Baruch Blumberg - Other activities of The American Philosophical Society (72/80)
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The late Baruch Blumberg (1925-2011) was an American scientist and doctor whose most significant contributions to medicine include the identification of the Hepatitis B virus. He was one of three co-recipients of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. [Listener: Rebecca Blanchard; date recorded: 2007]
TRANSCRIPT: We're also trying to be somewhat creative. We have a music program and what we may do, is… is commission music for our meetings. So we could commission, I thought, we were going to do it with students, you know, students who were training to become composers, and then we'd play those as, you know, every year or two, when we had our meetings. It's a way we contribute. And right now, we have an exhibit on… on, it's called Dauntless Courage, and it's on five explorers who were members of the APS. And that includes Elisha Kent Kane, who was from Pennsylvania, actually. And he was an Arctic explorer. And he was on the expeditions to find Franklin. Then there's a Kent Fracture Zone in the — Kane Fracture Zone, rather — in the mid-Atlantic ridge, and he did a lot… he did a lot of geographic and other exploration, up in the Davis Inlet. He's a slightly, you know, I mean, a somewhat eccentric guy. And then Audubon was a member and he did a lot of exploration in this part of the world, the Eastern United States mostly. Also, down south, in the west. And Ruth Patrick, who's a contemporary woman who’s a… she's a limnologist. Well, actually, she studies estuaries and… and rivers, and studied diatoms — she did a lot of work on classification and physiology. And then, Titian Peale. His father, Charles Wilson Peale, was a founder of this society, was a Patriot in the revolution, and a portraitist. He's done millions of portraits, and he named all his kids after, you know, like Rembrandt Peale, and Titian Peale, and his daughter, also was an artist. And Titian Peale was a kind of an explorer, and, was an explorer, and he… he was a naturalist, and he went on the US Exploring Expedition which was after the Lewis and Clark. The… the Feds funded another round the world expedition, led by Lieutenant Wilkes, and they circumnavigated the world, brought back a huge collection of natural history and ethnography and… and that was the beginning collection of the Smithsonian, is the Titian. So much of the old stuff that they had came from that. And Titian Peale did a lot of the paintings. We have a wonderful collection of… of some of his paintings. And let me see, that... well, we have other contemporary, you know, Admiral Byrd was a member. And Neil Armstrong is a member. And he comes to meetings occasionally, you know, I've invited him to chair a program we're going to have next spring on… on space. So we'll… he's, you know, he was the most famous man in the world, you know, for a long time, but by nature, I think, I wouldn't call him shy exactly, but he's not, you know, he's a private kind of person. But he has intellectual and engineering interests and, you know, so I am very pleased he's going to come to the meeting. So, it's kind of interesting. And you meet, I've tried to meet local, and our, sort of, fellow societies in Philadelphia and several… and there's a whole bunch of scholarly and academic public interest groups in the city, so from time to time, I go and have lunch with those.
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American Artifacts: Philadelphia's Carpenters' Hall
Carpenters' Company historian Roger Moss leads a tour of the building that served as the meeting place of the First Continental Congress in 1774. It was also the former home to Ben Franklin's Library Company, the American Philosophical Society, and the First and Second Banks of the United States. The building was constructed in 1770 by members of the oldest trade guild in America.
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The American Philosophical Society (APS), founded in 1743 and located in Philadelphia, is an eminent scholarly organization of international reputation that promotes useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities through excellence in scholarly research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach. Considered the first learned society in the United States, it has played an important role in American cultural and intellectual life for over 270 years.
Through research grants, published journals, the American Philosophical Society Museum, an extensive library, and regular meetings, the society continues to advance a variety of disciplines in the humanities and the sciences. Philosophical Hall, now a museum, is located just east of Independence Hall in Independence National Historical Park; it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965.
Allen Guelzo on African American Population in Colonial Philadelphia
Philadelphia: The Great Experiment (In Penn's Shadow)
Allen Guelzo speaks on the influx of African Americans and the Irish into Philadelphia.
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OSS Veteran Paul Fisher on Freemasonry's hostility to the Catholic Church, Parts 1 & 2 of 2
Paul A. Fisher, author of Behind the Lodge Door - excellent book on Freemasonry, highly recommended.
Topics discussed:
30th degree Knight Kadosh anti-Catholic ritual involving trampling/stabbing of papal tiara/skull and Catholic monarch crown/skull, symbolizing Separation of (War Against Catholic) Church and (Catholic) State
Al Smith - Catholic presidential candidate
Albert Pike
American Protective Association/American Protestant Association
Archbishop Lefebvre
Church and State
Communism
Conspiracy against Church and State
Cristero War - Persecution and slaughter of Mexican Catholics in 1920's & 30's by Mexican Masonic government supported by America the Masonic Republic
Freemasonry and the New Word Order
Freemasonry in Mexico
Freemasonry in Spain and Spanish Civil War
French Revolution
Everson v. Board of Education
Hugo Black - Supreme Court Justice, mason, and Klansman
Jack Kemp - Freemason
Know-Nothing Movement
Manuel Quezon (former Philippine president and mason)
Masonic-Protestant alliance against the Catholic Church
Modernism
New Age Magazine - raging Anti-Catholic official magazine of Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction
Naturalism
New Age movement
Pantheism
Papal condemnations of Freemasonry
Parochial (Catholic) schools
Philadelphia Riots
Pope Leo XIII - Encyclical Letter Human Genus against Freemasonry
Pope Pius VIII
Presidents in Freemasonry
Protestant Reformation
Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State - founded by an alliance of Freemasons and Protestants, funded by Freemasons
Public schools
Ronald Reagan becoming a Mason
Supreme Court of the United States and period of domination by Freemasons
Socialism
Stare decisis
United States a Christian nation
Masonic Temple - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Masonic Temple Philadelphia
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The Origins of Pennsylvania Girlchoir
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Public Humanities, Part 1
Record, Preserve, Document, Shape: Talking About the Public Humanities with Steven Lubar
Temple University, Paley Library, Thursday, November 18
How do museums, libraries, archives, universities and other public institutions shape the recording and presentation of artistic and cultural heritage? How does that inform our understanding of the past, present, and future? How do we disseminate humanistic research originating within the ivory tower to the world-at-large? What is the future of cultural programming and publicly funded arts and humanities initiatives? Join a conversation on the state of public culture moderated by Seth Bruggeman of Temple's Center for Public History, featuring Steven Lubar of Brown University's John Nicholas Brown Center for the Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage.
Lubar is one of the country's foremost public historians, and leads a graduate program and think tank at Brown University that explores these questions, and more. Prior to Brown, Lubar was a curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. There, he went on to chair the Division of the History of Technology and oversee several major permanent exhibitions, including the groundbreaking America on the Move, which examines the history of public transportation in the United States. In addition to his work at the Smithsonian, Lubar has taught at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland and the University of Pennsylvania.
This program was co-sponsored by the Village of Arts and Humanities, the Wagner Free Institute of Science, the North Philadelphia Arts and Culture Alliance, and the Center for Public History at Temple.
David Rittenhouse - Video Learning - WizScience.com
David Rittenhouse was a renowned American astronomer, inventor, clockmaker, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman and public official. Rittenhouse was a member of the American Philosophical Society and the first director of the United States Mint.
Rittenhouse was born in a small village within Philadelphia called Rittenhousetown. This village is located near Germantown, along the stream Paper Mill Run, which is a tiny tributary of the Wissahickon Creek.
When his uncle died, Rittenhouse inherited his uncle's set of carpentry tools and instructional books. Using his uncle's tools, he began a career as an inventor. Also at a young age, Rittenhouse showed a high level of intelligence by creating a working scale model of his grandfather's paper mill. He was self-taught and showed great ability in science and mathematics.
When Rittenhouse was 13 years of age, he had mastered Isaac Newton's laws of motion and gravity. As a young boy he loved to build scale models, such as a working waterwheel and a paper mill. Rittenhouse never went to elementary school and was completely self-educated from family books.
When he was 19, he started a scientific instrument shop at his father's farm in what is now Valley Forge Medical Center & Hospital, located in East Norriton Township, Pennsylvania. His skill with instruments, particularly clocks, led him to construct two orreries for Rutgers University in New Jersey. In return for the gift, the college gave him a scholarship to attend the college enabling him to obtain a degree in philosophy. One of the orreries is currently in the library of the University of Pennsylvania and the other is at Peyton Hall of Princeton University.
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138 Patrick Spero, Frontier Politics in Early America
Did you know that Connecticut and Virginia once invaded Pennsylvania?
During the 1760s, Connecticut invaded and captured the northeastern corner of Pennsylvania just as Virginia invaded and captured parts of western Pennsylvania. And Pennsylvania stood powerless to stop them.
In this episode, Patrick Spero, the Librarian of the American Philosophical Society and author of Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania, takes us through these invasions and reveals why Pennsylvania proved unable to defend its territory.
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African American Life in Washington, DC, Before Emancipation
African American Life in Washington, DC, Before Emancipation
As Washington became the focus of abolitionism before the Civil War, antislavery activists argued that the sight of slavery and slave dealers in the nation’s capital disgraced the nation and its ideals. A panel will explore life before the 1862 Compensated Emancipation Act and discuss the “Slavery and Freedom” exhibit at the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Moderated by John W. Franklin of the NMAAHC, panelists include Mark Auslander, Central Washington University; Maurice Jackson, Georgetown University; and NMAAHC curators Nancy Bercaw and Mary Elliott. Presented in partnership with NMAAHC, the DC Commission of African American Affairs, and the DC Commission on Emancipation.
Magic Gardens South Street Philadelphia June 12, 2010
If you are in Philly you have got to check out the Magic Gardens on South Street. This is Isiah Zager's ongoing massive mosaic project that you can enter and explore! This will give you an idea of what you are in store for, but you really have to visit and wander around to get the true feeling of how cool it is to be inside of it.
Myron C. Fagan - Les Illuminati et le CFR (1967)
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Myron Coureval Fagan (31 octobre 1887 - 12 mai 1972) est un dramaturge, réalisateur et producteur de cinéma américain. Il fut également essayiste de théories du complot, anticommuniste fervent et l'un des premiers à parler du complot Illuminati.
Myron Coureval Fagan fut le mari de Minna Gombell.
Il fut inspiré par John Thomas Flynn pour ses essais conspirationnistes.
Voici une liste de ses oeuvres:
Films :
1926 Mismates (scénariste)
1929 The Great Power (scénariste et réalisateur)
1931 Smart Woman (scénariste, adapté de sa pièce Nancy's Private Affair)
1931 A Holy Terror (scénariste)
Livres et articles :
1932 Nancy's Private Affair, A comedy in three acts
1932 Peter Flies High, A comedy in three acts
1934 The Little Spitfire, A comedy-drama in three acts
1948 Red stars in Hollywood: Their helpers, fellow travelers, and co-conspirators
1948 Moscow over Hollywood (published by R.C. Cary, Los Angeles)
1949 Moscow marches on in Hollywood (News-bulletin/Cinema Educational Guild)
1950 Reds in the Anti-Defamation League (Cinema Educational Guild. News-bulletin, May 1950)
1950 Reds in crusade for freedom! (News bulletin)
1950 Hollywood reds are on the run!
1950 Documentation of the Red stars in Hollywood.
1950 Reds in the Anti-Defamation League.
1951 What is this thing called anti-semitism? (News-bulletin / Cinema Educational Guild)
1951 Saga of Operation Survival (News-bulletin / Cinema Educational Guild)
1953 Hollywood backs U.N. conspiracy
1954 Red Treason on Broadway (Cinema Educational Guild)
1956 United Nations on trial in Washington, D.C (News-bulletin)
1962 Must we have a Cuban Pearl Harbor? (News-bulletin / Cinema Educational Guild)
1964 How Hollywood is brainwashing the people (News-bulletin / Cinema Educational Guild)
1964 Civil rights, most sinister tool of the great conspiracy (News-Bulletin)
1965 How greatest white nations were mongrelized, then negroized: That is the fate planned for the American people (News-bulletin)
1966 The UN already secret government of U.S.!: Our recall project can smash it! (News-bulletin)
1966 The complete truth about the United Nations conspiracy! (News-bulletin)
1967 You must decide fate of our nation!!!: The Negro (CFR) plot is our greatest menace! (News-bulletin)
1969 Proofs of the great conspiracy and how to smash it!!! (News-bulletin / Cinema Educational Guild)
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Benjamin Franklin quotes
Benjamin Franklin FRS (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705][1] – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A renowned polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions.[2] He facilitated many civic organizations, including Philadelphia's fire department and a university.
Franklin earned the title of The First American for his early and indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity; as an author and spokesman in London for several colonies, then as the first United States Ambassador to France, he exemplified the emerging American nation.[3] Franklin was foundational in defining the American ethos as a marriage of the practical values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment. In the words of historian Henry Steele Commager, In a Franklin could be merged the virtues of Puritanism without its defects, the illumination of the Enlightenment without its heat.[4] To Walter Isaacson, this makes Franklin the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become.[5]
Franklin, always proud of his working class roots, became a successful newspaper editor and printer in Philadelphia, the leading city in the colonies.[6] With two partners he published the Pennsylvania Chronicle, a newspaper that was known for its revolutionary sentiments and criticisms of the British policies. He became wealthy publishing Poor Richard's Almanack and The Pennsylvania Gazette. Franklin was also the printer of books for the Moravians of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (1742 on). Franklin's printed Moravian books (printed in German) are preserved, and can be viewed, at the Moravian Archives located in Bethlehem. Franklin visited Bethlehem many times and stayed at the Moravian Sun Inn.
He played a major role in establishing the University of Pennsylvania and was elected the first president of the American Philosophical Society. Franklin became a national hero in America when as agent for several colonies he spearheaded the effort to have Parliament in London repeal the unpopular Stamp Act. An accomplished diplomat, he was widely admired among the French as American minister to Paris and was a major figure in the development of positive Franco-American relations. His efforts to secure support for the American Revolution by shipments of crucial munitions proved vital for the American war effort.
For many years he was the British postmaster for the colonies, which enabled him to set up the first national communications network. He was active in community affairs, colonial and state politics, as well as national and international affairs. From 1785 to 1788, he served as governor of Pennsylvania. Toward the end of his life, he freed his own slaves and became one of the most prominent abolitionists.
His colorful life and legacy of scientific and political achievement, and status as one of America's most influential Founding Fathers, have seen Franklin honored on coinage and the $100 bill; warships; the names of many towns; counties; educational institutions; corporations; and, more than two centuries after his death, countless cultural references.read more at
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OIC Of America On The Hill - Herman Art Tayor
OIC Of America On The Hill - Herman Art Tayor
Opening Reception - OIC Day One with OIC Of America's Board Chairman - Herman Art Taylor In Washington, D.C. - oicofamerica.org
OICA's mission is to continue to be the nation's leader in providing quality education, training, employment, and housing services through a national network of local affiliated organizations enabling economically disadvantaged people of all races and backgrounds to become productive fulfilled members of the American society.
OIC of America, Inc.
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OICA is a national 501(c)(3) non-profit organization preparing people for today's workforce with quality life skills development, fundamental education, superior job skills training, and employment readiness services.
The OIC philosophy of Self Help and the system of developing the whole person enables individuals to become self-sufficient, productive workers. OIC prepares people for today's workforce with quality life skills development, fundamental education, job skills training and employment readiness.
To train or retrain millions of men and women with untapped talents and unknown skills, who are unemployed and underemployed.
To involve the total community in the awareness of the value of preparation, thereby stimulating and inspiring individuals to seek higher levels of productivity, creativity and achievement.
To develop among our trainees and associates a sense of increased economic security.
To foster and nurture a sense of self-pride which will give the trainees confidence in themselves and enable them to participate with dignity in the total society.
To stimulate loyalty and pride in the community...a sense of goodwill involving all religious, racial, cultural, economic, political and other groups.
To adapt the training program to meet the challenge of changing technological advances and current needs.
To develop an awareness of each person's relationships and responsibilities to humanity, along with the ability to act in a constructive manner in the community, and the world. Hence, OIC will seek to develop the whole person.
Herman Art Taylor was appointed chairperson of the National Board of Directors for OIC of America, Inc. (OICA) in April 2009.
Mr. Taylor previously worked for OICA as Vice President of Finance and served as President and CEO from 1990 to 1998. He currently serves as president and chief executive officer of the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance based in Arlington, VA. As head of the Alliance, he oversees all aspects of the organization's work, which includes setting standards for soliciting organizations, evaluating individual national charities in relation to these standards, promoting charity accountability and providing a variety of materials on informed giving to individual, institutional and business donors.
Before coming to OICA, Mr. Taylor worked in the private sector with the accounting firm, Deloitte & Touche. He also worked as a cost analyst and a internal auditor. He began his career at OICA in 1986 when he joined the organization's Academy of Management Training division as controller/training specialist.
He served as vice chair of Independent Sector, where he was a Board member from 1998 to 2003, and served on the Board of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. Previously he served on the board of the YMCA of Philadelphia and Vicinity. He is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals' Ethics Committee.
Mr. Taylor received a BA in Business Administration--Accounting from Franklin and Marshall College in 1980 and received an honorary Dr. of Laws from his alma mater in 2002. In 1983, he obtained his Certified Public Accountant credential. He has been a trustee of Franklin & Marshall College since 1996. He earned his Jurist Doctorate from the Temple University School of Law, and was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1989.
In 1995, the Philadelphia Business Journal named Mr. Taylor to its list of 40 under 40″ rising business and professional leaders. The Non-Profit Times has named him, four times, one of its Power and Influence Top 50″ people in the non-profit sector, and he is presently a member of its Hall of Fame.
John Sloan Symposium: John Fagg
Symposium & Public Talks: Internationional Perspectives in the Era of John Sloan and the Ashcan School
JOHN FAGG, “UNSCIENCED BUT ALIVE”: THE TRANSATLANTIC ORIGINS OF THE ASHCAN SCHOOL NUDE
While Thomas Eakins’ commitment to “the nude as the basis of art and art instruction” has long been recognised, the significance of the life class, studio practice and nude studies for the Ashcan School artists is rarely discussed. This talk follows Robert Henri’s journey from the dissection room at PAFA, through endless studies from the nude at the Académie Julian, and back to (reluctantly) drawing from casts at the École des Beaux-Arts before coming to his own “unscienced” approach to the body, which developed into increasing formalised pedagogy at the Charcoal Club in Philadelphia and the New York School of Art. It then considers male and female nudes made by John Sloan and George Bellows that were shaped by Henri’s teaching but also by the ideas of Walt Whitman, Emma Goldman and Havelock Ellis.
John Fagg is Lecturer and Director of the American and Canadian Studies Center, University of Birmingham, UK. He earned a BA in English and Philosophy at the University of Leeds, and my MA and PhD in American Studies at the University of Nottingham, where he then held a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Research Fellowship followed by a Lectureship in American Literature. In 2015 his Terra-prize-winning essay “Bedpans and Gibson Girls: Clutter and Matter in John Sloan’s Graphic Art” appeared in American Art in 2015.
Dr. Benjamin Rush: The Founding Father Who Healed a Wounded Nation
Harlow Giles Unger’s revealing, new biography examines Benjamin Rush, the nation’s first great humanitarian, social reformer, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Know primarily as America’s most influential and leading physician, Rush was also among the first to call for the abolition of slavery, equal rights for women, and improved living conditions for the poor. A book signing will follow the program.
Panel Talk: Abandoned Margins: Policing the Black Female Body (short)
Panel Talk: Abandoned Margins: Policing the Black Female Body
Friday, March 17, 2017
6:00pm 8:00pm
UICA Members: Free
Public: Free with gallery admission
Join us for a discussion led by a panel of community organizers, scholars, and artists as we investigate depictions of the black female body in art and in United States’ popular culture. The panel will recognize ways that traditional representations of black women aid in systemic racism and marginalization, and will consider methods for using visual language to challenge stereotypes instead of perpetuate them.
Enjoy food provided by Donkey Taqueria, and a cash bar.
Meet the Panelists.
Jessica Marie Johnson, Ph.D writes about histories of slavery and the slave trade; women, gender, and sexuality in the African diaspora; and digital history and new media. Her current book manuscript is a history of free women of African descent laboring, living, and traveling between eighteenth-century Senegal, Saint-Domingue, and Gulf Coast Louisiana. Her second project is a collaboration with Dr. Mark Anthony Neal (Duke University) compiling work reading nineteenth-century black codes against present-day black code” or digital vernaculars of people of African descent. Johnson is the founder/curator of African Diaspora, Ph.D, and is the recipient of research fellowships and awards from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Gilder-Lehrman Institute, the Richards Civil War Era Center, and the Africana Research Center at the Pennsylvania State University. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University.
Regis M. Fox, Assistant Professor of English at Grand Valley State University, earned her Ph. D in English from the University of California, Riverside. Her primary research interests include Nineteenth-Century American Literatures, Feminist Theory, and African-American Literary and Cultural Studies. She has published in such journals as Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal and the Journal of American Studies, as well as in edited collections, including A Determined Life: The Elizabeth Keckley Reader (Eno Press 2016). A McKnight Junior Faculty Fellow for the 2015-16 academic year, she is currently completing her book manuscript under contract with University Press of Florida titled Unsung, Unwavering: Nineteenth-Century Black Women's Epistemologies and the Liberal Problematic.
Janice Bond is a curator, interdisciplinary artist, and cultural producer specializing in arts and culture. As a visual/multimedia artist, her original paintings, installations, and collective soundscapes focus on multidimensional human perspectives and identity, sacred geometry, sound frequencies, and indigenous fractal patterns found in various cultures and urban landscapes. In 2014, Bond opened Gallery ONI, a contemporary art gallery and cultural space located in Chicago, Illinois dedicated to promoting the work of women artists of color. As featured guest curator for Here + Now, Bond will present a new iteration of Abandoned Margins: Policing the Black Female Body, which debuted at Chicago’s Woman Made Gallery in early 2016.
Breannah Alexander is Director of Strategic Programs at Partners for a Racism-Free Community. She is responsible for the management of all external community-based programming, education program design and communications. Additionally she is the Founder and Managing Director of women reVamped, an organization established in response to a growing need for female centered initiatives and a personal passion for ensuring the empowerment of young girls. Breannah’s previous experience includes serving as the Program Manager of Michigan’s Habitat for Humanity AmeriCorps Program, an AmeriCorps State member at Grand Rapids Community Foundation and 6 years working in various capacities with youth grant-makers in Michigan and across the nation. She is also Co-Chair of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network Grand Rapids board and a Leader with Opportunity Nation, a national campaign to increase economic mobility for young people in the United States. Breannah was previously a Commissioner on the Michigan Community Service Commission, and board member of the Michigan LEAGUE board.
Dirt Cheap - Philadelphia
Cheap things to do in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania! This episode brought to you by Wicked Brew in Bangor, Maine.
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Follow the escapades of filmmaker Chas Bruns as he travels the world in search of the cheapest tours, food, hotels, hostels and transportation. If you're living on a budget, Chas can show you how to travel for pennies on the dollar. Chas will show you where to go sky diving, waterfall hiking, shark diving and more!
This episode takes Chas to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he explores Philadelphia Museum of Art, Liberty Bell, Carpenters Hall and the Science History Institute. He dines and drinks at Black & Brew, Blue Cross River Rink,
Jim’s Steaks, Reading Terminal Market, Pearls Oyster Bar,
Beiler’s Doughnuts, Goose Island Brewing, Ho Sai Gai,
Front Street Café, Toasted Walnut, Locust Bar,
Ray’s Happy Birthday Bar and Fountain Porter. He stays at Apple Hostels. If you're considering traveling to the Philly, you can't miss this!
Music: “In The Atmosphere” by Bad Snacks
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Music: “Easy Saturday” by Bad Snacks
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Music: “Roast Beef Of Old England” by The U.S. Marine Corps Band
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Music: “Space Racer” by Bad Snacks
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Music: “Christmas Village” by Aaron Kenny
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Music: “Funhouse” by Bad Snacks
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Music: “Fender Bender” by Bad Snacks
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Music: “Mizuki” by Bad Snacks
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Music: “Future City Funk” by Bad Snacks
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Music: “Gold Coast” by Bad Snacks
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Music: “Funky Disco” by Biz Baz Studio
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Music: “75 & Lower” by DJ Williams
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Music: “Frank’s Last Chase” by DJ Williams
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Music: “Yahoo It’s Your Birthday!” by Union House Band
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