I feel you.  Besides, writing isn’t supposed to be a competition, right?  Unless you make it one.


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Loudoun Photography Club Exhibit 2011: A Look Through the Lens

A Look Through the Lens: Loudoun Photography Club Exhibit
Early Spring Morning at Blackwater Falls by Charlotte Arnold
June 01, 2011

Exhibit on Display: June 14- August 25, 2011
Reception: June 16, 2011, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Loudoun Photography Club members exhibit original photography on Campus. The exhibit and the reception are free and open to the public at Enterprise Hall, 44983 Knoll Square, First Floor Gallery, Ashburn, VA 20147. For more information contact the Office of Corporate and Community Relations at 703-726-3650.

Recent exhibits of local artists included: Michael Beckner, Mary Champion, Lavonne Donohue, Elissa Farrow-Savos, Jim Hanna, William J. Hennessy, Carmen Barros Howell, Dell Keathley, Cynthia Lowther, Ann Noel, Katherine Riedel, Libby Stevens, Manon Roderick, Sherry Sanabria, Antonia Walker, William Woodward, Tom Zuk, 20 art instructors from LCPS, and the Loudoun Photography Club.


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Catherine Leroux

Very versatile (conversational to very formal)

Voice Description

I have a very versatile voice and specialize in medical voiceover. I have over 20 years experience in medical communications project and can direct both French and English voiceover projects and ensure the quality of the pronounciation of medical terms.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Young Adult Female
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Language(s) of Which I Am a Native Speaker:

• French - Canadian

I Offer my Services for these Recording Purposes

• Commercials
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• Podcasts
• Adult content
• Others (on-camera, infomercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I will go to any designated studio in my area
• I can record and then deliver the audio files via Email
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Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

• I offer copywriting services
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My Home Base

, Ontario, Canada

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My Voice Experience

Numerous projects in the pharmaceutical field: patient videos, scientific animations descriptions, voice for phone systems (in both French and English), etc.

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Bachelors degree in 'Redaction francaise et communications' (French writing and communications)

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Short- 1-3 months
Long- 3-12 month
Starting from 1 March 2018
                         1 September 2018.
We are looking for volunteers who are:
– are in age 19-30 years old,
– who study or finished university
– who have driving license ( not necessary)
– who are good leaders, who can be leaders in Euroweek seminars
– very good English – because all activities are in English,
– volunteer should be inteligent with very good humor
– position volunteer is like teacher of different cultures and English.
We pay all cost of accomodation and food. Volunteers will receive monthly food and pocket money in amount of 720 Polish zl.
Volunteers will be preparing the EUROWEEK POLAND.
EUROWEEK is a seven day non-formal education and cultural program. It is happening simultaneously in three hotels, Silesia, Alexander and Slconezna in Bystryzca Klodzka, Poland.
The program is being facilitated by Youth Leaders (Volunteers) coming from different countries around the world. To date, we have volunteers from Africa, Asia, North and South America and Europe. The program focuses on four key areas that the students need most especially in this fast changing environment; cross-cultural, social and communication, intellectual and creativity skills.
Euroweek is also a learning space for volunteers. The volunteers can create; teach workshops and other activities that would not only benefit the students but also contribute to their growth as individuals, team players and leaders.
Duties and Responsibilities of Youth Leader (Volunteer)
  • The volunteer should prepare and present the best his/her country can offer. He/she can also include dance, music, arts, language, and show off the traditional dress and others that will make the presentation lively and interactive.
  • He/ she should also present and do different team building activities and workshops with the students.
  • He/she is highly encouraged to share and develop new team building games and workshops for the students.
  • As part of the learning process, volunteer should make a Learning Report every month to be submitted, reported and filed for future references.
  • He/she will lead and facilitate the activities together with other leaders.
  • Over- all the volunteer should actively participate in all meetings, workshops, activities with full and positive energy all the time.

Administrative and Logistics
  • The organization is responsible in assisting the volunteer in the provision of documents that might be required for the visa application process.
  • Any transport in connection with the project will be covered by the host organization. If the volunteer has to go to his/her work place or to his language course, those costs will be refunded after the submission of the transport tickets by the volunteer.
  • The volunteer will live on the country side in volunteers’ house and will share the room with other volunteers in Dlugopole Gorne, Poland.
  • During the Euroweek activities, volunteer has free food (Polish standard) in the hotel.
  • The organization understands the need of the volunteer to communicate better with her/his participants, thus, the volunteer will undergo a weekly Polish Lesson that the organization will provide to enable effective communication.
  • The volunteer is entitled to have a two-day break per week or 8 days free time in a month.

Expences covered by volunteers:

  • Travel
  • Visa
  • Insurance
  • Participation fee: 500 MDL

EX-EVS volunteers can also take part in this project.

Interested candidates are asked to send their CV to, before 10/02/2018 with the subject “EUROWEEK project”.


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One of the most popular website design platforms in the world is
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WordPress represents one of the most popular open source methods of managing your web presence. Small and medium-sized organizations can manage online content easily through a “no programming knowledge required” interface. Adding special functionality such as multiple languages, ecommerce, registration forms, landing pages or “member-only” content areas is a snap.

There’s a lot of power, and choice with WordPress. We can build you a custom site unlike anything else you’ve seen. Or, we can save you lots of time and adapt a pre-built theme to your unique brand.

Two big advantages come in the ease of providing a“responsive” — smartphone and tablet website easy integration of SEO tools to help improve your site’s page’s traffic and rank.

Are you doing at least 3 of these things? If not, it’s time to call Vortex.

  • Managing Your Own Content
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Before we tell you what needs to be done, we’ll review your existing site’s stats or plan a new one from scratch.

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As print and digital branding professionals, we have the know-how to build high levels of brand engagement into the web design.

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This is an Egyptian goose. I took the picture, which is not great, by the Thames River. I had no idea what it was at the time, hence the picture. I thought it was a very strange goose in comparison to the other, more normal specimens of the species that we see on the Thames. Egyptian geese look very much like velociraptors, or some kind of predatory dinosaurs anyway. And according to the raptors' description in Wikipedia, they are about the same size and also have features, so they share more than one traits with them. I blogged last year about the opinion of my niece on geese, that they look nasty and creepy. I am starting to see her point. This goose truly is a dinogoose, at least in look.

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LATEST UPDATE: Qoo10 has responded to our email query. Scroll down to read its response.

More than 20 complaints have been directed at Sim Lim retailer Ziming Global, after customers griped that their orders were cancelled suddenly within a day after they made a purchase online. Ziming Global was a participant of the one-day-only Qoo10 Expo event that happened yesterday in Singapore on the 22nd of November.

Buyers claimed on Ziming Global’s Qoo10 page that they had purchased the retailer’s item, a Lenovo A396 phone, at an advertised offer price of $22. However, the orders were voided moments after they completed their transactions without notice. The price of the Lenovo phone is now more than double the discounted price – $55.90.

Screenshot of some of the complaints made against Zhiming Global.
Screenshot of some of the complaints made against Ziming Global.

One of the affected customers wrote: “Purchased at EXPO sales price of $22.00. Item was cancelled stating “out of stock”. However they are still selling it at a jack up price of $59.90. Does not honor service. SCAMMER.”

Another user was critical of the ‘out of stock’ reasoning given: “Order successful, money deducted, got confirmation mail and later order cancelled. Can you explained what is the system error and why it happen? This is just to create hit on website and listing 502 items sold. Now you have stock to sale at $59.”

The Lenovo phone in question.
The Lenovo phone in question.

“It happened at Time Sale promotion period. SINCE payment was received. It becomes a valid and legal transaction. The retailer is liable. I will sue the retailer and complain to CASE.. Are all the promotion in Qoo10 real? Pls take this as my letter of demand to honour obligation or be sued,” wrote another user.

Ziming Global had answered most of the complaints and queries written on its page. It seemed to suggest that there was a system error with the Qoo10 e-commerce system and apologised to buyers. In other replies by the company, it had also advised customers to speak to Qoo10 for additional information on the alleged system error.

Based on the complaints issued, customers were not concerned of the refunds which they would be entitled to after the order cancellations. They insisted the retailer to honour the offer price and earlier transactions.

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I’ve looked through the pages of other participating brands and this system issue seems to be unique to Ziming Global. There are complaints written on other seller pages, but they are directed mainly at Qoo10 and its $22 marketing gimmick.

The $22 offer marketing gimmick.
The $22 offer marketing gimmick.

As stated under every seller’s ‘Policy & Notice’ tab, Qoo10 ‘only provides trading platform and system to facilitate transactions, and is not responsible for listed items and its contents’. If it is indeed true that Qoo10 suffered a system error, it should be held accountable to the sudden cancellation orders. A system error is a glitch in the trading platform provided by the company.

I explored further regarding the $22 marketing gimmick executed by Qoo10 during the online expo event. The prices are definitely way above the $22 offer price. From the comments of other buyers, I understand that the $22 price is only activated for a second (Seriously?). This was further explained by one of the sellers himself:

LATEST: Qoo10 has emailed us their response for this story. Read it below:

“Qoo10 is aware of the above-mentioned issue and has conducted an investigation into the case.

During the Qoo10 22 Nov Expo, limited sets of the Lenovo A396 mobile phone were allocated to be sold at $22, below its cost price, on a first-come-first-serve promotional basis.

However, there was an internal glitch in our system which allowed customers to purchase more promotional sets than the quantity allocated.

We acknowledge this and as a sign of goodwill, we will extend the $22 promotion to affected customers, whom we are in the midst of reaching out to.

We would also like to highlight that the $22 promotion activated for a second is a separate promotional activity.”

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Dear Family and Friends,

Kylie, our daughter, and Bryce, our grandson, have been visiting us this past week. This is their first visit to Cuenca and we have had a great time showing them around.

We started out by taking the double deck sightseeing bus. Here are Kylie and Bryce waiting for the tour to begin.

We went to the indoor amusement center in the Mall del Rio. Little boys and motorcycles, perfect match!

Little boys and pizza are a good match too.

Here is Kylie showing Bryce the candles burning inside the cathedral.

Poppi (Chuck) and Bryce spent a day shopping while Kylie and I did some lady shopping.

Here is Poppi and Bryce with their matching soccer shirts.

All has not been perfect though....poor Bryce came down with a real bad ear infection. We had to take him to the hospital emergency room at 4:30am because he was in so much pain. The doctor gave him some medicine for pain and antibiotics for the infection.

Bryce is back to his wonderful self now. (Kids rebound so fast.)

Kylie and Bryce are leaving on Wednesday to return to Puerto Rico. Chuck also leaves on Wednesday to head back to the U.S. I will leave on Friday for the U.S.

I will post on the blog after we get to Washington state. In the meantime, stay healthy and happy.

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  1. We are so excited to see you both when you come "home"... let the party begin! Nancy, you better sleep alot on the flight! We expect you and Chuck at the Big Dog Nite! HUGS HUGS HUGS...

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Taylor Swift and Kanye West singing the same tune?

It seems that Kanye West has extended this season’s olive branch to Taylor Swift and it appears the infamous incident of the 2009 Video Music Awards has been neatly brushed under the velour carpet. It seems that fashion really does bring people together as now it looks like Swift is even wearing one of West’s designs.

Taylor Swift is featured on the cover of the April issue of Australia’s Harper Bazaar and in the fashion spread the singer dons a striped top designed by the Chi Town rapper.

West recently showed his DW by Kanye fall 2012 fashion collection at the recent Paris Fashion week. The collection is named after his late mother, Donda West, who tragically died after surgery complications during a cosmetic procedure.

West infamously interrupted Taylor’s acceptance speech for Best Female Video at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. He then took to the stage and snatched the microphone from Swift’s hand and insisted Beyonce should have won the award. He later apologized profusely several times in interviews and on Twitter for the incident.

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