U.S. House: Debate & Vote on Articles of Impeachment
The House Rules Committee debates and votes on two articles of impeachment against President Trump: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
Panel Discussion: People and the Land: Oregon Statewide Planning Goal 10 (2017)
In 2017, Sy Adler, Associate Dean of the School of Urban and Public Affairs at Portland State University, and Jim Irvine, planner with the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development and Metro, interviewed a series of key planners and advocates involved with Oregon's Statewide Planning Goal 10, which focuses on planning for and accommodating needed housing in the state.
On June 2, 2017, the project convened seven panelists to share their experience and perspectives on plans, projects, and policies focused on housing in Oregon and Goal 10 of Oregon's statewide land use plan. The panel participants were Bob Clay, Allen Johnson, Maryhelen Kincaid, Damian Syrnyk, Andree Tremoulet, John VanLandingham, and Greg Winterowd.
This oral history interview is part of People and the Land, a collaboration between the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development and Portland State University. For the complete oral history collection, please visit
The goal of this project is to document and preserve a record of Oregon’s land use program through the recording, transcription, collection and archiving of personal oral histories. The project is intended to enable Oregon’s statewide planning agency to make a significant, abiding contribution to the body of literature that records and analyzes the politics, policy, and practices that make Oregon's land use program unique.
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2012 in science | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:00:55 1 Events, discoveries and inventions
00:01:05 1.1 January
00:18:16 1.2 February
00:28:03 1.3 March
00:37:02 1.4 April
00:49:40 1.5 May
00:59:22 1.6 June
01:13:48 1.7 July
01:24:00 1.8 August
01:38:40 1.9 September
01:54:11 1.10 October
02:10:00 1.11 November
02:31:53 1.12 December
02:44:40 2 IISE iTop 10 New Species/i
02:45:07 3 Prizes
02:45:16 3.1 Abel Prize
02:45:28 3.2 Fundamental Physics Prize
02:46:03 3.3 Kyoto Prize
02:46:22 3.4 Nobel Prize
02:46:50 4 Deaths
02:47:03 4.1 January
02:47:42 4.2 February
02:48:18 4.3 March
02:48:44 4.4 April
02:49:20 4.5 May
02:50:19 4.6 June
02:50:56 4.7 July
02:51:50 4.8 August
02:52:48 4.9 September
02:53:41 4.10 October
02:54:48 4.11 November
02:55:33 4.12 December
02:56:45 5 See also
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- Socrates
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The year 2012 involved many significant scientific events and discoveries, including the first orbital rendezvous by a commercial spacecraft, the discovery of a particle highly similar to the long-sought Higgs boson, and the near-eradication of guinea worm disease. A total of 72 successful orbital spaceflights occurred in 2012, and the year also saw numerous developments in fields such as robotics, 3D printing, stem cell research and genetics. Over 540,000 technological patent applications were made in the United States alone in 2012.2012 was declared the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All by the United Nations. 2012 also marked Alan Turing Year, a celebration of the life and work of the English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist Alan Turing.
Redwood National and State Parks | Wikipedia audio article
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Redwood National and State Parks
00:02:48 1 History
00:08:38 2 Park management
00:10:19 3 Natural resources
00:10:37 3.1 Flora
00:15:20 3.2 Fauna
00:17:23 3.3 Invasive species
00:18:22 3.4 Geology
00:20:19 3.5 Climate
00:21:48 3.6 Fire management
00:23:14 4 Recreation
00:26:28 5 See also
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- Socrates
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The Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP) are a complex of several state and national parks located in the United States, along the coast of northern California. Comprising Redwood National Park (established 1968) and California's Del Norte Coast, Jedediah Smith, and Prairie Creek Redwoods State Parks (dating from the 1920s), the combined RNSP contain 139,000 acres (560 km2), and feature old-growth temperate rainforests. Located entirely within Del Norte and Humboldt Counties, the four parks, together, protect 45% of all remaining coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) old-growth forests, totaling at least 38,982 acres (157.75 km2). These trees are the tallest and one of the most massive tree species on Earth. In addition to the redwood forests, the parks preserve other indigenous flora, fauna, grassland prairie, cultural resources, portions of rivers and other streams, and 37 miles (60 km) of pristine coastline.
In 1850, old-growth redwood forest covered more than 2,000,000 acres (8,100 km2) of the California coast. The northern portion of that area, originally inhabited by Native Americans, attracted many lumbermen and others turned gold miners when a minor gold rush brought them to the region. Failing in efforts to strike it rich in gold, these men turned toward harvesting the giant trees for booming development in San Francisco and other places on the West Coast. After many decades of unrestricted clear-cut logging, serious efforts toward conservation began. By the 1920s the work of the Save the Redwoods League, founded in 1918 to preserve remaining old-growth redwoods, resulted in the establishment of Prairie Creek, Del Norte Coast, and Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Parks among others. Redwood National Park was created in 1968, by which time nearly 90% of the original redwood trees had been logged. The National Park Service (NPS) and the California Department of Parks and Recreation (CDPR) administratively combined Redwood National Park with the three abutting Redwood State Parks in 1994 for the purpose of cooperative forest management and stabilization of forests and watersheds as a single unit.The ecosystem of the RNSP preserves a number of threatened animal species such as the tidewater goby, Chinook salmon, northern spotted owl, and Steller's sea lion. In recognition of the rare ecosystem and cultural history found in the parks, the United Nations designated them a World Heritage Site on September 5, 1980 and part of the California Coast Ranges International Biosphere Reserve on June 30, 1983.
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)
First Lensman by E. E. Doc Smith
The Secret Planet. No human had ever landed on the hidden planet of Arisia. A mysterious space barrier turned back both men and ships. Then the word came to Earth, Go to Arisia!, Virgil Samms of the Galactic Patrol went--and came back with the Lens, the strange device that gave its wearer powers no man had ever possessed before. Samms knew the price of that power would be high. But even he had no idea of the ultimate cost, and the weird destiny waiting for the First Lensman.
Chapter 01 - 00:00
Chapter 02 - 26:33
Chapter 03 - 53:59
Chapter 04 - 1:35:51
Chapter 05 - 2:10:29
Chapter 06 - 2:40:32
Chapter 07 - 3:15:50
Chapter 08 - 3:57:20
Chapter 09 - 4:32:16
Chapter 10 - 5:11:01
Chapter 11 - 5:39:49
Chapter 12 - 6:07:00
Chapter 13 - 6:36:42
Chapter 14 - 7:19:25
Chapter 15 - 7:54:03
Chapter 16 - 8:27:32
Chapter 17 - 8:59:09
Chapter 18 - 9:27:21
Chapter 19 - 10:00:35
Chapter 20 - 10:34:30
Epilogue - 10:57:51
This is preceded by Triplanetary:
This is followed by Galactic Patrol.
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