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Singer Debbie Gibson supports Helen's family which lives in a cemetery. Singer Debbie Gibson to appear on “Celebrity Apprentice” to help poor children Gibson to play for personal charity Children International KANSAS CITY, Mo. (January 4, 2012) /PRNewswire/ — Singer songwriter Debbie Gibson will appear on season five of Celebrity Apprentice, and has announced she will play for the charity Children International. During her second visit to Children International in the Philippines, Gibson poses with sponsored children living in poverty. Celebrity Apprentice is a reality television show where celebrities compete in weekly challenges and donate any winnings to their personal charities. Every week, the celebrity contestants will work in two teams, each under the guidance of a designated project manager, to compete in business-driven tasks around New York City, using their fame, along with their proven business acumen, to win challenges. Contestants are subjected to long hours, grueling...

Yewande Zaccheaus, CEO and owner of Eventful Limited was among the nineteen of the world's most promising women entrepreneurs recognized yesterday at the fifth annual International Women's Entrepreneurial Challenge (IWEC) awards conference in New York. Eventful Ltd, a leading events planning and consulting company in Lagos, Nigeria. Eventful Ltd is regarded as a pace setter for both corporate and retail events in Nigeria with an annual revenue of close to 3 million dollars USD. Yewande recently received an award from Today’s Woman Magazine, the foremost magazine in Nigeria, in recognition of her contribution to the events planning business. She is the current Chairperson for Women in Management and Business (WIMBIZ) and has inspired many new members to join this very well respected women professional group in Nigeria. She has developed initiatives in WIMBIZ, including mentoring programs with a wide reach. Under her watch, Vital Voices Africa Hub recently conducted a roundtab...

A view of a nearly deserted 7th Avenue near Times Square in Manhattan as Hurricane Irene closed in on the New York City area August 28, 2011. Hurricane Irene battered New York with heavy winds and driving rain on Sunday, shutting down the U.S. financial capital and most populous city, halting mass transit and causing massive power blackouts as it churned slowly northward along the eastern seaboard. Photo Credit: The Christian Post . Who goes to the movies in a stormy weather? Rentrak the leader in multi-screen media measurement reported that movie ticket sales dropped by 18.9 percent due to Hurricane Irene, as compared to the same weekend in 2010. New York, Boston and New Haven in the Northeast were the most affected by the horrifying hurricane. But the overall theatrical box office sales increased by 3.9 percent from the beginning of the summer 2011 box office period. The following is the full report of the impact of Hurricane Irene on movie theaters across the U.S. ...

August 13, 2011 New Yorkers give Sherri some insight on those tough marriage moments! Marriage is a Monopoly of one man keeping a woman all to himself selfishly after playing Totopoly for many years. ~ Orikinla Osinachi Tweet

Chinua Achebe smiling The literary world is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" . Many articles and features are celebrating the 50th anniversary of "Things Fall Apart" .. No other African novel has been so highly glorified as Chinua Achebe ’s classic "Things Fall Apart" . It is the most popular African novel in English and in over 30 translations since the publication in 1958. The first time I read "Things Fall Apart" . was in 1975 and loved it. I read the other novels Achebe wrote after "Things Fall Apart" , and I regard "Arrow of God" as the best so far. But the popularity of "Things Fall Apart" has overshadowed the importance and significance of "Arrow of God". The eaglet that was learning how to fly in "Things Fall Apart" , soared as an eagle in "Arrow of God" and the novel won ...

The Hillary Clinton Camp has raised $6 million in 72 hours for her presidential campaign to exceed the target of $3 million set after her superlative Super Tuesday victories in New York, New Jersey, California, Massachusetts and other states. She beat Barack Obama to the biggest prize of California and that provoked him to raise over $7 million to boost his presidential campaign in the quest for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party. Barack Obama won more states, but Hillary Clinton won more votes and more delegates. She has won more votes than Barack Obama since she bounced back after losing the Iowa Caucuses to him by 8%. She defeated him in the New Hampshire Primary and Nevada Caucuses and she was the first choice of most voters in the No-Contest Democratic Primaries in Michigan and Florida. Barack Obama defeated her in the South Carolina Primary before the Super Tuesday Primaries and Caucuses in 22 states. The contest for the Democratic presidential nomination continu...

Senator Clinton, Leading Clergy, Community Leaders Support Local 32BJ 'Stand For Security' Campaign Call-to-Action Event Honors Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. NEW YORK, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Senator Hillary Clinton, leading clergy and community leaders today voiced their support for Local 32BJ's campaign to raise standards for private security officers at an event at the Manhattan Center honoring the life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Brooklyn Congregations Together, a group of eleven churches in central Brooklyn, co-sponsored the event with Local 32BJ on the eve of Dr. King's birthday. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020918/SEIULOGO ) "Dr. King taught us that civil rights and economic justice go hand-in-hand," said Michael Fishman, Local 32BJ President. "Our campaign for justice for security officers - who earn poverty-like wages protecting million dollar buildings - is an appropriate way to carry on King's legacy....

4 Dec 2007 00:06 Africa/Lagos Clinton, Thompson Win First Presidential 'Primary' Nation's Social Studies Teachers Flex Voting Muscles and Choose '08 Contenders Pearson Sponsors Presidential Primary at National Council for the Social Studies Annual Event SAN DIEGO, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee are the top choices for the 2008 Democratic and Republican nominations for President of the United States, according to the nation's first Presidential "Primary" of voters at the National Council for the Social Studies annual conference in San Diego. Sponsored by Pearson, more than 700 of the nation's social studies teachers flexed their voting muscles and put the principles they teach about every day into action by casting their votes. Senator Clinton won her party's nod with 41.9% of the vote. Senator Thompson was the Republicans' top choice wit...

Call For Nominations For The 2008 Br!ck Awards « on: Today at 01:57:05 AM » “The Oscars of youth service awards…”-CNN. Since 1996, The BR!CK Awards have honored the nation’s finest young world-changers. Winners represent the best in their field or issue and are rewarded with a huge community grant and a special televised award ceremony. Know how athletes have the Olympics and singers have the Grammy’s? It’s about time world-changers have their special night too. The goal of the BR!CK Awards is to shine the spotlight on these amazing leaders and give them the recognition and applause normally given to athletes, actors, and certain “personalities” or socialites who will remain unnamed…You could say that The BR!CK Awards ARE THE ANTI-AWARD SHOW. Instead of asking “who are you wearing?” the show asks “what are you doing?” Celebrities are included as presenters, not honorees. Former winners include a homeless teenager-turned lawyer who sued New York City for failing to provide adequate supp...

Dear Orikinla, Your support for the Control Arms campaign, helped 153 governments to vote for starting work on a international Arms Trade Treaty at the First Committee meeting of the United Nations, last year. Read the Control Arms campaign blog for the latest events and news from the United Nations meeting in New York. This year, the Control Arms campaigners are taking your demand for a world with better arms controls to the First Committee once again, to ensure governments keep moving forward and don’t let the Arms Trade Treaty process get derailed. Also at this meeting, Control Arms will be delivering the stories and experiences of people who have been impacted by armed violence to United Nations delegates, as part of the Global People’s Consultation on the Arms Trade Treaty. The consultation, which was conducted this year with over 100 events happening around the world, details the unreported everyday tragedies of how an unregulated arms trade affects ordinary people and strengthen...