Day: December 16, 2017

Robotics Market in Paper, Printing, and Publishing Industry Analysis and Forecast by Market Size …

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Robotics Market in Paper, Printing, and Publishing Industry market market research delivers practical and actionable intelligence of market to support your idea with research based facts. It provides deep understanding, clarifies diversities of market to help you decide not only the succeeding strategy but
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Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter

Aristoteles contra Augustinum: Zur Frage nach dem Verhältnis von Zeit und Seele bei den antiken Aristoteleskommentatoren, im arabischen Aristotelismus und im 13. Jahrhundert. Udo Reinhold Jeck. [Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 21] 1994. xvi, 521 pp. Aristotle's Theory of Language and its
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Manly ferry crashes into yacht on Sydney Harbour

It's the third incident involving a Manly ferry in just over three months. In mid-September, the “Ocean Wave” vessel hit Manly Wharf at low speed, leaving four or five people with minor injuries. At the time, the company said it was not clear how the accident happened and crew would be tested for alcohol
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Catholic Church 'a cesspit' of lack of accountability, says abuse survivor

Mr Wood, who was abused by notorious pedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale and two Christian Brothers while a child in a Ballarat school, yesterday said the Catholic Church had a poor history of child safety and would likely not adopt all the recommendations. “It's a cesspit of lack of accountability,” he said.
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Music publishers seeking songs

Song publishing contacts, music producers and music industry tips and opportunities. We at WINNERS CIRCLE COUNTRY MUSIC PUBLISHING are constantly seeking the very best songwriters for WCCMP publishing catalog material. Demolition Music President/Writer, Jon D'Agostino envisioned a
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Business is getting on with theenergy revolution

Stockland's Mark Steinert is spending $23.5 million rolling out solar panels across 10 of the company's shopping centres. NAB's Andrew Thorburn is committed to sourcing 50 per cent of the bank's energy from renewables in 2025, up from 10 per cent next year. Westpac's Brian Hartzer has increased
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Iowa Supreme Court blocks newspaper from publishing public information

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Iowa Supreme Court blocks newspaper from publishing public information

DES MOINES, Iowa — An Iowa Supreme Court justice issued a rare order that prohibits a daily newspaper from printing information in documents obtained from public court records. The order was issued Dec. 11, by Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins. It bars the Des Moines Register from
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Where's Amy sees the Oak Ridge Boys

Where's Amy enjoyed a night of hits and holiday fun at the Oak Ridge Boys Christmas show Dec. 7 at The Palladium in Carmel. The Oak Ridge Boys are members of the Grand Ole Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame. The country and gospel vocal quartet also boasts five Grammy Awards, nine
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Fall 2017 Flying Starts: Tochi Onyebuchi

Onyebuchi's road to publishing was a circuitous affair. He met his editor, Tiffany Liao, early in law school, through mutual friends, but it wasn't until his final semester that they decided to collaborate on a project. When he had written enough of Beasts Made of Night to negotiate a contract, he signed with
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MU professor Chavez to sign new poetry collection at Empire Books

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MU professor Chavez to sign new poetry collection at Empire Books

A mestiza born and raised in the California Central Valley, Chavez was named one of the 2016 Top Ten “New” Latino Authors to Watch (and Read) by … from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is a visiting assistant professor teaching creative writing, literature and composition at Marshall University.
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Rob Lowe to Direct and Star in THE BAD SEED Remake

Lowe released his memoir, Stories I Only Tell my Friends in 2011. The book was an instant hit, spending consecutive weeks in the top four of The New York Times best sellers and making it onto GQ's “Best of 2011” book list. He is also known for his roles in PARKS AND RECREATION, THE WEST WING,
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Letter to editor: Best Christmas gift would be to see all hatred go away

It's been years since I wrote a letter to Santa. The last time I actually wrote one, I was still in grade school. Back then, they had marbles, yo-yo's and tops as their best sellers. The penny candy and gum wasn't bad either. We had no Christmas tree and our presents consisted of an apple, an orange and
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Sex, Zombies, and Psychotropic Parasites: An Indie Success Story

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Sex, Zombies, and Psychotropic Parasites: An Indie Success Story

Birch's path to self-publishing was a bit of an experiment itself. Following his M.F.A. program, he was working on writing literary fiction, but realized that he wasn't engaging readers: “I had a really poor intuitive grasp of storytelling basics…. I decided to spend a few weeks writing a very light, fast-paced
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Security in a Small Nation

The book draws on current debates about the extent of intelligence powers and their implications for accountability, privacy, and human rights. It examines the foreign and security policy of other small states through the prism of Scottish independence, providing unique insight into the bureaucratic and
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Londoner John Matsui draws on his former career as a journalist for his sci-fi/horror/mystery thrillers

“One was by a friend from the CBC (Georgie Binks) and so I called her and she told me about self-publishing and said I should write. I said 'How? I have no idea how to write fiction' and she said to just sit down for three or four hours and start writing and see what came out. A few hours later I had two
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Librarian also authors novels for the shelves

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Librarian also authors novels for the shelves

Her first two books, “Memories Trail” and “Promises to Keep” were published by Helm Publishing and she self-published “Promises My Love” through Dog Ear Publishing. “This is a love story and a war story,” she said of the trilogy. “Promises My Love was originally intended as the end of Promises to
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Quebec offers plan to help newspapers while Ottawa does nothing

Former federal cabinet minister Martin Cauchon recalled these origins while explaining, in a speech in 2015, why he had just bought Le Droit and five regional Quebec papers, at a time when other newspaper publishers were struggling. In Quebec, all francophone media are instruments of language
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Why HarperCollins India is pushing hard to sign up the biggest names in Indian commercial fiction

Don't let the wine-soaked book launches, literary awards and glitzy literature festivals fool you. While Indian literary fiction continues to throw up some interesting writers and books, the backbone of the publishing industry in India very much remains non-fiction and commercial fiction. Selling in the tens of
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The joke's on 'Mr.Mommy'

She and my daughter, both were encouraging” says Suman. Apart from these, he is an avid bird watcher, who also like to cook, play guitar, travel and climb mountains. “I like mountains and there isn't any particular reason for that. And writing is my job, I don't need a cabin in the woods to get creative.
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Need script for an explainer video

Posted 1 hour ago. Details. I would like to create a compelling script for an explainer video for my product which is an online English course for school children in the non-native English speaking countries. We majorly work in India, Middle East, and South East Asia. I am looking at a 1 min script.
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Indigenous writing award for poetic Peawanuck teen

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Indigenous writing award for poetic Peawanuck teen

The poem was one of five entries that received a James Bartleman Indigenous Youth Creative Writing Award from Ontario Lt.-Gov. Elizabeth Dowdeswell in a ceremony Friday at Queen's Park in Toronto. Nova's father, Matthew Gull, the Canadian Ranger sergeant commanding the Ranger patrol in
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Diamondoid architectures from halogen-bonded halides

The reactions between a tetrahedrally-shaped tecton, tetrakis(4-(iodoethynyl)phenyl)methane, and tetraphenylphosphonium halides readily afford interpenetrated and densely packed diamondoid architectures sustained by C–I⋯X− (X− = chloride, bromide, iodide) interactions. In all these
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Writer, illustrator detail creation of WV-themed 'Mountain Christmas' children's book

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Writer, illustrator detail creation of WV-themed 'Mountain Christmas' children's book

Harshman, the state's poet laureate since 2012, is a widely published poet who has also released a string of children's books from national publishers, such as “Only One Neighborhood,” “All the Way to Morning” and his quirky classic “Rocks in My Pockets.” Who do you call if you want to hit the high bar
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Self-published is not the easy way out

You've heard that it's increasingly difficult for an unknown author to go the traditional book-publishing route, so you're thinking about self-publishing. British author E.L. James's “Fifty Shades of Grey” is arguably the greatest self-publishing success story of all time. Originally self-published as an e-book
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Creative writer for Exclusive/ rare/ high end products

Posted 1 hour ago. Details. we need to create pretty names for 500 images of furniture. we deal in very expensive items, we are looking for someone good with words. check pics for examples. Project Type: Ongoing project. Activity on this Job. Proposals:Less than 5. Interviewing: 0. Invites Sent: 0.
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Meet the Finalists for the 2017 BookLife Prize

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Meet the Finalists for the 2017 BookLife Prize

The many judges of the BookLife Prize—bestselling authors, the editorial staff of Publishers Weekly and BookLife, and PW's crack team of reviewers—whittled down this year's 700-plus submissions to just seven titles: one from each of the contest's genres. The grand-prize winner will be announced on
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Book Deals: Week of December 18, 2017

The publisher said the book was pitched as Sharp Objects meets Room; its narrator, a teenage girl, is “being held hostage in a remote cabin in New Zealand” by a captor who “claims he's protecting her from the tragic aftermath of her terrible role in a night back home in Melbourne she can't remember.
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Library Makeover

From 2013 to 2015, they cowrote the monthly “Cut to the Core” column for Publishers Weekly, which focused on how the Common Core State Standards for education affected libraries and publishers. In addition, Library Journal has recognized the pair as “movers and shakers” for their advocacy efforts,
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Music Reports Hits 1 Million Songs Claimed Using Songdex Rights Database

Music Reports' rights database Songdex has hit a new milestone, helping music publishers claim more than 1 million songs since its claiming system was launched last year. The free Songdex Claiming System allows publishers to claim recordings that embody their songs, offering a valuable tool to
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Insight Editions Marks 15 Years of Publishing for Fans

In 2002, Raoul Goff decided to transform his book-packaging company into a full-service publishing house called Insight Editions. Fifteen years later, the publisher has two offices in San Rafael, Calif., another in Los Angeles, and one in Hong Kong to oversee manufacturing. It now counts around 70
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Spreading the Word About Diverse Books: 'PW' Talks with Marley Dias

We asked Dias to reflect on her activism and publishing journey so far, and to share some of her future goals. What inspired you to create the #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign? How did you put it together? Realizing that the access that I had to diversity was not a reality for most students was the biggest
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Study: 69% of app developers have tested playable ads

Seventy-one percent of that number find them to be effective, an increase from 51% in the spring survey. Among the top app publishers, 80% use a combination of video and display ads to monetize their apps, and ads account for 55% of total publisher revenue. They also ranked rewarded video as the
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Letter from the Editors: Covering Sexual Abuse in the Book Business

As a trade publication covering the book business, we at Publishers Weekly are typically focused on reporting stories that show how the industry ticks—book deals, personnel moves, acquisitions, financial results, hot books, and new technology developments are all under our purview. But the past few
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Deal Making Slowed a Bit in 2017

A number of independent publishers were also involved in deals that added scale and, in some cases, diversified their businesses. Among the acquisitions that fell into this category was mind-body-spirit publisher Red Wheel/Weiser's purchase of Career Press, which added hundreds of business books
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Steven Spielberg Takes Epic Selfie with Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson

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Steven Spielberg Takes Epic Selfie with Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson

Thousands of pages of secret documents about the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, documenting from the end of World War II until 1967, were leaked to The New York Times, which began publishing them in a series that became known as the Pentagon Papers. Nixon responded to the leak by securing a
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University to add emergency hotline, case manager to student counseling services

Emily Bernstein, a junior creative writing major, said that it has taken months for her to secure an appointment at SPCS, highlighting the need for a case manager. “There are only so many appointments offered to students per semester (at SPCS),” Bernstein said. “I was offered a list of counselors in the
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Community mourns loss of Carmel Redevelopment Commission attorney

Karl Haas, who served as an attorney for the Carmel Redevelopment Commission for more than 20 years, died Dec. 6 at his home. He was 57. Haas was an expert on legal issues regarding public-private partnerships, which have been a key part of the strategy of the CRC and the City of Carmel.
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Indie Authors and the Hidden Stigma of POD

Print-on-demand publishing seems straightforward enough. For traditional publishers, POD allows backlist titles to be printed to order once inventory dwindles to low or zero. However, POD also functions as a sort of a status indicator—one that can create a certain stigma around the works of
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Digital Publishing Market for Education Sector Market| CAGR of 12.60 % | Growth Prospects

Digital Publishing Market for Education Sector market market research delivers practical and actionable intelligence of market to support your idea with research based facts. It provides deep understanding, clarifies diversities of market to help you decide not only the succeeding strategy but also to
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Advancement in IoT will boost next-gen energy management systems

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Advancement in IoT will boost next-gen energy management systems

… at Transparency Market Research, providing global business information reports and services with an exclusive blend of quantitative forecasting and trends analysis. He graduated with honors from Pune University with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Technology and Creative Writing.
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George Martorano: Life After Lock Up

He participated in the NAACP, taught yoga, started a creative writing course and authored 31 books. Furthermore, he … “I was the only inmate since the BOP was established in 1936 to write a self-help book and have that book be keyed-in into the BOP educational and psychology departments. Over the
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A windfall for a Pinoy illustrator

To promote the visibility of the Philippine publishing industry internationally, the National Book Development Board (NBDB) has endeavored to maintain participation at the Frankfurter Buchmesse (FB, or the Frankfurt Book Fair) on consecutive years—an unimaginable feat without the current
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Don Coles, 90, a revered poet who wrote mind-expanding verse

Poet Don Coles, seated in his North Toronto home in 2001, taught scores of students during a 30-year career in the humanities and creative writing programs at York University in Toronto and ran a residential poetry workshop at the Banff Centre in Alberta for a decade beginning in the mid-1980s.
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Overwatch League's success could remake esports

For years, esports has developed and grown organically and without much structure, a real Wild West of teams and leagues and sponsors. Game publishers were so happy that people were buying, playing, and talking about their games that they were satisfied to sit back and enjoy the profits. But as the
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EPCC Recognized by Two Publishers for Work with Military

El Paso Community College (EPCC) announced on Friday that it has earned 2018 Military Friendly School Gold designation by Victory Media and a Top School designation by Military Advanced Education and Transition Journal. “EPCC is committed to providing targeted support to veterans, military
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