Dinosaur Tales and Pioneer Trails
The Pioneer Trails Regional Museum in Bowman, North Dakota is a small town museum with HUGE reach in terms of research, scholarly mentorship, and museum interpretation. When it comes to America's last dinosaurs, Dean Pearson and his team of local paleontology enthusiasts have created a well curated collection of fossils that rivals some major museums in this country. Since the early 1980's when the asteroid impact hypothesis was first put forward, the team at PTRM has been fostering paleontological research. The field school and museum lab at PTRM has played a role in developing an entire generation of scientists studying the extinction question, including notable alums and friends of our show, Dr. Kirk Johnson, Dr. Antoine Bercovici, Dr. Tyler Ranse Lyson, Jacqueline Richard, and many others. We had a blast checking out the collections and learning about the exciting research that Dean and his many students are putting forward.
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The completed track ways at Pioneer Trails Regional Museum in Bowman, ND
Old To New: Remodel, Restore, Revitalize
For decades, downtown was the hub of the economic and social lives of rural residents across North Dakota. Since their heyday in the 50s, small town business districts have been shrinking. Many small communities in North Dakota are on the cusp of extinction. As the rural population declines and the state's agriculture-based economy struggles, boarded buildings and empty storefronts now dominate once prosperous streets.
Seeking to reverse years of decline, some local organizations are taking steps to revitalize their communities. Across the state community groups and entrepreneurs with vision are rehabilitating old buildings and putting them to new uses -- renewing their sense of identity in the process.
An empty hardware store becomes a high tech incubator
A church is converted into a library
A former jail becomes a restaurant
An abandoned school house turns into a family
Transformations are occurring across the State of North Dakota with a former school building becoming a bed and breakfast, and a long dormant opera house filled with performers and audiences once more. Each effort is helping small towns preserve their identity and quality of life, while strengthening the local economy.
Merlan Paaverud; Historical Society of North Dakota
Lisbon, North Dakota
Lisbon Opera House
Dick Larson; Lisbon Opera House Foundation
Darline Levang; No Name Players
Bowman, North Dakota
Kayla Abrahamson-Hansey; Bowman County Development Corporation
Colleen Kelly; Pioneer Regional Museum
Dorothy Pearson; Pioneer Regional Museum
Badlands, North Dakota
Watford City
Incentive Tax Programs
Renaissance Zones
Gene Veeder; McKenzie Co. Job Development Authority
McKenzie County Heritage Park
Gretchen Stenehjem; First International Bank
6 Shooters Showhall & Cafe; Watford City
Outlaws Bar & Grill; Watford City
Theodore Roosevelt National Park; North Unit
Arnegard, North Dakota
Milt Hanson; Old School Bed & Breakfast
Vicky Wentworth
Anne M. McCrory
Crosby, North Dakota
Esther M. Oehlke; SCO Precision Inc.
Shawn Oehlke; SCO Precision Inc.
Senator Kent Conrad
Senator Byron Dorgan
San Haven Dunseith, North Dakota
Bill Patrie; Former Director ND EDC/Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Peg O'Leary; Grand Forks Historic Preservation Commision
Lonnie Laffen; JLG Architects
National Register of Historical Places
Department of the Interior
Hillsboro, North Dakota
Don Foss; Dakota Heritage Bank of North Dakota
Bruce Person; Hillsboro Community Partnership
Union Block; Hillsboro, North Dakota
Jamestown, North Dakota
Barbra Lang; Jamestown Historian/CSi Cable Services
Charlie Kourajian; Jamestown Main Street Downtown Association
Michael Marcil; The Marcil Group, Inc.
Brass Rail; Jamestown, North Dakota
CSi Technology Center
Franklin School Building
Roy Sheppard; CSi Cable Services
Chris Sheppard; CSi Cable Services
Louis L'Amour
Credits
Producer; Hope Deutscher
Editors; Travis Jensen, Heidi Erickson
Videographers; Dave Geck, Travis Jensen, Kak Lee, Lee Westad
Graphics; Heidi Erickson, Alayne Berg-Iwen
Promotions; Marie Lucero, Les Skoropat
Captions; Armour Closed Captioning
Narrator; Richard E. Collin
Production Manager; Barbra Gravel
Executive Producers; Bob Dambach, Kim Stenehjem
Dinosaur Prophecy (fisheye)
DINOSAUR PROPHECY is a planetarium show highlighting four sites of dinosaur fossils, bringing them back to life and examining the envirornmental or cosmic causes of their death.
Long before dinosaurs' massive extinction 65 million years ago, many individual species simply disappeared.Visit dinosaur graveyards, study their bones, and reconstruct how these creatures lived and died to solve four famous cold cases from the age of the dinosaurs in DINOSAUR PROPHECY.
Today we are learning to cope with extreme weather, from Category Five hurricanes to devastating tsunamis, said Dr. Carolyn Sumners, director of the Houston Museum of Natural Science's Burke Baker Planetarium. DINOSAUR PROPHECY examines the deaths of these dominant and ferocious creatures, which tell of the Earth's enormous power and potential for dramatic and devastating change. Each disaster that affected the dinosaurs is a warning for human survival.
Never before have so many types of dinosaurs come to life in full-dome immersive reality.
Viewers discover the lives of multiple species of dinosaurs, from the Coelophysis of 205 million years ago to the Allosaurus and Diplodocus of the mid-Jurassic period.
Viewers will also see the feathered Sinornithosaurus of China and the T. rex and Triceratops that survived and thrived until the final extinction of all dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
The planetarium show DINOSAUR PROPHECY is a co-production of the Rice Space Institute and the Houston Museum of Natural Science, funded by NASA's Office of Earth Science under the Immersive Earth project, NASA cooperative agreement NCC5-316. Other production partners include Home Run Pictures and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
Music & Score by Shai Fishman -
Contact us to get licenses for showing in planetariums or museums. DVD versions also available.
[This is a fisheye version of the show for projection onto a planetarium dome.]
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IACC Workshop on Addressing the Housing Needs of People on the Autism Spectrum - July 2019
IACC Workshop on Addressing the Housing Needs of People on the Autism Spectrum - July 2019
Air date: Tuesday, July 23, 2019, 9:30:00 AM
Category: Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee
Runtime: 05:51:37
Description: The workshop will focus on the housing needs of people on the autism spectrum.
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Author: NIH
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Chicago Food Truck Festival | Wikipedia audio article
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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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