Tag: Diversity
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NEWS: ROUNDTABLE HOSTS SIGN ON TO QUESTION NEXT GOVERNOR
Create WV’s April 5 event designed to curb political rhetoric, gut business-as-usual-power plays. Focus is on candidates’ understanding and expansion of new, 21st Century jobs and policies to encourage innovation and investment. CHARLESTON, WV — Create WV, a volunteer-led organization known for designing lively, highly engaging public events focused on forward-thinking business development strategies, entrepreneurship…
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Gearing Up to Attract the New Job Makers
(FROM ITIF) Behind every technological innovation is an individual or a team of individuals responsible for the hard scientific or engineering work. And behind each of them is an education and a set of experiences that impart the requisite knowledge, expertise, and opportunity. These scientists and engineers drive technological progress by creating innovative new products…
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Dinosaur Burps
Concert – Monday, October 27, 2014 8:15 PM – 10:00 PM, Morris Building, 102 Lewis Street The author of Oddney Strangerfield (Lungbutter) gets down with the duo, rapping DubVee style. Living proof that diversity rules in Generation Next, and a glimpse of how the language is changing with the beat. Find your perfect registration…
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Diggin’ the Fit and Tasty Vibe
So, what do Jermaine Dupri, Lady Gaga, Beyonce and Rebecca Kimmons have in common? They all have eaten at Karyn’s vegan restaurants in Chicago. And Rebecca is the reason Karyn is heading to Glenville to host a free public lecture on Sunday afternoon from 2 – 4 PM titled, “The Raw Truth: How a…
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Meet the Folks From Omar
According to US Census statistics, West Virginia is the least diverse of all the states in the union, at least as far as racial percentages are concerned. Unless they are obviously of African or Asian descent, West Virginians who have been here for a long time tend to forget that the parents and grandparents of…
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A Little Hip Hop Celebration of West Virginia Day
Well, we know there’s nothing more that West Virginian’s love to hear on West Virginia Day than some hip hop, right? OK, well maybe some fiddle and folk music as well. But here’s a new tune from hip hop artist R-Skid that released today in celebration of our state’s birthday: Three Up, Two Up. Enjoy! (Parental…
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A Beautiful Documentary on the “Old” New River Gorge
This is just a beautiful documentary on the New River Gorge region of West Virginia, one of the most amazing yet under-appreciated natural regions in the country. However, that might change as hundreds of thousands of visitors discover it while visiting the new Summit Bechtel Reserve scouting center (http://summit.scouting.org) due to open in 2013. There…
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Diversity Track Sessions Announced for Create WV 2010
What does diversity mean to you? Do you see it as something to worry about, or something to aspire to? Does the term make you nervous? Excited? Angry? At Create WV, we advocate that our communities and organizations strive for diversity as a treasured asset. Not just for a basic level of equality and fairness, but for a competitive…
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Dear Fairmont
For far too long have you slept silent. Like the locomotives that once ran the rails along your river. The world changed; with coal no longer King, you lost your steam. The firebox no longer tendered, you draped your dreams and sank in sleep. But we hear you, lady, waking; ready to rise again: In…
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Hate will Meet Resistance in WV – Join the Mob!
Creative communities require unique choreography and sometimes that means trying out a new step, especially when communities face groups whose ideals conflict with creative community values of education, diversity, technology, entrepreneurship and place. The Westboro Baptist Church, a hate group from Topeka, KS, (“Baptist” in name only, not in spirit; it is not affiliated with…