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Utilizing California's Water Supply Efficiently and Effectively; given by Thaddeus L. Bettner, Deputy General Manager - Resources, Westlands Water District. Westlands Water District consists of an area in western Fresno and Kings counties made up of 600,000 acres of farmland. This agricultural hub produces much of the state and nation's tomatoes, cotton, sugar beets, and asparagus. Water used to sustain this historically arid soil comes from the 20 dams and reservoirs of the Central Valley Project (CVP). This water, however, is not easily obtained as pro-agriculture organizations (such as Westlands), environmentalists, fisherman and anglers, and other groups vie for the same water. Bettner discusses Westlands Water District and the agricultural use of water within the CVP export area.
The beginnings and early stages of the scholar-amateur movement in painting, known first as "shidafu hua" and later as "wenren hua," are presented through works by or attributed to the early literati masters, notably Su Shi or Su Dongpo, Mi Fu, and Li Gonglin. An especially fine painting from the next generation, the "Red Cliff" handscroll by Qiao Zhongchang, is given a longer, detailed treatment.
Nat Goldhaber is the resident expert on energy conservation and management systems. He also has broad interest in areas such as mobile payments and social networking. His focus in these investment areas is built on twenty years of experience in IT as: CEO of Cybergold, founder of Centram Systems West, founding CEO of Kaleida Labs and Vice President of Sun Microsystems. Prior to his business career, Nat served as Special Assistant to Pennsylvanias Lt. Governor, William Scranton, III. He ran the states Energy Agency as its Interim Director. Some past investments include: Ask Jeeves, Shiva and Macromedia.
Part of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology's Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series
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Elvera Kwang Siam Lim Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Magnus Fiskesjö, Anthropology, Cornell University
The current Chinese boom in museum-building and in the construction of memorial sites coincides with a broad re-definition of the official and predominant view of China’s history and identity. The Mao-era Communist orthodoxy of history as a sequence of class struggles is replaced across the board, with a story of unbroken, if interrupted, national glory. In this presentation I ask, how are the current developments related to older Chinese conceptions of culture-hero ancestry and imperial glory? Moreover, in what ways should we understand the new Chinese developments within their broader context — especially the simultaneous, yet seemingly paradoxical current world trends of economic globalization and narrow nationalism?