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It said there should be more projects along the lines of the “Know Before You Go campaign which asks travel companies to pass on Foreign Officers advice to customers. But it said advisers should not be overly scrutinized (my) in case they stopped publishing warnings, and travelers should be...
This is only slightly unusual because when the series brand was publishing, in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, I was not doing very much reading. But the idea of a reader getting to dictate the path of a journey is appealing to me (why are all these books targeted to young readers ...
In 2016, Jim launched a business advisory program to serve the partners of Vantiv, a payment processing and technology provider headquartered near Cincinnati. He assists owners and managers of technology solutions provider companies with their recruiting, hiring, employee management, leadership development...
Our provincial government is cutting 500 nursing jobs. Let me tell you, having spent 12 months in the belly of the system now–there are many thing wrong with it. But it is not overstaffed. Every fired nurse? A nurse that’s not able to help someone’s child when they need help. …...
Publishing has long been a low paying industry with long hours for its entry and midlevel employees, and it is based in New York, a very expensive city. It is also an overwhelmingly white industry, and many in the industry feel the low pay is part of what makes diversifying the industry...
A man in his 70s, Koursoumis had been fired from his previous job, a publishing house, and was not able to pay rent, as a result, he ended up sleeping rough for almost a year. "At some point I said to myself, I could not do this anymore. I must stand on my own feet, even...
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Any reader could see it but, me, reading as much Nature Writing as I do, I got immediately worried. I thought: Oh my God, they’re not cutting enough wood for the winter and soon it’ll be too late. They aren’t prepared well-enough for fishing and do they really know how to pr...
Lost amid all the distractions about the health of publishers and bookstores is the fact thatmost bestselling authors still have day jobs. Even if you develop a steady career with a publishing house, and they buy a book a year from you, a great deal might provide $50,000 per book. Thi...