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Social Media to Land Writing Gigs & Make Money

Use Social Media to Land Writing Gigs and Make Money is this year’s social media panel for the American Society of Journalists & Authors annual conference session. May 1, 2015 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. Connect for Success! Come and learn new skills and meet new writers and editors and agents.

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Oscar Pistorius

Oscar Pistorius Update: Sentenced to 5 Years for Killing Reeva Steenkamp BUT might serve only 10 months

This is an update to my original article, “Oscar Pistorius, Ray Rice and the World Of Domestic Violence,” which was published on TheBlot Magazine LATEST NEWS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison for killing Reeva Steenkamp by a South African judge who cited the … Read more

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ASJA Conference

American Society of Journalists & Authors (ASJA) Writers Panel on Thursday, April 24, 2014

If you’re feeling there’s never enough time to update your website and keep up with social media, blogging and marketing, this panel is for you. In this session Dorri Olds and panelists will teach you how to use your time efficiently to get the best results and stand out online.

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bulldog

Fashion February: Canine Couture

Doggie fashion extravaganzas raise funds for animal rescue and other pet charities Ralph Lauren may have gone for a rugged look during New York’s just-concluded Fashion Week, but the dogs that strutted the runways of the world’s biggest canine fashion shows this month pawraded in flamboyant flowing gowns, feathered boas, top hats and, of course, … Read more

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Is Woody Allen a Perv? I Hope Not.

Dylan Farrow’s brothers made comments about her allegations about Woody Allen: Ronan tweets in support of her claims but Moses Farrow defends Allen and supports the claim that their mother brainwashed the children. He recently told People magazine, “My mother drummed it into me to hate my father for tearing apart the family and sexually molesting my sister and I hated him for her for years. I see now that this was a vengeful way to pay him back for falling in love with Soon-Yi.”

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ASJA Conference

Writers, Be Seen! Stand Out Online in the Most Time-Efficient & Cost-Effective Way

If you’re feeling there’s never enough time to update your website and keep up with social media, blogging and marketing, this panel is for you. In this session Dorri Olds and panelists will teach you how to use your time efficiently to get the best results. In this session Dorri Olds and panelists will teach you how to use your time efficiently to get the best results. You will be given tips and tricks based on hard-won experience including the best tools to use for your specific goals and how to get noticed online amidst worldwide competition. Learn to improve your website, blogs, and social media accounts.

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Vanessa Hudgens

Exclusive Interview: Vanessa Hudgens Talks Pain, Resilience and Her Transformation For ‘Gimme Shelter’

Hudgens plays Agnes (“Apple”) Bailey, a desperate pregnant teenager who runs away from a cruel drug-addicted mother played by Rosario Dawson. She tries to connect to her wealthy dad, played by Brendan Fraser. Things keep looking bleaker until she meets Frank McCarthy (James Earl Jones), a priest. He introduces her to Kathy DiFiore (Ann Dowd) who runs a shelter for homeless pregnant teens. It’s a true story with only a few small liberties taken by the writer/director, Ron Krauss, who lived in a homeless shelter for a year intending to shoot a documentary.

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Wearable Tech

2014 Tech: New Devices to Make Your Life Easier and Even More Amazing

Everything from your watch to your refrigerator will soon be custom programmed to your specific data with built-in sensors and a low-power wireless connection. It will know what you like and what you need. Keys will soon be obsolete. Everything you own will have a password capability to lock and unlock.

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Juliette Lewis

Juliette Lewis Talks About ‘August: Osage County’ and the Masochism of Acting

“August: Osage County,” opens Christmas day. Written by Tracy Letts, adapted from his Pulitzer Prize-winning play. It’s a close look at three sisters played by Juliette Lewis, Julia Roberts and Julianne Nicholson. Meryl Streep plays Violet Weston, the drug-addled matriarch. Also starring Abigail Breslin, Dermot Mulroney, Chris Cooper, Margo Martindale, Sam Shepard. Produced by George Clooney and Harvey Weinstein

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Forest Whitaker

Forest Whitaker Was Honored in New York City and Now Stars in ‘Out of the Furnace’

Over the past three-plus decades Whitaker has worked with an extraordinary array of brilliant directors in an astounding number of films. The movies include “The Color of Money” (Martin Scorsese), “Platoon” (Oliver Stone) “Good Morning, Vietnam” (Barry Levinson), “Bird” (Clint Eastwood), “Body Snatchers” (Abel Ferrara), and “The Crying Game” (Neil Jordan).

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