Honoring and Remembering Ray Charles 80th Birthday Celebration

On Thursday, September 23, 2010 Tribute, Honor and Remember Ray Charles 80th Birthday Celebration was held at his Hollywood Walk of Fame Star in Hollywood Blvd.

Ray Charles Star is located at 6777 Hollywood Blvd in the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame street.

Ray Charles Jr. and family in conjunction with FSCM Bank & FSCM Milestone Mortgage remember Ray Charles on the date he was born.


Some of the family and friends who attended the celebration were Aaron Joshua, Ray Charles Jr., and  Emile Auguste Jr. Ray Charles Jr and family received commendation from the City of Los Angeles and The Senate on behalf of Ray Charles.

Ray Charles was born on September 23, 1930  and passed away on June 10, 2004, his real and legal name was Ray Charles Robinson. For more information about Ray Charles visit http://raycharles.com/

About Ray Charles:
Ray Charles Robinson (Born September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. Ray was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm & blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records.[1][2][3] He also helped racially integrate country and pop musicduring the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums.[4][5][6] While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-Americanmusicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.[2]]

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Charles andhttp://www.raycharles.com

Photos Courtesy of Gisele Rebeiro fromPartyBy5.Com

The Meaning of Labor Day Celebration in The United States of America

Diversity News Publications who publishes Diversity News Magazine and other online publications wants to share with you the meaning of Labor Day.

We hope  this information can help you by  learning something new. And yes take the WEEKEND OFF to celebrate safe and fun way with your loved ones and take a REST.


The History of Labor Day

Labor Day: How it Came About; What it Means

Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.


Founder of Labor Day

More than 100 years after the first Labor Day observance, there is still some doubt as to who first proposed the holiday for workers.

Some records show that Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and a cofounder of the American Federation of Labor, was first in suggesting a day to honor those “who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold.”

But Peter McGuire’s place in Labor Day history has not gone unchallenged. Many believe that Matthew Maguire, a machinist, not Peter McGuire, founded the holiday. Recent research seems to support the contention that Matthew Maguire, later the secretary of Local 344 of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson, N.J., proposed the holiday in 1882 while serving as secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York. What is clear is that the Central Labor Union adopted a Labor Day proposal and appointed a committee to plan a demonstration and picnic.

The First Labor Day

The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union. The Central Labor Union held its second Labor Day holiday just a year later, on September 5, 1883.

In 1884 the first Monday in September was selected as the holiday, as originally proposed, and the Central Labor Union urged similar organizations in other cities to follow the example of New York and celebrate a “workingmen’s holiday” on that date. The idea spread with the growth of labor organizations, and in 1885 Labor Day was celebrated in many industrial centers of the country.

Labor Day Legislation

Through the years the nation gave increasing emphasis to Labor Day. The first governmental recognition came through municipal ordinances passed during 1885 and 1886. From them developed the movement to secure state legislation. The first state bill was introduced into the New York legislature, but the first to become law was passed by Oregon on February 21, 1887. During the year four more states — Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York — created the Labor Day holiday by legislative enactment. By the end of the decade Connecticut, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania had followed suit. By 1894, 23 other states had adopted the holiday in honor of workers, and on June 28 of that year, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories.

A Nationwide Holiday

The form that the observance and celebration of Labor Day should take were outlined in the first proposal of the holiday — a street parade to exhibit to the public “the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations” of the community, followed by a festival for the recreation and amusement of the workers and their families. This became the pattern for the celebrations of Labor Day. Speeches by prominent men and women were introduced later, as more emphasis was placed upon the economic and civic significance of the holiday. Still later, by a resolution of the American Federation of Labor convention of 1909, the Sunday preceding Labor Day was adopted as Labor Sunday and dedicated to the spiritual and educational aspects of the labor movement.

The character of the Labor Day celebration has undergone a change in recent years, especially in large industrial centers where mass displays and huge parades have proved a problem. This change, however, is more a shift in emphasis and medium of expression. Labor Day addresses by leading union officials, industrialists, educators, clerics and government officials are given wide coverage in newspapers, radio, and television.

The vital force of labor added materially to the highest standard of living and the greatest production the world has ever known and has brought us closer to the realization of our traditional ideals of economic and political democracy. It is appropriate, therefore, that the nation pay tribute on Labor Day to the creator of so much of the nation’s strength, freedom, and leadership — the American worker.

Source: http://www.dol.gov/opa/aboutdol/laborday.htm

Wake UP! Media Giving Away Cash To Help Others Follow Their Passion

On September 3, 2010 Wake Up Media announced on a press release that it will be giving a way cash & prizes, including the opportunity to win $25,000 in cash to explore and find your passion.

Many people that are old enough to work have no idea what they “want to be when they grow up”.  If they do know, often times they are so focused on maintaining their current job in order to survive, that they never explore their passion and what means the most to them.
A Los Angeles based media company is turning the power of the internet and television into an inspirational tool to motivate people to follow their dreams.


Over the next several months Wake UP! Media will be hosting the Cash for your Passion™ Sweepstakes, which will give audiences a chance to win monthly cash and prizes and also a chance to win $25,000 in cash. What’s the purpose of the sweepstakes? To engineer a wave of enthusiasm and discussion amongst the participants about what excites them the most in life; to discover what one thing they are truly passionate about and recognize ways to pursue that passion. “To empower others to live their lives to the fullest.” Said Ryan Ray, The company founder.

Wake UP! Media was founded in 2008 and is a passionate producer of inspiring and motivating content for the new millennium. From original television series to engaging new media content, all programming is designed to leave audiences feeling enlightened and empowered. Wake UP!
Media content is distributed through the web portal, Wake UP! TV, as well as through a variety of digital video networks around the world.

For more information please contact Kelly Ray at 323-387-3896 or email Kelly at Kelly@wakeupTV.com or visit http://www.wakeuptv.com

Walker and Night Trains Novels by Joseph J. O’Donnell

Novel Name: Walkers by Joseph J. O’Donnell

Joseph J. O’Donnell’s second book, “Walkers”, centers around one of the  U.S. Army’s black box programs hatched out their ’skunk works’ at Fort Meade.
Here, mind control projects have created agents possessing the ability to penetrate the deepest secrets of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Following the end of hostilities the government abandoned the project and scattered those involved back into various branches of the service.

Publishers and Filmmakers Inquiries welcome ! Contact at e-mail address below.’

One renegade general kept the project alive, however, and heightened selected agents by extending their ability to become assassins. Now that his plans were discovered, his trained agents were to become the tools to eliminate those opposed to the project. This would include the President of the United States.

Two FBI agents, along with a lone dissenter of the general’s ’school of thought’, was all that stood between democracy and despotism. The author’s ability to hold his readers from the very beginning, through the final pages, will surely make this a memorable book to fit in with such classics as ‘Seven Days In May’ and ‘The Manchurian Candidate’.

Novel Name: Night Trains by Joseph J. O’Donnell

‘Publishers and Filmmakers Inquiries welcome ! Contact at e-mail address below.’
Information:
In his first novel, ‘Night Trains’, in what began as a simple assault quickly became the ultimate battle between good and evil. The story revolves around a killer in the New York City subways.
This is no ordinary killer though. He can thwart the best of police efforts to apprehend him and his ability to do so stems far beyond the possibilities of reality….into the realms of the supernatural.

Contact Information:

E-mail: fictionwriterodonnell@yahoo.com

Links:

http://www.fictionwriterodonnell.com/

Editor’s Note: The above novel/movie trailers have been published with permission from the author.

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