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  • How to Obtain Historic Tax Credits for Building Rehabilitation

    Ward Bucher, AIA, Principal, Encore Sustainable Design Architecture

    Mr. Bucher gives a highly helpful and informative PowerPoint speaking presentation on how owners of historic commercial and residential properties can greatly benefit from obtaining Historic Tax Credits -- which can offset the cost of a construction project up to 40% (State and Federal). MORE >

    Learn how individuals and communities can greatly benefit from the knowledge about this valuable and available State and Federal historic preservation program.
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  • How to Define an Infinite God

    Mark Karapetyan, Founder / President, What If UR Wrong Apologetics

    If I asked you to draw a picture of a table, a tree, or a car, it would be relatively easy for you to do so. What if I asked you to draw something like gravity? What would you draw? Although you are aware that gravity exists, you just don’t know what it looks like since you can’t see it. How then can you draw it? What if I challenged you to sketch a picture of an object that is immaterial, that cannot be observed or seen, does not have any sides, angles, shapes, or any measurements, but you know exists, and is out there somewhere? What would you sketch? MORE >

    Basically, what I am asking you to do is draw God. Could you do it? It’s far more complex because you know that God exists, but that you just can’t observe or measure him. How can you draw something that you can’t observe, measure, or visualize, but you know exists? What do you do? How can anyone define a being that is outside of every known dimension? We can’t know what or who God is. That’s a fact! What we can do as finite humans is, point out several characteristics about God that He made it possible for us to observe and understand.
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  • The New Age of Women and Girls

    DonnaAnn Ward, Actor, Writer, Organizer

    As we witness the unprecedented presence of women in positions of prominence, it seems that fifty-one percent of the world's population has come into their own in a very big way. We see women and girls making a stunning impact on our world and our perception of possibility. It is an exciting time to be around these women, to be a part of an explosion of equality and smashing of stereotypes. MORE >

    This rise of women touches all aspects of our lives, to speak of powerful women and girls is to be a part of a shift the world over. Lysistrata put her foot down in 411 B.C. and Malala Yousafzai put her pen to paper in 2014, between the two moments, a fascinating history has been made. I enjoy speaking on all topics female, including LGBTQ, reproduction, education, aging, body and self-image, marriage, divorce, and singlehood.
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  • National Security Topics: From Military Planning to Negotiating with Foreign Governments and War Criminals to Complex Military Operations

    Daniel Gerstein, CEO and Author, SciTech Strategic Solutions

    Dr. Gerstein is a national security professional who has had a unique insider perspective on the United States' national security strategy and policy having been a close advisor to many of the key decisionmakers over several decades. By the end of his time in government, he had become a senior principal responsible for developing and executing the policies of the U.S. government. His service included advising foreign governments on a range of sensitive issues. He continues to speak and write extensively on these issues. MORE >

    He has worked on a range of issues from assessment of threats and risks, development of strategies and policies, and has deployed on a variety of operations. In the U.S. Army, he served on four continents while participating in combat, peacekeeping, humanitarian assistance, counterterrorism and homeland security. During his time in uniform, he served in sensitive positions as an aide-de-camp for the four-star Vice Chief of Staff, Army (General Gordon Sullivan); speechwriter for the three-star Director of Strategy and Policy (J-5), The Joint Staff (General Wesley K. Clark); Director for Army Transformation for the Chief of Staff, Army (General Eric Shinseki); executive officer for the Under Secretary of the Army (Raymond DuBois and Pete Geren). He also worked on several national security documents such as the National Security Strategy, the National Military Strategy and the Chairman’s Program Assessment (CPA). He also led teams that conducted analysis, modeling and simulations of various threats and risks.

    He has extensive experience in international negotiations and arms control having served on the Holbrooke Delegation that negotiated the peace settlement in Bosnia; developed and analyzed negotiating positions for the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) talks; developed a counternarcotics initiative to improve cross border communications between Andean Ridge nations and negotiated the destruction of SS-24 intercontinental ballistic rocket motors in Ukraine. Additionally, Dr. Gerstein led the Army’s most comprehensive restructuring since World War II and guided an effort to develop a comprehensive biosurveillance system for the Department of Defense.

    He has served in and worked with organizations across the U.S. government. He served in the Department of Defense and retired as a Colonel and served later in the Department of Homeland Security as Under Secretary (Acting) and Deputy Under Secretary in the Science and Technology Directorate. In these assignments, Gerstein worked closely with the Intelligence Community, and the Department of Energy (nuclear weapons issues), Commerce (export control and technology management), Health and Human Services (medical countermeasures, countering biological warfare and bioterrorism) and Department of Agriculture (agricultural biodefense).

    Gerstein has authored several books on national security, strategy, policy and decision making including War Without Humanity: Conflict in the Post-Human Era (Casemate, 2026); Tech Wars: Transforming U.S. Technology Development (Praeger. September 2022. (Paperback version released in 2024)); National Security and Arms Control in the Age of Biotechnology: The Biological Weapons Convention (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013); Bioterror in the 21st Century, (Naval Institute Press, 2009); Assignment: Pentagon: How to Excel in a Bureaucracy (5th Edition) (University of Nebraska Press, 2020); The Story of Technology: How We Got Here and What the Future Holds (Prometheus Books, 2019); Leading at the Speed of Light: New Strategies for U.S. Security in the Information Age, (Potomac Books, 2006); Securing America's Future: National Strategy in the Information Age, (Praeger Security International, 2005).

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  • Divorce in the Military

    Dr. Tia Corbin-Myers, CEO, Sweat N Me Boutique

    Being in the military for over 15 years I want to share being in the Military and infidelity within marriages. Many families go through divorce from being in the military because of separation. Traveling often and being away for long periods of time can cause each one to lose love for each other. There can also be times when one spouse is jealous because they have put off their lives for the military spouse. MORE >

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  • Searching for the Truth… What is Truth?

    Mark Karapetyan, Founder / President, What If UR Wrong Apologetics

    Ask anyone today if truth exists, or if it can be defined, and see how fascinating and edgy the conversation will get in a second. Ironically, we live in a pluralistic post-modern world where truth is subjectively recognized, widely suppressed, and regularly denied. You have probably heard someone tell you "I have my own truth and you have yours” or “all religions are true.” MORE >

    The problem with these types of statements is that they are opposing and mutually exclusive by nature. If they can't logically be both true, for they are self –defeating, how do we define truth and find out what is the truth?
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  • The Environment

    DonnaAnn Ward, Actor, Writer, Organizer

    While the increase and severity of environmental disasters is nearly impossible to deny, there is hope on the horizon. It seems that every insurmountable problem mankind has created is finding a new and innovative solution. All over our planet, efforts are being made to reduce the impact of human activity in fascinating ways. MORE >

    Speaking about the environment can be heart breaking. So many problems exist, that it can seem pointless to even try to solve them. Yet, all over the world bright minds are coming together, often crossing incredible boundaries of geography, language, and culture, to work to save our Earth.

    Addressing painful topics, loss of life, suffering, sickness, tragedy, can be difficult, but reaching those who can effect change the most is critical. I am proud to do my part to recognize the serious issues we face, as well as the myriad ways we can all work to overcome them. Speaking on environmental issues is one way I chip in.

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