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After he is fired from the Anti-Villain League for failing to take down the latest bad guy to threaten humanity, Gru finds himself in the midst of a major identity crisis. But when a mysterious stranger shows up to inform Gru that he has a long-lost twin brother-a brother who desperately wishes to follow in his twin's despicable footsteps-one former super-villain will rediscover just how good it feels to be bad.
Seven-year-old Tim Templeton has always been a boy of an overactive imagination, and for the past seven years, life was all peaches for him, getting all the love and affection from his caring parents. However, life will never be the same and Tim won't be the centre of attention anymore as the arrival of an improbable new brother named Boss Baby, dressed in a black suit complete with a tie and a briefcase, will shortly rob him of all love, as he takes over the whole Templetons' house. Nevertheless, although this may be true, soon, Tim and the new Boss in a diaper will need to put differences aside and join forces, as a sneaky scheme involving the head of Puppy Co. threatens to tilt the balance of power towards their insidiously adorable furry antagonists, not to mention that the next Pet Convention is in only two days.. Brothers, hurry up. Written by Nick Riganas
Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in the game, he will need the help of an eager young race technician with her own plan to win, inspiration from the late Fabulous Hudson Hornet, and a few unexpected turns. Proving that #95 isn't through yet will test the heart of a champion on Piston Cup Racing's biggest stage! Written by Pixar
In a brand new Jumanji adventure, four high school kids discover an old video game console and are drawn into the game's jungle setting, literally becoming the adult avatars they chose. What they discover is that you don't just play Jumanji - you must survive it. To beat the game and return to the real world, they'll have to go on the most dangerous adventure of their lives, discover what Alan Parrish left 20 years ago, and change the way they think about themselves - or they'll be stuck in the game forever, to be played by others without break. Written by Sony Pictures
Disney's animated classic takes on a new form, with a widened mythology and an all-star cast. A young prince, imprisoned in the form of a beast, can be freed only by true love. What may be his only opportunity arrives when he meets Belle, the only human girl to ever visit the castle since it was enchanted.
Moana Waialiki is a sea voyaging enthusiast and the only daughter of a chief in a long line of navigators. When her island's fishermen can't catch any fish and the crops fail, she learns that the demigod Maui caused the blight by stealing the heart of the goddess, Te Fiti. The only way to heal the island is to persuade Maui to return Te Fiti's heart, so Moana sets off on an epic journey across the Pacific. The film is based on stories from Polynesian mythology. Written by Anonumous
The Emoji Movie unlocks the never-before-seen secret world inside your smartphone. Hidden within the messaging app is Textopolis, a bustling city where all your favorite emojis live, hoping to be selected by the phone's user. In this world, each emoji has only one facial expression - except for Gene, an exuberant emoji who was born without a filter and is bursting with multiple expressions. Determined to become "normal" like the other emojis, Gene enlists the help of his handy best friend Hi-5 and the notorious code breaker emoji Jailbreak. Together, they embark on an epic "app-venture" through the apps on the phone, each its own wild and fun world, to find the Code that will fix Gene. But when a greater danger threatens the phone, the fate of all emojis depends on these three unlikely friends who must save their world before it's deleted forever. Written by Sony Pictures Entertainment
When the pressure to be royally perfect becomes too much for Mal, she returns to her rotten roots on the Isle of the Lost where her archenemy Uma, the daughter of Ursula from The Little Mermaid, has taken her spot as self-proclaimed queen of the run-down town. Uma, still resentful over not being selected by Ben to go to Auradon Prep with the other Villain Kids, stirs her pirate gang including Captain Hook's son Harry and Gaston's son Gil, to break the barrier between the Isle of the Lost and Auradon, and unleash all the villains imprisoned on the Isle once and for all. Written by Disney Channel
This is the tale of Harry Potter, an ordinary 11-year-old boy serving as a sort of slave for his aunt and uncle who learns that he is actually a wizard and has been invited to attend the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is snatched away from his mundane existence by Hagrid, the grounds keeper for Hogwarts, and quickly thrown into a world completely foreign to both him and the viewer. Famous for an incident that happened at his birth, Harry makes friends easily at his new school. He soon finds, however, that the wizarding world is far more dangerous for him than he would have imagined, and he quickly learns that not all wizards are ones to be trusted. Written by Carly
Anna, a fearless optimist, sets off on an epic journey - teaming up with rugged mountain man Kristoff and his loyal reindeer Sven - to find her sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter. Encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and a hilarious snowman named Olaf, Anna and Kristoff battle the elements in a race to save the kingdom. From the outside Anna's sister, Elsa looks poised, regal and reserved, but in reality, she lives in fear as she wrestles with a mighty secret-she was born with the power to create ice and snow. It's a beautiful ability, but also extremely dangerous. Haunted by the moment her magic nearly killed her younger sister Anna, Elsa has isolated herself, spending every waking minute trying to suppress her growing powers. Her mounting emotions trigger the magic, accidentally setting off an eternal winter that she can't stop. She fears she's becoming a monster and that no one, not even her sister, can help her. Written by DeAlan Wilson for ComedyE.com
Dracula, Mavis, Johnny and the rest of the Drac Pack take a vacation on a luxury Monster Cruise Ship, where Dracula falls in love with the ship's captain, Ericka, who's secretly a descendant of Abraham Van Helsing, the notorious monster slayer.
From the creators of Shrek comes the most smart, funny, irreverent animated comedy of the year, DreamWorks' Trolls. This holiday season, enter a colorful, wondrous world populated by hilariously unforgettable characters and discover the story of the overly optimistic Trolls, with a constant song on their lips, and the comically pessimistic Bergens, who are only happy when they have trolls in their stomach. Featuring original music from Justin Timberlake, and soon-to-be classic mash-ups of songs from other popular artists, the film stars the voice talents of Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Russell Brand, James Corden, Kunal Nayyar, Ron Funches, Icona Pop, Gwen Stefani, and many more. DreamWorks' TROLLS is a fresh, broad comedy filled with music, heart and hair-raising adventures. In November of 2016, nothing can prepare you for our new Troll world. Written by 20th Century Fox
Simba idolises his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother—and former heir to the throne—has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is ravaged with betrayal, tragedy and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba's exile. With help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba will have to figure out how to grow up and take back what is rightfully his.
A Heffley family road trip to attend Meemaw's 90th birthday party goes hilariously off course thanks to Greg's newest scheme to get to a video gaming convention. This family cross-country adventure turns into an experience the Heffleys will never forget. Written by Twentieth Century Fox
While Aladdin may still be living on the streets of Agrabah, he is now engaged to the beautiful and spirited Princess Jasmine. Al and Jasmine, along with monkey sidekick Abu, the Magic Carpet, the fast-talking, shape-shifting Genie, and Iago the short-tempered parrot continue their adventures exploring the world and protecting Agrabah. Written by Jwelch5742
The world is divided into four elemental nations: The Northern and Southern Water Tribes, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and the Air Nomads. The Avatar upholds the balance between the nations, but everything changed when the Fire Nation invaded. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, can stop them. But when the world needs him most, he vanishes. A hundred years later Katara and Sokka discover the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang. Together they must help Aang master the elements and save the world. Written by Kevin Jeremiah Gaona
The character-driven cartoon chronicles the nautical and often nonsensical adventures of SpongeBob, an incurably optimistic and earnest sea sponge, and his underwater friends. Dwelling a few fathoms beneath the tropical isle of Bikini Atoll in the sub-surface city of Bikini Bottom, SpongeBob lives in a two-story pineapple. Instead of taking the logical approach to everyday challenges, SpongeBob approaches life in a wayward and unconventional way. Whether searching for the ultimate spatula to perfect his burger flipping technique at the Krusty Krab or just hanging out with his best friend Patrick (an amiable starfish), SpongeBob's good intentions and overzealous approach to life usually create chaos in his underwater world. Written by Nickelodeon
Life is about to change in a big way for 16-year-old Tori Vega. After years of living in her older sister's shadow, Tori has been invited to attend Hollywood Arts, a high school with a focus on the performing arts. While the invitation came as a surprise -- she's never thought of herself as particularly talented -- and she still has to deal with being the new kid on campus, Hollywood Arts may just give Tori her chance to shine. Written by Dynasti Noble
The Doctor, from a race called the Time Lords whose home planet is Gallifrey, travels through time and space in his ship the TARDIS (an acronym for Time and Relative Dimensions In Space) with numerous companions. From time to time he regenerates into a new form (which is how the show has been running since 1963).
Carly hosts her own home-grown web show, iCarly. She lives with her twenty-something brother/guardian Spencer and produces her Web casts from a makeshift third-floor loft studio. Grappling with adolescence, she never aimed to gain fame as a rising star/underground celebrity to kids. As events unfold in the pilot, it all happens by accident when a teacher puts her in charge of the school talent show. She and her sassy best bud Sam turn the audition process into a show, which Carly's tech savvy smitten friend Freddie tapes - including their hilarious banter and great chemistry - and posts on the Web without telling the girls. The on-line audience clamors for more, and a pop phenomenon blooms, with Carly and sidekick Sam's regular Web casts ultimately featuring everything from comedy sketches and talent contests to interviews, recipes, and problem-solving. Written by Emily
The adventures of Ariel and her friends at the age of fourteen. From her first known trouble with Ursula to her collection of human objects, the show illustrates the princess's journey as she finishes growing up. It also introduced new characters such as Ariel's merboy friend (an orphan named Urchin who her family all saw as a little brother), the snobbish merteen called Pearl, the mobster lobster, Evil Manta, Sebastian's family, and an orca Ariel titled Spot. Written by Max Vaughn
Ryder leads a team of rescue pups (Marshall, Rubble, Chase, Rocky, Zuma and Skye) who save their town from everyday emergencies, whether it's finding missing elephants, fixing windmills or another minor mishap involving clumsy Cap'n Turbot.
The Good Place is a town where those who have been good throughout their lives go once they have passed away. Michael (Danson) is the architect who oversees the town. Eleanor (Bell) arrives at the Good Place and realizes she doesn't deserve to be there. With the help of Chidi (Harper), Eleanor tries to right her wrongs seeking to finally earn her spot in the Good Place.
A look at life for the members of a boy band who are trying to make it big in the music industry.
Wizards of Waverly Place focuses on the Russos. A typical family, which includes a mom, Theresa Russo; a dad, Jerry Russo; a son, Justin Russo; a daughter, Alex Russo; and another son, Max Russo. The kids and the family live normal lives but what their friends don't know is the kids are wizards in training and the dad was a former wizard! Written by EMWII
Set in the 22nd century Doremon is a cat who had his ears stolen by a pair of mischievous mice when he was little and is now afraid of all mice. In addition to this he has futuristic fun with his family and girlfriend who is a cat from another world. Written by Anonymous
Ben becomes a surprise dad to a baby girl when she's left on his doorstep by an ex-girlfriend. Ben decides to raise the baby with the help of his mother, his brother Danny, his friend Tucker and Riley the girl who is harboring a secret crush on him. Written by ABC Family
This series is set in the fictional Beach City, where ageless alien warriors, the Crystal Gems, live in an ancient beachside temple, protecting the world from evil. They project female humanoid forms from magical gemstones that are the core of their being. The Crystal Gems are Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl and Steven, a young half-human, half-Gem boy who inherited his gemstone from his mother, the Gems' former leader Rose Quartz. As Steven tries to figure out his powers, he spends his days with his human father Greg, his friend Connie, other people in Beach City, or the other Gems, whether to help them save the world or just to hang out. He explores the abilities passed down to him by his mother, which include fusion (the ability of Gems to merge their identities and bodies to form a new and more powerful personality).


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Book Title: Somewhere to Begin ( Poison and Wine Series)
Author: Mika Jolie
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: August 2016
Hosted by: Book Enthusiast Promotions
There are wounds that never show on the body.
For twenty-nine years, Colbie Bennington does as expected with an eternal smile stained on her lips. The biggest chances she's ever taken can be counted on one hand, three fingers to be exact—her battered red chucks, painting her toenails a vibrant blue, and her wedding dress. Always the dutiful daughter and a Stepford fiancée, she has never acted on impulse, never been in love.
She's never lived.
On her wedding day, Colbie ends a toxic relationship, drops the fake smile, and says, "I can't do this anymore."
Navy SEAL Zander Serrano returns home broken and burdened with a volcano of remorse. Too trapped in a mental war to be at peace and too damaged to be at war, he shuts the world out. The last thing he expects is to feel, especially for a runaway bride with her own baggage.
Two empty hearts marred in different spots find themselves drawn to one another. Each with their own scars. Some, the world can see. Others, unseen to the naked eye.
They say two broken people should not be together. But for Colbie and Zander, their attraction is undeniable, unexpected.
Can two souls with fractured parts be the best cure for each other's wounds?
Starting over is never easy, but sometimes in life, everyone needs somewhere to begin.
"You saved my life," she whispered, still able to feel his strength as he whisked her away to safety. She had been fleetingly aware of the bloody taste in her mouth, the hot summer rain splattering against her face. Her body slumped against him, her head on his shoulder, her arms tight around his neck. One minute trapped in a steel prison—seatbelt biting into her chest, her torso and head smashed against the airbag—the runaway bride with the tragic ending. And then she had seen his face and knew everything would be okay.
He had picked her up and made her feel safe.
She looked at his hands clutched together, remembering how gentle they'd been. He squeezed them tight. Corded muscles bunched.
"I did nothing special." A shadow rolled over his expression.
Through heavy lidded lashes, she surveyed him. A scar bisected his left brow, giving him an edgy look. He was tall, north of six foot, big with Atlas shoulders, and a tough, impenetrable exterior. She peered at the rubber-edged dog tag hanging around his neck. Military. She should have guessed. Everything about him screamed tough guy who didn't do soft and gentle.
And yet, she had a feeling he'd done exactly for her.
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FSFE Newsletter October 2019
This month, we focus our attention on digital restrictions and the International Day against them. To this end, we launched our first episode of the monthly Software Freedom Podcast, this time starring Cory Doctorow talking about DRM. We have published our yearly report, summing up our activities of the past 12 months and shining light on the community we build our success on. As usual, you will also discover upcoming events with the FSFE, including our Annual Community meeting, as well as recordings and information from events we participated in.
Software Freedom Podcast: 100% DRM-free
On October 12, on the International Day Against DRM, we launched our first Episode of the FSFE's new Software Freedom Podcast starring Cory Doctorow - author and activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and extended usage of Creative Commons licenses. Doctorow's long time advocacy makes him an interesting person to address different issues included in Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). We discuss the differences between books and e-books with DRM and see how DRM changes our entire experience of reading and how that reverberates into our relationship with books and readings. Further, we dive into the economic and security aspects related to DRM and regulations of the so called Internet of Things. Listen or download our first podcast absolutely DRM-free and explore with us some burning issues on digital restrictions and freedoms. Also be aware that starting with this episode, we will broadcast a monthly Software Freedom Podcast series in which we invite diverse people to speak with inspirational ideas related to software freedom.
In addition, we used the International Day Against DRM again to explain the dangers of DRM in relation to Free Software: While Free Software is software that puts users in control of their own devices, DRM in contrast is technology that puts the user under the control of a third party. These two goals are fundamentally incompatible. DRM contradicts the FSFE's mission to empower people to control technology.
You can find further information about this topic on our campaign website drm.info and our printed leaflet.
Software Freedom in Europe 2019
"Software Freedom in Europe" is our yearly report that gives you a breakdown of the important things the FSFE has done and achieved during the last 12 months. You will read about our ongoing work for router freedom in Europe, about the first Parliament in Europe to join our "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign, about our new version of REUSE tools to help Free Software developers with easy license compliance and about much more of our multi-faceted policy work - all together aiming to create a world in which users are in control of technology!
Besides our policy work and projects, we also shine light on our community and its members; because it is only through working together that the FSFE is able to form a movement across Europe to build a society based on users' and software freedom. To this end we also report about the events that we organised and participated in, from policy meetings to our web-a-thons.
Enjoy the read and discover your personal favourite of the FSFE's activities in 2019!
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Do not miss: upcoming events with the FSFE
As with every month, we are trying to spread the word and help individuals and organisations understand what Free Software is and how Free Software contributes to freedom, transparency, and self-determination. If you are interested in seeing us in action and joining our cause, keep in mind the following dates and locations in the coming weeks:
- Between November 8 and 11, the FSFE programme manager Erik Albers will attend the digital rights dedicated event Freedom Not Fear where he will lead a workshop on European campaigns regarding digital sustainablity.
- Between November 15 and 16 the FSFE Community Meeting will unite forces with the South Tyrol Free Software Conference (SFScon) in Bolzano, Italy. The FSFE will have its own track and you are kindly invited to join the expert and community talks, as well as the social activities. You can find detailed information about the agenda and logistics on our wiki page
What have we done? Inside and Outside the FSFE
Since the last newsletter we have been active in promoting the Free Software cause, by helping individuals and organisations have a better understanding of what Free Software is and encouraging them to develop and implement it in their lives. We want to share with you the events, that we have photos, videos or other recordings of below:
- On October 3, the FSFE Rhein-Main Local Group participated at the MouseOpener Day "Maustüröffner-Tag" happening all over Germany. At this annual event, local organizations and companies open their doors to give kids insights into a broad range of topics. In Frankfurt, the FSFE local group Rhein-Main supported the local Linux user group with organizing the event and giving kids the opportunity to explore computers using Free Software. About 20 young "hackers" joined the event and got to know LibreOffice, LeoCAD and Scratch. To not forget their parents, there was an info corner to explain Free Software to them.
- On October 4, the FSFE Policy Manager Alexander Sander was at the "Open Source Lisbon" conference where he spoke about our "Public Money? Public Code" campaign and also was part of the discussion panel on Free and Open Source Software as a business model.
- On October 6, the FSFE Local Group in Vienna, hosted an information booth at the annual Animal Welfare Run. The booth enjoyed a great share of attention, since it was a rather unexpected participation and runners and their friends and families were curious to find out more about Free Software. You can read more details about the event and the booth on the blog of FSFE supporters Vienna.
- Just in time for the elections, the Swiss Freedomvote campaign was back again this year - an initiative run and maintained with the support by the Local FSFE Group in Zurich. The aim of the campaign is to give voters guidance about the candidates who are running for election.
- The FSFE's General Assembly took place between October 11th and 13th in Essen. One part of the meeting was the re-election of the FSFE's president Matthias Kirschner, vice-president Heiki Löhmus and financial officer Patrick Ohnewein for another 2 years-term by its members.
- Our initative "Public Money? Public Code!" attracted the attention of the City Council of Kassel, Germany. They will discuss it as the guiding principle for any new software purchases. The proposal will be discussed on November 27 by the Municipality's Financial Committee, and final decisions on implementation are expected to be made on December 9. To help implementing "Public Money? Public Code!" in the city of Kassel , we kindly ask you to send an e-mail to the members of the local Parliament and ask them to support this proposal. Their contact details can be found on Kassel's municipality page under the "City Council fractions" section. If a member does not have a clear contact details, you can call the Parliament and ask for it.
Get Active
Beginning this month we broadcast our monthly Software Freedom Podcast. Make sure you do not miss any by subscribing with your podcast player.
Contribute to our newsletter
If you would like to share any thoughts, pictures, or news, send them to us. As always, the address is email@example.com. We're looking forward to hearing from you!
If you also want to support us and our work, join our community and support us with a donation or a monthly contribution: https://my.fsfe.org/support
Thanks to our community, all the volunteers, supporters and donors who make our work possible. And thanks to our translators, who enable you to read this newsletter in your native languages.
Best Regards,
The FSFE
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A guest post by Larry Brooks of Storyfix.com
In the recycled litany of advice on how to grow your blog – recycled because it's all tried and true – there's one effective strategy that gets too little airtime.
Perhaps that's because it's not for everybody. Because it's hard to pull off.
That said, it almost always works.
Meanwhile, as a first line of more accessible strategy, we're told to comment on the blogs of others. We're also advised to avoid overtly flogging our own agenda in the process.
"Dude, nice post!" won't send folks to your site.
Don't get me wrong, it's good to dole out the atta-boys. Just don't expect to be rewarded with reciprocal traffic when you do. If you comment – and this, too, is straight out of Blogging 101 – strive to add value to the online discussion, and in context to the previous paragraph.
We're told to write killer headlines. Snatch an edgy image from Flickr. Never put three sentences of content into a single paragraph. Pretend like you know Darren Rowse and Brian Clark personally.
Which puts you in the company of thousands who lay claim to that because they've swapped an email or two. They're not two of the biggest and nicest people on the internet for nothin'.
And of course, we're consistently told that content is king. That this little strategy trumps everything else. Always has, always will.
Which is precisely why the strategy I'm about to pitch works so well.
Like you, I've dipped my blogging toe into all of these rushing online waters, and with varying degrees of success, depending on how you define it.
Growing a blog by the book is a bit like those sales pages that suggest you can earn five grand a month with Google ads, and then when you do everything they suggest after submitting your fifty bucks, you make about fifteen of them back over the next five months.
If you're the exception to that generalization, then by all means, illuminate us.
But if you're looking for something you can sink your strategic teeth into, an approach that solidly aligns with the content-is-king blogging mantra and actually results in an influx of enthusiastic new readers, then consider this:
Write a series
A sequence of posts that offer a sort of mini-symposium, an online workshop that builds upon its own content and momentum.
I've done it a handful of times, and each time it jacks my Feedburner number much more significantly than anything else I've tried.
I'm in the middle of one now, in fact, and my level of readership has gone up nearly 50 percent since it began five days ago (that said, Darren Rowse I'm not, so this isn't a world record). And my subscriber base has gone up 10 percent after three months of complete flat-lining.
And – here's the entrepreneurial payoff – I'm selling a bunch of ebooks in the process, at over twice the normal sales pace.
Claiming the Right to Write a Series
To write a successful series, you need to occupy a position of credibility within your chosen niche. You need to have something to offer, to give away, and be able to demonstrate the chops to do so.
Also, your series should be about something that can't be adequately contained in a single blog post.
Sure, we can stuff anything into a single blog post if we try. I've seen single blog posts on solving the problem of unhappy marriages, how to cure cancer and the ultimate answer to recovering from sex addiction, substance abuse and hair loss.
Yeah, like any of those can happen in 1000 words or less.
If you really want to cement your position as an authority on something, on anything, you need to go deeper than what readers normally encounter online.
You need to train them.
One reason this strategy can grow your readership is that it is, in essence, an event. Which means it can be marketed as such ahead of time.
Beginning a week or two before you launch the series, start writing about it. Define the problem or need your series will address, and the end result that will be there for those who come to the party.
Attach a tag, a notice, at the end of your otherwise unconnected posts reminding readers of the upcoming series. Suggest they invite friends that share the same goals and concerns.
Getting the Reader Involved
Ask for input to the series, allowing your readers to, in effect, take part in the approach and content. Nothing makes readers love you more than the belief – based in truth – that you are writing precisely what they need to read, and that you understand both their goals and their challenges.
And then, write a killer series. Write the hell of out. Don't just whip them off before bed in a stream-of-conscious psycho-babble of war stories. Write your series as if you are preparing a masters thesis, but with a sense of style, humor and empathy.
Think of the posts as chapters in a book, with an introductory context up front, then a building series of content blocks that take the reader to the promised outcome.
Not only will they come once you build it, others will write about it on their sites – including requests for interviews and invites to guest post – creating a level of buzz you could never achieve otherwise.
Go deeper than you normally would
With a series you have the time and space to go there, and in doing so you'll quickly differentiate yourself from other blogs in your niche.
When you write an effective series, you are actually taking blogging to another level. What was conceived as experiential sharing and observation becomes a valuable gift to all who click on.
And speaking of chapters… I've turned three of my series into ebooks that are selling well, with a fourth right around the corner. Just make sure you don't simply slap together the eight parts of your series into an eight chapter ebook and call it original, your readers are too smart for that. And, they deserve better.
You've already given it away. You can't sell it unless you add more value to it.
Use your posts as a foundation to build on, and expand them into a full and robust informational goldmine on the topic. Include real life examples as a way to clarify your content.
People who read your series will flock to it, even if they read it on your site as part of a series, and they'll tell others.
And in the meantime, your blog and your brand will begin to grow. Not only because of your content, but as a result of the credibility of your authoritative brand.
Larry Brooks is currently writing a series that deconstructs Dennis Lehane's bestselling novel, Shutter Island – the book and the movie based on it – on Storyfix.com, an instructional site for novelists and screenwriters.


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The Genetic Alliance, a nonprofit health advocacy organization, is asking for support to expand people's right to their own health information by giving them direct access to their clinical laboratory test results.
23andMe supports this position and several of our employees are signing-on to a letter the organization has put together advocating the rule change. If you agree, we'd like to encourage you to sign as well.
Here's a few reasons why:
We believe people need quick and convenient access to test results so they can better manage their own health. We believe people should have the same right to access their lab results as they do to their other medical records. And we believe that by giving people a simple way to access these records, it will improve the level of care and produce better health outcomes.
This proposed change is a long time coming. About a year ago, 23andMe submitted comments along with more than 150 others to the Department of Health and Human Services about a proposed federal rule change (CMS-2319-P) that amends the current quality standards that are part of the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 – known as CLIA. The change specifies that, upon a patient's request, the laboratory must provide access to completed test reports.
These changes are part of a series of reforms governing access and privacy around health records. About a dozen years ago, changes were first made that gave people access to their health information. Another change made a few years later gave people the right to obtain those records electronically, but because of a fluke in overlapping regulation, the rules didn't apply to laboratory test results.
In addition to that rule, another related to Medicare and Medicaid only permitted the release of lab results to "authorized persons," a term that doesn't include patients themselves. The proposed change will correct these quirks in the law and give people the access to all their health records.
Beyond the fact that a person should have the right to their own health information, there are a lot of other very good reasons for access. We've mentioned a few already, but the Genetic Alliance's detailed letter gives plenty more including: saving money by avoiding redundant testing; giving patients the ability to quickly access this information in an emergency; and preventing harm by informing people of issues they might not have learned without access to their test results.
We invite anyone else who supports this guarantee for access to their clinical laboratory test results to sign on. If you or your organization wish to sign onto the letter below, send your name, credentials if applicable, title and organization to: Barbara Wilkinson <firstname.lastname@example.com
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The White Princess
Caught between loyalties, the mother of the Tudors must choose between the red rose and the white.
Philippa Gregory, #1 New York Times bestselling author and "the queen of royal fiction" (USA Today), presents the latest Cousins' War novel, the remarkable story of Elizabeth of York, daughter of the White Queen.
When Henry Tudor picks up the crown of England from the mud of Bosworth field, he knows he must marry the princess of the enemy house --- Elizabeth of York --- to unify a country divided by war for nearly two decades.
But his bride is still in love with his slain enemy, Richard III --- and her mother and half of England dream of a missing heir, sent into the unknown by the White Queen. While the new monarchy can win power, it cannot win hearts in an England that plots for the triumphant return of the House of York.
Henry's greatest fear is that somewhere a prince is waiting to invade and reclaim the throne. When a young man who would be king leads his army and invades England, Elizabeth has to choose between the new husband she is coming to love and the boy who claims to be her beloved lost brother: the rose of York come home at last.
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- Publication Date: April 1, 2014
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Africa Rising is a powerful documentary portraying the indomitable grassroots movement to end female genital mutilation. Traveling through remote villages in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, Somalia and Tanzania, Africa Rising celebrates the resilience and determination of the human spirit to change destiny against all odds.
Nous représentantes de diverses organisations de la Société Civile Africaine réunies au Forum Mondial pour la Revue de Beijing 15 ans après et représentant les voix des millions de femmes et jeunes filles Africaines, Apres avoir eu des consultations avec différents acteurs avant et pendant le Forum Mondial des ONG sur les progrès enregistrés dans la mise en œuvre de le Déclaration et la Plate Forme d'Action de Beijing en Afrique,
29 March to 27 April 2010 (Global): The witchcraft epidemic in Africa is fueled by religious extremism. Practitioners of traditional African religions, traditional healers, witch-doctors and Christian missionaries and religious leaders incite witch-hunts on this continent. There are comparisons to be made between Africas current witch-craze, European Inquisitions and American witch-hunts. Perhaps the lessons to be learned in Africa are the same as those that needed to be learned by Europeans and Americans; there is no culture without human rights. All men and women, including Witches, have the right to live without being falsely accused, assaulted, persecuted or murdered.
More than two-thirds of African countries have laws criminalizing homosexual acts, and despite accounting for a significant percentage of new infections in many countries, men who have sex with men tend to be left out of the HIV response. "[They] are going underground; they are hiding themselves and continuing to fuel the epidemic," UNAIDS executive director Michél Sidibé told IRIN/PlusNews recently. "We need to make sure these vulnerable groups have the same rights everyone enjoys: access to information, care and prevention for them and their families." IRIN/PlusNews has compiled a short list of human rights violations against gay Africans:


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I'm always up for a unique coffee experience. Sometimes it's about the product and other times the place. In Hanoi, cafes do coffee with yoghurt or egg, some purveyors have an artisinal approach to what they do; sourcing, roasting, blending and grinding their own brews. I can sip coffee against a century old ochre wall, in a memorabilia-lined passageway a metre wide, up a spiral staircase overlooking a lake. Even a standard Hanoi cafe is perfectly good for watching the frenetic passing parade. It's an ongoing discovery that I never tire of.
In Saigon, I'm less familiar with the coffee culture. This makes investigating it even more intriguing.
Perhaps most intriguing is the city's café bệt (coffee sitting on the ground) custom, which does not exist in Hanoi as far as I know. For an outsider, it appears very much the terrain of the insider; difficult to access. On a flying visit to Saigon last week, I stumbled upon it adjacent to the city's iconic Notre-Dame Cathedral, at the top of its most exclusive street address, Đồng Khởi. Here on the pavements of Liberation Day Park, coffee is procured from what seems out of nowhere. There is no signage or menu board, no bricks and mortar structure, not even a hastily erected tarpaulin. Definitely no coffee making apparatus. Yet folks are sitting around the park grasping plastic cups of iced coffee.
And my hand is empty. I am already imagining the taste of the coffee. My patience is on the fray.
But I work it out. A system gradually reveals itself. Three people sit on fold-up chairs by the roadside, one equipped with a walkie-talkie, one a big wad of cash in his fat little hand and the other pulling single sheets of print from a newspaper. A fourth part of the equation arrives alongside them by motorbike, bearing two cups of coffee in the hand not steering the bike. The coffee is delivered across the park to patrons already sitting on newspaper on the raised concrete barriers separating the footpath from the grass.
Café Bệt in Công Viên 30/4 (Liberation Day Park) is ordered by walkie-talkie, delivered by motorbike from a coffee cart 100 metres up the road and consumed low to the ground on a sheet of daily news. In the shadow of a church.
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The lesson for the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost, part of the "Growing Through Scripture" curriculum, exploring the gospel and epistle readings from the annual lectionary for parishes in the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese.
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Liz of Young Adventuress recently tweeted, Am I the only one who doesn't used what's app or instagram? In short, yes. Social media has been taking its toll on my love life recently, as my boyfriend walks away from me any time I whip out my little htc hot mess of a phone (since my nice one was stolen in January). I squealed with delight when instagram became available for Androids just before Feria last month, and used the looooooong car ride from Sevilla to Murcia – last weekend's destination – as a way to test it out. In short – I'm in love. While I preferred Pudding Camera for its crazy settings, Instagram's ease with social media make it a bit more of a winner in my humble, html-challenged mind.
The Novio's job takes him this week to Murcia, a strange, moon-like crater that anchors down the southeast corner of the peninsula. While I'd had little desire to ever travel there, I had a (nearly) free ride and a place to stay, so I jumped at the chance. We pulled up to Cartagena, a town rich in military history (and home to the first self-propelled submarine, who knew!) shortly after 9pm. The journey had been long, with bouts of natural beauty through the Sierra de Huétor and the green, green plains that run along its backside towards the coast.
Cartagena's port stood quiet and still on a Friday evening, and even the Calle Mayor was lifeless. Our quick dinner of beer and ensaladilla was met with a good night's sleep before we headed out the following day for Jumilla.
Murcia has few claims to Spain, apart from a few big cities, a bunch of expat enclaves and wine. Jumilla, a sleepy town that nearly reaches the border of Valencia, is home to several wineries, and I was dying to tour one. I had gotten in contact with Bodegas Silvano García, who graciously offered us a tour of their small, family-run bodega and a full cata de vino for only 5€. Even Mr. Grumpy, who wasn't keen on making the drive, enjoyed himself and pumped some (grape-flavored) fuel back into the economy.
Later that day, we headed down the coast to Águilas, where his Aunt Laura and her family live. The day was cool and drizzly, but the sound of the waves and the smell of salt somehow always makes me feel like Spain was a good, good choice. The day was far less than perfect, which made me eager to get on to Murcia.
Finally, a sunny day. After a quick trip to the ER and our Sunday churros routine, The Novio and I wandered the central heart of Murcia. It was Mother's Day, so people were overflowing the terraces in the square at the foot of the cathedral.
"Let's go in," I told The Novio, Camarón finally unglued from my face. The salmon and cobalt hues of the building were inviting, and I had a feeling of who I might find in the cathedral: St. Lucy, the eyeless one I chose for my confirmation name. Little known fact about me: I always add to the donation box when I find her in churches by surprise.
We met Paco and Inma, two of his coworkers, in Plaza de Santa Catalina. Paco is from Murcia and invited us to have lunch with him and his brother, so we squeezed into the corner of El Pulpito, awash with cool grey tones and smelling of seafood. Carmen's mother had told me to try pulpo al horno, an octopus that's been baked, and I was not disappointed. The caldera de arroz, stuffed clams, ensaladilla and cold beer did not disappoint, either.
I was the bus a few hours later, crammed into a window seat. I watched the craters of Murcia eventually return to the flatness of the plain where Seville sits. I can't say Murcia is my favorite part of Spain, or that I'd ever be willing to make the seven-hour bus ride happen again. Yet, somehow, I don't feel like I got to see all it really has to offer. My Instagram photos reveal little more than the day's main events (I let Camarón have all of the glory, afterall), but I'm anxious to see more – and, let's face it – eat more octopus.
Have you ever been to Murcia? What were your impressions of it? Any place in Spain you've never been that you'd be willing to go if you had a free ride out there? And if you're on instagram, let's follow! I'm found at sunshinesiestas.


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Could we put a cap on reputation earned by asking questions?
I am starting to wonder if we should cap reputation gained for questions.
I have historically resisted this, but:
- It does seem nonsensical that users can get 10,000+ reputation purely on the basis of asking hundreds of questions.
- We already cap reputation for suggested edits -- you can never get more than +1000 total reputation from suggested edits.
- It would de-incentivize asking questions for the sake of asking questions which I think is a very good thing.
- 99.99% of users never even come close to this limit, so in practice it won't change the experience for users who ask a reasonable, typical number of questions.
I wonder if a limit of max +2000 reputation from question upvotes would make sense?
Not many users would be affected; here's a relevant data.stackexchange query:
That's about 226 users on Stack Overflow, and almost none everywhere else in the network. However, some of these "ask a zillion question" users would indeed be affected severely. You can roughly calculate how much rep they'd have after this change, by taking the sum of all their answer upvotes and adding 2000.


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How to build a brain: And 34 other really interesting uses of mathematics
By Richard Elwes
It's quite refreshing to find a book on maths that is so upbeat and infectious as How to build a brain. Certainly the title is a misnomer; one would immediately associate it to artificial intelligence or biology, but in reality this book is about how mathematics finds its way into many aspects of our world.
Richard Elwes, a researcher in mathematics, Plus author and keen communicator of science, believes in busting the myths surrounding maths (and the people who work with it). At the same time, he is intent on making accessible many ideas "that can astonish with their diversity, captivate with mystery, and enthral with beauty".
Cue How to build a brain in which he takes the reader on a journey through "35 landmarks of the mathematical world". In each chapter, Elwes introduces a key mathematical idea, often illustrated with a simple problem and surprising connections; who knew that Lewis Fry Richardson's interest in the likelihood of two countries going into war would lead to fractals? Or that there are just 17 possible wallpaper patterns? Furthermore, there are plenty of historical notes related to famous mathematicians and the reader gets an idea of what goes into establishing a bonafide mathematical theorem.
Topics as diverse as number theory, chaos, the famous P=NP problem, complexity and game theory, among others, are given the Elwes treatment. The writing is concise and always engaging, challenging the reader to think along the examples he presents. And there are also plenty of illustrations for those with short attention spans. My only criticism has to do with the lack of a further reading section, as most of the chapters would leave you wanting for more, though this is nitpicking over details as anyone can Google these days.
In summary, How to build a brain is a fun ride through mathematics and its developments, a great read for any teen or adult who thought the subject daunting. Anyone who reads it will not only end up learning a little more, but surely be amazed as to where maths pops up.
- Book details:
- How to build a brain
- Richard Elwes
- hardback — 224 pages
- Quercus Publishing Plc (2011)
About the author
Linda I. Uruchurtu is a Postdoctoral Fellow in theoretical physics, Imperial College London.
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It would be great if we have a Kindle edition of this book. I am in India and either these books are not available in stores out here or we need to incur the shipping charges if we order it via Amazon.


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One summary measure that is frequently used as an indicator of whether or not a proposal achieves solvency is the 75-year actuarial balance. When the actuarial balance is zero or positive, financing for the program is considered to be adequate for the 75-year period as a whole. Therefore, the first goal is to have the change in the actuarial balance under the proposal equal or exceed the actuarial deficit under current law. One might attempt to meet this goal by adding together the changes in actuarial balance indicated for each provision included in the proposal. However, due to the interaction among the various provisions, the sum of the changes in the actuarial balance often exceeds the change in the actuarial balance for the proposal as a whole because the change in the actuarial balance for each provision is measured individually against present law. When several provisions that improve the actuarial balance are combined, the measured incremental effect of any single provision is often smaller than the effect of that provision measured individually against present law. For example, consider the following two provisions. We will assume that each increase described in the two provisions applies to those newly eligible for retired worker benefits with the same effective date.
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Of all the searing images in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the one that I find most disturbing is this picture of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier which remained throughout the storm at great personal danger. That we must honor our military dead even at the risk of completely unnecessary loss of life speaks volumes about our priorities in this country.
I rarely watch cable news, but I found myself obsessively switching between a local news channel, CNN and The Weather Channel for much of the storm. There was much valuable and urgent information shared although much of it looked like a contest between reporters to see who could report while standing in the deepest water and stay standing (and I absolutely need to say that throughout the storm, I consistently found critical information being disseminated on Twitter well before I saw it on television). But not once did I hear any mention of the many nuclear power plants in the storm's path, or a discussion of what to do if your house is flooded with toxic waste or the lack of plans to protect oil and gas facilities. No analysis of what climate change denial and inaction has cost us.
Nor was there mention of the fact that we've known that storms like this have been an event waiting to happen. Instead, as I pointed out a few days ago, we have continued to beat the drum in the fight against "terrorism", pouring billions of dollars into destroying other countries, killing innocent civilians and creating conditions in which terrorism ferments and while we're at it doing an ace job of brainwashing ourselves into being perpetually paranoid and terrified while at the same time allowing the infrastructure of our own country to go to hell.
As Chris Mooney pointed out in Grist, NASA warned about an event like Sandy in 2006:
Scientists at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York have been studying that city's vulnerability to hurricane impacts in a changing world, and calculated that with 1.5 feet of sea level rise, a worst-case-scenario Category 3 hurricane could submerge "the Rockaways, Coney Island, much of southern Brooklyn and Queens, portions of Long Island City, Astoria, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, lower Manhattan, and eastern Staten Island from Great Kills Harbor north to the Verrazano Bridge.
And of course, that wasn't the only warning. WE KNEW IT COULD HAPPEN. And we did nothing. As a result we are now contending with this:
Consider what Kathy Waters, American Public Transportation Association vice president for member services had to say about the New York subway system,
The New York system, although there are some components that have been upgraded over the years, has a lot of antique components where the vendor has been out of business for 50 years. (emphasis mine)
And then there is this from NRDC's Amy Mall:
Under the Clean Water Act, there is something called the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule which includes requirements for oil spill prevention, preparedness, and response to prevent oil discharges to navigable waters and adjoining shorelines…Sounds like a no-brainer. But in Fiscal Year 2011, EPA officials visited 120 sites oil and gas development sites and found 105 were out of compliance– 87.5%…Almost every single oil and gas site inspected lacked a mandatory spill prevention plan meant to protect our rivers and streams. (emphasis mine)
Internet, cable and phone services were also significantly disrupted and yet two days later with thousands of people still without access, I heard a report of a FEMA official telling people to file claims on the internet. And he expects people who are stranded in flooded buildings to do that how?
…The best officials could do was urge residents to steer clear of the contaminated waters.
Incidentally, they sent that warning out by email. To people who obviously were going to have trouble accessing their email.
The storm also precipitated numerous problems at various nuclear power plants, all of which are aging quickly past the lifespans they were designed for and some of which are the same design as the Fukushima facility in Japan,
Storm-related complications were blamed this week for forcing three nuclear reactors offline – Nine Mile Point Unit 1 northwest of Syracuse, N.Y., Indian Point Unit 3 about 25 miles north of New York City and the Salem plant's Unit 1 on the Delaware River in New Jersey.
Meanwhile, rising waters along the Barnegat Bay prompted officials to declare an "alert," the second-lowest in a four-tiered warning system, at Oyster Creek in New Jersey…
…NRC officials reported that other plants continued operating but reduced their electrical output as a precaution, including the Millstone plant's Unit 3 reactor in Waterford, Conn., Vermont Yankee south of Brattleboro, Vt., and both reactors at the Limerick nuclear plant about 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia. The storm also appeared to knock out emergency sirens used to notify residents who live near the Oyster Creek and Peach Bottom plants in Pennsylvania, according to NRC reports. (emphasis mine)
These are the kinds of issues we need to confront if we are to stand a prayer of survival. They aren't theoretical or in the future. They are real and they are right now. We need to see this as literally the moment for a sea-change in attitude. It is not acceptable for the media to continue to ignore climate change,
Last year at least 7,140 journalists and opinion writers published some 19,000 stories on climate change, compared to more than 11,100 reporters who filed 32,400 stories in 2009, according to DailyClimate.org…
…Particularly noticeable was the silence from the nation's editorial boards: In 2009, newspapers published 1,229 editorials on the topic. Last year, they published less than 580 – half as many, according to DailyClimate.org's archives.
And it is not acceptable for our politicians to continue to chest thump the drums of war while maintaining a deafening silence on climate change. Protecting symbols of military prowess while our cities drown isn't honorable, it is an act of national suicide.


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Opening remarks at the second conference of the ESCB Macroprudential Research (MaRs) Network
Speech by Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the ECB, Frankfurt am Main, 30 October 2012
Ladies and gentlemen,
It is a pleasure to be here today and open the second conference of the Macro-prudential Research Network (MaRs). I am particularly happy to see that our conference has attracted such a large and diverse group of speakers and participants, combining intellectual brilliance with practical experience. All the relevant institutions and sectors having an interest in, and a contribution to make to, the macro-prudential field are represented in this room.
"Setting the scene" today, let me start my remarks by recalling what MaRs is about and illustrating a few key directions in the endeavour.
1. The origin and purpose of the ESCB Macro-prudential Research Network (MaRs)
As you know, MaRs is a research initiative involving central banks from the whole European Union, i.e. from the European System of Central Banks. It was established by the ESCB in the spring of 2010, upon the proposal of our Heads of Research. [1]
Against the background of the crisis, which started in the summer of 2007 and reached systemic dimensions in September 2008, a stimulus was required to push forward our research on systemic risk and on analytical tools supporting macro-prudential oversight. So, we set up MaRs with the objective of "developing core conceptual frameworks, models and/or tools that would provide research support in order to improve macro-prudential supervision in the EU".
This is not to say that central banks did not have any systemic risk and macro-prudential research before the crisis. Quite the contrary is true: it is the very tradition of central banks to take a systemic perspective, in particular in financial stability matters. Most central banks already had their own Financial Stability Reviews for which many analytical tools were developed.
MaRs, however, puts our systemic risk work on a much broader basis than was previously the case. As you know, central banks treasure the strong scientific foundations of their policies very much. In my view, our interaction with the academic community, based not only on substantial state-of-the-art in-house research, but also on continuous "peer review" of central bank policies through external research is a major asset.
2. Some main orientations and selected first messages of MaRs
Let me now illustrate MaRs' three main orientations. The network has three work streams:
macro-financial models linking financial stability and the performance of the economy;
early warning systems and systemic risk indicators; and
assessing contagion risks.
As regards the first work stream, MaRs identifies the lack of widely accepted theoretical and empirical frameworks that thoroughly integrate realistic characterisations of widespread financial instability in aggregate models as one of the main weaknesses of contemporaneous economics laid bare by the crisis. It is true that there were already some effects that had been included in macro models, basically related to the Financial Accelerator developed by Bernanke and Gertler. This is, however, only a mechanism that would aggravate a crisis, but was not strong enough to trigger one. Recently, Adrian, Colla and Shin examined which frictions should, at a minimum, be included to be relevant. [2] They concluded from the evidence of the crisis that five stylized facts should be reflected in macro-financial models: coexistence of bank and bond finance, substitution from bank to bond financing, increasing credit spreads, stickiness of equity prices and procyclicality of bank leverage.
Other researchers point to some different factors. We need the academic community and policy authorities engaged in research to improve this situation. Only when we have detailed and well-tested models and frameworks with this feature will we be on safe ground to base macro-prudential regulatory policies to contain systemic risk on the scientific foundations that we aspire for. The benefit from a policy perspective is that with such an approach, one can compare the benefits and the costs of new or scrapped and tightened or loosened regulation.
The network has developed several theoretical and empirical tools that integrate widespread financial instability into models of the aggregate economy. These develop the transmission channels between financial instability and the overall economy in detail, and assess the performance of alternative policies to address systemic risk. The network is also engaged in a joint cross-country project involving ten euro area central banks to develop a quantitative model for assessing alternative macroprudential regulatory policies.
A second main orientation of MaRs has been to develop early warning systems and systemic risk indicators further. Many of the tools it developed are already used in ESCB members' policy work. For example, the Composite Indicator of Systemic Stress (short CISS), [3] which was developed here at the ECB, has been used in our Financial Stability Review and has now been included in the new Risk Dashboard that the ESRB released after its last meeting in September. [4]
Research in this direction has also led to the creation of a homogeneous database of various types of crisis in EU countries. This database, which was established by researchers from the Czech National Bank with the input of all ESCB members, has just been made available to interested researchers on the ECB's website. [5]
A last major orientation of MaRs is the assessment of contagion risks. This concerns particularly the cross-border connectedness of banks and associated contagion risks in Europe, notably via dysfunctional money markets. In view of the experiences of the last few years in Europe, sovereign contagion effects received considerable attention. A whole "battery" of models and analytical tools for measuring and assessing sovereign contagion was developed. Several of these models are regularly run here in the ECB as part of our surveillance of contagion risks.
The assessment of contagion risk is one field where borrowing from disciplines other than economics can be useful. A number of promising efforts use the theory of complex networks to model interbank exposures, showing how asset fire sales can amplify interbank contagion. For our Financial Stability Review and in our work for the ESRB, We are already using one of this models to assess the second-round impact of banks' cross-exposures to complement the top-down stress tests that we regularly conduct on a sample of 90 EU banks.
3. A few policy developments on the use of macro-prudential regulatory instruments in Europe
In parallel with the research efforts undertaken to develop the scientific foundations for macro-prudential instruments further, there is important policy work going on in Europe regarding these instruments. The European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), under the aegis of its Advisory Technical Committee, has established an Instruments Working Group that is looking into a range of issues relating to those policy instruments. [6] This includes, for example, an ongoing effort to define a "core set" of instruments that should be available for macro-prudential policies throughout the EU.
A dedicated work stream under the Instruments Working Group will also work on ESRB guidance for the use of the counter-cyclical capital buffer as contained in the EU's proposal for a capital requirements directive and regulation (CRD IV/CRR), planned to come into force in the EU in 2013. [7]
The group has worked on guiding principles for the macro-prudential mandate of national authorities. This resulted in an ESRB recommendation that was published in December 2011. It requires Member States to ensure that their macro-prudential authorities have control over appropriate instruments for achieving their objectives. [8]
Given the panel discussion tomorrow, I will not dwell much on the progress with Europe's banking union. Let me just recall that the Commission's proposal for the Single Supervisory Mechanism – apart from the obvious micro-prudential aspects – directly affects macro-prudential policy and its implementation. It suggest that the ECB would have the exclusive competence within the euro area "to set counter-cyclical buffer rates and any other measures aimed at addressing systemic or macro-prudential risks in the cases specifically set out in Union acts". [9] A priori, the combination of aspects of micro-prudential, say for large and complex banks, and macro-prudential instruments in a common hand can be a good thing. Most of the macro-prudential instruments discussed so far are very similar or identical to micro-prudential instruments. Simply put, they are used with a different, broader, objective to contain systemic risk. By putting both sets of instruments in the same hands, conflicts in their use could probably be avoided.
4. Concluding remarks
Let me to conclude by quoting Oscar Wilde: "You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know". ESCB Governors are very pleased with the MaRs report and how much progress the network has made. The interaction with "the rest of the world" today and tomorrow should fertilise the work further. I wish you many fruitful discussions in this regard.
Thank you for your attention.
[1]A brief overview of the network can be found on the ECB's website here at: http://www.ecb.int/home/html/researcher_mars.en.html.
[2] Tobias Adrian, Paolo Colla and H. Song Shin (2012), "Which financial frictions? Parsing the evidence from the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009", Federal Reserve of New York Staff Reports.
[3]See D. Hollo, M. Kremer and M. Lo Duca (2011), CISS – A composite indicator of systemic stress in the financial system, ECB Working Paper, no. 1426, March.
[4]European Systemic Risk Board (2012), ESRB risk dashboard, issue No 1, 20 September ( http://www.esrb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/dashboard/120920_ESRB_risk_dashboard.pdf?).
[5]The link to the database is http://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecbwp1485-annexes.zip.
[6]See ESRB (2012), Annual report 2011, May 2012.
[7]Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the access to the activity of credit institutions and the prudential supervision of credit institutions and investment firms and amending Directive 2002/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the supplementary supervision of credit institutions, insurance undertakings and investment firms in a financial conglomerate, COM(2011) 453 final, Brussels, 20 July 2011, and Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms, COM(2011) 452 final, Brussels, 20 July 2011.
[8]Recommendation of the European Systemic Risk Board of 22 December 2011 on the macro-prudential mandate of national authorities (ESRB/2011/3).
[9]Proposal for a Council Regulation conferring specific tasks on the European Central Bank concerning policies relating to the prudential supervision of credit institutions, COM(2012) 511 final, Brussels, 12 September 2012
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