Day: January 24, 2018

Snow and ice requires Butler grounds crew to clear over 2 million square feet on campus

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Snow and ice requires Butler grounds crew to clear over 2 million square feet on campus

Many professors, including English professor Barbi Smyser-Fauble, drive multiple hours in order to teach their courses. Smyser-Fauble drives two hours and 40 minutes each day to teach three sections of First Year Seminar and a professional writing course. She said the roads have not been too bad
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For years they brought us the news, now they teach it

Boren is teaching two sections of the upper division writing course MCJ 102W, which is a hands-on news reporting course. As a Fresno State alumnus and MCJ graduate, Boren said he is glad to give back to a program that was impactful to him. “[Students] are going to learn reporting skills and writing
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Action Bronson To Act Alongside Robert De Niro & Al Pacino In "The Irishman"

… to the Blue Chips 7000 rapper's new VICE cooking series, The Untitled Action Bronson Show, he's also been tapped to appear in the Netflix comedy Game Over, Man! His cookbook, Fuck That's Delicious: An Annotated Guide to Eating Well, also debuted at #9 on the New York Times Best Sellers list.
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What DC Comics Stories Are Referenced In 'Super Sons' #12?

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What DC Comics Stories Are Referenced In 'Super Sons' #12?

Whether these are pieces of actual history from the existing DC Universe, potential alternate Earths, or something else entirely, is yet to be clarified…but not only can these memorable moments from throughout DC's publishing history be seen by Savior and the readers, but it becomes clear that
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The 3 Most Anticipated MMO Games for 2018

The game got announced as a worldwide release unlike many Korean MMORPGs that take a year or two before players outside of Korea can play their big named games. It's significantly in part that Neowiz decided to self-publish the game after Aeria Games canceled the western release last July 2017.
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TODAY IN HISTORY

1893 — 125 years ago: The capital stock of the Rock Island Printing and Publishing company, publishers of the Tri-City Blade, was doubled at a meeting of stockholders last night-increased to $5,000. 1918 — 100 years ago: Alfred C. Mueller, former mayor of Davenport, was recently named chairman of
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Sweden calls on China to release detained book publisher

Sweden says it expects China to release a Swedish book publisher who was taken off a train by Chinese police four days ago while in the company of his country's diplomats. Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Margot Wallstrom said in a statement Tuesday posted online that China has given no
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EU envoy urges China to release Swedish book publisher

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EU envoy urges China to release Swedish book publisher

The European Union's ambassador to China urged Beijing on Wednesday to “immediately” release a book publisher after the Swedish citizen was snatched for a second time while accompanied by Swedish diplomats. The case of Hong Kong-based Gui Minhai, 53, has sparked a diplomatic spat
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Creative project launched in Richmondshire to support veterans

The pop-up shed is one element of the scheme – providing therapeutic sessions in arts and crafts including woodwork, creative writing, photography and painting. Steel Johnson, a card shark and illusionist, swapped the Royal Marines for magic. He visited the shed to share tricks with scheme members.
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Reading for writing

A course book is designed to enhance both productive and receptive skills. Writing and speaking cultivate productive skills whereas listening and reading promote receptive skills. “Homework”, therefore, can refer to any activity that ensures the promotion of said skills, but production cannot occur without
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Https issue while publishing .tde file created … |Tableau Community

Hi,. I am facing an issue while publishing the .tde file that I have created using python sdk on the the tableau server. The publish works fine from my development environment (windows) but fails when I try to schedule it on a server running on linux. This issue crops up only when tableau server is
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Case Study: 360 video at Euronews

Euronews has been a pioneer in creating 360 video content. When they first started, there was no traditional way to monetise 360: 2D pre-rolls, post-rolls, or mid-rolls don't really work with 360 video, and the main platforms euronews use to push content, mostly YouTube and Facebook, can't deal with
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Regional WA library launches free online movie-streaming service

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Regional WA library launches free online movie-streaming service

The City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder in regional WA has launched a free online movie-streaming service, for members of the William Grundt Memorial Library. Library members can access more than 30,000 films through streaming platform Kanopy, with suppliers including the ABC, the BBC, the Criterion
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How a gang of crooks hijacked your web browser

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How a gang of crooks hijacked your web browser

That's a known issue in the ad industry, said Ryan Singel, co-founder of the publishing-tools firm Contextly: “If legitimate ad platforms actually did any due diligence, this scam would be far less profitable.” Confiant also found that from October on, Zirconium's malvertising began adding code to detect
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Original Works Publishing to Release PAST/FUTURE/PRESENT Trilogy from Michael Mitnick

Michael Mitnick, the playwright of SEX LIVES OF OUR PARENTS and screenwriter behind the upcoming Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon film THE CURRENT WAR, has an ambitious new play trilogy being released by Original Works Publishing at the end of January. Part I, ELIJAH (Past):
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'He's not a PR guy': Adam Mosseri, Facebook's head of news feed, has become an unlikely good …

Publishers that find themselves at the end of their rope with Facebook have found favor with one person there: Adam Mosseri. Mosseri, 35, has been at Facebook about 10 years, serving as product vp for the last two. His main responsibility is the news feed, the core of most users' experience on
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UK Facebook-first publishers have a stiff upper lip on feed changes

Facebook-dependent publishers seem to be in a dangerous position. But Facebook-first publishers in the U.K. are working it to their advantage. Publishers that frequently appear at the top of the Tubular Labs video leaderboards are used to weathering Facebook's algorithmic storms. Obsessing over
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Mansfield Public Library announces upcoming events

The Mansfield Public Library has announced the following events. All events will be held at the library, 255 Hope St., unless otherwise noted. For more information, contact Amy Rosa at 508-261-7380 or arosa@sailsinc.org. Do you like surprises? Would you like help deciding what to read next? Want to
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Margaret River Short Story Competition 2018 winner announced

Cassie Hamer came in second place with her story, 'Habitat', while Tiffany Hastie was selected as the South West winner for 'The Chopping Block'. The winning stories will feature in an anthology to be published by Margaret River Press later this year, alongside finalists chosen by the collection's editor,
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The History of Plus Sign Quilts

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The History of Plus Sign Quilts

Drawn to this simple and strong geometric shape, quilters have used plus signs extensively throughout history. Some of the first popular plus sign quilt designs were signature quilts made in the early 1900s to support the Red Cross during World War I. Individuals and businesses would pay a small fee to
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Kirk ponders advent in Gospel of Christmas

Patty Kirk, John Brown University's resident writer and professor of English and creative writing, heralds in the Christmas season with her book, “The Gospel of Christmas: Reflections for Advent.” The short collection of essays recalls Kirk's Catholic youth, her loss of Catholic faith during adolescence and
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newsnow publishing

1 job with NEWSNOW PUBLISHING to view and apply for now with Guardian Jobs.
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A Note From the Publishers – Feb 2018

The Magazine of Santa Clarita is officially 28-years-old and we feel the love! As we all turn our focus to the loved ones in our lives in this month of Valentines, we would like to take this opportunity to thank our wonderful advertisers and community partners. We appreciate your support and wish you all a
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Amazon Go Opens In Downtown Seattle and it Features A Surprising Number of Local Favorites

When I asked one of the people restocking what were the best sellers so far, he answered: Everything. And, yes, there were quite a few mildly annoying signs in empty spaces saying: “So Good, It's Gone.” … Firefly Kitchen Kimchi offers that good-for-your-gut balance after eating all those goodies.
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Sweden demands answers from China over detained book publisher

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Sweden demands answers from China over detained book publisher

All were involved in publishing political gossip about China's Communist Party leadership. The Swedish citizen was eventually released from custody after making a public confession on state broadcaster CCTV. His daughter said, despite his release, he remained under close police surveillance.
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Serong shortlisted for 2018 Edgars

Australian author Jock Serong has been shortlisted for the 2018 Edgar Allan Poe Awards (the Edgars), which honour 'the best in mystery fiction and nonfiction' published in the US in 2017. Serong's novel The Rules of Backyard Cricket (Text) is one of six books that made the best paperback original
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Top that publishing books

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Top that publishing books

It will be no surprise to those of you who follow publishing that Penguin Random House tops the Digital Book World list of top ebook publishers in the first quarter of 2014. Top That! Publishing Plc is an award-winning, independent book publisher located beside the river Deben in
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Faculty Addressing Black Students at Emory Demand for Diversity GER

Emory created the initiative in response to the 2013 demands by student group Black Students at Emory. The program to address diversity education may include new diversity-focused freshman writing course sections and restructured freshman orientation and Pre-Major Advising Connections at Emory
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Remember the Late Ursula K. Le Guin by Rewatching Her Remarkable Speech at the 2014 …

I see a lot of us, the producers, who write the books and make the books, accepting this, letting commodity profiteers sell us like deodorant and tell us what to publish and what to write […] Books, they're not just commodities. The profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism.
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Revealed: Novelist mother of tragic schoolgirl, 11, whose body was found in a river works at local …

Ms Harlow is a well-regarded Creative Writing lecturer and author among literary circles in the wider Manchester area and has a number of published titles including comedy Amelia and the Virgin. She describes herself as a full-time author on her website who writes books for adults and children and
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Creative Writing Stage 1, with author Jayne Woodhouse

Stage 1 is a taught course, suitable for both beginners and people with some experience of writing. We will explore the basic building blocks of creative writing: developing characters, settings and storylines, through a variety of fun tasks and activities. In this way, you will learn how writers get their ideas
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Cramer: Time to Throw Out The Old Rules

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Cramer: Time to Throw Out The Old Rules

We sell a ton of Casa Noble, one of our best sellers, and it is owned by Constellation. They paid less than $30 million for it not that long ago. Just yesterday we learned that Bacardi paid $5 billion for Patron. We can't move that stuff versus Casa Noble. It's not even in the forecast for Constellation.
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Students create alternative newspaper to publish controversial story

We encourage students to participate in responsible journalism, sharing informative stories as part of their educational experience.” But Spahr the students went to a vice principle before publishing it to see if it would be approved for printing. He said the vice principal offered feedback and made changes
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Viral poet performs works at Knight Club

At a young age, Hilborn became infatuated with creative writing, and later on began to write his own original poetry. … from Macalester College with a bachelor's degree in creative writing, Hilborn began to perform with Button Poetry, a Minnesota-based company that produces and distributes poetry.
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International Hot Book Properties, Week of January 22, 2018

The book, which traces the evolution of its subject matter from the stone age to the creation of Google Earth, has also been acquired by publishers in the Netherlands and Sweden. At press time, auctions for the book were underway in Poland and Germany. The book was published in Norway,
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Aaron Hernandez mystery stumped James Patterson

… pages are basically a compilation of previously reported facts, incidents and transcripts. Patterson and his co-writers conducted more than 70 interviews but found no fresh insight into Hernandez's twisted mind. If you'd never heard of the case you might like the book as much as Patterson's best-sellers.
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Walloon Writers Review features Gaylord's Gall

The independent literary magazine, founded in Petoskey, is a collection of creativity inspired by the natural beauty of Northern Michigan. Contributors submit original creative writing, poetry and photography for selection and this year, the collection includes the first place winning prose and poetry from
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Creative Writing Reading Series – MFA Reading

The Creative Writing Reading Series event hosted on November 9th in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art differed from this year's other readings. This reading was a time for students in their last year of the MFA program to showcase their final creative work. Three fiction writers, Chelsea Hansen, Mir
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Why Rupert Murdoch's quest to get Facebook to pay media companies is wrong in every way

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Why Rupert Murdoch's quest to get Facebook to pay media companies is wrong in every way

Vivek Shah, CEO of j2 Global, which owns digital media publishing division Ziff Davis, noted that the idea of replicating the cable model has been floated numerous times in the web's history. In fact, early internet service provides like AOL and CompuServe actually did pay some media companies for
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Rupert Murdoch's plan to make Facebook pay for news

“If Facebook wants to recognize 'trusted' publishers, then it should pay those publishers a carriage fee similar to the model adopted by cable companies,” Murdoch said in a statement on Monday. “The publishers are obviously enhancing the value and integrity of Facebook through their news and
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'Search' Wins Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Film Prize – Sundance

Swedlin began her career in New York book publishing, followed by six years handling publicity and marketing for various UK book publishers. Prior to joining Anonymous Content, she was a literary manager, producer, and partner at ICM for twelve years after having served as a senior vice president.
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These 2 survey questions could determine publishers' Facebook fates

In his post about the change—which came a few days after Facebook unveiled significant changes to its news feed intended to prioritize posts from friends and family over publishers and brands—CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote that users would be asked if they're familiar with specific news sources, and if
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Publishers Weekly special offer for SCBWI members

Publishers Weekly special offer for SCBWI members. Two great ways to… stay on top of the latest in children's books releases or to stay in touch with children's books all year long. RESERVE YOUR COPY OF PW's 2018 CHILDREN'S ANNOUNCEMENTS ISSUES. The ultimate guide to upcoming
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Publishing Tips for International Academics

Publishing Tips for International Academics. Date: Thursday, January 25, 2018. Time: 11:30 AM – 01:00 PM Location: 1803 / Training Room Capital Hall. Categories: Workshops and Seminars. International scholars join to share wisdom about publishing in academic journals. This lunchtime seminar is a
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Of Sand and Blood

A realistic view of the bloody world of the gladiator in first century AD Italy, a Greek youth is captured by Roman soldiers and brought to Italy to be executed by gladiator in the arena but instead he displays an uncanny ability with the swords, gains a passion for the adulation of the fans and a lust to kill.
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A love of books

I grew up in San Francisco in what could be called a crowded broken home. It contained my single father, his Irish immigrant parents and a mysterious aunt named Veronica, or Vee. Vee was friendly and available but very private. Christmas dinners were loud with many guests, not unlike the raucous
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