Intangible Property Rights
Metaphors We Live By
out of HARRISBURG, Pa., June 28, 2004
Worldwide industrial services and products company Harsco Corporation (NYSE:HSC) announced today the introduction of a new operating and market identity for its gas containment and control-related businesses under the name Harsco GasServ.
"The renaming of our Harsco Gas and Fluid Control Group as Harsco GasServ marks a fundamental transition from traditional product-based thinking to a more fully integrated 'total applications' approach to our global gas industry customers and their requirements," said corporate vice president and Harsco GasServ president Ronald W. Kaplan.
True story. Before Editors introduced themselves as operating under the identity of Editors, their thinking was far more organically carbon-based. As Editor, they have integrated a hard working sales effective team player approach to the PR industry.
Best New Novel
out of MARTIN, Tenn., June 28, 2004
Seventeen-year-old Jack Scott, deemed the most outstanding teenager in his Arkansan small town, is forced to confront his homosexuality both at home and in the Marines. It is his story, and, to a degree, the story of his family, his friends, and his comrades.
MORE SOLD SHORT AND NAKED
out of ORLANDO, Fla., June 28, 2004
The World Golf League De-Listed from Berlin Exchange
and out of ATLANTA
InstaPay Moves to Protect Shareholder Value by Demanding Removal of Unauthorized Listings on Berlin and Frankfurt Exchanges
Editor must admit at this point that naked short selling was a mystery, but upon discovering more than 200 companies have fallen victim to the antics at the Berlin Exchange, we looked it up. In short sales, a legal and long-standing practice on Wall Street, investors sell borrowed stock, betting it will decline in value and be repurchased for a profit later. In "naked" short sales, the investor sells shares without borrowing them. Such sales not only harm investors but also can ruin small, thinly traded companies by diluting the value of their shares and making it difficult for them to raise money.
Best Vending Product (not including fries) that Meets the Demands of Today's Market
out of WHITTIER, Calif.
"Pop N Go produces a unique hot air popcorn machine, capable of delivering single servings of fresh hot popcorn, which meets the demands of today's market. The company's self-contained equipment produces fresh popcorn for each customer while allowing the customer to watch the entire popping process."
Best Save the Children by Buying our Product
"The Internet is becoming the 24/7 playground for bullies looking to humiliate their peers. i-SAFE America, an Internet safety education foundation, announce results of a national study among 1,566 students (grades four to eight) who are online. The results are:
-- 57 percent of students said someone has said hurtful or angry things
to them online with 13 percent saying it happens "quite often"
-- 53 percent of students admit saying mean or hurtful things to someone
online with 7 percent admitting to doing it "quite often"
-- 35 percent of students have been threatened online with 5 percent
saying it happens "quite often"
-- 42 percent of students have been bullied online with 7 percent
admitting it happens "quite often"
-- 20 percent of students have received mean or threatening e-mails
-- 58 percent of students have not told their parents or another adult
about someone being mean or hurtful to them online
Bullying is being taken to the next level, some of today's adolescents -- a generation that is always connected and always wired -- are falling victim to harassment in chat rooms, email, web sites and instant messages, says Schroeder.
Ryan Halligan, a 13-year-old student of Albert D. Lawton School in Essex Junction, Vt., fell victim to cyber bullying. "Ryan tried to escape the bullying at school by seeking refuge on his computer at home, but it followed him into cyberspace," said John Halligan, Ryan's dad. "After his death by suicide, I found out that Ryan was harassed online by his school day bullies, and he unfortunately tried to retaliate in unhealthy ways. As a parent, I know now that I should have stepped up the monitoring of my son's computer activities. I wish I had known the potential for this to occur and how to prevent it."
i-SAFE offers a Cyber Bullying supplement to their educational curriculum in schools --
Editors note: Columbine was quickly and widely reported to be the result of bullying. Upon actual examination, the perpetrator kids were found to be literally psychotic. PRIZE OPPORTUNITY: come up with the next save the children product and win an all-expense paid trip to hell.