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Dancing With The Stars Finals Monday: Zendaya, Kellie, Jacoby, Aly
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2013 Virginia GOP Convention: Epilogue
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EXCLUSIVE: Ron Paul's revolution continues (interview)
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Dangerous clowns -- just a 'sideshow'?
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The treasures of the Cave of Glowing Skulls
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Minecraft survival games: What a hacker! (Video)
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Peace-Justice-Climax
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When your Macbook goes 'Snap, Crackle, Pop'
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Combatting common life insurance myths
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Independence Institute files suit against magazine ban
Rick Townley's World of Books & Publishing
Time is the great equalizer. We all get the same amountof it each day and we can't buy, sell or borrow more.Where we differ from each other is in how we spend it,and as days turn into years we realize ó it's about time.
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Move over paper books, e-books may soon need shelf space too
Technology upgrades bring new applications for digital paper. Published 2:13 p.m. May 15, 2013 - Comments
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Last minute Mother's Day gifts from the bookstore
New books to give Mom for Mother's Day. Published 2:12 p.m. May 11, 2013 - Comments
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Humbled by a Harley: One woman’s quest to reinvent herself.
One woman's journey to reinvent herself and answer, what now? Published 2:16 p.m. May 1, 2013 - Comments
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Spring reading suggestions: Don't overlook indie publishers!
A little research can yield big results when looking for new books to read. Published 1:25 p.m. April 24, 2013 - Comments
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Boston Marathon bombing: Seeking answers at the library
Books to help adults and children deal with the trauma of the Boston Marathon bombing. Published 10:47 a.m. April 17, 2013 - Comments
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Dedicated e-book readers are heading for extinction
Tablet computers are displacing e-readers, but print is still king. Published 11:29 a.m. April 11, 2013 - Comments
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Amazon grows its book retail empire with the purchase of Goodreads
Amazon is adding to its online empire with the purchase of Goodreads. What it plans to do with the service remains to be seen. Published 1:45 p.m. April 1, 2013 - Comments
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Independent bookstores are making a comeback by not selling books
Independent bookstores are finding new and innovative ways to survive and grow in a highly competitive book market. Published 12:21 p.m. March 20, 2013 - Comments
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Maryland boy, age seven, suspended for making a gun from pastry
School officials suspended a seven-year-old boy before he could use a pretend gun made from pastry to harm others with blueberry filling. Published 12:26 p.m. March 8, 2013 - Comments
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Global music industry sales increase for the first time since 1999
Global music industry sales, led by digital downloads, rose for the first time in over a decade. Published 1:19 p.m. February 26, 2013 - Comments
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Rick Townley
Rick Townley was a bookseller before switching to electronic publishing with The New York Times, Reuters, Grolier and others. He is the author of a humor book, For Boomers Only – Exploring Life in the New Millennium, a supernatural novel, Stepping ...
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The Remnant - as bureacracy fails
Challenge the political status quo. Realize that you make better decisions than the bureaucrats in D.C.?
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EXCLUSIVE: Ron Paul's revolution continues (interview)
In an interview with Communities writer Kevin Kelly, Ron Paul discusses education, foreign policy, civil liberties and more.
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Free and Equal Prepares to "Rock the Nation Awake"
The final part of my interview with Free and Equal founder Christina Tobin.
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Free and equal: Drawing attention to the "voices in the trenches"
Part one of my interview with Free and Equal founder Christina Tobin.
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The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity
Ron Paul's new Institute has the potential to challenge the neoconservatives and hawks who dictate American foreign policy.
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EXCLUSIVE: Ron Paul's revolution continues (interview)
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Pithanthropy – The Human Conditioner
Sometimes life requires a paradigm twist.
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Museum Mavens
News and reviews of notable museums, and exhibits, and art events.
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Rest Insured
Nobody likes to talk about dying quite as much as life insurance expert Liran Hirshkorn.
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Spill It! How to Maintain and Repair Your MacBook
The stories of damaged Mac Books that had liquid spilled on them and how they were brought back to life by the Mac Experts at LiquidSpill.com
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Video Gaming with MCairsoft14
Video reviews of today's hottest trends in Minecraft (servers and mods) along with a look at the latest video games with your host MCairsoft14 (alias Jerad Zad).
Rick Townley was a bookseller before switching to electronic publishing with The New York Times, Reuters, Grolier and others. He is the author of a humor book, For Boomers Only – Exploring Life in the New Millennium, a supernatural novel, Stepping Out of Time, and numerous short stories. In addition to contributing to the Washington Times Communities, Rick is working on a fiction series called Stigma and resides in southern Alabama with his 7-year-old granddaughter, Chloe.
