Sail Life - New York City (+ a few shots of the trip up to now)
Short recap of the trip up to now and the best view of the Manhatten skyline I've ever had!
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Liberty Weekend 1986
The Parade of ships during Liberty Weekend in 1986 was amazing! The QE2, Amerikanis, and the Galileo cruise ships were in the harbor as well as the battleship Iowa which was the platform for President Reagan to make a speech and officially light the Statue of Liberty's newly updated and refurbished torch. My family was there for this great event and my brother and I happen to wander in the background of an interview that was LIVE on the air nationally.
Family Has Been Sailing Around The World Non-Stop For 9 Years
The Gifford family left their home in Washington in 2008 to sail around the world. They have not stopped since. We met up with them in the summer of 2016 in Noank, Connecticut to learn their story and to see how they all live on a 47-foot sailboat.
Follow the Giffords on their journey.
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Edey & Duff Shearwater at BEER Cruise 2015 Pensacola, FL!
Filmed with my GoPro HERO 4 Silver! Had a blast everyone thanks for the good time!
The 700 Club - March 4, 2016
Gang life fails to bring the long term acceptance that Abraham is searching for. Plus, mauled by his own tractor, Paul is facing an almost certain death. The stage is set for God to do what He does best on today’s 700 Club.
Bill Nye: Everything All At Once | Talks at Google
Author/Scientist/TV Presenter Bill Nye discusses his new book, Everything All At Once. In an interview with Googler Malik Ducard, Bill discusses his career, the correct way to tie a bow tie, and how we can best approach the scientific and political challenges facing the world today.
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Aberdeen
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Folklore of the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called folkloristics. In usage, there is a continuum between folklore and mythology.
American folklore encompasses the folk traditions that have evolved on the North American continent since Europeans arrived in the 16th century. While it contains much in the way of Native American tradition, it should not be confused with the tribal beliefs of any community of native people.
History of the United States Merchant Marine | Wikipedia audio article
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History of the United States Merchant Marine
00:00:43 1 History
00:00:51 1.1 Early history
00:02:04 1.1.1 The 18th century
00:02:44 1.1.2 Revolutionary War
00:03:42 1.1.3 1783–1790
00:10:02 1.1.4 The 1790s
00:11:25 1.2 The 19th century
00:14:49 1.2.1 The War of 1812
00:15:40 1.2.2 Clipper ships
00:17:27 1.2.3 1815–1830
00:19:37 1.2.4 The 1830s
00:21:20 1.2.5 The 1840s
00:25:11 1.2.6 The 1850s
00:30:09 1.2.7 The 1860s
00:30:30 1.2.7.1 Civil War era
00:33:11 1.2.7.2 1866–1870
00:34:45 1.2.8 The 1870s
00:36:11 1.2.9 The 1880s
00:37:24 1.2.10 The 1890s
00:39:23 1.3 The early 20th century
00:39:58 1.3.1 The 1910s
00:42:10 1.3.2 World War I
00:45:29 1.3.3 1919–1930
00:46:27 1.3.4 1930–1941
00:49:51 1.3.4.1 NMU formation
00:51:30 1.3.4.2 SIU formation
00:52:11 1.3.5 The 1940s
00:52:19 1.3.5.1 World War II
00:59:08 1.3.5.2 Wartime issues
01:06:32 1.3.6 The 1950s
01:07:22 1.3.6.1 Korean War
01:12:51 1.3.6.2 1953–1960
01:15:48 1.4 The late 20th century
01:15:57 1.4.1 1960s
01:16:42 1.4.2 Vietnam War
01:17:57 1.4.3 The 1970s
01:18:52 1.4.4 The 1980s
01:19:15 1.4.5 The 1990s
01:20:44 1.5 The 2000s
01:22:52 2 See also
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The maritime history of the United States is a broad theme within the history of the United States. As an academic subject, it crosses the boundaries of standard disciplines, focusing on understanding the United States' relationship with the oceans, seas, and major waterways of the globe. The focus is on merchant shipping, and the financing and manning of the ships. A merchant marine owned at home is not essential to an extensive foreign commerce. In fact, it may be cheaper to hire other nations to handle the carrying trade than to participate in it directly. On the other hand, there are certain advantages, particularly during time of war, which may warrant an aggressive government encouragement to the maintenance of a merchant marine.
Economic history of the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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Economic history of the United States
00:00:31 1 Colonial economy to 1780s
00:01:30 1.1 Demographics
00:03:32 1.2 The economy
00:07:14 1.2.1 New England
00:09:52 1.3 Urban centers
00:13:14 1.4 Political environment
00:13:23 1.4.1 Mercantilism: old and new
00:15:04 1.4.2 Free enterprise
00:16:20 1.4.3 Taxation
00:17:42 1.5 The American Revolution
00:23:41 2 The New Nation
00:26:03 2.1 Industry and commerce
00:26:12 2.1.1 Transportation
00:26:51 2.1.2 Automatic flour mill
00:27:23 2.1.3 Cotton gin
00:27:57 2.1.4 Mechanized textile manufacturing
00:29:35 2.2 Finance, money and banking
00:30:07 3 The early 19th century
00:31:00 3.1 Political developments
00:35:18 3.2 Agriculture, commerce and industry
00:35:28 3.2.1 Population growth
00:37:18 3.2.2 Labor shortage
00:38:09 3.2.3 Agriculture
00:40:15 3.2.4 Roads
00:41:56 3.2.5 Canals
00:43:48 3.2.6 Steam power
00:45:18 3.2.7 Mechanical power transmission
00:45:55 3.2.8 Shipbuilding
00:46:22 3.2.9 Steamboats and steam ships
00:48:17 3.2.10 Railroads
00:49:59 3.2.11 Manufacturing
00:53:16 3.2.11.1 Development of interchangeable parts
00:57:10 3.3 Finance, money and banking
01:01:04 3.3.1 Economics of the War of 1812
01:04:50 4 The mid 19th century
01:06:46 4.1 Commerce, industry and agriculture
01:07:04 4.1.1 Railroads
01:09:16 4.1.2 Iron industry
01:10:55 4.1.3 Coal displaces wood
01:12:23 4.1.4 Manufacturing
01:14:32 4.1.5 Steam power
01:15:39 4.1.6 Steamboats and ships
01:17:02 4.1.7 Telegraph
01:17:51 4.1.8 Urbanization
01:18:40 4.1.9 Agriculture
01:21:07 4.1.9.1 Slave labor
01:21:59 4.2 Finance, money and banking
01:23:22 4.2.1 Panic of 1857
01:25:44 4.3 Immigration surge
01:26:05 4.4 Collapse of the South
01:27:28 4.5 Political developments
01:28:30 4.5.1 Treasury
01:31:30 4.5.2 Land grants
01:34:44 4.5.3 Banking
01:35:18 4.5.4 Education
01:35:53 4.5.5 Civil War
01:37:30 5 Late 19th century
01:37:40 5.1 Commerce, industry and agriculture
01:40:04 5.1.1 Railroads
01:41:46 5.1.2 Steel
01:42:47 5.1.3 Electric lights and electric street railways
01:44:59 5.1.4 Communications
01:45:54 5.1.5 Modern business management
01:46:49 5.1.6 Agriculture
01:50:15 5.1.7 Oil, minerals and mining
01:50:24 5.1.7.1 Oil
01:54:27 5.1.7.2 Coal
01:54:40 5.1.7.3 Iron ore
01:55:05 5.1.8 Finance, money and banking
01:56:45 5.1.9 Water supply and sewers
01:57:13 5.1.10 Labor unions
01:57:50 5.1.11 Political developments
01:58:13 6 Early 20th century
01:58:23 6.1 Economic growth and the 1910 break
01:59:42 6.2 Industry, commerce and agriculture
02:00:19 6.2.1 Electrification
02:02:39 6.2.2 Manufacturing
02:05:14 6.2.3 Electric street railways
02:05:47 6.2.4 Electrochemicals
02:06:46 6.2.5 Railroads
02:07:50 6.2.6 Automobiles and trucks
02:08:46 6.2.7 Highway system
02:09:42 6.2.8 Water supply and sewers
02:10:41 6.2.9 Agriculture
02:11:46 6.2.10 Communications
02:11:54 6.2.10.1 Telephone
02:12:34 6.2.10.2 Radio
02:13:18 6.2.11 Finance, money and banking
02:15:30 6.3 Political developments
02:18:57 6.3.1 World War I
02:19:18 6.3.2 Roaring twenties: 1920–1929
02:20:39 6.4 Quality of life
02:21:58 7 From 1929 through World War II
02:22:09 7.1 Pre-war industry, commerce, and agriculture
02:22:43 7.1.1 Manufacturing
02:23:13 7.2 Great Depression: 1929–1941
02:24:27 7.2.1 Spending
02:24:30 7.2.2 Banking crisis
02:26:18 7.2.3 Unemployment
02:28:31 7.2.4 Relief
02:30:40 7.2.5 New Deal impact
02:33:46 7.3 Wartime output and controls: 1940–1945
02:34:01 7.4 Household gas, water, electricity, sanitation, heating, refrigeration
02:34:59 8 Postwar prosperity: 1945–1973
02:37:10 8.1 Agriculture
02:37:39 8.1.1 Farm machinery, fertilizer and high yield seed varieties
02:39:53 8.1.2 Government policies
02:40:02 8.2 Aircraft and air transportation industries
02:41:01 8.3 Housing
02:42:09 8.4 Interstate highway system
02:44:00 8.5 Computer Technology
02:46:04 8.6 Fiscal Policy
02:46:19 8.7 Military and space spending
02:47:04 9 Late 20th century
02:47:40 9.1 Post industrial (service) economy
02:49:18 9.2 Service sector expansion
02:49:27 9.3 Productivity slowdown
02:50:06 9.4 Inflation woes: 1970s
02:50:22 9.5 Deregulation and Reaganomics: 1976–1992
02:50:52 9.6 The rise of globalization: 1990s – late 2000
02:53:34 10 The 21st century
02:59:59 10.1 Great Recession
03:00:47 11 Historical statistics
03:01:26 11.1 GDP
03:04:51 11.1.1 1790–2006 GDP
03:05:01 11.2 Employment
03:05:10 11.3 Manufacturing
03:05:20 11.4 Wealth and Income
03:05:29 11.5 Productivity
03:05:37 11.6 Inequality
03:05:46 11.7 Health spending
03:06:10 11.8 Tariff Rates
03:06:18 11.9 Trade Balance
03:06:27 11.10 Inflation
03:06:35 11.11 US Federal Tax
03:06:44 11.12 Government spending
03:06:52 11.13 Debt
03:07:01 11.14 Deficit
03:07:10 12 See also
03:07:18 13 Footnotes
03:07:26 14 Bibliography
03:07:57 14.1 References
03:08:06 14.2 Special studies
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Sharper Focus/Wider Lens: Salt Water Encounters
MSU faculty participating in Salt Water Encounters: Conducting Research Beneath, Beside and Across the Oceans included: Dr. Peter Beattie, Dr. Eva Kassens-Noor, Nathaniel Ostrom, Masako Tominga, and Gail Vander Stoep.
Folklore of the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called folkloristics. In usage, there is a continuum between folklore and mythology.
American folklore encompasses the folk traditions that have evolved on the North American continent since Europeans arrived in the 16th century. While it contains much in the way of Native American tradition, it should not be confused with the tribal beliefs of any community of native people.
Great Famine (Ireland)
In Ireland, the Great Famine was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration between 1845 and 1852. It is sometimes referred to, mostly outside Ireland, as the Irish Potato Famine because one-third of the population was then solely reliant on this cheap crop for a number of historical reasons. During the famine approximately 1 million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland, causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%. The proximate cause of famine was a potato disease commonly known as potato blight.
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Suspense: Money Talks / Murder by the Book / Murder by an Expert
The program's heyday was in the early 1950s, when radio actor, producer and director Elliott Lewis took over (still during the Wilcox/Autolite run). Here the material reached new levels of sophistication. The writing was taut, and the casting, which had always been a strong point of the series (featuring such film stars as Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland, Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Eve McVeagh, Lena Horne, and Cary Grant), took an unexpected turn when Lewis expanded the repertory to include many of radio's famous drama and comedy stars — often playing against type — such as Jack Benny. Jim and Marian Jordan of Fibber McGee and Molly were heard in the episode, Backseat Driver, which originally aired February 3, 1949.
The highest production values enhanced Suspense, and many of the shows retain their power to grip and entertain. At the time he took over Suspense, Lewis was familiar to radio fans for playing Frankie Remley, the wastrel guitar-playing sidekick to Phil Harris in The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show. On the May 10, 1951 Suspense, Lewis reversed the roles with Death on My Hands: A bandleader (Harris) is horrified when an autograph-seeking fan accidentally shoots herself and dies in his hotel room, and a vocalist (Faye) tries to help him as the townfolk call for vigilante justice against him.
With the rise of television and the departures of Lewis and Autolite, subsequent producers (Antony Ellis, William N. Robson and others) struggled to maintain the series despite shrinking budgets, the availability of fewer name actors, and listenership decline. To save money, the program frequently used scripts first broadcast by another noteworthy CBS anthology, Escape. In addition to these tales of exotic adventure, Suspense expanded its repertoire to include more science fiction and supernatural content. By the end of its run, the series was remaking scripts from the long-canceled program The Mysterious Traveler. A time travel tale like Robert Arthur's The Man Who Went Back to Save Lincoln or a thriller about a death ray-wielding mad scientist would alternate with more run-of-the-mill crime dramas.
History of Jardine, Matheson & Co. | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:45 1 Background
00:03:59 2 Early history
00:09:39 3 The private firm of Jardine, Matheson & Co.
00:13:51 4 Expansion
00:31:40 5 Diversification and further expansion
00:33:08 5.1 Shipping
00:35:20 5.2 Railways
00:39:22 5.3 Wharves and real estate
00:40:35 5.4 Star Ferry
00:41:08 5.5 Hong Kong Tramways Ltd.
00:41:40 5.6 Other industries
00:41:50 5.6.1 Insurance
00:42:43 5.6.2 Jardine Engineering Corporation
00:44:03 5.7 Overseas interests
00:45:59 5.8 The EWO companies
00:50:34 5.9 Imports and exports
00:53:17 5.10 Correspondents
00:54:48 5.11 Jardine Aircraft Maintenance Company (JAMCo)
00:55:48 6 Group structure c. 1938
00:56:08 7 War and withdrawal from the Chinese Mainland
01:00:55 8 Post-war restructuring
01:03:07 8.1 1960–1970
01:04:45 8.2 1970–1980
01:09:05 8.3 1980–1990
01:13:51 8.4 1990–2000
01:16:52 8.5 2000–2010
01:18:09 9 Notes
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Jardine Matheson & Co., later Jardine Matheson & Co. Ltd., forerunner of today's Jardine Matheson Holdings, was a Far Eastern trading company founded in 1832 by Scotsmen William Jardine and James Matheson as senior partners. Trafficking opium, while trading cotton, tea, silk and a variety of other goods, from its early beginnings in Canton (modern day Guangzhou), in 1844 the firm established its head office in the new British colony of Hong Kong then proceeded to expand all along the China Coast.
By the end of the nineteenth century, Jardine, Matheson & Co. had become the largest of the foreign trading companies in the Far East and had expanded its activities into sectors including shipping, cotton mills and railway construction.
Further growth occurred in the early decades of the twentieth century with new cold storage, packing and brewing businesses while the firm also became the largest cotton spinner in Shanghai.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China on 1 October 1949, doing business in the country became increasingly problematic. As a result, foreign businesses gradually withdrew from the mainland with Jardines leaving in 1954 to reconsolidate its business in Hong Kong. The firm would not return to mainland China until 1979, following the reform and opening up of the country.
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The economic history of the United States is about characteristics of and important developments in the U.S. economy from colonial times to the present. The emphasis is on economic performance and how it was affected by new technologies, especially those that improved productivity, which is the main cause of economic growth. Also covered are the change of size in economic sectors and the effects of legislation and government policy. Specialized business history is covered in American business history.
Dragnet: Big Escape / Big Man Part 1 / Big Man Part 2
Dragnet is a radio and television crime drama about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from an actual police term, a dragnet, meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.
Dragnet debuted inauspiciously. The first several months were bumpy, as Webb and company worked out the program's format and eventually became comfortable with their characters (Friday was originally portrayed as more brash and forceful than his later usually relaxed demeanor). Gradually, Friday's deadpan, fast-talking persona emerged, described by John Dunning as a cop's cop, tough but not hard, conservative but caring. (Dunning, 210) Friday's first partner was Sergeant Ben Romero, portrayed by Barton Yarborough, a longtime radio actor. After Yarborough's death in 1951 (and therefore Romero's, who also died of a heart attack, as acknowledged on the December 27, 1951 episode The Big Sorrow), Friday was partnered with Sergeant Ed Jacobs (December 27, 1951 - April 10, 1952, subsequently transferred to the Police Academy as an instructor), played by Barney Phillips; Officer Bill Lockwood (Ben Romero's nephew, April 17, 1952 - May 8, 1952), played by Martin Milner (with Ken Peters taking the role for the June 12, 1952 episode The Big Donation); and finally Frank Smith, played first by Herb Ellis (1952), then Ben Alexander (September 21, 1952-1959). Raymond Burr was on board to play the Chief of Detectives. When Dragnet hit its stride, it became one of radio's top-rated shows.
Webb insisted on realism in every aspect of the show. The dialogue was clipped, understated and sparse, influenced by the hardboiled school of crime fiction. Scripts were fast moving but didn't seem rushed. Every aspect of police work was chronicled, step by step: From patrols and paperwork, to crime scene investigation, lab work and questioning witnesses or suspects. The detectives' personal lives were mentioned but rarely took center stage. (Friday was a bachelor who lived with his mother; Romero, a Mexican-American from Texas, was an ever fretful husband and father.) Underplaying is still acting, Webb told Time. We try to make it as real as a guy pouring a cup of coffee. (Dunning, 209) Los Angeles police chiefs C.B. Horrall, William A. Worton, and (later) William H. Parker were credited as consultants, and many police officers were fans.
Most of the later episodes were entitled The Big _____, where the key word denoted a person or thing in the plot. In numerous episodes, this would the principal suspect, victim, or physical target of the crime, but in others was often a seemingly inconsequential detail eventually revealed to be key evidence in solving the crime. For example, in The Big Streetcar the background noise of a passing streetcar helps to establish the location of a phone booth used by the suspect.
Throughout the series' radio years, one can find interesting glimpses of pre-renewal Downtown L.A., still full of working class residents and the cheap bars, cafes, hotels and boarding houses which served them. At the climax of the early episode James Vickers, the chase leads to the Subway Terminal Building, where the robber flees into one of the tunnels only to be killed by an oncoming train. Meanwhile, by contrast, in other episodes set in outlying areas, it is clear that the locations in question are far less built up than they are today. Today, the Imperial Highway, extending 40 miles east from El Segundo to Anaheim, is a heavily used boulevard lined almost entirely with low-rise commercial development. In an early Dragnet episode scenes along the Highway, at the road to San Pedro, clearly indicate that it still retained much the character of a country highway at that time.