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| | killzoneblog.com
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| | [AI summary] A freelance editor exposes a predatory consultant who plagiarized testimonials and fabricated credentials, while offering practical advice for aspiring authors on how to identify and avoid fraudulent editors.
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| | Scams are anunfortunate realityin the publishing world. To help you stay alert to new entities seeking to defraud authors, we include scam alerts in our newsletter, which you can sign up for here. (If you're an Authors Guild member, you [...]
| | writerbeware.blog
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| | Fake Amazons In the past year or so, I've noticed an upsurge in scams that employ the Amazon name, or the names of Amazon trademarks, to try and trick hopeful writers into believing they are working with a company affiliated with Amazon, or even with Amazon itself. As is common with scams these days, manyRead More
| | marcanthonyaviation.co.uk
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| On December 28, 1978, the passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 173 were excitedly anticipating their arrival in Portland, Oregon. However, what was supposed to be a routine flight from Denver International Airport turned into a harrowing ordeal that would forever change the way the aviation industry approached crew communication and decision-making. The Flight United Airlines Flight 173 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, en route from Denver to Portland with 189 passengers and crew on board. The flight had been uneventful until the aircraft's landing gear malfunctioned. The crew extended the landing gear manually, but they faced a more critical problem: the aircraft was running dangerously low on fuel. The Crisis As Flight 173 circled in a holding pattern nea...