U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
The IOP welcomed U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for a conversation on his time as Secretary of State, his long career in public service, the role of the United States in an increasingly complicated world, and what comes next - for the rest of the Administration and beyond. Walter Isaacson, President of the Aspen Institute and former editor of TIME, moderated this discussion.
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2017 Asian American Literary Festival
The Library of Congress hosted the concluding day of the groundbreaking Asian American Literature Festival. The day featured a lecture and reading by writer and American Book Award winner Karen Tei Yamashita titled, Literature as Community: the Turtle, Imagination, and the Journey Home. The afternoon session included a lecture by poet Kimiko Hahn on Angel Island: The Roots and Branches of Asian-American Poetry, and closed with a poetry reading.
Speaker Biography: Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of several books, including I Hotel, Anime Wong and Letters to Memory. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the California Book Award, the American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. A U.S. Artists Ford Foundation Fellow and co-holder of the University of California Presidential Chair in feminist critical race and ethnic studies, Yamashita is a professor of literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Speaker Biography: Kimiko Hahn is the author of nine books of poems, including Earshot, which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award, The Unbearable Heart, which received an American Book Award and most recently, Brain Fever. Her other honors include a PEN/Voelcker Award for poetry, a Shelley Memorial Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a distinguished professor in the Master's of Fine Arts program in creative writing and literary translation at Queens College, City University of New York.
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Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Real men don't take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the We're Here, a fishing schooner out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, when his crew fishes Harvey Cheyne out of the Atlantic. There's no place on the Grand Banks for bystanders, so Harvey is press-ganged into service as a replacement for a man lost overboard and drowned. Harvey is heir to a vast fortune, but his rescuers believe none of what he tells them of his background. Disko won't take the boat to port until it is full of fish, so Harvey must settle in for a season at sea. Hard, dangerous work and performing it alongside a grab-bag of characters in close quarters is a life-changing experience.
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Environmental issues in New Zealand | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:29 1 Physical environment
00:01:39 1.1 Topography
00:02:35 1.2 Natural disturbances
00:03:10 1.3 Soil
00:03:51 1.4 Climate
00:04:29 2 Ecosystems and ecology
00:07:12 2.1 Forests
00:09:04 2.2 Grasslands
00:10:08 2.3 Alpine
00:10:38 2.4 Rivers and wetlands
00:11:04 2.5 Coastal
00:11:25 2.6 Marine
00:12:02 2.7 Rare natural ecosystems
00:12:36 2.8 Cultural landscapes
00:13:17 3 Unsustainable practices
00:16:19 4 Environmental politics
00:16:29 4.1 Politics and public opinion
00:17:18 4.2 Environmental funding
00:18:04 4.3 Protected areas
00:18:34 4.4 Environmental law
00:19:31 4.5 Treaties and international agreements
00:22:51 5 Evaluations of New Zealand's environmental performance
00:23:04 5.1 State of the Environment reporting
00:23:24 5.2 Environmental Performance Index
00:24:09 5.3 OECD environmental performance review
00:25:18 6 See also
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The environment of New Zealand is characterised by an endemic flora and fauna which has evolved in near isolation from the rest of the world. The main islands of New Zealand span two biomes, temperate and subtropical, complicated by large mountainous areas above the tree line. There are also numerous smaller islands which extent into the sub antarctic. The prevailing weather systems bring significantly more rain to the west of the country. New Zealand's territorial waters cover a much larger area than its landmass and extend over the continental shelf and abyssal plateau in the South Pacific Ocean, Tasman Sea and Southern ocean.
Historically having an isolated and endemic ecosystem far into modernity, the arrival of Polynesians about 1300 AD and then later European settlers began to have significant impacts on this system, with the intentional and unintentional introduction of new species and plants which often overwhelmed their natural competitors, leading to a significant loss of native ecology and biodiversity, especially in areas such as bird life.
Today, most parts of New Zealand are heavily modified by the effects of logging, agriculture and general human settlement, though large areas have also been placed under protection, combined in many cases with efforts to protect or regenerate native ecosystems (aided by the fact that especially the South Island of New Zealand has a very low population density).
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Environment of New Zealand | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:01:35 1 Physical environment
00:01:45 1.1 Topography
00:02:44 1.2 Natural disturbances
00:03:21 1.3 Soil
00:04:04 1.4 Climate
00:04:45 2 Ecosystems and ecology
00:07:39 2.1 Forests
00:09:39 2.2 Grasslands
00:10:48 2.3 Alpine
00:11:21 2.4 Rivers and wetlands
00:11:48 2.5 Coastal
00:12:10 2.6 Marine
00:12:49 2.7 Rare natural ecosystems
00:13:26 2.8 Cultural landscapes
00:14:09 3 Unsustainable practices
00:17:26 4 Environmental politics
00:17:36 4.1 Politics and public opinion
00:18:29 4.2 Environmental funding
00:19:18 4.3 Protected areas
00:19:49 4.4 Environmental law
00:20:51 4.5 Treaties and international agreements
00:24:24 5 Evaluations of New Zealand's environmental performance
00:24:36 5.1 State of the Environment reporting
00:24:57 5.2 Environmental Performance Index
00:25:46 5.3 OECD environmental performance review
00:26:57 6 See also
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The environment of New Zealand is characterised by an endemic flora and fauna which has evolved in near isolation from the rest of the world. The main islands of New Zealand span two biomes, temperate and subtropical, complicated by large mountainous areas above the tree line. There are also numerous smaller islands which extent into the sub antarctic. The prevailing weather systems bring significantly more rain to the west of the country. New Zealand's territorial waters cover a much larger area than its landmass and extend over the continental shelf and abyssal plateau in the South Pacific Ocean, Tasman Sea and Southern ocean.
Historically having an isolated and endemic ecosystem far into modernity, the arrival of Polynesians about 1300 AD and then later European settlers began to have significant impacts on this system, with the intentional and unintentional introduction of new species and plants which often overwhelmed their natural competitors, leading to a significant loss of native ecology and biodiversity, especially in areas such as bird life.
Today, most parts of New Zealand are heavily modified by the effects of logging, agriculture and general human settlement, though large areas have also been placed under protection, combined in many cases with efforts to protect or regenerate native ecosystems (aided by the fact that especially the South Island of New Zealand has a very low population density).
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David Copperfield Audiobook by Charles Dickens | Audiobook with Subtitles | Part 2
David Copperfield (version 2) Charles DICKENS
The story is told almost entirely from the point of view of the first person narrator, David Copperfield himself, and was the first Dickens novel to be written as such a narration. The story deals with the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity. David's father had died six months before he was born, and seven years later, his mother remarries but David and his step-father don’t get on and he is sent to boarding school. As David settles into life we are taken along with him and meet a dazzling array of characters, some of whom we will never forget and some of whom we won't want to remember! (Introduction by Wikipedia & T.Hynes)
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The Rainbow Audiobook by D. H. Lawrence | Audiobook with subtitles | Part 2
Briefly appearing in 1915, then banned and taken out of circulation for its adult treatment of sexuality, Lawrence's visionary novel The Rainbow attempts to situate the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family within the continuous social change marking the Victorian transformation of Britain. Farmer Tom and his Polish wife Lydia, whose peaceful rural existence re-enacts the potent myths of Genesis; artisan Will and the matriarch Anna, who go to live among the industrial and mining communities so rapidly sprung up around Nottingham; finally the restless Ursula who, moving to the city, seeks sexual and emotional fulfilment with the Polish-descended Skrebensky - the three couples are not merely illustrative of the changing times, but allow the author to study in depth the conflict between the outer 'social' selves of those individuals and what he curiously calls the 'inhuman' essential being, the 'is-ness' at the core of their psychical life.
Lawrence evokes this dark, unconscious 'vital core' through a language of breathtaking poetic beauty; a rhythmic incantatory prose which listeners to this recording will find perfectly rendered by Tony Foster, in all its nuances. Like Paul Morel, the hero of the earlier Sons and Lovers, Ursula survives her losses to face a future of uncertain but radiant hope: She saw in the rainbow the earth's new architecture, the old, brittle corruption of houses and factories swept away, the world built up in a living fabric of Truth, fitting to the over-arching heaven. (Summary by Martin Geeson)
Genre(s): Published 1900 onward
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History of the United States Coast Guard | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:14 1 Early history
00:02:13 1.1 United States Revenue Cutter Service
00:05:17 1.2 United States Lifesaving Service
00:08:25 1.3 Coast Guard Academy
00:10:02 1.4 Creation of the modern Coast Guard
00:10:43 2 World War I
00:10:53 2.1 Preparation
00:12:14 2.2 Declaration of war
00:14:21 3 The 1920s
00:14:31 3.1 Prohibition
00:15:21 3.2 1927 Mississippi River flood
00:16:06 4 The 1930s
00:16:16 4.1 Increasing regulation of merchant shipping
00:17:33 4.2 Carl von Paulsen rescue
00:18:10 5 The 1940s
00:18:20 5.1 World War II
00:26:48 5.1.1 Douglas Munro
00:27:32 5.2 Bermuda Sky Queen rescue
00:29:39 5.3 Enlisted training center
00:30:10 6 The 1950s
00:30:20 6.1 Korean War
00:31:10 6.2 iPendleton/i rescue
00:33:34 7 The 1960s
00:33:44 7.1 Transfer to the Department of Transportation
00:34:13 7.2 The Racing Stripe
00:34:56 7.3 Vietnam War
00:40:19 8 The 1970s
00:40:29 8.1 The New Guard
00:42:37 8.2 End of ocean stations, beginning of the 200 nautical miles (370 km) limit
00:43:24 8.3 The Kudirka incident
00:45:44 8.4 The Rescue of AF586
00:48:05 9 The 1980s
00:48:15 9.1 The iBlackthorn/i Tragedy
00:48:59 9.2 iPrinsendam/i rescue
00:50:08 9.3 iMarine Electric/i sinking
00:51:09 9.4 The Mariel boatlift
00:52:09 9.5 The end of the lightships
00:53:16 9.6 Drug War at Sea Escalates
00:54:43 9.7 Libyan attack on LORAN Station Lampedusa
00:55:26 9.8 Exxon Valdez oil spill
00:57:27 10 The 1990s
00:57:37 10.1 '90 Operation Desert Shield
00:59:16 10.2 '91 Operation Desert Storm
01:01:16 10.3 Operation Buckshot, The Great Flood of '93
01:04:05 10.4 1994 Cuban boat rescues
01:04:53 10.5 1999 Kosovo
01:05:49 11 The 2000s
01:06:09 11.1 Transfer to the Department of Homeland Security
01:06:55 11.2 Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
01:10:00 11.3 Hurricane Katrina
01:11:20 11.4 HC-130 #1705 crash
01:12:22 12 The 2010s
01:12:31 12.1 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
01:12:41 12.2 CG-6535 crash
01:13:11 12.3 The anti-drug mission and the budget
01:13:47 12.4 Icebreakers
01:14:36 12.5 U.S. Navy sailors detained by Iran
01:15:29 13 Future
01:17:48 14 Frank LoBiondo Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2018
01:18:40 15 Coast Guard Museums
01:18:48 16 See also
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The history of the United States Coast Guard goes back to the United States Revenue Cutter Service, which was founded on 4 August 1790 as part of the Department of the Treasury. The Revenue Cutter Service and the United States Life-Saving Service were merged to become the Coast Guard per 14 U.S.C. § 1 which states: The Coast Guard as established January 28, 1915, shall be a military service and a branch of the armed forces of the United States at all times. In 1939, the United States Lighthouse Service was merged into the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard itself was moved to the Department of Transportation in 1967, and on 25 February 2003 it became part of the Department of Homeland Security. However, under 14 U.S.C. § 3 as amended by section 211 of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2006, upon the declaration of war and when Congress so directs in the declaration, or when the President directs, the Coast Guard operates as a service in the Department of the Navy.
The War of the Worlds Audiobook by H.G. Wells | Audiobook with subtitles
The War of the Worlds (Version 3) H. G. WELLS
No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that the Earth was being scrutinised and studied from across the gulf of space. With infinite complacency, humanity went about its little affairs, serene in its assurance of its empire over matter. It is possible that the micro-organisms we watch under a microscope, do the same. Few people gave thought to the idea of life on other planets, and none imagined that it could be so vastly superior in intellect to ourselves. No one considered the possibility of extra-terrestrial danger. Yet the eyes that regarded our planet were envious and unsympathetic, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. (Cori Samuel, adapted from Chapter One.)
Genre(s): Science Fiction
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58:19 |Chapter 7.How I Reached Home
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1:14:27 |Chapter 9.The Fighting Begins
1:27:47 |Chapter 10.In the Storm
1:42:39 |Chapter 11.At the Window
1:56:15 |Chapter 12.What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton
2:22:02 |Chapter 13.How I Fell In with the Curate
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The Age of Innocence by Edith WHARTON.
Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this 1920 novel about Old New York society. Newland Archer is wealthy, well-bred, and engaged to the beautiful May Welland. But he finds himself drawn to May's cousin Ellen Olenska, who has been living in Europe and who has returned following a scandalous separation from her husband. (Introduction by Elizabeth Klett)
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Technological and industrial history of Canada | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:24 1 The Stone Age: Fire (14,000 BC – AD 1600)
00:06:57 2 The Age of Sail (1600-1830)
00:07:41 2.1 Transportation: shipbuilding and the wheel
00:13:43 2.2 Communication, symbolic language
00:16:56 2.3 Energy
00:17:46 2.4 Industry
00:24:45 2.5 Materials
00:26:58 2.6 Medicine
00:29:30 2.7 Domestic technology
00:32:46 2.8 Waste disposal
00:34:06 2.9 Military technology
00:35:38 3 The Steam Age (1830–1880)
00:36:24 3.1 Steam power
00:41:01 3.2 Universal time
00:41:56 3.3 Communication
00:43:53 3.4 Energy and oil
00:46:48 3.5 Materials and products
00:49:50 3.6 Industrial techniques and processes
01:00:17 3.7 Medicine
01:02:15 3.8 Public works, water, civil engineering and architecture
01:07:41 3.9 Defence
01:08:21 4 The early Electric Age (1880–1900)
01:08:33 4.1 Energy and electricity
01:11:06 4.2 Transportation
01:13:40 4.3 Communication
01:16:55 4.4 Heavy manufacturing
01:19:54 4.5 Industrial processes and techniques
01:25:20 4.6 Materials
01:28:10 4.7 Light manufacturing
01:31:16 4.8 Public works and civil engineering
01:32:47 4.9 Waste disposal (sewers)
01:34:25 4.10 Skyscrapers and architecture
01:35:53 4.11 Central heating
01:37:25 4.12 Defence
01:38:16 5 The 20th century
01:38:26 6 The 21st century
01:38:36 7 End note
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The technological and industrial history of Canada encompasses the country's development in the areas of transportation, communication, energy, materials, public works, public services (health care), domestic/consumer and defense technologies. Most technologies diffused in Canada came from other places; only a small number actually originated in Canada. For more about those with a Canadian origin, see Invention in Canada.
The terms chosen for the age described below are both literal and metaphorical. They describe the technology that dominated the period in question but are also representative of a large number of other technologies introduced during the same period. Also of note is the fact that the period of diffusion of a technology can begin modestly and can extend well beyond the age of its introduction. To maintain continuity, the treatment of its diffusion is dealt with in the context of its dominant age. For example, the Steam Age here is defined as being from 1840 to 1880. However, steam-powered boats were introduced in 1809, the CPR was completed in 1885 and railway construction in Canada continued well into the 20th century. To preserve continuity, the development of steam, in the early and later years, is therefore considered within the Steam Age.
Technology is a major cultural determinant, no less important in shaping human lives than philosophy, religion, social organization, or political systems. In the broadest sense, these forces are also aspects of technology. The French sociologist Jacques Ellul defined la technique as the totality of all rational methods in every field of human activity so that, for example, education, law, sports, propaganda, and the social sciences are all technologies in that sense. At the other end of the scale, common parlance limits the term's meaning to specific industrial arts.
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The University of North Carolina Board of Governors Strategic Priorities Discussion: Economic impact and excellent and diverse institutions.
Featured speakers include:
-- Keynote – The Honorable Phil Bredesen, Former Governor of Tennessee
-- Jim Woodell, Vice President for Economic Development and Community Engagement, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities
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Rachel Carson | Wikipedia audio article
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Rachel Carson
00:01:28 1 Life and work
00:01:37 1.1 Early life and education
00:05:08 1.2 Early career and publications
00:09:35 1.3 Relationship with Dorothy Freeman
00:11:39 1.4 iThe Edge of the Sea/i and transition to conservation work
00:14:06 1.5 iSilent Spring/i
00:15:02 1.5.1 Research and writing
00:22:15 1.5.2 Content
00:25:34 1.5.3 Promotion and reception
00:32:37 1.6 Death
00:33:21 2 Legacy
00:33:30 2.1 Collected papers and posthumous publications
00:34:35 2.2 Grassroots environmentalism and the EPA
00:38:03 2.3 Posthumous honors
00:42:57 2.3.1 Centennial events
00:44:23 3 List of works
00:46:50 4 See also
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- Socrates
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Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.
Carson began her career as an aquatic biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us won her a U.S. National Book Award, recognition as a gifted writer, and financial security. Her next book, The Edge of the Sea, and the reissued version of her first book, Under the Sea Wind, were also bestsellers. This sea trilogy explores the whole of ocean life from the shores to the depths.
Late in the 1950s, Carson turned her attention to conservation, especially some problems that she believed were caused by synthetic pesticides. The result was the book Silent Spring (1962), which brought environmental concerns to an unprecedented share of the American people. Although Silent Spring was met with fierce opposition by chemical companies, it spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy, which led to a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides. It also inspired a grassroots environmental movement that led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Carson was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter.
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