BRIEFLY : AIDS ORGANIZATIONS GIVEN KAISER GRANTS.VENTURA - Two Ventura County organizations specializing in AIDS-related education and care have been awarded $4,000 each through Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization, based in Oakland, California, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield. in Woodland Hills. AIDS Care Inc., which provides free confidential education, counseling, legal aid and financial assistance, and the Serra Project, which offers assisted living as·sist·ed living n. A living arrangement in which people with special needs, especially older people with disabilities, reside in a facility that provides help with everyday tasks such as bathing, dressing, and taking medication. services, were given the grants as part of $350,000 awarded to 64 agencies statewide. - Daily News CLU (language) CLU - (CLUster) An object-oriented programming language developed at MIT by Liskov et al in 1974-1975. CLU is an object-oriented language of the Pascal family designed to support data abstraction, similar to Alphard. to teach about classroom computer THOUSAND OAKS Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. - California Lutheran University's school of education has been awarded $3,400 for the school's efforts to train teachers to use advanced computer technology in the classroom. The grant from from the Smarter Kids Foundation amounts to an 80 percent discount on the purchase of a SMART Board, an electronic blackboard (1) See Blackboard Learning System. (2) The traditional classroom presentation board that is written on with chalk and erased with a felt pad. Although originally black, "white" boards and colored chalks are also used. that allows users to draw images on the screen through its computer link. The award also includes software. ``This fits right in (with) where we are heading at CLU with technology and education,'' said Paul Gathercoal, the school's director of educational technology. - Daily News |
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