Online matchmaking flops, Omnivore and Omidyar in India, Living Cities' racial-equity lens, investor …

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Online matchmaking flops, Omnivore and Omidyar in India, Living Cities' racial-equity lens, investor …

Omidyar Network backs Indian self-publishing platform Pratilipi. Ninety percent of India's 1.2 billion people read, write and speak only their native language, but the overwhelming majority of online content available to them is in English. Pratilipi allows users to self-publish books, essays and stories in
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Focus on: Ella Fowler

If the yearbook staff at Forsyth Country Day wants somebody to write a summary of the girls basketball team's seasons, there's no need to look … I came back and signed up for a creative-writing class at school. … I'd definitely love to write a novel, but I don't have any specific ideas to write about.”.
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Treasure Hunt: The Plaid Soabox in Denver specializes in retro clothing

One rack has nothing but Hawaiian shirts, one of Will's best-sellers. Prices are mostly middle of the road, although he does have some $5 items and some higher-end designer items. His customers include kids involved in plays, adults attending tiki parties and fashion-house artists looking for inspiration.
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Out & About Calendar – Feb. 14-21

OPEN MIC NIGHT — Barnes and Noble, 2100 Hamilton Place Blvd. Open mic night for creative writing and poetry. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 23. 423-893-0186. WRITERS GUILD — Creative Arts Guild, 520 W. Waugh St., Dalton, Ga. Guild hosts monthly meetings to improve writing skills, provide listening
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Get Growing: Gardeners, chocolate and the links to Valentine's Day roses

You will find more than 700 seed varieties online, and the best-sellers for your locality are sold at independent garden centers and hardware stores. Gloria Day is president of Pretty Dirty Ladies Inc. Garden Design & Maintenance; a member of Gardenwriters and the Pennsylvania Landscape & Nursery
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Approaches to target tractability assessment – a practical perspective

Abstract. The assessment of the suitability of novel targets to intervention by different modalities, e.g. small molecules or antibodies, is increasingly seen as important in helping to select the most progressable targets at the outset of a drug discovery project. This perspective considers differing aspect.
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Blue Planet: Uniting children worldwide through creative communication

Palm Beach County students video conference with students in a Mexican classroom through a program made possible by Blue Planet Writers' Room. The Story Ambassadors and Creative Connections program leads students in workshops that center on an international collaboration with other
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Ntsiki Mazwai: I don't believe Twitter is my heart and soul

Ntsiki has cut down on Twitter before, when she spent a year completing her masters degree in creative writing from Rhodes University, and said that experience taught her to not take social media so seriously. “When I was in Grahamstown, I wasn't so much on social media. It made me realise that it's
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