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The California Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) is a department within the California Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. DCA's stated mission is to serve the interests of California's consumers by ensuring a standard of professionalism in key industries and promoting informed consumer practices.
Predatory publishing, also write-only publishing [1] [2] or deceptive publishing, [3] is an exploitative academic publishing business model, where the journal or publisher prioritizes self-interest at the expense of scholarship. It is characterized by misleading information, deviates from the standard peer-review process, is highly non ...
Ripoff Report sells ad space on its website [1] [7] and offers companies the option to pay for complaint investigations, which can cost from US$5,500 to over $100,000. [5] It also offers an arbitration program.
Red Hen Press was founded in 1994 by Mark E. Cull and Kate Gale.The press was reorganized as a non-profit 501(c)(3), getting its federal exemption in 2004.It established a Writing in the Schools program in 2003, [28] which has received funding from the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Kinder Morgan Foundation, the City of Pasadena Cultural ...
In 2006, Nolo began publishing a directory of attorneys, which is asserted to operate on the principle that both participating lawyers and consumers are better served by a relatively short list of qualified attorneys under each category (business law, real estate, etc.), with much information for side-by-side comparisons.
In 1995, Franklin launched its Bookman product line, which came with an installed database and included a slot for plugging in a second electronic book. Prices varied depending on the title. Previously, the Digital Book System (DBS) product was a player only, with two slots for electronic book cards.
The most common data recovery scenarios involve an operating system failure, malfunction of a storage device, logical failure of storage devices, accidental damage or deletion, etc. (typically, on a single-drive, single-partition, single-OS system), in which case the ultimate goal is simply to copy all important files from the damaged media to another new drive.
The system opened in July 2000 for a two-month trial. [5] The system was intended to make censorship by governments more difficult by spreading parts of documents among multiple decentralized locations [5] and as such was a forerunner of later file sharing systems. The issues those later systems had with copyright violations and objectionable ...