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Singer songwriter Joni Mitchell is in intensive care in a Los Angeles hospital after being found unconscious in her home.
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Whether print or digital, most books still reflect both the “linear way in which they’re typically consumed (cover to cover) and publishing’s own manufacturing heritage (from manuscript delivery to the delivery of bound books to the warehouse),” writes digital content expert David Wilcockson.
But it doesn’t have to be that way any longer, and maybe it shouldn’t.
As Wilcockson explains, existing metadata systems already offer a framework for publishers to explore ways of “creating value from flexible ‘chunks’ of content.”
And as the industry learns more about how ebook readers actually read, “modular” publishing models can begin to look more appealing for readers and publishers alike.
Much more.
Related: The Metadata Handbook, 2nd Edition, Now Fully Revised and Updated
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Amazon’s Purdue Location Triggers Lawsuit (Ink, Bits & Pixels)
The ordering and fulfillment counter Amazon recently opened on Purdue University’s campus becomes the target of a lawsuit from the National Association of College stores seeking to compel the university to disclose the terms of its contract with Amazon.
How Amazon Could Disrupt the Checkout Line (Re/code)
The e-tailer has filed patents for technology that would gather information about shoppers and items in a physical setting, which some view as evidence that it’s considering ways to optimize the in-store shopping experience—in this case, by obviating the need for cashiers and checkout counters—should Amazon ultimately decide to go physical.
What Publishers Can Learn from Game Developers (Futurebook)
In the debate about how to keep books competitive in the digital marketplace, publishers often highlight how their stock-in-trade is consumed differently than other forms of media like music and video content. But one industry insiders explains that, like books, games are experienced over time in “snack-sized intervals,” follow linear narratives and retail with similar price-tags. Here’s what the two might be able to teach each other.
Author Solutions Sued Again (Pub Lunch)
The controversial publishing service provider gets hit with a new lawsuit seeking class action status for alleged fraud and various violations of consumer protections. Nook is believed to have partnered with Author Solutions on the expanded range of services it made available to authors in November last year.
Amazon Will Fix Your Toilet (GeekWire)
Amazon rolls out the Home Services category it’s been rumored to have in the works, expanding beyond physical and digital goods and into services like TV installation, garbage disposal, house painting and more. Amazon guarantees customer satisfaction and plans to take a 15–20% commission on the final bill for each job.
Frustrated in U.S., Amazon Takes Drone Testing North (Guardian)
After running into regulatory roadblocks, Amazon follows through on its promise to push ahead with developing its drove delivery technology outside U.S. borders. The program is now operating from a test site in British Columbia, Canada.
ICYMI: Authors Missing from the App Picture (DBW)
Children’s authors and children’s app developers seldom work together, and as one expert in both spaces sees it, it’s the content the kids who consume it that miss out. Here’s a look at some of the causes of that divide and how it can be bridged.
Related: Free Webcast—The Latest Trends and Tactics for the Children’s Market
Will More Publishers Try 3D-Printing? (Good E Reader)
In the short-term, don’t count on it. The striking 3D-printed cover Riverhead created for Chang-rae Lee’s novel On Such a Full Sea made for great marketing. But the fact that “the finished design, which took 15 hours to print, was made for a special-edition run of 200 signed copies for sale—a number partially decided by how many could physically be printed in time for the shelf date,” doesn’t bode so well for scalability.
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The Mysterious, Murky Story Behind Soy-Sauce Packets
He says his sauce corrects this, and is gluten-free to boot. (While this fact may play into American food trends, it"s worth noting just how far a departure gluten-free soy sauce is from the fermented wheat paste of yore.) But the most interesting …
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"Karate" means empty hand, but handheld device can help
The flip-book teaching style may suit beginners while serving as an encyclopedia of moves for experienced practitioners. And the app has plenty of content. Learn Karate/Karate Training. Free on iOS and Android. Karate practitioners may appreciate the …
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Related: Tom Chalmers of IPR Licenseon Why Publishers Must Boost Investments in Rights Departments
[Press Release]
IPR License and Digi-Rights® announce promotional rights and licensing campaign for self-published authors
New service aimed at helping US-based self-published authors generate additional domestic and international rights and licensing sales
London England UK and Bloomfield Hills, Michigan USA – 31 March 2015 – IPR License, the global rights and licensing trading platform, and Digi-Rights® a global provider of Automated Rights Solutions, have announced the launch of a promotional campaign to help greater numbers of US-based self-published authors to showcase and monetise the rights they hold to their works.
Tom Chalmers, Managing Director of IPR License, commented: “Growing numbers of self-published authors are realising the value attached to their rights but the majority are still not fully monetising the available opportunities on a global scale. The US is a hot bed of self-publishing talent and this promotional campaign will utilise Digi-Rights® strong brand recognition among US publishers to enable even more self-published authors to connect with rights buyers on a global scale.”
“We are very pleased to partner with IPR License to broaden our rights management solutions and to enable Indie publishers and authors to access the same level of rights licensing and sales support that is available to larger publishers,” said Dick Stahl, Managing Director of Digi-Rights Direct LLC.
With over 458,500 self-published titles published in 2013*, the US market provides a huge opportunity for self-published authors to increase their income by sublicensing their book rights and discovering a new untapped source of royalties.
Digi-Rights® is offering IPR author memberships directly through www.authors-rights.com and through leading self-publishing partners as part of Digi-Rights® self-publishing packages, including: Copyright Protection, Rights Assessments, Rights Clearance and Rights Sales.
For more information, contact:
Tom Chalmers, Managing Director at IPR License
Tel No: 020 7448 5162 or tom.chalmers@iprlicense.com
Robert Kasher, Rights Industry Consultant for Digi-Rights
+1 971 227 5825 or rkasher@iviago.com
About IPR License (www.iprlicense.com)
IPR License is a platform for publishers, authors and literary agents to list and license literary rights. The platform offers the opportunity to monetize or find the best new content in a global marketplace. It also acts as a copyright hub making it easier to locate copyright holders to clear permission for use of their work.
About Digi-Rights® (www.digi-rights.com)
Digi-EXPress, LLC. is a global provider of consulting, systems development, and rights management services and technology to the publishing industry. The company’s technology is used to process hundreds of thousands of licensing transactions by leading publishers through its Digi-EXPress® Rights Management System…a patented suite of cloud-based software technologies and ‘best-practice’ processes that deliver automated rights clearance and permissions processing, digital asset relational database, and ‘real-time’ management oversight for team collaboration.
*Findings in a recent survey by Bowker® reveals that the number of self-published titles in 2013 increased to more than 458,564, up 17 percent over 2012 and 437 percent over 2008.
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Microsoft appears to be moving away from its Xbox Music and Xbox Video branding. Two new Music and Video apps for Windows 10 have debuted today, and they both drop the Xbox brand in favor of simplified names. Microsoft’s Xbox Music naming has undoubtedly been confusing, with some consumers questioning whether the music service only works on the company’s gaming console. This new naming in Windows 10 means users won’t have to search around for an Xbox-branded app that’s on their PCs; it’s just Music and Video like it is on most modern operating systems.
Some minor UI tweaks and changes for now
While the new Music and Video Preview apps are mostly the same as the ones found in Windows 8.1, Microsoft is taking the opportunity to tweak…
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The move comes in response to criticism on Capitol Hill and elsewhere of the carrier’s user tracking program.
NYT > Technology
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For the business owner, first impressions are crucial to their success. With your graphic design in place, you are able to maximize the impact and recognition that you have for your business. Print design is one of the most important aspects for a business and one that each business should take seriously as it does mean the public awareness of their brand or service.
For a business print is as essential these days as the Internet and finding a company that can provide quality print services is essential. Graphic design for your print needs includes fliers, brochures, stationery, letterhead, business cards and most importantly your company logo as well as other print advertising needs. Without these essentials, the business would not be able to distribute their information on their service or brand.
Graphic designers provide the high quality content that is necessary in the business world. A good graphic designer will create images that takes the company to the top and portrays the message that they are wishing to get across Graphic design expresses the mood and the emotions of the brand or service and brings together, with content and information the entire intention which the company is expecting to convey.
The message that is conveyed by the company is intended to be powerful and meaningful. It is an art which graphic display companies provide to the business and portray a specific message regarding the business. Images are used in design and have a powerful impact on the viewer. Although you may think because a company is in the graphic design business, they can all create the same quality of product, this is not true.
A graphic designer has the talent to create images, symbols and logos that compact information that abstractly portray an idea or identity of the company. With a great design the company is instantly recognized. What this means for the business is profitability.
Skilled graphic designers are experienced and are capable of providing properly implemented techniques which include message, design, image, text and logo. Graphic design involves:
Concept
Objective
Coordination
The graphic designer must have a keen eye for details and creativity to focuses the theme of the projects. Colors are extremely important. The graphic designer will create through lines, shapes, color and texts all which will capture the viewer and create the company’s awareness. Planning, analyzing and creating solutions to communication problems. Graphic design is the most effective means to get messages across in print with the use of various tools such as color, illustration, type and so on. The needs of the client
are determined, the design portrayed, and then finalized to meet the clients requirements. Sketches and / or layouts are prepared either by the graphic designer of by a computer. The client can then give their approval or disapproval.
The graphic designer is an artist and a talented artist that provides a company with the service that they need to build their brand or service. For advertising needs for companies, the graphic designer is a necessity that does help to establish the business.
Graphic designer services
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Graphic designer services offered by Renew Graphic Design comprising logo design letter head design and business card designs
Graphic designer services offered by Renew Graphic Design comprising logo design letter head design and business card designs
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The new program from Amazon allows customers to reorder household items like laundry detergent and paper towels with the push of a single physical button.
NYT > Technology
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The deal gives Rubicon access to Chango’s intent marketing technology, which delivers ads based on a consumer’s intent to buy a product or service.
NYT > Technology
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The United States began to outline today how it will achieve the goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent by the end of 2025. In a submission to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the United States says that it will use executive actions, largely under the Clean Air Act, to cut carbon pollution from new and existing power plants, improve fuel economy standards, and limit methane emissions from landfills and the oil and gas sectors. The submission comes ahead of a UN climate conference in Paris meant to coordinate a global response to climate change and prevent the Earth from warming more than 2 degrees Celsius, a widely accepted target for limiting the effects of warming.
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Illustrating a History of Inhumanity
The artist is Dr. Mark Podwal, a respected dermatologist by day who"s also spent the past 40 years creating illustrations for magazines and newspapers, children"s books, and the New York"s Metropolitan Opera, among others. Jewish themes are his …
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There is evidence that letting patients see their medical files helps them take better care of themselves, but the medical establishment still resists sharing the data.
NYT > Personal Tech
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AT&T Performing Arts Center Brings Broadway Blockbusters Matilda, Jersey …
If you"ve been to New York City in the last two years, these are the musicals you"ve fought over seats for at the TKTS booth, or seen flashing on Times Square. And while it doesn"t sound like the Cabaret tour will include Emma Stone or Alan Cumming …
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The Serial Wife
One April evening, 22 years later, I am having dinner with Howard in a corner booth of a swank restaurant in the Cambridge hotel where she has owned an apartment since 1987. Her fourth husband, Ron Weintraub, a cardiothoracic surgeon, has forgone …
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The Trouble With Teaching Doctor Who
Professors like Matt Hills of Aberystwyth University in Wales, (“the doyen of the field,” Britton calls him) Paul Booth of DePaul University and Cathy Johnson of the University of Nottingham top a list that"s only getting longer. In a classroom context …
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How to use a variety of tools to get more information about your online audience.
NYT > Personal Tech
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Here’s Cadillac’s next huge car, both literally and figuratively: the CT6, which stands for Cadillac Touring 6.
GM’s luxury brand has been teasing the CT6 for quite some time, and for good reason: it’s a flagship sedan, a segment that the company has been absent from since it discontinued the forgettable DTS several years ago.
It’s no coincidence that crosstown rival Lincoln debuted the giant Continental concept at this very same show — Cadillac and Lincoln are both learning that luxury marques look a little lost without a big flagship in the lineup, and the red-hot Chinese market is demanding large American sedans anyway. The time is right, if you believe GM and Ford.
The CT6 will be offered with an exclusive 3-liter twin-turbo V-6…
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Book review like movie reviews is a form of literary criticism where a book-mostly recently published-is analyzed based on content, merit and style. Book reviews are often carried out as class work, over the internet or in periodicals. Book reviews aren’t similar to book reports, instead book reports are basically reaction papers that point out strengths and weaknesses of the material, and how useful it is to help one –or how misleading it can be – in understanding the book’s course content. Due to the work involved and the amount of time required to read through a book thrice or more and more so, the size of the book ready for the review, most students consider seeking online assistance in writing the paper or others require that one purchases research papers from them.
In some case that are very rare the student offers to sacrifice the time and the resource required to come up with the book review. When writing book reviews firstly, one has to choose a topic, know the author and have a well understood source of knowledge. In identifying the author in book reviews, one must know whether the author is a well established expert in the field and in that particular topic. Another important thing is to know how the author’s time, place and background affect the conclusions author reaches and knows whether in one there exists an obvious bias for them. Finally, book reviews, one must know the author’s point of view or reference frame. In addition, writing book reviews requires that one has a thesis and several specific examples from the text. Here one must evaluate what the author takes as the major hypothesis and what the specific purpose of writing the paper is.
Another important aspect when selecting book reviews thesis is that one must identify and isolate the principle sources of evidence that support the thesis. Furthermore, book reviews requires that one clearly and concisely states their objections or any contrary view that they hold about the topic. By this one must identify how much the evidence is worth- is it convincing or not etc, other works that contributed previously in a previous similar idea or topic, whether what the author draws as conclusion is in conflict with what other books that one have read or any existing assumption one had on the topic. Lastly, one must state how the conflict is going to be resolved if any. The fourth and last point when writing book reviews is the contribution of the selected book to both the individual and the potential readers. Here one must identify if there has been any idea one had on the topic or book that have been subjected to change or abandoned as a result of this book. It is also important to state whether or not the abandoned ones have been changed or not. To obtain custom book reviews, one can buy the book reviews from custom book reviews companies that are legitimate and internationally or nationally accepted for their outstanding and effective book reviews. One must also establish whether there are customers returned out of good will because of the quality and standardized book reviews writing. Standard rules and regulations for custom book reviews writing must be followed to ensure originality and non-plagiarism.
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Building Toward Another Mortgage Meltdown
The Obama administration"s troubling flirtation with another mortgage meltdown took an unsettling turn on Tuesday with Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt"s testimony before the House Financial Services Committee. Mr. Watt told the …
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Marriage Equality Without Equivocation
If marriage equality is simply about marriage, then the new rule is limited to marriage: Many other battles over sexual equality—adoption, parenthood, health care, employment, housing, public accommodations—will remain to be fought on a near-blank …
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Building Toward Another Mortgage Meltdown
The Obama administration"s troubling flirtation with another mortgage meltdown took an unsettling turn on Tuesday with Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt"s testimony before the House Financial Services Committee. Mr. Watt told the …
Read more on Wall Street Journal
Marriage Equality Without Equivocation
If marriage equality is simply about marriage, then the new rule is limited to marriage: Many other battles over sexual equality—adoption, parenthood, health care, employment, housing, public accommodations—will remain to be fought on a near-blank …
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The Dangers of the Appearance-Driven Diet
But the research from the Netherlands doesn"t just apply to people with eating disorders, said Evelyn Tribole, the registered dietitian and nutrition counselor who pioneered the Intuitive Eating program in 1996. Chronic dieters also suffer from the …
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How the Fed Flubbed It
Eugene Meyer, the formidable Fed chairman who later ran the World Bank and bought The Washington Post, drafted the legislation creating the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the counterpart to the Troubled Asset Relief Program of 2008. When a major …
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Class of 2014: Tips for Renting Your First Post-Grad Apartment
Write a short blurb about yourself – topics might include employment, why you"re a good tenant, reasons for moving, when you plan to move, explanation of potential drawbacks on your application and end with a sentence indicating you interest in …
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Class of 2014: Tips for Renting Your First Post-Grad Apartment
Write a short blurb about yourself – topics might include employment, why you"re a good tenant, reasons for moving, when you plan to move, explanation of potential drawbacks on your application and end with a sentence indicating you interest in …
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Class of 2014: Tips for Renting Your First Post-Grad Apartment
Write a short blurb about yourself – topics might include employment, why you"re a good tenant, reasons for moving, when you plan to move, explanation of potential drawbacks on your application and end with a sentence indicating you interest in …
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There are many types of vehicles we see on the roads. Every vehicle is made for a specific purpose, e.g. vehicles made for the purpose of carrying passengers like big buses, trains etc. Some vehicles are made for some special purposes. Some vehicles are also made for cultivation purpose, e.g. Corp cutters, tractors etc. Tractors are the most common machine being used in forms for cultivation. Tractor is more famous than others because it can be used for many purposes in cultivation by making some changes in features of the machine. Tractor is being used in growing many types of food. Formers use tractor to plough their fields, they also use tractors in taking ready corps to market. Not only that sometimes many other tasks can be done easily with the help of a tractor. A tractor is a very useful machine fields. Tractors have much importance in cultivation, it is only machine that can do many jobs in fields that is it is liked by all formers in the world. Tractors can also be used in watering the plants in the fields, or can also be used in spreading pesticides in fields in order to get maximum benefit from the fields. Pesticides can also be spread by many other ways but spreading by a tractor is very economical and effective. Pesticides can reduce the amount of the corps so tractors also help in increasing the profit of the former in many ways. Tractors are made by many companies in the world. Usually tractors are trusted by international companies. These companies also provide some repair or maintenance manuals with their vehicles so that a person can easily repair little problems by himself.
These companies make computer in such a way that efficiency of their product stands maximum. As tractor is a multipurpose machine, so company make tractors in such a way that a common man can easily upgrade his machine with a little help in home or in fields. For this purpose companies develop manuals for up gradation and repair purpose.
Bye using these repair manuals a common person can easily fix little problems by his own hands. These are provided by the company on purchasing new tractor. There are some private companies present which print tractor repair manuals, these manuals can be downloaded from internet or can be getting at your home address in printed form. These manuals are sometimes provided for free but quality products can only be getting by money. Jensales is one of the best companies which are making tractor repair manuals. Jensales has its website from where these manuals can be downloaded or company can also deliver these manuals at your home. A former can fix little problem of hi tractor by himself. He can repair their tractor by himself. But serious problems can only be fixed by professionals in service stations. So we can conclude that these tractor repair manuals can really help a former in fixing some problems in his tractor.
Jensales Inc. has the largest and most diverse Tractor repair manual and Tractor Operators manual library in the world. Our titles cover nearly every tractor made from 1900 to the present, and the legendary industrial equipment you have from Caterpillar, Huber, Allis Chalmers, even those old Bucyrus Erie monsters.
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There are many types of vehicles we see on the roads. Every vehicle is made for a specific purpose, e.g. vehicles made for the purpose of carrying passengers like big buses, trains etc. Some vehicles are made for some special purposes. Some vehicles are also made for cultivation purpose, e.g. Corp cutters, tractors etc. Tractors are the most common machine being used in forms for cultivation. Tractor is more famous than others because it can be used for many purposes in cultivation by making some changes in features of the machine. Tractor is being used in growing many types of food. Formers use tractor to plough their fields, they also use tractors in taking ready corps to market. Not only that sometimes many other tasks can be done easily with the help of a tractor. A tractor is a very useful machine fields. Tractors have much importance in cultivation, it is only machine that can do many jobs in fields that is it is liked by all formers in the world. Tractors can also be used in watering the plants in the fields, or can also be used in spreading pesticides in fields in order to get maximum benefit from the fields. Pesticides can also be spread by many other ways but spreading by a tractor is very economical and effective. Pesticides can reduce the amount of the corps so tractors also help in increasing the profit of the former in many ways. Tractors are made by many companies in the world. Usually tractors are trusted by international companies. These companies also provide some repair or maintenance manuals with their vehicles so that a person can easily repair little problems by himself.
These companies make computer in such a way that efficiency of their product stands maximum. As tractor is a multipurpose machine, so company make tractors in such a way that a common man can easily upgrade his machine with a little help in home or in fields. For this purpose companies develop manuals for up gradation and repair purpose.
Bye using these repair manuals a common person can easily fix little problems by his own hands. These are provided by the company on purchasing new tractor. There are some private companies present which print tractor repair manuals, these manuals can be downloaded from internet or can be getting at your home address in printed form. These manuals are sometimes provided for free but quality products can only be getting by money. Jensales is one of the best companies which are making tractor repair manuals. Jensales has its website from where these manuals can be downloaded or company can also deliver these manuals at your home. A former can fix little problem of hi tractor by himself. He can repair their tractor by himself. But serious problems can only be fixed by professionals in service stations. So we can conclude that these tractor repair manuals can really help a former in fixing some problems in his tractor.
Jensales Inc. has the largest and most diverse Tractor repair manual and Tractor Operators manual library in the world. Our titles cover nearly every tractor made from 1900 to the present, and the legendary industrial equipment you have from Caterpillar, Huber, Allis Chalmers, even those old Bucyrus Erie monsters.
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ECCC 2015: Finding New Blood with Vertigo and Taking Comfort (and Adam) in …
Before diving into the audience participation segment, the panel focused on various elements that make a great character, and how design plays a vital part in communicating a character"s main attributes and his or her role in the story. … Other …
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Football Mad: The Story of Mental Illness & Suicide in the Beautiful Game
It"s as if a proportion of society considers that their wealth and celebrity makes them somehow immune from the frailties of the human condition and that they can either just absorb or repel any abuse without it affecting their mental and physical …
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ECCC 2015: Finding New Blood with Vertigo and Taking Comfort (and Adam) in …
Before diving into the audience participation segment, the panel focused on various elements that make a great character, and how design plays a vital part in communicating a character"s main attributes and his or her role in the story. … Other …
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Football Mad: The Story of Mental Illness & Suicide in the Beautiful Game
It"s as if a proportion of society considers that their wealth and celebrity makes them somehow immune from the frailties of the human condition and that they can either just absorb or repel any abuse without it affecting their mental and physical …
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Former Tory MP Rahim Jaffer broke rules lobbying for Green Power: commissioner
View this document on Scribd. “That is why we referred all non-reported meetings to the lobbying commissioner of Canada for her review,” Andrew MacDougall, spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, said in a statement. “The lobbying commissioner …
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Family hopes for better Christmas
By sticking to a stringent budget and supporting one another, an immigrant family has managed to move beyond homelessness and the severe disabilities of two of its members. Lefui and Mau Simi came to Hawaii from American Samoa in 2006 with their four …
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Former Tory MP Rahim Jaffer broke rules lobbying for Green Power: commissioner
View this document on Scribd. “That is why we referred all non-reported meetings to the lobbying commissioner of Canada for her review,” Andrew MacDougall, spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, said in a statement. “The lobbying commissioner …
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Family hopes for better Christmas
By sticking to a stringent budget and supporting one another, an immigrant family has managed to move beyond homelessness and the severe disabilities of two of its members. Lefui and Mau Simi came to Hawaii from American Samoa in 2006 with their four …
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DroneDeploy is on a mission to make drones accessible to industrial users who have a business need for conducting outdoor landscape mapping and monitoring. So, in other words, it wants drones to be put to work by people other than enthusiastic dorks with a gadget habit — doing tasks like helping farmers spot crop damage and disease. Read More
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Kanye West, Jack White, Rihanna and Coldplay tweet their support for Jay Z’s new streaming site, Tidal, ahead of its launch on Monday night.
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Facebook’s move to turn Messenger into a platform for third-parties has been one of the company’s most important decisions to date. Mobile messaging is a pivotal trend that will shape the way billions of people consume the internet. It has the potential to overhaul the dynamics of digital distribution, but Facebook’s own embryonic platform must to develop in a more open… Read More
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In a bid to increase its online entertainment offerings, Alibaba has struck an agreement with music publisher BMG, which gives it access to over 2.5 million tracks. The partnership is notable because it represents the first time Alibaba’s digital entertainment unit has signed with a music partner outside of Asia. Read More
