Day: February 10, 2018

Literary enthusiasts invited to enter Stokesley writing contest

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Literary enthusiasts invited to enter Stokesley writing contest

A LIBRARY is running its first creative writing competition and encouraging local literary enthusiasts to get involved. People have until the end of April to enter their short stories in the contest run by the Globe Community Library in Stokesley. There are two categories, one for young writers aged between
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The Week in Libraries: February 9, 2018

Librarians, publishers, and exhibitors arrived in Denver this week to temperatures that reached the low 60s—but fear not, the weekend is calling for some more typical Rocky Mountain weather. No worries, an outstanding professional program and a strong slate of author appearances will keep librarians
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The 450 People Who Signed a Letter Asking for the New York Times Graphic Novel Bestseller List …

Without the list, it's harder for us to sell books, which makes it more challenging for publishers to take chances on new voices. Each graphic novel is the product of a time-consuming, and often expensive struggle on the part of many people whose livelihood depends upon the book finding readers.
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2018 Red Cross Heroes Breakfast

Heroes Breakfast Times Publishing Group Inc tpgonlinedaily.com CARMEL — The American Red Cross of the Central Coast is currently seeking nominations for our 2018 Heroes Breakfast, which recognizes members of the communities of Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz counties who have
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Cathy Walker Dinkins

She received accolades in the form of Teacher of the Year (BRES), Chair of Creative Writing (RSMS), and was a long-standing member of Delta Kappa Gamma. After her retirement in 2007, she ran the YMCA after-school program earning the award of Volunteer of the Year, was the Recreation Director
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Publishing a Partial Extract but Refreshing Whole

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Publishing a Partial Extract but Refreshing Whole

The title is essentially the question! I am working with about 50 million rows and want to publish a dashboard with about 2 million worth for testing. Later when it refreshes I want it to take in everything. There are a few work-arounds of doing this. Either in the SQL code, publishing an extract with a sample
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Color my world … with red

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Color my world … with red

In the spirit of the moment, I'm wearing those socks as I write this. I also have on a red-striped shirt … If you're a writer, a red pen is an attack on your words. Calling someone a redneck either a … Ed Grisamore teaches journalism and creative writing at Stratford Academy in Macon. His column appears on
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Green Intermediate teacher illustrates her first children's book

The book was self-published by Miletsky through New Paige Press. The initial run was 2,000 and was available on Amazon.com for between $14.95 and $17.95. It quickly sold out. A second printing is anticipated and Wozniak is hoping it will become available in local bookstores such as Barnes and
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Student's Petri Dish Experiment Shows What's Lurking Inside Hand Dryers

Given how long some hand dryers have been hanging around in public restrooms, it's no surprise that by this point some of them might be a little bit grim inside. But the internet was shocked to discover just how disgusting hand dryers can be as one student in California, USA, shared the results of an
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Re-Gifting With Sentiment

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Re-Gifting With Sentiment

Re-Gifting Times Publishing Group Inc tpgonlinedaily.com Simplify me, Pam! My husband and I are moving across country in a few months, and we have so much stuff but can't imaging taking it all with us. Crazy as it sounds, we're just not emotionally ready to get rid of it. Do you have any suggestions for
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Carmel-based Heartland Food Products Group launches cold brew coffee

Carmel-based Heartland Food Products Group launches cold brew coffee. 0. By Current Publishing on February 9, 2018 Carmel Business Local. By Heather Collins. Carmel-based Heartland Food Products Group, the world's largest producer of liquid water enhancers and SPLENDA, has launched Java
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Rohini Singh's “The Time Manipulator's Son” released on Kindle

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Rohini Singh's “The Time Manipulator's Son” released on Kindle

The company Business Operations Manager Jessica Robinson adds that the internet revolution turned that market on its head, introducing e-books and print-on-demand technology and with them came a self-publishing explosion. “This too has become crowded and both publishers and readers are
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How do we shape a better California?

better California Times Publishing Group Inc tpgonlinedaily.com In this election year, when Californians will be choosing a new governor and other key elected officials, the need for shared common facts and nonpartisan knowledge is more important than ever. As Santa Cruz County's representative on
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Amazon Polly WordPress Plugin Could Turn Blog Posts Into Audio Feeds

It requires a bit of configuration, which could be a real challenge to publishers with less technical knowledge. However, instructions on how to set up the speech engine have been provided in the Amazon Developer blog and the WP Engine plugin page. The Amazon Polly WordPress plugin can also be
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Indie Bestsellers

A list of the nation's best-selling books for the sales week ended Sunday, Feb. 4. Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores. For an indie bookstore near you, visit www.indiebound.org. (Books in bold are new this week.) HARDCOVER FICTION. 1. The Woman in the Window, A.J. Finn,
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AdTech Companies for Publishers to Connect with at IAB

Harnessing the input of innovators, media and publishing agencies and digital marketing companies is the purpose of organizing industry meetups. It is important for businesses that operate within the advertising, publishing and media space to understand what the revolutionary trends of advertising
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Joy Harjo: 'You never know anyone's story'

Harjo grew up in Okalhoma but lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she serves as the chair of excellence in creative writing at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Crazy Brave is a memoir, she said, but everyone can relate to its theme. “I think any story can be very particularly cultural, but human
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Exploring Clive Matson's writing format

There will also be a segment where we will use creative writing to interact with the visual art in the new MAC exhibit, Obsession, a vibrant showing by our local Lake County artists.” Adults and teens ages 12-up are encouraged to participate for $5 this Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. Participants will have
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newscomer

Germany has taken in more than a million refugees since 2015, and plenty of stories have been written about them. But, according to the founders of a new project called Newscomer, the views and opinions of refugees themselves are rarely featured in mainstream media coverage. Read more .
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Digital Content Next Report Finds Facebook, Google Experiences Together Account for Less Than …

A research report released recently by trade association Digital Content Next (DCN) – the “DCN Distributed Content Revenue Benchmark Report” – offers in-depth insights into how Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube and other platforms are partnering with premium digital publishers to attract users
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SPF-105: Increase Your Global Reach – with Kobo's Christine Munroe

Kobo's Senior Manager for Author performance, Christine Munroe, talks to James about the advantages of reaching world markets with Kobo that other retailers do not reach. This week's highlights include: On Kobo's background and beginnings. The idea of buying ebooks in a brick and mortar
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Richmond Food News: Week of Feb. 5-9

Proceeds from the portraits go to help support Richmond Young Writers. RYW is a great program that offers age-appropriate writing workshops for kids year-round. My older son has … 11) — Six-course dinner with wine pairing to benefit SCAN – Stop Child Abuse Now; Galentine's Day, Laura Lee's (Feb.
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A conversation with Cory Arcangel

Instead of straightening the lines of history in the technological realm, Arcangel blurs them, in particular those that create divisions between professional and amateur. One way he does this is through his venture 'Arcangel Surfware', 'a non-aspirational lifestyle, software, and publishing company' that the
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Checking out from the library — at home

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Checking out from the library — at home

Users of all ages will find items that are unique the eBook collection, but they will also find the latest best sellers or a classic that they want to reread. One of my favorite parts of this collection are the cookbooks. I love being able to bookmark a page on my iPad and open it up later to cook the actual recipe
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Monthly StatShot, September 2017

Downloadable audio sales were 24.2% higher than in the previous year, but e-book sales were 5.5% lower at publishers that report results to the AAP. In the children's/YA segment, hardcover sales were down 8% in the first nine months of 2017, and e-book sales declined 11.5%. Both formats were
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Lee's Brown Published In Online Journal

He also earned a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Alabama and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Murray State University. He has authored three books of poetry, a memoir, a book of scholarship, and has also had critical articles published on John Barth, Tony
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Book Deals: Week of February 12, 2018

For Bloomsbury Children's Books, Sarah Shumway and Hali Baumstein took North American rights to three new books by Elizabeth Eulberg. The first novel in the deal, a YA called Past Perfect Life, follows a girl whose life, the publisher said, “unravels when she learns that everything she thought she
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Analysts See $1.01 EPS for Barnes & Noble, Inc. (BKS)

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Analysts See $1.01 EPS for Barnes & Noble, Inc. (BKS)

More important recent Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS) news were published by: Businesswire.com which released: “Barnes & Noble Announces Barnes & Noble Pressâ„¢, an Enhanced Self-Publishing …” on January 24, 2018, also Businesswire.com published article titled: “Barnes & Noble Education
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Letter to the Editor: In defense of the students who walked of Rosen's class

… students' perceptions of a white person teaching a class where the word “n****r,” not the “N-word,” is repeatedly used in the course might well elicit the same initial political and critical suspicion that an educator with a heterosexual, Christian male identity might elicit teaching a LGBTQ+ writing course.
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Belhaven Alum Receives Young Alumni Award, Swipe Out Hunger and Robert Brazile

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Belhaven Alum Receives Young Alumni Award, Swipe Out Hunger and Robert Brazile

#Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, released the book on Feb. 28, 2017. The book debuted at the top of The New York Times young adult bestseller list and scored features in major publications such as New York Magazine, The Fader, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Entertainment
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Facebook Will Use Viewability To Measure Organic Page Reach

Starting Monday, Facebook will finally begin measuring organic page reach the same way it measures paid ad reach: based on viewable impressions. This is only a reporting change and unrelated to how organic distribution works on Facebook. Facebook started alerting publishers in early February, but
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This Week's Bestsellers: February 12, 2018

Still Me by Jojo Moyes, the third book to feature heroine Louisa “Lou” Clark, debuts at #2 in hardcover fiction and #8 overall. Bestseller watchers may recall 2016 as the year of Jojo—the Me Before You movie hit the big screen, and various print editions of that book and the 2015 sequel, After You, sold a
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Review: The Post

The film centers around the leakage of the Pentagon Papers and The Washington Post's decision to publish the papers. The story begins with The New York Times publishing portions of the Pentagon Papers and then being court-ordered to stop publishing. This was a turning point in American history,
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'You lied, you cheated … Bye!' Programmatic Ad Firm Publicly Breaks Up With Newsweek

A press release issued by the Boulder, Colorado-based company titled “Brandzooka Blocks Newsweek from Ad Platform Amid Transparency, Deceit,” doesn't explicitly reference a BuzzFeed investigation published last Thursday—”The Publisher of Newsweek and The International Business Times Has
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Grand Central Charges into Its Second Decade

Last year marked a number of milestones for Grand Central Publishing. For one thing, it was the 10th year that the publisher operated under the Grand Central umbrella, having changed its name from Warner Books in 2007. Last January also saw the departure of both Jamie Raab, who was Warner
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Jordan Peterson's book is a bestseller — except where it matters most

23, Peterson's 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos has soared to the top of the charts. This week it tops the Star's non-fiction list and other lists across Canada. Readers in the United States seem to like him, too. It's the No. 4 best-selling book in the U.S. overall, according to Publishers Weekly. It's No.
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'Spice is unbelievably dangerous': Pipe Down magazine editor Araminta Jonsson discusses the …

For a few weeks now a number of us have been delivering creative writing workshops in a prison. I have been blown away by the effort, commitment and organisation skills demonstrated by the guys in recovery and on the Pipe Down Team who have been facilitating the classes, not to mention the
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Experts Find Two Classic Cars Parked In An Abandoned Garage For Years

There's something about the classic car that brings with it a splash of glamour. For some car addicts, finding and owning one of these can be the mission of a lifetime. Now experts from the YouTube series Barn Find Hunter have made a massive find in the form of two classic cars, which were sat in an
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower author Stephen Chbosky announces his second novel — a horror …

Almost 20 years after first publishing The Perks of Being a Wallflower, author Stephen Chbosky has a second novel to share, EW can share exclusively. Imaginary Friend is coming to bookstores in Fall 2019, and it's a departure from the warm-hearted YA wonderland of his beloved first book. This novel
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A week of love

There are many events scheduled for a week that includes a special date for lovers, no pun intended: Saint Valentine's Day. Old Town Actors Studio is presenting “That Thing Called Love,” Feb. 9 to 13 at 7:30 p.m. It features 11 local performers crooning “songs from the modern repertoire in true NYC
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