Book Launch

In 1934, the Republic of Haiti celebrated its 130th anniversary as an independent nation. That same year, another sort of Haitian independence occurred, as the United States ended nearly two decades of occupation. In the first comprehensive political history of post-occupation Haiti, historian Matthew Smith argues that the period from 1934 until the rise of dictator François Papa Doc Duvalier in 1957 constituted modern Haitis greatest moment of political promise. He will explore this theme in a lecture based on his recently published book titled Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934-1957. The lecture is sponsored by Florida International Universitys Latin American and Caribbean Center, School of International and Public Affairs, and Digital Library of the Caribbean, as well as the Haitian Heritage Museum. The event is part of LACCs 12th Annual Haitian Summer Institute.

Matthew J. Smith, Ph.D.
Lecturer in History in the Department of History and Archaeology, at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Jamaica
Haitian Heritage Museum, Miami, FL
July 2, 2009

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Solomon Islands honorary consul Doreen Kuper launches the new book Being the First celebrating the achievements of a generation of Solomon Islands women. MC is Tagaloatele Professor Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop of AUT University’s Institute of Public Policy. The book, co-edited by Dr Alice Aruhe’eta Pollard and Professor Marilyn Waring, was launched the previous week on International Women’s Day (March in Honiara. It is published by the Pacific Media Centre (AUT) for RAMSI. Camera: Melanie Curry-Irons. Editor: Josephine Latu. See story: http://pacific.scoop.co.nz/2010/03/being-the-first-launched-in-new-zealand-by-solomons-honorary-consul/

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Gus launches his first book “World Wines”

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Ok so I posted a question about a story idea, here is the start. I am 16 and english is not my first language so tips and corrections are welcome. Also as I am not a native speaker I sometimes phrase things odd so if this is a problem please say. Enjoy, here goes:

The smell of smoke filled my lungs, my hands trembled as the adrenaline coursed through my veins. This was it. My breath came in short gasps forming a misty clouds in the chilled night air, the crowd fell silent, I stepped into the ring, forcing a smile I held the hoop above my head. Marius took his stance, his expression calm and focused as he lit the arrow. My breath caught sharply as he pulled back on the bow. One. Two. Three. The arrow soared through the hoop, igniting the inner ring creating the illusion of the entire hoop being on fire. I let out a sigh of relief as the crowd erupted into applause, Marius winked, I couldn’t help but laugh then, grinning broadly I stepped forward bowing deeply, allowing the rush of exitement to take over from the knotting in my stomach. I launched into the backflip, then the free cartwheel, ending with a front split I smiled at the crowd as Marius and Stefan performed their jaw-dropping tumbling routine which made several people in the audience gasp more than once. From the corner of my eye I saw Stefan’s muscular form crouch a few feet to my left. Marius stepped onto his shoulders, now panting with effort Stefan stood slowly, balancing Marius on his shoulders, I stepped forwards nodding to Marius, indicating I was ready. I ran, gathering speed, bounced on the trampoline and somersaulted through the air. Marius caught me and I, balancing on his hands pushed up to a handstand. It was a long way down to earth, my palms were slippery with sweat, I let go with one hand, the human tower wobbled and the crowd held their breath. We each regained our balance and tho the rhythmn of the music I changed positions, split then stag, then down into pike. Tiny beads of sweat rolled down my forhead and my abs burned. With a last burst of energy I pushed back up to full handstand and then jumped down waving to the audience, dancing to the music as Stefan and Marius formed a line. The music ended and we bowed deeply, the rest of the troupe re-entered the ring, took a final bow and then we all rushed to the tent exits to sell our souvineers. I climbed into my bunk, my eyes itching with exhaustion, when I heard Stefan and Marius calling to me "Catalina, come on, it’s a party, you’re not the baby cousin now, come on, your dad, he’ll never know. Don’t worry about him, come on." I peeked out the wind ow of our caravan, the frosty night air stung my nose and cheeks " No I’m 14 years old and I’m too young to party this late and you shouldn’t be encouraging me. I’m tired see you in morning." I slid back in and remembered suddenly "Oh, and if you guys are smoking weed, smoke it now, we’ve got school tomorrow, well today, in a few hours." I grinned mockingly "don’t want anybody turning up to a new school stoned now, do we? " I curled up in bed smirking, haha bet that killed the mood of the party quite a bit. I felt my eyes closing and I did not resist the beckoning wave of sleep washing over me, I pushed all my worries away and let it take me out to the sea of sleep.

The shrill ringing of my alarm clock pierced the silence, then again, groggily I covered my ears with the pillow. It rang again this time louder,and louder and louder. "Shit!" It was Monday.

It’s a good start, you might want to be a bit more clear of where the setting is in the first part. In your dialog, be sure that use commas or semicolons. The phrases all seemed to run together without pause. Read it aloud and see where you would pause; add punctuation there.

Other than that, the description was excellent. Great job.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20071119/tuk-most-children-happy-and-healthy-6323e80_1.html

Children’s Secretary Ed Balls said the review showed that for most children "things are good".

His assessment was made as the review of more than 100 research studies into the lives of children and young people in England was launched.

100 research studies???????????

Why then, do we still read/hear sad stories of children being killed by their parents? Children that have been on the books of Social Services, handed back to their parents and then they are murdered by them. In most cases the children are abused by torture of whatever means
Children being murdered is a rare occurrence??????? Cavorim, you should start watching the news & reading the papers. They say ignorance is bliss but in your case ignornace is blindness

I think most children are doing ok, I tend to forget this in the job I do, as 99% of the kids I work with are not ‘doing ok’ in some area of life be it school, home or whatever.

In terms of the social work bit of your question, for every tragedy you hear of in the press, how many other kids do you think are protected by the system – you don’t hear about them because of confidentiality laws – there are lots as I am sure you can imagine.

You would only hear about the kids I work with if they were shot – or shot someone else or got an ASBO or something but you wouldn’t hear about the other 90 % of my caseload of 30 odd kids who do well and are diverted away from offending behaviour and make successes of themselves as our society and media are far too hung up on negativity.

I have a very polarised view of young people in situations of abuse, negelct, poverty, isolation and exclusion, and I am so grateful when we have my partners children to stay and I get to hear their personal successes and achievements and those of their freinds as it reminds me that I work with a very specific section of society and the whole of society is not the same.

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Recently in Cinemax Mumbai, a Press Conference was held by Saregama India Ltd. for their film The Japanese Wife. Almost the entire team of The Japanese Wife was present at the conference including ace filmmaker Aparna Sen, Actor Rahul Bose, Veteran Moushumi Chatterjee, Apurv Nagpal (MD of Saregama). The promos were showcased to the media which was present in large number.
The promos exhibited yet another finest work of Aparna Sen as she is one of the connoisseurs’ of artistic cinema in India. The Japanese Wife strikes a chord and is sure to leave an indelible mark on the audience as it will portray a real sensitive love story.
When asked Aparna as to what prompted her to make a film on Kunal Basus book The Japanese Wife, she answers I got inspired with the fact that how 2 peoples 17 years marriage has more integrity even though theyve never met than any other marriage Ive ever seen in real. And I immediately knew that this was the film I had to make. I wanted to create a film which is minimalistic but poetic so I had to face a lot of challenges while making the movie.
Apurv Nagpal expressed that he went berserk reading the novel and is grateful to Aparna for turning this film as beautiful as the book. He said I love Moushumi Chatterjees role in the film for the great vivacity she shows in her character.
The Press conference was followed by the album launch of The Japanese Wife where all the songs are handpicked by Aparna Sen. Followed by the launch; the Media was gifted with a TJW notebook designed by Mr. Ajay Shah.
Rahul Bose who had worked with Aparna Sen in fantastic films like Mr. & Mrs. Iyer and 15th Park Avenue couldnt stop appreciating Aparna for her brilliant talent of film making. If the audience had gone for Mr & Mrs. Iyer because it was a romantic love story then Im sure double the amount of people will go for The Japanese Wife, alleged Bose.
Veteran Moushumi Chatterjee who is making a comeback in films after 5 years added, Ive been a lazy person and when I …

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Maureen G. Mulvaney, better known as MGM, Amazon Best Selling Author of The Women’s Millionaire Club (http://www.TheWomensMillionaireClub.com) celebrates and honors the Marketing Genius of Denise Cassino.

“My original Book Launch of The Women’s Millionaire Club, was quite successful as my book became an Amazon Best Seller. The Challenge was that I spent hundreds of hours and tons of money figuring it all out.

I watched another author, also become an Amazon Best Seller, but she breezed through the process because she had a Secret Weapon–Denise Cassino.

I’ve learned my lesson–to create a Highly Successful and Profitable Book Launch and Internet Marketing campaign I hired Denise Cassino. You Should, too.” ~ Maureen G. Mulvaney, MGM

Denise Cassino ~Website Design, Web Marketing and Publicist

Denise Cassino is the CEO of Wizardly Web Designs and Marketing, a Website Design and Internet Marketing Firm. With a tremendous subscriber list, Denise can easily reach thousands of writers and authors by email with the stroke of a key.

Denise works as YOUR Marketing Partner by providing the following services:

1. WEBSITES: A must for every marketing effort. A website should be optimized with relative tags, page titles, subheadings, links, blogs and inbound links from other sites. Denise builds creative, unique and personalized websites, Denise creates banners and ads for other sites, too.

2. SOCIAL NETWORKING: Powerful networking tool for marketing. Many sites make it easy to build contacts and notify them of upcoming or past events. These are important to draw visitors to Virtual Book Tours, radio shows, and book launches. Denise sets up accounts with the most effective social networks.

3. BLOG: Centerpiece of your campaign. If used properly, every blog entry links back to the owners web pages at least 3 times per entry. This alerts the search engines that there is new content available. As more and more links point to a given site, the search engines give the site a higher rating. 70% of what search engines look for is popularity. Denise builds and maintains the blog, frequently adding content.

4. PRESS RELEASES: Announce relevant and important news and events. When properly constructed and written, they will garner the attention of reporters looking for stories. These Press Releases must be submitted to press release sites on the Internet for maximum exposure. Denise writes and distributes the press releases.

5. PRESS KITS: All authors, speakers and personalities need a Press Kit or Media Kit. This includes the persons photo/s, biography, and possible topics of discussion; if a book is highlighted, cover art, synopsis, reviews and a sample chapter are important inclusions. Denise creates and distributes the Press Kit.

6. VIRTUAL BOOK TOURS: Replace the in-person book signings. These are events on the Internet hosted by website owners and bloggers who each promote one leg of the tour by including info from the media kit, written interviews and more. These must be targeted to an audience receptive to the book genre. Denise arranges the Virtual Book Tours.

7. EMAIL LISTS: Help sell books and grow businesses. Opt-in pages lure visitors with the promise of something free—a report, a book, an eBook, etc. In exchange, the visitor must opt-in with his contact information. Denise creates the opt-in page and helps create the free item giveaway.

8. BOOKMARKING: A way to spread the word about the product one is marketing. Bookmarking sites further distribute information published elsewhere on the Internet. Denise does Bookmarking for her clients.

9. RADIO SHOWS: Best way to spread the word about new books and products sold on the Internet. They reach a wide audience and can be distributed via podcast and placed on the website. Denise arranges radio interviews.

10. ORANIZATION AND COORDINATION OF INTERVIEWS AND EVENTS: Denise keeps a calendar, notes these items on the website calendar and keeps her clients on schedule.

11. COACHING: Denise coaches her clients in ways to make their interviews and appearances most effective.

12. PUBLIC APPEARNCES: Denise contacts schools, groups, libraries and corporations to arrange speaking engagements, book signings and readings and seminars for her clients.

Contact Information:
Denise Cassino
PO Box 1223
Conifer, CO 80433

303-838-3399 Office
303-901-3907 Cell

dencassiono@gmail.com
http://www.wizardlywebdesigns.com
Twitter@dcassino

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www.powertrain-international.com – A short film of “Stig” Perry McCarthy’s book launch “Flat out Flat Broke” in London. Perry (the original Stig from Top Gear) asked his friend and old racing rival John Robinson of Powertrain to organise filming of the event. Many motoring and motorsport celebrities were in attendance on the night including Damon Hill, Martin Brundle, Tiff Needell, Jeremy Clarkson and of course “The Stig”.

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The Irish Academy of beauty have published Irelands first make-up book with proceeds from sales been donated to the Marie Keating foundation. The book which is titled ‘Look Good Feel Good’ was co-authored by the Academies award winning make-up artist Rhona Cullinan and principal Derek O Kelly.

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