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- 2006 Ford Pickup (Full Size)
- 1991 Toyota Camry
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- 1994 Acura Integra
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- 1994 Nissan Sentra
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Journalist Lisa Ling Honored for Reporting on Homelessness & Poverty
Journalist Lisa Ling Honored for Reporting on Homelessness & Poverty
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Shelter Partnership, a nonprofit organization working to end homelessness, honored journalist Lisa Ling at its 23rd Annual Dinner on July 31st. Over 400 supporters and civic leaders gathered at the historic Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles for the occasion. The evening fundraiser raised $390,000 to support Shelter Partnership's work. Ling is the executive producer and host of the popular documentary series "Our America with Lisa Ling" on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.
Ling was honored for her insightful and compassionate reporting on the toughest issues confronting America, including the plight of people who are homeless. In "The Lost American Dream" episode of her "Our America" series, Ling reports on how America's middle class has emerged as the face of new poverty in the wake of the "Great Recession." Ling effectively captures the pain felt by a struggling middle class and the widening population of Americans living on the edge. Poverty, unemployment or a lost job and the lack of affordable housing are primary causes of families experiencing homelessness.
"Lisa's reporting puts a human face to poverty and the related challenges that lead families or individuals to homelessness. It is easy to dismiss poverty or homeless statistics as just numbers when in fact every number represents a mother, son or daughter, a veteran or a senior citizen," shared Ruth Schwartz, executive director of Shelter Partnership.
For 27 years Shelter Partnership, Inc. has contributed technical assistance, public policy and resources toward ending homelessness. The organization also operates the S. Mark Taper Foundation Shelter Resource Bank, which distributed $8.2 million in donated new goods and materials to 230 agencies serving the homeless and very poor in the last year.
"I am so honored and humbled to have been chosen by Shelter Partnership for this award," remarked Ling. "Shelter Partnership supports over 200 agencies and organizations serving the homeless in Los Angeles. Their work addresses the immediate needs of homeless shelters and the longer-term housing polices needed to end homelessness. There is no organization like it in L.A."
About Lisa Ling
Lisa Ling got her start in journalism as a correspondent for "Channel One News" where she covered the civil war in Afghanistan at 21 years of age. She later went on to become a co-host of ABC Daytime's hit show "The View," which won its first daytime Emmy during her time at the show.
Ling was a special correspondent for CNN's "Planet in Peril" series and a field correspondent for "The Oprah Winfrey Show." She is the co-author of "Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home," which she penned with her sister, Laura.
For photos of the event, including Lisa Ling, please visit http://www.shelterpartnership.org/dinner/default.aspx
SOURCE Shelter Partnership
CONTACT: Ruth Schwartz, Shelter Partnership, +1-213-446-4538, rschwartz@shelterpartnership.org, or Domenic Morea, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, +1-323-602-5516, domenic_morea@own.tv
Web Site: http://www.shelterpartnership.org
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Rep. Gutierrez to address UNITY Journalists Convention on behalf of Obama for America
Rep. Gutierrez to address UNITY Journalists Convention on behalf of Obama for America
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), a leading advocate in Congress for immigration reform and Latino communities, will address the UNITY '12 Convention in Las Vegas Saturday on behalf of President Obama's campaign for reelection.
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The convention's Candidates' Forum featuring "A Conversation with Rep. Luis Gutierrez" is scheduled for 9 a.m. Saturday, August 4, at the Mandalay Ballroom IJ in the Mandalay Bay South Convention Center in Las Vegas.
After some brief opening remarks, Gutierrez will be interviewed by veteran journalist Willie Lora, news and political director of CNN en Espanol. The forum, sponsored by Time Warner, will be streamed live online and the audience in and outside of the room will be able to submit questions via Twitter, #UNITY12elect.
"I am honored to represent President Barack Obama before the nation's most diverse journalism organization. The President and I believe we prosper when we recognize that diversity is a singular strength of America and that as a nation we are all in it together and stand strongest when we stand united. We are on the verge of a key turning point as young immigrants eligible for the DREAM Act begin coming forward in two weeks for temporary protection from deportation under deferred action. While the Congress just adjourned debating English-only laws and delaying tax-cuts or any serious help to the economy, the Democrats and the President are committed to strengthening our economy, helping middle class and working class families make it, and building an economy that's built to last. The gathering in Nevada of Asian American, Native American, LGBT and Latino journalists just underscores the fact that everyone, no matter where you come from, has the opportunity to succeed and contribute to our democracy" said Representative Luis Gutierrez.
The candidates' forum at UNITY '12, the most diverse journalism convention in the United States, is an opportunity for the presidential candidates to address the 2,300 journalists, media executives, and community members gathering in Las Vegas this week.
"We are pleased that the Obama campaign will be answering questions from such a diverse group of journalists from all across the country as we enter the height of this year's presidential campaign," said Onica Makwakwa, executive director of UNITY Journalists, based in McLean, Virginia.
Makwakwa said that repeated invitations were made to both the Obama for America campaign and the Mitt Romney for America campaign for their respective presidential candidates to attend.
The Romney campaign declined the invitation and offered no surrogate. Obama campaign officials said the President was not available and tapped Rep. Gutierrez to represent him before the convention of journalists.
In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama addressed the Unity convention in Chicago. Sen. John McCain declined repeated invitations to attend. At the 2004 Unity convention in Washington, D.C., both President George W. Bush and presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry addressed the gathering of journalists.
Now in his tenth term in the U.S. House of Representatives, Gutierrez is the Democratic Party's leading strategist and spokesperson on immigration issues. He is chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Immigration Task Force and had previously served as Chair of the Democratic Caucus Immigration Task Force.
Among his extensive congressional work, Gutierrez was at the forefront to achieve comprehensive immigration reform and to pass the DREAM Act in 2010, which would offer a work permit and a path to citizenship to certain undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children and who are now college students or recent graduates.
He has been a critic of the government's deportation of immigrants that has resulted in breaking families apart in many regions of the country. Immigration reform is just one of several key topics debated by both presidential candidates on the campaign trail. In a free-flowing conversation format, journalists are expected to inquire about many of these issues at Saturday's Candidates' Forum.
UNITY '12 is a quadrennial gathering of the journalists and diversity advocates who comprise the member alliance organizations – the Asian American Journalists Association, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the Native American
Journalists Association, and its newest member, the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.
About UNITY: Journalists of Color
UNITY Journalists, an alliance of four journalism organizations representing more than 4,000 journalists, is the nation's most diverse journalism organization. It is a strategic alliance advocating fair and accurate news coverage about people of color and LGBT issues and aggressively challenges news organizations to increase diversity in whom they employ at all levels of their companies.
Media Contact:
Jeneene Butler, Special Projects Assistant
UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc.
Tel: (703) 854-3591
assistant@unityjournalists.org
SOURCE UNITY: Journalists of Color
Web Site: http://www.unityjournalists.org
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New Digital Platform from AARP Helps Experienced Workers Find Jobs
1 Aug 2012 16:44 Africa/Lagos
New Digital Platform from AARP Helps Experienced Workers Find Jobs
Experienced Workers Offered Tailored Online Job Listings, Guidance, and Community With AARP's New "Work Reimagined"
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Memo to Experienced Workers:
AARP is offering a unique new way to advance yourself in today's tight job market with Work Reimagined, a social network based experienced worker jobs program that connects employers seeking experienced workers with qualified professionals searching for new or more satisfying careers. The site (www.workreimagined.org) will leverage the platform of professional networking site, LinkedIn.
AARP President Rob Romasco announced the multi-pronged Work Reimagined online initiative today, outlining some of the key elements, which include:
original and curated content with advice and insights relevant to experienced workers in today's job market, and
access to current job openings with the nearly 120 employers who have taken the Work Reimagined pledge, publicly committing to treat all employees equally regardless of age.
"Work Reimagined enables experienced workers to come together in a vibrant online community to share your views and help move through 'what's next' career moments," said Romasco. "It opens the way for access to workforce resources, as well as the opportunity to connect with other experienced workers in a peer-to-peer environment."
The dynamic nature of Work Reimagined is demonstrated by the decision by dozens of forward-looking employers with at least some immediate hiring needs to sign a pledge to recruit across a level playing field when considering experienced workers. These firms are looking for the strong work ethic, maturity, and customer orientation that experienced workers bring to their jobs.
Employers who sign the pledge agree that they have:
Openness to the value of experienced workers;
Nondiscriminatory HR policies;
At least some immediate hiring needs at the time of pledge signing.
With the integration of LinkedIn information, qualified workers are put together in the same space with employers who value those workers.
"Over the past decade, the digital world has transformed how most people look for a job," said Romasco. "Today, Work Reimagined harnesses the power of social media to offer great opportunities for experienced professionals to connect, to access information and resources, and to leverage their professional network in their pursuit of more fulfilling work and career."
Work Reimagined also offers job listings independent of LinkedIn, as well as articles, columns, tips and tools to help people navigate today's workplace.
"This service is especially valuable in the face of a difficult economy that has found many professionals unemployed for, in many cases, a year or more," Romasco added.
Among the employers who have taken the Work Reimagined pledge are Scripps Health, the top finisher last year in AARP's Best Employers for Workers Over 50 program; Toys R Us, Inc.; Dollar General; United Health Group; Lowe's and AT&T.
Work Reimagined is featured in the August-September issue of AARP The Magazine.
AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, with a membership of more than 37 million, that helps people 50+ have independence, choice and control in ways that are beneficial to them and society as a whole. AARP does not endorse candidates for public office or make contributions to either political campaigns or candidates. We produce AARP The Magazine, the definitive voice for Americans 50+ and the world's largest-circulation magazine; AARP Bulletin, the go-to news source for the 50+ audience; AARP VIVA, a bilingual lifestyle multimedia platform addressing the interests and needs of Hispanic Americans; and national television and radio programming including My Generation and Inside E Street. The AARP Foundation is an affiliated charity that provides security, protection, and empowerment to older persons in need with support from thousands of volunteers, donors, and sponsors. AARP has staffed offices in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Learn more at www.aarp.org .
SOURCE AARP Illinois
CONTACT: AARP Media Relations, +1-202-434-2560
Web Site: http://www.aarp.org
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Internet Bloggers, Reporters, Rumor Mongers and the Zombies
Internet Bloggers, Reporters, Rumor Mongers and the Zombies
Who is not caught and entangled in the world wide web of the internet?
Almost everyone is caught in it, whether you are using the internet or not, your existence today is affected by it, because in this Information Age, even those who are still stuck in the Stone Age cannot escape from the tentacles of the matrix controlling the stream of consciousness of humans in every nook and cranny of the earth. No matter how you pretend and try to avoid the internet, you will one day be faced with its inevitability when you have to use the computer that comes in the form of the mobile phone that has become the most irresistible gadget in the world today, because it is now imperative for everyone to use it in daily communication. It is an oddity or rarity to see anyone who does not use a mobile phone today and once you use the mobile phone, you are soon caught in the World Wide Web and soon join in the communication hub of the earth.
The internet is now dictating the way humans communicate from the closet to the street and from the street to the government. The internet has swayed the momentum of human consciousness in billions of conversations going on the internet; helping to sway passions in political thoughts that ignited the Orange Revolution in Eastern Europe and the Arab Spring in the Middle East with the flood of tears and blood of the victims, the casualties of the consequences in different circumstances caused by the legions of sung and unsung heroes and villains And the social media is the most important catalyst of the internet. The social media is the greatest thing that has happened in the evolution of human communication since the caveman discovered how to make cave drawings. All you need to join us is just an access to the internet and it is a roller coaster ride all the way! The social media gives you the space to exercise the freedom of speech as never done before and the only powers that can control and stop you are the gatekeepers and they are the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and their partners, the publishers and owners of the millions of websites in the World Wide Web from Google to Facebook and the rest of us. . They cannot control your thoughts and conversations, but they can either approve them or disapprove them. They are the ones who have unleashed their legions of bloggers, reporters and rumor mongers on the rest of humankind, exchanging and sharing billions of accounts of stories of whatever is happening on earth, both fact and fiction and leave the choices to their audiences who are regular followers and invisible visitors from different locations and backgrounds in the world. The rest of humans who have not joined the viral conversations are more or less becoming zombies in the world.
It is necessary to separate the sheep from the goats, those who report and tell the truth from those who report and tell lies on the internet, because they are heroes and villains of the zombies who are swayed by the information of their masters. Of course, before the emergence of the internet, the world has always been inhabited by the good, the bad and the ugly and their zombies. So, the internet as a product of humans will always be inhabited by the same characters found everywhere among us. The internet has only given us all more freedom to say whatever we want to say and often escape from behind our small or big computers. But we must separate the wheat from the chaff in all things. Therefore, let us know the rumor mongers among bloggers and reporters on the millions of websites on the internet.
Do not accept everything you see on the internet until you are sure of it is a fact. The same internet also helps us to find out the fact as falsehoods are debunked and refuted even before the sunset unlike before when there was no internet and news reporters published both confirmed and unconfirmed news of events and incidents which the ignorant and unsuspecting readers cannot verify until the following day or even longer when the falsehoods would have done damages to reputations, and even caused the loss of lives and properties before the people knew that it was a foolish and unnecessary conflict.
Rumors spread by the mainstream media have even provoked riots and caused wars. But the internet has made it possible for everyone to report or tell what fact is or fiction instantly without censorship of the editors or owners of the press. And in fact, the internet would have averted the catastrophic world wars and other wars if it existed before then as the information for or against the arguments of these human conflicts would have gone viral and diffused before they could explode before our very eyes and millions of the lives lost would have been saved. Would Adolf Hitler have succeeded today?
No! Because, he would not have been able to fool millions of Germans to accept his Final Solution for the extermination of the Jews in Europe and the holocaust would have been averted. The internet has made us all wiser!
The internet has given us all the possibilities of what dialogue can do for humanity and honestly the positives are a million times more than the negatives, because everyone can easily sort out the odds and ends on the internet and life goes on, even the zombies will no longer be fooled and misled by their masters.
~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, August 1, 2012, Lagos, Nigeria.
Michael Chima is the most popular African blogger with over 30 blogs and the author of Children of Heaven, Sleepless Night, Scarlet Tears of London, Bye, Bye Mugabe, In the House of Dogs and co-author of Naked Beauty. His new books The Prophet Lied, and Barack Obama and the American Dream will be released before Christmas. He is also a TV/Film producer and Founder of the annual Eko International Film Festival in Lagos, Nigeria.
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