Your Barbados Farmers Market
Farmers Market in Brighton St. George every Saturday 6am to 10am. Have some great coffee and eats, buy some art or jewelry, vegetables and fruits, jams and chutneys, sandwiches and breads. Catchup with your friends and enjoy the great atmosphere. Bring the kids.
Sunbury Plantation.wmv
A short tour around the Plantation owners house at the Sunbury Plantation on the Caribbean island of Barbados. The house is now the property of the Barbadian National Trust.
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A Marketplace hidden camera investigation reveals nursing home abuse and violence
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The Queens and Brooklyn Nobody Knows: A Block by Block Exploration
November 15, 2016
The Fall 2016 Presidential Lecture Series:
“The Queens and Brooklyn Nobody Knows: A Block by Block Exploration”
A Lecture By Dr. William Helmreich
Distinguished Professor Of Sociology
The City College Of New York
The City University Of New York
Bill Helmreich walked 6,000 miles to write a book, The New York Nobody Knows. The goal was to capture the heart and soul of this great metropolis by speaking with hundreds of people from different walks of life. In this talk he will focus on two of the hottest boroughs, Queens and Brooklyn, to explore issues like immigration, community, ethnicity, and gentrification.
Bill will also talk about how he came to walk 121,000 blocks (that’s how big NYC is) and why walking is the best way to learn about a city he calls “the world’s greatest outdoor museum.” You’ll hear about the man with two boa constrictors wrapped around his neck, a man with a unique flower garden, a woman who decorated her home in a special way, a church that performed exorcisms on a regular basis, and a homeowner who placed 1140 stuffed toys in a cherry tree.
Dr. William Helmreich received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Washington University (St. Louis). He is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Colin Powell School of Civic & Global Leadership at City College of New York and a Professor of Sociology at City University Graduate Center. He is also a Permanent Senior Fellow at Yale University. Helmreich served as Department Chairman for five years at City College and taught at Yale University before coming to CUNY.
A former Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Dr. Helmreich is the author or editor of 15 books, including The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City (Princeton University Press), winner of the 2015 Guides Association of New York City Inaugural Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Book Writing; The Brooklyn Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guide (Princeton University Press); What Was I Thinking: The Dumb Things We Do and How to Avoid Them (Rowman & Littlefield); The Things they Say Behind Your Back: Stereotypes and the Myths Behind Them (Doubleday and Transaction Books); Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives they Made in America (Simon & Schuster); Contemporary Issues in Society (McGraw-Hill) with Hugh Lena & William McCord; and The Black Crusaders: A Case Study of a Black Militant Organization (Harper & Row).
Professor Helmreich is currently writing a five book series, one volume on each borough, for Princeton University Press. As a result, he has been walking NYC again. The first volume on Brooklyn appeared in October 2016. His lifelong interest in the Big Apple was sparked by a game he and his father played when he was a child, called “Last Stop.” Each week they would take a subway to the last stop and walk around the neighborhood. When they ran out of last stops, they went to the second, third, and fourth-to-last stops. As he put it “My father gave me the greatest present a parent can give besides love—the gift of time.” He has written for The New York Times, Newsday, The Los Angeles Times, and has appeared on Oprah, Larry King, CNN, CBS Morning News, and as a guest anchor on NBC TV News and has been profiled in the New Yorker magazine. A May 2016 segment of Sunday Morning News with Charles Osgood was devoted to his book about New York.
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Bermuda | Wikipedia audio article
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Bermuda
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Bermuda () is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is approximately 1,070 km (665 mi) east-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina; 1,236 km (768 mi) south of Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia; and 1,759 km (1,093 mi) north of Cuba. The capital city is Hamilton. Bermuda is self-governing, with its own constitution and its own government, which enacts local laws, while the United Kingdom retains responsibility for defence and foreign relations.
Bermuda's two largest economic sectors are offshore insurance and reinsurance, and tourism. Bermuda had one of the world's highest GDP per capita for most of the 20th century. The island has a subtropical climate and lies in the hurricane belt and thus is prone to related severe weather; however, it is somewhat protected by a coral reef that surrounds the island and its position at the north of the belt, which limits the direction and severity of approaching storms.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Bermuda () is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is approximately 1,070 km (665 mi) east-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina; 1,236 km (768 mi) south of Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia; and 1,759 km (1,093 mi) north of Cuba. The capital city is Hamilton. Bermuda is self-governing, with its own constitution and its own government, which enacts local laws, while the United Kingdom retains responsibility for defence and foreign relations.
Bermuda's two largest economic sectors are offshore insurance and reinsurance, and tourism. Bermuda had one of the world's highest GDP per capita for most of the 20th century. The island has a subtropical climate and lies in the hurricane belt and thus is prone to related severe weather; however, it is somewhat protected by a coral reef that surrounds the island and its position at the north of the belt, which limits the direction and severity of approaching storms.
Bermuda | Wikipedia audio article
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Bermuda
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.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Bermuda () is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is approximately 1,070 km (665 mi) east-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina; 1,236 km (768 mi) south of Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia; and 1,759 km (1,093 mi) north of Cuba. The capital city is Hamilton. Bermuda is self-governing, with its own constitution and its own government, which enacts local laws, while the United Kingdom retains responsibility for defence and foreign relations.
Bermuda's two largest economic sectors are offshore insurance and reinsurance, and tourism. Bermuda had one of the world's highest GDP per capita for most of the 20th century. The island has a subtropical climate and lies in the hurricane belt and thus is prone to related severe weather; however, it is somewhat protected by a coral reef that surrounds the island and its position at the north of the belt, which limits the direction and severity of approaching storms.
Curaçao | Wikipedia audio article
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Curaçao
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Curaçao (; Dutch: Curaçao, pronounced [kyːraːˈsʌu, kuː-]; Papiamento: Kòrsou, pronounced [ˈkorsou]) is a Lesser Antilles island in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about 65 km (40 mi) north of the Venezuelan coast. It is a constituent country (Dutch: land) of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
The country was formerly part of the Curaçao and Dependencies colony (1815–1954) and is now formally called the Country of Curaçao (Dutch: Land Curaçao; Papiamento: Pais Kòrsou); it includes the main island of Curaçao and the uninhabited island of Klein Curaçao (Little Curaçao). Curaçao has a population over 160,000 in an area of 444 km2 (171 sq mi) and its capital is Willemstad.
Before the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles on 10 October 2010, Curaçao was administered as the Island Territory of Curaçao (Dutch: Eilandgebied Curaçao, Papiamento: Teritorio Insular di Kòrsou), one of five island territories of the former Netherlands Antilles.
Curaçao | Wikipedia audio article
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Curaçao
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written
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- improves your listening skills
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SUMMARY
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Curaçao (; Dutch: Curaçao, pronounced [kyːraːˈsʌu, kuː-]; Papiamento: Kòrsou, pronounced [ˈkorsou]) is a Lesser Antilles island in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about 65 km (40 mi) north of the Venezuelan coast. It is a constituent country (Dutch: land) of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
The country was formerly part of the Curaçao and Dependencies colony (1815–1954) and is now formally called the Country of Curaçao (Dutch: Land Curaçao; Papiamento: Pais Kòrsou); it includes the main island of Curaçao and the uninhabited island of Klein Curaçao (Little Curaçao). Curaçao has a population over 160,000 in an area of 444 km2 (171 sq mi) and its capital is Willemstad.
Before the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles on 10 October 2010, Curaçao was administered as the Island Territory of Curaçao (Dutch: Eilandgebied Curaçao, Papiamento: Teritorio Insular di Kòrsou), one of five island territories of the former Netherlands Antilles.
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?)