The Best News Possible

The Best News Possible
Author: George Javor
Publisher: TEACH Services, Inc.
Total Pages: 111
Release:
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1479612456

What would it be like if you knew that you could live forever? Would you live differently now? The Best News Possible hits upon the most basic and unfulfilled need of all humanity: to live in perpetuity. We were created to live forever, so what happened? The author tells how and why the human family has declined to our current lifespan. Being a biochemist by training, he gives his science-based insights to the story of the creation and the fall of mankind. He also provides an explanation for the drastic consequences of the apparently innocuous act of eating the forbidden fruit. The author gives indisputable evidence in favor of the creation story as presented in the Bible and a strong indication for a young earth. He contrasts heaven’s unending solicitude and pro-active campaign to save the earth, culminating with the incarnation and death of the majestic Creator on Calvary, with the ongoing, spectacularly unsuccessful SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) projects, costing millions of dollars. Most importantly, this book shows the reader the way out from our prison of short lifespan—the fruit of our Savior’s self-sacrifice on the Cross. But it doesn’t end there! The author wants readers to see where we are in the stream of earth’s history and what is waiting for us in the great beyond!

News for the Rich, White, and Blue

News for the Rich, White, and Blue
Author: Nikki Usher
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2021-07-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0231545606

As cash-strapped metropolitan newspapers struggle to maintain their traditional influence and quality reporting, large national and international outlets have pivoted to serving readers who can and will choose to pay for news, skewing coverage toward a wealthy, white, and liberal audience. Amid rampant inequality and distrust, media outlets have become more out of touch with the democracy they purport to serve. How did journalism end up in such a predicament, and what are the prospects for achieving a more equitable future? In News for the Rich, White, and Blue, Nikki Usher recasts the challenges facing journalism in terms of place, power, and inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of field research, she illuminates how journalists decide what becomes news and how news organizations strategize about the future. Usher shows how newsrooms remain places of power, largely white institutions growing more elite as journalists confront a shrinking job market. She details how Google, Facebook, and the digital-advertising ecosystem have wreaked havoc on the economic model for quality journalism, leaving local news to suffer. Usher also highlights how the handful of likely survivors—well-funded media outlets such as the New York Times—increasingly appeal to a global, “placeless” reader. News for the Rich, White, and Blue concludes with a series of provocative recommendations to reimagine journalism to ensure its resiliency and its ability to speak to a diverse set of issues and readers.

Make Time

Make Time
Author: Jake Knapp
Publisher: Crown Currency
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2018-09-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0525572430

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Sprint comes “a unique and engaging read about a proven habit framework [that] readers can apply to each day” (Insider, Best Books to Form New Habits). “If you want to achieve more (without going nuts), read this book.”—Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit Nobody ever looked at an empty calendar and said, "The best way to spend this time is by cramming it full of meetings!" or got to work in the morning and thought, Today I'll spend hours on Facebook! Yet that's exactly what we do. Why? In a world where information refreshes endlessly and the workday feels like a race to react to other people's priorities faster, frazzled and distracted has become our default position. But what if the exhaustion of constant busyness wasn't mandatory? What if you could step off the hamster wheel and start taking control of your time and attention? That's what this book is about. As creators of Google Ventures' renowned "design sprint," Jake and John have helped hundreds of teams solve important problems by changing how they work. Building on the success of these sprints and their experience designing ubiquitous tech products from Gmail to YouTube, they spent years experimenting with their own habits and routines, looking for ways to help people optimize their energy, focus, and time. Now they've packaged the most effective tactics into a four-step daily framework that anyone can use to systematically design their days. Make Time is not a one-size-fits-all formula. Instead, it offers a customizable menu of bite-size tips and strategies that can be tailored to individual habits and lifestyles. Make Time isn't about productivity, or checking off more to-dos. Nor does it propose unrealistic solutions like throwing out your smartphone or swearing off social media. Making time isn't about radically overhauling your lifestyle; it's about making small shifts in your environment to liberate yourself from constant busyness and distraction. A must-read for anyone who has ever thought, If only there were more hours in the day..., Make Time will help you stop passively reacting to the demands of the modern world and start intentionally making time for the things that matter.

All the News That's Fit to Sell

All the News That's Fit to Sell
Author: James T. Hamilton
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2011-10-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1400841410

That market forces drive the news is not news. Whether a story appears in print, on television, or on the Internet depends on who is interested, its value to advertisers, the costs of assembling the details, and competitors' products. But in All the News That's Fit to Sell, economist James Hamilton shows just how this happens. Furthermore, many complaints about journalism--media bias, soft news, and pundits as celebrities--arise from the impact of this economic logic on news judgments. This is the first book to develop an economic theory of news, analyze evidence across a wide range of media markets on how incentives affect news content, and offer policy conclusions. Media bias, for instance, was long a staple of the news. Hamilton's analysis of newspapers from 1870 to 1900 reveals how nonpartisan reporting became the norm. A hundred years later, some partisan elements reemerged as, for example, evening news broadcasts tried to retain young female viewers with stories aimed at their (Democratic) political interests. Examination of story selection on the network evening news programs from 1969 to 1998 shows how cable competition, deregulation, and ownership changes encouraged a shift from hard news about politics toward more soft news about entertainers. Hamilton concludes by calling for lower costs of access to government information, a greater role for nonprofits in funding journalism, the development of norms that stress hard news reporting, and the defining of digital and Internet property rights to encourage the flow of news. Ultimately, this book shows that by more fully understanding the economics behind the news, we will be better positioned to ensure that the news serves the public good.

News at Work

News at Work
Author: Pablo J. Boczkowski
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2010-09-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0226062805

Peeking inside the newsrooms where journalists create stories and the work settings where the public reads them, the author reveals why journalists contribute to the growing similarity of news and why consumers acquiesce to a media system they find increasingly dissatisfying.

One Step at a Time

One Step at a Time
Author: Brian Peahuff
Publisher: Ambassador International
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2018-06-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1620208164

After a car accident left him paralyzed at the age of eighteen, Brian Peahuff thought he was destined to live a hopeless and helpless life. But God had other plans for Brian. One Step at a Time begins with Brian’s last high school football game in 1990 and chronicles all the ups-and-downs of the next 26 years. It’s a story of tragedy, a story of determination and perseverance, a story about willpower and never giving up, and then an unexpected love story. One Step at a Time is a story of love, faith, family, and friendship, that shows that life isn’t easy—it becomes what you make it. God truly can help anyone going through the worst case scenario, you just have to take it one step at a time.

It Had to be Riley

It Had to be Riley
Author: Christine Young
Publisher: Rogue Phoenix Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2023-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1624207375

Her anger assured retaliation… Shawna’s only concern with the contemptable scoundrel she had been forced to wed was the return of her dowry. She had not seen her husband in three years, and now Riley Stuart furiously repudiated there had ever been a marriage. He even went as far as to tell his family he’d never seen her before this day. … Her passion promised love In the heather clad hills of the beautiful Scottish crags surrounding the small village so near to the Mckenna keep, the ferocity of her loathing yields to the intense hunger of unquenched longing. In the powerful arms of the dark and handsome husband she thought she reviled, Shawna shivers with the honeyed torment of awakened desire and powerlessly submits to the wild, enchanting ecstasy of burning passion. Together they abandon themselves to the exquisite pleasure of the love their hearts cannot escape.

It's Your Decision

It's Your Decision
Author: Ed Grizzle
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2011-06-29
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1462031870

Children are gifts from God, but parenting those children can often be a difficult task. In Its Your Decision, author Ed Grizzle shows how parenting can be successful when its carried out according to Gods plan. Using his lifes experiences as a guide, Grizzle explores the importance of making the right decisions in lifefrom choosing the right lifestyle and the right mate and to raising children according to what God has planned for you. Its Your Decision discusses planning for children; knowing what children need; being aware of the important years in a childs life; understanding that children will test parents; valuing the role of grandparents; dealing with abused children; communicating openly and honestly; clarifying family roles. Grizzle presents a guide to strengthening lives and making your family life more enjoyable. He shows how this is possible when you accept Jesus Christ into your life; he will show you the way in the difficult times.

Folks Around Here

Folks Around Here
Author: Gene Price
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2008-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 143891976X

Collection of columns for the Goldsboro news-argus.