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• Rabble Rouser Review: Tattoo as a Threat?

  
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  Something local caught my attention this week thinking about dress and crime. Someone from right near where I live is in hot water for his tattoo being perceived as a threat. Says regional newspaper The Star Tribune: The Hennepin County attorney charges that the tattoo [NAME], 20, put on his arm and on Facebook was ...
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• Internet Censorship and Control

  
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  The Internet is and has always been a space where participants battle for control. The two core protocols that define the Internet – TCP and IP – are both designed to allow separate networks to connect to each other easily, so that networks that differ not only in hardware implementation (wired vs. satellite vs. ...
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• New issue of Codex: assessment focus

  
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  Volume 2 number 3 of Codex: the Journal of the Louisiana Chapter of the ACRL has been published. It is open access, but you need to register. Articles include: - "Assessment of Information Literacy: A Critical Bibliography": Robin Brown, Phyllis Niles (pp.100-149). An interesting annotated bibliography: as you can ...
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• Snowden Press Review – VoA Chinese: a Super-Charged Stink Bomb / “Global Times”: no Face-Losing Outcome for China

  
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  Several hundred Hong Kongers held demonstrations during the weekend, demanding that Edward Snowden should not be extradited, and that the SAR government should protect him, Xinhua reports. (The South China Morning Post, SCMP, reported on Saturday that members of the League of Social Democrats marched from the HSBC ...
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• Media Imperialism ; The Impacts of Global Media on Local Cultures and Identities by admanz

  
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  I need a 25 page (6250 words) research proposal within 3 days.. It must be plagiarism free and should be of high quality with good no of academic sources.. No Milestones.. I will pay 100% after checking the complete paper for quality and plagiarism…. (Budget: $30-$250 USD, Jobs: Academic Writing) Go to Source
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• Why BoE is called Old Lady of Threadneedle Street?

  
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  UK has two world famous addresses  - Buckingham Paalce and 10, Downing Street. There is another one for econ nerds called Threadneedle Street, the place where Bank of England is housed. Interestingly, BoE is called Old Lady of Threadneedle street as well. There is some interesting history behind this title given to ...
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• Teaching Economic Policy in Italy..

  
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  I stumbled upon this very interesting conference- The economics curriculum: towards a radical reformation hosted by World Economics Association. Some very interesting papers there. I just read this nice paper by Nicola Acocella former Prof at Sapienza University of Rome.  He discusses the birth of econ policy in ...
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• New issue of JIL: ethical practice, healthcare, transition, international support and more

  
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  The open-access Journal of information literacy volume 7 issue 1 has been published. The articles are: - Information literacy and embedded librarianship in an online graduate programme by Swapna Kumar, Mary E Edwards - Information literacy as a facilitator of ethical practice in the professions by Marc Forster - ...
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• June 17, 1957 (a Monday)

  
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  On this date, Sweezy v. New Hampshire was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Background: On January 5, 1954, Paul M. Sweezy was summoned to appear before New Hampshire attorney general Louis C. Wyman for inquiries into Sweezy’s political associations. … Continue reading →
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• Playboy Germany - July 2013

  
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  True PDF | 152 Pages | German | 28,16 MB
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• Magazine [PDF] - Don Juan 49 - Diciembre 2010

  
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  Spanish | Pages 88 | PDF | 15.5 Mb
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• Academic assignment, 3000 words by ckyle195

  
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  Hello, I need somebody to complete a 3,000 word assignment. The assignment is finance based, though you do not need to have any finance knowledge in order to complete this work to a high standard… (Budget: £20-£250 GBP, Jobs: Academic Writing, Report Writing) Go to Source
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• Porn wars: the debate thats dividing academia

  
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  With pornography accounting for huge volumes of internet traffic, its a subject ripe for analysis. But a new journal, Porn Studies, is causing outrage among campaigners against hardcore porn When the Guardian announced the planned launch next year of Porn Studie s – the worlds first peer-reviewed academic ...
  4 days ago

• Porn wars: the debate thats dividing academia

  
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  With pornography accounting for huge volumes of internet traffic, its a subject ripe for analysis. But a new journal, Porn Studies, is causing outrage among campaigners against hardcore porn When the Guardian announced the planned launch next year of Porn Studie s – the worlds first peer-reviewed academic ...
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• The Loneliness Panic

  
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  Once again, the loneliness panic is upon us. Before we get too carried away, let’s consider some new data and some neglected perspectives. read more
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• Oakby and Number Twenty-Nine

  
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  In the past few days, this blog has featured Jews! Or Catholics! Today, for a change of pace, we have...Jews and Catholics!  Sophie Amelia Prosser s novellas Oakby, Showing How New Troubles Came into an English Parish and Number Twenty-Nine (1881), published as a single volume, would at first glance appear to ...
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• DYSFUNCTION, WITHOUT KINSHIP TIES.

  
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  Thus the story line for more than a few academic novels.  Its absence, as far as the lobbying organization for business as usual in the academy is concerned, may be grounds for collegiality policies.Clearly, [Southern Connecticut State deanlet Richard] Riccardi said, collegiality matters -- an idea outside research ...
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• The Citation project

  
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  The (North American) Citation project "is a multi-institution research project responding to educators’ concerns about plagiarism and the teaching of writing.... Our team systematically studies student papers that were produced in college writing courses and that draw on sources. Our purpose is to describe how ...
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• I Guess We’re Supposed to Dress Better Than That During the Week

  
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  This anonymous interview is with an Academic librarian who has been a member of a hiring or search committee. This librarian works at a library with 0-10 staff members in a Rural area in the Southern US What Candidates Should Wear Should the candidate wear a suit to the interview? √ Probably, yes (but ...
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• Short-Termism at Its Worst

  
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  Editors Note: The following post comes to us from Malcolm Salter , Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Researchers and business leaders have long decried short-termism: the excessive focus of executives of publicly traded companies—along with fund managers and other investors—on ...
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