Posted on 02/13/2007 7:45:23 AM PST by brityank
Ping.
A better update of last night's breaking news.
We really need to give Philly to New Jersey or New York, and pull our police officers out of Philly, its just to dangerous....and a serge of more policemen won't work....
And prayers go to those who have lost loved ones in this mess and others before it.....
With our luck, they'd swap us Camden! ;^)
I didn't think of that, but your right....hummmm back to the drawing board.....
Jersey Board member retirement?
What???????
It was the guns! They turned the shooter from an innocent bystander into a raging homicidal madman!
Restructuring...
Wonder which genius told Ross that?
In the small world department, I did some business with Mark Norris 20 years ago.
The anti gun nuts are going to go nuts over this.
wowm thanks for th eupdate. This story is different than I assumed.
sorry - bad typos
you need another Rizzo type to take control of the city again.
Sooooo, you have noticed that the shootings are back and almost to the week after the election... it ain't just me. WEARD.
From Marines to business, Mark Norris was a big winner
This profile of Mark D. Norris was first published Nov. 14, 1994: ^Young he is, idealistic he is not. At least not when it comes to business.
Mark D. Norris talks enthusiastically about his work for causes, from AIDS to urban ills, but when it comes to making a living as head of a creative enterprise, he is unabashedly practical.
Just what you'd expect from a former Marine Corps recruiter.
With a disciplined business attitude front and center, Norris has turned his companies - UDI, a graphic design and advertising firm, and Send Inc., which creates upscale greeting cards - into forces to be reckoned with.
And people are noticing. Norris, 34, can add the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce Young Entrepreneur of the Year award to the attention he has been getting lately.
UDI and Send Inc. are seeing enviable growth: an anticipated 25 percent to 30 percent this year for UDI, a $2-million-a-year company he formed in 1987, and more than 100 percent for Send Inc., which is 2 1/2 years old and one-quarter the size of UDI.
At the same time, he has doubled his staff, which stands at 11 and works out of a former Catholic career center on Broad Street near Federal Street.
A talented, aggressive and young-thinking staff - average age 29 - is only part of what has made Norris' corporate duo dynamic. Hard work has played a major role.
Norris could have made it easier on himself by gearing his business toward the African American market, he says. He is African American, and that would have been the obvious thing to do. "The greater challenge," he says, "is to do work for the general market."
"I've chosen to, how shall I put this, I've chosen to compete in a very competitive arena, which is the general market arena. When I walk into a room, I'm not what's expected. I'm not white."
Big clients have given him ever greater visibility. UDI designed Philadelphia International Airport's new logo. Its client list includes McDonald's Corp., Cigna Corp. and Lincoln Center in New York. One of UDI's more visible efforts can be seen on SEPTA buses: a campaign for radio station Power 99 (WUSL-FM) with the slogan "Stop the Violence, Increase the Peace."
There are big names on the greeting-card side, too. Send Inc. is in Macy's and Nordstrom.
"Suddenly, I'm realizing we've gone from local to national," says Norris, who hails from upstate New York, attended the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and found Philadelphia when he was assigned here as a Marine recruiter.
- Julie Stoiber Sounds like a sharp guy, what a waste.
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