PubTalk 2/2018 — USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory
Title: The USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory - Research, monitoring, and the science of preparing society for low-probability, high-consequence events
* Volcanoes in the Cascade Range erupt twice per century on average, with eruptions often lasting for years.
* Although eruptions are generally not as high-consequence as large earthquakes, they are still high-consequence events.
* When a volcano wakes up there can be intense public interest - which requires crisis management, even if the eruption is small.
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Spirit of the Inland Northwest
From the Rocky Mountains to the Cascades; from the Snake River to the headwaters of the mighty Columbia,Spirit of the Inland Northwest captures the stunning natural beauty of this immense landscape. Wildlife, famous landscape, a smattering of history --- this program brings it to you!
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2016 Stegner Award Recipient Timothy Egan
2016 Wallace Stegner Recipient
Event Date: Apr 13, 2016
Event Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Old Main Chapel
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Each year, the Center of the American West presents the Wallace Stegner Award to an individual who has made a sustained contribution to the cultural identity of the West through literature, art, history, lore, or an understanding of the West.
Timothy Egan has demonstrated singular achievement, creativity, and dedication to the perception of the West and Western issues. Mr. Egan writes op-ed pieces with a Western perspective for The New York Times once a week. He is also the author of seven books, including The Worst Hard Time, which won the 2006 National Book Award for nonfiction.
A special thanks to Al and Carol Ann Olson for making this event possible.
Stephen Kinzer ─ The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
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Stephen Kinzer presents his new book, The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire.
How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous anger, launching foreign wars and deposing governments. Then we retreat―until the cycle begins again.
No matter how often we debate this question, none of what we say is original. Every argument is a pale shadow of the first and greatest debate, which erupted more than a century ago. Its themes resurface every time Americans argue whether to intervene in a foreign country.
Revealing a piece of forgotten history, Stephen Kinzer transports us to the dawn of the twentieth century, when the United States first found itself with the chance to dominate faraway lands. That prospect thrilled some Americans. It horrified others. Their debate gripped the nation.
The country’s best-known political and intellectual leaders took sides. Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and William Randolph Hearst pushed for imperial expansion; Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington, and Andrew Carnegie preached restraint. Only once before―in the period when the United States was founded―have so many brilliant Americans so eloquently debated a question so fraught with meaning for all humanity.
All Americans, regardless of political perspective, can take inspiration from the titans who faced off in this epic confrontation. Their words are amazingly current. Every argument over America’s role in the world grows from this one. It all starts here.
Introduction by Richard M. Locke, Brown University Provost.
African American Experience Lecture Series - Walter Johnson
The third African-American Experience Lecture, No Rights Which the White man Was Bound to Respect: Racial Capitalism and Empire in the Age of Dred Scott by Walter Johnson on April 21, 2016.
Walter Johnson, is a professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is also the author of Soul by Soul and River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Imperialism in the Mississippi Valley. In this presentation, Johnson uses Dred Scott's personal struggle for freedom and the controversial outcome of his US Supreme Court case as a lens to help illuminate the central role of St. Louis in the imperialist and racial capitalist history of the United States. In addition to his research and role as Winthrop Professor of History, Johnson is director of Harvard's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History.
The African American Lecture series explores the history of black Americans in Missouri from the earliest period of statehood to the present.
This lecture series offers the Mizzou and Columbia community opportunities to gain a new understanding of present-day Missouri by learning about the history of African Americans within the state. This series is a collaboration between the Division of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity, and the State Historical Society of Missouri's Center for Missouri Studies.
ch 01) Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress
chapters 1-5 Columbus to independence
A People's History (Of The United States) Howard Zinn.
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Chapter 1, Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress covers early Native American civilization in North America and the Bahamas, the genocide and enslavement committed by the crew of Christopher Columbus, and incidents of violent colonization by early settlers. Topics include the Arawaks, Bartolomé de las Casas, the Aztecs, Hernán Cortés, Pizarro, Powhatan, the Pequot, the Narragansett, Metacom, King Philip's War, and the Iroquois.
The Hindenburg 1975 George C. Scott Full Movie HD
The Hindenburg 1975 - Starring George C. Scott
Climate Matters: Boston 25 Weather team investigates how New England is preparing for climate change
The world around us is changing quickly. The delicate balance between nature's beauty and nature's wrath faces unprecedented challenges. Follow the Boston 25 Weather team as they dive into climate change.
Calvin Coolidge
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (/ˈkuːlɪdʒ/; July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the 30th President of the United States (1923–1929). A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. His conduct during the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight and gave him a reputation as a man of decisive action. Soon after, he was elected as the 29th Vice President in 1920 and succeeded to the Presidency upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding in 1923. Elected in his own right in 1924, he gained a reputation as a small-government conservative, and also as a man who said very little.
Coolidge restored public confidence in the White House after the scandals of his predecessor's administration, and left office with considerable popularity. As a Coolidge biographer put it, He embodied the spirit and hopes of the middle class, could interpret their longings and express their opinions. That he did represent the genius of the average is the most convincing proof of his strength. Some later criticized Coolidge as part of a general criticism of laissez-faire government. His reputation underwent a renaissance during the Ronald Reagan administration, but the ultimate assessment of his presidency is still divided between those who approve of his reduction of the size of government programs and those who believe the federal government should be more involved in regulating and controlling the economy.
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Street View's New Look on Google Maps Australia
Check out the new experience of Street View on Google Maps. Learn the new ways to enter Street View, look at our full screen mode, navigate through driving directions, and more.
Street View is a feature of Google Maps that allows you to quickly and easily view and navigate high-resolution, 360 degree street level images of various cities in Australia.
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Board of County Commissioners: Regular Meeting - 04.17.19
Welcome to the Board of County Commissioners: Regular Meeting - 04.17.19
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[00:03:40] RECOGNITION -2019 Theodore Roosevelt Hillsborough Forever Conservation Award
[00:21:40] PROCLAMATION-April is Child Abuse Prevention Month
[00:29:30] COMMENDATION-2019 Hillsborough County Women's Hall of Fame
[00:40:30] COMMENDATION-Tampa Bay Technical HS Girls Basketball Team
[00:47:35] Changes to Agenda
[00:52:10] Public Comments
[01:36:34] Consent Agenda Approval
[01:37:45] Item D-1: To Amend the Animal Services Fee Schedule Policy
[01:38:23] Item D-2: Animal Control Ordinance
[01:39:23] Item D-3: Creek Preserve Subdivision
[01:40:32] Item D-4: Belmont Townhomes Parcel C Subdivision
[01:42:00] Item F-10: Tampa Bay Estuary Program Director Ed Sherwood
[01:50:33] Item F-4: Hillsborough County's State Legislative Program
[02:09:33] Item F-6: 6th % Tourist Development Tax
[02:33:50] Item F-2: Authorize a pilot cat rescue sterilization program
[04:30:39] Item F-9: Pilot Awareness Training Program by the US Institute Against Human Trafficking
[04:55:30] Item F-5: Institute of Applied Engineering
[05:25:30] Item E-1: Martine Collier, Executive Director, Arts Council of Hillsborough County
[05:37:30] Item F-11: Little Manatee South area
[05:44:30] Item F-12: New Interstate 75 interchange affecting the Little Manatee South Community
[05:48:30] Item B-1: Approve a Funding Agreement with Florida Housing Coalition, Inc
[05:51:30] Item B-2: Approve Board of County Commissioners' Rules of Order
[06:26:30] Item B-3: Hillsborough County Budget Development Process Study Report
[06:28:30] Item B-4: Approve the East 131st Avenue Improvements Project
[06:32:30] Item B-5: Allocating up to $75,000 to Housing First Steps Forward, Inc
[06:33:30] Item B-6: Realign Public Utilities Department FY 2019 Capital Improvement Program
[06:34:30] Item C-1: Presentation on the Reorganization of the County Administrator's Office FY 2019
[06:49:30] Item C-2: Presentation to the BOCC on the FY 20 - 21 Budget Process.
[07:22:30] Item F-1: Arts Council of Hillsborough County
[07:24:30] Item F-3: Policy for BOCC consideration
[07:38:30] Item F-7: Zero Tolerance for Human Trafficking
[07:47:30] Item F-8: Health in All Policies Resolution
[07:50:30] Item G-1: To address hourly lodging rentals in an effort to curtail human trafficking
[07:52:30] Item G-2: Report from the Department of Head Start/Early Head Start
[07:54:30] Item G-3: Naming a playground at All People's Life Center for Becki Forsell
[07:56:30] Item G-4: Receive a report on residential solid waste collection services
[08:01:30] Future Items
[08:04:30] Public Comments
John Kerry | Wikipedia audio article
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John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 until 2013. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent George W. Bush.
Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado and attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a major in political science. Kerry enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1966, and between 1968 and 1969, he served an abbreviated four-month tour of duty in South Vietnam as officer-in-charge (OIC) of a Swift Boat. For that service, he was awarded combat medals that include the Silver Star Medal, Bronze Star Medal and three Purple Heart Medals. Securing an early return to the United States, Kerry joined the Vietnam Veterans Against the War organization in which he served as a nationally recognized spokesman and as an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War. He appeared in the Fulbright Hearings before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs where he deemed United States war policy in Vietnam to be the cause of war crimes.
After receiving a Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School, Kerry worked as an Assistant District Attorney in Massachusetts. He served as Lieutenant Governor under Michael Dukakis from 1983 to 1985 and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984 and was sworn in the following January. On the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he led a series of hearings from 1987 to 1989 which were a precursor to the Iran–Contra affair. Kerry was reelected to additional terms in 1990, 1996, 2002 and 2008. On October 11, 2002, Kerry voted to authorize the President to use force, if necessary, to disarm Saddam Hussein, but warned that the administration should exhaust its diplomatic avenues before launching war.In his 2004 presidential campaign, Kerry criticized George W. Bush for the Iraq War. He and his running mate, U.S. Senator from North Carolina John Edwards, lost the election, finishing 35 electoral votes behind Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Kerry returned to the Senate, becoming Chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship in 2007 and then of the Foreign Relations Committee in 2009. In January 2013, Kerry was nominated by President Barack Obama to succeed outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then confirmed by the U.S. Senate, assuming the office on February 1, 2013. Kerry retained the position until the end of Obama's second term on January 20, 2017.
Moby-Dick (II)
Featuring discussions of Melville's Moby-Dick; intertextuality; Owen Chase's narrative of the sinking of the whaleship Essex; cenotaphs; Biblical culture; and typology.
A Conversation With Anthony Foxx
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx describes his department's thirty-year Beyond Traffic framework.
Speaker:
Anthony Foxx, Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation
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David Slade, Senior Partner, Allen & Overy LLP
Strom Thurmond | Wikipedia audio article
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Strom Thurmond
00:03:20 1 Early life and education
00:05:06 2 Early career
00:07:18 2.1 World War II
00:08:14 2.2 Governor of South Carolina
00:09:38 2.3 Run for President
00:13:35 2.4 Early runs for Senate
00:15:07 3 Elected to the Senate and 1950s
00:19:22 3.1 iBrown v. Board of Education/i
00:20:31 4 1960s
00:22:23 4.1 Kennedy administration
00:28:14 4.2 Johnson administration
00:33:17 4.2.1 1964 presidential election and party switch
00:34:20 4.2.2 Supreme Court
00:38:00 4.2.3 1968 presidential election
00:40:58 4.2.4 1966 re-election campaign
00:41:43 5 1970s
00:46:31 5.1 Domestic policy
01:00:24 5.2 Foreign policy
01:06:23 5.3 Nixon resignation
01:08:40 5.4 Carter nominees
01:09:49 5.5 1978 re-election campaign
01:11:26 5.6 1980 presidential election
01:14:41 5.7 Post-1970 views regarding race
01:16:22 6 1980s
01:20:53 6.1 Domestic policy
01:29:50 6.2 Anti-crime and drug policies
01:34:08 6.3 Reagan nominees
01:38:13 6.4 Foreign policy
01:42:02 6.5 1984 re-election campaign
01:43:38 6.6 Antonin Scalia nomination
01:44:58 7 1990s and 2000s
01:48:18 7.1 1990 re-election campaign
01:48:59 7.2 Clarence Thomas nomination
01:50:18 7.3 Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee
01:53:12 7.4 1996 re-election campaign
01:54:05 7.5 Last term
01:57:44 8 Personal life
01:57:53 8.1 Marriages and children
02:00:26 8.2 First daughter
02:02:30 9 Death
02:03:10 10 Electoral history
02:03:20 11 Legacy
02:06:36 12 See also
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James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who served for 48 years as a United States Senator from South Carolina. He ran for president in 1948 as the States Rights Democratic Party candidate, receiving 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes. Thurmond represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 until 2003, at first as a Southern Democrat and, after 1964, as a Republican.
A magnet for controversy during his nearly half-century Senate career, Thurmond switched parties because of his support for the conservatism of the Republican presidential candidate Senator Barry Goldwater. In the months before switching, he had been critical of the Democratic Administration for ... enactment of the Civil Rights Law, while Goldwater boasted of his opposition to the Civil Rights Act, and made it part of his platform. Thurmond left office as the only member of either chamber of Congress to reach the age of 100 while still in office, and as the oldest-serving and longest-serving senator in U.S. history (although he was later surpassed in the latter by Robert Byrd and Daniel Inouye). Thurmond holds the record as the longest-serving member of Congress to serve exclusively in the Senate. He is also the longest-serving Republican member of Congress in U.S. history. At 14 years, he was also the longest-serving Dean of the United States Senate in U.S. history.
In opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957, he conducted the longest speaking filibuster ever by a lone senator, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, nonstop. In the 1960s, he opposed the civil rights legislation of 1964 and 1965 to end segregation and enforce the constitutional rights of African-American citizens, including basic suffrage. Despite being a pro-segregation Dixiecrat, he insisted he was not a racist, but was opposed to excessive federal authority, which he attributed to Communist agitators.Starting in the 1970s, he moderated his position on race, but continued to defend his early segregationist campaigns on the basis of states' rights in the context of Southern society at the time. He never fully renounced his earlier positions.Six months after Thurmond died at the age of 100 in 2003, his mixed-race, then 78-year-old daughter Essie Mae Washington-Williams (1925–2013) revealed he was her father. Her mother Carrie Butler (1909–1948) had been working as his family's maid, and was either 15 or 16 years old when a 22-year-old Thurmond ...
Making Classic Musicals Contemporary | Stratford Festival Forum 2018
CBC Radio host and Globe and Mail music critic Robert Harris joins acclaimed musical theatre director Donna Feore for an in-depth discussion with director and journalist Richard Ouzounian on re-envisioning classic musicals for a contemporary audience.
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Long Day’s Journey Into Night
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City Commission Regular Meeting 12/10/2019 6:30 PM
Charlotte, North Carolina | Wikipedia audio article
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Charlotte, North Carolina
00:02:28 1 History
00:06:25 1.1 After the American Revolution
00:08:13 1.2 World War I to present
00:10:43 2 Geography
00:11:56 2.1 Cityscape
00:13:48 2.2 Green space
00:14:54 2.3 Climate and environment
00:17:51 3 Demographics
00:20:11 3.1 Religion
00:24:20 4 Economy
00:28:21 5 Culture
00:28:30 5.1 Museums
00:29:29 5.2 Performing arts
00:30:07 5.3 Festivals and special events
00:32:06 5.4 Zoos and aquariums
00:33:29 6 Sports
00:35:12 7 Law, government and politics
00:38:22 7.1 City services
00:38:30 7.1.1 Emergency medical services
00:39:11 7.1.2 Hospitals
00:39:19 7.1.3 Fire department
00:39:51 7.1.4 Law enforcement and crime
00:41:25 8 Education
00:41:34 8.1 School system
00:42:11 8.2 Colleges and universities
00:45:44 8.3 Libraries
00:47:47 9 Media
00:47:56 9.1 Newspaper
00:48:18 9.2 Radio
00:48:42 9.3 Television
00:50:21 10 Infrastructure
00:50:30 10.1 Waste treatment
00:51:17 10.2 Transportation
00:51:51 10.2.1 Mass transit
00:53:08 10.2.2 Walkability
00:53:25 10.2.3 Roads and highways
00:54:44 10.2.4 Air
00:55:26 10.2.5 Intercity transportation
00:56:21 11 Notable people
00:56:30 12 Sister cities
00:56:53 13 See also
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Charlotte () is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County. In 2017, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the population was 859,035, making it the 17th-most populous city in the United States. The Charlotte metropolitan area's population ranks 22nd in the U.S., and had a 2016 population of 2,474,314. The Charlotte metropolitan area is part of a sixteen-county market region or combined statistical area with a 2016 census-estimated population of 2,632,249.Between 2004 and 2014, Charlotte was ranked as the country's fastest-growing metro area, with 888,000 new residents. Based on U.S. Census data from 2005 to 2015, it tops the 50 largest U.S. cities as the millennial hub. It is the second-largest city in the southeastern United States, just behind Jacksonville, Florida. It is the third-fastest-growing major city in the United States. It is listed as a gamma-minus global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Charlotte is the nation's number one tech town. Residents are referred to as Charlotteans.
Charlotte is home to the corporate headquarters of Bank of America and the east coast operations of Wells Fargo, which along with other financial institutions has made it the second-largest banking center in the United States since 1995.Among Charlotte's many notable attractions, some of the most popular include the Carolina Panthers of the NFL, the Charlotte Hornets of the NBA, the Charlotte Checkers of the AHL, the Charlotte Independence of the USL, the Charlotte Hounds of Major League Lacrosse, two NASCAR Cup Series races and the NASCAR All-Star Race, the Wells Fargo Championship, the NASCAR Hall of Fame, the Charlotte Ballet, Carowinds amusement park, and the U.S. National Whitewater Center. Charlotte Douglas International Airport is a major international hub, and was ranked the 7th-busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic in 2018.Charlotte has a humid subtropical climate. It is located several miles east of the Catawba River and southeast of Lake Norman, the largest man-made lake in North Carolina. Lake Wylie and Mountain Island Lake are two smaller man-made lakes located near the city.
Massachusetts Bay Colony | Wikipedia audio article
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691) was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century around the Massachusetts Bay, the northernmost of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The lands of the settlement were located in southern New England in Massachusetts, with initial settlements situated on two natural harbors and surrounding land, about 15.4 miles (24.8 km) apart—the areas around Salem and Boston.
The territory nominally administered by the colony covered much of central New England, including portions of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut. Territory claimed but never administered by the colonial government extended as far west as the Pacific Ocean. The earlier Dutch colony of New Netherlands disputed many of these claims, arguing that they held rights to lands beyond Rhode Island up to the western side of Cape Cod and the Plymouth Colony.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by the owners of the Massachusetts Bay Company, which included investors in the failed Dorchester Company that had established a short-lived settlement on Cape Ann in 1623. The colony began in 1628 and was the company's second attempt at colonization. It was successful, with about 20,000 people migrating to New England in the 1630s. The population was strongly Puritan, and its governance was dominated by a small group of leaders who were strongly influenced by Puritan religious leaders. Its governors were elected, and the electorate were limited to freemen who had been examined for their religious views and formally admitted to the local church. As a consequence, the colonial leadership exhibited intolerance to other religious views, including Anglican, Quaker, and Baptist theologies.
The colonists initially had good relationships with the local Indian populations, but frictions developed that ultimately led to the Pequot War (1636–38) and then to King Philip's War (1675–78), after which most of the Indians in southern New England made peace treaties with the colonists (apart from the Pequot tribe, whose survivors were largely absorbed into the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes following the Pequot War).
The colony was economically successful, engaging in trade with England and the West Indies. A shortage of hard currency in the colony prompted it to establish a mint in 1652. Political differences with England after the English Restoration led to the revocation of the colonial charter in 1684. King James II established the Dominion of New England in 1686 to bring all of the New England colonies under firmer crown control. The dominion collapsed after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 deposed James, and the colony reverted to rule under the revoked charter until 1691, when a new charter was issued for the Province of Massachusetts Bay. This province combined the Massachusetts Bay territories with those of the Plymouth Colony and proprietary holdings on Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. Sir William Phips arrived in 1692 bearing the charter and formally took charge of the new province. The political and economic dominance of New England by the modern state of Massachusetts was made possible in part by the early dominance in these spheres by the Massachusetts Bay colonists.