Day: December 11, 2017

Robert Mayes Coffey's New Book “Cedar Chest Notes” Is a Remarkable Book About Second …

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Robert Mayes Coffey's New Book “Cedar Chest Notes” Is a Remarkable Book About Second …

Recent release “Cedar Chest Notes” from Page Publishing author Robert Mayes Coffey is a captivating narrative of a woman who, after learning of a defect after … 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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Encouraging feedback on novel 'Kendran' at Book Fair

More than 300 publishing houses were represented in the Fair that displayed books from many languages, apart from Arabic. Book lovers including Qataris and the expatriates visited the Fair in large numbers even on the concluding day. An impressive collection of Malayalam books of eminent writers
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Meredith Music Festival 2017: Sore stomachs after Meredith drug splurge

He heard Mr Williams studied creative writing at RMIT and lived in student accomodation, but told police he was selling drugs at the festival to supplement his Centrelink payments. The court heard the man initially told police he did not want his family contacted. However by the time he appeared in court
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Joe McQuaid's Publisher's Notebook: Answering your questions, and some of my own

Joe McQuaid's Publisher's Notebook: Answering your questions, and some of my own … Dear Mr. Publisher: I read in the paper that a New Hampshire man who was at Pearl Harbor during the attack was 18 at the time. … Dear Mr. Publisher: You used to carry a Sunday column by Garrison Keillor.
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Nissan publishes winning entries of children's book contest

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. has published the two winning entries of the 33rd Nissan Children's Storybook and Picture Book Grand Prix, held last year. The company will donate both books to about 3,500 libraries and 800 child care facilities near Nissan offices across Japan. Nissan is working with BL
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Black Major casts its net wide as it enters into new music waters

Black Major will also expand into publishing in September 2018. It was preparing a new publishing model to incorporate technology and the marketing of the composers, “in order to serve the best interests of musicians”, Spanoudi said. The diverse services that Black Major provides are putting it in a
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Author Dorys Crow Grover's New Book “Oregon Pioneer Cattle Barons” is a Detailed History of the …

Recent release “Oregon Pioneer Cattle Barons” from Page Publishing author Dorys Crow Grover is a fascinating biographical work detailing the lives of the major large-scale ranchers who amassed large tracts of land and wealth in southeastern Oregon in the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth
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A wave of diaspora books

The last decade has seen a wave of book-writing and publishing by enthusiastic new authors in Indonesia, a healthy sign that writing is being increasingly accepted and popularly used as a means for self-actualization. (Shutterstock/File). Through genres ranging from self-help and travel to children's
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EDITORIAL: White nationalists will not succeed at U.

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EDITORIAL: White nationalists will not succeed at U.

The Daily Targum's editorials represent the views of the majority of the 149th editorial board. Columns, cartoons and letters do not necessarily reflect the views of the Targum Publishing Company or its staff.
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Emmy Award-Winning composer shares insight on new classes

Assuming that they have the skills to write music, which of course the Jacobs composers do, which is not necessarily about that. What it is about is the emotional content of what they just wrote. It's seeing story arc and character development and so on. That is where the challenge really comes in.
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The Story of the Face by Paul Gorman review – the original purveyor of cool

But the fact that he contemplated closing down the title at the height of its fortunes is a telling insight into his high standards. It's also an indication of why, 13 years after its eventual demise in 2004, the Face retains a reputation as one of the most influential magazines in British publishing history.
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Girls swimming All-Scholastics

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Girls swimming All-Scholastics

Petrozza, who writes for her school magazine, would like to major in creative writing in college. ANNA ROBERTS. READING. The junior won four state titles at the Div. 2 meet in helping Reading to the team championship. Roberts set a meet record in winning the 100 breaststroke (1:05.68) — a race she
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8 Best TED Talks to Inspire You

Author and writing instructor Anne Lamott lists the 12 truth bombs she wants to pass along to others, whether the revelations relate to parenting, sobriety or creative writing. All of them may resonate with you personally. Example: “Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy and scared, even the people who
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5 Bad Habits To Kick Before The End Of The Year

As students, we all develop some bad habits, but that doesn't mean we should let them continue. With the start of a new year coming closer, it's time to start changing some of your ways and kicking those bad habits that you probably don't even realise you have. Here's a few.
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New BYPAA school holiday program

He himself now performs mainly at schools, running drama and creative writing workshops. Seeing the excitement of kids who have learnt to capture the attention and emotion of an audience is one of the pleasures of the job, as is watching shyer kids gain confidence watching their peers. app-facebook.
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The birth of a captive finance company

In 1906, he had invested in a company that provided capital for book publishers that sold to the public on the installment plan. He also likely was aware that individual groups of auto dealers in Chicago and on the West Coast had experimented with lining up easy-payments financing for consumers,
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You're a Grand Old Flag (Discover Series)

You're a Grand Old Flag (Discover Series) eBook: Xist Publishing: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store.
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Making the grade: Professors set aside time to score student work

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Making the grade: Professors set aside time to score student work

Robert Hayden, an anthropology professor who has taught at Pitt for 31 years, frequently spends more than an hour grading each term paper produced by the 20 students in his ethno-national violence writing-intensive course. He edits for grammatical errors, but he focuses the majority of his efforts on
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Joe Johnson Is Live-Tweeting Check Please And It's Amazing

Author: Jamie Sugah. Jamie has a BA in English with a focus in creative writing from THE Ohio State University. She self-published her first novel, The Perils of Long Hair on a Windy Day, is available through Amazon. She is currently an archivist and lives in New York City with her demon ninja vampire
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'Data arbitrage is as big a problem as media arbitrage': Confessions of a media exec

Arbitrage within programmatic trading has been under scrutiny for years, but other areas of digital trading are equally shady yet have dodged the spotlight: data arbitrage and murky attribution-modeling practices. Both are damaging for both publishers and advertisers. In the latest installment of
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News Corp may cut newspaper circulations 30pc

Australia's biggest newspaper publisher, News Corp, may have withdrawn from the system that has measured newspaper sales for 85 years to make big cuts in print circulation. The company will no longer report print sales of the Herald Sun, The Daily Telegraph, The Australian and its other Australian
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Why do Western publishers so heavily push

Why do Western publishers so heavily push “video games” that are extremely story centric and have al… – “/v/ – Video Games” is 4chan's imageboard dedicated to the discussion of PC and console video games.
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Column: Data doesn't tell the whole story

On a recent trip, our pilot was excited to announce that he got us to our destination 20 minutes early. I was happy to hear that and it seemed my fellow passengers were, too! As we sat on the tarmac, our pilot announced that we were so early there was no open gate. We waited awhile longer and then
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Beef jerky and sofas: Why Hearst is expanding product licensing

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Beef jerky and sofas: Why Hearst is expanding product licensing

Publishers need to play to their strengths when diversifying revenue streams. For lifestyle magazine brands like Hearst Magazines UK, this means co-creating branded products that it knows its loyal audiences want. Product licensing is becoming an increasingly important part of its business. Revenue
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A wiser Mark Hamill is still having galactic fun as old Luke in 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi'

In 1954, he joined Johnson Publishing Co., which published Jet, a weekly, and Ebony, a monthly. He remained with the company until his retirement, around his 90th birthday. Booker wrote several books, including Black Man's America and Shocking the Conscience, a memoir co-written with his second
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Course cures writers block

One of the four courses Ms Johnston completed with the Clemente program was creative writing, which she said reawakened her childhood love of writing. “I had written a story for creative writing. It didn't have to be fiction, so I just thought about something in my own life and I wrote it all out, which was
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Civil rights chronicler Simeon Booker dies at 99

After the Nieman, he applied to several newspapers but received only one answer, from Phil Graham, publisher of The Post. Working in the segregated capital was trying — at The Post, he was advised to use an editorial restroom on the fourth floor. In 1954, he joined Johnson Publishing Co., which
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Why Australian brands are only scratching the surface of video advertising

To date, most premium publishers are reticent to add video content to their owned and operated properties on a large scale because of increased cost and complexity. At the same time, much of the video inventory outside of YouTube that is available tends to be sold directly, as opposed to on an open
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Introducing Digiday Magazine: Year in preview 2018

Publishers began to stand up to the platforms' dominance over the distribution and monetization of content, pulling back from putting their editorial content on those platforms. Marketers called for a draining of the swamp that is digital advertising, with all its fraud, bots and measurement problems. And in
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Cancer was a Blessing: How to Have Faith When There is No Hope

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Cancer was a Blessing: How to Have Faith When There is No Hope

Cancer was a Blessing: How to Have Faith When There is No Hope by two-time cancer survivor David Octavio Gandell is the book to inspire millions. … David's remarkable journey to death's door and back has been featured in approximately twenty publications, many of them making him the lead cover
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The Secret Six

His books have hit the National Bestseller List, received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Booklist, Book of the Month Selections, Junior Library Guild Selections, ALA Editor's Choice Awards, three of which have been optioned for the movies. He was the Ernest Hemingway Writer-in- Residence
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Lisa Wilkinson to lead Ten's new publishing hub

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Lisa Wilkinson to lead Ten's new publishing hub

Australian journalist and television presenter Lisa Wilkinson has added digital duties to her role with Channel Ten as she's named executive editor of Ten's new publishing hub, Ten Daily. In the newly-created role, she will lead the editorial team and contribute to the website. Ten Daily was announced as
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Finally, a Book on South Asia's Most Under-Researched, Under-Reported Conflict

Hence, Naseer Dashti's independently published The Baloch Conlict with Iran and Pakistan: Aspects of a National Liberation Struggle, is timely. Until now, literature on Balochistan has constantly been viewed through the prisms of imperial cartography, historical ethnography, precursory nationalism, the
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Career Dropout: Drop the Career for the Dream

Roz Savage was a woman who had a charmed life: decent job, nice home, and a little red sports car. Fast forward to five years later: she was homeless, jobless, and replacing her little red sports car with a tiny rowboat smack dab in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The best part? Ms. Savage described
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Sally Rand: An American Sex Symbol

His books have hit the National Bestseller List, received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Booklist, Book of the Month Selections, Junior Library Guild Selections, ALA Editor's Choice Awards, three of which have been optioned for the movies. He was the Ernest Hemingway Writer-in- Residence
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Laura Dzubay: Coming to terms with Middle English literature

I wasn't always the type of person who liked reading really old texts. I was one of those people who thought that most of the “classics,” with a few exceptions, were boring. I've always loved reading and writing, of course, and I had planned on being an English major long before I got to college. But when
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You Can Only Be Who You Are, Do What You Can Do

There was a time when publishing a story in the Paris Review would've been among my chief ambitions. The plan went something like this: publish story in Paris Review, become professor who assigns stories from the Paris Review in class, ultimately have students who will go on to publish in the Paris
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Money problems at UNM Press show improvement

Administrators continue weighing other moves, such as out-sourcing the press' warehousing and order fulfillment. Local book publishers who contract with UNM Press for their own distribution have criticized that option, and Schuetz said a 2010 out-sourcing evaluation showed it was not cost-effective.
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Jessica Li | Four years of college will never be enough

In high school, I loved submitting my work to creative writing contests and getting instantaneous, positive feedback — winning competitions was a way of validating myself and what I was good at. As a “teen writer,” my writing was impressive. However, when I turned 18, I realized I was no longer
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Thomas Glare's Blog

I'm a UK based game developer and enthusiast, a member of the generation that lived their entire life in a world, where videogames were already a prominent part of our culture. Currently living in Edinburg, I've graduated the University of Essex for creative writing and seek to put my skills to good use in
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Simian Mobile Disco sign with Warner/Chappell

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Simian Mobile Disco sign with Warner/Chappell

James Ford and Jas Shaw said: “We're delighted to be working with Mike and the team at Warner/Chappell. We've got a lot of exciting projects in the pipeline and it's good to know they'll be supporting us as we take them forward.” Smith added: “James and Jas are endlessly inventive, pushing at the
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How You'll Spend Your Uni Break, According To Your Hogwarts House

Claudia Cait is a creative writer who is currently studying at the University of Queensland. She is an undefeated Catan champion, as much as it pains her fiancé to admit. She's often seen with a bonsoy chai latte or excitedly planning her next trip to Europe. After graduating with her Masters in Writing,
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Goa CM appeals to public to desist from publishing advts on his birthday

Panaji, Dec 10 (UNI) Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has appealed to people to desist from publishing advertisements on his birthday and instead … ''Chief Minister has appealed to the general public to desist from publishing birthday wishes advertisements through print/electronic media, on 13th
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She studied writing at St Martins College … and got a refund because the course wasn't good …

A leading arts college has given students a refund following accusations that one of its master's courses was not up to scratch. London-based Central St Martins (CSM) promised to prepare the next generation of writers to 'survive and thrive' in the industry. But course attendees claimed that classes were
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Reedy Press Reboot event to help local publisher recover from massive fire

“Right before the holiday season is the worst possible time not to have inventory to sell,” explained local author Amanda Doyle. She said several authors had to cancel book signing events and have lost holiday gift sales because of the books lost in the fire. Many of the books highlight St. Louis
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Anchor Univrsity Trains Researchers On LaTex

In a bid to promote quality and world-class research in Nigeria, the Anchor University Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Science and Data Analysis (AULISSDA) recently orgainsed a workshop for researchers on writing, publishing and making good research presentations with LaTex.
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Trump Blasts WaPo's Dave Weigel After Reporter Heckles Him with Fake Photo

2) Weigel, who identifies as an objective reporter, is not only publishing a misleading photo, but the link at the top of his now-deleted tweet proves that he is responding directly to one of Trump's tweets — in other words, he is publicly heckling the president personally. 3) By responding directly to the
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Circulation cuts are a cash boost for News Corp

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Circulation cuts are a cash boost for News Corp

News Corp's shift to Emma could save the publisher millions of dollars as sources predict it will now cull unprofitable circulation. Unprofitable circulation includes the distribution of free newspapers to boost circulation metrics. It's a tactic that has been historically used by publishers globally, including
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Book festival concludes

The 21st Kochi International Book Festival (KIBF) concluded on Sunday. More than 300 publishers and around 200 writers participated in the 10-day festival, which included the four-day Kochi Literature Festival. Among the highlights of the festival was participation by writers from northeastern States.
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HISTORICAL GALLERY: Look through a few more of our 'Santa Maria Valley Memories'

This fall the Santa Maria Times is publishing a pictorial history book featuring more than 200 black and white photos, many contributed by Santa Maria families. In this photo we see an eight-horse team transporting materials, early 1900s. You can order the book this month at
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Prisoners' university studies cost the taxpayer €430000

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Prisoners' university studies cost the taxpayer €430000

Taxpayers have footed a bill of more than €430,000 to fund prison inmates studying Open University courses since 2014. A total of 220 prisoners have enrolled in the programmes to study subjects such as psychology, international development and criminology. The fees for the courses, which include
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Earnings According to Quant For YeaRimDang Publishing Co., Ltd. (KOSDAQ:A036000)

The EBITDA Yield for YeaRimDang Publishing Co., Ltd. (KOSDAQ:A036000) is 0.199394. The EBITDA Yield is a great way to determine a company's profitability. This number is calculated by dividing a company's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization by the company's enterprise
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