Additionally, there is a creative writing competition, for ages 10-18, in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and short plays. Winning works will be exhibited at Jerusalem's Dr. Max and Gianna Glassman Family Center in March. The exhibition is supported by the Betsy Sugarman Memorial Fund.
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(AP) — The chairman of an Alabama newspaper company has resigned following accusations that he assaulted female newsroom employees in the 1970s by spanking them. The Anniston Star reports that Brandt Ayers resigned Thursday as chairman of the board of Consolidated Publishing Co. Ayers
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FILE – In this March 18, 1974, file photo, country legend Roy Acuff performs during the Grand Ole Opry's last show at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn. A fiddle that Goodwill believes was once owned by Acuff is expected to generate thousands of dollars for the charitable organization in the Kansas
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“'Sea Oak', the short story, was in my high school creative writing textbook—The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction—so I was familiar with it and its author, George Saunders,” Gray said. “Coincidentally, the day I found out about the audition for the TV pilot, I finished George's first novel,
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Lorenzo Neri Times Publishing Group Inc tpgonlinedaily.com Last seen in Scotts Valley on the 4th of December 2017, Lorenzo is 38 years old, 5'10”, 170 lbs., is of Italian nationality but has lived in Silicon Valley since 2005. He speaks English, Spanish, Italian (mother tongue) and German as well.
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http://www.tpgonlinedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/ 2017: Progress & Preparation by Noel Smith • Lorenzo Neri • How Safe are the Streets in Front of Our Schools? • Dr. Wetstein Recommended as Next Cabrillo President • 2018 Valentine's Day Poetry Contest • Thank You from Jacob's Heart • EcoFarm
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U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he leaves the White House en route to Mar-a-lago Estate in Florida after signing the tax cut bill into law in Washington D.C., the United States, on Dec. 22, 2017. U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed a 1.5-trillion-dollar tax cut bill into law, as well as a
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But these letters to Bannon, Wolff and Wolff's publisher mark an unprecedented moment in First Amendment history: a sitting president of the United States is threatening to sue for defamation and to seek a prior restraint—an injunction preventing publication—against a book of political reporting simply
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To answer this demand, we will have a display of our best sellers in this exhibition as well” says Anat Moshes, Vice President, Cut Flowers Sales. In this section, visitors will be able to explore the Danziger assortment, from the best seller XLENCE™ Gyp, to the famous SCOOP™ Scabiosa collection.
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Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian at Rice University, likened Trump's actions this week to those of Richard M. Nixon, whose White House unsuccessfully attempted to stop both the New York Times and The Washington Post from publishing the Pentagon Papers, a secret history of the
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Charles Harder, a lawyer for President Trump, sent a letter to Henry Holt & Co. and author Michael Wolff on behalf of the president demanding that author and publisher immediately “cease and desist from any further publication, release or dissemination” of a forthcoming book, Fire and Fury, according
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A finalist of the Pen to Publish contest held by Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) portal, Sudha started writing short stories in 2005 and … didn't get a single response, she decided that she was not going to let her manuscript languish in her laptop, and took the plunge into self-publishing with KDP.
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Regardless of what Michael Wolff says about the access he received for his book, President Trump is not happy about the book's publication. How do we know? Well, his personal lawyer sent a cease-and-desist letter to Wolff and his publisher, saying that Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
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According to a study from Shareablee, brands get more bang for their buck paying a publisher or influencer to produce a branded-content post through their Pages and paying to promote that post as an ad instead of a post published to the brand's own Page. A study from Persistence Market Research
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Music publishing company Wixen has sued Spotify over allegedly failing to properly license song compositions by recording artists such as Tom Petty, … In 2016, Spotify reached a $30 million settlement with the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) on behalf of its members who hadn't been
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump escalated his attack on a new book portraying him as a volatile and ill-equipped chief executive Thursday as his legal team demanded that the author and publisher halt its release and apologize or face a possible lawsuit. In an 11-page letter, the president's
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The best year ever for auto sales in the United States was 2016; predictably, 2017 couldn't quite keep the good times going. But it was far from a shabby year for automakers. The continuing rise of SUV, crossover, and pickup-truck sales fueled plenty of growth and profitability, even if major players
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U.S. President Donald Trump's lawyer said on Thursday he would try to stop publication of a book that portrays an inept president in a fumbling White House and threatened legal action against former top aide Steve Bannon over “defamatory” comments in the book. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White
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Under the terms of the Open Access Publishing Framework Agreement for Austrian Research Performing and Research Funding institutions, agreed between Frontiers, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), and the University of Vienna, the Austrian Science Fund covers the APCs for all authors of a paper
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At a White House press briefing Thursday, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders railed against Michael Wolff's explosive new book, “Fire and Fury: … Trump has responded in full force, threatening to sue the book's publisher if it hits shelves, and seeking to distance himself from sources in the book,
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Bloomsbury Publishing logo Shares of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (LON:BMY) hit a new 52-week high during trading on Thursday . The stock traded as high as GBX 192 ($2.57) and last traded at GBX 190 ($2.54), with a volume of 172398 shares changing hands. The stock had previously closed at GBX
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President Trump attempted to curtail the publishing of “Fire and Fury,” the bombshell book about his administration, but the publisher's response on … CNN reported that the personal lawyer for the president sent the publishers a “cease and desist” letter Thursday demanding the book not be released.
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Get it now! Shop in store and get our Best Seller Tote for only $40. The Best Sellers Tote Offer (the “Offer”) entitles customers to purchase up to three (3) Black Friday Tote Bags for $40 excluding applicable taxes. Offer valid starting December 1, 2017 while supplies last at participating The Body Shop®
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Attorney Charles Harder demanded in a letter to author Michael Wolff and his publisher, Henry Holt and Co., that they stop Tuesday's scheduled release of Wolff's book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. Harder said his team is “investigating numerous false and/or baseless statements” made
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Photo: “Write the Good Future” contest creators (l to r) Maribeth Benner and Diana McClure. Photo provided. A new contest launched in 2017 invites people from third grade on up to write creative fiction that envisions a hopeful, ecologically sound future. Almost five years ago, Maribeth Benner, the
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A book containing damaging allegations about the Trump administration is to be released early after lawyers tried to block publication, its author says. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff was due out on Tuesday but Mr Wolff says it will now be available for purchase on Friday.
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As always, our single best seller is the generic “Sale Book”, where we're marking down unsold books by roughly 50% of cover price to get them out – that catchall, combined, sold WAY more copies than our #1 book. This is true at BOTH stores. But, I'm not including that in this presentation because I think
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The University of British Columbia, remember, fired (and gratuitously shamed) Creative Writing chair Steven Galloway on no basis except that he had a consensual affair with a single student. Minnesota Public Radio excommunicated legendary broadcaster Garrison Keillor after a woman complained
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Publisher Henry Holt & Co. said that it was moving forward with the release of “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” despite demands by President Trump's personal lawyers to cease plans for publication. “Henry Holt confirms that we received a cease and desist letter from an attorney for
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The publishing industry is one of many that seem ripe for DLT-enabled change, and the new, DLT-oriented player PressCoin wants to lead that charge. … A solution to the current digital publishing dynamic, proposed by the startup blockchain project PressCoin , is building an alternative, DLT-powered
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The announcement comes after the President Trump's lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to the publishing company earlier in the day, a document that typically suggests the possibility of a lawsuit if the receiver does not discontinue the conduct the attorneys sending the letter claim is illegal.
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Sydney Schneider, 17, a senior at MacArthur High School, self-published “Chip and Dip,” her tale of friendship between a chocolate chip cookie and an onion. The 25-page book, which she published through the website Blurb, was written when she was an eighth-grader at Jonas E. Salk Middle School.
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