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By Reuters Fact Check 5 Min Read A self-published book about the Omicron variant of COVID-19 – said to be copyrighted in 2020, before the variant's discovery – has been used by commentators online as alleged evidence of a conspiracy. The 106-page book, titled 'Understanding Omicron Variant', first appeared for purchase on Amazon on Dec. 5 (amzn.to/3poirkO). Written by a Dr Theresa Bishop, the front cover claims the book will tell readers "all you need to know about Omicron variant, where it comes from, answers to questions you have, and lots more update to keep you well informed." Social media users have since highlighted that the book claims to have copyright protection, obtained in 2020. One video clip viewed 6,000 times on Facebook shows a person using Amazon's "look inside" feature to see the claim in the first few pages of the book. The page reads: "Copyrights [sic] © 2020 Dr. Theresa Bishop… All rights Reserved" (here, here, here and ...

Together with the Women's Prize for Fiction, we've launched Futures to highlight the talent of the next generation of female writers and support them to have the long and illustrious careers we think they deserve. After a childhood in Newcastle, Eliza Clark , 27, moved to London to study at Chelsea College of Art. She received a grant from New Writing North's Young Writers' Talent Fund and used it to write her debut novel Boy Parts . Since then she's been prolific, with a collection of short stories out this year and another novel scheduled for 2023. Along with her partner, she hosts podcast You Just Don't Get It, Do You?, in which they discuss film and television. What was the the inspiration behind your novel, Boy Parts? Boy Parts is inspired by a fairly broad range of stuff: photography theory, films and aspects of my own life are the core points I pulled from. I did an ...

The clock is ticking for a highly-awaited reunion special of a beloved film series that captured and continues to do so, millions and millions under its everlasting spell; Harry Potter . Ahead of Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts , Potterheads have been revisiting (for the nth time!) the glorious eight instalments, which began in 2001 and concluded in 2011. Based on J.K. Rowling's iconic eponymous novels (1997-2007), the Harry Potter franchise starred Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter , Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger while earning a massive USD 7.7. billion at the worldwide box office, collectively. Taking a trip down memory lane, we first have Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone , which was directed by Chris Columbus, as was the next HP instalment, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets , which released in 2001 and 2002, respectively. Next up, we have Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azk...

Starting college is intimidating enough for the traditional freshman. Add to that a language barrier and the pressure of living far from home, and the challenges faced by first-year international students can be doubly hard. Addressing this issue is a pilot program at the Lundquist College, launched fall term, in which one section of the introduction to sports business course was taught in a mixture of English and the Mandarin Chinese language—Mandarin being the second most common language spoken by business students at the University of Oregon after English. The objective of the experiment was to build an on-ramp of sorts for first-year international students to feel more comfortable and be more successful during their time at Oregon. Jordan Luo, a junior at the UO studying public relations, was born in China. He took the sports business course, and he said minimizing the language barrier clearly helped international students feel more confident and stay better engaged in clas...

1. Archpriest Avvakum. The Life Written by Himself As part of the Russian Library series by Columbia University Press, a new translation of this very old story has been published. Archpriest Avvakum is the famous 17th century Old Believer who was one of the first to reject reforms in the Orthodox Church and become a dissident. He had previously been a widely admired priest who was close to the tsar. However, that didn't save him from exile and jail.  While even Russians struggle to read this story, written in an archaic language, English readers are lucky to be able to read it more easily in the beautiful translation by Kenneth N. Brostrom.  Read more about Avvakum in our article here, and learn about the origins of the Old Believers here.  2. Alexander Pushkin. The Captain's Daughter. Essential Stories The Captain's Daughter is a romantic novel which takes us back to the 18th century in the time of the massive Pugachev Rebellion, which plunged h...

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Apart from passports and visas, there is another crucial element when preparing to study abroad: your English proficiency test. English is used across the globe, granting you access to new careers, experiences, and endless possibilities. Popular study destinations like Australia and the UK require proof of your English proficiency for admission into colleges and universities, and for your visa application. All it takes to get closer to your dreams of studying overseas is a score confirming your English ability. Enter the Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic test, easily the most convenient and stress-free English test recognised worldwide. The innovative two-hour English test, accepted worldwide It is stress-free! PTE Academic is changing English language testing and is one of the world's leading – and most innovative – tests of language skills. It was the first completely computer-based English test in the world and it has now been improved to make testing even shorter – o...

In the customer service industry, your accent dictates many aspects of your job. It shouldn't be the case that there's a "better" or "worse" accent, but in today's global economy (though who knows about tomorrow's) it's valuable to sound American or British. While many undergo accent neutralization training, Sanas is a startup with another approach (and a $5.5 million seed round): using speech recognition and synthesis to change the speaker's accent in near real time. The company has trained a machine learning algorithm to quickly and locally (that is, without using the cloud) recognize a person's speech on one end and, on the other, output the same words with an accent chosen from a list or automatically detected from the other person's speech. Image Credits: Sanas.ai It slots right into the OS's sound stack so it works out of the box with pretty much any audio or video calling tool. Right now the company is operating a pi...

Delaware News Journal Perhaps the best thing we can say about 2021 is that it wasn't 2020.  And while COVID-19 continues to impact everything we do, in many respects we have adapted and learned to live our lives in a new way.  This past year has been interesting – aren't they all? It started with Joe Biden being inaugurated as president and is ending with COVID infections spiking yet again, stressing hospitals and health care workers. In between, there has been a lot of great work done by the journalists at Delaware Online/The News Journal. What follows is their favorite stories of the year. In most cases it is stories they wrote, in some cases it is just their favorite story.  In every case, they are stories only they could bring you, thanks to your support and that of the thousands of new people who subscribed in 2021.  We can't do it without you. And we look forward to 2022 and shar...