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Holiday Celebrations Southwest Style

Many returned to their offices today after the Thanksgiving holiday to see the predictable appearance of twinkling lights and poinsettia plants in the lobby. The holiday season is upon us, and therefore so is the season of holiday office events. If you're a manager who's less than thrilled about planning...

Tags: Team management, Jessica Stillman, Southwest Airlines Co., celebration

Blog posts 2007-11-26

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Slow Food Nation Scheduled for Labor Day Weekend in San Francisco

FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Slow Food Nation Scheduled for Labor Day Weekend in San FranciscoC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Slow Food Nation, the largest celebration of American food in history, will take place in San Francisco over Labor Day weekend, August 29 to September 1. ...

Articles 2009-06-08

McDonald's Offers DreamWorks' 'Kung Fu Panda' Global Happy Meal

FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-McDonald's Offers DreamWorks' 'Kung Fu Panda' Global Happy MealC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Celebrating the debut of McDonald's "Kung Fu Panda" Happy Meal promotion, McDonald's, DreamWorks Animation SKG and Conservation International are creating Panda-mania by inviting kids and families to a one-of-a-kind "Kung...

Articles 2009-06-08

John Wayne centennial holster set

From DeSantis This DeSantis Gunhide exclusive package is a fitting tribute to one of the film industry's most beloved icons. In five decades of Hollywood classics, John Wayne mastered the role of Western hero like no other actor in cinema history. Now, celebrate his long and extraordinary career...

Articles 2008-08-01

Slim down your summer picnic: Vegan chef and environmentalist Renee Loux applies her plant-friendly philosophy to the backyard barbecue with surprisingly delicious results

SUMMER IS THE TIME OF YEAR WHEN FRUITS AND vegetables are plentiful and perfect no matter where you live. So why do so many warmweather celebrations center on burgers, steaks, and hot dogs? This year, try putting lusious produce in the spotlight and turn the traditional barbecue into a vegetarian...

Articles 2008-07-01

Scoring first

Imagine hauling in a perfectly thrown spiral from Super Bowl champs Kurt Warner and Brad Johnson. Or lining up against other current and former NFL greats such as Anquan Boldin, Larry Fitzgerald, Ricky Proehl, Torry Holt and Mark Rypien, while playing in the Arizona Cardinals' state-of-the-art facility. That's...

Articles 2008-07-01

Questions & answers with former Yankee Bobby Murcer: All-Star outfielder revives his memories of Mickey Mantle and Thurman Munson, and names Mickey Lolich his toughest pitching opponent

BOBBY MURCER PLAYED 17 YEARS in the majors including 13 seasons with the Yankees, batting .277 with 252 home runs, 1,043 RBI and one Gold Glove while being named to five All-Star squads. After he retired as a player in 1983, he became a member of the Yankees...

Articles 2008-07-01

Making the cover

[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] When the EBONY editors began thinking about what July means to Black people, fun emerged as an all-time favorite idea. The warm weather really does become our clarion call for being outside enjoying friends and family---or going on our own personal adventures. Got that, but who...

Articles 2008-07-01

Sisterspeak

Thanks so much for the Sisterspeak column, "Love Yourself First" (May 2008), by Dominique Dawes. It's hard to believe a pretty, petite, young woman who had enough inner confidence (in spite of the immense pressure!) to win the gold medal at the Olympics would have a problem with self-esteem. I...

Articles 2008-07-01

Best festivals: from concerts to crawfish to deep-dish pizza, some of the best fun happens under the sun

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MIAMI: Zo's Summer Groove, July 9-July 13, www.zsg.com Now entering its 12th year of celebration, Zo's Summer Groove invites you to party hard with NBA All-Star Alonzo Mourning and his fellow Miamian Dwyane Wade in a weekend's worth of events--from the deadly serious to...

Articles 2008-07-01

Atlanta's National Black Arts Festival celebrates 20th anniversary

IN JULY, MANY ROADS WILL LEAD TO ATLANTA and the National Black Arts Festival. And that's by design, says the festival's executive director, Stephanie Hughley. She says initial feasibility studies pointed to Atlanta as the "mecca, our center of Black culture," and the 20th anniversary is a "great milestone" for...

Articles 2008-07-01

Sandow's legacy

Eugen Sandow, whose face and form grace bodybuilding's highest award, the Mr. Olympia trophy, died in 1952 and, during the years since his passing, the burial plot of the" Father of Modern Bodybuilding" in Putney Vale Cemetery in London, England, had no gravestone. Chris Davies, Sandow's great-grandson, amended...

Articles 2008-07-01

Hard times slap happy

We knew Peter Putnam was a fan of slapstick, but we didn't know the man had a slap shot. On February 16, while Phil Heath was icing the competition at the Ironman Pro, Putnam was on the ice showing he's not a one-trick pony. Putnam and wife Jessica were in...

Articles 2008-07-01

Toning up with …: Giuliana Rancic

News flash! Giuliana Rancic, E! host, red carpet correspondent, and author of the dating guide Think Like a Man, admits she works her butt off to look good. "I hate it when celebrities say they never exercise but are really in the gym five days a week," says Giuliana. "So...

Articles 2008-07-01

Ebony celebrates outstanding women in marketing and communications

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] STRONG LEADERSHIP AND GOOD DEEDS SHOULD NEVER GO UNNOTICED. With this sentiment, Johnson Publishing Company President and CEO Linda Johnson Rice brought together 500 people to celebrate the achievements of 10 trailblazing Black women. At the ninth annual EBONY Outstanding Women in Marketing &...

Articles 2008-07-01

DANIEL LERNER, COLD WAR PROPAGANDA AND US DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION RESEARCH: AN HISTORICAL CRITIQUE

INTRODUCTION In scholarly works celebrating the genesis and growth of U.S. communication research, the two most notable being that of Rogers1and Everette & Wartella,2 readers would commonly find considerable pages dedicated to the lives and works of pioneering researchers such as Wilbur Schramm, Harold Lasswell and Robert Merton, but...

Articles 2008-06-30

National Nurses Week 2008 Message from ANA President Rebecca M. Patton, MSN, RN, CNOR

Greetings! As we celebrate National Nurses Week 2008 NNW May 6-12, the American Nurses Association ANA and its constituent member associations CMAs salute nurses across the country with the theme Nurses: Making a Difference Every Day. Nursing is often described as both an art and a science; this year's theme...

Articles 2008-06-30

National Nurses Week History

National Nurses Week begins each year on May 6th and ends on May 12th, Florence Nightingale's birthday. These permanent dates enhance planning and position National Nurses Week as an established recognition event. As of 1998, May 8 was designated as National Student Nurses Day, to be celebrated annually. And as...

Articles 2008-06-30

Members In The News

Congratulations to Gail Stuart, PhD, APRN, BC, FAAN of Folly Beach, for being selected by the ANA Board of Directors to receive the 2008 Hildegard Peplau Award. The award will be presented to her at the honorary awards ceremony held on Thursday, June 26, 2008 during the ANA House of...

Articles 2008-06-30

Enigma Woman: THE DEATH SENTENCE OF NELLIE MAY MADISON, The

The Enigma Woman THE DEATH SENTENCE OF NELLIE MAY MADISON Kathleen A. Cairns University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2007. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, xi + 295 pp. $25.95 cloth. Throughout the 1930s, the exploits of John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, and others splashed...

Articles 2008-06-30