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In Wake of Admissions Scandal, College Consultants Group Steps Up

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IECA issued a press release explaining what good educational consultants do, and Sklarow fielded calls from major media outlets like USA Today , the Los Angeles Times , and the Chicago Tribune. We urged them to do letters to the editor of their local paper and gave them key bullet points to discuss.”.

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ACLU Campaign Introduces Californians to Their District Attorneys

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Many DAs aren’t used to voters paying attention to them,” Ana Zamora, the ACLU of Northern California’s criminal justice policy director, said in an interview with NBC Los Angeles. There is also an option for constituents to email their respective DAs directly. The ‘Hey DA Campaign’ in California will change that.

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NBA Players Look to Bench Amid Donald Sterling Crisis

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Award Revoked The NAACP had to reverse course over the weekend after it was revealed the association’s Los Angeles chapter had planned to give the Clippers’ owner a lifetime-achievement award next month. “If you’re silent about this, then you’re accepting this,” she said.

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Travel Agents to Critics: We’re Not Dead Yet!

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In 143 million transactions, those agencies sold $86 billion worth of air travel (64 percent of the market),” ASTA stated in a press release. In the end, the reaction drew more attention than the slight itself—with The Los Angeles Times , Time magazine , and The Washington Post picking up the story.

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Labor Tensions Cause Port Headaches for Retail, Manufacturing Industries

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A shipping consultant told The Los Angeles Times that the stoppage was so painful that it took 100 days for ports on the West Coast to resume normal operations. In 2002, after a 10-day work stoppage at the ports, President George W. “Enough is enough,” NRF said in a statement last week.

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Despite Perception, Many Women Are Gamers, Too

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The ESA’s press release announcing the report also noted that”46 percent of the time [women] are the most frequent game purchasers.” The ESA’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) conference, held last week in Los Angeles, shows the growing pains the industry still faces in appealing to women.

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Can You Better Serve Your Tradeshow Market?

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So, he started throwing small industry festivals in his Los Angeles warehouse. Levant is a go-getter: He launched a clothing brand at 16 and attended large fashion tradeshows to get the word out. As an exhibitor, he noticed it was hard to get his product noticed among larger, more well-known fashion brands.