San Jose2Jamaica
Visualizations of the San Jose2Jamica project we will begin at Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church -
the oldest church in the Americas.
New York Church-Regina Pacis
Part 1 Regina Pacis. Queeen of Peace Church in 65th Street Brooklyn New York. Shrine of Mother Mary
Grand Bahia Principe, Runaway Bay, Jamaica
The Grand Bahia Principe Jamaica is located in Runaway Bay, St Ann, Jamaica (Caribbean).
It is an all-inclusive hotel resort which belongs to Grupo Piñero, a leading group in the Spanish tourism.
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2018 Jamaica Drone Footage using the DJI Mavic Pro.
Aerial View of St Ann Jamaica.
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Bomber (Sting) by Riot (Reggae).
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City of Churches: St. Peter Claver, Bedford-Stuyvesant, BK
Rejoice in the WORD with Bishop George Bloomer-December 16th, 2016
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.
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Privateers | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:01:54 1 Legal framework
00:02:54 2 Noted privateers
00:03:29 3 Ships
00:05:07 4 Overall history
00:09:38 4.1 17th, 18th and 19th centuries
00:12:25 4.2 Britain
00:16:31 4.3 Bermudians
00:25:16 4.4 Providence Island colony
00:32:43 4.5 Spain and its colonies
00:34:21 4.6 France
00:35:40 4.7 Malta
00:36:32 4.8 United States
00:43:11 4.9 Latin America
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- Socrates
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A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war. The commission, also known as a letter of marque, empowers the person to carry on all forms of hostility permissible at sea by the usages of war, including attacking foreign vessels during wartime and taking them as prizes. Historically, captured ships were subject to condemnation and sale under prize law, with the proceeds divided between the privateer sponsors, shipowners, captains and crew. A percentage share usually went to the issuer of the commission. Since robbery under arms was once common to seaborne trade, all merchant ships were already armed. During war, naval resources were auxiliary to operations on land so privateering was a way of subsidizing state power by mobilizing armed ships and sailors.
In practice the legality and status of privateers historically has often been vague. Depending on the specific government and the time period, letters of marque might be issued hastily and/or the privateers might take actions beyond what was authorized by the letters. The privateers themselves were often simply pirates who would take advantage of wars between nations to gain semi-legal status for their enterprises. By the end of the 19th century the practice of issuing letters of marque had fallen out of favor because of the chaos it caused and its role in inadvertently encouraging piracy.
A privateer is similar to a mercenary except that, whereas a mercenary group receives a set fee for services and generally has a formal reporting structure within the entity that hires them, a privateer acts independently with generally no compensation unless the enemy's property is captured.
Sisters of St. Joseph | Wikipedia audio article
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The Sisters of St. Joseph, also known as the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph and abbreviated C.S.J. or S.S.J., is a Roman Catholic religious congregation of women founded in Le Puy-en-Velay, France, in 1650. This Congregation has approximately 14,000 members worldwide: about 7,000 in the United States; 2,000 in France; and are active in fifty other countries.
FTLD'z Top 676 Songs of 2006
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Countdown finalized January 19, 2007.
This iz my 7th annual year-end countdown. I did it back in January 2007, when I was 18, and I'm finally gettin' it online, in video format. This countdown iz statistically based off of how popular each song was on my outlets--mixed with my own spins--in 2006.
Tha countdown iz divided into seven levels (100 songs each, excludin' Level 1).
I attached a transcript to view all tha songs. I think all tha songs come up in tha YouTube search, too. I'm still new to tha transcripts on YouTube so I hope to get better at it, soon.
Privateer | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Privateer
00:01:39 1 Legal framework
00:02:31 2 Noted privateers
00:03:03 3 Ships
00:04:28 4 Overall history
00:08:23 4.1 17th, 18th and 19th centuries
00:10:49 4.2 Britain
00:14:23 4.3 Bermudians
00:21:59 4.4 Providence Island colony
00:28:27 4.5 Spain and its colonies
00:29:52 4.6 France
00:31:02 4.7 Malta
00:31:48 4.8 United States
00:37:32 4.9 Latin America
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war. The commission, also known as a letter of marque, empowers the person to carry on all forms of hostility permissible at sea by the usages of war, including attacking foreign vessels during wartime and taking them as prizes. Historically, captured ships were subject to condemnation and sale under prize law, with the proceeds divided between the privateer sponsors, shipowners, captains and crew. A percentage share usually went to the issuer of the commission. Since robbery under arms was once common to seaborne trade, all merchant ships were already armed. During war, naval resources were auxiliary to operations on land so privateering was a way of subsidizing state power by mobilizing armed ships and sailors.
In practice the legality and status of privateers historically has often been vague. Depending on the specific government and the time period, letters of marque might be issued hastily and/or the privateers might take actions beyond what was authorized by the letters. The privateers themselves were often simply pirates who would take advantage of wars between nations to gain semi-legal status for their enterprises. By the end of the 19th century the practice of issuing letters of marque had fallen out of favor because of the chaos it caused and its role in inadvertently encouraging piracy.
A privateer is similar to a mercenary except that, whereas a mercenary group receives a set fee for services and generally has a formal reporting structure within the entity that hires them, a privateer acts independently with generally no compensation unless the enemy's property is captured.
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Privateer | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:02:28 1 Legal framework
00:03:43 2 Noted privateers
00:04:25 3 Ships
00:06:29 4 Overall history
00:12:13 4.1 17th, 18th and 19th centuries
00:15:47 4.2 Britain
00:21:03 4.3 Bermudians
00:32:23 4.4 Providence Island colony
00:42:02 4.5 Spain and its colonies
00:44:06 4.6 France
00:45:45 4.7 Malta
00:46:50 4.8 United States
00:55:24 4.9 Latin America
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Speaking Rate: 0.7000703167611493
Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-C
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war. The commission, also known as a letter of marque, empowers the person to carry on all forms of hostility permissible at sea by the usages of war, including attacking foreign vessels during wartime and taking them as prizes. Historically, captured ships were subject to condemnation and sale under prize law, with the proceeds divided between the privateer sponsors, shipowners, captains and crew. A percentage share usually went to the issuer of the commission. Since robbery under arms was once common to seaborne trade, all merchant ships were already armed. During war, naval resources were auxiliary to operations on land so privateering was a way of subsidizing state power by mobilizing armed ships and sailors.
In practice the legality and status of privateers historically has often been vague. Depending on the specific government and the time period, letters of marque might be issued hastily and/or the privateers might take actions beyond what was authorized by the letters. The privateers themselves were often simply pirates who would take advantage of wars between nations to gain semi-legal status for their enterprises. By the end of the 19th century the practice of issuing letters of marque had fallen out of favor because of the chaos it caused and its role in inadvertently encouraging piracy.
A privateer is similar to a mercenary except that, whereas a mercenary group receives a set fee for services and generally has a formal reporting structure within the entity that hires them, a privateer acts independently with generally no compensation unless the enemy's property is captured.
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Privateering | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:01:56 1 Legal framework
00:02:57 2 Noted privateers
00:03:33 3 Ships
00:05:12 4 Overall history
00:09:50 4.1 17th, 18th and 19th centuries
00:12:40 4.2 Britain
00:16:51 4.3 Bermudians
00:25:44 4.4 Providence Island colony
00:33:16 4.5 Spain and its colonies
00:34:56 4.6 France
00:36:17 4.7 Malta
00:37:09 4.8 United States
00:43:55 4.9 Latin America
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Speaking Rate: 0.8249972587603641
Voice name: en-GB-Wavenet-A
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war. The commission, also known as a letter of marque, empowers the person to carry on all forms of hostility permissible at sea by the usages of war, including attacking foreign vessels during wartime and taking them as prizes. Historically, captured ships were subject to condemnation and sale under prize law, with the proceeds divided between the privateer sponsors, shipowners, captains and crew. A percentage share usually went to the issuer of the commission. Since robbery under arms was once common to seaborne trade, all merchant ships were already armed. During war, naval resources were auxiliary to operations on land so privateering was a way of subsidizing state power by mobilizing armed ships and sailors.
In practice the legality and status of privateers historically has often been vague. Depending on the specific government and the time period, letters of marque might be issued hastily and/or the privateers might take actions beyond what was authorized by the letters. The privateers themselves were often simply pirates who would take advantage of wars between nations to gain semi-legal status for their enterprises. By the end of the 19th century the practice of issuing letters of marque had fallen out of favor because of the chaos it caused and its role in inadvertently encouraging piracy.
A privateer is similar to a mercenary except that, whereas a mercenary group receives a set fee for services and generally has a formal reporting structure within the entity that hires them, a privateer acts independently with generally no compensation unless the enemy's property is captured.
Simon Newman - Thinks Himself Free: Escaped Slaves in 18th Century Britain
Annual Webb Lecture
Simon P. Newman, Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American History, University of Glasgow
There were thousands of enslaved people in eighteenth-century Britain, brought from around the world by colonists, merchants, planters, clergymen, government officials, and officers. While valued for their labor, these enslaved men, women, and, most especially, children, served as symbols of the success of their masters. This lecture will explore the attempts at escape of some of those enslaved men, women, and children. Drawing on runaway slave advertisements in British newspapers, the lecture will show that although enslavement in Britain appeared mild when compared with the horrors of New World slavery, masters and mistresses continued to believe they held the enslaved as chattel property.
A book signing and reception will follow the program.
Bio: Simon P. Newman is the Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American History at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of numerous books and articles, most recently A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic (2013), which was awarded the British Association for American Studies Book Prize. His current research focuses on enslaved people who escaped in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic World, and he is the Principal Investigator of the Leverhulme Trust-funded research project “Runaway Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” During the 2018-19 academic year, he will hold the Mowat Mellon Research Fellowship at the Folger Institute in Washington D.C., where he will be working on a book entitled Runaways: Resisting Enslavement in the British Atlantic World.
Sponsored by the History Department and the Dresher Center for the Humanities. Email the Dresher Center at dreshercenter@umbc.edu
Formal 08/23/11 Session - Norfolk City Council
02:41 PH-1 This ordinance would close 135 feet of an unopened 30 foot paper street segment adjacent to Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority property. The closure would better position the property for redevelopment as a mixed-use apartment and retail project.
04:00 PH-2 These agenda items are a General Plan amendment, two text amendments, and a change of zoning to allow for a development of a mixed use development with 47,472 square feet of retail/office/storage space and 195 unit multiple-family units.
18:09 PH-3 Zoning Text Amendment would allow development on 37.5 foot lots in the R-11 and R-12 Multiple-Family districts.
19:17 PH-4 For the following applications by Luna Development Services, LLC: a. For a change of zoning from R-12 (Medium Density Multiple-Family) district to conditional C-2 (Corridor Commercial) district at 2601 Granby
21:15 CONSENT
21:38 R-1 A Grant to the YMCA of South Hampton Roads to facilitate the development of a YMCA and Childhood Development Center in Park Place - If approved, the City will enter into an Agreement with the YMCA of South Hampton Roads to provide a grant of $925,000 for the acquisition of certain lands within the Park Place neighborhood.
01:47:05 R-2 This encroachment will allow Vernon M. Fareed to enhance the entrance to 530-532 W. 35th Street with gooseneck lighting.
01:47:43 R-3 This encroachment will allow Kate's Corner, LLC to driveway access to 320 E. 41st Street and pier access to the southern branch of the Lafayette River.
01:48:22 R-4 This ordinance will permit the City of Norfolk to accept the dedication of a perpetual sidewalk easement by the American Heart Association at 5840 East Virginia Beach Boulevard.
01:48:41 R-5 Acceptance of Temporary Construction Easement by Richard V. and Evelyn S. Reynolds for Ashland Circle Bulkhead Replacement
01:49:03 R-6 Acceptance of Temporary Construction Easement by Emilie J. Smoke for Ashland Circle Bulkhead Replacement
01:49:24 R-7 The Virginia Department of Emergency Management FY 2010 State Homeland Security Program Grant will provide funding in the amount of $16,040.00 to purchase a license plate reader (LPR) and related computer hardware to enhance port security.
01:49:53 R-8 Allows 9 persons to be employed to continue providing aid and services to City of Norfolk citizens who are victims or witnesses of crime.
R-9 Permits Norfolk Criminal Justice Services to occupy 707 and 711-713 Granby Street.
R-10 License Agreement with Norfolk Rowing Center, Inc., Hagan Designs, and Cooper's Landscape Management
R-11 General Douglas MacArthur Memorial - Right of Entry Agreements (Plume Street & Bank Street)
R-12 Purchase and Sale Agreement for Acquisition of Properties at 360 and 362 San Antonio Boulevard owned by GPMC Properties, LLC with the strategic objectives in facilitating improvements in the Denby Park neighborhood.
R-13 permit the City's acquisition of 316, 320, 324, 336, and 340 San Antonio Boulevard consistent with the strategic objectives in facilitating improvements in the Denby Park neighborhood.
R-14 Allows Holiday Inn Select to amend the Special Exception by revising the hours of operation and managers of the hotel located at 1570 North Military Highway
R-15 The City will receive up to $100,000.00 in reimbursement from the U.S.D.A. Supplemental Nutrition Program
R-16 For Special Exceptions to operate an Establishment for the Sale of Alcoholic Beverages at 521 West 25th Street -- O'Connor Brewing Company and to operate Off-Lot Parking at 600 West 25th Street
R-17 To amend a previously granted Special Exception to operate an Eating and Drinking Establishment at 723 West 21st Street -- Pho 79
R-18 Acceptance of a grant award for the funding of Norfolk Criminal Justice Services
R-19 Acceptance of FY 2012 Department of Criminal Justice Services grant for the Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Program
R-20 Virginia Juvenile Community Crime Control Act (VJCCCA)
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano | Audiobook with Subtitles
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. It discusses his time spent in slavery, serving primarily on galleys, documents his attempts at becoming an independent man through his study of the Bible, and his eventual success in gaining his own freedom and in business thereafter.
The book contains an interesting discussion of slavery in West Africa and illustrates how the experience differs from the dehumanising slavery of the Americas. The Intereresting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is also one of the first widely read slave narratives. It was generally reviewed favorably. (Wikipedia)
This work was produced to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in Great Britain.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah EQUIANO
Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Biography & Autobiography
Chapters:
0:15 | Introductory
3:05 | Chapter 1
41:22 | Chapter 2
1:09:58 | Chapter 3
1:45:00 | Chapter 4
2:26:09 | Chapter 5
3:07:58 | Chapter 6
3:50:58 | Chapter 7
4:27:23 | Chapter 8
5:03:36 | Chapter 9
5:47:46 | Chapter 10
6:29:58 | Chapter 11
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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?)