Waching daily May 10 2017

Are

You On The Dark Or Light Side

By consciousreminder

Are You Aware of Your Frequency?

Humans are dualistic by nature. We are both of spirit/source energy and ego persona/matter.

When we are about three years old, we start developing our sense of self/individually.

This happens primarily by labeling and judging our perception of what is appearing.

If we never learn to temper this as we grow older, we separate from our spirit as well

as from others. This leads to feelings of loneliness, isolation, and even abandonment.

We have ultimately abandoned our spiritual self through constant separation.

Sensitive People May Struggle with Duality

Let us look at this from another angle. Instead of labels such as bad/dark, we use the term

low frequency, and substitute high frequency for good/light. Now we are working within

a range. Each person in humanity holds an energetic frequency on this range. Energetic

signatures are the total of our thoughts, feelings and beliefs. We are all unique and

have a base setting when we are born, a natural operating range/frequency which is then tuned

through our energetic signature.

Why? Each of us is here to experience, learn and grow through the vessel of humanity. Humans

are dualistic, for each frequency there is an opposite frequency: low and high for example.

Our base setting is determined by the life lessons we are here to experience. Does that

mean people can�t change? We can always respond to life from our higher selves rather

than react from our ego persona. It takes awareness and conscious observation. It�s

a practice which requires dedication. It can be done.

Spiritual Teachers and the Energetic Range

Where do spiritual teachers fit in? When we are shifting up that energetic range, it is

helpful for someone higher on the scale to hold the space and support us through the

transition. Their presence helps adjust our vibration and frequency. Do all teachers shift

you up? No, they don�t, we must use discernment when choosing a teacher. Remember we are all

operating on a range. Look for people whose words and actions have congruence. Whose presence

feels uplifting without them speaking.

Since there is no bad or good when we drop the labels, how does that change our perception

of reality? Let�s use an example: on our way home, we get mugged; now our lower frequency

will react, the perpetrator becomes evil and we become a victim (energetically). Our energy

stays in that frequency, through the law of attraction! We continue to receive validation

for our frequency with more experiences that support victim-hood, plus we are still stewing

in the event. We keep replaying it in our heads and create more suffering.

A Few Words on Acceptance and Resistance

A different experience is in acceptance. We got mugged on the way home, OK we proceed

by contacting the police, credit card company; whatever we need to do. Accepting that the

perpetrator was acting from his lower energy frequency, we don�t react or go into victimhood,

it is what it is, let�s keep flowing into the next moment. We do not create a resistance

of what has appeared by telling a story about �poor us� or �evil him,� which would

shift our energy frequency and cause suffering. Resistance = Suffering.

It boils down to; we are all here to do and experience what we are meant to, what we need

to evolve and shift to the next frequency. Sometimes it�s our suffering that is the

catalyst for a transition. It is the sign that alerts us to change our perception, and

balance our spirits and ego personas. Being human is challenging, if we can observe ourselves

and detach from ego occasionally. Rather than label others, if we hold compassion, we will

create harmony and that feels good/different.

For more infomation >> Are You On The Dark Or Light Side - Duration: 5:44.

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AI Learns to Synthesize Pictures of Animals | Two Minute Papers - Duration: 3:54.

Dear Fellow Scholars, this is Two Minute Papers with Károly Zsolnai-Fehér.

I just finished reading this paper and I fell out of the chair.

And I can almost guarantee you that the results in this work are so insane, you will have

to double, or even triple check to believe what you're going to see here.

This one is about image translation, which means that the input is an image, and the

output is a different version of this input image that is changed according to our guidelines.

Imagine that we have a Monet painting, and we'd like to create a photograph of this beautiful

view.

There we go.

What if we'd like to change this winter landscape to an image created during the summer?

There we go.

If we are one of those people on the internet forums who just love to compare apples to

oranges, this is now also a possibility.

And have a look at this - imagine that we like the background of this image, but instead

of the zebras, we would like to have a couple of horses.

No problem.

Coming right up!

This algorithm synthesizes them from scratch.

The first important thing we should know about this technique, is that it uses generative

adversarial networks.

This means that we have two neural networks battling each other in an arms race.

The generator network tries to create more and more realistic images, and these are passed

to the discriminator network which tries to learn the difference between real photographs

and fake, forged images.

During this process, the two neural networks learn and improve together until they become

experts at their own craft.

However, this piece of work introduces two novel additions to this process.

One, in earlier works, the training samples were typically paired.

This means that the photograph of a shoe would be paired to a drawing that depicts it.

This additional information helps the training process a great deal and the algorithm would

be able to map drawings to photographs.

However, a key difference here is that without such pairings, we don't need these labels,

we can use significantly more training samples in our datasets which also helps the learning

process.

If this is executed well, the technique is able to pair anything to anything else, which

results in a remarkably powerful algorithm.

Key difference number two - a cycle consistency loss function is introduced to the optimization

problem.

This means that if we convert a summer image to a winter image, and then back to a summer

image, we should get the very same input image back.

If our learning system obeys to this principle, the output quality of the translation is going

to be significantly better.

This cycle consistency loss is introduced as a regularization term.

Our seasoned Fellow Scholars already know what it means, but in case you don't, I've

put a link to our explanation in the video description.

The paper contains a ton more results, and fortunately, the source code for this project

is also available.

Multiple implementations, in fact!

Just as a side note, which is jaw dropping, by the way - there is some rudimentary support

for video.

Amazing piece of work.

Bravo!

Now you can also see that the rate of progress in machine learning research is completely

out of this world!

No doubt that it is the best time to be a research scientist it's ever been.

If you've liked this episode, make sure to subscribe to the series and have a look at

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Thanks for watching and for your generous support, and I'll see you next time!

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Pregnancy - physiology - Duration: 14:22.

Pregnancy is an amazing process that affects almost every body system.

Throughout the pregnancy, estrogen and progesterone levels steadily rise, and it leads to a number

of anatomic and physiologic changes that occur throughout the body.

Everything starts with ovulation, so let's call that day 0.

On that day, in the ovary, an ovarian follicle – which is an egg or oocyte plus its surrounding

tissues– matures and ovulation occurs which is when the egg gets ejected while the surrounding

structure becomes the corpus luteum and quickly starts making estrogen and progesterone.

Normally, the egg gets fertilized by a sperm within 12-24 hours to form a zygote, so let's

say that fertilization happens a day later on day 1.

Almost right away, cells start to divide over and over, until there's a ball of cells

called the blastocyst on day 4.

The blastocyst typically floats around inside the uterus for another day before it finds

a specific spot to implant on day 5.

Around this time, the corpus luteum makes a lot more progesterone relative to estrogen,

and the low estrogen to progesterone ratio is necessary for implantation.

At this early stage, there are two parts to the blastocyst - an inner set of cells that

go on to become the fetus, and an outer set of cells called the trophoblast that burrow

into the endometrium on day 6 and eventually develop into the fetal part of the placenta.

That trophoblast cells start to produce a hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin

or HCG around day 8, and this is important for two reasons.

One - it's the hormone that lets the corpus luteum know that there has been a successful

implantation into the endometrium, and that it should continue to make estrogen and progesterone.

And it's the continued presence of estrogen and progesterone that suppresses other ovarian

follicles from maturing.

Two - HCG is the hormone that most pregnancy tests are able to detect, causing the little

sign to form which can happen as early as day 9.

Without HCG levels shooting up on day 8, the corpus luteum would start to shrivel up by

day 10, and estrogen and progesterone levels would fall.

This would cause the lining of the endometrium to slough off or fall away from the endometrial

wall resulting in a period or menses.

A pregnancy lasts 40 weeks, roughly 9 months, but that is from the last menstrual period,

which is usually about 2 weeks before "day 0" of ovulation.

So if you're counting from "day 0" a pregnancy is only about 38 weeks.

The reason for adding in the extra two weeks is that women usually know the date when their

last menstrual period began, but have no way of knowing when they ovulated.

So during the first trimester, which is between week 1 through 13, hormones are being generated

by the corpus luteum - mainly estrogen and progesterone.

By around week 9, HCG levels peak, and then begin to fall off which is a signal for the

corpus luteum to finally start shriveling up.

Luckily, just as the corpus luteum is shriveling up, the placenta takes over, and specialized

trophoblast cells called syncytiotrophoblast cells, make progesterone and estriol which

is the most abundant type of estrogen.

The placenta also makes a bit of HCG, as well as another hormone called human placental

lactogen or hPL which counters the effect of maternal insulin to help ensure that there's

plenty of glucose available in the blood for the fetus.

Many of the changes in pregnancy are directly related to the growth of the uterus.

The uterus is normally a pelvic organ, but during pregnancy it grows into the abdomen,

rising to the level of ithe umbilicus by 20 weeks gestation and to the xiphoid process

by 36 weeks.

The fundal height - which is the distance from the symphysis pubis to the top of the

uterus aka the fundus is a good estimate of gestational age; for example, here at 36 weeks

you might expect it to be about 36 cm, but at 20 weeks it'd be closer to 20 cm.

To accommodate the needs of mom, an enlarging uterus, and a growing fetus - as well as having

some reserve for the blood loss that happens during delivery, the cardiovascular system

has to expand.

Pregnancy is called a high volume state because the circulating blood volume increases by

30-50%, which means that an average woman will go from having 5 liters of blood to about

7.5 liters of blood by the third trimester.

The number of red blood cells increases a bit, but there's a much larger increase

in the plasma volume - the portion of blood that doesn't have red blood cells.

So the hematocrit, or percentage of blood made of red blood cells, actually goes down.

This is called "physiological anemia of pregnancy".

To push this extra blood around, the heart rate goes up by about 20 beats per minute,

so this increases the cardiac output.

In response to vvvthe increased workload there is a mild hypertrophy of the heart, which

does go away after pregnancy.

The high volume state also explains why there's sometimes a third heart sound or physiologic

S3, as well as a split S1 which is where the mitral valve closes slightly faster than the

tricuspid valve.

Finally, the blood pressure actually falls a tiny bit, even though more blood's getting

pushed through them, since progesterone causes them to dilate.

Finally, as the uterus enlarges, it pushes up on the diaphragm, nudging the heart slightly

upward and shifting the heart's point of maximum intensity - the spot where it taps

against the chest wall - a little bit to the left.

The uterus also presses against the pelvic veins, causing blood to back up, leading to

varicose veins as well as swelling in the lower legs and ankles.

When lying down, the uterus presses on the inferior vena cava reducing blood flow back

to right atrium and causing hypotension.

A side-lying position or placing a pillow under the hip can help avoid that.

The increased cardiac output also means that there more fluid going through the kidneys,

increasing the glomerular filtration rate and urinary output.

Combining that increased urine output with direct pressure on the bladder from the enlarging

uterus, explains why pregnant women have urinary frequency.

It turns out that the kidneys compensate for the extra workload by increasing in size causing

the calyces and renal pelvis to dilate - resulting in physiologic hydronephrosis, and increasing

size of the ureters, causing physiologic hydroureter.

In addition, progesterone causes hypomotility of the ureters.

The increased capacity to store urine and the hypomotility in the ureters results in

urinary stasis in the kidneys and increases the risk of an upper urinary tract infection.

The lungs get affected as well.

The uterus pushes upwards on the diaphragm, making it harder for pregnant women to breathe

comfortably.

There's some compensation because progesterone relaxes ligaments in the thorax, increasing

the transverse diameter of the rib cage - like a bucket handle that swings out, and the anteroposterior

diameter of the rib cage - like a handle that pulls up.

These changes increase the tidal volume - the amount of air inhaled or exhaled per breath

- and minute volume - the amount of air inhaled or exhaled per minute.

This decreases carbon dioxide levels in the blood causing a mild respiratory alkalosis.

It turns out that this mild alkalosis actually enhances gas exchange across the placenta,

making it easier for the growing fetus to get oxygen.

Finally, in the upper respiratory tract, estrogen causes increased vascularization and capillary

engorgement, which can lead to nasal stuffiness, sinus congestion, and nosebleeds.

In addition, progesterone and relaxin, another hormone produced by the placenta, both loosen

ligaments around the sacroiliac joints and symphysis pubis in preparation for fetal passage

through the birth canal.

This results in a waddling gait sometimes seen during pregnancy, and these two can also

cause pain in other joints, like those of the ribs and, or coccygeal or tail bone, all

from shifting ligaments.

In the gastrointestinal tract, hormonal changes cause smooth muscle relaxation and decreased

peristalsis, which sometimes leads to constipation and bloating.

It also causes relaxation of the lower esophageal sphincter, which can lead to gastric reflux

and heartburn.

Many pregnant women also experience "morning sickness" which is nausea that typically

happens early on in the pregnancy, but can actually happen any time of day and sometimes

persists throughout the pregnancy.

Tastes can change too - some women start disliking certain foods while craving other ones.

A classic example is called pica, where there's a craving for non-food items like ice, dirt,

or starch; the exact cause of this is unclear.

High levels of estrogen and progesterone hormones can also affect mood, and the effect can range

from mild irritability to severe anxiety and depression, all of which can be very unexpected

and disconcerting.

Many women also describe a mental fogginess or decreased ability to concentrate, which

may be related to hormonal changes or general fatigue and sleep deprivation.

During the pregnancy, estrogen and progesterone also promote breast development and the milk-producing

machinery that will go to work after the baby is delivered.

Increased blood flow to the breasts and building of breast tissue may cause symptoms like tingling,

fullness, and tenderness.

Estrogen also stimulates the anterior pituitary to produce prolactin, a hormone responsible

for milk production and letdown, though the high levels of progesterone present during

pregnancy inhibit prolactin's milk letdown effect until the baby is born and estrogen

and progesterone levels fall.

That anterior pituitary gland also releases more melanocyte stimulating hormone, which

causes darkening of the areolae, or the skin around the nipples.

The increased melanocyte activity also darkens the normally unseen stripe of fibrous tissue

running down the chest and abdomen from the xiphoid process to the symphysis pubis called

the linea alba or white line, transforming it into a darkened line called the linea nigra.

Other glands that are affected by pregnancy include the thyroid gland which churns out

more thyroid hormone to increase the cellular basal metabolic rate in order to meet the

demands of the pregnancy.

Normally, women gain 25 to 35 pounds throughout the pregnancy, and that extra weight is mostly

due to the increased blood volume, followed by the fetus itself, fat stores, the uterus,

and finally the placenta.

The extra weight and the forward shift in the center of gravity, can cause a lordosis

and lower back pain.

Women can also get diastasis recti, which is where the uterus puts direct pressure on

rectus abdominus muscles making them separate.

In general, this pain can make it tough to get a good night's rest.

As a quick recap, during pregancy, both estrogen and progesterone rise, which causes a number

of changes in nearly every organ system - there's an increase in blood volume, increased urinary

output, shallow breathing,, mood changes, nausea and changes in taste, darkening of

the skin, breast changes, and the loosening of the ligaments.

All of which help prepare for the delivery of a healthy baby.

For more infomation >> Pregnancy - physiology - Duration: 14:22.

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"Complications of Peritoneal Dialysis" by Sharon Su for OPENPediatrics - Duration: 9:23.

Complications of Peritoneal Dialysis, by Dr. Sharon Su.

Introduction.

Hello, my name is Doctor Sharon Su, I'm a Pediatric Nephrologist.

Today I'm going to talk to you about peritoneal dialysis.

Dialysis Catheters.

One question that often comes up is, "When can you use a dialysis catheter?"

This depends on the situation of the patient.

If it is acute peritoneal dialysis, the reason you put in the catheter is because you need

to start dialysis immediately.

However, if it's chronic, as in it's planned, for a patient that is reaching end-stage renal

disease or currently has a vascular catheter for hemodialysis but will be transitioning

to peritoneal dialysis, then you have a little bit more time.

If you're going to use the catheter or to perform peritoneal dialysis immediately, it's

very important to just start with very slow or small fill volumes.

That way you will reduce the chance of leakage.

Ideally, if you do have time to wait, you'll want the site to heal well and seal off from

leakage.

So if you put it in a catheter and you can wait, because you have other forms of renal

replacement therapy, such as hemodialysis, then I would recommend waiting two to four

weeks before starting peritoneal dialysis.

Another thing to consider is that there are different types of catheters.

In general, for chronic peritoneal dialysis, catheters that are cuffed, as well as swan

neck-- which means they curl up at the end so that they reduce the risk of touching other

organs and causing blockage-- those theoretically reduce the risk of infection.

They are used for patients who will be on chronic peritoneal dialysis.

Cuffed catheters are also tunneled.

So they're tunneled through different layers of the skin from the epidermis to the sub-Q

layers, and then into the abdominal cavity.

So those are made so that the risk of infection is less.

They have to be removed in the OR because they are tunneled and cuffed.

So you can't just cut the stitches and pull it out.

Simple straight catheters that are not cuffed are easily placed and also easily removed.

But these have a higher chance of leakage.

If a patient has a G-tube that's been in place and well-healed and sealed, one can put in

a peritoneal dialysis catheter and there should be no problems.

Or, sometimes, a G-tube is placed at the same time as a peritoneal dialysis catheter.

In that case, one should be pretty careful in how much fill volume you're going to fill

into the peritoneal cavity.

Complications with Peritoneal Dialysis.

Peritonitis is a major complication of peritoneal dialysis.

50% of the organisms come from Gram-positive such as Staph aureus, Staph epidermis, Streptococcus

or Enterococcus.

15% come from Gram-negative organisms, such as Pseudomonas, Anaerobes, or E. coli.

Others have polymicrobial, so a component of both Gram-positive and Gram-negative.

This accounts for 4%.

And less than 2% are caused by fungal.

What are the signs and symptoms of peritonitis?

This includes fever greater than 38 degrees Celsius, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting,

cloudy effluent, increased fibrin, and slow or difficult flow of dialysis fluid, whether

this is filling or draining.

Diagnosing peritonitis includes identifying the cloudy effluent, fever greater than 38

degrees Celsius, a cell differential count where the WBC is greater than 100, and 50%

of the white cells are neutrophils.

A positive gram stain can also help you diagnose peritonitis, as well as positive cultures

from the peritoneal dialysis fluid.

The wonderful thing about peritoneal dialysis is that you can treat the peritonitis by giving

or adding the antibiotic right into the peritoneal dialysis fluid.

So you do not need to give systemic antibiotics.

In fact, getting it into the peritoneal dialysis fluid is more efficacious, as it hits the

source of the infection.

There are many antibiotics that can be added into the peritoneal dialysis bag.

This would be dependent on the institution, what you have available.

And there are different doses that are recommended.

There are loading doses as well as maintenance doses.

If you look at this table, there is a list of the medications such as cefazolin, cefepine,

ceftazidime, as well as gentomicin, vancomycin, ciprofloxicin, fluconazole.

For the latest update on antibiotic doses, see ISPD guidelines and recommendations.

In general, the loading dose you want to leave in for about three hours.

And then you change the dose to a maintenance dose, which means you change the dialysis

fluid bag, and you add in a different concentration of antibiotic.

Usually, treatment doses, you want to do about two-hour cycles.

And you want to do this around the clock.

So continuous dialysis until you notice that the drain fluid is clear.

Generally, you treat for 14 days.

You can do shorter cycles.

Again, if you do more exchanges, the idea is you flush out the organisms.

So you do not have to do two-hour cycles.

You can do one-hour cycles.

However, this may be more labor intensive, as then you have to continue to add antibiotics

to your dialysis bags.

Another complication is leakage of peritoneal dialysis fluid.

This causes many problems such as infection, not just for peritonitis, but as well as cellulitis,

as well as poor efficacy of dialysis.

Dialysis fluid is caustic to the skin because it includes electrolytes, and the leakage

can irritate the exit site.

Furthermore, the dextrose is a perfect energy source for organisms like bacteria.

And so leakage places a high risk for developing infections.

Manage the leakage by decreasing the fill volume.

Sometimes, you may have to stop dialysis, and allow the area to heal, and then start

again at a lower fill volume.

A third complication is decreased ultrafiltration.

This can occur if the catheter is blocked by such thing as blood, fibrin, sticking to

the omentum, the bowel, the bladder, or the liver-- basically any organ.

Catheters may be blocked if you drain too long and dry out the patient.

That is why, usually, the drain time is about 10 minutes.

It is good to leave a little bit of fluid in the peritoneal cavity, and so that the

catheter is more freely floating and not sitting there and have access to other organs.

The way to remove the blockage is to flush the catheter.

It's best to flush and not aspirate or pull back-- better to just flush into the peritoneal

cavity.

It's very important that you do this with sterile technique, and you can flush with

10 to 20 milliliters of normal saline.

I would recommend at least two flushes.

Sometimes you can reposition the patient to try to move the catheter from whatever organ

it's touching.

And you can also get an abdominal x-ray to check the location of the catheter.

A fourth complication is the presence of fibrin in the effluent.

And this can occur from bleeding, and this often occurs when the catheter is initially

placed.

To remove the fibrin you can flush the catheter.

Again, same method as managing the blockage.

You can also flush through increasing the cycles.

So you flush the entire tubing set and the catheter.

And finally, as long as the patient is not at high risk for bleeding, you can add heparin

into the dialysate.

In general, this does not lead to systemic anti-coagulation.

Recommended doses of adding heparin into the dialysate is about 250 units per liter or

500 units per liter.

This concludes the video on complications of peritoneal dialysis.

Thank you.

Please help us improve the content by providing us with some feedback.

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Summer is here - Poros island (MegaVlog) - Duration: 20:41.

Welcome!

Could you turn down the volume?

So we are about to leave for the weekend

Where are we going?

Probably in Poros island

Probably because we don't know yet

Do we found anything?

Only with view to mountain

mountain?

Marina came with us

Say hello

We found her on the road and pick her up

40 euros for the room

Who is sleeping?

Let's swim to Poros

Is full

shit?

Is it possible not to made a booking?

Of course it is

Why not?

This way is better

Askeli, This is where we want to stay

We are going to take this boat

It's 2 minutes distance

Will we take a cabin?

A lux cabin

What is she doing there?

She finds a new friend

Your new friend?

Here is where we do the parade?

Yes

Here is where we spent some of our military service in the Greek navy

We are looking for the 'Golden view'

Here we are

Let's ask for a room here

What a view from this balcony

Make way

He respect the bikers because he does cycling himself

Cyclist, photographer, lifeguard very talented

Hello

Hi, we made a booking for boat tickets

For tickets?

Is not here, is over there

Thank you

Embarrassing

So embarrasing

It's here

Day 2 in Poros island

Beautiful island

With this view

The weather is not so good

Tomorrow is the last day

Back to work

So we are looking for the next trip

Kalamata

Or Myconos

Will you dive?

Maybe later

Are we readyyy?

This is how your friend talk

Idiot

What we have for today?

What is her name?

Katerina

I doing this better than Katerina

Let's go this way

The streets of Poros

I'm hungry

Dead end?

I told you

is your fault

Maybe this Way

Let's take the risk

Come on

It's beautiful

We found it

We found it

What is that?

Is this a baby?

Scary

Hi

it was very obvious

Did you like the food?

Yes

Whoever is going to come here make sure you will visit this tavern

One lady ate a steak that big

The big game

Take it

1-1

Score with the Golkeeper

2-2

3-2

I score 2 goals from defence

I score with the goalkeeper

Very good game very good opponent but the winner is one

He was lucky

The winner matters

On Poros streets

Dance

Too many people

Did you have a good time?

Perfect

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Indonesian Eggplant | Melongene | Long Green Brinjal | Terong - Duration: 1:43.

Eggplant is the common name in North America, Australia and New Zealand, but British English uses the French word aubergine.

The fruit is widely used in cooking. As a member of the genus Solanum, it is related to the tomato and the potato.

The eggplant is a delicate, tropical perennial often cultivated as a tender or half-hardy annual in temperate climates.

In tropical and subtropical climates, eggplant can be sown directly into the garden.

Eggplant is used in the cuisines of many countries.

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Amazons New Changes is Hurting Authors and Publishers - Duration: 3:57.

so today I want to discuss some of the

new changes amazon has recently made to

particularly book buying and how this

potentially affects authors and

publishers adversely um I read an

article recently published on the

Huffington Post which I will link below

and I highly recommend you read it

because it was well-written and explains

things more eloquently than I feel like

I ever could um but it was talking about

Amazon's by box which for those of you

who don't know I'll put like a picture

here and when you go on to Amazon and

you search for a book you click on the

link it's that yellow button that you

click on to make the purchase this

button for years and since Amazon's

existence has usually been reserved for

the publisher or the stock that Amazon's

bought directly from the publisher to

sell which meant that this money that

you were spending on the book by

clicking that link a portion of that was

going to the publishing company and then

to the author versus now anyone who

sells a new book of that title can

compete for that spot that means your

individual third-party sellers can

compete with that spot which means the

money in most cases isn't going to the

publishing company it's not helping

sales of the book and it's not helping

authors I'm not completely against it

like the person who wrote the article

was because I know a lot of independent

bookstores use online sales and use

Amazon as a main source of their sales

so in a way this could potentially be

great for independent bookstores I

personally don't have any in person

independent bookstores I can go to in

my area other than used bookstores

so this is a way you can support

independent bookstores however I do have

an issue with it taking sales from the

publishing company and the author and

the person of the Post talked about how

essentially this is allowing piracy of

books by allowing third-party sellers

you can just go to a usee bookstore and

buy books that are in like

new condition but instead of marking

them as like new condition they can mark

them as new and compete for that box

because Amazon currently doesn't have a

method in which they legitimize the

sales of these "new books" the other thing

is that she talks about use bookstores

on how before she wasn't against it

completely but the fact that the sales

don't go toward the author or the

publisher because those books have

already been sold and I love use

bookstores I feel like they allow a

greater access to material a greater

access to books that people might not

otherwise have and it's a more

affordable option I also feel like it's

eco-friendly because it recycles

materials that would otherwise go to our

landfills I'm interested to hear what

you think of this newest Amazon change

and whether you will continue to buy

books from Amazon I know I personally

will probably still because my options

in person are to go to Barnes & Nobles

Target or Walmart to buy books or to a

used book store because we don't have

any independent with them like a 25-mile

radius of where I live and Amazon's prices are

I mean really they're unbeatable I'm

interested to hear whether this changes

you're both buying process from Amazon

whether this makes you mad or upset I

know that I'm personally informed by

this I don't really know what to think

of this issue and how to approach it and

I'm also interested to hear about

whether or not you like use book stores

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