The coronavirus pandemic, in addition to snuffing out scores of lives, is also triggering racial tensions all over the world. There is a long history of naming pandemics by attaching them to a specific place and people. For example, the 1918 influenza pandemic, which was found in Spain, was called ‘Spanish flu’ and the recent Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is named after the Ebola River in Congo, where it was first discovered. In the same way, West Nile Virus and Zika were also named as per their geographical origins. Following the same theme, people started calling the coronavirus, which first raised its ugly head in Wuhan city of China, as either ‘Wuhan coronavirus’ or ‘Chinese Virus’. Even the well-known western newspapers such as The New York Times and the Washington Post used similar terms to refer to the virus initially.

Official Nomenclature: The World Health Organization (WHO) officially named the decease as coronavirus disease and the virus as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus- 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The Associated Press (AP) stylebook, which is considered to be the gold standard for media professionals, prescribed the use of either coronavirus or COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease-19).

Trump’s Plain Speak: In the election-bound United States, where the political temperatures rose recently, the Republicans started using terms such as Wuhan Coronavirus, Chinese Virus, and even Kung-Flu to highlight the origins of the virus. President Trump, who usually consigns political correctness to the dustbin and speaks the truth, repeatedly used the expression ‘Chinese Virus’ to highlight the fact that the virus not only originated in China but also spreading due to the conspiratorial actions of China’s totalitarian communist regime.

Is the Reference to China Racist? The Communist Party of China (CPC), which has no respect for freedom of expression and exercises tight control over its domestic media, objected to the use of the China-centric expressions and termed them racist. And the left-leaning western newspapers, which were hitherto using the same terms, changed the tune and started toeing the line of the CPC. Even the left-leaning politicians all over the world also toed CPC’s line and started castigating people who used the expressions that highlighted the virus’s Chinese origins.

What People Think? Despite what the WHO says or AP Stylebook prescribes, the virus that originated in Wuhan city of China will always remain as a ‘Chinese Virus’ in the minds of the people. Because people strongly believe that the dreadful food habits of the Chinese and the conspiratorial actions of their communist regime regarding the virus outbreak pushed the world into this terrible crisis.

Massive Cover-Up: It is a widely known fact that the communist regime headed by the CPC is highly despotic and authoritarian. It wants to use its economic and military clout to achieve its political and territorial ambitions. It, in pursuit of its ambitions, tightly controls information to build a favorable narrative about itself. As a result, there is hardly any independent media houses in China. The media houses that are existent in China have reduced themselves into mere propaganda machine of the despotic regime. There are reports stating that China is even trying to obtain favorable publicity by buying popular journos to plant favorable news and opinion pieces about itself. There is a talk that even many Indian journos sold their souls to the CPC.

Dreadful Food Habits: After the coronavirus pandemic started inflicting ever-mounting mortalities, many questions arose about the role played by China, where the disease originated. The first thing the world started discussing is the dreadful food habits of the Chinese. Chinese are known for eating anything that moves including scorpions, snakes, bats, dogs, donkeys and what not. As per the research findings, the novel coronavirus has its origins in the Chinese slaughterhouses and wet markets. Therefore, people all over the world concluded that the terrible food habits of the Chinese led to the birth of this virus. Many videos are circulating both on mainstream and social media that depict the mind-numbingly cruel methods the Chinese use to kill the animals such as boiling and blow-torching live animals.

Conspiratorial Actions: And moreover, there are many allegations that China concealed the enormity of the virus outbreak to avoid damage to its economy. It misled the world by stating that the coronavirus does not transmit from human to human, and therefore the world need not worry about it. It also tried to create the impression that the virus is only local to China and hence no need for canceling any flights to it. The world trusted its words, and as a result, paying a heavy price in terms of lives lost and damage to the economy.

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152

The tweet made by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Jan 14, 2020, is a clear indication that China lied about the nature of the virus.

Li Wenliang, the Chinse whistleblower doctor, who warned his colleagues about the virus in December 2019 and took to the social media to alert the people, was accused of spreading fake news and was admonished by the Communist Party of China (CPC). The physician later contracted the virus and died while undergoing treatment. The CPC rendered a posthumous apology to the doctor’s family. There are many observers who feel that had the CPC listened to him and taken appropriate measures to curb the spread of the decease and even alert the world community, the world would have been in a far better place to mitigate the after-effects of the virus outbreak.

Expulsion of Journos: China expelled many American journalists who, it thought, were working against its interests. The journalists who worked for prominent newspapers such as the New York Times and The Washington Post were expelled by China for not toeing its line. The unending opacity maintained by the CPC dealt a deathblow to the efforts of the world to contain the virus during its initial stages itself.

Peddling Fake Fatality Numbers: Many observers even suspect the fatality figures given by China. If a small country like Italy can have over 15,000 fatalities, China must have suffered far more fatalities, which it somehow concealed. As per a US intelligence report, China’s public reporting on cases and deaths is intentionally incomplete and their fatality figures are fake.

Conspiracy Theories: There are many conspiracy theories that are flying thick. Many observers believe that China, to further its economic and territorial ambitions and to establish its hegemony over the world, was involved in manufacturing biological weapons. And during the process of manufacturing these weapons the virus accidentally escaped from one of its labs.

As per the tweet sent by China Daily on 29th May 2018, The Wuhan Institute of Virology located at Wuhan in Hubei province preserved over 1,500 strands of viruses. Surprisingly, the tweet was deleted some time ago, strengthening the suspicions that China wants to conceal something from the world community. Many observers suspect that the virus escaped from one such bioresearch lab due to week biosecurity management.

Though there is no way to verify these claims at this juncture, the suspicions will always linger in the minds of the people considering the untrustworthiness of the CPC.

The Biased WHO: Even the WHO was at the receiving end for the way it dealt with the coronavirus crisis. Instead of independently verifying the facts, it just toed the line of the Chinese Communist Party and kept the world in dark.

When many countries such as the United States, Australia, Singapore were denying entry to foreigners traveling from China as part of their efforts to limit the spread of the virus, the WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom, urged the world community not to do so. He even went to the extent of terming those measures an “unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade”. His statements toeing the line of the CPC were, to a great extent, responsible for the spread of the virus far and wide.

It even misled the world on the nature of the disease. There are allegations that the WHO Chief when he was the health minister of Ethiopia, acted in favor of the Chinese interests, and China, as a quid-pro-quo, actively promoted his candidature for the post of WHO chief by using its political clout.

Conclusion: The outbreak of COVID-19 and its aftermath brought the dangerous and toxic nature of China’s Communist regime to the fore. The lack of democracy and the absence of independent media keeps the world in dark about the potential dangers emerging from China. Its economic, political and territorial expansionism denies a level playing field to the other nations and works to their disadvantage. Therefore, the world must come together to launch an independent investigation into the virus outbreak and the role played by the Chinese communist regime.

China, after sailing through the crisis by keeping everybody in dark about the happenings, has opened its factories and resumed production. The COVID-19 testing kits exported by it to Spain and Turkey are proved to be faulty. Even the Netherlands, after finding that the masks imported from China faulty, has recalled them from the market. Though the products produced in China are known for their mediocrity, the virus originated in it seems to be sturdy and long-lasting. The world community, no doubt, has to put up a united front to combat the coronavirus disease at this juncture. But at the same time, it must also be on guard not to let the totalitarian Chinese regime exploit the situation to establish its political, territorial and economic hegemony over the world.

Works Cited List:

Hasson, Peter. “China Helped Put This Man In Charge Of the World Health Organization-Is It Paying Off?” The National Interest, The Center for the National Interest, 23 Mar. 2020.

Lisa, Schlein. “WHO Chief Urges Countries Not to Close Borders to Foreigners From China.” Voice of America, 3 Feb. 2020.

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Payne, Adam. “The Netherlands Has Recalled 600,000 Coronavirus Face Masks It Imported from China after Discovering They Were Faulty.” Business Insider, 29 Mar. 2020.

AAMT originally stood for the American Association for Medical Transcription. It is basically the transcription industry’s representative organization. Everything that medical transcription stands for was created by the AAMT. People who are looking for medical transcriptionist should first go to the official website that represents the industry so that they can find all the info they need on getting the proper training.

When it comes down to it, the AAMT medical transcription website, now ahdionline.org, is really all you need in reference to getting started in transcriptionist work. The association was created in 1978 and set up a certification program in 1981. Once the certification program was created, more people were able to take part in medical transcription. From there, the industry has been growing and growing into what it is now. These days, you can easily find a job online working from home, all with the help of the AHDI, which stands for the Association of Integrity for Healthcare Documentation.

The name change officially happened on August 2nd, 2006, and was made possible by the House of Delegates. This decision was made to help with the huge growth of the entire healthcare industry. So, instead of only allowing the AAMT to stand for transcriptionists alone, it now represents a much larger sector of the industry. All types of healthcare documentation from coding to billing, are now a part of the AHDI. More physicians and clinical settings now have the ability to be a part of the association, and that is what has created such a positive improvement overall.

So as you can see, the transition was not just about the name change. If the association just wanted to make a few changes without creating much improvement, it could have easily done so without changing the name, but it’s much more than that. It’s literally as if the association has surpassed all barriers by making such a change. Anything that was standing in the way for transcriptionists is no longer there.

Every now and again, it is a good idea to expand the horizons of an organization or industry to make room for more positive changes. Since the AAMT has become the AHDI, it is more obvious because it gets a higher amount of recognition from different sectors of the healthcare industry.

That is not to say that it was not helpful and successful to begin with. Transcriptionist work has always been just as rewarding and serious as it is now. It’s always been just as important to the industry, and that is something that has never and never will change. The standards are still high and things are done in exactly the same manner as before. It is just that more focus has been put on documentation and data capture.

Overall, the name change has been very beneficial to the medical transcription industry. An abundance of jobs have become available more than anything else. The change has surely created one of the strongest foundations for medical transcription thus far. As long as the industry has this rock solid foundation to stand upon, it will continue to grow and become even better than it is.

It can be very hard to accept the fact that your marriage is in trouble. It’s especially harder if your husband leaves you and the separation is not mutual. If you still feel that you need to give your marriage another shot and want to get your husband back here is what you need to do

Get a grip
Of course you will be upset, sad, disappointed and feeling awful but you have to get a grip. Don’t take this walking out as final. Believe that you can make your relationship work. Work on the power of positive thinking as that is one thing that you will need the most at an hour like this.

Don’t let yourself go
A lot of women just let themselves go when their husbands walk out on them. Sometimes they let themselves go even before the husband walks out and this is also one of the main causes of husbands straying. Hold on to the way you looked when he first met you. Use this time to look better. Indulge in some retail therapy to feel good and boost your confidence.

Don’t be reactive
You should brace yourself for times when you will bump into your husband. Since you both will be sharing friends it is not impossible to run into each other. Avoiding all gatherings is not a good idea and reacting unfavorably is worse. Don’t create a scene in front of all. Be cool and you will have your husbands’ attention.

Focus on reorganizing your life
Make your husband see that you have a lot more to your life than just him. Take all the negative energy that you have and divert it into reconstructing your life. When your husband sees that you are easily replacing him with work and other activities he is going to want to talk to you again.

Shake him up a little
Look like you are ready to accept his decision. Start going out with your friends and look like you are completely enjoying your life. It would also help if you look like you are ready to start dating. Your husband will wake up from his slumber and will begin to take notice if you.

Extend the olive branch
Let some time pass and extend the olive branch to your husband. Let him see the goodness in you. Don’t push for a relationship, just be friends. Spend some time together and enjoy yourself. Your husband will soon be able to see his mistakes.

Go to counseling
Once he feels you should get back together go for counseling. Address your marital issues with objectivity and work hard towards remaining a happily married couple.

Getting through a break up or divorce is never easy. Especially if you guys have been with each other for longer than a year or more. I was with my ex for 14 months and we moved in together for 1 month or 2 then we finally realized that we were not meant to be. Therefore, we broke up about 2 months ago.

She was a very nice girl, very pretty too. A lot of guys like her. I’m sure she won’t have a hard time finding another guy to date. Considering all the qualities she has, I thought the breakup would probably destroy me. Especially thinking about how difficult I went though my last break up, it was not the best thing to experience in life. However, I’m really surprised how I reacted to this break up and dealing with it at the same time. I started wondering why I’m acting this way. I think I was able to come up with something that I’d like to share this with everyone here.

1. I have gotten priorities and Purpose!

Financial adviser is my full time job. What I always tell my clients is financial planning is about prioritizing the most important things in life because often times we’re not able to accomplish all the financial goals or needs at the same time. So selecting the ones that are the most important to you and your family and take care of them right away is the key, such as setting up your defense planning like Life Insurance and so on. Now, I can relate this to dealing relationships issues as well. I’m sure you have all heard that a man before thirty shouldn’t get married because he doesn’t know what he really wants out of a woman. Same rule applies to a woman. I truly believe it! Every time I met a girl I felt like she was the one, but 2 months into the relationship I completely changed my thoughts about her. Being said, I’m a big believer of dating as many people as possible before you turn thirty. That way you can filter out the types of guys or girls you don’t want to be with. So the day you turn thirty, if you are still not sure about what you are looking for, at least you have a better idea about what you don’t want. And trust me, this way is much better than if you find out after you married to that person that there’s no way you can live with him/her for the rest of your life.

Since now we know we can’t really settle down before thirty, we have to find something else more important to do, right? Well, how about focusing on your career? And think about the kind of people you will be dating when you become more successful. It will be different. Nothing is more important than your career or chasing after your goals in life especially before thirty! And this is my priority. To be honest with you, I just figured out what my purpose is in life. Since I have determined my purpose, everything I have been doing is around that purpose. AND NOTHING ELSE MATTERS! If you explain your purpose to your boyfriend or girlfriend, and they seem to have no idea what the heck you are talking about, it’s time to move on. If she/he left you, than there’s nothing you should feel bad about. It’s simply because they are on a different road than you are, which yours is the road to success. So let’s take care of your career first and then everything else will come after that.

2. Don’t be sad, be Excited!

How many times have you broken up with someone? Probably a few times or many times for some people. And how many times have you found someone new thereafter? It doesn’t matter how long it will take you to find the that person because everyone has many soul mates in this world and eventually we all will find the one. Oh, how many times have you said to yourself or told someone, “if it weren’t for my last breakup, I wouldn’t have found the person I’m with now!” Everything happens for a reason! Even your breakup! Maybe it was just because there’s someone better that’s waiting for you! Think about who you are going to meet next! What does that person look like? How tall is that person? and how you guys will meet? You can even try to visualize the perfect match for yourself! So be excited about who you are going to meet next! Maybe she/he is the one for you! This is how you can live in the future instead of the past!

3. Learn from it!

Relationship is like a job. After you got fired from your job, what do you usually do? you try to figure out why you were fired. If you are honest to yourself, you would know the exact reason for it. and it doesn’t matter if it was your fault or not. You learn from your mistakes! That’s how you grow! You can even learn from other people’s mistakes too, which is even better because you don’t have to go through the consequences of the mistakes. you will take a little bit of something you learned into your next relationship. By the time you are thirty or older, you will be a much better match to your soul mate! Remember, don’t complain and blame others, it’s always your fault because you made that choice, so learn from it!

4. Don’t Ever Settle!

This happens when you are on the rebound. You feel so sad and mad that you feel like you absolutely have to find someone to replace your ex. I have seen that too many times among in my friends. people tend to settle for less when they are on the rebound. It’s not a bad idea to date someone, but it’s a horrible idea to get involved with someone who you don’t think you will love. Take your time to date around and see what’s out there. You will always be surprised who you are going to meet next. And remember, there’s always somebody for you!

5. Keep yourself Busy!

I understand that you would feel lonely sometimes. You were with that special someone for a long time. You guys did everything together. And all of the sudden you are alone. all by yourself and doing everything by yourself. This is when you really want to pick up the phone and dial that familiar number that you already memorized in your head or on speed dial on your cell phone. Don’t even think about it! You have to keep yourself busy. Go out with friends. Pursue your dreams. Get out of the house. Stop watching chic-flicks! Get online and chat with people. There are so many things you can do to keep yourself occupied. When you are busy at work, you tend to think about your ex a lot less. Stay focused!

6. Go out with the right mind-set

This is especially for guys in the Bay Area where ratio is not in your favor! How many times have you been rejected at the bars by girls? How do you feel getting rejected again after your breakup? What do you want to do when you get home from the bars? you call that familiar number again because you feel like you will never find someone like your ex. you want that person back so you don’t have to work for it. I’m not completely against going out to the bars. In fact, I go out pretty much every weekend. I’m just suggesting that you go out to have a good time, period. If something happens, great! If not, don’t worry about it just enjoy being out.

7. Join any and many social network or dating sites!

Now days dating and social networking have never been easier. there are millions of sites out there help you meeting new people. A lot of them are free to you like myspace.com, facebook.com, and even Reboundersworld.com. Even you have to pay $20 or $30 a month it’s still worth it. Just think about how much your bar tabs are every month and you would be able to do the math yourself. many people still consider online dating is for losers. I say to them, “Welcome to 21st century!” People are so busy these days, we don’t have the time to go out every night to look for dates. Also, think about the kind of people you are meeting at the bars if you are looking for something serious. At lest you know people are already interested meeting someone if they put their profiles online and saying I’m looking for someone to DATE! How obvious can it get?! It’s like you have an ad in the newspaper to advertise your product. People will contact you if they are interested buying without having to go door-to-door.

8. Rebound Dating!

Traditionally, people think rebound dating is such a negative thing. Why would anyone do such bad thing to hurt another person? Typically, when rebound dating turns bad is because one rebounder is dating someone that’s not on the rebound. Most times the two people are probably looking for different things at the moment. In the other words, they have different expectations out of each other. However, the benefit of rebound dating is to help you move on from your previous relationship, which is huge for someone just experienced a painful breakup. So how can we have a healthy rebound relationship? The key thing is to be honest with each other and talk about the possibility of not staying together in the near future. Make sure both of you are OK and aware of the possible outcome of this relationship. The best thing to do is if you can find someone that’s also on the rebound. That way you guys are on the same page when it comes to rebound dating or just simply hanging out helping each other move on and talk it out. Reboundersworld.com offers this kind of environment for you to find people like yourself to socialize with.

9. Find Someone who shares common interests as you do

It’s so ironic that both of my business partner and I have recently experienced a breakup while we were working on Reboundersworld.com. But because of the breakup, we have more time to work on the site and more importantly we really got to know each other on a deeper level(after 3 years of partying together). We finally realized that we have the same beliefs, views, and even purpose in life. I expect this is one of the main reasons that I have moved on quickly from my ex. Some days we found ourselves talking all day and all night without running out topics to discuss. We have talked about many different ideas about how to reach our goals from here. Remember, everything happens for a reason! This actually leads to my next argument.

10. The good things about your breakup!

This is another key point I want to emphasize. You have to have a positive attitude towards to everything not only for relationship issues but also for everything else in life. we run into so many problems in our everyday life. we get so stressed out about every little thing. sometimes we develop depressions, anxieties and so on. A bad breakup can definitely do some damages to your mind and reduce your confidence. Do not let that get to you! You have to be strong! You must convince yourself that every bad thing that has happened to you always leads or has led to something good. For example, if I was still with my ex right now, I wouldn’t have had chance to get to know my friend and becoming best friend with him. I probably wouldn’t have had a lot of time to focus on my career either. I’m excited to see more good things that’s going to happen that are the results of this breakup! It’s a problem only if you think it is!

11. Do not keep calling your ex all the time!

Leave him/her alone! It’s over! What is that you don’t understand? If you think by bugging the person will get him/her back, you are completely wrong! It will just make it worse to even stay friends with that person. You need a brake from each other. It will help you forget the person quickly especially if you keep yourself busy. If you are not planning to stay friends with your ex, erase his/her number and email and all their text messages or voice mails. Put away all their belongings and pictures.

12. All those bad things about him/her!

If you want to get over your ex quicker, don’t think about all the good things s/he had done for you. I know it’s very hard to do especially if your ex was really nice to you. However, no body is perfect. If you think hard, you will be able to think something that s/he did really bothered you, whether was his/her stinky breath or the noises s/he made when chewing the gum. I promise you, the more you think about it, the more you will appreciate to be out of that relationship.

OK rebounders, I think this is plenty to start with. Try these out and let me know how they work. I always welcome new ideas, so if you’ve gotten one please add it to the list and share with the rest of us. Let’s all help each other bounce back!

I write this article from my heart, through tiredness and despair at humanity, not only for Michael Jackson but others like Princess Diana and other celebrities, the press builds them up and then breaks them down and when they break them down they go all the way.

Michael Jackson was not weird, he suffered irreversible tragedies and trial by media. The media never ever printed the whole true facts about his court case, if they had most of us would have come to our own conclusions about his innocence.

He lived for the children, many do not know what this man was about and I want to share some stories about Michael Jackson that are unknown to so many. He visited as many children’s hospitals, charities and orphanages as he did concerts and tours, the media in Michael’s own words never printed this because it was happy news. He would arrive with huge boxes of toys for the poorly children laying in hospitals and sit by their side chatting and signing autographs for them.

During one hospital visit he was to meet a little baby boy he called Farkus, the little boy was very poorly and green in the face, he asked the nurse what was wrong with the child, the nurse explained that the baby boy needed a new liver and was dying. Michael Jackson said he was not going to let this sweet sweet angel die, with this he kept his promise, he travelled the world to find a liver, eventually he did find one and this little boy was saved from death by Michael Jackson., to this day the little boy lives on.

We only have to look at Martin Bashir and how he painted Michael Jackson in his interview, which was edited to show Michael in a very bad light, when another video appeared showing the full interviews it was clear to see the dishonesty, lies and deceit all for money! This is a man that he let in to his life and home giving his trust, sadly this was a mistake as Martin Bashir sold him out, he edited the interviews to show Michael Jackson in a very poor light, on my blog you will find the revealing interviews pointing where the lies are.

He opened up his heart and his home to children, who were either very poorly or under privileged, his world was children when he was with them he was happy and at peace. Everything Michael provided for them at Netherland was free and he saw they had a fantastic time with happy memories.

Sadly as it is in life there were a few minority who decided that they would tear this down and break his heart, I do not believe he was ever guilty of anything other than a tragic child hood and loving children, listen to his music much of it written himself, it’s all about healing the world making it a better place, about starving children, the man in the mirror, speechless which is a record I hadn’t heard before now but fell in love with it. I despair at humanity when I look at his work with children, he wore his heart on his sleeve and this was the beginning of his downfall. He even took time away from his career to help the family and the boys recovery.

Why oh why do the press destroy the good things we have in life, how many other people have saved a child’s life in this way, how can this not make front page news?

He had no one to trust, no one to talk to, someone always wanted something from him (normally money), when he spent time with children he felt they didn’t judge, sadly it was one of those children who contributed to his downfall, the child admitted to police in the end that he had lied, but it was too late the damage was done and Michael Jackson was tainted forever. The court cases soaked up much of his money, making it hard to keep up the payments on Neverland that he had built and left so many children with treasured memories.

Please take a look at my tribute blog where I have posted only good things about Michael Jackson which I feel he deserved to be remembered for not rumour and speculation.

Book marketing and book sales are tough, but it’s possible to make a success of promotions using free giveaways to achieve ebook and print book sales. It can be hard to get this information openly revealed in one place, so I’m revealing all and giving actual statistics in a set of articles.

I experimented with a giveaway in November and learnt from the experience with one ebook so that successful methods could be applied to a second giveaway. The ebook went viral on Amazon in the UK. By this I mean there were downloads every second even if we did nothing to promote it.

I should make it clear, in answer to some queries, that I don’t count this as ‘viral’ because we gave away a lot of ebooks. It went viral in that we didn’t need to do anything and the downloads were continuous. As professional publishers we can’t nag individuals to take a free ebook to support us – people who may then let the freebie languish on their ereader or computer. We need a meaningful giveaway that we promote as professionally and discreetly as we would any other book launch. We have to let people decide for themselves whether or not they want the book.

Even if you aren’t thinking of a giveaway, many of these tips can be used to get a ‘paid for’ book high in the Amazon rankings, and getting high in the rankings is the key to going viral because potential readers and buyers find your book easily when browsing their favourite genres. I’ll cover the subject of ‘paid for’ books’ in another article, and you need a much lower number of daily downloads to succeed with paid books (which is still hard to sustain).

To help authors and publishers do the same thing I’m going to explain the methods used. But first I’m going to answer a question I’ve been asked by other publishers during the giveaways. They want to know if giveaways devalue all books because people might start to expect ebooks to be free.

The answer we have found is that the opposite is true. During and after the giveaways we sell more ebooks and more print books. This lasted throughout December after the experiment with our first novel giveaway.

December is a slow month for small publishers in the UK as buyers tend to get the books major publishers are putting huge promotional budgets into for the Christmas market, and bookshops actually return a lot of books to publishers to clear the shelves for these bestselling books. They won’t accept any new books until January.

Like other small publishers we give special festive offers to attract people to buy direct from website but the giveaway was a much bigger help than these traditional promotions. We had one of our best months so far for both print books and ebooks and I’m sure the giveaway helped with this. So my conclusion is that a giveaway doesn’t devalue print books and actually leads to more sales.

The book given away also helps get the author’s name very widely known and can reach an international market if the promotion is done well, and this leads to more of their other books being sold. After the giveaway the book that was given away also continued to sell, as reviews started to make their way onto the internet later. With the second book, the sales after the giveaway were high enough to keep the author on the front page in the ‘paid book’ rankings for Thrillers, so the book is still selling itself.

We have also decided that it works to keep ebook prices lower, as this not only leads to more ebook sales, but also leads to more print book sales, in our experience.The royalty for a traditionally published author on an ebook at a low price is quite close to the royalty of a paperback (where the royalty is 10% of cover price due to our higher production costs) so this works out well for authors. Even at our lower ebook price of about £1.50 the author gets a royalty of about 50p as Amazon and other costs take a third, and the rest is divided 50/50 between the author and publisher under the terms of our contract.

So, what are the techniques for getting an ebook to go viral on Amazon? First of all it has to be an excellent book as people won’t support a giveaway otherwise. I believe people know they can trust certain publishers to be producing good books, so you have to build that reputation, and they also trust authors who have endorsements from magazines and known authors on the front cover, if that’s possible. These endorsements can be taken from reviews, and it also helps if there are good reviews and ratings on the Amazon page, so do optimise that page by encouraging reviews, ‘Likes’, and star ratings.

So the first tip is not to give away poor quality books in order to promote your other books. If a book is excellent people downloading it will also download other books by the same author, or the same publishing company, especially if there’s another book in the same series. They are also buying more ebooks from across our list as they like this one. Don’t give away anything less than your best writing. It’s your showcase to the world. If a book has already been out in paperback (or as an ebook) for more than a year, it’s worth doing a giveaway as it has had time to prove itself. I have seen publishers and authors launch a new book with a giveaway but this isn’t our approach.

We learnt from the first giveaway that it’s vital to set a low price for the ebook, so that after the giveaway it will revert to this price and this will help keep it high in the ‘paid’ Kindle rankings, as people who have just missed the giveaway will still be tempted if the price isn’t too high. The Amazon servers update slowly, so a book manages to stay high in the free Kindle rankings for about a day even if it has a price.

We also learnt the importance of being in the right categories. Amazon allows two categories for a Kindle book so we put this book in Crime and Thrillers. In fact we have now learnt that you can put a book in a subcategory and it’s also in all the higher categories.

There are thrillers in Action and Adventure and it’s easier to get a ranking in the Adventure subcategories, so if you have this kind of book you might want to consider it as a step into the rankings. The same is true of other genres and categories – research into books like yours can show how the successful authors and publishers are getting high rankings. Which categories are they in? You can find this if they are high in the rankings as the various categories they are in will be listed on their book pages, just below the detailed information on the book (publisher, ISBN etc). If they aren’t selling enough to get into the rankings you won’t be able to see their categories.

You can change the categories during a giveaway and it’s worth doing this if you need to as you really must get into the top 20 ranking for a category. Our first giveaway novel got high in Literary Fiction, while the second got high in Thrillers. Some categories are easier to get high in, and it’s worth choosing an easy-to-get-into category to help increase the downloads by making the book highly visible to people searching for books in their favourite genre.

Thrillers is a difficult category to succeed in – it took 400 downloads a day in the UK alone to get Joe into the top 10. But you can aim for a subcategory in some genres and move up. 50 downloads a day could get you a top 10 ranking in the lower subcategories. (20 downloads a day can maintain a ranking once the book reverts to ‘paid’ status). Research has shown the top three bestselling genres are Crime (48%) followed by sci fi and literary fiction (both in the lower 20% bracket). Romance and erotica also sell well but, surprisingly for some, are lower than these other genres. We only needed 50 downloads in a day to be in the top 15 for Literary Fiction, so it was much harder with Crime and Thrillers than with other genres, even though you would have a larger potential target market.

Sorry if this sounds complicated but it makes sense when you are setting up your Kindle book. When choosing a category you are given a list of possibilities and when you choose fiction, nonfiction etc you are given all the subcategories. Click on them to find the subcategories of subcategories. When potential buyers look for books on Amazon they do the same thing, searching for fiction/nonfiction and then being offered subcategories. Amazon actually has one of the best methods of helping buyers search for books in their favourite genres.

The next step we took was to have a Facebook event for the launch of the giveaway (and we also had a Facebook event for the final day), with links to the book on Amazon sites and a reminder that people don’t need a Kindle. They can download the free Kindle reading app from Amazon. It’s also important to let people know they have to use the Amazon site for their own country, or many get confused that they can’t see the offer if they click on a link to the wrong site. You do need to build a large Facebook group for an event to help get a giveaway started, and you do need to be patient as many people do want their hands to be held. The clearer your messages the better the pick-up rate of the giveaway will be and the fewer requests for help you will get.

We then sent a message to nearly 500 members of the Written Word social network and notices to about 2,000 writers and book lovers in the virtual world of Second Life. People on Second Life are very supportive and interested in new technologies, including the latest experiments with ebooks, and the two bloggers who helped by writing about the giveaway were both from there. So it can help to be involved in various social networks for writers to build more of a following, or contacts list.

For the second giveaway we added Goodreads into the social networks for writers and readers we used. If you join a number of groups on Goodreads you will find that each group has one forum to allow author/publisher promotions, and you can put news of a giveaway in those. It definitely made a difference on our second day, when downloads were starting to slow down. At that point the ebook was nearly in the top 100 ranking for all books on Kindle but not quite.

You can also Google websites that let you list free Kindle books and you will find quite a few of the good ones listed. Some of these sites will promote your giveaway, but do look closely at them as some of them want you to notify them a month in advance.

You can also list your giveaway in a daily thread on the Kindle forums for your country’s Amazon website. They like people to put all the giveaways in the same thread for each day, and this does also help keep the thread being bumped into first place in the forum as new posts are added.

By putting the notices on Goodreads and also getting some support from two bloggers, in the UK and US, we managed to get our book into the top 100 ranking for all Kindle books on Amazon UK. Once the book was in this top 100 the downloads started to roll in every second, at which point I think we can say it went viral.

Another approach that helped us was that the giveaway was listed on the Hot UK Deals site. We didn’t list this ourselves: somebody found the deal and listed it there and I was told about it. It’s important not to use this site to self-promote in any way as that isn’t permitted, and the site lets members list good deals they find and others can rate the deal as hot or cold. The site is full of wonderful freebies and discounts so it’s very popular, and our book took off as a ‘hot’ deal due to member voting. I’m sure this has helped as the offer stayed on the ‘Hot’ page for about a week. It had thousands of views. I linked to the offer in every way I could (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc), while being careful, as self-promotion can lead to the offer being taken down, so you have to be sure not to cross that line.

When you post news of your own books on Goodreads and other forums, it’s worth keeping an eye on how many views your posts get. Some groups on Goodreads are larger and more active than others. The main response we get is from a different and extremely popular website – Kindle Boards – but if you use them, do be sure only to use their Book Bazaar forum, as self-promotion isn’t allowed anywhere else. The Mobile Reads forum is also good, but again it’s vital only to post where author self-promotions are allowed as the admins of these sites are very quick to remove people otherwise.

You do need to be prepared to put time and effort into the initial promotion so that a book can go viral, and I find it’s best to have a 5-day giveaway, the maximum Amazon allows in a season. This gives enough time to move up in the rankings, and as some books are on shorter giveaways they will vanish from above you. Of course you do need to keep a high number of downloads per day to maintain your position. Groups on LinkedIn provide an extra place where you can be taking part in discussions about ebooks and talking about your giveaway or promotion.

The more of these approaches you can use in the first day, the more chance you have of getting a high ranking and going viral so the book starts to do the work itself. It’s a lot to do on your own, so careful planning and others allocated to do various tasks would help. But for most of us it really is a go-it-alone process, or an author-and-publisher process.

Authors can help by building a good email circular list, and this can work even for authors who aren’t good at being self-promotional. Your email list is incredibly important, especially if you are an author, as you can encourage friends and family to support you. Just sharing the giveaway on their Facebook wall, tweeting about it, or mentioning it on a blog, will make an important contribution.

In fact, seeing the book getting higher did get people excited about helping, and sometimes being given a book encourages people to enjoy the fun of this challenge and the thrill as a book moves up in the top 100. People who have received the giveaway can feel a commitment to helping the book succeed if you rally them to your side.

One final tip I would give is that authors do need to ask people to help out with a blog or a share on Facebook and Twitter and so on, and I do the same on their behalf. We do have to be careful not to nag and spam people so I don’t push anybody. But it seems support isn’t given unless you ask. People need to be invited to take books, or to buy books, or to help with a blog. Even if you ask, you’re unlikely to get more than a few shares and retweets, and just a couple of blogs. But they can make that difference and push you up into a ranking that helps you go viral.

Medical malpractice comes in many forms with varying degrees of severity. Many cases of medical malpractice involve errors in medications, either by ignoring contraindications or erring in dosage. Particularly egregious mistakes include “surgical never” events, which are events that should never occur under any circumstances. These events include leaving foreign objects in a patient’s body, performing unnecessary procedures, performing procedures on the wrong patient, and other such outlandish conduct.

While no patient wants to believe that he or she is the victim of medical malpractice, surgical never events happen approximately 4,000 times per year in the United States. Ordinary malpractice occurs far more frequently. Patients who believe that they are the victim of medical malpractice should ask questions, obtain a second opinion, take preventative action, and seek compensation.

Ask Questions

Due to the nature of medicine, it may not be immediately obvious when a patient is incorrectly operated upon or an unnecessary procedure is being recommended. Medical doctors are expected to be experienced and trustworthy. Patients generally defer to the judgment of trained professionals and this generally works out well. However, patients should still understand what is going on at any stage.

Patients with any concerns should always attempt to have them addressed. Patients should ask about anything that is germane to the appropriateness of the particular course of action, including why a procedure is being performed or medication is being prescribed, alternatives to the procedure or medication, side effects, and recovery times. In addition to being able to understand what is going on, the patient will have additional information to relay to other professionals down the line.

Obtain a Second Opinion

Patients who believe that their physician may have erred should consult a second experienced physician. By being examined by another physician, the patient can determine whether the relevant action was one that a reasonable physician would have made. Reasonable minds can differ when making patient care decisions and not every procedure with a negative outcome constitutes medical malpractice.

However, if the patient’s doctor made a significant mistake, such as by ordering an unnecessary invasive surgery, other professionals will identify the negligence quickly. Skilled professionals within the same industry understand its standard practices and if a physician deviates from those practices, another medical professional will be best situated to identify the error. Once an error is identified, the physician can formulate a treatment regimen to minimize the damage.

Follow the Treatment Regimen

Once patients realize that they have been the victim of medical malpractice, it is imperative that they follow the treatment regimen formulated by competent medical professionals. This is particularly important in the event of a surgical never event. Complications from surgery range from pain to fatal infections. Without proper treatment, the damage caused by the errant physician can become much worse.

Additionally, patients who are the victims of medical malpractice causing serious injuries are likely to seek compensation for their injuries. Plaintiffs in civil cases for negligence have a duty to mitigate their damages. In addition to increasing one’s pain and the probability of serious harm, allowing a known act of medical malpractice to continue or letting damages accrue can compromise one’s claim. Some patients are not always as vigilant as they should be when following a doctor’s recommendations, but after an act of medical malpractice, it is imperative that patients do so.

Seek Legal Counsel

When the standard of care provided by a physician falls below the accepted standard of care for similarly situated physicians, that medical professional is guilty of medical malpractice. After an act of medical malpractice, patients may have experienced severe pain, lost income, and incurred large medical bills. Seeking compensation from the at-fault party, whether it requires a medical malpractice lawyer in Maryland or Montana, is the next logical step.

In particularly egregious cases of medical malpractice, the doctor, the hospital, or either party’s insurance company may attempt to settle with the victim. The insurance company will offer a token settlement, such as offering to compensate the victim for their medical costs only, in the hopes of deferring a lawsuit. These settlements often ignore the patient’s other needs, such as pain and suffering and lost income.

When the discussion has migrated to potential settlements, victims should not speak to these parties. Instead, victims should consult with an attorney experienced in the field of medical malpractice. Represented parties can ensure that their rights are respected and increase the probability that their injuries will be fully addressed. Without the threat of litigation, poor quality physicians have little incentive to improve.

Doctors complete college, medical school, residency, and often a fellowship in order to earn the right to practice medicine. Unfortunately, not everyone who goes through this process is capable of meeting the standard of care all the time. According to a 2011 article in the New England Journal of Medicine, 7.4 percent of physicians are sued for medical malpractice every year.

The rate varies substantially by specialty, as general surgeons are sued at over twice that rate while pediatricians and psychiatrists are sued much less often. Anyone who believes that they have been the victim of medical malpractice should seek a second opinion immediately. If their suspicions are confirmed, they should seek legal counsel immediately.

It took you such a long time to find the woman of your dreams and you were the luckiest man the moment she agreed to marry you. However, marriage is tough and there are times wherein you two cannot just seem to work things out.

Some men usually ask the question of how to win or get their ex-wife back, especially after she has left home. This is complicated as you cannot just say sorry and expect her to come home. There are some ways that you can do in which you can slowly get your wife back:

Give her the time she needs.

Let your wife have some time alone, without you around. Give her time and space to think things through, and to cool down from all the anger. Give her as much time as she needs and be there when she is ready to talk.

Apologize first, more than anything.

The first thing that should come out of your mouth is that you are sorry. Apologize for everything, especially for all the things you both have been going through lately. Make her realize that you no longer want the shouting and anger.

One more chance.

You are lucky if your wife is willing to take you back right away but if she is hesitant, tell her to just give you one more chance. This time, do not waste the chance she offered you. Do all things possible with this chance.

Ask her to work things out.

It is not enough for you to do all the work. Talk some sense into her and ask her to try to work things out on her level. With both of you working for your marriage, it is impossible for things to remain the same as before.

Swear and be true to that promise.

Give her a list of promises that you wholeheartedly will keep. When you make a promise, mean it. Do not just make it for the sake of winning her back.

Woo her everyday.

No woman will be able to ignore a man who courts her every day. You do not have to give her gifts and expensive things every single day. Just telling how much you love her every moment you can, will keep the fire and the love going. You don’t have to be ashamed if you sound cheesy.

Be faithful, patient, loving.

In other words, be the person you have not been for a long time. These qualities are what an ideal husband possesses. Even if you find these difficult to express, do not stop in trying every hour of everyday until the love you had years ago comes back again.

If your boyfriend suddenly starts distancing himself or stops talking to you then you are entitled to feel alarmed about it. After all the emotional investment that you have made you deserve to be treated better. However, please note your boyfriend is well within his right to do so. Here are some reasons why he is doing this. Identify the real cause and address it before he goes away forever.

He is missing his bachelor days

Unknowingly you are tagging along with him wherever he goes. There is not a moment when you are not with him except when he is in the bathroom/washroom. If this is the case he is missing his bachelor days when he was a free bird. Give him lots of space and he will start talking to you once again.

You are fast forwarding the relationship

He feels that you are in a rush to settle down. If you are fast forwarding the relationship because your biological clock is ticking then that is not the right thing to do. Go slow and do not exert any pressure. In fact don’t talk to him for a while and he will begin to miss you once again.

He is still not sure of his feelings

The reason he stopped talking to you is because he is still not sure of his feelings for you. He does not want to be the villain and is therefore trying to create an artificial distance so that you get the hint.

He feels that you are manipulating him

Are you blackmailing him emotionally? Do you always insist that he does things your way? If that is true then an apology is in order. He is your boyfriend and not your slave, he deserves lots of respect.

He has some personal issues to sort out

There could be any number of personal issues that might be forcing him to put the relationship on the backburner. It could be that a close family member is going through a breakup or maybe his parents are separating. Whatever be the case assure him of your support and things will be fine.

He wants to focus elsewhere

Maybe he has realized that being in a relationship is like a full time occupation and he wants to focus all his energies on his studies or profession. If that is the reason why he stopped talking to you, encourage him. He will thank you for it and will also resume talking to you.

There could be a third person

It is quite possible that your guy must have met a new girl that is more attractive or one that matches his wavelength. If that is true then you are better off without him. There are plenty of guys you can date. All you have to do is look for them in the right place.

Jenna Jameson, born Jennifer Marie Massoli on April 9, 1974, rose to fame as a porn star after appearances in men’s magazines such as Hustler and Penthouse. Jameson also founded multi media adult entertainment company ClubJenna, based in Scottsdale, Arizona. She is famous among adults who view adult films, and people who are curious about the adult film industry are familiar with her name.

This year, Jameson decided to retire from adult filmmaking. After all, she’s 33 years old now, and we all know the porn industry focuses predominantly on very young men and women; most in their very early 20s. To mark this decision, Jameson decided to remove her signature DD breast implants and, it is reported, go back to her own natural C cup breasts.

But did she really remove the implants? There are people who believe that Jameson simply reduced the size of her implants. Her perfectly rounded, now C cup breasts still bear the artificial “ball shape” that trademarks manufactured breasts. And although it was plastic surgeon Garth Fisher who “removed” the implants in a three hour surgery, the lack of visible scarring and drooping that can be seen on the breasts in Jameson’s “bikini shots” seem to indicate that there wasn’t much need for the skin tucks and nipple jobs that would have been necessary to completely remove DD sized implants. Breast skin (like skin anywhere else on the body) once it’s stretched, does not simply “bounce back” to its original size in a short amount of time. Like a three hour surgery.

Jameson reports that she felt uncomfortable when she had implants, and unless she was at an adult film convention, she’d wear high necked clothing to hide her assets. She claims to have been shy at the beach. When jogging, she reports, she had to hold on to her breasts. She says she is now able to stand up straighter. Jameson is happy with her body and says she feels like she did when she was 17. But are the now-smaller breasts really her own? We might never know for sure.