MidAtlantic Gardener-Smithsonian Butterfly Habitat Garden
Visiting the Smithsonian Butterfly Habitat Garden: The Smithsonian Butterfly Habitat Garden is an 11,000 square foot garden featuring plants that support butterflies of the Mid-Atlantic region and other pollinators.
Follow Us on Facebook -
John Gunn
MidAtlantic Gardener, LLC
Arlington, VA
john@midatlanticgardener.com
MidAtlanticGardener.com
Washington DC, USA Travel - Smithsonian Castle
Take a tour of Smithsonian Castle in Washington, DC, United States -- part of the World's Greatest Attractions travel video series by GeoBeats.
Anyone who says that America has no castles hasn't been to the National Mall.
On this green expanse is the Smithsonian Institution Building, also known as the Smithsonian Castle.
This grand building was built in Norman style between the years 1847-1855.
Complete with its own grounds and gardens, the castle would certainly look at home in Europe.
The building is used as the administrative offices and information center of the Smithsonian Institute.
The castle's tall towers look out look out over the area.
For visitors to Washington DC's National Mall, this is an unforgettably unique sight.
U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, DC.
Photodocument of the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, DC. 2008, accompanied by the beautiful music of Deric Bownds and Frederico Mello.
See link
2017 Asian American Literary Festival
The Library of Congress hosted the concluding day of the groundbreaking Asian American Literature Festival. The day featured a lecture and reading by writer and American Book Award winner Karen Tei Yamashita titled, Literature as Community: the Turtle, Imagination, and the Journey Home. The afternoon session included a lecture by poet Kimiko Hahn on Angel Island: The Roots and Branches of Asian-American Poetry, and closed with a poetry reading.
Speaker Biography: Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of several books, including I Hotel, Anime Wong and Letters to Memory. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the California Book Award, the American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. A U.S. Artists Ford Foundation Fellow and co-holder of the University of California Presidential Chair in feminist critical race and ethnic studies, Yamashita is a professor of literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Speaker Biography: Kimiko Hahn is the author of nine books of poems, including Earshot, which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award, The Unbearable Heart, which received an American Book Award and most recently, Brain Fever. Her other honors include a PEN/Voelcker Award for poetry, a Shelley Memorial Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a distinguished professor in the Master's of Fine Arts program in creative writing and literary translation at Queens College, City University of New York.
For transcript and more information, visit
United States Botanic Garden | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
United States Botanic Garden
00:00:30 1 History
00:02:19 1.1 Botanic Garden of the Columbian Institute
00:05:37 1.2 Wilkes exploring and surveying expedition
00:07:27 1.3 U.S. Botanic Garden
00:09:06 1.4 Talk of expansion and move
00:14:24 1.5 New location
00:15:25 1.6 Plant production facility
00:16:34 1.7 Current operation
00:17:11 2 Facilities
00:20:22 3 Wilkes plants
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
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.
You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at:
You can upload your own Wikipedia articles through:
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
The United States Botanic Garden (USBG) is a botanic garden on the grounds of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., near Garfield Circle. The U.S. Botanic Garden is supervised by the Congress through the Architect of the Capitol, who is responsible for maintaining the grounds of the United States Capitol. The USBG is open every day of the year, including federal holidays. It is the oldest continually operating botanic garden in the United States.
World Environment Day, Portland,OR - 2013 - United Nations
World Environment Day hosted in Portland Oregon, World Trade Center. Live event featuring guest speakers and presentations involving sustainable practices. For more information visit portlandoregon.gov/wed
The June 6th, 2013 Innovation Celebration was the capstone event of Portland's World Environment 2013 celebrations.The 200+ attendees shared in remarks from city officials, University leaders, and other change-makers on solutions that led to Portland's honor as host city for World Environment Day 2013. Program highlights included remarks from Amy Fraenkel, Director of the United Nations Environment Programme of North America., First Lady of Oregon Cylvia Hayes, and recorded greetings from Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici. Bella Gaia performed by Director, Composer and Violinist Kenji Williams. Bella Gaia shared visualizations of Hotspots and Hopespots and humanity's presence on earth as seen from space. Stories selected for Bella Gaia's multimedia show come from UNEP and NASA science data, and were created to inspire future solutions thinkers. The event also featured Gary Braasch, a Portland-based environmental photojournalist, His project World View of Global Warming documents climate change science, effects and solutions. His work is featured in UN publications, books, magazines, postage stamps, apps, and museum exhibitions. The event was sponsored by the City of Portland, United Nations Environment Programme, Portland Community College, Intertwine Alliance,Portland State University, Portland General Electric and University of Oregon.
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)