Of course, there are many other benefits to putting trees and plants on buildings; it's biophilic and makes us happier, it provides habitat for other creatures, it cleans the air of pollutants. But don't let's pretend that it is about sustainability and carbon unless you show us the math. This year I resolve to ask
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Hollywood was still turning out road shows, big-budget adaptations of best sellers, and Biblical spectacles. French, Swedish, Italian, and Japanese film, of course, was veering into all kinds of thematic and sexually and politically adventurous territory. But Hollywood would wait until the '70s to mature.
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Apple entered the market with its iBooks store in 2010, and brought with it the agency pricing model which let authors and publishers control their own prices and earn 70% of their list price for each copy sold. This was a radical approach to book pricing that put more power in the hands of authors. Yay!
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Shortly after 9 a.m. on New Year's Day, Mike Shorrow, a 63-year-old medical marijuana patient from Montana, pulled out a $100 bill and bought four-and-a-half grams of marijuana, making him the first customer at the first licensed retail pot shop in California's capital. “That ate up that $100 fast,” said
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Grant claims that she has a Bachelor's degree in Criminology, as well as three Master's degrees: one in Counseling, one in Vocational (“Voc”) Rehab Counseling, and one in Creative Writing. There's no mention of where she attended school for any these degrees, but her Twitter profile photo shows
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From sessions on gender issues in art to travel writing to a writing workshop, the day-long fest was a celebration of women, words and ideas. Here's what we picked up from the 'Writing Workshop for Young Adults', conducted by Richa Wahi, a creative writing instructor, in which students and parents took
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Local historians Susan J.P. O'Hara and Alex Service have written a new book, “Mills of Humboldt County: 1910-1945,” which is part of Arcadia Publishing's Images of America series. The 128-page book explores Humboldt County's early 20th century lumber industry and the day-to-day realities of life in
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“There are subjects for which the required number of publishers was not met. We need to readvertise and allow more people to bid, so as to meet the required number. This may take time,” Njagi said. A spot check by the Star revealed that banks and bookshops had recorded good businesses for the past
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Best sellers include the Prophe-see, Radiant Greens, Exorcist and Superblue. Cullen hopes … Who knew ferment, bacteria and yeast could taste so good? Certified herbalists … Unlike most kombucha brewers, Forage believes that the fizzy drink is the best in its most natural state. They offer three
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H. Brandt Ayers, former publisher and now chairman of the company that publishes The Anniston Star, spanked female employees in the 1970s, several former staffers claim. The allegations come from female employees who said they were targeted and sexually abused by Ayers, now 82, while working
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Westfield Aquatics Swimming Team coach Darrick Thomas sees several good reasons for his team to host a “The Last Gold” documentary. Thomas. “We were looking for a good activity for the team,” said Thomas, coach of the Westfield High School boys and girls and boys swimming teams. “One of our
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Funded by the Wales Illegal Money Lending Unit, using the proceeds of crime, it is set to be distributed to schools across Caerphilly county borough and will also be available from all libraries in the area. Michelle Jones, of PETRA Publishing, and the co-ordinator at Parent Network in Caerphilly, said the
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Imagine the world of revolutionalized digital publishing platform, framed around one of the best in the industry available on operating systems and online? The answer is right in the launch of FlipHTML5 anchored by a top HTML designer. FlipHTML5 develops the digital flipbook platform with the powerful
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Developing courses required more studying, most of it in the form of trying and failing. I considered it my first year of grad school: I obsessively followed the recommendations of Garland as well as online marketing goddess Amy Porterfield—coming up with ideas for courses, writing them, recording audio
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I found a typo after I published and need to add the word “and” to one of the stories. Just amend your original file (Word or whatever you used) then upload the file exactly as you did originally and click through and press publish. Existing downloads won't be altered, only new buyers will see the new file.
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New Media Investment Group logo Engineers Gate Manager LP reduced its position in shares of New Media Investment Group Inc (NYSE:NEWM) by 35.6% during the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 27,307 shares of the company's stock
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Thomson Reuters is hiring: Associate Publishing Specialist in Hyderabad. Apply Today!
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Epic Sexy You: No Limits. No Rules (Epic Sexy You Publishing). With over 70 categories to choose from, enter by February 23, 2018 (all books must be received in our offices by February 23, 2018) to take advantage of this exciting opportunity to have your book considered for cash prizes, awards,
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A former Anniston Star reporter says that H. Brandt Ayers, chairman of the company that publishes the paper, sexually assaulted her in the 1970s in The Star's newsroom. Veronica Pike Kennedy says Ayers, then the newspaper's publisher, spanked her against her will in an incident on a Saturday, when
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Open access publishing has long been the center of a debate over the future of academic publishing: on one side of the debate sit citizen scientists, journalists, and other members of the public eager to access and use scientific research even though they can't afford expensive journal subscriptions and
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Of course, President Pud decided to weigh in on this latest meteorological phenomenon with quite simply the worst “Cold enough for ya?” quip in human history. He did it via Twitter, of course, writing, “Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other
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PlatinumGames is one of the busiest development studios in the industry. From 2017's amazing NieR: Automata to the upcoming Nintendo Switch-exclusive, Bayonetta 3, they are also king of the character-action genre. Platinum has always made games for other publishers like Nintendo, SEGA, and
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Fishers — Gingerbread Village at Conner Prairie will be open until Jan. 7. See a variety of amateur and professional gingerbread houses. Viewing the houses is free with general admission. Westfield — Cam Clark will perform live music at 6 p.m. Jan. 5 at Urban Vines, 303 E 161st St. Zionsville — The
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He travelled to Vietnam to investigate whether war crimes had been committed and published a book on the effects of herbicides and defoliants on the people in Vietnam by the American forces, Harvest of Death. When he came back to Canada, he brought with him pieces of bombs dropped in Vietnam.
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Posting Number: 201700418F. Position Type: Faculty. Description of Work Unit. The English Department at CSU is a vibrant and diverse place. It is home to poets and linguists, literacy researchers and teacher educators, novelists and literary scholars, composition specialists and writers of creative
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Shaw has been refinishing furniture for about 20 years, but she started selling commercially through her partnership with Jill Gray at the former Bloom by Jilly Gray in Fremont. Gray's decision to close the store … “My best sellers are soaps made in Michigan,” she said. “They are 100-percent vegan, and
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When you walk into the Coldbrook home of Sandra and Ron Lightburn, it's bright and cheerful and almost every surface holds a piece of art or a child's toy or doll. Ron is an award-winning illustrator of children's books and Sandra is an author of children's books and a doll maker. Sandra grew up in a
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Ans. I have received some awards for my literary success but I have never hankered for awards as I feel that almost all writers write stories, novels and poems according to their choice but never do they write for getting awards. Awards come in the natural course of writing irrespective of wanting it or not.
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It might also explain why, when I went to teach postgraduate students at the University of East Anglia – the foremost writing course in the country – about the fundamentals of plot, I was astonished to discover that these superbly talented young writers knew nothing whatsoever about it after years of
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