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Ambience, Nightlife by Inspector J  is licensed under the Attribution 4.0 License.

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Blind Haitian singer on Place Boyer (Petillon Ville, Port au Prince) by Felix.Blumeis licensed under the Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 License.

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Bucket Drummer by Logan Circle2 is licensed underCC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

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Dark Scary Castle, Hall is licensed underCC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

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Dark Ambient Music (Death And Forever) byTheBoseDeity

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Erik Satie: Gymnopedie No 1 byKevin MacLeod is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution License.

Erik Satie: Gymnopedie No 2 byKevin MacLeod is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution License.

Erik Satie: Gymnopedie No 3 byKevin MacLeod is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution License.

Heavy Rain bylebaston100is licensed under the Attribution 4.0 License.

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J. S. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor byKevin MacLeod is licensed under aCreative Commons Attribution License.

News Report Music byehohnke  is licensed underCC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

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No Good byQleq islicensed under the Attribution 4.0 License.

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S32-02 Fog horn with echo.wav by Craig Smith is licensed underCC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

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Thunder - Thunder Cracks Like Wind byPNMCarrieRailfanis licensed under the Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 License.

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Pasty Cline “I’m Gonna Walk Some Dog” is in the public domain and is an official record of the United States Army. Armed Forces Radio Service.  

“Jumbie See, Jumbie Do” by Siobhan Pascal is read by the author . All rights retained by S. Pascal. 

The Swans at Coole by WB Yeats, When You are Old by WB Yeats, Autumn Movement by Carl Sandberg, and Fall Leaves Fall by Emily Bronte are in the public domain. 

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In our second episode of "What the Tech", we talk about Chat GPT, the Artificial Intelligence-powered chat service. We learn a bit about what it is, how to use it, what to use it for, and some of its pros and cons.

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In the Real World History program, DC high school students study the Great Migration by reading The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson and conducting oral history interviews with people who came to the DC region as part of the Migration. Listen to a series of clips from the 2022-2023 cohort of Real World History curated by two of the student oral historians, Maya Schindler and Naomi Fraser-Jones.

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Music credit – “No One is Perfect.” By HoliznaCC0

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/be-happy-with-who-you-are/no-one-is-perfect/

Sound – “Wind Chimes – rough.wav.” By Anthosai

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This episode was produced by Naomi Fraser-Jones and Maya Schindler

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In our first episode of “What the Tech”, we’re starting with the basics, passwords. They’re something that we all have to use and often forget, so we’ll get into why we have to use them, how to make good ones that you won’t forget, and what’s next in the world of passwords.

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In this episode, host Olubunmi Bakare is joined by Ana Ka'ahanui and Stella Tarnay,  founders of Capital Nature  and Forest Health and Community Outreach Specialist, Kasey  Yturralde of the DC  Department of Transportation's Urban Forestry Division. They discuss exploring and learning about the natural environment in Washington, DC and the surrounding area.

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Links to  programs and events discussed in the podcast

Urban Forestry Division, all topics in DC Urban Forestry, maintenance, tree preservation, history, forest health, urban wood reuse: https://trees.dc.gov/

Urban Wood Reuse: https://urban-wood-reuse-dcgis.hub.arcgis.com/

Forest invasive species: https://trees.dc.gov/pages/forest-health#spot

DC Open Streets: https://open-streets-dcgis.hub.arcgis.com/

Where to go if you have an issue with a tree, call 311 or try https://311.dc.gov/

Here are some of the links we mentioned:
Capital Nature

City Nature Challenge  

Ana leading City Nature Challenge observation events for DPR and Friends of Oxon Run on Saturday, April 29 at Pope Branch Park and Oxon Run Park

Download the free citizen science app iNaturalist

DC Street Tree Map

UDC's DC Master Naturalist program

Green Spaces for DC

NCR PRISM

City Wildlife

Bug Guide.net

DOEEE - Urban Agriculture

Washington is has the #1 ParkScore in the country

Casey Trees

One of our favorite books: City of Trees by local naturalist and forest bathing guide Melanie Choukas-Bradley

Pulitzer Prize winning fiction book about trees: The Overstory by Richard Powers 

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Earth by HoliznaCC0 is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License.

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In honor of Women's History Month, author, professional archivist and historian Dr Ida Jones joins host Olubunmi Bakare to discuss her work , Mary McLeod Bethune in Washington, DC : Activism and Education in Logan Circle. Jones also discusses her role as a part of the Women's Suffrage National Monument Foundation .

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For more information on the Women's Suffrage National Monument Foundation , please visit  www.womensmonument.org.

Save Yourself by Makaih Beats is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

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**From 2018**On this episode of DCPL Presents, we sit down with Carolyn Becker, digital communications manager of Goodwill Greater Washington and founder of the popular Instagram account, DC Vegan Life. With a passion for sustainable living and tasty vegan treats, Caroyln explores how she uses social media to create community, promote sustainability, and ways you can, too!

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In this episode Janet Sims-Wood, author of Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University: Building a Legacy of Black History, joins host Olubunmi Bakare to discuss the life and legacy of Dorothy Porter Wesley.

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Chilling by Alex-Productions was used in this episode.

Lo-Fi Chill Hip Hop | Chilling by Alex-Productions |
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In this episode Olubunmi Bakare is joined by by activists Nadine Seiler and Karen Irwin along with archivists Aliza Leventhal and Laura Farley to discuss their mission to preserve artifacts from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in Washington, DC.

Link to Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence Artifact Collection  https://www.dclibrary.org/node/69429

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Chills  by  HoliznaCC0 used in this episode. For more information visit the link below.

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In this episode Olubunmi Bakare  interviews Adebayo "De' De' " Folarin . De' De' is a comedian, DC Public Library Technician and vocalist for the Washington, DC based Go-Go band, Rare Essence.  He discuses  his life growing up in Washington, DC and how he became a multi-talented entertainer. 

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Link to wild turkey attacking woman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7VZECeVKJw

Celebrations by Ketsa was used in this episode. For more information visit the link below.

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