Day: February 3, 2018

Visiting Assistant Professor/Instructor of Creative Writing Miami University

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Visiting Assistant Professor/Instructor of Creative Writing Miami University

Visiting Assistant Professor/Instructor of Creative Writing, beginning Fall 2018. Miami University Regionals (MUR) are open admissions campuses with a liberal arts curriculum. We offer associate and bachelor's degrees, including a Bachelor of Arts in English Studies, as well as pathways to degree
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How Facebook stole the news business

Now Facebook is pushing into local news, but publishers should be wary of making the same crooked deal. It might provide more exposure and traffic for smaller outlets today, but it could teach users they only need to visit Facebook for local news in the future. Here's how Facebook retrained us over the
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Big tech's monopolistic rule is hiding in plain sight

Just about every year since, musicians have found themselves facing an ever-more concentrated industry, to the point where the business is now dominated by three giant music publishers — Sony, Warner and Universal — and three great Internet bottlenecks — Apple, Spotify and YouTube (owned by
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SAGE Publishing

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SAGE Publishing

Founded in 1965, SAGE is a leading independent, academic and professional publisher of innovative, high-quality content.
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Library support takes on new status

… organizing and selling many of the books donated to the library. “Sometimes people will leave a box of old books by the front door. We'll go through those books. We have a special shelf where we sell those books. “A lot of people come and buy these books. Some of them are brand new best sellers.”
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PM Modi's book – Exam Warriors tells students how to cope with stress

With the students gearing up for this year's school board exams, Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems to have come up with a self-help book to guide the … The publishers promise the book to be non-preachy, practical and thought-provoking while also including a series of asanas and breathing
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Professor Brophy: Publishers Should Apologize for Printing Racist Materials

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Professor Brophy: Publishers Should Apologize for Printing Racist Materials

Professor Brophy: Publishers Should Apologize for Printing Racist Materials. February 2, 2018. Professor Alfred Brophy, along with Autumn Barrett of New York University, published an essay in Fortune magazine that argues that publishers should apologize for printing, publishing, and distributing
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Pen to Paper: Exhibit Explores History of the Written Word

Johnson developed a program to support literacy by teaching handwriting in schools, working with an educational publishing company in Cambridge, Mass. His materials were used in schools from late '60s through the '90s. He opened a now-closed institution called the Johnson Reading Center used
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Extreme Overflow Publishing Announces a New Book – Wide Open by Kenya Brown-Milfort

Extreme Overflow Publishing Announces a New Book – Wide Open by Kenya Brown-Milfort Extreme Overflow Publishing is excited to announce the launch of a new book entitled, “Wide Open,” by author Kenya Brown-Milfort of Brockton, MA. In this book, Kenya Brown-Milfort tells the story of detailing
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PM Narendra Modi's 'Exam Warriors' that aims to help students beat exam stress to be launched …

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PM Narendra Modi's 'Exam Warriors' that aims to help students beat exam stress to be launched …

According to ANI, the book, which aims at helping the students beat exam stress, will be launched by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in the presence of Prime Minister Modi. 'Exam Warriors' has been published by noted publishers Penguin India and the book runs into 208 pages.
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While you were sleeping: Cute animals compete to pick Super Bowl winner

The university had previously announced that students could apply directly to participate in the 12-person task force, which was announced in the wake of allegations of misconduct against certain professors in its Creative Writing program. The Concordia Student Union held a news conference on
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A Russian Poet Recounts Literary Life in 1966

… even in post-thaw, pre-Glasnost Russia, they traded manuscripts in samizdat, much in the same way New York School poets outside academia exchanged mimeos and self-published pamphlets. James Schuyler's diaries and diacritic poems, Aram Saroyan's minimalist concretions, and Ted Berrigan's
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Concordia University to allow student union to pick representatives to sexual violence prevention …

Concordia University says it has changed its mind and will now allow its student union to choose the undergraduates who will sit on its new sexual violence prevention task force. The plan to establish the task force was announced after sexual misconduct allegations surfaced last month in the English
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Duke-St. John's Publishing Note

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Duke-St. John's Publishing Note

DURHAM, NC – DECEMBER 05: A Nike brand basketball with the Duke logo is seen prior to the game between the St. Francis (Pa) Red Flash and the Duke Blue Devils at Cameron Indoor Stadium on December 5, 2017 in Durham, North Carolina. Photo by Lance King/Getty Images. We try hard to have
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42nd International Kolkata Book fair: A photo story

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42nd International Kolkata Book fair: A photo story

This year, the focal theme country of the fair is France. The International Book Fair will also be donning a new hat with the launch of the Kolkata Literature Festival as a part of the International Kolkata Book Fair. The Lit fest organised by The Publishers and Booksellers Guild will witness the presence of
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'Running With Ghosts:' Memoir Shares One Childhood Cancer Patient's Journey, Memories Of Others

“As an undergraduate in college, I was a journalism major, so I was writing then. When I went and did my MFA, I did it in creative writing,” he said. “For whatever reason, it was the one thing I felt like I wanted to write about most often. “I think that was simply because I was young enough, and that was the
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Searching out the first Black writers in Canada

While Black writers were beginning to be published by more mainstream publishers in the 1960s, Henderson self-published her poetry chapbook in 1967. That seems astonishingly recent. But, “Yes, she was the first Black woman to publish a collection of poetry in Canada,” Clarke says. And her story
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Book Lovers Visits Book Fair At Expo Centre

LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 03rd Feb, 2018 ):A large number of book lovers on Saturday visited the 5-day Book Fair-2018, on the second day of its start at the Expo Centre. Coordinator of the Lahore International Book Fair Trust Muhammad Nazeer told APP that 270 publishers, book
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15 Art Classes to Boost Your Creativity in 2018

If getting creative is on your 2018 bucket list, you've got some impressive options in coming weeks and months. Several visual, literary, and performance artists are teaching classes and workshops on a diverse range of topics, including flamenco dance, painting gaming miniatures, and writing flash
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YouTube to Call Out Government-Funded News Videos

Users and publishers can submit feedback about it via YouTube's “send feedback” form. The company said it plans to “improve and expand” the feature over time. “A big goal for us in 2018 is to provide greater transparency across the board to our community of creators, advertisers, and viewers,” Samek
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Art follows creative mind

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Art follows creative mind

An Ottawa Middle School art teacher's creativity produces more than meets the eye. Patrick Schlotterback, OMS art teacher for the past 27 years, uses art and writing songs as more than just an outlet. “Creatively, it all works together because writing a song is a lot like putting together a painting,”
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Wishes granted

As a result, the school offers a Japanese anime, creative writing/video lit review and NASA Ignite! clubs. “How many kids would learn how to cook if we didn't have a cooking club?” she said. Ruble, who also will oversee the program at Eastside, said 315 of Highland's more than 1,400 students attend a
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There are bookshops in Nigeria—but nowhere near enough

“For a country of our size, the number of bookshops is abysmal,” Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, co-founder of Cassava Republic, a Nigerian book publishing company, tells Quartz. The lack of bookshops is particularly frustrating for publishers looking to distribute their titles. Unlike educational publishing companies
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Extreme Overflow Publishing Announces a New Book – Wife. Pray. Win. – Your Guide to Become a …

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Atlanta, GA, February 03, 2018 — Extreme Overflow Publishing is excited to announce the launch of a new book entitled, “Wife. Pray. Win. – Your Guide to Become a Wife Whose Prayers Move Mountains,†by 6x best-selling author Yolanda Lewis of Atlanta, GA. In this book, Yolanda Lewis shares
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What You Should Know From Facebook's Private Newsfeed Webinar

Facebook's Publisher meeting wasn't going to be private for long but the timing meant it wasn't well shared. Thanks to Matt Navarra (who doesn't miss much in Facebook-ville) we now have a blow-by-blow play of what was closed meant to be closed to much of the world. Essentially here's what
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British publishing is right – including Americans is damaging the Man Booker prize

The argument about whether US writers should be allowed to compete for the Man Booker Prize rumbles on this week with news that some two dozen British publishers have put their name to a letter urging the prize trustees to reverse the 2014 rule change. Under the old system, only novels from Britain,
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Northview Church to host special needs prom Feb. 9

Northview Church in Carmel will host a Night to Shine prom experience for people 14 or older with special needs. The event, sponsored by the Tim Tebow Foundation, is Feb. 9 at Northview's Carmel campus, 12900 Hazel Dell Pkwy. Brodbeck. The free event will run from 6 to 8 p.m. DJ KB will play
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5 Things You Can Learn About Investing from Nassim Taleb's Skin in the Game

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5 Things You Can Learn About Investing from Nassim Taleb's Skin in the Game

Before publishing best-sellers Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and Antifragile, Taleb was a trader who made millions betting on rare and consequential market events — like Black Monday of 1987. Taleb's next book, Skin in the Game, won't officially be released until the end of February 2018.
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Maine inventor turns old propane tanks into whimsical drums

The large, round metal drum is an invention of Doble's called the Whale Drum, one of his best sellers. The sounds the drum produces are fairly deep and “gongy,” as Doble describes it on his website. “The sound sort of reminds me of whales,” Doble said. Hence, the name. Painted bright colors, the
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“New attack on IT business in Ukraine”: the company talks about corporate conflict

One of the largest Ukrainian IT companies reported a new attack as a result of the old corporate conflict. Representatives of the Security Service of Ukraine participated in the attack. Ukrainian media published a statement about searches of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) in one of the largest IT
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University appoints creative writing expert

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University appoints creative writing expert

AN award-winning author whose bestselling novel was named book of the year by the Guardian and Observer newspapers is to join the University of Chichester. Suzanne Joinson has been appointed as a senior lecturer to teach on the emerging field of non-fiction creative and digital writing. The former
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How Facebook's latest changes impact inewsource's content on your News Feed

The expected changes came after the social media platform was criticized for enabling foreign interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and contributing to the rise of false news stories. Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, addressed how the changes will affect local publishers.
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Carmel in brief — February 6, 2018

Corrections – In the Jan. 23 edition of Current in Carmel, a story on the White Stone Project incorrectly stated Sarah Hurley's title. She is the founder of Kristy's House. Also, in a Jan. 30 story on Suburban Indy Shows, some information was misstated. The shows at the Indianapolis Fairgrounds are still in
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Spalding to be an Art on Main guest artist

Rita Spalding is delighted to be one of February's guest artists at Art on Main Gallery & Gifts. “Carmel is a thriving area. I've got a lot of clients there,” said Spalding, who lives in the Irvington area of Indianapolis. “They are close by so they can come in see the new stuff. It's going to be mostly florals to tie
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CHS performs “Peter and the Starcatcher'

Stewart was familiar with “Peter and the Starcatcher” since he had done monologues from the play for auditions for other shows. That no doubt helped Stewart land the title role in the CHS play, which is set at 7 p.m. Feb. 8, 9 and 10. There is a 2 p.m. show Feb. 10. The play is a prequel to “Peter Pan.”.
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This YSU social work prof is a writer at heart

Some may wonder what a social worker's tie is to literature, and Alschuler said she identifies with both fields equally. Before getting into social work, Alschuler worked in publishing. “I actually have a master's [of arts degree] in poetry,” she said. “I worked in publishing until one day I knew I didn't want to
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