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USF, Stetson collaborate to assist military veterans
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
A new partnership will help Tampa Bay area military veterans navigate the often difficult and complex Veterans Administration system – from healthcare benefits to education.
USF Health
and the
Stetson College of Law
have worked together for many years, sharing students, research and a joint Master of Public Health and JD degrees. The new partnership will take this a step further to meet a community need.
The relationship will allow law students to teach medical students how to navigate workers' compensation and other disability benefits. Medical and physical therapy students will in turn work with law students to help them understand the clinical aspect. Learning teams will be formed with students from both institutions, resulting in a better understanding of both sides of the system.
"The heart of the relationship is to break down the financial, medical and perceived barriers between law and medicine," says Jay Wolfson, PhD., professor of public health and medicine at USF Health. "We're bringing physicians and other healthcare providers and attorneys together to work toward a common good."
USF health professionals will also provide a second review of difficult cases, which might result in approval of previously denied benefits.
The ultimate goal is to provide a better experience, better assessments and ultimately better quality of care for those who serve or have served.
"Attorneys, law students, medical students, and physicians are being trained toward the goal of being advocates of meeting society's needs," says Wolfson. "We're training a new breed of physician and new breed of attorney who think differently. That's one of the best things we can do as educational institutions."
FIVE by FIVE celebrates every dimension of the arts
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
'Tis the season for arts-lovers and collectors to find reasonably priced original artwork! The Arts Council of Hillsborough County is hosting its third annual FIVE by FIVE event, Friday, Oct. 17th, at 8 p.m., where the flash exhibit of nearly 700 original pieces of pieces of 5-inch by 5-inch art will be available for sale for $25 each.
"If you love art or are an arts supporter, this is an environment where you are immersed in it," says Terri Simons, the Arts Council's Director of Program Services and organizer of the event. "Artists of all disciplines - visual, performing, literary artists; friends and supporters can come together and be part of one community."
The exhibit encourages guests to experience art intuitively, not based on the fame or reputation of a given artist or the criteria of a curator. While there are many award-winning professional artists who have contributed pieces to the exhibit, they are mixed democratically with emerging and new artists and all are exhibited without attribution. The artists' signatures are on the back.
"Because the art is displayed anonymously, people learn to appreciate the beauty of a particular piece," notes Simons.
The artwork, submitted by artists from the Tampa Bay area and around the nation and world, is highly varied with a spectrum of media from painting, etching and sculpture to glass, metal, fabric and even jewelry.
The FIVE by FIVE theme is thread throughout the event, which will take over the first floor of the Tampa Museum of Art, and includes about 40 five- to 10-minute live performances of music, dance, theatre and spoken word in a pop-up club in the lecture hall. The constant flow also mixes in some more recognized performance artists such as Kuumba Dancers and Drummers, Soho Indigo,The Lint Rollers and Stageworks Theatre.
The event, which grew to 900 guests last year, benefits the Arts Council's individual artist grants program. The $13,000 raised by last year's FIVE by FIVE contributed to eleven individual artists grants, which are also in part funded by the Hillsborough County Commission and Florida Division of Cultural Affairs.
Tickets can be purchased at the door or in advance through the Tampa Museum of Art's website for $10. Admission to the event includes the museum's current exhibition, Renoir to Chagall: Paris and the Allure of Color exhibition. Museum members are admitted free.
USF's Graphicstudio invites you to purchase artwork
Tuesday, October 07, 2014
Don't be timid, art-lovers! USF's Graphicstudio is opening its inventory and inviting the Tampa Bay community to start or add to their personal art collections for its
annual one-day sale
Friday, Oct. 10, 2014 from 10 a.m. till 9 p.m.
"This is the one time of year where you can see everything out of the vault," says Kristin Soderqvist, the studio's director of sales and marketing. She is expecting up to 500 guests throughout the day and notes this is not an auction, "the earlier you come, the more opportunities you will have."
Hundreds of pieces of original fine art prints and sculpture multiples from "bluechip" names, such as Mapplethorpe, Rauschenberg and Katz, to emerging artists, are deeply discounted for this event, which aims to engage the community and raise funds for Graphicstudio's mission.
"People think they can't afford [such quality] work, but there are plenty of pieces people can afford," comments Soderqvist. "There is no pressure, it's very relaxed."
Soderqvist says not only is it an excellent opportunity to buy original artwork, but also to understand how Graphicstudio works and its relevance in the world of art on a national and international scale. The studio provides the technical expertise and hardware for a spectrum of printing - lithography, etching, photogravure, aquatints, silkscreens, cyanotype, to name a few.
"You can ask questions, up close. You can see the printers. Ask, how does this process work?," says Soderqvist.
Graphicstudio, founded in 1968, is the largest university-based press in the United States and invites artists to work in the studio throughout the year.
Sales will benefit
's continuing artists-in-residence programs, educational programming and commitment to research and the application of traditional and new techniques for the production of limited edition prints and sculpture multiples.
Cowork Ybor provides space for local creatives, plans open house Oct. 9
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
CoWork Ybor plans an open house on Oct. 9th from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to share the vision for the coworking space with Tampa residents. That vision? A creative community.
CoWork Ybor Founder Roberto Torres hopes to see the space at 1903 E. 7th Ave become ''an informal incubator/accelerator for the other industries in Tampa -- besides tech -- that don't always get the mention or the attention that they should.''
Torres envisions
CoWork Ybor
as a ''community storefront for creatives only. We want to be a space that fosters and grows industries like food and beverage, retail and hospitality.''
The emphasis at CoWork Ybor is placed on creative jobs, he says, because startup entrepreneurs in these industries might not know much about the tech world – or about being an entrepreneur.
"We really want this space to be about the people who are going to be in it,'' Torres says. "Their work is going to be better, because they are going to be in a community that fosters and brings creativity and knowledge to them.''
To that end, the space may play host to exhibits from local artists in the future. Torres also plans to develop "curated experiences'' each month, by bringing in lunchtime speakers through a partnership with the Visit Tampa Bay program
Unlock Tampa Bay
Torres cites Brooklyn-based
Hyper Akt
as an inspiration for the concept he would like to bring to Tampa. "There's really nothing like that in Tampa. We're like a band of outsiders trying to bring creatives together,'' he says.
Along with freelancers and entrepreneurial creatives, Torres also hopes to attract young members from Entreprenuership programs at nearby schools like the
University of Tampa
St. Petersburg College
Torres is in talks with Verizon to donate the Internet for CoWork Ybor, which will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day. The space will have seating for about 40: two conference rooms, a handful of communal tables, and a more relaxed lounge space with couches in the area facing 7th Ave.
CoWork Ybor will host a membership drive from Oct. 27-31st before formally opening Nov 1st, 2014. Membership, which will be capped at 75, is $100/month.
Click this link
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Next door, the
Blind Tiger Cafe
is the result of
a partnership
between Torres' men's apparel company
Black & Denim
and local businesses
Buddy Brew Coffee
TeBella Tea Company
, along with
Tricycle Studios
The Blind Tiger Cafe will feature fresh tea and coffee drinks along with pastries like German chocolate cake and guava and cheese croissants, but it will not have wifi; instead, customers can pay $5 for a pass to gain access to the coworking space for the whole day. The mixed-use storefront at 1901 W. 7th Ave in Tampa's historic Ybor City is set to open on Nov. 5th, 2014.
Tampa startup offers combination personal and professional social network
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
With the myriad of social networks available for personal and professional use, it can sometimes become confusing and cumbersome to manage everything. A new startup in Tampa hopes to ease this burden by creating a combination personal and professional network, with an added job search component.
Founded in November of 2013,
provides an online tool that meets several goals. At the basic level, it operates as a social network similar to LinkedIn or Facebook, allowing users to share news, photos, links and videos. Addressing a common concern with other networks, Flipsetter provides users with ultimate control of privacy settings, allowing them to choose which of their networks can see which information.
A user can create one or more of three profile types: business, organization or individual. Each type has their own tools, and all can be used within the same login or profile.
An added benefit is a feature similar to a virtual resume or portfolio where users can list their academic history, work history and other accomplishments. Businesses and other organizations can also use the service to set up a page for promotional and organizational purposes, and to post jobs.
"We call it one stop shopping," says founder Sabaresh Krishnan,
graduate and current MBA student.
Krishnan thought of the name when hearing about the frustrations involved with having multiple networks and resources to manage profiles, time and organizations. Wanting to find a way to resolve this, he thought "let me flip that around and come up with a way to make it happen."
The service currently has approximately 300 users in beta phase, including several student groups at USF, and plans to go live by October.
SPC launches international film series for students, community
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Partnering with embassies and cultural organizations, St. Petersburg College is launching its own free international film series open to its students and faculty, and welcomes the surrounding local communities to take part.
The first of the series, a Mexican classic, "Frida Kahlo: naturaleza viva,'' will take place at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 18, at the
SPC Clearwater Campus Arts Auditorium
"Part of my job is strategic internationalization, to increase global engagement for students here and engage the community in global awareness,'' says Ramona Kirsch, Director for the
Center for International Programs
. "International films have always played a part in bringing awareness and understanding of other cultures.''
St. Pete College has a surprisingly robust international program including 16 faculty-led programs for study abroad, and nearly 200 international students from 56 countries. Kirsch says the college is committed to providing its students a rich educational experience and making it relevant to the world.
The first film, timed to coincide with National Hispanic Heritage Month and in partnership with the Mexican Consulate, is a biography of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Kirsch says they chose this film to kick of the series for its relevance to the Clearwater campus and its ties to the sizable local Hispanic community. Prior to the film, SPC will host a Hispanic food and Information Fair in front of the Auditorium.
The timing and content of the remaining films -- four in total -- is still being finalized, but the subsequent screenings will be spread out to other SPC campuses: St. Petersburg/Gibbs, Tarpon Springs and Seminole.
"Our hope is that this becomes an annual event,'' says Kirsh. "We have 10 learning centers, so we hope that they will all host at least one and that it will be ongoing for the community, not just for faculty, staff and students.''
Carrollwood Day School Hosts Startup Weekend For Youth Entrepreneurs
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
Pitch an idea, form a team and become part of the world's largest entrepreneurial community in 54 hours. That's the strategy behind every Startup Weekend around the globe – and it's the mission for the first ever Startup Weekend Tampa Youth on September 12-14, 2014.
The intensive, team-based concept at the backbone of the global Startup Weekend movement has gained steam in Tampa Bay over several years of
biannual events
Growing, innovative local startups such as
, and breakout success stories like Eventjoy (formerly
), are the result of previous Tampa Bay Startup Weekends.
Ryan Sullivan, a "Global Facilitator" and local organizer for
Startup Weekend Tampa Bay
and Startup Weekend Tampa Youth, says that the goal for the events in over 200 cities worldwide "is to educate and inspire people in the community to take action in entrepreneurship."
Startup Weekend Youth is specifically geared toward 5th–8th graders - "the next generation's entrepreneurs." Sullivan notes that the event will look and feel a little different this time around. Participants will still pitch ideas and work in teams, but with a focus on teaching and inspiring young thinkers. Attendees will also have the opportunity to interact with coaches who are experts in their field and successful entrepreneurs.
"This is something special," Sullivan says. "We will create an atmosphere of exercises and experiences that will inspire creative ideas in young minds and help kids to learn how to move those ideas forward towards action, and in the process, collaborate with their peers."
Students are encouraged to register under one of three categories (Creative/Design, Coding/Programming, Business/Finance) based on their interests. Hands-on activities will be geared toward helping students identify a challenge to solve, learn to understand potential customers or users, work effectively with others, "and in the end, build something they are proud of as a team," says Sullivan.
"Today's youth are full of creative ideas for how to make lives and the world a better place. This will be a place for them to take those ideas and move them towards reality," he explains. "This event will also help build confidence in creating and sharing ideas for those that tend to keep them inward."
Along with Sullivan, Nicholas Catania, Deborah Neff and Todd Broyles are co-organizers of the event. They expect more than 50 students to attend and participate in Startup Weekend Tampa Youth.
"We like to say that it is the least expensive babysitter at $25 for the weekend," Sullivan says.
Startup Weekend Tampa Youth starts Friday, Sept. 12, at 6 p.m. and concludes on Sunday, Sept. 14, at 4 p.m. The event will take place at Carrollwood Day School, 1515 W. Bearss Ave. in Tampa. Tickets can be purchased by
clicking here
for $25.00.
Justine Benstead
Source: Ryan Sullivan, Startup Weekend Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay's First Senior Care ER Opens In St. Petersburg
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Seniors looking for emergency care in Pinellas County will now have an option for a more personalized experience.
St. Petersburg General Hospital
opened the first Senior Care Emergency Room in the Tampa Bay region in mid-August.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, nearly 23 percent of the population in Pinellas County is over 65 years of age, and this population continues to grow each year. The hospital noticed that approximately 20 percent of patients are over 60. That, combined with the growing number of seniors in the Tampa Bay region prompted the emphasis.
The hospital talked with patients to find out what they could do to better meet their needs. The result was a remodeling of a 4-bed wing and waiting area in the emergency room into a senior care area. The remodeled space includes non-skid floor, dimmer lighting and more comfortable chairs at the bedside for family members. The stretcher pads themselves are also thicker and more comfortable.
"We tried to make it a little bit more of a healing, comfortable environment," says Diane Conti, director of ER services for the hospital.
A section of the waiting area is now set aside for seniors as well, with softer lighting, more comfortable chairs and a larger television. Hearing and visual aids are available for patients who may have forgotten their hearing aids or glasses. Three parking spaces close to the building are designated as senior parking.
The hospital's staff also underwent training on the needs of senior patients, such as dementia screening, fall risks and social screening. Emphasis is placed on working with caregivers to maximize the at-home healing experience.
"We don't want them to be thought of as a different group, but rather a group with different needs," says Conti.
The move is part of a national trend, with over 50 hospitals in the U.S. opening senior specific emergency centers since 2011, according to the ECRI Institute.
Megan Hendricks
Source: Diane Conti, St. Petersburg Hospital
Florida Bookstore Day Celebrates Local Bookstores, Authors
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Tiffany Razzano was driving down Central Avenue in downtown St. Petersburg when she spotted a poster in the storefront window at Daddy Cool Records promoting Record Store Day. She then drove past Wilson's Book World and thought, "Why is there no bookstore day?"
She did some research only to learn that California is the only state that has fully developed the concept of a bookstore day.
So why not Florida? Why not now? she thought. The result?
The inaugural
Florida Bookstore Day
will take place at independent and used bookstores in cities throughout the state on November 15, concentrating on the Tampa Bay area, where Razzano runs
Wordier Than Thou
, a group that supports creative writers through open mic events, a literary magazine and a radio show.
"I wanted to do something big," says Razzano. "It's a celebration of independent bookstores and the writing community. People won't even know they're at a literary event."
Her goal is to showcase local bookstores and the writing community. Soon after she started talking up the concept in social media and elsewhere, Razzano connected with book lovers in Orlando who wanted to be part of the celebration. Bookstores from the Panhandle to the Florida Keys have now signed on to participate. Expect a day of book releases and author signings, open mics and workshops on literary topics
Local participants include:
Inkwood Books
Mojo Books and Music
Old Tampa Book Company
Oxford Exchange
in Tampa, Standup Librarians,
Wilson's Book World
Wings Bookstore
in St. Petersburg,
Book Bank
in Largo and
Back in the Day Books
in Dunedin.
An after party will take place at the
Venture Compound
in St. Petersburg, featuring local authors and literary organizations, the
Bluebird Books Bus
, raffles and food trucks.
The event is sponsored by
Florida Antiquarian Book Fair
and also received a grant from
Awesome Tampa Bay
Megan Hendricks
Source: Tiffany Razzano, Florida Bookstore Day
Working Women Of Tampa Bay Expands Statewide
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
A Tampa-based networking group for female professionals and entrepreneurs is expanding throughout Florida.
Working Women of Florida
is an expansion of the
Working Women of Tampa Bay
professional networking group, which Jessica Rivelli founded in Tampa in 2009. WWoTB currently has 750 local members in Tampa, with an additional 100 statewide. The group expanded to include an Orlando chapter in 2012.
"Our immediate goal is to grow Working Women throughout the state of Florida to includes chapters in Fort Myers, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Orlando and Jacksonville,'' says Rivelli.
Events include lunch-and-learns, coffee chats and educational seminars with local and national successful female entrepreneurs and businesswomen.
The group's
second annual state conference
will be Sept. 11 and 12, 2014, at
Ruth Eckerd Hall
in Clearwater, FL. Rivelli expects 300 female entrepreneurs and executives from around the state to attend.
Keynote speakers include Alex Sink, former Chief Financial Officer for the state of Florida; Bevan Gray-Rogel,
Encore Tampa Bay
president and founder; Lisa G Jacobsen, Executive Coach at
Workplace Solutions Tampa
; and Dr. Jennifer Hall, Director of Coaching at the
Leadership Development Institute
at Eckerd College.
Tampa Bay-based speakers also include Angela Ardolino, founder of Tampa Bay Parenting Magazine; Dotty Bollinger, COO and president of
Laser Spine Institute
; and Lee Lowry, past president of
The Junior League of Tampa
Registration for the Working Women of Florida State Conference is available on the
event website
To help grow WWoF, Rivelli hired
Lauren Tice
as Director of Development for Working Women of Florida. Tice is a Florida native who grew up in Temple Terrace, northeast of Tampa, and graduated from the
University of South Florida
with a degree in Communications.
"Lauren's role is to expand Working Women through out the state,'' says Rivelli. "She'll be traveling regularly to grow chapters and get talented professionals involved. I'm very excited to have her on board.''
Tice has a background in networking and communications, having previously served as Coordinator of Member Services for the
Greater Temple Terrace Chamber of Commerce
for close to five years. More recently, Tice worked as events manager and eventually director of
The Regent
, a special events and performance venue in Riverview, southeast of Tampa.
Justine Benstead
Source: Jessica Rivelli, Working Women of Tampa Bay
Programming Academy The Iron Yard Expands To Tampa Bay
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
A new school for programmers is coming to Tampa Bay this fall. The Iron Yard Academy, an intensive 12-week-long training program, is set to open its doors in downtown St. Petersburg in September 2014.
The programming school will be located "within walking distance of some of the best local spots in town,'' says
George Junginger
, campus director for the Iron Yard's Tampa Bay location.
Aspiring developers can apply to either Rails or Front End Engineering courses. The cost for each 12-week course is $10,000. Part of this price tag includes mentoring, job placement after course completion and career support.
The Iron Yard Tampa Bay
staff has already begun to build partnerships with local software and tech companies, including
Collaborative Technologies of Tampa Bay
"[CToTB] founder and CEO
Sylvia Martinez
is on our Employer Advisory Board, and will work closely with our staff to help us develop our program in a way that's best for Tampa Bay area companies,'' says Junginger.
A full staff, including two Tampa natives, has been hired to run the Tampa Bay branch of the Greenville, S.C.-based startup school. The Iron Yard has 10 other locations scattered through the country, mostly in the southeast. Tampa Bay is the second Florida location for the startup school; the other is in
Brian Burridge
, a Safety Harbor resident who attended
St. Petersburg College
, is set to be Rails instructor. Burridge is the CEO and founder of
Commendable Kids
Justin Herrick
, a Tampa resident who is a self-taught programmer, is Front End instructor.
Students in the Rails program will be taught Ruby on Rails (a popular framework for building servers) and develop skills to manage databases. Front End Engineering students will learn skills to create attractive, functional websites and applications.
The Iron Yard
is currently accepting applications for classes, which are slated to begin September 22nd, 2014. Each course will be capped at 15 students per 3-month session.
"We chose to start small, so that we'd maintain the level of quality we know employers are looking for in developers,'' says Junginger, who expects both courses to fill. A few applicants have already been accepted.
The Iron Yard Academy welcomes students from a variety of backgrounds and skill levels.
"We're looking for a pre-existing mindset, not necessarily a pre-existing skill set,'' says Junginger. "The five attributes of the optimal Iron Yard student are: passion for solving problems with technology; genuine enjoyment of the craft of programming; genuine desire to have a career in or related to programming; extremely strong work ethic; and an ability to learn quickly,'' he explains.
Before searching for a space, the Iron Yard began conversations with leaders in the local tech community. The feedback is clear, says Junginger: "Everyone has been extremely excited about what we are bringing to the tech economy in the area and sees it as a need.''
Free programming classes for kids aged 7-17 will be offered later in 2014.
"There are great resources for startups in Tampa, and we want to support the people doing that work by training great developers,'' says Junginger. "We're privileged to play a part in the growing Tampa Bay tech scene.''
Justine Benstead
Source: George Junginger, The Iron Yard
Sarasota Welcomes Heated Exchange Art Exhibit, French Connection
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Art Center Sarasota hopes to engage locals and tourists alike with its 2014-15 exhibition series.
The series kicks off October 23 with a traveling exhibit titled Heated Exchange, which features encaustic art, or arts made of molten wax using heated tools. This little known art process can be used for painting, sculptures and other mediums.
The biggest exhibition of the season will be unveiled in May. Titled "Confluence France," the display is part of an 8-year series showcasing artwork and artists from regions and countries where Sarasota has a sister city. Sister Cities International pairs cities with those in other countries with whom they share interests, whether it be due to historical connections, a trade relationship, strong expatriate communities or personal experiences. Sarasota has nine sister cities in all, with this exhibit focusing on Perpignon France. The confluence series began in 2013 with a focus on Tel Mond, Israel.
"We're finding ways to mutually benefit and grow each other's municipalities," says Emma Thurgood, exhibitions curator for
Arts Center Sarasota
The series is the first international exhibition for the Center.
The Center is also running a community project allowing people to create pieces of paper installation that will be featured in galleries as part of a Collective Paper Aesthetics exhibit in May and June 2015.
The over 20 exhibitions taking place in the next year were funded in part by a Tourist Development Center (TDC) grant awarded by the Sarasota County Commission, designated for tourist development.
Megan Hendricks
Source: Emma Thurgood, Art Center Sarasota
Omega Communities, Sarasota Churches To Develop Senior Living Communities, Create 300 Jobs
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Omega Communities, a Birmingham, Ala.-based organization that develops senior living communities on land leased in partnership with faith-based organizations, is bringing its unique business model to Florida's Gulf coast.
is partnering with the
Church of Hope
in Sarasota and the
South Biscayne Church
in North Port to develop two assisted living and memory care campuses in Sarasota County.
Omega works with qualified investors in the financing, development and operation of senior care facilities, which are built on land leased by local faith-based organizations. In return, the churches receive a percentage -- between 10 and 25 percent -- of the profit generated by the senior living communities.
"These senior living communities are designed from the inside out. What that means is they are built with a core mission -- a partnership with a large, community impacting church -- and that foundation becomes the center of not only the design of the facility, but more importantly, the core programmatic level of care that will be provided in that community,'' says Omega Communities COO James Taylor, Jr.
Taylor says that the project cost on each Sarasota County facility is just over $30 million, and that once both facilities are completed, the economic impact on Sarasota County is estimated to be in excess of $30 million per year.
The Springs at South Biscayne Church broke ground in January 2014, and the project is expected to reach completion in early spring 2015. The 11,000-square-foot facility will feature 38 memory care units and 95 assisted living units.
The Fountains of Hope broke ground in Sarasota earlier this month (July), with an estimated completion date in fall 2015. Between 150 to 200 jobs will be created during the construction phase, and upon completion, the 9,000-square-foot facility will require 100 fulltime employees.
"We have built a model that utilizes the very best of both the nonprofit and for-profit models for senior care communities. At the core, we've developed a partnership with the church that will provide ministry, volunteers and marketing … to provide a vital resource for the local community,'' says Taylor.
Jessi Smith
Source: James Taylor, Jr., Omega Communities
Tampa General Hospital Designs Prediabetes Education Program
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
A new community outreach program at Tampa General Hospital is designed to prevent diabetes and other health conditions by identifying those at risk before the diseases take effect.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated over 79 million Americans age 20 and older have a condition known as prediabetes. Most do not realize they have the condition because their symptoms are not as severe as those with diabetes. It is a serious health condition that increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke.
Risk factors can include: being a woman who has had a baby over nine pounds in weight at birth, having a parent, sister
or brother with diabetes, being under 65 years of age and getting little to no exercise and being 45 years of age or older.
Recognizing the need in the community,
Tampa General Hospital
(TGH) is offering free educational sessions to help those at risk to achieve optimal health through lifestyle choices such as diet and exercise. The program involves 16 weekly sessions followed by eight monthly support group meetings.
"We'd like to teach people the skills to prevent developing diabetes," says Tamika Powe, Community Health Educator for TGH, adding that the benefits can trickle down to family members as well. "Hopefully they're taking the information they learn in this program back home to their families to help everyone make better choices."
The program is funded by TGH and is limited to 12 registrants per class in order to maximize effectiveness. The next session begins in September at locations in Tampa Palms and South Tampa. Participants must meet qualifying criteria.
Megan Hendricks
Source: Tamika Powe, Tampa General Hospital
St. Petersburg Greenhouse Launches Craft Entrepreneurship Program
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Etsy, the most popular online marketplace for handmade items, is collaborating with cities across the U.S. to make it easier for crafters to supplement their income through workshops and expert advice. Because of its thriving arts culture, St. Petersburg was recently selected as one of 10 cities to pilot the program this year.
The program started last March in Rockford IL and has since expanded to places like Newark NJ and Santa Cruz County, Dallas TX. The idea is to create an open source curriculum that can be used by other areas to run their own classes.
Unlike most economic development programs that provide tools to start businesses, Etsy's goal is to provide supplemental income for people out of work during seasonal periods or perhaps to help a household boost itself over the poverty line.
Local classes will be hosted by the
St. Petersburg Greenhouse
, a collaborative effort between the
St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce
City of St. Petersburg
. Classes are free and available to crafters who have not sold on Etsy in the past.
Classes are taught by local craft sellers who have been successful using Etsy as an outlet. Topics include time management, branding, pricing, shipping and photography. Participants will be able to sell their first 20 items for free on Etsy. The first session begins August 4.
"Here in St. Petersburg, such a large part of our economy and what makes us go is in the arts," says Sean Kennedy, Greenhouse Manager and Economic Development Coordinator for the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce. "We think it's important to help artists be in the best position to succeed financially as well as develop their craft."
Megan Hendricks
Source: Sean Kennedy, St. Petersburg Greenhouse
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Sitraruvipatti, a hamlet without electricity, cries for attention
At a time when the city is marching on its path to development, a village on its periphery reels in darkness.
A 22 km drive on the Alagarkoil road and a four-kilometre walk on the rocky man-made path surrounded by thorny wild bushes take you to the tiny hamlet of Sitraruvipatti.
Not many outsiders knew about this rural community in the foothills of Alagarmalai till the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) watershed programme reached there. "We first identified the place when we started our watershed programme in the nearby Kesampatti village," says R. Shankar Narayan, Assistant General Manager, NABARD.
The hamlet is deprived of basic facilities. Around 25 families reside here in 15 houses. Most of the houses are thatched, while some are concrete structures with asbestos roofing. They draw drinking water from a nearby well. Their main occupation is agriculture.
Numerous appeals to the district authorities at the grievance day meeting and to the local body at the Gram Sabha meeting did not fetch the desired result. The villagers have now learnt to live without electricity. "We are basically farmers and our children are not interested in going to school," says A. Sekkadiyan, one of the inhabitants. "How do you expect kids to walk four to five kilometres everyday for their studies?" he asks. "Even to charge a mobile phone we have to go to nearby Sambranipatti where we have to pay Rs.5."
"Political parties promise a lot when they visit us once in five years," says N. Ayyavu, who has lived here since 1962. "But nothing came forward after that."
"I was surprised to see such a place at close proximity to the city," says Shankar Narayanan. "Access to this hamlet is also difficult as there is no proper road. Children find it hard to study in the evenings as they don't have electricity. Then, we decided to get them solar-powered lights."
When Shankar Narayan asked the Selco Solar Electric Light Company representatives to visit the spot, they inspected and worked out the modalities for installing solar lights. "We did an energy assessment and based on that provided solar panels and lights," says S. Nambirajan, senior executive (projects) of the company. "Each installation costs Rs.25,600. Each beneficiary has to pay 10 per cent of the amount as margin while 40 per cent is the NABARD's subsidy. The company has arranged for soft loans through Indian Overseas Bank to pay the balance 50 per cent."
Selco organised several awareness programmes for the residents to make them understand the advantages of solar energy and cleared their doubts. "We have provided each installation with a solar panel, three electric bulbs, one pedestal fan, a mobile charging unit and a charger regulator," explains Selvaraj Suthakar, business associate of the company.
He adds, "We also provide one year free service for the product. Initially, people were reluctant to accept. We have to do a lot of convincing job. But now, they find it very useful."
"The solar lights are put to good use," says Ayyavu. "The add-on benefit is that now we are able to roam around freely in the night because the number of bison straying into our place from the hills has reduced considerably. Our children appearing for board examinations are already showing good interest and study till late in the night."
NABARD has planned to develop agri-eco tourism in this place. Says Shankar Narayanan, "We have talked to district authorities for providing a proper access to Sitraruvipatti. The place has enormous potential for eco-tourism ventures with its serene surroundings and plenty of green cover."
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Samsung announces world's largest 4K displays, 98-in and 110-in S9 UHD TVs
By Paul Ridden
September 5, 2013
Yesterday at IFA 2013, Panasonic showed off its impressive new 65-inch VIERA WT600 4K TV at IFA 2013, but today belongs to Samsung. The Korean electronics giant has revealed two enormous Ultra High Definition (UHD) televisions.
At CES in January, Samsung gave us a glimpse of things to come with an 85-inch 4K LED TV. For Berlin's IFA, the company has upped its game with the European debut of a 98-inch S9 model and a 110-inch monster (the latter would likely nab the crown of world's largest TV). Details are somewhat lacking at the moment, but we'll update this post as we learn more. One thing is for certain, buyers are going to need a suitably large bank roll to go with the huge room needed to house either of these behemoths.
In related news, the company also announced 55-inch curved and flat format UHD OLED TVs, representing "an unprecedented leap forward for picture quality and sharp contrast with its self-emitting pixels and natural motion."
Source: Samsung
Update 10/5/13: Samsung Europe's Senior Director of Sales & Marketing Michael Zoeller has revealed that the production versions of the 98- and 110-inch UHD TV prototypes shown off by the company at IFA 2103 will have the same feature set at the company's 85-inch S9 UHD TV first shown at CES back in January. Unfortunately, dimension and weight information is not available at this time.
I wish there was more of these new TV's coming to market rather then it always being them just showing off a model with no word on when they will ever sell them, maby years away.Nathaneal Blemings
''One thing is for certain, buyers are going to need a suitably large bank roll to go with the huge room needed to house either of these behemoths.''
I wish websites would stop repeating this nonsense that you need a huge room for a display this small. If you want to equal the diagonal field of view of a 50mm lens on a full frame sensor camera wich is considered the 'normal' then a 98'' display requires a viewing distance of just 9'5'' and for a 110'' display this means a viewing distance of 10'7''. Both of these are normal for average size living rooms. Besides this i consider a viewing angle equivalent to a 50mm lens to be quite narrow and would go for a 35mm or wider viewing angle at some point in the future which will obviously require much bigger displays still, but for now with content being filmed with narrow framing i think 50mm is a nice target.revetahw
The 152" Panasonic 152UX1 3D plasma is the worlds largest 4K display :P been on the market for nearly two yearsFoulMermaid


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Other interesting stories in the Washington Post:
"He's so rooted for someone who is as young and absurdly fortunate as he is. He doesn't seem to read some grand entrepreneurial narrative into his success."
— Alec MacGillis of the New Republic praising the magazine's new owner Chris Hughes, 28, whose path to an $850 million fortune began when he was assigned to the same Harvard freshman dorm suite as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg. Read more in Paul Farhi's profile: Chris Hughes, once a new-media pioneer, makes a bet on old media with New Republic.
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Cooperation between INTERKULTUR and the ICV
Focus on new projects and expanded international network
Brazilian choral sounds in Magdeburg
Goethe Institute supports choral journey to the European Choir Games
The World of Voices in Magdeburg
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Take the spirit of Tosca, Madame Butterfly and Turandot
International Choir Festival Puccini – Registration possible until May 11
Four-time winners: Victoria Junior College Choirs
Choirs celebrate four victories at the 4th Vietnam Int. Choir Competition
Vietnam embraces the world of choral music
4th Vietnam International Choir Competition in Hội An starts
Off the beaten track
Wernigerode explores Vietnam
The best things come in...fours!
In 2017 INTERKULTUR invites choirs to the 4th U.S. event in Florida
Choirs successful at Voci dal Lido 2015
Tony Margeta and the Swedish choir La Cappella capture triple gold
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Concert in preparation for the WCG in Sochi
Impressions of the most recent event
Roane State Community College Choirs, USA (Canta en Primavera 2015)
"Please let me tell you again how wonderful it has been to work with all of you this year! As the pictures prove, the students had a fantastic time and were very happy with the festival overall! I so appreciate the organization, panel of judges, and welcoming atmosphere of the competition and this kind of festival is such an incredible learning experience for our students!"
Adolf Fredriks Flickkör, Sweden (Isola del Sole, Grado 2014)
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César Freitas, Portugal (Coro de Câmara da AMCP, Canta al mar 2014)
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The Ever-Expanding Scope of Social Media Discovery
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VANCOUVER, WA - Police in Vancouver are looking for the suspect in a violent home invasion robbery and attempted kidnapping that happened on Tuesday.
It happened around 8:20 Tuesday morning
Something like this happens and you're not prepared for it, said neighbor Bruce Brown. We certainly weren't.
Detectives said the victim was at home in the 15300 block of SERivershore Drive when she heard someone enter from the garage just after 8 a.m. Then, a man armed with a gun forced her into her home office at gunpoint.
This is the first time something like this has ever happened down here, added Brown.
Investigators said the victim tricked the suspect and was able to briefly escape to the driveway, only to be grabbed and forced back inside.
If it was my wife, and I wasn't home, it would scare you pretty good, said Brown.
A police spokesperson said the woman and the suspect struggledbefore thewoman managed to escape a second time and run to a neighbor's house.
The suspect was described as a white man, approximately 40 years old, with light brown hair and a medium build. He was wearing blue jeans with newer white tennis shoes.
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Early voting in Oklahoma's runoff election started today, and continues on Friday and Saturday.
Early voting in runoffs that feature two statewide races for Democratic voters and runoffs for both parties in the 5th District U.S. House contest started today.
Democrats will choose nominees in a U.S Senate contest and for Superintendent of Public Instruction. Several state House and Senate contests are also be on the ballot.
A new law which took effect on November 1, 2013, changes the dates and times voters have come to expect for early voting in Oklahoma. Jackson Election Board Secretary Jennifer L. Wilson said voters need to take special note that early voting is no longer conducted on Monday.
These changes have occurred due to the approval of SB 869, which was signed into law in May, 2013.
Wilson explained that during federal and state elections such as this one, voter turnout is often heavier and providing early voting on Saturday gives voters an additional opportunity to vote before Election Day.
Early voting runs from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. today, and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, then continues Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Prevent Suicide Columbia County meets the third Thursday of each month from 1:00 to 2:30 pm at the Columbia County Law Enforcement Center at 711 E. Cook Street in Portage, Wisconsin. See map at the bottom of the page and contact us for more information.
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Starting March 15, 2014, Prevent Suicide Columbia County billboards will be on display throughout our area as part of Lamar Advertising Company's Public Service Advertising Program. Thank you to Lamar for their contribution!
We were delighted to receive a check in the amount of $5,533 from the Welsh Prairie Livewires 4-H Club in support of our suicide prevention efforts. The funds were raised at their second annual Shamrock Shuffle 5K Run/Walk, which took place on March 8, 2014 in Cambria. Each year, the youth decide which organization should benefit from their run/walk. This year, they chose Prevent Suicide Columbia County.
Sadly, suicide affects Columbia County residents of all ages. The youth decided to donate to our organization because many of them had experienced the loss of a family member, friend, or teacher to suicide. Several of the 4-H youth members and their families attended our Signs of Suicide Walk for Hope last year, where they volunteered, walked, and participated in our balloon release, writing messages to loved ones who had died by suicide, attaching them to balloons, and releasing them to the sky.
4-H member Allison Schwark (right) presents facilitator Sara Jesse with a check in the amount of $5,533 at the coalition's June meeting. From left to right in the back row: Morgan Jones, Abbigail Schwark, Owen Jones, and Cheryl Schwark
Prevent Suicide Columbia County thanks the Welsh Prairie Livewires 4-H Club for their outstanding contribution in support of our suicide prevention activities. You have touched our hearts. We are truly impressed with your courage, your fundraising skills, and the dedication of your student and adult volunteers.
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Prevent Suicide Columbia County would like to extend its sincere appreciation to Columbia County businesses, organizations, and residents for their support of our second annual Walk for Hope. Steady rain, wind gales, and unseasonably cold weather kept our event more intimate this year. About 100 residents braved the elements to attend our walk, which took place at the Historic Indian Agency House in Portage on Saturday, October 4, 2014. The event raised over $7,300 to fund our local suicide prevention activities, which include public information campaigns, QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) suicide prevention training, survivors of suicide loss support groups, and increasing access to mental health services.
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"When you get into the larger aircraft it becomes like a hotel, with dozens of staff supporting the plane based in a galley area down below. You have very comprehensive cooking facilities, and on larger aircraft we have looked at theatres, with spiral staircases and a Steinway grand piano. The limitations for what you can put inside a plane are pretty much the limits of physics, and even money cannot always overcome that. Even so, people are still always trying to push [the limits]. "
'No Plane, No Gain' Campaign Returns
The National Business Aviation Association and General Aviation Manufacturers Association have swept the dust off the slogan "No Plane, No Gain," which the trade groups first used in 1993 to highlight the benefits of business aircraft. The slogan fell into disuse as the industry prospered but has been revived to "reinforce the value of business aviation to American workers, policymakers, companies and communities." The NBAA and GAMA say they will employ the slogan on a full range of new media, including a Web site (noplanenogain.org), YouTube videos, podcasts and webinars. The associations will also use advertising and publish studies and surveys that illustrate the value of business aviation.
"'No Plane, No Gain' will underscore why business aviation is critical to tens of thousands of cost-conscious companies fighting to succeed in a difficult market," said NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen. "It will also remind people of the relief efforts and humanitarian assistance that are possible only through this mode
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Research Output for Ying Ni
Note: The 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 publications have not been audited.
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1997 External
Yang, Y. and Ni, Y.* (1997) Resource Management with Tender for Distributed Software Processes., International Symposium on Future Software Technology., pp. 63-68, Software Engineers Association, Japan [E1]
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Ni, Y.* and Goscinski, A. (1995) Evaluation of Attributed Names, Distrib. Syst. Engineering, vol. 0, no. 0, pp. 87-101, IOP Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom [C1]
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Ni, Y.* and Goscinski, A. (1995) Attributed Name Evaluation, "Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, Phoenix, Arizona, April 25-27, 1995", pp. 192-198, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA [E1]
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Squires is the rare person who is meaner in his stories than he's portrayed by others. That trait especially comes out when he talks about Rodgers. "When Bill first came to me," Squires says, "I told him, 'You need my coaching and you need a group to teach you how to run, unless you want to go off with the gun and do your little bullshit thing that'll get you in the Boston Marathon fifth at best. You need to be with my group on Tuesdays, because that's a speed thing, and that's what you don't have, pal.'" Squires also relates outing Rodgers in front of the group for would-be secret racing. "I'd say, 'Hey guys, we got a champion we didn't know about. Went down to Rhode Island. Made a few bucks, beat the guppies.' And then I'd say, 'You ever freakin' do it again, take a hike, pal!'
"I'm a bitch, you know."
But from Rodgers you'll hear only stories of fun and admiration and how Squires ran out on the course to hand him water bottles at Boston in 1980, when Rodgers had received death threats for denouncing the Olympic boycott. Salazar will say, "What Coach Squires did for me when I was in high school shows what kind of person he is. He took a lot of flak from others for letting me train with his group. He didn't care." Beardsley's voice will crack and he'll struggle to hold back tears when he tells how, after a farm accident that almost cost him a leg, one of the first letters he received was from Squires. Inside was a check for $1,000.
Squires' heyday ended as open professionalism blossomed. Meyer's 1983 Boston victory was his last coaching success at that level.
"That golden era seemed to undergo a change," says Rodgers, a driving force behind the change. "Now the sport was not just about friendships and aiming high and let's have fun and listen to Squires' crazy stories." As shoe companies signed runners to national clubs, more casual organizations like Greater Boston lost their appeal to elites. Squires wasn't a recruiter; he was used to runners asking him to coach them. Without the top runners as magnets, his system of moving runners through his groups until they were national-class fell apart.
Rodgers and other former Squires runners who benefited from professionalism are ambivalent about what they wrought. "I was living in a $112 a month apartment in Jamaica Plain when I won Boston the first time," Rodgers says. "It's good to be in that crucible. But it's also good to get out of it."
"I knew professionalism was going to come," Squires says, "but not so soon." Uncharacteristically voicing a regret, he says, "I then did something I wish I hadn't done, that being becoming a consultant to New Balance. I knew I could go and have a local little club, like I had with the Liberty [Athletic Club] girls. Would that appease me? No, not really. So I spent four years with New Balance. I knew they wouldn't be one of the biggest companies, with their odd sizes and old man's shoes." Through his Boston Marathon connections, Squires was also hired to coach employees of marathon sponsor John Hancock.
After the New Balance gig ended, Squires tried to convince TAC, then the national governing body, that he should head a national coaching system. The idea went nowhere. Squires wanted to keep going to the Olympic marathon trials, so he would pick someone to coach who needed help qualifying. Hodge says, "Over the years, you'd see less and less of him." In 2006, Squires tried to get a group going of runners just slower than the Olympic marathon trials standard. Nothing came of it.
At one point, 12 of Squires' former runners, including Randy Thomas and coauthor Bruce Lehane, were college coaches. His most direct involvement now is through Salazar, who has brought Squires out to Oregon more than once. When Salazar was preparing Kara Goucher to run Boston in 2009, he had her train over the course. Squires was there, and assumes he'll be so again if Goucher comes to train in Boston before this year's marathon.
Because of his heart condition, Squires says that he's living on borrowed time. He's eager to shape his legacy while he can.
"My hope is that when I drop there'll be five or six guys around the United States who say, 'You know, that friggin' guy knew what he was doing,'" he says.
"I have God-given talents. Listen to me, it works. Whatever I say, it works. And I don't know why but someone upstairs said, 'We screwed you over with your health and all the other things, we nailed you here, we nailed you there, and you came back fighting for this. So we're going to make you a pretty good marathon coach.' I had a dream one day years ago and it was like, 'That's your deal, and don't you ever change.' And I have improved every athlete I've ever coached. Every one! Even the wackos."
"Squires knows something," Rodgers says. "I can't quite put my finger on it. I don't think anybody can. But Squires got Dick Beardsley, a guy who nobody knew in high school, to take Salazar to near expiration. On a hot day almost 30 years ago, Dick Beardsley ran Boston almost as fast as Ryan Hall did last year. It's something to think about."
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It did not take long for a term that not long ago was slanderous to become a cliché. Suddenly everyone has discovered, and accepts as a commonplace, that the United States possesses an empire. For some our newly acknowledged imperial status is a source of celebration, for others of lamentation, but it is in any case something that cannot be denied. It is no longer even a choice, but rather a simple reality.
Of course the United States is an empire, and in most respects the most powerful that the world has ever seen. Given the current global balance of power--where the only serious rival has self-destructed, and aspirants to the title have a long way to go before being considered seriously--there is nothing else that it can be. Even an American government that tried to practice restraint, self-denial and mutuality would still be the dominant factor in any political equation. It sets the agenda even by its absence. Consider the cases of Bosnia, where the bloodshed did not end until the United States intervened, and Rwanda, and today Sudan, where it continued unabated because the United States chose to stand aside. Not to mention, of course, Iraq, where the American government launched a war that it calls "preventive" but the rest of the world views as simple aggression. A nation possessing this kind of power--the world's dominant economy, the currency with which the world reckons and pays its bills, the most powerful armed force with bases around the globe and a budget that nearly exceeds that of all other nations combined, and with a messianic desire to spread its ideology and to mold the lives and minds of the rest of the world in its image--is by any honest reckoning an imperial state.
The empire is what it is, and the power realities will not be greatly different even if the name is euphemized and the personalities who direct it are changed. How long it will last rests in good measure on how well it is managed. At the moment the prognosis does not seem promising. We are in the early stages of imperial self-recognition. Americans are only just beginning to understand the role their nation plays in the world, and the price incurred by that role. That acknowledgment is late in coming because we have been brought up on an image of ourselves as rebellious colonists winning liberation from the clutches of imperial Europe.
Our sense of aggrieved innocence usefully masks the violence of our own history and the motivations for many of our foreign wars. But this is not generally taught in our textbooks. Some argue, as does British economic historian Niall Ferguson in Colossus, his rhapsody to the imperial tradition, not merely "that the United States is an empire but that it has always been an empire." He rightly observes that the American nation was no sooner founded than its leaders embarked on an energetic program of expansion that--through diplomacy, conquest and theft from its original inhabitants--brought into the ever-expanding Union all the lands east of the Mississippi, then the vast territories of Louisiana, followed by Texas and a third of Mexico, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, Caribbean and Pacific islands seized from Spain, and the once-independent kingdom of Hawaii. Not to mention the informal economic empire in Latin America, about which a US secretary of state declared in 1895, "today the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and...its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition."
Our empire did not become global until 1945, when the defeat and the ensuing political and economic collapse of the great imperial powers--Germany, Britain, France and Japan--shattered the existing global balance. The United States emerged from World War II with overwhelming power and an expansive self-confidence. It had grown enormously richer during the war, shedding the self-doubt and overcoming the economic depression of the 1930s. Backed by a triumphant military machine, it had the capacity and the self-awareness to advance its interests and its values around the globe.
The awareness of the new role that the United States could play was vividly expressed in early 1941 by Henry Luce, months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the nation into a two-front war. Americans, wrote the publisher of Time and Life magazines in an essay he modestly titled "The American Century," must "accept wholeheartedly our duty and our opportunity as the most powerful and vital nation in the world, and in consequence exert upon the world the full impact of our influence, for such purposes as we see fit and by such means as we see fit." Even George W. Bush would not have expressed the sentiment so baldly.
The project was not only political but also territorial, and it took shape, geographer Neil Smith powerfully argues in American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization, as part of a comprehensive global vision dating back to the early decades of the twentieth century. "The American Century, understood as a specific historical period," Smith demonstrates, "was built with an equally specific but largely unseen geography." In this geography of history, he examines the construction of the imperial space through the influence of Isaiah Bowman, the influential geographer who mapped out for Woodrow Wilson the new boundaries of post-World War I Europe, and for Franklin Roosevelt the American presence in post-World War II Europe and its colonies. More than a biography, this is an intellectually invigorating challenge to the assumption that globalism is a process that can be divorced from specific territorial and political objectives.


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God Bless the U.S.A. by Lee Greenwood. Arranged by Johnnie Vinson. For Concert Band. Score and full set of parts.. Discovery Concert Band. Grade 1.5. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.8725006).
Discovery Series – Grade 1.5
Recorded by Lee Greenwood, this contemporary patriotic anthem has already become a standard. With its strong message and dynamic melodies, this song strikes a resonant chord with all audiences. Johnnie's version is easy to learn and will sound full even with small bands with incomplete instrumentation. (2:50).
1 - CONDUCTOR SCORE (FULL SCORE) 8 pages
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1 - EB BARITONE SAXOPHONE 1 page
5 - BB TRUMPET 1 1 page
5 - BB TRUMPET 2 1 page
4 - F HORN 1 page
8 - TROMBONE/BARITONE B.C./BASSOON 1 page
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4 - PERCUSSION 1 1 page
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2 - BELLS 1 page
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While May 16 has not been a good day for the Indian National Congress, there are a few key leaders who have continued to secure their seat in the Lok Sabha. Shashi Tharoor—the Indian National Congress candidate, has successfully won his Thiruvananthapuram seat in Kerala. While Bharatiya Janata Party did not secure enough seats in Kerala, his rival Rajagopal gave him a though fight. Shashi Tharoor posted on socia media account on Twitter, his humble act of calling Rajagopal up and thanking him for a tough fight. He also accepted that it was time the Congress put up a good opposition.
Called my BJP rival O.Rajagopal to compliment him on a tough race. Accepted his congratulations. Now the hard work of Opposition begins
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Early in the day, the Congress' hold over Kerala was strong from the start, however the leads suggested that Shashi Tharoor was trailing behind where the votes in his constituency were concerned. He was active initially on Twitter too, expressing his anxiousness and hopes that the people have voted wisely, and that he has done the work required out of him.
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Prime Rib cooked to perfection,potatoes creamy and buttery,stuffed cabbage wonderful, caulieflour tender but eldante.Salad with many condiments,home made dressings to die for.Just all in all wonderful.
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