Brewed in New York - Best of Fest Full Episode
Each individual brewery featured in Brewed in New York is unique in its own way; but what do they all have in common? Surprisingly, it’s a dedication to working together. In this episode we’ll visit numerous festivals across the State and learn how these brewers are strengthening the craft beer industry statewide through cooperation and community.
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Playing & Talking about Baseball Across the Pacific
A panel of experts discussed how American baseball has influenced and been influenced by Japanese culture since the 19th century.
- Chandra Manning is a professor of U.S. history teaching the history of baseball course at Georgetown University and author of What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery and the Civil War The book won the Avery O. Craven Prize awarded by the Organization of American Historians, earned Honorable Mention for the Lincoln Prize and the Virginia Literary Awards for Nonfiction, and was a finalist for the Jefferson Davis Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize. Manning is the author of Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War.
- Bill Staples Jr. is the author of Kenichi Zenimura: Japanese American Baseball Pioneer.
- Robert K. Fitts is the author of several books on Japanese baseball including Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Japanese Baseball, Banzai Babe Ruth, and Mashi: The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami, the First Japanese Major Leaguer.
- William W. Kelly is a professor of sociocultural anthropology at Yale University, a noted authority on the social and historical anthropology of Japan and the author of forthcoming The Sports World of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan.
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Fergie Jenkins Interview
An in-depth interview with Ferguson Jenkins Listen in for stories from a true baseball legends: Chicago Cubs all-star pitcher, Cy Young Award winner, and the only Canadian in the National Baseball Hall of Fame: Fergie Jenkins. ▶ TRANSCRIPT at
➔ 3:02 — The Pitcher’s Arm
➔ 7:45 — Conditioning and Doorway Exercises
➔ 10:10 — Running & Weight-Training
➔ 16:52 — Pitching Greats
➔ 21:37 — Being Discovered
➔ 25:49 — The Mental Game
➔ 34:16 — Confidence & Self-Control
➔ 36:05 — Racism
➔ 39:15 — The Harlem Globetrotters
➔ 47:11 — Almost a Cy Young Award...
➔ 48:55 — The Pitcher’s Mound
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Ferguson Jenkins, or “Fergie,” is not just one of baseball’s greats but one of the Hall of Fame’s greats. He is the last pitcher to have won seven twenty-or-more game seasons. Pitching in the MLB from 1965 to 1983, and mainly in the National League, he faced the likes of Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and Mickey Mantle.
Best known for his time as a Chicago Cub, TheBestSchools.org caught up with him at the big Cubs Convention in Chicago in January 2017 (a few months after the Cubs’ historic World Series victory). Pivoting off Fergie’s “dream season” of 1971, where he had an incredible strike-out-to-walk ratio of better than 7, won 24 games, and was awarded the Cy Young, Bill Dembski and Curtis Baugh interviewed Fergie for TBS about his pitching career.
In the interview, Bill and Curtis focused especially on Fergie’s habits of mind and unusually effective training techniques. There’s no pitcher like Fergie these days. He routinely pitched over 300 innings a season (these days pitchers are lucky to throw 200 innings in a season), threw batting practice for fun, and exhibited an amazing durability. Given all the arm injuries and surgeries to pitchers these days, this interview with Fergie offers many lessons for contemporary baseball.
If you love baseball and have any sense for the history of the game, you’ll want not just to listen to but also to carefully study this interview of Fergie. But Fergie is not just a great pitcher; he is a great man. For a window into Fergie’s life, how he has handled remarkable success as well as terrible tragedy, TheBestSchools.org was also able to do an audio interview with Fergie, conducted by Rich Tatum.
The Fergie Jenkins Foundation We want to thank Fergie Jenkins as well as Carl Kovacs, President of the Fergie Jenkins Foundation for making these interviews possible. It was a busy time at the Cubs Convention, and Fergie as well as his Foundation could not have been kinder in sharing with TBS Fergie’s wisdom about pitching and life.
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Full transcript available at
DATE: January 14, 2017
LOCATION: 2017 Chicago Cubs Convention; Chicago, Illinois
INTERVIEWERS: Bill Dembski, Curtis Baugh
2016 Grant Wood Symposium Morning Session
Kerry Dean Carso (State University of New York at New Paltz) presents Grant Wood and the After-Life of Victorian Architecture; James Swensen (Brigham Young University) presents On Common Ground: Grant Wood and the photography of the Farm Security Administration; and Annelise K. Madsen (Art Institute of Chicago) presents 'Something of color and imagination': Grant Wood, Storytelling, and the Past's Appeal in Depression-Era America at the 2016 Grant Wood Symposium held at the University of Iowa. Learn more at
00:00 - 48:21 Kerry Dean Carso
48:22 - 1:23:11 James Swensen
1:23:12 - 2:02:24 Annelise K. Madsen
Irish Americans | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Irish Americans
00:00:47 1 Irish immigration to the United States
00:00:58 1.1 17th to mid-19th century
00:05:21 1.1.1 Irish in the South
00:08:46 1.2 Mid-19th century and later
00:11:14 1.2.1 Civil War through early 20th century
00:18:37 1.2.2 Language
00:21:08 1.3 Occupations
00:25:05 1.3.1 Local government
00:26:14 1.3.2 Police
00:27:34 1.3.3 Teachers
00:28:57 1.3.4 Nuns
00:30:13 2 Religion
00:31:24 2.1 Irish Catholic and Irish Protestant relations
00:35:11 2.2 Catholics
00:40:46 2.3 Protestants
00:41:49 2.3.1 Presbyterians
00:44:58 2.3.2 Methodists
00:45:54 3 Discrimination
00:48:37 3.1 Stereotypes
00:52:06 4 Sense of heritage
00:54:27 4.1 Cities
00:59:19 5 Notable people
00:59:28 5.1 In politics and government
01:03:00 5.2 Political leanings
01:08:52 5.2.1 American presidents with Irish ancestry
01:17:10 5.2.1.1 Vice Presidents of Irish descent
01:17:48 5.2.1.2 Other presidents of Irish descent
01:18:05 5.2.2 Irish-American Justices of the Supreme Court
01:18:41 6 Contributions to American culture
01:24:28 7 Sports
01:25:26 7.1 Baseball
01:27:02 7.2 Gaelic sports
01:27:28 8 Entertainment
01:28:42 9 Irish-American communities
01:29:56 10 See also
01:30:50 11 Notes
01:30:58 12 Other sources
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Irish Americans (Irish: Gael-Mheiriceánaigh) are an ethnic group comprising Americans who have full or partial ancestry from Ireland, especially those who identify with that ancestry, along with their cultural characteristics. About 33 million Americans — 10.5% of the total population — reported Irish ancestry in the 2013 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. This compares with a population of 6.7 million on the island of Ireland. Three million people separately identified as Scotch-Irish, whose ancestors were Ulster Scots and Anglo-Irish Protestant Dissenters who emigrated from Ireland to the United States. However, whether the Scotch-Irish should be considered Irish is disputed.
Singing The Star Spangled Banner at Hammond Stadium March 23 2018
March 23rd/2018/Hammond Stadium
I sing The Star Spangled Banner for the Houston Astros & Minnesota Twins.
AAS Eclipse Workshop 2017
On 21 August 2017, a total eclipse of the Sun will cross the United States from coast to coast, giving tens of millions of people in a 70-mile-wide path from Oregon to South Carolina a chance to see the solar corona and experience all phases of the eclipse. The Moon's shadow will sweep across the country starting mid morning in Oregon with just under two minutes of totality and reaching maximum duration of approximately 2 minutes 40 seconds in Southern Illinois before exiting over South Carolina mid afternoon.
Outside the path of totality, all of North America will experience a partial eclipse. This event, the first total solar eclipse to touch the US mainland since 1979 and the first to span the continent since 1918, presents a unique opportunity to excite people about science and connect them personally to the cosmos, as well as to conduct several important scientific observations. We are a working group dedicated to the science and public outreach of this unique event.
The Eclipse 2017 Workshop IV took place in Carbondale, Illinois, on Friday and Saturday, 10 and 11 June 2016, at the SIU Carbondale Student Center, hosted by Bob Baer and Shadia Habbal.
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00:01:02 Shadia Habbal, Professor - University of Hawaii The Magic of Total Solar Eclipses
00:19:19 Charles Fulco, Science Consultant Eclipses 101: Introducing the Great American Eclipse
00:40:42 David Baron, Writer Using the Eclipse to Illuminate History
01:00:32 Jay Ryan, AmericanEclipseUSA.com Illustrating the Eclipse
01:17:32 Fred Espenak, Goddard Space Flight Center Glorious Totality
01:44:31 Michael Zeiler, GreatAmericanEclipse.com A Tour of the Great American Eclipse
02:15:42 Press Conference – Brad Colwell, SIUC Interim Chancellor
02:16:53 Press Conference—Fred Espenak, Goddard Space Flight Center
02:20:51 Press Conference—Shadia Habbal, Professor—University of Hawaii
02:26:08 Press Conference—Angela Speck, Professor—University of Missouri
02:28:55 Press Conference—Lou Mayo, NASA
02:38:40 Press Conference Q&A
02:47:46 Matt Penn, National Solar Observatory Citizen CATE Experiment: 2015, 2016, 2017
03:06:30 Lika Guhathakurta, NASA 2017 Eclipse: The 100 Year Eclipse
03:23:16 Lou Mayo, NASA Eclipse 2017: Through the Eyes of NASA
03:38:57 Chris Giersch, NASA EDGE
03:49:26 Bob Baer, SIUC Eclipse Co-Chair Eclipse 2017: SIUC Preparations
04:03:46 Michelle Nichols, Adler Planetarium Adler Planetarium: The Year of the Eclipse
04:16:04 Jim Todd, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry Total Solar Eclipse: Oregon
04:32:01 John Jerit & Paulo Aur, American Paper Optics
04:47:05 Sophie Margolis & Mark Margolis, Rainbow Symphony Eclipse Safety and Solar Viewing
05:00:32 Don Ficken, St. Louis Astronomical Society & Trish Erzfeld, Heritage County Tourism St. Louis Eclipse 2017
05:11:04 Michael Bakich, Astronomy Magazine Eclipse Preparations in St. Joseph
05:21:35 Michael Zeiler, GreatAmericanEclipse.com Leveraging Social Media for Outreach
05:41:30 Dan McGlaun, Eclipse 2017.org Alaska Airlines Flight 870
Irish American | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Irish American
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at:
You can upload your own Wikipedia articles through:
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
Irish Americans (Irish: Gael-Mheiriceánaigh) are an ethnic group comprising Americans who have full or partial ancestry from Ireland, especially those who identify with that ancestry, along with their cultural characteristics. About 33 million Americans — 10.5% of the total population — reported Irish ancestry in the 2013 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. This compares with a population of 6.7 million on the island of Ireland. Three million people separately identified as Scotch-Irish, whose ancestors were Ulster Scots and Anglo-Irish Protestant Dissenters who emigrated from Ireland to the United States. However, whether the Scotch-Irish should be considered Irish is disputed.
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