Day: January 26, 2017

Noted novelist offers writing tips to fourth-graders preparing for state exams

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Noted novelist offers writing tips to fourth-graders preparing for state exams

… Elementary School in Lake Worth read samples of the writing they wrote during a creative writing workshop hosted by Danticat on Thursday, Jan.26,
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New York Times Drops Comics From Bestseller Lists

By Joshua Yehl Comic books have been unceremoniously dropped from the New York Times Bestseller lists. When the email subscription for the
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Help – TARGETconnect

Register your organisation to advertise your vacancies and register for Careers Fairs, once registered you can manage all of your current opportunities
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$12 million Pegasus gives racing big buzz, huge purse

And for the stakeholders, it was worth betting $1 million to essentially try and cash in at 7-1 — plus say they won the biggest payday in racing history.
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Google has banned 200 publishers since it passed a new policy against fake news

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Google has banned 200 publishers since it passed a new policy against fake news

Publishers were banned in November and December and included sites that impersonate real news organizations through shortened top-level
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Google Bans 200 Publishers Following 'Fake News' Policy Update

Following the implementation of a policy promising a crackdown on “fake news,” Google has banned as many as 200 publishers from one of their ad
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Matomy's MobFox Expands Global Offering in APAC, Strengthening Localization for Mobile …

MobFox is a top international mobile advertising platform working with over 175 DSPs and 40,000-plus registered publishers, as well as leading
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Greenville holds ground breaking for treatment facility

Excitement was in the air and on the faces of the Town of Greenville's mayor, town council and community leaders who came to the water and sewage
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'Sleeping Beauty' Ballet Opens Friday

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'Sleeping Beauty' Ballet Opens Friday

In this scene, Maleficent (Sophia Sparks) awakens to find her wings are taken and the fairies (Central Ballet Senior Company) are mourning for her.
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Widener Students Featured at State Street Reading

Kelsey Styles '17, senior English and communications double major, and Evan Kramer '17, senior English and creative writing dual major, presented
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Erotica on Amtrak: writer Tamara Lush scored the best residency

She calls in from a stopover in Denver to talk about her dual careers, the freedom of self-publishing and how writing fiction has made her a better
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Best sellers, week of Jan. 24

4. “Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan,” by Bill O'Reilly. 5. “The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
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Greene County Receives Federal Funds For Emergency Food, Shelter Services

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Greene County Receives Federal Funds For Emergency Food, Shelter Services

Greene County has been awarded federal funds to supplement local emergency food and shelter services. The $32,268 award is from the Emergency
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GamePump shuts down subscription service to focus on publishing

GamePump, created as a hybrid publisher and subscription service centered around bringing classic games to PC, has backed away from its monthly
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Junior Agent Position at Chris Calhoun Agency

Chris Calhoun Agency seeks a detail-oriented, motivated junior agent to work on editorial and business tasks for prestigious list of non-fiction and
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Senior Editor for the Specialty Division

Work Experience: 7+ years in publishing required; work on children's books and/or 4-color books or magazines required, Christian publishing
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HPD WARNING: Publishers' Clearing House Scams

The callers claim to represent “Publishers' Clearing House” and give instructions to send a money order or other payment to pay for award processing
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Patterson, Fox's thriller 'Never Never' tops US bestseller list

Jan 26 A Super Bowl blowout will not help the National Football League but it will not hurt either as industry experts say the American sporting
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Can China Develop Viewability Standards?

Members include publishers like Tencent, advertisers such as P&G and Unilever, agencies and ad tech companies, including Sizmek, fraud detection
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Fake News Publishers Banned From Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google Ad Network

A total of 200 publishers were removed from Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) ad networks following an increase in so-called fake news.
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National Newspaper Publishers Association brings top Black-Owned news organizations to …

Students from 30 Broward County schools will attend discussions led by experts in journalism and publishing covering contemporary issues including
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Valiant Expands Globally With 10 New Foreign Publishing Partners

Valiant has announced that it has added 10 new foreign publishing partners to its international publishing program, which will bring their library of
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Books Stubbornly Refused to Be Disrupted, and It Worked

Last year, the trend continued, and self-publishing in electronic form no longer seemed as good a bet as in previous years. In 2016, the unit sales of
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Liverpool looks to arrest slide as trophy hopes fade

Liverpool's head coach Juergen Klopp gestures as he watches during the English League Cup semifinal 2nd leg soccer match between Liverpool and
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Your cable company wants to be your phone company, too

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Your cable company wants to be your phone company, too

FILE – In this July 23, 2015, file photo, a man walks past the Comcast Building in New York. In the next few months, cable giant Comcast will start
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Participating, Observing, Publishing: Lessons from the Field

Participating, Observing, Publishing: Lessons from the Field by Samantha Majic, John Jay College-City University of New York Sex work raises
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Charges Dismissed After Death Of Woman Who Crashed Into Bus

Updated court records confirm that a woman who crashed head-on into a Greene County school bus last year died earlier this month and the charges
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Top Trending Topics in Ad Tech

2017 is the year premium publishers and advertisers continue to develop sophistication with regards to serving users and making ads more effective.
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US Nitrogen Reaches 'Full Production Capacity'

After years of work, US Nitrogen LLC's Midway plant is now fully operational in its production of liquid ammonium nitrate, according to a company
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SmallGEO Hispasat 36W-1 Is Integrated By Arianespace

The Soyuz for Arianespace's first mission of 2017 from the Spaceport in French Guiana is now complete, following the launch vehicle's “topping off”
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Trump to publish weekly list of crimes committed by immigrants

President Trump's latest move will be an attempt to manipulate public opinion to the detriment of both legal and undocumented immigrants.
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Liberal “New York Times" Elites Remove Comics from Best Sellers Lists

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Liberal “New York Times" Elites Remove Comics from Best Sellers Lists

I have now written more words about the New York Times Best Sellers lists in the past 10 minutes than I have thought about it past 10 years.
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Starlandia Creative Supply Launches New Space Station

They offer creative writing for teens and seniors, “Do-Re-We” singing classes for toddlers and babies and Petite Picasso, a course designed to help
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Google Disabled 1.7 Billion Ads & Kicked Out 200 Publishers In 2016

Google released their bad ad report for 2016, telling us they “took down 1.7 billion ads that violated our advertising policies,” which was more than
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Bridging borders across majors

The only collaboration between majors happens in liberal arts courses, … As magazine writing is a very standard piece of journalistic media,
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Six surprising ways to challenge yourself creatively from home

The Open College of the Arts, for example, offers a range of creative courses in subjects such as creative writing, drawing, graphic design,
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Donald Trump is going to publish a list of crimes committed by immigrants. Hitler did the same

Trump has ordered his new administration to publish a weekly list of the crimes committed by immigrants. As he signed the order, Trump read out the
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Publish Wholesale Announces 100% Money Back Guarantee for Author Clients

Publish Wholesale (PW) remains grounded in establishing trust and … to prolific self-publishing authors, at a pricing no other publishing services firm
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Jackson's incident lasting memory of last Houston Super Bowl

… sparked an international debate about decency, and landed Jackson in the Guinness Book of World Records as “Most Searched in Internet History.”.
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On Raglan Road

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On Raglan Road

He holds an MA in Writing from the National University of Ireland, Galway, where he teaches a Creative Writing course to undergraduates. He is also a
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Italy's 5-Star leader backs Rome mayor under investigation

FILE – In this Thursday, June 23, 2016 filer, Rome's Mayor Virginia Raggi leaves the Rome's Vittoriano Unknown soldier monument after laying a
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New York Times to eliminate graphic novel and manga bestsellers lists

The New York Times will eliminate a number of their print and online bestseller lists—including ones for graphic novels and manga. The change will
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Chinese send fake Trump tweets as jokes, New Year wishes

Computer screens display the fake tweets that online users can self generate at a Chinese website in Beijing, China, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017. Online
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Barack Obama book deal for memoirs tipped to top $27 million

The US trade publication The Hollywood Reporter has tipped Obama's …. The first, Living History, which followed her term as first lady, Clinton was
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Global Express Link Emulator Debuts from GateHouse Telecom

GateHouse Telecom has announced that their Global Xpress Link Emulator is now ready for sale and will provide users with the opportunity for
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If someone doesn't own your words, then how will we know if they're good ones or bad ones? When you self publish, you take bread from the hard
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Memoirs are made of this: Barack Obama's US$20 million publishing payday

Memoirs are made of this: Barack Obama's US$20 million publishing …. windfall was also, at the time, the largest book advance in publishing history.
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Kymeta Offers HTS Connectivity for Civilian Armored Vehicles

Kymeta™ is planning to work with Aurum Security to bring Kymeta mTenna™ HTS connectivity to VIP and civilian armored vehicles (CAV). Now, CAV
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NEW YORK TIMES Will No Longer Publish Graphic Novel & Manga Bestseller Lists

The New York Times will no longer publish best seller lists for graphic novels or manga. The graphic novel and manga best sellers lists will be absent
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Wish they had the same policy for the more prestigious publishers who use the old-fashioned “misinformation” tactic to spread false news.
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Dynamic Testing For AsiaSat 9

The AsiaSat 9 spacecraft has successfully completed the dynamics test phase which simulates environment exposures that will be experienced by the
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Chat live with author Sophie Kinsella

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Chat live with author Sophie Kinsella

Join us for a Facebook Live video chat Feb. 7 with Sophie Kinsella, author of the best-selling, comic Shopaholic series. Fans can submit questions for
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February 2017 Best-Sellers List

The CBA Best-Seller and category top-seller lists are compiled from actual sales in Christian stores as reported through CROSS:SCAN, powered by
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Shell wins court ruling on Nigerian pollution claims

… before London's High Court in a case brought by Nigerian farmers and fishermen who claimed their lands were polluted by the company's actions.
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Facebook will use publisher consensus as metric for 'non-fake' news

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Facebook will use publisher consensus as metric for 'non-fake' news

In the light of intense criticism over Facebook's propensity to popularise 'fake news' – seen by many as a contributory factor to the outcome of the
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Roxane Gay, Citing Milo Deal, Pulls Book from S&S

He doesn't have a right to have a book published by a major publisher but he has, in some bizarre twist of fate, been afforded that privilege. So be it.
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President Donald Trump to publish weekly list of crimes committed by immigrants

Donald Trump has ordered his new administration to publish a weekly list of crimes committed by immigrants. The US President's sweeping new
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Thousands of protesters mark Australia Day celebrations

SYDNEY (AP) — Thousands of protesters marred celebrations of Australia's national day on Thursday by cranking up pressure on the government to
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Tesla Model S Is World's Best-Selling Plug-in Car For Second Year In A Row

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Tesla Model S Is World's Best-Selling Plug-in Car For Second Year In A Row

There's something to be said for Tesla's Model S which for the second consecutive year led as the world's best-selling plug-in passenger vehicle.
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Satellite Industry Association Congratulates New FCC Chairman… Already a Champion for the …

A new administration and new people for various committees and commissions including the FCC's new chairman that was announced. The Satellite
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Republic woman arrested on uttering, publishing charges

MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) – The Marquette Police Department arrested a Republic woman for uttering and publishing checks on Wednesday.
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'New York Times' Cuts a Range of Bestseller Lists

The New York Times has eliminated a number of bestsellers lists, although the exact number could not be confirmed Thursday morning. Cutting the
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Google Ramps Up Crackdown On Fake News With 200 Publishers Banned: 1.7 Billion Bad Ads …

Google, in its ramping up of the crackdown on fake news, has permanently banned 200 publishers from its AdSense network. The company also took
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Graphene barristor using nitrogen profile controlled ZnO Schottky contacts

We have successfully demonstrated a graphene-ZnO:N Schottky barristor. The barrier height between graphene and ZnO:N could be modulated by
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Dream to zine: Why it's easier than ever to self-publish

… revolution may be upon us, but there's a fightback already underway. Self-publishing has never been easier, so check out these some handy tips.
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Eurona and Avanti Sign for a Decade and Launch New Services in Spain and Portugal

Broadband services in Spain and Portugal will be improving with the efforts of Avanti Communications Group plc (“Avanti”), provider of satellite data
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Roxane Gay pulls book from Simon & Schuster after Milo Yiannopoulos publishing deal

Feminist writer Roxane Gay has pulled the publication of her upcoming book How to be Heard from Simon & Schuster, after the publisher reportedly
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Cover Trump With Caution

Covering the most unorthodox presidency in history won't be any easier than it was covering the most maverick presidential campaign, when many in
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iBooks Bestsellers: Patterson Returns

James Patterson's latest novel, Never Never, which is co-written with Candice Fox, rose to the top of the iBooks bestsellers list last week, followed by
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Favour Canadian news publishers with tax changes and create digital journalism fund, new report …

A new report commissioned by the federal government is urging Ottawa to consider changing tax laws to favour Canadian news publishers in the
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Writers group meeting at library

Are you a local writer that would like to be a part of a writing group? … It's time to celebrate the intellectual and creative writing talent of our local
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