Day: December 7, 2017

We don't talk anymore

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We don't talk anymore

In fact, only last week during a Creative Writing programme for corporate journalists, a participant said that she needed to get what she described as her 'learner's licence' in writing again. The course, she said, had made her want to go for many 'driving lessons' so she could eventually earn her 'driver's
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Resources for Foster Youth

Publishing Top One Column. Students who've experienced life in a foster home or group home often need extra support and resources to ensure they succeed in college. Here you'll learn about the many ways your CSU campus can help you thrive from the day you start your academic career until you
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Culture Machine uses tech IP Intelligence Machine to build publishers' leaderboard

Culture Machine has established a leaderboard for publishers across multiple categories in India. Culture Machine's patent pending tech IP 'Intelligence Machine' tracked the month on month performance of Indian channels on YouTube and Facebook to provide a comprehensive view of which
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'No more buck-passing' says Carnegie Diversity report

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'No more buck-passing' says Carnegie Diversity report

However, the different arms of the book trade, such as publishers, librarians and literacy organisations, must work together to make this happen, it said. “A change in the culture is required with no more 'buck passing',” said the report. “To make this a reality participants want to see partnerships develop
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J. Torres: The man behind Teen Titans Go!

A semi-autobiographical “homemade” comic entitled Copybook Tales made the way for Torres and his collaborator Tim Levins as they fire up their career in the comic book industry. Copybook Tales was first published by an American comic book publisher Slave Labor Graphics in the early 90s and later
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Janet Lerner's New Book “The Lord Told Me, 'Be Available.'” Invites the Reader to Experience the …

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Janet Lerner's New Book “The Lord Told Me, 'Be Available.'” Invites the Reader to Experience the …

Published by New York City-based Page Publishing, Janet Lerner's revealing work invites the reader to glimpse into her life to find inspiration for their own. … Page Publishing knows that authors need to be free to create – not bogged down with complicated business issues like eBook conversion,
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Debra Rudolph's New Book "Castle Lochwind The Savage Bloodline- Part I The Coming" Is the …

Recent release “Castle Lochwind The Savage Bloodline- Part I The Coming” from Page Publishing author Debra Rudolph is an enchanting story about a man who … Page Publishing knows that authors need to be free to create – not bogged down with complicated business issues like eBook conversion,
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Bibliophiles' paradise: Five-day international book fair commences in Karachi

The 13th Karachi International Book Fair features books and other reading material of more than 250 publishers across Pakistan. Photo: Geo News screen grab. KARACHI: One of the largest books fair in Pakistan, Karachi International Book Fair, opened to public in Karachi's Expo Centre on Thursday.
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Why You Should Care About the NRDC's Antibiotics Scorecard

Since 2015, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been publishing its Chain Reaction report, produced in collaboration with Friends of the Earth, Consumers Union, Food Animal Concerns Trust and Center for Food Safety. Chain Reaction is basically a report card, showing how well
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Intimidation tactics? Police gun for Jacques Pauw

Myburgh also authored the book The Republic of Gupta‚ which detailed allegations of the grip the controversial Gupta family have on government and President Jacob Zuma. Pauw was not immediately available for comment‚ but the publishers of his book reiterated that it stood by him and his work.
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Coast Line: Alverda Orlando, Randall Brown win awards

The History Forum of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has presented the annual Dolkas-Mertz Award to Alverda Orlando, whose book on the history of Davenport by Arcadia Publishing is forthcoming. The History Forum named Randall Brown of Boulder Creek “Distinguished Historian for 2017.”.
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AS Ekspress Grupp: UAB DELFI sells its magazine publishing business in Lithuania

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AS Ekspress Grupp: UAB DELFI sells its magazine publishing business in Lithuania

UAB DELFI, the subsidiary company of AS Ekspress Grupp, is selling its magazine publishing business and aims at concentrating on developing the online media. The magazine publishing business is being sold to company “GM Media Invest”. “In Lithuania we are well known as the leaders of the
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Claeys & Casteels Law Publishing

Claeys & Casteels is a publishing house specialising in European Law. Its aim is to publish a portfolio of titles, written by the leading practitioners and policy makers in the area. Our titles provide a complete and definitive working guide to the areas covered. Our objective is to gradually produce a series
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Monocle, a UK publishing success story, looks beyond Brexit Britain for its future

Monocle's founder, Tyler Brûlé, outlined his future strategy, including a new Christmas-based The Winter Weekly newspaper, new investment in book publishing, and editorial expansion in Los Angeles and Zurich, which will become a crucial post-Brexit commercial operation. “Looking at where the UK is
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Roche's Immunotherapy Drug Tecentriq Extended Patients' Lives in Study

Roche Holding AG said Thursday that its immunotherapy drug Tecentriq slowed the progression of lung cancer and helped patients live longer in a late-stage study, offering a new hope for patients and bolstering the Swiss drugmaker's defense against a wave of cut-price competition to its top-selling
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$510000 awarded in NSW Creative Fellowships

NSW Performing Arts/Music Fellowship (Mid-Career/Established Artist) – Sydney's Cat Jones, an interdisciplinary artist, writer and researcher, who creates live immersive, participatory artworks that manifest in diverse forms that are often accompanied by a body of research. Peter Sculthorpe Music
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Gossip: 'Ten Piscatqua' series debuts,

Photographer Michael Penney will drop his inaugural book “Pioneers of Craft Brewing in New England” in time for holiday gifting. The self-published book is designed by by Matt Ralph at Plainspoke. Penney has been a photographer since the late 1970s (largely portraits and architecture). The idea for a
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Sweet

Step into Somerville's EHChocolatier and as you gaze into the glass case of honey caramel bonbons, brown butter toffees, coconut creams, and chocolate chews, you may notice a slight chill in the air. Founder Elaine Hsieh keeps the 1,100-square-foot kitchen, in a former factory building, at about 68
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Mark Froelich: Dusting off "Santa's Touch" to share

That year, I decided to self-publish that book and sell it only in Defiance, just to say that I went through the “process.” It was enjoyable and all … self-publishing world. It takes a lot of time and marketing, and to be honest, I guess I'm still hoping a book publisher shows some interest at some point in time.
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Dismantle the Fairy Forest; it's now a 'Fairy Junkyard'

I'm a writer and more recently a pastel artist. I have taught creative writing to children and adults for over 30 years. I even used those same trees once, to encourage a 10-year-old student to write a short story. I did not, however, impose that project on the general public who also have the right to use the
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Drunk Christmas

It's everybody's favorite Christmas tale with a boozy twist. Join our drunken cast for a beer as we teach Scrooge a lesson about Christmas and all its “spirits”. Drunk Christmas is part of Audacious Theatre's holiday fundraiser, and the festive e…
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Writing House holds censorship panel

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Writing House holds censorship panel

Nice to see all of you here; welcome to the Writing House's panel on Expression in literature, as well as censorship,” began Marion Givhan (C'18). … Regarding the question of whether students should have a voice in selecting materials for a course, many of the panelists seemed to suggest they tried to
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Acorn publishers named Newspaper Executives of the Year

THIS RULES—Lisa Rule, associate publisher of Acorn Newspapers, and Jim Rule, publisher, receive the California Press Foundation's Justus F. Craemer Newspaper Executive of the Year Award during 140th annual CPF winter meeting Nov. 30 to Dec. 1 in San Francisco. KYLE JORREY/Acorn
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The Courage of Larry David

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The Courage of Larry David

This, of course, is supremely implausible: one overarching cultural reality of the post-9/11 era is that, with extremely few exceptions, book publishers, movie studios, museum curators, and opera and theater producers aren't eager to be involved in any project that touches even remotely on the negative
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By popular demand, Gourmand Cafe serves dinner

The truffle goat cheese fries are the best sellers at all our locations.” She added that workers at Weidenhammer, Reading Nephrology Ltd. and Breast Cancer Support Services of Berks, West Reading, are all frequent visitors to Gourmand Cafe. Nicky Paul, Shillington, works in Wyomissing and has been
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Geography Quiz, Publishing in Movies, Flags

I love trivia games. Well, I love trivia games except for the sports questions and the celebrity questions, because I don't follow sports and I don't read People magazine. I don't know any of the Bachelors and I can't name you any of William's children or anybody that Harry has ever dated, nor do I get
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Coast Line: Meditation teacher to speak Dec. 8

He will talk about creative, somatic and experiential approaches to dealing with difficult mental and emotional situations, personal and global, and finding … It includes talks, meditation (beginners welcome), contemplative yoga and movement, creative writing, and methods of developing intuitive insight.
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Maid charged with publishing child pornography

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Maid charged with publishing child pornography

An Indonesian maid was charged with publishing child pornography on Wednesday, after she allegedly broadcast a video on social media of three young ch…
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Paris Review Editor Resigns Amid Inquiry Into His Conduct with Women

Despite The Paris Review's relatively small circulation, it has an outsized influence in publishing. Founded in Paris in 1953 by George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen and Harold L. Humes, the publication has catapulted the careers of writers like Rick Moody, Jack Kerouac, Philip Roth and Adrienne Rich.
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'Every vendor has this problem': Why website redirects keep plaguing publishers

In a publishing environment that often resembles a house of horrors, the mobile redirect is one of the most infuriating — to both users and publishers. A person clicks a link they think will take them to a story on a reputable news publisher only to suddenly end up in the app store to download a random
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American Travels: The art and soul of Michigan: A Detroit Renaissance

At the end of October, the Detroit Free Press announced that Lonely Planet – one of the largest travel book publishers in the world – was set to name Detroit the second-best city in the world to visit in 2018. Eclipsed only by Seville, Spain, The Motor City immediately outranks Canberra, Australia and
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Publisher pivot to reality casts doubts on global expansion plans

Winter is coming for digital media, and one of the big casualties is their global expansion. Not long ago, digital media, awash in venture capital, was shouting from the rooftops about plans for global expansion. Arianna Huffington aspired to have her namesake publishing company in 50 markets by the
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National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

As part of the fourth Melbourne Art Book Fair, 16–18 March 2018, the NGV invites entries for The Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design Publishing from publishers, artists, designers, writers, curators and organisations around the world whose publishing practice explores art, design, architecture and
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Remembering Publisher Earl Wayne Davis, Jr.

It was not long before Earl formed the Davis Printing Company and started his own newspaper, the San Diego Viewpoint. By this time, the Star News Publishing Company of Chula Vista owned the San Diego Voice. When Earl purchased the San Diego Voice he said: “We have been without decent
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COCO | Pixar crosses the border

Pixar's Coco does something unique. Out of the studio's 19 films, it's the first to completely immerse a story in a Latino setting. Taking its cue from The Book of Life (2014), Coco travels south of the border and applies its wizardry to the color and passion of a small Mexican village called Saint Cecilia and
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Short Story Competition winners announced

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Short Story Competition winners announced

This is the second consecutive year the competition has been held across the Coast, creating a platform for hopeful local authors to be discovered and … “We are incredibly proud of the Library's role in nurturing and inspiring our amazing local talent to help not only boost the profile of creative writing
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Writing Nine Lessons book taught Mr. Hockey's son plenty about his father

He says he had 900 pages of material for the book. His publishers only wanted 240. “The words just fly out of me when it comes to my dad,” he said. “I had so much admiration and respect for him. I always knew he was loved, but the visitation at Joe Louis Arena was still mind-blowing. To see 15,000
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What the Tech: Gifts for music lovers

The past couple of Christmases audio turntables have been among the best selling electronics on Amazon, but which one do you choose? All-in-one turntables come with a speaker built-in. These are good choices for tight spaces when you cannot connect a turntable to a home audio system. Crosley
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James Patterson's next project: Teaching kids about Einstein

A debut book in what is to become a three-part series is slated for release in October 2018, reports Publishers Weekly. In the US, a nationwide science fair will tie in with the book's release. “These books are the most important work I've ever done. They're an accessible, fun way to engage kids
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WIP: k8s-publishing-bot test issue

What happened: What you expected to happen: How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible): Anything else we need to know?: Environment: Kubernetes version (use kubectl version ):; Cloud provider or hardware configuration: OS (e.g. from /etc/os-release):; Kernel (e.g. uname -a ):
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Instapoets show there's no limitation to form in poetry

Rupi Kaur self-published her debut poetry book “Milk and Honey” on Amazon in 2014, and the book proved so popular that Andrews McMeel Publishing picked up the book for a second print. She is one of the most well known and successful instapoets, with her book being translated into 30 languages
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'All I Want for Christmas Is You' tops list of most-played holiday songs

Mariah Carey's hit, co-written with Walter Afanasieff, tops a new list of most played Christmas songs released by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), a membership organization of songwriters, composers and music publishers. Here's the Top Ten on ASCAP's holiday
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Skill certification firm Degreed launches new program

The technology ranks candidates' expertise in areas of welding, forestry, creative writing and apart from evaluating skills like design, leadership, photography, web development, project management, sales, data analytics, and creative writing. According to David Blake, chief executive officer, Degreed,
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Facebook to bridge gap with publishers

Facebook has extended an olive branch to newspaper publishers, reaching out to make the relationship between the two media segments more “equitable”, and better understand the struggles of the newspaper industry in the digital age. Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg and company COO Sheryl
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Administrative Assistant, Scripture Publishing & Procurement

1 Administrative Assistant Scripture Publishing Procurement jobs hiring near you. Browse Administrative Assistant Scripture Publishing Procurement jobs and apply online. Search Administrative Assistant Scripture Publishing Procurement to find your next Administrative Assistant Scripture Publishing
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Texas author remembers life defined by railroads

Texas author Clay Reynolds speaks Wednesday at the University of Houston-Victoria's last American Book Review reading of 2017. Jon Wilcox for The … After speaking with Reynolds, Frank said he was even more determined to pursue a creative writing class at Victoria College. For Frank, who said he
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Joe Quesada Returns to Twitter, More Importantly Marvel Publishing

The tweet was one of a series in which Quesada explained that not only does he just not feel like posting a lot of personal things to bore fans, but now that he's back on the publishing side of things he has more room to share information with followers than he had when working with television and movie
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You Make It provides unemployed women with skills, networks and confidence

The creative-writing workshop is part of a three-month programme run by You Make It, which was set up in 2011 to help unemployed young women develop skills, networks and confidence and to find work. Monica Hudiova, 22, writes about a “village girl” being jostled by commuters in a London railway
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State of the Classical Music Art, 4: Elinor Frey

You show up in some far away place, ask them about food, you tell them about your first meal, and somehow you're already friends, and they are telling you where to find the best coffee, the best taco, the best spaghetti, the best treats. These people, whoever they are, might not be into the cello like me,
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Bloodsworth inducted into county Women's Hall of Fame

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Bloodsworth inducted into county Women's Hall of Fame

She spent years researching and memorializing the county's history through a series of three books for Arcadia Publishing, the largest regional history book publisher in America. The books are titled “Legendary Locals of Lake County,” which she co-authored, “Images of America: Clermont” and “Images
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Personable professors benefit students

Similarly, my English and creative writing courses at BU were all taught by professors who made close connections with their students and provided as much of a personalized experience as possible. They also were concerned about their students' improvement. Admittedly, it is likely much easier to give
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Illawarra businesswomen share the Importance of never giving up on a dream

Mrs Hofman started doing a secretarial course at TAFE but felt bored. Then she heard about sign-writing course and did that at night. That was followed by a painting and decorating course and then an interior design course online. She began getting experience in the area helping customers make
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One-Patch Quilts Demo with Marci Baker

Get Marci Baker's inside look into Wonderful One-Patch Quilts and the techniques behind it in the video below! Follow my blog with Bloglovin.
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Women's Best Sellers Lifestyle

Find Women's Best Sellers Lifestyle at Nike.com. Enjoy free shipping and returns with NikePlus.
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Facebook partners with conservative misinformer The Weekly Standard on fact-checking

Conservative news outlet The Weekly Standard has been approved by Facebook to partner in fact-checking “false news,” a partnership that makes little sense given the outlet's long history of making misleading claims, pushing extreme right-wing talking points, and publishing lies to bolster conservative
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Bay Area Restaurant Owner Publishes Book About 160-Year-Old Mile House “See You At The 7 …

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Bay Area Restaurant Owner Publishes Book About 160-Year-Old Mile House “See You At The 7 …

Along with the anniversary celebration, owner Vanessa Garcia is self-publishing the first book written about the history of 7 Mile House, taking on the responsibility as historian and guardian of the only Bay Area “mile house” left standing in its original location. The book titled, “See You At The 7 – The
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Newburyport architecture book receives publishing award

The newest book about Newburyport's historic architecture, “The HABS and the HABs NOTs: Documenting the Architecture of Newburyport in the Historic American Buildings Survey,” earned publishing industry recognition recently as recipient of the 2017 Book Award for Informational Nonfiction from
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Writer's art-as-activism bears literary bounty

Holbrook currently teaches creative writing at Hamline University, where she received an Exemplary Teacher Award, and at Minneapolis Community & Technical College, where she instructs classes in composition and creative writing. Her present contribution to social progress is the ongoing forum
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Poetic Justice, 10 Years Later: Parini Reflects on the Destruction

According to a Washington Post article published at the time, the prosecutor in the case had an unusual idea for a potential punishment, which the judge supported. They contacted Jay Parini, a professor of English and creative writing, and asked if he would teach the partiers a course on Frost's poetry.
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