| Fleishman-Hillard’s Dana Hughens Named to PRSA Counselors Academy
RALEIGH, N.C. (January 14, 2008) Fleishman-Hillard International Communications, one of the worlds leading public relations firms, announced today that Dana Hughens, a senior vice president with Fleishman Hillards North Carolina offices, was named to the Public Relations Society of Americas Counselors Academy. Founded more than 40 years ago, the Counselors Academy is an exclusive organization dedicated to providing principals and senior counselors of public relations firms with the resources to grow their firms and the counseling skills of their peoples. More than 550 Counselors Academy members are committed to building and maintaining a peer network of senior professionals. Fleishman-Hillard prides itself on hiring strong leaders who work well together as a team.
Quran, prayer rug requested
A Saudi Arabian man who allegedly admitted perusing child pornography is demanding a Quran and a prayer rug while behind bars. Nasir Ehmood Alkhallefa, 28, insisted at an arraignment hearing before U.S. District Magistrate Judge Clifford Shirley on Thursday that officials provide him with the Islamic religious text and rug, a small embroidered cloth used to keep the area of Islamic prayer clean, while he is jailed pending trial on federal possession of child pornography charges. Shirley told Alkhallefa, who has been using toilet paper to construct a makeshift prayer rug, to take up his demands with jailers in Blount County, where most federal inmates are housed. The Saudi, who is represented by attorneys Donald A. Bosch and Ann Short-Bowers, is accused in federal court records of possessing more than 100 images of child pornography on his laptop computer.
Killer law
A very poor single mother, the 28-year-old's home was a shack on a mountain near the town of Ocotal in Nicaragua. She made the best of it. The shack was spotless, the children scrubbed. She earned money by washing clothes in the river and making and selling tortillas. That nowast quite enough to feed her four young children and her elderly mother, so every few months González caught a bus to Managua, the capital, and slaved for a week washing and ironing clothes. The pay was three times better, about £2.60 a day, and by staying with two aunts she cut her costs. She would return to her hamlet with a little nest-egg in her purse. She bought herself one treat - a pair of red shoes - but she would leave them with her family in Managua, as they were no good on the mountain trails she had to go up to get home.
She's smiling through the pain
Q Let's get right to it. Describe what happened to your foot. A I was going up for a rebound, and I came down on my left foot wrong. I heard a crack. It's called a Jones fracture, which the trainer said is really rare for a young athlete. But, yeah, I'm out for six to eight weeks. Q Did you immediately think you'd be out for the season? A I didn't think I'd be out for that long. I didn't think that could happen to me. But I knew it wasn't a minor injury because I got up and I tried to run again and it felt like half my foot was missing. It was really painful. The trainer asked me to walk to the locker room at halftime, and I couldn't put any pressure on it at all. I knew it was bad. Q How tough has it been to watch the games rather than play? A It's hard to watch.
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