Day: November 22, 2017

You Know These Studies are Good Since They've Been Reviewed…by a Dog

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You Know These Studies are Good Since They've Been Reviewed…by a Dog

Predatory journals are a skeevy industry of entities posing as legitimate publishers of academic research, and a very good reason to verify the source of any new breakthrough you've read about. They've been around just about as long as there's been an open-access movement in scholarly journals.
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New works and new voices

As a part of the University of Minnesota's MFA Creative Writing Program, The Mill City Reading Series lets graduate students read works-in-progress
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Publisher: The elephant in the classroom

A recent front-page story on alternative schools in The Advocate referred to a state report of three-dozen schools and 139 programs that face challenges as they work to help 18,000 students. But when you look at some of the statements and stats regarding the students and their situations at home, you
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Adform blows the lid on a huge botnet driven ad fraud operation

Danish adtech company Adform says it has uncovered “one of the largest bot networks to be discovered in digital advertising”. 'HyphBot' is a highly sophisticated ad fraud operation responsible for millions of false impressions, according to Adform. Some of the world's premium publishers have been
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The Man Who Invented Christmas Review: Charles Dickens Lost In Creative Madness

There is a moment when a writer enters what can only be called “creative madness”. They are utterly consumed by the story they are writing on some
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Domain targets millennials with Pedestrian integration

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Domain targets millennials with Pedestrian integration

Recently ASX-listed company Domain is making a play for the millennial property market with a partnership with youth-focused publisher Pedestrian.
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Lootboxes: Annoying, and possibly soon to be illegal in Europe

If Europe drops the hammer on microtransaction-based loot boxes, it could be the deathknell for the practice – unless publishers are happy to roll
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John Bald: How to stop the nonsense in teacher training

The outcome was graded good by HMI, with particular strengths in reading, writing and using computers, and the academic assessor rated our assistants' performance as better than that of his own first-year students. In some cases this was not surprising – one assistant had five A grades at A level – but
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Axiom Verge Publisher Donating Portion Of Game Sales To Developer For Son's Health Care

But in an effort to spread a little holiday cheer where Happ needs it the most, the publishers at BadLand Games have announced that it will donate 75
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Clubs & Meetings for Nov. 21-27

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Clubs & Meetings for Nov. 21-27

HEBER: Memoirs/creative writing group meets on the last Friday of the month at 10:30 a.m. in the multi-purpose room at the Rim Community Library,
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'The Voice' Top 11 power rankings: Team Adam Levine's Addison Agen is best in a female …

She is consistently one of the top sellers at iTunes and delivered another solid performance on Monday with “Thank You.” Blake gave her a massive
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Bucks Music Group signs pop duo Dusky Grey

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Bucks Music Group signs pop duo Dusky Grey

Bucks Music Group has signed pop duo Dusky Grey to an exclusive worldwide publishing deal. Gethin Williams and Catrin Hopkins are signed to
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WONDER | Heartwarming film occupies a happy space

It's rare that I go see lighthearted movies. I'm more of a dark alley kind of guy. But Wonder occupies a different space, that area between cheer and
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How MTV, The Telegraph and Evening Standard are using Amazon Echo Show

As Amazon made its Alexa personal assistant available on home sound system Sonos, the addition of the screen on the Echo Show signals Amazon is nearing further integration with smart TV manufacturers — or so publishers believe. “We were keen to be on it for launch because if it really takes off
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IN BRIEF | Nov. 22, 2017

The Ventura County Public Works Agency announced on Tuesday, Nov. 14, that it has completed a 5.8-mile bike lane construction project along Santa
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Britain's colonial crimes deserve a lasting memorial. Here's why

Illustration from The History of the Indian Mutiny, by Charles Ball, Volume II, The London Printing & Publishing Co. Photograph: Print Collector/Getty Images. Neither Adjaye nor any other celebrated architect has been asked to build a museum to Britain's history of empire. The only such place to have
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Vancouver accepting First Nations nominees for city's next poet laureate

The inaugural poet laureate was former UBC Creative Writing professor George McWhirter, who served in the position from 2007 to 2009 and edited the anthology A Verse Map of Vancouver. Subsequent poet laureates have included Bran Cran, Evelyn Lau, and Rachel Rose. The position, established
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'It's not just for banner ads anymore': The New York Times is making all of its ads available …

But the Times keeps its video ads and custom units sheltered from open exchanges, where ad rates tend to be lower and publishers have less control over what brands will wind up on their site. For example, programmatic advertisers who buy its proprietary Flex Frame ads — which dynamically adjust
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semantic-release/github

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semantic-release/github

github – Set of semantic-release plugins for publishing a Github release.
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Original Toy Story 4 Writers No Longer Involved With Film [Updated]

However, it is also a culture where women and people of color do not have an equal creative voice. We encourage Pixar to be leaders in bolstering, hiring and promoting more diverse and female storytellers and leaders. We hope we can encourage all those who have felt like their voices could not be
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Author Ann Claycomb gives students insight on writing process

Erin McDonald, a junior pre-physician assistant major, read the book for her English course. “I like during Ann Claycomb's presentation how she went
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From the publisher's Library

1 New York Times bestsellers Hillary's America, America, and Obama's America. What is “the big lie” of the Democratic Party? The Shadow Party – How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and the 60s radicals seized control of the Democrat Party, by David Horowitz. Rogue Spooks – The intelligence war on
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Support small businesses

The ebbs and flows of our economy, even the global economy, seem to have been contingent on the most efficient way to shop, at least in part.
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Shoppers: Fake Fingerlings sold through outside sellers on Amazon, walmart.com

In this case, though, the fraudsters have been quite successful: Postings for phony Fingerlings were on Amazon's best-selling toys list several times in the last two weeks. Shoppers say they don't realize they bought knockoffs until they receive toys that don't move or are poorly made. Counterfeit toys may
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Council to explore how Virginia Tech 'might recognize and acknowledge' its history

The university's Council on Virginia Tech's History “will explore how Virginia Tech might recognize and acknowledge its history in the … Peter Potter, director of publishing strategy for University Libraries and university alumnus.
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ELSA-d Target satellite. Credit SSTL.

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ELSA-d Target satellite. Credit SSTL.

Nobu Okada, Founder and CEO of ASTROSCALE stated that they are very excited to welcome SSTL to the ELSA-d mission and to begin this
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UAH professor John Kvach named to two prestigious historical boards

UAH professor John Kvach named to two prestigious historical boards … Huntsville/Madison County Historical Society, publishing a pictorial history of
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Kiwi creative director joins Journey studio Thatgamecompany

Its mobile game titles Flutter: Butterfly Sanctuary, Flutter: Starlight and Splash: Ocean Sanctuary are enjoyed by more than a quarter of a million players each month from the US, Europe, China, and Japan. In 2015 the company made the move to self-publishing, bringing in-house more elements like
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Joe Quesada To Focus More On Publishing During Editor-in-Chief Transition

“I've already talked to some of the guys at Marvel and told them I want to shift some more of my focus so I can do a little bit more in publishing, as I want
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Creative Writer for Photograph caption and META description

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Creative Writer for Photograph caption and META description

I am looking to hire a creative writer to write both captions and META descriptions for a series of photographs. Two tasks are required for EACH photo.
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Liberal Journalist Defends Himself Against Claims Of Sexual Assault

Word of Chariton's actions surfaced in a now-deleted article by Chicago activist Christian Chialukas on the HuffPost's self-publishing platform.
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Walmart boosts more deals, easier way to find them on Black Friday

He says TVs and toys are still the top sellers, but finding them during the madness that is Black Friday can be tricky. And new this year are color-coded
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15 Revealing Confessions Made By Wrestlers Who Recently Left WWE

The Bullet Club members have become huge stars with their merchandise being the top sellers in Hot Topic retail stores. Rhodes is even getting his
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Local book publishers clear air on MBoSE textbooks

SHILLONG: Amid the row over the selection of textbooks, local book publishers who have engaged several experts to write textbooks, expressed
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Storytellers battle for books, in world of e-tales

Sharoon Sunny is a the founder of the city based creative writing center, A Better Word and specialises in books for young adults. CE spoke to her
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Rashida Jones Reveals Why She Left Toy Story 4 Amid Claims John Lasseter Made Unwanted …

Rashida Jones has left the upcoming Toy Story 4 due to “creative and … Jones and her writing partner Will McCormack are still credited as writers on
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eBay Rolls Out Features Not Ready for Prime Time

When eBay's head of Seller Experience Bob Kupbens published a blog … But in September, eBay lost a thousand reviews from 55 of his best selling
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Playwright works with LCHS students

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Playwright works with LCHS students

In the span of a couple of minutes for each, Yarchun challenged the students with a number of fast-paced writing exercises, pushing their creative
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Forest County Potawatomi launches Community Transit System

Forest County Potawatomi's vision for their new transit project was “To increase mobility and access to services, social gatherings, employment, and
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MBOSE and its Textbooks

Firstly, why is the Board giving so much of importance to publishers and who exactly is a publisher? By all means, a publisher is more of a medium for
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Creative writing contest now open at NCTC

The annual North Central Texas College Creative Writing Contest is now accepting entries from area writers and poets. Aspiring writings from sixth
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Award-Winning Screenwriter Visits Scriptwriting Class

On October 4th, the students of Professor Louisa Burns-Bisogno's COM242 course, “Script Writing,” welcomed a very special guest. Italian writer
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