I have to read an American historical fiction book for school… the time period is 1861-1940. Do you know of any related to aviation? Thanks!!
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Aviation related historical fiction novels?
Posted by admin on August 29th, 2010
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3 Comments »Introduction about Magazines
Posted by admin on August 28th, 2010
Under the impact of television, both radio and magazines became specialized or segmented media. Because advertisers could reach the same mass audience more cheaply and quickly via television, many well-known mass circulation magazines, including Look and the Saturday Evening Tag Heuer Replica Post, went out of business. Recently, magazines targeted at special audiences—such as Motorcyclist, Fantasy, and Science Fiction—have sprung up. There are only a few national magazines, and three are newsweeklies: Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News df World Report. Time is owned by Time Inc., and Newsweek by the Washington Post Company. These examples are typical, because many magazines today are owned by chains, large corporations, and conglomerates, in part because it is very costly to start a magazine and because the survival rate for magazines is low. (By contrast, U.S. News is employee-owned.) On average, only 10 percent of new magazines survive beyond their first year; nevertheless, as of 1998, there were 2,724 consumer, farm, and international magazines. The degree of specialization in this medium can be seen by looking more closely at some of the mass circulation magazines. Many publish special editions designed to permit advertisers to reach specific audiences. Time, for instance, publishes regional editions, editions aimed at special groups, and an international edition. One edition goes primarily to college students, another to the 1.3 million people living in the most affluent zip code areas within metropolitan markets, and stills another to about 640,000 business and professional people. Similarly, Sports Illustrated publishes four regional editions and a special homeowners’ edition, limited to slightly more than 500,000 subscribers located in zip code areas with the highest concentrations of home ownership. Other magazines, such as Cosmopolitan and Good Housekeeping, publish Spanish-language editions. In other words, although mass circulation magazines exist, many of them publish special editions with advertising aimed at distinct audiences. Magazines have several advantages over television for advertisers. According to data collected by the Pew Center for the People and Cartier Roadster Replica Watches the Press, 20 percent of people who earn more than $75,000 or are over 50 years of age read a newsmagazine regularly, compared with an average 13 percent of all other age and income categories. A magazine becomes a trusted and familiar source reflecting an image with which the subscriber can identify. In addition, some advertisers now banned from television, like cigarette manufacturers, must rely on print outlets.
Flower Girl A to Z Hardcover Book
Posted by admin on August 28th, 2010
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Move Over Gutenberg!
Posted by admin on August 28th, 2010
I was standing in a circle of Chardonnay sippers at an art show in Santa Monica when the conversation turned to the future of reading. As a novelist, I had skin in the game, so I grabbed a canape, sidled over, and eavesdropped. “I’ll never buy one of those electronic gizmos,” said a heavyset man in his fifties, a humanities professor. “I’d miss the smell of ink on paper, the conjuring of medieval libraries and ancient parchment.” Funny, I don’t recall anyone blissfully sniffing their books until the threat from e-publishing appeared. Now, readers can’t resist comparing their moldy old tomes to the finest Bordeaux. Respectfully, I say, move over Gutenberg! E-books are to traditional publishing what the internal combustion engine was to the horse and buggy. Some experts predict that half of all books will be digital downloads within two to three years. That’s astonishing. For 600 years, Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press and its progeny have produced our books, newspapers, and magazines. Now, in the blink of an electronic eye, the application of ink to paper is approaching obsolescence. Complaints about progress are hardly new. When Gutenberg invented movable type, a Venetian judge whined that “The pen is a virgin, the printing press a whore.” Some New York publishers have called Amazon and Google even worse names. I’m all for nostalgia. I have dreamy memories of a rickety blue Bookmobile rumbling into my central Pennsylvania hometown, and my standing on tip-toes to haul down a well-worn volume about dinosaurs. But my Kindle holds more books than that old truck, and there are 600,000 more at Amazon just a few clicks away. A recent newspaper headline asked: “Will the Kindle Save the Written Word?” The hope is that those techno-savvy kids will interrupt their music and games and videos and texts and tweets and blogs…and start reading. Call me crazy, but I think they will. I predict that packing a portable library will soon become a hip way to impress the opposite sex. More so, hopefully, than a barbed wire tattoo. So why is that wine-sipping professor so afraid of the Kindle or Nook or iPad or Kobo? There will still be books in hardcover, trade paperback, and mass-market. Or will there? Garrison Keillor, the bard of the prairie, recently wrote that “book publishing is about to slide into the sea.” The numbers give reason to worry. For the first quarter of 2010, Simon & Schuster reported a decline in revenue from print, but a 233 per cent increase in digital publishing. Expect that trend to continue, industry-wide. Is the book biz in the same position as the music industry a decade ago? It’s not a coincidence that Apple’s iTunes store now sells e-books, too. Consider Amazon, where you can buy a 6000 BTU window air conditioner or a Kindle e-reader for the same $189. Amazon is now a book publisher, not just a retailer. The company is cutting deals with fledgling and mid-list authors for original e-books. How long will it be before Stephen King, or some other literary luminary, inks an exclusive deal to publish in both print and digital editions? Amazon enjoys a huge advantage over both New York publishers and the bricks-and-mortar retail stores. The Internet behemoth knows the e-mail address and reading habits of every customer, and it need not kill trees, run presses, or hire trucks to produce and distribute its electronic products. There are advantages for readers, too. Classic literature can be downloaded for free. My first two Kindle “purchases” were “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”and “Pride and Prejudice.” Both gratis. Prices of bestsellers are in a state of flux, but they’re consistently lower than paper-and-ink books. The new paradigm is a great deal more democratic for authors, too. Writers who could never land a literary agent, much less a publishing deal, are putting their books on Amazon at customer-friendly prices. True, the writing often warrants a C-minus in eleventh grade English class, but there will be undiscovered gems to be dug from the electronic slush pile. The shelf life of dead-tree books roughly approximates that of a pint of yogurt, but out-of-print books get eternal life on the Internet. Recently, I celebrated the 20th Anniversary of my debut legal thriller, “To Speak for the Dead.” The book is long gone from bookstores, which is where e-publishing comes in. For less than $1,000 in costs – scanning, proofreading, formatting, and cover art – I became my own publisher. Other authors with long backlists are beginning to do the same. Woody Allen once said, “I don’t want to become immortal through my art. I want to become immortal by not dying.” The latter remains impossible, but the former – our work living on forever – just became a bit easier. The author of 14 novels, Paul Levine won the John D. MacDonald fiction award and was nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, International Thriller, and James Thurber prizes. A former trial lawyer, he also wrote more than 20 episodes of the CBS military drama “JAG” and co-created the Supreme Court drama “First Monday” starring James Garner and Joe Mantegna.
Educational Scholarships For Women – Free $10,000 Scholarship Giveaway
Posted by admin on August 28th, 2010
As college costs continually rise, you can take advantage of these Educational Scholarships For Women to help pay your college expenses. Apply for these Educational Scholarships For Women so you can more easily pay your college classes. Don’t forget to also look for other scholarship opportunities online. *** Click Here to Register Free for the $10,000 Scholarship *** The first scholarship is a $10K scholarship drawing hosted at Scholarship Zone. To qualify for this scholarship you only need to be at least 18 years old and live within the United States. The website has the form where you can register for the drawing. Don’t miss the deadline, so register soon to enter the next drawing. The Sam Walton Community Scholarship is also another scholarship program that you may be interested in pursuing. The scholarship provides $1,000 or more for eligible students. In your application, you need to be able to demonstrate financial need to the scholarship committee and you also have to maintain at least a 2.5 grade point average. You may also be able to qualify for a scholarship program called the Carnegie Writing Scholarship. Lake Forest College students are eligible to apply for this scholarship opportunity. You can also send in work from non-fiction and poetry. *** Click Here to Register Free for the Educational Scholarships For Women $10,000 Scholarship *** Remember to apply to as many scholarship programs as you can but only for those you qualify for so you will not be wasting your time. Don’t wait until your senior year to start doing your scholarship search because many of the big scholarships you could apply for have an early deadline in the senior schedule. There is no secret formula that you can use to get a scholarship. Also, be sure to apply to as many scholarships as you think you may qualify for.
Posted in Historical Fiction Books Tags: $10000, Educational, Free, Giveaway, Scholarship, Scholarships, women Comments Off5 Steps to Using LinkedIn for a Successful Job Search
Posted by admin on August 28th, 2010
There is no doubt that LinkedIn is widely used in the business community as a type of “online resume.” Anyone that has conducted a successful LinkedIn job search can tell you, it’s so much more than that. It’s a powerful tool to reach out to your industry in a new and credible way. Follow these steps and you’ll be one step closer to making strong connections to employers and industry recruiters on LinkedIn. Step 1Complete Your ProfileYour profile is like your online resume, only better, because people can endorse your work right on your profile. If you haven’t fully completed your profile, you aren’t giving anyone enough information to determine if you are a person they would want to share networks with. You are asking for people to open their rolodex to you, so to speak. You must have a complete profile that shows them you are worthy networking partner. Profile description with personality – this is the place where you need to sell yourself. Think “cover letter meets 30 second elevator pitch.” List all positions – Listing all your past positions allows the system to find more people who you may already know or who have a workplace or school in common. LinkedIn suggests people to network with based on information in your profile. Education – For the same reason, list all the schools you attended. It may seem silly to list your high school in a resume, but LinkedIn is different. Since it uses this information to help bring people together, it’s important to include everything. You never know where your fellow classmates ended up that may help your career. Recommendations – Endorsements are always important. LinkedIn is no exception. Ask people from each sector of your worklife to endorse the work you did when they knew you. Make sure you get clients, bosses, employees, vendors, etc. Link to Website – You can provide up to 3 websites that relate to your work, either an online resume or your website if you have one, or one that you worked on. SEO your profile – Always think “keywords, keywords, keywords” in everything you do online. Make sure you that are using the same words when you write your profile that someone would use to search for someone like you. LinkedIn Applications – Utilize the applications that are relevant, integrating blogs, presentations, etc. Step 2Reach Out – Build Your NetworkWhen you make a first level connection with someone, it means you know them directly. When you connect with someone, you gain a broader reach than just that person because all of the people that they know are now part of your network as 2nd level connections. Similarly, all of the second level’s connections now become your third level connections. What all this means is that you can exponentially grow your network by making smart connections to people you already know or strategic people in your industry. Building your network is helpful if you want to ask an industry question to your connections. Your entire network is posed the question, so the more people you are connected to the more brains you are reaching. When you get ready to search jobs, the broader your network is, the greater your access to jobs posted by your network. Connect to people you already know – Import your address book to see who you know that is already on LinkedIn. Reach out to colleagues, friends, classmates, vendors, etc. Strategic new connections – See who your connections know. Do you also know them? Should you know them? If so, invite them to connect with a personal message of why it would be beneficial for them to share networks with you.Step 3Build Credibilityhttp://www.linkedin.com/answers LinkedIn’s Answers section is a great way to build your industry credibility in your online community. If you have strategically connected with people in your industry, they will see your posed questions, or see that you have answered questions and come to realize that you are someone who has something meaningful to contribute. This can help you in a job search, or for general industry networking. Step 4ResearchOnce your profile has been built and you have begun your quest for online industry credibility, you are ready to start searching for positions posted by people in your network. Search Jobshttp://www.linkedin.com/jobsLinkedIn Jobs has openings posted by people in your network. You can search LinkedIn only or you can search throughout the web for any jobs posted online that fit your search criteria. JobsInsider toolThis LinkedIn tool allows you to see who you know at any company who has listed open jobs, request an introduction to the hiring manager and see open job postings at Monster, CareerBuilder, HotJobs, Craigslist, SimplyHired, Dice, or Vault. The link to download the tool is located at the bottom of each LinkedIn page:http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=jobsinsider_download&trk=hb_ft_jobsins Companies SectionThis section of LinkedIn contains information about various companies whose employees are on LinkedIn. It will show you who is in your network at that company, who has recently been hired or promoted there and will list their open positions. It also shows you where people who work there used to work, and where they went after they worked there. Knowing what’s up at a company is important for networking your way in. Step 5Request IntroductionsWhen you are ready, you can request an introduction to someone in a company that either has an opening, or one that you wish you target. Professionally request the introduction, letting them know why it would benefit the receiver to know you, so the referrer feels confident in making the introduction. Make sure you have something to contribute. If it’s all about you, there is a chance your request will be ignored. Once the introduction has been made, be sure to thank the referrer. Make contact with the person and show them why connecting with you is a great career move for you both. Get Started!Now you are well on your way to a successful job search via LinkedIn. Be sure to [...]
Three Limitations of your Sales Force and How to Overcome Them
Posted by admin on August 28th, 2010
The sales force, you can’t live with them, and you can’t live without them. Although only a few members of your firm have the “sales” designation, title, and responsibility, everyone in your firm is an integral part of the sales team and sales effort. Understanding the limits of your sales team will help you establish greater control over your firm’s revenue and profits. The FIRST of three limits to your sales efforts is time. You can’t buy more time no matter how wealthy you become. However, you can become wealthy by managing your time more wisely. The return on your investment when you teach time management skills to your team is virtually unlimited. Although time is a limitation, it is not a barrier to success. Use time wisely and watch you revenue and profits soar and eliminate finger pointing and whining within your firm. The SECOND limitation is resources. You must teach and train your team to properly utilize the existing resources and make it a habit to continuously search for, create and/or purchase additional resources for use in the sales process. Don’t forget to utilize free or otherwise low cost resources such as books and audio tapes. Energy is the THIRD and final limitation to your sales effort and one of the most overlooked. Energy is the excitement and positive enthusiasm exhibited by your entire staff. Energy is always created on purpose, it does not happen accidentally and it is totally infectious. Use your own ingenuity to create an energetic environment. Celebrate often (birthdays, anniversaries, record sales weeks, perfect attendance, etc) and create friendly competitions with awards, prizes and public praise. Creating a fun working environment is critical to creating a high energy team. The action you should take today should be swift and immediate. The very existence of your business might depend on how well you can address and overcome these limitations. Addressing these three issues in an appropriate and creative manner will allow you to quickly establish much greater control over your firms revenue and profits. Eric Williams is the founder of the Get Ready to Win Network. Contact Eric at ericw01@yahoo.com or 928-255-5379. For more information, click here: http://ericwilliams.48dayscoaching.com
Posted in Historical Fiction Books Tags: Force, Limitations, Overcome, Sales, Them, Three Comments OffFun-filled Rainbow World of Children’s Books
Posted by admin on August 28th, 2010
What comprises children’s literature has become a subject of hot debate amongst today’s literary and pedagogical scholars. Put broadly, the umbrella term “children’s literature” covers all the books that are written about children and are read by children. Many a time, the definition of children’s literature is determined by the teachers, literary scholars from academic and pedagogical institutions, librarians and the various book awards committees. Many standard authorities on the subject of children’s books believe that books can, alternatively, be classified on the basis of some basic formats namely, picture books, illustrated books, lesson books, easy to read books and graphic novels. Most children’s books are written specially for children readership, including the world famous timeless classic novel: “Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Conversely, many works originally composed for children are being read and enjoyed by teenage and elders. For instance, many works of prolific writers like R.K.Narayan, Ruskin Bond, Mark Haddon and Phillip Pullman though originally meant for children are equally enjoyed by the elders. These works include R.K Narayan’s “Swami and Friends”, Ruskin Bond’s “The Blue Umbrella”, Mark Haddon’s “The curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time” and Phillip Pullman’s “The Amber Spyglass”. Recently, J.K Rowling’s sensational books forming the Harry Potter series have received considerable recognition from all parts of the world. The Harry Potter books have been widely appreciated for sparking an interest in reading amongst children at a time when children were thought to be giving up books for the pleasure of watching television playing computer and video games. A number of online book portals have come up which provide a number of children’s books. These online book portals have scores of children’s books for pre-school and school-going children. These stores provide relevant information on the childrens books. Parents and teachers will find them immensely helpful as they give a chance to the children to select books. The buyer(s) can select books that they find appropriate for a particular age bracket. Such initiatives will go a long way in a child’s early formative years by helping him gain a grasp over some basic yet important concepts in a fun-filled way. The launching of book clubs and book councils is another innovative step as it inculcates reading habit amongst children. Children can find books on almost every subject under the sun in these book clubs and book councils.
New Mystery Thriller Novel ? “On The Grind” – Booksigning
Posted by admin on August 28th, 2010
Stephen J. Cannel Book Signing Vero Beach A book signing in Vero Beach reveals more than Stephen J. Cannel’s latest novel, On the Grind. An intimate look at Cannel’s effort to pursue his passion for writing tells of many obstacles. Cannel, best known for the long-standing detective series, “Rockford Files” also wrote and produced “Hunter”, “The A-team” and “21 Jump Street.” Now he’s into novel writing and hints of his work “Wise Guy” making a comeback. Author, screenwriter, studio executive, he was nowhere near an overnight success. He sold his studio, and has produced fourteen mystery novels to this date. I arrived forty-five minutes early for the book signing. A brief article in Treasure Coast Scripps announced that he was going to be there. The small grouping of fold out chairs filled up quickly, and Stephen arrived on time. With casual sheik, he was dressed in form fitting, tasteful jeans and designer sweater. His shaded glasses made me feel o.k. to take some snapshots. I’ve always been interested in his work since he is dyslexic like me. I was hoping he would advocate for dyslexia. He did. Using the same model IBM Selectric, he compensates for his inability to spell. Writing phonetically, he turns his scripts in for computer input. When asked about spellchecker, he laughed. He replied with a chuckle how his words would be unrecognizable to the spellchecker function. His talk started out with his first dyslexic barrier of flunking first grade. He would go on to tell the whole story of his struggle within the educational system. The audience got a kick out of his lighthearted quip about flunking sixth grade. He said it wasn’t so bad since he was the only one amongst all of his friends with a driver’s license. He had also been held back in fourth grade. Currently, he describes his decision to go to novel writing for the last quarter of his life. After total immersion in the entrepreneurial and creative aspects of his Hollywood enterprises, he now embraces novel writing. As per the book signing, he focuses on his newest release, On the Grind. The feeling I got about this man is that he takes life as a series of ongoing challenges. He ventures on to new endeavors guided by his passion for writing, not money. Without money as a concern, he’s happy about his life. He turned his back on his father’s wealth, creating the Stephen J. Cannel Studios. During this phase, he pinnacled with a gross income of $180,000,000. A be-in-the-moment presence created the feeling that he was aware of every nuance in the room. He engaged the audience by talking with instead of at us. Responding to occasional spontaneous feedback he made the event feel more like a group conversation. Threading his tales with more of the schooling experience, he talked of high school football as a boon to self-confidence. With graduation just around the corner he came to a possible turn around point. After a school career amassing a plethora of average to failing grades, he got a B minus on an essay he wrote. The subject matter was Martin Luther King. Cannel gives much regard for the glint of recognition he finally got from his high school English teacher. Yet the impression I got was one of bitter sweetness. I couldn’t help from feeling that he should have gotten a much better grade, but his reputation had preceded him. Previous input that would have stifled the spirit of an ordinary person had exposed him to a lot of negativity. Nobody called him stupid, but rather described him in terms of not applying himself. He was not recognized for his efforts because nobody knew about dyslexia in those days. He could have taken of a dejected attitude, but seemed thankful for the small successes along the way. Later on, he submitted his Martin Luther King story to a literary magazine and his piece got accepted. He played football in college, when enrolled at the University of Oregon. Cannel admitted he wasn’t such a good running back. His grades weren’t enough to keep him on the university roles. He was “disaccepted” from Oregon University. He laughs now, but before this, he had never heard of the term “disaccepted.” Early on, Stephen had revealed in a heart-felt acknowledgement, how much he loved his father. As he went on to describe an incident about his father’s advocacy, he could hardly stifle his laughter as he spoke. Read on. After Stephen’s rejection from college, the father had attended a cocktail party where he met a Dean from Oregon University. Stephen came home to be surprised by the sight of his father entertaining the dean in their living room. Coaxing the dean with one cocktail after another, the father made a step forward to getting Stephen back into college. Although the visitor had no influence in the matter, the father got his foot in the door, and began hammering away at the powers that be. Amazed at his father’s persistence, Cannel found himself back on the roles at Oregon U. With a sense of relief that he seemed to carry with him all these years, Cannel describes the one big break that he needed. One day he got called for a meeting with one of his professors. Probably expecting problems due to conspicuous spelling errors, he got a big surprise instead. You have a gift from God – Never quit writing. Catapulted by this moment that [...]
St. Patrick, Man of Mystery
Posted by admin on August 28th, 2010
Every March 17th, throngs of Irish natives, descendents, and Hibernophiles converge in the streets in 40 shades of green. Developing into a “season” of cultural pride, festivity, and merriment, St. Patrick’s Day honors the life of Ireland’s patron saint, St. Patrick. While he has become somewhat of an Irish celebrity, much of what the average person knows about St. Patrick revolves around folklore and tall tales. Why is he a saint? What was his profession? Did he really drive the snakes out of Ireland? St. Patrick, although heralded as a true Irishman, was actually born in the Roman territory now known as England and southern Scotland. Born to a wealthy family in 460 AD, St. Patrick was kidnapped by Niall of the Nine Hostages and sent to Ireland, where he was sold into slavery and set to work as a sheep herder in present-day Antrim or Mayo. During his 6 years of slavery, St. Patrick slowly became increasingly devout and always maintained the hope that he would return to his birth country. Stories tell that one night St. Patrick heard a voice telling him that it was time to return to his homeland, and that a ship would be ready for him. The next day, St. Patrick escaped 200 miles to Wexford, where he came across a ship bound for England. After talking to the captain and praying for passage, he was stowed aboard. After finding himself safely in England once again, St. Patrick heard the voice again, telling him to return to Ireland as a missionary. Patrick began religious training at the Monastery of Auxerre, France. Over the course of 15 years he was ordained as a priest. After his ordination, he was sent as a missionary to Ireland, where he was charged with serving the small population of Ireland, but also tasked with the larger duty of converting the majority population of pagans. St. Patrick is predominantly known for using pagan symbolism to explain and practice Catholic beliefs. It is told that, when explaining the Trinity to a group of Irish pagans, he plucked a three-leafed clover from the ground to demonstrate the idea of three separate entities existing as a singular being. As the Irish pagans worshipped the sun and used it as a major force in their religious ceremonies, St. Patrick superimposed a circular orb behind a cross, creating what is not known as the Celtic cross. These effective tutorials and demonstrations helped spread Catholicism across the country, giving it the framework for the religious devotion it is known for today.’ St. Patrick died on March 17, 460 AD, giving the date for his current Feast day. As it is with Irish storytelling, the life of St. Patrick has evolved over the years to include vibrant fables and heroic legends. While folklore tells us that St. Patrick drove all snakes out of Ireland, geologists and scientists agree that there have never been snakes in Ireland. Traveling around Ireland, one will come across churches, bushes, mountains and streams that were all built or blessed by Patrick. Whether these stories are factual, it is a true testimony to the religious devotion of the Irish people and the historical significant of St. Patrick. St. Patrick’s Day is one of the largest and most celebrated festivals in the world, he has become cultural icon, and many Irish people and Catholics celebrate his life and their affiliation with Ireland by wearing Trinity Knot jewelry and Celtic Cross pendants. The story of St. Patrick is one that has surpassed religious lessons and has imbedded itself in pop culture, fashion, and cultural affiliation.