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Wood-Ridge, NJ (PRWEB) March 09, 2012
Steve Rothman is the first New Jersey Congressman to take advantage of Facebooks new Timeline feature for Pages. Steves Timeline, available by following this link, not only showcases recent campaign activity but also highlights major events in his career, like being the only member of the states Congressional Delegation to endorse Barack Obama for President in 2007 and the first to call for a full withdrawal of troops from Iraq in 2006.
Facebook Timeline offers intriguing possibilities for candidates to not only connect with voters on current positions and statements, but also to talk about important events in their past, which is exactly what were emphasizing here, said Philip Swibinski of Vision Media Political, Rothman campaign Digital Strategist.
Rothmans Timeline includes photos and vintage campaign materials from his first run for Congress in 1996 and his time as Mayor of Englewood from the 1980s. It also reinforces his stature as one of the leading progressive voices in the Democratic Party by showing his early endorsement of Obama and his political courage in holding ten town hall meetings and facing down hundreds of angry Tea Party supporters during the Summer of 2009.
In addition to this cutting-edge Facebook page, the Rothman campaign also utilizes Twitter and YouTube pages. The campaigns web site is http://www.rothmanfornewjersey.com, where visitors can donate to the campaign, sign up for email updates and learn more about Steve.
For any additional information, please contact Philip Swibinski at 201-978-8651.
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President Obama showed his skills as a comedian at the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner, focusing mainly on Donald Trump. He made fun of the birth certificate controversy, and ribbed Trump about his presidential ambitions. (April 30)
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(PRWEB) April 19, 2012
Secret Service members who had their clearances pulled after bringing prostitutes back to their hotel while on the job in Columbia (http://bit.ly/HZRSaB) were experiencing a biochemical craving for connection, says relationship and sex therapist Dr. Bonnie Eaker Weil. The organization says they let their boss, President Obama, down with the behavior of these men and it will likely cause additional outrage from the public in regards to taxpayer money being used to hire prostitutes.
“The Secret Service was seen as a badge of honor,” says Dr. Bonnie, “and this revelation has definitely sullied their reputation.” Behavior like this is not uncommon among people with high stress, high-powered jobs. Politicians are frequently getting caught with their pants down – sometimes literally – and it even extends to the Oval Office where not that long ago President Clinton was impeached for engaging in illicit sexual acts on the job.
Dr. Bonnie says this can all be attributed to the biochemical craving for connection. “When people are constantly dealing with a high-stress environment, they’re looking for ways to self-medicate. They’re not thinking clearly and they’re likely looking for experiences that will give them additional highs and make them feel even more powerful.” It’s self-reinforcing she says. The more powerful people feel, the more risks they take, which in turn makes them feel even more powerful.
It’s an addictive cycle, one often started by something like a high-stress or high-powered job. “But it then devolves into just wanting that high to feel good, or to escape,” explains Dr. Bonnie. It becomes a quest for forbidden fruit, to feed the addiction. People with jobs like Secret Service members don’t have to look hard for exciting experiences – they’re in foreign countries, spending time with powerful people, they’re likely to take risks says Dr. Bonnie – and in the right situation, they should!
“The Secret Service’s job often depends on them taking risks, so it can be hard to shut off that behavior and not let it permeate every aspect of their life,” Dr. Bonnie observes. But the very scrutiny and pressure that brings with it so much excitement, is the reason why people in a public service line of work have to be even more careful about their behavior. Says Dr. Bonnie, “by engaging in compromising behavior, they not only let down the President of the United States, they may have compromised his safety. And they will be subject to much harsher
penalties, both from the public and from their own system of review.”
To see learn more about the Biochemical Craving for Connection, watch Dr. Bonnie in these videos: http://youtu.be/vOIomp6CHSo and http://youtu.be/UWFriVLUQDg; and in the Discovery Health/Oprah Winfrey Network documentary titled “Unfaithful” (http://bit.ly/GSP0KB)
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Dr. Bonnie Eaker Weil’s best-selling book, Adultery the Forgivable Sin is being re-released under a new distributor and making its appearance available in eBook format and print on Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Adultery-Forgivable-Bonnie-Eaker-Weil/dp/1587768151/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321019076&sr=8-1). Adultery the Forgivable Sin was also made into a Lifetime Original Movie starring Kate Jackson.
Dr. Bonnie Eaker Weil, PhD, is also author of the 2010 New York Times Readers Choice Award-winning book Make Up Dont Break Up with accompanying DVD. Dr. Bonnie is a marriage counselor treating couples, singles, and step families. She works with those considering breaking up, people who have committed adultery, and couples who want to strengthen their relationships damaged by resentment or unresolved anger, teaching people to fight to increase passion, bring back magic and restore the sizzle.
As a marriage and family therapist, Dr. Bonnie teaches Smart Heart Dialogue along with intimacy, communication, and connection tools, and counsels families and children.
Named the Best Local New York Therapist by the US Commerce Association two years in a row (2011 and 2012) and known as The Adultery Buster and the No. 1 Love Expert, she is the best-selling author of other books like Can We Cure and Forgive Adultery?, How Not to (S)mother Your Man and Keep a Woman Happy, and Financial Infidelity: Making Money Sexy.
Dr. Bonnie was named by Psychology Today and NY Magazine as one of America’s Best Therapists and is presently featured and available now on the Discovery Health/Oprah Winfrey Network documentary titled “Unfaithful” (http://bit.ly/GSP0KB) and A&E on addictions. The San Francisco Chronicle, which interviews Dr. Bonnie regularly, voted her one of their love experts.
Also find her on Good Morning America, on the Today Show’s three-day series on infidelity, The Oprah Winfrey Show five times, and a four day series on Fox TV regarding dating. She appears frequently on ABC, Fox, CBS and NBC News, The View, 20/20, and CNN; and is often featured in USA Today and the New York Times. Visit Dr. Bonnie at http://www.DoctorBonnie.com.
Los Angeles, CA, (PRWEB) April 12, 2012
The San Diego Black Health Associates (SDBHA) has just confirmed its partnership for the upcoming Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program taking place across the state of California on Saturday, May 12th, 2012.
From 11AM-4PM, volunteers will mobilize in San Diego cities along with metro cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco to facilitate screenings in over 75 black-owned barbershops. The program anticipates screening approximately 1,500 African American men for diabetes and high blood pressure during the multi-city event. Participants will also receive healthy lifestyle education and medical resources for local clinics and physicians.
San Diego Black Health Associates are working with the Black Barber Shop effort based in Los Angeles to ensure that African American men to act in their own best health interests. We want consumers to know that chronic health conditions like diabetes and obesity are preventable. We are thoroughly convinced that by making a few changes to our diet and exercising regularly, we can live longer, function in a pain free environment and be the model for our children that they need says Paul Simms, SDBHA President.
Founded by the Diabetic Amputation Prevention Foundation (DAP) in 2007, the tour has visited over 750 barbershops in 50 cities and 13 states and will continue its mission to screen 500,000 African American men by the end of 2014. This unique and innovative grassroots program works strategically with black-owned barbershops, because it represents such a cultural institution of familiarity and trust among African American malesmaking it the most effective avenue to disseminate health education information.
“The need to address health care disparities in African American men is paramount in light of the fact that they have the lowest life expectancy of any group in the U.S.,” says Dr. Bill J. Releford, D.P.M., founder of the DAP Foundation. “For decades, the black barbershop has served as a centralized gathering place where African American men feel comfortable discussing the most important issues that impact their lives: politics, social trends, family and finances. Now, we are introducing an important discussion of health and the critical need for health awareness.”
Compared to the general public, it is African American males who have a higher risk of diabetes and other cardiovascular conditions, such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol. The American Diabetes Association estimates that 3.7 million (14.7 percent) African Americans ages 20 years or older have diabetes, while statistics show that forty percent (40 percent) of African American men die prematurely from cardiovascular disease as compared to twenty-one percent (21 percent) of white men.
Dr. Bill Releford organized the initiative to empower African American men to better understand cardiovascular diseases. As he travels across the country to spread awareness, he welcomes corporations, small businesses and county facilities to get involved in the mission. To learn more about The Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program log-on to http://www.blackbarbershop.org and please remember to support this statewide effort on May 12th.
About San Diego Black Health Associates
Over a 20-year period, SDBHA has operated specific programs aimed at improving the health status of black people and other people of color. In addition, SDBHA is a resource for healthcare professionals, organizations and laypersons. Through the use of dedicated volunteer members, SDBHA has developed strong working relationships with a variety of community agencies and organizations, including the African American church. Through these collaborations, we have been successful in maximizing the impact of our community health promotion activities. Visit them online at http://www.sdbha.org.
About Dr. Bill Releford
As Founder of the Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program and the Diabetic Foot Institute, Dr. Bill Releford is a visionary and industry pioneer. He began his private practice in 1990 and has dedicated his lifes work exclusively to the reduction of diabetes-related amputations in high-risk populations. Dr. Releford and his efforts have recently been highlighted in the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek Magazine, THE VIEW, THE DOCTORS, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams as well as the TODAY SHOW and more. Additionally, Dr. Releford’s innovative community organizing strategies culminated into an invitation from President Obama to attend the White House Super Bowl Party in 2011. To learn more about Dr. Relford and his work visit http://www.drreleford.com.
About the Diabetic Amputation Prevention Foundation (DAP)
The DAP Foundation’s African American Men’s Outreach Program seeks to partner with community groups and organizations to reduce the incidence of health conditions that adversely affect African American males by utilizing education, prevention and early detection through screening activities. DAP’s efforts have already been successfully duplicated in other metropolitan areas, such as Oakland, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Atlanta and Baltimore. For more information on participating or sponsorship opportunities, please visit http://www.blackbarbershop.org
Memphis, TN (PRWEB) August 10, 2011
In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the National Civil Rights Museum, the 2011 prestigious Freedom Awards will be given to select individuals for their tireless contributions for civil and human rights, education, the arts, sports community, justice and for their dedication to creating opportunity for the disenfranchised.
The Freedom Awards is the most widely acclaimed global civil rights event. It is a fabric of the mission of the National Civil Rights Museum, the home of the historic Lorraine Motel, site of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The award ceremony is Saturday November 12, 2011 at the Cannon Center for Performing Arts in Memphis, TN.
Former Freedom Award recipients include Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Oprah Winfrey, Stevie Wonder, President William Clinton, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Earvin Magic Johnson, Colin Powell, Dorothy Height, Jackie Robinson (posthumously), Ruby Dee/Ossie Davis (posthumously), Sidney Poitier, Eva Longoria, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Mikhail Gorbachav, and Myrlie Evers-Williams.
Award sponsors are FEDEX, Hyde Family Foundation, NIKE, International Paper, ExxonMobil and the First Tennessee Foundation.
The following Freedom Awards categories will be recognized:
Education:
Marva Collins, Pioneer Award creating the Westside Preparatory School, Chicago, in 1975 with $ 5,000 of her teachers pension fund. Her school took in students who were labeled as borderline learning disabled and problem children. At the end of first school year each student scored at least 5 grades higher. Her curriculum and method is based on classical literature, abstract concepts and lofty thoughts.
Sports Community:
Bill Russell, Pioneer Award for his participation in the Civil Rights Movement, recipient of the NBAs first Civil Rights Award and was the first African American to coach a major sport at the professional level in the US. Member of the NBA Hall of Fame who fought racism off and on the courts, Russell holds the record for the most championships won by an athlete in a North American sports league.
Playing in the wake of pioneers like Earl Lloyd, Chuck Cooper, and Sweetwater Clifton, Russell was the first African American player to achieve superstar status in the NBA.
For his accomplishments in the Civil Rights Movement on and off the court, Russell was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama in 2011.
Alonzo Mourning, Legacy Award for his charities which aid the development of children and families living in at risk situations. He is founder of the Overtown Youth Center in Miami, Florida for the enrichment of children. Former NBA standout, he launched Zos Fund for Life to raise funds for glomerulosclerosis, which he was diagnosed with during his NBA career. He founded Athletes for Hope, a charitable organization, which helps professional athletes get involved in charitable causes and inspires millions of non-athletes to volunteer and support the community.
Humanitarian:
Dr. Bill Frist, Pioneer Award for his work with African hospitals and schools with the group Samaritans Purse. As a former US Senator from Tennessee, he made annual visits to Africa for medical assistance and counsel and was instrumental in getting the U.S. to define the actions in Darfur as genocide. Chair of Hope Through Healing Hands, a nonprofit that works for child survival/maternal health, clean water, extreme poverty, and global disease such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. He serves on the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, First Lady Michelle Obama’s Partnership for a Healthier America and the Let’s Move Campaign, Kaiser Family Foundation, Millennium Challenge Corporation and Africare and is the recipient of the 2010 Refugees International Humanitarian Award.
The Arts:
Cicely Tyson, Pioneer Award for her stand against universal stereotypes in film and for her activism in using the world stage to raise the consciousness of our common humanity. She is considered a driving force in creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture and is a World Ambassador for UNICEF. The Cicely Tyson School of Performing and Fine Arts, a magnet school in East Orange, New Jersey, was renamed in her honor. She plays an active part in supporting the school, which serves one of New Jersey’s most underprivileged African-American communities.
Activism:
Danny Glover, Pioneer Award for his support of various humanitarian and civil rights causes including the United Farm Workers. In the 1960s as a student at San Francisco State University, Glover was a member of the Black Students Union which, along with the American Federation of Teachers, collaborated in a five-month student-led strike to establish a Department of Black Studies. The strike was the longest student walkout in U.S. history. It helped create the first Department of Black Studies and the first School of Ethnic Studies in the U.S.
Susan L. Taylor, Legacy Award former editor-in-chief and editorial director for Essence Magazine for 27 years, was the first and only African American woman to be recognized by the Magazine Publishers of America with the Henry Johnson Fisher Award and the first to be inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame. She founded the National Cares Mentoring Movement, in 2006, to recruit one million able adults to help secure children who are in peril and losing ground. Susan is a cofounder of Future PAC, the first national political action committee to provide a network of support and sources of funding for progressive African American women seeking federal and state-level political offices.
Legal Justice:
NAACP, Pioneer Award. The NAACP is the countrys first and foremost civil and human rights organization. Since being founded in founded in 1909, the NAACP has continued to live it to its mission: to achieve racial justice, equality, and an inclusive society. One of the NAACP’s greatest legal victories was in 1954, when Thurgood Marshall and a team of NAACP attorneys won Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. In this landmark decision, the Supreme Court held that segregation in public education violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Southern Poverty Law Center, Legacy Award Internationally known for its tolerance education programs, legal victories against white supremacists and its tracking of hate groups, militias and extremist organizations. The Southern Poverty Law Center is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry, and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society. Using litigation, education and other forms of advocacy, they employ a three-pronged strategy to battle racial and social injustice:
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) December 2, 2009
After Joseph Enterprises released Chia Obama early this spring in test markets – and received tremendous consumer positive approval – it has now launched this patriotic series available exclusively online.
The series includes:
Chia Washington – our founding father symbolizing liberty
Chia Lincoln – signifying opportunity and freedom for all
Chia Obama – ” Yes we can”
The Chia Statue of Liberty with her welcoming outstretched arm and the ever-glowing flame
…and now introducing Chia Hillary, the Secretary of State and former First Lady.
In May 2009, Mr. Joseph Pedott, President of Joseph Enterprises, and creator of the Chia Presidential series was proud to give President Obama his very own Chia Obama as seen in this White House photo release: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/3582761113/ .
Like the American icon the Chia Pet, the Chia I’m Proud To Be An American series is easy to do and fun to grow. All planters come with a Chia Seed packet, enough for three plantings. This is a great gift idea for friends and family.
Joseph Enterprises also manufactures and/or distributes other exciting products, including Licensed Chia Pet products such as Chia Spongebob, Chia Scooby-Doo, Chia Garfield, Chia Shrek and Chia Simpsons. It also markets the Chia Gourmet Herb Garden, Chia Cat Grass, The Clapper, The Ove Glove, the Creosote Sweeping Log and the Classic Pen Set. Most items are sold through retail chains across the USA and Canada during the holiday season.
Mr. Joseph Pedott may be available for TV, radio, and publication interviews. Please contact Joseph Enterprises at jpedott (at) jeiusa (dot) com .
Links:
http://www.chia.com
http://www.chiaobama.com
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