John Greenlee Malibu Meadow Test Garden Tour With Landscape Architects & Garden Designers
Best-Selling Horticultural Author John Greenlee leads an informative tour of his Southern California coastal nursery test garden on the Malibu coastline. Plants such as Buffalo Grass, Pennisetum spathiolatum, phormium dark delight & sedges like Carex texensis and perdentata are shown in mingled meadow plantings to a group of visiting clients. Discussions of Greenlee's evolution as a horticulturist interested in ornamental grasses, business challenges and his ecological & design outlook ensue. If the sound is low, turn on the Closed Captions which also detail the plant names.
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Leach Botanical Garden
We pay a visit to Leach Botanical Garden to see the early spring color. We also learn about their annual plant sale and their plans for future expansion.
Virginia Farming: Spring Hill Nursery
This week we visit a balled and burlap tree operation in Louisa County that grows ornamental trees for clients in New England and all across the Mid-Atlantic region. We'll also explore the topic of women in agriculture. A recent survey indicates nearly one-third of all Virginia farmers are women
Walton Master Gardens
Here is a look at a few Walton master gardeners who were happy to share their incredible gardens an knowledge. For more information, go to:
Cedar Lake Woods & Gardens Williston Fl
Flower Garden Water Falls
Virginia Home Grown Landscape Design; Attracting Pollinators
Episode 1608: Peggy travels to Carrollton, VA. for a glimpse at a private “gardener’s paradise” and gets some tips from Bill & Linda Pinkham about Landscape Design; John talks with Ken and Karen Hall of the Central Virginia Beekeepers Association about plants that will attract pollinators, especially honey bees; Plant of the Month is Heirloom Apples; Peggy offers root care techniques when planting a tree.
Things to do in Thousand Oaks with Kids (Gardens of the World): Look Who's Traveling
Taking a trip to Santa Barbara, California.
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Alameda Park
1400 Santa Barbara St
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
(805) 564-5418
McGrath Family Farm
1012 W Ventura Blvd
Camarillo, CA 93010
(805) 485-4210
Blue Stove
346 W Hillcrest Dr
Thousand Oaks, CA 91362
(805) 418-4500
Gardens of the World
2001 E Thousand Oaks Blvd
Thousand Oaks, CA 91362
(805) 557-1135
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Other episodes from Look Who's Traveling, Season One!
Adventure City
Paramount Performance
Legoland California & Sea Life Aquarium
Getty Center
Disneyland Park & California Adventure
Palm Springs, California
Columbia Memorial Space Center
The Reptile Zoo
OCMA (Richard Jackson: Ain't Painting a Pain)
South Coast Botanic Garden
San Diego, California
El Dorado Nature Center
Fullerton Arboretum
Kidspace Children's Museum
Little Tokyo Los Angeles
Mission San Juan Capistrano
Santa Barbara, California (Part 1 of 3)
Santa Barbara, California (Part 2 of 3)
Santa Barbara, California (Part 3 of 3)
California Science Center
El Dorado Nature Center (Night Hike)
Incredible Edible Park
Los Angeles Zoo
IKEA Home Furnishings, Costa Mesa
Sawdust Art Festival
Long Beach, California
Discovery Science Center (Da Vinci the Genius)
Oceanside, California
Ringling Bros. Circus
OC Fair
The Irvine Museum (Mastering the Mediums: Works on Paper)
Lyon Air Museum
OCMA (California Landscape Into Abstraction)
Wild Wonders
Living Coast Discovery Center
Los Angeles Zoo (Bat Walk)
Bowers Museum (Jewels of the Connoisseur)
El Dorado Nature Center Park (Night Hike, Part 3)
spcaLA, Long Beach
Asian Garden Night Market
Downtown Los Angeles
Huntington Beach Pier
San Clemente, California
Medieval Times, Buena Park
Armory Center for the Arts
Knott's Soak City, Buena Park
Los Angeles County Fair
Hollywood Bowl (Sound of Music Sing-a-Long)
Chuck E. Cheese's, Lakewood
Miracle Mile Los Angeles
Roger's Gardens (Night Gallery)
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Pa's Pumpkin Patch
Scooter's Jungle, Placentia
Monrovia Canyon Park
Zimmer Children's Museum
MUZEO (Worn to be Wild)
Merlin's Magic & Comedy Dinner Theatre
Santa Ana, California
Downtown Los Angeles (El Pueblo de Los Angeles & Little Tokyo)
Santa Ana Zoo
La Jolla, California (Part 1 of 3)
La Jolla, California (Part 2 of 3)
La Jolla, California (Part 3 of 3)
Knott's Merry Farm
Sawdust Winter Festival
San Juan Capistrano, California
Downtown Los Angeles (Walt Disney Concert Hall)
Palm Springs/Desert Hot Springs/Palm Desert, California (Part 1 of 3)
Palm Springs/Desert Hot Springs/Palm Desert, California (Part 2 of 3)
Palm Springs/Desert Hot Springs/Palm Desert, California (Part 3 of 3)
Aquarium of the Pacific
Casa Hogar Sion, Tijuana
Shipley Nature Center
Symposium on Ancient Oman (afternoon)
Afternoon session of an all-day symposium, Ancient Oman: Archaeological Digs and Historical Discoveries in the Sultanate of Oman. The symposium was sponsored in partnership with the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center.
Speaker Biography: Krista Lewis is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas and director of the Land of Frankincense Archaeological Project.
Speaker Biography: Joy McCorriston is professor of anthropology at Ohio State University and director of the ASOM Project (Ancient Socioecological systems in Oman).
Speaker Biography: Michael Harrower is associate professor of archaeology at Johns Hopkins University and director of the Archaeological Water Histories of Oman Project.
Speaker Biography: Nathan Reigner is a research fellow at the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center.
Speaker Biography: Christopher Thornton is senior director of cultural heritage for the National Geographic Society and director of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bat in Oman.
Speaker Biography: Eric Staples is assistant professor of history at al-Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates.
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Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment: A Non-Technical Overview
This presentation was recorded at the Green Lunch, Auburn University, on August 26, 2009. James Lowery is a board member of Alabama Rivers Alliance and Alabama Water Watch Association.
Chicago Food Truck Festival | Wikipedia audio article
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Chicago Food Truck Festival
00:03:54 1 Etymology and nicknames
00:05:01 2 History
00:05:10 2.1 Beginnings
00:06:19 2.2 Founding and 19th century
00:13:47 2.3 20th and 21st centuries
00:13:57 2.3.1 1900 to 1939
00:17:45 2.3.2 1940 to 1979
00:21:18 2.3.3 1980 to present
00:23:05 3 Geography
00:23:14 3.1 Topography
00:26:22 3.2 Communities
00:27:16 3.3 Streetscape
00:28:55 3.4 Architecture
00:31:25 3.5 Monuments and public art
00:33:53 3.6 Climate
00:36:27 4 Demographics
00:42:24 4.1 Religion
00:43:20 5 Economy
00:49:24 6 Culture and contemporary life
00:53:46 6.1 Entertainment and the arts
00:58:02 6.2 Festivals
00:59:02 6.3 Tourism
01:03:40 6.4 Cuisine
01:05:53 6.5 Literature
01:08:12 7 Sports
01:13:39 8 Parks and greenspace
01:16:11 9 Law and government
01:16:20 9.1 Government
01:17:33 9.2 Politics
01:20:30 9.3 Crime
01:25:21 9.4 Employee pensions
01:26:07 10 Education
01:26:16 10.1 Schools and libraries
01:29:35 10.2 Colleges and universities
01:31:29 11 Media
01:31:38 11.1 Television
01:33:14 11.2 Newspapers
01:34:09 11.3 Movies and Filming
01:35:32 11.4 Radio
01:36:15 11.5 Video Games
01:36:43 12 Infrastructure
01:36:52 12.1 Transportation
01:37:40 12.1.1 Expressways
01:38:28 12.1.2 Transit systems
01:40:15 12.1.3 Passenger rail
01:41:01 12.1.4 Bicycle-sharing system
01:41:44 12.1.5 Freight rail
01:42:41 12.1.6 Airports
01:43:43 12.1.7 Port authority
01:45:07 12.2 Utilities
01:46:26 12.3 Health systems
01:48:29 13 Sister cities
01:49:29 14 See also
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Chicago ( (listen), locally also ), officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States. As of the 2017 census-estimate, Chicago has a population of 2,716,450, which makes it the most populous city in both the state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States. It is the county seat of Cook County, the second most populous county in the United States. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, which is often referred to as Chicagoland. The Chicago metropolitan area has nearly 10 million people, is the third-largest in the United States, the fourth largest in North America, and the third largest metropolitan area in the world by land area.
Located on the shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed and grew rapidly in the mid-nineteenth century. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, the city made a concerted effort to rebuild. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900 Chicago was one of the five largest cities in the world. During this period, Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new construction styles (including the Chicago School of architecture), the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper.Chicago is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It was the site of the creation of the first standardized futures contracts at the Chicago Board of Trade, which today is the largest and most diverse derivatives market in the world, generating 20% of all volume in commodities and financial futures. O'Hare International Airport is the one of the busiest airports in the world, and the region also has the largest number of U.S. highways and railroad freight. In 2012, Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and it ranked seventh in the entire world in the 2017 Global Cities Index. Chicago has the fourth-largest gross metropolitan product in the world—generating about $670.5 billion according to September 2017 estimates—ranking it after the metropolitan areas of Tokyo, New York City, and Los Angeles, and ranking ahead of number five London and number six ...
Around the Corner with John McGivern | Program | The John Gurda Hour (#414)
[Original Airdate: April 23, 2015]
In our final episode of the season, it’s all about history and John Gurda - for an hour! During this season’s travels, John identified seven topics that he wanted to explore more fully: The Wade House (Greenbush), lannon stone (from Lannon – surprise!) and brownstone (Bayfield), Grant Park (South Milwaukee), the North Point Lighthouse (Milwaukee’s Lake Park), Great Lakes ship building (Sturgeon Bay) and the East Troy Electric Railroad (we don’t really have to tell you where this one is, right?).
In our regular community episodes of Around the Corner with John McGivern, we ask John Gurda to give us a three-minute version of the community’s history. Yep, three minutes. Well, for history buffs or nostalgic types, it’s just not enough time, right? So sit back and enjoy an hour of John Gurda relating what was by showing what is still here.
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GRCC Science Talk | Species Decline: How Did We Get Here?
Dr. Gregory Forbes presents on how a multitude of species worldwide are in decline.
Glasgow | Wikipedia audio article
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Glasgow (; Scots: Glesga [ˈɡlezɡə]; Scottish Gaelic: Glaschu [ˈkl̪ˠas̪əxu]) is the most populous city in Scotland, and the third most populous city in the United Kingdom, as of the 2017 estimated city population of 621,020. Historically part of Lanarkshire, the city now forms the Glasgow City council area, one of the 32 council areas of Scotland; the local authority is Glasgow City Council. Glasgow is situated on the River Clyde in the country's West Central Lowlands. Inhabitants of the city are referred to as Glaswegians or Weegies. It is the fifth most visited city in the UK. Glasgow is also known for the Glasgow patter, a distinct dialect of the Scots language that is noted for being difficult to understand by those from outside the city.
Glasgow grew from a small rural settlement on the River Clyde to become the largest seaport in Scotland, and tenth largest by tonnage in Britain. Expanding from the medieval bishopric and royal burgh, and the later establishment of the University of Glasgow in the fifteenth century, it became a major centre of the Scottish Enlightenment in the eighteenth century. From the eighteenth century onwards, the city also grew as one of Great Britain's main hubs of transatlantic trade with North America and the West Indies.
With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, the population and economy of Glasgow and the surrounding region expanded rapidly to become one of the world's pre-eminent centres of chemicals, textiles and engineering; most notably in the shipbuilding and marine engineering industry, which produced many innovative and famous vessels. Glasgow was the Second City of the British Empire for much of the Victorian era and Edwardian period, although many cities argue the title was theirs.In the late-19th and early-20th centuries, Glasgow's population grew rapidly, reaching a peak of 1,127,825 people in 1938. Comprehensive urban renewal projects in the 1960s, resulting in large-scale relocation of people to designated new towns; such as Cumbernauld, Livingston, East Kilbride and peripheral suburbs, followed by successive boundary changes, reduced the population of the City of Glasgow council area to an estimated 615,070, with 1,209,143 people living in the Greater Glasgow urban area. The wider metropolitan area is home to over 1,800,000 people, equating to around 33% of Scotland's population. The city has one of the highest densities of any locality in Scotland at 4,023/km2.
Glasgow hosted the 2014 Commonwealth Games and the first European Championships in 2018; and is also well known in the sporting world for football (particularly the Old Firm rivalry between Celtic and Rangers), rugby, athletics, tennis, golf and swimming.
University of Georgia | Wikipedia audio article
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The University of Georgia, also referred to as UGA or simply Georgia, is a public research university with its main campus in Athens, Georgia. Founded in 1785, it is one of three schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States.The university is classified by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education as a Research I university. It also classifies the student body as more selective, its most selective admissions category, while the ACT Assessment Student Report places UGA in the highly selective category, the highest category. The university is tied for 13th overall among all public national universities in the 2019 U.S. News & World Report rankings, and a Kiplinger's and Princeton Review top ten in value.The university is organized into 17 constituent schools and colleges offering more than 140 degree programs. The university's historic North Campus is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places as a designated historic district. The contiguous campus areas include rolling hills, gardens, and extensive green space including nature walks, fields, shrubbery, and large and varied arboreta. Close to the contiguous campus is the university's 58-acre Health Sciences Campus that also has an extensive landscaped green space, more than 400 trees, and several additional historic buildings.
Athens has consistently ranked among America's best college towns primarily due to its vibrant restaurant, bar, and music scenes. In addition to the main campus in Athens with its approximately 460 buildings, the university has two smaller campuses located in Tifton and Griffin. The university has two satellite campuses located in Atlanta and Lawrenceville. The university operates several service and outreach stations spread across the state. The total acreage of the university in 30 Georgia counties is 41,539 acres (168.10 km2). The university also owns a residential and research center in Washington, D.C., and three international residential and research centers located at Oxford University in Oxford, England, at Cortona, Italy, and at Monteverde, Costa Rica.
Varsity and intramural student athletics are an integral part of student life. The University of Georgia's intercollegiate sports teams, commonly known by their Georgia Bulldogs nickname, compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). UGA served as a founding member of the SEC in 1932. In their more than 120-year history, the university's varsity sports teams have won 39 national championships and 130 conference championships. The Georgia Redcoat Marching Band, the official marching band of the university, performs at athletic and other events.
According to the 2018-2019 estimated cost of attendance, based on a nine-month academic year for an average undergraduate student, the tuition and fees for Georgia residents is $11,830, and $30,404 for non-residents. The tuition and fees for an average international undergraduate student (based on a nine-month academic year) is $30,392.
The Cruise of the Snark Audiobook by Jack London | Full Audiobook with subtitles
The Cruise of the Snark (1913) is a memoir of Jack and Charmian London's 1907-1909 voyage across the Pacific. His descriptions of surf-riding, which he dubbed a royal sport, helped introduce it to and popularize it with the mainland. London writes: Through the white crest of a breaker suddenly appears a dark figure, erect, a man-fish or a sea-god, on the very forward face of the crest where the top falls over and down, driving in toward shore, buried to his loins in smoking spray, caught up by the sea and flung landward, bodily, a quarter of a mile. It is a Kanaka on a surf-board. And I know that when I have finished these lines I shall be out in that riot of colour and pounding surf, trying to bit those breakers even as he, and failing as he never failed, but living life as the best of us may live it. Excerpted from Wikipedia.
Genre(s): Memoirs
The Cruise of the Snark
Jack LONDON
Chapters:
0:23 | 1 - Chapter I -- Foreword
22:46 | 2 - Chapter II -- The Inconceivable And Monstrous
54:18 | 3 - Chapter III -- Adventure
1:11:43 | 4 - Chapter IV -- Finding One's Way About
1:34:55 | 5 - Chapter V -- The First Landfall
1:50:08 | 6 - Chapter VI -- A Royal Sport
2:14:28 | 7 - Chapter VII -- The Lepers Of Molokai
2:45:10 | 8 - Chapter VIII -- The House Of The Sun
3:14:18 | 9 - Chapter IX -- A Pacific Traverse
3:50:08 | 10 - Chapter X -- Typee
4:21:00 | 11 - Chapter XI -- The Nature Man
4:48:48 | 12 - Chapter XII -- The High Seat of Abundance
5:27:12 | 13 - Chapter XIII -- The Stone-fishing of Bora Bora
5:42:33 | 14 - Chapter XIV -- The Amateur Navigator
6:22:33 | 15 - Chapter XV -- Cruising in the Solomons
7:01:18 | 16 - Chapter XVI -- Beche de Mer English
7:17:00 | 17 - Chapter XVII -- The Amateur M.D.
7:56:00 | 18 - Back Word
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New Jersey | Wikipedia audio article
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New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States. It is a peninsula, bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware River and Pennsylvania; and on the southwest by the Delaware Bay and Delaware. New Jersey is the fourth-smallest state by area but the 11th-most populous, with 9 million residents as of 2017, and the most densely populated of the 50 U.S. states. New Jersey lies completely within the combined statistical areas of New York City and Philadelphia and is the third-wealthiest state by median household income as of 2016.New Jersey was inhabited by Native Americans for more than 2,800 years, with historical tribes such as the Lenape along the coast. In the early 17th century, the Dutch and the Swedes made the first European settlements in the state. The English later seized control of the region, naming it the Province of New Jersey after the largest of the Channel Islands, Jersey, and granting it as a colony to Sir George Carteret and John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton. New Jersey was the site of several decisive battles during the American Revolutionary War in the 18th century.
In the 19th century, factories in cities (known as the Big Six), Camden, Paterson, Newark, Trenton, Jersey City, and Elizabeth helped to drive the Industrial Revolution. New Jersey's geographic location at the center of the Northeast megalopolis, between Boston and New York City to the northeast, and Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., to the southwest, fueled its rapid growth through the process of suburbanization in the second half of the 20th century. In the first decades of the 21st century, this suburbanization began reverting with the consolidation of New Jersey's culturally diverse populace toward more urban settings within the state, with towns home to commuter rail stations outpacing the population growth of more automobile-oriented suburbs since 2008.
New Jersey | Wikipedia audio article
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New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States. It is a peninsula, bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware River and Pennsylvania; and on the southwest by the Delaware Bay and Delaware. New Jersey is the fourth-smallest state by area but the 11th-most populous, with 9 million residents as of 2017, and the most densely populated of the 50 U.S. states. New Jersey lies completely within the combined statistical areas of New York City and Philadelphia and is the third-wealthiest state by median household income as of 2016.New Jersey was inhabited by Native Americans for more than 2,800 years, with historical tribes such as the Lenape along the coast. In the early 17th century, the Dutch and the Swedes made the first European settlements in the state. The English later seized control of the region, naming it the Province of New Jersey after the largest of the Channel Islands, Jersey, and granting it as a colony to Sir George Carteret and John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton. New Jersey was the site of several decisive battles during the American Revolutionary War in the 18th century.
In the 19th century, factories in cities (known as the Big Six), Camden, Paterson, Newark, Trenton, Jersey City, and Elizabeth helped to drive the Industrial Revolution. New Jersey's geographic location at the center of the Northeast megalopolis, between Boston and New York City to the northeast, and Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., to the southwest, fueled its rapid growth through the process of suburbanization in the second half of the 20th century. In the first decades of the 21st century, this suburbanization began reverting with the consolidation of New Jersey's culturally diverse populace toward more urban settings within the state, with towns home to commuter rail stations outpacing the population growth of more automobile-oriented suburbs since 2008.