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Aug. 2 Colville; Aug. 9 Spokane: ‘Firewise 101′ workshop offers wildfire prevention advice
July 19th, 2011
SPOKANE, Wash. – Are you concerned about wildfire threatening your home or property? Firewise 101, a workshop co-sponsored by Washington State University Extension and the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, offers practical advice and resources to reduce unnecessary losses from wildfires.
Firewise 101 is an introductory, interactive educational event for homeowners, forest landowners and anyone interested in how to reduce the risks to life and property in the wildland-urban interface. If you live in the wildland-urban interface, this is a great opportunity to learn how to prepare for the next wildfire.
On Tuesday, Aug. 2, at the WSU Stevens County Extension office in Colville and Tuesday, Aug. 9, at the WSU Spokane County Extension office in Spokane, participants will learn what they need to help meet their individual wildfire protection/prevention goals. This includes a wildfire hazard assessment of each participant’s home. Both classes begin at 6 p.m. and will end around 8 p.m.
The program is free and open to the public. Registration forms are available at local WSU Extension offices, and online at . If possible, please register by July 29.
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New franchising course for students and community members
July 19th, 2011
A long-awaited franchising course to help entrepreneurs learn networking strategies that will enhance business success will be offered this fall at California State University, Fresno for students and community members.
The Division of Continuing and Global Education, in conjunction with the Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Fresno State, will provide the hands-on three-unit course. It’s for university students and others considering becoming a franchisee, franchising an existing business or who want to work in the franchise industry.
The class will meet 6-9 p.m. Wednesdays beginning Aug. 31.
Students will examine franchising from franchisor and franchisee perspectives. Topics include evaluating franchising opportunities, developing best franchising strategies and practices, successfully planning and launching franchise networks and franchised outlets, and dealing with changes over time.
Dr. Timothy Stearns, executive director of the Lyles Center, said the course will “maximize the odds for success in today’s franchising world.” He noted the goal of the class is to have each student create a business network and to be better prepared to start a business enterprise.
Alan Rudominer, a retail executive with more than 25 years’ experience, is the instructor. The class will meet in the Lyles Center on the second floor of the Student Recreation Center on Woodrow Avenue near Shaw Avenue. The fee for the course is $630.
To register, visit www.csufresno.edu/cge/registration or call 559.279.0333.
Tags: Franchising Course, Students
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Kids visiting carousel exhibit at Fresno State get free ride later
July 16th, 2011
Children 12 and younger who visit the free “Carousel Animals at Fresno State” exhibition through Aug. 31 will receive a voucher for a complimentary ride on the carousel at Rotary Storyland and Playland at Roeding Park in Fresno.
The vouchers allow children to rid at the family amusement park near downtown Fresno anytime until Nov. 13 to experience for themselves the inspiration for the hand-carved animals that coveyed millions of people around and around in late 19th- and early-20th-century America.
The exhibition at California State University, Fresno’s Henry Madden Library features 44 ornately decorated wooden sculptures from the extensive collection of Larry Freels of Fresno.
The carousel animals are not confined to the Peters Ellipse Galleries on the library’s second and third floors, but also are spread across the north end of the first floor, where they’re on view to anyone strolling in the adjacent Peace Garden.
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Huskies advance all boats at IRAs
July 15th, 2011
The No. 1 Washington men’s crew team opened up the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) Championship with a bang Thursday.
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The UW men’s crew team advanced all five boats yesterday at the IRA championships.
All five of the UW boats participating at the IRAs in Camden, N.J., were able to advance to Friday’s semifinals. Four of the boats — varsity eight, second varsity eight, open four and the varsity four — were able to win their respective heats, with the freshman eight boat finishing second to Princeton.
“We got into qualifying positions, and we’re in a good spot for the semifinals,” UW head men’s crew coach Michael Callahan told Gohuskies.com. “So, in a sense, we got what we wanted.”
Gusts of wind prevented the UW men from winning their heats by large margins, as choppy waters kept the UW’s powerful crew teams from getting any momentum going.
“We had readings up to 15 mph,” Callahan said. “It was blowing all over the place.”
The Huskies are in the hunt for their 14th national title and their fifth consecutive Ten Eyck Trophy, given to the overall team champion.
The UW will be back on the water Friday and hope to advance to Saturday’s grand finals.
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Interview with Adam McKeown, author of Melancholy Order
July 14th, 2011
Migration control is the last bastion of open discrimination in the modern world.—Adam McKeown
Question: What is Melancholy Order about?
Adam McKeown: Melancholy Order argues that immigration restrictions and border control have by no means been indispensable to national sovereignty. In fact, their origins go back only to the late nineteenth century—to the exclusion of Asians from liberal white settler nations. Before that, in the middle of the nineteenth century, international opinion and laws favored free mobility as one of the rights of man and a cornerstone of economic progress. Attempts to justify Asian exclusion to international and domestic critics helped establish the basic principles of modern migration control: that migration should be controlled at national borders; that it was entirely a domestic issue and not the concern of international diplomacy; and that humans have no rights at national borders. The enforcement of these laws also produced the basic mechanisms of migration control and identification, especially the extraction of migrants from social networks that produced identity and their reinsertion into a matrix of bureaucratically defined categories. By the 1920s these principles and methods, originally forged in a burst of racist segregation and believed to be a temporary expedient, became the norm in most countries around the world.
Q: Everyone talks about globalization these days. What is the globalization of borders?
A.M.: Globalization is often understood as a challenge to national borders. In fact, the dramatic growth of global flows in the past two centuries has come hand in hand with the modern international system, well-policed borders, and the imagination and enforcement of difference. The very act of proclaiming that we live in a “new” age of globalization (a proclamation heard repeatedly since the 1830s) is an act of forgetting the extent to which the world is already a product of dense interaction. The creation of legal, physical, political, and cultural borders has been crucial to that forgetting.
Similarly, the regulation of migration has both facilitated and restricted flows. The creation of standardized and streamlined passports, visas and inspection procedures has greatly facilitated the movement of a “globalizing class” of people who can obtain such documents and are free to move around the world. It has simultaneously created a class that is not free to move except under conditions of close surveillance and promises to return. The regional differences in wages and skill created by such restrictions help to make the movement of goods, money, and information even more lucrative and necessary.
Q: Is that what you mean by a “melancholy order?”
A.M.: “Melancholy order” is borrowed from the parable of the gatekeeper in Kafka’s The Trial. The priest who shared multiple interpretations the parable with the protagonist, K, concluded that “it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.” K responded that this was, “A melancholy conclusion. It turns lying into a universal principle.”
Migration control is the last bastion of open discrimination in the modern world. It has its roots in the “self-evident” ideas of civilization, self-determination, and the rights of man but also in the equally self-evident facts of fear, self-protection, and xenophobia. Now, the need to further “manage” mobility by strengthening and refining discrimination is frequently justified in terms of simultaneously promoting human rights and national prosperity. But most of these reforms are reinforcements of precisely the ideals and policies of the past, policies that created the unsatisfactory situation we now feel needs to be improved. We may be firmly committed to many of the ideals that motivate immigration reform. But few of these ideals have provided a straight path to human emancipation, equal rights, or security. All of them have run up against their own contradictions. It only looks like a progressive path when we forget and create borders around certain portions of the past. In other words, we need to build institutions based on self-deception if we are to continue acting in support of our ideals.
Q: Does your book suggest any ways to deal with current immigration challenges?
A.M.: No, it does not. My book shows only how we have come to understand immigration problems in the ways that we do and why we constantly return to the same kinds of solutions. Most proposals for immigration reform must come from within that shared understanding. A position outside that understanding is inherently impractical. Ultimately, the contradictions that suffuse our discussions of immigration are the same contradictions that shape us as humans, problems which are at heart insoluble.
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