The contest runs through May 27, 2018. The first-place winner will get a $500 Robeks gift card and two second place winners will get a $250 gift card. For official rules and regulations, visit www.robeks.com/powerup. A variety of Zola-powered acai offerings are available at Robeks, including best sellers:.
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Snap's (SNAP) Snapchat is testing an e-commerce option on a few of its Discover publisher channels. Snapchat launched an in-app shopping section called Snap Store earlier this year. The new feature will allow Snapchat users to swipe on the product they like in the Discover section and buy it through
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That's now in the hands of a self-publishing company in Indiana, he said. “I had researched Patch Adams,” a West Virginia doctor who used humor in healing, and who was later the subject of a Hollywood movie starring Robin Williams. “I was on the internet when I saw something about Laughter Yoga,”
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In September, she will head to the University of Edinburgh to pursue a master's degree in creative writing. She wanted to write the kind of heroine her teenage self would have wanted to read about. “I wanted a female protagonist who doesn't need rescuing.” This became parkour champion Maxine
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“Our Mermaid- and Unicorn-inspired collection of bath bombs and body butters is currently one of our very best sellers because everyone can use a little magic in the tub,” Miller says. They all include bright colors and intoxicating scents with a “touch of whimsy,” like this handmade unicorn whipped body
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Andrew Hoyem will be at the Port Moody Station Museum on Saturday to talk about the Great War drawings of Rudolf Koch, of which the facility currently has an exhibition. Hoyem, who has a collection of artwork by Koch, is the owner of the San Francisco-based Arion Press and Grabhorn, book
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This is an annual event that runs at London College of Communication, gathering MA Publishing students and industry professionals o explore emerging issues in publishing across all sectors.
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From data and creativity and paid media models to the future of brands and publishing, our curated tracks are designed to provide you with a deeper understanding of what tools, strategies, and tactics you should be investing in to advance your career. At SMWNYC, publishing giants such as The Atlantic
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The idea itself of an ancillary right for press publishers is being widely questioned following the setbacks experienced by press publishers in Spain and Germany after those countries introduced similar legislation. Those laws are generally regarded as having failed, and the economic basis for the new
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This dissimilitude in revenues and protections sometimes sets up an antagonistic situation between the recording side (artists, labels, producers, musicians, singers) and the publishing side (publishers and songwriters). Additionally, there are the performing rights organizations whose perspective
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Awards went to researchers and scholars in ethnic studies, philosophy, creative writing, physics, psychology, special education and clinical sciences and other fields. Faculty members receive up to $5,500 for research expenses during the coming fiscal year, including travel, equipment, supplies,
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He served as poet-in-residence and chair of creative writing at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, instructor of creative writing at Samford University, poetry editor of English Journal for the National Council of Teachers of English, and as a nationally syndicated poetry feature writer for Tribune Media
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Creator and Publisher Tami Patzer, bestselling author, speaker, coach and self-publishing expert, has launched a new book called Women Innovators: Leaders, Makers, and Givers – Women Who Make a Daily Difference. It was written as a way to help inspire people into action, offering a blueprint for
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After its launch in June 2017 for publishers in North America, the UK, Germany, Australia and New Zealand, Google's Funding Choices ad messaging is now expanding to 31 more countries. The program was created as part of Google's “Coalition for Better Ads” efforts and is aimed to help publishers
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TORONTO – Former Maclean's publisher and National Post founding editor Ken Whyte says his new non-fiction publishing house will strive for several things: intelligence, integrity and truthfulness. And diversity. “I don't see how anyone can want anything but to be diverse in a country like Canada
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Reddy is a poet and scholar and currently serves as the interim director for creative writing & poetics. The author of two books of poetry, Reddy's writing on contemporary poetry has appeared in various publications including The New York Times and The New Republic. The award meant a great deal to
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Only 40% of programmatic spend goes to publishers: study. New analysis by Warc shows that publishers get less than half of the spend, and that's assuming there's no ad fraud. By Bree Rody-Mantha. 4 mins ago. rawpixel-com-369782-unsplash. New analysis by Warc shows that publishers get less
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Marohn will also visit the Lockview, across the street from the Civic, to talk with interested folks after the presentation, around 8 p.m. RSVP for the talk at http://www.strongtowns.org/eventspage/2018/4/17/akron-oh. Best-selling author speaks at Case Western. David Grann, author of best-sellers The Lost
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The children's book is already a bestseller! It's No. 1 on three Amazon charts, including the Libros en Español list. On that list, it kicked Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone from the top spot — that's major! It also made the top five online retailers' bestsellers of the day. We'll sing “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” to
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Publishing Paper Market Report is Key source to covers the manufacturers data, including shipment, price, revenue, gross profit, interview record and business distribution. The Publishing Paper Market report help the consumer know about the competitors better by using this data. Publishing Paper
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Two prominent Christian publishing companies have suspended the publication of books written by former Illinois megachurch pastor Bill Hybels after he stepped down last week in light of allegations of sexual misconduct. Tyndale House and InterVarsity Press have both announced that, for now, they
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A Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Newcastle in Callaghan, Australia, Morrissey has written six collections of poetry. In January 2014, she won the T.S. Eliot Prize, which is awarded to “the best collection of new verse in English first published in the [United Kingdom] or the Republic of
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Miranda Lambert also made history at the award show, scooping up two wins: Song Of The Year and Female Vocalist of the Year. The two … Publishers: Beat Up Ford Publishing (BMI), BMG Platinum Songs (BMI), Lonesome Vinyl Music (BMI), Pink Dog Publishing (BMI), Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI),
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A book being published by Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at St Mary's University, Twickenham Christie Watson has been first serialised in The Sunday Times. Christie's The Language of Kindness, which is also being adapted for television, talks of her 20 years working as a nurse. The Sunday Times
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Last week, the digital media startup Maven gathered hundreds of independent publishers to pitch them on a new platform designed to help them better compete with Facebook. Many of these publishers shared stories of having their traffic and revenue severely hampered by Facebook's various algorithm
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Shares of Tronc, short for Tribune Online Content, spiked more than 12% Monday after Axios' Dan Primack reported Japan's SoftBank is one of several potential buyers for the publishing company. Tronc is the digital content offshoot of the former Tribune Company, which stemmed from the Chicago
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On Friday, the Alabama Writers Forum is offering a free workshop for teachers of creative writing in grades 6-12. It takes place from 9-3 at Troy University's Montgomery campus. On Saturday, there's a day full of panels planned from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. “We have multiple book panels going on at the same time
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Finalists named for Best Atlantic Published Book Award. The Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association has shortlisted five titles for the 2018 Best Atlantic Published Book Award. The publisher of the winning title will receive $3,000, with $1,000 .
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Monday: Strength, Flexibility & Balance Training, 9:30-10:30 a.m.. Tuesday: Coffee Hour and Blood Pressure Clinic, 1 p.m., 3rd Tuesday of the month. Wednesday: Writing Workshop, 2-4 p.m.. Thursday: Yoga for all levels, 6:30-7:45 p.m.. Friday: Blandford Stitchers, 2-4 p.m.; Friday Movies, 1:30 p.m., 2nd
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White typically recommends best-sellers, what he's loving at the time or titles connected with events in the store. Berl's hosts an average of three events a week, welcoming new and established writers to share their work. Field has also started instructing workshops in the space. “Poetry is so voice-driven,
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — The publisher of the left-wing Israeli newspaper Haaretz deleted a response to a critical reader that many took as racist. Amos Schocken was responding on Twitter to reader, Ravit Dahan, who tweeted at Schocken that it was because of the ideology of those on the right that he
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In her own book published last year, Clinton said Comey's decision cost her the presidency. Reactions to Comey's interview ー and the statements in his book ー have been split, largely along party lines. “It was very sad,” McEnany said in an interview on Cheddar. “What i saw was someone trying to
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On Wednesday, April 18, critically acclaimed poet and Princeton alumnus Jane Hirshfield will read with award-winning novelist and activist Walter Mosley as part of the Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series of the Program in Creative Writing at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.
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“In an attempt to explain ourselves, we end up forgetting ourselves.” Bringing this concept to reality in a Spring Green rehearsal room has been a dream for Pereyra, who makes her directorial and playwriting debut with “LINES.” She and the other women are also self-publishing a 200-page book that will
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WRITE HERE! WRITE NOW! is presented each year as part of the “Beyond Trinity Rep” Community Education movement at the organization. Creative writing, English, and theater teachers are asked by Trinity Rep's education department to assign a ten-minute play as a part of their classroom curriculum.
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Asbury University ImpactU Creative Writing Camp. Grades 9-12. June 4-8. Residential camp. Find inspiration, create a first draft and revise your fiction, creative non-fiction or poetry. Register by May 31. Asbury University, One Macklem Drive, Wilmore. $390, $50 sibling discount. 859-858-3511, Ext. 2503.
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The city and LinkNYC are collaborating with nonprofits The Alliance for Positive Change and the Teachers & Writers Collaborative (T&W) to celebrate National Poetry Month with the displays. These groups offer creative writing workshops that allow adults and children to express their feelings and life
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But it was her own story about that path, written as a class assignment, which earned Montoya third place in the Spanglish Creative Writing Award category of the fifth annual Symposium of Spanish as a Heritage Language event. Montoya accepted the award at the symposium April 5 in Iowa City, IA.
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Little brother on one side, little sister on the other, mom holding the computer charger into the car adapter, Camp just kept typing, determined to fulfill an assignment for novelist Bev Marshall's creative writing class at Southeastern Louisiana University. Now, all these years later, that early effort has
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“One would place it under the control of a separate company, with an independent board exclusively responsible for both Sky News's editorial content and its commercial strategy. Fox would guarantee its funding for 15 years. We have also offered undertakings that Fox and the Murdochs will not attempt
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Later, while studying at the University of California, Hamill won $500 for producing the best university literary magazine in the U.S. Shortly after, he left college and co-founded Copper Canyon Press, a nonprofit publisher specializing in publishing poetry. Hamill was an editor for the publishing house from
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The media outlet received the records through an anonymous source, and it worked painstakingly to verify their authenticity before publishing them. The publication of the database is itself a follow-up to a heavily investigated March article about 319 NYPD officers who had committed offenses serious
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Soundtrack Your Brand, the Stockholm-based, Spotify-backed streaming platform devoted to background music in the b2b space, has announced a rush of direct deals with labels and publishers as it expands globally and looks to open up an often-overlooked revenue opportunity for rights holders.
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He has published two autobiographies – No Limits: The Will to Success and Beneath the Surface – that were New York Times and USA Today best sellers, as well as published one children's book – How to Train with a T-Rex and Win Eight Gold Medals. He is a highly regarded mental health advocate
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To analyze growth trajectory and present an industry overview of the global E-Book market, the report titled global E-Book market begins with definition, executive summary, segmentation and classification, E-Book industry chain analysis, value chain analysis, and policy analysis of the E-Book market.
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In the back streets of South Korea's capital, Seoul, a new kind of club is booming. But this isn't the wee hours of a Sunday morning, this dance floor is packed in the middle of a weekday.>> I worked for 30 years when I was young I earned money so now I have to relax that's why I do this as an exercise.
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Every year, Puyallup resident Rae McDonald and her husband, Fred, hike to visit a Douglas fir tree in the Puyallup Valley they nicknamed Granny. Using a piece of string, McDonald measures the tree around its trunk to see how much it's grown. “For 31 years we've been measuring Granny up in the hills
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It was just the second career marathon race for Sellers, who graduated from Ogden High in 2009 and competed at Weber State from 2009-12. During her time at Weber State, Sellers was a nine-time Big Sky champion, including three times each in the 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters in outdoors
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A black ribbon adorns the front door at The Press and the flag at The Union City Daily Messenger is at half staff today. David Gunn Critchlow, 87, of Union City, publisher emeritus of The Press and The Messenger, died at 3:55 p.m. Sunday at The Arbors in Union City. Graveside services will be 1 p.m.
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The festival, which is designed primarily as a celebration of creative writing for Georgia high school students, will feature public readings, master classes and student workshops conducted by nationally known writers and poets. Among the list of featured writers to hold readings are Brad Watson, recent
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I had been hired in the sales department as a representative, whose job it would be to present the company's forthcoming books to independent bookstores throughout Texas and Southwest. At that moment, it was impossible to envision the enormous changes across the bookselling landscape awaiting
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This is an oyster with a notable address, farmed in a tidal pool on Long Island's North Fork, near Shelter Island. It grows fast: The best are at least four inches when harvested. Herron notes that they're one of the best-sellers at Cull & Pistol. Flavor: Notable salinity—they taste like the ocean—with a clean,
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Google's advertising policies prohibit publishers from paying users to view ads. The company said it had engaged with Unlockd about its policies, which it argues are designed to protect the interests of advertisers, publishers and phone users. Google said: “We explained our concerns to Unlockd,
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Baxter received the coveted Editor of the Year award from Times Mirror for her work as an acquisitions editor and publisher for a health-science publishing house in St. Louis. Upon retirement, Baxter returned to Florida where she serves as a creative nonfiction editor for Bacopa Literary Review and
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His Industry Knowledge includes Sports Marketing and Creative Writing (TaTa Thompson alert) but his Interpersonal Skills of Staff Development and Public Speaking seem critical to a late season surge. His only interest is The University of Kansas so let's hope we don't meet them in a bowl game.
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“Porochista Khakpour is a journalist, essayist, novelist, and now with the upcoming publication of her new book, “Sick,” a memoirist,” said Mehdi Tavana Okasi, assistant professor of creative writing at Purchase College. “Her fiction transports us into wonderfully strange worlds and haunted relationships;
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For additional information, contact Erwin at 501-450-5757. The UCA College of Fine Arts and Communication includes the Departments of Art, Music, and Film, Theatre and Creative Writing as well as the School of Communication. The college's primary mission is the preparation of the next generation of
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The legal and political debate around net neutrality rages on following the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) decision to repeal rules established in 2015. That repeal, which passed on a party-line vote in December, is set to take effect on April 23. Individual US states are making efforts to
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One of the debates Stan Lee has had with the comic book community and fans over the years is in the use of the term “comic book.” He believes the term comic book (with a space) refers to books with comic strips, the kind originally published in newspapers, while “comicbook” (with no space) refers to
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Scalzi is one of the most popular and acclaimed sci-fi authors to emerge in the last decade. His massively successful debut “Old Man's War,” won him science fiction's John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times bestsellers include “The Last Colony,” “Fuzzy Nation,” and “Redshirts
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But Tronc has struggled to finalize the sale, the N.Y. Post reported that Soon-Shiong is looking for a lower price. Financial firms have avoided buying newspaper publishers in recent years on declining returns, but Amazon's (AMZN) Jeff Bezos rocked the industry when he bought the Washington Post in
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Publishers of the textbooks targeted for changes include National Geographic, Prentice Hall, Five Ponds Press, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and McGraw-Hill. All the documents submitted to the Virginia Department of Education were obtained by the Institute for Research Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep) and
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Katrinka Moore will read from her latest book, Wayfarers, which Publishers Weekly describes as “delicately detailed … gives readers time to breathe and ponder the landscape.” A former dancer and choreographer, Moore combines lyric poetry and visual art in her works. Her previous books are Numa,
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Pensacola, FL, April 16, 2018 –(PR.com)– Adorable, sweet, and just lovable! Meet Thunder, a baby elephant, that is touching the hearts of viewers throughout the internet with a series of 30 second animation shorts. Thunder the elephant and his animal friends are sure to make a mark as they teach our
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For Julia Goodwin and Nick Ziobro, this concert venue is a home away from home. “The Palladium is where I first fell in love with the Great American Songbook,” Goodwin said. “I always say it is one of my favorite venues to perform at, and I feel so at home whenever I return.” Goodwin, the 2013
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Newswise — Myra Zepf, the Children's Writing Fellow for Northern Ireland, based at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen's University Belfast and supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and PJ Lynch Laureate na nÓg, hosted a creative writing and illustration celebratory event for
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… he is a Grammy Award-winner. In September 2013, Nash released his long-awaited autobiography “Wild Tales,” which delivers an engrossing, no-holds-barred look back at his remarkable career and the music that defined a generation. The book landed him on the New York Times Best Sellers list.
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Jones has an M.A. in English with a concentration in Creative Writing from Ohio University. She recently became a Myers-Briggs Certified Practitioner. Jones has also published poetry, fiction and non-fiction pieces in anthologies and literary journals. Each day of the camp will focus on elements of a
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Creator Tim Fielder has been chronicling the self-publishing of his original comic, Matty's Rocket. Read previous columns here. [Note from Jude Terror: Starting with this week's column, Tim Fielder has joined Bleeding Cool as a regular contributor! I'm posting this final Dispatch (under his name), and
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