Penwald: 2: 8 circles (National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC)
Orrico presents the first public performance of his 8 circles drawing from his Penwald Series at the National Academy of Sciences, Keck Center in Spring 2010. Film by Becky Beamer (beckybeamer.com)
Exploring Washington DC, with Prof. Darryl Macer, President, AUSN.
Exploring Washington DC, with Prof. Darryl Macer, President, AUSN. August 2019. Capitol Building, Smithsonian Museums, Washington Moonument, Lincoln Memorial, National Academy of Sciences, Whitehouse, Roosevelt Island, and others.
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Discoveries Backstory: Panel Discussion
Following each performance of Soldier Songs we hosted a panel conversation with Tomer Zvulun (General and Artistic Director, the Atlanta Opera), David T. Little (composer, Soldier Songs) and veterans.
Sunday, November 15th panelists included:
Maria Britt is Kennesaw State University’s Associate Vice President for Operations. Prior to joining KSU, Major General (retired) Britt served as Commanding General of Georgia’s 11,000 Army National Guard soldiers. General Britt has led at various levels of command and staff over her 28 year career. Her military education includes the Military Police Officer and Military Intelligence Officer Courses, the U.S. Army Jungle Warfare School (Panama), and numerous Defense Support to Civil Authorities and Homeland Defense Courses. She is a native of Gloversville N.Y. and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1983 as a part of the fourth graduating class with women. General Britt holds additional degrees from the Joint Military Intelligence College, Defense Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Army War College. Gen Britt was awarded the fourth highest military award, the Distinguished Service Medal, by Senator Isakson for her leadership as commanding general. General Britt is the president of Women in Defense-Georgia Chapter and Chair for Cobb County’s Citizen Corps Advisory Council. Ms. Britt serves on advisory boards for Senator Isakson’s West Point Nomination Committee, the Shepherd Spinal Center, KSU’s Women Leadership Center, Warior2Citizen, Women Veteran Social Justice, and Georgians Advancing Veteran Education (GAVE).
Senator Hunter Hill is a Republican serving Georgia’s 6th District since 2012. In 2014, he was elected Majority Caucus Vice-Chairman by his colleagues. Sen. Hill is the Chairman of the Senate Veterans, Military and Homeland Security Committee and Vice Chairman of the Finance Committee. After graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a Bachelor of Science degree in General Management and Civil Engineering,
Sen. Hill became a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army. He went on to graduate from the Airborne, the Air Assault, and the U.S. Army Ranger Schools. In June 2001, Hunter took command of a rifle platoon with the 101st Airborne Division, which he led into battle in Afghanistan in 2002. Sen. Hill subsequently led another platoon into battle in Iraq in 2003, and he commanded three different teams on other deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition to his combat roles, he also served as a General’s Aide in Iraq, and earned two Bronze Stars, the Meritorious Service Medal and two Army Commendation Medals. Senator Hill is currently the president of Tommy Newberry Coaching, where he leverages his military, real estate development, and security industry experience to lead and grow his business.
Dr. Amy Stevens, Ed.D. LPC is a clinical consultant and nationally known speaker on PTSD, military sexual trauma and other veterans issues. She is the gounder of the Facebook social network “GA Military Women.” Her clinical degrees are from Johns Hopkins University and Argosy University. She is a service disabled U.S. Navy veteran and is the former Director of Psychological Health for the Georgia National Guard 2009-2012. She lives in Marietta, GA. For more information about her work, visit arcadianresources.com or find her on LinkenIn.
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Dr. Catherine Lewis is Assistant Vice President for Museums, Archives & Rare Books; Director of the Museum of History and Holocaust Education; and Professor of History at Kennesaw State University. She has curated or coordinated more than 40 exhibitions, and is the author, co-author, or editor of fourteen books, including Beyond Rosie: A Documentary History of Women and World War II.
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Municipal Center Frieze, Washington, DC
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Frederick Douglass House, Washington, DC
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2017 National Cannabis Fest - April 22 - Washington, DC
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Smithsonian Institution Castle: The Commons
The grand, well-lit Commons resembles the chapels of English academic architecture, but the space was always intended for secular use. The room, known as the West Wing for most of its history, has seen many other uses since its initial service as a library. In 1871, one of the earliest meetings of the National Academy of Sciences was held here. Mineralogical specimens, exhibits from the 1876 Centennial Exposition, and marine invertebrate specimens all found a home at one time or another in this space before the entire west end and main hall were closed for renovation from 1914 to 1916. When the Commons reopened to the public, graphic arts exhibits were on view there. Those exhibits were transferred, in 1963, to the Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, Behring Center. In subsequent decades, a restaurant was housed in the Commons. Today, the exhibits in this room provide a sampler of objects from Smithsonian collections.
Rep. Palmer Presenting Amendment on DC Individual Health Mandate
Congressman Palmer speaks on the House Floor presenting his amendment to the 2019 appropriations bill on the individual health insurance mandate for the District of Columbia. Congressman Palmer's amendment was adopted and will now prohibit the use of funds for implementing DC's restrictive mandate that would reinstate the individual mandate that was repealed through the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
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Congressman Gary Palmer grew up in Hackleburg, Alabama and now lives in Hoover, representing Alabama’s 6th Congressional District. He attended the University of Alabama and was the first person on either side of his family to attend college. In addition, he was a walk-on member of the football team under legendary football coach Bear Bryant. After earning a B.S. in Operations Management, he worked in the private sector for 12 years; including nine with two major engineering construction companies, before involvement with Focus on the Family lead him to start the Alabama Family Alliance which later became the Alabama Policy Institute.
Palmer served as President of the Alabama Policy Institute for 24 years. During his tenure, the Alabama Policy Institute became a full-spectrum public policy organization that engaged in virtually all policy issues that affected Alabamians. It is considered the premier conservative think-tank in Alabama.
Palmer also was a founding member of the board of directors of the State Policy Network, an umbrella organization for various state-based think-tanks. He served on the State Policy Network board for six years, the last two as chairman. Leading this broad coalition of policy thinkers gave Palmer exposure and knowledge of policy problems that confront all 50 states. When State Policy Network was founded in 1992, there were fewer than 20 state think-tanks in their network. Today, State Policy Network has 65-member organizations.
Palmer served on four different state commissions on behalf of three different Governors. He was appointed to the Welfare Reform Commission by Governor Fob James. He also served as an advisor to Governor James’ Aerospace, Science and Technology Task Force. He was appointed to the Task Force to Strengthen Alabama Families by Governor Bob Riley, and the Alabama Commission on Improving State Government by Governor Robert Bentley.
In 2014, he was elected to the 114th Congress, having never served in office before. In Congress, Palmer is focused on paying down the national debt by cutting spending; regulatory reform by reducing the number and expense of federal regulations; lowering energy costs and spurring economic growth and job creation by accessing America’s vast energy resources; and replacing Obamacare with a health care plan that puts people back in charge of their health care decisions and that will truly make health care affordable and available; and protecting life in all its forms.
Palmer has been a member of the Rotary Club of Birmingham since 1993, and he is a Paul Harris Fellow. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Mobile. He and his wife Ann live in Hoover, Alabama.
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Arnold Hague - The Yellowstone Park As
Arnold Hague (December 3, 1840, Boston, Massachusetts – May 14, 1917, Washington, D.C.) was a United States geologist who did many geological surveys in the U.S., of which the best known was that for Yellowstone National Park. He also had assignments in China and Guatemala. He became a member of the U. S. Geological Survey in 1879 when it was first organized.
Hague was the son of William Hague, a clergyman. He graduated from Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University in 1863. He then spent three years in Germany, studying at the universities of Göttingen and Heidelberg, and at the Freiberg Mining Academy.
In 1867 he returned to the United States, and was appointed assistant geologist on the U. S. geological exploration of the 40th parallel under Clarence King. He then went to California, and spent the winter of 1867/68 in Virginia City, Nevada, studying the surface geology of the Comstock Lode and the chemistry of the amalgamation process as practised there, and known as the “Washoe process”.
The results of this study were published in volume iii. of the report of the exploration, under the title of “Chemistry of the Washoe Process.” He also contributed to the same volume a chapter on the geology of the White Pine mining district, in which there was first brought to notice the great development of Devonian rocks in the Great Basin of Utah and Nevada. In volume ii. “Descriptive Geology” of the report of the exploration, which was the joint work of Hague and Samuel F. Emmons, there is given the results of a detailed geological survey across the Cordilleras of North America, from the Great Plains to the Sierra Nevada range in California. This work included a geological atlas of maps and sections, which was completed after a great deal of hardship, the map of the Great Basin being accomplished before the completion of either the Union or Central Pacific Railroad.
On the termination of this work in 1877, he received the appointment of government geologist of Guatemala, and traveled extensively over the republic, visiting the principal mining regions and the centres of volcanic activity. In 1878 he was engaged by the Chinese government to examine gold, silver, and lead mines in northern China.
On the organization of the U. S. Geological Survey in 1879, he returned to the United States, and became one of its geologists. He was sent to Nevada, and made a report on the “Geology of the Eureka District.” In 1883 he was made geologist of the Yellowstone Park division, and assigned to the study of the geysers of that district in connection with the extinct volcanic regions of the Rocky Mountains.
He was a member of scientific societies both in the United States and Europe and in 1885 was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He received an Sc.D. degree from Columbia University in 1901, and an LL.D. degree from Aberdeen University.
He was a member of the commission appointed by the National Academy of Sciences at the request of the United States Government in 1896 to prepare plans for the National Forest preserves. He was vice president of the International Congresses of Geologists held in Paris in 1900, in Stockholm in 1910 and in Toronto in 1913. He became president of the Geological Society of America in 1910.
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National Aquarium, Washington, DC, Welcomes a Rare Albino Alligator
Don't miss this opportunity to get up close to an extremely rare albino alligator in the National Aquarium, Washington, DC's new Secrets of the Swamp exhibit, here only through February. Learn more at nationalaquarium.org
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The George Washington University (GW, GWU, or George Washington) is a private research university in Washington, D.C. It was charted in 1821 by an act of the United States Congress.
The university is organized into 14 colleges and schools, including the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, the Elliott School of International Affairs, the School of Media and Public Affairs, the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, the GW Law School, and the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. George Washington's main Foggy Bottom Campus is located in the heart of Washington, D.C., with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank located on campus and the White House and the U.S. Department of State within blocks of campus. GWU hosts numerous research centers and institutes, including the National Security Archive and the Institute for International Economic Policy. GWU has two satellite campuses: the Mount Vernon Campus, located in D.C.'s Foxhall neighborhood and the Virginia Science and Technology Campus in the Washington Metropolitan Area. It is the largest institution of higher education in the District of Columbia. George Washington offers degree programs in seventy-one disciplines, enrolling an average of 11,000 undergraduate and 15,500 post-graduate students from more than 130 countries.George Washington, the 1st President of the United States, advocated the establishment of a national university in the U.S. capital in his first State of the Union address in 1790 and continued to promote this idea throughout his career and until his death. In his will, Washington left shares in the Potomac Company to endow the university. However, due to the company's financial difficulties, funds were raised independently. On 9 February 1821, the university was founded by an Act of Congress, making it one of only 5 universities in the United States with a Congressional charter.George Washington was ranked 63rd nationally by U.S. News & World Report. The Princeton Review ranked GWU 1st for Top Colleges or Universities for Internship Opportunities. As of 2015, George Washington had over 1,100 active alumni in the U.S. Foreign Service, the nation's diplomatic corps. GWU is consistently ranked by The Princeton Review in the top Most Politically Active Schools.
George Washington is home to student life programs with the College Democrats and College Republicans chapters, as well as a strong Greek culture, and over 450 other student organizations. The school's athletic teams, the George Washington Colonials, play in the Atlantic 10 Conference.
George Washington alumni, faculty and affiliates include numerous prominent politicians, U.S. Military officials including four living former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CEOs of major corporations, scientists, Nobel laureates, MacArthur fellows, Olympic athletes, Academy Award and Golden Globe winners, royalty, and Time 100 notables.
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Canberra, according to the OECD, is officially the best city in the world.
The Australian Capital Territory has topped Paris, London and New York, as well as Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Brisbane in the OECD Regional Wellbeing study results released on Monday.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development looked at nine measures of “wellbeing” including education, jobs, environment and income. Australia topped the countries list.
Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of 381,488, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of theAustralian Capital Territory (ACT), 280 km (170 mi) south-west of Sydney, and 660 km (410 mi) north-east of Melbourne. A resident of Canberra is known as a Canberran.
The site of Canberra was selected for the location of the nation's capital in 1908 as a compromise between rivals Sydney and Melbourne, Australia's two largest cities. It is unusual among Australian cities, being an entirely planned city outside of any state, similar to the American Federal District of Columbia. Following an international contest for the city's design, a blueprint by the Chicago architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin was selected and construction commenced in 1913.[5] The Griffins' plan featured geometric motifs such as circles, hexagons and triangles, and was centred on axes aligned with significant topographical landmarks in the Australian Capital Territory.
The city's design was influenced by the garden city movement and incorporates significant areas of natural vegetation that have earned Canberra the title of the bush capital. The growth and development of Canberra were hindered by the World Wars and the Great Depression, which exacerbated a series of planning disputes and the ineffectiveness of a procession of bodies that were created in turn to oversee the development of the city. The national capital emerged as a thriving city after World War II, as Prime Minister Robert Menzies championed its development and the National Capital Development Commission was formed with executive powers. Although the Australian Capital Territory is now self-governing, the federal government retains some influence through the National Capital Authority.
As the seat of the government of Australia, Canberra is the site of Parliament House, the High Court and numerous government departments and agencies. It is also the location of many social and cultural institutions of national significance, such as the Australian War Memorial, Australian National University, Australian Institute of Sport, National Gallery, National Museum and the National Library. The Australian Army's officer corps are trained at the Royal Military College, Duntroon and the Australian Defence Force Academy is also located in the capital.
The ACT, like Washington, D.C. in the United States, is independent of any state, to prevent any one state from gaining an advantage by hosting the seat of Federal power. Unlike Washington, however, the ACT has voting representation in the Federal Parliament, and has its own independent Legislative Assembly and government, similar to the states.
As the city has a high proportion of public servants, the federal government contributes the largest percentage of Gross State Product and is the largest single employer in Canberra. As the seat of government, the unemployment rate is lower and the average income higher than the national average, while property prices are relatively high, in part due to comparatively restricted development regulations. Tertiary education levels are higher, while the population is younger.
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The BIG! Exhibit celebrating the 75th Anniversary of The National Archives, Washington, DC
US Distance Education grows in popularity
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Intro: The United States has one of the best developed higher education systems in the world. The country has a wide variety of schools, from two-year community colleges to world-famous universities. But in recent years, a new form of post-secondaryeducation has been growing in popularity in America -- online distance education. Online learning makes it easier for people already in the workforce to get a quality education. More in this report from Washington.
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