Celebrated performer Charlotte Blake Alston, internationally renowned for her oral storytelling ability that enhances traditional and contemporary stories from African and African-American cultural traditions, will be the keynote speaker for Tidewater Community College’s 17th annual Literary Festival that runs from April 2-5.
Dubbed the Chinese-American Bruce Springsteen, the singer has produced 13 independently released CDs, including “Leaving the Lights On,” which confronts identity, relationships, history, family and racism. So launched his career in the early ’90s when he appeared on Fox TV’s “Big Break.”
TCC faculty members and students will also read from their original works on the following dates and times:
When Alyssa Shepherd and Christopher Newbill graduate from Wilson High School in June, they will have a credential in hand and a leg up on a promising
Los Angeles-based Gaw Capital Advisors has put both San Francisco and Seattle among its target markets for its Gaw U.S. Fund III commingled fund, as stated in a board meeting document from the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation Fund.
This investor approved a $50 million commitment into the fund at the end of December. It has joined other institutional investors in the fund where a final $400 million capital raise is anticipated to occur during the first quarter of 2018. Another investor in the fund with a $50 million commitment is the San Francisco Employees Retirement System.
Fund III is substantially focused on the Western United States for transactions for the fund, as stated in a board meeting document from the Ohio BWC. Besides San Francisco and Seattle, the other growth markets earmarked for the fund are Los Angeles and Portland. Gaw will also consider other markets such as Denver and Nashville.
The investment strategy for Fund III will center on the acquisition and repositioning/redevelopment of “creative office” and “creative hospitality” assets that is primarily populated by young, well-educated demographics and experiencing strong employment growth. Gaw looks to take advantage of operating underperforming B-quality assets located in high-growth areas and turn them into A-quality assets in A-quality locations.
The real estate fund manager will be making a $12 million co-investment into Fund III. This will represent around three percent of the commingled fund’s total capital commitments. The amount of leverage planned on the commingled fund is projected to be 65 percent of the aggregate investment fair market value.
The targeted returns for the fund are a 12 percent net IRR. The investment period for the fund will be three years from the final closing with a one-year extension option. The total life of the fund is for eight years with two one-year extension options.
Police are appealing for information after a 16-year-old local girl suffered life threatening injuries after the car she travelling in collided with a wall.
Partners in Health co-founder Paul Farmer to discuss Haiti and health care Feb. 19 | Vanderbilt News | Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt’s Office of Health Sciences Education, in conjunction with the Center for Medicine, Health and Society, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health and the Center for Latin American Studies, will host a public lecture and interview with global health expert Paul Farmer on Feb. 19 in Langford Auditorium.
The event, titled “Paul Farmer and Haiti,” will begin at 4 p.m. Ted Fischer, director of the Center for Latin American Studies and the Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Anthropology, will moderate the interview.
Farmer, a physician and anthropologist, is the chief strategist and co-founder of Partners In Health, Kolokotrones University Professor and chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He also serves as U.N. special adviser to the secretary-general on community-based medicine and lessons from Haiti.
“Paul Farmer has changed the way we approach global health, and in doing so has improved the lives of countless people in Haiti and around the world,” Fischer said. “Recognizing that AIDS is about more than just the HIV virus, but also about race and sexuality, political policies and discrimination, he has forced us to look at the structures that lead to infection and illness. He continues to inspire.”
Farmer is an advocate for Haitians, Haiti, and the universal right to health care. He has written extensively on health, human rights, and the consequences of social inequality. His most recent books are In the Company of the Poor: Conversations with Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez; Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction; and To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation.
Admission to the event is free, but tickets are required. Tickets are available in 201 Light Hall, 230 Buttrick Hall and the Sarratt Box Office. For more information, contact Emily Korab.
myVU myVU News releases CLAS Haiti HIV medicine health and society Office of Health Sciences Education Ted Fischer Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A recently defeated Republican congressman is blaming the Democratic House takeover on the late Republican Sen. John McCain's vote against repealing the Affordable Care Act.First-term Minnesota Rep. Jason Lewis argued in a Wall