The Naked Trail: Transporting Monumental Bronze Sculpture
In 2004 Alan LeQuire's Musica sculpture, the largest bronze figurative group in the United States, was transported from the bronze foundry in Wyoming where it was cast to Nashville, Tennessee for installation at the entrance to the country music epicenter, Music Row.
MUSICA features nine dancing figures in a circular composition roughly thirty-eight feet tall. There are five figures which spring forth from the base in an over-all vase form. Four more rise up in the center floating above the others. Each figure is fourteen to fifteen feet, or more than twice life-size.
The dancers and part of the base are cast in bronze. The other part of the base is composed of massive natural limestone boulders.
LeQuire writes, Dance is the physical expression of music and the piece is intended to convey that feeling to the viewer in a composition which is simple, exuberant and celebratory. The theme of the sculpture is music, because of the historical and economic significance of the site. This is the heart of Music Row, the area and the artistic activity for which Nashville is best known. The sculpture conveys the importance of music to Nashville, past, present and future, and represents all forms of music without reference to any one form or style. It is meant to provide a visual icon for the area and for the city as a whole.
The theme is music, but the sculpture represents artistic creativity itself. An artistic idea often seems to miraculously and spontaneously burst forth. This is what happens in the sculpture, and the title MUSICA suggest this since it refers to all the 'arts of the muses.'
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Smokey Mountain Water Park
Recorded on February 28, 2010 using a Flip Video camcorder.
24 Hours in Austin
On July 2nd, a group of college students spent 24 hours capturing the essence of Austin, Texas through the lens of a camera.
This group consisted of a bunch of friends, 12 in all, from all over the country.
Music: Rob Martin
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Coverage of the Transportation Licensing Commission Meeting held on March 28, 2019
AAS Eclipse Workshop 2017
On 21 August 2017, a total eclipse of the Sun will cross the United States from coast to coast, giving tens of millions of people in a 70-mile-wide path from Oregon to South Carolina a chance to see the solar corona and experience all phases of the eclipse. The Moon's shadow will sweep across the country starting mid morning in Oregon with just under two minutes of totality and reaching maximum duration of approximately 2 minutes 40 seconds in Southern Illinois before exiting over South Carolina mid afternoon.
Outside the path of totality, all of North America will experience a partial eclipse. This event, the first total solar eclipse to touch the US mainland since 1979 and the first to span the continent since 1918, presents a unique opportunity to excite people about science and connect them personally to the cosmos, as well as to conduct several important scientific observations. We are a working group dedicated to the science and public outreach of this unique event.
The Eclipse 2017 Workshop IV took place in Carbondale, Illinois, on Friday and Saturday, 10 and 11 June 2016, at the SIU Carbondale Student Center, hosted by Bob Baer and Shadia Habbal.
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00:01:02 Shadia Habbal, Professor - University of Hawaii The Magic of Total Solar Eclipses
00:19:19 Charles Fulco, Science Consultant Eclipses 101: Introducing the Great American Eclipse
00:40:42 David Baron, Writer Using the Eclipse to Illuminate History
01:00:32 Jay Ryan, AmericanEclipseUSA.com Illustrating the Eclipse
01:17:32 Fred Espenak, Goddard Space Flight Center Glorious Totality
01:44:31 Michael Zeiler, GreatAmericanEclipse.com A Tour of the Great American Eclipse
02:15:42 Press Conference – Brad Colwell, SIUC Interim Chancellor
02:16:53 Press Conference—Fred Espenak, Goddard Space Flight Center
02:20:51 Press Conference—Shadia Habbal, Professor—University of Hawaii
02:26:08 Press Conference—Angela Speck, Professor—University of Missouri
02:28:55 Press Conference—Lou Mayo, NASA
02:38:40 Press Conference Q&A
02:47:46 Matt Penn, National Solar Observatory Citizen CATE Experiment: 2015, 2016, 2017
03:06:30 Lika Guhathakurta, NASA 2017 Eclipse: The 100 Year Eclipse
03:23:16 Lou Mayo, NASA Eclipse 2017: Through the Eyes of NASA
03:38:57 Chris Giersch, NASA EDGE
03:49:26 Bob Baer, SIUC Eclipse Co-Chair Eclipse 2017: SIUC Preparations
04:03:46 Michelle Nichols, Adler Planetarium Adler Planetarium: The Year of the Eclipse
04:16:04 Jim Todd, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry Total Solar Eclipse: Oregon
04:32:01 John Jerit & Paulo Aur, American Paper Optics
04:47:05 Sophie Margolis & Mark Margolis, Rainbow Symphony Eclipse Safety and Solar Viewing
05:00:32 Don Ficken, St. Louis Astronomical Society & Trish Erzfeld, Heritage County Tourism St. Louis Eclipse 2017
05:11:04 Michael Bakich, Astronomy Magazine Eclipse Preparations in St. Joseph
05:21:35 Michael Zeiler, GreatAmericanEclipse.com Leveraging Social Media for Outreach
05:41:30 Dan McGlaun, Eclipse 2017.org Alaska Airlines Flight 870
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Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945) | Wikipedia audio article
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A timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945) encompasses the ingenuity and innovative advancements of the United States within a historical context, dating from the Progressive Era to the end of World War II, which have been achieved by inventors who are either native-born or naturalized citizens of the United States. Copyright protection secures a person's right to his or her first-to-invent claim of the original invention in question, highlighted in Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution which gives the following enumerated power to the United States Congress:
In 1641, the first patent in North America was issued to Samuel Winslow by the General Court of Massachusetts for a new method of making salt. On April 10, 1790, President George Washington signed the Patent Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 109) into law which proclaimed that patents were to be authorized for any useful art, manufacture, engine, machine, or device, or any improvement therein not before known or used. On July 31, 1790, Samuel Hopkins of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, became the first person in the United States to file and to be granted a patent under the new U.S. patent statute. The Patent Act of 1836 (Ch. 357, 5 Stat. 117) further clarified United States patent law to the extent of establishing a patent office where patent applications are filed, processed, and granted, contingent upon the language and scope of the claimant's invention, for a patent term of 14 years with an extension of up to an additional 7 years.From 1836 to 2011, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a total of 7,861,317 patents relating to several well-known inventions appearing throughout the timeline below. Some examples of patented inventions between the years 1890 and 1945 include John Froelich's tractor (1892), Ransom Eli Olds' assembly line (1901), Willis Carrier's air-conditioning (1902), the Wright Brothers' airplane (1903), and Robert H. Goddard's liquid-fuel rocket (1926).
SECSRT 070 Academics Should Be Paying The Athletic Department
Shane Bailey, Drew Young and Blair Smyly discuss National Signing Day the winner and losers. Drew tells Blair and Shane how he would run Tennessee athletics. They also take a look at some of lasts weeks basketball action. And what mid-February podcast wouldn't be complete without some baseball talk. All this and more on this weeks SECSRT.