2008-2009 Charity Register calendar.
As the curtain rises on another packed social season, it's time to decide which events will take center stage in your schedule. Our exclusive Charity Register calendar shines a spotlight on the year's brightest parties and most noteworthy fund-raising events, all of which benefit local nonprofits. Whether...

The Charity Register 2008-2009.
AN INTRODUCTION TO 218 SARASOTA CAUSES. WELCOME TO OUR ANNUAL compilation of local nonprofits that give to the needy, heal the sick and further the intellectual, cultural and humanitarian pursuits of us all. In addition to holding 501 (c)3 nonprofit certification, each of these organizations...

Vase life extension and chlorophyll fluorescence yield of bougainvillea flower as influenced by ethanol to attain maximum environmental beautification as ornamental components.
INTRODUCTION Bougainvilleas are popular ornamental plants and used as official flowers in most areas with warm climates, including Australia, India, Malaysia, the Mediterranean region, Mexico, South Africa, Taiwan and the United States in Arizona, California, Florida, Hawaii and southern Texas. Bougainvillea is used to decorate fences and...

Giving matters.
Man, it's been a hard year economically, and our friends and neighbors are feeling the strain--at the gas pump, in the grocery store, in the retrenchment of our schools and government programs, and over the loss of thousands of area jobs (and the ripple--more like a tsunami, really--that loss...

Way to give: for 30 years, the Community Foundation has connected generous individuals with important causes.
IN 1979, MEMBERS OF the South West Florida Estate Planning Council created the Sarasota County Community Foundation with one lofty ambition: to make local charitable giving easy, flexible, permanent and effective. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] From its original office in a back room of the Florida West...

Passionaries: these men and women dreamed of a better Sarasota-then made it happen.
Can one person change the world? You bet, says Barbara Metzler, author of Passionaries, which profiles 35 men, women and, yes, youngsters who took their compassion for humanity and created nonprofit organizations that altered their neighborhoods--and the world--in some pretty amazing ways. A San Diego resident and...

This Idol gives back: American Idol's Syesha Mercado embraces Sarasota, where she first learned to believe in herself and her dreams.
TWENTY-EIGHT MILLION PEOPLE watched Sarasota's own Syesha Mercado shake, shimmy, sob and sing her heart out on American Idol this season--coming from behind each week yet never losing her million-watt smile. In the process, this determined young dynamo earned the devotion of legions of voters and finished a remarkable...

Order for ceramic body armour worth $8.4 million.
An $8.4 million order for ceramic body armour has been received by Ceradyne Inc of Costa Mesa, California, USA. The order was placed by the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, USA. Ceradyne's body armour technology uses boron carbide, silicon carbide and alumina materials...

Nanotherapeutics seeks approval for hydrogel wound treatment.
Biopharmaceutical company Nanotherapeutics has applied to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its first Investigational New Drug (IND) approval. The company wants to carry out a Phase IIa clinical study for a topical doxycycline hydrogel for chronic wounds. This hydrogel, trademarked NanoDox, is composed of...

CoQ10: ideal analyte meets ideal method.
AOAC approved in May the new First Action Method 2008.07, Determination of Coenzyme Q10 Content in Raw Materials and Dietary Supplements by HPLC-UV, by Steven Lunetta (Pharmavite LLC, San Fernando, California, USA) and Mark Roman (Tampa Bay Analytical Research, Safety Harbor, Florida, USA). The method is one...