Podcast appearances and mentions of Saint Croix

Part 1 - Neville James is joined by author Kathleen Dowling her newly published book, titled “A Closer Look" is a book that sheds new light on the 1848 emancipation in the Danish West Indies, particularly on the island of Saint Croix.

Meet our special guest, Marcus Norman, a serial entrepreneur who dedicates his time, energy, and passion to multiple ventures.   Marcus hails from the beautiful Caribbean island of St. Croix (pronounced "Saint Croix"). He also served in the United States Navy for eight years, where he developed his skills and matured into manhood.   Today, Marcus is the CEO of a real estate investment firm and property management company based in Virginia.   His firm focuses on delivering higher returns for investors, board members, and market partners through both traditional and alternative markets, both domestically and internationally.   Currently, Marcus manages $330K in assets in the rapidly growing 757 area.   In addition to his business ventures, Marcus is the host of Gentleman Style Podcast.a show aimed at uplifting and encouraging men and women around the world.   Learn More Here: https://www.gentlemanstylepodcast.com/   Want to be a guest on WITneSSes? Send Elisha Arowojobe a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/elishaarowojobe  

Candidates running in the riding of Saint Croix fielded questions submitted by voters in St. Stephen last week.Vicki Hogarth with CHCO-TV was the moderator and she joined host Rachel Cave to break down the riding.

Part 1 - Hanz Lawaetz joins Neville James for an engaging conversation. They talk about farming, politics, and their family history in Saint Croix.

Part 2 - Dr. Ed Brown, a Saint Croix native and global community organizer, is Neville's guest.  

Part 1 - Host Neville James receives an update from the National Weather Service in San Juan, as another excessive heat advisory is in effect for Saint Croix until 5pm. Neville then discusses how the "One Person - One Vote" Supreme Court decision affected Virgin Islands Senate elections.

On Today's podcast, I have a very special guest who I met via my text line. Carter Smith-Wellman is a charter captain down in Saint Croix, and he believes that Saint Croix may be one of the best places for inshore fishing in the world. I have never been to Saint Croix before but after this podcast I imagine I make the trip quite soon. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cruzanwithcarter/ Silver Kings Kayak Charters Virgin Islands: https://www.silverkingsvi.com Silver Kings IG: https://www.instagram.com/silverkingsvi/ Silver Kings YT: https://www.youtube.com/@SilverkingsVI Linked-in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carter-smith-wellman-010923103/ All of my other socials can be found here : https://linktr.ee/TomRowlandPodcast For All Your Marine and Auto Needs Check Out Star brite: https://bit.ly/48tNW0y Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On July 3, 1861, boxer Peter "The Prince" Jackson was born in Saint Croix. Moving to Australia as a child, Jackson began his boxing career in 1882 during a shipboard mutiny. His impressive defensive skills quickly drew the attention of fight promoters across the country, and by 1886, he had claimed the Australian heavyweight title. Facing a scarcity of willing white opponents in Australia, Jackson relocated to the United States. On May 21, 1891, he famously fought James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett in a grueling 61-round bout that ended in a draw. In 1892, Jackson journeyed to England, where he won the British Empire championship. However, a severe boxing injury led to three broken ribs and a punctured lung, forcing him into a six-year retirement. Tragically, Jackson succumbed to tuberculosis in 1901 at the age of 40, a condition he had developed due to his earlier lung injury. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 1 - Neville James speaks with Manuel Ramos, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in San Juan, Puerto Rico, regarding the passage of Hurricane Beryl, a category-4 hurricane with sustained winds of 130 miles, and the risks of a hurricane of this magnitude early in the hurricane season, with Barbados and the Grenadines taking a direct hit. On Tuesday, the system should pass approximately 230 miles south of Saint Croix.

Part 2 - Neville James is joined by DPNR Commissioner Mr. Jean-Pierre Oriole discusses the VI Comprehensive Land & Water Plan process and invites the public to the DPNR Town Hall Meetings on Saint Thomas, Saint John and Saint Croix this week on all three islands. 

Part 2 - Neville is joined by native born talented Saint Croix sprinter and Olympic hopefuls Ms. Michelle Smith and her brother V.I. Track and Field team member Mr. Malique Smith also her father, former Olympian sprinter Mr. Keith Smith as well as her mother Ms. Mirielle Sankatsing-Smith a former Eastern Michigan University NCAA National Champion. Michelle signed a letter of intent to join the University of Georgia in the Fall.      

Siden 1811 har et større mausoleum i København markeret og hyldet den tidligere generalguvernør på De Dansk-Vestindiske øer, Peter von Scholten. I følge lex.dk var han den person, der i 1848 forbød slaveri og satte alle slavegjorte på Saint Croix fri - med øjeblikkelig virkning. Men den fortælling om von Scholten møder nu kritik fra en aktivistgruppe, der hen over mausoleets indgangsparti har skrevet med rød graffiti: "Ingen hvile for slavehandlere". Aktivisterne kalder von Scholten for terorrist, morder og menneskesmugler osv. Så de gør mildt sagt op med ideen om gravfred: Altså, kort sagt, at man ikke må krænke døde personers grave. I Kulturen kigger vi i dag på kirkegården som den - måske - næste kulturelle kampplads. Young Adult-litteratur er typisk skrevet til og med de UNGE og er en romangenre, der lægger sig lige mellem børne- og voksenlitteraturen. Nu viser en ny undersøgelse, at en fjerdedel af dem, der læser Young Adult faktisk er over 28 år. Hvad fortæller den her statistik om millennial-generationen? Værter: Casper Dyrholm og Linnea Albinus Lande.

Welcome to an extra-special episode #121 of the Last Call Trivia Podcast! In today's game, all of the questions will be about Alcohol Trivia. To help ace the theme, our Team is joined by special guest Chris Kern, a sommelier and owner of Forgotten Grapes Wine Club.Round OneOur Alcohol-themed game begins with a Brands Trivia question that asks the Team to identify the bargain-priced wine that's nicknamed “Two Buck Chuck.”Next, we have a Terms Trivia question about the style of beer that comes from the German word meaning “to store.”The first round concludes with a Labels Trivia question about the alcohol brand whose imagery references the two Christian patron saints of hunters.Bonus QuestionToday's Bonus Question is a follow-up to the Labels Trivia question from the first round.Round TwoIn Round Two of today's game, we've got more Alcohol Trivia on tap!The second round begins with a Presidents Trivia question about the U.S. president who legalized homebrewing.Next, we have a Companies Trivia question that asks the Team to identify the Saint Croix company that claims to be “the most honored rum distillery in the world.”Round Two concludes with a Wine Trivia question about a term used to describe a specific element inside a glass of sparkling wine.Final QuestionWe've reached the Final Question of the game, and today's category of choice is Names. Roll call!The Trivia Team is asked to fill in the blank with the missing name for five given liquor brands.To learn more about how Last Call Trivia can level up your events, visit lastcalltrivia.com/shop today!

Midwest Dairy, the checkoff organization representing over 4,000 dairy farmers in a ten-state region, officially announced that Corey Scott of Marine on Saint Croix, Minn. has been named its new Chief Executive Officer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this day in 1917, Denmark sold the islands of Saint Thomas, Saint John, and Saint Croix to the United States.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen in today as I sit down with Bryan Goodwin, President and CEO of McREL International, and an experienced educator, to explore the intersection of science, art, and the joy found in teaching. We dive into the phases of learning, discussing how curiosity is the key to engaging students, followed by commitment, focus, consolidation, practice, reflection, and finally, extension and application.We also emphasize the importance of planning for learning rather than just teaching and how understanding the science of learning can bring true joy to the classroom, and we touch upon the challenges educators face, such as burnout, and how elevating the teaching profession and fostering a culture of curiosity can lead to more joyful and fulfilling learning experiences.Join us as we share insights and inspiration for creating joyful, curious, and engaging learning environments!To learn more, order Jon's book, Just Teaching: Feedback, Engagement, and Well-Being for Each Student.The Just Schools Podcast is brought to you by the Baylor Center for School Leadership. Each week, we'll talk to catalytic educators who are doing amazing work.Be encouraged.Timestamps:[0:37] - Today's guest is Bryan Goodwin of McREL International.[2:15] - What drew Bryan to education?[2:52] - Bryan's first job was in Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.[4:53] - Bryan argues that understanding the 'why' behind teaching fosters engagement.[6:36] - Engagement and commitment are fundamental; teaching must inspire curiosity and active involvement.[8:30] - Bryan points out how short-term memory is limited; effective teaching utilizes visuals and keeps content concise.[10:28] - Bryan explains how repetition enhances memory and retention.[12:33] - It's important not just to remember knowledge but to have done something meaningful with it.[13:16] - Bryan adds that designing learning around how kids' brains work makes teaching easier and more joyful.[16:05] - Experienced teachers, similar to veteran quarterbacks, adapt strategies based on students' needs and engagement.[17:45] - Teacher burnout and fatigue is what worries Bryan the most.[19:41] - Bryan finds hope in the power of curiosity, making education engaging and impactful.[21:19] - Positive classroom environments and meaningful work in Australia effectively retain engaged teachers.[23:51] - Bryan describes current United States education as fatigued.[24:01] - Bryan hopes to see schools become more joyful and curious.[24:14] - Hear some helpful advice for educators.[25:03] - We are encouraged to write, blog, and refine because sharing ideas builds expertise.[26:02] - In conclusion, we want schools to move from fatigue to joy and curiosity.Connect on Social Media:Baylor MA in School LeadershipBaylor Doctorate in EducationJon Eckert: @eckertjonCenter for School Leadership at Baylor University: @baylorcsl

Philosopher Cat Saint-Croix joins the Examining Ethics podcast to discuss their work on the role that attention can play in thinking about epistemology. The post Rumination and Wronging with Cat Saint-Croix appeared first on The Prindle Institute for Ethics.

Philosopher Cat Saint-Croix joins the Examining Ethics podcast to discuss their work on the role that attention can play in thinking about epistemology. The post Rumination and Wronging with Cat Saint-Croix appeared first on Prindle Institute.

This episode starts with a story. In 1604, 79 members of an expedition from France, including Samuel de Champlain, came to Saint Croix Island off the shores of Maine and New Brunswick to set up a colony in the new land. They called it l'Acadie—Acadia. Over the severe winter of 1604 to 1605, 35 of the settlers died, likely of scurvy. In the spring, members of the Passamaquoddy Tribe befriended the French survivors and brought them food; and, ultimately, their health improved. In the summer of 1605, the survivors moved the Acadia settlement to Port Royal, Nova Scotia, and the rest is history. The Acadians went on to play an integral part in the histories of Canada, the United States, and France. Today, that 6.5-acre uninhabited island and its very significant history is threatened by high tides, shoreline erosion, powerful winter storms, and more—all exacerbated by climate change.In Season 6, Episode 6, host Sarah Thorne is joined by cohost Jeff King, National Lead of the Engineering With Nature Program, US Army Corps of Engineers, and the USACE Project Lead for collaboration on the Saint Croix Island activities; Donald Soctomah, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Passamaquoddy Nation; Becky Cole-Will, Chief of Resource Management for Acadia and Saint Croix Island National Parks, US National Park Service; and Amy Hunt, Senior Project Manager at EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Inc. in New Hampshire. They are working together to figure out how to use nature-based solutions to protect and preserve Saint Croix Island and its unique historical significance. Each of the guests speaks to the unique nature of Saint Croix Island and their personal affinity to it. Donald notes that “Saint Croix has always been a special place, not just for the one winter that the Acadians spent on it but also for the last 15,000 years of Passamaquoddy history.” The guests also note the Island's importance as a symbol of the impacts of climate change. As Donald notes, “When I look at the Island I see a symbol of the change that's going on related to climate. Because right before your eyes, you can see the rising ocean, the erosion, the shrinking of the Island. Every time I look at that Island, I think about climate change and the importance of trying to make other people aware of it.”In June of 2023, the National Park Service hosted a workshop that brought together about 25 participants—biologists, geologists, engineers, planners, policymakers, and Tribal officers—to discuss the challenge and the opportunity and learn more about the history of the Island. The purpose, as Amy describes it, “was to ask the right questions and cast a really wide net then whittle it down to a few specific priorities.” Becky adds, “The first day we spent thinking about what could be done. Then people had an opportunity to get out there and see the Island and say, ‘I get it now.' There was a lot of reality checking and ground truthing that was fascinating to hear.”Jeff appreciated the guests sharing their insights and perspective. He noted that the work is ongoing: “We're just getting started. Brian Davis at the University of Virginia has been working collaboratively with the project partners to come up with designs and renderings that we want to discuss with Donald and the Passamaquoddy Tribe to ensure that we're integrating traditional ecological knowledge along the way. I'm excited about where we're headed and the opportunities this project will offer.” For more information and resource links, please visit the EWN Podcast page on the EWN website at https://www.engineeringwithnature.org/ • Jeff King at LinkedIn• Amy Hunt at LinkedIn• Rebecca Cole-Will at LinkedIn• Donald Soctomah at LinkedInThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5872676/advertisement

July 20, 1986. Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. 66-year old Jim Rice phones his daughter to let her know that he will be traveling to California to undergo shoulder surgery the following week, but he never arrives and no one ever hears from him again. Jim's common-law wife, Astarte Davis-Rice, initially claims that he took off to Australia with another woman, but evidence soon emerges that Astarte has committed fraud to seize control of Jim's estate. Astarte eventually winds up serving prison time for these offenses, but while the authorities suspect that she killed Jim and disposed of his body, there is not enough evidence to file murder charges and no trace of him is ever found. April 7, 1984. Golden, Colorado. The body of 29-year old Mark Groezinger is found inside his parked car on Lookout Mountain and he has been shot several times with a .38-caliber weapon. Mark's wife, Judy Groezinger, comes under suspicion once investigators discover that she purchased a .38 in the days prior to the murder and stands to benefit from a substantial life insurance policy on her husband. Even though there are a number of discrepancies in Judy's story and circumstantial evidence pointing to the involvement of multiple conspirators in a murder-for-hire plot, no one is ever charged with killing Mark. On this week's episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore two cold cases featured on “Unsolved Mysteries” in which a male victim was suspected of being murdered by his spouse. Additional Reading: https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Jim_Rice https://www.newspapers.com/image/271995772/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/268114772/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/895925589/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/736959308/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/738811599/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/311363305/ https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/43/41/552777/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/457368620/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/575843469/ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-oct-05-me-woman5-story.html https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-canb-4_06-ap-04113/pdf/USCOURTS-canb-4_06-ap-04113-0.pdf https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Mark_Groezinger https://unsolved.com/gallery/mark-groezinger/ “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon. Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. “The Trail Went Cold” is doing a weekly livestream show on Vokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True  Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website. “The Trail Went Cold” is going to be appearing on podcast row at “Crimecon” at the World Center Marriott in Orlando, Florida on September 22-24, 2023. To get a 10 % discount on the purchase of tickets to the event, please use our specialized promo code, “COLD23”, by visiting https://www.crimecon.com. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

July 20, 1986. Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. 66-year old Jim Rice phones his daughter to let her know that he will be traveling to California to undergo shoulder surgery the following week, but he never arrives and no one ever hears from him again. Jim's common-law wife, Astarte Davis-Rice, initially claims that he took […]

Fotografía: ©Carlos Castrejón. Cortesía CINAP-GAN Allen Voorhees Lesley, médico y artista norteamericano, siempre quiso conocer el Caribe y Venezuela. Su espíritu viajero estaba aún en germen cuando consolidaba su carrera como médico cirujano en New Castle, en Delaware, ciudad que adoptó como residencia hasta su muerte. Era un hombre apasionado por los idiomas, con profundas inquietudes espirituales al punto de ser elegido Maestro Venerable de la Logia Masónica Saint Johns's en 1855. Ese año decidió realizar su primer viaje a las Islas Vírgenes, particularmente a las posesiones danesas de Saint Thomas y Saint Croix. En primavera y en otoño de 1856, volvió a estas islas, aprovechando conocer en noviembre La Habana y Santiago de los Baños en Cuba. En enero de 1857, saliendo de Saint Thomas, arribó al puerto de La Guaira con su esposa Jennie, su compañera inseparable. Voorhees Lesley arribó a la ciudad en tiempos de pugna entre liberales y conservadores. José Tadeo Monagas se encontraba al mando y poco faltaba para el inicio de la Guerra Federal. Durante su estadía hizo un largo periplo desde La Guaira hasta Puerto Cabello, pasando por Caracas. Dibujó -y con ello documentó- los paisajes que rodeaban la capital, la arquitectura, sus principales monumentos, así como las costumbres de los pobladores tanto de la ciudad como de los caseríos. Asimismo, tomó notas y e hizo bocetos en las paradas de descanso en su viaje hacia los Valles de Aragua y Puerto Cabello. Lesley registró numerosos detalles, desde el estado ruinoso de la ciudad, luego de la devastación del terremoto de 1812, así como de los hermosos paisajes a lo largo de su travesía por estrechos y espinosos caminos por la montaña. El conjunto de sus dibujos, ochenta y ocho realizados en Venezuela, conforman el llamado “Álbum de Lesley”, de los cuales ochenta y seis se encuentran en la Galería de Arte Nacional en Caracas. Además de paisajes y dibujos referentes a la arquitectura, Voorhees Lesley realizó hermosos registros costumbristas, la mayoría en Caracas. Constituyen un importante testimonio sobre actividades cotidianas tales como la recolecta y selección del grano del café, faenas en la cocina de una hacienda rural, la salida de la misa, rituales funerarios, entre otras. Asimismo, vistas como, por ejemplo, de las ruinas del Convento de las Carmelitas Descalzas (hoy sede del actual Banco Central de Venezuela) y de “la plaza mayor” frente a la Catedral de Caracas que entonces servía de espacio destinado para el mercado. Al parecer, la serie de dibujos que realizó Allen Voorhees Lesley en Venezuela fue encontrada en una colección privada en Iowa, Estados Unidos. Pocas veces se le menciona en la historiografía sobre el arte del país. El descubrimiento de este álbum no sólo constata la venida de este artista viajero, sino que también constituye un interesante testimonio visual, a través del dibujo, de la Venezuela de entonces. Escrito y narrado por Susana Benko

On July 3, 1861, boxer Peter “The Prince” Jackson was born in Saint Croix. After moving to Australia as a child, Jackson got his start boxing in 1882 when he stopped a shipboard mutiny. His defense skills attracted fight promoters from around the country, and in 1886, Jackson won the Australian heavyweight title by knocking out Tom Leeds in the 30th round. Because few white fighters agreed to face Jackson, he left Australia for the United States. On May 21, 1891, Jackson famously went 61 rounds with James “Gentleman Jim” Corbett in a bout eventually ruled as a draw. He traveled to England in 1892 and won the British Empire championship, but was forced to retire for six years after sustaining three broken ribs and a punctured lung in a separate injury. On July 13, 1901, at age 40, he died of tuberculosis, which he contracted from his 1892 lung injury. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He's Norfolk Public Schools Teacher of the Year! He's also an incredibly talented artist, author, and poet. His name is Clayton Singleton and it's been four years since Another View Producer, Lisa Godley sat down with the Lake Taylor High School art teacher who never shies away from telling powerful stories that capture the heart of our community with vibrant colors and bold strokes. Last summer, Clayton was an artist in residence at Saint Croix. The result was five new pieces of art. One of which will be on display at the Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts – starting in April 2023! Meanwhile, back here at home, he's started an artist café for his students which showcases guest artists who share their knowledge by hosting workshops.

Gilberto Damiano Maciel Júnior quis ser jogador de futebol e até se profissionalizou em Goiás, mas viu ainda cedo que poderia seguir no esporte, porém fazendo outra atividade. Ainda jovem se formou na faculdade e foi estudar inglês na Inglaterra. Duas décadas depois e ainda tendo residência em Londres, Giba agora é alguém intimamente ligado com o desenvolvimento do futsal e da base do futebol na Inglaterra. Tendo obtido todas as certificações possíveis, inclusive a tão desejada UEFA PRO, foi nessa evolução como treinador que acabou abraçando um desafio incomum. Em contato com um amigo nos EUA, descobriu o projeto de reativação da Seleção das Ilhas Virgens Americanas e por lá atuou como assistente técnico até de fato assumir a posição principal. Sendo um projeto de longo prazo e altamente ligado com a cultura e identidade local, Giba tem tido um desafio bastante interessante nos últimos anos. Falando de Saint Croix, uma das ilhas do país, Giba conta sobre sua carreira e o projeto da USVISA (US Virgin Islands Soccer Association). #usvirginislands #gibadamiano #soccer

Jennifer Anna Rich lives on a small farm near Portland, OR, with her husband, horses, sheep, chickens, cats, and dog. She tends the garden, makes parchment from her Saint Croix sheep skins, and runs Oblation Papers & Press with her husband, designing handmade paper goods. Jennifer is the author of Prayer Spa: Ancient Treatments for the Modern Soul.

Jennifer Anna Rich lives on a small farm near Portland, OR, with her husband, horses, sheep, chickens, cats, and dog. She tends the garden, makes parchment from her Saint Croix sheep skins, and runs Oblation Papers & Press with her husband, designing handmade paper goods. Jennifer is the author of Prayer Spa: Ancient Treatments for the Modern Soul.

Jennifer Anna Rich lives on a small farm near Portland, OR, with her husband, horses, sheep, chickens, cats, and dog. She tends the garden, makes parchment from her Saint Croix sheep skins, and runs Oblation Papers & Press with her husband, designing handmade paper goods. Jennifer is the author of Prayer Spa: Ancient Treatments for the Modern Soul.

Copyright Charshee Links 61,262 EPISODE 5 Season3 ACROSS 3 KONTINENTS FAVORITE ISLANDS ORIGIN BI-ING SAFE, Bermuda, Saint Lucia, Saint Croix, Barbados, Nevis, Tobago, Martinique, plus more

Alex and Miguel are "two brown guys starting a sustainable farm" (in their words, mostly).  They're transforming a 158 acre wooded property in Connecticut into an agroforestry farm. Alex Eitland has been working in relation to the industrial meat industry for the past 5 years. After graduating with a political science degree, it was the last thing he expected. His love for the woods — and food — has been around since his childhood growing up in rural Connecticut, and his first job being working in a greenhouse. Miguel Figueroa moved from the island Saint Croix at the age of 11, and his understanding of food, grocery stores, and where unhealthy food ends and healthy food begins has always been blurry.  He's constantly in pursuit of the ideal meal, and his love for the land and agriculture is primarily driven by his stomach. Along with a desire to help the communities who struggle (himself included) to find genuinely good food. Fern Mill Farm aims to engage, educate and encourage people to understand what good food tastes like, smells like, and looks like when its grown in a sustainable way. Going beyond standard permaculture or restorative agriculture, they aim to prove that sustainable food can also be financially viable using agroforestry.Connect with Alex & MiguelInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/fernmillfarm/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fernmillfarmFollow Farm to Future on Instagram at @farm.to.future

Champlain participates in founding Saint Croix, located in the modern day State of Maine, visits Patuxet the Wampanoag Village and future site of Plymouth and maps the coast of Southern Acadia a decade before it became know as New England. At Port Royal the 100 year old Mi'kmaq Chief Membertou meets the French in his own sail boat and claims to have known Jacques Cartier some seven decades ago. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/osoa/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osoa/support

Hear about travel to St Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands as the Amateur Traveler talks to Kat Roy and Phil Shantz from stayingafloatblog.com about their trip to this tropical island.

Sujets traités :  - Plus que quelques jours pour participer à l'opération boites de Noël. Organisée pour la deuxième année par l'AGF de Sélestat Centre-Alsace, elle permet de distribuer des cadeaux à des familles du territoire. Michel Koebel, directeur de la structure nous explique comment y participer et ce qu'il faut mettre dans la boite. Les boites sont ensuite à déposer au siège de l'AGF à Sélestat, ouverte ce vendredi, ou bien dans les magasins partenaires ce week-end dont la liste est à retrouver sur la page facebook Boite de Noel Sélestat Centre-Alsace. L'opération s'arrête ce lundi, notre sujet complet est disponible sur azur-fm.com dans l'onglet actualités régionales. - Fermeture de la piscine des Remparts pour travaux lundi et mardi. Début novembre, suite à une panne majeure du système de ventilation et à des délais d'approvisionnement des pièces techniques très longs, la piscine Sélestat avait dû fermer ses portes durant une semaine. Aujourd'hui, les pièces permettant de régler de manière définitive cette panne ont été réceptionnées. Des interventions pour effectuer ces travaux auront donc lieu les 20 et 21 décembre à la piscine. Elle sera fermée au public durant ces deux jours et pourra rouvrir dès mercredi. - La région Grand Est compte améliorer l'offre en matière de TER. Pour la collectivité 2022 sera donc plus fort, plus vite, plus vert, mais surtout plus cher. Après deux années sans modification des prix, les billets occasionnels individuels vont augmenter à compter du 1er janvier. Une hausse que la région justifie par l'amélioration du service ferroviaire. En Alsace, on compte 29 trains supplémentaires le samedi, 4 le dimanche ainsi que 13 trains en plus en semaine sur la ligne Strasbourg-Bâle, En outre, une nouvelle carte de réduction unique, plus avantageuse, verra le jour, plus d'avantages pour les abonnés et une offre dans l'ère du temps, un abonnement spécial télétravail. - Des modifications de circulation à l'essai à Horbourg-Wihr. La municipalité ayant fait le constat que de nombreux véhicules transitaient par les zones résidentielles au nord de la commune, a souhaité ramener le calme dans ces rues. Car aux heures de pointes, lorsque la Grand'Rue est bouchonnée, le trafic se déporte dans les rues adjacentes. Pour éviter ce problème, la mairie va donc, lors d'un essai, passer la rue du Nord en sens unique dans le sens nord-sud tandis que celle du Parc ne sera accessible que dans le sens sud-nord. Une partie de la rue de Normandie sera également en sens unique dans le sens Ouest-est. Cette expérimentation doit débuter en février avec un comptage des véhicules sur les axes concernés. - Carambolage hier soir sur l'A35 à Saint-Croix-en-Plaine. L'accident a eu lieu juste avant l'aire du Fronholz dans le sens Nord-Sud et a impliqué quatre véhicules. Deux personnes blessées ont été consultées par les pompiers et un bouchon de plus de 4 kilomètres s'est formé suite à cet accrochage. Un peu plus au nord, mais dans l'autre sens, un autre accident au niveau d'Ostheim a créé un ralentissement de plus de 4 kilomètres. - Et on termine avec une matinée sur la glace pour les enfants à la grande patinoire de Colmar, c'est le glaçon des oursons. Les précisions de Sylvie Petitdemange. Plus d'infos sur le www.patinoirecolmar.fr 

En este episodio, compartimos el artículo "La transformación del silencio en lenguaje y acción" por la escritora Audre Lord contenido en el libro "La hermana, la extranjera". Audre Geraldine Lorde (Harlem, Nueva York 18 de febrero de 1934 - Saint Croix, 17 de noviembre de 1992) fue una escritora afroamericana, feminista, lesbiana y activista por los derechos civiles. Como poeta es especialmente conocida por su dominio técnico y expresión emocional con los cuales expresa ira e indignación por las injusticias civiles y sociales que observó a lo largo de su vida. Sus poemas y prosa trataron en gran medida temas relacionados con los derechos civiles, el feminismo y la exploración de la identidad femenina negra. Su obra más conocida es La hermana, la extranjera, un libro de ensayos que contiene varios de sus textos más influyentes de las luchas contra el racismo, el machismo y la opresión heterosexual como son "No hay jerarquías en la opresión" y "Las herramientas del amo no destruirán la casa del amo". La hermana, la extranjera ejemplifica la filosofía de Audre Lorde de romper el silencio y los tabúes sobre muchos aspectos de su propia vida, sobre la experiencia vital de las mujeres, y en especial, de las mujeres negras. Esta obra respira vitalidad, valentía y también humanidad a raudales. No estamos ante una heroína, sino ante una persona que a base de honestidad y coraje se ha aceptado a sí misma como mujer negra y lesbiana y que desea no sólo sobrevivir sino ser feliz. Podría Lorde haber permanecido en su parcela privada, sin complicaciones, disfrutando de su pareja y de sus hijos, sin embargo, estos ensayos muestran que la autora cree que lo personal es político y lo pone en práctica. Para ella, pues, la necesidad de cambios sociales y colectivos nace de la experiencia de esa misma necesidad en el ámbito de lo privado y personal. Esta obra es un ejemplo más del miedo que Lorde tenía al silencio. Prefería ser malinterpretada, criticada e incluso vilipendiada a callar, ella, que era lesbiana en una sociedad que mira con recelo a la homosexualidad y negra en una sociedad racista. Podía haber decidido vivir su vida sin llamar la atención, sin compartir sus sentimientos y sus reflexiones. Sin embargo, en su juventud, Lorde no encontraba consuelo ni en el arte ni en la literatura, pues por ningún sitio veía reflejadas las situaciones de discriminación y opresión sufridas ni el dolor que le causó la ausencia de diálogo familiar en torno a la raza. Para salir de esta pesadilla, decidió escribir sus propios poemas. La poesía le ayudó a adquirir un compromiso consigo misma y su propia integridad mental y personal. La hermana, la extranjera nace del mismo lugar que sus poemas: de una mirada introspectiva que se proyecta de dentro hacia fuera y que ansía el intercambio, el roce, la dialéctica, la incomodidad, la sinceridad por dura que sea, todo menos el silencio cómplice con la opresión y sinónimo de la muerte en vida. Fuentes: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde La hermana, la extranjera. Introducción y traducción al español por Milagros Rivera.

Made up of the main islands of Saint Croix, Saint John, and Saint Thomas, the U.S. Virgin Islands has remained under colonial rule since Danish invasion in the latter 1600s.  In this episode, Dr. Hadiya Sewer historicizes local revolutions and reception to the USVI's longstanding occupation, also highlighting the effects of American colonialism over last century.Hadiya Sewer is a Research Fellow in the African and African American Studies Program at Stanford University and a Visiting Scholar in the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University. Dr. Sewer's work uses a non-sovereign territory in the Caribbean, the United States Virgin Islands, as a case study for tracing the conceptions of freedom and the human that exist under contemporary colonialism. Sewer earned their Ph.D. in Africana Studies at Brown University. Their scholarship focuses on environmental justice and Africana decolonial, feminist, queer, and political theories. They are currently working on two monographs titled, “(De)Colonial Desires: Blackness, Aporia, and the Afterlives of the Dead,” and "Black as Nature: Climate Disaster, Covid-19, and the Coloniality of Power." Dr. Sewer's research, teaching, and advocacy provide phenomenological, ethnographic, and historical examinations of anti-blackness, colonialism, imperialism, and the climate crisis. As a community-engaged scholar, Sewer is also the President and Co-Founder of St.JanCo: the St. John Heritage Collective, a land rights and cultural heritage preservation nonprofit in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands and a founding member of the Virgin Islands Studies Collective. Follow Dr. Sewer on Twitter and Instagram. Connect with Strictly Facts -  Instagram | Facebook | TwitterLooking  to read more about the topics covered in this episode? Subscribe to the newsletter at www.strictlyfactspod.com to get the Strictly Facts Syllabus to your email!Produced by Breadfruit Media

Join Kimball as he talks about the Bay Area music scene with DJ Nick Saint Croix. Find DJ Nick Saint Croix on Instagram @nicksaintcroix.

durée : 00:04:07 - Les Invités de France Bleu Lorraine - FB Sud Lorraine

FEJL RETTET:  Der var en fejl i den tidligere udsendte episode, så du får den igen – uden fejl. Jeg beklager meget!   Jeg gik ombord på det gode skib Equinox i Fort Lauderdale, Florida, sammen med min nye ven Siobhan, som jeg skulle dele kahyt med. Du kan møde hende i den seneste episode. Mit navn er Palle Bo. Velkommen tilbage til nye episoder af Radiovagabond. Dette er sæson 7, episode 253, og i dag skal vi til et stykke Danmarkshistorie på de Amerikanske Jomfruøer, som vi måske bedre kender som Dansk Vestindien. PÅ KRYDSTOGT I EN PANDEMI Denne episode er optaget for kort tid siden, da krydstogtskibe begyndte at sejle igen efter pandemien. Og den er jo stadig ret nærværende – specielt i Florida, hvor vi starter, så Celebrity Cruises har taget rigtig mange forholdsregler for at forhindre, at der er smitte på skibet. Alle skal være vaccinerede og alligevel skal vi alle møde op med en frisk Corona-test. De har ændret på ruten (som jeg fortalte om i den seneste episode), og så er der stop på turen, hvor vi ikke må gå i land, medmindre vi køber en af deres ekskursioner, hvor de har mere styr på, at sikkerheden er i top. Så jeg føler mig ret sikker på, at der ikke bliver smitteudbrud ombord – selvom det nok ville være med til at denne podcast ville gå viral. VELKOMMEN TIL SAINT CROIX Da vi sætter fod på den første af seks caribiske øer, bliver vi mødt af dansende piger, en DJ og et par fyre på stylter. Og jeg har glædet mig meget til at komme netop hertil. Som dansker, der har lidt historisk nysgerrighed er dette et spændende sted at besøge. Men lad os starte med lidt fakta om hvor vi er: MAN KAN STADIG SE NOGET DANSK HER Der er stadig noget dansk at se her. Her på Saint Croix så jeg både en Kongensgade, en Kirkegade og i dag besøger jeg både Frederiksted og Christiansted. Jeg gik også en tur på kirkegården og så mange danske …sen-navne. For eksempel var der gravsted for ”Frederik Jøgen Christensen fra Køge”. Ja, der står Jøgen, men jeg mistænker, at det er gravsten-manden, der har lavet en stavefejl efter han havde brugt meget energi på at finde ud af at lave et Ø. EN MEGET STOR EJENDOMSHANDEL De Amerikanske Jomfruøer (eller US Virgin Islands) hed Dansk Vestindien indtil Danmark solgte øerne til USA tilbage i marts 1917. Prisen var 25 millioner dollars i guld, hvilket vil være omkring 554 millioner dollars i nutidens penge. Jeg tror, at Trump ville kalde dette en ”meget stor ejendomshandel”. Bemærk, at dette var tilbage, hvor vi solgte dele af vores kongerige. Grønland er ikke til salg. HOVEDSTADEN ER IKKE PÅ DEN STØRSTE JOMFRU-Ø Saint Croix er den største af øerne, men hovedstaden Charlotte Amalie ligger på Saint Thomas. DEN SIDSTE JUMFRU De fleste kender de tre øer, St. Jan, St. Thomas og St. Croix, men der er faktisk kommet en fjerde til – for ikke så mange år siden. Det er den lille ø ”Water Island”, som ligger tæt ved St. Thomas. Men den er også meget lille: Kun omkring to kvadratkilometer. USA købte øen for bare 10.000 dollars. De lokale kalder den ”The Last Virgin”. HALVDELEN AF BEFOLKNINGEN BOR PÅ SAINT CROIX Der bor lidt mere end 50.000 mennesker på Saint Croix, hvilket er næsten halvdelen af den samlede befolkning i dette territorie. ØEN HAR ET LILLE BJERG Selvom øen er lille, så har de faktisk et bjerg, der er omkring dobbelt så højt som Himmelbjerget. Det højeste punkt på St. Croix, Mount Eagle er 355 meter højt. TO HOVEDBYER HAR GIVET ØEN SIT KÆLENAVN St. Croix har kælenavnet ”Twin City” efter de to byer, Frederiksted i den vestlige del (hvor vores skib ligger til) og den lidt større, Christiansted, i den nordøstlige del af øen (hvor jeg skal til senere i dag). EN KAFFE OG TO SAMTALER, TAK Jeg starter min dag i Frederiksted inden jeg tager på byvandring i Christiansted. Jeg gik lidt rundt i byen og endte på en café, med navnet, Polly's at the Pier. Her ville jeg nyde både en kop kaffe og noget Wi-Fi, der var en del hurtigere end det skibet kan præstere.   Her falder jeg i snak med ejeren, Susan, som fortæller mig, at hun valgte at forlade Colorado for at finde et sted med lidt varmere klima efter hun gik på pension. Og til sin egen store overraskelse, så ”kom hun til” at købe en café midt i en pandemi. Og efter den første måned, der var langsom, er det faktisk gået rigtig godt. Hun nyder livet her, og har ingen planer om at forlade Saint Croix – selvom der både er det, de kalder ”island-time” og at man godt kan få lidt økuller ind i mellem. Vi sidder I caféens baggård med høns rendende rundt mellem bordene. Der er også et sted heromme, hvor man kan leje cykler, og her møder jeg Rebecca, som er født og opvokset her. Du bliver nødt til at lytte til episoden for at høre, hvad de to skønne kvinder har at sige. Og så vil du også høre, at min alarm pludselig ringer for at minde mig om, at jeg skal gøre mig klar til at tage på tur til Christiansted. CHRISTIANSTED OG MANDEN PÅ 10-DOLLAR-SEDLEN Inden byvandringen starter vores guide med at læse en lang besked, hun har fået fra Celebrity Cruises. Den handler om alle de ting, vi skal huske omkring, hvordan man opfører sig i en pandemi. Med andre ord, ting vi alle har hørt 200 millioner gange før de seneste 18 måneder. Vi skal vaske hænder, holde afstand og bære maske. Man bliver lidt træt – selvom det naturligvis er rart at vide, at de tænker på vores sikkerhed. VORES HIMMELSKE TURGUIDE Guiden på denne tur er en lidt ældre kvinde med de himmelske navn ”Heavenly Petersen”. Ja, hendes fornavn er virkelig Heavenly. Og hendes efternavn er Petersen – stavet på den danske måde. Hun bekræfter min mistanke om, at hun har danske rødder, men reagerer slet ikke da jeg fortæller hende, at jeg er fra Danmark. Jeg havde ellers forventet ee “wow, virkelig?” eller noget i den dur, men intet. Jeg tænkte, at hun nok ikke havde hørt mig, så jeg gentog mig selv. Og Heavenly gentog sin larmende stilhed. Det er måske slet ikke så specielt at være dansker i Caribien, som jeg havde troet, men jeg må indrømme, at jeg synes, at det var så underligt, at jeg fortsat ikke troede, at hun havde hørt mig. Men senere, da vi står foran indgangen til Fort Christiansværn og ser et Skilderhus, nævner jeg, at der også står den slags foran Amalienborg i København. Og så siger hun: ”Nå ja, du er herren fra Danmark”. MIT NAVN ER ALEXANDER HAMILTON " How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished in squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?" Disse ord er fra den berømte Broadway musical om Alexander Hamilton. Og det var en nyhed for mig, at han faktisk voksede op her på Saint Croix – inden han blev en af USA's ”Founding Fathers” og fik sit ansigt på den amerikanske 10-dollar-seddel. Vi går indenfor på Fort Christiansværn og hører mere om ham og især om hans mor, Rachel Faucett Lavien, som tilbragte tid i en fængselscelle her. HISTORIEN OM HAMILTON OG HANS MOR, RACHEL Heavenly fortæller os om Rachel og Alexander, da vi står i hendes celle, som de i dag kalder ”Rachel's Room”. Her tilbragte hun seks måneder bag lås og slå, fordi hendes mand fik hende anholdt. En mand, som Heavenly kalder ”ældre mand”, den 32-årige John Michael Lavien. Ifølge Heavenly blev hun anholdt for at havde opført sig flirtende. Jeg har researchet lidt, og det lader til at hun vist havde gjort mere end at flirte. Mens hun var gift med den ”gamle mand” blev hun taget med bukserne nede sammen med en anden mand. Hun og Cronenberg blev taget på fersk gerning – nøgne i et soveværelse og som det stod i retsprotokollen, ”med omstændigheder der tilstrækkeligt demonstrerer deres skamløse samleje og skandaløse opførsel”. Så, det er nok derfor, at Lin-Manuel Miranda kalder Alexander Hamilton ”son of a whore” i den populære musical. Både Rachel og Cronenburg tilbragte flere måneder bag tremmer for deres utroskab – og Rachel tilbragte seks måneder her på Christiansværn. Da de blev løsladt, blev Cronenburg udvist fra øen og han dukkede senere op på St. Thomas. Rachel blev løsladt da hun lovede at tage tilbage til sin mand, at hun ville opføre sig pænt og gøre alt, hvad han bad hende om. Men hun snød ham. Så snart hun kunne forlod hun også Saint Croix og tog tilbage til Nevis, hvor hun kom fra. Nevis er en anden caribisk ø og en del af det lille land Saint Kitts and Nevis. Her mødte hun skotten, James Hamilton, og sammen fik de to sønner mens hun stadig var gift med Lavien: James Hamilton Jr og den yngste, som de valgte at opkalde efter hans farfar, Alexander Hamilton. I 1759, bad Lavien om skilsmisse. På dette tidspunkt var James Jr seks år og Alexander to (eller måske fire – der er lidt usikkerhed om, hvornår han var født). Da James Hamilton Sr fandt ud af, at hun faktisk allerede var gift, forlod han hende, og hun måtte forsørge de to drenge alene. Det gjorde hun ved at drive en lille butik her tilbage i Cristiansted. Det var i en bygning, som vi også besøgte, der i dag kaldes Hamilton House. Kort tid efter fik hun dog gul feber og døde i 1768. Så i en alder af 13 (eller måske 11) var Alexander forældreløs. NOT THROWING AWAY MY SHOT Så hvordan bliver denne horeunge, forældrelæse, søn af en hore-kælling og en skotte en af USA's fædre og ti-dollar-ansigtet? (frit oversat fra Lin-Manuel Mirandas engelske tekst) "He got a lot farther by working a lot harder. By being a lot smarter. By being a self-starter. And by fourteen, they placed him in charge of a trading charter. " Selvom han kun var teenager, var han dygtig nok til at have ansvaret for et firma i fem måneder, mens ejeren var til søs. Han læste meget og begyndte også at skrive en del. Og så begyndte han at drømme om et liv ovre på fastlandet. Han spildte bestemt ikke sine chancer. Hvis du vil have resten af historien, foreslår jeg at du tager en tur til New York og ser Hamilton musicallen. Hvis du kan få billetter. MEGET MERE PÅ SAINT CROIX END BARE HISTORIE Selvom øens historie er meget spændende – og jeg har kun kradset lidt i overfladen, så er der meget mere at opleve her på Saint Croix. Der er bogstaveligt hundrede ting at se og gøre her. Her er en liste med titlen 100 things to do on St. Croix. Men det var, hvad jeg havde valgt at opleve, de få timer, jeg tilbragte her i Dansk Vestindien. Jeg kunne sagtens finde på at komme tilbage og prøve de andre 99. Jeg hedder Palle Bo, og jeg skal videre. Vi ses.

Sincere apologies for the extra long hiatus. #MOAW is not going anywhere! Anthony opens the show by explaining the lengthy break, in addition to the brand new logo for the show. Then on this long-awaited episode, our wonderful guest Clara (@clarakilly) from St. Croix joins the show to share with us her unique background in dating & relationships. Her story begins in the U.S. Virgin Islands on the tropical island of Saint Croix at a very small school, and ends up across the Atlantic in the big city of Paris. While her first relationship was certainly unconventional, her time in Paris brought about the return of a very popular subject - those ever mysterious bad boys. Clara's account of her story is entirely unfiltered, and features everything from being blocked on social media & the most hilarious of moments, to newfound freedom & the influence of culture. In the end, she discusses her biggest insights from her very diverse experiences. This episode of the show also features the debut of a brand new segment, "The MOAW Song of The Week." Support the show (https://paypal.me/realanthonys)

durée : 00:04:55 - Déjà debout - par : Mathilde MUNOS - Narcisse Pérez, gérant de la Ferme aux truffes à Saint Croix de Mareuil dans le Périgord est notre invité déjà debout - invités : Nicolas Pérez - Nicolas Pérez : Gérant de la Ferme aux truffes à Saint Croix de Mareuil dans le Périgord

durée : 00:04:55 - Déjà debout - par : Mathilde MUNOS - Narcisse Pérez, gérant de la Ferme aux truffes à Saint Croix de Mareuil dans le Périgord est notre invité déjà debout - invités : Nicolas Pérez - Nicolas Pérez : Gérant de la Ferme aux truffes à Saint Croix de Mareuil dans le Périgord

durée : 00:04:55 - Déjà debout - par : Mathilde MUNOS - Narcisse Pérez, gérant de la Ferme aux truffes à Saint Croix de Mareuil dans le Périgord est notre invité déjà debout - invités : Nicolas Pérez - Nicolas Pérez : Gérant de la Ferme aux truffes à Saint Croix de Mareuil dans le Périgord

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En este episodio, compartimos el ensayo "Edad, raza, clase y sexo: Las mujeres redefinen la diferencia"  por la escritora  Audre Lord contenido en el libro "La hermana, la extranjera". Audre Geraldine Lorde (Harlem, Nueva York 18 de febrero de 1934 - Saint Croix, 17 de noviembre de 1992) fue una escritora afroamericana, feminista, lesbiana y activista por los derechos civiles. Como poeta es especialmente conocida por su dominio técnico y expresión emocional con los cuales expresa ira e indignación por las injusticias civiles y sociales que observó a lo largo de su vida. Sus poemas y prosa trataron en gran medida temas relacionados con los derechos civiles, el feminismo y la exploración de la identidad femenina negra. Su obra más conocida es La hermana, la extranjera, un libro de ensayos que contiene varios de sus textos más influyentes de las luchas contra el racismo, el machismo y la opresión heterosexual como son "No hay jerarquías en la opresión" y "Las herramientas del amo no destruirán la casa del amo". La hermana, la extranjera ejemplifica la filosofía de Audre Lorde de romper el silencio y los tabúes sobre muchos aspectos de su propia vida, sobre la experiencia vital de las mujeres, y en especial, de las mujeres negras. Esta obra respira vitalidad, valentía y también humanidad a raudales. No estamos ante una heroína, sino ante una persona que a base de honestidad y coraje se ha aceptado a sí misma como mujer negra y lesbiana y que desea no sólo sobrevivir sino ser feliz. Podría Lorde haber permanecido en su parcela privada, sin complicaciones, disfrutando de su pareja y de sus hijos, sin embargo, estos ensayos muestran que la autora cree que lo personal es político y lo pone en práctica. Para ella, pues, la necesidad de cambios sociales y colectivos nace de la experiencia de esa misma necesidad en el ámbito de lo privado y personal. Esta obra es un ejemplo más del miedo que Lorde tenía al silencio. Prefería ser malinterpretada, criticada e incluso vilipendiada a callar, ella, que era lesbiana en una sociedad que mira con recelo a la homosexualidad y negra en una sociedad racista. Podía haber decidido vivir su vida sin llamar la atención, sin compartir sus sentimientos y sus reflexiones. Sin embargo, en su juventud, Lorde no encontraba consuelo ni en el arte ni en la literatura, pues por ningún sitio veía reflejadas las situaciones de discriminación y opresión sufridas ni el dolor que le causó la ausencia de diálogo familiar en torno a la raza. Para salir de esta pesadilla, decidió escribir sus propios poemas. La poesía le ayudó a adquirir un compromiso consigo misma y su propia integridad mental y personal. La hermana, la extranjera nace del mismo lugar que sus poemas: de una mirada introspectiva que se proyecta de dentro hacia fuera y que ansía el intercambio, el roce, la dialéctica, la incomodidad, la sinceridad por dura que sea, todo menos el silencio cómplice con la opresión y sinónimo de la muerte en vida. Fuentes: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde La hermana, la extranjera. Introducción y traducción al español por Milagros Rivera.

En este episodio, compartimos el artículo "La poesía no es un lujo" por la escritora Audre Lord contenido en el libro "La hermana, la extranjera". Audre Geraldine Lorde (Harlem, Nueva York 18 de febrero de 1934 - Saint Croix, 17 de noviembre de 1992) fue una escritora afroamericana, feminista, lesbiana y activista por los derechos civiles. Como poeta es especialmente conocida por su dominio técnico y expresión emocional con los cuales expresa ira e indignación por las injusticias civiles y sociales que observó a lo largo de su vida. Sus poemas y prosa trataron en gran medida temas relacionados con los derechos civiles, el feminismo y la exploración de la identidad femenina negra. Su obra más conocida es La hermana, la extranjera, un libro de ensayos que contiene varios de sus textos más influyentes de las luchas contra el racismo, el machismo y la opresión heterosexual como son "No hay jerarquías en la opresión" y "Las herramientas del amo no destruirán la casa del amo". La hermana, la extranjera ejemplifica la filosofía de Audre Lorde de romper el silencio y los tabúes sobre muchos aspectos de su propia vida, sobre la experiencia vital de las mujeres, y en especial, de las mujeres negras. Esta obra respira vitalidad, valentía y también humanidad a raudales. No estamos ante una heroína, sino ante una persona que a base de honestidad y coraje se ha aceptado a sí misma como mujer negra y lesbiana y que desea no sólo sobrevivir sino ser feliz. Podría Lorde haber permanecido en su parcela privada, sin complicaciones, disfrutando de su pareja y de sus hijos, sin embargo, estos ensayos muestran que la autora cree que lo personal es político y lo pone en práctica. Para ella, pues, la necesidad de cambios sociales y colectivos nace de la experiencia de esa misma necesidad en el ámbito de lo privado y personal. Esta obra es un ejemplo más del miedo que Lorde tenía al silencio. Prefería ser malinterpretada, criticada e incluso vilipendiada a callar, ella, que era lesbiana en una sociedad que mira con recelo a la homosexualidad y negra en una sociedad racista. Podía haber decidido vivir su vida sin llamar la atención, sin compartir sus sentimientos y sus reflexiones. Sin embargo, en su juventud, Lorde no encontraba consuelo ni en el arte ni en la literatura, pues por ningún sitio veía reflejadas las situaciones de discriminación y opresión sufridas ni el dolor que le causó la ausencia de diálogo familiar en torno a la raza. Para salir de esta pesadilla, decidió escribir sus propios poemas. La poesía le ayudó a adquirir un compromiso consigo misma y su propia integridad mental y personal. La hermana, la extranjera nace del mismo lugar que sus poemas: de una mirada introspectiva que se proyecta de dentro hacia fuera y que ansía el intercambio, el roce, la dialéctica, la incomodidad, la sinceridad por dura que sea, todo menos el silencio cómplice con la opresión y sinónimo de la muerte en vida. Fuentes: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde La hermana, la extranjera. Introducción y traducción al español por Milagros Rivera.

“If there's no help coming, then you better act because what's lost is hope.” -Mark Martin Bras   “That gives people hope to know that there's a plan, to know that there are other people they can count on during that time. And that leads to sustainability too.” -Kelly Thompson   Episode Description:  Hurricane Maria, 2017- named “the worst natural disaster” and the “deadliest” in the history of Dominica, Saint Croix, and Puerto Rico. The island of Vieques was one of those who experienced this devastating nightmare. What can we learn from the way they engineered their way to recovery despite a lack of supplies, shortage of funds and manpower,  power failure, unavailability of the internet, and isolated location? In this episode,  Jennifer interviews Mark Martin Bras and Kelly Thompson from Viequeslove, a non-profit organization focused on helping the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. Listen in as they share vital lessons about communication failures, advocating for your community, increasing resiliency, and building capacity. They also explain why sometimes, you need to say “No.” to organizations extending help, and how to build regional equity. We all have a role to play in a disaster. As our guests say, “It's a world thing!”  Connect with After The Fire:  Website Facebook Twitter Instagram LinkedIn YouTube Highlights: 04:01: When The Power Fails on an Island 13:24: Build the Capacity 21:03: Bringing the Internet Into an Island 31:43: Handling Shelter Needs 37:48: How to Advocate Your Community 48:41: Encourage Sectors Ethical Participation 55:11: The Hard Side of Preparedness 01:02:50: Humanity at its Finest

Episode 8 of Season 1 from the Perspective 5 Podcast. Panel: Linx (Mr Smoovin/PR Team/RecordingArtist), Mr Twista (Twisted Perspective/DJ & Audio Engineer), Sampz (Mr Controversial/Visionary/Details), Shafman(Philosophers Apprentice/Fact Finder), Kaba (Kingg Kaba/Grandmaster Kaba/Audio&Video Engineer Manager/PR Team) And a very special guest the Lovely Symply Devine (Symply Devine Online/Award Winner/Radio Talk Show Host/ Empowerment Speaker/Spoken Word Artist) In this episode the panel continue the deep discussion of Relationships. in this part 2 of the relationships saga you will hear personal accounts and perspectives from the whole panel and their special guest Symply Devine who gives the perspective from a woman. Thank you for Listening. Please like, Share, Follow and Subscribe. If you have any questions or topics you would like the team to give their perspectives on please drop them a message or email. FB: Perspective 5 Podcast IG: Perspective5Podcast Email: Info@Perspective5podcast.co.uk Symply Devine: Women's Empowerment Movement - PURE NETWORK Symply Devine - @Symply_Devine Shout Out to the following: Graphics Designer - 27Kustoms - @27Kustoms Producer for Outro/Voiceover - Malcos - @themalcos - www.Malcos.co.uk Intro Audio voiceover - Symply Devine - @Symply_Devine Jingles - Knowledge - @fireknowledge10, Symply Devine - @Symply_Devine, Wayne - From Jamaica, Lee Lee from East London & Kay from Saint Croix.

Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927 (Columbia University 2020) by Jeffrey B. Perry, independent scholar and archivist, is an extensive intellectual history of the life and work of Black radical and autodidact Hubert Harrison. Perry is also editor of A Hubert Harrison Reader (Wesleyan, 2001) and author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (Columbia, 2008). He is the chief biographer of Hubert Harrison and Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality is a follow up to his aforementioned text on Harrison. (these two volumes can be ordered from Columbia University Press at 20% discount by using Code CUP20). Perry's volume on Harrison's life from 1883 to 1918 is considered to be the first volume of an Afro-Caribbean “and only the fourth of an African American after those of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Langston Hughes” (1). This current text is a continuation of the argument advanced in Perry's initial text on Harrison. Harrison is often left out of major surveys of the Harlem Renaissance and New Negro Era, as Perry notes, and this is likely because the Renaissance is often viewed as a movement of Black intellectual elites with formal higher education. That said, Harrison was a working-class self-taught man who wrote reviews, essays, orations and was recognized by intellectual elites of his day and a member of the Socialist Party of America. Harrison was born in Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands in 1883 but relocated to the Harlem section of New York City in 1900, at age seventeen, where he eventually became a recognized writer, cultural critic, orator, editor and political activist including working with Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Perry defines Harrison as “the voice” of Harlem radicalism and also a “radical internationalist.” This is a challenge to standard views of the New Negro Era that tend to place intellectuals such as Alain Locke and W.E.B. Du Bois at the helm of Black thought and culture during the Harlem Renaissance moment in African American history. That said, Harrison was also involved with Garvey's UNIA as editor of the Negro World and in labor activism. Harrison formed the Liberty League in 1917 and The Voice that helped to lay the foundation of the Garvey Movement and the Rise of the UNIA. He was involved in the major debates of his day including discussions about class consciousness, Black nationalism, internationalism, freethought and trade unionism. This second volume by Perry is very necessary given Harrison's extensive engagement with the ideas and the production of knowledge as a self-taught organic intellectual with deep concerns about human liberation across class and race. Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Black Equality is organized into four major sections divided by twenty chapters including an “Epilogue.” It is a far-reaching text of more than 700 pages. Part I focuses on Harrison's work with The Voice and his political activities in places such as Washington, D.C. and Virginia, In Part II, Harrison's role as editor of the Negro World is assessed with a discussion of his debates and writings. Part III concerns Harrison's work as a “freelance educator” and his work as a writer and speaker, while the final part of the text Part IV covers his role as a Black radical internationalist. This is a critically important text. Scholars of the Harlem Renaissance will find it difficult to dismiss Hubert Harrison as a major voice of the New Negro Era with the publication of this text. Perry's painstaking coverage of Harrison gives him his rightful place in history as “the voice of Harlem radicalism.” Hettie V. Williams Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of African American history in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University where she teaches courses in African American history and U.S. history.

Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927 (Columbia University 2020) by Jeffrey B. Perry, independent scholar and archivist, is an extensive intellectual history of the life and work of Black radical and autodidact Hubert Harrison. Perry is also editor of A Hubert Harrison Reader (Wesleyan, 2001) and author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (Columbia, 2008). He is the chief biographer of Hubert Harrison and Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality is a follow up to his aforementioned text on Harrison. (these two volumes can be ordered from Columbia University Press at 20% discount by using Code CUP20). Perry’s volume on Harrison’s life from 1883 to 1918 is considered to be the first volume of an Afro-Caribbean “and only the fourth of an African American after those of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Langston Hughes” (1). This current text is a continuation of the argument advanced in Perry’s initial text on Harrison. Harrison is often left out of major surveys of the Harlem Renaissance and New Negro Era, as Perry notes, and this is likely because the Renaissance is often viewed as a movement of Black intellectual elites with formal higher education. That said, Harrison was a working-class self-taught man who wrote reviews, essays, orations and was recognized by intellectual elites of his day and a member of the Socialist Party of America. Harrison was born in Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands in 1883 but relocated to the Harlem section of New York City in 1900, at age seventeen, where he eventually became a recognized writer, cultural critic, orator, editor and political activist including working with Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Perry defines Harrison as “the voice” of Harlem radicalism and also a “radical internationalist.” This is a challenge to standard views of the New Negro Era that tend to place intellectuals such as Alain Locke and W.E.B. Du Bois at the helm of Black thought and culture during the Harlem Renaissance moment in African American history. That said, Harrison was also involved with Garvey’s UNIA as editor of the Negro World and in labor activism. Harrison formed the Liberty League in 1917 and The Voice that helped to lay the foundation of the Garvey Movement and the Rise of the UNIA. He was involved in the major debates of his day including discussions about class consciousness, Black nationalism, internationalism, freethought and trade unionism. This second volume by Perry is very necessary given Harrison’s extensive engagement with the ideas and the production of knowledge as a self-taught organic intellectual with deep concerns about human liberation across class and race. Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Black Equality is organized into four major sections divided by twenty chapters including an “Epilogue.” It is a far-reaching text of more than 700 pages. Part I focuses on Harrison’s work with The Voice and his political activities in places such as Washington, D.C. and Virginia, In Part II, Harrison’s role as editor of the Negro World is assessed with a discussion of his debates and writings. Part III concerns Harrison’s work as a “freelance educator” and his work as a writer and speaker, while the final part of the text Part IV covers his role as a Black radical internationalist. This is a critically important text. Scholars of the Harlem Renaissance will find it difficult to dismiss Hubert Harrison as a major voice of the New Negro Era with the publication of this text. Perry’s painstaking coverage of Harrison gives him his rightful place in history as “the voice of Harlem radicalism.” Hettie V. Williams Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of African American history in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University where she teaches courses in African American history and U.S. history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927 (Columbia University 2020) by Jeffrey B. Perry, independent scholar and archivist, is an extensive intellectual history of the life and work of Black radical and autodidact Hubert Harrison. Perry is also editor of A Hubert Harrison Reader (Wesleyan, 2001) and author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (Columbia, 2008). He is the chief biographer of Hubert Harrison and Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality is a follow up to his aforementioned text on Harrison. (these two volumes can be ordered from Columbia University Press at 20% discount by using Code CUP20). Perry’s volume on Harrison’s life from 1883 to 1918 is considered to be the first volume of an Afro-Caribbean “and only the fourth of an African American after those of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Langston Hughes” (1). This current text is a continuation of the argument advanced in Perry’s initial text on Harrison. Harrison is often left out of major surveys of the Harlem Renaissance and New Negro Era, as Perry notes, and this is likely because the Renaissance is often viewed as a movement of Black intellectual elites with formal higher education. That said, Harrison was a working-class self-taught man who wrote reviews, essays, orations and was recognized by intellectual elites of his day and a member of the Socialist Party of America. Harrison was born in Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands in 1883 but relocated to the Harlem section of New York City in 1900, at age seventeen, where he eventually became a recognized writer, cultural critic, orator, editor and political activist including working with Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Perry defines Harrison as “the voice” of Harlem radicalism and also a “radical internationalist.” This is a challenge to standard views of the New Negro Era that tend to place intellectuals such as Alain Locke and W.E.B. Du Bois at the helm of Black thought and culture during the Harlem Renaissance moment in African American history. That said, Harrison was also involved with Garvey’s UNIA as editor of the Negro World and in labor activism. Harrison formed the Liberty League in 1917 and The Voice that helped to lay the foundation of the Garvey Movement and the Rise of the UNIA. He was involved in the major debates of his day including discussions about class consciousness, Black nationalism, internationalism, freethought and trade unionism. This second volume by Perry is very necessary given Harrison’s extensive engagement with the ideas and the production of knowledge as a self-taught organic intellectual with deep concerns about human liberation across class and race. Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Black Equality is organized into four major sections divided by twenty chapters including an “Epilogue.” It is a far-reaching text of more than 700 pages. Part I focuses on Harrison’s work with The Voice and his political activities in places such as Washington, D.C. and Virginia, In Part II, Harrison’s role as editor of the Negro World is assessed with a discussion of his debates and writings. Part III concerns Harrison’s work as a “freelance educator” and his work as a writer and speaker, while the final part of the text Part IV covers his role as a Black radical internationalist. This is a critically important text. Scholars of the Harlem Renaissance will find it difficult to dismiss Hubert Harrison as a major voice of the New Negro Era with the publication of this text. Perry’s painstaking coverage of Harrison gives him his rightful place in history as “the voice of Harlem radicalism.” Hettie V. Williams Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of African American history in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University where she teaches courses in African American history and U.S. history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927 (Columbia University 2020) by Jeffrey B. Perry, independent scholar and archivist, is an extensive intellectual history of the life and work of Black radical and autodidact Hubert Harrison. Perry is also editor of A Hubert Harrison Reader (Wesleyan, 2001) and author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (Columbia, 2008). He is the chief biographer of Hubert Harrison and Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality is a follow up to his aforementioned text on Harrison. (these two volumes can be ordered from Columbia University Press at 20% discount by using Code CUP20). Perry’s volume on Harrison’s life from 1883 to 1918 is considered to be the first volume of an Afro-Caribbean “and only the fourth of an African American after those of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Langston Hughes” (1). This current text is a continuation of the argument advanced in Perry’s initial text on Harrison. Harrison is often left out of major surveys of the Harlem Renaissance and New Negro Era, as Perry notes, and this is likely because the Renaissance is often viewed as a movement of Black intellectual elites with formal higher education. That said, Harrison was a working-class self-taught man who wrote reviews, essays, orations and was recognized by intellectual elites of his day and a member of the Socialist Party of America. Harrison was born in Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands in 1883 but relocated to the Harlem section of New York City in 1900, at age seventeen, where he eventually became a recognized writer, cultural critic, orator, editor and political activist including working with Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Perry defines Harrison as “the voice” of Harlem radicalism and also a “radical internationalist.” This is a challenge to standard views of the New Negro Era that tend to place intellectuals such as Alain Locke and W.E.B. Du Bois at the helm of Black thought and culture during the Harlem Renaissance moment in African American history. That said, Harrison was also involved with Garvey’s UNIA as editor of the Negro World and in labor activism. Harrison formed the Liberty League in 1917 and The Voice that helped to lay the foundation of the Garvey Movement and the Rise of the UNIA. He was involved in the major debates of his day including discussions about class consciousness, Black nationalism, internationalism, freethought and trade unionism. This second volume by Perry is very necessary given Harrison’s extensive engagement with the ideas and the production of knowledge as a self-taught organic intellectual with deep concerns about human liberation across class and race. Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Black Equality is organized into four major sections divided by twenty chapters including an “Epilogue.” It is a far-reaching text of more than 700 pages. Part I focuses on Harrison’s work with The Voice and his political activities in places such as Washington, D.C. and Virginia, In Part II, Harrison’s role as editor of the Negro World is assessed with a discussion of his debates and writings. Part III concerns Harrison’s work as a “freelance educator” and his work as a writer and speaker, while the final part of the text Part IV covers his role as a Black radical internationalist. This is a critically important text. Scholars of the Harlem Renaissance will find it difficult to dismiss Hubert Harrison as a major voice of the New Negro Era with the publication of this text. Perry’s painstaking coverage of Harrison gives him his rightful place in history as “the voice of Harlem radicalism.” Hettie V. Williams Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of African American history in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University where she teaches courses in African American history and U.S. history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927 (Columbia University 2020) by Jeffrey B. Perry, independent scholar and archivist, is an extensive intellectual history of the life and work of Black radical and autodidact Hubert Harrison. Perry is also editor of A Hubert Harrison Reader (Wesleyan, 2001) and author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (Columbia, 2008). He is the chief biographer of Hubert Harrison and Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality is a follow up to his aforementioned text on Harrison. (these two volumes can be ordered from Columbia University Press at 20% discount by using Code CUP20). Perry’s volume on Harrison’s life from 1883 to 1918 is considered to be the first volume of an Afro-Caribbean “and only the fourth of an African American after those of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Langston Hughes” (1). This current text is a continuation of the argument advanced in Perry’s initial text on Harrison. Harrison is often left out of major surveys of the Harlem Renaissance and New Negro Era, as Perry notes, and this is likely because the Renaissance is often viewed as a movement of Black intellectual elites with formal higher education. That said, Harrison was a working-class self-taught man who wrote reviews, essays, orations and was recognized by intellectual elites of his day and a member of the Socialist Party of America. Harrison was born in Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands in 1883 but relocated to the Harlem section of New York City in 1900, at age seventeen, where he eventually became a recognized writer, cultural critic, orator, editor and political activist including working with Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Perry defines Harrison as “the voice” of Harlem radicalism and also a “radical internationalist.” This is a challenge to standard views of the New Negro Era that tend to place intellectuals such as Alain Locke and W.E.B. Du Bois at the helm of Black thought and culture during the Harlem Renaissance moment in African American history. That said, Harrison was also involved with Garvey’s UNIA as editor of the Negro World and in labor activism. Harrison formed the Liberty League in 1917 and The Voice that helped to lay the foundation of the Garvey Movement and the Rise of the UNIA. He was involved in the major debates of his day including discussions about class consciousness, Black nationalism, internationalism, freethought and trade unionism. This second volume by Perry is very necessary given Harrison’s extensive engagement with the ideas and the production of knowledge as a self-taught organic intellectual with deep concerns about human liberation across class and race. Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Black Equality is organized into four major sections divided by twenty chapters including an “Epilogue.” It is a far-reaching text of more than 700 pages. Part I focuses on Harrison’s work with The Voice and his political activities in places such as Washington, D.C. and Virginia, In Part II, Harrison’s role as editor of the Negro World is assessed with a discussion of his debates and writings. Part III concerns Harrison’s work as a “freelance educator” and his work as a writer and speaker, while the final part of the text Part IV covers his role as a Black radical internationalist. This is a critically important text. Scholars of the Harlem Renaissance will find it difficult to dismiss Hubert Harrison as a major voice of the New Negro Era with the publication of this text. Perry’s painstaking coverage of Harrison gives him his rightful place in history as “the voice of Harlem radicalism.” Hettie V. Williams Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of African American history in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University where she teaches courses in African American history and U.S. history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927 (Columbia University 2020) by Jeffrey B. Perry, independent scholar and archivist, is an extensive intellectual history of the life and work of Black radical and autodidact Hubert Harrison. Perry is also editor of A Hubert Harrison Reader (Wesleyan, 2001) and author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (Columbia, 2008). He is the chief biographer of Hubert Harrison and Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality is a follow up to his aforementioned text on Harrison. (these two volumes can be ordered from Columbia University Press at 20% discount by using Code CUP20). Perry’s volume on Harrison’s life from 1883 to 1918 is considered to be the first volume of an Afro-Caribbean “and only the fourth of an African American after those of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Langston Hughes” (1). This current text is a continuation of the argument advanced in Perry’s initial text on Harrison. Harrison is often left out of major surveys of the Harlem Renaissance and New Negro Era, as Perry notes, and this is likely because the Renaissance is often viewed as a movement of Black intellectual elites with formal higher education. That said, Harrison was a working-class self-taught man who wrote reviews, essays, orations and was recognized by intellectual elites of his day and a member of the Socialist Party of America. Harrison was born in Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands in 1883 but relocated to the Harlem section of New York City in 1900, at age seventeen, where he eventually became a recognized writer, cultural critic, orator, editor and political activist including working with Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Perry defines Harrison as “the voice” of Harlem radicalism and also a “radical internationalist.” This is a challenge to standard views of the New Negro Era that tend to place intellectuals such as Alain Locke and W.E.B. Du Bois at the helm of Black thought and culture during the Harlem Renaissance moment in African American history. That said, Harrison was also involved with Garvey’s UNIA as editor of the Negro World and in labor activism. Harrison formed the Liberty League in 1917 and The Voice that helped to lay the foundation of the Garvey Movement and the Rise of the UNIA. He was involved in the major debates of his day including discussions about class consciousness, Black nationalism, internationalism, freethought and trade unionism. This second volume by Perry is very necessary given Harrison’s extensive engagement with the ideas and the production of knowledge as a self-taught organic intellectual with deep concerns about human liberation across class and race. Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Black Equality is organized into four major sections divided by twenty chapters including an “Epilogue.” It is a far-reaching text of more than 700 pages. Part I focuses on Harrison’s work with The Voice and his political activities in places such as Washington, D.C. and Virginia, In Part II, Harrison’s role as editor of the Negro World is assessed with a discussion of his debates and writings. Part III concerns Harrison’s work as a “freelance educator” and his work as a writer and speaker, while the final part of the text Part IV covers his role as a Black radical internationalist. This is a critically important text. Scholars of the Harlem Renaissance will find it difficult to dismiss Hubert Harrison as a major voice of the New Negro Era with the publication of this text. Perry’s painstaking coverage of Harrison gives him his rightful place in history as “the voice of Harlem radicalism.” Hettie V. Williams Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of African American history in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University where she teaches courses in African American history and U.S. history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927 (Columbia University 2020) by Jeffrey B. Perry, independent scholar and archivist, is an extensive intellectual history of the life and work of Black radical and autodidact Hubert Harrison. Perry is also editor of A Hubert Harrison Reader (Wesleyan, 2001) and author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (Columbia, 2008). He is the chief biographer of Hubert Harrison and Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality is a follow up to his aforementioned text on Harrison. (these two volumes can be ordered from Columbia University Press at 20% discount by using Code CUP20). Perry’s volume on Harrison’s life from 1883 to 1918 is considered to be the first volume of an Afro-Caribbean “and only the fourth of an African American after those of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Langston Hughes” (1). This current text is a continuation of the argument advanced in Perry’s initial text on Harrison. Harrison is often left out of major surveys of the Harlem Renaissance and New Negro Era, as Perry notes, and this is likely because the Renaissance is often viewed as a movement of Black intellectual elites with formal higher education. That said, Harrison was a working-class self-taught man who wrote reviews, essays, orations and was recognized by intellectual elites of his day and a member of the Socialist Party of America. Harrison was born in Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands in 1883 but relocated to the Harlem section of New York City in 1900, at age seventeen, where he eventually became a recognized writer, cultural critic, orator, editor and political activist including working with Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Perry defines Harrison as “the voice” of Harlem radicalism and also a “radical internationalist.” This is a challenge to standard views of the New Negro Era that tend to place intellectuals such as Alain Locke and W.E.B. Du Bois at the helm of Black thought and culture during the Harlem Renaissance moment in African American history. That said, Harrison was also involved with Garvey’s UNIA as editor of the Negro World and in labor activism. Harrison formed the Liberty League in 1917 and The Voice that helped to lay the foundation of the Garvey Movement and the Rise of the UNIA. He was involved in the major debates of his day including discussions about class consciousness, Black nationalism, internationalism, freethought and trade unionism. This second volume by Perry is very necessary given Harrison’s extensive engagement with the ideas and the production of knowledge as a self-taught organic intellectual with deep concerns about human liberation across class and race. Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Black Equality is organized into four major sections divided by twenty chapters including an “Epilogue.” It is a far-reaching text of more than 700 pages. Part I focuses on Harrison’s work with The Voice and his political activities in places such as Washington, D.C. and Virginia, In Part II, Harrison’s role as editor of the Negro World is assessed with a discussion of his debates and writings. Part III concerns Harrison’s work as a “freelance educator” and his work as a writer and speaker, while the final part of the text Part IV covers his role as a Black radical internationalist. This is a critically important text. Scholars of the Harlem Renaissance will find it difficult to dismiss Hubert Harrison as a major voice of the New Negro Era with the publication of this text. Perry’s painstaking coverage of Harrison gives him his rightful place in history as “the voice of Harlem radicalism.” Hettie V. Williams Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of African American history in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University where she teaches courses in African American history and U.S. history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927 (Columbia University 2020) by Jeffrey B. Perry, independent scholar and archivist, is an extensive intellectual history of the life and work of Black radical and autodidact Hubert Harrison. Perry is also editor of A Hubert Harrison Reader (Wesleyan, 2001) and author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (Columbia, 2008). He is the chief biographer of Hubert Harrison and Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality is a follow up to his aforementioned text on Harrison. (these two volumes can be ordered from Columbia University Press at 20% discount by using Code CUP20). Perry's volume on Harrison's life from 1883 to 1918 is considered to be the first volume of an Afro-Caribbean “and only the fourth of an African American after those of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Langston Hughes” (1). This current text is a continuation of the argument advanced in Perry's initial text on Harrison. Harrison is often left out of major surveys of the Harlem Renaissance and New Negro Era, as Perry notes, and this is likely because the Renaissance is often viewed as a movement of Black intellectual elites with formal higher education. That said, Harrison was a working-class self-taught man who wrote reviews, essays, orations and was recognized by intellectual elites of his day and a member of the Socialist Party of America. Harrison was born in Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands in 1883 but relocated to the Harlem section of New York City in 1900, at age seventeen, where he eventually became a recognized writer, cultural critic, orator, editor and political activist including working with Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Perry defines Harrison as “the voice” of Harlem radicalism and also a “radical internationalist.” This is a challenge to standard views of the New Negro Era that tend to place intellectuals such as Alain Locke and W.E.B. Du Bois at the helm of Black thought and culture during the Harlem Renaissance moment in African American history. That said, Harrison was also involved with Garvey's UNIA as editor of the Negro World and in labor activism. Harrison formed the Liberty League in 1917 and The Voice that helped to lay the foundation of the Garvey Movement and the Rise of the UNIA. He was involved in the major debates of his day including discussions about class consciousness, Black nationalism, internationalism, freethought and trade unionism. This second volume by Perry is very necessary given Harrison's extensive engagement with the ideas and the production of knowledge as a self-taught organic intellectual with deep concerns about human liberation across class and race. Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Black Equality is organized into four major sections divided by twenty chapters including an “Epilogue.” It is a far-reaching text of more than 700 pages. Part I focuses on Harrison's work with The Voice and his political activities in places such as Washington, D.C. and Virginia, In Part II, Harrison's role as editor of the Negro World is assessed with a discussion of his debates and writings. Part III concerns Harrison's work as a “freelance educator” and his work as a writer and speaker, while the final part of the text Part IV covers his role as a Black radical internationalist. This is a critically important text. Scholars of the Harlem Renaissance will find it difficult to dismiss Hubert Harrison as a major voice of the New Negro Era with the publication of this text. Perry's painstaking coverage of Harrison gives him his rightful place in history as “the voice of Harlem radicalism.” Hettie V. Williams Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of African American history in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University where she teaches courses in African American history and U.S. history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

I just got back from a #weekinstcroix #usvi THANKS to my great friend and #local tour guide, Candy for an #amazing #adventure on this incredible #caribbean #island A girl's trip, my friend Carin joined me on our first #visit for some #hiking #greateats island history, and of course some #incredible #beachesWant to plan a #trip soon to the USVI? Here are my tips for how to travel in 2020 to #stcroix!⏱TIMELINE ⏱1:03 First day!2:10 Rainforest2:24 Baobob Tree3:01 Beaches of St. Croix4:31 Save the Turtles - Sandy Point5:14 Hiking on the Island6:40 Fredricksted6:50 Rhythms Restaurant and Rainbow Beach7:23 Getting to St. Croix8:55 Mt. Washington9:52 Busy Season - when to go!11:32 Peaceful and Relaxing Getaway!For more interesting travel tips and hacks support this CHANNEL!!✏️ Check out my BLOG for inspiration! https://travelwithwendy.net/I love to connect people with the world through unique adventures. I hope my videos and podcasts inspire people to explore and embrace the experience of traveling the world by connecting through humanity, love of nature and compassion.It's always an adventure when you ©Travel with Wendy!Thanks to David Hyde music, Acoustic/Folk Instrumental for my awesome music for this podcast and video podcast. You can find him on SoundCloud for the background music!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/travelwithwendy)

Anti-Racism Resources provided by Chantelle Good: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1maa3qLiPscjjKpnFxBceTvp9WiG1j-C-e2zZcxTAxpE/mobilebasic Ricardo is a director and theatrical performer currently based in Houston, Texas. We talk about how he came to the difficult decision to take a year off of school, his early life living on Saint Croix island without internet, our first time working together at The Performing Arts Project, and his next project of directing “Schoolhouse Rock!” at a community theatre. Follow Ricardo on Instagram: @ricardo.lopez.montilla --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/brianna-clarke/message

Can you just picture yourself relaxing under a palm tree on a beautiful beach with a tropical drink in your hand? When you are ready to plan a vacation to the Caribbean, get ideas on the best islands and resorts from Caribbean Expert Sarah Gabbadon Greaves. Just keep in mind that some reopening plans have changed or rolled back for Americans since we recorded this episode. Please always check the latest regulations before planning a trip -- this is a good time to use a travel agent that is up to date on travel restrictions. ON THE PODCAST 00:30 - Talking with Tamara about her Florida trip 12:45 - Talking with Sarah 15:00 - Open Islands and regulations 21:25 - Islands to visit 27:38 - Visiting from a cruise 30:50 - Beaches for families 34:43 - Active adventures 40:58 - Getting out 44:30 - Places to stay 52:50 - Final Tips 57:32 - Sarah’s Favorite Travel Gear ABOUT SARAH GREAVES-GABBADON Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon (aka JetSetSarah) is a travel writer, on-screen host and self-described “Carivangelist,” who goes to the beach and beyond to share the culture, lifestyle and personalities of the Caribbean with the world. Based in Miami, she creates content for outlets including Travel + Leisure; Islands.com; AARP; Essence magazine; the U.K.’s Telegraph and Canada’s Globe and Mail newspapers. Sarah is also jetsetter-in-chief at JetSetSarah.com where her passions – travel, style and fitness – meet. Follow Sarah on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter. TIPS FOR VISITING THE CARIBBEAN ISLANDS The Caribbean has surprised the world with how well it is doing with respect to the virus. As of June there have only been 16,000 cases. The islands of Anguilla, Saint Barts and Nevis have all been declared Covid free. The islands of Saint John, Saint Croix, Saint Lucia, Jamaica, Antigua and Saint Barts are all open. They are expecting to open the islands of the Bahamas, Grenada, the Dominican Republic, Aruba, Puerto Rico and Turks and Caicos soon. (Although some have since been closed to Americans -- please check updates!) Each island that is open has different regulations in terms of safety. There was a time when one could just hop on a flight and explore a different island on a whim. Now you will need to plan ahead and find out exactly what is needed for each specific island. Some might need proof of a negative test that was done within three days while others say that they will test you as soon as you arrive, or even both. If you are planning a trip soon to the Caribbean make sure to budget extra money if you end up in a situation where you need to quarantine for 14 days. Though quarantining in the Caribbean may not be so bad. Certain islands have quarantine hotels where you can’t leave the hotel, but you are allowed to go from your room to the beach! You should also keep in mind that if you have to get tested at an island it will cost you roughly $100 each person. They can not afford to test for free. When it comes to choosing an island, if you are looking for the total package, Jamaica is the island for you. Great food, great people and direct flights onto the island, especially if you are coming from the East Coast of the US. The Grand Cayman may not have any all inclusive resort, but they do have some great hotels. This is a really great family island to visit. They have very pristine waters and it is actually where scuba diving was invented. They don’t expect cruise ships to start visiting the Caribbean until possibly the fall. Even when they do start the ships will be at 50-75% capacity. They will also most likely be shorter, three to four night cruises and include stops on private islands. Cruising can be a great way to see a few islands in one trip and then decide on places you want to go back and explore more fully off the cruise. Doctor’s Cave Beach in Jamaica is really beautiful and well maintained. On Turks and Caicos there is a beach called Bambarra Beach that may seem a bit tricky to get to since you have to take a ferry and drive a bit. But when you get there you will realize it was worth the travel. The water is crystal clear and stays about knee deep for about a quarter mile out! There are no places to eat on this beach so you need to pack a picnic, which may be the only downside for some. On Grand Cayman there is a beach called Smiths Cove that is about a twenty minute drive from Seven Mile Beach. It is pretty small, but very relaxing. Jamaica has some really great mountain biking trails in the Blue Mountains. Dunn’s River Falls is a must do for visiting Jamaica. You will take a hike with a group that leads you to the top of a 600 foot high waterfall. Not recommended for children under seven. Saint Lucia has great hiking on a volcano called Gros Piton. You can also tour the drive-in volcano, which collapsed long ago. Your guide will tell you all about it. Right next door there are sulphuric mud pits that are supposed to be very healing. If you are staying at an all inclusive resort don't be afraid to get out and really take in the culture. If you are not sure where to go it is always helpful to ask the front desk or your driver, but a really great person to ask is someone on the house keeping staff. They seem to have really great recommendations and they are coming from their own experiences not just off a list they may be paid to promote. Staying on a private island is not cheap but so relaxing! If you have the money to splurge on a vacation a private island stay may be for you. There are so many islands in the Caribbean, all with different languages, music, culture and more. If you have never been, look around and find one to visit! If you have been to an island, don’t think that you have been there, done that. Find a different one to explore and enjoy! December through April tends to be the busiest for travel. So if you can, try to plan your trip just outside of these months. Like the US tipping is expected and though you don’t really need to worry about exchanging money or credit cards too much it is good practice to keep some cash handy for tipping. FAVORITE TRAVEL GEAR Sarah loves her style and fashion. Her travel uniform is a pair of G-Star jeans along with a graphic T and her Adidastrack jacket. Then she will pair that with a pair of Adidas sneakers. MENTIONED ON THE PODCAST Caribbean Travel Atlantis Submarines Atlantis Bahamas Baha Mar Grand Cayman Ritz Carlton  Petit St Vincent - Private island resort Fowl Cay Villas - Private island resort Compass Cay Marina - Private island resort What to pack in your carry on   FOLLOW US AND SPREAD THE WORD! If you liked this show, please be sure to subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play and leave us a review! Have a question or comment? Send us an email at podcast@vacationmavens.com. You can also follow our travels on Stuffed Suitcase and We3Travel, or follow the Vacation Mavens on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. Thanks for listening!  

Dr. Ann-Louise Lockhart is a pediatric psychologist and parenting coach. She is the President and Owner of a A New Day pediatric psychology in San Antonio, Texas. Originally from Saint Croix in the Caribbean, Ann-Louise is married with 1 daughter and 1 son. In light of the anti-racism protests and movement for change around the country, Hilaria and Daphne talked to Dr. Lockhart about educating our children about racism, inclusiveness and equality. Ann-Louise discusses teaching children not to be colorblind but to appreciate everyone's differences, and accept them. She shares her own experiences of being a person of color and raising children of color in these crucial times.Email us with your questions at mombrainpod@gmail.com and follow us on Instagram, just search for @MomBrain. We answer a lot of your questions on there! Check out videos of our episodes on our YouTube channel! We also invite you to become a member of Mom Brain's official Facebook Group.Favorite Things:Hilaria: No Your Rights CampDaphne: Boys and Girls Club of AmericaAnn-Louise: Diversity in Parenting Conference and A Kids Book About Racism by Jelani Memory

We are thrilled to host our first university president, Dan Lugo from Queens University of Charlotte on the RAISE podcast. Dan has a fascinating story that reflects some of the great aspects of higher education. From his humble beginnings as the youngest of four children in Saint Croix, Virgin Islands to being the first from his family to earn a college degree, Dan is one of the rare advancement leaders who has risen to the highest rank of our sector. We talked about Dan’s career path, what compelled him to take the leap from admissions to advancement, and his philosophy of continually asking, “Why not?"

PROG.Nº 665.- Dos horas para el análisis y repaso a la historia y actualidad que generan esta música americana . Todo en el tono que acostumbra este programa, en dos secciones JAZZ ANIVERSARIO y JAZZ ACTUALIDAD importantes novedades y diferentes canales de comunicación que se ofrecerán al oyente. STANDARD SEMANAL.- “night train” (Jimmy Forrest; Buddy Morrow -eddie jefferson- ) Y como final de mes Ezequiel Campos nos trae su tema de jazz del Baúl de los Recuerdos (etta james 1 (blues) JAZZ RECUERDO ANIVERSARIO.- Jimmy Hamilton; -It's About Time Es un álbum del saxofonista Jimmy Hamilton que fue grabado en 1961 y lanzado en elsello Swingville . Scott Yanow, de Allmusic , afirma: "Hamilton se combina en un sexteto con el flagelero Clark Terry, el trombonista Britt Woodman, el pianista Tommy Flanagan, el bajista Wendell Marshall y el baterista Mel Lewis para un conjunto de blues en su mayoría. Terry y Woodman son bastante exuberantes en todo momento". [4] All About Jazz lo llamó "un álbum muy fuerte, y tiene un swing de jonrón". Todas las composiciones de Jimmy Hamilton. 1. "Dos por uno" - 5:48 2. "Mr. Good Blues" - 6:40 3. "Cabeza de maní" - 5:12 4. "Estúpido pero no loco" - 5:17 5. "Nits and Wits" - 9:44 6. "Ido con el blues" - 4:54 Personal [ editar ] • Jimmy Hamilton - clarinete , saxofón tenor • Clark Terry - trompeta , cuerno de flauta • Britt Woodman - trombón • Tommy Flanagan - piano • Wendell Marshall - bajo • Mel Lewis - batería Jimmy Hamilton (25 de mayo de 1917 - 20 de septiembre de 1994) fue un músico de jazz estadounidense, clarinetista, saxofonista tenor, compositor y maestro musical, conocido sobre todo por su trabajo con Duke Ellington. Hamilton nación en Dillon (Carolina del Sur) y creció en Filadelfia. Tras aprender a tocar el piano y otros instrumentos musicales en la década de 1930 comenzó a tocar en bandas locales antes de decantarse por el clarinete y el saxofón. En 1939 tocó con Lucky Millinder, Jimmy Mundy y Bill Doggett, uniéndose al sexteto de Teddy Wilson en 1940. Después de dos años con Wilson se unió a Eddie Heywood y Yank Porter. En 1943 sustituyó a Barney Bigard en la orquesta Duke Ellington, con la que permaneció hasta 1968. Su estilo era muy diferente como clarinetista y saxofón, siendo mucho más fluido y correcto con el clarinete. Escribió algunas obras propias durante su tiempo con Ellington. Después de dejar la orquesta Ellington tocó y compuso de forma independiente antes de viajar en la década de 1970 a las Islas Vírgenes de los Estados Unidos para dar clases de música, aunque regresó ocasionalmente a los Estados Unidos para participar en varios conciertos. Tras retirarse de la enseñanza continuó actuando con varios grupos en 1989-1990. Hamilton murió en Saint Croix en 1994. JAZZ ACTUALIDAD .- Esta semana tendremos a Chano Dominguez & Javier Colina - Chano & Colina. El contrabajista Javier Colina y el pianista Chano Domínguez son dos de los mejores músicos de jazz que se pueden escuchar hoy en Europa, y en última instancia poco tienen que envidiar a los norteamericanos. De la calidad de estos dos músicos da cuenta ‘Chano&Colina’, un disco grabado en directo el 19 de enero de 2017 en la Sala de Cámara del Auditorio Nacional de Música en Madrid. Javier Colina y Chano Domínguez se conocen tan bien, son tan cómplices, que no necesitan grandes esfuerzos para armar un concierto a una altura superior. No hay que olvidar que ambos trabajaron durante muchos años juntos, al inicio de sus carreras, por así decir, cuando eran miembros, junto con el baterista Guillermo McGill,el Chano Domínguez Trio. A lo largo de su trayectoria hay una evidencia que ha quedado muy acreditada: Javier Colina es, de largo, el contrabajista que mejor acompaña a los pianistas cuando se forma un dúo de contrabajo y piano. Sólo dos muestras de muy alto nivel; su disco con Tete Montoliu y el acompañamiento que realizó a Bebo Valdés en la Sala de Cámara del Kursaal en San Sebastián durante el 38 Jazzaldia. Los diez temas que interpretan son tanto temas propios como ajenos y su acercamiento varía desde el jazz tradicional, la jazz flamenco y en muchas ocasiones entreverado con los sonidos latinos, vía Cuba. Entre los primeros están ‘Luces de la Fragua’ el único tema de Colina que, además abre la sesión; por su parte Domínguez aporta, ‘Habanera de la Habanera’, uno de los grandes momentos del concierto y ‘Para Chick’, donde meten una buena morcilla de ‘Lágrimas negras’. Entre los segundos, se encuentran ‘Canción de amor’ y ‘Ziryab’, ambas firmadas por Paco de Lucía y que los dos músicos ya tocaron en ‘Diez de Paco’, un disco que llevaba la firma de Jorge Pardo; y después hay un buen número de estándares de jazz, tales como You the night ant the music (Schwartz & Dretz), My one and only love (Wood & Mellin), ‘We will meet again’ (Parker&Charles), ‘You must belive in spring’ (M. Legrand) y ‘Serpent’s tooth’ de Miles Davis,, con el que se cierra el disco. ‘Chano&Colina’ de Javier Colina & Chano Domínguez es una fiesta del jazz. Q.E.D.

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Wisconsinite's love the outdoors. But for families, it can be challenging to find the time for adventures while balancing responsibilities at home. John Stellflue, a Sun Prairie resident and avid outdoorsman, recently headed out for the youth hunt with his nephew – on his wedding anniversary. How did he pull that off? Compromise and respect. From the day they said I do, John and his wife, Caralyn, have had a few simple rules to balance his love of the hunt and their marriage.Listen to the latest episode of Wild Wisconsin -- Off the Record as we sit down to learn a bit more about those rules and how John is able to balance his outdoor lifestyle with the rest of life in general.------------------------------TRANSCRIPTANNOUNCER:  Welcome to Wisconsin DNR's Wild Wisconsin "Off the Record" podcast. Information straight from the source.[00:00:09] KATIE GRANT: Welcome back to another episode of Wild Wisconsin "Off the Record". I'm your host, DNR's Digital Media Coordinator, Katie Grant. Here at the DNR, we use social media to help inform the public about the many facets of Wisconsin life that we touch on a daily basis. It's also a great source for us to hear your Wisconsin stories.[00:00:35] One of those stories came from John Stellflue, a Sun Prairie resident who tagged us in a Facebook post about heading out for the youth hunt with his nephew... on his wedding anniversary. John and his wife, Carolyn have from the beginning of their marriage, had a few simple rules in place to ensure he'd be able to hunt and fish as often as possible.[00:00:56] We sat down to learn a bit more about those rules and how John is able to balance his outdoor lifestyle with the rest of life in general. So sit back and listen in.[00:01:05] JOHN STELLFLUE: My name's John Stellflue. Born and raised in Wisconsin. I'm a lifelong outdoorsman. Hunting, fishing... everything Wisconsin. You know, ultimate dream is to be able to live by doing something in the outdoors. You know, unfortunately, not unfortunately,  I mean, I have a job now, but it'd really be cool if someday I could you know, just make a living, doing what I love, you know? In the meantime I work hard and weekends and vacations are mainly spent hunting and fishing, you know... all Wisconsin stuff.[00:01:45] I've been fortunate to get a bear tag. A few years back I got a bear.  Deer, turkey,  lots of fishing. Many, many years it was almost exclusively musky fishing. Kind of graduated now into doing a little bit, a little bit more multi-species things, but I still mainly musky fish. But,  many years I was a Hunter Education Instructor.[00:02:09] I haven't done that in a long time, but I miss that. So that's a little bit about myself. [00:02:15] CARALYN STELLFLUE: And I'm Carolyn Stellflue.  Like John, lifelong, Wisconsin resident. In fact, we grew up in the same town. I am not the outdoors person, at least not his kind of outdoors person. I mean, I love my gardening and walking and stuff like that, but I don't hunt.[00:02:36] I hunted once. I do like to go fishing with him, but yeah, I'm a little different type of an outdoor person. [00:02:42] KATIE: Fantastic. So you guys recently celebrated a 30th wedding anniversary, correct? [00:02:49] CARALYN: 31 [00:02:49] KATIE: 31?[00:02:50] JOHN: 31. Yep. 31. 1988. [00:02:53] KATIE:  All right:[00:02:54] JOHN: We're rocking the national average every day we get up.[00:02:58] KATIE: There you go. How did you guys meet?[00:03:00] JOHN: How does anybody meet in Wisconsin? In a bar. [Laughs} Yeah. I was, one of us was making a pool shot... she was going to make a pool shot. And then she asked me what my advice was and I really had no advice. She thought I was cute. So...[00:03:20] KATIE: The rest is history. When we talked John, you said, I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with Carolyn as long as I could hunt and fish that entire time.[00:03:33] So, [To Caralyn] you said you're not quite as outdoorsy as John.[00:03:36] CARALYN:  No. [00:03:37] KATIE: Have you come further than you were when you first met? [00:03:41] CARALYN: Well yeah, cause I think that my not being the same type of outdoorsy he is probably just a different generation. Like I was around hunting. My brother's hunted, my dad hunted, my uncles. I mean, I knew that, you know, when hunting season was and pheasant, my dad fished, my uncles fish.[00:03:58] I was around all of that, but I was a girl. And I don't know they just never took me along as much. Took my brothers, but, you know, not so much me. Then when John and I got married and we started going... we started going camping before we even got married. And then we bought the boat the year that Carissa was born or a little bit before.[00:04:21] And so, yeah, that's when I started, you know, doing any of that kind of stuff at all was after we got married. [00:04:27] KATIE: So you said musky fishing. What are your other absolute Wisconsin outdoors favorites. [00:04:35] JOHN: So Whitetail hunting of course, but a couple of years ago I was lucky enough to draw a bear tag. And that to me was probably one of the coolest things I've ever done in a Wisconsin woods.[00:04:48] I did a DIY hunt. I spent that whole summer driving from, you know, we lived down here near Madison driving to Rusk County. I mean I get home from work Friday night, throw the gear in the truck and I... from the 4th of July on, I was gone every single weekend baiting bear. And then I just stayed in a tent and camped.[00:05:08] I left my boat right up there so I could fish, but we saw, I saw a fair number of bear during my hunt. I was able to get, you know, your standard run of the mill middle of Wisconsin bear. Not a giant, but you know, shot it with my bow. So I was excited. That was fun. That was something I really, really enjoyed, but you know, the problem is, is everyone wants to do it. And it's, you know, seven, six to seven, eight years to get a tag. But...[00:05:29] CARALYN: Yeah. Interesting story about getting the tag. [00:05:32] KATIE: Alright, go on. [00:05:34] CARALYN: Because I don't remember. He maybe had mentioned wanting to go bear hunting and stuff. I don't recall if he had or not.[00:05:44] JOHN: I probably didn't.[00:05:45] CARALYN: Well, if it was the seven year thing he could have and I could have forgot, but, and then I don't know where you were... [00:05:53] JOHN: I was at my mom's. [00:05:54] CARALYN: Oh, okay, because we were talking on the phone and I had grabbed the mail out of the mailbox and I was kind of flipping through it as I was talking to him and I'm like... what is this?[00:06:05] And I looked at it or I looked at my phone and I like, did you apply for a bear tag? And he's like, why is there one there? And I'm like, yeah, it appears to be a bear tag here. [00:06:18] JOHN: So my kill tag showed up in the mail and I figured I was a year out yet.  You know, so I was I was a little early and and I'm like, you gotta send a picture of it, you know?[00:06:29] So I made her, I made her take a picture and send it to me and I was so excited. So then I said to her, I said, didn't I tell you about this?  She said, No, you never told me about this. [00:06:39] CARALYN: Didn't I tell you about this wink, wink. [00:06:41] JOHN: Which that's something that happens as a man, a husband, guy like me who who's been married for 32 years.[00:06:49] Cause if you truly told your wife everything that goes on in the outdoor world, that marriage would have ended many years ago. I've always said my biggest fear in life is that if I die before her... she sells all my hunting and fishing gear for what I told her I paid for it.[00:07:05] KATIE: Well that perfectly leads us to my next question. So early on you guys set some ground rules to make sure that John could still get outdoors. So... One, he had to hunt and fish where he said he was going to hunt and fish so that you would know where he was in case of an issue... That he would always come home at the agreed upon time. That he would always wear his safety harness when he was in a tree.[00:07:29] That he would never spend ridiculous amounts of money on equipment without discussing it with you first...[00:07:34] CARALYN: Clearly he's broken that rule. [00:07:38] KATIE: And that holidays, anniversaries with one exception, the youth hunt, birthdays, families, all of that stuff comes before hunting and fishing. Were these the original rules that you guys set or have you guys added to them or altered them kind of throughout the years? [00:07:54] CARALYN: No, it was pretty much the original. And honestly you got to remember too, 31 years ago, there was no cell phones. I mean, that sounds so bad to say, but there weren't. And so, I mean, that was very much... those first rules were very much a safety issue and we lived in our hometown. We..my sister and brother in law own a farm. John hunted on a friend's farm. [00:08:24] JOHN: Well, a couple different farms, several places early on. [00:08:27] CARALYN: Yeah. There were several places to hunt and I didn't want him ever leaving, not coming back. And then I'm like, okay, which of the six places...[00:08:35] KATIE: Could he possibly...[00:08:36] CARALYN:  Could he possibly be? Right. So, I mean, it was very much a safety thing that was first and foremost on my mind and I don't, I mean, I don't think we've ever really revised anything too much. It was, those are just practical concerns. [00:08:51] KATIE: Well, we certainly appreciate the safety aspect of that. [00:08:54] JOHN: I lived up to my end of the deal, except once. [00:08:57] KATIE: Why don't you tell us a little bit about the, the one time that I hear you broke these rules?[00:09:02] JOHN: I have a man room at home and there is one piece of furniture in there that I absolutely despise. I hate it. I can't stand it. But I will never take it out of the man room because that furniture is the end result of the one day that I didn't come home when I said I would. So I was with a  good friend of mine and his cousin, and we were musky fishing up in northern Wisconsin. We'd been fishing all weekend. We started to fish Friday night, fish all day Saturday and without asking what time we are going to be home on Sunday, I said to her, I said, well I'm sure he's going to be wanting to heading back to Madison by, you know, probably noon. This was when he lived in Rhinelander.[00:09:42] And so I said, I'm sure I'll be back, you know, right around noon. And so we get fishing and I mean this guy's a machine. I mean, he's got he, this guy fishes. I mean, I, we did one trip in a boat where we fished 18 hours. And I'm not exaggerating. 18 hours in a boat. [00:09:58] KATIE: Wow. [00:09:59] JOHN: Yup. And so this guy, I mean, back then we could fish and we could fish long hours.[00:10:05] And he's like, I got nothing. We got on the water Sunday morning. I said, I've got nothing to get home for. He said, I'm going to fish til at least dark. And I'm going, and we all rode out to the landing together and I'm going, this ain't gonna be good. And I finally talked him into coming off the water. We weren't having much luck that day thank God. If the fish were going  I'd probably still be on the water. We caught one early in the day and then it just kind of died. We couldn't get nothing to going so it was probably 5:30 or six o'clock I finally got off the water. [00:10:31] CARALYN: Well, I think it might've been earlier than that even. I seem to recall only like three in the afternoon.[00:10:36] JOHN: Okay. So, but even then I knew I was in trouble. And the funny thing is, is we're driving back into town. And at that time, my personal vehicle, I had a St. Croix rod sticker on the back of it. And we're driving into town, and I see my wife and my two daughters pull out of the grocery store and they stop at a stop light.[00:10:58] And we slide in right behind them and my buddy who kept me out way past my curfew said, Hey, there's a Saint Croix rod sticker on the back of that Ford Explorer right there. And then my wife turns around and flips us the bird. And my buddy says, my buddy says... That lady just whipped us the bird. I said, yes, that's my wife. I am really, really late. [00:11:23] CARALYN: From my perspective. We were sitting at the lights and I knew they were right behind us. And so I'm looking in the rear view mirror and I see this timid little man waving really little cutesy and I, and that's when I lost it. and that's when I flipped him off, and then just continued to, I must have went somewhere.[00:11:51] JOHN: Yeah. You did. [00:11:52] CARALYN: I think I knew how mad I was. I figured I'd better go for a drive.[00:11:55] JOHN:  So, this green cabinet that I mentioned  at the start of the story had been sitting in a box in our sun room for, I don't know, most of the summer. And so I walked inside and I'm like hey, she's not here. I got to get this cabinet put together and maybe that will save the day. And I had it about half together when she got home, I did finish it. And you know as mad as she was, and I don't blame her for being mad, we, you know, as we tell this story now we're laughing about it, but I learned my lesson then and there. And from that day on I was always home when I said I'd be home so...  [00:12:31] CARALYN: And I did get the cabinet put together on the deal. So...[00:12:34] JOHN:  And we still, me and my buddy, we still talk about that story to this day. So yeah, that's a great story.[00:12:41] KATIE: Those are some of the best ones. Talk to me about taxidermy in the house.[00:12:50] CARALYN: I am not a fan. And this, I might, this might've been one of my rules even when we started, because I don't remember ever really agreeing to any sort of taxidermy.  It's just not my thing and that was before I knew what it costs... for people to have taxidermy done because I was, I was reasonably stunned at, and this is with the John factor in there.[00:13:19] I'm quite sure what I've been told a lot of those things cost, is not what they actually cost. [00:13:25] John: I think I've been, I think I've been pretty truthful about the taxidermy. When we lived in Rhinelander my job brought me down here. And so we commuted and I ultimately bought the house and I lived down here for a number of months before I bought the family down.[00:13:41] And as I was commuting back and forth, I would bring car loads of stuff down. Well, one of the things I just, I mean, the easy stuff to bring was all my stuff, you know? And so I was bringing my taxidermy down. All of a sudden, just all my taxidermy was going up and I sent her a picture and I said, I think I just claimed the man room.[00:14:01] So that was one story. Then there was another story. And this was one where I truly asked for forgiveness instead of permission. A number of years back, I shot an extremely rare turkey. It is called a Smoke Phase Turkey. And what it  is... it's a turkey that doesn't have any black pigment in it. No, I'm sorry. It doesn't have any brown pigment in it. Doesn't have any brown. And I mean, if I see a wild turkey and was, what color does it, I mean, it pretty much looks brown. Right? [00:14:31] KATIE: Right. [00:14:31] JOHN: So this turkey is void of any brown. So it's white and blue and black. The back, the back of the turkey is iridescent blue and theres...[00:14:44] the rest of the turkey is white and black. And when I shot it, I really didn't know what I had. I was by myself. And I shot it right away in the morning. And I come out of the woods and I texted the group I was with, I said, oh, I shot a black and white Jake. Well, they thought, you know, black and white, meaning, you know, run of the mill, you know, standard Jake it's true.[00:15:03] That truly was a color. And so my buddy shot a bird and he come out and he said where's that bird you shot. And I told him, and then he said, well, let me see it. And I held it up in a way... I held it by the feet and the wings kind of fell open and he took a picture of it and he said, He said, oh my God John, he said, this thing's beautiful. Look at this picture. And so he showed me the picture and I said, I'm getting that mounted. And immediately we were making arrangements, calling taxidermists and you know, to do a full body mount of it. And I never even asked her. I didn't even... that one I just, I just, she said, what are you doing to that turkey?[00:15:38] I don't want no stupid fan hanging in the house. Well, good. You're not going to get a stupid fan hanging in the house you're going to get a full bird hanging in the house.[00:15:46] CARALYN: And I know that was a no, I mean I might have bent on deer heads, but I know I never wanted a bird. That is, oh my gosh. Beautiful is not the term that comes to my mind. It is... obnoxious. I keep hoping the cat will eat it and the cat hasn't come through for me. My one funny taxidermy story that I, uh...well, when we lived in Rhinelander, we rented. When we first moved up there, we rented a house so we only had, um, we had two bedrooms living room and dining room. It was just the first floor of a house and we had our two daughters that shared a bedroom and it wasn't a whole ton of room as they got older and bigger toys. And we'd given one of them a bouncy rocking horse type of deal and it wouldn't fit in their bedrooms so it was out in the front room of the house. And I don't know why. Well, I know that the mounts were all out there cause that's where there room for them, but why they were right above that bouncy horse I'll never know. And I think it was both of them on the horse really bouncing and the next thing I know the deer head is on the floor and it was one that had a nice drop tine, which promptly snapped off. And I can't say that I felt real bad about it. [00:17:10] JOHN: The good thing is, it broke off clean so it was very easily fixed. You can't even tell it, so... [00:17:16] CARALYN: Yeah and as my other little way of dealing with the taxidermy in the house, I always hang Christmas bulbs off of the...[00:17:26] KATIE: There you go.[00:17:27] CARALYN: Off of the horns. [00:17:28] KATIE: So your daughters, did they ever get in on, on the outdoor life with you at all? [00:17:32] JOHN: So they did. Neither one of them so much anymore. Carissa is our oldest and she got into hunting. Not, you know, not avid, but she'd go with me. She didn't like getting up early. That was  one thing. She didn't like the kick of the gun.[00:17:50] You know, those were the two things. But, she loved what I have now moved to. She loved that part of the hunt, which is the memories that comradery, the friends, the people you go with. And as a young girl for her to pick up on that and for her to enjoy that aspect of it as much as she did was always pretty special to me.[00:18:12] That was back before my dad passed. He was, he was alive and then there was a landowner... we hunted on his farm and, you know, sadly they're both gone now. But she hunted for four years with me. And prior to her fifth year of hunting, our landowner, who was a family best friend, he died very suddenly, very unexpected, and I'll never forget the phone call.[00:18:35] I was actually in my boat. I just backed the boat in and I just got up musky fishing and I don't remember. I was in, I just got done with a guide trip and I was in retying and sharpening hooks and my mother called and she said that he had passed and I went inside and I was crying and they said, what's wrong? And I said, well, Nels died. And immediately, Nels was a gentleman on the farm, immediately Carissa said, I'm not hunting anymore. So I give it a few weeks, maybe even a month. Then I said, what's the deal? You know, she's no Dad I'm done. I'm done. And she's never hunted since. You know, so... [00:19:10] CARALYN: Nels made things pretty special for her though too.[00:19:12] JOHN: He did.[00:19:13] CARALYN: The one year he gave her, that was the, was the first year she hunted and he gave her this deer camp award. He typed it up and had a picture...[00:19:21] JOHN: She got a deer her first year. [00:19:23] CARALYN: Yeah. And she was allowed to bring beers to them. All these little things that were her deer camp duties. I mean he made it real special for her.[00:19:32] JOHN: So she hunted for a couple of years. And then my youngest really got into fishing. Especially when she was younger and... oh, she lives in town here still. But she's busy and we were going to fish all this summer and of course I'm up early and they're not. And then we can never get the scheduled arranged.[00:19:47] But when we were younger, one of her, one of her and one of my favorite things, one of our favorite things, she'd call me in my office or on my cell phone. And she would say, Dad what are we having for supper? And I said, Oh, I don't know. And, and she said, well, let's have nibblers. So what nibblers were...that was bluegills. That's what you called them.[00:20:08] And we lived very, very close to Boom Lake in Rhinelander and there was one particular snag that I knew about, kind of way on the backside and up in the backwater and very few people ever went there. And you could go there in probably a half hour, 45 minutes, maybe an hour at the most. Her and I could get enough bluegill for the family to eat.[00:20:29] So I get home from work. I'd hook the boat up. We'd stop at a bait shop, buy a 36 count box of red worms and throw the boat in the water and go fish for literally 45 minutes to an hour. Come home, clean fish, and  we never froze fish. Ever. We just, we ate them all right away. [00:20:46] KATIE: The way that we heard about you guys was from a Facebook post about taking your nephew out for the youth hunt. Tell me a little bit about how you got, got into bringing him into the hunting world. [00:20:56] JOHN: Yep. So... Going back to what Carolyn said earlier. My brother-in-law is a dairy farmer...that's, Carolyn's sister is married to Mike and they're dairy farmers and they've got a very large dairy farm over to western Wisconsin.[00:21:12] And Mike is... Mike and his and his two boys run it now. So, and his two boys, our nephews, my one nephew, Jason, he has kids. Well, the youth hunt is right at a time where they're harvesting. They're there in the middle of chopping corn and nobody has time to take them. And so he's got his, his oldest son Johnny is now beyond the youth hunt, but I mentored him. And him and I shot several deer together.[00:21:45] Then Jason's next, next boy is Gunnar. And I mentored him this year. He shot a real nice nine pointer and he's got two more boys coming up, but the problem is those guys can't ever get out because they're harvesting. So they call me, Hey, can you take the guy's youth hunting? And you know, so I did.[00:22:02] And one of the first years I went, my brother-in-law Mike said, isn't it your wedding anniversary? I said, well, it's not today. It's tomorrow. And he said, all right, but how did you pull that off? I said, well, because I need to take Johnny, that's my nephew, I need to take him hunting, you know? And, uh, so.... She was gracious the first year, but then the second year she's like...they're not even your kids come on, you know? So we've kind of did an every other year thing,you know, ever since. And it's worked out well. So we've had fun with you with the youth hunt so... it's just, I just got to balance it between our anniversary and the youth hunt and God bless her for letting me kind of go every other year or so.[00:22:48] And that'll probably happen for a number more years yet cause Tristen and Caleb are coming up so there'll be... I'll have many more years of mentoring, which I love doing. It's absolutely... I was as excited for Gunnar to shoot that real nice nine pointer that he shot this year as I would have been to a shot at a giant 10 pointer.[00:23:06] KATIE: So, right, right. It's interesting that you are so accommodating to the anniversary aspect of it. So my Mom and... my Mom and myself both have October birthdays. And my dad goes out west duck hunting and pheasant hunting and whatever. And I have a memory of one birthday growing up where he was home because every single other one, it's the weekend of opening duck hunting out west and he would be gone every year, duck hunting.  But it was the best time because then Mom and I could just, we could go shop. We could do whatever. And Dad, wasn't there to say no. So it's cool that you guys kind of around the similar time of year  have that worked out. [00:23:44] CARALYN: Well, and we, that's kind of how we worked things out. Cause he... the year it did get tough when he was guiding. Because that was a lot of time gone. And then he also fished a league, musky fishing league when we lived in Rhinelander as well. But we did something similar where... it was a Tuesday night league. So the girls and I always knew that Dad was going to be fishing that night.[00:24:12] So we had, I think it was The Bachelor. I literally think it was like when The Bachelor first came out. Yeah. So Carissa and I and Katelyn knew that that was the night that we'd watch The Bachelor and we'd make up frozen pizza or something, you know? Well, cause John cooks as well, but yeah, maybe that's the trade off. You do all the cooking. I let you fish and hunt whenever you want but you do all the cooking. But you know, so the girls and I would do our own little thing, you know? And so, even though he was gone, we had the trade off of the girls night and something special for us. So...[00:24:44] KATIE:  So I hate to throw you under the bus again. [00:24:46] JOHN: Yep. That's fine. [00:24:47] KATIE: But a seven week old puppy? At the  start of deer season. What were you thinking? [00:24:53] JOHN: This one was bad. [00:24:56] CARALYN: I did bring that on myself. [00:24:59] JOHN: So we've always been dog people. In fact, one of my first memories with her as we went and picked out her very first dog together,and it was a mutt from our hometown and the dog's name was Duster, but it was the greatest dog ever. She was a great, great dog of ours, you know, and she lived a good life and, and we had a chocolate lab, which I actually, we actually adopted from one, from one of my guide clients. A guy that used to musky fish with me and a chocolate lab. Um, he was getting old and  he died and I said, okay, I'm picking a dog. I want a yellow lab. So Willie died in June. Yeah. Cause Willie died in June.[00:25:45] So we lost two dogs relatively quick. But Willie died in June and I said, well, and these two had already picked out a dog. They picked out a little one, which I never wanted that little dog, but he's now my best friend as well. [00:25:56] CARALYN: Larry, Larry's a 10 pound Chihuahua, but with a 50 pound attitude. So they had this little dog already in the house.[00:26:03] So we had a little dog, you know, just for a little while. And I said, well, I'm going to get a, I'm going to get a lab. And I looked all summer. I just didn't pull the trigger for whatever reason. And then it got into deer season and I just kind of had forgotten about it. And she saw on Facebook that these people had yellow labs for 150 bucks.[00:26:20] CARALYN: It was in our hometown.[00:26:21] JOHN:  In our hometown, right where I deer hunt because I don't deer hunt near here. I deer hunt over in western Wisconsin. Western Trempealeau County. And I said, well, I'm going to stop on my way home to look at these dogs. And so I had a bunch of cash on me and then I pulled in and I think she had three, three males left and in this one dog, he just would not get out from underneath my feet.[00:26:41] And it wasn't the one I had my eye on. I was looking at these two other ones, cause this dog was a runt. You know, I wasn't interested in him but he just wouldn't get out from underneath my feet. And so I brought, I brought him home and, and uh, the fact that he was a runt is beyond me because he's now 98 pounds.[00:27:00] But the worst part about it was I had identified two really large bucks that year and I was into it that year and I brought this dog home on November 7th and I had a bunch of vacation planned. And so it wasn't like I was just gone on the weekends. I mean, I think I was gone if you take November 7th to whatever last weekend of the gun deer season I bet, I was away from home, probably a dozen of those days.[00:27:29] So I got a seven week old lab and in the first 20 days of that dog being home I'm gone for a dozen of them. So I got home from gun deer season that, you know, Sunday, the last weekend of gun deer season. And I don't know if this was it's true, but this is what I remember. They met me at the door and they threw the dog at me and said, take care of this dog we're outta here. I mean that's kind of what I remember. I don't think that actually happened, but I mean, that's the vibe I got when I walked through the door. So there was no late season hunting for me that year, though it was me and Stormy after that. So, so that was, that was not a very nice thing to do.[00:28:10] CARALYN: And it wasn't, it's not that Stormy is a bad dog.[00:28:13] JOHN: It's a seven week old puppy thats a lot of work.[00:28:16] CARALYN:  You're outside every half hour and even doing that, he's peeing somewhere at some point.[00:28:24] KATIE:  Or finding the shoe to chew on.[00:28:27] CARALYN:  Yes. He's eaten a lot of shoes and always my shoes. [00:28:30] KATIE: Always. Do you guys have any final advice for people who are trying to figure out... okay, how do I balance this whole family life thing with their love and passion for the outdoors?[00:28:47] JOHN: Oh, it's just, there's one word it's... it's compromise. [00:28:50] CARALYN: And respect.[00:28:51] JOHN: Two words. Compromise and respect. Yeah. You know, I remember one year the girls were swimming. And when they were in high school I didn't get much deer hunting time cause they were swimming. And I remember getting up that morning. It was... let's just say November 3rd. I mean, it's right in the middle of, of the rut and I'm just thinking, oh my God, today's going to be great. This front blew through with a temp drop. We're going to have frost. We're going to have light westwinds. I mean, this is going to be, this is going to be great hunting and I, and we had to go to Stevens Point for a swim meet and I remember sitting there and I know Steve shot a big one that day. Brian shot a big one that day and I think Jordan shot a big one that day. And I'm at a pool in Stevens point, Wisconsin, not hunting, but I wouldn't have been any other place.[00:29:43] That's where I needed to be. And that's the thing that I think guys who that are as passionate as I am. And I really I've witnessed it in musky fishing. I've seen guys lose their family, lose their spouses, lose almost everything over a silly green fish. And as the person who was in the outdoors you have to keep it in perspective. And you'd have to keep it in perspective all the time, because even in, because it's the rut, because it's opening day, if there's other things going on at home and the plumbing's broke or, you know, just whatever, sometimes you got to step back as a hunter and fishermen and go, I'm not going to go today.[00:30:25] I, you know, I need, I need to be here, but, and you know, for what she did for me, she just never, ever said, you're not going. I don't want you to go. Yeah. Compromise and respect. I think that's, that's what it is[00:30:39] . CAROLYN: Well, have the conversation. We, we talked about it and granted, we were both kind of on the same page from the beginning, because like I said, we grew up in the same town and hunting was what it was. Everybody was used to it. I never expected that whoever I married wouldn't hunt. So that helped, but that said, we did talk about it. Because bow hunting is different. [00:31:04] JOHN: It's a big time commitment. [00:31:05] CARALYN: Yeah. Try it. If you are the non hunter, the non fishermen too, you give it a try. Maybe you'll like it.[00:31:12] I did try to go hunting one time and weirdly enough, for whatever reason it was the year I had our Carissa, our first daughter. Why I chose to go hunting when I, cause she was born October 24th, excuse me, August 24th. So it'd been the next season. Why I would choose to go hunting and when I have a baby at home.[00:31:30] It was such a blizzard that year. It was stupid. Cause I am, I know, no matter what hunting or fishing or anything, I'm a fair weather hunting or fishing or anything. But I went and I was... the firearm thing didn't bother me and we'd practiced and stuff like that, that I was all, it was used to that. But he literally just sat me where we thought would be a good spot. But even getting that far was bad enough cause I'm short and it was a lot of snow. And so we got as far as we could get and still be in the woods and he put me against the street. He was like, shoot anything that comes along. Which you gotta when you're first going out, you can't be picky.[00:32:12] And so I am watching and watching and all of a sudden I can hear something. So I start paying attention and sure enough, here comes this doe and I'm thinking oh no. And then here comes her fawns. I'm like, oh no, now I really can't shoot it, but I know he's coming behind them. So I am literally standing against that tree just going shoo, shoo, trying to make it go away. We enjoy going fishing together. [00:32:41] JOHN: Yeah.  You started that here later in life. And we had a ball this summer. Caught a lot of pilot fish's this summer. [00:32:47] CARALYN: Yeah. And in fact, I actually held my first fish of my own. I haven't baited my own hook yet, but I did hold that fish by myself. Never say never.[00:33:00] JOHN: Well, yeah, that's the other thing is try and go together.[00:33:05] CARALYN:  And he never pushed it. I didn't like it. I didn't go again, no big deal. Wasn't you know, but I gave it a try.[00:33:11] KATIE:  To hear more of John and Carolyn's stories, follow stage four outdoors on social media. We'll be back in two weeks with another great episode, featuring more inside voices on Wisconsin's outdoors.[00:33:23] Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss it. And while you're at it, leave us a review. Thanks for listening. 

In which the Historians learn about the many connections between Medieval Europe and Bravo including the similarities between Roman sumptuary laws and the Housewives, comparisons between Erika Jayne’s glam squad and Lancelot preparing for battle, why a chair spread disease, the ways that a Thuringian princess and Frankish queen, Saint Radegund, was like LVP, Jill Zarin, Karen Huger and other matriarchs from the Bravo Housewife franchises, Bravo News launches with court reporter Dr. Jen Edwards down in South Carolina, and much much more!

Luna Williams, President of the Saint Lucia Association of St. Croix, speaks on the organization's initiatives. The Association, in existence for over 40 years, promotes Saint Lucian culture in Saint Croix, and assists with charitable efforts in Saint Lucia. The organization recently adopted the Soufriere Infant School. Host- Ryan O'Brian

Quotes from James in this episode: “The feeling of euphoria and emancipation in your own personal life, whatever that is, it could be the end of a relationship, a situation, and/or it could be the beginning of something brand new, they are usually wrapped in the same package. As one ends, a new journey begins.” “Facing the unknown, not knowing exactly where I am going and when, and just letting God lead me to where he wants me next. I find this very exciting in some ways. You do however need to have tremendous faith in him and you must trust, and allow yourself to be led”… Maps and Geography: Maps were always so fascinating to me, as a kid I loved maps and they were always so intriguing to me, I just loved them and loved seeing the different things on maps, where you are, where you live, what is surrounding you, is it mountains, lakes, streams, forests? Or is it all a concrete jungle? I have met people who have no concept of maps, and I must immediately pull out a map and show them how it works, how you can put the mapping image in their brain and use it to give them a better perspective on where they are. Perhaps no one bothered to ever teach them about maps? NYC is a perfect example of how to use mapping to your advantage, everything is laid out in a grid North, South, East, and West. It's a perfect place to practice your mapping abilities, all the avenues run North and South, and all the streets run East and West. We all have different abilities when it comes to learning. None of us receive interpret and disseminate information the same way, therefore no two people have the same capacity to ingest and apply knowledge the same way, we are all wired completely different! While you are discovering your new hobby of studying maps and Geography, don't forget to investigate the Geography of Your Soul! Emancipation, Homelessness, the New Chapter, and President Lincoln: I spent the last year with my Mom, who was elderly and very sick, she had dementia and she passed away a few weeks ago. I had moved into her house a year ago, so I am now homeless! However, it feels like emancipation, let me explain. I know that she made it into heaven, so that is certainly something to celebrate. I have been feeling emancipated in some ways as a certain chapter of my life has now concluded, and I am looking at a fresh virgin canvas. Facing the unknown, not knowing exactly where I am going and when, and just letting God lead me to where he wants me next. I find this very exciting in some ways. You do however need to have tremendous faith in him and you must trust, and allow yourself to be led… Lincoln had a mountain to climb to get the Emancipation Proclamation passed, it was a political quagmire that he had to navigate using all of his brilliant legal skills, his creativity, his humor, wit, passion, and sense of humor to get this bill passed. There were four border states that could have swung towards the South had things not aligned properly, that may have changed the course of the war, and we might have had two countries today instead of one! Lincoln knew that slavery was morally wrong and he could not in good conscience allow this to continue under his administration. The feeling of euphoria and emancipation in your own personal life, whatever that is, it could be the end of a relationship, a situation, and/or it could be the beginning of something brand new, they are usually wrapped in the same package. As one ends, a new journey begins. What about Drugs, and Your Relationship with Drugs? No, I am not talking about social, recreational and illegal drugs. I am talking about the ones that you are wired to enjoy anytime you choose. Dopamine, Serotonin, Adrenalin, Oxytocin, they are all within our ability to enjoy whenever we decide to manufacture them. Like the roller coaster ride, you climb aboard and you receive that flood of endorphins, that start kicking in and you say to yourself wow where did that come from? We tend to forget about this experience, and you can receive this benefit with all kinds of different activities if you choose to, and I think you should choose to. Because there is nothing like feeling good. Eustress, and what is it?: We have stress in our life, but we also have eustress, (the good stress) We all experience stress at some point. Whether it's daily chronic stress or occasional bumps in the road, stress can sneak up on us at any time. What you may not know about stress is that it's not all bad. In fact, we can experience eustress, or positive stress, just as frequently as we do negative stress. If the idea of positive stress is new to you, you're not alone. Most of us equate all stress with negative experiences. Clinical psychiatrist Dr. Michael Genovese says we rarely think of stress as a positive thing, but eustress is just that — positive stress. “Exciting or stressful events cause a chemical response in the body,” he explained. Eustress is usually a product of nerves, which can be brought on when faced with a fun challenge. Genovese says this is important because, without eustress, our well-being can suffer. “Eustress helps us stay motivated, work toward goals, and feel good about life,” he added. This is very cool as it goes back to what I stated previously, I want the dopamine, the serotonin, adrenalin, and the oxytocin then are the things that keep you young and healthy. When you are a teenager you never think twice about jumping on the fastest, highest Ferris wheel, or the meanest roller coaster, but as you get older you start to taper off and say “Nah, you know what, I'm reading the paper, or I'm going for coffee, you forget that you can still take your shirt off and just start running or jump on a bike and take a ride. So we have got to remind ourselves that these things are really really good for us, so that's why I'm saying about the drugs, ‘that's the stuff that I want” I want the natural drugs, I want the Eustress! Traveling: I have met a lot of travelers through the dHarmic Evolution, and what a gift, all of these fabulous ladies and gentlemen who travel the world with their art, with their talents, with their abilities, and I have learned so much through them, and traveling is such a wonderful thing and some people are just never acclimated to it or perhaps they are a little afraid of it, I think, especially having a relationship with someone and you can't travel alone in some instances, so you are always together. I think there is something missed when that happens, because when you strip away all the crutches, and you do it all on your own, you learn one fundamental thing, and that is, you can make up your own fun as you go, and its very cool to just be able to be so aloof, and to be so free, and to be able to say, I'm ready to move on, I'm going to go do something else today. Mexico: I was traveling in Mexico a few years back and was staying at this nice all-inclusive Hotel packages that allowed you to stay at any one of 10 or 12 Hotels that were all very nice places. So I am at what is now the Hard Rock Hotel on the Riviera Mya, south of Cancun and it's Saturday night around 11:00 PM, I am sitting by myself at the bar and I have been noticing that it is mostly families with their kids here. So I ask the bartender about another hotel, we look at a map together, I ask him to call me a cab, and I went up to my room, packed in about 4 minutes, came down jumped into a cab, and I was checked into a new hotel in less than an hour, different vibe, different experience, just will it, and it can be done! Traveling, I can't recommend it enough, its just killer, it is awesome! “Flyin”: Flyin is one of the most magnificent things you can do to accomplish all of the things I described earlier with the eustress, getting that dopamine, serotonin, adrenaline, oxytocin, endorphins and whatever other cool chemicals your brain can create. The natural drugs that are locked up in your brain just waiting for you to insert the key and say “go baby go”! How about commercial airlines, some people are afraid to fly, and for those of you who hate take offs, do this, put on some kick-ass music, put on the most killer thing that just rocks your world, strap on your headphones, put your seat back, but your head back, and don't resist that feeling of take off, do the opposite, embrace that feeling as your rushing down the runway to the sound of music that lights you up. It's one of my favorite thing's, I just love to take off's. You can apply the same strategy on landing, just get into the music, relax and enjoy the experience. I tried this in real time with someone I was traveling with a long time ago, and it worked like a charm for her. She was all freaked out about both take-offs and landing, but the music and the strategy worked well for her. If the music is not the buzz for you, take the persons hand you are sitting next to, and say a prayer with them. Hang gliding: I did this in Saint Croix off the back of a boat, what a rush, what a great time, I was feeling all of the chemicals! I want to do a free launch off the top of a mountain, that's on the “next” list. Skydiving: This is kind of an ultimate rush, 12,000' and then reaching 120 miles an hour, like a peregrine falcon having so much fun! No spinning and whirlies for me! I told the lead guy who I jumped with not to do that, as it made me a bit sick, but that aside the jump was a rush! Thanks for joining us, and be sure to connect with us on social media! www.thejamesoconnoragency.com www.dharmicevolution.com facebook twitter instagram Check out our YouTube channel! Join our community on dHarmic Evolution Community Facebook Group You can get a new “Gratitude” album here

Saint Croix Central defeated Little Chute 48-25 in Level 4 of the High School Football Playoffs. Joey D. was on the call.

Saint Croix Central defeated Little Chute 48-25 in Level 4 of the High School Football Playoffs. Joey D. was on the call.

Sportswriter David Gardner (Bleacher Report) stops by to talk about college basketball, his day with Tim Duncan in Saint Croix, and the time he took a shoulder to the chest from the Secret Service at the Final Four. (Inadvertently Part 2 in our series of stories that happened at the 2016 Final Four.)

Mike Yard makes it to the studio!  The wait is worth it!  Judy, Hennessy, & Mike get into Yard's move to the States from Saint Croix, his relationship with NY's finest, as well as his eating habits.  Who doesn't like coffee or spaghetti???  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

July 3rd, Emancipation Day (E-Day) in the US Virgin Islands, is public holiday commemorating abolition of slavery in the Danish West Indies in 1848. E-Day is celebrated in many former colonies on various dates to recognize the abolition of slavery, serfdom, or other forms of servitude. The Danish West India Company settled on part of the Virgin Islands archipelago, which is now known as the US Virgin Islands, in the 17th century. The trans-Atlantic slave trade to the archipelago began in 1673. Slaves mainly worked on sugarcane plantations. They were forced to work in difficult conditions and were treated inhumanely. This led to several large revolts, such as the 1733 slave insurrection on Saint John which lasted for 6 months. In 1835, Peter von Scholten became governor of the islands. He tried to lighten the burden of the slaves by permitting the private ownership and creating schools for them. When a non-violent [sic] slave revolt broke out on the island of Saint Croix in 1848, von Scholten decided to emancipate all slaves. Slavery on the Danish West Indian Islands was officially abolished on July 3, 1848. The anniversary of this event was declared a public holiday in the US Virgin Islands along with the Fourth of July when slaves in the United States were emancipated. E-Day is observed in many former European colonies in the Caribbean and areas of the United States on various dates to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved people of African descent. It is also observed in other areas in regard to the abolition of serfdom or other forms of servitude. Courtesy in part by:  https://anydayguide.com/calendar/2177 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Day     

Every February, St. Croix hosts the largest agricultural festival in the Territory. The St. Croix Agricultural Fair, or AgriFest, is a colorful display of locally produced agricultural products, livestock, arts & crafts, & native cuisine. Taking place over 3 days, festival goers can taste, touch, & see everything to do with St. Croix agriculture. The Boy Scouts of America in the USVI was served in the early 20th Century through National Council Direct Service. Then the troops later were added as the Virgin Island District in the Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands Council. During the late 1960s & early 1970s, Troop 152, sponsored by Saint Patrick's Church, Frederiksted, Saint Croix, formed a steel band of grammar-school-age Scouts that was managed by Vivian Bennerson. The band toured internationally. The Scout Association of the British Virgin Islands operates as a branch of the United Kingdom Scout Association, as the British Virgin Islands' affiliation as a British Overseas Territory. The BVI Scout Oath and Law, & other Scouting requirements, closely follow that of the United Kingdom. Jump Up, held 4 times yearly, is a "carnival like" cultural party held in the streets & along the boardwalk of Christiansted. Sponsored by the CRRA (Christiansted Restaurant & Retail Association), it has become one of the islands' favorite social events for both locals & visitors alike. Friends of Virgin Islands National Park and the National Park Service will partner to present the Annual Folk Life Festival in celebration of Black History Month in February on St. John.  Visit AgriFest at www.VIAgrifest.org/.

When I was seven years old I remember listening to some country western song on the radio and asking my mom, "Why do people always sing about love?"(At that age, I would have rather listened to songs about video games instead of how some guy misses his ex-wife).My mom answered, "Because love is important and complicated."It turns out mom was right.How we relate to other humans in love and friendship basically makes or breaks the quality of our life.Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business at concluded:"Conflicts in relationships - having an annoying office mate or roommate, or having chronic conflict with your spouse is one of the surest ways to reduce your happiness. You never adapt to interpersonal conflict. It damages every day, even days when you don't see the other person but ruminate about the conflict nonetheless."That's why 25% of all the books I read are about social life: romance, love, friendship, and family.Today's book of the day is "Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters" by Alan S. Miller and Satoshi KanazawaYesterday I was talking about it on my Book-Of-The-Day TV show  check out at new episode everyday a 11:30 am PST on www.tailopez.com/tv) ( I had to divide this into two emails so you will see part 2 tomorrow) This book will mesmerize you.It's full of some of the most profound truths about life of any book I have read in years.But first let me say:"WARNING: THIS BOOK WILL BE TOO INTENSE FOR MOST PEOPLE!"Don't email me complaining that I didn't warn you...Just remember, if you read the book and still disagree, despite the mountain of evidence the authors have collected along with their appeal to plain common sense, then go ahead and leave me a comment stating your case. Just make sure you provide some real proof for your argument.[make sure to check out my Book-Of-The-Day deal to get your own copy of “Why Beautiful People have More Daughters” and my own personal notes]...The chapters are divided up into controversial subjects like:-Why do beautiful parents have more daughters and wealthy parents have more sons?-Why do men like blonde bombshells (and why do women want to look like them)?-Why is beauty NOT in the eye of the beholder or merely skin deep?-Why do girls of divorced parents experience puberty earlier than girls whose parents remain married?-Why is prostitution the world’s oldest profession and pornography a billion dollar industry?-Why are there virtually no polyandrous societies (where one woman is married to multiple husbands)?-Why does having sons reduce the likelihood of divorce?-Why might handsome men make bad husbands?-Why are there so many deadbeat dads but so few deadbeat moms?-Why are almost all violent criminals men?-Why do politicians risk everything by having an affair (but only if they are male)?-Why do men so often earn more money and attain higher status than women?-Why are most neurosurgeons male and most kindergarten teachers female?-Why are most suicide bombers Muslim?-Why is ethnic conflict so persistent throughout the world?-Why are single women more likely to travel abroad?Now you might think you know the answers to these questions. But, I guarantee you this book will have you second guessing basically everything you have ever heard on life, love and how humans get along with each other.Every time I dive into any books on evolutionary psychology I realize that literally 95% of what we have been taught about life is absolute nonsense. And what is being taught about love and human attraction is probably the subject most full of error.I don’t know why the heck we never learn any of this in school.It's a crime. But it’s understandable because most of what is written about love, friendship, romance and social life comes from a view of what people would LIKE to be true, NOT what is actually true. I think love is too painful a subject for most people. It’s "too true" for the average person.Just like Jack Nicholson said in A Few Good Men, "You can't handle the truth!"This book covers many of those "too true" subjects.The authors say the problem starts because the standard social science model says we are a blank slate, that our behaviour is environmental and comes through socialization.We have been taught that our personality is based on our environment and what we have learned from our parents, teachers and culture.For example, you may have heard that society created the traditional male and female gender roles.But the authors of this book quote a Cambridge University study that proves that baby boys stare more at mechanical toys and baby girls stare at toys with faces - even babies only 24 hours old.They say:"In summary, we have demonstrated that at 1 day old, human neonates (babies) demonstrate sexual dimorphism (differences) in both social and mechanical perception. Male infants show a stronger interest in mechanical objects, while female infants show a stronger interest in the face.”In this image below you can see the results of a study where scientists put different toys out for male and female vervet monkeys. When they came back in the room the male monkeys were playing with the toy cars and the female monkeys were examining the dolls. “Psychology Today” concludes:"It is becoming less and less likely that ‘gender socialization’ is the reason why boys and girls prefer different toys, and more and more likely that there are some genetic, hormonal, and other biological reasons for the observed sex differences in toy preference."Society doesn't create, gender creates society. Now this book doesn't say that one gender is superior to another, just that they are intrinsically different.And it gets deeper, this book challenges more than just gender roles.The authors start by saying:"Every time we fall in love, everytime we fight with our spouse, ever time we enjoy watching our favorite TV show, every time we get scared walking at night in bad neighborhoods where tough young men loiter, every time we get upset about the influx of immigrants in our country, every time we go to church, we are - in part - behaving as a human animal with its own unique evolved nature - human nature.This means two things. First, our thoughts, our feelings, and behaviors are produced not only by our individual experiences and environment in our own lifetime, but also by what happened to our ancestors... Our human nature is the cumulative product of the experiences of our ancestors in the past, and it affects how we think, feel, and behave today.Second, because human nature is universal - sometimes shared by all humans, sometimes only shared by members of our own sex - our thoughts, feelings, and behavior are shared, to a large extent, by all other humans beings on earth (or all other men or women).Despite the seemingly large cultural differences in various societies, our daily experiences are essentially the same as those of people from Aberdeen, Bombay, and Cairo, to Xian, Yukon, and Zanzibar."The authors are basically saying that much of our behavior doesn't come from free choice but is ingrained in us from birth.Emotions like anger, rage, jealousy, racism, fear, depression, and envy are all part of the evolved human experience (of course it's important we learn to control some of these, but it's still important to know they are natural and there is nothing wrong with us for having them). This concept of instinct reminds me of what Steven Hawking says in "The Grand Design" about free will:“Do people have free will? If we have free will, where in the evolutionary tree did it develop? Do blue-green algae or bacteria have free will, or is their behavior automatic and within the realm of scientific law? Is it only multicelled organisms that have free will, or only mammals?"We might think that a chimpanzee is exercising free will when it chooses to chomp on a banana, or a cat when it rips up your sofa, but what about the roundworm called Caenorhabditis elegans—a simple creature made of only 959 cells?It probably never thinks, “That was damn tasty bacteria I got to dine on back there,” yet it too has a definite preference in food and will either settle for an unattractive meal or go foraging for something better, depending on recent experience. Is that the exercise of free will?Though we feel that we can choose what we do, our understanding of the molecular basis of biology shows that biological processes are governed by the laws of physics and chemistry and therefore are as determined as the orbits of the planets.Recent experiments in neuroscience support the view that it is our physical brain, following the known laws of science, that determines our actions, and not some agency that exists outside those laws. For example, a study of patients undergoing awake brain surgery found that by electrically stimulating the appropriate regions of the brain, one could create in the patient the desire to move the hand, arm, or foot, or to move the lips and talk.It is hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behavior is determined by physical law, so it seems that we are no more than biological machines and that free will is just an illusion."You might not agree with Dr. Hawking. But I've learned that when super smart people disagree with me that I am better off reexamining my position versus instantly concluding they are wrong.After all, Stephen Hawking may be the smartest person to have lived in the last 500 years (He is solving the worlds hardest physics problems while sitting paralyzed in a wheelchair for God's sakes).But whether the universe has free choice or not is not the main point of today's article. We can argue about that another day.When it comes to love we know that our desires are mostly hard - coded.We have been falsely taught that beauty is only skin deep, or that what is considered attractive is different in different cultures.Turns out beauty is not really in the eye of the beholder, cross culturally humans agree on what's attractive, from East Asians, Hispanics, Brazilians, Russians, the Ache of Paraguay, the Hiwi of Venezuela, Cruzans in Saint Croix, Chinese, Indian and English all alike.For example, take this picture of Brad Pitt in Fight Club:and this picture of Danny Devito:and show it to any woman in ANY country, Tanzania, Nepal, Austria, or New Zealand and ask who is the most attractive.Want to make a friendly wager on who they will all choose? You could go back in a time machine a thousand years and women in any country would still always prefer Brad Pitt over Danny Devito.Some people get depressed thinking about life this way - that some people are born with much better genes.But knowing the world has a natural order should make us excited. Because then we can know that all we have to do is line ourselves up with the laws of nature and we will be alright.For example, when it comes to love it's a good thing that women are attracted to the looks of Brad Pitt over Danny Devito.The fact that your great great grandma was picky about who she had kids with is the reason you are here today.Choosy women are the whole reason humans have evolved so successfully! So the next time you get turned down for a date with someone you were really attracted to just think, "Thank God humans are so picky!" Easier said than done I know, haha...And remember there is a good reason women find Brad Pitt attractive. This book says it’s not just some arbitrary thing. Brad has what's called "Bilateral Symmetry" - a fancy word for an attractive face.Bilateral symmetry decreases with exposure to parasites, pathogens, toxins, genetic issues, and inbreeding.The authors conclude: "Far from being merely in the eye of the beholder or skin-deep, beauty appears to be an indicator of genetic and developmental health and therefore of mate quality; beauty is a 'health certificate."This is why all cultures must have similar standards of beauty.Now you might say that it’s Hollywood or Cosmopolitan magazine that has been imposing their distorted version of beauty on the world.That's a load of BS. Here is how we know it's wrong: research shows that newborn babies less than 7 days old prefer to look at beautiful faces.Scientists found:"Placed before photos of a fashion model and a plain-looking woman, a newborn will be drawn to the prettier face.The finding undermines the theory that people develop an idea of attractiveness from the experience of mixing with different individuals.Instead, it appears that everyone is born with a pre-programmed understanding of what makes a person attractive. Newborns were shown two images side by side, one showing an attractive face and the other a less attractive one.The researchers say the infants spent more time looking at the attractive face than the less attractive one."Attractiveness is not simply in the eye of the beholder. It's in the eye of the infant right from the moment of birth, and possibly before birth," said Dr Alan Slater, a psychologist at Exeter.You can show them pair after pair of faces that are matched for everything other than attractiveness.This leads to the conclusion that babies are born with a very detailed representation of the human face.It helps them to recognise familiar faces - particularly that of the mother - and it helps them in learning about the social world.Newborns manage to do this despite their comparatively blurred vision."This is just the tip of the iceberg. Patterns of human attraction are everywhere.Men find women with a BMI (body mass index) of 18.5 most attractive.  This is a female ‘certificate' that signals health. If you are a woman that means you don’t want to be too skinny or too fat. You want to be on the low end of what’s classed ‘normal weight.’  You can calculate your BMI here.It’s no coincidence this weight is also the weight that his healthiest for most women. It’s not just about impressing men.Women find men with stronger jawlines more attractive (this is again a 'health certificate' that a man has passed the testosterone test).And let me quote: "Women, on average, tend to be attracted to men who are taller than they are, display a high degree of facial symmetry, masculine facial dimorphism, and who have broad shoulders, a relatively narrow waist, and a V-shaped torso."Again the good news is that for men working on creating your V-shaped torso by cutting your belly fat also translates into living longer as well as being attractive to women.Some of this is not fair (like how tall you are or how pretty you were born), or even that fun to think about sometimes. But I think that life's answers begin by not being afraid of looking directly at the hard truths of life. In a way that's what today's book is all about.The good news is that you can still have an amazing life even if you aren't born a supermodel or if you don't have the jawline of Tom Brady.You should never for a second just give up and say "Oh well, life didn't deal me good cards." If you feel yourself feeling any self pity watch this amazing guy's video over and over I never want this article twisted into anything that makes people give up. This knowledge when used correctly should EMPOWER you - not discourage you.We must use the truth about love as fuel for us to do the things that are in our power.To stay healthy, to work out, to eat right, to learn more social skills, to become more interesting, to be more altruistic, and find a strong sense of life purpose - this is all within our control even if some thing’s aren’t.As the great basketball coach John Wooden says, "Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. The best competition I have is against myself to become better."Now back to that strange question, why the heck do beautiful people have more daughters and rich parents more sons???Studies show that when the parents have above average attractiveness the odds of having daughters increases by 36%.Mother Nature works behind the scenes in a pretty powerful way.Back in 1973, Dr. Robert Trivers published a ground breaking article in Science magazine. He came up with the the Trivers–Willard hypothesis which showed that even though humans generally have close to 50-50% male/female babies, under certain stressful circumstances that ratio will change - sometimes a lot.In people groups living in poverty, let's say the Gypsies in Hungary or the Mukogodo of Kenya researchers found that those poor groups "had a female-biased sex ratio at birth, were more likely to abort a child after having had one or more daughters, nursed their daughters longer, and sent their daughters to school for longer."So why would poor parents have more daughters and wealthier parents have more sons?It’s because God/Universe/Nature is on our side and works to our advantage and sometimes having a different gender is more advantageous to a family.Let's illustrate with a hypothetical situation where there are 2 families each with 2 children. The rich family has Bob and Mary. The poor family has John and Susie.Rich Family:Bob is 25 and not very attractive but his family has given him the best business education and let him work in the family business.Mary is 25 and is successful financially but not very attractive.Poor Family:John is 25 and has no financial support from his family to get an education or start a business but he is super good looking.Susie is 25 and doesn't have much money but is gorgeous.Which out of these four will probably have the easiest time getting married.If you guessed Bob and Susie you would be right. The ugly man from the rich family with money and resources and the pretty woman from the poor family.What about the other two kids?Well Mary has financial success but since not many potential husbands care much about a woman's bank balance she's at a disadvantage (just think of the billionaire Oprah Winfrey - teenage boys don't exactly have posters of her up on their wall).John has good looks but most women don't only look for looks in a long term mate/husband so he's at a disadvantage.The research doesn't say only rich and beautiful people get married. Of course regular people get married every day. The point is that over 10,000 generations of humans there is a general trend of some people having more advantages than others. Remember over long periods of time even a 5% difference in advantage can change the whole end result.Dr. Robert Trivers correctly guessed that nature will give rich parents more sons because those parents would have extra money to invest in their sons to help them be successful enough to attract a high quality wife.The generalized theory by Dr. Trivers and Williams accurately predicts that any parents with a trait advantageous for boys will give birth to more boys and parents with any trait advantageous for women in the parents will give birth to more daughters.He also theorized that poorer parents would have an advantage by having more daughters because the daughters could make up for their parents lack of resources by using their beauty to find a high quality husband.Money and beauty weren’t the only predictor of gender. Tall parents have more sons and small parents have more daughters since height is more of a mating advantage for boys than girls.Over the last 30 years study after study has shown this gender birth rate difference to be the reality.Nature and biology is alive.Now as I read this book the main takeaway that I got was how amazing the human body really is.It adapts so that we can thrive.More importantly it continues to reinforce a principle that I think most people never understand about life.There are patterns.Take happiness from the pattern.If you use them right, those patterns will change your life because you can organize them into your plan.When I teach in my mentoring program I explain it this way.If you want an amazing life with massive rewards like a passionate romance, a long healthy life, wealth and financial abundance, love and admiration from your peers, and happiness and fulfillment, then your best bet is to start by investing in a good plan for yourself.The happiness you want is the end result. The end result comes from an effective strategy. A good strategy is controlled by your philosophy; you put your strategy into practice through goals; and goals comprise your PLAN.It's all about the quality of your plan. This is what separates my bank account from Bill Gates. He had a better plan. He got a better end result than me because his strategy came from a stronger philosophy and this strategy was put into action with a solid plan. And that's why he has billions and I don't.This article is about love, not business or money but the same principles apply.Ask yourself, "Do I want to wander through life and just take whatever relationship I can get, or do I want an amazing well designed love life?" Because it's extremely easy to get trapped.Jim Rohn says, "One day, early in my walk, my mentor said let me see your list of goals. I was a bit surprised as I didn't have a list of goals. Mr. Shoaff said, really? I can tell you right now that if you don't have list of goals, I can guess your bank account balance within a few hundred dollars and he did. I said you mean my bank balance would change if I had a list of goals? Earl said, drastically. That changed everything for me."After that Jim decided to make a plan.There are 3 plans you can have for your life:1. You can follow some other persons plan2. You can follow your own plan3. You can follow Natures plan (or call it God or the Universe's plan):Most people do #1 - they follow someone else's plan. That's why TV commercials exist. They slowly change your behavior until you are living your life to benefit someone elses plan.Think about it:- What's McDonald’s plan for you? To buy their burgers and give them your money.- What's your boss and employer’s plan for you? To make THEM a lot of money!- What's NBC and Warner Brothers’ plan for you? To use your time and cash watching their TV shows and movies and buying from their advertisers.- What's Drake and Rihanna's plan for you? To buy their music and make them rich or famous.-What's your credit cards’ plan for you? To keep you in debt and paying them interest!-What's American Apparel’s plan for you? To make sure you think of wearing the most fashionable clothes and buying from them.I'm not saying these are bad people or corporations but I am saying that if you are not careful, other people who don't have your best interests at heart will run your life for their benefit and not yours.This '"Follow some other person's plan" is the default. If you haven't consciously made a better plan for your life I can almost guarantee you are already living out someone else's plan.  I consider this the worst way to live life. I have been caught in it myself and every time I remember it I get angry at myself for having wasted years that I will never get back.Some people figure out that the #1 "Other person's plan" plan sucks and they evolve to #2 and follow their own plan.This sounds like a great strategy at first and it's usually better than following someone else. But if you look closer you will realize it's not a big improvement over plan #1.Why? Well can we be so cocky to think that we can, on our own, go out and figure out the world? This world is a pretty complex place. Doctors spend their whole lifetime just trying to understand the heart or the lungs. Engineers spend their whole life trying to make one specific type of airplane engine.Will you or I be able to master all areas of life on our own? Has your past proven you to be a genius planner? Be honest.Or are you like me and see that even my best laid plans often turned out to be idiotic in hindsight and that by the time I learn by experience I will be too old to enjoy the fruit of my wisdom.Like the Dutch proverb says, “Too soon old, too late smart.”Can you and I make 7 billion people and all the forces of nature bend to our own wishes and plan? It's one thing to make our own plan, it's another thing to get other's to play along.I mean I would love if I could just make a plan "The world should just deposit a billion dollars tomorrow into Tai Lopez's bank account." I actually love that plan. The problem is that no one else likes that idea. I haven't found anyone yet who would willingly just take money out of their account and wire it to me for no reason.Sounds obvious yet millions of people live with an ego centric mentality that says "I think the world should treat me a certain way". This is the "entitled" plan and it's a recipe for disaster.The natural state of most people is to be childlike and egocentric. Psychologists call this “the theory of the mind” which means that when we are young and immature we have a hard time understanding that anything outside of our own thoughts exists. Kids under five really think they are the center of the Universe (so do some adults I know). Unfortunately most of us never fully get this out of our lives. We grow up and stay egocentric instead of becoming an observer of truth.I think we should see ourselves like birdwatchers. We take our binoculars and we go out and see what's happening. We make ourselves quiet and less the center of attraction so we can observe clearly what is out there happening in the trees.So if #1 and #2 plans don't work then that leaves us with what I consider the only good plan:#3 - following Nature/God/Universe's plan. This is the non- egocentric way of the observer.This is not a religious or spiritual point I am making. That's why I used the word Nature, God, or the Universe. Take your choice on the word you use. I don't want to get distracted now with theology or philosophy.Joel Salatin used to tell me, "Tai, Nature always laughs last."He meant that in the end, despite our best laid intentions, there is something more powerful than us at work. And as the old saying goes, "If you can't beat em, then join em."And that’s just like in this book. We might not think it's fair that women are rewarded for their beauty, or that men are rewarded for their success in business, since not all women are born beautiful nor are  all men born with the ability to do well financially, but nature has set up something that we must respect and learn from.I think of life like a giant rolling ball and you have two choices on how to deal with that ball. You can run in front of the ball out on your own, but inevitably you will stumble and that huge ball will run you over and crush you to dust.Or you can jump inside the ball and run along with it and be safe inside.If you can set up the 4 main areas of your life, Health, Wealth, Love, and Higher Purpose INSIDE this ball of Nature/God/Universes plan you will not only survive but you will be happy and thrive along the way.[check out my free online seminar @ 12 pm PST on "How to Get One Million People Paying Attention to Your Idea: The New Rules of Marketing" >>CLICK HERE TO REGISTER>>]Maybe you are wondering what I mean practically.Well for example, if you want to be physically healthy do not impose your own made up plan on your diet. Don't say, "Well I like eating meat therefore meat must be good for me." or "I don't like the thought of eating meat so I will pretend that eating meat is bad for me."No, go out and see what Nature set you up to eat without any judgement or bias on your part.Jim Rohn talks about his father who lived a long, healthy life. He said he asked his Dad one night what his secret to health was. His dad said "I eat an apple every night before bed."That was a simple plan that lines up with what research tells us about fruit and how Nature built the human body. Jim says imagine what would have happened if his dad had had his own egocentric plan and had changed one word of that sentence to "I eat a candy bar every night before bed."  That one change in the plan would have probably cut his life short by a decade.The observer of God/Nature/Universe humbly accepts the diet plan with the apple not the candy bar. The immature egocentric person decides they like the taste of the candy bar more and ignores natural law and pays for it with an early death.Sounds obvious in the case of an apple versus a candy bar but I challenge you to examine your life. Can you think of anything that you are doing that is ignoring the obvious Natural Laws of life?If you want to make a lot of money do not think, "Well I think it's unfair that the top 1% have more money than me." Instead go out and figure out how the 1% think and what they do differently than you and line up your money making attempts with the Universe's plan for financial prosperity.If you want to date or marry someone amazing don't be egocentric and say, "Well I'm a great catch, I deserve the best." That might be what your mom thinks about you, but guess what, the world is full of people who don't take your mom's advice.So if you want to find love and romance with an amazing person than follow the Universe's plan - like attracts like. Go become amazing yourself and slowly but surely amazing people will start popping up all around you. People often ask me how I have been able to attract high level mentors. It’s because interesting people want to be around interesting people. As I improve myself by reading more and learning more and doing more I find that higher level people seek out my company.If you want to be happy and feel fulfilled each day you can't just decide, "I deserve to be happy."Nature, God, and the Universe don't play by those rules. They play by the rules of "To get what you want you have to deserve what you want."If you feel depressed and unhappy that's usually Nature telling you that you are living out a pretty crappy life and that you should make a change. So go out and quit the job you hate or get out of the horrible relationship you are in.This sounds tough. It is tough. But if there is one thing that's obvious, this world can be a pretty tough place. It's meant to be hard. To quote Tom Hanks, "It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great."Remember, take comfort in the fact that it's a little challenging to live a good life. Remember that there is a set plan for love and human attraction. You don't have to try to invent the formula for love and romance. It's been ingrained in your very DNA. You just have to read the obvious signs and go out and find the blueprint, the treasure map.It's a big world, a big rolling wheel, we can't change it easily.We can take out some of the unfairness. Somethings like racism, which is a byproduct of our fear of risk, can be eradicated with education, thank God.But some things that are not so cut and dry will never disappear and honestly don't need to. We don't need to change some natural things, WE need to change ourselves.It's ok that the man or women you love or want to fall in love with is attracted to healthy people like Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie. We don't need to change that. You and I need to just get better at exercising and eating right.This book of the day I hope will be part of your search for #3 God/Nature/Universes plan.It's the reason I read so much. That's why I want you to start reading more and find more and better mentors. That's a sign you are being humble. The world rewards the humble. This is what I think the saying means, "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth."Go out and become a seeker. Discover truth that's both easy to handle and that's hard to accept (like some of the concepts in this book).When it comes to love, family, friendships and your whole social life the reward is high so expect a little challenge along the way.Stay tuned tomorrow for part 2 of this email, I couldn't fit it all in one email - it was too long haha. Stay strong,TaiP.S. 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