WASHINGTON – JStreetPAC, the country’s first and only pro-Israel, pro-peace political action committee, announced its first Congressional endorsements of the 2010 cycle, backing 41 candidates – matching in its first wave of endorsements the number it backed in the whole 2008 cycle. These endorsements kick off a new election cycle for JStreetPAC, which distributed more money to candidates than any other pro-Israel federal political action committee in the 2008 cycle, according to FEC reports.

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JStreetPAC Launches 2010 Campaign; Endorses 41 Candidates

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 20, 2010 Joe Wills 530-898-4143 Melissa McGowan, Continuing Education 530-898-6105 CSU, Chico to Host 8th Annual Children in Trauma Conference: What’s Behind a Child’s Rejection of a Parent?

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CSU, Chico to Host 8th Annual Children in Trauma Conference: What’s Behind a Child’s Rejection of a Parent? Is it Abuse, Alienation, and/or…

As the desperate situation in Haiti continues, we at J Street are moved by the outpouring of support and aid from around the globe – including from Israel, which sent a 220-member rescue team to assist with the relief effort.  We wanted to make sure to provide some ways in which you can support the disaster relief efforts as well. We’re pitching in what we can and hope that you’ll take a moment to do the same.  Repair the World has put together a list of a few organizations doing emergency relief work in Haiti: American Jewish World Service · Through grants and on-the-ground service, AJWS works around the world to alleviate hunger, poverty and disease

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Israel Sends Rescue Team to Haiti

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 14, 2010 Joe Wills 530-898-4143 Christina Pantera Student Project Manager 925-963-5416 Related news: Blitz Build celebration planned Jan.

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Catalyst Blitz Build a Major Volunteer Effort Involving Public, Private Partnerships

A few weeks ago, we drew your attention to students who are fighting against coal power on their campuses: University of Kentucky students voted against the building of a “Wildcat Coal Lodge” dorm that was sponsored by Alliance Coal, and in Massachusetts, students slept out in the cold on the Boston Commons to register their support for a bill that would power the state with 100% clean energy. This week, an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education follows up on the issue, noting that “scores of institutions are grappling with coal's problematic public image and very real environmental impacts,” as students pressure the administration to find alternatives and federal legislators become more receptive to cap-and-trade limits on carbon dioxide pollution. The article also notes that the President's Climate Commitment, with its ambitious GHG reduction targets, is incompatible with burning coal

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Finding alternatives to coal on campus

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 13, 2010 Joe Wills 530-898-4143 Adrienne Scott Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology 530-898-5397 Valene L

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Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology Has Grand Opening Jan. 28 Highlighting New Exhibit: Living On Top Of The World: Arctic Adaptation, Survival And…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 8, 2010 Joe Wills 530-898-4143 Christina Pantera capantera@gmail.com Student Project Manager, CSU Chico 925-963-5416 CSU, Chico’s 2010 Traditional Winter Community Service Project Catalyst Blitz Build – Prefabrication Week On Monday, Jan. 11, at 7 a.m., the 2010 California State University, Chico Traditional Winter Community Service Project, named the “Catalyst Blitz Build,” will begin the first day of its weeklong prefabrication for the building of two 840-square-foot transitional housing units to be built at 1321 Ivy St. starting Jan.

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CSU, Chico’s 2010 Traditional Winter Community Service Project Catalyst Blitz Build – Prefabrication Week

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 7, 2010 Joe Wills 530-898-4143 Chico Performances Director Receives Honor An important professional award will be given Saturday, Jan. 9, to Dan DeWayne, director of University Public Events and Chico Performances at California State University, Chico. DeWayne will receive the eighth annual Award for Excellence from NAPAMA, the North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents, at the Hilton Hotel in New York.

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Chico Performances Director Receives Honor

Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street’s Executive Director, published the following op-ed in The Jerusalem Post this morning. Being Israel’s ambassador Being an Israeli ambassador these days can’t be easy. On the one hand, you’re working for a prime minister whose strong suit is public relations, who at least talks of peace with the Palestinians and who has consistently judged that engaging in the diplomatic process rather than refusing to talk plays better with domestic and international audiences.

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J Street opposes the Israeli Government’s recently announced new construction in East Jerusalem and urges Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to direct his government to end all provocative actions, especially in East Jerusalem, that make resuming negotiations with the Palestinians and achieving a two-state solution more difficult. J Street commends the United States’ opposition to new Israeli construction in East Jerusalem, as White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs reiterated in today’s statement on the matter. A near-term achievement of a viable two-state solution, one that places the capitals of both the future Palestinian state and State of Israel in Jerusalem, is the only way to secure Israel’s future as a Jewish, democratic homeland and the best way to ensure Jerusalem finally receives international recognition as the eternal capital of the State of Israel.

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Today, J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami released the following statement: J Street applauds Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s rejection of an arrest warrant issued for Israeli Opposition Leader Tzipi Livni in Great Britain, as well as his promise to pursue a change in the law that would prevent unfortunate events like these from happening in the future.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 16, 2009 Kathleen McPartland 530-898-4260 Rick Vertolli, Computer Science and Instructional Media Center 530-898-5317 CSU, Chico Students Win Awards for Animation at CSU Media Arts Festival Two California State University, Chico students have been named winners at the 2009 Media Arts Festival (MAF) held November 7th at CSU, Fullerton for their animated films. A total of 171 entries from the CSU campus system were received and judged by a panel of industry experts who chose 30 finalists for award competition within nine categories: Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Interactive, Music Video, Narrative, Television, Feature Screenplay, and Short Screenplay

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CSU, Chico Students Win Awards for Animation at CSU Media Arts Festival

Minnesota School of Business Announces Second Class of Nursing Graduates 27 students will receive Bachelor of Science in Nursing degrees (Richfield, Minn. – December 16, 2009) – Minnesota School of Business (MSB) in Richfield is pleased to announce its second class of nursing graduates. Twenty-seven students will graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree.

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Minnesota School of Business Announces Second Class of Nursing Graduates

Thursday, December 12 (Day 2) One of the issues with getting new, clean technology into developing countries has been the worry that giving this equipment away often leads to misuse. During a panel discussion titled, ” The Development Agenda for Clean Energy and Transfer of Technologies ,” I asked what could be done to fund projects that provide these technologies at a minimum cost, which will ideally help these nations reach their environmental and energy goals. The answers I received indicated that creating a market for a particular machine or technology seems to help: one panelist explained that all of the costs his organization had paid out initially were eventually recovered, such that the project became profitable after a few years

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Copenhagen Days 2-3 (China-US Youth Workshop, Biodiversity and Alternative Energy in the Developing World)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 15, 2009 Joe Wills 530-898-4143 Chico Places Second in Regional Ethics Bowl Competition California State University, Chico came in second at the annual California Regional Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Saturday, December 5. UC Santa Cruz won the event, which was held on the CSU, Chico campus. CSU, Chico has hosted and won numerous regional Ethics Bowl competitions in the past.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 14, 2009 Kathleen McPartland 530-898-4260 Dan Ripke, Center for Economic Development 530-898-4598 Tenth Annual Tri-County Economic Forecast Conference Slated for January 14 The Center for Economic Development (CED), California State University, Chico will hold its 10th Annual Tri-County Economic Forecast Conference on Jan.

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Tenth Annual Tri-County Economic Forecast Conference Slated for January 14

Wednesday, December 9 (Day 1) McNair Wagner, Robert Boyd and I woke up very early this morning (7am CET = 1am EST), put on our warmest clothes and made our way to the Bella Center for the U.N. Climate Conference. There are literally hundreds, if not thousands of different organizations from all over the world represented at booths brimming with information

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Copenhagen Day 1 (EPA’s Lisa Jackson, Smart Grids, Weatherization)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 11, 2009 Joe Wills 530-898-4143 Transatlantic Masters Program Launched in New Field of Visualization California State University, Chico Professor of Psychology Neil Schwartz has established a new transatlantic graduate program where students will become experts in the cutting-edge field of international cognitive visualization (ICV). Students will earn a master of arts degree by attending CSU, Chico as well as the University of Grenoble (France) and the University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany) over the span of two years. The curriculum includes courses in cognitive psychology, applied computer graphics and learning science

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Transatlantic Masters Program Launched in New Field of Visualization

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 11, 2009 Joe Wills 530-898-4143 Joe Picard, Continuing Education 530-898-6105 CSU, Chico to Host Northern California Botanists 2010 Symposium California State University, Chico will host the Northern California Botanists Symposium “Botanical Treasures in Northern California: What’s at Stake?” Jan. 11-13, 2010, at Bell Memorial Union on the CSU, Chico campus. The 2010 symposium will attract hundreds of professional botanists, scholars, plant biologists and students, who will participate in a full schedule of peer-led sessions, poster presentations and networking opportunities.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 8, 2009 Kathleen McPartland 530-898-4260 Mollie Aschenbrener 530-898-4568 High Honors for CSU, Chico Discussion Meet Team The California State University, Chico College of Agriculture’s Discussion Meet Team took home the gold at the California Young Farmers and Ranchers statewide Discussion Meet competition on December 6 , in Anaheim, Calif.

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High Honors for CSU, Chico Discussion Meet Team