Historic Molalla Log House at Hopkins Demonstration Forest
What could be the oldest pioneer log home in Oregon history is finding a new home at Hopkins Demonstration Forest, just outside of Oregon City. Hopkins is the perfect location for this rare historic log building, where it will be a part of the overall educational programming for students and visitors. All rehabilitation work has been done carefully by experts in woodcraft to ensure that the logs and design of the building retain its historic integrity and that it is preserved to the greatest possible extent. Scheduled to be complete in the Fall of 2020. Learn more at:
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Timeline of United States inventions (1946–91) | Wikipedia audio article
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- Socrates
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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).
The Opportunity Project Demo Day
With so much data being collected within the U.S. Census Bureau and across government, it can seem a little overwhelming to provide our statistics to the public in ways they can understand. That’s where The Opportunity Project (TOP) takes the lead. Working with external stakeholders and organizations across government, private sector, philanthropy and community leaders, The Opportunity Project is bringing our data to the public in new, innovative ways.
The Census Bureau is hosting TOP Demo Day on Friday, March 1, showcasing how 20+ tech companies, nine federal agencies, and several nonprofits and local governments collaborated this year to transform federal open data into innovative digital solutions. The digital tools created by these companies range from video games to Web sites, apps, and communication tools that tackle a number of challenges—such as disaster response, standardized address data collection, connecting veterans to jobs, student access to STEM fields, addressing the opioid crisis, and more.
LIVE: The Great American Solar Eclipse at WCU!
Join us as we witness the Great American Solar Eclipse at Western Carolina University. We'll have guests throughout the hour to talk about the scientific, economic, and cultural impacts of the eclipse, as well as witness 2 minutes of totality from right here in Cullowhee! Make sure to leave your questions in the comments so that Dr. Enrique Gomez can answer them later in the show.
Peter Robbins on Wilhelm Reich - Part 3 and Deception - June 14, 2014
Peter Robbins returns to the show to continue our discussion about Wilhelm Reich. You can find part one of that discussion here and part two here. We talk about Peters' latest book, called Deception, and do get into varies discussion about UFO's, and then get into Reich, Cloudbusting, and UFO's.
Peter Robbins was first introduced to the books of Wilhelm Reich as a teenager by a college roommate, to whom he remains deeply indebted. In 1976 he met Dr. Elsworth F. Baker, Reich's first assistant for the last eleven years of his life. Soon after this he became a patient of Dr. Baker and entered into almost seven years of medical orgone therapy with the distinguished orgonomist.
Robbins went on to enroll in the classes New York University offered in scientific and social orgonomy which was taught by the Reich scholars Professors John Bell and Paul Matthews. They in turn invited him to become a member of their ongoing Seminar in Social and Scientific Orgonomy, patterned after the seminars which Sigmund Freud presided over during the nineteen twenties. Peter spent much of the nineteen eighties involved with this group, presenting a variety of papers to his fellow seminar members under Matthews' and Bell's guidance and leadership.
Peter was a volunteer fundraiser for the American College of Orgonomy's (ACO) Building Fund and had two papers on Wilhelm Reich and UFOs published in the Journal of Orgonomy. He was part of a select group of volunteers invited to witness a demonstration of cloudbusting technology and presented on the subject of Reich and UFOs at the ACO's Princeton NJ facility, and at international conferences on the life and work of Reich in New York City, Ashland Oregon, Niece France and Karavomilos Greece. His lectures have been well received at numerous scientific and UFO conferences both here and abroad while his articles on the subject have been published in a variety of print and web publications. Robbins' extensively researched paper, Politics, Religion and Human Nature: Practical Problems and Roadblocks on the Path Toward Official UFO Acknowledgment is scheduled to be published in the upcoming issue of Annals of the Institute for Orgonomic Science.
The Sherwood Historical Society meets the Blue Mountain Old Time Fiddlers
Every year, Oregonians meet at Emigrant Springs, Oregon in order to share stories about life on the frontier and to enjoy the music that was brought along with the settlers.
Linus Pauling - Conversations with History
In this 1983 interview, Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling joins U.C. Berkeley's Harry Kreisler for a discussion of the role of scientists in the peace movement. [10/2005] [Show ID: 9165]
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Highlights of Maggie Pierce playing central midfield for the CASL '01 ECNL team in 2014. She is a 2019 commit to UNC.
As of August, 2017, Maggie plays for the new Girls Development Academy with the NC Courage Academy U18/19 team. She is also currently a member of the U.S. U17 Women's National Team and has participated in camps in Florida, California and Oregon in 2017. Maggie also played for Cardinal Gibbons High School and was named a 1st Team All American by Top Drawer Soccer and 3rd Team All-U.S.A. by USA Today. She was the only high school player to play for Oak City United in the WPSL college-level summer league in 2016. Maggie participated in ODP for 3 years and was selected for the Region 3 Pool each year, as well as being selected for 2 ODP National Camps, the Region 3 Team for Interregional Play, and the NC '00 team playing in the ODP National Championships, where she was named a Day 1 and Day 2 standout by Top Drawer Soccer. She has been a featured player at The18 and at GoalNation, and is ranked the #8 female player in the country for the class of 2019 by TheSoccerList.
Peter Robbins on Wilhelm Reich - Part 2 - April 12, 2014
Peter Robbins returns to the show to continue our discussion about Wilhelm Reich. You can find part one of that discussion here. First we discuss some happenings in the UFO world, before delving into some of Reich's theories, Orgone, connections to Eastern philosophy, sex, and even Aleister Crowley.
Peter stuck around then for our music show, The Last Exit for the Lost, and we did a Tribute to his late sister, Helen, which you can listen to here.
Peter Robbins was first introduced to the books of Wilhelm Reich as a teenager by a college roommate, to whom he remains deeply indebted. In 1976 he met Dr. Elsworth F. Baker, Reich's first assistant for the last eleven years of his life. Soon after this he became a patient of Dr. Baker and entered into almost seven years of medical orgone therapy with the distinguished orgonomist.
Robbins went on to enroll in the classes New York University offered in scientific and social orgonomy which was taught by the Reich scholars Professors John Bell and Paul Matthews. They in turn invited him to become a member of their ongoing Seminar in Social and Scientific Orgonomy, patterned after the seminars which Sigmund Freud presided over during the nineteen twenties. Peter spent much of the nineteen eighties involved with this group, presenting a variety of papers to his fellow seminar members under Matthews' and Bell's guidance and leadership.
Peter was a volunteer fundraiser for the American College of Orgonomy's (ACO) Building Fund and had two papers on Wilhelm Reich and UFOs published in the Journal of Orgonomy. He was part of a select group of volunteers invited to witness a demonstration of cloudbusting technology and presented on the subject of Reich and UFOs at the ACO's Princeton NJ facility, and at international conferences on the life and work of Reich in New York City, Ashland Oregon, Niece France and Karavomilos Greece. His lectures have been well received at numerous scientific and UFO conferences both here and abroad while his articles on the subject have been published in a variety of print and web publications. Robbins' extensively researched paper, Politics, Religion and Human Nature: Practical Problems and Roadblocks on the Path Toward Official UFO Acknowledgment is scheduled to be published in the upcoming issue of Annals of the Institute for Orgonomic Science.
Mennonite | Wikipedia audio article
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Mennonite
00:02:46 1 Radical Reformation
00:06:32 2 Fragmentation and variation
00:10:38 3 Russian Mennonites
00:15:19 4 Jakob Ammann and the Amish schisms
00:16:02 5 North America
00:19:31 5.1 Moderate to progressive Mennonites
00:19:40 5.1.1 Old Mennonite Church (MC)
00:20:22 5.1.2 Mennonite Church USA
00:22:34 5.1.3 Mennonite Church Canada
00:23:27 5.2 Conservative Mennonites
00:24:17 5.3 Old Order Mennonites
00:24:59 5.4 Alternative service
00:27:16 5.5 Schisms
00:30:38 5.6 Schools
00:31:01 5.6.1 Secondary schools
00:31:20 5.6.1.1 Canada
00:31:51 5.6.1.2 United States
00:32:48 5.6.2 Controversy in Quebec
00:33:55 5.6.3 Post-secondary schools
00:34:04 5.6.3.1 Canada
00:34:43 5.6.3.2 United States
00:35:23 5.7 Sexuality, marriage, and family mores
00:37:32 6 Theology
00:39:58 7 Service projects
00:40:59 8 Worship, doctrine, and tradition
00:50:35 9 Membership
00:52:33 9.1 Organization worldwide
00:56:01 9.2 Organization: North America
00:58:10 9.3 Organization: Europe
01:01:02 10 In popular culture
01:01:56 11 See also
01:02:05 12 Notes
01:02:14 13 Further reading
01:04:49 14 External links
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The Mennonites are members of certain Christian groups belonging to the church communities of Anabaptist denominations named after Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland (which today is a province of the Netherlands). Through his writings, Simons articulated and formalized the teachings of earlier Swiss founders. The early teachings of the Mennonites were founded on the belief in both the mission and ministry of Jesus, which the original Anabaptist followers held to with great conviction despite persecution by the various Roman Catholic and Protestant states. An early set of Mennonite beliefs was codified in the Dordrecht Confession of Faith in 1632, but the various groups do not hold to a common confession or creed. Rather than fight, the majority of these followers survived by fleeing to neighboring states where ruling families were tolerant of their belief in believer's baptism. Over the years, Mennonites have become known as one of the historic peace churches because of their commitment to pacifism.In contemporary 21st-century society, Mennonites either are described only as a religious denomination with members of different ethnic origins or as both an ethnic group and a religious denomination. There is controversy among Mennonites about this issue, with some insisting that they are simply a religious group while others argue that they form a distinct ethnic group. Historians and sociologists have increasingly started to treat Mennonites as an ethno-religious group, while others have begun to challenge that perception. There is also a discussion about the term ethnic Mennonite. Conservative Mennonite groups, who speak Pennsylvania German, Plautdietsch (Low German), or Bernese German fit well into the definition of an ethnic group, while more liberal groups and converts in developing countries do not.
There are about 2.1 million Anabaptists worldwide as of 2015 (including Mennonites, Amish, Mennonite Brethren, Hutterites and many other Anabaptist groups formally part of the Mennonite World Conference). Mennonite congregations worldwide embody the full scope of Mennonite practice from plain people to those who are indistinguishable in dress and appearance from the general population. Mennonites can be found in communities in at least 87 countries on six continents. The largest populations of Mennonites are to be found in Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, India and the United States. There are German Mennonite colonies in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and Paraguay, who are mostly descendants of Plautdietsch-speaking Mennonites who formed as a German ethnic group in what is today Ukraine. Today, fewer than 500 Mennonites remain in Ukraine. A relatively small Mennonite presence, known as the Algemene Doopsgezinde Societeit, still con ...
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Human rights in the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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- Socrates
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Human rights in the United States comprise a series of rights which are legally protected by the Constitution of the United States, including the amendments, state constitutions, conferred by treaty and customary international law, and enacted legislatively through Congress, state legislatures, and state referenda and citizen's initiatives. Federal courts in the United States have jurisdiction over international human rights laws as a federal question, arising under international law, which is part of the law of the United States.The human rights record of the United States of America is a complex matter with varying opinions; first and foremost the Federal Government of the United States has, through a ratified constitution, guaranteed unalienable rights to citizens of the country, and also to some degree, non-citizens. These rights evolved over time through constitutional amendments, supported by legislation and judicial precedent. Along with the rights themselves, the periphery of the population who had access to these rights has expanded over time. Today, the United States has a vibrant civil society and strong constitutional protections for many civil and political rights.On a number of human rights issues, the United States has been internationally criticized for its human rights record, including the least protections for workers of most Western countries, the imprisonment of debtors, and the criminalization of homelessness and poverty, the invasion of the privacy of its citizens through surveillance programs, police brutality, police impunity, the incarceration of citizens for profit, the mistreatment of prisoners and juveniles in the prison system, having the longest prison sentences of any country, being the last Western country with a death penalty, abuses of illegal immigrants, including children, facilitating state terrorism and the continued support for foreign dictators who commit abuses (including genocide), forced disappearances, extraordinary renditions, extrajudicial detentions, torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and black sites, and extrajudicial targeted killings (Disposition Matrix).Some observers give the U.S. high to fair marks on human rights, while others charge it with a persistent pattern of human rights violations.
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Works Progress Administration | Wikipedia audio article
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Works Progress Administration
00:02:49 1 Establishment
00:05:14 2 Employment
00:08:44 3 Projects
00:13:05 3.1 Federal Project Number One
00:14:10 3.1.1 Federal Art Project
00:14:54 3.1.2 Federal Music Project
00:16:04 3.1.3 Federal Theatre Project
00:16:56 3.1.4 Federal Writers' Project
00:18:03 3.1.5 Historical Records Survey
00:18:31 4 Relief for African Americans
00:21:18 5 Women
00:23:00 6 Criticism
00:25:51 7 Evolution
00:29:34 8 Termination
00:31:14 9 Legacy
00:31:58 10 See also
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The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. In a much smaller project, Federal Project Number One, the WPA employed musicians, artists, writers, actors and directors in large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects.Almost every community in the United States had a new park, bridge, or school that was constructed by the agency. The WPA's initial appropriation in 1935 was for $4.9 billion (about 6.7 percent of the 1935 GDP).Headed by Harry Hopkins, the WPA provided jobs and income to the unemployed during the Great Depression in the United States, while developing infrastructure to support the current and future society. At its peak in 1938, it provided paid jobs for three million unemployed men and women, as well as youth in a separate division, the National Youth Administration. Between 1935 and 1943, when the agency was disbanded, the WPA employed 8.5 million people. Most people who needed a job were eligible for employment in some capacity. Hourly wages were typically set to the prevailing wages in each area. Full employment, which was reached in 1942 and emerged as a long-term national goal around 1944, was not the goal of the WPA; rather, it tried to provide one paid job for all families in which the breadwinner suffered long-term unemployment.The stated goal of public building programs was to end the depression or, at least, alleviate its worst effects, sociologist Robert D. Leighninger asserted. Millions of people needed subsistence incomes. Work relief was preferred over public assistance (the dole) because it maintained self-respect, reinforced the work ethic, and kept skills sharp.The WPA was a national program that operated its own projects in cooperation with state and local governments, which provided 10–30% of the costs. Usually the local sponsor provided land and often trucks and supplies, with the WPA responsible for wages (and for the salaries of supervisors, who were not on relief). WPA sometimes took over state and local relief programs that had originated in the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) or Federal Emergency Relief Administration programs (FERA).It was liquidated on June 30, 1943, as a result of low unemployment due to the worker shortage of World War II. The WPA had provided millions of Americans with jobs for eight years.
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P2P Workshop: Achieving Health Equity in Preventive Services - Day1
June 19, 2019
Chronic diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes are responsible for seven of every 10 deaths among Americans each year and account for 75% of the nation’s health spending. Many of these chronic conditions can be prevented, delayed, or caught and treated early when patients work closely with their primary care providers. Despite the proven value of preventive services, such as various screenings, provider counseling, and preventive medications, implementation by providers and uptake by patients of these evidence-based practices varies. Demographic and geographic differences in the use of these services are significant and may contribute to disparities in disease burden and life expectancy.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is hosting the Pathways to Prevention Workshop on Achieving Health Equity in Preventive Services to assess the available scientific evidence on achieving health equity in the use of clinical preventive services in a health care setting. The workshop will focus on the three leading causes of death in the United States: cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.
The workshop will also address the following questions:
What is the effect of impediments and barriers on the part of providers to the adoption, promotion, and implementation of evidence-based preventive services that contribute to disparities in preventive services? Which of them are most common?
What is the effect of impediments and barriers on the part of minority, rural, and other disadvantaged patient groups to the adoption, promotion, and implementation of evidence-based preventive services that contribute to disparities in preventive services? Which of them are most common?
What is the effectiveness of different approaches and strategies between providers and patients that connect and integrate evidence-based preventive practices for reducing disparities in preventive services? What is the effectiveness of health information technologies and digital enterprises to improve the adoption, implementation, and dissemination of evidence-based preventive services in settings that serve disparity populations?
What is the effectiveness of interventions that health care organizations and systems implement to serve disparity populations to reduce disparities in preventive services use?
The workshop is co-sponsored by:
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
National Cancer Institute
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
NIH Office of Disease Prevention
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Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945) | Wikipedia audio article
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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).