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Florida Swing Advance Troupe
Phillips Center
Gainesville, Florida
Dancing Gators Presents: We're All Mad Here
Noel by Todd Smith/arr. Brad Holmes
University of Florida Men's Glee Club and Women's Chorale
Conducted by Dr. Mihoko Tsutsumi
Sounds of the Season Concert on December 2nd, 2012
Phillips Center, Gainesville FL
Homewood Suites by Hilton Gainesville Florida USA - Hotel and Room Tour
We stayed there in December 2017 in the room nr. 321. it was a nice 1 King Bed 1 Bedroom Suite. We stayed there 1 night with our 18 months old baby twins.
I have to notice that we had a fire alarm with evacuation at 4 in the morning. We smell some smWe had to leave the room and hotel for more than 90 minutes while it was very cold outside. The sent us to the nearby hotel to wait in the lobby until they told us that we all can go back in our rooms. Next morning they say that the fire alarm
Relax in your home away from home at the Homewood Suites by Hilton® Gainesville. Our all-suite, extended stay hotel in Gainesville, FL is located off Interstate 75 at Exit 384, about 2 miles from the University of Florida and Shands Hospital.
Enjoy easy access to restaurants, state parks, museums, a performing arts venue, and gardens. Visit the Florida Museum of Natural History, the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, Harn Museum, or Kanapaha Botanical Gardens.
Select from 103 suites, including two-bedroom, one-bedroom and studio options. Ask about the grocery shopping service. Prepare meals from your fully equipped kitchen or the courtyard grills. Dine on the hot full breakfast served daily and an evening social* provided Monday through Thursday, included with your stay. Lounge on the sofa while watching a premium TV channel or a movie on the DVD player.
The hotel in Gainesville, FL features free WiFi, fitness facilities, business center, courtyard swimming pool. Enjoy a friendly game of one-on-one basketball on the activity court.
Hold a conference or a small wedding reception for 35 people in the Gator Room. Our Gainesville hotel provides catering and A/V services. Business travelers will appreciate the hotel’s proximity to companies like Barr Systems, Dollar General Distribution Warehouse, Exactech, Inc., Florida Farm Bureau, and Nationwide Insurance.
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Choose from one of the extended stay Gainesville hotel suites including studio, one and two-bedroom, or accessible suites with either queen- or king-sized beds. Enjoy a fully equipped kitchen, WiFi, and an alarm clock with an MP3 connection that will help you stay on schedule.
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Skillet live at the curtis phillips center for performing arts.
Andrea Vettoretti Guitar and Corrado De Bernart Piano
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The piece is dedicated to Andrea Vettoretti. You can find the cd in sinfonica.com
As a national and international award-winning composer, Stella Sung's compositions are performed throughout the United States and abroad. Sung was the first Composer-in-Residence for the Orlando (FL) Philharmonic Orchestra, (2008-2011), and continues to serve as Composer-in-Residence for Dance Alive National Ballet (Gainesville, FL ). As a recent recipient of a Music Alive award, Dr. Sung is currently serving as Composer-in-Residence for the Dayton (OH) Performing Arts Alliance (Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Dayton Ballet, and Dayton Opera). During the course of her three-year residency, she will be creating new works for orchestra, ballet, and opera.
Since 2003, Sung has been using digital and multi-media applications in her concert and symphonic compositions, music for dance and ballet, and now most recently in her new opera,
The Red Silk Thread: An EpicTale of Marco Polo, (premiere: April 17/19, 2014 at the University of Florida Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, (Gainesville, FL). In collaboration with the UF School of Music, and with guest stage director Beth Greenberg (New York City Opera), this work will feature several technological aspects in the production, including the use of advanced projection techniques and other stage design concepts using technology.
Sung's solo piano compositions, Toccata and Tango Zarabanda, have been selected by Santiago Rodiguez, artistic director for the 2015 Florida International Piano Competition, as required competition pieces for all semi-finalists.
Stella Sung is the recipient of the 2007-2010 Phi Kappa Phi National Artists Award, as well as a 2009-10 Meet the Composer award. She is a two-time winner of a Florida Individual Artists Fellowship, sponsored by the Division of Cultural Affairs for the State of Florida, as well as the 2005 recipient of a Florida Artists Enhancement award. She was a Fellow at the prestigious MacDowell Colony, and was the recipient of the Norton Stevens Fellowship. Other awards have been from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer, the German Ministry of Culture, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), and the Division of Cultural Affairs of the State of Florida. Premieres and performances of her work have included performances at Carnegie Hall (New York, NY), Symphony Hall (Boston, MA), the Sydney Opera House (Sydney, Australia),the Schauspielhaus (Berlin, Germany), the Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C), Merkin Hall (New York, NY), the Nathan H. Wilson Center for the Performing Arts (Jacksonville, FL), the Jacoby Concert Hall (Jacksonville, FL), the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre (Orlando, FL), the Curtis M. Phillips Center for Performing Arts (Gainesville, FL), the E.J. Thomas Center for the Performing Arts (Akron, OH), the Chrysler Center for Performing Arts (Norfolk,VA), the Van Weisel Hall (Sarasotra,FL), the Shuster Center (Dayton,OH), and other major concert venues.
Dr. Sung is also an active composer for film, and has recently completed the score for the full-length documentary film, Voices in the Clouds, which is receiving critical acclaim. Her music was featured in the short animation film, Atlas' Revenge, (based upon Sung's orchestral work of the same title), which was selected as the First Place winner at the 2010 SIGGRAPH conference (Time and Space category).
Commissions have included works for world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the German Ministry of Culture (Rhineland-Pfalz), the Dayton Symphony Orchestra (Dayton, OH), the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra (Jacksonville, FL), the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra (Orlando, FL), the Akron Symphony Orchestra (Akron, OH), the Gainesville Chamber Orchestra (Gainesville, FL), the Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra (Orlando, FL), the Florida Young Artists Orchestra (Orlando, FL), the Etowah Youth Orchestra (Gadsden, AL), the Azure Ensemble (NY), Dance Alive National Ballet (State touring ballet company of Florida), the Lyric Arts Trio (Kansas City, KA), saxophonist Claude Delangle (Conservatoire de Paris), guitarist Andrea Vettoretti (Rome, Italy), guitarist Eladio Scharrón (Orlando, FL), flautist Donna Wissinger (FL), the PRISM Saxophone Quartet (NY, NY), the Rollins College (Winter Park, FL), the 2000 Alabama All-State Festival Orchestra (Tuscaloosa, AL)., and from the Buffet Crampon Clarinet company (Jacksonville, FL).
White nationalist Richard Spencer to speak at UF today
White nationalist Richard Spencer to speak at UF today
Florida police brace for protests with speech by white nationalist
An uneasy Florida braces for white supremacist speech and protests
GAINESVILLE — White nationalist Richard Spencer will speak today at the University of Florida, an event which has stoked fears on campus in light of the violence at an August rally in Charlottesville, Va.
Spencer’s National Policy Institute will host an event at 2:30 p.m. at the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.
A group calling itself “No Nazis at UF” plans to protest outside the event and nearly 3,000 people had indicated on Facebook that they planned to participate as of Wednesday, Students also staged a sit-in at a student Senate meeting earlier in the week.
The anti-Spencer group had urged UF President W. Kent Fuchs to cancel the event, as did UF’s chapters of the United Faculty of Florida and Graduate Assistants United.
Spencer, they argued, represents a threat to safety on campus.
“We are disappointed that the individuals who advocate for a Spencer visit to campus have ignored the rights of thousands of employees to safety and dignity on the job,” UFF’s leadership wrote in an editorial published this month by The Gainesville Sun.
The university told students and staff that week that class will be in session today, though some tests times were adjusted and some buildings will only be accessible with university-issued IDs.
Students should expect a major police presence.
UF President W. Kent Fuchs said Wednesday he expected more than 500 law-enforcement officers to be on campus Thursday. The final tab to protect the event, he said, will likely top $600,000.
This week, Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency in Alachua County, with an executive order that warned a threat of a potential emergency is imminent. The order allows local law-enforcement to partner with state and other agencies to provide security.
Spencer events on other campuses have sometimes prompted skirmishes between Spencer's supporters and opponents, including “Antifa,” or anti-fascists. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and Fuchs urged people to boycott Spencer's speech at UF.
Spencer has drawn added scrutiny since participating in an August rally in Charlottesville, during which white nationalist demonstrators marched with torches chanting slogans, including “Jews will not replace us” and the Nazi-inspired “blood and soil.”
Some wore or displayed swastikas or Ku Klux Klan imagery.
Spencer, who calls himself a protector of “the white majority,” is considered an extremist and a white supremacist by both the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which track hate groups.
This is a developing story. Check back later for updates. News Service of Florida and Washington Post contributed to this report. jeweiner@orlandosentinel.com, 407-420-5171 or @JeffWeinerOS on Twitter.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (Reuters) - Hundreds of police will be deployed at the University of Florida on Thursday as thousands are poised to protest a speech by an avowed white nationalist, an event that prompted the governor to declare a state of emergency in preparation for possible violence.
he University of Florida in Gainesville is bracing for a day of protests Thursday when white supremacist Richard Spencer arrives to deliver a speech on his racist views on campus.
The event, scheduled for Thursday afternoon, will be Spencer's first visit to a college campus since he and others participated in the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August.
University and local officials are wary that Thursday's event could also become violent, and they have taken a number of steps to prevent that.
On Wednesday, Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency for Alachua County, where the university is located, to enable law enforcement agencies to work together more efficiently. He also made a provision for the National Guard to be activated if necessary.
I find that the threat of a potential emergency is imminent, Scott said in the executive order declaring the state of emergency.
Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville is the county seat and largest city in Alachua County, Florida, and the principal city of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The population of Gainesville in the 2010 United States Census was 124,354. Gainesville is the largest city in the region of North Central Florida.
Gainesville is home to the University of Florida, the nation's eighth largest university campus by enrollment, as well as to Santa Fe College. The Gainesville MSA was ranked as the #1 place to live in North America in the 2007 edition of Cities Ranked and Rated. Also in 2007, Gainesville was ranked as one of the best places to live and play in the United States by National Geographic Adventure. Gainesville was ranked as the 5th meanest city in the United States by the National Coalition for the Homeless twice, first in 2004 for its criminalization of homelessness and then in 2009 for its ordinance restricting soup kitchens to 130 meals a day.
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Protesters Converge at White Nationalist Richard Spencer’s Speech
For weeks, the University of Florida has been urging students to stay away from a Thursday speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer, hoping to avoid the deadly clashes that unfolded in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August.
But hundreds of them, along with many non-students, defied those requests, marching on the campus theater Spencer rented. His speech there is part of a tour of public universities that has triggered passionate debates about the boundaries of free speech and hate speech and fanned fears of continued violence.
The point, some protesters said, was to turn out in numbers that would make the number of Spencer supporters look tiny. We don't want your Nazi hate, the protesters chanted, pounding drums and carrying signs championing diversity.
I don’t believe staying home is an option in the face of hate and evil, said Timothy Tia, a student organizer.
The widespread clashes some feared didn't happen, as Spencer's outnumbered fans seemed focused on attending the event at the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts rather than on confronting the crowds.
They framed the opposition as working to silence a man who advocates for an ethno state for white people.
He's trying to make it, normalize the idea for white people to have an identity, to advocate for their own interests and to advocate for our own existence, said Will Fears, who traveled from Texas.
Hundreds of police officers showed up, creating an overwhelming security presence that included helicopters and officers stationed on rooftops and throughout the theater. Authorities announced one arrest, of a man they described as a security guard hired by the media, for carrying a firearm on campus.
The university was among a number of public schools that have refused to host Spencer, citing threats of violence similar to what took place in Charlottesville, where his torch-carrying followers, along with the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis, participated in an Aug. 12 Unite the Right rally to protest the removal of a statue honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. They clashed violently with counterprotesters, including members of the so-called antifa movement (short for anti-fascists). A participant plowed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing a woman.
The University of Florida later reversed its decision on Thursday's event, saying it was committed to upholding the First Amendment, even if that required security measures that would cost $500,000. President W. Kent Fuchs urged students not to come near the event, saying Spencer and his followers wanted to provoke a reaction. The school offered an online discussion at the time of the speech as an alternative.
The event also drew concerns from the local sheriff, who asked Gov. Rick Scott for help. Scott issued a state of emergency to make it easier for authorities from outside Gainesville to help.
Spencer seemed to revel in the attention. He held a pre-speech news conference in which he denied being a white supremacist and compared his vision of an ethno state to the pursuit of Israel as a Jewish state. He also parried reporters' questions with condescending answers, calling them dumb, not smart enough, and compared them to preschoolers.
And he described his supporters as being oppressed by politically correct opponents.
He called Thursday's event as a victory, proof that we are persevering.
When time came for the speech, Spencer ─ introduced as a spokesman for white people everywhere ─ was met with a chorus of boos and chants from protesters in the audience. He called them a mob and accused them of attempting to turn your academic community into a stifling place.
He spent a good amount of time focused on his opponents, delaying any attempts to deliver a lecture. He ended up taking questions from the audience, including protesters, but his explanation of the ethno state was drowned out by opponents.
While Spencer responded to protesters in the theater, a white man with swastikas on his shirt waded into the crowd outside, where he was confronted by protesters, one of whom spit on him, and another who shoved him. A black man asked the white man why he didn’t like him, and when he got no response, the black man hugged him. Then someone in the crowd shoved the white man, and another hit him.
As the white man walked away, the crowd chanted, Go home, Nazi scum.
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The University of Florida (commonly referred to as Florida or UF) is a public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university on a 2,000-acre (8.1 km2) campus in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida that traces its origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its Gainesville campus since September 1906.The University of Florida is one of sixty-two elected member institutions of the Association of American Universities (AAU), the association of preeminent North American research universities, and the only AAU member university in Florida. The University is classified as a Research University with Very High Research by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. After the Florida state legislature's creation of performance standards in 2013, the Florida Board of Governors designated the University of Florida as one of the three preeminent universities among the twelve universities of the State University System of Florida. For 2019, U.S. News & World Report ranked Florida as the eighth (tied) best public university in the United States.The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). It is the third largest Florida university by student population, and is the eighth largest single-campus university in the United States with 54,854 students enrolled for the fall 2016 semester. The University of Florida is home to sixteen academic colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes. It offers multiple graduate professional programs—including business administration, engineering, law, dentistry, medicine, and veterinary medicine—on one contiguous campus, and administers 123 master's degree programs and seventy-six doctoral degree programs in eighty-seven schools and departments. The university's seal is also the seal of the state of Florida which is on the state flag.
The University of Florida's intercollegiate sports teams, commonly known by their Florida Gators nickname, compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). In their 111-year history, the university's varsity sports teams have won 40 national team championships, 35 of which are NCAA titles, and Florida athletes have won 275 individual national championships. In addition, University of Florida students and alumni have won 126 Olympic medals including 60 gold medals.
2017 IGHSAU Iowa Farm Bureau Girls State Volleyball Championships
Live Television and Streaming Coverage on Friday, November 10
Coverage of the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union Championships continues, as teams from across the state take to the court for the 2017 IGHSAU Iowa Farm Bureau Girls State Volleyball Championships. Coverage of each class title championship game will take place at the U.S. Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Each game will be broadcast and streamed LIVE on IPTV’s primary channel, Iptv.org, Facebook and YouTube.
LIVE coverage on Friday, November 10:
10:00 a.m. Class 5A
12:15 p.m. Class 4A
2:30 p.m. Class 3A
4:45 p.m. Class 2A
7:00 p.m. Class 1A
IPTV will be active on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat, offering followers a glimpse of the behind-the-scenes action of the 2017 IGHSAU Iowa Farm Bureau Girls State Volleyball Championships. Connect with IPTV Sports on social media using #IPTVSports.
Immediately following the broadcast of the 1A championship, IPTV will air Teen Spotlight: #IPTVSports. This episode of Teen Spotlight features: basketball's reining all-time scoring leader, Pocahontas Area's Elle Ruffridge; Iowa City West track and field star Valerie Welch; Johnston's power hitter Brooke Wilmes; and the successful athletic programs at Davenport Assumption, including track phenom Joy Ripslinger.
Stay tuned to IPTV throughout the rest of the school year for live coverage and highlights of girls’ high school state championships.
Programming support for the 2017 IGHSAU Iowa Farm Bureau Girls State Volleyball Championships is provided by: Musco Lighting, Fareway, MidAmerican Energy and Iowa Farm Bureau.
Board of County Commissioners - Regular Meeting: 04.03.19
Welcome to the Board of County Commissioners - Regular Meeting
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[00:03:17] RECOGNITION: Betty Castor
[00:22:00] PROCLAMATION: April 5 - 7, 2019
[00:37:00] PROCLAMATION: April 2019
[00:42:00] PROCLAMATION: April 7 - 13, 2019
[00:49:00] MEMORIAM: Advocacy for Persons Living with Disabilities
[01:01:00] Changes to Agenda
[01:06:00] Public Comment
[02:25:00] Consent Agenda
[02:26:00] Item A-19
[02:26:00] Item B-9: Approve a payment to the Sheriff's Office for Crossing Guards
[02:37:00] Item D-1: Public Hearing Ordinance Amending Hillsborough County Code of Ordinances
[02:38:00] Item D-2: Family Child Care Homes and the Child Care Facilities Licensing Ordinances
[02:47:00] Item D-3: School Concurrency Proportionate Share MitigationDevelopment Agreement
[02:48:00] Item D-4: School Concurrency Proportionate Share Mitigation Development Agreement
[02:49:00] Item D-5: School Concurrency Proportionate Share Mitigation Development Agreement
[02:50:00] Item D-6: Resolution designating approximately 19.41 acres as a Brownfield Area
[02:53:00] Item F-3: Approve Sponsorship of the Florida Solar United Neighborhoods (FLSUN) Cooperative
[02:57:00] Item F-8: Discuss Industrial Development Authority's Bonds for Advantage Academy
[03:27:00] Item B-8: Accept the Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning System Audit Report
[03:42:00] Item F-5: Internal Auditor's report # OA-1902: Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning System
[03:57:00] Item B-18: Receive County Audit Report 360, 9-1-1 Agency
[03:59:00] Item B-6: Approve Transportation Sales Surtax Interlocal Agreement
[04:14:00] Item B-10: Approve a Budget Amendment to Appropriate Revenues and Expenditures
[05:31:00] Item B-1: Approve Third Modification Funding Agreement with Rebuilding Together Tampa Bay
[05:32:00] Item B-2: Approve State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) Funding Agreement
[05:32:00] Item B-3: Adopt by Resolution the Local Housing Assistance Plan (LHAP)
[05:33:00] Item B-4: Appoint Representatives to a Rules of Order Review Committee
[05:35:00] Item B-7: Approve FY19 budget amendment to appropriate $2,040,750 from ERF
[05:36:00] Item B-12: Award 4 year contract to World Sports Turf & Marketing, LLC
[05:37:00] Item B-13: Award and Execute an Agreement with TLC Diversified, Inc.
[05:38:00] Item B-15: Approve Contract with UPMC6, L.C.
[05:39:00] Item B-16: Approve Contract with Kyle Bronson Motorsports, LLC
[05:39:00] Item B-17: Approve License Agreement with Starting Right Now!, Inc. (SRN),
[05:41:00] Item C-1: Presentation to the BOCC on the FY 20 - 21 Budget Process
[05:42:00] Item F-1: Housing Finance Authority
[05:44:00] Item F-2: Direct Additional Issues be included in Hillsborough County State Legislative Program
[06:22:00] Item F-4: Approve the BOCC support letter for the Westshore Exchange
[06:24:00] Item F-6: Identify Sources of Funding for Youth not eligible for TANF
[06:30:00] Item F-7: Hire a Consultant to do a Report on Septic Conversion in Hillsborough County
[06:39:00] Item F-9: Request Board approval Theodore Roosevelt Hillsborough Forever Conservation Award
[06:40:00] Item G-1: Accept February 2019 Monthly Report
[06:41:00] Item G-2: Receive Report from Public Works Regarding the Two-mile School Safety Zones
[06:43:00] Future Items