Fox Valley Rep Summer Theater Festival 2011 St. Charles, IL
Comedies, dramas, new works, concerts and artists in action...all things to look forward to this July at the Inaugural St. Charles Summer Arts Fest. Local distinguished arts and business organizations are uniting to produce exciting, educational and innovative performances in the heart of the Fox Valley. APPLAUD, CREATE, GET AWAY! Save with your Faces Fest Card. Video Production by Stage Fright Productions. david@stagefrightproductions.com
The Sinking of the Columbia
Since the advent of steam-powered vessels, riverboats were a popular form of excursion. While somewhat dangerous at first (boiler explosions and general safety issues), riverboats had become a fairly safe way to travel by the early 1900's. One such popular vessel, was the Steamer Columbia, which sailed out of the port of Peoria, Illinois. On what was supposed to be a routine Moonlight Excursion to Alfresco Park, a popular amusement destination along the Illinois river in Peoria, something went terribly wrong. On the return voyage to Pekin, Illinois, the Columbia ran into a dense fog covering the river. With pressures to have everyone home by midnight, the pilot pressed on through the murk. With no visual landmarks, two 90-degree bends in the river, and a sand bar, the boat ran aground on the Peoria County side of the river, across from Wesley City (now present day Creve Coeur). Fearing the worst, Captain Herman Mehl ordered the hull to be checked for water. The engineer and the first mate discovered the hull was flooded. Whether it a submerged stump or other debris, a decision had to be made. The captain ordered the pilot, Tom Williams to Run her ashore! As the river was not that deep, the pilot figured he had enough time to move the vessel to the other shore, where there would be help available from the small mining and fishing village. They could never have predicted what happened next.
The Kirsch Sci Fi Home, Oak Park, IL.
Oak Park Ill.'s a village known for its architecture the prairie school style of the early 20th century is in abundance... It has more Frank Lloyd Wright homes than anywhere else in the world. Modern is just not something you see in the town except at the corner of Fair Oaks and Greenfield where the Errol J Kirsch House is found. This early green house was built in the early 1980's and has a lot of passive solar design features. It's been called the bunker and it's been said to look like something out of the sci-fi flick Logan's Run. I think that in a world of conformity it's nice to see something a little different.
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David Nasaw on The Patriarch
David Nasaw, the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History at the Graduate Center, discusses his latest book, The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy, with Gary Giddins.
Celebrated author, biographer, and historian, David Nasaw specializes in the cultural and social history of early 20th-century America. His biography of William Randolph Hearst, The Chief, won the Bancroft Prize, and his acclaimed biography of Andrew Carnegie was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize. The Patriarch brings to life the story of Joseph Patrick Kennedy, in this, the first and only biography based on unrestricted and exclusive access to the Joseph P. Kennedy papers.
Gary Giddins, executive director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate Center and a faculty member in American Studies, is an eminent music critic and the prize-winning author of twelve books, including biographies of Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Bing Crosby, and Visions of Jazz. His most recent book is Warning Shadows: Home Alone with Classic Cinema.
Google Earth and Maps updated with sharper satellite imagery
The tech giant has added more details and better colours to the apps.
Both the applications will feature the data captured by Landsat 8 satellite, which was launched in 2013.
Now users can witness new and improved services in both the apps.
The new update will enhance the image quality and provide sharper satellite imagery to users.
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101 Facts About The 1960s
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Radio Preservation Task Force 2: Commercial Caucus
Part of the 2017 multi-day conference, Radio Preservation Task Force 2: From Archive to Classroom, this discussion considered ways that the commercial radio broadcast community and the Task FOrce can build a symbiotic relationship that will insure both preservation and access to important cultural materials in the future.
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CoCo Cay Private Island Resort Upgrade $200 Million by Royal Caribbean Would You Pay To Use It?
CoCo Cay Private Island Resort Upgrade $200 Million by Royal Caribbean Would You Pay To Use It? Royal Caribbean is investing $200 Million to upgrade CoCo Cay in the Bahamas. It's another example of how cruise lines are vertically integrating their cruises. On the one hand you have a secure environment to enjoy these amenities while giving up the opportunity to see the local area and meeting the local population. Please support my channel by donating to my Paypal account and If you donate $10 or more, you can earn a gift of a sports medallion!
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Cambridge Talks IX: Inscriptions of Power; Spaces, Institutions, and Crisis Part 2
Over two days, fostering dialogue between social scientists and spatial thinkers, an interdisciplinary gathering of scholars will explore the relationship between physical and institutional structures. How is institutional power manifested in the built environment? How does space bear the mark of bureaucratic networks, typological assumptions, lived experiences? How are different forms of power—aesthetic, political, economic, even insurgent—made manifest across boundaries and scales? The keynote lecture, at 6:30 on 4/2, is by Reinhold Martin, author of The Organizational Complex (MIT Press, 2001). Cambridge Talks is the annual conference organized by students in the PhD Program at Harvard GSD.
Cruise Ship Vacation for Adults Only Would You Pay More To Go On A Cruise Without Kids?
Cruise Ship Vacation for Adults Only Would You Pay More To Go On A Cruise Without Kids? P&O cruise Lines is going to convert the P&O Aurora into an adult only cruise ship in March 2019. Why would they do that? Also Sacramento wants to host the NBA All Star Game in 2022 or 2023 and they need a ton of hotel rooms to handle the crowds. The solution? Why not charter a few big cruise ships, park them near downtown and voila! Tons of full service hotel rooms for the week of the game and then the ships go away!
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2014 Archives Fair: Afternoon Session
The DC Caucus of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference and the National Archives Assembly hosted the 2014 Archives Fair in the National Archives McGowan Theater in Washington, DC on April 3, 2014.
The afternoon session included:
Discussion Panel: Monuments Men Archives
National Archival Authorities Cooperative (NAAC)
Donations Partnership Database
*Note there is a 15 minute break starting at 1:26.
In Practice: Alumni Symposium | A Sydney Gross Symposium
The event brings together alumni from architecture, urban planning and real estate development, to discuss different forms of practice that they are engaging in.
The speakers have all graduated from one of the programs offered at the School of Architecture and Planning in the past 10 years, and each has taken a distinctive path since. The symposium offers current students and other members of the School and community an opportunity to consider modes of practice within the realms of architecture and planning and at the intersection with other disciplines.
Individual presentations by each of the speakers will be followed by a general Q+A session as well as smaller group conversations directed by current students.
Participants
- Gabrielle Printz, Co-founder, feminist architecture collaborative (March '14)
- Maciej Kaczynski, Project Leader, Studio Gang (BS Arch '06)
- Quardean Lewis-Allen, Founder and CEO, Made in Brownsville (BS Arch '09)
- Daniel Crowther, Project Manager, TM Montante Development (MSRED '16, BAED '15)
- Caitlin Donovan, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (MUP '11, BAED '09)
- Rebecca Yanus, Director of Planning and Development, City of Dunkirk, NY (MUP '15, BAED '13)
Sydney Gross Memorial Fund
This symposium is supported by the Sydney Gross Memorial Fund in honor of former UB architecture student Sydney Gross. The fund supports scholarships and an annual special event bringing leading practitioners to the school to speak.
DISCURSIVE PRACTICES presents the work of architects, urban planners, preservationists and historians whose approach to design bridges multiple territories of knowledge to create new work.
Their provocations operate on discourses that simultaneously have long historical traditions and are actively evolving in the present. By acknowledging and engaging with the cultural and institutional basis of inherited knowledge systems, these speakers challenge reductive modes of analysis and reveal openings for expanding the social reach and relevance of contemporary design.
AIA and AICP continuing education credits are available.
The public lecture series of the School of Architecture and Planning is supported by the following individuals and companies:
AIA Buffalo/WNY | Architectural Resources | CannonDesign |The InnBuffalo | Lori Duckstein | Mach Architecture | Marc ’92 and Jorrie Bruffett | Pella Window and Door | Viviane Jammal | Will and Nan Clarkson
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Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945) | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945)
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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A timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945) encompasses the ingenuity and innovative advancements of the United States within a historical context, dating from the Progressive Era to the end of World War II, which have been achieved by inventors who are either native-born or naturalized citizens of the United States. Copyright protection secures a person's right to his or her first-to-invent claim of the original invention in question, highlighted in Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution which gives the following enumerated power to the United States Congress:
In 1641, the first patent in North America was issued to Samuel Winslow by the General Court of Massachusetts for a new method of making salt. On April 10, 1790, President George Washington signed the Patent Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 109) into law which proclaimed that patents were to be authorized for any useful art, manufacture, engine, machine, or device, or any improvement therein not before known or used. On July 31, 1790, Samuel Hopkins of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, became the first person in the United States to file and to be granted a patent under the new U.S. patent statute. The Patent Act of 1836 (Ch. 357, 5 Stat. 117) further clarified United States patent law to the extent of establishing a patent office where patent applications are filed, processed, and granted, contingent upon the language and scope of the claimant's invention, for a patent term of 14 years with an extension of up to an additional 7 years.From 1836 to 2011, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a total of 7,861,317 patents relating to several well-known inventions appearing throughout the timeline below. Some examples of patented inventions between the years 1890 and 1945 include John Froelich's tractor (1892), Ransom Eli Olds' assembly line (1901), Willis Carrier's air-conditioning (1902), the Wright Brothers' airplane (1903), and Robert H. Goddard's liquid-fuel rocket (1926).
Return to Me
Bob Rueland (David Duchovny) loses his wife (Joely Richardson) in a car accident. A year later, still grieving, he meets Grace Briggs (Minnie Driver), a shy waitress an Irish/Italian restaurant run by her grandfather Marty (Carroll O'Connor). Bob immediately falls for Grace and she's attracted to him as well, but what he doesn't know is that a year ago Grace was the recipient of a heart transplant -- and that Elizabeth was the donor.
Timeline of United States inventions (1946–1991) | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:20 1 Cold War (1946–1991)
00:03:33 1.1 Post-war and the late 1940s (1946–1949)
00:24:12 1.2 1950s
01:07:39 1.3 1960s
01:49:11 1.4 1970s
02:20:18 1.5 1980s and the early 1990s (1980–1991)
02:39:13 2 See also
02:39:22 3 Footnotes
02:39:31 4 Further reading
02:40:38 5 External links
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Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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A timeline of United States inventions (1946–1991) encompasses the ingenuity and innovative advancements of the United States within a historical context, dating from the era of the Cold War, which have been achieved by inventors who are either native-born or naturalized citizens of the United States. Copyright protection secures a person's right to his or her first-to-invent claim of the original invention in question, highlighted in Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution which gives the following enumerated power to the United States Congress:
In 1641, the first patent in North America was issued to Samuel Winslow by the General Court of Massachusetts for a new method of making salt. On April 10, 1790, President George Washington signed the Patent Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 109) into law which proclaimed that patents were to be authorized for any useful art, manufacture, engine, machine, or device, or any improvement therein not before known or used. On July 31, 1790, Samuel Hopkins of Pittsford, Vermont became the first person in the United States to file and to be granted a patent for an improved method of Making Pot and Pearl Ashes. The Patent Act of 1836 (Ch. 357, 5 Stat. 117) further clarified United States patent law to the extent of establishing a patent office where patent applications are filed, processed, and granted, contingent upon the language and scope of the claimant's invention, for a patent term of 14 years with an extension of up to an additional 7 years. However, the Uruguay Round Agreements Act of 1994 (URAA) changed the patent term in the United States to a total of 20 years, effective for patent applications filed on or after June 8, 1995, thus bringing United States patent law further into conformity with international patent law. The modern-day provisions of the law applied to inventions are laid out in Title 35 of the United States Code (Ch. 950, sec. 1, 66 Stat. 792).
From 1836 to 2011, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a total of 7,861,317 patents relating to several well-known inventions appearing throughout the timeline below. Some examples of patented inventions between the years 1946 and 1991 include William Shockley's transistor (1947), John Blankenbaker's personal computer (1971), Vinton Cerf's and Robert Kahn's Internet protocol/TCP (1973), and Martin Cooper's mobile phone (1973).
Life on the Mississippi By Mark Twain [Part 3/5] VideoBook
Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. A good portion of the work also deals with his post-war visit to the old haunts.
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Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), published in 1835, is widely considered to be Balzac's finest and most popular novel. It is set in Paris in 1819, after Napoleon's defeat and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy. France was undergoing massive social upheaval, as the new bourgeoisie jockeyed for position alongside the old aristocracy. Against this backdrop, we follow the lives of Goriot, an old man who irrationally dotes on his daughters; Vautrin, a shadowy criminal mastermind; and Rastignac, a young man from the provinces who studies how to navigate the complexities and climb the ladder of Parisian society. Balzac's masterful use of physical and psychological detail makes this book a landmark in the development of realism in western literature.
Translated by Ellen Marriage.
Chapter 1 - 00:00
Chapter 2 - 42:52
Chapter 3 - 1:15:26
Chapter 4 - 1:33:03
Chapter 5 - 1:57:46
Chapter 6 - 2:08:38
Chapter 7 - 2:37:57
Chapter 8 - 3:26:36
Chapter 9 - 3:52:46
Chapter 10 - 4:41:32
Chapter 11 - 5:27:43
Chapter 12 - 6:12:50
Chapter 13 - 6:56:00
Chapter 14 - 7:37:11
Chapter 15 - 8:18:33
Chapter 16 - 8:54:45
Chapter 17 - 9:36:51
Chapter 18 - 10:20:13
Chapter 19 - 10:50:39
Translated by Ellen Marriage
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