Jostens, one of the oldest and most successful providers of yearbooks, class rings, and graduation caps and gowns also presents educational seminars for those yearbook staff students who want to increase their knowledge and skills in preparation of a possible career in either editing or publishing.

Seminars around the country are operated by Jostens' independent representatives. And the BAYS (Bay Area Yearbook Seminar) is held at a different location each year, offering a convenient access to those who live in the San Francisco, East Bay and South Bay areas. Each summer the siminar is held at either a college (i.e. Saint Mary's) or a University (i.e. Stanford), whereby the participants attend their various classes during the day, enjoy three delicious meals in the campus cafeteria, join in the fun and games during the evenings, and sleep over in the student dorms at night.

BAYS is one of the most prestigious of all the seminars. Extensive, detailed preparation and planning goes into each year's seminar in order so that all participants may derive a gratifying experience.

Check out the web site by clicking on the thumbnail to the left. You will be taken to a quick Flash introduction that the students love. You may either skip the introduction or watch it - either way you will end up at the BAYS 2009 site.

This Jackson County Republican Party website was designed from scratch in Dreamweaver CS3 by Adept Elements for the Jackson County Republican Committee prior to the 2008 elections. This site is no longer up to date nor is it available for viewing other than through this Adept Elements' link.. After the elections were held, the board changed hands and this website was scrubbed. All who worked for the Party did so on a volunteer basis.

JCRP urged both liberal and conservative Americans to listen to each other, while also asking that everyone go a step further and watch our government at work on CSPAN. Besides making regular visits to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives web sites in order to ensure to that all representatives are looking out for our country's best interest, gathering information from those various sources gives Americans an overall education. The way a representative votes tells us more about who he or she is looking out for (themselves, special interest groups or you) than any words they may speak. to our face. The medias have their own agendas and don't always report true facts. It's wise to always utilize diverse ways and means to gather the information you need.

For nearly a decade while working for Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA as the Assistant Director of Stanford Shopping Center and overseeing the construction and operations of the center, I hired, coordinated, and directed teams of architects, engineers, and contractors to complete for landlord and tenant's ongoing building improvements and substantial seismic reinforcement to the commerical, retail buildings as mandated by the federal, state, county and city codes and regulations.

I supervised, trained and counseled a super-regional shopping center management team focusing on customer service, budgeting, operations, tenant relations, and implementation of company policy while serving as liason between owner (Stanford University), property manager, tenants, and architectural review boards and building departments.

While working under contract with Project Consultants, Inc., I project managed and consulted within a semi-conductor tool manufacturing company (Applied Materials Research & Development Building 2) for the installation and subsequent removal of various multi-million dollar semi-conductor pieces of equipment designed to manufacture semi-conductor chips, without incident or interruption to the production sechedules.

And, while under contract with Netscape Communications, I was appointed to oversee and manage total design and construction of Netscape's General Store in Mountain View. The retail store was located within the Netscape campus, and built to promote the revolutionary "Navigator" software and company product lines involving an elaborate and creataive merchandising concept. I additionally project managed the 'preparation for' and 'relocation of' the many, many software engineering groups along with all their computers, phones, stations, conference rooms, play rooms and snack bars into their new facilities.

*I've perfomed bookkeeping, accounts payables, accounts receivables, payroll and banking for my family's business.
*The hands-on experience in residentail real estate sales, office administration and operations / construction managment in commercial retail and high-tech industries has given me a confidence to stretch any limit.