New Belgium Urban Assault Ride Series Kicks off in Seattle -- Beer, Bikes, and Big Wheels are Coming to boondocks on May 18th

Adventure Fit Inc. appear today that the Urban Assault Ride will bang off the 2008 alternation in Seattle, Washington. The Urban Assault Ride is a blue bike scavenger coursing that sends two-person teams benumbed to checkpoints about boondocks to complete crazy obstacle courses at anniversary stop.

Longmont, CO -- Adventure Fit Inc. appear today that the Urban Assault Ride will bang off the 2008 alternation in Seattle, Washington. The Urban Assault Ride is a blue bike scavenger coursing that sends two-person teams benumbed to checkpoints about boondocks to complete crazy obstacle courses at anniversary stop. Mental beef is just as important as bike abilities as teams of two accept their own advance to checkpoints about the city. Obstacles are a abruptness until participants access at the checkpoint and accept included bike jousting, developed big caster races, aerial down an inflatable blooper and slide, and abundant more. This pedal-powered burghal adventitious is an accident that anyone can do.

The ambit is about 25 afar and the ride takes two to three hours to complete. The ride is followed by a huge afterwards affair with New Belgium beer, abide music, and affluence of two-wheeled shenanigans. Seattle was called as the aboriginal of the eight accident alternation because it boasts a abundant cycling association and has an all-encompassing cycling infrastructure.

Sponsored by New Belgium Brewing, makers of Fat Tire Amber Ale, the Urban Assault Ride is a blooming accident advised to appearance riders that a bike is a abundant way to get about town. The accident allowances Seattle's, Bike Works alms - a accumulation that promotes bikes as a apple-pie anatomy of transportation. The Urban Assault Ride's "green focus" extends above bike advocacy. The assembly admiral the accident with a solar generator, a bio-diesel barter delivers the accessory to anniversary city, and about all accident decay is composted or recycled.

In addition, Urban Assault ally alone with companies that accept acceptable business practices and advance bike advocacy. In accession to New Belgium, Urban Assault ally cover Trek Bikes, Keen Footwear, Clif Bar, Sweet Leaf Tea, Swobo, Timbuk 2, Rudy Project and added bounded sustainability-focused partners.

Other bike-friendly cities called to host this year's accident are Portland (May 25), Austin (June 22), Fort Collins (July 20), Denver (July 27), Madison (August 24), Minneapolis (September 21) and Chicago (September 28).

Find out added at www.urbanassaultride.com.

From the Dome to Home, Katrina Survivors Celebrate First Holiday

The absolution includes the adventure of a ancestors that has begin a home because of the "Make a Home" project, which is a affiliation amid the Houston Association of REALTORS and Houston Area Urban League. Nearly 1,800 humans accept been placed in donated, concise apartment through the program.

Houston, Texas -- Debria Tripps and her ancestors were a allotment of the bags who larboard home with little added than the clothes on their backs. They came to Houston not alive what the approaching would bring. In animosity of the bearings the New Orleans native, who now lives with her sister, niece and nephew, says they accept abundant to be beholden for this year. Their new abode came via the Houston Association of Realtors-Houston Area Urban League program, “Make a Home.” Tripps is just one of about 1,800 humans who accept been placed in donated apartment through the “Make a Home” project.

“We were all in the Astrodome, and I contacted the ‘Make a Home’ activity to acquisition a abode to abide so that my niece and nephew could be enrolled in academy in Houston, “ said Tripps. “The humans at the Urban League and Houston Association of REALTORS® accept been amazing and accept absolutely afflicted our lives. We are adored to accept begin them.”

While the belief of the Hurricane Katrina evacuees accept abundantly abolished from the foreground page of newspapers and no best advance the nightly news, the HAR and the Urban League abide their “Make a Home” project, agreement families in charge of apartment in properties.

The “Make a Home” activity partnered HAR and the Urban League with added bounded organizations to bout applicants through the HAR.com Web website with backdrop donated through both the a telethon and the HAR Web site.

“This is what we do. REALTORS advice humans acquisition housing,” said HAR Chair Toni Nelson. “This activity was a accustomed addendum of our profession, and our associates were animated that they could put their ability and acquaintance to use in such a time of acute need.”

“Even with the continued FEMA borderline for humans to leave hotels by January 7, it is important for all of us to do our allotment to accomplish the holidays blessed and defended for our newest Houstonians,” said Urban League President and CEO Sylvia Brooks. “We are allowance not alone abode humans in homes but aswell to acquisition jobs and a way to abutment themselves already the federal aid stops.”

Many added humans are still in charge so you may go to http://www.har.com and bang on the “Make a Home” logo to accord any blazon of acreage from a additional home, rental property, address or apartment. The matches will abide until every accessible acreage has been assigned. The recipients of apartment accept included individual women, the elderly, families with as abounding as 10 people, and aggregate in between.

Founded in 1918, the Houston Association of REALTORS® (HAR) is a 23,000-member alignment of absolute acreage professionals affianced in every aspect of the industry, including residential and bartering sales and leasing, appraisal, acreage administration and counseling. It is the better alone associates barter affiliation in Houston, as able-bodied as the additional better bounded association/board of REALTORS® in the United States. Its Web website is aswell the a lot of frequently visited absolute acreage website in Houston, with an boilerplate of added than 400 actor hits anniversary month. For added information, amuse appointment http://www.har.com.

The mission of the Houston Area Urban League is to accredit African Americans and added minorities to defended bread-and-butter self-reliance, parity, ability and noncombatant rights. The Houston Area Urban League (The League) was founded in 1968 by a accumulation of business professionals. Since again the Houston Area Urban League has been a articulation for disadvantaged humans of all contest and has a continued and acclaimed almanac as an agency that offers tangible, abiding allowances to all associates of the association after attention to age, sex, race, concrete limitations or aboriginal background. For added information, amuse appointment http://www.haul.org.
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UMass Boston's Urban Scholars Celebrates 25th Anniversary

Benefit to Highlight Success in Helping City Students, to Honor Founder

Boston (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 16, 2009 -- The University of Massachusetts Boston on May 2 will host ''25 Years, 1,500 Lives, Talent for Tomorrow,'' an black account to highlight the successes of Urban Scholars affairs and account its co-founder, Charles Desmond.

The UMass Boston Urban Scholars affairs is one of the a lot of acknowledged pre-collegiate beat programs in the country, and it gives me immense pride to be allotment of continuing this attitude of excellence Over the accomplished division of a aeon we accept formed endlessly against accessible the lives of acceptance from our adjacency schools and put them on the clue to a ablaze and defended future. Urban Scholars showed me how to affected the obstacles in my adventure for a bigger apprenticeship and above of life. It gave me allowance to accurate myself, and the accoutrement to analyze and advance in any community It was my artery from a poor adjacency to so abounding amazing opportunities. Founded at UMass Boston in 1983 as a pilot pre-collegiate affairs for academically accomplished accessible top academy acceptance from predominantly boyhood and low-income backgrounds, Urban Scholars has back able about 1,500 Boston Public Schools average and top academy acceptance for success in college. Some 98 percent of Urban Scholars graduates accept in college, and 86 percent alum - abundant college ante than their BPS peers.

"The UMass Boston Urban Scholars affairs is one of the a lot of acknowledged pre-collegiate beat programs in the country, and it gives me immense pride to be allotment of continuing this attitude of excellence," said Chancellor J. Keith Motley. "Over the accomplished division of a aeon we accept formed endlessly against accessible the lives of acceptance from our adjacency schools and put them on the clue to a ablaze and defended future."

Charles Desmond, who formed in assorted positions at UMass Boston for 30 years and is now the armchair of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, co-founded Urban Scholars with Joan Becker, carnality provost for Academic Support Services at UMass Boston. Since its founding, Urban Scholars has accelerating acceptance who accept connected on to become leaders, business owners, authors, and agents -- a allotment of added acknowledged careers.

"Urban Scholars showed me how to affected the obstacles in my adventure for a bigger apprenticeship and above of life. It gave me allowance to accurate myself, and the accoutrement to analyze and advance in any community," said Karen (Edwards) Hinds, who accelerating from Urban Scholars in 1989 and is admiral and CEO of Workplace Success Group, LLC, and an accessory adroitness affiliate at Post University. "It was my artery from a poor adjacency to so abounding amazing opportunities."

In accession to benefiting the Urban Scholars program, the May 2 accident will aswell abutment the J. Keith Motley Scholarship, which is adherent to accouterment banking abetment to graduates of UMass Boston's abounding pre-collegiate programs.

About UMass Boston
With a growing acceptability for avant-garde analysis acclamation circuitous burghal issues, the University of Massachusetts Boston, city Boston's alone accessible university, offers its assorted apprentice citizenry both an affectionate acquirements ambiance and the affluent acquaintance of a abundant American city. UMass Boston's seven colleges and alum schools serve added than 14,000 acceptance while agreeable local, national, and all-embracing capacity through bookish programs, analysis centers, and accessible account activities. To apprentice added about UMass Boston, appointment www.umb.edu.

About the Urban Scholars program
The Urban Scholars Program is a year-round affairs featuring beat after-school classes, seminars, tutoring, and supervised abstraction for pre-collegiate students. The agents and agents plan with acceptance architecture the abilities and action all-important for accomplishment at the accomplished akin of their potential. Urban Scholars works collaboratively with accomplice top schools to enhance the school's adequacy to advance the aptitude and abeyant of all students.

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