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Jakarta. Several people were injured in a suicide bomb attack on the police headquarters in Surabaya, East Java, on Monday morning (14/05).
East Java Police spokesman Chief Comr. Frans Barung told reporters that the bomb exploded at 8.50 a.m. at the gate of the police headquarters in Jalan Sikatan No. 1.
Closed-circuit television footage seen by the Jakarta Globe shows two people on a motorcycle being stopped at a checkpoint before the bomb explodes.
"There was an explosion; we are certain that this was from the motorcycle. There was a female passenger on the motorcycle," Frans said.
He added that several police officers and bystanders were injured in the blast, but was unable to confirm the number of casualties.
This latest incident brings to four the number of suicide attacks in the city within the past 24 hours. Thirteen people were killed and 40 wounded when a family of six launched attacks on three different churches in Surabaya on Sunday.


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Talk must lead to action
2011 Graduate Jemmason Power gave the following speech at the launch of News Corp Australia's Reconciliation Action Plan in Brisbane on 8 September 2016.
Jemmason entered St Peters Lutheran College in Brisbane on an AIEF Scholarship in Year 11. She is now studying towards a Bachelor of Human Services at the University of Queensland.
First of all, I think anyone who gets up here after Corban – mate, me and Libby were sitting there going "oh my gosh", eyes were welling up and you did amazing bro. Age has got nothing to do with it, I might be tall but I look up to you and congratulations.
Thank you Paul for the introduction, and thank you for having me here today.
Before I go on, I would like to acknowledge and pay my respect the traditional owners of the land, the Turrbal and Yuggera peoples, and their Elders past and present.
I would also like to acknowledge distinguished guests, including the Premier of Queensland, the Honourable Annastasia Palaszczuk, Chair of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council and Chair of AIEF, Warren Mundine and Executive Chairman of News Corp Australia, Michael Miller.
I am a proud Bindal Birri Gubba woman. I was born in Rockhampton and I moved to Bowen when I was 12.
Growing up, education was always important, as was sport.
I travelled a lot to compete and when I was 15, as said before I met Murray Paterson who works at St Peters Lutheran College and I found out about AIEF Scholarships to St Peters here in Brisbane. My application was successful and I started boarding there in Year 11.
My scholarship supported me to get a great education and moving to Brisbane opened up so many opportunities in netball, but this was something my parents appreciated more than I did at first. As you can hear from all of us young kids we don't appreciate it until after the fact. I respect your mother so much for letting you do what you did. Parents, especially Indigenous parents, they sacrifice a lot for us, and they know the sacrifice, but they know how much it means and even in five or ten years' time that we can turn around and say thank you.
I started to realise the value of it when I got to travel to Canberra to be part of the program called Learn, Earn, Legend with AIEF. AIEF provides so many opportunities for you to explore different avenues and pathways. They are just amazing at what they do.
The rest, as they say, is history. I finished Year 12 and I'm now at the University of Queensland, studying my second year of a Bachelor of Human Services.
I was a member of the Queensland Fusion last year before I tore my ACL which some of you may know is quite common in netball – too common – but my goal is still to join the Australian National Netball side which is formally known as the ANZ Championship. And go the Firebirds. As Paul mentioned, I'm an Ambassador for One Netball, a national campaign with the message that netball welcomes everyone, regardless of background or ability. And I also work part time in the boarding house at St Peters. I pretty much went back to boarding after I left – I don't think I actually left.
Over time, my relationship with AIEF has become one of a "give and give relationship".
They continue to give by supporting me at uni and providing opportunities, like the opportunity to represent AIEF at the Garma Festival in north-east Arnhem Land in August, and the opportunity to speak to you today.
I give by speaking at events for current scholarship students and by providing feedback that helps AIEF improve its programs for students and graduates like myself. As a boarding mistress at St Peters, I am also a mentor for the Indigenous boarders, including more AIEF Scholarship Students.
And the opportunity to attend Garma this year has had a huge influence on the way I see law and policy and all the things that are written 'for' or about Indigenous people.
Specifically, that there's a big difference between words and deeds.
Conversations are great, they're great to have but talk must lead to action, and that's where accountability comes in.
Reconciliation Action Plans like the one News Corp Australia is launching today provide a framework for turning words into action and bringing accountability to the forefront.
My generation and those younger still will be a good measure of accountability and how well plans like this are followed.
I'm living proof that strong and personal partnerships like AIEF's partnership with News Corp Australia are really important and AIEF would not be able to do what they do without your support.
And it's not just about how many scholarships AIEF can give in a year or ten years' time. It's so much more. As a student and Alumni I can say that the AIEF could not be so humanistic in their approach to caring for each of us without your support.
AIEF is providing scholarships to over 500 students this year and I am just one of the 330 graduates, and on behalf of them I would like to say thank you.
I would like to save the last word for Marcia Langton, who I was privileged to meet at Garma.
We spoke about the challenges my fellow Alumni Frank Lowah and I had – so Frank is another Alumni that graduated at St Peters as well. We both went to Garma this year and it was one of the most amazing experiences of our lives. And we talked to Marcia Langton and we discussed the different challenges that we faced getting our education and in short – because there is always so much to take in when you talk to Marcia Langton – she challenged us about what we were going to do to help out younger kids, those who are in schools right now and those still to come. What resilience based tools are we going to give them for when they face social, emotional and political challenges.
And like two students in the field, Frank and I looked at each other and said, that is an excellent question. So watch this space.
Like I said, conversations are great, but talk must lead to action.
Thank you once again for supporting AIEF and congratulations on renewing your commitment to take action and contribute to reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

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American Bubba Watson has won the 2014 US Masters.
American Bubba Watson has captured his second US Masters title in three years with victory at Augusta National on Sunday.
The 2012 champion carded a final round of 69 to finish at eight-under - three shots clear of debutants Jordan Spieth and Jonas Blixt.
Spieth had a two-stroke lead heading to the eighth hole, but Watson turned things around with back-to-back birdies while Spieth slipped with two straight bogeys.
The 35-year-old stretched his lead at the 13th with a booming drive to set up a two-putt birdie, taking his score to eight-under.


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Street Fighter 4 CD Key is a video game that belongs to the 2D fighting genre. Capcom is the developer of this game, with Dimps being its co-developer it was in Japan that the arcade coin operated game was released on 18th July 2008 and the machines being imported by the North American Arcades by August that year. Its console versions for Xbox 360 and PS 3 had been released on 12th February 2009 in Japan and sold in the stores of North American on 20th February, with an intended release date of 18th February. In Europe, the official release was on 20th February. It was in July that the MS Windows version was release d. the worldwide sales reported by the game maker by 31st March 2009 were more than 3 million copies and by 30th September, 2014, the sale was about 500,000 copies, without counting the PS4 version.. An updated version of this game got released in April 2010 as standalone title.
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Nine Ways the CCSS Will Change Classroom Practice
Have you been wondering about how the Common Core State Standards will affect your classroom? The most recent Harvard Education Letter from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Nine Ways the Common Core Will Change Classroom Practice addresses the key shifts in the standards.
In Mathematics
- Greater Focus
- Coherence
- Skills, Understanding, and Application
- Emphasis on Practices
In English Language Arts
- More Nonfiction
- Focus on Evidence
- "Staircase" of Text Complexity
- Speaking and Listening
- Literacy in the Content Areas
The CCSS add a big change in what educators expect in the classroom: the inclusion of technology in both Mathematics and English Language Arts. If your district needs assistance with planning, Atomic Learning can help! Check out Atomic TechCore for your curriculum mapping needs.


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DETROIT (AP) — Carjackings, robberies and non-fatal shootings dropped in Detroit in 2016, while the number of homicides in the city edged up by seven, according to figures from the police department.
The preliminary numbers were released Tuesday to The Associated Press and show that aggravated assaults, burglaries and larcenies also were down.
Seven more homicides were committed — and Detroit still has one of the highest murder rates in the country, but the city did not see the drastic spike that Chicago reported and some other cities experienced last year.
"We're finally making that turn," Police Chief James Craig said about Detroit's overall crime numbers going down. "We're continuing to make steady progress. People are saying something is changing in Detroit and 'I feel safer.'"
There were 150 fewer carjackings. Non-fatal shootings dipped by more than 70 to 958.
"A non-fatal shooting is nothing more than an unsuccessful homicide," Craig said.
Detroit earned the nickname "Murder City" after 714 homicides were committed in 1974. The 295 committed two years ago was the city's lowest since 1967, when 281 homicides were recorded.
In 2016, there were 302 homicides in Detroit. Chicago had 762 homicides — it's most in two decades. Memphis, Tennessee, set a city record in early December when its homicide total hit 214 for the year. Homicides in Louisville, Kentucky, rose from 79 in 2015 to at least 113 last year.
Craig credits an improving relationship with Detroit residents and businesses, as well as the improved morale of police officers as helping to drive the numbers down.
Craig calls the lower numbers "progress, absolutely," but he's not waving "the flag of success."
Betty Smith, 65, has seen a difference.
"I feel safe. I don't fear out here," Smith said Tuesday afternoon while walking to her home just east of downtown. "I feel the police are doing the best they can do."
But Kenneth Reed said the police department's numbers don't tell the whole story. Reed is a spokesman for a watchdog group called the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality.
"People are still getting carjacked. Delivery drivers are being shot in their vehicles," Reed said.
"The perception may be a little safer in some areas, but out here on Mack and Garland that's not the case," said Reed, referring to a Detroit neighborhood. "On Greenfield and West Chicago they don't feel that way. A lot of people don't feel secure standing at a bus stop."


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- Added new command line option to fmoddesignercl.exe "-b <pathname>" to allow override of Build Directory.
- Added category list for events in programmer report.
- Fixed crash after deleting an event
- Fixed surround pan effect not initialising correctly
This thread is for discussion / bugreports for the current release.
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CLOVIS, Calif. --A man wanted in connection with a violent assault turned himself in to Clovis police on Friday evening.
Investigators say 18-year-old Luke Alpoonarian attacked a man with an object similar to a pipe on Wednesday night. The victim, 57-year-old Brian Bibb, took several hits to the head. He was last listed in critical condition.
Bibb is also a suspect in a domestic dispute with his wife that took place just before Alpoonarian arrived at their apartment. Clovis police are also looking into possible charges in that incident.


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Planning this trip, I had two objectives that I wanted to achieve: to visit Colmar and to go up Mont Blanc. I liked the idea of taking a cable car up to the top of Mont Blanc.
I decided that I would use Annecy as my staging point from Colmar, before moving on to Chamonix Mont Blanc, to give it its full name. I arrived at Annecy quite late in the evening, to find the only aire I knew of, full to capacity. During March, it is difficult to find many campsites open, so I did struggle to find somewhere. Fortunately, the Parkings app came to my rescue and found me an aire in Sevrier. It's about 2.5 miles outside Annecy, but it was on the cycle path to Annecy and it was free.
The next morning, I headed for Chamonix Mont Blanc and parked in a park and ride by the Aiguille du Midi cable car station. This is the cable car that gets you closest to Mont Blanc.
It costs €60 to ascend and it's worth every penny. One thing to note, when the cable car passed the supporting girders, it tends to rock like a pendulum. Hopefully, prior warning will avoid you from flying into the middle of the car, with only the outstretched hand of a stranger to save your blushes.
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We love graphic design and it is nothing without understanding typography. We pushed the boundaries of exploring typography by creating our own hand-drawn, custom-made typeface, inspired by the Futura and Hindi lettering.
This iconic advertising poster for Ateem has been well appreciated over the years by artists and designers all over the world. The bright and well-set colors have made this poster a piece of art.
Any good and well-constructed typeface will be designed in a way to provide Light, Medium, Bold and many other font styles for users to choose from. We created three different font styles with no expense spared.
"Free him from his hunger" – Advertising Poster 1 shows the usage of the typeface.
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Designed to fit ProSelect wire crates, Floor Grates elevate dogs above pans to keep them clean and dry. Grates fit on the lowest horizontal wire of the crate. Grate openings measure 1/2"W x 2"L.
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I has new lens, yay.
Ordered slightly before my own personal financial crisis became apparent, my new lens arrived yesterday. As some here know I shoot with Olympus and the new lens is from Olympus's "Budget" series (meaning not weather sealed and cheaper than the others, tho this one is definitely the most expensive budget lens in their lineup). At a focal length range of 9-18mm (equiv 18-36mm) this is an ultra wide angle lens.
Here's some fun I had with it yesterday in the center of antwerp:
This is a tricky little lens, not least because I've never shot wider than 27mm equiv and I have to learn all the caveats of UWA on the fly (and there are plenty, from perspective to very tricky lighting).
With this new lens, my kit is now extremely flexible and usable for nearly any picture. My entire kit is (multiply by 2 to get equivalent focal lengths):
- 9-18mm F/4-5.6 Ultra-wide angle zoom.
- 14-42mm F/3.5-5.6 Standard zoom kit lens. A nice and lightweight (220gr) carry-around lens.
- 40-150mm F/3.5-5.6 Tele zoom kit lens.
- 50mm F/2.0 Macro Very sharp portrait/macro/low-light lens. My favourite.
- 135-400mm F/4-5.6 Ultra-tele lens. Slightly too heavy and soft for my tastes, but served me well in africa and I like long teles.
- FL-36 Flash Guide number 36, rotates around two axis.
- Hyperdrive SPACE 250 Gb Photo storage unit
- GPS Data logger Lets me sync pictures wth location data
- Several extra batteries
- 58mm and 52mm circular polarizer
The entire kit fits in my camera bag (it's a big bag I admit) and weighs less than three kg (most of that weight is the ultra-tele). It spans 35mm-equivalent focal ranges of 18 to 800 (making it 44X optical zoom) and has everything for indoors, outdoors, macro, portrait etc etc. I'm pretty proud of this kit :)
Right now I have no concrete plans to expand it. Any more lenses now would almost certainly be to replace one I already have. In that aspect I'm drawn towards the 12-60mm standard grade lens to replace my budget 14-42mm (the former is a very good lens optically, and much praised by anybody who's used it) or the 70-300mm budget lens to replace the 135-400mm sigma I have (the former weighs less than half as much and is considerably sharper) but with current finances neither will be happening soon.
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Asus P5Q Deluxe Review
Closer Look:
AI Tweaker:
On most motherboards produced today there's usually a section of the BIOS that is reserved for adjusting performance, via tweaking voltages, skew rates, memory timings for the CPU, memory and board. The AI Tweaker section of this BIOS is reminiscent of the BIOS seen in the ROG (Republic of Gamers) series of boards from ASUS. With that kind of adjustability, getting performance out of this board should be pretty straight forward. A plus I found while working through the BIOS is that values can be manually input, or selected through a menu - which is, in my opinion, much easier. Let's look and see what's available.
The menu items are set to Auto by default. Setting the items to manual will allow performance to be increased from the stock baseline settings. The CPU ratio can be modified based on the available multipliers for your particular CPU. In this case, its' a Q9450 - so x8 is the maximum. The FSB strap setting for the Northbridge can be adjusted to help increase the FSB potential of your overclock, as well as the performance of that overclock. DRAM frequency is based upon the strap setting and FSB speed of the CPU. Skew rates for each DRAM slot are available to help increase memory overclockability.
The memory sub-timings can be left at Auto to let the BIOS choose what is best, or you can take the plunge and manually set the timings for increased performance. There are three memory sub-sections, so finding the best balance between all out performance and stability could take some time. The Memory OC Charger can also be enabled for maximum memory performance. Just make sure your memory can work with the changes this setting makes.
Voltages can be the key to solving the instability of an overclock, but that sword cuts both ways - you can also make your overclock worse by adjusting the wrong voltage or series of voltages. Asus has given us the tools to reach for the stars, and they made sure the lack of overvoltage capability would eliminate issues with this motherboard. Without adjusting the voltage jumper for the CPU voltage, the maximum possible Vcore is 1.70 volts. By moving the jumper to the overvoltage side, the maximum Vcore bumps up to 2.1 volts. Maximum CPU PLL voltage is reached at 2.78 volts. The GTL reference voltages are adjustable up and down, and are shown as a percentage of the FSB VTT voltage. These settings can provide a measure of stability, but dialing them in just right is a time consuming task.
FSB termination voltage is limited to 1.90 volts - plenty to get the job done. In most cases, this voltage can help increase the FSB potential of the installed CPU, but adjusting the GTL reference voltages can allow this voltage to be set much lower. DRAM voltage is available to 3.08 volts - definitely the death zone for DDR2 memory. But, if you can get one run and validate it, you may just get yourself a new world record.
The rest of the voltages can be adjusted to meet the various needs of each individual system. The Northbridge voltage is capped the same way the CPU voltage is. By moving the jumper to the overvoltage pins, 2.06 volts to the P45 chipset is possible. Northbridge GTL voltages are trial and error for each individual chipset, what works for one may not work for all.
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|James Whittaker
Whittaker speaking at the Computer
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February 10, 1929 (age 89)
Seattle, Washington
Seattle University
West Seattle High School
|Lou Whittaker (twin brother)
James W. Whittaker (born February 10, 1929), also known as Jim Whittaker, is an American mountaineer from Seattle, Washington.[1][2]
As a member of the American Mount Everest Expedition led by Norman Dyhrenfurth in 1963, he was the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest. He summited on May 1, 1963, with the Sherpa Nawang Gombu (a nephew of Tenzing Norgay). They ran out of oxygen but managed to reach the summit. Once there, Whittaker planted a US flag at the top.[3]
He is the twin brother of Lou Whittaker, a mountain guide who is often mistakenly credited with that achievement. The twins started climbing in their teens in the 1940s while in the Boy Scouts.[2]
Whittaker graduated from West Seattle High School and Seattle University.
He was the first full-time employee of Recreational Equipment Inc. and was the company's CEO in the 1960s. Now, Whittaker is chairman of the Board of Magellan Navigation, a company that produces handheld global positioning system (GPS) units.
In 1965 he guided Robert Kennedy up the newly named Mount Kennedy.
He led the Earth Day 20 International Peace Climb that brought together climbers from the United States, USSR, and China to summit Mount Everest. In addition to putting more than a dozen climbers on the summit, the expedition hauled off a large amount of trash left on the mountain by previous expeditions.
In 1999 Whittaker released his autobiography, A Life on the Edge: Memoirs of Everest and Beyond. His younger son, Leif Whittaker, published My Old Man and the Mountain: A Memoir in 2016, which relates the story of his own summit of Mount Everest, with his parents accompanying him on part of the journey, and with comparisons to his father's Mount Everest experiences.
Whittaker and his wife, Dianne Roberts, live in Port Townsend, Washington. Their children are Joss and Leif Whittaker.
Awards and honors[edit]
- For being the first American to scale Mount Everest, Whittaker was awarded the Hubbard Medal by United States President John F. Kennedy.
If you aren't living on the edge, you are taking up too much space.
You never conquer a mountain. Mountains can't be conquered; you conquer yourself.
See also[edit]
- ^ EverestHistory.com: Jim Whittaker
- ^ a b "Brothers synonymous with mountain climbing in Northwest". Reading Eagle. (Pennsylvania). Associated Press. March 13, 1983. p. 43.
- ^ Shnayerson, Michael (May 2003). "Jim Whittaker, Back on Earth". National Geographic Adventure Magazine. Retrieved 2007-05-07.
External links[edit]
- Jim Whittaker: A Life on the Edge, Mountain Culture at The Banff Centre, March 21, 2002
- Interview with Jim Whittaker (2007)[dead link]
- Sarah Holbrooke interviews Jim Whittaker by Mountainfilm in Telluride
- Jim Whittaker on IMDb


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This is the final week of the American Express: My Life on Points series and it's time to announce the $100 gift card winner. But first, what did I choose at the 75,000 points level?
75,000 Point Choices
Le Creuset Cast Iron Six-Piece Set with Bonus 6 Qt Stockpot
Some time ago I hosted a party where we gave away just one piece of Le Creuset cookware and everyone went crazy for it! The winner even got back to me and said she was going to purchase more pieces because she loved it so much. I'm not the type to spend much money on something like cookware, but that's what's so great about the American Express Membership Rewards. I wouldn't feel like I was spending my money!
Specialized Ariel Women's Hybrid Bike
Six months ago we moved to a home that backs up to a bike path. The only problem? I don't own a bike! I'm sure I could dust off the shiny red ten speed I got for my 10th birthday twenty-three years ago, but doesn't this bike look so much cooler?
Viking® Professional 5 Qt. Stand Mixer and Blender
By now you've all heard the sad story of how on one fateful day I broke both my blender and my mixer, with my blender actually smoking. I ran the poor, beat up appliance out to sit on the driveway so as to not burn the house down while I hunted for a whisk. This beauty would take care of both problems in one fell swoop! Perfect!
I already own an HP Mini and have been so thrilled that I actually squeaked with happiness when I found this treasure for 75,000 points or less. A computer bought with Membership Reward points? Yes please!
Samsung 19″ HD 720p LED TV with Touch of Color™ Design with Monster® ScreenClean™
You know those people that comedians make fun of because the technology in their home is circa 1995? Yeah, that's me. We actually still have those silly old square televisions that weigh about fifty pounds each and are most definitely not high definition. This would be the perfect replacement for one of our ancient relics!
Congratulations to Amber P. who said she would use her American Express Membership Rewards points to purchase a gift card to The Olive Garden! I'm with you, Amber! Nothing like unlimited salad and breadsticks. Congratulations!
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Udiah (witness to Yah) (1959 / USA)
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Self-Publishing Hangout highlights
Paul Jarvis (Everything I Know), Sacha Greif (Discover Meteor), and Nathan Barry (Authority) invited me to host a Self-Publishing Hangout with them this week. It was a great opportunity for me, because I'm about to publish my first course (Amplification). Our Google Hangout ended being a 2 hour marathon of us sharing our experience with writing, publishing, and promoting eBooks, as well as answering questions from everybody in the chat room.
Here are my highlights.
On choosing a topic
- Paul Jarvis gets his inspiration by looking at what kinds of questions people are asking him. He looks at how many tweets and emails he's getting, and he replies to those. "Most of the topics come naturally. I start by writing emails and tweets, and keep working on it until it becomes a book." People asked him about vegan diets, so he wrote Eat Awesome. They asked him questions about business, so he wrote Be Awesome at Online Business.
- For Sacha Greif, his books are an extension of whatever project he's working on. "Writing a book integrates with the other things I do."
- Nathan Barry: "My first book was about app design. It came about because lots and lots of people were asking me how to do it. I didn't have a good place to point them, so I decided to write it."
- Justin: "I put up a homepage at Buildandlaunch.net. The book was going to be about building and launching your own product from scratch. I got about 1,000 signups to the mailing list, and started emailing them and asking questions: "What's your biggest struggle? Where do you need help?" Based on that feedback, I "pivoted" and decided that my first book would actually be Amplification – how to connect your content with bigger audiences."
Do you need to be a good writer?
- Justin: "I think you need to be interested in the craft. I don't consider myself a great writer, but I've always had a passion for communicating."
- Nathan: "If you try to wait until you're a great writer, that's bad. I had someone contact me who read every one of my blog posts. He said in his email: 'Man, when you started you were a horrible writer. But I could see you getting better each post you wrote.' I would say: start writing, and use that to get better at writing."
- Paul: "I feel the same way. I don't think I'm a great writer, but I know that I'm a lot better now than when I started writing. The only way I got better, was by writing. I write every day; I don't publish work every day (that's not the point). The more that I sit down and write, the more ideas that I come up with that are worth publishing."
The process of writing
- Sacha: "I didn't have a fixed amount of words to write every day. I approach writing like design: start with a sketch, low fidelity mockup, high fidelity… every iteration comes close and closer to the real thing. I start with outline of the chapters, and start filling them up. For Discover Meteor, we must have gone through each chapter about 10 times, it was really iterative."
- Nathan: "I write a really rough outline, with all the sections I'd like to have in my book. Then each day when I sit down to write, I look at those sections, and pick which section I'm most interested in. Like Paul mentioned, I write 1,000 words a day; that was inspired by Chris Guillebeau. And I track that daily reminder in an app I wrote called Commit. I've done about 388 days in a row right now."
- Paul: "I have the same reminder, but mine swears at me [laughter] because that's what I need to get it done. The reason I do the daily practice, is that I'm trying to get better at the act of writing. Writing in your own voice is harder than it seems; it takes a lot of work. The daily practice has really helped me with that."
- Justin: "As a beginner, I created a text outline. And then I started writing right in iBooks Author; about half-way through I realized I needed to collaborate, get an editor to look at it, and also track how many words I was writing a day, and so I switched to Draft."
- Paul: "I like to use IAWriter because you can't add any formatting. Otherwise I'd spend way too much time trying to pick the right typeface, and the right line-height, etc…"
Writers block
- Nathan: "I go down to my favorite cafe, and I'll get a glass of wine… and that way I always write much more. I highly recommend a bit of alcohol."
- Justin: "For me having a deadline has really helped: I set the launch for Amplification for September 1st. Knowing that I have to hit that deadline makes me productive."
- Nathan: "Two more quick writing tips. First, write to a specific person. When you're writing, you can either come off as super casual, or really patronizing (those are the two extremes). Tim Ferris' advice on this is to write to a specific person; I wrote my first book, Designing Web Applications, to my brother-in-law. I was always thinking: 'What does Philip need to know?' The second piece of advice: when you hit something that needs research, just type in tk and keep writing."
What happens if you're not enough of an expert?
- Paul: "If you get paid to do something, chances are you're enough of an expert to write something. For example, if someone's paid me to do web design for 15 years, I can be confident as an expert to write about it."
Talking about fear
- Sacha: "I think what scares everybody is releasing the book and having no one buy it. You can't make it go away completely, but there are steps (like setting up an email list) you can take to minimize the risk."
- Nathan: "I think you'll always have fear of some kind. When I did my first book, I feared that no one would buy it. My second book, I had the fear that I wouldn't be able to repeat the success from last time. And for my 3rd book, Authority, I thought: 'Well I'm successful with design books, but no one's going to buy this.' I've come to realize that I'm always going to have fear, and that I just need to push through it."
- Paul: "I agree. I identify with you. I was definitely more scared with my second book, because you've already established yourself as being an author, and having sold so many books. If you put something else out, and it flops, it's way worse than putting something out the first time (when nobody knows who your are). It gets worse for me, every time I launch something. We're all afraid; we've just learned to push past it, because the reward is accomplishing something."
- Justin: "I think it's normal to be worried at different parts of the process. I think it's important that we talk about that, because in our industry we have a lot of people that seem really confident, and seem like they never get anxious about anything. The truth is, if it's the night before launching something, you're going to have some anxiety. The best thing to ask when you're in that situation is: 'What's the worst thing that good happen?'"
How do you ensure quality?
- Paul: "Should you hire an editor? Yes! The job of an editor is to push you to write more, to write better, and also to make you sound smarter. If you publish a book and there's spelling mistakes, it looks bad. If you have a copyeditor, you can minimize those mistakes."
- Paul: "If you have social proof, put it on your website: testimonials, people tweeting about it, magazine or publication mentioning you. Showing people that there's proof outside of this website you've created will help people trust you."
- Justin: "Right now I use Draft for writing, and you can hire an editor right in their interface."
- Nathan: "I'm a bit lucky: my mother is a professional copywriter. She edits all my books, and that's worked really well. There's a lot of stupid stuff that would have made it into my book if I wasn't paying someone to make sure that didn't happen."
- Paul: "Editors make a huge difference. Even if you don't have money for an editor, get a couple of friends to look it over."
- Nathan: "Remember: mistakes will happen. You're not going to get a perfect book out every time; but it's an ebook, you can always push out an update."
Is the market getting saturated?
Is the market for self-published books getting saturated right now?
- Justin: "In our space (tech, design, dev, bootstrapping) it used to be there were only a few people doing it (Amy Hoy, Chris Guillebeau). Next, there was grassroots people who followed their lead, and came on the scene: Nathan Barry, Sacha Greif, Paul Jarvis. But now it seems like there are a lot of more established people getting in to publishing: Adii Pienaar, Shawn Blanc, Mike McDerment (Freshbooks). Do you think there's too many players in this space now?"
- Sacha: "I don't think so. I think maybe it seems that way to us because we're so involved in this space. Although it's true that there are a lot of books coming out now for people like us: books about design, and books about self-publishing; that niche might get saturated soon. But the vast majority of ebooks are about other things: CSS, food… that will never get saturated."
- Nathan: "I think there will always be demand to pay $50 or less for high quality content that's really specific to a topic you care about (as a reader). Instead of going through 50 blog posts on the internet, you spend a little bit of money to get the best stuff on that topic in a PDF. I don't think it will become too saturated. We also tend to run in really specific circles on the internet and so when we see something we think: wow the whole internet is talking about this, when in reality it's just your tiny little corner, and 12 people."
- Justin: "The hard thing is… if you're already 'in' and you already have an audience, it's easier to say that it's not saturated. Certain niches can definitely get saturated. Rob Walling just commented on his podcast that there's been a big, noticeable increase in the number of people asking him (and other founders) to do interviews for books. If it's true, that there is more saturation, it means that everybody's quality and uniqueness will have to go up – you'll need to offer something that no one else is doing."
- Brennan Dunn (from the chat room): "Rob was mainly arguing against ebook "authors" who just publish a bunch of other people's writing. e.g. email a bunch of people, compile them into book, profit."
- Amy Hoy (from the chat room): "Yeah, there's a definitely a saturation level with 'I'm not gonna do any work on this product but you should still pay me' LOL"
- Michael Hartl (from the chat room): "This is still early, early days for ebook publishing."
- Joelle Steiniger (from the chat room): "Everyone always thinks there's no room left… and there always is."
- Sacha: "I think the key point is quality. For example: interviews are really interesting, but there also really easy to do; that's why there are a lot of e-books that are just a collection of interviews. Unless you're a professional interviewer, your questions might not always be interesting. So that niche might produce a lot of low quality ebooks. But if that gets saturated, who cares? It will only push people to make higher quality books."
- Justin: "Yeah. And maybe that's something else we have to be prepared for: the professional ebook critic. Right now it's a fairly friendly space."
- Paul: "You should read some of my comments on GoodReads: there are some reviewers that don't like stuff that are vocal."
What tools do you use to create the end-product?
- Paul: "I use Pages, and then I export to PDF and ePub, and then I run it through Caliber to make a Mobi file. Pages works for me. I draw all of my graphics in Illustrator."
- Sacha: "I actually used Pages for my first book too, and I really liked it. But for my second book I thought: 'maybe the best way to do this is just in plain HTML.' So that's what I ended up doing. I used Middleman to take markdown files and convert them them to HTML. Then I can take those HTML files and convert them to ePub, PDF, MOBI, whatever I need. I really liked doing it this way; even though it's a bit more work, but it's really flexible."
- Nathan: "I use iBooks Author. I asked everyone I knew that had self-published what they used, and I got a different answer from everybody. iBooks Author was just the amount of design flexibility, but also allowed me to get the book out the door quickly. I only use the 'Export to PDF' function (I've never published to the iBooks store)."
- Justin: "I use iBooks Author as well. Somebody just asked about usage statistics: iBooks Author does have some usage stats (in terms of how many words you've written), and Draft does as well."
What do you outsource?
- Paul: "I'm having someone illustrate the cover of my next book."
- Sacha: "I outsourced the actual conversion process from HTML to ePub and MOBI. There's quite a few steps. Even small processes are worth outsourcing to someone with experience."
- Nathan: "I outsourced video editing for the editing. I outsourced having the page coded up. A good rule of thumb is if you doing it would add any more value."
- Justin: "There's a lot of opportunity for people who want to get experience with self-publishing; if you have skills in design, copyediting, in illustration… you can probably use those skills to help authors. If you wanted to become a professional iBooks Author theme creator, there's a market for that."
Should you publish your book online for free?
- Sacha: "People in the chat room have been talking about the idea of publishing the HTML version online for free, and then charging for the download."
- Amy Hoy (from the chat room): "The idea of 'publishing a book for credibility, not for money!' must have been invented by a publisher."
- Nathan: "We have Michael Hartl in the chat room. He's been really successful at giving away the book for free online, with Ruby on Rails tutorial, and charging for other versions of it (like the PDF). He's made a lot of money from his book this way."
- Michael Hartl (from the chat room): "A free HTML version is also great for SEO."
- Sacha: "I learned Rails from Michael's book, but I just used the free version. I guess I should go back and buy it now [laughter]."
- Sacha: "I'm sure it's a valid strategy, but it's also risky. It depends on your market and how many people you can reach."
- Justin: "One of the risks (for authors) is that they use it as an excuse. They're scared of making sales, so they say: 'I'll put this out for free, and see what the response is.' The problem with that, is that the people who will read something for free could be a completely different demographic than the people who will pay for something. The feedback you get (from the free crowd) might not be helpful, at all. So you need to ask yourself the question: is this an excuse, or is it a part of your marketing plan?"
- Paul: "I've used samples before. My book, Be Awesome at Online Business, has the first 3-4 chapters, so it's enough to get people interested. On the last page, there's a link to buy it. The conversion on (my sample chapters) is way better than the conversion on my sales page."
- Nathan: "I would say that charging for your book should be the default, unless you have a strategy where giving it away for free is going to benefit you more in some other way."
- Paul: "I've tried it both ways. I've read Nathan and Sacha's back and forth with 'pricing low vs pricing high', so I decided to try both. My first book was $5, now it's $1. And my second book is $17. The one at $17 has sold half the copies, but has made more money than my first book. I think it also depends on the subject matter: a vegan cookbook isn't going to sell as much as a business book. Pricing is a bit of science, and a bit of a guessing game."
- Sacha: "Pricing is very, very subjective. For example: if I see a book on Amazon, even $10 for a book seems expensive. On the other hand, if I see Nathan's book for $39, it seems like a good deal, because there's a lot of value (for my career) in there. The way you frame the whole context for the book is important."
- Justin: "Yeah, pricing is tough. What I ended up doing, is instead of me marketing this a book, I'm selling it as a downloadable course. The idea is that this isn't just an ebook you're going to read, it's going to have videos, worksheets and other things. It's going to be the equivalent of you taking a course (or workshop) on the topic. I priced it at $29, and I'm doing pre-sales at $10 off that price."
- Nathan: "I would say: always price based on value. That's a combination of 'what it's worth to you' to do the work to put it together, and priced based on the amount of value the reader is going to get out of it. Brennan Dunn has a book for $50. That might seem expensive to you, but if it helps a consultant raise their rate from $50-$100 per hour, then they've just paid for the book in the first hour of working at the new rate. If you're teaching people skills that make them money, the easier it is to justify higher prices. The closer you are to the money, the easier that equation is. If you're selling fiction, it's going to be hard to sell it for $50. But if you're teaching people design skills, that's an easier sell (especially if people are using the company credit card to pay for it)."
- Nathan: "Your first book doesn't have to be a high-priced thing, where you have a huge process and months and months of work. It can be something as simple a really good design tutorial that you sell for $10. If you're hesitant, then start small."
Platforms and publishers
- Justin: "There's tons of platforms for writing and promoting a book. Would you guys use any of those? How about a publisher?"
- Sacha: "The only reason I would use a publisher is if I was doing a print book. Other than that, I can't think of a good reason. Frankly, with ebooks, I think you can do a better job of promoting it than a publisher could."
- Paul: "I have a lot of friends that have gone the traditional route with a publisher. Here's the way it works: if you're not the top dog with that publisher, you'll probably end up doing most of your promotion yourself anyway. So you might as well get 100% of your revenue, as opposed to 10%. Sacha mentioned he'd do it if was a print book; well my next book is a print book, but I'm using Kickstarter to raise the money and to pre-sell a set number of copies. And this way, I get to do the design."
- Sacha: "Maybe if you only like to write, and nothing else, than going with a publisher is a good thing. But all of us, we like doing marketing, promotion and design; maybe that's why we don't work with publishers."
- Nathan: "I do plan on going with a traditional publisher at some point. I have an idea for a marketing book that I'd like to get out to a much bigger audience, that I don't think I could reach on my own. Whatever decision you make, know what the publisher is going to do for you."
- Sacha: "You're also in a much better position to deal with a publisher now, than you did before you'd published all these ebooks."
- Paul: "Yeah [that's the funny thing]: publishers are interested in you when you don't need them as much."
- Nathan: "I'd never take a technical book to a publisher. Any of the 3 books I've written already would be a terrible fit for a publisher."
The iBooks store and Amazon
- Justin: "What about the iBooks store and Amazon; do you guys have any experience with them, and would you recommend it?"
- Paul: "I have my books on iBooks and Amazon, but they account for about 1% of my revenue. I don't promote those channels, because I'd rather promote my own channel where I get 95% of the revenue. I think there's this idea that if you have you book on Amazon that they'll drive sales traffic; it never happens."
- Sacha: "Another downside with Amazon is that you don't get people's emails."
- Sacha: "And with our Meteor book, we also give our customers access to a special online area where they can read the book online, and download tutorials. That would be impossible with Amazon."
- Nathan: "Yep, for me the two big downsides are: not getting an email address (if you don't get any information about your customer, they're not your customer, they're Amazon's customer). The other thing is pricing: there's no way I could do my pricing tiers using those platforms."
- Justin: "Let's talk about building a mailing list. That's come up over and over again as one of the most important things you can do."
- Sacha: "I've been building my list for about 10 months now, and there's about 4,000 subscribers. The concept is, I write one email a week, every Sunday. The way I started it was from the sales of my first ebook: I emailed everyone who bought it and asked if they wanted to subscribe. I got about 1,000 subscribers that way."
- Justin: "Wow, that's a pretty big jump [1,000 subscribers all at once]. That might be one advantage of having a cheaper book to begin with; you might get a lot of subscribers all at once."
- Nathan: "I blogged for a year trying to get RSS subscribers; trying to get anyone I could to pay attention. The end results was about 80 RSS subscribers (not what I would consider a success!). Then I started working on the App Design Handbook, and stated asking people to sign-up (got about 50 people). And then I started writing blog posts related to the book, in-depth tutorials. By the time I launched the book I had 800 email subscribers (through that content promotion). That was by far the biggest factor in my success. If an article got featured on Hacker News, then I'd see a jump of 50 subscribers in a day."
- Sacha: "I've had my blog for close 2 years, with 3 or 4 posts hit the homepage of Hacker News. That resulted in about 2,000 RSS subscribers; but in less than 1 year I was able to get over 4,000 email subscribers. It's much easier to build an email list than a blog following."
- Nathan: "Email converts 15x better than a Twitter follower."
- Paul: "Yeah, with my first 2 books I focused almost entirely on building my mailing list. For Eat Awesome, I didn't even have a blog, just a mailing list. My mailing list is really what drives my sales. With email, you're connecting with people where they are; everyone checks their email."
- Justin: "My list is at about 1000 now. Most of those came from Hacker News; specifically from This is a web page, and that being on Hacker News for about 11 hours. I know some people don't like sources like that (Hacker News, Reddit, etc…) but they drive a lot of traffic. Even if you're not converting that traffic to your mailing list very well, you're still going to get a lot of signups."
Tools & resources we recommend
For selling:
For drafting, writing, editing:
Human copywriters and editors:
Design, layout, and publishing
- Pressboooks
- iBooks Author
- Pages
- Caliber (specifically for Mobi and ePub conversion)
- iBooks Author Templates
- Softcover
For mailing lists and email
- MailChimp
- Launch Effect (WordPress plugin)
- ConvertKit
- Industry Mailout
Closing thoughts
A huge thanks to Sacha, Nathan and Paul for allowing a rookie like me to participate.
You can watch the whole video recording here.
Want a podcast version? You can get that here.
I hope these highlights will be a helpful resource to anyone interested in publishing their own thing.
Justin Jackson


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After 1948
During the three decades following the civil war, Costa Rica made great advancements in social welfare policy, while experiencing political stability and economic prosperity. Despite noble efforts to increase their self-reliance, however, Costa Rica became more dependent on imports of pesticides and fertilizers, raw materials, machinery, and oil. Like many of the developing countries of the time, Costa Rica accepted large loans from the Western world to bolster infrastructure. When the worldwide market prices of coffee, bananas and sugar (Costa Rica's largest exports) plummeted, inflation skyrocketed, the currency devaluated, and the isthmus entered the 1980's in complete economic despair.
Unrest in Nicaragua
During the late 1970s, the right-wing Somoza dynasty of Nicaragua was the target of an attack by its own Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). Costa Rican President Rodrigo Carazo had little sympathy for the Somoza regime and supported the Sandinistas by permitting them to establish a base in northern Costa Rica. On July 19, 1979, the Sandinistas attacked Managua, and the Somoza exiles fled to Guanacaste. Costa Rica had become a shelter for soldiers, harboring rivals of a war that they did not want to be a part of.
The exiles of the Somoza regime joined together as the right-wing Nicaraguan Democratic Front (FDN), otherwise known as the "Contras". When Somoza was removed from office, Costa Ricans quickly became disillusioned with the new Sandinista regime's policy of militarization and Communism. Despite Costa Rica's doctrine of neutrality, with the economy in distress and with pressure from the U.S. to side with the Contras, PLN President Luís Alberto Monge (1982-1986) allowed the CIA to build airstrips along the Nicaraguan border and militarize the Costa Rican police force. The Sandinista airforce took to bombing Contra bases while acts of terrorism were carried out by groups supported by right-wingers in Monge's government.
Oscar Arias
In February of 1986, Oscar Arias, a liberal lawyer and a scholar of Costa Rican economics, was elected for president. He dedicated himself as a crusader of peace in Central America. His first objective was to enforce Costa Rica's neutrality policy and oppose those who were supporting Contra activity in Costa Rica. Arias' persistent and tireless efforts to fulfill his campaign promises won him the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize. The Sandinistas met their defeat as a result of the peace plan, which brought forth the first democratic elections (held 1990) in Nicaragua's history.
Rafael Angel Calderón Fournier, son of Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia, won the election for the presidency in 1990. He was succeeded by Jose Maria Figueres, "son of Don Pepe", in 1994. Like his father, he started out his tenure by initiated some new, unique policies. He built on Costa Rica's reputation for having a well-educated and literate populace to attract software giant Intel, which opened a 400,000-square-foot plant in 1998, providing almost 2,000 new jobs. His popularity dropped when he enforced a restrictive fiscal policy in an attempt to manage the economy and cut the debt. The policy did, however, seem to have some positive effects.
Environmental Policy Weakens
Miguel Angel Rodriguez, a wealthy and well-educated economist and businessman, won the 1998 election. The Rodriguez administration started out with promises to put a ban on logging in Costa Rica's nature treasure, the Osa Peninsula. But by 1999 his administration had granted permits to cut 10,000 forest trees there. Later that year, a study conducted by biologists, forestry engineers, and geographers found significant irregularities in the logging permits that had been issued.
In addition, the Rodriguez administration has terminated the vehicle emissions testing program, deregulated environmental building controls, and granted oil exploitation rights to a US company. In surveying the ocean for oil, this company has blasted the Talamanca coast with intense sonar probes, potentially putting marine animals and coral reefs in danger.
Former president Oscar Arias would like to run for president again, but the Costa Rican constitution prohibits the reelection of presidents. A movement is underway to change this for the 2002 election.


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So one day out of the blue, God came to Jeremiah and plainly told him: I knew you before you went into your mother's womb. That got Jeremiah's attention. And it got mine as well, the moment I saw the meaning of this powerful revelation.
We know that Jesus existed in heaven as God's Son before He went into Mary's womb to take on flesh and be born into this world as a human being. But did you ever wonder when we mortal men actually begin to exist? As believers we agree that 'life begins at conception'. But according to God's words to Jeremiah, the truth is far deeper than that. Here's what God said to Jeremiah:
"Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations." – Jeremiah 1:5 (KJV)
The key words here are "I knew thee". So before Jeremiah was conceived and started to take on flesh in his mother's womb, he obviously already existed! The powerful lesson here is that we begin to exist as souls first, because God starts by creating us in His image. God is Soul and Spirit. So when He first makes us, He makes us souls and spirits. That's what we truly are. And so we begin to exist as soul and spirit before we enter our mother's womb to be born into this world!
(We understand that it is those souls who have accepted Christ while on earth, who earn a place in heaven for eternity. So am I saying here that souls exist in heaven before they're sent to earth? I don't know the answer to that question. We can only know about heaven the little that God reveals to us in His word and by other means of revelation. But one thing is clear: A soul is obviously created and begins to exist at some point before it is sent into a woman's womb. And where else but somewhere in heaven would the souls be before they are sent off to the earth? What length of time goes by between the time that a soul is created and the time that it is sent off to earth, is not known. What a soul does while waiting to be sent into a woman's womb, is not know. How long Jeremiah existed during the time when God himself says that He knew him, we don't know.)
Knowing that God might have actually interacted with us before we were sent into this world is a very crucial knowledge to have, because it gives us the kind of understanding that is crucial in succeeding as God's children in this world. It was this knowledge that helped the Lord Jesus succeed, because by this knowledge He understood that He came from heaven, that He came to earth for a purpose, and that He had to go back to heaven.
Here's one of the most powerful statements the Lord Jesus ever made:
"The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father." John 10:17-18 (NIV)
Here, the Lord reveals to us a conversation He and the Father had prior to His coming to earth. You see, the Father gave Jesus an assignment to come to earth as a human being, teach humans about Himself and God, display the power and glory of God through miraculous deeds, show men the way to God, then die to atone for the sins of men. AND THEN, RESURRECT and come back to heaven.
It was during this interaction that the Lord was given His mission to earth. And what we learn from God's words to Jeremiah is that He had had that same type of conversation with Jeremiah at some point before sending Jeremiah down into his mother's womb.
God had that same type of conversation with you and I!!!
Unfortunately, as we are born into this world as humans, we forget all about any conversation that we might have had with the Father before being sent into this world. But our Father remembers!!! So just as at some point He reminded Jesus and Jeremiah, He can remind you too!
All you need is to ask Him. God is excited when He sees our faith in Him! Especially when it's faith that comes from a deep understanding that we have of Him. In this case, this understanding ought to make you deeply appreciate the idea that the great God who made the heavens and the earth, actually knew you personally, and gave you a specific assignment before sending you into this world. And this ought to make you determine to live for nothing else in this world other than fulfilling that assignment!
YOUR GREATNESS IS IN BEING THAT PERSON GOD SENT YOU TO BE IN THIS WORLD. It's in fulfilling the tasks that He has assigned for you to do in His name and to His glory.
'I think, therefore, I am'. We all know this quote by the French theoretician Rene Descartes very well. And also Proverbs 23:7: "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he…" (KJV). These two statements attest to the power of the consciousness of oneself, and there's nothing more dangerous to a man than the lack of, or inadequate, consciousness of who he is an individual. As long as the Lord Jesus kept His focus on this understanding of whom He was and what He was on earth for, He was able to focus on accomplishing the tasks given to Him by the father, and was able to make it back to heaven.
Therefore, brethren, I urge you to begin to see yourself as not just an individual in this world, but as someone on a special assignment given to you by the Father Himself! See yourself as the ambassador of the Kingdom of heaven that you are! An ambassador sent to represent the kingdom of heaven on earth, with specific instructions. Therefore, go to your Father in prayer and ask Him to reveal to you what He had in mind concerning you before sending you into this world! Then let the knowledge of who He sent you to be in this world be the guiding purpose for the rest of your life, to His glory!


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Published on August 01, 2012
Cone Health has earned nine national marketing awards — including four gold awards — for its advertising and marketing campaigns. Cone Health was recognized in the 29th Annual Healthcare Advertising Awards sponsored by Healthcare Marketing Report and by Marketing Healthcare Today through its Aster Awards. They are widely recognized as two of the most prestigious healthcare marketing award competitions.
Most of the awards recognize exceptional work in the Cone Health branding campaign. A series of magazine ads and a campaign supporting Cone Health Heart and Vascular Center took gold Aster awards. Radio commercials supporting the branding campaign and an employee wellness calendar earned gold Healthcare Advertising Awards. Cone Health also received two silver awards, two bronze awards and a merit award in the competitions.
"We are very excited about being recognized on a national level for this work," says Chuck Wallington, Vice President, Marketing, Cone Health. "What makes this even better is that the people we used in our magazine ads, television commercials and employee wellness calendar are actual employees. Their commitment to the effort and their involvement reflects the excitement and pride that comes with being part of Cone Health. It shows in everything we do."
Cone Health would like to acknowledge its partners for their work on the Cone Health branding campaign. They are: Quixote Group, a strategic marketing, communications and market research firm based in Greensboro responsible for development of the Cone Health brand and strategic positioning; Shapiro Walker Design, a creative design firm based in Winston-Salem specializing in the creative positioning of products, services and brand image; and, Big Fish, a full-service film production company based in Dallas, TX. Cone Health would also like to thank Krames StayWell, a provider of interactive, print and mobile health information, for its work on the Cone Health employee calendar.
Healthcare Marketing Report and Marketing Healthcare Today use experienced healthcare design and marketing professionals to judge submissions on the strength of creativity, quality, message effectiveness, graphic design and overall impact.
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Is Your Pet A Smoker?
on July 23, 2009
Posted in Fun
If you smoke, you can rest assured that your pet is a smoker too!
A study conducted in 2007 at the Tuft College of Veterinary Medicine, concluded that there was a very strong link between secondhand smoke and certain types of cancer in cats. Cats that had squamous cell carcinoma, or mouth cancer, more often lived in homes with second hand smoke than those cats that lived in a smoke free home. Even worse, was that cats who lived for longer than 5 years in a smoker's home, were more likely to have oral cancer than a cat that did not.
Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extension Service veterinarian, Dr. Carolynn MacAllister, explained that:
"One reason cats are so susceptible to secondhand smoke is because of their grooming habits. Cats constantly lick themselves while grooming, therefore they lick up the cancer-causing carcinogens that accumulate on their fur. This grooming behavior exposes the mucous membrane of their mouth to the cancer-causing carcinogens."
"Secondhand smoke has been associated with oral cancer and lymphoma in cats, lung and nasal cancer in dogs, as well as lung cancer in birds."
Dr MacAllister says that there is also a correlation between second hand smoke and lung, nose and sinus cancer in dogs.
"A recent study conducted at Colorado State University shows that there is a higher incidence of nasal tumors in dogs living in a home with secondhand smoke compared to dogs living in a smoke free environment," she explained. "The increased incidence was specifically found among the long nosed breed of dogs. Shorter or medium nosed dogs showed higher rates for lung cancer."
It seems that longer nose breeds actually have a larger surface on their noses that is exposed to the carcinogens. This allows the carcinogens to build up on the mucous membranes, which prevents them from reaching the dog's lungs. However, those dogs that do contract nasal cancer do not live longer than a year.
"The reason short and medium nose dogs have a higher occurrence of lung cancer is because their shorter nasal passages aren't as effective at accumulating the inhaled secondhand smoke carcinogens," Dr MacAllister explained. "This results in more carcinogens reaching the lungs."
The good news however, is that a recent study that was published in the journal Tobacco Control illustrated that there was a considerable amount of smoking pet owners who would actually attempt to quit smoking, if the dangers of second hand smoke on their pets was explained to them.
The study conducted by the Henry Ford Health System's Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, polled 3,293 adult pet owners during an internet survey. Of these people, 21% said they were smokers whilst 27% said that they lived with at least one smoker in their household. Another 40% of both smoking and non-smoking pet owners who took part in the survey actually admitted that if the dangers of second hand smoke on their pets was explained to them, that they would either quite smoking themselves or they would try to help their fellow household smokers quit.
If you are trying to quit smoking yourself or trying to help someone else quit, you can reference a study that was placed in the American Journal of Epidemiology, which found that dogs that lived in a smoker's house had a 60% greater chance of developing lung cancer. Collies, Greyhounds and other such long-nosed dogs were twice as more likely to develop nasal cancer if their owner smoked, than those long-nosed dogs who did not live in a smoking household.
Tobacco smoke can also cause severe allergic reactions in dogs and cats, and respiratory problems in animals that have smaller lung capacity, such as pet birds, hamsters and mice. Undisciplined pet owners who drop their cigarette butts on the ground, either in their own home or yard, or whilst out in public, run the risk of a dog or cat (or other animal) finding and eating the butt. These animals would then become poised by the tobacco contained in the cigarette butt.
If you or someone you know is a smoker but are not yet ready to quit, you can help your pet not becoming a smoker by remembering to smoke outside the house and regularly replace your air filters inside your house and car to help keep the air that your pet breathes free of tobacco smoke.
Also remember to take your pet for regular grooming and bathing sessions in order to remove any excess tobacco particles on their fur. Thoroughly wash and disinfect your pets bedding and clothes as well.
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Ice Age: Dodos
I love non sense animation, but Ice Age it's not on my list. It's non sense in a bad way, because a lot of things are very wrong on it: the animals that never lived together, the human with those animals, it's totally silly. The animation is pretty but the film… well, I didn't like it. The best part of the film, and that doesn't make any sense too, is the dodos episode, because dodos rock!
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Alex Josephson in conversation with Shawn Micallef > JUNE 23
Type Books is excited to announce the launch for architecture critic and historian Hans Ibelings and Alex Josephson of PARTISANS new book, Rise & Sprawl: The Condominiumization of Toronto. This title investigates the emergence of a new pressure-cooked architectural vernacular and posits alternative ways of tackling design and development processes to ensure better architectural outcomes.
To celebrate, we will be hosting a conversation between Alex Josephson and Shawn Micallef.
Alex Josephson cofounded PARTISANS in 2012 after studying architecture at the University of Waterloo, the University of Rome, and the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA). PARTISANS is comprised of architects, designers, thinkers, and cultural enthusiasts whose work across all scales is rooted in deliberate acts of craftsmanship and storytelling. The only Canadian to have ever received the New York Prize Fellowship at the Van Alen Institute, Alex was named 2016 Best Emerging Designer by Canada's Design Exchange. He currently lectures at the University of Toronto's Daniels Faculty of Architecture.
Hans Ibelings is a Dutch architectural historian based in Montreal. He is the editor and publisher ofThe Architecture Observer and teaches at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto. Before moving to Canada in 2012 he was the editor and publisher of A10 new European architecture, a magazine he cofounded in 2004 with graphic designer Arjan Groot. Ibelings is the author of several books, including Supermodernism: Architecture in the Age of Globalization and European Architecture Since 1890.
Shawn Micallef has created a career around thinking about cities and culture. He's an urban columnist at Canada's largest newspaper, The Toronto Star, and an editor and co-owner of Spacing—the independent, national, Jane Jacobs Prize-winning magazine dedicated to looking at what makes Canadian cities work. Micallef's books, Stroll—now in its fifth printing—and Full Frontal TO, look at the city from the inside out from an urban flâneur's perspective. His newest book, The Trouble with Brunch: Work, Class and the Pursuit of Leisure, is a provocative examination of social status, leisure, and work, and a profound call to reset our class consciousness.
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text: Hi, 1: i've heard from someone that fb can limit the amount of people that see your posts (as page admin). Is this true and Based on what do they limit this? Are there things to avoid when posting? 2: One of my apps is detected as 'spammy' : Warning level yellow: something your app is currently doing has been detected as spammy, which may reduce its distribution in news feed. Look at your Insights metrics to see what may be causing this. For example, a higher rate of stories marked as spam, users uninstalling or blocking your app, etc. What to do to prevent this? should i dilude this by letting only 1 out of 2 users post a wall message? Or will this not help ? What does this mean for my app, 'reduced' .. 80% of normal distribution? 20% 1 % ?


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I have a tentative training schedule mapped out. It doesn't look exactly like the suggestion on the Oxfam website – but I'm guessing an organic-food-co-op-organising homeschooling gardening crocheting mother of eight who is an avid reader and lifelong learner was not who they had in mind when they pulled together their plan. My adaptations to fit training alongside current responsibilities sees me getting out walking two evenings a week, then doing our usual Friday bush walk and a long one on Saturdays. Closer to the time there will be the odd Sunday hike as well and all the walks will lengthen as time progresses. Somewhere in the mix we need to walk together as a team too.
Last week's walks – other responsibilities took priority
12km on Friday
30km to Mount Eden return
Total: 42km, which might be a marathon but it ain't enough!


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When posters have a political or social leaning, I feel that the designer's passion shines through in unexpected ways. It might be a color choice, a bold image or just good old fashioned great design. And the posters in the Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age 2001–2012 exhibition at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery are no exception. All of the posters in this collection focus on political, social and environmental change, and each designer's enthusiasm for the issue at hand is clear.
The Pratt Manhattan Gallery explains the exhibit:
The exhibition … demonstrates the potency of the art form as a catalyst for social and political change using bold and subtle messaging and striking iconography. In addition to exploring sociopolitical poster design, Graphic Advocacy highlights the Internet's role in exponentially expanding the channels of communication beyond the printed page through electronic distribution.
This exhibit will run until August 28. But, you can join me in exploring the posters in the online gallery. With 122 contemporary works created by designers and artists from all over the world, you can get a taste of different styles and approaches to creating compelling imagery. And you can revel in the power of design to make change.
Show off your graphic advocacy, and enter your poster designs in the HOW Poster Design Awards today.


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Wednesday, 18 June 2014
Eight students on the Level 2 BTEC Diploma in Animal Care at Seevic College went to Silver Birch Centre in Kiln Road, Benfleet, to help out with some Pet Therapy for the Centre's clients.
The Animal Care students from Seevic College brought a number of animals to the Centre, including a snake, rabbit, skinny pig and hedgehog. Pet Therapy is proven to have a calming effect, providing sensory experiences that inspire feelings of comfort.
The event was organised by Lorna Bartlett, Animal Care and Management Tutor at Seevic College, on Thursday 12 June 2014. Lorna said: "Through experiences like this, our students are able to actually see the impact animals can have on people's lives and the enjoyment they bring."
The Silver Birch Centre offers specialist day care for people with dementia, currently providing respite care for three days a week. Clients get to participate in a range of beneficial and entertaining activities regularly, thanks to Carers' Choice – the charity Silver Birch is operated by.
Angela Allum, the Manager of the Centre and Fundraising Manager for Carers' Choice, said: "I was planning to organise a pet therapy session at the Centre, then I met Lorna and she offered to bring in the animals from Seevic College – it's been a great experience for our clients."
During the event students circulated around the room with their animals, allowing each of Silver Birch's guests to get to grips with all the different pets.
If you are interested in studying Animal Care then come to the College's next Open Evening, on Thursday 3 July (5.30pm to 8pm), to find out more about our great courses. You can also call 01268 756 111 for further information.
If you are interested in the care services provided at the Silver Birch Centre, you can call 01268 881 130 or visit www.carerschoices.org.
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Hames, Carolyn [faculty advisor, College of Nursing]
bereavement; volunteers; grief counseling
When I first visited FRIENDS Way (the only childhood bereavement center in Rhode Island) to fulfill a class requirement for Honors 119- Loss in the Lives of Children and Adolescents, I realized that I had come across an incredible group of individuals. The facilitators at the center were volunteers; people who gave their time and talent to help grieving children. Many of the children had lost a parent, sibling or grandparent and I thought about how important and special the work of the facilitators is. A number of questions ran through my mind: what makes people want to do this type of work? What do these volunteers have in common with each other? What rewards do they feel this work gives them? While meeting with Professor Carolyn Hames to discuss an honors project on bereavement, I casually mentioned interviewing facilitators. We discussed this idea and my senior honors project, "Recruitment and Retention of Childhood Bereavement Center Facilitators" was born. I developed a questionnaire with seven questions that asks about the participant's experience as a facilitator, the rewards their volunteer work provides, the qualities facilitators have in common and how a center can increase recruitment and retention. We have received answered questionnaires from facilitators in Australia, Canada, Washington, Texas, Florida, New York and Rhode Island. I first contacted center coordinators, and then sent questionnaires, a letter and informed consent paperwork to each facilitator. They returned the questionnaires and the signed informed consent in separate envelopes, which were separated for confidentiality purposes. I am analyzing the responses by grouping them and looking for similarities. For example, preliminary data suggests that the highest occurring answers for what qualities they felt they and other volunteer facilitators possess were 1) good listening skills, 2) compassion and 3) empathy. Many, but certainly not all of the volunteer facilitators, have chosen to work with children after they suffered a loss in their own lives. Preliminary data also indicates that the most frequently stated reward received for volunteering as a facilitator has been seeing children and their families enter the program "broken" and "feeling hopeless," and watching them transition to a point where they feel they can smile and laugh again and move on with their lives. I will be relaying the full results of the study to the participating childhood bereavement centers at the conclusion so that they may increase the recruitment and retention of caring volunteer facilitators. I will also be sharing the results to a national audience as the project has been accepted for presentation at the 11th Annual National Symposium for Children's Grief Support that will be held this June in Birmingham, Alabama.
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We had a lot of fun hanging out with family and getting to see my little cousin pregnant was definitely worth the drive to Alabama! It made me feel very old, but I guess the truth hurts sometimes! I remember when Tara was born so it's really wierd to see her having her own baby. But her and Jeremy are going to be awesome parents. Jeremy is always so good with Emily and he had a blast with Elaina!
Tara's friends really put together a cute baby shower for her and Jeremy. Although, you know you are in the South when this is the focus of your baby shower:
Tara and Jeremy have 2 little dauchsand dogs, and this cake fit her perfectly!
Okay, I just have to say if I had Photoshop, I would definitely crop out my double/triple chins, but alas I don't have it. From now on, I must start remembering to hold my chin up, so that doesn't happen again! This was Elaina's first time wearing a hair bow, well a hair flower. I can't believe she actually has enough hair! Barely has enough hair, but definitely has a little bit.
The proud momma and the proud grandma! (still so wierd to thank of either of them in that role!)
The next weekend we had Disciple Now at our church and we hosted 9-10 grade boys at our house. DNow is where the youth group goes into host homes and have bible studies and discusions to get closer to God. They have so much fun! There's rec time, worship time, and fun time. The boys were awesome! They were up until after 5 o'clock Sunday morning & were up at 7 o'clock to get ready for church. They learned so much! The "theme" of the weekend was passion and I will be blogging more in depth about it later.
Then this past weekend was our 5th wedding anniversary. We went to dinner at PF Chang's (which is kind of tradition for us) and stayed in Nashville for the night. It was so great to get away for a mini vacation. After dinner, we went back to the room and soaked in the quietness of the night. We didn't even turn the TV on....it was so incredible!
So now back to the grind and busyness of Thanksgiving and Christmas!