SACRAMENTO, Calif. This week on the California Lottery's Big Spin show four contestants won a total of $230,000. The show aired statewide Saturday, May 17, 2008. The grand total won this week was $252,500!
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. The Honorable Phyllis Hamilton, U.S. District Court Judge and a Santa Clara University School of Law alumna addressed Santa Clara Law's class of 2008 at a commencement ceremony held today in the University's Mission Gardens.
MCHENRY, Ill. Follett Digital Resources, the premier provider of digital solutions for publishers and educators to help meet the needs of 21st century learners, today announced its sponsorship of an innovative new feature of the Association of Educational Publisher's annual publishing summit to be held June 4-6, 2008, in Washington, D.C.
NEW YORK Fitch assigns an 'A+' rating to approximately $88.7 million of fixed rate series 2008C revenue bonds (the bonds) issued by the New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority (the authority) on behalf of William Paterson University (the university). The bonds are expected to price via negotiated sale during the week of June 2, 2008. At the same time, Fitch assigns ratings to the following series of authority issued bonds:
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. World Wide Child Care Corp. (Pink Sheets:WWCC) announces that its subsidiary Children of America (www.childrenofamerica.com) is reporting a 45-percent increase in tuition revenues over last year.
ROUND ROCK, Texas Colleges and universities that want to make mobile technology more accessible and affordable for their students are increasingly turning to Dell, the leading supplier of computer systems to higher education customers(1).
ATLANTA The Intel Foundation today announced top winners of the world's largest pre-college science fair, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair presented by Agilent Technologies. Natalie Saranga Omattage of Cleveland, Miss., Sana Raoof of Muttontown, N.Y. and Yi-Han Su of Chinese Taipei were selected from more than 1,550 young scientists from 51 countries, regions and territories for their commitment to innovation and science.
DALLAS Camp Wisdom lived up to its name when volunteers from GEICO's Dallas regional office spent time last week with local middle school students to work together on team-building skills.
LOS ANGELES Latino consumers in the U.S. will now find an online resource for topics ranging from personal finance, computers to parenting on the newly launched broadband Web site, Saber Hacer accessible at www.SaberHacer.com. The two powerful verbs - Saber and Hacer - translate into know-how that engages the consumer in an interactive, educational and fun way. As of today, consumers will have expert-driven content, in both English and Spanish at their fingertips that provides them with how-to tips and valuable advice on topics of interest to the community.
BETHLEHEM, Pa. Lehigh University announced today a record $34.2 million gift from the estate of alumnus Donald B. Stabler, Class of 1930, a successful businessman who dedicated much of his life to leadership and service. The largest gift in its history will enable the University to provide talented students far greater access to a Lehigh education, regardless of their financial circumstances.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. SumTotal(R) Systems (Nasdaq:SUMT), a global provider of learning, performance, and talent management solutions, today announced that Chief Executive Officer Don Fowler and Senior Vice President Ray Villareal will present to investors at the Seventh Annual JMP Securities Research Conference on May 19, 2008 at the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco.
CARROLLTON, Texas GVI Security Solutions, Inc. (OTCBB:GVSS), a leading provider of video security surveillance solutions featuring the complete Samsung Electronics line of products, announced new and expanded projects wins for their GVI Samsung School Video Security Initiative. The projects include a new GVI Samsung video security solution for the Suncoast Polytechnical High School and a new order expanding the project for the Sarasota County School District.
MINNEAPOLIS Capella University (www.capella.edu), an accredited, fully online university with more than 23,000 students, has released its latest Inside Online Education podcast. It features a conversation with Dr. Charles Tiffin, chair of Capella's public safety program, and Dr. Joseph Pascarella, core faculty member in Capella's public safety program, about current issues and trends in the field of public safety. Tiffin and Pascarella are also the authors of the public safety blog Public Safety Signals (www.publicsafetysignals.com).
LOS ANGELES Maestro Donald Neuen will conduct the Angeles Chorale and UCLA Chorale, and the American Youth Symphony, in the incomparable choral masterwork of Johannes Brahms, A German Requiem, on Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 8:00pm in Royce Hall at UCLA. The concert will also include a performance of Two Peruvian Preludes -- Macchu Picchu: The Inca Retreat, composed by and honoring UCLA professor emeritus, world-renowned musicologist and composer Dr. Robert Stevenson, who will also be attending. Featured soloists are Khori Dastoor (soprano) and In Joon Jang (baritone).
NEW YORK Oliver Sacks, the best-selling author and neurologist who has been described as "the poet laureate of medicine," will appear with Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church Choir in an event entitled Music and the Brain, as part of the 2008 World Science Festival (www.worldsciencefestival.com).
FAIRFAX, Va. Datatel(R), Inc. today announced that it has received the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business 2008 Smith Digital Economy Award for "successfully demonstrating the transformational abilities of new technologies in the digital economy." The award was presented last week to Jayne Edge, Datatel vice president of strategic planning and marketing, at the University's Undergraduate Awards Banquet in College Park, MD.
NEW YORK Secretary General Ban-Ki-Moon is set to deliver a keynote address to 2300 students from 153 different schools and 17 different countries who have been given the unique opportunity to debate and resolve current international issues together at the United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA) Global Classrooms Model UN Conference in New York City sponsored by the UNA-USA and Merrill Lynch.
BALDWIN PARK, Calif. Just as Brittney Martinez should have been winding down her high school career and focusing on prom and other rites of passage, her family life was changed forever by tragedy. Her father died earlier this year, leaving the family homeless and in shock. Today, Brittney is working hard to focus on the one constant in her life - education - and she moving on to California State University at Fullerton.
EL PASO, Texas YoNaturals Inc. the leader nationwide healthy vending announced today the upcoming installation of its healthy vending machines in several locations throughout El Paso.
WEST MELBOURNE, Fla. Imagine Schools, one of the largest and fastest growing charter school organizations in the nation, will break ground on its new 44 classroom, 42,626 square foot, K-8 school in West Melbourne on May 20 at 5:30 p.m. At a time when funding cuts in education are limiting public educational resources, the non-profit organization is building this new $8-10 million facility at no cost to the taxpayer. The groundbreaking ceremony will take place just east of I-95 and North of Palm Bay Road, right behind Wal-Mart, at the intersection of the future Snicole Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard.
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