text:
Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1939-12-08, page 01 |
Save page Remove page | Previous | 1 of 8 | Next |
This page
Subset |
Loading content ...
u ll[\// Serving Golumbus and Ceniral Ohio Jewish Community\^//\\5^ Vol. 18 No. 50 COIiUMBtJS, OHIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1939 BoToted to Amrrlcnn and Jtjwisli Idonin Strictly, Confidential TiaWts From Kverywhcro By PHINEAS J. BIRON PROF. HARLOW WILL OPEN INTERFAITH CONFERENCE HOT STUFF Does Benito Mussolini know that way back in -the middle of the last^ century one Benedetto Musolinb, author of an Italian book on Jerusiilem and the Jew¬ ish people, wrote to the then British Prime Minister, Lord Palmers ton, suggesting the establishment of a Jewish State In Palestine? . . .The New York Post's iSamuel Grafton explains the ab.sence of a big Nazi offen¬ sive oh the Western. front by the fact that "there is a short age of pushovers in Europe" . . Probably this is the reason why the German generals defied Hit¬ ler's orders to push through Hol¬ land and Switzerland into France . . . Ex-Premier Paul van Zeeland b( Belgium, who came to this country as counsel for the International Refugee Con- ; ference, says that Hitler is so badly off financially that a two- year war will finish him . . . Now German Consul-General Fritz Weidemann of San Fran¬ cisco Jias declared that he does- i>'t like the Bund ... Which makes It unanimous . . . In the Munich beer-hall bombing, say the Broadway wags. Hitler turn¬ ed out to be "tho little man who wasn't there" . . . While John Chapman claims that Hitler serenades England with that good old song "You're mined, all ^ mined"' . . . One of tho best cracks of tlie week is to be credited to Hal Frank, who in Digest Magazine epitomizes the Nazi motto as "tho ends justify tlie meanness" . . . That Ameri¬ can magazine article which will fjuote Alfred Duff-Cooper to tho effect that if Hitler had not attacked Poland Britian would have been ready to accept Nazi peace conditions may embarrass Mr. Chamberlain no Ut^ile. DRAMATIC NEWS The famous ring which the great German actor August Iff- land, who flourished in the early nineteenth century, willed to "the most outstanding Ger¬ man actor of each succeeding generation" is In Hollywood now, adorning the finger ot re¬ fugee mummer Albert Basser- mann . . . Clark Gable's ances¬ tors were Germans called Goeb- Tiel, but there's no connection with Gabby Joe, thank heaven- . . . Eddie Davis, who now helps "Write George White's "Scan¬ dals," was a cab driver until Ed¬ die Cantor gave him a hand up- . . . In his last weejt's "New York Novelette" Wlnchell tells the story ot a Paramount talent scout who lost his job some years ago . . . Times became very hard for him, his wife and child left him, he had to live xvith his brotlier on the .latter's tiny income . : . But this year he got the backing for a play which is rapidly making him a rich man ... Winchell doesn't mention his name, but no harm can come if we tell yoii that the liero of this true stoiy is Oscar ¦ Serlln, and the play is "Life with Father". . . MUSICAL WHISPERS The musical sensation of this season, will be Chemjo Vinaver's chorus of thirty male voices . The liturgical music, Jewish and non-Jewish, that makes up their repertory is something new for American concert-gQers. ... The lives of the two must clans Anton and Nicholas Ru¬ binstein are the theme of Cath¬ erine Drinker Bowne's new (Continued on Tage 6> NATIONAL COMMANDER OP JEWISH VETERANS TO SPEAK HERE DEC. IT Professor S. Ralph Harlow, of Smith College, will ' officially open the Interfaith Conference sponsored by the Hiilel Founda¬ tion in collaboration with YWCA, the YMCA, the Indianola Stud¬ ent Center and Westminster Foundation, with a lecture to be presented this Sunday, Dec. 10, at 2 p. m., at the Indianola Student Center. ' Professor Harlow, whose sub¬ ject will be "The Relation of Religion to Social and Economic Problems" has been a mission¬ ary abroad, taught in Europe and Is a recognized figure in interfaith relations. The Hiilel Foundation is giv¬ ing a dinner in honor of Prof. Harlow, this Sunday at 5:30 foi lowing which Dr.. Harlow will deliver a lecture at the Indianola Presbyterian Church on "What Young People Are Thinking and Doing In the World of To¬ day". This lecture is open to the public. , ' Yard, Levy Schedule Of Talks Announced The complete schedule for Dr. James Yard, of the National Conference ot Goodwill between Christians and Jews, and Raiibi Felix Levy of Chicago, who will be in Columbus on Dec, 12th, tvas announced by Allan Tarsh- j-ih, representative of-the local il'nai Ti'rith, who has been co¬ operating with' the national or¬ ganization. At 10:45 a. m. at South High School, tliese two noted figures will give their first discussion; at noon, they, will address a gathering at Ohio State Univer¬ sity, arranged through the co¬ operation of Rabbi H. Kaplan of theHUIel Foundation; at 3 p. ni., they will have a half hour period on WHKC radio station; and at 7 p. m. Dr. Yard and Kabbi Levy will .address a group at Dennison University, thru the cooperation of Profes¬ sor F. Stewart of the depart¬ ment of HeligiOn. Dr. James Yard* and Rabbi Felix Levy will be,on a spealc- ing tour;in Ohio and will ad¬ dress the student body at Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio. JBWISH NATIONAL FUND ACQUIRES 6,600 DUNAMS JERUSALEM (WNS)'Continu¬ ing with its large-scale program of land-acquisition, the Jewish National Fund has acquired 5,400 dunams iri the hills near Hanita, and 1200 dunams iri northern Sharon, it was revealed here. . lore Thai 600 Jewisli Leaders Mkd ID. C. 25tli Aniiiial Merence Iii Cliicag® SOPHIE TUCKER TO ADDRESS STUDENT RALLY THURSDAY Uilgji II. Uuriiian Edgar H. Burman, national commander of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States, a resident of New York City, will be the lionbr guest and speaker at the annual Installation of new officers of Capitol Post 122 of the J. W. V. and the Ladies Aux¬ iliary Which will be held at the Deshler Hotel on Sunday, Dec. 17th; at 6:30 p. m. Inifitations have already been extended to friends of members to attend this banquet affair. Edgar Burman, the newly elected national commander, has been an ardent leader In J. W. V. nctivitie."; for many years and has hold all honors in' his own J.'W. V. post, as well as being a past state commander of New York. Among tho distinguished guests who, have been invited for the Dec. I7th affair are: State Commander "Mud"- Gard¬ ner of the American Legion; Mayor Gessaman, M. Stone, na¬ tional vice-commander of the J. W. V. from St. Louis, Governor J. Briciier; E. J. Schanfarber, head ot the United Jewish Fund; and many 6ther tiotables in vet¬ eran activities. Sain lichtenstein is the out¬ going commander of Capitol Post and David Pastor will be the newly installed commander. Final details of the program will be mentioned lii next week's issue of the Chronicle. Sophie Tucker, prominent stage personality tor more than a decade, will be the featured speaker at a student rally to be held next Thursday, Dec. .14, In the Commerce Building Audi¬ torium. This rally will mark the opening in the HUlel Re¬ fugee Fund Committee's cam¬ paign for the year. In addition to the appeal made by Miss Tucker, both Co- lumlius and the Ohio State Uni¬ versity, faculty and student, win be W^U represented, E..J. Shanfarber, Columbus attorney. Dean of Men, Jo.seph A. Park and Dean Palmei:, Presi¬ dent of the Student Senate, will deliver addresses. Sam Shapiro is chairman of the committee which is making preparations for the mass rally, Leading Christians 'sln li-iit CHICAGO (WNS)—Ameri¬ can organizations engaged in ^var ¦ relief work overseas have taken "the splendid and con¬ sistent position" that "no man will be denied sustenance and aid because of race, creed or origin," Governor Herbert H. Lehman of New York declared in an address delivered by Mrs. Lehman before the 25th Annual Meeting of the American .lew¬ ish Joint Distribution Commit¬ tee, which was held here Decem¬ ber 2 and 3. Mrs. Lehman explained tliat the Governor had planned to make the address personally at the conference in the Standard Club, but that official duties had made it impossible for him to leave his home State at the last moment, and that he had there¬ fore asked her to deliver his address in his place. More than 600 Jewish com¬ muiiity leaders from all sections of the United States and Canada gathered to hear the message of the Governor. Besides Mrs. Lehman, others who spolce at the conference included Paul Baerwald of New York, Chair¬ man of the JDC'Rabbl Jonah B. Wise, Vice Chairman, James G. McDonald, Chairman of the President's Advisory Commit¬ tee on Political Refugees, Clar¬ ence B. Pickett, Executive Sec¬ retary of the American Friends TUNE IN TUESDAY, AT 3 P. M. Dr. James Yard and Dr. Felix Levy of Chicago, 111., represent¬ ing the Chicago Bound Table of the National Conference be¬ tween' Jews and Christians, will be heard over radio Station WHKC, Tuesday at 3 P. M. Chronicle readers are asked to tune in on this interesting pro¬ gram. Jr. Hadassah First Honor Ball Tonight Junior Hadassah's first Honor Ball is being held this Saturday, Dec. 9, in the Grand Ballroom of the Deshler-Wallick Hotel from nine-thirty to orie. The music will be furnished by Paul Decker and his orchestra. At 10:30 the Araljian Supper Club Floor show will be featured with Cy Reeves, master of cere¬ monies, directing. The complete committee for the ilonor Ball is as follows: . General Co-chairmen—^M1 s s Ruth Shiftman, Miss Ruth Wells; Publicity Chairman—Miss Doro¬ thy Krakoff; Chairman ot Pa¬ trons and Contributors—Mrs. Rose L. Meyers; Committee— I Gladys Stone, Miriam Robbins, Phylis Seigel, Ann Markisori, Janet Wasserstrom. Co-captains in c h a r g e of pledges are:-T- Ruth Steinman, Annette Friedman, Betty Seldenberg, Esther Waldman, Francine Solo¬ mon; Miriam Levison, Lillian Minkln, Jane Stregevsky, Sarah Malmol, Ruth Goldenberg, Rose Goodman, Edith Friedland, Eve¬ lyn Cowan, Gladys Stone, Har¬ riet Shustlck, Ann Block. Dorothy Press, Roselyn Bono- wltz, Sophie Dworkin, Irene Mellman, Bernice Kahn, Helen Grundsteln, Evelyn Gitlin, Mild¬ red Haims, Miriam Greenberg, Esther Katz, Mary Gussacoff, tOuutiaaeil on I'nse 2) , NEW ,yOKK .(WNS)-An " .- Committee Edward TV' American ehaJ!sng<.-to-tl,e-K«rf fr^&?;'S5 •^~:.-,,^r,S4 program of mass deportations, ghettoization, starvation, and torture ot Jews and others in Poland and other conquered areas will be made on Wednes¬ day evening, Dec. 13th, at Madi¬ son Square Garden when repre¬ sentatives of all faiths join in a demonstration against Nazi brutality. The demonstration has been arranged by the American Jew¬ ish Congress and the Jewish Labor Committee with the co¬ operation of outstanding Chris tian, organizations and leaders of American publle opinion who have joined the committee of sponsors. These include the American Committee of Relig¬ ious Rights and Minorities, the Chairman of which is Dr. John Howiand Lathrop; the American Federation of Labor, the presi¬ dent of which is William Green; the Church Peace Union; the League for Human Rights, Free¬ dom and Democracy; and the Protestant Teachers Association. Bishop William T. Manning heads a group of outstanding personalities of all wallcs ot life who have joined the spon¬ soring committee which includes such names as the Hon. George Gordon Battle; Senator W. War¬ ren Barbour of New Jersey; Dr. W. Russell Bowie, of Union Theological Seminary; Mrs. Car¬ rie Chapman Catt; Professor Al¬ bert Einstein; Dr. Harry Emer¬ son Fosdick; Hon. James W. Gerard, forjner U. S. Ambassa¬ dor to Germany; Dr. Alice Hamilton, ot the Medical Fac¬ ulty of Harvard University; Dr. John Haynes Holmes; Prof. Al¬ vin Johnson, Director of New School for Social Research; Sena¬ tor James M. Mead of New York; Dr. William J. Schieffelin, President of the Citizeiis Union; Dr. Guy Emeiy Shlpler, Editor of the Churchman, the oldest Protestant publieatlori In the United States; Miss 'Dorothy Thompson; Senator Robert F. Wagner; Mr, Mathew Woll, and others. , - M. Warbm-g, Co-chairman ' ot' the JDC, JCeph C. Hyman. Executive Vice Chairman, Mrs. David M. Levy, Chairman of the Women's Division of the New; York United Jewish Ai>. peal, Harold F. Linder oE New York, Mrs. Myron F. Falk, Honorary Chairman of the JDC Junior Division, and James N. Rosenberg, Chairman ot tho Executive Committee of the JDC. The Governor's address, in discussing the war relief prob¬ lems, declared that "It is not a Jewish problem nor a Christian porbletn." "It is a problem," he said, "for humanity and for civiliza¬ tion. In the common task, the Joint Distribution. Committee has proved tremendously effect¬ ive. Its record of non-sectarian aid, the millions of dollars which It has disbursed in colla¬ boration with such agencies as the American Relief Administi-a- tion. The Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A., The Quakers, the Near East ReHef Commission, and other non-sectarian bodits have won for it the respect and good will ot Christians the world over." Refugee Assistance Governmental assistance on an international scale for re¬ fugees from persecution and war is nearer today than at any time since the current refugee problem arose, it was dcclaix-d by Mr. McDonald, who pointed out that the international re¬ fugee conferences of the past two years have served to "edu¬ cate" the democratic govern¬ ments of the world. "Governments," he declared, "are beginning to display a de¬ gree of interest which they did not do in the early years. The Governments have brought into the picture new, powerful, dyna¬ mic personalities and have in¬ creasingly come to see that the refugee problem reaches beyond the limits of private charity and must be treated accoi-dingly." Discussing the brutal effect (Oontbtuetl ou Tafio U> B ;¦-¦ il I -i ., -,. ,1, ^\'- 'ii 'if ¦ . ' ':^>- it.' '
Object Description
Title | Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1939-12-08 |
Subject | Jews -- Ohio -- Periodicals |
Place | Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio) |
Creator | Ohio Jewish Chronicle |
Collection | Ohio Jewish Chronicle |
Submitting Institution | Columbus Jewish Historical Society |
Rights | This item may have copyright restrictions. Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information |
Type | Text |
File Name | index.cpd |
Image Height | Not Available |
Image Width | Not Available |
Format | newspapers |
Date created | 2008-08-22 |


text:
What advice would a writer from 1938 have for writers of our current day? Would it still be timely to our needs? You bet! Barbara Ueland's seventy-year-old book touches the heart and fires the imagination. Titled 'If You Want to Write', the 179 page 'little book' trumpets itself as "A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit'. Copyrighted in 1938, it was republished in 1989 by Graywolf Press. Please join with me as we examine some of the thoughts of Ms. Ueland.
I love author bios, I hope you do too. Barbara Ueland was born in Minneapolis in 1891. Her father was a judge and her mother a suffragette and first president of the Minnesota League of Women Voters. Barbara graduated from Barnard in 1913 and lived in NYC until 1930, where she was part of the Greenwich Village bohemian crowd that included Eugene O'Neill. After her return to Minnesota in 1930, she earned her living as a journalist, editor, freelance writer and teacher of writing. (She also went through three husbands along the way.) She remained physically and mentally active until her death at the age of 93 in 1985.
In her book, she reminisces about teaching at the YWCA. "There were all kinds of people – men and women, rich and poor, erudite and uneducated, highbrow professors and little servant girls so shy that it would take months to arouse in them the courage to try a sentence or two."
The fact she mentioned 'servant girls' got my attention. I had a grandmother who left school in the eighth grade to work as a housemaid in one of those now-decaying mansions that dot the Northside of Pittsburgh. Grandma spoke about dusting knickknacks on the shelves and stitching wedding gowns. Anything to help out the family finances in a family of eight kids. Grandma told such wonderful stories that I wonder if she ever fantasized about writing them down. Would things have been different if she'd encountered a teacher like Ms. Ueland? Grandma's son, my Daddy, always wanted to be a journalist. The dream to write was there. Maybe he inherited a writing bug in his genes? In any case, the family urged my Dad to get his head out of the clouds and study something practical. The only writing he did after that was love poems to my Mom. (The dream to write fell to me, apparently, but that's another story.)
Back to Ms. Ueland. Barbara's mission as a teacher was to get her students to express clearly what was true to them from their personal experiences. She led them from initial efforts of stilted, false, dead prose into courageous expressions of slices of life from the heart. Her book is a magnificent pep talk that fires up the writer within each of us. Her key to unlocking the ability to write? She demanded of her students, "Tell me more."
For instance, she queried a budding novelist about whether the character's muscles really 'rippled'. Did the writer actually see that? Her student became excited and declared yes, his muscles were so big they seemed to burst the seams of his coat. Barbara responded, "Well say that! Hurrah! Put it that way. That's alive, great!"
Barbara writes, "I am blessed with a fascinated, inexhaustible interest in all my pupils – their thoughts, adventures, failures, rages, villainies and nobilities." She wanted them to see "how gifted they are and consequently grow in boldness and freedom." To accomplish this, she instructed them to "forget about writing 'writing' and… to tell spontaneously, impulsively, what they remembered."
If you'd like to read her book yourself, I'd recommend checking your interlibrary loan system for a copy. In my area, there's four in the system.
To close, does anyone else have relatives in the family line who might have become writers if fate had given them the chance? If things had gone a bit differently in their lives?
Submitted by:
Cheryl Elaine Williams
Previously blogged at Working Stiffs 2009
This is not an "I want it now" business.
There are exceptions to the rule, but generally speaking if you are in a rush to be a big star or in it for the money; you are in the wrong business, my friend. If you're meant to be an author, you are in one of the following categories….
(a)You either work a fulltime job or two and peck away at the keyboard whenever you can.
(b)You write a lot but are practically starving, while those bills are piling up.
Have you ever heard the expression, "he's suffering for his art"?
Writing is an art…but also a business.
If you are an actor, you'd expect to learn your craft well and go to audition after audition. The writing business is not any different. You have to know your craft well and you have to beat down door after door.
So if you're still with me and this is your dream, you want to be an author. Here are the key elements you need to understand:
You must learn everything you can about writing.
Read, anything…everything.
You must conduct yourself in a professional manner.
Patience is the key, from your first word to the sale of your book, in most cases will be years.
Please treat publishers, editors, other writers and agents with respect, they are professionals. Seriously if you landed a big movie roll with Robert Di Niro and he gave you some advice, would you turn to him and say you don't know what you are talking about…nobody knows my character like I do. If you answered yes I would, throw away the vanity pills and come back, LOL J See us editors can be humorous too. My point is that you don't want to rush your editor because you need the money or you should be a star or someone else at the same publisher seems to be going further than you. In most cases those writers are on a different level than you because they have been at it longer. So jealousy is another thing you might want to check at the door with your hat.
Write with accuracy and creativity. From there go with your gut, if you really feel that a publisher or editor is giving you a bum rap, then go with someone else you feel better about. But you have to ask yourself is that really the case or have I run out of patience waiting for my brass ring? A readable product takes perseverance, patience and hard work, nothing more, nothing less…
Tune in next week for a "When will I get an acceptance letter…dammit?"
Think back on the things your Mom or other caretaker advised you not to do. It could be a key to jumpstarting a writing idea. For instance….
"Honey, don't ride your bike behind the strip mall. It's too isolated back there and there's trailers making deliveries." We all know what can happen when an innocent child walks past a trailer. "Besides, the slag heap up above could fall down any day." That eventually happened. The humongous slag heap left over from strip mining did eventually collapse in a rainstorm, burying several empty cars. Mom probably had a funny feeling about it for years. (Those are the types of warnings to listen to.)
Mom talking to her pre-teen: "Stay away from that trolley stop by the woods. You can't see it from the street."
Pre-teen to Mom: "Nobody's been kidnapped from Overlook stop."
Sharp retort: "There's always a first time. Anybody can get off there. You don't know who they are." Caretakers are most effective in instilling a fear of mass murderers. That fear stays with us for life, which is what makes thriller fiction so exciting.
All of us have personal 'Thou Shalt Nots' nagging at our brain, prohibitions grown out of family tradition. Baggage we picked up along the way. Kick these around in your mind and you can see possibilities develop for a story. For instance, my Dad refused to let me run the lawnmower. "Machines got a mind of their own. Mrs. (Smith) cut off her big toe."
The possibility never occurred to Dad of teaching me use of proper footware and safety techniques. The sight of Mrs. Smith sitting poolside with her foot sticking out, four little pinkies and one sewn-up gash where the big toe used to be, was enough to cool my ardor for running the mower. Kudos to families who empower their females to become familiar with power machines. Anyway, another 'Thou Shalt Not' came from my Grandmother.
"Riding horses is dangerous. My brother fell from one and died." Mother heard that story all her life. Eventually she overcame it by taking riding lessons at a local stable, but only years later when she was over thirty and Grandma was out of the way. It took Mom decades to overcome a 'family prohibition'.
How about the old "Don't walk through the cemetery alone?" "Don't go rafting in (Devil's Creek)?" "Don't go up in the attic, you could fall through the ceiling?"
Our ceilings always looked pretty sturdy to me, but the fear was always there that we could fall off the criss-crossing slats of wood that lined our attic floor and fall through the insulation material in between. Then again, maybe Dad wanted to keep all kids out of the attic so no one would hide to smoke up there and burn the house down.
To sum up, have some fun and ruminate on those 'Don't Do's' of your life and let your imagination run wild. Anybody care to share theirs?
(End) (500 words)
Snow falls day after day, frost freezes on our windows, the afternoon hours remain gloomy even as the daylight hours linger a tad longer than the month before. Things tend to break down in this bone-chilling weather. Car batteries die, garage door openers go on the fritz (for those in the Northern climate ranges, anyway). Bodies break down. Yes, bodies!
In the extended history of my family, January, February and March have been very popular times to die. It almost seems like many of my deceased relatives held on through the Christmas holiday season. Then the poor souls ran out of steam. The winter months became for them a harbinger of death, and the Angel of Death came to effect a harvest. I bring this to your consideration because writers and fans of horror deal with the subject of death in our manuscripts on a regular basis. What plot point is more terrifying than death, which is more heroic than those who battle against it?
By working out the issues of death in all its complexities, we lessen our fear of it. So please allow me offer you a few examples of my relatives who have checked out in dreary winter seasons. First, my Great-Uncle Elmer. He was bald and laid-back and seemed like a jolly old retired fellow to me. He and Great-Aunt Ann used to keep me on Friday nights when I was a kid and my parents wanted a night out. He liked to draw and enjoyed instructing me how to sketch trees and flowers. He passed on before we got to drawing 'faces' but he had plenty of practice books that he planned to work through with me. Saturday mornings we made the rounds of several bars along Main Street - he always took me with him and I felt so grown up. I recall being eight years old and sitting on a bar stool with a cola and a dish of peanuts. The bartender often changed the TV channel to cartoons just for me. Death called Uncle home when he went out alone on Main Street the morning one New Year's Day. He had a heart attack and collapsed on the street. People just walked over him since they thought he was a sad old drunk. (It was a different time back then, people weren't sensitized by Dr. Phil to stop and help.)
Last summer I was driving along another main street in another Pittsburgh area community, and an elderly woman tripped on the sidewalk. The SUV in front of me screeched to the curb and three people rushed out to help. Bless them for doing so, I think we're a kinder society now. But then again this was summertime, and it makes me sad to recall that no one stopped to help my Uncle in wintertime.
My family took Great-Aunt Ann into our home and she pretty much stayed upstairs since she walked with a walker and sat at her window and watched the neighbors. (I'm thinking of Eleanor Rigby here.) She collapsed with a heart attack while maneuvering around her bedroom, and yes it was the coldest month of the year. What is it about frost on the windows, anyway? Does Death scrawl a message there?
Anyway, Mum went one January 8th, a stepbrother some years later in February and Dad two weeks after that. November's just as lethal because we morph from leaves dying in fall to frozen winters, and I've lost my share of relatives and acquaintances in November and December, too.
What is it about humans dying in time with the Earth's decay? Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Thanks for bearing with me on a dark topic, but then again we are horror writers and readers, and 'Death' is our business.
Happy editor Tuesday,
Good morning everyone. This Tuesday instead of a blog I would like to discuss, how real should fiction be?
Vampires aren't real, so why are writers crucified if they break Vampire lore rules. "My husband stands over my shoulder while I'm writing, "Oh you can't say that…you can't have a vampire drink dead blood… they can't have dead blood." He's right--but why the hell not? It's fiction for godsakes. I wish vampires were real. I am big fan. J But they are not!
I have done extensive research on the subject and the concensus is that the story has to be as real as possible in order for the reader to feel as though the story could really happen and that they are a part of it. Hmmmm…as a writer and an editor who wants to put out the best fiction possible, I follow these rules. But personally this puzzles me.
So I can make up an entire town, everyone and everything in it, but god forbid I don't call my local police department for their exact procedures.
So wave to the fairies flying around your window that look like Dick Butkus, slide down your rabbit hole, and tell me what you think.
Good morning,
This is the first in a series of blogs entitled Tuesday with the Editor and that is just what they are. My name is Dawn Binkley, I am the Executive Editor at Hellfire Publishing. I am also a romance writer under the pen name Keira Kroft.
These helpful tidbits that I will share with you on a weekly basis are only my opinions, and comments and debates are always welcome. Also these blogs are for anyone but will be most helpful to writers. If you're a writer you might also want to check out the forum at http://askapublishedauthor.webs.com/
These helpful tidbits that I will share with you on a weekly basis are only my opinions, and comments and debates are always welcome. Also these blogs are for anyone but will be most helpful to writers. If you're a writer you might also want to check out the forum at http://askapublishedauthor.webs.com/
This particular blog is spun from my comment on another person's blog.
I am an editor, writer and voracious reader.
I have impressed people with my editing skills. What is interesting is that, though they are very good, they only apply to other people's work. I have great difficulty getting my own work up to an editor's standard. Part of the problem is that I've lived with it so long...writing, revising, and writing again.
As a writer, one develops a blind spot about such work. And having someone sitting at a desk going over what you've written often feels as if they are looking down their nose at your work raises many emotions—frustration, a feeling of inferiority and a need for stiff brandy, etc. Editing has nothing to do with writing, they are apples and oranges. We fail to see our own work objectively because we know it too well.
As a writer, one develops a blind spot about such work. And having someone sitting at a desk going over what you've written often feels as if they are looking down their nose at your work raises many emotions—frustration, a feeling of inferiority and a need for stiff brandy, etc. Editing has nothing to do with writing, they are apples and oranges. We fail to see our own work objectively because we know it too well.
So that being said, there are other sides to it.
One side is that editors are almost like defense attorneys prepping their witness for court. They grill you with questions that might be asked by the other lawyer in order to help you to prepare. Because once you're out there in front of the jury, or worse--readers-- they want to make sure that every possible base has been covered and no one can make any legitimate claims against your work, question its accuracy, or have an unanswered question upon turning the final page.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking
The Germans had vastly more work camps and ghettos than anyone knew.
March 3, 2013, SundayN.R.A. Leaders Stand Firm Against Gun Restrictions
Leaders of the National Rifle Association said Sunday that they would fight any new limits introduced in Congress and would not aid a task force established by President Obama.
December 23, 2012N.R.A. Envisions 'a Good Guy With a Gun' in Every School
After a weeklong silence, the National Rifle Association implicated violent video games, the news media and lax law enforcement — not guns — in a rash of mass shootings.
December 22, 2012, SaturdayN.R.A. Leader, Facing Challenge in Wake of Shooting, Rarely Shies From Fight
As the first news conference held by the group since the tragedy nears, its leader, David Keene, is expected to vigorously battle efforts to restrict gun rights.
December 21, 2012, FridayWith a Major Push, AARP Returns to a Hard Line Against Cuts in Benefits
AARP has returned to a hard-line position of opposing any Medicare or Social Security cutbacks and is waging a major campaign, partly to prove its worth to members.
December 15, 2012, SaturdayChamber Competes to Be Heard in the Fiscal Debate
For the Chamber of Commerce, long the leading business voice in Washington, negotiations over the nation's debt will be a test of whether it can retain its influence.
November 30, 2012, FridayAmerican Carriers Are Left Behind in Cargo Program
A program that subsidizes the shipment of United States military cargo was started as a way to boost American shipping, but it is dominated by overseas shipping giants.
November 20, 2012, TuesdayTreasury Says Firm Discussed Tax Break
The Treasury Department said Thursday that a communications firm with close ties to President Obama talked to the administration about allowing tax breaks for its corporate clients on more than $1 trillion in offshore revenues.
October 26, 2012, FridayStrategizing for the President, and Corporate Clients, Too
Even as he has pledged to curb the influence of special interests, President Obama relies on political operatives like Anita Dunn who also represent clients who seek to influence public policy.
October 20, 2012, SaturdayE-Mails Cited to Back Lawsuit's Claim That Equity Firms Colluded on Big Deals
A new filing in an antitrust case against 11 large private equity firms provides fresh insight into deals for some publicly traded companies.
October 10, 2012SEARCH 1050 Articles:
- Well: Can Statins Cut the Benefits of Exercise?
- Op-Ed Contributor: Defining My Dyslexia
- Unexcited? There May Be a Pill for That
- Gin, Tonic and a Dash of Restraint
- Mark Bittman: Why I'm Not a Vegan
- Water Tower in Chelsea Manifests a Secret Life
- Well: The Scientific 7-Minute Workout
- My Story: For an Auschwitz Survivor, His Son's Graduation Spelled Freedom
- Well: What's in Your Green Tea?
- Some of My Best Friends Are Germs


text:
Music Recital
February 8, 2013, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM - Add to Calendar
Music Dept. Recital featuring OC Music Students. This is a free recital and open to the public.
Related Events
Oklahoma Community Orchestra " Young Artist Competition" Concert
7PM, Saturday, February 9, 2013
Oklahoma Community Orchestra concert. For details about the performance and to purchase tickets go to the website, www.okorchestra.org
Symphonic Band/Jazz Ensemble/Chamber Orchestra Winter Concert
2PM, Sunday, February 10, 2013
OC Symphonic Band, Jazz Ensemble, and Chamber Orchestra will perform this free Winter Concert.
Valentine Cabaret Dinner and Show
6PM, Thursday, February 14, 2013
The Valentine Dinner and Show runs 3 nights beginning Feb. 14th. Dinner begins at 6:00 p.m. and the show begins at 7:00 p.m. The dinner will be served under candle lights and the show will feature OC Music ...


text:
The ups and downs of pretend investing
Jul 1, 2011
Feeling a little wary about diving into Wall Street? An entrepreneur merged social media and stock indexes to create a fantasy investing world, where you can invest without losing any real dollars but potentially win some greenbacks too.
The bubbles to look for, thanks to baby boomers
Jun 30, 2011
As baby boomers try and sell off their stocks, and their kids go off to college, they may be setting off some big bubbles. Will they bust?
Could Greek crisis affect money-market funds?
Jun 24, 2011
The funds shouldn't own Greek bonds, but they could hold short-term investments in European banks with Greek bond holdings.
Even hedge-fund stars stumble
Jun 22, 2011
John Paulson has made billions on big bets, but his investment in a Chinese forestry company shows how difficult investing in China can be.
Another punctured money myth
Jun 22, 2011
When it comes to money, women are from Venus and men from Mars, women research and men flip a coin, and so on--or so we're told. A yawning gender...
Dabbling in social lending
Jun 21, 2011
Question: Hi Chris - I was listening to the marketplace money podcast (6/10/2011) and one of the guests mentioned peer-to-peer lending. I googled...
Baby boomers and stock returns
Jun 16, 2011
Question: As the baby boomers move into retirement, they will start to use their retirement funds or savings. Since the generations following the...
A timely warning
Jun 9, 2011
It sounds like a good deal. Invest in a structured financial product that protects the principal value of your money while letting you participate...
'The spy who loved VC'
Jun 9, 2011
Anna Chapman -- the red-headed cover girl of the Russian spy ring uncovered by the FBI last year -- is no longer a woman of international mystery, and instead is promoting technology investment in Russia.
Latest Stories
Recent comments on our stories..
Three life rules from Donald Rumsfeld
Journalism: Practiced. Excellent interview. Thank you.
Annapolis57 | May 17, 2013Three life rules from Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld's interview on Marketplace today was absolutely unbelievable. Really. Is one of his rules not to believe your own spin? I...
jgrothues | May 16, 2013Three life rules from Donald Rumsfeld
Ryssdal's interview with Rumsfeld was breathtakingly inappropriate. "Marketplace?" If Ryssdal wants to promote his obvious biases...
rcd43 | May 16, 2013How World Finance makes a killing lending on the installment (loan) plan
There is something fundamentally wrong with predatory lending businesses, whether they are pay day loans or installment contracts. The business...
entropyman | May 15, 2013


text:
More Recipe Collections
(4 Recipes) Created by BERTRANDRUSSELL
Recipes in this Collection
Prize winning green tomatoe that will add some Feista to any party! Submitted by BGGARDEN Carbs: 5.1g | Fat: 0.9g | Fiber: 1.5g | Protein: 0.9g | Calories: 27.3
Fresh and Zesty! Great summer time salsa for dipping, marinades and to top just about anything! Submitted by JESSICALEGAN Carbs: 1.5g | Fat: 0.2g | Fiber: 0.4g | Protein: 0.2g | Calories: 7.3
Submitted by TAXIDM Carbs: 2.7g | Fat: 0.1g | Fiber: 0.5g | Protein: 0.4g | Calories: 13.4
The versatility of this salsa is limitless! Put it on grilled chicken or steak, add it to eggs, or serve with tortilla chips. Submitted by METALFINGER2U Carbs: 5.9g | Fat: 0.3g | Fiber: 1.6g | Protein: 0.9g | Calories: 22.5


text:
Published by Dano Pierce at 01/02/2010 03:47
I got tears in my eyes as I watched and listened and the message is so simple, "All You Need Is Love." I love the Beatles and this song and I have to ask the question, when are we going to love our children and our neighbors more than, our wars, or things, our technology, our ideologies, religions, political ideas, material goods, profits and wealth! Stop the waste, the hate and the greed, LOVE! It just takes one candle to cruse the darkness, be one of them.


text:
(SAN FRANCISCO, CA) -- Sex toy consumers, BDSM enthusiasts, and technical gadget fanatics, unite! Bondage.com announces its latest exciting feature - integration of plug-in, remote access adult toys for men and women courtesy of Sinulate Entertainment. Behold: The Sinulator! The Sinulator allows anyone, anywhere to spontaneously control their partner's sex toy over the Internet using only a web browser. Sinulate's technology makes it possible for two or more people separated by distance to have a truly intimate and interactive sexual experience. Sinulate's sex toy is wireless so you have the freedom to enjoy cybersex from a bed or couch near your computer. Best of all, the person controlling the toy can do it from any device that can run a web browser including a PC, Laptop, Mac, WebTV, Palm, or Kiosk. It's easy to install and anyone can do it! No web cam or web server is required. Bondage.com President Mark Pace states, "I can now control my girlfriend sexually with the Sinulator when I'm not at home! Having the Sinulator technology on Bondage.com fits in perfectly with the erotic power play that so many people in the BDSM community crave. This is sure to be a huge hit with our members. It's so easy to use, in that being in control simply involves being logged on. To be controlled, all you need to do is install the Sinulator software." Premium members of Bondage.com will enjoy free service to control the unit. All Bondage.com members will have their own custom settings and will also be able to take advantage of the Sinulator's relay service showing all users as being active or inactive members. To take advantage of this fantastic new erotic technology in the first successful BDSM - Sinulator community, please visit http://bondage.com. Adult Webmasters can resell the Sinulator on their own adult websites for profit. For more information please visit Sinulate.com. Control or be controlled. You decide. About Sinulate Entertainment Sinulate Entertainment develops software and hardware that enable the remote control of adult toys over the Internet. Based in California's Silicon Valley, the company will usher in a new area of interactivity and intimacy to the digital world. For more information visit Sinulate.com, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call (888) 235-1655. About Bondage.com San Francisco-based Bondage.com is the world's largest online adult community catering to the BDSM lifestyle. BDSM (Bondage, Domination, Sado-Masochism) is a form of alternative sexuality that has garnered increasing media attention and public awareness over the past decade. With over 250,000 logons per week, and an average of over 3,000 members logged on at all times, Bondage.com demonstrates that niche communities can be a resounding success. The Bondage.com website is located at Bondage.com. Press Contact: Rob Nay firstname.lastname@example.com
Brandy Aniston Feature Dates
Angelina Valentine's Launch Party
Strippers Show Patriotism
Brandy Aniston at Mystique
WoodRocket Twerk Week
Bikini Beach Giveaway
Nikki Delano at Centerfolds
Britney Amber on Pornstar Radio
Avril Hall Heads Cherry Pimps
Lupe Fuentes on Entertainment Tonight
Kiara Mia New Projects
Angelina Castro Reality Series
Toga Lifestyle Party
Deen About Lohan & Abraham
Teal Conrad Tells All
Public Sex, Private Lives Premieres
Obamacare Expert Answers Questions
Baroness June 2 Party
Angel Del Rey New Pictures
Kira Lake New Pictures
Vertical Pole Showdown 4
Farrah Superstar Airs
Farrah Superstar: Backdoor Teen Mom
Angel Sponsors AIDS Research
Raven Bay, Summer Rae
Good News From Lallasa
Starfall at Crazy Horse
Bonnie Rotten Birthday Party
Open Casting on Inside
May is Masturbation Month
Kira Lake Available
OCM Rub Valentine
Sin City Chamber April Event
Kaylee Hilton Available
Aurora Rose Available
Alyssa Dutch Available
Jacky Joy Available
Crystal Delights Creates Trophies
Amy Brooke Returns
Athena Pleasures Returns
Madelyn Monroe Available
Angel Del Rey Available
Hailey Holiday Available
Pixie Wylde Available
Nadia Pariss Available
RSVP Sin City Mixer
Club Owners Expo Updated
Alesia Pleasure Available
Hayden Hawkens Available
Gemini Lovell Available
Dennis Paradise Inducted
FMC Wristbands at TES
Sportsheets on Rachael Ray
Monroe Joins Star Factory
Aneros Sponsors CatalystCon
Screaming O Gift Ideas
Updated Summit List
Porn How to Guide
Kiera Winters Available
Xgen Lapdance Lingerie
Baci at Romantix Denver
AWE at Barcelona Summit
Girlfriends Best Company Image
MojoHost at TES Barcelona
Mitsuko Doll Joins RSPR
James Bartholet Available
JuicyAds Storm Summit
Paysite-Cash at European Summit
Dating Factory News
Assence Offer Geek Contract
Baci Secures UK Distribution
PHS Sets New Trends
Danger Signs The Rub
EPGBill Launches iCushy
AINews New Look
Business News Section Index


text:
Topic Detection and Tracking
project: Moving Manchester / Mediating Marginalities: How the experience of migration has informed the work of writers in Greater Manchester
Grant Holder: Professor Lynne Pearce
Moving Manchester (formerly 'Mediating Marginalities') has spent the past four years (2006-2010) investigating the ways in which the experience of migration has impacted upon contemporary writing in the city and, by extension, the ways in which these multicultural publications and performances have impacted upon the urban population's view of itself as well as the wider perception of Manchester as a British city. [read more]
project: Person Data Repository of the 19th Century
Grant Holder:
The project "Construction of a repository for biographical data on historical persons of the 19th century" – short form: Person Data Repository – enhances the existing approaches to data integration and electronically supported research in biographies. It investigates connecting and presenting heterogeneous information on persons of the "long nineteenth century" (1789–1914). The project's aim is to provide a de-central software system for research institutions, universities, archives, and libraries that allows combined access on biographic information from different data pools. [read more]
project: JainPedia
Grant Holder:
JainPedia will be a free world-leading resource on the web. It offers translations and transcriptions of selected texts and a wealth of contextual information about the Jain religion and its host society in India.
The JainPedia team is leading the digitisation of approximately 4,000 pages of the thousands of jain manuscripts and Jain objects in the United Kingdom. The involvement of eminent academics and volunteers from the Jain community in the project highlights how the expertise and enthusiasm of different groups can work together to produce a valuable resource for all. [read more]
project: Schenker Documents Online
Grant Holder:
The twentieth century's leading theorist of tonal music, Heinrich Schenker produced a series of innovative studies and editions between 1903 and 1935 and left behind a voluminous archive of correspondence, diaries and lessonbooks. Edited in near-diplomatic transcription and with English translations, these materials form the core of the edition, supported by additional documents relating to his life, and a set of "profiles" of people, places and organizations with which he came into contact. [read more]
project: Nineteenth Century Serials Edition
Grant Holder: Prof Laurel Brake
A three year Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project, ncse seeks to achieve two key objectives:
First the ncse project responds to the pressing need to republish these fragile printed items in ways which maintain their integrity. As physical collections are often incomplete, and deteriorating quality hampers access, electronic editions offer new opportunities to re-present such material in a way that is, for the first time online, comprehensive and freely available meaning that the material can be used in entirely novel ways. [read more]


text:
social media watch
Posted by Sheila Shayon on August 7, 2012 04:32 PM
The Curiosity Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) captured the rover's descent to the surface of the Red Planet, as it survived a potentially perilous landing dubbed the 'seven minutes of terror,' capping a decade of work by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (more commonly known as JPL) in California.
The world was watching as Curiosity, NASA's latest contribution to the Martian landscape, landed at 10:32 p.m. PDT on Aug. 5 near the foot of a three-mile tall mountain inside Gale Crater, which is 96 miles in diameter.
First-person updates on NASA's official @MarsCuriosity Twitter account include the historic touchdown tweet — "I'm safely on the surface of Mars. GALE CRATER I AM IN YOU!!! #MSL" — which has been retweeted to date more than 71,000 times.Continue reading...
More about: NASA, Social Media, Twitter, Facebook, JPL, Video, Mars, US, Space, Social Marketing, Science, Education, Engagement
personal brands
Posted by Mark J. Miller on August 2, 2012 04:02 PM
Just because rapper Ludacris has let loose on such NSFW songs as "Move Bitch" and "Get the F--- Back" doesn't mean the guy is not safe for your family. In fact, the 34-year-old native of Champagne, Illinois, would like to be part of your family's life if you've got young kids.
The man who is known as Chris Bridges in the rest of his life is relaunching his interactive website for kids, karmasworld.com, that he designed with his 10-year-old daughter, Karma. The site will feature 11 new tunes and artwork from Bridges.
The focus of the website is teaching elementary-school kids "about math, science and geography as well as ethical and social issues like manners, honesty and kindness, through original songs, games and stories," a press release states.Continue reading...
More about: Ludacris, Dennis Rodman, NBA, Entertainment, Education, Publishing, Kids, Personal Brands
app watch
Posted by Sheila Shayon on July 26, 2012 01:19 PM
The new IBM THINK app for Apple iPad and Android tablets is inspired by scientific advances over the centuries, combining history and technology in an "innovation time machine." It's a virtual timeline of images and historical anecdotes ranging from the history of ancient measurement to modern metrics of atoms with a scanning tunneling microscope, to the Wright Brothers' prototype airplane in 1903 through modern airline mechanical parts simulations and the history of metal detectors.
"Through thousands of images and historical anecdotes, IBM THINK brings to life stories of the history of progress, from space exploration to weather prediction and medical advances," blogs IBM's head of design, Lee Green. "It documents the roots of Big Data, from early charts and scales to microscopes and telescopes, from RFID chips and biomedical sensors in clothing to breath-sensor diabetes detectors. Given its strong educational bent, the app will even be used to create lesson plans for middle school students later this year."Continue reading...
More about: IBM, Mobile, Apps, Technology, Big Data, MoMA, Lincoln Center, Education, Design, Data Viz
Posted by Sheila Shayon on June 14, 2012 05:04 PM
Teaching Kids to CARE, a philanthropic initiative from DoubleTree by Hilton hotels, has reached 5 million grade school students to engender values and behaviors of sustainable change for more than a decade. This week it launched a new website in a bid to create a global online community.
The program pairs team members from DoubleTree properties with local schools in more than 200 communities and now, a refreshed Teaching Kids to CARE program is available online for teachers, parents and students. DoubleTree's partners include The Arbor Day Foundation and The Woodland Trust.
At its core are five thematic lesson plans developed in line with U.S. National Education Standards about small actions that make a difference for the planet, the positive impact of trees on the environment, and the importance of the "three Rs" – reducing, reusing and recycling. Lesson plans are available in two versions, targeted for students in grades K – 2, and grades 3 – 5.Continue reading...
More about: DoubleTree by Hilton, Sustainability, Hilton, Hotels, Philanthropy, Education, Corporate Citizenship
luxury watch
Posted by Sheila Shayon on June 4, 2012 02:12 PM
New York's Parsons The New School for Design, PPR Group's Luxury and Sport & Lifestyle premium brands, and The Fancy website have partnered so that Parsons students can vie for an internship with one of PPR's stable of 16 luxury brands. Lucky (meaning talented) Parsons students will be able to intern at PPR-repped brands including Gucci, Bottega Veneta, Yves Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Brioni, Stella McCartney, Sergio Rossi, Boucheron, Girard-Perregaux, JeanRichard, PUMA, Volcom, Cobra Electric and Tretorn.
Open to 2012 seniors of Parsons BFA Fashion Design program, the theme of the competitions is "Empowering Imagination" and students' designs will be featured on TheFancy.com with winners showcased at Barney's New York Madison Avenue store. The internship will run for 1 or 2 months in Paris, London, New York, Boston, Rome or Milan and an expense-paid internship of up to $10,000 with the PPR brand of their choice.
"Partnering with PPR and The Fancy will provide our students with an international perspective, thus positioning them as design thinkers poised to lead fashion globally," said Simon Collins, Dean of the School of Fashion at Parsons, above.Continue reading...
More about: Parsons, PPR, The Fancy, Education, Interns, Luxury, Retail, Design, PR, Strategy
doing good
Posted by Sheila Shayon on May 4, 2012 11:01 AM
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University are joining the ranks of elite universities jumping into the burgeoning MOOCs — massively open online courses — business. The schools' new partnership, dubbed edX, is also spurring the boom in online video education.
Stanford, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan recently partnered in Coursera, a commercial company with $16 million in venture capital.
Beyond academia, the just announced TED-ED website offers customizable tools for educators, while Khan Academy has helped countless students, teachers and parents with its free treasure trove of online videos, offering more than 3,000 tuturials on everything from math to physics.Continue reading...
More about: Harvard, MIT, edX, Video, Education, Online, Khan Academy, TED, TED-ED, Open Learning, Academia, Universities, Corporate Citizenship, Co-Branding
no kidding around
Posted by Sheila Shayon on April 30, 2012 10:18 AM
Pearson Education, the educational publishing brand, is under fire following a botched series of standardized exam questions now roiling public schools across New York State — and it's only year one of a five-year, $32 million contract between the publisher and the state.
As Gail Collins opined in Sunday's New York Times, it wasn't just the weirdness of the questions — more on that in a moment — but the debate over the commercialization of education and the control of a single brand, in this case Pearson, over kids' futures. Collins wrote, "We have turned school testing into a huge corporate profit center, led by Pearson, for whom $32 million is actually pretty small potatoes. Pearson has a five-year testing contract with Texas that's costing the state taxpayers nearly half-a-billion dollars."Continue reading...
More about: Pearson, Schools, Education, Pearson Education, New York, Academic, Daniel Pinkwater
brand extensions
Posted by Sheila Shayon on April 27, 2012 05:29 PM
The newly-launched TED-ED website is TED's latest delivery on its brand promise of "Ideas Worth Spreading;" a dynamic site with customizable tools for educators.
Enhancing the TED-Ed YouTube channel launched in March whose short videos have garnered over 2.5 million views, this latest platform lets teachers tailor TED-Ed videos with follow-up questions and assignments.
Each short video (three to eight minutes) includes multiple choice quizzes, open-ended questions and a 'Dig Deeper' section. When a student answers incorrectly, a 'Video Hint' directs them to the point in the video with the correct answer. Teachers can browse content by subject with videos mapped via tagging to curricula taught in schools and access correlative materials that augment with the learning level.Continue reading...
More about: TED, Education, Video, Brand Extensions
Senior .NET DeveloperInterbrandNew York, NY, USA
ConsultantInterbrand Mexico City, Mexico
Senior Consultant, Strategy - AnalyticsInterbrand New York, NY, USA
Verbal Identity ConsultantPlanned Parenthood SoutheastCologne, Germany
view all jobs...
View all conferences...
Airlines, Alcohol, Automotive, Beauty, Beverages, Branded Entertainment, Design, Corporate Citizenship, Entertainment, Fashion, Financial, Food, Healthcare, Luxury, Media, Mobile, Non-Profit, Pharma, Product Placement, Retail, Sports, Sustainability, Tech, 2012 Olympics
Send us story ideas:firstname.lastname@example.com


text:
Notice of Regents Meeting, September 11-13, 2012
Meetings of The Regents of the University of California and its committees are scheduled for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, September 11-13, 2012, at the Community Center, UCSF Mission Bay as follows. Please note that all times indicated and the order of business are approximate and subject to change.
Live audio Internet broadcasts of the open sessions are available during the open session meetings. Please use this link to connect to the audio streaming during the meeting: http://california.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2
Click on each Committee/Board meeting below to see the agendas; click on item titles in each open session agenda to view the background materials.
Correspondence addressing items on the agenda of the Board of Regents or its committees must be received by the Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff no less than twenty-four (24) hours in advance of the beginning of the regular two-and-a-half day Board and committee meetings or any off-cycle or special meeting of the Board or its committees. The email must clearly identify the agenda item being addressed. Each communication should include a subject line identifying the specific agenda item being addressed; failure to do so could prevent delivery of your comments. Such materials will be distributed to members of the Board, or its appropriate committee, prior to beginning of the Board or committee meeting.
Tuesday September 11
1:00 pm
1:10 pm*
1:30 pm*
3:00 pm*
Wednesday, September 12
9:00 am
Thursday, September 13
8:30 am
9:30 am*
9:45 am*
10:00 am*
12:15 pm*
12:30 pm
2:00 pm*
Marsha Kelman Secretary and Chief of Staff to The Regents


text:
How is Technology Used Weather dominates our lives. It controls how we work, live and play, and accounts for nearly 20 percent of the information presented in local newscasts. Many of us plan our daily activities by looking at a forecast. Will it snow? Will it be humid? What are the chances of rain for the weekend? These are the questions people want answered about their climate, but where does one go to explore the "weather" in the aquatic environment of fish, oysters or bay grasses? The answer: Eyes on the Bay. http://www.eyesonthebay.net.
New Technologies
Water quality mapping technologies improve this data's spatial resolution, enabling DNR to determine the extent and impact of harmful conditions such as low dissolved oxygen or algal blooms. New technologies also allow for timely and relevant data to be provided in a compelling format through the EOTB website. DNR is also partnering with NASA to provide satellite imagery of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. These images provide valuable information and data which scientist can view to help understand or figure out why an event like an algae bloom may have occurred. The orbit of the NASA satellite provides imagery to study environmental issues across the globe such as cloud cover, vegetation on land and water temperatures. (www.aqua.nasa.gov).
More Than Just Data
- Mark Trice,
Resource Assessment Service
Courtesy of NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS,


text:
practice areas
honors + affiliations
Member, American Bar Association
Member, Orange County Chapter, Association of Business Trial Lawyers
Member, Federal Bar Association of Orange County
Member, Orange County Bar Association
Listed, Southern California Super Lawyers Rising Star, Law & Politics (2010)
bar admissions
- California
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of California
- Irvine
5 Park Plaza, Suite 1750
Irvine, CA 92614-3508
Phone: 949.399.7186
Fax: 949.399.7001
Todd W. Smith is an associate in Morgan Lewis's Litigation Practice. Mr. Smith focuses his practice on complex business litigation, including securities class actions, shareholder and derivative litigation, SEC enforcement actions, regulatory investigations, white collar criminal matters, trade secret and unfair competition claims, and professional liability
Mr. Smith has experience in all stages of litigation, at both the state and federal level, including applications for emergency injunctive relief, complex factual and legal research, written discovery and depositions, pretrial motions and ex parte applications, expert testimony, trial preparation, trial, settlement and alternative dispute resolution, appellate briefing, and post-judgment enforcement proceedings.
Mr. Smith earned his J.D. from the University of Southern California Law School in 2002, where he was on the board of the Southern California Law Review and received the Norma J. Zarky Memorial Award for excellence in legal writing in the field of entertainment law. He earned his B.S., with honors, in biology from the University of California, San Diego in 1995.
Mr. Smith is admitted to practice in California and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of California.
Selected Representations
Note: This list includes transactions that were not completed at Morgan Lewis.
- Represented an online commerce company in litigation brought by shareholders to enjoin the company's $2.4 billion merger.
- Represented a financial services company in connection with regulatory issues stemming from the mortgage crisis.
- Represented the former CEO/chairman of a public semiconductor company in a federal securities class action lawsuit involving stock option backdating.
- Represented a law firm in a legal malpractice action for alleged failure to properly tender an insurance claim.
- Represented the former general counsel of a major healthcare company in an SEC investigation.
- Successfully recovered several million dollars on behalf of a high-profile business executive who had been the victim of complex white collar fraud.
- Represented a major audit firm in an arbitration against a former client, a publicly traded semiconductor company.
- Successfully opposed an emergency application for a temporary restraining order brought against a bridge lender by a competing creditor.
- Represented an employer against former employees for theft and misappropriation of trade secrets.
- Represented an LCD television manufacturer against claims of patent infringement.
- University of Southern California Law School, 2002, J.D.
- University of California, San Diego, 1995, B.S., With Honors


text:
January 28, 2013, 09:50 PM | #1 |
Senior Member
Join Date: June 16, 2007
Location: Ory-gun
Posts: 414
AR production?
What are the capabilities of the current manufacturers producing AR's? How many are produced each day across the nation? And assuming the buying frenzy stoped today, how long would it take to have every gunshop fully stocked with purdy black rifles again?
Live your life green...O.D. Green |
January 28, 2013, 10:22 PM | #2 |
Senior Member
Join Date: July 3, 2011
Location: S.E. Texas Gulf Coast
Posts: 699
There are a lot of independent AR-manufacturers/builders using parts from many other parts producers so I doubt anyone has any figures. Many popular AR places were back ordered well before the Conn. incident so I doubt anyone will catch up for a long time. Word has it many are already back ordered for complete AR's and uppers the rest of 2013.
Thread Tools | |


text:
Replying to WikiLeaks
Topic Summary
Black Cat
Posted 03 September 2011 - 05:33 AM
Posted 21 January 2011 - 09:01 PM
Black Cat
Posted 19 January 2011 - 06:55 PM
Punk Rock Geek, on 19 January 2011 - 01:05 PM, said:
Punk Rock Geek
Posted 19 January 2011 - 01:05 PM
Black Cat
Posted 08 January 2011 - 08:50 AM
The US government has subpoenaed the social networking site Twitter for personal details of people connected to Wikileaks, court documents show.
The US District Court in Virginia said it wanted information including user names, addresses, connection records, telephone numbers and payment details.
Those named include Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and an Icelandic MP.
The US is examining possible charges against Mr Assange over the leaking of 250,000 classified diplomatic cables.
Reports indicate the Department of Justice may seek to indict him on charges of conspiring to steal documents with Private First Class Bradley Manning, a US Army intelligence analyst.
Mr Manning is facing a court martial and up to 52 years in prison for allegedly sending Wikileaks the diplomatic cables, as well military logs about incidents in Afghanistan and Ir...
Posted 30 December 2010 - 09:09 PM
What's the point then?
Punk Rock Geek
Posted 30 December 2010 - 07:15 PM
Assange: I'll reveal info that will spark Arab world coups
Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, said he holds the names of senior officials in the Arab world who visit US embassies in their respective countries voluntarily "to establish links" with the CIA.
"These officials are spies for the US in their countries," Assange said in the second part of his interview with Arab television network Al Jazeera. He said the leaked documents in his possession show that Arab officials reveal sensitive information on their colleagues and respective countries.
The WikiLeaks founder said the website would consider exposing the names of the Arab officials only if it would be certain it would not lead to their death.
Assange warned that the revelations may lead to dangerous co...
Posted 29 December 2010 - 10:11 PM
Punk Rock Geek, on 26 December 2010 - 09:40 PM, said:
WTF indeed.
Even Dubya watched his acronyms after realizing Operation Iraqi Liberation spelled his intentions. The CIA perhaps see the comic value?


text:
Beauty Colleges In Sacramento
Title IV Wan School Codes
Federal school code: 001071 art institute of phoenix (the) phoenix, az 85021 2333 west dunlap avenue federal school code: 040513 artistic beauty colleges school code: 001190 copper mountain college joshua tree, ca 92252 6162 rotary way federal school code: 035424 cosumnes river college sacramento, ca … Fetch Document
Richards Beauty Colleges: Upland: CA: 1: $2,200: 419: 00720400: Modern Beauty Academy – Oxnard: Oxnard: CA: 64: $167,904: 420: 00725300: Federico Beauty Institute … Read Here
Artistic beauty colleges-littleton 03816300 artistic nails & beauty academy intercoast colleges – roseville 02559406 intercoast colleges – sacramento … Content Retrieval
Christian Brothers High School
Brothers High School is a four-year college preparatory high school located in Sacramento, California. acres, is characterized by openness and beauty. Its facilities include the recently opened state Schools and Colleges and the Western Catholic Educational Association and is affiliated with Saint … Fetch Content
ARTISTIC BEAUTY COLLEGES-TUCSON-2: 205: 289: Private for-profit, less-than 2-year CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY-SACRAMENTO-2: 32612: 22458: Public, 4-year or above … Fetch Full Source
Artistic Beauty Colleges – Flagstaff: Flagstaff: AZ: United States and Territories Sacramento: CA: United States and Territories: Public 2 Year: 52,141: 46: 780 … View This Document
Colleges Accepting RC Graduates
Colleges Accepting RC Graduates Point Loma Michigan State CSU Sacramento Vanguard St. Olaf Concordia, Minnesota Paul Mitchell School of Beauty Fashion Institue of Design … Fetch Content
Pell 2002-03
Artistic beauty colleges – flagstaff: az: 255: 550,132: 180: 2220300: artistic beauty colleges – glendale royale college of beauty: ca: 87: 184,431: 625: 123300: sacramento city college … View Full Source
San Joaquin County Colleges
San Joaquin County Colleges Page 1 California State University Stanislaus, Stockton Center 612 1700 S. Harlan Rd., Lathrop, CA 95330 800-266-2107 http://www.phoenix.edu/campus-locations/ca/sacramento www.tracy.k12.ca.us San Joaquin Delta College Automotive Technician www.deltacollege.edu/ BEAUTY … Doc Retrieval
Job Description: Special Events Coordinator
SACRAMENTO COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION CLASSIFICATION TITLE: Special Events Coordinator DEFINITION Under general direction, coordinates and plans special events and activities to enhance communications programs; performs other related duties as assigned. … Document Retrieval
Pell 2007-08
Artistic beauty colleges – paradise vall: scottsdale: az: proprietary: 50: 127,790 sacramento: ca: public 2 year: 7,435: 17,691,714: 275: 32253: 3225300: american university of health sciences … Read Content
7218 Industrial Launderers 7219 Laundry and Garment Services (NEC) 722 – Photographic Studios, Portrait 7221 Photographic Studios, Portrait 723 – Beauty Schools for the instruction of beauticians and cosmetologists are classified in Industry 7231, and barber colleges are classified in Industry 7241. … Read Full Source
Classic beauty colleges : rt #1, po box 701-9: miami: az: 85539: 1 yr/prop sacramento: ca: 95825: 600 hr/prop: 92 99 219: 45.2 : 91 69 … View Document
The Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC) has prepared and Styles and Profiles Beauty College . Selmer . TN WyoTech Sacramento . West Sacramento . CA . SUBSTANTIVE CHANGES … Fetch Document
Rolled Up To Parent
Artistic Beauty Colleges-Arvada: Arvada: CO: SLM CORPORATION (SALLIE MAE) 137: 137 Sacramento: CA: SLM CORPORATION (SALLIE MAE) 94: 94: 100%: 790: 021385: BOCES Rensselaer School of Practical Nursing … Fetch Here
Categories: What is Esthetician? Tags: beauty colleges, california state university northridge, calvary bible college, copper mountain college, copper mountain college joshua tree, copper mountain college joshua tree ca, cosmetology industry, cosumnes river college, cosumnes river college sacramento, cosumnes river college sacramento ca, intercoast colleges, itt technical institute, johnson bible college, joshua tree ca, paul mitchell school, point loma college, point loma nazarene, point loma nazarene college, state university northridge


text:
Choose a player below then copy & paste the embed code below into your web page, blog, or email.
Liz: Yes, barbra looked so beautiful in the movie. Did you see her nails? They're like butter. Linda: Butter, like butter. Those legs in those sparkling stockings, again, butter. Liz: Butter.
Linda Richman and Liz Rosenberg love Barbara Streisand and they are commenting on her beauty in the movie.


text:
City University of Hong Kong
Coordinates: 22°20′11.12″N 114°10′22.76″E / 22.3364222°N 114.1729889°E
City University of Hong Kong | |
香港城市大學 | |
Motto | 敬業樂群 (Traditional Chinese) Officium et Civitas (Latin) |
Established | 1984 (as City Polytechnic of Hong Kong) 1994 (granted full university status) |
Type | Public |
Chancellor | The Hon. CY Leung |
President | Prof Way Kuo |
Academic staff | 931 |
Students | Undergraduates: 10,629[1] Taught Postgraduates: 4,896[1] Research Postgraduates (MPhil and PhD): 987[1] Professional Doctorate: 182[1] |
Location | Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
Campus | Urban, 15.6 hectares (0.156 km2) |
Colours | Blue and Green [2] |
Affiliations | ASAIHL |
Website | www.cityu.edu.hk |
City University of Hong Kong (Abbreviation: CityU; Chinese: 香港城市大學) is a public research university located in Hong Kong. CityU was originally founded in 1984 as City Polytechnic of Hong Kong and became a fully accredited university later in 1994.
The university now offers more than 130 Bachelor degree programmes within six Schools and Colleges, including Business, Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Science and Engineering, Creative Media, Energy and Environment, and Law. Post-graduate studies are offered through the Chow Yei Ching School of Graduate Studies. Moreover, the School of Continuing and Professional Education (SCOPE), an extension of CityU, provides quality continuing education for professional practice. With its mission to become a leading world-class hub for professional education and academic research, the 19-year-old CityU is fast-growing in recent years across the region and has become one of the four renowned universities in Hong Kong within a very short period of time. [3]
Contents |
Campus [edit]
City University of Hong Kong is located in Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, near the MTR Kowloon Tong Station (East Rail Line / Kwun Tong Line) and Festival Walk. The main campus area is around 15.6 hectares, including Academic 1 and Academic 2, Amenities Building, Mong Man-wai Building, Fong Yun-wah Building, Cheng Yick-chi Building, and Academic Exchange Building, To Yuen Building, Hu Fa Kuang Sports Centre, two senior staff quarters (Nam Shan Yuen, Tak Chee Yuen), Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre and the Student Residential Halls.
Academic 1 [edit]
The initial buildings for CityU including Academic 1 were designed by Percy Thomas Partnership with Fitch and Chung, after winning an international design competition. The first phase of construction was completed in 1990 and the second phase (increasing capacity to 20,000 students) in 1993. The buildings had to be of low-rise because of airport height restrictions.[4]
Academic 2 [edit]
Opened in 2011, Academic 2 is a combined academic, administrative and amenities building for programmes of 20,900 sq.m. in net operational area, located near the Amenities Building and Hu Fa Kuang Sports Centre. It is a new 9-storey building with 12 lecture theatres, 45 classrooms, 11 computer rooms, a canteen with a capacity of 800 diners, staff offices, a number of multi-function rooms, and plenty of learning resources and common areas.
Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre [edit]
In November 2010 a new Creative Media Centre was completed. This was created by Studio Daniel Libeskind with Leigh & Orange Limited. The distinctive design includes a range of spaces, lighting and materials to inspire the students. The building was designed to house the School of Creative Media, the Centre for Media Technology and the Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology.[5]
Academic 3 [edit]
Academic 3 is a new combined academic, amenities, and administrative building of 20,500 sq.m. in net operational area which consists of facilities such as classrooms, lecture theatres with one holding up to 600 people, teaching and research laboratories, multi-function rooms, a canteen, common areas, administrative offices and a roof garden. [6]
Student Hostel at Whitehead, Ma On Shan (In Planning) [edit]
Proposed net operational area of approx. 24,000 sq m Targets to provide 2,168 bedplaces Proposed construction floor area of approx 44,000 sq m
Expected Construction Commencement Date: Late 2014 Expected Construction Completion Date: Mid 2017
Academic Organisations [edit]
Colleges and Schools [edit]
The 3 Colleges of Business, Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and Science and Engineering, and the 3 Schools of Law, Creative Media and Energy and Environment offer undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. The Division of Building Science and Technology and the Community College of City University (CCCU) run government-funded and self-funded associate degree programmes respectively.
The Chow Yei Ching School of Graduate Studies strengthens the operation and development of all postgraduate programmes and fosters an ambiance for graduate studies.
The School of Continuing and Professional Education (SCOPE) helps fulfil the University's role as a centre for lifelong education by providing continuing educational opportunities for the community through diplomas, certificate and short programmes. It also renders an alternative route for articulation through bachelor's degree and postgraduate programmes offered in partnership with tertiary institutions in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The overall academic organisation structure is as follows:
Research Institute / Centres [edit]
- State Key Laboratories
- State Key Laboratory of Millimetre Waves
- State Key Laboratory in Marine Pollution
- University Research Centres
- Centre for Prognostics and System Health Management
- Centre of Super-Diamond and Advanced Films
- Liu Bie Ju Centre for Mathematical Sciences
- College/School Research Centres
- Centre for Applied Computing and Interactive Media
- Centre for Chaos and Complex Networks
- Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law
- Centre for Communication Research
- Centre for Functional Photonics
- Governance in Asia Research Centre
- Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre
- The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies
- Southeast Asia Research Centre
- Applied Strategic Development Centres
- Centre for Electronic Packaging and Assemblies, Failure Analysis and Reliability Engineering
- Centre for Innovative Applications of Internet and Multimedia Technologies
- Centre for Power Electronics
- Hong Kong Centre for Maritime and Transportation Law
- Shenzhen Applied R&D Centres
- Biotechnology and Health Centre
- Futian-CityU Mangrove R&D Centre
- Future Networking Centre
- Information and Communication Technologies Centre
Library [edit]
The Run Run Shaw Library was established in 1984. In 1989, the Library moved to its current location in the Academic 1 of the University campus in Kowloon Tong and the following year it was named Run Run Shaw Library in recognition of a generous donation by Sir Run Run Shaw.
Located on Level 3 of Academic 1, the Library occupies a central location which is easily accessible to users. It has a total area of 11,550 square metres. The total number of seats available is around 2,200 during term time and 2,700 during the Revision and Examination Periods.
The Library's collection includes more than 955,500 volumes of print books and over 2 million volumes of electronic books. The collection also comprises around 202,900 volumes of bound periodicals and around 2,690 print serials titles. The Library maintains an expanding number of electronic resources including 365 electronic databases, around 69,500 e-journals, and around 54,400 media resources.
Facilities and Services [edit]
Computer Services Centre [edit]
The Computing Servies Centre (CSC) is responsible for the provision of central computing facilities and technical services to support various aspects of computer and network within the University. Andy Chun, the Chief Information Officer, is currently the line manager of CSC.
Sports [edit]
Hu Fa Kuang Sports Centre is a five-storey sports center which houses a multi-purpose hall and four practice gymnasiums for badminton, basketball, volleyball, martial arts and dance, etc. There is a table-tennis room, six squash courts, an indoor sport-climbing wall, two physical fitness rooms and two golf driving rooms plus a golf simulation room. Besides, CityU has a 50-metre, Olympic-size swimming pool and a full-size outdoor basketball court. The off-campus Joint Sports Centre provides a variety of outdoor sports facilities, including an international standard 8-lane all-weather running track and field facilities, an 11-a-side natural grass football pitch, four tennis courts with a 200-seat spectator stand, a multi-purpose court and two-bay golf practice area.It is jointly owned by CityU, HKBU and PolyU.
Student Activities [edit]
Students' Union [edit]
The CityU Students' Union, established in 1986, aims at fostering a spirit of unity, independence and democracy among students as well as promote and safeguard the rights and welfare of all its members. It has a high degree of autonomy in running its own affairs. Its 19 societies, approximately 40 affiliated clubs and seven residents' associations organise regular functions throughout the year.
Sport Teams [edit]
CityU is "One of the Best Universities in Sports" among 11 member tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. It is the only University that has captured Double Champions for 7 times in both Men's and Women's Overall Championship in the USFHK Sports Competition in the year 1996-97, 2000–01, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010-11 and 2012-2013. CityU now has over 400 athletes in 16 sports events. [9]
Student Residential Halls [edit]
Student Residence at Cornwall Street comprises 11 residential halls. They include:
- Jockey Club Humanity Hall (Hall 1)
- HSBC Prosperity Hall (Hall 2)
- Alumni Civility Hall (Hall 3)
- Jockey Club Academy Hall (Hall 4)
- Chan Sui Kau Hall (Hall 5)
- Lee Shau Kee Hall (Hall 6)
- Jockey Club Harmony Hall (Hall 7)
- Hall 8 (Postgraduate hall)
- Sir Gordon and Lady Ivy Wu Hall (Hall 9)
- Hall 10
- Hall 11
Reputation and Rankings [edit]
University rankings | |
Global | |
Times[11] | 182 |
Asia | |
Times[14] | 19 |
QS (World version)[15] QS (Asian version)[16] |
18 12 |
CityU has been regarded by several major university rankings to be among the top five higher education institutes in Hong Kong.
The university was ranked 95th in the world and 18th in Asia by the QS World University Rankings (2012), [17] while the independent regional QS Asian University Rankings in the same year placed it at 12th.[18] It was 4th in Hong Kong in both the rankings.
Moreover, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings (2012-13) regarded it 182nd globally and 19th in Asia, being again the forth in the city.[19]
The ARWU (2012) gave it a position among 201st-300th worldwide and 3rd-5th in Hong Kong;[20]
Moreover, the institutions above have also provided university rankings by disciplines. Here are some major subject rankings:
Rankings by subjects of Hong Kong tertiary institutes (QS, Times and ARWU) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable alumni [edit]
- Rimsky Yuen - The Secretary for Justice [24]
- Lau Kong Wah- Undersecretary of the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau, Former HK Legco Member [25]
- Fiona Sit- Singer and Actress [26]
- Chet Lam- Singer and Songwriter [27][28]
- KAM Nai Wai- HK Legco Member [29]
- Cheung Wah-Fung- CEO of Christfund Securities and HK Legco Member [30]
- Agnes Wu- Financial Commentator [31]
- Christine Loh- Under Secretary for the Environment[32]
- Wu Chi Wai- HK Legco Member [33]
- Kwok Wai Keung- HK Legco Member [34]
- Paul Tse - HK Legco Member [35]
- Chan Yung- Chairman of New Territories Association of Societies [36]
- Heiward MAK Hei-yan- Film Director [37]
- Dr John Chan- Chairman of Chaifa Hildings Ltd [38]
- Francis Ngai- Founder & CEO Social Ventures Hong Kong [39]
- Professor MOK, Ka Ho Joshua - Chair Professor of Comparative Policy, Acting Vice President (Research and Development) , Associate Vice President (Research and International Exchange) of HK Institute of Education[40]
See also [edit]
- City University of Hong Kong School of Law
- Education in Hong Kong
- List of universities in Hong Kong
- List of buildings and structures in Hong Kong
References [edit]
This article relies on references to primary sources. (October 2011) |
- ^ a b c d City University of Hong Kong website CityU Facts & Figures - Student Numbers
- ^ "City University of Hong Kong Corporate Identity - Graphic Standards Manual".
- ^ Recent Achievements - City University of Hong Kong
- ^ PTP Architects (Hong Kong) website City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (retrieved 2011-10-26).
- ^ WorldArchitectureNews.com Leigh & Orange and Studio Daniel Libeskind complete futuristic new Media Centre in Hong Kong 28 February 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
- ^ http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/cdfo/default.aspx?PageID=aab&Lang=eng
- ^ http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/cdfo/default.aspx?PageID=sh5&Lang=eng
- ^ Senate Decision
- ^ http://www.cityu.edu.hk/aro/main/info/content.htm?id=http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/aro/EventShow.aspx?id=325
- ^ "Academic Ranking of World Universities: Global". Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 2012. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
- ^ "Top 400 – The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012–2013". The Times Higher Education. 2012. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
- ^ "QS World University Rankings". QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. 2012. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
- ^ "Academic Ranking of World Universities: Global". Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 2012. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
- ^ "Top Asian universities". The Times Higher Education. 2012. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
- ^ "QS World University Rankings (Asian part)". QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. 2012. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
- ^ "QS Asian University Rankings". QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. 2012. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
- ^ "QS World University Rankings (2012)".
- ^ "QS Asian University Rankings (2012)".
- ^ "Times Higher Education University Rankings (2012-13)".
- ^ "QS University Subject Rankings 2013".
- ^ "Times Higher Education World University Subjects Rankings".
- ^ "Academic Rankings of World Universities in subjects".
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_for_Justice_(Hong_Kong)
- ^ http://www.dab.org.hk/hk/content/web.do?page=laukw
- ^ http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%96%9B%E5%87%B1%E7%90%AA
- ^ http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9E%97%E4%B8%80%E5%B3%B0
- ^ http://baike.baidu.com/view/35632.htm
- ^ http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%98%E4%B9%83%E5%A8%81
- ^ http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%B5%E8%8F%AF%E5%B3%B0
- ^ http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%83%A1%E5%AD%9F%E9%9D%92
- ^ https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%B8%E6%81%AD%E8%95%99
- ^ http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%83%A1%E5%BF%97%E5%81%89
- ^ http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%83%AD%E5%81%89%E5%BC%B7
- ^ http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%AC%9D%E5%81%89%E4%BF%8A
- ^ http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%B3%E5%8B%87_(%E5%8D%80%E8%AD%B0%E5%93%A1)
- ^ http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BA%A5%E6%9B%A6%E8%8C%B5
- ^ http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%88%E6%8C%AF%E4%B8%9C
- ^ http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AD%8F%E8%8F%AF%E6%98%9F
- ^ http://www.ied.edu.hk/web/research_experts.php?id=48
External links [edit]


text:
As always it is with great pleasure and pride that I present to you the
new Rajapack catalogue, your tool for simplifying your packaging buying.
Working with our customers - DONE!
For 60 years we have worked closely with our customers:
our packaging specialists are always available to advise you on the phone or during a visit.
Our catalogue, full of 3800 products is always at your fingertips and our website is a click away,
24 hours a day 7 days a week, offering our customers a unique packaging buying experience.
Quality products - DONE!
We make it our aim to continually improve our range of products
to meet your needs, whatever your business: exporting;
e-commerce; distribution; manufacturing or services;
you are certain to find the packaging you need at Rajapack.
Great promotions - DONE!
Enjoy more and more promotional offers and bulk buy pricing discounts, so you never have to choose between quality and your budget.
Working in harmony - DONE!
As part of our on-going commitment Rajapack continues to identify the environmentally responsible product alternatives within our ranges, and each year we work towards reducing the impact of our catalogue on the environment and meeting our recycling targets.
Working closely with customers, choice and competitiveness Rajapack remains, more than ever,
true to its values of quality and service to help you deliver on all your 'packaging' challenges.
John Taylor General Manager


text:
About Share
Be Prepared: Snowstorms
Be Prepared: Tornadoes
Become A Weather Spotter
Community Emergency Response Team
Emergency Preparedness Tips
You are here:
Public Education
Emergency Preparedness
Emergency Preparedness
If This is an Emergency
Dial 9-1-1
Emergency Operations Plan
The Town of Parker's Emergency Operations Plan has recently been revised and is in the testing process.
Emergency Preparedness Tips
Read some
on what you can do to prepare in case of emergency.
Community Emergency Response Team (C.E.R.T.)
There are many types of disasters and emergencies that could affect the Town of Parker including floods, fires and tornadoes. It is estimated that after a major disaster, it may take up to three days for relief workers to reach some areas. The Office of Emergency Management is offering some helpful educational programs this year to help residents be prepared in an emergency. One program being offered during the month of September is a
Community Emergency Response Team
(C.E.R.T.) training.
Resolve to be Ready
The Parker Police Department Office of Emergency Management is offering some helpful suggestions and guidelines this year to help you, your friends and family, and co-workers "Resolve to Be Ready" and, even more importantly, to KEEP that resolution!
The first step is
. If you don't commit to your goal, you won't keep it. So, right now, make yourself the promise to improve your readiness skills over the next year. Write it down somewhere that you will see the commitment every day. Grab your daytimer and list one area of preparedness you can improve each month. Make a team at the office to help remind each other and to share ideas with. Add the topic to your family meeting agenda…or if you don't have family meetings, schedule the first one! Invite your neighbors and friends to do the same. Need some ideas? Visit
for class listings and preparedness topics.
The second step is
. Preparedness rarely occurs alone. Even if you live alone, your preparedness still involves other people. Take a sheet of paper and drawn a line down the middle. In one column, make a list of the people who you rely on. In the other column, make a list of the people who rely on you. Now, figure out who overlaps those columns. For most of us, this will be our immediate family, our immediate co-workers, and our neighbors or close friends. Start the conversation by talking to them about what emergency preparedness involves. At work, maybe talk about what happens during a big snow storm and how you can all check on each other for safe commuting. With your neighbors, make agreements to check on elderly residents or people who live alone during severe weather, or ask if your family can use their home as an emergency meeting spot in the event of a house fire or other short-term evacuation scenario. With your family, write an emergency plan. This plan should include at least the following:
1) a communication plan (who talks to who during a disaster)
2) a shelter-in-place plan (what happens when we're stuck inside for a few days)
3) a short-term evacuation plan (what we do if the fire alarms go off at 2 am)
Ideally, it should also include a plan for longer term evacuation, similar to the actions required of residents impacted by the Boulder wildfires last fall. You can find resources for these plans online at
The third step in resolving to be ready is
. Your plan hopefully identifies some important things in your life. Based on these priorities, you can identify some key components to add to your kit. This includes medical needs such as medications, eyeglasses, extra contacts and solution, needles, or testing strips for diabetics. Pack enough non-perishable food and water to last you for a few days (and remember to pack stuff you like to eat!) along with utensils to open and eat the nutrients. Toss in some hygiene materials like toilet paper, toothpaste, and deodorant. Now add a change of clothes, and you're almost done. Thank about those special little things you really might miss during an emergency. Are you a coffee person? Throw a few packs of Starbucks Via in there. Is chocolate your comfort food? Have a couple bars of Hershey on hand. Try to pack it in something you can carry, and that fits easily in your car. Store it someplace you can access quickly (the attic is probably not that place) and make sure your whole family knows where it is. Don't forget to plan for your pets, either!
The fourth step is
. Preparedness skills fade with time, so you need to revisit your training periodically. Plan to take CPR and First Aid every other year. Practice your family plan twice a year. A great time to practice your emergency plan, and update that emergency kit, is when daylight savings time starts and ends. Why not change your smoke detector batteries at the same time? Remember, your goal is only as good as the effort you put in…if you're not invested in maintaining your readiness, all of your hard work now may not be available for use later.
Remember, you can find resources for your kit online at
"Are You Ready? An In-Depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness"
"Are You Ready? An In-Depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness"
has been designed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to help the citizens of this nation learn how to protect themselves and their families against all types of hazards. It can be used as a reference source or as a step-by-step manual. The focus of the content is on how to develop, practice, and maintain emergency plans that reflect what must be done before, during, and after a disaster to protect people and their property. Also included is information on how to assemble a disaster supplies kit that contains the food, water, and other supplies in sufficient quantity for individuals and their families to survive.
There are real benefits to being prepared:
Being prepared can reduce fear, anxiety, and losses that accompany disasters. Communities, families, and individuals should know what to do in the event of a fire and where to seek shelter during a tornado. They should be ready to evacuate their homes and take refuge in public shelters and know how to care for their basic medical needs.
People also can reduce the impact of disasters (flood proofing, elevating a home or moving a home out of harm's way, and securing items) and sometimes avoid the danger completely.
By reading and following the instructions in this
you are your family can say, Yes, we are ready!
72-Hour Kit
There are many types of disasters and emergencies that could affect the Town of Parker including floods, fires and tornadoes. It is estimated that after a major disaster, it may take up to three days for relief workers to reach some areas. It would be wise to consider a 72 hour kit. Make sure you plan your 72 hour kit according to your family's size.
Use this
to help you plan for your family and things you should consider in the event you are impacted by a disaster.
FEMA for Kids
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for Kids
Web site
teaches kids how to be prepared for disasters and prevent disaster damage. You can also learn what causes disasters, play games, read stories and become a Disaster Action Kid. And don't forget to learn about FEMA!
Also, the parents and teachers page has activities, curriculum and safety information you can use in the classroom or at home!
Additional Information and Resources
For additional information contact:
Douglas County Office of Emergency Services
- 303.660.7589
American Red Cross
24-hour number - 303.722.7474
Arapahoe / Douglas Branch - 303.781.5511
Colorado Office of Emergency Management
- 303.273.1622
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Parker Police Department
18600 E. Lincoln Meadows Pkwy.
Parker, CO 80134
Ph: 303.841.9800
Fx: 303.805.6990
Police Home
Community Calendar
Contact Us
Site Map
Town Home
Live Edit
Close window


text:
Instagram is a mobile application that allows users to take a photo and apply a digital filter to it allowing the most amateur photographers to turn into a photography whizz in seconds. It recently grabbed the world's attention in April when it was snapped up by social networking giant Facebook fora respectable $1bn a sure sign that it is something keep an eye on. It was originally available only on iphone but launched to Android users in 2012 which has seen its number of users grow from 15m to 80m since the beginning of the year, an increase of over 400% in just seven months.
The use of Instagram among top brands has also increased, with new data from Simply Measured showing that 40% of the brands on the Interbrand 100 now have an account on the mobile photo sharing service. Brands such as MTV, Starbucks, Burberry, Tiffany & Co. and Nike have a huge following with numbers topping or near half a million followers. This is unsurprising as it offers them the chance to generate user generated content with an edge that is far more likely to receive positive feedback. Econsultancy have highlighted some recent examples of how these brands have used it, although I would question the supposed creativity of what they have done.
Instagram should be treated like all other social channels and should be considered as an element in a holistic social media strategy. It has the means to build your brand, share news and engage in dialogues and it allows companies to engage with their peers and customers by sharing snapshots of their products, culture and people in an intimate and creative way. Pinterest has shown that image–based posting can be extremely valuable for brands, so it would be foolish to ignore such a readily available stream of content.


text:
Brad Samuels
Executive Vice President, Distribution
Brad Samuels is Executive Vice President of Distribution for Ovation, based at the network's New York offices and reports directly to Chad E. Gutstein, Chief Operating Officer.
Joining Ovation in January 2012, Samuels is responsible for continuing to drive the network's distribution efforts across all media platforms.
Samuels came to Ovation from MSG Media, which operates the MSG and Fuse Networks. As Executive Vice President, Content Distribution from 2008 to 2010, Samuels was responsible for maximizing the channels' distribution and related revenue across multiple platforms. He also was charged with oversight of the company's affiliate sales team, handling both the Fuse music network and MSG regional sports networks
Previously, Samuels served as Executive Vice President of Affiliate Sales and Marketing with TV One, the entertainment network with an African American perspective, from 2004 to 2008. As a member of the network's founding senior leadership team, Samuels achieved record subscriber growth, reaching 40 million subscribers within two years of the network's launch. Working closely with TV One's senior leadership team and the company's board of directors, Samuels secured significant distribution commitments with eight of the 10 largest U.S. distributors. He also executed an aggressive digital media strategy that included an innovative VOD offering, iTunes paid downloads and broadband content syndication deals.
From 1993 to 2003, Samuels worked with Comedy Central, holding the post of Executive Vice President of Affiliate Relations for his last five years with the network. During this time, Samuels led initiatives related to distribution growth, subscriber revenue and all affiliate marketing activities, including the negotiation of long-term affiliate contract renewals with all major cable MSOs and satellite companies and creating a successful strategy for offering original content via PPV and VoD platforms.
Samuels, a member of both NCTA and CTAM, is a graduate of Michigan State University and holds a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degree in Telecommunications.