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Jeannette is joined by Amber Nuttall and Alistair Gosling all the way from COP29 in Azerbaijan to discuss their journey from launching the Extreme Sports channel to evolving their business into a platform focused on adventure, sustainability, and community engagement. Alistair shares insights on the entrepreneurial spirit driving change in the environmental sector, while Amber highlights the importance of amplifying diverse voices at COP29. KEY TAKEAWAYS The current emphasis is on environmental sustainability, with a strong belief that everyone can contribute to positive change. The goal is to inspire a broad audience to take action, highlighting the importance of collaboration and the need for "8 billion imperfect environmentalists." At COP29, the primary focus is on finance and the need for substantial investment in sustainability initiatives. The discussions aim to encourage governments to make impactful decisions that will shape the future of environmental efforts. There is a growing trend of entrepreneurs and innovative companies stepping up to address environmental challenges. Examples include sustainable brands gaining traction and initiatives like the Earthshot Prize recognising impactful organisations. We should encourage individuals and organisations to embrace bravery, boldness, and brilliance in their efforts to create a sustainable future, while also recognising the need for balance in addressing both climate and technological advancements. BEST MOMENTS "We inspired a good few million people around the world to go and get active, drive health, fitness, well-being through getting into adventure and extreme sports." "We need 8 billion imperfect environmentalists in the world today. We don't need a handful of perfect ones." "What I'm loving seeing is the entrepreneurial spirit shining through where entrepreneurs are taking advantage and really drilling into opportunities to change the dial." "It's very clear. It's finance. It's all about finance this year... we can only hope that our governments come together and make the right decisions around that."   This is the perfect time to get focused on what YOU want to really achieve in your business, career, and life. It's never too late to be BRAVE and BOLD and unlock your inner BRILLIANT. Visit our new website https://brave-bold-brilliant.com/ - there you'll find a library of FREE resources and downloadable guides and e-books to help you along your journey. If you'd like to jump on a free mentoring session just DM Jeannette at info@brave-bold-brilliant.com. VALUABLE RESOURCES Brave Bold Brilliant - https://brave-bold-brilliant.com/ Brave, Bold, Brilliant podcast series - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/brave-bold-brilliant-podcast/id1524278970    ABOUT THE GUESTS Alistair is the CEO and founder of Extreme International, a purpose-driven adventure company. Known for his positive "Can Do" attitude, Alistair leads EXTREME with a mission to drive positive change through extreme and adventure sports. The company's integrated offerings include the strategy, design, and development of adventurous destinations, experiences, events, and social media. Guided by three pillars—people, planet, and place—EXTREME aims to promote sports participation, active lifestyles, job creation, infrastructure investment, and tourism, all while aligning with five key UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and government agendas to ensure sustainability. Amber advises, connects and supports brands on their sustainability journey. As a dedicated environmentalist and adventurer from a young age she has been involved with and is a proud board member of the Bahamas Reef Environment Educational Foundation (BREEF) which was founded by her pioneering late father, Sir Nicholas Nuttall Bt in 1993. Amber is an advisor, fundraiser and ambassador to the Blue Marine Foundation and in 2016 Amber paddle boarded the 236 miles of the River Thames, then in 2017 she became the first woman to cross the English Channel on a paddle board with the goal of raising awareness and funds for Blue. In 2018 Amber became the first person to paddle round New Providence in celebration of the 25th anniversary of BREEF.  ABOUT THE HOST Jeannette Linfoot is a highly regarded senior executive, property investor, board advisor, and business mentor with over 30 years of global professional business experience across the travel, leisure, hospitality, and property sectors. Having bought, ran, and sold businesses all over the world, Jeannette now has a portfolio of her own businesses and also advises and mentors other business leaders to drive forward their strategies as well as their own personal development. Jeannette is a down-to-earth leader, a passionate champion for diversity & inclusion, and a huge advocate of nurturing talent so every person can unleash their full potential and live their dreams. CONTACT THE HOST Jeannette's linktree - https://linktr.ee/JLinfoot https://www.jeannettelinfootassociates.com/ YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/@braveboldbrilliant LinkedIn - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jeannettelinfoot Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/jeannette.linfoot/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jeannette.linfoot/ Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@jeannette.linfoot Podcast Description Jeannette Linfoot talks to incredible people about their experiences of being Brave, Bold & Brilliant, which have allowed them to unleash their full potential in business, their careers, and life in general. From the boardroom tables of ‘big' international businesses to the dining room tables of entrepreneurial start-ups, how to overcome challenges, embrace opportunities and take risks, whilst staying ‘true' to yourself is the order of the day.Travel, Bold, Brilliant, business, growth, scale, marketing, investment, investing, entrepreneurship, coach, consultant, mindset, six figures, seven figures, travel, industry, ROI, B2B, inspirational: https://linktr.ee/JLinfoot

A Festival Odyssey: Phish, Mondegreens, and Moments with My SonLarry Mishkin reflects on his recent experience attending the Mondegreen Festival, a Phish festival in Dover, Delaware, with his son and friends. He shares his enthusiasm for the event, highlighting the performances and the significance of certain songs, including "The MoMA Dance" and "NICU," which have deep ties to Phish's history and fan culture. Larry provides a detailed history of Phish festivals, from the Clifford Ball in 1996 to the most recent Mondegreen Festival, noting memorable moments, attendance figures, and unique aspects of each event. The episode also includes a brief discussion on the 60th anniversary of The Beatles' performance at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver, Colorado. Larry expresses his excitement about attending the festival with his son and reminisces about the special bond they shared during the event.MONDEGREENPhishAugust 15 – 18, 2024The WoodlandsDover Delaware Band's 11th festival, NOT counting Curveball set for 2018 that was canceled at the last minute due to contaminated water supply due to heavy rains and flooding. Nine year gap between MagnaBall in March, 2015 and Mondegreen, biggest gap between festivals in band's history.  INTRO:                                 Moma Dance                                                Night One, August 15, 2024                                                First Night, First Set, First Song (into Back On The Train)                                                Phish @ The Woodlands, Mondegreen Festival, Dover DE 2024-08-15 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive                                                Track #2                                                2:31 – 4:05 By:  Anastasio/Fishman/Gordon/McConnell/MarshallPlayed:First Played:  6/30/98 in Copenhagen, DenmarkMost recent: August 15, 2024 (Mondegreen)Current Gap:  3 shows The title of “Moma” is another example of Phish Phonetics, cleverly transforming the moment ends lyric into a reference to a display of “The Rhombus” at New York City's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).Mondegreen:  are they saying, “The Moma Dance” OR “the Moment Ends”??                               SHOW No 1:                     NICU                                                Night One, August 15, 2024                                                First Set, 6th song (out of Roggae and into A Wave of Hope)                                                Phish @ The Woodlands, Mondegreen Festival, Dover DE 2024-08-15 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive                                                Track #7                                                3:00 – 4:56 By:         Anastasio/MarshallPlayed 156 timesFirst Played: 3.6.92 at The Music Hall in Portsmouth, NHMost Recent:  August 15, 2024 (Mondegreen)Gap: 3 shows Has any Phish song had as many names with as many explanations as “NICU”? At its debut in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Trey introduced the song as “In an Intensive Care Unit.” Shortly thereafter, the name was changed to “NICU,” which some considered a play on a line from the backing vocals in the chorus (“and I see you”) and others noted was the abbreviation for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.Shortly thereafter, the “controversy” began, as controversy can only begin among rabid Phish fans. Some called the song “And I See You.” Some stuck with the original “In an Intensive Care Unit.” Other interesting theories developed, including one from the Internet where a fan noted that the elements Nickel (NI) and Copper (Cu) are side-by-side on the Periodic Table and that the title “NICU” may thus be a reference to nickels and pennies or, more likely, small change.  Title is a Mondegreen for “And I See You” Music News (from Mondegreen) Matthew's crew:  Matthew, me, Donny, Jake, Dave and Seth Michigan Crew:  ??? NYC Crew: Max & Jess, Joey and Darby, Darby's brother, Brad and Sam, Dan the drummer (and?), Dude from Florida and girlfriend (??), Tesh,WHO ELSE SHOULD I MENTION? CLEVELAND CREW:  Kevin, two buddies?  Aaron   Anyone else? Hot and humid/ AC unitsTents v. RV's/bathrooms/food/water and ice/maintenanceStorm – cut Sunday short                        Modern weather technology – good and bad                        Just like 2022 Sacred Rose Festival Secret Set on Aug. 16th second night Driving 12 hours each way                                                  SHOW No. 2:                    I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove                                                Night 3, August 17, 2024 – Second set opener traditional Mike's Groove>Theme From The Bottom                                                November 11, 2012, MSG, NYNY                                                Mike's>Chalk Dust Torture>I Am Hydrogen>Weekapaug                                                Phish | 12.29.11 | Mike's Song → Chalk Dust Torture → I Am Hydrogen → Weekapaug Groove - YouTube                                                15:44 – 17.43 I Am HydrogenBy: Daubert/Marshall/AnastasioPlayed: 350 timesFirst: April 6, 1985 at Finbar's in Burlington, VTMost  Recent: August 17, 2024 (Mondegreen Night 3)Gap: 1 show The story of “I Am Hydrogen” is a love story. Conceived by Tom Marshall and Marc Daubert around 1984-85 on piano and acoustic guitar, they brought their creation over to Trey's house, where it was recorded. Trey added a harmony to it on his electric guitar, and the “Hydrogen” we have come to know was born. Initially intended for Tom, Marc, and Trey's band Bivouac, “Hydrogen” ended up in the Phish lineup and made its debut, all alone, on 4/6/85.  After a few years, it became the connector between Mike's Song and Weekapaug Groove. Into Weekapaug GrooveBy:  Anastasio/Fishman/McConnell/GordonPlayed: 523 timesFirst: 7.23.1988 at Pete's Phabulous Phish Phest in Underhill, VTMost Recent:  August 17, 2024 (Mondegreen Night 3)Gap: 1 show “Weekapaug Groove” takes its name from the town of Weekapaug, located on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean in southwestern Rhode Island. According to Mike, the song's lyrics (“Trying to make a woman that you move, sharing in a Weekapaug Groove”) are meaningless. As Mike said in a 9/9/97 interview with Parke Puterbaugh: “So we came back to Boston [from Weekapaug, after playing a gig there at a yacht club], and I guess we were in the van or the Voyager we used to drive in, and that song “Oh What a Night” came on the radio. You know that one? That awful Four Seasons song? We just constantly listened to songs and changed around the words as to what they might sound like. I always had a particularly hard time hearing lyrics anyway, so I always would sing a song on the radio, sing along with the wrong words. So the bridge of that song goes ‘Oh I-I-I trying to something,' but I was singing it, ‘Oh I-I-I trying to make a woman that you move,' which means nothing, 'sharing in a Weekapaug groove.' So we all just started singing that, as complete nonsense: ‘trying to make a woman that you move.' It never occurred to any of us that it had any meaning, ever. There was a period of time that we were singing it, and I used to just yell out the lyrics, between singing them I would just yell them out as if I was preaching them, just to sort of make it more ironic that they have no meaning.”  SHOW No. 3:                    Yamar                                                Night 4, August 18, 2024 – First set 10th song out of Stash and into Timber                                                August 17, 1996, Clifford Ball, Plattsburgh AFB, Plattsburgh, NY (1st Phish Festival) into It's Ice                                                Phish-Ya Mar-Clifford Ball (youtube.com)                                                0:13 – 1:45 By:  Cyril Ferguson                27th November 1951 - Cyril 'Dry Bread' Ferguson was born in Nassau, New Providence, Bahama Islands.Ferguson was a Bahamian musician and entertainer. He composed songs in the genres of goombay, calypso and Bahamian pop music.Some of his more popular songs include: Ya Mar, Sunshine On My Body, Bahamian Music and Don't Squeeze The Mango.Ferguson died of complications related to diabetes on 9th April 2009. “Ya Mar” resides as a favorite in the hearts of many fans. It represents one of Phish's few forays into calypso and is among the most playful and danceable songs in the band's repertoire. And anytime Trey screams for Page to take the reins – “Play it, Leoooooo!” – the crowd is apt to go wild. Page's nickname actually comes from this line in the original, where The Mustangs urged their own piano man to step into the spotlight. The title seems to reference the slurred interpretation of “your ma,” as the singer recounts the disdain his lover's family has for him. Phish put their own unique stamp on it by often changing the “no good pa” lyric in the chorus to mimic their own “oh kee pa” phrase.  Played: 232 timesFirst: 2.21.1987 at Slade Hall, UV, Burlington, VTMost Recent:  8.18.2024Gap: 0 shows Marijuana News Senator Says Harris Will ‘Be Ready To Sign' Marijuana Reform Bills If Elected PresidentGOP Senators Claim Marijuana Is A ‘Gateway Drug' As They Oppose Rescheduling And Legalization3.      People Who Use Marijuana Are Less Likely To Be Obese, New Study Shows                 SHOW No. 4:                    Simple                                                Night 4, August 18, 2024 – First set second to last song of Izabella and into Golden Age                                                July 27, 2024, Alpine Valley, East Troy, WI second set out of Sigma Oasis and into The Howling                                                Phish - 7/27/2024 - Simple (4K HDR) (youtube.com)                                                0:18 – 1:28 By:         GordonPlayed:  209 timesFirst:     5.27.1994 at the Warfield Theater in San FranciscoMost Recent:  August 18, 2024 (Mondegreen Night 4)Gap: 0 shows "Simple" was first written and recorded by Mike Gordon in a four-track medium in the Doo-wop style and introduced to the band during the studio sessions forHoist. This version reflected the country and bluegrass writing style of many previous Gordon compositions. The song was left off of the albumand the band showed hesitation in performing it live. Then, on 5/27/94, “Simple” debuted in a very strange and raw fashion during the “Mike's Song” at the Warfield in San Francisco. In contrast to the song we know today, the debut version of “Simple” was Mike's original lyrics sung by the band members over a jam that had emerged from “Mike's.” Three weeks later, “Simple” was played for a second time at the historic 6/17/94 gig, the same night that much of the country was watching the low-speed police chase of O.J. Simpson's white Ford Bronco through L.A. This version was significantly reworked and sounded much like the “Simple” we are accustomed to hearing today, with the exception of a minor humoristic augmentation providing the line “We've got O.J., cause we've got a band.” Mondegreen:  We've got a cymbal (simple) cause we've got a band   OUTRO:                               Twee Pri                                                Night 3, August 17, 2024 – Encore out of YEM into end of show                                                April 20, 2024, The Sphere, Las Vegas, NV Encore out of A Life Beyond the Dream into end of show                                                Tvidler 202202 11 by Ryan Maguire (youtube.com)                                                0:00 – end By:  Anastasio/Fishman/Gordon/McConnellPlayed:  321 tiesFirst:  2.1.1991 at Alumnae Hall, Brown University — Providence, RIMost Recent: 8.17.2024 Mondegreen Night 3Gap: 1 show A "reprise" is a sort of musical afterthought – basically a reintroduction of and variation on the main theme of a piece of music. Thus, “Tweezer Reprise” is a slight variation – a condensation of sorts – of “Tweezer.” As it does on the album A Picture of Nectar, the “Reprise” often follows “Tweezer” in concert, most frequently as an encore song. It is also common as a second set closer following an earlier “Tweezer.” A few times, the “Reprise” has even been spewed out of some long, monster “Tweezer,” serving as the thrilling exclamation point at the end of a raging, set-long sentence (e.g. 5/7/94, 6/22/95).On occasion, “Tweezer Reprise” has shown up as a surprise in a show where there has been no performance of “Tweezer” proper. Although usually this occurs because the “Reprise” will be referring back to a non-reprised “Tweezer” at the previous night's show (e.g. 12/30/96's “Tweezer” was reprised on 12/31/96), the song has been known to appear, albeit rarely, completely free from its Granddaddy counterpart, like on 9/29/99. The most interesting example of this, and perhaps the most unusual “Tweezer Reprise” ever performed, was on 12/8/99, which featured an a cappella version that came out of a “YEM” vocal jam to close the second set. The band later finished off the show with a traditional “Tweezer Reprise” to end the encore. Other interesting versions include 10/27/94 and 10/21/95. .Produced by PodConx Deadhead Cannabis Show - https://podconx.com/podcasts/deadhead-cannabis-showLarry Mishkin - https://podconx.com/guests/larry-mishkinRob Hunt - https://podconx.com/guests/rob-huntJay Blakesberg - https://podconx.com/guests/jay-blakesbergSound Designed by Jamie Humiston - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-humiston-91718b1b3/Recorded on Squadcast

This episode explores the Republic of Pirates in early 18th-century Bahamas, a unique and romanticized era following the War of the Spanish Succession. It delves into the rise of piracy in New Providence, the lives of infamous pirates like Blackbeard, and the eventual decline of this lawless society due to British intervention. Join us as we uncover the legacy of piracy and its enduring fascination in popular culture.

Given the far-reaching long-term benefits of a modernized power grid in New Providence, CFAL was excited to partner with Bahamas Grid Company in raising funding for the upgrade of the island’s electrical infrastructure. In this episode, our host Pamela Ferguson discusses the $100 million bond offering CFAL recently conducted for the project, with...

Zac Bauermaster is an elementary school principal. Zac has the tremendous opportunity to lead teachers, support staff, families, and, most importantly, the next generation. You'll hear about the PEOPLE acronym and Scripture he uses to walk this out with excellence, and the inspirational ways he makes an impact for Christ in the public school. You may not be a principal, but you are a leader of someone – and you can be pointers to Jesus who plant seeds for His kingdom right where you are!   Are you ready to hear how you, like Zac, can lead with a heart for God and people? Let's go!   ZAC BAUERMASTER currently serves as principal of Providence Elementary School in New Providence, PA. He has the tremendous opportunity to daily lead teachers, support staff, families, and, most importantly, the next generation. His greatest joy in education is seeing adults leverage their God-given talents and abilities through inspiring kids to find and use their gifts. He's passionate about creating an encouraging school environment where adults want to come daily; kids are excited to attend, and a place families trust and are proud to send their children. Zac firmly believes that the work in education is all about people, building one relationship at a time.  Most importantly, Zac is a husband to his high school sweetheart, Carly, and father to three kids, Olivia (12), Eliot (9), and Isaac (7). Zac is a firm believer in leading his family first. One of his favorite leadership roles is coaching his kids alongside other youth in their community in baseball, basketball, and softball.    Resources Website: zacbauermaster.com John 15:5 - abide in me and you will bear much fruit John 10:11 - The Good Shepherd Romans 12:15 - Rejoice w/those who rejoice Luke 10:25-36 - The Good Samaritan 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 - encourage and build one another up  1 Corinthians 13 - Love chapter Zac's Books Matthew 22:37 - love God with all your heart, soul and mind   Next Steps Rate & Review this podcast wherever you listen! Engage with us on FB & IG Share this episode with a friend Check out our website, Bible2School

Just when you thought you were out, The Daily Poem pulls you back in–to poems about movies. Today's charming and earnest poem imitates the medium it describes (film) by swapping memorable images and sensations for linear propositions. Happy reading.Amy Clampitt was born and raised in New Providence, Iowa. She studied first at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, and later at Columbia University and the New School for Social Research in New York City. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Clampitt held various jobs at publishers and organizations such as Oxford University Press and the Audubon Society. In the 1960s, she turned her attention to poetry. In 1974 she published a small volume of poetry titled Multitudes, Multitudes; thereafter her work appeared frequently in the New Yorker. Upon the publication of her book of poems The Kingfisher in 1983, she became one of the most highly regarded poets in America. Her other collections include A Silence Opens (1994), Westward (1990), What the Light Was Like (1985), and Archaic Figure (1987). Clampitt received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Clampitt taught at the College of William and Mary, Amherst College, and Smith College.Joseph Parisi, a Chicago Tribune Book World reviewer, called the poet's sudden success after the publication of The Kingfisher “one of the most stunning debuts in recent memory.” Parisi continued, “throughout this bountiful book, her wit, sensibility and stylish wordplay seldom disappoint.” In one of the first articles to appear after The Kingfisher's debut, New York Review of Books critic Helen Vendler wrote that “Amy Clampitt writes a beautiful, taxing poetry. In it, thinking uncoils and coils again, embodying its perpetua argument with itself.” Georgia Review contributor Peter Stitt also felt that “The Kingfisher is … in many ways an almost dazzling performance.” In the Observer, Peter Porter described Clampitt as “a virtuoso of the here and the palpable.” Porter ranked her with the likes of Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop.Critics praised the allusive richness and syntactical sophistication of Clampitt's verse. Her poetry is characterized by a “baroque profusion, the romance of the adjective, labyrinthine syntax, a festival lexicon,” said New York Times Book Review contributor Alfred Corn in an article about Clampitt's second important collection, What the Light Was Like (1985). Indeed, the poet's use of vocabulary and syntax is elaborate. “When you read Amy Clampitt,” suggests Richard Tillinghast in the New York Times Book Review, “have a dictionary or two at your elbow.” The poet has, Tillinghast continues, a “virtuoso command of vocabulary, [a] gift for playing the English language like a musical instrument and [a] startling and delightful ability to create metaphor.” Her ability as a poet quickly gained Clampitt recognition as “the most refreshing new American poet to appear in many years,” according to one Times Literary Supplement reviewer.Clampitt's work is also characterized by erudite allusions, for which she provides detailed footnotes. Times Literary Supplement critic Lachlan Mackinnon compared her “finical accuracy of description and the provision of copious notes at the end of a volume,” to a similar tendency in the work of Marianne Moore. “She is as ‘literary' and allusive as Eliot and Pound, as filled with grubby realia as William Carlos Williams, as ornamented as Wallace Stevens and as descriptive as Marianne Moore,” observed Corn. Washington Post reviewer Joel Conarroe added Walt Whitman and Hart Crane to this list of comparable poets: “Like Whitman, she is attracted to proliferating lists as well as to ‘the old thought of likenesses,'” wrote Conarroe. “And as in Crane her compressed images create multiple resonances of sound and sense.”What the Light Was Like centers around images of light and darkness. This book is “more chastely restrained than The Kingfisher,” according to Times Literary Supplement contributor Neil Corcoran. Conarroe believed that the poet's “own imagery throughout [the book] is sensuous (even lush) and specific—in short, Keatsian.” Corn similarly commented that “there are stirring moments in each poem, and an authentic sense of Keats' psychology.” He opined, however, that “her sequence [‘Voyages: A Homage to John Keats‘] isn't effective throughout, the reason no doubt being that her high-lyric mode” does not suit narrative as well as a plainer style would.Clampitt's Archaic Figure (1987) maintains her “idiosyncratic style,” as William Logan called it in the Chicago Tribune. New York Times Book Review contributor Mark Rudman noted the poet's “spontaneity and humor; she is quick to react, hasty, impulsive, responsive to place—and to space.” In the London Sunday Times, David Profumo further praised Archaic Figure. Taking the example of the poem “Hippocrene,” the critic asserted that this work “demonstrates her new powers of economy, the sureness of her rhythmic touch and the sheer readability of her magnificent narrative skills.” “Amy Clampitt,” concluded Logan, “has become one of our poetry's necessary imaginations.”Clampitt died in Lenox, Massachusetts in 1994. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

Send us a Text Message.Bill Bartholomew welcomes Schuyler Weiss, founder of Light Frame is a Swiss-American Financial Technology company headquartered in the Cambridge Innovation Center in Providence, R.I., USASupport the Show.

In this episode, we are going to fly a short distance off the eastern coast of Florida to the Island of New Providence in the Bahamas. Many of you will recognize this place as Nassau, Bahamas. Nassau is the largest city and capital of the Bahamas so many people refer to the Island as Nassau. Join us as we discuss a couple of different ways that you can visit the island and we'll share our tips on where to stay, what and where to eat, along with some must do activities while you are there. So grab your passport, pack a bathing suit and let's get started. Some links are affiliate links. See our disclosure. Get our one day or one week Nassau, Bahamas Itinerary here. Our itinerary is great if you have one day in the cruise port or several days to a week. We share where to eat, what to see and do, which excursions to book and more and it will save you so much time just knowing exactly what to do when you get there! Find your Perfect Stay at sunshinetravelers.com/booking Do More with Viator. Visit sunshinetravelers.com/viator to book local tours & experiences you'll remember. Sign up for free travel deals and exclusive content here. Read more about this and other travel destinations on our BLOG Follow our travels on Facebook Follow our travels on Instagram here. Save our travel ideas on Pinterest See our travel videos on You Tube Music Credit Music by OYStudio from Pixabay

Holly G's guest is Adam Schupak, Senior Writer for Golfweek.com Adam provides the latest scoop on Tiger's health and his game as he plans to tee it up with 20 of the top-ranked PGA TOUR players at the Hero World Championship, which he hosts at Albany Golf Club in New Providence, Bahamas next week.

While many names might come to mind when someone mentions pirates, the first name of the list that isn't fictional is typically Blackbeard or Edward Teach.  While he has become synonymous with the image of a fearsome pirate, Blackbeard was only truly active as a pirate for about two years (1716-1718) and was known for avoiding violence whenever possible and using the intimidation of his presence and legend to convince others to surrender.  Take a listen to the history of Blackbeard the Pirate!

The so-called Golden Age of Piracy was a time of lawless, terrifying, at-times amazing and objectively ridiculous history. In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Matt explore a fascinating claim: Did some anti-authoritarian pirates really form their own government?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From Noiser, Detectives Don't Sleep is the new podcast that takes you beyond the police tape to shadow the real detectives who worked history's most intriguing cases. In this taster episode, we're in the Bahamas in 1943. One of the wealthiest men in the islands, Sir Harry Oakes, has been murdered - bludgeoned and burned in his mansion. The prime suspect is Oakes's son-in-law, Count Alfred de Marigny. But Oakes's daughter Nancy refuses to believe in her husband's guilt and hires New York-based PI Ray Schindler to clear de Marigny's name. Ray flies to the paradise island of New Providence and gets straight down to work, interviewing witnesses, following up clues, and piecing together the circumstances of Oakes's death. Before long, he finds himself drawn into a complex mystery straight from the pages of a classic whodunnit. Part Two of Murder in Paradise is live now on the Detectives Don't Sleep podcast. If you enjoy this taster episode, search ‘Detectives Don't Sleep' in your podcast app and hit follow to get new episodes every Tuesday. Or, listen at noiser.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New Providence head coach Kim English joins Off The Carousel to talk about heading into the Big East as a head coach at just 34 years old. Purchase your Athletic Greens here with code FIELD68 Download the VLTED app here The Field of 68 merch store is now LIVE Purchase The Almanac here SUBSCRIBE to the Field of 68 Youtube Channel SUBSCRIBE to the Field of 68 Daily THE FIELD OF 68 IS POWERED BY BET RIVERS FOLLOW: Twitter Instagram Youtube https://thefieldof68.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Live streamed concerts gained some momentum during the pandemic, but will people keep attending now that things have returned to normal? To help us answer this, we spoke to the industry leader in live streaming - Kiswe. Kiswe's two-way video technology enables audiences to both consume and contribute to live digital content. They have delivered the world's largest digital pay-per-view events and serve some of the top sports, media, and entertainment companies.   Joining us today is Glenn Booth, CEO at Kiswe. Glenn was named one of Billboard's 2022 International Power Players and previously held senior positions at Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent. Glenn joins us from New Providence, NJ. Learn more about Kiswe at kiswe.com ... Beatseeker has been selected by Feedspot as one of the ⁠⁠⁠Top Music Technology Podcasts⁠⁠⁠ on the web: ⁠⁠⁠https://blog.feedspot.com/music_technology_podcasts/⁠⁠⁠ Learn more:⁠⁠⁠ beatseeker.fm⁠⁠⁠ Insta:⁠⁠⁠ @beatseekerpod⁠⁠⁠ Twitter:⁠⁠⁠ @beatseekerpod⁠⁠⁠  Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠facebook.com/beatseekerpod

Season 3 Episode #7 Coach Frank Allocco is coming from the SF Bay AreaYou can find Coach Allocco via his website frankallocco.com.About our guest - Coach Allocco was born and raised in New Providence, New Jersey.  While in high school, Coach Allocco lettered in three sports and always had the dream of playing football at Notre Dame.   Coach achieved his dream and played on the 1973 National Champion team.  Coach was a great athlete and also lettered in basketball and played for the legendary Irish Coach – Digger Phelps.   Coach graduated with his degree in Sociology and in 1976 wised up and moved to beautiful and sunny California.In 1981 Coach founded Excel in Basketball.  Coach has done just that (EXCEL) and has helped thousands of young players do the same on and off the court.   Coach won a State Championship at Northgate High School in 1995, and won two more as Head Coach at De La Salle High School (only coach in California state history to win a state championship at 2 different schools.  In 2012 Coach was inducted into the Sports Faith Hall of Fame.  Coach Allocco is a National and International Motivational Speaker and Clinician and currently works at the University of San Francisco as the Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director.   Coach thanks for dedicating your life to the game of basketball and more importantly, to the thousands of student-athletes you have helped along the way.   Coach, Welcome to the show!TOTD – “The object of painting a picture is not to make a picture – however unreasonable this may sound. The picture, if a picture results, is a by-product and may be useful, valuable, interesting as a sign of what has passed. The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a high state of functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence.” Robert HenriIn this episode:Quick story of how we met and the generosity of Coach Allocco.What was life like growing upWhat are your Life's Essential IngredientsLegendary FOOTSTOMP….Playing for Legendary and Ara Parseghian1973 National Championship – what made the team so specialPlaying with RUDYWon 600 games faster than any other coach + three state titles… left De La Salle in 2015 to coach at USF- why?Coach John Duggan and his 5 decades of giving backThe importance of gratitudeGetting Reps and learning how to practice the right wayLeadership – define it and how do you develop it…Excel – vision of why you started in and the success of it and the importance of serving others… 40 years later – selfless focus – change the world one player at a time…MORE THAN JUST A GAMEDiocese of Oakland - President of East Diablo CYO LeaguePG for Digger Phelps and was a NIT finalist in 1973Legacy

From Noiser, Detectives Don't Sleep is the new podcast that takes you beyond the police tape to shadow the real detectives who worked history's most intriguing cases. In this taster episode, we're in the Bahamas in 1943. One of the wealthiest men in the islands, Sir Harry Oakes, has been murdered - bludgeoned and burned in his mansion. The prime suspect is Oakes' son-in-law, Count Alfred de Marigny. But Oakes' daughter Nancy refuses to believe in her husband's guilt and hires New York-based PI Ray Schindler to clear de Marigny's name. Ray flies to the paradise island of New Providence and gets straight down to work, interviewing witnesses, following up clues, and piecing together the circumstances of Oakes' death. Before long, he finds himself drawn into a complex mystery straight from the pages of a classic whodunnit.  If you enjoy this taster episode, search ‘Detectives Don't Sleep' in your podcast app and hit follow to get new episodes every Tuesday. Or, listen at noiser.com Part Two of Murder in Paradise is live now on the Detectives Don't Sleep podcast. For ad-free listening, exclusive content, and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Now available for Apple and Android users. Click the Noiser+ banner on Apple or go to noiser.com/subscriptions to get started with a 7-day free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The murder of billionaire Sir Harry Oakes in the Bahamas in 1943 causes a sensation across the world. The prime suspect is Oakes' son-in-law, Count Alfred de Marigny. But Oakes' daughter Nancy refuses to believe in her husband's guilt and hires New York-based PI Ray Schindler to clear de Marigny's name. Ray flies to the paradise island of New Providence and gets straight down to work, interviewing witnesses, following up clues, and piecing together the circumstances of Oakes' death. Before long, he finds himself drawn into a complex mystery straight from the pages of a classic whodunnit.   A Noiser production, written by Roger Morris.   For ad-free listening, exclusive content, and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Now available for Apple and Android users. Click the Noiser+ banner on Apple or go to noiser.com/subscriptions to get started with a 7-day free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

God doesn't call everyone to the same field. He doesn't call everyone to be preachers. We as Christians must be ready and willing to work for God. A hedge. Have you ever seen a hedge? A hedge blocks off something or surrounds something. A hedge that has a gap in it is no longer secure. God is looking for Christians to stand in the gap. Will He find someone to stand in the gap at New Providence? We have the privilege to be in mourning with the brethren. If you are willing and obedient then we will eat really well. Do you know of anyone that's in need? The devil can't do anything with prayer. He can't get through it or around it. We have some in our own church that has laid their cross down. The rest of us present within the church should be willing and able to pray for those that are in great need. If you see someone down in the ditch, get in the ditch with them and help them get out of it. Examples of Heavenly people. Jesus is one that has stood in the gap for everyone that accepts His salvation. The Holy Spirit once one is saved, comes into their soul and sets up an abode. God didn't ask for a number to stand. He just someone to do it. God doesn't look for the qualified. He tells us not to worry about how much money we have, He's just looking for someone willing. If you have someone in your life that has forsaken the assembly of the church, backslid on God, stand in their gap. Get into your prayer closet and call out to God on their behalf. God didn't save you to do it alone. He didn't save you and set you out by yourself. If you're saved then you are amongst many.

It was the end of a long reporting day for today's story on coral reefs when Hayley-Jo Carr, a research scientist with the Perry Institute for Marine Science, suggested we make one more stop off the island of New Providence in the Bahamas, reports Monitor writer Stephanie Hanes. Also: today's stories, including a portrait of a community experiencing tragedy in Monterey Park, the uncertainty around Western tanks in Ukraine, and scientists replicating corals resilient to climate change. Join the Monitor's Amelia Newcomb and Ken Kaplan for today's news. You can also visit csmonitor.com/daily for more information.

Final Look Live Chat for the Hero World Challenge! We can chat anything DFS/Betting or whatever! Join Rick Gehman to give one last look at the field to be played at Albany in New Providence, Bahamas. ⛳ Data & Tools: https://RickRunGood.com ⛳ OddsChecker Grid: https://oddschecker.com/us/golf ⛳ My Twitter: https://twitter.com/RickRunGood ⛳ Newsletter: https://rickrungood.substack.com ⛳ Sportsbook Offers: https://RickRunGood.com/Bets ⛳ Props Tool: https://RunGoodProps.com ⛳ PrizePicks 100% MATCH | CODE: RICK https://app.prizepicks.com/sign-up?invite_code=Rick ⛳ Jock MKT 100% MATCH | CODE: RICK: http://codes.jockmkt.co/landing/RICK My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rickgehman/ Merch: http://www.RunGoodStore.com Background Prints: https://bit.ly/3F5beuH Resources Most Profitable Way To Bet Golf: https://youtu.be/_pGNx1N1AGc Mistakes to Avoid: https://youtu.be/RDIktHmfkt4 Golf Stats: http://www.rickrungood.com/ ______________ All RickRunGood Versions: Video: http://bit.ly/2LJTT0P Audio: http://bit.ly/2LJTprw iTunes: https://apple.co/2LDxLVy Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2YF3rm4 Stitcher: http://bit.ly/2LDxNwE Castbox: http://bit.ly/2LPq5j8 TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2YxRDCh Radio Public: http://bit.ly/31dtU86 iHeart Radio: https://ihr.fm/2LJT0W2 First Cut Podcast: https://plnk.to/TheFirstCut #HeroWorldChallenge #TigerWoods #Albany #PGATOUR #Golf​ #PrizePicks #FantasyGolf #PGA​ #OneAndDone ​#RickRunGood​​ #Draftkings Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER (NJ/PA/IL), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN only), 1-800-BETS-OFF (IA only), 1-800-522-4700 (CO Only), TN REDLINE: 800-889-9789 or 1-888-532-3500 (VA only). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We'll look at outrights, H2H's, props, and talk about one and done options for the Hero World Challenge at Albany in New Providence, Bahamas. ⛳ Data & Tools: https://RickRunGood.com ⛳ OddsChecker Grid: https://oddschecker.com/us/golf ⛳ My Twitter: https://twitter.com/RickRunGood ⛳ Newsletter: https://rickrungood.substack.com ⛳ Sportsbook Offers: https://RickRunGood.com/Bets ⛳ Props Tool: https://RunGoodProps.com ⛳ PrizePicks 100% MATCH | CODE: RICK https://app.prizepicks.com/sign-up?invite_code=Rick ⛳ Jock MKT 100% MATCH | CODE: RICK: http://codes.jockmkt.co/landing/RICK My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rickgehman/ Merch: http://www.RunGoodStore.com Background Prints: https://bit.ly/3F5beuH Resources Most Profitable Way To Bet Golf: https://youtu.be/_pGNx1N1AGc Mistakes to Avoid: https://youtu.be/RDIktHmfkt4 Golf Stats: http://www.rickrungood.com/ ______________ All RickRunGood Versions: Video: http://bit.ly/2LJTT0P Audio: http://bit.ly/2LJTprw iTunes: https://apple.co/2LDxLVy Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2YF3rm4 Stitcher: http://bit.ly/2LDxNwE Castbox: http://bit.ly/2LPq5j8 TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2YxRDCh Radio Public: http://bit.ly/31dtU86 iHeart Radio: https://ihr.fm/2LJT0W2 First Cut Podcast: https://plnk.to/TheFirstCut #HeroWorldChallenge #TigerWoods #Albany #PGATOUR #Golf​ #PrizePicks #FantasyGolf #PGA​ #OneAndDone ​#RickRunGood​​ #Draftkings Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER (NJ/PA/IL), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN only), 1-800-BETS-OFF (IA only), 1-800-522-4700 (CO Only), TN REDLINE: 800-889-9789 or 1-888-532-3500 (VA only). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The TOUR heads to Albany in New Providence, Bahamas for the Hero World Challenge. Rick breaks down some plays for DraftKings and Daily Fantasy Golf. ⛳ Data & Tools: https://RickRunGood.com ⛳ OddsChecker Grid: https://oddschecker.com/us/golf ⛳ My Twitter: https://twitter.com/RickRunGood ⛳ Newsletter: https://rickrungood.substack.com ⛳ Sportsbook Offers: https://RickRunGood.com/Bets ⛳ Props Tool: https://RunGoodProps.com ⛳ PrizePicks 100% MATCH | CODE: RICK https://app.prizepicks.com/sign-up?invite_code=Rick ⛳ Jock MKT 100% MATCH | CODE: RICK: http://codes.jockmkt.co/landing/RICK My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rickgehman/ Merch: http://www.RunGoodStore.com Background Prints: https://bit.ly/3F5beuH Resources Most Profitable Way To Bet Golf: https://youtu.be/_pGNx1N1AGc Mistakes to Avoid: https://youtu.be/RDIktHmfkt4 Golf Stats: http://www.rickrungood.com/ ______________ All RickRunGood Versions: Video: http://bit.ly/2LJTT0P Audio: http://bit.ly/2LJTprw iTunes: https://apple.co/2LDxLVy Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2YF3rm4 Stitcher: http://bit.ly/2LDxNwE Castbox: http://bit.ly/2LPq5j8 TuneIn: http://bit.ly/2YxRDCh Radio Public: http://bit.ly/31dtU86 iHeart Radio: https://ihr.fm/2LJT0W2 First Cut Podcast: https://plnk.to/TheFirstCut #HeroWorldChallenge #TigerWoods #PGATOUR #JockMKT #Golf​ #PrizePicks #FantasyGolf #PGA​ #OneAndDone ​#RickRunGood​​ #draftkings Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER (NJ/PA/IL), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN only), 1-800-BETS-OFF (IA only), 1-800-522-4700 (CO Only), TN REDLINE: 800-889-9789 or 1-888-532-3500 (VA only). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 615, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Olympic Events 1: Downhill and slalom. Skiing. 2: 100-meter butterfly and 100-meter freestyle. Swimming. 3: 10,000 meters and javelin. Track and field. 4: Individual epee and individual foil. Fencing. 5: Trap and skeet. Shooting. Round 2. Category: Radio Stars 1: This conservative icon describes himself as having "talent on loan from God". Rush Limbaugh. 2: He took over from Red Barber and has been the voice of the Dodgers for almost 50 years. Vin Scully. 3: Kyle Cantrell, operations manager at Nashville's WSM-AM, is the Saturday night announcer for this show. Grand Ole Opry. 4: Heard here, he's been the voice of the U.S. heartland for decades("Now you know the rest of the story"). Paul Harvey. 5: This shock jock rival of Howard Stern is heard "in the Morning" on about 100 stations. Don Imus. Round 3. Category: The Bahamas 1: On July 10, 1973, Prince Charles represented Queen Elizabeth at ceremonies celebrating this. the independence of the Bahamas. 2: With international banking #2, this is the leading industry of the Bahamas. tourism. 3: Although considered part of the region, the Bahamas are not located in this sea. the Caribbean. 4: Of Bimini, New Providence, or Grand Bahama, the island on which you would visit the capital, Nassau. New Providence. 5: To prevent the Germans from kidnapping this ex-king, Churchill sent him to govern the Bahamas. the Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII). Round 4. Category: Nobel Peace Prize Winners 1: 1979: A nun like none other. Mother Teresa. 2: 1990:A Communist party head. Mikhail Gorbachev. 3: 1964: An American clergyman. Martin Luther King, Jr.. 4: 1978: An Israeli and an Egyptian. Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat. 5: 1961:A U.N. Secretary-General. Dag Hammarskjold. Round 5. Category: Green "T" 1: You wouldn't want to meet this scary, royal, supposedly green creature in a dark alley. a Tyrannosaurus rex. 2: Artificial green grass used on a playing field. turf. 3: It's the art of trimming your green bushes and hedges into geometric shapes and animals. topiary. 4: The main ingredient in salsa verde, this small green vegetable, is native to Mexico. the tomatillo. 5: This republic of West Africa with a 4-letter name has 3 green stripes on its flag representing its natural resources. Togo. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

Simon Mayle, event director for ILTM North America, talks with Alan Fine of Insider Travel Report about the impressive growth of his event, resulting in the need to move from its four luxury hotels in Mayakoba, Mexico, to three luxury resorts at Baha Mar on the island of New Providence in The Bahamas in 2023. Mayle talks about the convenience of the new location, its size, its proximity to Nassau Airport, and the closeness of the hotels, SLS, Rosewood and Grand Hyatt, both to the beach and the central village of Baha Mar. For more information, visit www.ILTM.com/North-America/en-gb.html. (Apologies on the sound from a faulty microphone. We did our best to cut away the worst parts.) If interested, the original video of this podcast can be found on the Insider Travel Report Youtube channel or by searching for the podcast's title on Youtube.

The Rev. Dr. Tom Tewell has been a friend of our church and teacher of the School of Christian Learning. We get to know him even better with his conversation with Lora East. About Tom:The Rev. Dr. Tom Tewell has loved being pastor of multiple congregations during his fifty years in pastoral ministry, but in this current chapter of life, he thoroughly enjoys being a pastor to pastors, a guest preacher, a consultant to churches…and, most of all, a husband, dad, and granddad.During his years in pastoral ministry, Tom served the First Presbyterian Church of Bethlehem, the Presbyterian Church of New Providence, Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church in Houston, and Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City. Tom was pastor of Fifth Avenue on September 11, 2001, when his congregation offered a message of Christian hope to New York City and beyond.A graduate of Princeton Seminary, where he served as a Trustee for 15 years, Tom received a Doctor of Ministry degree from Drew Theological School. He has received numerous awards for his social justice ministry, particularly with the homeless in NYC where he led his congregation to know the homeless who slept on their steps by name. Known as a dynamic and inspiring preacher, Tom continues to be invited to preach each year in congregations, on college campuses and at conference centers all over America. Additionally, Tom has led multiple preaching seminars at several seminaries across the country.Tom and his wife Suzanne reside in Claremont, California. The Tewells have two married sons, two wonderful daughters-in-law and seven grandchildren, who are the joy of their lives!Support the show

Dr. Beth Herko and Thiago from New Providence Dentistry sits down with us today to share their best tips for being a top-performing practice and how they continue to grow each and every day. It truly is a candid, authentic, and valuable conversation you won't want to miss.We highlight:Reviews, search rankings, postcards, and testing what worksHow community involvement can have a greater ROI for referralsGiving patients visibility to increase loyaltyCommon successful strategies from top-performing practicesHow DI Engagement helps to set expectations and can lead to higher case acceptanceRight now when you take a demo of Dental Intelligence, you'll get a $50 gift card! Visit: get.dentalintel.net/podcast

ACLU RI Executive Director Steven Brown joined Dan to discuss today's announcement of a 1 year trial of Flock surveillance cameras in Providence See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chris catches Mat off guard with his efforts to pretend he had something "to say". An improv turns silly when Mat acts like it's not all about the money. And Simon from Nottingham Forest Bahamas joins with his two children while Chris was on a short stay on the island of New Providence. 

On this episode, Travis & Tom break down the Colorado Mammoth's NLL Championship. They dive into how Colorado won the final two games of the series against the Buffalo Bandits to clinch the title. NLL Finals MVP Dillon Ward then joins the show to discuss what it means for him to win the title, and the game plan that helped the Mammoth slow down Buffalo's high-powered offense (10:54). Following Week 3 on Long Island, Travis and Tom share their headlines from this week in the Premier Lacrosse League (22:27). Plus, new Providence College head coach Bobby Benson visits to discuss what made this the right job for him (36:13). He also dives into his offensive strategy and how he goes about coaching different teams with different personnel.

The extraterrestrial comedy podcast where we probe a pirate legend from the Golden Age of Piracy, Blackbeard. Whilst we usually cover aliens, Kev stages an intervention in this episode to try to turn Granville's souring, skeptical mood by regaling Mr Moonwalker with an actual true tale. A pirates life, if you will? Blackbeard, may have started his life as Edward Thatch before that surname was misspelt as Teach in a Newspaper, later becoming the most popular spelling of this pirates allegedly true name. Blackbeard, is believed to have begun his venture towards the pirate haven of Nassau, New Providence in the Bahamas with Benjamin Hornigold, forming the Pirates Republic before Gentleman Pirate Steve Bonnet, whom Moonwalker suspects he may be related to, landed in the lap of Blackbeard. We cover the pirate life of Blackbeard in detail as Blackbeard sets out to become legend. What were Blackbeard's most daring deeds? Did Blackbeard stick matches in his hair and if so, did his head burn? We also debate pirate names, which by the way are difficult to come up with ‘on the spot' - is Probe McButt-Smash even a pirates name? What about Captain Prick? Anyway… Was Blackbeard as fearsome as the legends make out? Were Blackbeard and/or his crew carrying sexually transmitted diseases and would this inspire Blackbeard to commit his most notorious and dastardly act? Do we even get to Teach's, or Blackbeards Hole today? All that and more on this week's file.     Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/butitwasaliens   Store: https://butitwasaliens.co.uk/shop/     Probe us: Email: butitwasaliens@gmail.com Instagram @ ButItWasAliensPodcast Twitter @ ButItWasAliens Facebook: @ ButItWasAliens - join Extraterrestrial Towers     Music:  Music created via Garageband. Additional music via: https://freepd.com - thank you most kindly good people. Kev's favourite modern game is Sea Of Thieves (is BOTW modern?) so of course we also had to include some music from this wonderful, joyous game. Thank you Rare - Kev considers becoming a year one Pirate Legend among his greatest achievements in life. The themes we used included ‘Maiden Voyage' and ‘Shipwrecks' - this music is courtesy of Microsoft and they will probably make us take this down but we really wanted to include some pirate easter eggs and bring some attention to this amazing game at the same time. Special mention to Robin Beanland whom composed the game music and whom also had a hand in Donkey Kong Country and Conker's Bad Fur Day back in the day; another two games around Kev's personal top 10. “I, am, the Great Mighty Poo…” Of course, we had to include the theme tune to Pirates of the Caribbean too, entitled ‘He's a Pirate' which was composed in 2003 by Klaus Badelt and Hans Zimmer for Disney. Again, if Microsoft don't have our butts and make us remove this, Disney certainly will but it simply felt wrong to do an episode on pirates without the famous pirate theme. Go and watch the films, savvy?   Main source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/last-days-blackbeard-180949440/

Les pirates ont toujours fait partie de la pop culture avec Sinbad le Marin et d'autres figures cultes, mais avec l'avènement de Pirates des Caraïbes, l'image du pirate a quelque peu évolué. Alors quand Black Sails est sortie sur Starz, personne ne misait un kopeck dessus et pourtant elle a su redonner au pirate ses titres de noblesse, ou plutôt de bassesse puisque la série a voulu représenter la pirate dans ce qu'il est de pire, cupide, sanglant, et plutôt sale. Aujourd'hui, impossible de parler de séries de pirates sans parler de Black Sails. Présentée comme un préquel de l'Île au trésor de Robert Louis Stevenson, la série d'aventure permettait d'ancrer dans la réalité certains lieux et personnages, tout en laissant libre l'imagination. Co-créée par Jonathan E. Steinberg et Robert Levine, elle aura duré 4 saisons de 2014 à 2017. L'intégralité est toujours disponible sur Starzplay. https://youtu.be/rT2Y5jjBNpQ Les hors-la-loi de Nassau, plus particulièrement sur l'île de New Providence, ont la vie belle entre les abordages sur les vaisseaux de l'Empire britannique et des divers marchands. Le capitaine Flint (campé par Toby Stephens, et pour l'anecdote, le fils de Maggie Smith) dirige l'un des équipages les plus sournois qui soit, mais lui-même n'a qu'un seul objectif en tête : retrouver le trésor caché espagnol d'Urca de Lima. Pour parvenir à ses objectifs, il va rencontrer dans sa quête plusieurs illustres personnages de la piraterie historiquement réels tels que Jack Rackham, Anne Bonny, Charles Vane, etc. qui vont tantôt l'aider et tantôt lui mettre des bâtons dans les pagaies. Visuellement bluffant, car mine de rien ça coûte un sacré budget pour tourner des scènes de bateau comme il y en a régulièrement dans la série, Black Sails a su être prise au sérieux. L'une des premières séries Starz originals qui a débuté la même année qu'Outlander, le drame historique fait partie intégrante de l'ADN de la chaîne comme elle continue à le prouver avec la prochaine Becoming Elizabeth. La recette fonctionne toujours, un peu de provoc, une bonne dose de sexe avec toutes les orientations possibles, des personnages bien caractérisés auxquels on s'attache facilement, un univers riche… forcément, le divertissement est là. L'histoire est très prenante que ce soit les ambitions politiques de l'une ou le passé trouble d'un autre, les passions naissantes et maudites, ou tout simplement la mythologie passionnante derrière. Le tout est sublimé par la bande-sonore de Bear McCreary, incontournable compositeur de filmes et séries (récemment sur Fondation ou encore Snowpiercer). Et tout ça pour finir sur une fin en apothéose, qui n'a pas tiré sur la corde puisque les créateurs ont suivi leur idée originelle alors que la série était toujours aussi populaire. [bs_show url="black-sails"] Malgré tout, Black Sails reste une série souvent sous-estimée et méconnue du public qui mérite bien le détour sur Starzplay.

RIPTA CEO Scott Avedisian joins Dan to discuss plans related to the new transit hub located in Providence's Jewelry District See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transit advocate and Brown University researcher Tom Sgoras joins Dan to discuss plans related to the new transit hub located in Providence's Jewelry DistrictSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John Flaherty, Deputy Director, Grow Smart RI joins Dan to discuss plans related to the new transit hub located in Providence's Jewelry DistrictSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 Please invite others to listen to these GroveCast podcasts and visit oceangrove.org for information about our upcoming events.GroveCast Episode 0055: Rev. Dr. Thomas Tewell : Every Moment an EasterThis message was given by Rev. Dr. Thomas Tewell at the Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove NJ on Sunday, July 28, 2019. The title is "Every Moment an Easter".Scripture: John 20:11–18Let us fill you in on just some of the programming for the year 2022.Here are a few speakers planned in just the first few weeks of the season.Pastor Roger Casey, who you heard on the last few podcast episodes (53,54 and 28), will be speaking June 12 in the Auditorium at 10:30am and again at 9am in Bible Hour from June 20 to 24.R.T. Kendall will speak in the Auditorium June 19 @ 10:30am (he was featured on Podcast 32).Pastor Lloyd Pulley from Calvary Chapel will speak in the June 25 Bible Hour @9amLysa TerKeurst will speak June 26 in the Auditorium @ 10:30amPastor Jim Mindling from the Church of the Open Door speaks June 27 to July 2 in Bible Hour @9am and July 3 in the Auditorium @10:30am  (you can hear him on podcast episodes 3&  43 to 47).Pastor Jordan Whilden speaks from July 4 to July 9 in Bible Hour @9amRev. Dr. Tom Tewell  speaks July 10 in the Auditorium @10:30am - He is featured in this podcast episode as he was also in episode 29.And, there will be even more speakers coming after these.We invite you to come visit & enjoy God's square mile or listen live (or later) via our website at oceangrove.org.(There are a few special announcements included in this podcast episode from that day that are about Ocean Grove. These were given that day since 2019 was our 150th anniversary year).Rev. Dr. Thomas Tewell has been an ordained pastor for 40 years and has served congregations in Bethlehem, PA and New Providence, NJ, as well as the 5,100 member Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church in Houston, Texas and the 3,500 member Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City. Currently, Tom is the Founder and Executive Director of Macedonian Ministry, a position he has held since 2008. This ministry gives Dr. Tewell the privilege of serving as a pastor to pastors.Dr. Tewell and his wife, Suzanne, have been married for over 40 years and have two married sons, two wonderful daughters-in-law and six grandchildren who are the joy of their lives! The Tewells live in Atlanta, GABulletin available at www.oceangrove.org/bulletinsLength: 54 Minutes.This podcast is provided by the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, a non-profit. We invite you to visit oceangrove.org to find more information about our organization including how to take part in our many programs and how to support the organization.

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Vous connaissez peut-être le "Parti Pirate" ; né en Suède avant d'essaimer dans plusieurs autres pays d'Europe. Mais connaissez-vous... la "République des Corsaires" ? Ce repaire, basé dans les actuels Bahamas, a tout simplement servi de base arrière à de redoutés loups de mer. Pirates de tous les pays, unissez-vous Même les pirates ont besoin de s'organiser... Surtout les pirates... si l'on y regarde de plus près ! Bien qu'étant anarchique en apparence, la piraterie demande en effet un certain sens de la coordination. Aussi, c'est tout naturellement qu'une république de ces brigands marins s'était formée en 1706 ; à Nassau, sur l'île de New Providence (en pleine mer des Caraïbes). Sans surprise, ce lieu mal famé n'a jamais constitué un État organisé ; au sens où nous l'entendons dans les démocraties modernes. Cependant, un code de lois indépendant régissait bien les rapports entre les hommes qui s'y aventuraient (souvent d'anciens corsaires dévoyés dans la piraterie). La république décapitée Foncièrement interlopes, les activités de cette zone de piraterie provoquaient évidemment de fâcheux dégâts sur le commerce et la navigation antillaises. Tributaires de la libre circulation dans ces mers - pour opérer leur négoce lucratif - les Britanniques comprirent donc qu'ils devaient frapper vite et fort ; pour faire sombrer ce "bateau ivre" qui éclaboussait tout le monde. Ainsi, en 1718, un gouverneur fraîchement nommé (un certain Woodes Rogers) restaura brutalement l'autorité coloniale anglaise dans les environs ; en évacuant Nassau de toute présence pirate. Ce coup de force marqua du même coup la fin d'une époque : celle d'une ère où une république avait pour rois des gueules patibulaires. Car, oui : des Jack Rackham, Charles Vane et autres Barbe Noire avaient bien donné à cette nation d'accueil ses lettres de noblesse. Alors : avec leur fin, disparaissait également une histoire faite de combats sanglants, de chasses aux trésors et de duels au sabre rouillé. Aussi : c'est bien dans un bain de sang que la "République des Pirates" était partie rejoindre d'autres épaves, au fond des abysses de l'Histoire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reviving a previous feature of Cranford Radio in which we interview elected officials who represent Cranford, I speak with 21st District Assemblywoman Michele Matsikoudis (R). She was elected to the seat in November and most recently served as a councilwoman in New Providence.In this week's discussion, we talk about her life, why she decided to run for public office, and some of the issues most important to her. 

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Research borrowed from: https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/were-there-female-pirates   https://www.piratesquest.co.uk/top-10-famous-female-pirates/   Mentalfloss.com   https://www.badassoftheweek.com/teuta There have been dramatic Tales of women sailing the open oceans and seas throughout history. Most of these legends began from the Golden Age of Piracy (1650 to 1720). However, there are stories of female pirates dating back thousands of years.    According to history, women weren't permitted to stay on ships once they had set sail. Sailor superstitions thought that women on merchant and military vessels were bad luck and could mean disaster at sea. The presence of women was believed to anger the water gods, which might cause storms, violent waves, and weather. Others thought that women would just distract the male sailors at sea and fall victim to harassment and even violence.  Women weren't allowed to hold jobs at sea until the 20th Century. Some women would disguise themselves as men, using a fake name, but there could be severe penalties if they were caught. So the only way for most women to participate in running a merchant vessel before 1900 was through their relations or marriage.  Only recently, women were allowed at sea within the British Royal Navy. In October 1990, during the Gulf War, the HMS Brilliant carried the first women officially to serve on a functioning warship. In 1998, Commander Samantha Moore became one of the first female officers to command a Royal Navy warship, HMS Dasher.    The superstitions and old-school customs for military and commercial vessels were also held for pirates. Historically, women who remained on ships at sea would have to do so illegitimately and in disguise. They would also need to learn the critical skills necessary for a life at sea before setting sail. Without this knowledge, it would have been tough to be a female sailor, let alone a pirate.  Piracy was a criminal act, so becoming a pirate could mean being arrested and even killed. It wasn't a decision taken lightly. Although pirates are often portrayed as swashbuckling heroes or villains, many were ordinary men and women forced into piracy to survive difficult times.    Piracy has been around since people first hopped on a boat, so it's likely women dressed like the women or as sailors of their time. But unfortunately, many of the depictions of male and female pirates we see today are glamorized accounts of the 17th Century's golden age of piracy. The rise of popular fiction tales in the 1800s dramatically affected our understanding of pirate attire. One example is "The Penny Dreadful," a famous book series of the 1860s - both in the United States and the British Empire. These cheap books told sensational stories of adventure. They featured pirates and highwaymen, likely a leading source for many tales and imagery of female pirates today.  As we mentioned, many women who became sailors often had to hide their identity and conceal their gender by dressing like men. However, the stories of Grace O'Malley, Mary Read, and Anne Bonny show that these pirates did not hide their gender. They wore whatever they wanted, depending on what they were doing. In the pamphlet "The Tryals of Captain John Rackam and other Pirates" published in 1721, people of the time said: "When they saw any Vessel, gave Chase, or Attacked, they wore Men's Cloaths; and, at other Times, they wore Women's Cloaths."   Ok, let's talk about some of the more famous lady pirates.    Queen Teuta of Illyria Queen Teuta of the Illyrians was a badass Classical Age warrior queen who oversaw a fleet of hardcore pirates. She tormented the Spartans in their own backyard, led armies and navies that conquered cities and islands along the Adriatic coast, and told the Romans to eat a bag of dicks. Then she went out on her own terms by hurling herself off a mountain after supposedly burying 6,000 pounds of gold in a secret location at a place called Devil's Island. Her last words were a curse that doomed the Albanian city of Durres to "never have a seafaring tradition." Yet, she's still a national heroine of Albania, appears on their 100 lek coin (basically the $1 bill), and is generally depicted in full armor with a take-no-prisoners demeanor.    Queen Teuta's husband was King Agron, a pretty brutal warrior-type dude. He ruled over one of the more powerful Illyrian tribes. Illyria is what Greeks called anyone who lived on the Adriatic coast north of Greece. Still, Agron and Teuta were almost certainly from present-day Albania. This detail bears mentioning mostly because the Albanians don't really like being confused with Serbs or Croats. In 231 BC, King Agron put together an awe-inspiring army, conquered Illyria in a whirlwind of blood, and set his sights south towards Greece. One tribe near the Greek border that was really pissing him off was the Aetolians. So when they laid siege on a city allied with Agron, the Illyrian King responded by launching 5,000-guys in a water-based night attack from the Adriatic Sea. The King captured the high ground, charged downhill with heavy infantry, destroyed their camp, and broke their Army's spirit. The victory was considered so awesome that everyone just went nuts and had this colossal rager party. In all of his amazingness, King Agron got so drunk that his lungs exploded.   Rule of the Illyrians technically passed to Agron's son, but he was only two years old. Teuta took over as the boss. She went right to work taking over where her hubby King Agron left off plundering, conquering, destroying everything in sight, and so on. She sent armies to the Peleponnese, sacking and ravaging the lands Sparta was supposed to defend. Her troops captured Phoenice, the wealthiest city in the Northern Greek region of Epirus. She held it for ransom and then gave it back to its people in exchange for money, slaves, treasure, and the undying loyalty of its citizens. When she wasn't dispatching armies to loot and plunder her enemies, she told any Albanian man with a rowboat and a scimitar to step up. She wasn't going to punish them if they raided, pirated, and plundered ships along the Adriatic… as long as she received a percentage of the profits. For the next few years, no ships were safe. The Illyrian pirate fleet destroyed Greek and Roman shipping, dominating the wealthiest and most trade-heavy waters on earth, taking whatever they wanted. Yes, they were killing it. However, this craziness didn't really go down well with the new power in the Mediterranean-- the Roman Republic. So Rome sent two brothers to talk to Teuta and tell her to knock it off.  They met her in her throne room in the city of Scoda. They demanded that she order a cease-fire on all Illyrian piracy and pay Rome reparations for all the ships and goods they lost.  Teuta was busy managing the Siege of Issa and all the other conquests she was undertaking. So (according to Roman sources), she told the brothers that "it was contrary to the custom of the Illyrian kings to hinder their subjects from winning booty from the sea." Or, eat one! Well, as you probably guessed, the Romans didn't like hearing this, especially from a woman. The ambassadors basically started lecturing Queen Teuta on manners, respect, and yadda yadda yadda. Naturally, Queen Teuta had that dude's throat cut, and his brother chucked into an Albanian prison.   Things were great until five or six years into Queen Teuta's reign when the Romans showed up with a big ol fleet and 20,000 legionnaires. All battle-hardened from the War with Carthage and drilled by professional Roman drill instructors. Teuta rallied the Illyrian defenses, but she was immediately betrayed by her top General named Demetrius. Teuta fought heroically but ultimately was forced to surrender to Rome in 227 BC. There are rumors that she took a bunch of treasure she'd accumulated from her pirates and armies and buried it in a cave on an island somewhere in her domain.   The Romans allowed Teuta to rule a small domain after she surrendered. Still, they made that traitor Demetrius the regent for King Agron's young son. Not long after, Rome decided to get rid of Demetrius, and of course, our fearless Queen. Upon hearing of Rome's plans, Teuta fled her palace. She climbed to the top of a nearby mountain, placed a curse on the city of Risan so that they'd never be able to build a good ship again, and then hurled herself off a mountain to her death.  Teuta is a pretty common name in Albania to this day. She appears on their money and has a special place in the hearts of the Albanian people. Go to the city of Durres. You'll see that the National Bank of Albania has a statue of her reclining on a chaise lounge and wearing nothing but a spear, a shield, and a helmet. Ladgerda Ladgerda (also spelled Lagertha) was a Danish Viking pirate who lived in the 9th Century AD. She was a shieldmaiden - Viking women who carried a sword and shield, known for their ferocity and skills in battle on land and sea.  With only a few accounts of her life known to exist, historians have controversy whether Ladgerda is, in fact, a legendary figure and a substitute for the actions of a group of women. One story suggests that she rescued her husband's fleet from a warring tribe but, on saving him, murdered him with a concealed knife and took his place as the leader of the tribe. You may have heard of her from the show "Vikings," kicking ass and taking names.   Jeanne de Clisson Jeanne de Clisson, the Lioness of Brittany. Noblewoman, wife, mother, pirate. Jeanne swore revenge against the French King after the execution of her husband. She raised a fleet of ships that terrorized the French and led a loyal army to sack many French strongholds for over a decade. And she did so alone in the 14th Century. Jeanne de Belleville was born in 1300 in Belleville-sur-Vie into the French nobility. She married her first husband, Geoffrey de Châteaubriant VIII, at only 12 years old. He was seven years her senior. In fourteen years of marriage, they had two children. In 1326, Jeanne was widowed. In 1328, she married Guy of Penthièvre, though this marriage was short-lived and annulled in 1330. The same year, Jeanne married for the third time, which would lead to her infamy. Olivier de Clisson IV was a wealthy Breton nobleman whose property included Château de Clisson, a manor house in Nantes, and lands at Blain. Jeanne had also inherited land in the province of Poitou, south of the Breton border, and these combined assets made them a real power couple of the 14th Century. Their marriage resulted in five children, including their son, Olivier V de Clisson, later known as 'The Butcher', due to his brutality in battle. Their eldest child, Isabeau, was born in 1325. At the time, Jeanne was still married to her first husband and Olivier to his first wife, who died in 1329. We know little of their relationship, but it's easy to note the timing of the annulment of her second marriage, in 1330, to the death of Olivier's wife a year prior. Their marriage was likely a rare love match. Amidst a complex backdrop of conflict, like so many wars, Jeanne and her husband supported Charles de Blois as Duke of Brittany. But for reasons unknown, Charles de Blois was mistrustful of Olivier de Clisson, questioning his loyalty.  Sources differ on the cause for this mistrust. Some claim that Olivier defected to join the English side. Another story points to Olivier's capture by the English during the capture of the city of Vannes in 1342. Olivier de Clisson had been acting as military commander alongside Hervé VII de Léon, in defense of the city when it fell. What is strange, however, was the terms of Olivier's release. He was released in exchange for Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, a prisoner of the French, and for a suspiciously low ransom. Hervé VII de Léon, meanwhile, was never released. It is thought that the low ransom for Olivier's freedom gave Charles de Blois reason to distrust him. He made a devil's deal! Due to Charles de Blois' suspicion, in 1343, Olivier was captured with fifteen other Breton Lords at a tournament and taken to Paris to be tried in court. On August 2 1343, Olivier de Clisson was found guilty on several counts of treason and sentenced to be executed by beheading immediately. Olivier's trial shocked the nobility due to his guilt's lack of available evidence. However, his death was equally shocking, as the public desecrating/exposing a body was usually reserved for low-class criminals rather than members of the nobility. The death of her third husband was a turning point in Jeanne's life, and it is fair to say that she was never the same again. She took her two young sons to Nantes to show them the head of their father, displayed on a pike at the Sauvetout gate. She did this with the intention of searing hatred in their hearts. She swore her revenge against the French King, Phillip VI, and Charles de Blois in her fury. She considered her husband's execution to be an act of cowardice and murder. She sold the de Clisson estates, using the money to raise an army of men who had been loyal to her husband. Leading this Army, she attacked many French strongholds. First, her Army massacred the entire garrison, except for a sole survivor. Then, her Army rampaged along the Normandy coast, burning many villages to the ground. In 1343, Jeanne was found guilty of treason, confiscating her remaining lands. However, it seems she otherwise escaped the charge without punishment. That same year, King Edward III granted Jeanne income from English-owned lands in Brittany. Soon, she turned her attention to piracy, building a fleet of ships. Painted coal-black, their sails dyed blood red, others dubbed the ships "The Black Fleet." During this time, she earned her nickname, the Lioness, or Tigress, of Brittany. Jeanne named her flagship 'My Revenge.'   With the support of the English King, Jeanne's fleet scoured the channel, attacking any French ship that she encountered, massacring entire crews. However, she left a few witnesses to send a warning message to the French King. Jeanne continued pirating the English channel for another 13 years until the sinking of her flagship in 1356. Along with her two sons, she was adrift at sea for five days, during which Jeanne rowed non-stop in search of rescue. Unfortunately, despite her best efforts, her son, Guillaume, died of exposure. Jeanne and her surviving son were eventually rescued and taken to Morlaix. It is said that Jeanne de Clisson's ghost still haunts Château de Clisson, her beloved third husband's castle, to this day. Lady Mary Killigrew Another fearsome pirate of the Elizabethan era, Mary Wolverston, or Lady Killigrew (before 1525 – after 1587) was known for her pirate activities along the Cornish coast. Mary was the daughter of Lord Phillip Wolverton, a former pirate. She later married Sir Henry Killigrew, a pirate who was later made a Vice-Admiral by Queen Elizabeth I.  While Henry was employed to uphold maritime law, some ex-pirates were engaged as "privateers," sailing under the favor of the Crown to amass illicit profits for England. Mary was known to be a champion of her husband's criminal activities. She redesigned their home at Arwenak castle to hide stolen goods, cut deals with smugglers, and raid ships. It is thought that the Queen turned a blind eye to this and even pardoned her in later life.  Grace O'Malley Grace O'Malley (a. 1530 - 1603) was a formidable Irish pirate and a decisive leader who successfully defended her lands against English governance and other hostile Irish clans. O'Malley was the daughter of a chieftain and was educated in seafaring by her father. After his death, she took to the seas (even giving birth to her first child while aboard a vessel).  As the English began occupying Ireland, O'Malley fortified important coastal defenses and offered her support to Irish rebels. She even met with Queen Elizabeth I in September 1594 at Greenwich Castle where they created a treaty in Latin.   Mary Read Mary Read was born in Devon County, England, in the late 17th Century. She had a harsh childhood. Her father had died before she was born, and her half-brother Mark passed away soon afterward. Nevertheless, Mary's paternal grandmother supported Mary and her mother only because she thought her grandson Mark was still alive. To keep the death of Mary's brother a secret from his grandmother, Mary was raised as a boy, pretending to be her older brother. When Mary Read was about thirteen years old, her grandmother died. Mary still dressed as a boy and had to find a job with boyish habits. She became a footboy to a wealthy French woman who lived in London. Unsatisfied with her current position, Mary escaped and boarded a man-o-war. A few years passed, and she became bored again. This time she joined the Army, where she met her future husband. After confessing love and her true gender to him, they left the Army, married, and opened an Inn called Three Horseshoes near Castle Breda.  Mary Read was always surrounded by death. After just a few months of marriage, her husband got sick and died. Desperate, she just wanted to escape from everything and joined the Army again. This time, she boarded a Dutch ship that sailed to the Caribbean. Mary's ship was attacked and captured by the pirate, Calico Rackham Jack, who took all English captured sailors as part of his crew. Unwillingly she became a pirate. Soon after, she started to enjoy the pirate way of life. When she could leave Rackham's ship, Mary decided to stay.  On Rackham's ship, she met the one and only Anne Bonny. Being the only women on the boat and sharing a lot in common, they quickly became good friends. Some people believe that Mary Read was in a romantic relationship with Anne Bonny, Rackham, or even crewmembers.  Mary's pirate career ended in October 1720. She was captured by Captain Barnet in a desperate battle. In Port Royal, they stood trial. Rackam and his crew were found guilty of piracy, but Mary and Anne were spared because they claimed to be preggers.  Mary Read died with her unborn child in prison from fever. She was buried at St. Catherine's parish in Jamaica.   Anne Bonny Most of what is known of Bonny's life comes from the volume A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates (1724), written by a Capt. Charles Johnson (thought by some scholars to be a pseudonym of English writer Daniel Defoe, not to be confused with the green goblin, Willem Defoe) and considered highly speculative. Anne was thought to be the illegitimate daughter of Irish lawyer William Cormac and a maid working in his household. Cormac separated from his wife after discovering his cheatin' ass ways and later assumed custody of Anne. Following his hookup with her mother, he lost most of his clientele, and the trio emigrated to Charles Towne (now Charleston, South Carolina). Anne's mother died of typhoid fever when Anne was 13 years old. Her father betrothed her to a local man, but Anne resisted. Instead, in 1718 she married sailor John Bonny, with whom she traveled to the island of New Providence in the Bahamas. Her husband became an informant for the governor of the Bahamas. Not happy with her marriage, she became involved with pirate John (“Calico Jack”) Rackham, which hopefully sounds familiar unless you're drunk like Logan. He offered to pay her husband to divorce her—a common practice at the time—but John Bonny “aw, hell Nah!” In August 1720, Anne Bonny abandoned her husband and assisted Rackham in commandeering the sloop William from Nassau Harbour on New Providence. Along with a dozen others, the pair began pirating merchant vessels along the coast of Jamaica. Rackham's decision to have Bonny accompany him was highly unusual, as women were considered bad luck aboard ships. Her fierce disposition may have swayed him: fictional stories claimed that when she was younger, she had beaten an attempted rapist so severely that he was hospitalized. Bonny did not conceal her gender from her shipmates, though when pillaging, she disguised herself as a man and participated in armed conflict. Accounts differ on when her female compatriot Mary Read joined the crew. Some state that Read—who had served as a mercenary while disguised as a man—was among the original hijackers of the William, while others claim that she was aboard a Dutch merchant ship that Rackham's crew captured. On November 15, 1720, Capt. Jonathan Barnet caught up with the William at Negril Point, Jamaica. Except for Bonny and Read, who fiercely battled their pursuers, the crew was too drunk to resist, and they were captured and brought to Spanish Town, Jamaica, for trial. Rackham and the male crew members were immediately found guilty and hung. Bonny and Read were tried on November 28. Though they too were found guilty and sentenced to death, their recently discovered pregnancies won them stays of execution. Read died in prison the following year, but Bonny was released, likely because of her father's influence. She returned to Charles Towne, where she married, had children, and lived out the remainder of her life. Jacquotte Delahaye Delahaye was born around 1630 in Haiti, though there is no evidence of her birth, and many of the stories seem to originate from 1940s writer Léon Treich. Legend believes that the British navy killed her father, and her mother died during childbirth. As she was destitute, she joined a pirate crew and later commanded a fleet of ships.  With striking red hair and the legendary status of surviving many dangerous encounters, she was named "Back From The Dead Red."   Ching Shih Contrary to popular belief, the most successful pirate-lord in recorded history was not Blackbeard, Henry Morgan, Sir Francis Drake, or any other human with a wiener. Instead, it was an extraordinary Asian woman known today by Ching Shih, which translates to ‘Ching's widow.' Her saga is nothing less than an exhilarating rag to riches story. At the height of her power, she commanded over 800 large ships, 1000 smaller vessels, and over 70,000 pirate crew, comprised of both men and women. In comparison, Blackbeard, at his peak, commanded only 300 ships and a few thousand pirate crew. Ching Shih was born as Shih Yang, in 1775, in the poverty-ridden society of Guangdong province, in China. Like many of the women of this period, on attaining puberty at the age of thirteen, she was forced into prostitution to supplement her family's income. She worked in one of the floating brothels, also known as flower boats, in the Cantonese port city. These boats would sail along the nearby coast with the customer on board. Back then, the Chinese perceived that the boat's rocking added an entirely new dimension to sexual pleasures and enhanced the overall experience. If the ships a Rockin… you get it. In a short period, young Ching Shih had become the talk of the town due to her striking beauty, poised nature, and lavish hospitality. These attributes attracted several high-profile customers, including courtiers of the royal palace, army military commanders, wealthy merchants visiting the port city, and many more. Apart from this, very little is known about her early life, given her humble origins. In 1801, Zheng Yi, a notorious pirate commander of the infamous Red Flag Fleet, encountered Ching Shih in the Cantonese port and was smitten by her beauty. Of course, he visited the floating brothel and met Ching Shih, expressed his feelings, and asked her to marry him. Ching Shih told him that she would marry him if “she was granted fifty percent share over his monetary gains and a partial control over his pirate fleet.” This demand showed that she did not want to end up as eye candy for her husband for the rest of her life. Drowned in his boner-filled love for her, Zheng Yi invariably agreed to her conditions, and they got hitched. The truth of this chain of events is often debated today. Historians claim that Zheng Yi had ordered his men to abduct Ching Shih from the brothel, forcibly marrying her. Regardless, it was Ching Shih who benefited the most from their union, and her encounter with Zheng Yi is often considered to be her stepping stone to greater glory, which in turn got her etched into history as one of the most successful pirates in recorded human history. Under the joint command of Zheng Yi and Ching Shih, the Red Flag Fleet began to grow and prosper like never before. The fleet grew from 200 ships, at the time of their wedding, to 1800 ships, in the next few months. Immediately after joining her husband, Ching Shih implemented some crucial changes and constituted the code of laws to be followed to the T by all the crew. Here are a few: 1) Pirates who gave unauthorized orders or those who refused to follow orders were executed on the spot without a chance to justify themselves. 2) All seized goods had to be presented for inspection. If any pirate was found hiding or under-reporting goods, a part of their body was chopped off depending on the scale of the crime. 3) Loyalty and honesty were greatly appreciated, and worthy pirates were rewarded generously, setting an example for the others. 4) Female captives needed to be treated respectfully. They were segregated based on their looks. The weak, pregnant, and ugly ones were freed as soon as possible. 5) The beautiful women captives were held back for ransom. The pirates were given the freedom to marry these attractive women under mutual consent. 6) Infidelity and rape were treated as serious offenses. These offenders were immediately hanged. In the case of consensual pre-marital sex, both the offenders were executed. In some instances, the man was castrated, and the woman was banished from the fleet.   Apart from these, several economic reforms were implemented, considering the crew's happiness as an expression of gratitude towards them. This addition resulted in many of the pirate groups of the region merging themselves unconditionally under the banner of the Red Flag Fleet, which resulted in it becoming the largest pirate fleet on the face of the planet. Meanwhile, unable to conceive a future heir, the pirate couple decided to adopt a young angler in his mid-twenties named Cheung Po from a nearby coastal village, which means that Cheung Po became the second in command to Zheng Yi and the most respected crew after him and Ching Shih. This move puzzled many crew members as to why the pirate couple chose to adopt a fully grown man. Let's find out! Just six years into their marriage, in 1807, Ching Shih's life took a sudden tragic turn; Zheng Yi passed away during a devastating storm off the coast of Vietnam. Their adopted son Chang Pao was instated as the leading commander of the Red Flag Fleet and the pirate queen Ching Shih's confidant. Amidst this tragedy, there was an internal rift for dominance amongst the power-hungry captains of partnering ships. The future of the Red Flag Fleet was in danger. Ching Shih managed to secure command of the fleet and win the support of factions loyal to Zheng Yi, including his nephew and cousins, by utilizing a few cunning business tactics. Soon after, the power-hungry traitors were captured and executed in public to set an example and deter any future possibilities of a coup.   Following this situation, stricter disciplinary measures and codes of laws were implemented, and the lawbreakers were hacked to death instantly regardless of their rank.   Less than two weeks after the tragic death of her husband, the pirate queen announced that she was getting married to her adopted son, the commander of the Red Flag Fleet. AH HA!! She had shared a relationship with him for a long time, which is why she was not conceiving from her first marriage. It was under her influence that her sucker husband, Zheng Yi, had adopted the young fisherman and declared him as his willful heir. Under the leadership of Ching Shih, the Red Flag Fleet set off to capture new coastal villages and flaunted total control and domination over the South China Sea. This onslaught added to the trouble British and French colonizers faced as the pirates regularly plundered their ships. The Red Flag Fleet was operating its businesses at an enormous scale. Not a single ship moved in the South China Sea without the knowledge of Ching Shih's army. Entire coastal towns worked for them, supplying them with food, goods, and other provisions. The pirates taxed ships that wanted to cross the South China Sea. If they refused, they were attacked and plundered immediately.   Nevertheless, the Chinese dynasty desperately wanted to end all this. So, the novice Mandarin navy vessels were sent out to confront the Red Flag Fleet in the South China Sea and destroy them. A few hours into the battle, the Mandarin navy began a humiliating defeat. Ching Shih used this opportunity and announced that the Mandarin crew would not be punished if they joined hands with the Red Flag Fleet. So, just like that, the Mandarin navy was absorbed by the pirates, and the Qing dynasty lost a considerable part of their navy.   The Emperor of China was enraged to think that a woman controlled such an enormous amount of the land, sea, resources, and people that belonged to him. So, in an attempt to ink a peace deal with the pirates, the emperor offered an amnesty to all pirates of the Red Flag Fleet, hoping to terminate Ching Shih's reign over the sea.  Meanwhile, the Red Flag Fleet came under attack from the Portuguese navy. That navy had already been defeated twice before. However, this time things were different because they came prepared with bigger ships and weapons. This superiority gave the Portuguese an upper hand, and the Red Flag Fleet could not return with an attack of the same size. The Europeans were slaughtering them in their own backyard. Ching Shih recognized no point in fighting; the Portuguese navy ruthlessly destroyed her fleet. So she readily accepted the treaty offered by the Chinese emperor. The entire crew of the Red Flag Fleet was forced to surrender. The emperor allowed pirates to take home all the loot they had accumulated over the years without facing any significant repercussions. Plus, several pirates were granted jobs within the Chinese bureaucracy. Ching Shih's adopted son and later husband Chang Pao became the captain of Qing's Guangdong navy. In 1813, she welcomed her first child, Cheung Yu Lin, followed by a daughter whose whereabouts have been long lost in history.   In 1822, her second husband lost his life at sea, after which she relocated to Macau along with her children and opened a gambling house with all the loot she had grabbed at sea. She was also involved in trading salt. Towards the end of her life, she opened a brothel in Macau, bringing her life full circle.   Ironically, after kicking so much ass, she died peacefully in her sleep at the age of, yep, “sixty-nine.”   Sadie the Goat – In 1869, Sadie the Goat joined the Charlton Street Gang, headquartered at a gin mill at the end of Charlton Street on the West Side of New York. Her real name was Sadie Farrell, but she became known as Sadie the Goat because of her favorite form of fighting: headbutting men in the stomach and having a male sidekick knock the victim out so they could steal his money and valuables. Before joining the gang, she prowled the streets of the Fourth Ward and was known as a brutal mugger. However, after a terrible fight with another female gangster, Gallus Mag, Sadie the Goat lost her ear fled. Gallus Mag had bitten the ear off entirely and stored it in a jar in a saloon she owned.  After Sadie lost the fight and her ear, she left the Fourth Ward and found a new home on the West Side with the Charlton Street Gang. Before her arrival, the gang had decided to become pirates and cause problems along the shores of the Hudson River, but they weren't very good at it. However, with Sadie stepping in, things began to turn around. With Sadie commanding the gang, they stole a ship and made her captain of their pirate crew. These pirates patrolled the Hudson River stealing and terrorizing, becoming rich in the process. It is said that Sadie the Goat was known for her cruelty and made several of her own men walk the plank throughout the pillaging. True to form, her ship carried the Jolly Roger flag. After a few months of pirate life, local farmers along the river banded together and engaged the pirates in gun battles. As a result, the Charlton Street Gang decided to call it quits and Sadie the Goat returned to the Fourth Ward. There, she surrendered to Gallus Mag, the gangster who ripped off her ear in their last fight. Honored by the gesture, Mag returned Goat's ear to her, and it's said Sadie the Goat wore it in a necklace, in a locket, for the rest of her life. Maria Lindsey – Maria Lindsey met notorious pirate captain Eric Cobham, and it was love at first sight. Cobham revealed his profession to Maria, but she was not put off – in fact, they were married the next day! The two left Maria's hometown of Plymouth and spent around 20 years sailing the seven seas as swashbucklers.   Rachel Wall Rachel Wall's biography is riddled with myths and legends, but if tales about her are true, she was one of the first and only American women to try her hand at piracy. As the story goes, Wall was a Pennsylvania native who ran away from home as a teen and married a fisherman named George Wall. The couple settled in Boston and tried to survive, but constant money problems eventually led them to turn to a life of crime. In 1781, the couple bought a small boat, hooked up with a few low-life mariners, and began preying on ships off the coast of New England. Their strategy was as ingenious as it was brutal. Whenever a storm passed through the region, the pirates would dress their boat up to look like rough seas had ravaged it. Rachel would stand on the deck and plead for help from passing ships. When the unsuspecting rescuers came near, they were promptly boarded, robbed, and murdered. Wall may have lured over a dozen ships to their doom, but her luck ran out in 1782 when a real storm destroyed her boat and killed her husband, George. She continued her thieving on land and was later arrested in 1789 for attacking and robbing a Boston woman. While in prison, she wrote a confession admitting to "Sabbath-breaking, stealing, lying, disobedience to parents, and almost every other sin a person could commit, except murder." Unfortunately for Wall, the admittance wasn't enough to sway the authorities. On October 8, she became the last woman ever executed in Massachusetts when she was hanged to death in Boston   Anne Dieu-Le-Veut   She was also from Brittany, and her name translates to “Anne God-Wants.” She came to the Caribbean island of Tortuga in the late 1660s or early 1670s. From there, she suffered some rocky years that made her a widow twice, as well as a mother of two. But, her second husband was killed by the man who'd become her third. Dieu-le-Veut insisted on a duel with Laurens de Graaf to avenge her late husband. The Dutch pirate was so taken by her courage that he refused to fight her and offered her his hand. They married on July 28, 1693, and had two more children.   Dieu-le-Veut set sail with de Graaf, which was considered odd as many seamen thought women on ships bad luck. Yet Dieu-le-Veut and de Graaf's relationship has been compared to that of Anne Bonny and Calico Jack, inseparable partners who didn't give a shit about superstition.   Dieu-le-Veut's legend took over as captain when a cannonball blast struck down de Graaf. Others suggest that the couple fled to Mississippi around 1698, where they may or may not have continued to pirate. And still, other tales claim that Dieu-le-Veut's spirit lived on in her daughter, who was said to be a badass in her own right by demanding a duel with a man while in Haiti. Awilda,  Aghast at the thought of marrying a snake-slayer named Alf, she took off, leaving the palace disguised as a man. She gathered a band of disgruntled women also keen to staying single, commandeered a ship and set sail for a life of piracy; Together Awilda & her female crew learned to weild axes and swords, quickly establishing a fearsome reputation across the Scandinavian seas. When they came across another ship, full of male pirates whose captain had just died, she managed to convince them all to follow her as their new captain! Word had spread of this growing band of pirates and the Danes sent their own ships to try and capture her. By this time Awilda commanded a large fleet, when her old flame Alf led an expedition to hunt her down, he found himself outnumbered. However, displaying the same courage & wit as he had when defeating those snakes, he managed to put ship after ship out of action until he finally made it to the lead ship where Awilda was waiting, sword in hand. He didn't know that it was Awilda he was hunting and the realisation only hit him when, in the midst of a swashbuckling swordfight he knocked the helmet clean off her head and recognised the girl he had risked life & limb for all those years before by killing all those snakes! Perhaps she was impressed by his sword skills or his willingness to stand down, perhaps she just had a change of heart or realised how perfect their names would sound together, either way she decided that Alf wasn't too bad after all and that she would take him as her husband. In true fairy tale style they lived happily ever after as Queen & King of Denmark. Sister Ping  Cheng Chui Ping, aka Sister Ping, was a woman who ran a successful human smuggling operation between Hong Kong and New York City from 1984 until 2000. She was arrested in Hong Kong in 2000 and extradited to the United States in 2003. She was held in U.S. Federal prison until she died in 2014 and nicknamed "The Mother of All Snakeheads," a translation of the Chinese word for "smuggler."

Alors que la saison 2 de The Great bat son plein et que les sériephiles attendent The Gilded Age de pied ferme, les séries historiques ont toujours fait partie des favoris dans le paysage télévisuel. Versailles Pourquoi est-ce que ce sont toujours les Anglais qui s'accaparent nos sujets Bleu-Blanc-Rouge pour en produire des drames fascinants ? Décrit comme de la provocation en savate, Versailles est une coproduction Sky et Canal+. À travers 3 saisons, le drame aux limites du soap a su montrer l'extravagance et les abus de la cour de Louis XIV avec un casting bi-nationaux. https://youtu.be/Du2OaaTjgkw Intrigues à la cour, romances interdites, rebondissements surprenants, tous les ingrédients d'un bon soap sont présents pour ne pas s'ennuyer une seule seconde devant un épisode. Le chouchou de la série, Alexander Vlahos retourne dans les drames historiques avec la saison 2 de Sanditon. Un Village français Un village français est sans doute l'une des séries historiques incontournables de la télévision hertzienne. Diffusée sur France 2 avec 9 saisons à son actif, on traverse toute la période de la seconde guerre mondiale aux côtés comme le l'indique le titre de la série d'un village perdu dans bla-bla. Audrey Fleurot, Thierry Godard, des célébrités françaises sont à l'affiche de ce drame historique superbement bien écrit qui saura faire pleurer tout comme faire rire. Bien entendu, la série n'est pas toute noire ou toute blanche et arrive à traiter du sujet de la collaboration avec subtilité et empathie. Enfin une série française qui tacle un sujet important dans notre histoire en osant montrer des aspects sombres. Cette fresque historique contient du drame, du suspens, de la romance, tous les éléments pour en faire une série de qualité. Et l'intégrale est dispo sur Salto. https://youtu.be/85cvQajlqws Black Sails Ah les pirates ! Ces brigands des mers qui ne respectent rien ! La formule Starz a encore fait des miracles, rythme endiablé, action à vau-l'eau, des plastiques pas désagréables, Black Sails a réjoui les foules pendant 4 saisons. Pour l'une de ses premières fictions originales remontant à 2014, la chaîne câblée avait parié sur des personnages avec de la niaque. De l'aristocrate anglaise aux rats d'égouts des bas-fonds de l'île de New Providence, des pirates historiques croiseront la route des personnages fictifs. Empruntant librement les protagonistes de Robert Louis Stevenson et son Île au trésor, l'histoire suit le Capitaine Flint vingt ans après. Tout ça dans un beau terreau pour réaliser ses rêves, où la loi du plus fort règne toujours. Black Sails se rapproche évidemment de Spartacus dans son format Starz mais surtout, on s'attache énormément à ses personnages qui commencent comme des parias mais qui gagnent nos cœurs. https://youtu.be/rT2Y5jjBNpQ The Last Kingdom The Last Kingdom prend le parti opposé de Vikings, et on se retrouve chez les Bretons lors de l'invasion danoise. Notre héros est un Danois recueilli par les Anglais, avec une belle mâchoire droite un tempérament un peu sulfureux. Bref, il a le syndrome du héros car il veut sauver tout le monde, mais en même temps il possède des traits d'anti-héros en ne pensant qu'à sa tête. Au-delà de ça, Uthred est charismatique, il est fort, il séduit toutes les femmes, et c'est un chef de guerre comme on n'en connaît peu. Bien sûr, cela va attiser la jalousie des autres seigneurs, surtout ceux qui le blâment de rester un païen alors que l'église gagne en pouvoir. L'acteur principal y est pour beaucoup, il apparaît quasiment dans toutes les scènes et il lui sera probablement difficile de se défaire de ce rôle. Et évidemment son rêve à lui ne peut jamais être réalisé car des obstacles viendront toujours se mettre en travers de son chemin. Mais il faut bien une raison pour qu'il continue à guerroyer pour que la série ne perde pas de son intérêt. Un film de conclusion a été annoncé pour boucler l'histoire disponible sur Netflix. https://youtu.be/Kd-R7WU8jTo

Hero World Challenge Fantasy Picks & Predictions | PGA Tour Betting Strategy | New Providence, The Bahamas | Brooks Koepka Victorious over Bryson DeChambeau Congrats to Brooks Koepka on his victory over Bryson DeChambeau at The Match. Brooks had a great day in Las Vegas and was able to close out The Match with a large lead. Phil Mickelson and Charles Barkley did an outstanding job of commentating The Match. We're heading to Albany Course in The Bahamas for the Hero World Challenge. The field is full of great players on the PGA Tour including Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, Justin Thomas, Viktor Hovland, Bryson DeChambeau, Xander Schauffele, Jordan Spieth, Sam Burns, Abraham Ancer and Daniel Berger. Can Brooks Koepka continue on his hot play from last week and gain a victory? Can Scottie Scheffler gain a win this season? Can Webb Simpson bounce back from his recent play and gain another victory? Will Sam Burns continue his strong play gain another victory? We break down the field and predictions on the show. The Birdies & Bourbon team chat Hero World Challenge Fantasy strategy and predictions at Albany Course in The Bahamas. We chat through the PGA DFS strategies for the event using Fantasy National stats. We first chat Albany Course in The Bahamas conditions, history, weather and everything you need to know about the strategy for the tournament. We chat strategy for DraftKings, FanDuel and Sportsbook picks. The tournament has a strong field with top players teeing it up. We had a blast chatting through the field and strategies. Cheers. Apparel for the show provided by turtleson. Be sure to check them out online for the new season lineup at https://turtleson.com/ Thanks to Fantasy National Golf Club for providing the stat engine for the show. They can be found at https://www.fantasynational.com The Neat Glass. Be sure to check out The Neat Glass online at theneatglass.com or on Instagram @theneatglass for an improved experience and use discount code: bb10 to receive your Birdies & Bourbon discount. Thank you for taking the time listen to the Birdies & Bourbon Show for all things PGA Tour, golf, gear, bourbon and mixology. Dan & Cal aim to bring you entertaining and informative episodes weekly. Please help spread the word on the podcast and tell a friend about the show. You can also help by leaving an 5-Star iTunes review. We love to hear the feedback and support! Cheers. Follow on Twitter & Instagram ( @birdies_bourbon) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/birdies-bourbon/support

In 1684, a Dutch privateer flying Dutch colors attacked Veracruz. In retaliation, the Governor of Cuba attacked the English colony of New Providence.

More terrible than Tortuga. More perfidious than Port Royal. More lascivious than Libertalia. Nassau is the single location most associated with pirates and piracy. Today we begin our look at the Bahamas, New Providence, and the origins of the Pirate Republic at Nassau.

This week on Episode 523 of Priority One: the Roddenberry Foundation continues to promote a positive future, while Star Trek already wins some Emmys this year; in gaming, Star Trek Online takes us through a mirror darkly with “Reflections” and On Screen: Lower Decks Season 2 Episode 6! TREK IT OUT Edited by Thomas Reynolds Star Trek Wins at the Emmys By Elio Lleo On the heels of the Star Trek Day event, the franchise had cause for more celebration. During the two-day Creative Arts Emmy Event this last week, Star Trek walked away with two wins. First up, an Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Single episode for Star Trek: Discovery's Season 3, “Su'kal.” Then, Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For A Series for the Discovery episode, “If Memory Serves.” Now, Star Trek has been nominated for a total of 10 Emmys and the 75th Annual Awards show is set to air on Sunday, September 19th on CBS. So, let's keep our fingers crossed that Star Trek takes home several more!  The 2321 Emmys will use photon torpedoes in place of play-off music. Image: Television Academy. Praise the Word of Rod By Elio Lleo As Gene Roddenberry's centennial celebrations continue, his son and CEO of Roddenberry Entertainment, Rod Roddenberry, spoke with Forbes's Simon Thompson about the last 55 years and the future of Star Trek. With the first four original movies being remastered in 4K UHD, Rod remarks about how great it is to see how there's still a hunger for the original incarnations of Trek, saying: I think it makes Star Trek new again, especially for our new audiences. You've got the TV series now that has brought in a newer, younger demographic, and I think some people are resistant to look at older stuff. When it comes out in 4K, it looks fresh and new. I'm excited by them being introduced to Star Trek through the original movies. ...oh, UNITY, that's what the shirt says. Image: Paramount Pictures, via Forbes. What about NuTrek? Well, for Rod, it's all about ensuring that any of the recent incarnations stay true to the core of what his father's vision was all about saying: He wants people like J.J. Abrams and Alex Kurtzman and others to come along and do that. He also wanted to make sure that it remains Star Trek… [a]s long as they are continuing the tradition and the idea of it making you think. Having it entertain is extremely important, absolutely, but let's be considering different points of view on this as well. Rod goes on to discuss his own personal history with the franchise and how it was he grew to be so invested in his father's legacy. What Escapes In Vegas...Stays In...Hmmm… By Cat Hough If you're headed to Vegas anytime soon, you should definitely trek out the new Star Trek: Discovery-themed escape room launched by Escapology. The game is set during the third season of Discovery and has opened just in time to coincide with the 4th season premiere on Paramount+.  https://player.vimeo.com/video/599794944/ Your role in the game is acting as a civilian engineer tasked with inspecting the U.S.S. Discovery NCC-1031 as it undergoes the refit and upgrade to the 1031-A. However, sci-fi things happen during your inspection and Discovery collides with a quantum filament, causing major hull damage. The filaments' quantum resonance has also caused a polarity shift in the antimatter containment system, leading to a progressive degeneration in the containment field. If field strength falls below 15%, it will collapse, destroying the vessel and everyone aboard. Because sci-fi stuff happened, the main computer has closed emergency bulkheads across the ship and the turbolift control system has been disabled, leaving the bulk of the crew trapped and unable to begin repairs. In a convenient turn of events, your turbolift stopped near the Auxiliary Control section, so all you have to do is override its systems. At this point, you're the best option for helping Discovery and its crew avoid this disaster. Another reason to hate this design. Image: ViacomCBS, via CBR. Then, you, and your team, must escape the turbolift and communicate with a senior officer. You can save everyone if you can just re-establish communications and work together to repair the antimatter containment field before the strength falls below 15% which is projected to be in precisely 60 minutes time. Or that's how long you can book the room for: packages can be reserved at the Las Vegas Town Square location via the Escapology website and they currently show the price for 6 people is a little under $250.  Festivity Will Now Commence By Thomas Reynolds and Rosco McQueen It's practically cliché at this point: the commercial Christmas season starts earlier every year, with candy canes and carols drowning out the trick-or-treaters and turkey dinners. But...what if December isn't merely encroaching on the other months? Isn't Christmas adding their celebrational distinctiveness to its own? Are they not being adapted to service Saint Nick? Yes, Christmas is assimilating the calendar–and your holidays, as they have been, are over. The Elf on the Shelf was the first to fall to the Collective; the angel tree topper is next. Image: Eaglemoss. Festivity may be irrelevant, but that hasn't stopped Eaglemoss from creating a grim messenger of holiday cheer.  Invading Sector 001 on September 30th, the Borg Cube Advent Calendar brings 24 Trek accessories and gifts to all good little Trekkies. Socks, coasters, coffee mugs: each item included in the box also includes a short note with trivia and stories behind it. The Calendar sells for a considerable $149.95, so your bank account might look like New Providence if there's more than one Trekkie on your gift list. However, if you're after something a bit less “Sovereign-class”, then the California line of starships may be more your style.  Eaglemoss has revealed the new XL model of the USS Cerritos.  The model is 9.75” long and faithfully reproduces the Cerritos as it appeared in the first season. It's due in January 2022, so not quite in time for Christmas, but it will soon be joined by a model of the U.S.S. Titan. Both models were made using the actual VFX files used in Lower Decks, with both ships looking a little more animated than the usual line of starships–like they could have leapt from the screen to your living room. Ejectable warp core not included. Image: StarTrek.com Quick News Roundup Here are a few headlines that we didn't discuss but might interest you. For her efforts to help eradicate sexual harassment from the entertainment industry, Michelle Hurd was awarded the SAG-AFTRA President's Award. Hurd (Raffi on Star Trek: Picard) is an actor, activist and National Board member who's worked to provide resources to SAG-AFTRA members who experienced sexual harassment and assault. She also assisted in developing updated guidelines and policies to eliminate harassment and assault from the industry.  You can color your favorite Lower Deckers. The Star Trek.com website is still celebrating Star Trek Day and you can download and print pages to a new coloring book from season two of Star Trek: Lower Decks.  We want to remind you that you can participate in the Roddenberry Foundation's “Boldly Go” campaign by submitting a video, photo, letter, poem, or even a simple selfie. The theme or question to answer, “describe your hopes for the next 100 years!” Visit BoldlyGo.com to learn more! STAR TREK GAMING NEWS Edited by Thomas Reynolds A Fanatical Devotion to Charity By Shane Hoover It's policy here at Priority One that we love charity bundles (and if it isn't, it should be). The latest effort from STO and Fanatical.com is no exception. Following the familiar format, players can select one of two reward tiers based on their donated amount: Tier 1 - $1 ($15 value) 32c Vanity Shield Overlay Rainbow Risian Caracal  ‘Charitable' title Tier 2 - $7.99     ($82 value) All items from Tier 1 Narendra-class Support Cruiser (T6) Vor'ral Support Battlecruiser (T6) 1 Fleet Ship Module 1 Gold Tech Upgrade 30 Lobi Crystals Rarely is it this easy to support the needs of the many. Image: Fanatical. But the benefits don't stay in-game: each purchase of any tier in the bundle earns you a chance to win the Grand Prize! Tier 1 purchases earn a single Grand prize entry, while Tier 2 purchases net you five entries. The winner gets a place on Star Trek: The Cruise V, a ticket worth over $5000. I don't know if God needs a cruise ship, but I sure wouldn't mind getting on this one. The winner also receives a digital copy of every expansion pack available for Star Trek Online. That's Legacy of Romulus, Delta Operations, Temporal Agent, Gamma Vanguard and Discovery Operations. All told, that's over $720 worth of STO goodies. You can also get one free entry into the Grand Prize drawing by visiting a link which requires you to sign up for the Fanatical newsletter. Nearly 90% of the sales price on these charity bundle items will benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, providing children with safe and fun places to grow and thrive, and offering mentoring life-enhancing programs. STO Takes Another Hard Look In the Mirror By Rosco McQueen With the conclusion of the Klingon Civil War, you would think Starfleet and members of the Alliance would have time for a little bit of exploration in Star Trek Online. Think again!!  As a mirror universe admiral once said, “You haven't seen the last of me!” https://youtu.be/krG7YUY9JNw This newfound peace is short lived, as a new danger emerges from the Mirror Universe. A former enemy, Admiral Leeta (voiced by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine star Chase Masterson) is being hunted by the Mirror Universe's Kuumarke, a Terran Empire special agent. Players will team up with Admiral Leeta to stop Kuumarke and her Terran forces from using stolen information to bring destruction to the Prime Universe. Captains can investigate this looming threat in a new featured episode, Firewall, as well as participate in a new ground TFO, “Operation: Wolf.” Captains can also earn daily progress by playing the “Counterpoint” TFO and the episode “Jabberwocky” to work towards claiming the brand new T6 Mirror Gagarin-class Miracle Worker Battlecruiser.  It's worth noting the first Captain on your account to claim the ship also receives 8x Terran Empire Agony Phaser Weapon Packs which each contain your choice of starship weapon type, and 3x Ultimate Tech Upgrade - Beam/Cannon/Projectile Tech which may be used to upgrade any starship weaponry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlkM4MrvSR0&feature=emb_title The new Terran ship has a 4 forward, and 4 aft weapon layout, compared to the regular 5/3 layout of the Prime Gagarin. It features a Lieutenant Commander Command Specialist Bridge Officer seat, and a universal console - the Destructive Protomatter Wave Projector.  The wave projector targets multiple vessels, ripping apart their hulls. If they are destroyed then they send out a secondary shockwave, which may infect other targets in a chain reaction.   Carriers With Crossover Appeal By Thomas Reynolds For years, STO was a preeminent source for new Trek stories–and what's a new Trek story without a ship? Cryptic's designs helped progress the post-Nemesis state of shipbuilding art, establishing distinct aesthetics for a modern 25th century. Now 2021's a different scene, with five different television series and other MMOs generating new ships of their own. That said, STO's contributions aren't going unnoticed. Yes. It's a cat carrier. Good job. Image: Cryptic Studios. The Continuing Mission blog for Star Trek Adventures recently posted fan-made guidelines for bringing Cryptic's Atrox- and Aspero-class carriers into the tabletop world. The unofficial STO-to-STA ship conversion assigns stats and traits based on their online counterparts, so you can drag-and-drop them into your campaign. It's an interesting look at RPG mechanic design, if that's your thing (and if you're listening to this podcast, that's a pretty safe guess). But it also reflects Cryptic's success in creating ships that become Trek characters in their own right. Quick Gaming News Roundup With Reflections taking us back into the Mirror Universe, STO's original ships are getting some fresh new looks--looks that could kill, that is. Ten of Cryptic's 25th century Federation designs, including the fan-favorite Pathfinder, have been touched up for the new arc, ranging from new materials to full-blown remasters. The Terran Empire is also getting their own versions of four ships–the Shran, Reliant, Andromeda, and Pathfinder–dressed to impress and distress. For fans of STO's story blog posts, this was all related in a private communique from Vice Admiral Hemphill of Starfleet. Or is it Lord Baron Vice Admiral of Starfleet? The answer: yes. If you launch STO through the Epic Games launcher - or if you want to get a free Terran Incursion Pack that includes a Terran Empire Sonic Phaser Stun Pistol, an Elite Services Starter Pack and a Small XP Boost, then you'd need to download the game and launch through Epic Games. The pack can be claimed once per account, all items are bound to account and you must complete the tutorial in order to claim it.  The red tells you they're Evil ships, because they can't grow goatees. Image: Cryptic Studios.

Bill Epperly is a spiritual director living in Chicago and a longtime friend of Contemplative Light.   His website is integralawakenings.com In his own words: "My story begins in New Providence, NJ, where I grew up a member of the Methodist Church. My Christian roots run deep, but from an early age, I was troubled by the idea that Christianity is the only true religion. By age 12, I was an agnostic and might have stayed one were it not for a reintroduction to spirituality in 1985 through participation in a 12 step group. Then,  in 1987, I had a spontaneous and powerful “peak experience” of oneness with everything while attending a talk by Br David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine monk. In that moment of illumination, my story took an unexpected turn. I lost interest in my graduate studies and became a spiritual seeker. I began formal study of the Christian contemplative tradition and took up contemplative prayer. My interest in world religions grew strong and I read up on the lively interreligious dialogue between Buddhist and Christian monastics. This led me to become curious about zen and  Zen Buddhism, which seemed the antithesis of theist Christianity. Encouraged by early experiences with Zen meditation, I decided to take up formal study of Zen, initially as a new Christian prayer form. My experiences of God and community life were so positive that I undertook three years of residential training at Zen Buddhist Temples in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Chicago. I left that community in 1993, but elements of that time of practice and community living continue to inform and enrich me. During those years I was introduced to Ken Wilbers integral approach and I have worked to create an integral approach to spirituality that draws on Zen Buddhist, Christian Contemplative, and modern psychologically-based spiritual approaches.Clint Sabom is the Creative Director for Contemplative Light.  He also hosts The Sanity Sessions, a podcast about mental health and psychology.  Listen here.Support the show (https://contemplativelight.org/)

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#33 David Salem - A Deep Dive into Capital Allocation   This interview is a true master class for anyone interested in capital allocation and manager selection. We had the great pleasure to speak to David Salem, the Co-Chairman of New Providence Asset Management, a firm that provides investment office solutions for endowments, foundations and family offices. David is also a contributor to Epsilon Theory, an online community in which he writes extremely thoughtful articles about investment management and combines it with his passion for the game of baseball.   Before assuming his current post, David served as a Managing Partner at Windhorse Capital Management, which merged with New Providence in 2018. For almost two decades before that, David served as the Founding President and CIO for the Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF), a non-profit investment cooperative that managed over $8bn on behalf of more than 700 endowed charities by the time he left. We discuss many different topics during our conversation, which includes the Yale Model, which then became known as the Endowment Model and why David thinks it may be dangerous for institutions to try to replicate it. We also discuss David's framework for selecting money managers, what his due diligence process looks like and what he focuses on when meeting a money manager for the very first time.   The topics discussed include: 02:00 – David's background 06:00 – David's opinion what it takes to become a great investor 10:00 – The Endowment Model and why David thinks it may be dangerous for institutions to try to replicate it 16:00 – How does David thinks about diversification, as well as his thoughts on how to design an investment program 24:00 – David's thoughts on how one should account for human biases in the measurement of risk tolerance 33:00 – David's thoughts on Private Equity and crypto currencies 39:00 – David's personal process on how to select investment managers 43:00 – Characteristics David looks for (and seeks to avoid) in vetting money managers 49:00 – How does David prepare for a first meeting with a money manager, and what he spends the first meeting on 55:00 – What David thinks about the use of Investment Committee in making investment decisions 59:00 – How does David decide on how when to part ways with managers he has invested in 62:00 – David's thoughts on mentorship   Please keep in mind this is not investment advice. Full disclaimer at the end of the podcast.    As always, make sure you share the podcast with anyone you think might benefit from the information. And don't forget to leave us a 5-Star review on iTunes!   Luke, Leo & Andy

We're taking you to the farm outside of New Providence, Iowa with lifestyle photographer and leathers Ali Nelson. Ali has so many cool things going on and she's giving us a look at her life as a farm wife, creative, and small town entrepreneur. Ali has chosen her own creative path that just keeps expanding into new things! And you guys, she's so good at all of them!Check out more on the blog.SHOW NOTES:Tom Christopher, ArtistAli Nelson PhotographyDos Rios Leather Co.Hardin County Young ProfessionalsRachael Ostrem, Miss Rodeo IowaInstagram: @alinelsonphotoInstagram: @dosriosleatherFacebook: @ANelsonPhotoDesignFacebook: @ANleatherdesign

This week on the podcast we're taking you to New Providence, Iowa, where we're sitting down with Blake Richie, owner of BR Designs. Blake is one of several millennials who has decided to call New Providence home. He's talking about why he chose this town of 250 people as the place to start his business, why no town is too small for revival, and how he started a county-wide young professionals group to help people learn and connect.You are going to love what's happening in this town. And check out some photos from the Christmas Tree Lighting and Soup Supper on our website and catch some of the Christmas magic we experienced there!Check out more on the blog.SHOW NOTES:Blake Richie DesignsThe Rustic RoseNew Providence HardwareImages by MoschDes Moines Register feature articleNew Providence Hertiage FestivalHoney Creek Design BuildFacebook: @brdesignsInstagram @blakerichiedesignsHardin County Young Professionals