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Turner Publishing Acquires Pets, Crafts, and Other Titles from Wiley's General Interest Consumer Pub

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Turner Publishing Acquires Pets, Crafts, and Other Titles from Wiley’s General Interest Consumer Publishing Program

NASHVILLE, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Turner Publishing today announced that it has acquired assets from John Wiley & Sons, Inc.’s (NYSE: JWa, JWb) pets, crafts, and general interest consumer publishing program. The terms of the acquisition, which closed April 2, 2013, were not disclosed.

Turner acquired the digital and print assets for approximately 1,500 Wiley titles from its consumer pets, crafts, and general interest publishing programs. Notable brands, authors, and titles include Howell Book House and Baseball Prospectus.

“This strategic acquisition broadens Turner’s list, which spans a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction consumer publishing categories and represents an exciting growth opportunity within the crafts, pets, and general interest areas,” said Todd Bottorff, President and Publisher of Turner Publishing. “The combination of Wiley’s titles with our existing programs will significantly strengthen Turner’s market position as a consumer publisher.” Turner is a fully integrated publishing company that has produced over 1,000 titles since 1984 in a wide range of fiction and nonfiction categories including home & gardens, health & wellness, history, politics, & current affairs, and self-improvement, among many others.

“We believe that Turner Publishing is well-positioned to provide the strategic focus required for these assets to achieve their full potential and continue to flourish,” said Mark Allin, Wiley’s Senior Vice President, Professional Development. “While these assets have contributed to Wiley’s success to date, Wiley is reshaping its portfolio to support growth opportunities in global research, education and professional practice, and create products and services that help customers become more effective throughout their education and careers.”

It is the third sale associated with Wiley’s planned consumer asset divestiture, which was first announced in March 2012. Those assets included consumer print and digital publishing programs in travel (including the well-known Frommer’s brand), culinary, general interest, pets, crafts, Webster’s New World, and CliffsNotes. On November 6,2012, Wiley completed the sale of its culinary, CliffsNotes, and Webster’s New World Dictionary consumer publishing programs to the Boston-based global learning company, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH). On August 30, 2012, Wiley completed the sale of all of its travel assets, including the Frommer’s brand, to Google.

About Turner Publishing

Founded in 1985, Turner Publishing is an award-winning, independent publisher based in Nashville, Tennessee with multiple New York Times best-selling authors. It has been named by Publisher’s Weekly as one of the fastest growing independent publishers in the nation …read more
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President Obama Nominates Two to Serve on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia

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By The White House

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Obama nominated Michael Kenny O’Keefe and Robert Okun to serve on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

“Throughout their careers, these nominees have displayed unwavering commitment to justice and integrity,” said President Obama. “Their records are distinguished and impressive and I am confident that they will serve the American people well from the bench of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. I am honored to nominate them today.”

Michael Kenny O’Keefe: Nominee for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia

Michael Kenny O’Keefe is a sole practitioner with a focus on criminal defense and family law. He has represented individuals in over 2,000 cases in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, and litigated over 200 trials. He served as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law in 2010. Prior to starting his private practice, O’Keefe was a consultant to the District of Columbia law firm O’Connor & Hannan, where he also served as a law clerk. O’Keefe earned his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and his J.D. from American University’s Washington College of Law, where he was an Associate Editor of the Law Review. Prior to law school, he served as a Legislative Aide to United States Senator Christopher J. Dodd.

Robert D. Okun: Nominee for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia

Robert D. Okun is Chief of the Special Proceedings Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, which handles all post-conviction motions filed in D.C. Superior Court and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He also has served as Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney for Operations, and as Special Counsel to the U.S. Attorney for Professional Development and Legal Policy, and he advises and trains Assistant U.S. Attorneys on issues involving ethics and the Rules of Professional Conduct. Prior to his service at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Okun served as a trial attorney in the Department of Justice’s Office of Consumer Litigation and in the Fraud Section of the Civil Division, as well as in the Office of Policy and Evaluation at the Federal Trade Commission. Okun earned his B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. Following law school, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Frank E. Schwelb, then-Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

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The Backlash Against Sheryl Sandberg Is Already Starting

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By Pam Kruger

Erin Callan Lehman Brothers CFO

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Although Sheryl Sandberg‘s manifesto, Lean In, was just published Monday, it already is generating a torrent of debate — much of it among female professionals who complain they feel left out of Sandberg’s vision of success in the corporate world.

One of the most poignant critiques came from one of Wall Street‘s most successful women, Erin Callan, the former CFO of Lehman Brothers. In a candid essay for The New York Times published Sunday, Callan wrote about her regrets of keeping a “singular focus” on her career, saying it wrecked her marriage and led her to forego having children.

“I am beginning to realize that I sold myself short. I was talented, intelligent and energetic. It didn’t have to be so extreme. Besides, there were diminishing returns to that kind of labor,” she wrote. At 47, she says she and her new husband are trying to conceive through in-vitro fertilization and now says she sees an upside to Lehman’s collapse. “Without the crisis, I may never have been strong enough to step away” from her all-consuming professional life, she wrote.

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Sandberg has two children, however, and what appears to be a fairy tale marriage, with an equally successful husband whom she says shares household responsibilities equally. Mary Louise Kelly, a former Pentagon correspondent for NPR, writes of “hitting the wall” when she got a call that her 4-year-old son was having trouble breathing, and Kelly was in Baghdad, covering a story. Soon after she quit her job. “With sincere and enormous respect for the accomplishment of superwomen like Sheryl Sandberg,” she writes in The Daily Beast, “I wonder if there isn’t room for a more expansive definition of female professional success.” Now that she is a novelist and writes from home a few hours a day, she says she wonders, “should we automatically assume that the woman running the company is doing more with her life than the woman who has negotiated a three-day week?

Penelope Trunk, the career coach and founder of Brazen Careerist, compared the adulatory profiles of Sheryl Sandberg to women’s magazine’s features on rail-thin Hollywood actresses: They make women feel bad because they can’t possibly measure up. “Sheryl Sandberg gives up her kids like movie stars give up food: She wants a great career more than anything else.” Trunk, who home-schools her children and stepped off the fast track, also argues that “high performers in corporate life are so much more focused than everyone else in the workforce that it’s time we stopped selling a false bill of goods; almost no one can be singularly focused to get to the top of anything.”

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Of course, Sandberg’s book only was published today, so the question arises: Have any of these …read more
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