As the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) prepares to launch the first annual National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on March 10th throughout the United States, Community Education Group (CEG), a DC-based agency, prepares to launch two new initiatives: “Dusk to Dawn,” a community event in collaboration with other local agencies and “One of Five” a campaign to get women and girls discussing HIV and other health issues within their social and familial networks. The primary purpose of Dusk to Dawn is to raise awareness and inspire women and girls to start talking openly about HIV/AIDS and get tested for HIV on March 10, 2006.
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U.S. Leading Index Increases Sharply in January.
The Conference Board announced that the U.S. leading index increased 1.1 percent, the coincident index increased 0.2 percent and the lagging index increased 0.7 percent in January.
The leading index increased sharply in January, and it has increased in five of the last six months.
Arbitron Overview of Ethnic Measurement and Reporting Enhancements.
Arbitron Inc. released an overview of the two ethnic measurement and reporting enhancements implemented in the Winter 2006 Radio Survey: Personal Race/Ethnicity and Language Weighting.
Latinos less likely than other groups to seek emergency food assistance.
According to Hunger in America 2006, the largest, most-comprehensive study ever conducted on domestic hunger, more than 25 million Americans—including nearly 5 million Latinos, nearly 10 million Caucasians and nearly 10 million African Americans—receive emergency food assistance from America’s Second Harvest—The Nation’s Food Bank Network each year.
Football’s ‘Crown Jewel’ ‘The FIFA World Cup Trophy’ Makes Its U.S. Stop.
Thousands of football fans got a rare, up close-and-personal look at the coveted ‘jewel in the crown of world football’ when the three-month, 28-nation FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour by Coca-Cola made its U.S. stop in Los Angeles.
Pantene Pro-V: A Frizzy situation.
” La solucion intensiva para un liso definido y perfectamente disciplinado. Su formula con pro-vitaminas hidrata cada hebra de cabello, ayudadndo a evitar que peirda agua, se reseque y aparezca el frizz.”
I speak Spanish and I speak it well, damnit. But why is it that my once a week intense moisture hair treatment has the description and directions in Spanish?
Continental Confusion.
I don’t know who I am. People often ask; “where are you from?”. I say “I don’t even know. My mom is Colombian, my father was born in Spain, I was born in Miami but raised in Uruguay, my sister was born there and my grandparents are from Argentina and Portugal.” I look like I am from Alabama.
Nike’s Goal of Becoming the World’s Leading Football Brand.
In the heart of the stadium where the title of the world’s best football team will be determined this summer, NIKE unveiled national team uniforms, displayed the breadth and depth of its most innovative football product line ever and highlighted its growth momentum in becoming the leading football brand, dedicated to the joy of playing the world’s most beautiful game.
mun2 launches Latino Youth-only study.
mun2 in conjunction with Look-Look, a consumer research, marketing and trend forecasting company specializing in youth culture, will host me2: Understanding the Young Latino in America, a groundbreaking look at the values that drive the highly-coveted 14-34 Latino demographic.
El Exit does not mean ‘Exito’ in Spanish.
After the chain resignations of its key leadership, a quieter, more gradual exodus has become persistent at The Bravo Group. A new departure this past week, Mosaica’s creative head Jaime Jara, came to expose this new, seemingly unstoppable trend made even more puzzling because no replacements or solutions are sought.
