Day: March 7, 2018

Publishing legal advice on Scottish Brexit bill 'would be dangerous precedent'

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Publishing legal advice on Scottish Brexit bill 'would be dangerous precedent'

He asked Mr Russell, who was appearing before Holyrood's Finance and Constitution Committee, if he would “take on board the view of the Law Society that given the public interest here there is a case for both the Presiding Officer and the Lord Advocate publishing legal advice to inform these
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The English department: Restoring our faith in the humanities

“In the modern age, [poetry] is definitely a powerful tool for activism,” said Ahmed Al Awadhi, a former creative writing undergrad currently pursuing his masters in rhetoric and composition. “There are things that can be succinctly phrased in poetry that can defeat pages of argument.” Literature and poetry
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Despite frequent criticism, the Israeli ad tech company Taboola's revenue is skyrocketing

Despite absorbing a fair share of criticism, the content recommendation platform Taboola's growth has not slowed. The ad tech company, which uses widgets to place links on publisher websites to articles, videos and products, is projecting over $1 billion in revenue in 2018. It also reached nearly half of
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With aggressive hiring plans, Wattpad doubles down on the Asian market

The company has also worked with book publishers like Hatchette, and offers a Brands division to connect companies with writers on native advertising content. While Wattpad has a broad focus on investing in its product, machine learning has been a repeated main focus for the company, as it looks to
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The former publisher of the Wall Street Journal says Facebook and Google don't really want to be …

Former Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz and prominent media industry veteran/critic Steve Brill have raised $6 million to build NewsGuard, a new technology designed to grade news stories so that consumers understand what they are reading and sharing on social media. And the two say
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Wavy Cunningham, DJ Mercy on Jupiter Hall hip-hop bill

Cunningham sees it as a chance to push himself and engage in creative writing, a passion of his since elementary school. “I've always been a really big fan of writing, poetry, short stories, just writing for fun,” Cunningham said. “With lyrics, I'm always playing a lot with flows, just playing off certain words,
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NLA celebrates 50th anniversary with exhibition

The National Library of Australia (NLA) is holding an exhibition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the library building's construction and to further explore the year 1968 in history. The exhibition, called '1968: Changing Times', attempts to bring the viewer back to the time of the library's construction and
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"In Warm Blood" featured in Madison Magazine

This is a story of two people—a respected and accomplished professor at Edgewood College and an inmate at Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage serving a life term for murder—whose lives could not be more different and whose relationship could not be more profound. It's a book about
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Challenges in the Scholarly Publishing Cycle 2018

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Challenges in the Scholarly Publishing Cycle 2018

This one-day conference will use the results of an industry survey (Challenges in Scholarly Publishing 2018) as the starting point for a day of interactive workshops – with each delegate attending focused sessions on publisher, librarian and academic perspectives. Delegates will have a unique
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NME to stop publishing weekly print magazine as it turns focus online

Music magazine the NME is to stop publishing its free weekly magazine, claiming it is “no longer financially viable”, as it turns its focus online. Publisher Time Inc UK said it had faced “increasing production costs and a very tough print advertising market”and that “effort and investment” was not being
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Announcing FutureBook 40: the definitive list of publishing innovators in the UK

Move over, Bookseller 100: a new list's in town, and it promises to be more diverse, more dynamic and more dangerous than you. Yes, today I'm delighted to announce that entries are open for the very first FutureBook 40: The Bookseller's definitive list of publishing innovators in the UK, sponsored by
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Global Digital Publishing Market for Education Market 2017 – Adobe, Aquafadas, Yudu, Magplus …

Digital Publishing Market for Education The research report presents a comprehensive outlook on the titled Digital Publishing Market for Education Market contains thoughtful insights, facts, historical data, and statistically supported and industry-validated market data. It also contains projections using a
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Padua Franciscan High School senior named Maltz Museum's Stop the Hate contest finalist

PARMA, Ohio – When Padua Franciscan High School senior Peyton Lunder was instructed in her creative writing class to write a personal essay to be entered into the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage's 10th annual Stop the Hate contest, the Parma resident decided this was her time to take ownership
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Review of A Letter to Harvey Milk – The Musical at Theatre Row

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Review of A Letter to Harvey Milk – The Musical at Theatre Row

Harry's wife, Frannie (Cheryl Stern) is dead and to keep busy and find companionship Harry signs up for Barbara's writing course. One of Harry's assignments is to “write a letter to someone from your past, someone no longer with us.” Harry poignantly writes to Milk, and we learn that even through his
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Publishers' Path Leads To Private Garden

In 2018, digital publishers are facing blue pill/red pill choices of their own. The red pill would allow publishers brave control through liberation from the yoke of the Facebook/Google duopoly. With the blue pill, publishers remain in their comfortable but vulnerably lopsided relationships with the walled
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Bill Would Let Publishers Gang Up Versus Facebook and Google

On stage at a tech conference last month, Campbell Brown, Facebook's head of news partnerships, fired a warning shot to publishers who think they get a raw deal from Facebook. ”My job is to make sure there is quality news on Facebook and that publishers who want to be on Facebook … have a
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Waiting for Steven Pinker's Enlightenment

Like the philosophes, but again unlike most contemporary intellectuals, he knows how to appeal to a broad general audience. Enlightenment Now is only the most recent of his best sellers, following on the heels of his defense of evolutionary psychology in The Blank Slate and his argument that we are
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Emerging artist Lil Xan puts on high-energy, intimate Boston show

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Emerging artist Lil Xan puts on high-energy, intimate Boston show

Soundcloud rapper Lil Xan put on a high-energy and intimate show at Middle East Nightclub on Thursday, March 1 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lil Xan opened with one of his earlier songs, “Been Bout It.” The track was first self-published on Soundcloud over a year ago. When Lil Xan came onto the
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Creative writing contest open to local students

UPPER THUMB — Storytellers from across the Upper Thumb are gearing up for the seventh annual Celebration of Young Writers Creative Writing contest, sponsored by the Huron Area Writers Group and the Thumb Arts Guild. Entry forms and 2018 contest rules are landing on the desks of teachers and
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Library to offer creative writing for teenagers

Librarian Christy Smith will conduct a series of three creative writing workshops for teens at the Sumter County Library, 111 N. Harvin St., from 6 to 7 p.m. on Mondays, March 12, 26 and April 9. Students can attend any one or all three of the workshops. While participants may bring their own supplies if
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Literary highlights: Authors, poets read from works

A prize-winning poet, creative writing teacher and blues musician, originally from Sandy Cross, North Carolina, he was a longtime resident of Washington, D.C., where he was a founding member of the Black Rooster Collective. He received the D.C. Commission on the Arts Fellowship for Poetry in 1996
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3 open source tools for scientific publishing

One industry that lags behind others in the adoption of digital or open source tools is the competitive and lucrative world of scientific publishing. Worth over £19B ($26B) annually, according to figures published by Stephen Buranyi in The Guardian last year, the system for selecting, publishing, and
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Chicana writer instills place in her work

Author Kali Fajardo-Anstine is bringing her Chicana female voice to the table to do exactly that: claim a Rocky Mountain heritage, keep the folklore alive and … She graduated from the University of Wyoming with an master's of fine arts in creative writing in 2013; she studied under Hagy, novelist and UW
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Teaching primary pupils to write is a creative act, says Costa prize-winning teacher

The day after Luan Goldie, a primary school teacher from Barking, won the Costa short story award, she didn't have to go into school. “I had a three-hour maths moderation meeting,” Ms Goldie, a Year 2 teacher said. “That bought me back to reality. The night before, I had spent drinking champagne with
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Community news from around the area

WEST LIBERTY — Best-selling author Jeannette Walls, who wrote the memoir, “The Glass Castle,” will be the guest lecturer at West Liberty University's Hughes Lecture on March 22. Free and open to the public, the lecture will be held at 7 p.m. at College Hall, with a book signing and reception to follow
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5 Most Popular Best Selling Bible Translations in 2018

Which are the most popular best selling Bible translations in 2018, you must wonder? … However, if you want to know which are the top 5 most accurate Bible translations, we suggest you to give a glance at our previous article on 5 Best and Most Accurate Bible Translations According to Scholars.
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canada's best sellers

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tarte cosmetics.
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LittleStar named Provider of the Year by Autism Speaks

LittleStar ABA Therapy received the 2017 Autism Speaks Provider of the Year Award at the recent Autism Speaks Annual Autism Law Summit in San Diego. The summit brings together parent advocates, autism service providers, lawyers, individuals with autism, lobbyists and legislators from across the
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David Keith McLean-Shinaman

David enjoyed numerous activities with his many friends including taking road trips, attending festivals and concerts, and playing cooperative games online. With his family, David loved skiing from a young age, as well as swimming, reading, creative writing and endless clever and good-natured joking.
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Crumpled Graphene Balls-based Broadband Solar Absorber

Sheet-like graphene tends to stack with each other in thin films, resulting in relatively smooth microstructures with increased reflection as the thickness increases. In contrast, when the sheets are crumpled into a shape like paper balls, reflection is greatly reduced. In this work, crumpled graphene balls.
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Online Journal Discovery and Delivery: Working with libraries and industry intermediaries to …

Online Journal Discovery and Delivery: Working with libraries and industry intermediaries to maximise readership. Syndicated from http://www.stm-publishing.com/. March 6, 2018. ALPSP: This popular course explores the technologies behind online journal delivery, and helps delegates understand the
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Unlearned Lessons

In Submission, Stanley Tucci has this little chuckle he deploys in a variety of situations. He plays a creative-writing professor at a second-rank college, and his automatic laugh comes in handy when placating inquisitive students, attending faculty parties with pedantic colleagues, or shrugging off
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Registration opens for spring classes at Loeb School

MANCHESTER — Registration is open for spring classes at the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications for anyone interested in writing, traveling, … Milbouer and Long also teach the creative writing course for anyone interested in writing a short story, the great American novel or simply better social
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The New York Times has folded its programmatic sales team into its larger ad sales org

One industry exec described the reorg as coinciding with media agencies looking to consolidate their sales contacts at publishers. Advertisers are shifting their programmatic spend to going through media agencies as opposed to agency trading desks, according to Omnicom's most recent earnings call.
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Starling becomes Ilex publisher

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Starling becomes Ilex publisher

The news follows former Ilex publisher Roly Allen's move to become licensing director at the imprint. In this new role, Starling extends her current remit, retaining her existing commissioning and publishing responsibilities for Conran Octopus and Mitchell Beazley. Editorial director Helen Rochester and
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Jonathan Karp Named President and Publisher, Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing

NEW YORK, March 6 —Jonathan Karp has been promoted to President and Publisher, Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing, effective immediately. In this new role, he will have overall responsibility for Simon & Schuster's New York–based adult trade publishing, which includes Atria Books, Gallery Books,
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New tattoo convention merges literature, fantasy art

Entertainment, the Harry Potter book publishers or J.K. Rowling and her representatives. “In the last few years, more and more fans of the books and movies have been coming into Main Line Ink to get a Harry Potter tattoo. We knew we wanted to host a tattoo convention about literature. We reached out
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Stanford Stegner Fellows lead and influence with words

“From its very beginnings the Stegner program at Stanford has supported emerging writers so they can find their voices and finish their books,” said Eavan Boland, the Bella Mabury and Eloise Mabury Knapp Professor in Humanities and director of the Creative Writing Program. “Over the years this has
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Immersive technology: which publishers are investing and why

Given the considerable hype that has been building up around virtual and augmented reality, you might expect more publishers to have dedicated resources to these technologies. The reality is that much of what we've seen so far has been limited to variations of AR books. While that type of content
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The making of “On Some Subconscious Level”

As a member of “The Mill” I was given an opportunity to create my own zine with complete creative freedom and voice. I automatically knew that I wanted to create a small collection of the poetry that I had been writing during and before my first semester at Willamette. However, I hoped that the project
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Veterans compete in annual creative arts competition

Each year, Veterans treated at VA medical centers compete in a local creative arts contest. The local competition includes 50 visual art categories that range from oil painting to paint-by- number kits. There are also 120 categories pertaining to all aspects of music, dance, drama and creative writing.
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Proposed Core to Require Fewer Credits

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Proposed Core to Require Fewer Credits

These include one interdisciplinary experience, three writing intensive courses and three social justice courses, with at least one of these courses focusing on race studied in combination with gender or class. However, requirements for some of these courses can be fulfilled in the tiered experience.
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Kamloops author will bring history alive at local libraries

“A lot of things I've written are based on history,” says Schemenauer, who during her time spent working in the publishing industry in Toronto was able to write, and contribute to, textbooks. YesterCanada is Schemenauer's 77th book, although the author—who began writing professionally in 1968—is
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How a centuries old publishing house is making its mark on the digital age

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How a centuries old publishing house is making its mark on the digital age

How a centuries old publishing house is making its mark on the digital age. Anmar Frangoul. Published 3:51 AM ET Wed, 7 March 2018 CNBC.com … The Oxford University Press (OUP) has been publishing books for hundreds of years. A department of the University of Oxford, the OUP is the world's
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Writing, publishing news does not amount to contempt of court: FNJ

Mar 7, 2018-Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) has said that it stands firm in its belief that writing and publishing news article does not amount to contempt of court. The FNJ has expressed dissent over contempt of court case filed against Kantipur daily for publishing a news article. Speaking during a
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