For an audience of 300 at the New York Stock Exchange, including members of the New York Cosmos and New York Red Bulls, the America SCORES 7th Annual National Poetry SLAM! featured poetry performances by 27 elementary school children from 14 cities. Also in attendance were guests of honor football legend Shep Messing and soccer visionary, Joseph Tacopina. The event, a benefit for America SCORES, reached its $150,000 fundraising goal thanks largely to these honorees and their friends, including international soccer icon Pelé, who collectively matched the evening’s donations with $10,000. Funds will be used to continue delivering high-quality afterschool programs for 8,000 youth at no cost to their families. Donations can be made at: www.americascores.org/slamweek.
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Otis Elevator Company, the United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX) unit which powered cities skyward and moves passengers up and down structures as diverse as the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building and the Kremlin, celebrates its 160th anniversary with the promise to harness the power of the sun.
Founder Elisha Otis sold his first elevator in 1853, after developing the safety brake designed so that, “if the rope breaks the platform cannot fall.” Over the past 100 years, Otis, a $12 billion unit of UTC, has provided elevators to eight of the ten World’s Tallest Buildings, including the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, and the Shanghai World Financial Center in China, as well as the iconic Empire State Building in New York City.
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More than 12,000 cyclers gathered in ten cities across the country in February and early March to raise more than $13.8 million to support rare cancer research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The events took place at Equinox clubs in New York City; Los Angeles; San Francisco; Washington, D.C.; Chicago; Greenwich, Connecticut; Miami; Summit, New Jersey; Long Island; and Boston; bringing together a nationwide network of friends, colleagues, caregivers, and cancer survivors to cycle in solidarity in the battle against rare cancers.
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Reed Street Productions, creators of the first-ever zombie-infested 5K obstacle race, Run for Your Lives, announced today it will double its races in 2013 – expanding to 21 locations, including nine yet-to-be-invaded cities. New this year, participants can expect to encounter increasingly challenging obstacles and an enhanced Apocalypse Party experience. Additionally, Run For Your Lives added the Kennedy Krieger Institute – an internationally recognized institution dedicated to improving the lives of individuals with disorders and injuries of the brain – as its official charitable partner for 2013.
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The 365-day countdown to the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games officially began with the unveiling of new Countdown Clocks in eight cities across the Russian Federation. The excitement and anticipation for the next Olympic Winter Games grows as the days, hours, minutes and seconds tick away to 7 February, 2014 when the Opening Ceremony begins.
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A special double treat awaits China and Asia-bound travelers from New York on March 31, 2013 when Air China, China’s exclusive national flag carrier, upgrades its aircraft to the state-of-the-art Boeing 777-300ER and increase its frequency from 7 to 11 per week for its nonstop New York-Beijing flights.
“Adding new flights is a response to a consistently growing passenger demand for more convenient nonstop services between New York and Beijing. Business or leisure travelers bound for Beijing or onward to domestic Chinese cities and other destinations in Asia such as Hong Kong, Vietnam, India, the Philippines, Thailand and many others, stand to benefit the most from Air China’s increased capacity and convenient connecting flights,” Mr. Yuelong Zhou, Air China’s General Manager in New York, said.
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Gujarat has a colorful profile. Gujarat tours are considered best routes for study of Indian heritage and the historic pages of Indian freedom struggle often mentions Gujarat from where Mahatma Gandhi initiated many of his revolts. http://gujarattouristplaces.wordpress.com/ takes you to the era of revolution; however from that age the city has come a long way and today Gujarat is believed to be one of the liveliest cities with multiplexes, amusement parks and several entertainment avenues.
India derives her roots from a rich past both culturally and traditionally. India’s has a 26 states holds virtually every kind of landscape imaginable. Magnificent historical sites and royal cities, cloudy mountain retreats, colorful people, rich cultures and festivities. Never-ending secrecy and beauty of this prehistoric land can be experienced only by Travel India.
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Madhya Pradesh is called the Heart of India because of its location in the centre of the country. Its many deserted cities provide a fascinating window to the past, so different to the crowded India of today. From the tourism point of view; Madhya Pradesh tourist places has a lot of history in its culture.
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IPS Group, Inc., an industry leader in intelligent parking technologies, celebrated a major milestone this month with its 100,000th parking meter being manufactured in the USA. The company’s success has benefited those locally by developing many multiple skill level jobs at its corporate headquarters based in San Diego, CA. The meter technology itself has also contributed positively to many cities across the U.S. and Canada by providing greater customer convenience, access to intelligent parking system data, and a highly cost effective solution to upgrade aging parking meter infrastructure.
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Forget bringing in the weekend, T.G.I. Friday’s is bringing in the world’s end like no one else can. With potentially only three more weeks left for all of mankind, T.G.I. Friday’s is inviting guests to celebrate all over the country on Friday, December 21st – the date predicted on the Mayan calendar to mark the end of the world as we know it. Friday’s plans to party like there’s no tomorrow with Mayan-inspired “Last Friday” celebrations in select cities such as Los Angeles and Miami.
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Did you witness a movement that spread across European capital cities? Did you relate to this unprecedented protest against the approaching rainy autumn? Are you now dying to know the origins of the Movement for More Summer? It was born in the streets, relayed by the Internet and raced across social networks with dazzling speed, generating reactions and sharing of experience by over 20 000 Internet users, notably on Facebook and Twitter.
The Moroccan National Tourist Office originated this movement in an attempt to make Europeans, who are getting depressed at the idea of being stuck at work during endless working days, smile again. The MNTO has decided to launch a widespread, humorous and unexpected campaign through the whole of Europe to protest against the end of summer and defeat “back to work” gloominess. The Movement was thus launched in September using various phases in the approach, combining digital and event initiatives.
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