Day: February 5, 2018

English Department Creative Writing Contest

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English Department Creative Writing Contest

English Department Creative Writing Contest runs through February 26th. Submit unpublished poems (5 max) or short fiction (5,000 words max) to avalon@su.edu and you could win $250. For more information, please contact Christin Taylor at ctaylor4@su.edu. + Google Calendar+ iCal Export
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New Publishing Mechanism to Streamline Newsroom Workflow

The visual and structural changes on Folha's website are accompanied by another change that is invisible to readers: a new system for uploading articles, sections and specials onto the site. Folha has a new publishing mechanism called 'Gutenberg'. The mechanism, which was fully developed by Folha
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TREB takes housing data dispute to Supreme Court, says federal ruling violates rights of real …

The Toronto Real Estate Board is taking a longstanding dispute over access to housing market data to the Supreme Court of Canada, seeking to appeal a lower court decision that allowed realtors to publish the sales histories of listed properties on their websites, according to court documents seen by
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Anna Salt Troise Named Chief Education Strategist at the American Academy of Orthopaedic …

As a member of the AAOS executive team, Troise will direct all the Academy's education and peer reviewed publishing activities, as well as its newly implemented strategy. “Anna is a proven business leader, manager and innovative thinker with extensive experience in business and knowledge of the
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The Tale Far Exceeds the Moment of #MeToo

Laura Dern plays the real Jennifer Fox, or Jenny, a 48-year-old woman who rediscovers her creative writing from childhood and sets out on a procedural-like confrontation with the events she experienced at age 13—an association with an older man (her running coach) which at the time, an age of
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Traditional Vs Self-Publish

Why did you self-publish? They question every self-published author has heard. Get one successful authors response!
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What does 'mobile' actually mean in the affiliate world?

For example, “mobile affiliate” could mean pushing downloads of — or traffic to — an advertiser's app; partnering with publishers who have a mobile-friendly website; helping publishers get in front of consumers on the move; or simply presenting messages that are more appealing on a mobile device
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Milk Chocolate Is Finally Getting the Respect It Deserves

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Milk Chocolate Is Finally Getting the Respect It Deserves

As with Fruition, Castronovo's dark milk bars are some of their top sellers. “We're taking something old like milk chocolate and turning it into something new that can be appreciated as a fine chocolate,” she said. “Our dark milk chocolate has been used to pair with whiskey; some we pair with wines to
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Top Sellers

Shop Florsheim Top Sellers at florsheim.com. Stylish and comfortable, our most popular shoes with the highest and best reviews. Receive Free Shipping on all Florsheim orders over $100 within the lower 48 states.
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A Summer for STEM: Maine Robotics Brings Tech to Kids Statewide

She holds a bachelor's degree in English from the University of New Hampshire, a master's degree (communications) and a law degree from Boston University, and, most recently, earned an MFA in creative writing from the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine. She is currently
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IDW to Publish Softcover of Shelly Bond;'s Femme Magnifique in September

It was one of those curiosities. Shelly Bond curated the female-focused comic book anthology Femme Magnifique that blew up on Kickstarter last year. But Shelly Bond also headed up a publishing imprint of her own at IDW, Black Crown. Couldn't she… you know…? Femme Magnifique is headed back
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DC Unveils Graphic Novel Lines for YA and Middle-Grade Audiences

DC Entertainment Publishers Dan Didio and Jim Lee added, “Two of the recent areas of growth in publishing include graphic novels and books for young readers – we're bringing those formats together with DC Ink and DC Zoom. We've already experienced tremendous success with our DC Super Hero
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Longtime publisher's view from the hot seat | Mirror's 20th anniversary

By Rudi Alcott, Mirror publisher (2008-2017). Nine years – or 3,312 days, to be exact – was the length of time I had the privilege of being the publisher of the Federal Way Mirror. There's no fake news here. No revisionist history. Simply my take on my time in the hot seat. I started in February 2008 when
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This Week in Self-Publishing: Getting Ready to Announce the Pre-Order

This Week Books sold: 2 ebooks (Amazon) Money earned: $4.95 Money spent: $0 Total Books sold: 359 ebooks, 147 paperbacks Money earned (book sales): $1440.02 Money earned (Patreon): $6909 Money spent: $5080.71 I wanted to give you an update on Patchwork Press's NetGalley Co-Op: I
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Rhymer's Block: A Diverse Space for All Creatives

Rhymer's Block is an app that is used by a community of creative writers, poets and rappers from all around the world. What's cool about Rhymer's Block is how you can get constructive feedback from people who are also aspiring to be creative writers, poets or rappers. I think it can be extremely helpful
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Guest Blog – Traditional Publishing Vs. Self-Publishing

This past year while promoting my latest two books, Boys and Sammie & Budgie, I was asked quite a lot during interviews, “Would I go with a traditional publisher for my next book?” Having taken the indie route and self-published some of my fiction work, I initially thought this question to be intriguing.
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Orwell Free Library offering programs in February and March

For those who have ever considered writing, librarian, poet, and founder of Zig Zag Lit Mag, Muir Haman will be on hand on Saturday, March 10, from 10 a.m. to noon to run the workshop “'I can be a writer?': An Intro to Creative Writing.” This is a two-hour intro to the creative writing process. Writing is not
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Women's All Best Sellers

Shop our latest styles of All Best Sellers at REVOLVE with free 2-3 day shipping and returns, 30 day price match guarantee.
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IVEP Announces Whitelist and New Platform-Agnostic Interactive Advertising Protocol for Online …

IVEP offers the first truly exciting experience for audiences by empowering video content with unlimited interactive features, created by its members of software developers, content creators, advertisers and publishers. The platform-agnostic protocol gives control back to the publishers and creators by
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Senior Editor

We are looking for an outstanding and self-motivated Senior Editor in Communication to join the Routledge Humanities Books team. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing a team and commissioning new projects aimed at the academic, professional, and student market. The primary
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“We get a much better reception now”: Piano says more news orgs are embracing paywalls, reader …

That's a very different activity from strategizing a successful subscription business from scratch. What we see more customers doing is bifurcating their businesses. We don't see as many publishers saying “where I do put my paywall” and more saying “what is a totally new offering that I can create and
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Four Questions for…Author and Grammy Winner Lynell George

Los Angeles is a long way from the big publishing houses of New York City. As an author, has that distance affected your work? I did the liner notes for a project by Anthony Wilson, the jazz musician. He says L.A. gave him the space to develop his own style. There is a sort of a free-form experience you
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FEATURE: Elderly proprietor still sees need for his books

Huang Cheng-yeh inherited the bookshop from his father in 1981, but not before founding his own publishing company, which specializes in Japanese-language learning materials, in 1975. He published the first edition of Staircase Japanese Language, a monthly magazine for Japanese-language
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The Playwrights Realm Opens Applications for Writing Fellowship and Scratchpad Series

The Writing Fellowship is at the heart of what The Playwrights Realm does: helping writers write. Four early-career playwrights receive nine months of resources, workshops and feedback designed to help them reach their professional and artistic goals. Over the course of the season, Fellows develop a
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Italy Guest of Honor at 2023 Buchmesse

(ANSA) – Rome, February 5 – Italian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini has signed an agreement with the Director of the Frankfurter Buchmesse, Juergen Boos, naming Italy the 2023 Frankfurter Book Festival's Guest of Honor. The agreement was signed in Rome in the presence of Italian Publishers
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Acclaimed author Anthony McGowan launches literacy scheme at Great Yarmouth academies

The scheme aims to ignite a passion for literature in youngsters and encourage them to express themselves through creative writing. The project is organised by Take Your Place, a programme set out by the Network for East Anglian Collaborative Outreach, aiming to create more opportunities for pupils
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NC Writers Network accepts poetry competition entries

Any writer who is a legal resident of North Carolina or a member of the North Carolina Writers' Network may enter. The competition honors the … The competition is administered by Terry L. Kennedy, associate director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program at UNCG. Entry fees are $10 for
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2018 International Publishing Symposium

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2018 International Publishing Symposium

2018 International Publishing Symposium: Scholarly Publishing in Europe and China The Symposium offers an unrivalled opportunity to hear speakers fr.
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How To Thrive As A Freelance Writer In Uneasy Financial Times

Nana Brew-Hammond (NBH): I decided to go freelance because I wanted to dedicate more time to my creative writing. When my novel Powder Necklace came out in April 2010, I had a demanding job that made it a challenge to promote the book the way I discovered I needed to. After I had used up my
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Top Wharton professor: Use this simple technique to have better ideas at work

Grant says the best technique for sparking creative ideas is to instead have individuals write their thoughts on paper first, then share. “Let people come up with ideas separately,” he says. And, be sure the lists of ideas are long. “There is some evidence that in a brain-storming exercise or a brain-writing
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Fight Social Isolation: Start with Hello!

Entries in creative writing, video, music and visual arts are being accepted from across the country (deadline is Feb. 16). Prizes will be awarded to winning entries in the categories of Written, Spoken and Visual submissions. Take Part in “No One Eats Alone Day” on Friday, Feb. 9. Lunchtime is the
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NEWSCYCLE Solutions Expands Global Media Presence with Media Services Group Acquisition

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NEWSCYCLE Solutions Expands Global Media Presence with Media Services Group Acquisition

NEWSCYCLE Solutions (“Newscycle“), a leading provider of software technologies for the media industry, today announced the acquisition of Media Services Group, a major supplier of integrated digital publishing, magazine advertising, and event management software for the global magazine and
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From the publisher

We have been publishing What's Up for 19 years. The publication was launched in 1999 with a goal to reach a new, younger demographic by focusing on entertainment. The intended audience was college students and young professionals and the bulk of What's Up's distribution was mostly free pick up
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New York Times introduces AR digital storytelling

The New York Times added augmented reality (AR) features to its mobile app to provide readers with a more immersive experience of its digital storytelling, per the newspaper's website. The news publisher this week will introduce an AR experience for the Winter Olympics, which begin on Feb.
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Arshiya sells warehouses for Rs 534 cr

Regional language self-publishing platform Partilipi has raised USD 4.3 million in a fresh round of funding led by Omidyar Network for expanding its team by selling an undisclosed stake. The company, which is operational in eight languages and has a team of 31 people, had raised USD 1 million in
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Ultrastable Actinide Endohedral Borospherenes

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Ultrastable Actinide Endohedral Borospherenes

Since the discovery of the first all-boron fullerenes B40–/0, metal-doped borospherenes have been received extensive attention. So far, in spite of theoretical efforts on metalloborospherenes, the feasibility of actinide analogues remains minimally explored. Here we report a series of actinide
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Eugene, Oregon, newspaper sold to GateHouse Media

“We've come to the realization that in today's business environment it's increasingly difficult for a stand-alone, family-owned daily newspaper to compete successfully and continue to provide products the owners are proud to deliver,” said Tony Baker, chairman of the board for the Guard Publishing Co
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Local florists brace for Valentine's Day

“Roses are always our top sellers — bar none,” she said. “There are variations — some people want flower arrangements or their girlfriend or wife may have a favorite kind of flower, which we're happy to help them with, but by and large, roses are especially popular around Valentine's Day — roses,
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VO5 NME Awards 2018: The ace nominees for Best Small Festival prove size doesn't matter

The old cliché says variety is the spice of life, and if you only went to enormous festivals all summer long you'd be missing out on some of the spiciest treats festy season has to offer. Small festivals offer lots that the big names can't – more intimate performances, shorter queues for the bar/loos/food stand,
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Today's

Prompts presents you with a creative writing prompt or starting line every single time you create a new entry. If you start to feel stuck, tap the lightning bolt icon to receive a new prompt for inspiration. Entries can be saved to the in-app library or shared via email, Twitter, or Facebook. The app also includes
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Publishing Director

Morgan Healey Exclusive. Our client, a global STM publisher is now looking for a Publishing Director, Open Research. This is an important role in the Open Research leadership team that will deliver against key objectives through strategic planning and execution. You'll understand the changing needs
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Beggars' belief: Indie publisher set for 'exciting' US expansion

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Beggars' belief: Indie publisher set for 'exciting' US expansion

Beggars Music chairman Andy Heath has told Music Week that the growth of the publisher has been “thrilling” as he hands over to newly-appointed MD Amy Morgan. The company launched in 2011 and has built up a roster including Sampha, This Is The Kit, Glass Animals, Warpaint and Cat Power.
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Microsoft Buying Publishers Is Bad For Consumers

There was a recent report from Polygon discussing the imminent potential for Microsoft purchasing a major publisher. The article essentially states that, when compared to competitor Sony, Microsoft has an exclusive games problem. In a bid to solve this problem, and after speaking with four analysts, the
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Advertising Becomes Fake News' Latest Target

Unfortunately, the pariah of fake news and the havoc it's afflicted on the media and communications industries has been complicated by the immutable fact that no one seems to want to take ownership of the problem, with our experts — publishers, tech leaders, content providers and marketers
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Creative Writer

View details and apply for this creative writer job in Nottinghamshire with Tate on totaljobs. Creative Writer Full time, Permanent £25000 – £27000 per annum South Nottingham Our client is an award winning, charismatic and highly-motivated leading supplier of industrial products, who are looking for a
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Actor Hugh Grant wins British tabloid hacking case

It is the latest settlement in a multi-year chain of legal campaigns against leading British publishers accused of using private detectives and illicit methods to intercept the voicemail messages of celebrities, victims of crime, and others. The campaign, led in part by Grant and former world motorsport
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Joe McQuaid's Publisher's Notebook: Saturday edition is returning to form

Joe McQuaid's Publisher's Notebook: Saturday edition is returning to form. By JOE McQUAID. February 04. 2018 11:45PM. The results are in, and our Saturday edition is reverting to form. “Form” being the standard broadsheet size that we use for our weekday and Sunday newspapers. The smaller
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Where Does the News Hype Come From?

It's just that the press material put out by universities and scholarly/commercial publishers cannot be assumed to be any better. Postscript 2: I single out the Daily Mail above because of their almost unbroken record, in my own experience, of exaggeration and misstatement about biomedical news.
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Professor of Creative Writing (Prose Fiction)

Applications are invited for a permanent appointment as Professor of Creative Writing (0.5FTE) in the School of English, Drama, and Film. Applicants should be writers with a significant and highly visible reputation in prose fiction. Their standing is likely to be evidenced by major international awards and
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Dema wins Sillerman book prize for African poets

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Dema wins Sillerman book prize for African poets

She earned an MA in creative writing from Lancaster University. She was the Chairperson of The Writers Association of Botswana from 2010 to 2012 and a founding member (alumni) of Botswana's acclaimed Exodus live poetry Collective. Her work has appeared in the Cordite Poetry Review, Elsewhere
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Publishing Field & Inside Sales Manager

Dover Publications and the Research and Education Association (REA) are looking for a talented and dynamic sales person to lead a team of in-house and commissioned sales representatives in the field, inside, and gift book sales channels. This is an exciting opportunity to sell a 10,000+ title catalog of
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Super Bowl Performances Help Drive Justin Timberlake, Pink Concert Sales

It's no secret that Super Bowl Sunday is one of the most influential days in sports and pop culture. It also appears to be just as influential when it comes to ticket sales, too. Last minute buyers kept Super Bowl LII the best-selling event on TicketClub.com yesterday — a ticket that was invaluable to
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EPS for Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. (TYPE) Expected At $0.04; Best Buy (BBY) Sellers …

Best Buy Incorporated (NYSE:BBY) had a decrease of 11.39% in short interest. BBY's SI was 30.06 million shares in February as released by FINRA. Its down 11.39% from 33.93M shares previously. With 5.41M avg volume, 6 days are for Best Buy Incorporated (NYSE:BBY)'s short sellers to cover BBY's
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Verto Analytics Named Winner at 10th Annual Media Excellence Awards

The product, already adopted by many of the leading technology companies and an increasing number of digital publishers, has changed the paradigms of audience measurement, moving from platform specific data to single-source consumer insights. The MEA is recognized as the most influential
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Trend toward online codes is bumping cost of college textbooks, students say

Book publishers that bundle online access codes with college textbooks are thwarting attempts to bring down the price of the books, which can cost as much as $1,200 per academic year, a student advocacy group says. The proliferation of access codes — which are sold along with textbooks and hide
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Novorésumé Offers 50% off their Premium Résumé Builder, Ensuring Your CV is On Point

The job application process can be an exhausting one, endless cover letters, constant updating of your curriculum vitae, not to mention ensuring your instagram is #onpoint and squeaky clean. And chances are, recruiters and employers will spend all but a few seconds looking at your content.
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What the saviour of London's pigeons taught me about the problem with plastic

Not knowing what to do with myself and my bad temper in my 30s, I went to a creative writing class at City Lit, a London-based adult-education college. The teacher looked odd – about 70, she was always dressed in black, her hair was grey and a little wild and she seemed to have dusted her face in flour
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BIG INTERVIEW: Debehams head of buying and design for lingerie Sharon Webb

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BIG INTERVIEW: Debehams head of buying and design for lingerie Sharon Webb

“We see repeat purchasing in our own-buy as well, so styles that would have been number one best sellers in store a year ago are still best sellers online because customers have gone back and repeat purchased.” Online is a huge area for growth at Debenhams' lingerie division and this department
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CI.N Seminars: HighStreetMentor's Mark O'Dolan on “What I would do if I opened a bike shop …

Are your key best sellers visually obvious, or are customers' views being obscured? The mountain at the back should be special, an owner should want a customer to walk the length of the shop.” O'Dolan will again feature this month at IceBike, for which you can pre-register here. Until then, catch his half
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A story can come from anywhere

Journalist and awarded children's book author Melissa Hekkers will run a creative writing workshop for children on Wednesday, that will use the paintings at the Loukia & Michael Zampelas Art Museum as inspiration. The workshop, which is suitable for children from eight to 12-years-old, will divide the
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Letter from the Editor

Coming along with this we're hoping to change our center spread into a little creative zone where we can publish creative writing, drawings, comics and more; all contributions are welcome. Speaking of which, the new logo on the cover is courtesy of Abigail Goss, one of the two winners of our logo
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Creative Account Executive

The role will involve assisting our account managers on a daily basis, joining brainstorms, writing up ideas, compiling survey questions and writing tight, engaging news copy. As the successful candidate progresses they will begin handling projects, which will involve talking clients through our ideas on
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How Nate Larson of Living Room Stumbled Into Cooking — and Found His Calling

His career path seemed pretty clear. A creative writing major in college, Larson got into the non-profit world after graduation, working with adults with disabilities. His parents owned their own business in that field, and Larson planned to follow in their footsteps by opening an art center that would serve
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AI Technology at Glever Takes Over Resume Writing–So Publishers! AI-Written Content Can't Be …

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AI Technology at Glever Takes Over Resume Writing–So Publishers! AI-Written Content Can't Be …

This week Innotech Capitals, an international private equity and venture capital fund, is expected to announce it has made a seed investment in Glever.com, a company that uses AI technology to make resume writing simple and effective. Nothing is more important – or painful – as writing a compelling
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Tartan talking

The UKSG Annual Conference and Exhibition is a major event in the scholarly communications calendar, which each year attracts over 900 delegates from around the world – librarians, publishers, content providers, consultants and intermediaries. The conference combines high-quality plenary
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Self-publishing platform for professional and amateur writers, Pratilipi, raises $4.3mn in Series A …

Nasadiya Technologies' run self-publishing platform Pratilipi announced on Monday that it had raised $4.3 million in Series A round of funding led by Omidyar Network with participation from existing investors, Nexus Venture Partners, Atul Goel, Contrarian Capital and Times Internet Limited and new
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Brand publishers should learn quality versus quantity and shut up

The Content Marketing Institute recently published an article entitled “How to Stop Acting Like a Marketer and Start Acting Like a Publisher”. In the piece, Marcia Riefer Johnston highlights Intel's digital magazine iQ because, in her description of the publication as an example, “today's savvy content
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Rejected three times due to fear of Beijing, controversial book on China's secret influence will …

“I'm not aware of any other instance in Australian history where a foreign power has stopped publication of a book that criticises it,” Hamilton said. “The reason three publishers refused to publish this book is the very reason the book needs to be published.” But on Monday evening Hardie Grant Books
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Forbes India 30 Under 30 List Is Out. A Look At The Young Achievers Who Made It

She is now featuring in plays, commercials and movies like Katti Batti and Muramba. Ranjeet Pratap Singh, Sankaranarayanan Devarajan, Prashant Gupta and Rahul Ranjan are co-founders of Nasadiya Technologies/Pratilipi, a self-publishing portal. Tarun Mehta and Swapnil Jain, co-founders of Ather
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Push Resumes For An EU Google Tax, With The Bulgarian Government Leading The Way

German publishers called it “blackmail,” but the simplest way to comply with bad laws is to opt out. Similar things happened in Spain with its snippet tax. Google nuked its local Google News service, resulting in affected publishers demanding the government force Google to re-open the service and start
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Spotify adds songwriter credits to its desktop app

Both songwriters and music publishers have become increasingly vocal in recent years about the lack of songwriter credits on the streaming platforms, which would tell subscribers who wrote the songs they are streaming. Record producers and sound engineers have also bemoaned the fact that the
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Uganda readies for Islamic banking takeoff, apex bank to publish rules

The government of Uganda has approved regulations covering Islamic banking with the central bank expecting to publish them soon as part of wider efforts to boost financial inclusion in the East African country. ADVERTISING. inRead invented by Teads. Once the regulations are gazetted, the central
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Arizona Game Fair returning to Mesa

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Arizona Game Fair returning to Mesa

Yes, the traditional backgammon, cribbage, chess, checkers and Monopoly fans remain, but with the increase in best sellers such as Catan (formerly Settlers of Catan), Pandemic and Codenames, there's a passel of new enthusiasts. This year's Arizona Game Fair is an official host of the Catan U.S.
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By Design Publishing

By Design Publishing delivers award-winning print and online personally branded content solutions.
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A record of success

She took on a job working with juvenile offenders (she asked that her employer not be named) and started her own business online, T-Ella Creations, crafting and selling inspirational items such as T-shirts and magnets and self-publishing three books based on her experiences, poetry and philosophy.
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Self publishing platform Pratilipi raises $4.3 million from Omidyar Network, TIL and others

Self-publishing platform, Pratilipi, has raised $4.3 million in a Series A round of investment led by Omidyar Network. The round also saw participation from existing investors Nexus Venture Partners; Atul Goel, managing director of the Essel Group's E-City Ventures; Contrarian Capital and Times Internet
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Cadillac XT4 Compact Crossover Coming To New York Next Month

Cadillac has made no secret regarding the existence of its upcoming XT4 compact crossover. We've seen spy shots of test mules for quite some time now, and according to Automotive News, the production XT4 will debut late next month at the New York Auto Show. It makes sense the Big Apple's annual
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