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Monthly Archives: November 2016

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30 Wednesday Nov 2016

Posted by David Haden in Spotted in the news

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It’s one thing to find an occasional questionable ‘alternative medicine’ article in a dubious journal, quite another to learn that the same flakes have set up shop on your local hospital cancer ward. The latest edition of Skeptic magazine ($, Vol 21, No.4, 2016) points out how gong-banging and aromatherapy and suchlike nonsense is being welcomed into legitimate cancer wards…

“The most disturbing trend in cancer care is the ongoing infiltration of complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs) into otherwise legitimate cancer hospitals. As of 2016, every cancer hospital on the top of U.S. News & World Report’s list of America’s best either has its own CAM center or openly markets CAM services. Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Bendheim Integrative Medicine Center offers aromatherapy, Qi Gong, reflexology, hypnotherapy and a slew of other fantasy treatments. At Dana-Farber’s Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies, you can waste as much time and money as you like on Qi Gong, acupuncture, massage therapy, and Reiki. The UCLA Medical Center has a partnership with the Urban Zen Foundation (Reiki, essential oil therapy, and contemplative care/mindful awareness exercises). Not to be outdone, the stellar MD Anderson’s CAM center has Tai Chi, Tibetan meditation, group drumming, acupuncture, and “laughter for health.”

“This has led to some awkward advertising moments in which hospitals warn patients about the very treatments they now offer. Sloan Kettering’s Chief of Integrative Medicine Service boasts of having “studied, published, and lectured internationally” on “alternative therapies” for more than 25 years. The hospital itself advises its patients: “alternative regimens are unproved, expensive, and potentially harmful.”

“… Medical expenses are still the leading cause of personal bankruptcies in the U.S. In dire circumstances, when one is not thinking with due lucidity, the temptation to turn to cheap alternatives that are bountiful outside of mainstream medicine can be irresistible. When legitimate hospitals host CAM services — by whatever name they choose to call them — they implicitly abet a shameful industry.”

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24 Thursday Nov 2016

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Anthropology & Aging

Chester Antiquary (Chester Archaeological Society, UK)

Journal of Hellenistic Pottery and Material Culture

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21 Monday Nov 2016

Posted by David Haden in Ecology additions, New titles added to JURN

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Gitanjali & Beyond (life and writings of Rabindranath Tagore)

Ecozon@ : European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment

Journal of Computational Vision and Imaging Systems

Canadian Food Studies

The Once and Future Classroom : resources for teaching the Middle Ages


Clean Air Journal

Changes at the Facebook filter F.B. Purity

19 Saturday Nov 2016

Posted by David Haden in JURN tips and tricks

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Just a note on the popular third-party Facebook filter F.B. Purity. Changes are obviously afoot in how their blocklist blocks items from appearing in your personal Facebook feed. I’ve noticed a number of changes so far, and possibly there are more…

1) Under the “Photo Stories” settings, the option to block “Meme” stories is now much more sensitive that it was. It is blocking all sorts of legitimate items. Possibly it was boosted to help people cope with the U.S. elections?

2) “Selfie” blocking is now blocking things like Christmas event posters, that just happen to have a small face somewhere on them.

3) If you were also correctly blocking all stories from a news site such as Russia Today (aka RT, Putin’s public propaganda arm), in your personal Text Filter blacklist, using a backslash thus…

rt\.com

Then note that this now also blocks all shares from any other URL ending in *rt.com

4) F.B. Purity’s word blocking in the Text Filter also auto-expands on the root word, something I don’t remember seeing happen before. For instance, if you block “stories” then you also block all posts using “histories” and blocking “ISIS” blocks all posts with “crisis”.

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17 Thursday Nov 2016

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Journal of Mediterranean Knowledge

Medieval Philosophy and Theology (now indexed at the article-title level, thanks to a TOCs page on The Logic Museum)

A few new UK university repositories. URLs added for the full-text in the repositories of Strathclyde and Winchester.

Cover me!

17 Thursday Nov 2016

Posted by David Haden in My general observations

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A quick survey of some of the better free Photoshop book-cover mock-ups. Mock-ups are where you drop in the hi-res cover graphic for your own book, replacing the one in the graphic. All below were being offered without weird ‘installers’, ‘premium’ download accounts, mailing-list pop-ups or other tom-foolery, and they un-zipped fine.

Hardback Book Mockup, which looks suitable for the ‘easy-reading for hipsters’ sort of books.

small

Hardcover Book PSD Mockup, a chunky classic manual / textbook type of book. The download has a simple five-second timer-delay but works.

classic

Free Book Mockup .PSD. A straightforward large tome, perhaps suitable for an encyclopaedia volume.

straigh

Propped Up 6 x 9 Paperback. The levitation effect looks a little odd, but could suit a title on the future of technology or similar.

econ

9 x 7 Landscape Paperback Book Mockup. Could work nicely for a small Blurb print-on-demand photobook.

photo

Photorealistic Book Mockup. Could suit a small volume of translation or poetry, although getting print-on-demand binding that looks as finely tooled as that might be a problem. 15 second download timer-delay, but it does download.

philo

5 x 8 Mass Market Paperback, but with a little scaling on the background (to make it look larger) it might also be used for the cheap paperback of your 800-page academic brain-crusher.

paper

6 x 9 Boxset with Small Spine and 6 x 9 Book Series Template both have a look suitable for slim 150-page local history book as a Lulu 6″ x 9″ print-on-demand paperback.

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14 Monday Nov 2016

Posted by David Haden in Ecology additions, New titles added to JURN

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J-RaT (Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society)


Macedonian Journal of Ecology and Environment

Digital Monograph Costing Tool

14 Monday Nov 2016

Posted by David Haden in Economics of Open Access, Spotted in the news

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A new Digital Monograph Costing Tool from American University Presses.

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06 Sunday Nov 2016

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SPAFA journals (Southeast Asian archaeology and fine arts, various titles)

Hiperboreea (History of central and eastern Europe, partly in English)

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04 Friday Nov 2016

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Covenant Quarterly, The


Journal of Ginseng Research

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