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The Academic Ledger announced today that authors Edward and Chapman were named as its newest featured article curators. New York, NY (PRWEB) February 03, 2012 The staff of the Academic Ledger, an innovative content curation website, would like to announce two new additions. Writers Thomas Edward and Lauren Chapman have been brought on as the Ledger’s newest editorial curators, who provide the invaluable service of selecting the site’s content and editorial direction. Thomas Edward...
The Academic Ledger is an information and news aggregator site created to collect and share the best current writing on politics, economics, and business. New York, NY (PRWEB) December 02, 2011 Curated scholastic research site The Academic Ledger announced today that Phin Upham has been named its newest featured author. Several of Phin’s published essays have been previously featured in the Economics and Philosophy sections of the site. The Academic Ledger would like to highlight...
WASHINGTON, March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Digitalization, on-demand services, blogs, and Web 2.0: The world of multimedia is in transition. In light of these changes, Deutsche Welle is organizing the second DW Global Media Forum, to take place in Bonn, Germany, June 3-5. The conference, titled "Conflict Prevention in the Multimedia Age," will bring together media users and producers, peace-building and conflict-prevention experts, representatives from the fields of multimedia and...
The Wall Street Journal is hoping to gain readers by renovating its Web site to include certain features from social networking sites. In it's first major revision since 2002, WSJ.com's new "Journal Community" will allow paid subscribers to create their own profile page with their interests, hobbies and photos. Alan Murray, a deputy managing editor who oversees the site's editorial operations said the Journal hopes to capitalize by bringing more paid users to the site. The site will also be...
By Joyce Miles, Lockport Union-Sun & Journal, N.Y. Jun. 16--The price of gas is like the weather. Everybody's talking about it. Why is the price so high? Who's at fault? Will it ever come down? Paul Reid, CEO of Lockport-based Reid Petroleum and current president of the national Society of Independent Gas Marketers of America, loves fielding these questions. Because, seriously, when's the last time you considered a petro-guy's side of this story? From one who deals with oil for a...
By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Mar. 18--Each day, several hundred tons of waste arrive at the 1,200-acre Athens-Hocking Landfill near Nelsonville, a small town in Athens County in southeastern Ohio. As much as a third of that waste may be a grayish powder called aluminum dross, or salt cake. It's kept in a separate area away from other trash and covered daily with dirt so that it stays dry, protected from rain and snow. Landfill supervisor Nick Kunkler said the dross is...
By Jewell Cardwell, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Oct. 24--Akron police officer Robert Swain says the department has received several leads -- and six new names -- since a television show about a 1979 unsolved murder case. The Oct. 5 episode of Sensing Murder on the Discovery Channel re-examined the murders of 17-year-old Mary Margaret Leonard and her 19-year-old boyfriend, Richard "Ricky" Joseph Beard, with the aid of two psychics, Laurie Campbell and Pam Coronado. The Akron teens were...
By The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Aug. 8--Backpack? Check. Glue stick? Check. Pencils? Check. But what about vaccinations? It's almost back-to-school time -- time for parents to make sure their children's vaccinations are up-to-date. And this year, for the first time, that means that all Ohio children entering kindergarten must be vaccinated against chickenpox. The law requires either proof of chickenpox (varicella) vaccination or documentation that the child has had a case of...
