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Army Garrison in Okinawa, Japan commanding general of the IX corps in Japan, and later a U.S. representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Military Committee. He received a Silver Star for his heroism in Vietnam, earned a Bronze Star Medal as the rifle company commander in the Korean War, and in 1982 was promoted to four-star general after being assigned to the NATO committee. He retired in the 1985. In 1993, the year he died battling leukemia at the age of sixty-four, Gen. Roscoe…

 Top Performance on Key Quality Measures (2013).  Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (2015).  Gold Award (Get With the Guidelines for Stroke 2013).  Silver Award 2012, Bronze Award 2009, 2008 (The Medal of Honor for Organ Donation). In addition to the numerous awards and recognitions, Florida hospital Tampa has also implemented several programs to meet the National Quality Improvement goals that are suggested for accredited health care…

The Olympic games are an event that tops most all others. Modern day Olympic games consist of 16 days of sporting events, and as of the 2016 Rio Olympics, consisted of 28 sports (Topendsports). Among those who compete in these sports are the best in the entire world, from all countries. Because of the incredible level of talent that goes into competing for Olympic Gold, many athletes have succumbed to the pressure of using external drugs in order to assist their performance. For years athletes…

Not everyone served their country by fighting the Axis Powers on the front line. Many did their part in their hometown and Dorothy Haener was one of them. She contributed to the war effort by working in a plant and inspecting B-24 parts. Even growing up, Dorothy was exposed to the expectation that women were to aspire to marriage and raise a family while their husbands worked. She also noticed that many men thought women were inferior to them and were even lower in their eyes if they were…

Anabolic steroid use has evolved into a public health concern. Since the 1970s anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) abuse is on the rise in athletes, in recreational sports, bodybuilding and sadly, for unrealistic cosmetic enhancements. According the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance (YRBC) reveals an increase in lifetime steroid use in youth and young adults in the United States, particularly in males between the ages of 19 to 40. Information…

The NBA has the best athletes in the sport of basketball, so to represent the United States in FIBA basketball tournament NBA athletes were allowed to compete in the 1994 world tournament, starting a new era for team USA. Presently the NBA has grown and expanded into other counties becoming a bigger brand, gaining love for the game from all over the world. However the NBA needs to limit its professional athletes participation in FIBA basketball because the risk of injuries, fatigue and…

Virginia Bischoff, the Rose Whisperer. I would like to introduce my good friend and mentor, Virginia Bischoff. Virginia has been an Indianapolis Rose Society member since 1953, 63 years! September 17th, she celebrated her 96th birthday. Happy Birthday, Virginia! I first met Virginia at the Flower and Patio show at the Indianapolis fairgrounds in the spring of 1991. She had already been a rose society member for nearly 40 years. She was working the Rose Society booth. At the time, I had twelve…

excitement take over me. I was tingling inside because today I got to swim 200 butterfly at Junior Olympics. I know what you are probably thinking, Junior Olympics is not like the actual olympics that is held every four years with the gold, silver, and bronze medals just for children. Junior Olympics is a very competitive swim meet that swimmers can go to if they have a qualifying time for a certain event. I had qualified in 200 butterfly, which is eight laps of butterfly in a pool that is…

Throughout the early 1900s, Germany had been through many difficulties and instabilities in both the economy and the government, and found it challenging to deal with these issues. The Parliament, known as the Reichstag, was made up of 40 parties, one of them being a small, right winged group called the German Workers party. In 1919, a man named Adolf Hitler joined this party, and from then on, he managed to get his way to power in 1933, overthrow the Weimar Government and become chancellor of…

John Bowden Connally Jr. was given birth on February 2, 1917, by John Bowden Connally Sr. and Lela Wright Connally, in Floresville, Texas. He went to Floresville High school, he later went to the University of Texas, where received his undergraduate and law degree. He also became president of the UT Student Association, and his passion for politics sparked. While attending college there, he met Idanell Nellie Brill in 1940, to which he later married and had four kids with. While serving the…