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oThe Arabic Language workshop was moderated by Suzanne Talhouk. The problems that were defined were the lack of love for the Arabic language, the poor perceived image of Arabic speakers and a lack of cultural Arabic production that draws the Arab youth. To counter those issues the group proposed several solutions. A) Media campaign to raise awareness, B) leading by example through usage of the Arabic language, C) legislating laws to protect the Arabic language in schools, D) increasing Arabic content on the internet
Round 360° panorama of our neighborhood about 9:00 AM this morning after a moderate amount of snow during the night. Only light shoveling was required, fortunately. Color/processing variant.
David Adjaye was joined by Jeffrey Schnapp, Nader Tehrani, Ginnie Cooper and Chris Bourg, moderated by Ana Miljački, to discuss the changing role of libraries as spaces for collections, research, technology and public engagement. David Adjaye discussed his innovative Idea Stores and the William O. Lockridge/Bellevue and Francis A. Gregory libraries in Washington, D.C. designed by Adjaye Associates during the tenure of library director Ginnie Cooper. Nader Tehrani shared the strategies, negotiations and challenges of renovating Rhode Island School of Design’s Fleet Library. Professor Jeffrey Schnapp, founder and director of the metaLAB (at) Harvard, author of The Library Beyond the Book and writer and producer of Cold Storage, a documentary about the Harvard Depository, traced the historic role of libraries to speculate on what they will become in the future. Presentations by Adjaye, Tehrani, and Schnapp were followed by insights from highly experienced librarians Ginnie Cooper, Chief Librarian of the District of Columbia Library, and Chris Bourg, Director of MIT Libraries, who chairs a Task Force to examine the evolution of research libraries. Moderated by MIT Associate Professor Ana Miljački.
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African Ambassadors & Diaspora Interactive Form AAIF United Nations buildings International Maritime Organization HQ IMO London. Panel Discussion Moderated by Her Excellency Dr Justina Mutale
Please join us for a lunchtime conversation with Peter Laugharn, President and CEO of The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, moderated by Jane Wales, Vice President and Executive Director of the Aspen Institute’s Program Philanthropy and Social Innovation Program.
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona
Arizona is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States, sharing the Four Corners region of the western United States with Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. Its other neighboring states are Nevada to the northwest and California to the west. It also shares an international border with the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California to the south and southwest. It is the 6th-largest and the 14th-most-populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix, which is the most populous state capital in the United States.
Arizona is the 48th state and last of the contiguous states to be admitted to the Union, achieving statehood on February 14, 1912. Historically part of the territory of Alta California and Nuevo México in New Spain, it became part of independent Mexico in 1821. After being defeated in the Mexican–American War, Mexico ceded much of this territory to the United States in 1848, where the area became part of the territory of New Mexico. The southernmost portion of the state was acquired in 1853 through the Gadsden Purchase.
Southern Arizona is known for its desert climate, with extremely hot summers and mild winters. Northern Arizona features forests of pine, Douglas fir, and spruce trees; the Colorado Plateau; mountain ranges (such as the San Francisco Mountains); as well as large, deep canyons, with much more moderate summer temperatures and significant winter snowfalls. There are ski resorts in the areas of Flagstaff, Sunrise, and Tucson. In addition to the internationally known Grand Canyon National Park, which is one of the world's seven natural wonders, there are several national forests, national parks, and national monuments.
Arizona is home to a diverse population. About one-quarter of the state is made up of Indian reservations that serve as the home of 27 federally recognized Native American tribes, including the Navajo Nation, the largest in the state and the country, with more than 300,000 citizens. Since the 1980s, the proportion of Hispanics has grown significantly owing to migration from Mexico and Central America. A substantial portion of the population are followers of the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Arizona's population and economy have grown dramatically since the 1950s because of inward migration, and the state is now a major hub of the Sun Belt. Cities such as Phoenix and Tucson have developed large, sprawling suburban areas. Many large companies, such as PetSmart and Circle K, have headquarters in the state, and Arizona is home to major universities, including the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and Northern Arizona University. The state is known for a history of conservative politicians such as Barry Goldwater and John McCain, though it has become a swing state in recent years.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingman,_Arizona
Kingman is a city in and the county seat of Mohave County, Arizona, United States. It is named after Lewis Kingman, an engineer for the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. It is located 105 miles (169 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, and 180 miles (290 km) northwest of Arizona's state capital, Phoenix. The population was 32,689 at the 2020 census.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Route_66_museums
Arizona Route 66 Museum
The Arizona Route 66 Museum opened in Kingman, Arizona on September 29, 2001 during Andy Devine Days. The museum, located in the Powerhouse Visitor Center, formerly the Desert Power & Water Co. Electric Power Plant, depicts the historical evolution of travel along the 35th parallel that became Route 66.
Source: www.explorekingman.com/attraction-Powerhouse-Route-66-Mus...
Opened September 2001, the Arizona Route 66 Museum is located in Kingman’s Historic Powerhouse and depicts the historical evolution of travel along the 35th parallel that became Route 66. Visit the Museum text page to see the signs text translated in other languages.
Brilliant murals, photos, and life-size dioramas capture each of the groups that have traveled what came to be known as the Mother Road. Follow the paths of the Native American trade routes and the U. S. Army led survey expeditions. Travel along with the settlers on their migration west over the nation’s first federally funded wagon roads. Feel the hardship and despair of the dust bowl refugees as they journeyed along the Mother Road to a better life. Visit Main Street America as the 50’s usher in fun and excitement for Route 66 travelers.
The Route 66 Museum is truly unique in that it is a museum of history, housed in a historical building that lighted the way for the earliest Route 66 travelers. The building, built in two phases between 1907 and 1911, was operated by the Desert Power & Light Company and powered early Kingman and area mines starting in July, 1909. It also supplied power for the construction of Hoover Dam, until the Dam began producing cheaper hydroelectric power in the late 1930’s. It was soon mothballed, not to be restored until 60 years later when it was opened as a Visitor Center in 1997.
New in 2014, the Route 66 Electric Vehicle Museum, the first of its kind anywhere, is now open and can be accessed only through the Arizona Route 66 Museum! This 3,600 square foot Museum includes twenty-nine (and counting) vehicles on loan from the Historic Electric Vehicle Foundation, with members world-wide. The Foundation’s purpose is to preserve the history of and examples of electric vehicles from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century for all the peoples of the world to enjoy and learn from. The exhibit has been open since December 2014.
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(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "米国" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis" "ארצות הברית" "संयुक्त राज्य" "США"
(Arizona) "أريزونا" "亚利桑那州" "אריזונה" "एरिजोना" "アリゾナ州" "애리조나" "Аризона"
(Kingman) "كينغمان" "金曼" "קינגמן" "किंगमैन" "キングマン" "킹맨" "Кингман"
This I Heart Art Salon Discussion is moderated by "Sister" Diane Gilleland of Craftzine and CraftyPodA.
Online marketing is often based on sharing various kinds of value with the public for free – blog posts, links, project ideas and tutorials. Historically, this free sharing has been seen a cornerstone of growing your readership, expanding your customer base, and finding new opportunties for paid work.
As the online landscape matures, however, many are finding that this sharing can become unsustainable over time. So when is sharing beneficial to your business, and when is it detrimental? There are no easy answers here, but by discussing this emerging issue, we can help each other find our own boundaries. July 13, 2011. Photos by: Matthew Miller
Bent Media
This month we present an exciting moderated panel discussion with members of queer media outlets who will share their knowledge and experience on the ever changing dynamics of print, online, radio, television, and social networking as communication tools. What works, what doesn’t? Is there a future for print publications? Have we reached social media burnout? How do you capture and maintain an audience? What does it take to be a leader?
Panelists:
Shaun Proulx Media – Radio/Television/Online Personality
Andrea Zanin – Sex Geek/Blogger
Serafin LaRiviere – Musician/Freelance Writer
Justin Stayshyn – Social Media Consultant/Hashfag
Jesse Stong – Astrologist/Playwright
Matt Mills – Editor, Xtra Magazine
Moderator: Andrew Vail, writer, The Middle Edge, gayguidetoronto.com
More about this event and Bent Media
The Art Bar (named after a weekly figure drawing class ongoing since 1957) is our storefront room with large windows facing Queen Street West. It is an intimate space for parties, meetings, conferences or exhibitions. www.gladstonehotel.com/venue
Photos by: John Cavacas
Sven Epiney als Moderator am Trucker & Country Festival in Interlaken im Kanton Bern der Schweiz
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Moderate growing shade tree turns a bright golden yellow during fall. Great looking shade tree. Guzman's Greenhouse
Moderated by Mike Floyd, Editor-in-Chief, Automobile Magazine at Zócalo Public Square: Is Car Culture Dead? at MOCA Los Angeles CA
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Moderate Thanksgiving Day traffic along I-580 eastbound heading towards Tracy, CA. This was just coming down from the Altamont Pass. We were headed to Stockton, CA to my aunt’s place for our annual family Thanksgiving get-together. Hope you guys enjoyed this special day!
(Thursday late afternoon, November 28, 2013)
The sign at the beginning said it would be a 2.1 km hike with moderate elevation change. I'm not saying it's a mountain, but I am saying someone enjoys understatement.
On the other hand, we were continually amazed at how *nice* all Australian parks are. Even an little known and out of the way hike like this is (technically) wheelchair accessible.
On June 17, in an event sponsored by Hyatt Resorts & Spas Hawaii, New York media got a taste of Hawaii and learned top trends and insights about the islands from a panel of experts.
The experts included: Darlene Morikawa, Hawaii Visitors & Convention Bureau; Kevin Yim, Hawaiian Airlines; George Thronas, Grand Hyatt Kauai; Linda Casabin, Fodor’s; Kellee Khalil, Lover.ly; and Spencer Spellman, travel writer. Blaine Ashley, founder of NYC's Champagne Week, moderated.
Chef Greg Grohowski of Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa provided delectable island-style pupu, and acclaimed mixologist (and Hawaii-born) Julie Reiner mixed up tiki-favorites from her new book “The Craft Cocktail Party.
#LetHawaiiHappen
#HItrends
CLOSING PLENARY with: Moderated by:
• Alexandre Fasel, Special Representative for Science Diplomacy, Switzerland
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• Sarah Bint Yousif Al-Amiri, Minister of State for Public Education and Advanced Technology,
United Arab Emirates
• Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Singapore
• Nasser Bourita, Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates,
Morocco
• Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman, Board of Directors, GESDA, Austria/Switzerland
• Ignazio Cassis, President, Swiss Confederation; Head, Federal Department of Foreign
Affairs, Switzerland
• Martha Delgado Peralta, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs for Multilateral Affairs and
Human Rights, Mexico
• Martina Hirayama, State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation, Federal
Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research, Switzerland
Robert Gould, PhD, EVP and managing director of Brodeur Worldwide, moderates a breakout session at the 2011 APHA Midyear Meeting in Chicago. (Photo by The Nation's Health/APHA)
Moderated High-Level Policy Session 8: Inclusiveness – access to
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Inclusiveness – access to information and knowledge for all
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Moderated by Sonsoles Caballero, Manager, True North Partners
On the panel:
- Magnus Agustsson, Group Chief Risk Officer, Danske Bank
- Nick Silitch, Retired, Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer, Prudential Financial
I slept in and finally left Anchorage late morning Wednesday through a continuing steady rain that moderated into an intermittent light rain. The scenery was all about clouds cuddling with mountains.
I had wanted to visit Whittier, mostly because of the tunnel, so I did. The Whittier toll tunnel (the only way to get there driving) is 2.5 miles long through a mountain and is one lane that serves both directions of traffic PLUS the train. So you have to line up and wait for your side's turn to be able to take the tunnel (that would certainly be something to consider in a commute!). The town itself is very little more than boats and boat-related activities, and the few people who live there practically hibernate in the winter (all 300 or so residents live in the same building), so I had no interest in sticking around. As I said, it was about the tunnel.
I took a little detour to Hope, Alaska, where my guidebook promised "world-class coffee" at Turnagain Kayak and Coffeehouse, but they appeared to be closed (or off doing something). Sad.
As I continued to Seward and checked into the Harbor 360 hotel, the weather cleared beautifully. Time for Halibut and Chips from Ray's Waterfront and enjoying the view from my hotel room balcony.
Thursday is an epic boat ride. I was originally going to combine these two days, but that just won't work.
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A very special trip today (Thursday). Major Marine Tours' 7.5-Hour Kenai Fjords National Park Cruise on the Spirit of Adventure. A wonderful boat - there were about 80? of us on the boat, and each had an assigned table inside on either the first or second deck, but then you could go wherever you wanted. There are outside areas on the second and third deck aft and an outside area on the first deck forward. There was also free coffee and tea, plus a bar/snack bar and restrooms. Lunch was provided for everyone (Roast Beef/Turkey/Veggie sandwich, chips, granola bar, and soft drink).
The casual folks were on the aft decks, where you could see where we'd been (and to the sides) and have a nice comfortable ride. The adventurers were on the forward deck, where you were buffeted by massive winds and tossed by each wave that hit the front of the boat as you desperately clutched every handhold and hooked your foot under the rail while trying to take pictures. I was mostly on the forward deck.
It was a perfect sunny day! What luck! We saw so much beautiful scenery and a bunch of glaciers, including getting up close and personal with the Holgate Glacier and the Aialik Glacier. As we approached each, we were hit by intensely cold winds generated by the difference between the warmth of the sunny day and the cold of the glacier. At the Aialik, with the sun shining, we saw small chunks falling off with a thunderous crack in the acoustically perfect harbor and landing with a splash.
So we saw icebergs. Well, no. What we saw were technically "growlers," as they weren't big enough to be categorized as icebergs. And the crew got out the net and snagged a couple of chunks of glacier ice, cleaned them off, chopped them up, and sold special Glacier Margaritas! Yeah, I had some glacier ice in my drink.
And we saw wildlife.
We saw Orca Whales - an entire pod, including one male, several females, and at least one juvenile (likely less than a year old). This information was thanks to our captain Gary, who knew about such things. We saw Sea Lions - a bunch of them sunning on a rock. There were some Harbor Seals in the water by the glaciers, some Porpoises, and a Mountain Goat. We saw an Eagle, a rare Black Oystercatcher, and tons of adorable Puffins (plus the usual seagulls, etc.)
By the end of the 7.5 hours, we were all exhausted, and I was ready to collapse. After a couple hours of rest, I walked next door to Chinook's for clam chowder, crab cakes, and a hot toddy.
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On Friday, I started with breakfast at The Sea Bean (guacamole/bacon/egg/pepper jack ciabatta panini with buttered red new potatoes). I left Seward and, thanks to a tip from Kyle, found a gorgeous reflective lake and salmon stream (Tern Lake), then continued to Cooper Landing and the Ninilchik River on the way to Homer. My hotel: Land's End on the very end of the Homer Spit (a 4.5-mile finger of land jutting into Kachemak Bay). I have a bay room (tiny with a double bed, but with an impossibly incredible view and a private deck).
I met up with former ISU student Kyle Schneider and his wife Beth at the Chart House restaurant. As the local music teacher, he is one of the most well-known and respected community figures (an obvious truth everywhere we went). Music really is that important.
I had the seafood chowder and Alaskan scallops wrapped in bacon glazed with birch syrup.
And afterward, I just continued to watch the mountains from my deck until past 10 pm (still light).
Saturday morning, I met Kyle at the delightful Homer Farmer's Market. He was shopping for gorgeous local vegetables, and I was looking for breakfast. I found the Wheelcakes ("from the night markets of Taiwan"). Mine was a breakfast wheelcake of egg, sausage, cheese, maple syrup, and sriracha, all cooked inside a waffle batter shell. Incredibly tasty with that great combination of sweet, spicy, and savory.
A long pretty drive along East End Road and a hike through the Beluga Slough Trail - a salt marsh that attracts bird life (and I saw some sandhill cranes there).
Kyle and I met up again at Sweetgale Meadworks and Cider House - a local place that makes its own mead from local berries and honey. We got a flight of all 11 of their current offerings. I was a bit nervous because I don't care for overly sweet drinks, and mead has always made me think of a sickly sweet honey drink. But this was nothing like that. There were hints of sweetness, but it was all about the berries. My favorites were the black current, nagoonberry, and blueberry, though I enjoyed them all. We balanced our drinking by getting some empanadas from the food truck parked in their lot (after Kyle answered questions from the chef about testing vocal range). I got a ground beef cordon bleu empanada made with corn meal (crispy and soft and greasy and tasty).
On the way back to my deck, I stopped by this little group of tourist shops on stilts along the spit and picked up a beer-battered avocado taco.
I'm kind of liking Homer.
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Sunday was a wildlife boat trip across Kachemak Bay to Seldovia with Rainbow Tours on their wonderful little boat, The Rainbow Connection, and it was another beautiful day! Monica was our captain and guide, assisted by her amazing crew, Ethan and Carly (who are partners and just delightful people). We went to Gull Island (where there are more than 20,000 birds) and some of the other islands on that side of the bay, plus we watched for sea life on the way to Seldovia. We saw thousands of birds, some otters, dolphins, and two humpbacked whales (Opal and her offspring - yes, these captains can recognize area whales by distinctive markings).
Seldovia (population 255) is an odd but delightful little town. It's only accessible by boat or plane- there are no roads there (but the car ferry stops there, so there are cars in town). It used to be a major fishing industry hub, but in the great earthquake of 1964, all the major canneries were lost, and it wasn't worth rebuilding. Now, it's a community of sport fishing and tourism.
I had lunch there (halibut and chips) at Jack and Aiva's Restaurant, named for the owner's grandchildren. While I was eating, someone stopped by the restaurant to say that there was a bear in the tree. Oh. Not something you hear very often, so we all went outside, and there, in the cottonwood tree on Main Street, was a bear (a relatively small black bear). It seemed really anxious to get at something pretty high up in that tree and spent some time working its way further up the branches (while the crows up top yelled at it) before giving up and coming down.
After that bit of excitement, I checked out the chainsaw art that is all over the town and then re-boarded the Rainbow Connection for our trip home to Homer.
Kyle gave me some salmon that he smoked and some zucchini bread that he made (from zucchini that he bought at the farmer's market)! Treats for the road. I've had a delightful 3 days in Homer and really have come to love it.
Monday is somewhere between here and Valdez (no idea where), and then I'll be aiming for Valdez on Tuesday.
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Monday and Tuesday were about making my way from Homer to Valdez. Before leaving, I took advantage of a little travel tip. If your hotel doesn't have good enough WiFi to upload your images to Facebook, go to the library. Most libraries have free kick-ass WiFi, and some (like in Homer) even encourage people to use it in the parking lot when the library is closed.
Moving on to Sterling Highway (Homer to Tern Lake), Seward Highway (Tern Lake to Anchorage), Glenn Highway (Anchorage to Glennallen), and Richardson Highway (Glennallen to Valdez). Most of it was backtracking (common in Alaska as there are no alternate routes in most cases), but the last section of the Richardson Highway was new to me. I don't mind some backtracking since you see things from a different direction, a different time of day, and different weather conditions.
The Kenai River Red smoked salmon that Kyle made for me is amazing and has given me some wonderful picnics along the way.
As I quickly passed Anchorage and its traffic, I was reminded of a Homer tourist who commented, "Homer is OK, but I wish we had spent more time in Anchorage." Exactly the opposite of my experience.
A hotel along the way has a "Trump Won" sign out front that's larger than the hotel sign. The "Vacancy" sign was lit (surprise). I wonder who decides to stay at a place where the owner is not only delusional but wants the world to know it. If you come to the office and say, "There's no hot water in my shower," will the reply be, "Yes, there is. And I can prove it. Here, watch this YouTube video."?
I found lodging instead at the nice Pioneer Motel in Palmer. Travel tip #2: On an extended road trip, stay in a motel now and then. Since you park right at your hotel room door, it makes it easier to re-organize your car. The delightful lady at the desk, noting that I was traveling alone, apologetically informed me that all my linens would be grey (intentionally so) as they regularly rent to pet owners and "white just doesn't work." She said that they were fairly open-minded about pets but no cats or ducks. Never. Again. And then, she proceeded to tell me graphic horror stories involving cats, ducks, and motel rooms.
It was Monday in Palmer, and the main restaurants were all closed, so I found myself at "Alaska's Best Philly's." That got my curiosity. Apparently, it had been the start of a chain of three restaurants, but this one is wholly owned, controlled, and operated by a delightful family from Mexico who have embraced Alaska, Philadelphia, and Mexico in their cuisine. Mom is the chef, dad helps in the kitchen, son is the waiter/cashier/big-talking salesman, and daughter dances around the kitchen. They have about 20 versions of the Philly, chicken wings, and burgers. I had the Avocado Philly (a legit excellent cheesesteak with, essentially, an avocado salad on top - it added some nice freshness to cut the richness) and homemade flan. It was a delightfully confusing meal.
On Tuesday, I put some miles behind me and got to Glennallen so I could have another amazing Sunrise Burrito from the Spruce Burl Espresso I had visited on Day 16, and then it was south toward Valdez, paralleling the Wrangell-St. Elias mountain range, which includes the gorgeous pointed Mt. Drum - a 12,100-foot-high stratovolcano.
I also stopped at a fun historical spot. It was the start of a railroad tunnel being hand-cut into the rock in 1906 when 9 companies were fighting over the rights to rail access to the copper mines. It ended in a gunfight, and the tunnel was never completed.
Valdez adventures will be in the next update. (I hear they have waterfalls.)
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This entry starts as I approached Valdez on Tuesday.
Part of the reason I wanted to include Valdez was I heard they have waterfalls. I have a thing for waterfalls. Turns out what I heard was true.
The first thing I saw when nearing Valdez was the Bridal Veil Falls and then the Horsetail Falls. And then a delightful unnamed falls leading to Crooked Creek. Incredible! Sorry, but you're going to have to wade through a bunch of photos of waterfalls! I kept finding more. And going back to the same ones again.
I got another cabin - at the Eagles Rest RV Park and Cabins. Nice people running the place. Including an ISU graduate from many years ago (the Doug Collins era in the 1970s)! The cabin is cute, tiny, and comfortable. Good coffee. Terrible WiFi. I'll have to find the library (I did, the WiFi was great, and the librarian is a Cubs fan!).
Dinner was at... The Potato, whose menu is based around... potatoes (I really like all forms of potato, so this was right up my alley). I got the Spudniks Supreme at the recommendation of the folks at the RV Park. Imagine biscuits and gravy. Now replace the biscuits with hand-cut curly fries. then add two eggs, cheese, and jalapeños on top. Yeah. Definitely going on a diet when I get home. I came back there for lunch on Wednesday and got the smoked salmon potato chowder and rosemary garlic fries. Amazing. Check out the amount of garlic they use in the fries! They have posted a closing date for the season of September 13, which gives you an idea of the shortness of the season up here.
I visited both museums in town - very well done. From the days of the Ahtna, Eyak, and Alutiiq people and then the beginnings of the oil industry, which has been a dominant force in the area for many years (and still is today). Great coverage of the massive earthquake and tsunami of 1964. It resulted in the relocation of the town of Valdez (Old Valdez is still there). And the museum did not shy away from the damages caused by the oil industry, with a very large exhibit about the Exxon Valdez disaster. As the noted local tour boat operator Stan Stephens says, "I really don't want to keep remembering the Exxon Valdez, but I think it's very important that we do." That statement is applicable to so much of our history.
I spent some time along the harbor and also drove out to the Solomon Gulch Fish Hatchery. They incubate and release around 250 million salmon each spring as fry/smolt (the young salmon adapting from fresh water to the saltwater of the ocean). Approximately 16 million grown fish return to the spawning building using a fish ladder (which mimics going upstream), and the process starts over. It is pure chaos there, with the waters churning with fish trying to swim their way upstream (and up the ladder). There's something bizarre about the stubbornness of salmon that causes them to swim upstream at great difficulty, while birds, bears, and humans are taking advantage of their vulnerability to eat them.
I returned to the area in the evening, and the bears were out filling up on fish. I saw four of them. From a comfortable distance.
For those who have been going through heat advisories back home, today's high was in the 60s here. Looks like rain is coming. I hope to head north on Thursday.
OCTOBER 10, 2023 - Morocco, MARRAKECH - 2023 World Bank Annual Meetings. Building Foundations For An Inclusive Digital Future. Speakers: Axel van Trotsenburg, Senior Managing Director, Development Policy and Partnerships, The World Bank; Makhtar Diop, Managing Director, IFC; Timothy Antoine, Governor, Eastern Caribbean Central Bank; Ghita Mezzour, Minister of Digital Transition and Administration Reform, Morocco; Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Ghana; Torbjorn Caesar, Chairman and Senior Partner, Actis; Moderator: Lerato Mbele, International broadcaster. Photo: World Bank / Aymane Maalal
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Dillard University Students Kalaya Sibley and Amaya Ronczyk moderate the Next Generation Leadership Institute Black Women Political Takeover panel discussion with New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, The Power Coalition for Equity and Justice Director of Programs & Policy Power Coalition for Equity and Justice Janea Jamison, New Orleans Attorney & Entrepreneur Nia Weeks, Office of Rep. Troy Carter Congressional Staffer Kaylan Tanner, Office of Rep. Nikema Williams Correspondent Layla Brooks and In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda President & CEO Marcela Howell on March 29, 2022. (Photo by Sabree Hill/ Dillard University Photographer)
10 November 2017, EuroPCom 2017 - Ten pitfalls to avoid when moderating debates
8th European Public Communication Conference
[Re]shaping European dialogues
EuroPCom 2017 #europcom @EuroPCom2017 "
Belgium - Brussels - November 2017
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Florence Ranson, Director of Communications, FoodDrinkEurope, Belgium
In observance of Black History Month, Secretary Walker moderated a discussion with Deputy Surgeon General Sylvia Trent-Adams on Feb. 20 at Delaware State University. Trent-Adams told the audience, including many students, to try new opportunities, find great mentors, and embrace continuous improvement. "If you want to be excellent," she said, "it takes more work."
Trent-Adams, who also is a rear admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, said, as a country, we need to look at reducing barriers to people accessing behavioral health care, including treatment for opioid addiction. "The American people want to have problems solved," she said. Here's what Trent-Adams, who is an RN and has worked on improving access to care for uninsured and under-served communities, said on other issues:
•HIV/AIDS: Trent-Adams, who was deputy associate administrator of the HIV/AIDS Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration, said we need to get "back to the basics" in terms of prevention and education, but still expects to see an HIV vaccine in our lifetime.
•Veteran suicides: Trent-Adams said one way to intervene on behalf of veterans who may be at risk for suicide is through the significant improvement in real-time care now being provided. "Anyone who needs care, can get care on demand."
•Gun violence: Saying "it's our problem," Trent-Adams said it will take a serious grassroots movement to have real substantive change. "It's a major problem that will take all of us to roll up our sleeves." She said Americans have a responsibility to our children and their future. "I see an opportunity for change." And her advice for students, "Bloom where you are planted."
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Greg Wetstone, President & CEO, ACORE moderates the Insights from Top Developer CEOs at he REFF Wall Street 2019 NYC on June 19, 2019 produced by ACORE (American Council on Renewable Energy) and Euromoney Seminars.
President Masa moderates G20 Ministerial Tax Symposium to discuss tax policy challenges including tax incentives and domestic resources mobilization.
Moderating the NLG Panel on Chicago's Gang Database and Deportations for the 2018 "Week Against Mass Incarceration" on March 5, 2018
CLOSING PLENARY with: Moderated by:
• Alexandre Fasel, Special Representative for Science Diplomacy, Switzerland
With:
• Sarah Bint Yousif Al-Amiri, Minister of State for Public Education and Advanced Technology,
United Arab Emirates
• Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Singapore
• Nasser Bourita, Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates,
Morocco
• Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman, Board of Directors, GESDA, Austria/Switzerland
• Ignazio Cassis, President, Swiss Confederation; Head, Federal Department of Foreign
Affairs, Switzerland
• Martha Delgado Peralta, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs for Multilateral Affairs and
Human Rights, Mexico
• Martina Hirayama, State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation, Federal
Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research, Switzerland