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Rodeway Inn Panama City 2 Stars Panama City Hotels, Florida Within US Travel Directory Located 2 minutes’ walk from Saint Andrews Bay and 1.6 km from Gulf Coast State College, Rodeway Inn Panama City features a free daily hot breakfast, free WiFi access, and an outdoor pool.A 32-inch flat-screen cable TV, microwave, and small refrigerator are provided in every room at this Rodeway Inn Panama City. Extras include coffee-facilities, a hairdryer, and ironing facilities.A business centre with fax and photocopying facilities and free on-site parking are available to all guests at Rodeway Inn Panama City. Other facilities offered include a launderette.The Science and Discovery Center of Northwest Florida is 6 minutes’ drive away. The property is also 2 km from Truesdell Park and 21 km from Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport.
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Plaza Allapattah by Xavier Cortada
Ceramic Tile Murals by Xavier Cortada
Plaza Allapattah (Miami, FL)
ABOUT THE ART
Xavier Cortada, Plaza Allapattah, hand-painted ceramic and glass mosaic, 96 x 384' x 18, 2008 (Curtis Park, Miami, FL)
Created in a park near an old Seminole trading post on the Miami River in the neighborhood of Allapattah, one of the pieces recalls the Alligators (Allapattah) after which the place was named. Place names, and the Place captured by the act of naming, is a key to history and continuity.
Placemaking was an important goal in this work. The plazas are part of a linear park where the art established places to sit, socialize and enjoy the natural character of the park.
Materiality and texture are vital parts of the expression of this piece. Glass mosaic and ceramic tile that are hand painted and glazed are used to create a texture as exuberant and complex as the natural world the piece celebrates. The play of light, the movement of water and the gestural quality of the piece evoke natural processes, rhythm, movement, spontaneity and expressiveness.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Xavier Cortada created art at the Earth Poles to generate environmental at point in between: In 2007, the artist used the moving ice sheet beneath the South Pole as an instrument to mark time; the art piece will be completed in 150,000 years. In 2008, Cortada planted a green flag at North Pole to encourage reforestation in the world below.
The Miami artist has worked with groups globally to produce numerous collaborative art projects, including peace murals in Cyprus and Northern Ireland, child welfare murals in Bolivia and Panama, AIDS murals in Switzerland and South Africa, and eco-art projects in Taiwan, Hawaii, Holland and Latvia.
Cortada often collaborates with scientists in his art-making: Cortada used samples (and inspiration) provided by researchers in Antarctica to create his National Science Foundation-sponsored works there. He has also worked with a population geneticist on a project exploring our ancestral journeys out of Africa 60,000 years ago, and with a molecular biologist to synthesize an actual DNA strand made from a sequence randomly generated by participants visiting his museum exhibit.
Cortada has also been commissioned to create art for the White House, the World Bank, the Florida Supreme Court, the Florida Governor's Mansion, Florida Botanical Gardens, Miami City Hall, Miami-Dade County Hall, the Miami Art Museum, the Miami Science Museum, Museum of Florida History, and the Frost Art Museum.
Corporations such as General Mills, Nike, Heineken and Hershey's have commissioned his art. Publishers like McDougal and Random House have featured it in school textbooks and publications. His work has also been featured in National Geographic TV and the Discovery Channel.
Cortada, who was born in Albany, New York and grew up in Miami, holds degrees from the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences, Graduate School of Business and School of Law.
Cortada serves as Artist-in-Residence and heads the Office of Engaged Creativity at Florida International University's (FIU) College of Architecture + The Arts (CARTA).
For more information visit cortada.com
c2012 Xavier Cortada
Waterways Episode 263 - Ecomariner, Blue Star and DolphinSMART
Eco-Mariner is a free online education course specifically designed to educate Florida Bay boaters on how navigate the bay's shallow waters safely and properly, while protecting the bay bottom and the plants and animals that thrive there. AND Look before you book, for the Blue Star, awarded by Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, to dive and snorkel operators who go above and beyond in reef education. AND To help educated visitors and residents of the Florida Keys that close is not better and that dolphins deserve respect and a little extra distance, resource managers created the Dolphin SMART program. Directed by Erik Hutchins. Presented by Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Everglades National Park and the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Tom's Trips 1: Part 1/2: Florida Museum of Natural History (March 18 2014)
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So yeah, this is the first video in a (hopefully) series I'm naming Tom's Trips. The Florida State fair was actually the first and only place (besides where my step-dad works and stuff like stores and such) that we've been to in the nearly 2 years we've been in Florida. HOWEVER, the Florida Museum of Natural History tops it and deserves the first trip in my new series.
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SPANISH VOYAGE TO VANCOUVER & THE NORTHWEST COAST OF AMERICA
SPANISH VOYAGE TO VANCOUVER & THE NORTHWEST COAST OF AMERICA
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Published in 1971 by Nico Israel of Amsterdam complete with a folding map and six stunning engravings plus gatefold illustration, this book recounts the narrative of a voyage made in the year 1792 by the schooners Sutil and Mexicana to explore the strait of Fuca. Translated from the Spanish and with an introduction by Cecil Jane, it is a facsimile of the 1930 original Argonaut Press edition, here in fine leather binding with gold tooling. Beliefs in the existence of a strait uniting the Atlantic with that sea in which lay the Spice Islands was very prevalent following the discovery of the New World. Columbus himself on his last voyage directed his attention to the search for such a passage in the neighbourhood of Panama. Cortés had proceeded along the coast from Florida to Newfoundland, but here the work of exploration was practically abandoned by the Spaniards and passed into the hands of English, French, Dutch and Danes by whom the most important discoveries were made. The purpose of the Spanish expeditions was in general rather scientific than political or economic, primarily intended to advance geographical knowledge by the production of more accurate maps. Attention was devoted to the task of converting and civilising the natives, and Vancouver bears witness to this success which crowned the efforts of the fathers in this region. The excellent relations which generally subsisted between the Spaniards and the Indians disproves the charge that the aim was to exploit the latter. In the last period, which begins with the reign of Charles III, while attention was devoted to meeting the danger of Russian aggression and to developing the trade with the Philippines, in the closing years of the 18th century, Spanish navigators played an honourable and important role, far away from the acquisition of wealth and the bartering of furs. The schooners Sutil and Mexicana proceeded from Puerto de San Blas to Acapulco on a mission to aid two corvettes and we learn of their condition and equipment, communications, viceroys and commanders, dimensions and armaments. With all the detail of the sailors, wind speeds, ports and landmarks, nautical information and a wonderful description of Nootka Sound and Island where the islanders wore a cap of badger skin or hats made of white grass, their leather jackets made from hides of deer and where fishing and otter hunting demanded great agility and skill. All the different tribes are described and preserved. 142pp.
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Sea of Glory - the U.S. Exploring Expedition 1838-1842
Author Nathaniel Philbrick talks about the U.S. Exploring Expedition. Original lecture given January 21, 2004 to celebrate the launch of the digital U.S. Exploring Expedition website.
The Extinct Ice Age Mammals of North America
University of Washington Anthropology Professor Donald Grayson and recipient of the 2015 University Faculty Lecture Award delivers the University Faculty Lecture on April 28, 2016. Toward the end of the Ice Age, North America saw the extinction of an astonishing variety of often huge animals. Mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed cats, lions, armadillos the size of small cars, sloths the size of elephants, beavers the size of bears, and many others were all gone by about 10,000 years ago. We do not know what caused these extinctions, but our knowledge of the Ice Age archaeology and paleontology of the deserts of western North America provides a novel opportunity to examine the common but contentious argument that people were behind all of them.
Donald K. Grayson, professor, Department of Anthropology, UW
04/2/2016
Flamingo Gardens Fort Lauderdale Florida
A great afternoon walking through the Flamingo Gardens wildlife center and botanical gardens. Lots of rescued animals are protected here, as well as a very impressive collection of plants and trees throughout the facility.
Captured January, 2015.
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Hurricane Michael 2018 full coverage and updates
Hurricane Michael has killed at least one person as it continues to move inland over the Southeast. The storm made landfall on the Florida Panhandle Wednesday afternoon as one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the U.S. The intense Category 4 hurricane was packing maximum sustained winds of 155 mph when it crashed ashore near Mexico Beach, a lightly populated tourist town about midway along the Panhandle.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) described Michael as potentially catastrophic. Debris is strewn across miles of Florida's coastline: Roofs and awnings peeled back from buildings, pieces of homes scattered amid snapped trees and downed power lines, chunks of beaches washed away.
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Forecasters mark landfall as the place and time when the center of the eye strikes land. Minutes earlier, Michael's eyewall came ashore between Panama City and St. Vincent Island, and the hurricane center warned everyone inside the relative calm of the eye not to venture outside.
Hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 45 miles from the center. Those winds were tearing some buildings apart in Panama City Beach.
One beachfront structure under construction could be seen collapsing, and metal roofing material flew sideways across parking lots amid sheets of rain.
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3rd Grade Rising Leaders at Gulf World
The 3rd graders at Rising Leaders Academy in Panama City, Florida took a trip to Gulf World in Panama City Beach. They are currently studying the habitats of Northwest Florida. This trip gave them the opportunity to get close and personal with the animals as part of their learning expedition.
Ship In Storm! Bad Weather and Rough Seas in Atlantic Ocean | Life at Sea
Encountered Rough Seas, Extreme Weathers in Atlantic Ocean. In which we lost a lifebuoy and a firebox.
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2017 January Evening Public Lecture — Unusual Sources of Tsunamis From Krakatoa to Monterey Bay
A presentation on Unusual Sources of Tsunamis From Krakatoa to Monterey Bay by Eric Geist, USGS Research Geophysicist
- Not all tsunamis are generated by earthquakes.
- Tsunamis can be caused by volcanoes, landslides, and even atmospheric disturbances
- Data from tide gauges can help unravel the complex physics of these sources
Videographers: Mitch Adelson, William Seelig, USGS
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Nibiru Story
NOTE: At 16:23 I should have said that Pluto is about 60% the size of our MOON (not sun). - What is Nibiru (also called Planet X), what do ancient civilizations and modern science say about it, when will it return (hint: possible VERY soon), and what effects will it have on our planet and the beings that inhabit it.
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Fluidity: Knowing Water in the Americas Panel
Fluidity: Knowing Water in the Americas is an interdisciplinary panel on water organized as part of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society's Water's Edge programming.
Panelists include Bathsheba Demuth (Assistant Professor of History, Brown University); Noor Johnson (Fletcher School at Tufts University and the National Snow and Ice Data Center); John F. López (Assistant Professor of Art History, University of California, Davis and current JCB fellow); and Katherine Ibbett (Professor of French, Trinity College, University of Oxford). The panel is introduced and moderated by JCB Director and Librarian Neil Safier, and complemented by Sourcing the Stream, an installation by Wendy Woodson (Amherst College).
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Islam in America, 18th-21st Century
A symposium on the impact of Islamic religion and culture in America.
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Addicted Florida | WSRE & WEAR Cobranded Special Town Hall
WSRE and WEAR’s Channel 3 News team up for a live 90 minute town hall event to raise awareness of the opioid epidemic in Florida. Channel 3 News anchor Sue Straughn leads this community discussion with a panel of experts: Dennis Dawson, Drug Enforcement Administration; Dr. Paul Glisson, Baptist Health Care; Jeffy Gaddy, Levin Papantonio; and Dustin Perry, Lakeview Center, Inc. WSRE’s Jeff Weeks and Channel 3 News’ April Baker facilitate questions from the studio audience and viewers at home. The program is broadcast live on WSRE and WFGX, with simulcasts on NewsRadio 92.3 FM and 1620 AM
Dr. Peter David Beter Audio Letter 40 : Jonestown; Battle of Guyana; Nuclear War - November 30, 1978
Dr. Peter David Beter - Audio Letter 40 - November 30, 1978
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(1) The military purpose of the Jonestown tragedy
(2) The Battle of Guyana--Thanksgiving Day, 1978
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Hello, my friends, this is Dr. Beter. Today is November 30,
1978, and this is my Audioletter No. 40.
On November 24, 1978, the day after Thanksgiving, the
Washington Post here in Washington, D.C. published a full-page
memorial to the late Congressman Leo J. Ryan of California. A
sketch of Ryan in tones of gray took up the entire page, and
against that background a brief eulogy was printed in bold type.
It began, In Memoriam, to our good friend Leo J. Ryan,
Congressman from California. We will miss him. He saw hope that
right would prevail. The timing of this memorial page was
ironic. Congressman Ryan had been killed in Guyana nearly one
week earlier, and his funeral had taken place two days earlier.
But Congressman Ryan had been deliberately sacrificed in order to
launch a covert military operation in Guyana; and as it turned
out, the Washington Post memorial to Ryan was printed immediately
after the successful completion of this military operation. In a
display of courage that is practically unknown today in the
United States Congress, Ryan had gone to Guyana knowing that it
might be dangerous. But what he did not know was that he had
been lured into making a trip whose tragic outcome was planned
well ahead of time. Congressman Ryan and those who died with him
at Port Kaituma Airport were casualties in the secret war that is
leading to NUCLEAR WAR ONE. And so were the hundreds of other
American civilians who died in the so-called 'mass suicide' at
Jonestown, Guyana.
For more than two years now the United States and Russia have
been embroiled in secret hostilities in preparation for Nuclear
War One. It began in earnest during the summer of 1976 when the
still secret Underwater Missile Crisis erupted. Then it expanded
into wholesale nuclear sabotage of the United States with weapons
now planted at literally thousands of locations nation-wide.
These range from mammoth hydrogen bombs ready to destroy our
largest dams and reservoirs down to tiny nuclear devices called
'micronukes' by the Russians. For some time now the Russians
have been detonating micronukes in a steady drum beat of
explosions all over America. In September 1977 the secret war
took a decisive new turn. In the still secret Battle of the
Harvest Moon in space, America's Secret Rulers lost their
supposed ace in the hole for the coming war. In a shocking
upset, Russia knocked out America's secret Moon beam-weapons Base
in Copernicus Crater, and since that time Russia has seized the
dominant position militarily in space.
In past Audioletters I have kept my listeners abreast of these
developments, and for the past year I have also been calling
attention to the drastic changes taking place in the leadership
of both Russia and the United States. In Russia, the original
ruling faction after 1917, the atheistic Bolsheviks, have been
overthrown after a progressive struggle for six decades. The
Kremlin is now under the absolute control of a tough band of
native Russians, a Christian sect who consider the Bolsheviks to
be evil incarnate. As a result, the Bolsheviks are being
expelled from Russia and they are flocking mostly to the United
States. They are joining the many Bolsheviks already in powerful
positions here in a sophisticated new Bolshevik revolution! In
the process, they are gradually pre-empting much of the power
that was once exercised by their Secret Allies, the third
generation Rockefeller brothers. As Bolshevik power becomes
greater and greater in the United States, the Satanic fruits of
that power are becoming increasingly visible.
Seven months ago in April 1978, the lives of over one hundred
unsuspecting civilians were deliberately put in great danger for
the sake of an intelligence mission. This was the case of Korean
Airlines Flight 902 which invaded super-sensitive Russian air
space and was shot down. As I explained in detail that month in
Audioletter No. 33, there was nothing accidental about the Korean
airliner episode, and the threat of death to all the innocent
passengers was the key ingredient in the episode. It would have
been far easier for the Russian fighters to blow the Boeing 707
out of the air in a ball of flame than to force it down with only
a few casualties, as was done.[...]
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Let other people have cats and dogs! Jungle Bob is here to show you that owning a pet reptile or amphibian is not as crazy as you might think. In this video, he tells you six cool facts about green anoles and brown anoles.
For many people, a trip to Florida is often a chance to encounter one of Florida's most populace lizards, and that is the green and brown anoles. Little tiny lizards with quite a temperament to them, they are a little bit on the tenacious side.
Predators for sure. They look like mini velociraptors to me sometimes, because of their tenacity when they hunt their favorite prey which, of course, is insects.
Two distinct different species, and sometimes I refer to as anolies, anoles. It's almost like tomatoes, tomahtoes; you can say it a lot of different ways. But there's two distinct ones, the first one here is biting my right finger, is the green anole, or the Carolina anole, which is native from the Carolinas all the way down to Florida. This is a native American species that was quite popular in the pet trade for many many years.
In my left hand is the brown anole, which lives in Florida but now more of them, most of them, come up from the Caribbean, and the Bahamas, they're hitchhikers, and they've gotten into the United States. They're somewhat an invasive species, and they're so tenacious they're kind of pushing our green anole friends up the border and out of competition for food. They're very, very aggressive as well.
Green anoles are beautiful, little creatures, in that they have, particularly the males of the species, they throw out this gorgeous dewlap. It's a flap of skin underneath the neck that is brightly colored, and that serves a dual purpose. It's first function, certainly, is to attract a girlfriend. A male anole with a beautiful dewlap is most likely to mate with his female counterparts.
The other part of it is just to scare off another male. A male will puff up and show big he is, even though we're looking at an animal that's about 3 to 4 inches in total length, and maybe a couple of ounces in weight. He's trying to show how big and bad he is by throwing out his dewlap, bobbing his head, and saying territorially, this is my area; I live here, you back off.
So, the green and brown anoles are something that I'm sure everybody who's visited Disney World, or has seen grandma in Florida, you're going to encounter these. They cohabitate beautifully with mankind. They are everywhere: crawling across houses, inside of houses, in porches; a daytime diurnal animal that you'll see all day long.
At night they sleep on walls and tree-trunks and they're extremely easy to catch when they're sleeping. During the day, not so much. They are very, very quick, as we can see, our guys here in the branch, how fast they can scurry. This is an animal that suffers from the malady known as autotonomy, which is, if I grab it by the tail, he'll detach that tail, and I'll be left with a wiggling tail in my hand, and the lizard will actually escape.
It's natures way for lizards to defend themselves from not being eaten by some of their favorite predators. Snakes birds of prey, etc, will grab him by the tail because they're so fast and all they'll get is that tail meal, and the lizard lives to see another day. Their tail regenerates, but it's never quite as nice as the original.
This is the green and the brown anole, a treasure of the American southeast, and something you'll see on any trip to the Florida area. They also make wonderful jewelry, should you be so inclined.