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Region 9 Head Start Association
Astronaut Joe Hernandez: The International Language of Math Served As Path To The Final Frontier When Astronaut Jose M. Hernandez floated through the tunnel connecting the Space Shuttle Discovery to the then-under-construction International Space Station, he spoke to the commander—a cosmonaut—in Russian. Hernandez knew the language because while previously working at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, he was part of a team assisting the Russian Federation protect its nuclear stockpiles, and he had visited the country and had learned Russian as part of that job. “I greeted him in Russian, and he was very appreciative that…someone on the U.S. side has taken the time to learn the Russian language,” Hernandez recalled. Read More Here Dinosaur expert: Reconnecting children to nature will be a key to our planet’s survival You might call renowned paleontologist and children’s TV host Dr. Scott Sampson a poster child for STEM education. The director of the San Francisco-based California Academy of Sciences was raised on dinosaurs—fed a steady diet in books, in-class—even ate them! Yes, that’s a fun fact that Dr. Sampson enjoys bringing up when talking to children. You have a dinosaur for dinner when you eat chicken or turkey. Or expressed another way: “Dinosaurs aren’t extinct!” he says. Read More Here Family Engagement Keynote Anthony Barrows: Applying Behavioral Science to Program Design Do you know what’s best for you and your family? This simple question keynote speaker Anthony Barrows often asks his audiences. It is a question born from his own hard experience growing up in the projects of Boston. Barrows, 42, is a Head Start alumni. He was a foster child. He was a social services worker. He knows the system. He knows it focuses more often on getting people to comply, rather than getting them what they need. | Read More Here Family Found A Path to Success from Homelessness We who have homes and jobs and health insurance can become jaded to why people experience homelessness. Typical generalizations are: They don’t work hard enough, they drink, they had too many kids, they run afoul of the law. What is also likely true is an individual or a family can become homeless because of bad luck, ill health—or as thousands of Northern Californians recently—wildfire. But imagine if you didn’t have a place to sleep at night—and still had a job. Or are living in someone’s garage or “couch-surfing” with family or friends—and then add children to the scenario. When you add in the kids—toddlers, especially—not having a stable place to live takes homelessness to a deeper dimension of pain. | Read More |
California Asian-Pacific Chamber of Commerce
CalAsian Chamber receives additional grant for $750,000 to expand operation of Sacramento MBDA Export Center As a testament for ongoing work assisting minority business enterprises (MBE), the California Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce (CalAsian Chamber) has received an additional grant for $750,000 from the U.S. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) to continue operating the Sacramento MBDA Export Center. The award is in addition to the $250,000 the CalAsian Chamber previously received for the MBDA Export Center, which provides technical assistance and business development services to MBEs. “We believe now more than ever there needs to be entities like ours engaged in helping our MBEs succeed in trade to the Pacific Rim,” said Pat Fong Kushida, President & CEO of the CalAsian Chamber. “Consumers there are becoming the economic drivers globally, and with the MDBA’s assistance, API and other minority California businesses are better able to participate in this economic opportunity.” | Read More on PDF 
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California Outback Report | ANewsCafe.com
A Thumbnail Sketch: Covid-19’s Economic Impacts and Opportunities By H.A. Silliman | April 2020 While the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the pause button for the world’s economies, the question of what happens next—and what should happen next—is being debated by the business and economic development community. What follows is merely a sliver of current observations and commentary about the North America, Chinese and the European Union markets. | Read More Here Car talk: Caltrans Collects Comments to Improve a High Desert Highway By H.A. Silliman | May 30, 2017 Highway 395 runs along California’s eastern side—a backbone highway figuratively—and a lonely one, too. Not as lonely as Nevada’s Highway 50—the so-called “Loneliest Road in America,” but Highway 395 travels a route through country that is high desert and scrub, shuttered towns and isolated cattle ranches with those sweeping, circular wheel lines that water the heck out of alfalfa fields. It actually slices through four states—California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington—serving as a route for goods movement, commuters and vacationers: some 1,300 miles that can be traversed at highway speeds in 23 hours. At night—especially warm summer evenings when the stars are out full-bore—you can have that all-American road-trip experience: windows down, freedom flying in your hair. Unless you’re listening to Coast-to-Coast AM radio show with George Noory. Then the dark side emerges: You suddenly realize—the highway is great place for an alien abduction. | Read More Here. |
Sacramento Press.com
CIA Director tells Cap-to-Cap delegates: Cyber attack could be next 'Pearl Harbor' By Hal Silliman | April 20, 2010 WASHINGTON D.C.—Central Intelligence Agency director Leon Panetta told 300 Sacramento Metro Chamber Cap-to-Cap delegates that the next “Pearl Harbor” is likely to be an attack on the United States’ power, financial, military and other Internet systems. Panetta addressed the Sacramento delegation that includes 43 elected officials and hundreds of business and civic leaders who are in Washington D.C. for the annual program that advocates for the region’s most pressing policy issues. He spoke on Monday, April 19, during the Cap-to-Cap opening breakfast. “Cyber terrorism” is a new area of concern for the CIA, Panetta said. The United States faces thousands of cyber attacks daily on its Internet networks. The attacks are originating in Russia, China, Iran and from even hackers. | Read More Here. |
