Sentences with phrase «which cities around the country»

In this study, we evaluate which cities around the country, including their surrounding areas, provide the most fertile ground for inventors and the development of their novel ideas.

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Encouraged by the local success of the business, which put on interactive theater performances, mostly at private parties, he set up websites advertising the business in several cities around the country.

It did this methodically with a playbook, a method which helped it scale to cities of different sizes and countries around the world.

Airbnb, which was established in 2008, now has hosts offering their homes for rent in more than 34,000 cities and 190 countries around the world, according to the company.

IRC relies on 3,500 volunteers in 29 cities across the U.S. and 40 countries around the world, so there may be a chapter near you at which you could volunteer.

But it sounds like country music by way of a bustling city, in which the nerviness of the 21st century quivers around the edges.

Monster Energy Carolina Rebellion — May 6, 7 and 8 at Rock City Campgrounds at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, NC — has announced the lineup of festival experiences, as well as details for the expanded Pig Out BBQ Village, which will feature Gourmet Man Food that reflects cuisine of the region and the cultural food explosion that is happening around the country.

On the three - year anniversary of the death of Eric Garner in a police confrontation caught on cell phone video, which fueled protests around the city and country, Mayor Bill de Blasio said «a lot has been done» to prevent similar tragedies.

New York State Canal Corporation Director Brian Stratton kicked off the tour today in the Queen City, as he joined more than 500 cyclists from around the country for the 14th annual «Cycling the Erie Canal» event, which is a 400 mile bicycling trip along the state's famous waterway.

The «war waves» are inevitable, so I wonder at which point are we going to figure out that we need to start making change, starting making sense and not ignore the world around us and the wars that are absolutely everywhere on daily basis, from your neighbours to the streets of the city to the borders of your country and finally to the far away lands!?

She spots him sneaking around the city streets at night, and in order to protect the secret of the existence of giants, he brings her to Giant Country, which is, as we learn later, a location that is literally off the map.

Only Yesterday's memory - lane stroll only goes awry in the strange, perhaps productively inscrutable closing act, which seeks to consolidate Taeko's fifth - grade experiences around a single event while speaking to her current present dilemma over whether to stay in the country and marry Toshio or return to the city.

The Metropolitan Opera's Live in High Definition series, which transmits liveperformances to movie theaters around the world, is now available freeto students in New York City schools, as well as at select theaters inregions across the country.

Harris will remain in Indianapolis for his work with the new national organization, which is being formed to help cities around the country build the right conditions for education change, drawing from The Mind Trust's success in Indianapolis.

The Vice Chair of Eva Moskowitz's infamous New York City based Success Academy Charter Schools dropped $ 1,500 on the event, thanks to donations from board members and his wife, while another donation came from a board member of the Newark, New Jersey, Team Charter School chain, which is owned by KIPP, the Knowledge Is Power Program, a «national network» of 125 charter schools around the Country.

After driving around 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) on the highway, single lane country roads and in the city, the car's onboard computer showed an average of 12 l / 100 km (19.6 mpg US)- which seems excessive, even for a brand new car driven quite hard.

This specific post is about Hub City Books in South Carolina, although I really want to draw your attention to the entire «Spotlight on Bookstores» series on She is Too Fond of Books, which highlights bookstores from around the country.

Third, we couldn't measure how many pints of Ben & Jerry's are eaten in despair, but we could look at how poorly 152 cities ranked on the 2012 Gallup - Healthways Well - Being Index, which evaluated things such as emotional health, physical health, and healthy behavior for 1,000 adults around the country.

This annual dog walk and festival, which began as a local Best Friends fundraiser in Salt Lake City in 1996, now takes place in more than a dozen cities around the country, raising much - needed funds for hundreds of Best Friends Network partner groups.

Bark and Meow Around the Block, which will take over two city blocks in West Berkeley, is also the location for NBC Bay Area's «Clear The Shelters» nationwide campaign which encourages individuals throughout the country to adopt a shelter animal and help clear the shelters.

A decade ago, there were five such events: the APPMA Show, which moved all around the country and was hosted by what is now known as the American Pet Products Association; the PETS show, which the Pet Industry Distributors Association Show organized annually in Tampa, Fla.; SuperZoo, hosted by the World Pet Association (formerly the World Wide Pet Industry Association), originally in Anaheim, Calif., now in Las Vegas; and the two H.H. Backer Shows — the Spring Trade Show in Atlantic City, N.J., and the Christmas Trade Show (now Backer's Total Pet Expo) in Chicago.

The many gift shops that can be found around the city do nothing to detract from the sublime quality of Granada; if Santiago was the pinnacle of Christian achievement in Spain, then Granada represented the height of the Muslim power which once ruled much of this country.

When I was there a few years back, I made a number of videos from around the country in which I traveled to Bogota, Medellin and Cartagena, among other cities, and which I got many comments about how I wasn't playing the correct music in the background for each particular city's video.

I traveled alone around your country to small coastal towns like Beidaihe and big crowded cities like Shanghai, met people like you who were helpful, though never enthusiastically so, which became to me the best sort of kindness.

The festival is affiliated with Fête de la Musique which began in France in 1982 and is held every Summer Solstice - June 21st - It has spread to 500 + cities in 110 + countries around the world.

I run a travel and holiday blog called Elite Travel Blog which provides tips, guides and guest posts to cities and countries around the world.

Manhattan Hotel Jakarta is known across the international world as one of the world's best spots to enjoy the city of Jakarta where you can enjoy not only the incredible cultural interests of the area which not only represent the local Javanese culture but you will also find a number of other cultural mixes from around Asia and the rest of this incredible country.

Nintendo World Championships 2015 On May 30, select Best Buy locations in major cities around the country will host qualifying tournaments for the Nintendo World Championships, which were last seen in 1990.

On May 30, select Best Buy locations in major cities around the country will host qualifying tournaments for the Nintendo World Championships, which were last seen in 1990.

The game is the sequel the Game Insight's city management sim My Country, which garnered more than 17 million players from around the world.

I have travelled to nearly 50 countries, immersing myself, to the best of my abilities, in the daily life of countries like Nepal and Nicaragua, cities such as Istanbul and Caracas, studying languages, getting around on foot or by bus, sketching, documenting extensively, making friends, and collecting disinherited commercial «waste», after which I return to my studio to create series of works.

Whitaker lived and worked in Chicago from 1991 until 2003, during which time she developed «Women in the City», a group of paintings observing the Chicago cityscape; and also, a series of large drawing / paintings on paper called «Ancestral Excavations» which have shown in solo venues around the country and now some of this work will be touring the United States in a group invitational, The Veiling: Visible and Invisible Spaces beginning in Colorado, the Spring of 2008, and traveling to Arkansas, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Indiana, SUNY in NY, California until 2010.

The exhibition Burr has assembled in the former Armstrong tire warehouse and executive offices is the first of Bortolami Gallery's Artist / City projects in which the gallery rents spaces in various locations around the country for artists to transform.

It was disarming to see signs reading «#yuge mistake» and «NOW YOU»VE PISSED OFF GRANDMA» — which might otherwise have been swept into trash piles in any number of cities around the country — neatly hung in rows in the sanctum of a white - box gallery space.

The People's Gallery organizes bimonthly exhibitions of artists from cities around the country who were featured in the People's Biennial, a project supported by Independent Curators International, which culminated in a two - year traveling exhibition.

Nato Thompson is chief curator at Creative Time, which has commissioned and presented ambitious public art projects with thousands of artists throughout New York City, across the country, around the world.

These city - utility partnerships, which have local and regional impacts, offer valuable lessons for other cities around the country.

While the tree - planting goal is obviously quite ambitious, the Distrito Federal, or Federal District, which encompasses much of Mexico City, has made a solid contribution to the goal by planting three million trees in 25 communities over 49,000 acres (20,000 hectares) in the district's rural southern zone.According to the National Forest Commission (Spanish link), as of mid August, 50 million tree seedlings had been distributed around the country, which means they may reach the goal of 250 million trees by year's end.

Included in the short - list are Ample Harvest — who featured on Jaymi's list of 10 Techy Tools for Gardeners — and who aim to match excess garden produce with food pantries around the country; CISA (Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture), which runs one of the oldest buy - local campaigns in the country; and Farming Concrete, which is aiming to quantify and track the amount of food grown in inner - city areas.

The JTBF Summer Legal Institute, which takes place in five different cities around the country, is the center piece of JTBF's programming.

Some cities such as Santa Monica launched crackdowns, but others such as Los Angeles are still wrestling with how to regulate the service, which is now available in nearly 200 countries and has a valuation of around $ 30 billion.

The median household income for the city is around $ 50,000, which is much higher than the rest of Texas and the country as a whole.

From the ashes of his ruined city, he launched Tucker, Lynch, and Coldwell, the predecessor of Coldwell Banker Real Estate, which today has 120,000 sales associates in 3,800 offices around the country.