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A few months ago I made a couple posts about the basics of writing a book and ever since then I've been getting a whole lot of questions about exactly How to publish a book for free, people have been asking me for a step-by-step tutorial on exactly what you should do to get your own book published. so in today's post that's exactly what I'm gonna do we're gonna hop onto my computer and I'm going to show you on the different websites that I use to actually get book published and the best thing about this information that I'm sharing with you today, is that these days you can actually self publish your book completely for free, yeah that's right there are no upfront cost associated with publishing your own book.
personally I would recommend you hire a few people to help you, like someone to proofread and edit your book and maybe someone to design a great cover for your book those are optional expenses and you can either hire someone who is very affordable or you could pay a whole lot of money for that part of it, but the actual publishing is completely free so if you are writing your first book or you wrote it or you're just thinking about maybe becoming an author in the future? then keep on reading to find out how you can publish your own book for free!
Step 1. Write and Edit your book
Alright so the obvious first step on How to publish a book for free is that you need to write your book, now for this I like to use Google Drive and the reason that I like it is because not only is it free but it means that I can access the files anywhere I am and normally what I do when I'm writing a book is I just create a different file for each different chapter of the book. I do create also an actual structured chapter outline to keep me on track as I'm writing and if I add chapters in the middle then I put them into the outline and so each of these documents just looks like this it just has the chapter name up there and then I put all of the text into the document, and then after I have written the entire book that's when I normally start to do the editing.
Now for the editing I use a multi-step process the first step is I just used the little light spell check on google doc, just to catch any small errors because I find that when you are proof reading something and editing it, that the fewer errors there are when you start the more of the errors you'll be able to catch so that the better the final draft is if you started editing that was super messy and full of errors then it would be very hard to clean them all out so that's why I use this multi-step process. then I copy all of this control all control copy and I hop over to this website called grammarly which is also completely free almost everything in this post I'm going to show you is free so you just create a new document on grammarly and what grammarly is, it's basically like a heavy-duty spell checker or a free automatic editor so you just paste your text in there and then you have to wait a moment as it actually checks the document so it tells you about like the basic grammar out errors for free but you could upgrade to be told about the stylistic errors.
so obviously it just has the mistakes highlighted there (like on the image above) and you can click them and they will correct error on a click or sometimes I like to actually just like switch between this and the document and be correcting them on the actual document but you can do it either way and then after you've corrected all of these errors then you make sure that you actually have the corrected copy saved now after I do this step then that is when I do my first round of editing. so then I go back to the now corrected document and I read through all the words and obviously have to be careful to read carefully and not just like skim over it, most people like to read through their piece multiple times maybe the first time looking for more stylistic things of course you still catch any punctuation errors as you see them but then the second time looking very carefully for the punctuation and other grammar things like that.
Award winning Author Raymond Shinault Jr his experience on book publishing
so that point your draft is probably mostly clean but it really helps to have a second set of eyes on it, because you just become so intimate and familiar with your writing that it can be really difficult to see errors and it starts to get really boring to read your own writing over and over again, even if you're trying to keep yourself interested and engaged the more bored your mind gets the worse it is at paying attention to details so to bring in a second set of eyes I like to hire someone on Fiverr. Fiverr is a free website for hiring freelancers to do work for you online. so you can post a new job there and say that you are looking for an editor for your book and then you can also go in and look at the lists of gigs and freelancers and so here's how you create the listing for your job and it's quite straightforward and if you're not sure how much to pay the person? Then that's okay you can just say that you're not sure or you can give a big range or you can just say like whether you want to pay someone a minimum amount or you want to pay someone who's more skilled and more experienced.
And then people are going to bid on your job and tell you how much they will do it for, so it's okay if you don't know the exact right price. you can also go in and look at the lists of gigs and normally when you post a job it's a good idea to go find some people who seem like a good match to you and then invite them a to bid on your job because otherwise you might not have any good offers on your job for people who seem like they're really qualified and like they can really help you so you can click on any of these people. the price range for hiring these people varies greatly anywhere from about $5 per gig all the way up to a couple hundred dollars per gig probably but most of the time it's between about 10 and 30 or 40 dollars an gig. but just remember that it's not all about finding someone who is cheap what is much more important is finding someone who can work fast and well, because it would be way better to hire someone for $250 for a gig who can completely edit your whole book then to hire someone who only charges $10 per gig but it will take more for word count and the end result won't be very good. When I published for my first client, I actually hired two different people to edit it on top of all the editing I was doing because each of them did an okay job but I was still finding mistakes.
so I wanted to run it through to people and to be honest even after I added it and two other people edit it there are still a couple typos so just be aware of that, that you do have to find someone who is very careful and precise and you need to check their work it's often a good idea to hire them in phases so you say that you'll pay them certain amount to edit the first couple chapters of your book and then you check their work and you see how it's going and then you can decide whether or not you want them to be editing the rest of your book and whether you want to pay for that or not so just know that you don't need to just hand someone your entire book pay them hundreds of dollars and then be like oh wait actually you did a terrible job.
Step 2. Format your book
Okay so the next phase after you write and edit your book is that your book needs to be formatted, so even if all the words are the right words and there's no typos it still has to be on the page in a particular way to show up right in the book, because you don't want the lines to be weird or it to be in the wrong part of the page so honestly I would really recommend that you hire someone to do this for you, because otherwise it's just going to be a skill that you have to learn and you won't be certain if you're doing it right, now that it's super complicated it's just a very particular sort of thing but if you want to do it yourself you can download this free software called Scribus and it is very similar to Adobe InDesign it allows you to format text on a page to look attractive. Like I said it's completely free and you can use that or if you have Adobe InDesign or Microsoft Publisher you could use either of those tools also.
the alternative obviously is to hire someone on Fiverr to actually format your book you want to make sure that you are hiring someone who says that they can format an e-book and a paperback book or else you'll have to hire two people obviously which isn't the biggest problem but just know that the formatting for each of those formats is different so you do need two different book files.
Step 3. Get a cover designer
the next step is to get a cover design, now there's a few different ways that you can do this but know that the cover design is so important honestly you know it's important for your book to be edited very well but what's even more important than that as far as book sales are concerned is your cover design, because you need a cover design that really pops but also looks attractive and not tacky and because you want your book to look like it's worth the money. so there's a couple different options, one is you could hire someone on up work or on Fiverr or something like that.
I don't like that option so much unless you know exactly what you want your book cover to look like already and you have a really good idea, just because if you go one of those routes you will get one design and it's from someone who doesn't have the same vision for your book as you do, you don't even necessarily know how skilled they're so what I would recommend instead is to use the service called 99designs now this is not free, so I'll get into that in a minute but basically 99designs is a place where you can put a kind of an offer or you put a posting up that says what you want your design for, you say that you want it for a book and what your book is about and then you say any specifications that you do want for your book design and then you have a lot of different graphic designers who bid on your job that you put up and how they bid on it is they actually make book covers for you and they make like draft of book covers and you can look at all of the different book covers and then you could choose the one you want and you only pay if you find one that you really like.
now if you do decide to pay then you pay $300 or more depending on how many designers you asked to bid on your job, normally for like the 300dollar fee you get somewhere between like 30 and 70 different designs and if you didn't give a lot of specifications they'll all be really different now that's great because if you don't know what you wants your design to look like this can be an amazing way to actually get different design ideas so that if you see one design that you like pretty well but you want some changes you can pay the fee and then you can start working with the designer and they'll normally give you a couple additional like changes to the cover, so that you can get exactly how you want. so a moderately expensive route but you end up with a really good result the alternative which is about the same price is to hire a graphic designer and I would recommend this GRAPHIC DESIGNER he works with a lot of different self-publishing authors.
HERE is a GALLERY list of all of the book cover he's designed and you can see beautiful book cover for many book, but obviously he's designed a whole lot of book covers because he works with a few different people in the self-publishing industry and he charges a similar rate is a little bit less expensive, I don't know what it is off the top of my head it might be a bit over a hundred and ten dollars, I think that's how much, and you only pay if you like your book cover. I would highly recommend his services he does an amazing job, I think he designs are probably higher quality than most of the designs that you will see on 99designs, so if you can give him a little bit more direction then this could be the best route.
if you really have no idea what you want then you might start here just to get ideas and if you want the cheapest route then I would definitely say you know look around get different ideas look at lots of different book covers find something that you think are attractive and that you think would fit well with your book and then give them to an fiverr designer. add inspiration and tell them you know what you want different in your book obviously do not copy but you can always use other people's cover as inspiration and to help to communicate your ideas to one of these designers you can say like I like how this cover looks you know like I like how the font on this cover looks or like the color on this cover, instead of just trying to be like I want it to be a Bluegreen color that way you just have like a frame of reference basically. so once you have your book cover designed and do make sure that you get a front and a back and a spine obviously.
Step 4. Publish the book
Books don't just have a friend they have to go all the way around, then it's time to actually move on to the publishing, How to publish a book for free ? so when you are self-publishing your own books you can just publish an e-book but I would highly recommend that you actually publish your book as a paperback, and the reason for this is because (a) you make more money, (B) it makes you look a lot more legitimate as an author and (C) it doesn't cost anything more! so why not think that you end up selling a lot more books both paperback and ebooks when you publish as a paperback also because when there's a paperback copy of your book it looks so much more legitimate that people are a lot more likely to buy the e-book and you can use the paperback for book promotion which I will talk about later on this post.
so for publishing the paperback I would recommend CreateSpace which is a company that is very closely related to Amazon there you can see it says an amazon company, originally it was not an Amazon company but Amazon like teamed up with them and now it has actually become an Amazon company. so this is very simple once you have your different files ready and your book is formatted properly and your cover design is formatted properly then self-publishing is a piece of cake'
so all you have to do when you get to createspace website, is click start title for free and then you login and then once you log in you tell them a name for the project and you tell them whether it's a paperback or not, CD or dvd obviously we're doing a paperback, now it says you can do a guided or an expert.
Now I would recommend that you probably do the guided because you really have all the same features that you normally would, but it just they just help you out a little bit more in the process. so then you just click "get started" and then you type in the title for the book the subtitle and all of these things are very important so make sure that you fill them out very accurately, this is all pretty straightforward so I'm not going to go through all of this it walks you right through the process. a great resource on this website for figuring some different things out is if you go up on the menu to "books" and then you click on "publish a trade paperback"
Then it takes you to this below page right here and on this page you can find out a lot of different information about how the cover should be formatted and how the interior should be formatted they also have a lot of opportunities here to hire people to do this work for you.
I probably won't hire someone to do like art here for the cover but I might hire someone If I haven't done this myself but to do the book formatting because I think that the people who would be working with them would be very familiar with this and that is the key to hiring someone to format your book properly it's someone who has a lot of experience because it's not necessarily very technical but I actually had some people mess up on mine and I had to have it redone because they just were not fully aware of all of these specifications. now if you're wondering how much you get paid it's a very valid question they have this cool tool in there where you can figure out how much you will get paid. you have to tell them about your book, so like black and white and then how big it is let's say it's six by nine and let's say your book is 250 pages.
So let's say that we're selling this book for $14.99 and then you push calculate down the page, okay so if it's sold on Amazon then you get paid five dollars if it's sold on their eStore which you don't make nearly as many sales there but then you get paid eight dollars, if it gets sold in a bookstore then you'd get paid two dollars and if it got sold on Amazon Europe then you would get paid three dollars or if it was printed in continental Europe then it would be four, well not dollars obviously pounds and this is euros I believe this also shows the price that it would be being sold for over in Europe so that can give you a really good idea.
you can play with these numbers you can see like what if my book was longer then how much would I get paid and the answer is you'd get paid less because their printing costs are a little bit higher, if your book is shorter then you'll get paid a little bit more, know one thing that's cool about this? is that this is how much you get paid regardless of how much Amazon actually sells the book for, so if you list it for $14.99 sometimes Amazon will put your book on for sale for $12.99 or $10.99 but you will still get the same royalty which is just a really cool opportunity. for my own book I do make right around five or six dollars very similar to this that's about the specifications of my own book for every book that is sold and that is actually much more than most people make with traditional book deals. this number right here for being sold in a bookstore is a much closer number to the number that authors make with traditional publishing.
and so you'd make the same amount if your book got sold in a bookstore but because you're working more directly with Amazon you're able to get a much higher rate for sales on Amazon and I know I said that this was free but if you were wondering like how that works exactly basically whenever someone buys a copy of your book they actually print a copy of it right then and they a mail it to them the customer pays this much and you get paid this much they pay for the printing cost and they take a cut of the profit. if you want to buy copies of it yourself it works very similarly but you get to buy them for a lot cheaper because you're not paying your part of the profit obviously so you can type in the same things down there to find out how much your book will actually cost for you to buy copies of it let's say you want to buy 10 copies of it then you would pay 325 each that's pretty common for these books which means you know that's a low enough cost that you can actually self publish them buy them this way for 325 each and then be able to sell them locally if you want to.
Now the final step in the publishing process is to publish it on Kindle now there is a way to publish an e-book through CreateSpace you can like check a box somewhere in the publishing process and say yes I want it to be an e-book too but it doesn't end up getting listed in quite the same way and it's a little bit harder for people to find and for you to edit so I wouldn't recommend doing that, I'd recommend eBook publishing directly with Kindle direct publishing, this is also a really simple process now what you will see when you got there though is that you can do a Kindle eBook or you can do a paperback so you can't actually do the same thing that you do with create space via Kindle now, right now I would not recommend that because they're paperback printing still is in beta and not only is it not completely streamlined but also the rates that they pay are not quite as good as the create space rates right now and CreateSpace just work so well that i would go that route I think that eventually they're probably going to phase out create space I don't know for sure but it seems like since they've brought paper back into Kindle Direct that that's probably the route that they are going but for now create space works really well and this is not as tested.
so I will use this just for publisher ebook so you can see on the image above some book and you can see that it's selling for $6.99 on Amazon and for every $6.99 transaction that Is sold on Amazon the author make about four dollars, four to five dollars so it's a little bit less than it is for the paperback but it is a greater percentage because there isn't the printing costs I think that Amazon takes about the same cut but there's no printing cost involved, so you get to keep all of the rest of it so when you want to start your own ebook then you just click add a Kindle eBook and then you'll basically go through the exact same process you'll just be uploading the actual files for your book and the cover files it's very similar here you just type in your book title and subtitle make sure that you do enter good keywords that will help people to find your book
so that's kind of your search engine optimization here but know that you can get really fancy with the description you can actually put some HTML into there and make your description, be a lot more dynamic with like bold text or big text and different things like that. but also you can put keywords in here
to help people find your book on Amazon better Amazon lets you select two different categories to list your book in and this affects how your book does a lot because these categories are very specific it's not just like fiction or nonfiction inside of nonfiction, you can find a whole lot of subcategories like architecture, but then inside of architecture adaptive reuse and renovation or codes standards criticism. so it gives it very detailed and you get to choose two different of these categories but the reason that it matters so much is because different categories are competitive differently, so one of them might be extremely competitive there might be a million books in a category and another category it might be very not competitive now here's why this matters because when your book comes out and a certain number of people buy it especially when they buy it right away if you are in a very competitive category then even if you sell 100 copies of your book that's nothing and you're not any or near the most popular book in that category.
so you don't get any boost from this but if you choose a very unpopular category with not very many books in it, then you sell 100 copies of your book that might put you into a bestselling status for that specific category. now why that matters is because once you get into that best-selling status you then get featured on the front page of different parts of Amazon so in a person goes and clicks on that category they will see you up in the number-one spot right away and it also can mean that you get featured in the like 100 most popular books for that day this can give your book a huge boost and it's a strategy that I highly recommend. so once you fill out all these things then you just click Save and continue;
and then here you can see the next step content you'll just actually upload the book and then you will decide on the actual pricing and they do help you out with that they give you some recommendations and then you can actually decide when you want it to be published you can give them a specific date you want it to come out even if you do everything right.
Step 5. Promote and Market your book
When you self-publish your book that is no guarantee that it will be successful just sticking it up on Amazon and then you know you post about it on Facebook and you tell your mom about it and your best friend and you know you'll get maybe a handful of sales, your closest family and friends will buy it but beyond that there is so many books on Amazon that your book will just get lost in that abyss of all those books and no one will ever find it even if it's an amazing book and even if you publish it properly. so in order to take care of that there are a few more steps that you need to take and these things don't have to be super extensive fancy marketing tactics or anything like that, but there are just some basic little tweaks that you can make when you're going through the publishing process things like what day you scheduled your book to be released on how you announce it where you announce it picking the right category to actually publish your book and where that's not that competitive and some different things that you can do with offering your book for free for a limited period of time to give it a big boost in the rankings.
Different more things to do before your book release date ( How to publish a book for free )
Lunch a website
One way you can proliferate your book more is to host a website for your upcoming book release, this can increase your sales and also improve the image of you book and also you as an author, because this where google s going to send people when a topic related to your book is entered in it's search engine, I mentioned give away your book for free earlier above, this is the best platform to do that and you can start to build a larger audience by collecting their emails before sending them a free copy and you can send them a reminder about a date for a new book or other event you may be having like book signings.
Having a website created for your book allows you to either link back to your amazon page or simply sell your book from your website right there, and on same website you can be blogging about your book and what to expect and why anyone will need it to improve something in their lives and can increase your relationship with your readers. Setting up a website is very easy and it come to just spending less than $4 a per month on BLUEHOST, this is the Hosting service I USED FOR ALL MY CLIENTS and this website also is running on their server, consider checking them out here
Then you install a WordPress on the host, bluehost customer service will also guide and help you with this. In the nearest future I will be making a post on how to go about this.
Create a Pinterest account
One of the largest social media that converts very well is pinterest, it's a big serch engine available on the net, this process if free and the growth rate is very fast, on top of that it's a completely free tool, when you create account, create boards where you can pin images and leave a link on it back to your website. For the beginning it will seams very slow but when you start following like minds they will start following you back and you will gradually build that influence you need to dramatically increase your book sales.
When you start, create minimum of four boards and pin other books to them like ten each for each board because it will not look like you are throwing your book to people face and also Pinterest search engine will start suggesting your pins to viewers only if you have some good number of pins on each board, so start pining other authors pin before you gradually pin yours and within a month of consistent pins you will definitely succeed, a bit of hack for Pinterest, when starting do not follow more than 30 people a day if not the system may consider you to some kind of robots and then restrict you.
Do book signing events
Another thing that can impact on your book publicity and sales is when you organize some book signing events in libraries, bookshops and some related places, in this post " How to publish a book for free" on the 4th step where I recommended publishing a paperback? yes this is where that also become useful, your own book will be sold to you at a very discounted rate by createspace and you can use that to do your book signings, sell them and make profit while adding more exposure to your book.
My talk with an award winning Raymond Shinault Jr on how he promote his books.
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New research from a lab at Florida State University reveals that self-control takes fuel -- literally. When we exercise it, resisting temptations to misbehave, our fuel tank is depleted, making subsequent efforts at self-control more difficult.
Florida State psychologist Roy F. Baumeister and his colleagues Kathleen D. Vohs, University of Minnesota, and Dianne M. Tice, Florida State, showed this with an experiment using the Stroop task, a famous way of testing strength of self-control. Participants in this task are shown color words that are printed in different-colored ink (like the word red printed in blue font), and are told to name the color of the ink, not the word. Baumeister found that when participants perform multiple self-control tasks like the Stroop test in a row, they do worse over time. Thus, the ability to control ourselves wanes as it is exercised.
Moreover, Baumeister and colleagues found that the fuel that powers this ability turns out to be one of the same things that fuels our muscles: sugar, in the form of glucose.
The researchers measured the blood glucose levels of participants before either engaging in another self-control task or a task that did not involve self-control. They found that the group performing the self-control task suffered depletion in glucose afterward. Furthermore, in another experiment, two groups performed the Stroop task two times each, drinking one of two sweetened beverages in between. The control group drank lemonade with Splenda, a sugar-free sweetener; the test group got lemonade sweetened with real sugar. The sugar group performed better than the Splenda group on their second Stroop test, presumably because their blood sugar had been replenished.
The results as reported in the December issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggest the possibility of psychological interventions for helping people achieve greater self-control. For one thing, like muscles, self-control may be able to be strengthened through exercise. Results so far are inconsistent, Baumeister says, and some regimens work better than others, but he envisions that greater understanding of the biological and psychological underpinnings of our ability to control ourselves will have important real-world application for people in the self-control business, such as coaches, therapists, teachers, and parents.
Author Contact: Roy Baumeister email@example.com
Current Directions in Psychological Science publishes concise reviews on the latest advances in theory and research spanning all of scientific psychology and its applications. For a copy of the article "The Strength Model of Self-Control" and access to other Current Directions in Psychological Science research findings, please contact Catherine West at (202) 783-2077 or email@example.com.


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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Here is a list of events happening Monday, February 11 through Sunday, February 17, 2008 on the Purdue West Lafayette campus.
All week
— Purdue University Galleries. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, plus Thursday until 8 p.m.; 1-5 p.m. Sunday. 49-67899 or email@example.com or www.purdue.edu/galleries. Two exhibitions through Feb. 17. "Insights into Suburbia." Juried exhibition of 55 works in various media by 27 contemporary women artists. National Association of Women Artists and the Opalka Gallery of the Sage Colleges, Albany/Troy, N.Y. Robert L. Ringel Gallery, PMU. "60 Square Inches: 16th Biennial North American Small Print Competition." Purdue Galleries, competition host. Stewart Center Gallery.
— Rueff Galleries, Pao Hall. Patti and Rusty Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts; Purdue University Galleries. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 49-62958. Two exhibitions through Feb. 15: "2nd Inklandia Print Exhibition." Fine art prints by contemporary American artists, including original prints from the permanent collection of Purdue University Galleries. "Social Issues and Poster Design." Works by students at School of Art, South Central University, China, and at Purdue. — Reception: Friday, Feb. 15, 4-6 p.m.
— Libraries — Archives and Special Collections. "Snowflakes and Icicles: Winter Scenes of Campus." Photographs. 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Room 279, STEW. Through Feb. 27. www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol/snowflakes/.
— John Purdue Room Lunch Special. This week: Broccoli Cheddar & Penna alla Vodka. To access the menu: www.cfs.purdue.edu/htm/about/restaurants.shtml.
Monday, Feb. 11
— Women as leaders in business lecture. Rebecca Shambaugh, alumna, author, consultant. Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence, Discovery Learning Center. 3:30 p.m. Room 121, Burton Morgan Center.
— Coach Matt Painter Radio Show. 6 p.m. Harrison Grille, Harrison Hall.
— Peace Corps information session. Volunteering is open to all U.S. citizens. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Room 2280, Beering Hall.
Tuesday, Feb. 12
— College Teaching Workshop Series 1: Basics of Teaching. "Using Feedback and Assessment to Improve Your Teaching." For faculty, staff and grad students. Center for Instructional Excellence. Workshop 5 of 10 through April 1 except March 4 and 11. 9:30-11 a.m. Registration required: www.cie.purdue.edu.
— Women's tennis vs. Western Michigan. 1 p.m. Schwartz Tennis Center.
— Dow Graduate Seminar. School of Chemical Engineering. Speaker: Dr. Leonard Uitenham, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University. Topic: Biodegradable Polymer Nano-composites. 3:30-4:30 p.m. G140, Forney Hall.
— La Polilla Cafe. Book discussion of "Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey" by Ariel Dorfman. 6-7 p.m. Latino Cultural Center.
— Coach Sharon Versyp Radio Show. 7 p.m. Harrison Grille, Harrison Hall.
— Men's basketball vs. Michigan State. 7 p.m. Mackey Arena. Tickets: $22.
Thursday, Feb. 14
— President's Cider Social for faculty and staff. 3:30-4:30 p.m. North and South Ballrooms, PMU. All staff may attend the social in pay status with the approval of their supervisor. RSVP by Feb. 7 was requested.
— Physics Department General Colloquium. David Koltick, physics. "The Search for Special Nuclear Material Using Particle Physics Techniques." 3:30 p.m. refreshments; 4 p.m. talk. Room 223, Physics Building.
— Books and Coffee. Bich Nguyen, assistant professor of English, on Michael Chabon's "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay." Chabon will be the speaker at 2008 Literary Awards on April 15; Nguyen is awards chair. Department of English and Purdue Student Union Board. 4-4:30 p.m.: Coffee, tea, cocoa, baked goodies. 4:30-5 p.m.: Talk. Rooms 302-206, STEW. Series weekly Feb. 7-28. Podcast to be available after event.
— Women's basketball vs. Iowa. 7 p.m. Tickets: public, $10; student, $5.
— The John Jorgenson Quintet. Convocations, Frets on Fire. 7:30 p.m. Loeb. $25-$16.
Feb. 14-16
— Mystery Dinner Theatre. "Boardwalk Melody Hour Murders." Purdue Student Union Board. 6:30-8:30 p.m. East and West Faculty Lounges, PMU. Tickets: public, $35; Purdue students, $25. 49-48976 or www.union.purdue.edu/psub.
Feb. 14-24
— Purdue Theatre. "The Underpants" by Carl Sternheim, adapted by Steve Martin. Marquee Series. 7:30 p.m. Feb. 14-17, 21-23; 3 p.m. Feb. 17, 23-24. Nancy T. Hansen Theatre, Pao Hall. Tickets: public, $17; 62+ seniors, $13; students, $10.
Friday, Feb. 15
— Wrestling vs. Northwestern. 7 p.m. Tickets: public, $5; students, $2.
— Evening of Romance. Big band jazz, dancing and desserts with Purdue Jazz Band. 8 p.m. University Inn Ballroom, WL. Tickets: $19.50 per person; call 49-43933. Information: 49-66785 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Saturday, Feb. 16
— Outreach event will showcase the benefits of working at Purdue and to provide information on applying for a position. The session will feature a brief overview of Purdue and the employment process.; current staff members' experiences at the University; resume critiques; and mock interviews with Human Resource Services representatives. 9-11 a.m. Family Services, Howarth Center, 615 N. 18th St., Lafayette. For more information, visit the Diversity Task Force Web site at www.purdue.edu/treasurer/diversity/events.shtml or contact Human Resource Services at 496-1828.
— Men's tennis vs. Maryland. 1 p.m. Schwartz Tennis Center.
Sunday, Feb. 17
— Men's tennis vs. Toledo. 1 p.m. Schwartz Tennis Center.
— Chinese music and dance. Featuring Butterfly Performing Troupe of Traditional Chinese Arts from Zhejiang province. Purdue Confucius Institute and others. 2-3:30 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, STEW.


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China's TV manufacturer TCL announced recently that it has reached agreement on buying the bankrupt German TV maker Schneider Electronics AG for about 8.2 million euros.
According to the agreement, TCL's subsidiary Schneider Electronics GmbH, purchased the production line, inventory and trademarks of the renowned Schneider and Dual of Schneider Electronics AG, a company with more than 100 years of operation, which declared bankruptcy earlier this year.
TCL will also rent a 24,000 square-meter production facility in Tuerkheim, Germany, to serve as its European manufacturing base. The plant is scheduled to begin operations at the start of 2003.
Li Dongsheng, chairman of the board of TCL International, said the purchase will help TCL to expand its business in Europe, and the Schneider brand will provide TCL with access to its worldwide distribution network.
(Xinhua News Agency October 8, 2002)


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Abstract—'Memoirs of a geisha' is an astonishing novel by Arthur Golden. The story revolves around a geisha, named Nitta Sayuri or formerly known as Sakamoto Chiyo. This English written novel unlocks the hidden world of Japanese's complex rituals and the text is translated into 32 languages. This article opts to analyses the translation of Japanese's cultural words, e.g. ecology, metaphor, taboo word, etc. into Malay language. Newmark (1998)'s definition and categories of culture are used throughout this article to analyse the novel. Findings indicate that changes do occur due to cultural differences between the two languages. And the cultural translation procedures can be classified into three categories; (i) borrowing or transference procedure, (ii) adaptation between two cultural word, and (iii) description of the cultural word.
Index Terms—Culture, cultural word, translation procedure
The authors are with the Malay Language Department, University of Malaya, Malaysia (e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com,email@example.com)
Cite: Puteri Roslina Abdul Wahid and Anis Shahirah Abdul Sukur, "Translation of 'Memoirs of a Geisha': Analysis and Insights on Cultural Perspective," International Journal of Social Science and Humanity vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 583-587, 2012.


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Monday, November 19, 2012
Bahrain Cracks Down on Freedom
http://www.globalresearch.ca The ruling Al Khalifa monarchy is one of the world's most brutal dictatorships. It's also a valued US ally. Bahrain is home to America's Fifth Fleet. Imperial priorities matter most. Washington backs Bahraini harshness. State terror is policy. Murder, torture, lawless imprisonments, and daily atrocities get tacit support. Bahrain ruthlessly wages war on freedom. Fundamental human and civil rights are spurned. Activists, protesters, medical professionals treating them when injured, independent journalists, and others supporting right over might are brutalized and imprisoned. Nabeel Rajab is one of Bahrain's best. He's a prominent human rights leader. Activism got him targeted. His resume includes many impressive credentials. In 1999, he and others co-founded the Bahrain Human Rights Society. In 2002, he, Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, and others co-founded the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR). Authorities terrorized its members for years. Nonetheless, it remains viable. It promotes civil, political, and economic freedom, ending racial discrimination, and universal human and civil rights. Bahraini despots equate these principles with terrorism. Last August, Bahrain's Lower Criminal Court sentenced Nabeel to three years in prison. Supporting right over wrong in the emirate is dangerous. Expressing democratic views is criminalized. So is championing social justice publicly. King Hamad calls peaceful protests "foreign plots." Nabeel and others like him put their lives on the line for years. Bahraini activists face arrests, harsh interrogations, torture, and imprisonment. The mainstream media largely ignores it. Nabeel's been in prison since July. He's charged under Article 178 of Bahrain's penal code. It prohibits unauthorized gatherings of five or more people for the "purpose of committing crimes (or) undermining public security, even if intended to achieve a legitimate purpose." His lawyers appealed. A Bahraini court delayed proceedings. Its ruling won't be known until around mid-December. Peaceful protests are criminalized. State courts tolerate no challengers. They give kangaroos a bad name. Bahrain banned protests earlier. On July 20, 2006, King Hamad ratified Code 32 on "Public Gatherings, Processions and Assembly." Doing so amended the 1973 Decree No. 18. Human rights groups condemned the action. It lawlessly targeted free expression and peaceful gatherings. Unauthorized public meetings and seminars were prohibited. So was anything thought potentially threatening monarchal rule. Activists were targeted. Arrests and prosecutions followed. Bahraini repression is brutal and longstanding. On October 30, public gatherings were again prohibited. Interior Minister Shaikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa said "rallies and gatherings will be considered illegal, and legal action will be taken against anyone calling for or taking part in them." That's how police states work. Fundamental rights are criminalized. Daily nonviolent protests continue nonetheless. Participants face tear gas, rubber bullets, beatings, arrests, and at times death. Anyone challenging regime harshness faces arrest and brutal imprisonment. Even The New York Times noticed. On October 30, it headlined "Citing Violence, Bahrain Bans All Protests in New Crackdown." Protesters refrain from violence. Security forces commit it against them. Banning public gatherings "drew swift condemnation from human rights groups and opposition activists who said it was intended solely to stifle criticism of the ruling monarch in the tiny Persian Gulf nation." Activists accused the monarchy of "methodically blocking all avenues for dissent." "In recent weeks, activists have been prosecuted for postings on social media, and doctors, charged with illegal gathering and other crimes after treating protesters, have been sent to jail." It's gone on repeatedly since early last year. The Times and other Western media gave it scant coverage. They still do. Reports exclude important information readers most need to know. Dozens of deaths, hundreds imprisoned, torture, and kangaroo court justice go largely unnoticed. On November 10, a Washington Post editorial headlined "Bahrain's broken promise," saying: Last November, King Hamad promised 26 reforms. "That promise has gone unfulfilled." At best, only three were partly implemented. "The most important ones – on the release of political prisoners and relaxation of controls on free expression – have been ignored." The Post exhibited a rare moment of candor. It should have done more much sooner. Nonetheless, it said "convictions of leading regime opponents (were) reconfirmed." It mentioned Nabeel's imprisonment. It excluded his activist history and harsh treatment. It said public protests were banned. Without explanation, it said "five bombs exploded around the capital of Manama on Monday, killing two people." Protesters spurn violence. Despite brutal security force crackdowns, they remain peaceful. Bahraini authorities called Monday's explosions "terrorism." They were state-sponsored false flags. Expect more of the same ahead. Four suspects were arrested. They won't be treated kindly or fairly. Bahrain's head of public security blamed Hezbollah elements. No evidence whatever suggests it. Minister Samira Ibrahim bin Rajab said opposition groups use Iranian tactics. He blamed pro-Iran television stations for supporting Bahraini protests. Press TV reports them accurately. So do Russia Today and independent journalists. The Post downplayed what's happening. "Bahrain is no Syria," it said dismissively. Editorial policy belligerently attacks Assad for doing his job. Bahraini state terror over the same time frame got scant coverage. The Post said the emirate is home to America's Fifth Fleet. Implied is its presence legitimizes harsh security. The editorial admitted that Washington supported a Bahraini nominee for "an advisory position at the UN Human Rights Council." Congress approved military sales and aid. "Such action(s) damage US credibility across the Middle East." On the one hand, Washington lawlessly challenges Assad's independence. On the other, it supports Al Khalifa despotism. It not only largely ignores its worst repression, it condones and encourages it. The Post editorial went so far but no further. What readers most need to know was omitted. What's going on in Bahrain, why, and who benefits wasn't explained. Readers know little more now than earlier. A Bahrain Center for Human Rights report headlined "The BCHR Holds the King Responsible for the Spread of the Culture of Impunity which Has Claimed the Lives of Tens of Victims." Facts don't lie. Disturbing truths were revealed. BCHR compiled compelling evidence. Ruling Al Khalifa despots remain unaccountable. Security forces commit daily "gross violations of human rights." Bahraini and international laws are violated. Extrajudicial killings, arbitrary execution, torture, mock trials, and excessive force are commonplace. "(I)mpunity is still entrenched in the doctrine of the Authority and its security institutions as a basic prevalent culture. It operates as an instrument of state terror. Authorities get away with murder, torture and other atrocities. Ordinary Bahrainis wanting equal rights face brutalizing repression. BCHR expressed special concern about a "systematic policy of impunity and of providing immunity to criminals and enabling them to continue with their duties and their security positions without accountability." Innocent people are shot and killed. Some are executed in cold blood. Others are beaten, arrested, and imprisoned. Justice is a four-letter word. Principles relating to Effective Prevention and Investigation call for careful examination of extrajudicial killings, arbitrary executions, and other security force violence. Authorities whitewash state-sponsored crimes instead of prosecuting offenders. King Hamad bears full responsibility. Bahraini law is what he says it is. Equity, justice and freedom don't have a chance. Activists challenging state repression may end up dead by gun shots, lethal gas or slit throats. Obama wholeheartedly endorses what legitimate leaders condemn. Fundamental human and civil rights don't have a chance. A Final Comment On November 7, Bahrain revoked the citizenship of 31 activists. An interior ministry statement announced it. Doing so coincided with more state-sponsored violence and arrests. Prominent opposition figures affected include: (1) Saaed Shehabi, a London-based Bahraini political activist and Bahrain Freedom Movement member. (2) Former MP Jalal Fairooz. (3) Hasan Mushaima, Haq Movement head. It's a high-profile Bahraini opposition group. Revocations were ordered for violating Article 10 Bahrain's Citizenship Act. It permits targeting individuals accused of threatening state security. Justice in Bahrain is none at all. Activists wanting to live free may end up dying for it. That's how police states operate. Bahrain is one of the worst.
Why are 6000 Shia children killed in Pakistan less worthy than a few dozen Palestinians?
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Abdul NishapuriWhy are 6000 Shia children killed in Pakistan by Saudi-sponsored Takfiri Deobandis (Taliban, Sipah-e-Sahaba) less important than a few dozen Palestinians killed by Israel? We condemn all those thugs who express sympathy for rocket-firing Hamas militants but remain silent on Shia genocide in Pakistan. If you see a Salafist-Deobandi circulate pictures from Palestine or Burma, throw the present post on his/her face. Since mid-1980s, more than 20,000 Shia Muslims, thousands of Sunni Sufi (Barelvi) Muslims, hundreds of Ahmadis, Christians and Hindus have been killed in Pakistan by Takfiri Deobandi terrorists sponsored by Jihadist-minded generals of Pakistan Army. A detailed database of Shia genocide can be accessed here: http://criticalppp.com/archives/132675 According to an estimate, at least 30 per cent of the 20,000 Shias killed are children or minors (age 18 or below). This makes their number at least 6,000. On mainstream media and social media, one frequently sees pictures of Palestinian children killed or injured during Israel's attacks on Hamas (Saudi-sponsored Salafist militants) hideouts in densely populated civilian areas in Gaza. However, there is completely no mention of the 6,000 Shia children killed by Saudi-funded Takfiri Deobandis (Taliban, Sipah-e-Sahaba) who are not only killing Shias but also Sunni Sufi (Barelvis), Ahmadis and Christians. The attitude of the Arab League, OIC, United Nations and human rights groups is equally hypocritical and disturbing. While they shed crocodile tears on the loss of innocent life in Palestine (and Israel), hardly any mention is made of the thousands of Shia, Sunni Sufi Muslims and other non-Salafist, non-Deobandis killed in Pakistan (and other countries, e.g., Afghanistan, Bahrain, Syria, Saudi Arabia) by the Saudi- and Qatar-sponsored terrorists. In the present post, we are providing a collection of only a few of thousands of Shia children killed by Takfiri Deobandis in the last few years in Pakistan. Things to note: Many Pakistani and international groups remain silent on Shia genocide in Pakistan. In fact while the same groups clearly mention the identity of the killed and the killer in Palestine, they make every possible effort to hide or obfuscate the identity of the killed (Shia Muslims, Sunni Sufis) and the killers (Takfiri Deobandis and their Saudi masters) in Pakistan. Supporters and enablers of Takfiri Deobandis dishonestly misrepresent Shia genocide and murder of Sufi Sunnis in Pakistan as Sunni-Shia sectarian violence in order to justify and hide the violence. While Iran and Iran-funded Shia Mullahs keep supporting Hamas and other militant groups, Hamas remains extremely hostile to Sunni Sufi Muslims and Shia Muslims. In fact, in 2011, Hamas forcibly stopped Shia Muslims of Palestine from celebrating the Ashura of Muharram and physically attacked and injured many Shias. It may be noted that majority of the Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza are militants or activists of Hamas. In contrast, almost all Shias killed in Pakistan by Takfiri Deobanids are ordinary citizens with no link with any political or militant group. Shias face Gaza in Pakistan every day. But no Shia are firing rockets at ordinary Sunni Muslims or calling for Sunni destruction. Pakistan's and the entire world's Shia and Sunni Muslims should realize that Saudi-sponsored Takfiri Deobandis and Takfiri Salafist are bigger threat to Islam and Muslims than any other country or group. It is high time that we set our priorities in order and focus our attention on Saudi-funded Deobandis and Salafist, the biggest threat to humanity, Muslims, Christians, Hindus and Jews.
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President Zardari emphasizes the need to defeat the negative mindset to save Pakistan
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Zardari becomes first elected president to address Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa assembly
The Express TribuneFor the first time in the history of Pakistan, an elected president – Asif Ali Zardari – addressed the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa assembly on Monday. Zardari became the first ever elected president to have addressed a provincial assembly session on the invitation of the provincial chief minister and speaker of the assembly. The speaker had invited the president to address the assembly during the SAARC conference in Islamabad. Upon arrival, the president was received by K-P Governor Barrister Masood Kausar and Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti. Addressing the session, the president said that it was a huge example of maturity and patience of parliamentarians and politicians that the assembly had completed its five years. Zardari emphasised on the need of defeating the extremist mindset in order to save Pakistan, while condemning the attack on former Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad which took place earlier during the day in Mohmand. He expressed happiness over visiting Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and thanked the provincial chief minister for inviting him.
China hopes Obama's Myanmar visit conducive to stability
Afghanistan will descend into 'chaos and civil war'
Afghanistan is "very, very vulnerable" and will descend back into "chaos and civil war" unless the world — especially the United States, and NATO allies such as Canada — remains engaged and committed there. That stark warning was issued here Sunday by a panel of high-profile Afghan business and political leaders. They spoke on the future of Afghanistan and Pakistan at the Halifax International Security Forum, an annual conference on global security issues hosted by Canadian Defence Minister Peter MacKay. Afghanistan "needs a lot of resources and patience on the part of the international community," said Abdul Rahim Wardak, a former defence minister and current advisor to Afghan President Hamid Karzai."Unfortunately the Taliban and their supporters have counted from the beginning, that sooner or later the international community will run out of patience and they will leave, and that is why they are preparing for that day." For that reason, said Wardak, "we hope international support will continue." Canada has already ended its five-year combat mission in Kandahar province. About 900 Canadian troops remain in the capital city Kabul, training Afghan soldiers and police. All Canadian troops are scheduled to be withdrawn by March, 2014, before the Afghan elections that year. Other western nations are also winding down their military missions. The United States has said it will withdraw its 67,000 troops by 2014, although a small contingent of soldiers will remain as trainers and advisers, along with anti-terrorism special forces units. During the transition period leading to 2014, Afghanistan will prepare for a new round of elections, in which Karzai is prohibited from seeking a third term.Observers say it's critical for the 2014 vote to take place freely and fairly, without interference from Karzai or intimidation from the Taliban, for the next government to have legitimacy and for Afghanistan to have any hope of a stable future. "How much leverage can the West bring to bear, to make sure those elections are free and fair?" said Ahmed Rashid, a respected Pakistan journalist and longtime Afghanistan observer. "The last elections were rigged openly by Karzai. If the next elections are rigged, Afghanistan will fall apart, and we'll face a multi-dimensional war there like we've never seen before." Said Amrullah Saleh, a former Afghan government intelligence chief who now runs an opposition, anti-corruption movement in Kabul: "Afghanistan is very, very vulnerable. If you in the West think, 'We helped them for 11 years, and they didn't help themselves, so now we will abandon them' then we will collapse and the militants will come back." Saad Mohseni, a Middle East media mogul whose company the Moby Group, owns several Afghanistan broadcast outlets, said despite the ongoing war with the Taliban, Afghan society has been transformed by the security offered by NATO and its allies over the past decade.He said millions of people are now going to school, moving to the cities, and a new generation of young people are hungry for peace and prosperity. But Mohseni warned that the "world needs to remain engaged in Afghanistan" if this progress is to be maintained. "If neglected, Afghanistan and Pakistan will become the world's problems in the years ahead. With the nuclear weapons, the drugs and the terrorism, this region must not be abandoned. You have to understand the consequences. I think it's very important for the political leadership in countries like Canada to explain the importance of Afghanistan to their people," Mohseni said. "It's very easy to disengage now, and it's very easy to be insular and say your economy's not doing well, so we have to walk away from Afghanistan. The last time the Americans walked away from Afghanistan, we saw 9/11." After listening to the discussion Sunday, MacKay reiterated Ottawa's position to fully end its military mission there by 2014, but to continue sending financial aid, currently budgeted at $110-million a year until 2017. "We will, I believe, be working with Afghans for many, many years to come on many levels. But the [Canadian] military piece is over." MacKay, who visited Canadian forces in Kabul last weekend, said he came away from the recent visit more optimistic than before. "I saw first-hand the incredible efforts being made by Canadians and our allies to present the Afghan army and police with the skills they need to go out and defend their country," he said. "We're under no illusion as to the enormity of the task, but they are now a very capable force."Afghanistan will descend into 'chaos and civil war' unless the international community remains committed there: Forum panel
Karzai, Accuses U.S. Forces Of Violating Detainee Pact
http://www.wnd.com/Iran and Pakistan are jockeying for influence in Afghanistan once troops of the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization leave at the end of 2014, but the internal dynamics – especially with the Taliban which envisions running the country – could cause the country to degenerate into a civil war, according to a report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. In Afghanistan, there already is an effort under way by some anti-Taliban officials to set up militias to oppose the Taliban once U.S. and coalition forces leave, but this effort is facing internal opposition by current Afghan officials who believe working with the Taliban will be necessary. One Afghan lawmaker taking such an initiative is Afghan Minister of Water and Energy Mohammad Ismail Khan, who is closely allied with Iran. He wants to create a group of militias to fight the Taliban. This initiative strongly suggests a lack of confidence in the ability of the government to deal with the Taliban after 2014. It also will impair efforts to limit the Taliban in any post-NATO period. Khan's efforts suggest an early effort by neighboring Iran to assert its own influence in competition with that of Pakistan, the other neighbor to Afghanistan. Given Iran's interest in a post-NATO Afghanistan, sources say that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force is assisting in forming the group of militias to fight the Sunni al-Qaida-backed Taliban, which Shi'ite Iran opposes. Sources believe that such an arrangement of backing the creation of the militias gives Iran more clout in negotiating the future of Afghanistan and giving it a final say in the outcome of any political settlement. Pakistan similarly seeks to extend its influence in Afghanistan in a post-NATO period, but now Pakistan is beginning to have a change of heart on its backing of the Taliban which it originally created as its proxy in Islamabad's fight with India. Now, the Taliban has developed into such a major Islamist force that the group it created could turn on the Pakistani government. For that reason, Pakistan is undertaking a major shift in approach by now wanting to work more with the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Up until recently, Pakistan opposed the U.S.-backed Karzai government, but due to the rising influence of the Taliban may be more inclined to work with it to contain the Islamist militant group's growing influence in Afghanistan at the expense of its own. In addition, Pakistan also appears to be reaching out with the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, India and Iran and Russia. "Pakistan's goal is to have a broad-based coalition government in power in Afghanistan that can limit the power of the Afghan Taliban," according to a report of the open intelligence group Stratfor. "The dilemma that Pakistan faces is how to deal with an inevitable Taliban political resurgence on its western flank while neutralizing the jihadist threat at home – since the latter is a natural outcome of the former," the report said. Sources acknowledge, however, that it will be difficult to contain the Taliban in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. In addition, the Taliban increasingly is linked with al-Qaida and other transnational Islamist militant groups. Further muddling an already big mess is the shaky relationship the United States has not only with Pakistan and Afghanistan and its efforts to attempt to manage a situation that clearly is leaning in favor of the Islamist militants. Given this trend, sources believe that in a post-NATO period, Afghanistan could disintegrate into another civil war while a rebounding Islamist insurgency in the region could threaten the government of Pakistan.
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Pakistan: President's office's status
EDITORIAL :DAILY TIMESAs predicted in this space when the Supreme Court's (SC's) detailed judgement in the Asghar Khan case was released, the observations of the court regarding the status of the president's office have been challenged by the government in a review petition. What was strange about the declaration by the SC that the president's office is one in the "service of Pakistan" is that this question was not before the court or even germane to the Asghar Khan case. While castigating the role of then president Ghulam Ishaq Khan in manipulating the 1990 elections to deny Benazir Bhutto's PPP victory, the court went far beyond the issues before it by declaring the president's office as one in the service of Pakistan, implying that the restrictions on, for example, taking part in politics until two years after leaving office would apply to the office. It is an interesting piece of jurisprudence for the court to have begun from and based itself on Ghulam Ishaq Khan's misdemeanours to take a sideswipe at the present incumbent by denying the real character of the president's office. This is the very issue the review petition takes up, arguing that the president's office is political, not one in the service of the state. The petition requests the court not to make observations that weaken other institutions. The petition has been filed under Article 188 of the constitution read with the relevant SC rules for a review of the October 19 order in this regard. The government's contention is that the conduct of the present incumbent of the president's office was never an issue in the Asghar Khan case, nor was it relevant for a decision in the matter. The petition regards the court's observations regarding the president's office as academic or hypothetical, which runs counter to sound juridical precedents. Also, that the alleged activities of the then president Ghulam Ishaq Khan were conducted in his individual capacity and not on behalf of the presidency as an institution. Similar findings in the same case regarding the individual capacity in which Generals Aslam Beg and Asad Durrani conducted their hanky panky and did not imply any involvement of the army or ISI as institutions apply and strengthen the argument of the petitioners. While it is not our place to advise the SC how to approach the review petition, it is within the purview of fair comment on the October 19 order to examine the implications of the court's observations regarding the president's office. Redefining an office that is part of parliament, elected by an electoral college of the Senate, National Assembly and provincial assemblies, and always the choice of a political party or parties, as one in the service of the state went beyond the case before the court as well as beyond any known jurisprudential precedent, political philosophy, and parliamentary democratic norms. Such an out of the way observation can only bear comparison with an earlier observation of the court that the theory of parliament's supremacy was out of date. Overturning the philosophic, jurisprudential and parliamentary democratic principles evolved over hundreds of years cannot do any good to the credibility, respect and dignity of the court nor to the political system. With the greatest respect, a tendency on the part of the restored judiciary to stray beyond its established purview into areas that are either the turf of other institutions of the state under the separation of powers doctrine, or into 'speculative' realms that have no solid jurisprudential bases is a disquieting development. In this space we have consistently argued for the time honoured principle of judicial restraint precisely because the honour, respect and dignity of the judiciary is dear to us, as it should be to any citizen of a modern, civilised state based on the rule of law. By straying into areas not strictly and uncontrovertibly within its legitimate purview, the judiciary continues to run the risk of being rendered controversial, a development no one can view with sanguinity, given our judiciary's chequered past and newfound respect.
Zardari arrives in Peshawar to address Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly
Radio PakistanPresident Asif Ali Zardari who arrived in Peshawar performed earth-breaking ceremony of Torkham-Peshawar Road extension project in the provincial metropolis. The project will be completed in two years at a cost of Rs5.90 billion with cooperation of the USAID. President Asif Ali Zardari will address an extraordinary session of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly in Peshawar today. President Zardari will be the first elected President' who will address the provincial assembly session on the invitation of the Provincial Chief Minister and Speaker of the Assembly. Radio Pakistan will broadcast the president's address to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly live at 2pm today. In a press statement' Speaker Karamatullah Khan said that President's landmark address to the legislators of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will be a great honour for the Assembly and people of the province. He said speaker had powers to relax rules and invite head of the state or any high profile dignitary to address the special session of the provincial assembly.
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President Obama: Controversial Myanmar visit "not an endorsement" of its government,
http://www.cbsnews.comPresident Obama has become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Myanmar. He landed there Monday. While he's there, the Burmese public will hear him congratulate the former pariah state "on having opened the door to a country that respects human rights and respects political freedom," he said during a press conference Sunday. "But what they'll also hear is that the country has a long way to go." Mr. Obama's unprecedented stop through the nation - also called Burma - during his Southeast Asia trip has angered some human rights activists who believe the country should prove it has truly moved on from its years of brutal military rule before a sitting president pays it a visit. But Mr. Obama argued during Sunday's news conference in Thailand that Myanmar's steps toward democratization deserve acknowledgement.The visit "is not an endorsement of the Burmese government," the president pointed out, but "an acknowledgement that there's a process under way inside that country that even a year and a half, two years ago, nobody foresaw." Citing positive leadership from Myanmar President Thein Sein and Parliament member Aung San Suu Kyi - both of whom he and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet with during their visit - as well as the release of political prisoners, Mr. Obama said the nation is demonstrating "an articulated commitment to further political reform." While admitting no one "is under any illusion that Burma has arrived," he argued, "If we waited to engage until they had achieved a perfect democracy, my suspicion is we'd be waiting an awful long time. "One of the goals of this trip is to highlight the progress that has been made, but also to give voice to the much greater progress that needs to be made in the future," the president continued. "Change can happen very fast if a spotlight is shown on what's going on in a country, and the people there start believing that their voices are heard around the world. And one of the things that we can do as an international community is make sure that the people of Burma know we're paying attention to them, we're listening to them, we care about them. "And this visit allows me to do that in a fairly dramatic fashion," he concluded. The president's stop in Myanmar also gives him an opportunity to see a place that helped form his Kenyan grandfather, according to the New York Times. Hussein Onyango Obama spent part of World War II in what was then Burma as a cook for a British Army captain. Later Monday, another presidential first: Following his Burmese visit, Mr. Obama will travel to Cambodia to attend the East Asia Summit.
Israel-Hamas fight more risky in a changed Mideast
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In May, the ATSC's quarter-century of standards leadership will be formally celebrated at the ATSC Annual Meeting. Scheduled for May 8 at the Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City in Arlington, Va., the event will feature Randall Dark on a panel of industry experts for the morning session "HDTV, We've Come a Long Way." The discussion will be moderated by Panasonic's Peter Fannon.
The Advanced Television Systems Committee is an international, non-profit organization developing voluntary standards for digital television. The ATSC member organizations represent the broadcast, broadcast equipment, motion picture, consumer electronics, computer, cable, satellite and semiconductor industries.
More information on the event may be found at www.atsc.org.
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VATICAN CITY (CBSNewYork) — Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York spoke Wednesday evening with members of the media following the historic election of the Catholic Church's new leader. And as usual, the head of the New York Archdiocese quickly got everyone's attention.
Dolan, who shared his thoughts on the process and selection of Pope Francis, called Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who became the first pontiff from the Americas, "a wonderfully simple man" with whom he was "impressed."
"He comes across as shy and reserved," Dolan said, while stressing "He's a man of confidence and poise."
"We'll sleep well tonight, knowing that the church is in good hands," the Archbishop of New York added.
Dolan also joked when asked if he was relieved that he wasn't voted pope, saying he never took the rumors seriously.
"I'd like to say this, especially to the New York press: 'I told ya so!'" Dolan said.
Much has already been discussed about the new pope being a humble man who denied himself some of the luxuries provided to previous cardinals in his country's capital, Buenos Aires, but his actions Wednesday further hammered home the point.
Bergoglio was known to ride the bus to work in Argentina, and did so going to and from the hotel where the cardinals participating in the conclave stayed this week.
Dolan told reporters the surprising story of how the newly elected pope decided to take the bus back to the hotel Wednesday with the rest of the cardinals instead of riding in the Holy Father's car.
"So we take the buses over and cardinals kind of wait outside to greet the new Holy Father as he comes back to Doma Santa Marta…and as the last bus pulls up, guess who gets off the bus? Pope Francis," Dolan said. "So I guess he told the driver, 'That's OK. I'll just go with the guys on the bus.'"
WATCH: Cardinal Dolan Talks About The Choice Of Pope Francis
Dolan also spoke at length about the process to elect a new pope, saying once he got into the conclave he felt the "gentle breeze of the Holy Spirit."
"As we went in, it [was] just a magnificent, fraternal, apostolic climate and atmosphere to pray together, to talk together, to find out more and more about each other," Dolan said. "You could just see a sense that this was in God's hands."
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A future without libraries? A radical new idea
On a librarian listserv there was the following post today. Wanted to put it on LISNEWS so people could comment:
(Because the post is slightly longer than LISNEWS allows on the front page make sure you click the "read more" link at bottom of post. You will know if you have the whole thing if you see the last line that says: What do YOU think of my idea? )
This is only my opinion and has been posted to many lists for feedback. (Sorry about any duplicate posts you may receive)
I can envision a future without libraries. Yes, without libraries...but with more librarians.
1. More and more resources are online. Even ones formerly available only in print are now also online. And many are available only online.
2. Users increasingly want resources only if they are online. They don't want to have to go tot the library to answer their questions.
3. Is it fiscally responsible to require users to spend their valuable time to come to the library?
4. Is it fiscally responsible to allow users to spend their valuable time looking for information online when they a) do not know where to search, b) do not know how to search (effectively), and c) probably do not know how to determine if the information they find is correct or reliable?
So, I can see a future without physical libraries but with librarians embedded within the units of the organization. These librarians would be professionally trained (degreed) not only in librarianship, with an emphasis on customer service, but also in the subject matter of the users.
This would be a reasonable scenario for corporate, medical, law, and non-profit organizational libraries. It could also work in school libraries with classroom collections and a librarian that visits each classroom on a frequent schedule (or as requested) to teach and answer questions and help with research projects. This system could even work with academic institutions, with the distribution of the main library (which often serves as a sort of archives where 98 percent of the books never leave the shelves) to departmental collections and librarians in each department.
I know that this is a radical departure from current practice. However, I am at a point in my career (almost retired) where I am free to look back and forward at the same time, leading to this type of thinking.
What do YOU think of my idea?
The value of library as a
The value of library as a place seems to be diminishing. I work at a medical library, where the clientele is different. People who come to the library in person either want to use our computers or need a quiet place to study. Since we can send books to our folks by interoffice mail, they don't even have to come to the library for a book! So perhaps adapt an Amazon-like model where we are accessible online but we do have a "book warehouse" where we keep our minimal print collection? I guess an argument can be made for either side but with more people wanting online resources, it makes sense to have a bigger online presence than a physical presence.
Sometimes yes, sometimes no
Some corporate/special libraries did that long ago--and it made sense for them: Eliminating the library as place and having librarians available to directly serve researchers.
For academic libraries...well, there's no single "academic library" model, and I won't go further.
For public libraries: A flat-out disaster.
"The value of library as place seems to be diminishing' is only true if qualified by type of library and individual instance. The value of good public libraries as places is, if anything, increasing, as we enter a time of limits that's likely to stick around for a few years.
As is so often the case, "the library" is a dangerous misnomer--and attempting to generalize from special libraries to public libraries (or even academic libraries) is particularly dangerous.
Clues for navigating Cambridge, Boston Public Library.
Our Cambridge Public Library and Boston Public Library need to do more to make the buildings more welcoming. The experience of visiting our libraries fails because not enough clues for navigating around are provided in a useful way.
A future without libraries? A radical new idea
Yes and no....
Yes for the reasons you suggest....
1. More and more resources are online. Even ones formerly available only in print are now also online. And many are available only online.
2. Users increasingly want resources only if they are online. They don't want to have to go to the library to answer their questions.
3. Is it fiscally responsible to require users to spend their valuable time to come to the library?
No.....for my own reasons....
1. The idea of a Public Library is to encourage people to READ.
2. We provide books, movies, audiobooks, computers for those who do not have access at home, storytimes, adult & teen programming, a place to gather, a place to sit and read away from home, a place to connect to the internet away from home.
3. Seeking Information is different from seeking Leisure..... so then: Is it fiscally responsible to require readers to spend their valuable time and money to go to a bookstore and purchase a book/movie/audiobook that they do not want to add to their personal collections?
4. Not everyone (thank Creator) is so inclined to make librarians do their research for them....some researchers are responsible enough to know how to do it themselves.
5. Do not kid yourself, online resources, such as OED, Encyclopedia Britannica, & Gale resources are far from inexpensive to purchase and update, especially in larger library systems.... These high end resources are not available to most private users (let alone public libraries).... If you don't have an Academic library card (user privileges), how do you access them online?
Actually, I believe libraries are here to stay...at least during my lifetime.
Actually, I think what you've laid out is a scenario not only for the end of libraries but for the end of librarians, as well.
The obvious first--a "librarian" without a "library" is not really a librarian. Such a person may be an "information manager / -concierge/ -what-have-you," but, with no ties to a physical collection (i.e., "library"), there is no "librarian."
Moreover.... I think it's more likely that the "librarian work" you describe in your scenario-- customer service, subject expertise, teaching-- could all be outsourced to other employees. I suppose an organization might hire a "librarian" to do some combination of these things, but more likely they will fill the need as it comes. If they need someone to answer questions from students about information resources, they could hire a librarian... or they might just add that responsibility to someone already on payroll. They might even provide special training or hire part-time staff or --who knows. But the notion that organizations will continue to hire specially trained (used to be called) librarians to do these things... well, I just don't think they would. I can easily imagine administrators outsourcing these jobs to IT staff, to administrative assistants, to graduate students (in higher ed), "subject experts" with master's degrees and doctorates in those fields--and maybe even to a few librarians. But I think the "no more books" scenario will not be a rosy one for librarians.
So long as there are collections of printed books, there will be libraries and librarians. After that time?... all bets are off I'm afraid.
It depends...
We discussed this issue at the Frankfurt Bookfair - and came to the conclusion that there will (and should!) be libraries in the future.
But of course that doesn't mean that we shouldn't think of new ways and new possibilities - which, in some cases, might acutally mean that there'll no longer be a phyiscal buidling called "library" you would go to.
I guess it very much depends on the kind of library, the users you serve - and how important your library is for a community. Especially public libraries might become even more important as places to go to in the future; places where people can learn, discuss, share knowledge, get educated, communicate, and read.
future without libraries? no
As a children's librarian, I do not foresee a future without libraries. There are as I sit here at the children's reference desk, only a few of our many computer terminals not being used. Not all children have home computers (digital divide, anyone?) and the library is one of the only places you can use a computer for free. Also, parents bring their children here to find books (browsing is big with kids and parents) and to look at our fish. (Kids love looking at our aquarium of fish.) Parents also bring their children to the library for storytimes. I run two storytimes for kids 6 mos old plus parents and siblings back to back on Wednesdays. I average 40 people each session.
Maybe libraries aren't a "third place" for upwardly mobile increasingly electronic adults, but the children (and their parents) are here every single day.
What will we choose?
The radical aspect of libraries, that they are cooperative purchasing projects, can continue if we want it to. If consenting adults wish to pay to share books or other objects, I imagine it can happen. It might be a battle in a digital age if digital rights lose all concept of fair use and if they evolve to prohibit sharing, but parties in agreement usually find a way to satisfaction.
If libraries do not make archive, yes. It is the end of library.
I just can not understand why the only internet archive is not operated by any library. Or at least, not start by a library. It just become a library.
Why no librarian feel guilty about that?
It is, in some ways, the
It is, in some ways, the direction my special library is headed. We've been looking at embedding librarians directly in the production units, even while we still have a physical library, with the knowledge that we're hoping to be virtual within the next few years (which will likely mean losing the library as physical space). In our case I don't think it'll mean a loss of jobs, because we're quite specialized, but I think for many people loss of visibility will mean loss of position, as people forget about librarians.
Not radical -- rediculous
1. Studies do show that reference collections are much more useful in online, electronic formats. But print will never go out of style & decades of research materials will likely never be digitized. Books don't take batteries.
2. Users do increasingly want answers online & librarians are meeting that demand by offering IM & email Reference Services.
3. Even institutions with strong online reference collections find that patrons still come to the library because it is an intellectual & recreational sanctuary, a place of community & institutional pride.
4. Library instruction has long been a part of a librarian's job. It can be done on site or online. Nine times out of ten, however, patrons would rather just be handed the information they seek than be schooled on library use.
The world could use more information literacy, of course, but it's only useful if instructors & others demand information accountability.
A future without libraries
I am not sure what fiscally responsible refers to? I go to the library because I want to and enjoy going there. Evidently, it has been awhile since the author of this post has been to a public library. The public library is not just books anymore. There are teen nights for gaming, children activities scheduled, author signings, computer classes, book reading clubs, study groups, the list goes on and on. I worked in a public library system the patrons lived in the 3 poorest counties in the state. The article assumes the library users actually have access to the Internet and other on line resources. This simply is not true.
I totally agree. I am an
I totally agree. I am an MLIS Student working in a large Academic Library. My primary responsibility is working with collections, that can be used to create a "Bridge" from the classroom to the Library.
I have a Marketing background (Undergrad), and I am constantly thinking of our patrons as customers, and how we can make the overall product - Libraries better. I am not sure who wrote this entry, but i would love to hear more about it.
future with no libraries?
The public library is evolving, not going away. We are becoming community centers that offer programs, movies, DVD's, computer use and services, databases, etc. The nature of our services is changing but our usage is going up, not down, pretty much across the country. I am the library director of a small library in New Hampshire looking to provide our community with what they asked for in a long-range planning gathering over several meetings-- a community center that values and participates in preserving the town history and provides meaningful programs, materials and services.


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Welcome back to the Sunday Post! Sit back, kick up your feet, and relax!
The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It's a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog.
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I had a nice and cozy Thanksgiving this year. Well, we kinda do the same thing every year. Just an intimate dinner with the in-laws and that's it. Since we also went RV camping, there was no Black Friday crowds to overcome. It was a relaxing time. Except for the ladybugs.
OMG the ladybugs. I wish I took a picture because our RV was covered with them. I felt like we were being besieged by the ladybug hoard. A bunch of them even made it inside, which made for a frantic attempt to get rid of them. For two days straight they were relentless in their plight to reach the cozy interior of our humble temporary abode. Today, as we were packing up, it was colder than usual and I didn't see any outside. Poor things. But seriously, I don't want to see another ladybug for awhile.
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With the launch of Firefox 12, the aurora version of Firefox 13 has been launched. Firefox 13 comes with more advanced features in addition to Firefox 12. Firefox 13 is scheduled to be in Aurora for 6 weeks and then it will be moved to beta and the final version will be released in about 12 weeks in total. Firefox 13 will come with a lot of new features and enhancements to the current features and functionality.
Firefox 13 comes with the auto updater function. This means that most of the updates in Firefox 13 will silently update in background without annoying the user.
Firefox 13 also has a reset browser feature which will be useful for the installations of Firefox which become corrupt. Now you can reset Firefox settings to their default values using the reset feature.
Firefox 13 comes with a completely redesigned home page and the new tab page. If you open a new tab in Firefox 13, you will see the thumbnails of recently opened web pages as well as most frequently visited sites.
The new awesome bar in Firefox 13 will automatically complete the URLs as you are typing saving you a few keystrokes and time.
The SPDY protocol comes enabled by default in Firefox 13 for faster browsing on supported sites.
Technically speaking, here is the list of new features in Firefox 13:
- When opening a new tab, users are now presented with their most visited pages
- The Awesome Bar now auto-completes typed URLs
- SPDY protocol now enabled by default for faster browsing on supported sites
- Restored background tabs are not loaded by default for faster startup
- Smooth scrolling is now enabled by default
- The default home page now has quicker access to bookmarks, history, settings, and more
- 72 total improvements to Page Inspector, HTML panel, Style Inspector, Scratchpad and Style Editor
- Support for the CSS3 background-position property extended syntax has been added
- The :invalid pseudo-class can now be applied to the element
- The CSS turn <angle> unit is now supported
Note: I will be updating this article with the new releases of Firefox 13 and will be giving the download link of the latest build of Firefox 13.
Update: Even though Firefox 13 is scheduled to be released on 5th of June officially, the final version of Firefox 13 has already been placed on Mozilla's FTP servers. I have updated the link below and you can download Firefox 13 final version right now.
Download Firefox 13 Final
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