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The course will run from 5:15 to 8:30 p.m. on eight consecutive Tuesdays, starting March 6. Each session includes dinner, a presentation by women who are experts in their fields, and small-group discussions. The cost of the program is $475, which covers dinners, speakers, materials and notebooks. Each participant will receive free admission to the YWCA Women and Money Conference, to be held on Feb. 17. .
Cross-country: At odds over exotic fish in rivers
JOHOR BARU: Two organisations dealing with fish are at odds over whether exotic fish that escaped from farms here in the recent floods would affect the natural ecology of rivers in the state.
While state Fisheries Department director Gulam Sarwar Jan Mohammad said there was no danger of this happening, Malaysian Nature Society Johor (MNSJ)s bio-diversity researcher, Vincent Chow, felt otherwise. Gulam Sarwar said there was no real danger of the exotic fish overwhelming indigenous species. He also said the department was monitoring the presence of such fish in rivers in the state. In a direct rebuttal, Chow said he had studied how the Peacock bass and Colossoma (bawal merah), a cousin of the dreaded Piranha, had multiplied at such rivers in the past. "Due to the similarity in climate between South America and Malaysia, exotic predator fish imported from the continent could easily multiply and wipe out indigenous fish stock.
Arts launch new move for CCS
A book launch and photographic exhibition about living with disability at COCA Gallery is part of a larger project, 'Our Stories', being supported by CCS and the Lion Foundation. The photographic exhibition, "My Name Is...", will have its first showing at the COCA Gallery in Christchurch from February 13 to March 4 2007. It will showcase a collection of the best pieces of Hanne Johnsen who has worked with Canterbury West Coast CCS for the last two years. Glenn Busch's book 'The Man With No Arms and Other Stories' captures compelling and intimate stories of nine people who live daily with the reality of a disability. "The participant's spoke candidly of growing up, the importance of work, family, relationships, parenthood, of wanting to be treated like everyone else in a world that still chooses to see them as different," said Glenn.
Rome State of the City Address
I would like to thank all of you for attending tonight's Common Council meeting and this, my fourth, State of the City address. It is an honor to report again on the state of the City, and I would like to thank our host, the Rome Historical Society, for opening its doors to us tonight.
The Rome Historical Society - like Rome itself - is a hidden treasure.
I frequently hear from visitors to Rome about what a tremendous resource the Rome Historical Society is and about its courteous and helpful staff. They understand how fortunate we are to have this great organization here in our community.
And so, on behalf of the City of Rome, I would like to begin tonight by presenting this proclamation to the Rome Historical Society to recognize the vital role the Society plays in our community and to honor the staff - both paid and volunteer - and the board of directors of this great institution.
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