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01. Zilker Botanical Garden
A botanical garden of varied topography located on the south bank of the Colorado River. Features several independently maintained gardens: City of Austin's Green Garden, Cactus and Succulent Garden, Hartman Prehistoric Garden, Herb and Fragrance Garden, and others.
02. McKinney Falls State Park
A state park located at the southeastern edge of the city around the confluence of Onion and Williamson Creeks. The park includes several designated hiking trails. The namesake features of the park are the scenic upper and lower falls along Onion Creek.
03. Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum
A museum and outdoor sculpture garden centered on the artistic works of American sculptor Charles Umlauf. In 1985, Charles and Angeline Umlauf donated their home, studio, and 168 Umlauf sculptures to the City of Austin.
04. Austin Zoo
A non-profit rescue zoo and animal sanctuary. Has over 300 animals from over 100 different species, including African Lions, Bengal tigers, cougars, jaguars, three species of monkeys, black bears, ring-tailed lemurs, and porcupines.
05. Zilker Park
A recreational area in the heart of south Austin. Covers over 350 acres. Serves as a hub for many recreational activities and the hike and bike trail around Lady Bird Lake. Developed into the park during the Great Depression in the 1930s.
06. Austin Aquarium
An aquarium. Opened to the public December 12, 2013. As of June 2013, the Austin Aquarium had filed for a permit to open the 22,000 square feet (2,000 m2) facility. Has more than 8000 animals.
07. Mexic-Arte Museum
A fine arts museum. Founded in 1983. One of a handful of museums in the U.S. devoted to the promotion and presentation of Mexican and Mexican-American art and culture.
08. St. Mary's Cathedral
A cathedral parish of the Catholic Diocese of Austin. The origins date back to the 1850s. In 1948, was remodeled: many of its neo-Gothic decorations were removed, the altars and altar rail were replaced with marble and the baldachino with its cactus and bluebonnets.
09. Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve
A wild preserve. Consists of 227 acres (919,000 m2) of wood. Was founded in 1974. Maintains 2.5 miles (4 km) of hiking trails. he entrance to the preserve is a mile north of Bee Caves Road along the east side of Loop 360.
10. Bullock Texas State History Museum
A history museum. Its stated mission is to tell the Story of Texas. Has three floors of interactive exhibits; the first floor theme is land, the second floor theme identity, and the third floor theme opportunity.
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The Ark Encounter - Kentucky
The Ark Encounter - Kentucky
The Ark Encounter was opened on July 7, 2016 and it's the full replica based on a Biblical scale. It's 510 feet long, 85 feet wide and 51 feet high. It's operated by Answers in Genesis, a group that also runs the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky. This is a theme park, zoo, restaurant and museum. It's located in Grant County Kentucky and is open year-round. There were well over one million visitors during it's first year of operation from July 2016 - July 2017. There are models of Dinosaurs, massive timbers in the center and multiple decks with attractions.
Brampton
Brampton is a Canadian city in Southern Ontario. It is a suburban city in the Greater Toronto Area and the seat of Peel Region. The city has a population of 523,911 as of the Canada 2011 Census, and is Canada's ninth-most populous municipality.
Brampton was incorporated as a village in 1853, taking its name from the market town of Brampton, in Cumbria, England. The city was once known as The Flower Town of Canada, a title based on its large greenhouse industry. Today, Brampton's major economic sectors include advanced manufacturing, retail administration and logistics, information and communication technologies, food and beverage, life sciences and business services.
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Obama Is Here
Thumbs up for catching you all up on the past several weeks! Let me know if you liked this in the comments please :)
IN THIS VLOG:
-Adrienne visits!
-It's fall break -- hello beach!
-We cross of 8 items on the bucket list!
-OBAMA IS HERE!!!
THE SENIOR BUCKET LIST:
*1. Drink from the Old Well on the first day of class (Too late! Didn't do this!)
2. Attend Late Night w/ Roy (basketball season kickoff event)
3. Spring Break cruise!!!!
*4. Go on a weekend road trip
5. Have a cookout
6. Attend a show at Memorial Hall
7. Ride a full circle of the P2P (our school's late night bus)
8. Jump in the Bynum Circle fountain
9. Urban camping!
10. Go hiking
11. Run a 5K
12. Eat at Late Night @ Rams (our dining hall)
13. Do homework in Wilson library
14. Get fro yo at YoPo
15. Ben & Jerry's free cone day
16. Senior bar golf
17. Get a pic with Ramses (our mascot)
18. Get a pic with Carol! (our chancellor)
19. Watch the sun set at Maple View
20. Do the Bell Tower climb/sign a brick
21. Steal a brick!
22. Drink a blueberry wheat outside TOPO
*23. Do Halloween on Franklin
24. Eat Linda's cheesy tots
25. Go to Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen
26. Have a picnic in the upper quad
27. Eat at Sutton's
28. Try the cheddar chicken biscuit @Time Out
29. Sneak up to the scoreboard in the football stadium at night
30. Attend a concert at Cat's Cradle
31. Go to a show at Local 506
32. Holi Moli festival of color (get an insta!)
33. Watch a movie at the Varsity Theatre
34. Eat breakfast at Ye Olde Waffle Shop
35. Go to the Carrboro Farmer's Market
36. Go to the Durham Farmer's Market
37. Enjoy the sun outside Weaver Street Market
38. Visit the Duke Botanical Gardens
39. Walk through the Arboreum
40. See a star show at Morehead Planetarium
*41. Use our membership at the Crunkleton!
42. Get your game on @ Barcade
43. Have a snowball fight in the quad
44. Get a pic of the Old Well in the fall
45. Get a pic of the Old Well in the snow
46. Get a pic of the Old Well in the spring
47. Complete a DTH puzzle
48. Visit Charleston
49. Go to Jordan Lake
50. Go to Smith Mountain Lake
51. Eat at a food truck in Carrboro
*52. Eat something deep fried at the State Fair
53. Run the stairs in Kenan Stadium
55. Eat a dining hall cookie
56. Do the waterslide at Chi Psi on the last day of class
57. Attend a UNC basketball game
58. Attend a UNC football game
59. Rush Franklin when we beat Duke ????
60. Attend a zumba class at Rams or SRC
61. Visit the basketball museum at the Dean Dome
62. Go to a Friday on the Front Porch @ Carolina Inn
63. Make a gingerbread house @ the student Union
64. Have Friendsgiving
65. Have our house Christmas celebration
66. See a movie hosted by CUAB in the Union
*67. Drink a blue cup at He's Not
68. Drink the blue Carolina drink at Carolina Ale House
69. Check out the Ehaus underground tunnels
70. Go to a show at Playmakers
71. Do homework in Graham Memorial
72. Sing hark the sound at a sporting event
73. Go to Duke wearing a UNC shirt
74. Go to the beach in Wilmington
75. Watch fireworks at a Friday baseball games
76. Tailgate for a football game
77. Go to Tuesday Night Worship
78. Go to an a capella concert
*79. Suffer through Fall Fest -- skipped this! Too late!
80. Drink a Thursday $5 cocktail on the rooftop at Tru
81. Go to the spring football game
*82. Sit in on a class you're not enrolled in
83. Attend a Durham Bulls game
*84. Get cookout milkshakes after midnight
85. Attend TEDxUNC
86. Volunteer for something
87. Jump off the Eno Rock Quarry
*88. Go to karaoke at He's Not on a Sunday night
89. Get a BLT at Merritt's
90. Go to a trivia night
91. Do Thursday night $5 bowling
*92. Pit Sit
93. Play a boardgame at Zog's
94. See an exhibit at Ackland Art Museum
95. Sip some coffee outside at Caffe Driade
96. Study at a Carrboro coffee shop
97. Get a picture in front of the Chapel Hill mural
98. Take a tour of the TOPO distillery
99. Watch the sunrise from the top of the Belltower Deck
100. Walk across the Morehead Planetarium sundial
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Race and Class as Aspects of Immigration
On March 22, 2013, the Center for Human Rights and International Justice hosted the “Migration: Past, Present and Future” symposium celebrating Boston College’s sesquicentennial anniversary. Topics discussed at this two-day symposium included: refugees and economic migrants, race and class as aspects of immigration, the intertwining of BC's history with immigrant populations, and the future of migration policy in the U.S.
The Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College addresses the increasingly interdisciplinary needs of human rights work. Through multidisciplinary training programs, applied research, and the interaction of scholars with practitioners, the Center aims to nurture a new generation of scholars and practitioners in the United States and abroad who draw upon the strengths of many disciplines, and the wisdom of rigorous ethical training in the attainment of human rights and international justice.
Texas Baptist Convention urges church staff to develop emergency plans
In Central Texas, Celebration Church in Georgetown will host a Security Summit of its own this weekend.
Noah's Ark Comes to Life in Kentucky
Ken Ham had the ship built to match the dimensions in the Bible, but the $100 million project hasn't been without controversy.
United States Naval Academy | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:08 1 Description
00:10:27 2 Other navy schools
00:11:18 3 History
00:11:57 3.1 Identity
00:13:14 3.2 Early years
00:16:10 3.3 The American Civil War
00:19:26 3.4 Porter's Academy - From the Civil War to the Spanish–American War
00:25:08 3.5 The Flagg Academy- Spanish–American War to WW I
00:28:16 3.5.1 World War I to World War II
00:32:46 3.6 Modern era: World War II to present
00:44:35 4 Rank structure
00:49:09 5 Uniforms
00:52:53 6 Campus
00:53:51 6.1 Halls and principal buildings
01:05:12 6.2 Monuments and memorials
01:12:10 6.3 Brigade sports complex
01:12:41 6.4 Cemetery and columbarium
01:12:51 6.5 Glenn Warner Soccer Facility
01:13:01 6.6 Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium
01:13:13 6.7 Terwilliger Brothers Field
01:13:32 7 Supervision of the Academy
01:14:52 8 Faculty
01:18:48 9 Appointment process
01:23:14 9.1 Admissions requirements
01:25:21 10 Curriculum
01:26:47 10.1 Moral education
01:29:19 10.2 Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference (NAFAC)
01:30:49 10.3 Naval Academy Science and Engineering Conference (NASEC)
01:32:02 10.4 McMullen Naval History Symposium
01:32:32 10.5 Small Satellite Program
01:33:19 10.6 Postgraduate studies
01:34:57 11 Student activities
01:35:07 11.1 Athletics
01:41:40 11.2 Song
01:42:33 11.3 Other extra-curricular activities
01:45:32 12 Police
01:46:19 13 Women at the Naval Academy
01:53:23 14 A selection of Naval Academy traditions
02:06:00 15 Alumni
02:07:59 16 See also
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The United States Naval Academy (also known as USNA, Annapolis, or simply Navy) is a four-year coeducational federal service academy adjacent to Annapolis, Maryland. Established on 10 October 1845, under Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft, it is the second oldest of the United States' five service academies, and educates officers for commissioning primarily into the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. The 338-acre (137 ha) campus is located on the former grounds of Fort Severn at the confluence of the Severn River and Chesapeake Bay in Anne Arundel County, 33 miles (53 km) east of Washington, D.C. and 26 miles (42 km) southeast of Baltimore. The entire campus (known to insiders as the Yard) is a National Historic Landmark and home to many historic sites, buildings, and monuments. It replaced Philadelphia Naval Asylum, in Philadelphia, that served as the first United States Naval Academy from 1838 to 1845 when the Naval Academy formed in Annapolis.Candidates for admission generally must both apply directly to the academy and receive a nomination, usually from a Member of Congress. Students are officers-in-training and are referred to as midshipmen. Tuition for midshipmen is fully funded by the Navy in exchange for an active duty service obligation upon graduation. Approximately 1,200 plebes (an abbreviation of the Ancient Roman word plebeian) enter the Academy each summer for the rigorous Plebe Summer. About 1,000 midshipmen graduate. Graduates are usually commissioned as ensigns in the Navy or second lieutenants in the Marine Corps, but a small number can also be cross-commissioned as officers in other U.S. services, and the services of allied nations. The United States Naval Academy has some of the highest paid graduates in the country according to starting salary. The academic program grants a bachelor of science degree with a curriculum that grades midshipmen's performance upon a broad academic program, military leadership performance, and mandatory participation in competitive athletics. Midshipmen are required to adhere to the academy's Honor Concept.
Reparations for Slavery: The Role of Repentance in Politics
On February 19, U.S. presidential candidate, spiritual lecturer, and number one New York Times bestselling author Marianne Williamson spoke at HDS on the topic Reparations for Slavery: The Role of Repentance in Politics. The event featured an opening talk by HDS student Kassi Underwood, MDiv '19.
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Replica of Noah’s Ark opens in Williamstown, Ky.
“Ark Encounter” hopes to draw millions each year.
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Alison Kuo - Performance & Visual Artist
MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by faculty member Alison Kuo (MFA 2014 Fine Arts).
Alison Kuo received an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY and a BA from Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX. She has exhibited her work within the United States at Motel gallery, Beverly's, CANADA, ICI, Present Company, Cathouse FUNeral, The NARS Foundation, E.Tay gallery, Space Heater, the New York Art Book Fair and Superchief in New York City, Eleven Seventeen Garland, SOFA Gallery, Co-Lab and Domy in Austin, at the UNTITLED art fair, Young at Art Museum and OHWOW in Miami. International exhibitions include the 2016 Nanjing International Art Festival, the MATERIAL art fair in Mexico City and a performance commissioned by Paraiso Bajo in Bogotá in 2016. Kuo teaches workshops on performative cooking and dining at the Abrons Art Center. Kuo is the art editor at the Brooklyn literary magazine GIGANTIC, and the creator of the popular blog Accidental Chinese Hipsters.
The Business of Spirituality: On Money, Branding, and Other Taboos
Business is a taboo topic in divinity school--but anyone who wants to change the world needs to understand how to think like an entrepreneur. Leading experts on social and wellness entrepreneurship, innovative leadership, and the intersection of money and spirituality share their stories and wisdom in a panel discussion.
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Noah's Ark Replica, Kentucky - virtual tour 2016
This video contains a virtual tour of the inside (and the outside) of the Ark Encounter, a Noah's Ark replica, which opened this summer (2016), in Williamstown, Kentucky.
Austin paranormal investigations
William Pappin with Austin paranormal investigations was in the studio with Gigi Barnett and Natalie Ferrari to talk about some of the city's creepiest haunts
Northwestern University | Wikipedia audio article
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- Socrates
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Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university based in Evanston, Illinois, United States, with other campuses located in Chicago and Doha, Qatar, and academic programs and facilities in Miami, Florida; Washington, D.C.; and San Francisco, California. Along with its selective undergraduate programs, Northwestern is known for its Kellogg School of Management, Pritzker School of Law, Feinberg School of Medicine, Bienen School of Music, and Medill School of Journalism.
Northwestern is a large research university with a comprehensive doctoral program, attracting over $650 million in sponsored research each year. Northwestern has the ninth-largest university endowment in the United States, currently valued at $10.456 billion.The University's former and present faculty and alumni include 19 Nobel Prize laureates, 38 Pulitzer Prize winners, 6 MacArthur Genius Fellows, 16 Rhodes Scholars, 65 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and two Supreme Court Justices. In addition, Northwestern ranks 8th among U.S. universities that have produced billionaires. Northwestern's School of Communication is a leading producer of Academy Award, Emmy Award and Tony Award-winning actors, actresses, playwrights, writers and directors.Northwestern was founded in 1851 by John Evans, for whom the city of Evanston is named, and eight other lawyers, businessmen and Methodist leaders. Its founding purpose was to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that today includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Instruction began in 1855 and women were admitted in 1869. Today, the main campus is a 240-acre (97 ha) parcel in Evanston, along the shores of Lake Michigan 12 miles north of downtown Chicago. The university's law, medical, and professional schools are located on a 25-acre (10 ha) campus in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood. In 2008, the university opened a campus in Education City, Doha, Qatar with programs in journalism and communication. In 2016, Northwestern opened its San Francisco space at 44 Montgomery St., which hosts journalism, engineering, and marketing programs.The University is a founding member of the Big Ten Conference and remains the only private university in the conference. The Northwestern Wildcats compete in 19 intercollegiate sports in the NCAA's Division I Big Ten Conference.
Slavery in the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement, primarily of Africans and African Americans, that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries. Slavery had been practiced in British America from early colonial days, and was legal in all Thirteen Colonies at the time of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It lasted in about half the states until 1865, when it was prohibited nationally by the Thirteenth Amendment. As an economic system, slavery was largely replaced by sharecropping.
By the time of the American Revolution (1775–1783), the status of slave had been institutionalized as a racial caste associated with African ancestry. When the United States Constitution was ratified (1789), a relatively small number of free people of color were among the voting citizens (male property owners). During and immediately following the Revolutionary War, abolitionist laws were passed in most Northern states and a movement developed to abolish slavery. Northern states depended on free labor and all had abolished slavery by 1805. The rapid expansion of the cotton industry in the Deep South after the invention of the cotton gin greatly increased demand for slave labor to pick cotton when it all ripened at once, and the Southern states continued as slave societies. Those states attempted to extend slavery into the new Western territories to keep their share of political power in the nation. Southern leaders also wanted to annex Cuba as a slave territory. The United States became polarized over the issue of slavery, split into slave and free states, in effect divided by the Mason–Dixon line which delineated (free) Pennsylvania from (slave) Maryland and Delaware.
Congress during the Jefferson administration prohibited the importation of slaves, effective 1808, although smuggling (illegal importing) via Spanish Florida was not unusual. Domestic slave trading, however, continued at a rapid pace, driven by labor demands from the development of cotton plantations in the Deep South. More than one million slaves were sold from the Upper South, which had a surplus of labor, and taken to the Deep South in a forced migration, splitting up many families. New communities of African-American culture were developed in the Deep South, and the total slave population in the South eventually reached 4 million before liberation.As the West was developed for settlement, the Southern state governments wanted to keep a balance between the number of slave and free states to maintain a political balance of power in Congress. The new territories acquired from Britain, France, and Mexico were the subject of major political compromises. By 1850, the newly rich cotton-growing South was threatening to secede from the Union, and tensions continued to rise. Many white Southern Christians, including church ministers, attempted to justify their support for slavery as modified by Christian paternalism. The largest denominations, the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches, split over the slavery issue into regional organizations of the North and South. When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 election on a platform of halting the expansion of slavery, seven states broke away to form the Confederacy. The first six states to secede held the greatest number of slaves in the South. Shortly after, the Civil War began when Confederate forces attacked the US Army's Fort Sumter. Four additional slave states then seceded. Due to Union measures such as the Confiscation Acts and Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, the war effectively ended slavery, even before ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in December 1865 formally ended the legal institution throughout the United States.
Sandra Day O'Connor | Wikipedia audio article
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Sandra Day O'Connor
00:01:45 1 Early life and education
00:03:49 2 Early career and marriage
00:06:03 3 Supreme Court career
00:06:13 3.1 Appointment
00:09:22 3.2 Supreme Court jurisprudence
00:09:32 3.2.1 Voting record and deciding votes
00:14:29 3.2.2 First Amendment
00:16:25 3.2.3 Fourth Amendment
00:17:29 3.2.4 Cases involving race
00:19:41 3.2.5 Abortion
00:22:00 3.2.6 Foreign law
00:24:23 3.2.7 Commentary and analysis
00:25:06 3.3 Response to being first woman on the Supreme Court
00:26:12 3.4 Other activities while serving on the Court
00:26:42 4 Retirement
00:30:15 5 Post–Supreme Court career
00:30:25 5.1 Commentary
00:33:54 5.2 Activities and memberships
00:36:08 5.2.1 Teaching
00:36:37 5.2.2 Publishing
00:36:52 5.2.3 Public speaking engagements
00:37:44 5.2.4 Non-profits and philanthropic activity
00:39:52 6 Personal life
00:40:51 7 Legacy and awards
00:41:00 8 See also
00:41:09 9 Notes
00:41:18 9.1 Bibliography
00:41:27 10 Further reading
00:41:54 11 External links
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Sandra Day O'Connor (born March 26, 1930) is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who served from her appointment in 1981 by Ronald Reagan until her retirement in 2006. She was the first woman to serve on the Court.Prior to O'Connor's tenure on the Court, she was an elected official and judge in Arizona serving as the first female Majority Leader of a state senate as the Republican leader in the Arizona Senate. Upon her nomination to the Court, O'Connor was confirmed unanimously by the Senate. On July 1, 2005, she announced her intention to retire effective upon the confirmation of a successor. Samuel Alito was nominated to take her seat in October 2005, and joined the Court on January 31, 2006.
Considered a federalist and a moderate Republican, O'Connor tended to approach each case narrowly without arguing for sweeping precedents. She most frequently sided with the Court's conservative bloc, although in the latter years of her tenure, she was regarded as having the swing opinion in many cases. She often wrote concurring opinions that limited the reach of the majority holding. Her majority opinions in landmark cases include Grutter v. Bollinger and Hamdi v. Rumsfeld. She also wrote in part the per curiam majority opinion in Bush v. Gore, and was one of three co-authors of the lead opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
From 2005 to 2012, O'Connor was Chancellor of The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg. Several publications have named her among the most powerful women in the world. On August 12, 2009, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor of the United States, by President Barack Obama.
Austin, Texas | Wikipedia audio article
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Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties. It is the 11th-most populous city in the United States and the 4th-most populous city in Texas. It is also the fastest growing large city in the United States, the second most populous state capital after Phoenix, Arizona, and the southernmost state capital in the contiguous United States. As of the U.S. Census Bureau's August 1, 2018 estimate, Austin had a population of 967,629 up from 790,491 at the 2010 census. The city is the cultural and economic center of the Austin–Round Rock metropolitan statistical area, which had an estimated population of 2,056,405 as of July 1, 2016. Located in Central Texas within the greater Texas Hill Country, it is home to numerous lakes, rivers, and waterways, including Lady Bird Lake and Lake Travis on the Colorado River, Barton Springs, McKinney Falls, and Lake Walter E. Long.
In the 1830s, pioneers began to settle the area in central Austin along the Colorado River. In 1839, the site was chosen to replace Houston as the capital of the Republic of Texas and was incorporated under the name Waterloo. Shortly afterward, the name was changed to Austin in honor of Stephen F. Austin, the Father of Texas and the republic's first secretary of state. The city grew throughout the 19th century and became a center for government and education with the construction of the Texas State Capitol and the University of Texas at Austin. After a severe lull in economic growth from the Great Depression, Austin resumed its steady development, and by the 1990s it emerged as a center for technology and business. A number of Fortune 500 companies have headquarters or regional offices in Austin including, 3M, Amazon.com, Apple Inc., Cisco, eBay, General Motors, Google, IBM, Intel, Oracle Corporation, Paypal, Texas Instruments, and Whole Foods Market. Dell's worldwide headquarters is located in nearby Round Rock, a suburb of Austin.
Residents of Austin are known as Austinites. They include a diverse mix of government employees, college students, musicians, high-tech workers, blue-collar workers, and a vibrant LGBT community. The city's official slogan promotes Austin as The Live Music Capital of the World, a reference to the city's many musicians and live music venues, as well as the long-running PBS TV concert series Austin City Limits. The city also adopted Silicon Hills as a nickname in the 1990s due to a rapid influx of technology and development companies. In recent years, some Austinites have adopted the unofficial slogan Keep Austin Weird, which refers to the desire to protect small, unique, and local businesses from being overrun by large corporations. In the late 19th century, Austin was known as the City of the Violet Crown, because of the colorful glow of light across the hills just after sunset. Even today, many Austin businesses use the term Violet Crown in their name. Austin is known as a clean-air city for its stringent no-smoking ordinances that apply to all public places and buildings, including restaurants and bars.U.S. News & World Report named Austin the #1 place to live in the U.S. for 2017 and 2018. In 2016, Forbes ranked Austin #1 on its Cities of the Future list, then in 2017 placed the city at that same position on its list for the Next Biggest Boom Town in the U.S. Also in 2017, Forbes awarded the South River City neighborhood of Austin its #2 ranking for Best Cities and Neighborhoods for Millennials. WalletHub named Austin the #6 best place in the country to live for 2017. The FBI ranked Austin as the #2 safest major city in the U.S. for 2012.
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