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Jody Becker of Chicago Public Radio reports a number of charities are looking to the world wide web to help raising funds. But it's hardly a gold mine, and groups hoping for e-donations are finding it will take some time before it will make up a sizable part of their income.

Stanford mathematician Keith Devlin talks with NPR's Scott Simon about the idea of using logic and quantitative reasoning puzzles to screen job applicants in the high-tech industry. Long a niche recruiting tactic, the method was popularized by Microsoft in the 1990s.

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The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol issued a wave of record requests to eight federal agencies, including any communications by Rudy Giuliani and Ivanka Trump.

Jennifer Wing of member station KPLU in Seattle, Wash., reports on a Web site for school children across the country -- RateMyTeachers.com -- that allows them to "grade" their teachers.

Tavis checks in with tech guru Omar Wasow of Blackplanet.com about the Web@Work 2004 survey conducted by Websense.

Join Maureen McGuire, CEO of the Farm Bureau of Ventura County to learn how our local farmers navigate in this agriculturally rich region. Ventura County farmers cultivate an array of high-quality produce year-round. Water scarcity, labor costs, and the encroachment of urbanization pose challenges to our resilient farmers. Gain insights into the strategies and innovations Ventura County's farmers employ to address these hurdles. Maureen will discuss the delicate balance between development and preserving agricultural land, and the importance of sustainable growth.

Bio:
As of January 2022, Maureen Kelly McGuire has taken the chief executive officer position at the Farm Bureau of Ventura Country, vacated by John Krist upon his retirement. She holds a BA from Idaho State University, an MA from The New School University, and a Six Sigma Black Belt from the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering. With experience in Design-Build Engineering and Construction, Farm Labor Contracting, and Farming Operations she hopes to bring her multi-faceted background and growing perspective to continue the Farm Bureau of Ventura County’s long history of service and support of the agricultural industry.

The Fifty and Better (FAB) program was designed for people 50+ years of age, seeking intellectual stimulation through university level courses (without the pressure of grades) for the sake of learning and social engagement.

This spring, Studio Channel Islands Art Center is offering artists all-day access to three of Ventura County's most spectacular ranches to create in response to the environment. Friends and supporters may come at the end of each day for a ticketed sunset reception. Artists are not required to purchase tickets to the reception and do not need to be members of SCIart to participate.

ALL artists are welcome! Writers, photographers, filmmakers, sculptors, illustrators, painters, printmakers, musicians, dancers. The Petersen Ranch is not to be missed! Straddling Camarillo and Somis, the hilltop ranch offers panoramic views of Pleasant Valley and the Oxnard Plain on one side, and all of Somis and South Mountain on the other.

When:
Sunday, April 21, 2024. 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Ticketed reception to be held from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Entrance and Tickets:
3100 E. Los Angeles Avenue, Somis, CA 93066
Attendees enter through the service gate and proceed to the Ancient Creek BBQ area.

Artist admission is $5, includes admission to sunset reception at 5:00 PM
Sunset Reception general admission is $25
Tickets can be purchased here: https://events.humanitix.com/open-range-sunday-petersen-ranch-camarillo

SCIart is grateful to the Esper A. Petersen Foundation for the opportunity to host this celebration of our Ventura County arts and ranching community.

In the early 1970s, a young Jewish summer camp and youth choir leader burst onto the scene of formal synagogue music and introduced a new way of singing Jewish songs that would eventually result in a revolution in Jewish music. Debbie Friedman (1951-2011), starting out first in St. Paul, Minnesota and then moving to Chicago, gained a foothold among synagogue audiences first as an arranger and composer of Jewish music for young people in which she took traditional songs, often using both Hebrew and English lyrics, and set them to original and very contemporary folk-rock compositions. In establishing her new approach to synagogue music, Friedman fought against both gender and musical stereotypes and ended up revolutionizing the way music is used in contemporary Jewish services. This lecture will provide a brief biographical sketch of Debbie Friedman and explore both her musical and social/gender contributions to Jewish practices in the late-20th and early 21st centuries.

Clifford Wilcox, Ph.D., is a historian who focuses on American intellectual and cultural history and Jewish Studies. His courses concentrate on the intersection of culture, ideas, politics, and religion in American history.

The Fifty and Better (FAB) program was designed for people 50 years of age and older, seeking intellectual stimulation through university-level courses — without the pressure of grades — for the sake of learning and social engagement.

Wednesday, March 19 · 5:30 - 7pm PDT
Santa Barbara Historical Museum

Join historian Bill MacKinnon as he shares the never-told tale of how a well-educated but now-forgotten Irishman, Owen Hugh O’Neill, emigrated to the U. S. and then made his way across the American frontier to Santa Barbara by way of involvement in two of our country’s greatest undertakings of the 1850s: construction of the Pacific Wagon Road project; and prosecution of the Utah War of 1857-58. The full story of O’Neill’s travels and adventures before arriving here to practice medicine, marry into the Hill-Ortega family, and die heroically in 1875 is unknown even to his descendants, some of whom still live in this part of California.

About the Speaker
Bill is a respected historian and longtime member of the museum. For sixty-five years he has researched and written about the American West, producing five books and more than 130 journal articles. He is a former sheriff (presiding officer) of the Santa Barbara Corral of the Westerners. In his parallel business and public service careers, he has been a vice president of General Motors, chairman of Children’s Hospital of Michigan, and a veteran of USAF. He is an alumnus of Yale and the Harvard Business School.