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What's the best platform for self-publishing?
Guest author and blogger David Lieder is an author and consultant to authors. He teaches self-publishing techniques and is the President of Author Wing. An entrepreneur and businessman, David helps authors apply the business principles that affect self-publishing.
David Lieder of Author Wing has suggested Kindle Direct, the Amazon self-publishing platform, isn't the best platform for self-published authors, so we queried that. My own experience (it's Harry Bingham introducing) is that, even in the US, Amazon supplies significantly more than 60% of my self-publishing income, because it's easier to make self-published books stand out there. Most will make more money from Amazon than they do from any other source.
We put that question to David, and he sent us a reasoned and eloquent answer below. I still believe that Amazon is a great, perhaps essential, platform for self-published authors, but here – from David Lieder – is his counterblast.
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(A disclaimer. This article is an opinion piece, not intended to offer stock market or legal advice.)
Before I begin my diatribe on Amazon, I believe it is important to also talk about the good things about Kindle and Create Space. Let's take a moment to consider them.
One great thing about Amazon is that every small company underneath that logo was forced at the beginning to be completely independent. For example, Create Space was set up to not allow the sharing of staff with Kindle KDP or the Amazon search platform. They cannot share support staff. They cannot share software, APIs, or management staff, except for the upper echelons of Amazon corporate. Thus, every little company under Amazon has its own personality that can be hugely different from the others. That doesn't make Amazon an honest company, but it is brilliant for entrepreneurship and start-up management.
Amazon is a great search engine for products, but they have also created many smaller companies that add amazing value to the internet. Tech geeks use AWS – an Amazon company – and services with obscure names (like EC2 and S3). These are Amazon underworlds that authors have usually never heard of, a cyber-universe called AWS that could have its own novels written about it, a microcosm of existence that has little to do with the search engine Amazon, other than hosting it and hosting hundreds of thousands of other companies. This article is not about AWS.
And yes, we can list some other good things about Kindle and Amazon:
- They are innovators.
- They created ways that authors could publish text quickly in a format called .mobi which was basically an ePub file mashed up so that authors could only use it on the Amazon platform.
- They created some neat ways to help authors market books on their platform.
- Create Space is a great way to publish a print book.
- Amazon support is generally very good. There are real people who answer support requests within twenty-four hours.
- You can change the title for free. You can upload a new version for free. You can unlist the book for free.
- Free ISBNs.
For the above reasons, I advise authors to always publish their first book on Kindle, just so they know what's up.
Nonetheless, if you allow yourself to drink the Kindle koolaid and if you spend your entire author life on the dashboard of KDP, then you will develop habits and knowledge consistent with that: you will know KDP and not much else.
So I want to argue that authors should avoid Amazon Kindle, ACX and Create Space, and I'll explain why I recommend that authors use other distributors, except for allowing your books to trickle back onto the Amazon platform after the fact (from another propagator, such as Smashwords, Ingram-Spark, even Book Baby). I want to explain why I teach authors to boycott Amazon ACX (audiobook production) and to replace Create Space with the much better choice of Ingram-Spark (which has print books available to authors at about half the price of Create Space).
Sounds crazy to you? Well, maybe. So far, I've talked about the good parts of Amazon. Now let's talk about the bad. (And, to be clear, I mean the bad for authors. Let's forget for a moment that Amazon ex-employees say it's common for employees to break down crying because pressures and attitudes across the board are too oppressive. That's not what this article is about.)
Most authors say that Kindle has published more ebooks than any other platform. What authors don't realize is that the first users and early adopters of Kindle were internet marketers, not authors, who taught tens of thousands of other internet marketers to hire writers in the Philippines to throw together ebooks and put them on Kindle. These books tended to be of very low quality, not edited, and without literary merit of any kind. Then a mass of gimmicks and tricks were used by these marketers to bully the books to the top of the Amazon search lists and create sales.
I know, because I was part of an internet marketing community at the birth of Amazon, and I decided to use my writing skills to keep focusing on literary writing. But I watched as hundreds of thousands of ebooks were dumped on Kindle by internet marketers from all over the world.
Many of these Kindle books were "Private Label Rights" (PLR) and were complete copies of other books. As such, there were books that had the same text as other books, and "PLR" was a license to copy text from one book to another. Amazon cracked down and literally removed and banned these PLR books. Still, Kindle customers early on realized that Kindle and quality were not synonymous. Kindle had become a cesspool of ghost-written ebook trash early in its life, and the managers of Kindle were swimming upstream from then onward, desperately trying to contain the damage that "easy publishing" had brought. (I was an internet marketer from 1994 onward, so I'm just preaching to the choir.)
Then there were the perks that KDP created to lure and keep good writers: free books and free book days, the awesome KDP dashboard that made it easy to manage author ebooks, and Amazon's gimmicks to get authors to swear fealty only to Amazon.
Yet Amazon is merely a search engine, one that could be replaced by Alibaba or any number of emerging search-engine-based storefronts.
What the Amazon family looks like
Imagine if your parents were madly in debt and every month survived only because the neighbours loaned them money. In that case, you would not feel comfortable trusting your future to the idea of parental support. You'd want to get a job, or go to college, fast.
Amazon's business model has been "mad growth" by adding products and new companies underneath its logo. Their success as a brand and on the stock market has been, in my opinion, a bunch of hype. Even the stock price was historically based on the idea that Amazon might be successful one day, because the profit earnings for the first ten years were nothing: no profit, only losses.
If a profit was made, it would be icing on the cake, since most authors have failed miserably by drinking the Kindle koolaid, because the actual Kindle platform is full of trash books, and only the books at the top of the pile sell well.
Now let's shift gears to a nice, decent home for your books.
What the Apple family looks like
Imagine your parents have billions of dollars in their savings account and they have real jobs, making real products. When your parents tell you that they will pay for your college, your future, and your golf course fees for the rest of your life, it seems believable. That's Apple.
Apple is literally the most valuable public company in the world with the highest market cap of any existing company out there. This translates into stability, when you consider their pragmatic approach to nearly everything. They make real products. They are also the #1 most liked brand in the world.
As such, Apple is literally the most valuable brand (at the time of writing) in the world.
Apple usually works carefully over time, not rushing, taking ten years to release a product, and nurse it along, like they have iBooks, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Most of us have not heard of Apple TV even though it has existed since 2006, but when Apple is ready for you to hear about it, you will.
iBooks slowly found its way into iTunes and has become more and more prominent. Apple devices are among the few in the world that embrace the ePub 3.0 standard and are completely ready for the new revolution of publishing.
Kindle, on the other hand, is a reader that most people buy in "paperwhite" version, all the Kindle books are compressed (not the original version) and images are never as nice as the original. Amazon charges authors fifteen cents per megabyte download costs, forcing any real books or beautiful books to have to choose between looking terrible on Kindle or simply boycotting Kindle, since on all other platforms they can keep their original size and not have to pay any download bandwidth charges. Thus, my book with images can be 70 MB on other platforms and look gorgeous, and my fixed width picture book can be 500 MB with no additional charges on all major platforms other than Amazon.
So if Apple are your parents, how would that feel? When your parents tell you they will take care of you, the promise has a lot more credibility. They make their own products, and they have stable platforms to sell digital books, music and apps that run on their products.
Amazon, in my view, is more like a sleazy salesperson that sells other people's products, never quite having their own, then asking all vendors to be exclusive or face definite penalties.
The biggest defence of Kindle has been authors singing praises about the library program. The authors make money off the library program. So here is yet one more example of an artificial business. Authors usually are not making money from the library. They make money because Amazon artificially funds the library, which is a fake form of propping up, and if Amazon stops doing this, authors will make nothing. That is called fake business. A company that makes no profit. A library that pays per download even though no income is coming in, but rather, the owner of the library – Amazon – wants to keep authors loyal to the program, because otherwise it will fail tomorrow.
I personally like the idea of a publisher platform that has 200 billion in the bank. I like the idea of hardware with Retina colour displays that help book covers look amazing, that make images pop. I like the idea of over 400 million readers (that is, devices using iOS), and of a customer base that largely has significant disposable income.
And so far, this is just me being nice. Let's get to some real issues. Time to take off the kid gloves.
Amazon: the nitty gritty
In 2010, I was following major thought leaders in ePub development like Anne Marie Concepcion (https://www.senecadesign.com/) who taught about fixed-width ePubs, Adobe InDesign, and the glories of Apple devices and the ePub 2.0 standard. It was white magic compared to what most authors were talking about, pulling the tow of the Amazon Empire propaganda. Most authors had no clue what ePub standards 2.0 and 3.0 were, and so we in the rebellion created secret bases on remote ice planets, and developed secret handshakes to qualify each other before speaking of ePubs in public, and before talking about the future of publishing.
And I realized that, of the few authors who championed colour in books and using the Apple platform, there are some major authors in self-publishing who get more sales on Apple than on Kindle, and Kindle has a lot of drawbacks: they compress the ePub to almost nothing (ruining any decent images), and Kindle charges for bandwidth if your book is larger than a simple text ePub. Thus, the ePub that Kindle delivers (in .mobi format) will never be the ePub that is uploaded, because they always compress it to almost nothing.
Then, there are ridiculously high delivery fees charged to the author. By the time, Amazon subtracts the cost of bandwidth (15 cents per megabyte) from your profit, it is possible to make almost nothing on books. For example, the above is a link to a testimony of shock from one author. Anyone who has ever tried to do anything other than a text-filled book will have faced this same dilemma with Amazon, the obstacle of ePub development in the free world.
In contrast, Apple and all the other platforms have no charge to authors for bandwidth, and the non-Amazon platforms do not compress the ePubs. (I've talked mostly about Apple in this piece, but Google and loads of other non-Amazon, non-Kindle platforms are heading the same way.)
And what of the future? Kindle cannot handle ePub standard 3 and can barely handle 2. At this time of writing, KDP will not allow authors to upload books with any media files (which is a normal feature of the 2.0 standard). Everyone else uses the ePub format but Amazon has to force us to use Mobi.
Because Kindle is terrible with graphics, most Kindle owners have black-and-white devices, and nobody expects ePubs on Kindle to be pretty. Contrast that with the high-quality screens of most Android tablets, and the Retina display of Apple devices and the fact that our ePubs on Apple can be large file size and beautiful, retaining all the graphic quality. Everyone else is embracing the technology and empowering it, while Amazon has effectively hindered any progress in ePub evolution, at Amazon's own peril.
In a spat of Multiple Personality Disorder, Amazon released the higher quality Kindle Fire, after hindering ePub evolution for years.
I am also keeping in mind a long history of what I view as Amazon manipulating and abusing authors, and there are also issues like Audible ACX promising authors 90% royalty and then dropping it to 25% later. Here is a sentiment from a well-known self-published author:
"In a disturbing move that caused an eruption among self-published authors, Amazon's ACX division has announced a reduction and simplification of royalty rates. Rates that previously started at 50% and escalated to 90% have been reduced to a flat 40%."
And actually, the rate was dropped to 25%. ACX audiobooks distributed non-exclusively have dropped to a non-escalating rate of 25% for authors if your audiobook appears anywhere else in the world other than Amazon's Audible service.
Self-Published authors selling the most are probably doing it cross-platform, by using Ingram-Spark or Smashwords, Create Space, Book Baby, etc.
I've also promoted a lot of authors using Kindle "free book days" and have seen the whole Amazon free book platform evolve in a really bad direction. In addition, KDP Select and KDP library royalty payments to authors started dropping dramatically since the middle of 2015 (see chart). I'm sure it will have its ups and downs, but what gets me is that authors will get ten "borrows" and about $20 or $30 bucks a month for it, and that's enough for them to swear fealty to Amazon and boycott all other platforms.
At that point, the same authors are learning nothing other than continuing the same processes on Amazon. Meanwhile, I'm going to be learning skills on other platforms and I will celebrate the business principle that where there are fewer competitors, there are usually greater numbers of sales. If some authors insist on burying their heads in the Amazon sands, I guess that just means the rest of us will have more share of the pie as we move out into the publishing future.
And of course the most important issue of all: coupons!
I know you stay up nights thinking about coupons, so here is a sentiment from a fellow sympathizer:
"Apple provides coupons to give out to customers, bloggers, reviewers. It's a nice touch and easy to use. Amazon does not."
From the same article:
"According to iBooks Store Director Keith Moerer, addressing publishers at Digital Book World 2015, Apple's ebook business is gaining 1 million new customers every week."
I like life, having moved into a home built around Apple, Ingram-Spark, and adding real images to my books. I like that Mom-and-Dad-Apple will be around after any kind of economic collapse imaginable. And that haunting sound of crashed author careers that line the KDP morgues, authors that had put their entire trust in Amazon exclusivity, keeping their books only on Kindle, only to blame themselves when it didn't work out, quitting their author careers.
Perhaps their final silence speaks loudest of all.
A postscript by Harry Bingham
We generally take the view that self-published authors should aim to get across all major platforms. That means Apple, and Google, and Kobo, and everything else.
Our reasoning is simple. The US is by far the largest market for ebooks, and will, even for British authors, almost certainly represent the largest slice of their income. And whereas in the UK, Amazon is utterly dominant in ebooks with an approximately 90% market share, in the US Amazon boasts "only" about a 60% share. So, because 100% is better than 60%, we've always taken the view that self-published authors should seek to ensure that their books are available everywhere they could possibly be.
What's more, in its defence, Amazon is unbelievably simple to use. If you have all the material to hand, you can upload a book very easily. Partly for that reason, nearly all self-published authors will distribute their work via an outfit like Smashwords or Draft2Digital or IngramSpark, or anyone who can distribute files to all non-Amazon retailers.
So: Amazon is simple to use, it makes a ton of money for self-published authors, it's the dominant platform in every market, and wildly dominant here in the UK. So why isn't it, from the self-published author's perspective, necessarily (or indisputably) the best platform?
That's what David thinks, but what about you? What has been your experience?
These questions are only going to evolve as Apple and Google (finally!) start to turn their attention to overturning Amazon's dominance.
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Scholarly Discussion: Based on this week's materials and your individual related analysis, how would you fee your own neighborhood and town/town that surrounds it with regard to the ideas presented in this week's module? Talk about as many environmental components as potential in your evaluation. Spiritually I do meditate on gratefulness earlier than jumping away from bed every morning. I've additionally begun to meditate and pray extra at night time so that I will not suffer from insomnia. I'm not traumatized now, more relaxed. Yoga postures assist tone up your whole physique, making it more supple and versatile. The free flowing and graceful movements of Yoga asanas make you more agile and alert.
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Tibet seems to be a fairly obvious candidate for independence. They seem to want it, and ethnic Tibetans make up 90% of the population of the region. Though the PRC has been attempting to stack the region with migrants from other parts of China in order to alter the demographic balance.
I'm not as familiar with Xinjiang, but at first look it would appear to be a more complicated question. The ethnic balance is roughly equal between Uyghur and Han. I guess that would make it analogous to Northern Ireland, where you have roughly equal proportions of Protestants who wish to remain part of the UK and Catholics who would prefer to be part of Ireland.


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Marielle Tounsi was born and raised in Victoria. She attended Oaklands Elementary where her father was a teacher and spent many of her growing years involved actively in the Oaklands community.
When it came time to find a long-term family home, Marielle re-rooted herself in Oaklands, this time alongside her husband, step-son and two dogs. Together they enjoy hiking, crafting, cycling, camping, music, art, sports and the spectacular West Coast.
Marielle works in B.C. Government Communications and Public Engagement and brings her expertise in public affairs, strategic communications planning, marketing/communications content, executing events, critical thinking and problem solving to the Oakland Community Association board of directors. She serves as board secretary and chair of the communications/community development committee.
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Hello, World!10 Jan 2015
Hello guys!
Since we are in the resolution period, I decided to start this blog. I'm thinking about writing for a really long time but as a cliché engineer I tried to solve false problems before starting rather than just do…
So finally here I am and these are the blog's rules:
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"Being your true self, being your true nature, is different then experiencing it with thought. Realize that you are the mystery, and that you can't really look at the mystery because you are only capable of looking from the mystery. There is a very awake, alive, and loving mystery, and that's what is seeing through eyes at this moment." Adyashanti
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The preliminaries are also known as the four reminders. The traditional four reminders are basic reminders of why one might make a continual effort to return to the present moment. In your daily life, try to:
1 Maintain an awareness of the preciousness of human life. Beginning to realize how precious life is becomes one of your most powerful tools. It's like gratitude … once you have this feeling of gratitude for your own life and the preciousness of human birth, then it takes you into any realm.
2 Be aware of the reality that life ends; death comes for everyone. Life is very brief. If you realize that you don't have that many more years to live and if you live your life as if you actually had only a day left, then the sense of impermanence heightens that feeling of preciousness and gratitude.
3 Recall that whatever you do, whether virtuous or not, has a result; what comes around, goes around. The law of karma is that we sow the seeds and we reap the fruit. So when you find yourself in a dark place … you can think, "Maybe it's time to get a little golden spade and dig myself out of this place."
4 Contemplate that as long as you are too focused on self-importance and too caught up in thinking about how you are good or bad, you will suffer. Obsessing about getting what you want and avoiding what you don't want does not result in happiness.
Real Wisdom for the Real World,
From THE COMPASSION BOX (c) 2003 by Pema Chadron and AWAKENING LOVING
KINDNESS (c) 1991, 1996 by Pema Chadron. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala
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Mirat Gallery presents Erotic Stories a study of erotic works through time. This is the first exhibition dedicated to erotic art in Spain and one of the few that have been showcased around the world. Different periods and meanings introducing the viewer into a glimpse of one of the most repeated art motifs (nudity and eroticism), and although it has been a constant subject-matter in all arts it has never been brought to light until recently.
Erotic art us much more than risqué works, it is an observation of the world that surrounds us, is about sexuality, what is forbidden and the instinctive. Erotic art is intersectional/transversal it can be political, sacred, ironic, or have other meanings. However, not all erotic art is the same, it can be explicit, or implied, and it also can be revealing or very prudent.
The representation of sex and eroticism has varied greatly throughout art history; since the creation of the Paleolithic Venus to Jeff Koons and his Banality series, erotic art has forced the viewer to face with an unfiltered perspective of sex and the scandalous. Mirat Projects showcases works by established artists such as Pablo Picasso, Andre Derain, David Salle, Bern Stern or Robert Mapplethorpe, who invite the viewer to reflect along emerging artists such as Miranda Makaroff, Carla Cascales or Mei Morettini, and artistic creations from other cultures/periods such as "shunga" illustrations or African sculptures from the 19th century carved in wood.
Erotic Stories guides the viewer, through the different works that compose it, towards a unitary vision of art, sex and artists that use this theme, arguing that it is impossible to dedicate a linear reading to them in time, but that it should be considered in what specific way the relationship between the spectator and the erotic art has evolved.


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Co-sponsored by Telefilm Canada, the CTI BIG PITCH is one of the most attended events held at the TIFF Bell Lightbox during the Toronto International Film Festival.
Each year, participants of the Incubator have the chance to pitch to working entertainment professionals. These include acquisition and distribution executives, producers and directors who are all actively looking for new content.
A sumptuous Caribbean Breakfast at the TIFF Bell Lightbox greets invited industry delegates to the CTI Big Pitch, an event that is growing in size every year and is becoming one of the must-attend events during TIFF.
Each year, participants of the MIP have the chance to pitch to working entertainment professionals. These include acquisition and distribution executives, producers and directors who are all actively looking for new content. This unique opportunity, designed exclusively for CTI participants, gives them a chance to pitch and present their projects a in a friendly, supportive and receptive environment.
In addition to the exposure given to the participants to pitch to industry professionals, the participants have an opportunity to win the following:
- CTi Incubator Jury 1st Prize
- CTi Incubator Jury 2nd Prize
- CTi Incubator Jury 3rd Prize
- + The Alex Tapscott and Amy Welsman Audience Award
Regardless of your level of expertise, the workshops are an excellent venue to hone your craft. The mentors really push you to go further so to get those pitches as concise and catchy as possible. It helps to get ideas and comments from other people which serve as a springboard to actual pitches.
Participating in the 2016 CaribbeanTales Incubator was an overwhelmingly positive experience. The combined feedback from incubator mentors help me hone in on the need to figure out my character's "want," which drastically improved my project's story potential as well as my pitch. My biggest takeaway from the program is a heightened sense of responsibility in light of viewing my career goals within the larger context of building the Caribbean's film and television industry.
The feedback given has been extremely helpful but as also been motivation to keep moving forward in my career. The excellent choice of helpful mentors and the feedback from the professionals after my pitch was much needed. I was especially grateful for the feedback given on my script by the story editor- script writing can be such a solitary process – her professional feedback was a gift. I hope the program continues to move forward from strength to strength


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Who says piñatas are only for kid's birthday parties? Piñatas can add a whole new element of fun and whimsy to any celebration, from weddings to bridal showers to any birthday party. DIY any shape you want using some cardboard, tape, and fringed tissue paper – no need for that messy paper mache! Just don't forget the hole for the candy (or confetti!). You can also try dressing up a store bought piñata with some boldly colored spray paint.
Bring out your inner child with fun shaped piñatas like diamonds, hearts, or stars. In gold, silver, or bronze they also make a classy backdrops!
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9Infection and Immunity
In all ages, "infection" is a serious menace to humanity. It was not until the 19th century that many of the diseases threatening our existence were caused by minuscule and mostly unicellular organisms. The discovery of the defense system against these organisms that is inherent in our bodies, namely immunity, stemmed from the development of the smallpox vaccination by Edward Jenner more than 200 years earlier. Prompted by this discovery, the mechanisms and functions of immunity had gradually been revealed, which eventually led to the establishment of the system of immunology. Many of the important findings in the field of medical biology in the 20th century have originated from the studies of immunology. Based on the knowledge of immunology, "monoclonal antibodies" were invented in the 1970s, which were then put to practical use as medical products at the turn of the 20th century. Consequently, diseases that had been deemed refractory by then became curable. No one could turn away from the significance of the fact that a number of human lives are being saved by vaccines and antibiotics. In this chapter, we will discuss "infection" and "immunity" from the perspective of biology to learn their essence.


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The Animation Workshop Graduation Films 2018
De studerende fra The Animation Workshop i Viborg er nogle af danmarks mest talentfulde tegnere og animatorer. Her er deres afgangsfilm fra skolen, friske fra premieren i Viborg. Alle fem film vises både kl 19.30 og 20.30, og varer i alt 30 minutter, billet koster 25 kr. Imellem de to visninger er du velkommen til et glas øl og en snak i Asta Bar.
Alex, a young woman bored with modern life, is lured by Bacchus into a colourful and mysterious world to explore her deepest desires.
An orphan girl is stuck in a crumbling city, living among memories. Her life is changed when she finally connects with someone in the present.
An adolescent boy sets out on a journey to confront Death itself in order to save his dying younger brother.
ONLY TRAILER WILL BE SCREENED: A Rat poet, whose hopeful poetry contrasts the world in which he lives in, gets confronted with the harshness of a society bias towards Mice.
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The home secretary today gave the first official estimate of the scale of the scandal which brought down his predecessor.
Sajid Javid said that at least 63 people from the Windrush generation had been wrongfully removed from the UK since 2002, as he gave evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee.
It is the first time a number has been given in relation to the debacle, which forced Amber Rudd to resign as home secretary last month.
Javid said that the figures were provisional and that he had asked officials to check records.
However, he said he did not yet have data on how many Windrush immigrants had been detained. A number of cases have been detailed in media reports and have been highlighted in parliament by individual lawmakers, but so far there has been no clarity on the scale of wrongful detentions.
The immigrants are named after the Empire Windrush, one of the first ships to bring Caribbean migrants to Britain in 1948.
Although fully entitled to live and work in Britain, an unknown number of Windrush descendants have been wrongly identified as illegal immigrants.
After his appointment at home secretary at the end of April, Javid promise to "do right" by the Windrush generation.


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1330 Street house is the latest example of Studio 804's mission to build creative sustainable housing in established, but marginal urban neighborhoods. 1330 Brook Street is convenient to the vibrant cultural district of downtown Lawrence and to the public transportation system and the bike trails that link the town. It is less than a block from the East Lawrence Recreation Center which offers a wide variety of services and is across the street from Brook Creek Park and its open green spaces, playgrounds and large mature trees. It is a three bedroom, two bathrooms, 1,300 square foot house that makes extensive use of salvaged material and minimizes energy consumption. Sixteen net metered solar panels on the roof provide up to 4.8 kilowatt-hours of power and will generate enough electricity to operate the house at net zero energy use over a calendar year. It was designed to be clearly contemporary while still fitting into its working-class surroundings of small, unassuming homes.
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To minimize energy consumption the design uses passive strategies for lighting and to control heat gain and heat loss. The bedrooms, kitchen and living room are arranged along the south wall. At the south and west elevations, the roof extends over the outdoor walkway and patio spaces and is supported by custom made steel tube screens. The deep overhangs and the screens act to manage the amount of direct light that enters the house. They are designed to mitigate heat gain during the summer while still allowing daylight to enter. In the winter, the direct sun light can enter the house and warm the mass of the polished concrete floors. The north wall is highly insulated and has just the openings needed for cross ventilation and daylighting. It acts as a shield against the cold north winds to which the site is exposed. The plumbing is WaterSense-rated and the Italian-made kitchen appliances are energy star compliant. The light fixtures are fitted with LEDs. Insulation includes both rigid and blown-in cellulose and exceeds the U.S. Green Building Council LEED-rating standards. A signature element of the house is "the notch" where one enters the house. The covered walkway along the south side of the house widens at the living area creating an outdoor room that acts as a foyer for the house and as a screened patio for outdoor seating. It is visible to the living room, kitchen, dining area and flex room through floor to ceiling walls of insulated glass which are supported by a custom-made steel structural frame. Both steel and glass are highly recyclable materials. The soffits of the roof overhangs are finished with western red cedar boards. The interior is filled with high quality and long-lasting materials and components. A hanging pendant in the dining room is an original Louis Paulsen fixture, crafted in Denmark and purchased for reuse in the project. The red oak European kitchen and bathroom cabinets are topped with cold-rolled steel countertops.
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Studio 804 is a comprehensive one year fully hands on design build experience offered by the University of Kansas Department of Architecture. Leaders in sustainable design with nine LEED Platinum projects and three Passive House certifications, Studio 804 is a not-for profit 501(c)3 corporation whose participants are graduate students committed to the continued research and development of affordable, sustainable and inventive building solutions.
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Betfair Warrior's Call: Why Carl Froch has earned his place in the sun
Carl Froch may have started his career as a mouthy young upstart, but he's far from that now, says boxing expert Alex Reid...
Carl Froch was a bullshit artist. His boxing career didn't begin in the glow of publicity which accompanied Olympians Amir Khan or Audley Harrison, already famous before their first pro fight. He didn't very quickly build up a large, dedicated following in the manner of Ricky Hatton. He wasn't a huge-punching big man like his good friend David Haye.
So during the early years of his professional career, Froch - or at least some people around him - felt the need to drum up publicity via some attention-grabbing quotes. He attempted to goad his fellow super-middleweight Joe Calzaghe into a fight while also proclaiming himself the finest athlete in the country. "I am, without exception, Britain's most talented sportsperson, pound-for-pound, sport-for-sport," he was quoted as proclaiming in 2004, before setting his sights on the British sporting royalty in David Beckham and Tiger Tim. "I have more all-round attributes than any of the guys I mentioned as an example, including Beckham and Henman. I am fitter, faster, stronger and have more bottle."
Heady stuff, considering Froch had had just 14 pro fights. Whatever skill he'd shown in winning the British super-middleweight title, the Nottingham boxer was in danger of appearing something like a sideshow attraction, more famous for a few outlandish comments than his in-ring performances. Fast-forward almost a decade and the contrast is startling. Froch is a boxer renowned for being all substance, his remarkable CV a who's who of the best in his division. From Jean Pascal in 2008 to Lucian Bute in 2012, he went on an incredible eight-fight run, taking on world champions, unbeaten stars and tough contenders without respite.
'The Cobra' also seems far more comfortable in his own skin. In 2011, now a two-time world champion and finally getting deserved respect, he admitted a tinge of regret over some of his brash early bombast. "I wish, actually, that I never put the tick in the box when some of the press releases were put together for me a few years ago," he told broadcaster Steve Bunce. "They were put in front of me and I said, 'yeah, go on send it'."
These days, Froch's record does the talking for him. It's hard to think of a boxer who's taken on more elite fighters consecutively over the last five years. As is inevitable when you keep on fighting the best, however, it hasn't all been plain-sailing. In 2010, Froch lost his first world title belt and his unbeaten record in Denmark to national hero Mikkel Kessler. It was a terrific fight, a brutal scrap of skill and will in which both men hit and hurt the other. The result was a close points loss for Froch, but it was a defeat nonetheless and it rankled. "When my head hits the pillow at night, I still think about that loss," he later admitted.
Watching Carl Froch train, just a few days before the fight, he doesn't look a man struggling with sleepless nights. Notorious for barely getting out of fighting shape - his trainer Rob McCracken calls him "one of those annoying blokes who never really eats badly", while offering around a bag of Revels - he's 35 years of age but could pass for a man a decade younger. Trim, lithe and already on-weight, his gloves crash into McCracken's pads for three minutes at a time, one minute break, then back to work again. He goes through a similar routine on the heavybag afterwards. By the end of the session, he's coated in a sheen of sweat but barely appears out of breath as he skips through his warm-down. At this stage, his training is all fine-tuning. The hard work has been done over a long camp.
Mikkel Kessler has been training with intensity as well, judging from the videos coming out of Denmark. The affable Dane looks fit and ready, but there are question marks over him. It isn't always true that the winner of a fight is the boxer who's taken the least punishment. After the Froch fight, a bruised Kessler took a break from the sport to allow an eye injury he'd been nursing to fully heal. The 34-year-old Dane went 14 months without a contest, but has won all three fights of his comeback by stoppage, with no noticeable depreciation of his boxing skills or power. However he's completed just nine full rounds in the process. By contrast, Froch has boxed 42 full rounds and been involved in three 12-round title fights since their first fight. So is Kessler the fresher man likely to have more in the tank or does the Froch have a battle-hardened edge?
We'll find out in what should be an epic rematch, but when boxers are so evenly matched as Froch and Kessler clearly are, the intangibles can be the difference. No one who's watched the first fight would question Kessler's fighting heart or warrior spirit, but he's had one foot in retirement already and there's a slight doubt as to whether he wants this quite as much as his personal friend and in-ring rival. With Froch there are no such queries. Haye, Khan and Hatton have had their moments in the sun, but the 35-year-old Froch has shown the desire and determination to push all of them into his shadow.
Who knows if he's Britain's best athlete, but his accomplishments clearly make him country's no.1 pound-for-pound boxer. There's no bullshit about Froch any more. Mikkel Kessler may need to produce the performance of his life if he's to avoid being yet another boxer muscled into the shade by the burning ambition of Carl Froch.
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The safe, solid tip is Froch via points, as it's hard to force a stoppage when two fighters are so evenly matched - but Froch has forced the pace well in his last two fights. If he can do that this time, he might wear Kessler down force a late intervention. Froch by stoppage in rounds 10, 11 or 12 are generously priced at 34.0, 36.0 and 46.0
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Then the Lord said to me, "Write my answer plainly on tablets, so that a runner can carry the correct message to others." Habakkuk 2:2
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Are Pyschics Phony?
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What I find amazing is that many evangelical churches either forbid, have decided that they are from another dispensation, or believe that the gifts of the Holy Spirit are from the Devil.ReplyDelete
Even the Catholic Church believes in the gifts to a greater degree.
I also found it interesting that a group of Christians did generic dream interpretation at a Barnes & Noble. They were amazed at how many evangelicals came because the gift of dream interpretation was considered divination in their denomination.Replies
Attributing the gifts to the demonic is my topic for Friday's post.Delete
It's not just evangelicals, there are charismatic churches who also disregard dreams and even prophecies.
It's sad, because we leave out a vital part of our arsenal to fight the enemy, but more importantly to know what God is saying to us personally.


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Wilderness Lodge is the home resort for this celebration. The resort, built in the arts and crafts style, is themed after national parks lodges in the Northwest. The Deluxe resort has warm tones, wood accents, and Native American inspired design.
The resort is a favorite among us here at the podcast for many reasons including it's spacious lobby, Whispering Canyon Cafe, gorgeous fireplaces, the geyser, and the free-form pool.
Mike then made his way to the Magic Kingdom, where he looked around and found his way to the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train. He also managed to meet Anna and Elsa from Frozen.
At tonight's Rock Your Disney Side events, guests were invited to explore and take selfies with many characters representing each park, showing off their Disney Side. Guests were able to meet performers from Festival of the Lion King, Anna and Elsa, Goofy who was there to celebrate Typhoon Lagoon's 25th Anniversary, performers from the Disney Festival of Fantasy Parade, and more.
During Rock Your Disney Side this summer, guests will be able to take part in events that will take place on both coasts, with the kick off being the Rock Your Disney Side 24 Hour event at both Disneyland and Disney California Adventure, as well as at the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. The parks will be open for 24 hours, from 6 a.m. on May 23 through 6 a.m. on May 24.
The night ended with Illuminations: Reflections of Earth.
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The Following is an answer to some questions and challenges I received on my own personal blog about who the "facts and the biology" favor in the whole Transgender debate. It is a topic that is of course important because of its many political implications. The individuals to whom I am replying here are Libertarians and so the issue is addressed from that particular vantage point.
"I have seen some objections by a few self identified Libertarians to the ideas expressed in my last piece. I found some of it somewhat surprising.
The Credo of Libertarianism is "live and let live". a person's decision to make whatever surgical alterations to their body that they choose to, and to perceive themselves however they wish is a right that everyone must recognize within a free society. But to the extent that the Transgender Movement becomes a true political movement, it literally seeks to add the force of law to the dogma that a person may select their own sex. The basis for it comes through the attempted appropriation of civil rights concepts. As we know, modern civil rights law is designed not merely to address the behavior of the government but also of private individuals. a political movement that mandates the recognition of these gender "transitions" by other private citizens as a civil right, becomes a movement that literally seeks to impose a particular perspective on to private individuals. Such a policy, I submit, is not remotely consistent with either Libertarian or Conservative values.
The other point of contention was over the more basic question of whether the self selection of one's sex is possible in the first place. Now based upon my own study of the movement in question, the closest thing to a solid logical basis for its general claims concerning sex involve appealing to the existence of Androgen disorders, and other types of syndromes that impair the proper biological development of sex. The argument in a nutshell is that because in the case of these rare disorders sexual differentiation is impaired and does not follow the normal human genetic pattern, the entire dualistic division of the sexes is bogus
First of all, this argument does not seem to grasp the concept of a disorder. These are medical disorders, and the language of pathology is used in the medical literature of all of these conditions. In most cases the conditions are also accompanied by other adverse medical symptoms. The idea that a general concept of human physiology ceases to exist as a consequence of an irregular medical disorder is in my estimation quite an odd one. What if this reasoning was extended to other general concepts of human physiology and the irregular disorders associated with them? We would not know what the regular functioning of the body even looked like. Now of course the people actually afflicted by these rare sex conditions are essentially never the ones that are the subjects of Transgender discussions. Those discussions revolve around individuals who are in every biological sense either male or female.
If concepts are rendered entirely meaningless as a result of rare exceptions that deviate from well established natural processes, then it is not just medical science but all of natural science that is in trouble. In a reply I received on this site, one respondent even attempted to make arguments on the basis of sexual ambiguity in other animal species. The distinction between warm blooded and cold blooded animals has proven over time to be a blurry one with some animals manifesting characteristics that do not allow us to neatly place them into either category. Does this mean that I can make the decision to classify myself as a cold blooded animal if I want to because "the entire distinction is no longer valid"? I think we understand that I could not.
Finally there is the popular appeal to brain chemistry. I have yet to receive from a contemporary Feminist an explanation of how one reconciles this approach with the notion that sex roles are largely conditioned by society. Is the male with a preference for stereotypically " feminine things" and the female with a preference for stereotypically "masculine things" this way because of neurology? If so, this is an admission that stereotypically feminine and masculine behavior are hardwired into human sexual nature. Is transgenderism a desire to associate with labels that signify absolutely nothing in particular? Sex is in any case not fundamentally a neurological condition, it has many other manifestations. The core concept of sex concerns physical roles within procreation. a person may be born impaired in this area but the point is that they are typically coded for one of these two specific roles.
Again, every individual has the right to live the lifestyle that they choose and to be respected as a human being regardless of that choice. But this does not require that individuals or laws (binding private citizens) be obligated to recognize the reality that those individuals choose to embrace. True tolerance is about respecting others when we do not agree, not compelling others to agree with us.."


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Sometimes I think I may be overdoing things. After all, I am a mom of four kids, which keeps me plenty busy. I have a business to run out of my home, and a podcast to maintain. This often makes me wonder why in the world do I push myself so hard to make all of the things?
Case in point: the Gramps cardigan. I have been swooning over this pattern by TinCan Knits for months for my little man. There is just something too incredibly cute about little boys dressed in grownup clothing. Of course, even though I had been thinking and planning for a long time about this cardigan. I decided to give myself all of four days to knit it for Easter.
Because reasons.
After having a few friends talk me off of that crazy cliff, I decided to still cast it on and work really hard on it, but also gave myself the leeway that *if* I didn't get it done on time, it was okay. I sized it up so it will fit him next year and used stash Cascade 220 superwash. The pattern was incredibly fun and fast (at least, the sweater part of it). I couldn't believe I could have an entire sweater on my lap in just a few days! Kid knits are awesome.
Even though I worked really, really hard on this project at first, I lost steam when it came to knitting the second pocket and the elbow patches. For some reason, additional pieces just don't come naturally to me. I have the hardest time knitting tiny little embellishments, even though they take 5 seconds. Okay, maybe longer, but you know what I mean. In other words, I didn't even come close to getting this done for Easter.
I did, however, finish the knitting. I have perfect white buttons that will look adorable. Why, then, can I not get up the guff to sew the darn things on? Have I mentioned how much I hate finishing work? No worries, I have it set aside in a "finishing" box, waiting for that moment when I need to finish all of the projects. Besides, I have until next fall, right?


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I've received a report that vic segfaults if you try to encode a stream. Decoding works fine.
The encoder process segfaults at random() (I ran the core file through gdb) which uses
RAND_MAX. It has been erroneuously redefined due to incorrect ordering of #includes.
This patch fixes RAND_MAX and adds a few headers to fix some implicit declaration warnings.
Unfortunately, I haven't back from the reporter (who has been busy with other stuff) whether
this fixed his problem or not. But IMO this looks "correct" nevertheless.
Created attachment 7465 [details]
fix RAND_MAX and implicit declarations
This patch doesn't allow the package to build at all. Here's what I am getting
with gcc-2.96-70:
rtp/ntp-time.h:76: warning: decimal constant is so large that it is
codec/decoder-raw.cpp: In method `int RawDecoder::colorhist (u_int *)
codec/decoder-raw.cpp:105: warning: unused parameter `u_int *hist'
rm -f render/renderer.o; c++ -o render/renderer.o -c -O2 -g -W -Wall
-Wno-implicit-int -Wno-return-type -DLinux -DUSE_SHM -fsigned-char -DED_YBITS=4
-DSIGRET=void -DNLAYER=8 -I. -Icodec/tmndec -Icodec/tmn-x -Icodec/h263 -Irtp
-Irender -Inet -Ivideo -Icodec -I../common -Icodec/jpeg -Icodec/p64 -I.
cc1plus: warning: Ignoring command line option '-Wno-implicit-int'
/tmp/ccAfxPga.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccAfxPga.s:1407: Error: `%dl' not allowed with `cmpw'
/tmp/ccAfxPga.s:1485: Error: `%dl' not allowed with `cmpw'
/tmp/ccAfxPga.s:1506: Error: `%dl' not allowed with `cmpw'
make: *** [render/renderer.o] Error 1
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.62640 (%build)
Are you having problems with the build using the same version of gcc?
I'm marking this as won't fix since the patch breaks things.
This happens regardless of my patch. This worked fine with non-errata GCC. This is probably
a bug in the code that was brought up by newer tools, not gcc problem exactly.
There seem to be a lot of unsigned vs signed comparisons. Gcc might be pickier
about these of late. 'compw' assembler command in conjunction with %ld might
point at this direction too.
I noticed if you remove the optimizations ('-O2') in Makefile CCOPT, this will compile fine.
Added Jakub to Cc: list. Can you say outright what's causing this?
OK. Patch applied, and built without -O2. Thanks.
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The cooperation that we carry out is related to the primary sector, mainly in agricultural development. We are dedicated to study and analyze the needs of rural populations from Senegal and we transfer useful resources to improve their food security and nutrition.
The Food and Nutritional Security is defined according to the FAO:
"as the guarantee that individuals, families and the community as a whole, access at all times to sufficient, safe and nutritious food , mainly produced in the country in terms of competitiveness, sustainability and equity, for their consumption and biological utilization that provides them with optimal nutrition, a healthy and socially productive life, with respect for cultural diversity and preferences of consumers"
To do this, we have relationships with individuals, companies and agricultural cooperatives in Europe who are willing to donate part of their resources (agricultural machinery and seeds, campus, compost…) to promote rural development of the communities with which we work. The senegalese primary sector plays a socio-economic role especially important and agriculture provides employment to 72 per cent of the active population and constitutes 17 per cent of GDP.
In the Bassin Arachidier, main agricultural region of Senegal, production units are mainly constituted by a family, in general of 9 or more members (67%). Farmers base his harvest in two main crops: peanut and a cereal of subsistence, usually alternating millet and sorghum. Normally, the resources obtained are insufficient, in part by the limitation of cultivated area and in part by the scarcity of resources, especially agricultural equipment and compost.
Most of the farmers use the peanut crop for sale and the harvest for cereal consumption. Many times the quantity of cereals harvested is insufficient to ensure an optimal feeding of the family throughout the year. On the other hand, the income derived from the sale of the peanuts is used to pay taxes and to meet the needs of the family, for the most part of food order. Due in part to the shortage of food and resources, producers do not retain part of the income and seeds to fund the next campaign, so there are seasons in which it is really difficult to achieve the production enough to cover their basic needs.
Our goal is to provide useful and sustainable resources to the agricultural communities with which we work, both at the technical level and at the level of plant material. The technical improvement would increase productivity, with which the surplus will be greater and therefore also the income of families. In addition, a diversification of crops would enrich the diet of families and it would not be necessary to invest a very important part of their income to improve their diet.
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OK, this isn't something everyone in the office can do. But if you live in a state where electricity and natural gas customers get to shop around for plans different than what the utility offers, encourage your office manager to compare plans to find a rate that will save your company money.
Vampire appliances are electronics that continue to use energy even if they're turned off. They usually have a standby mode that requires power at all times. Vampires include televisions, printers, photocopiers, cellphone chargers and laptop chargers. At the end of the day, make sure that you turn all appliances off – even your computer. Laptops and desktop computers continue to use electricity if you leave them on sleep mode. Then, unplug all vampire electronics. If this step seems like a hassle, plug all your vampires into a power strip and simply unplug the strip before you leave the office.
Organize an office carpool. This easy change will save you big bucks on gas money and will greatly reduce the office's carbon footprint. Who knows – maybe one of your co-workers owns a hybrid or an electric car! Another alternative is eradicating your commute altogether. Try telecommuting or working four 10-hour days instead of five eight-hour days. Or, if you live close to work, burn some calories by biking to the office.
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