Trapeze Training With New York's Streb Trapeze Academy
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I had the opportunity to spend some time with these great athletes from the España Streb Trapeze Academy in Brooklyn, NY. I have to say this had been one of the most challenging shoots I've done so far. The mixture of movements I've never worked with before and the challenge of the low lighting I did the best i could with the time I had. Now that I got a feel of how to shoot something like this I know I'll do better next time. Hope you enjoy. To view the photography gallery of this day visit
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Title: Awakening
Artist: Silent Partner
Genre: Rock
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Susan Arbetter -- New York's Constitution: Sometimes It's Just a Suggestion
WCNY State Capitol Correspondent and News & Public Affairs Director Susan Arbetter speaks for Constitution Day at the Syracuse University College of Law, Sept. 17th 2013.
P. T. Barnum
Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman and businessman remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Although Barnum was also an author, publisher, philanthropist, and for some time a politician, he said of himself, I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me, and his personal aims were to put money in his own coffers. Barnum is widely, but erroneously, credited with coining the phrase There's a sucker born every minute.
Born in Bethel, Connecticut, Barnum became a small-business owner in his early twenties, and founded a weekly newspaper, before moving to New York City in 1834. He embarked on an entertainment career, first with a variety troupe called Barnum's Grand Scientific and Musical Theater, and soon after by purchasing Scudder's American Museum, which he renamed after himself. Barnum used the museum as a platform to promote hoaxes and human curiosities such as the Feejee mermaid and General Tom Thumb. In 1850 he promoted the American tour of singer Jenny Lind, paying her an unprecedented $1,000 a night for 150 nights. After economic reversals due to bad investments in the 1850s, and years of litigation and public humiliation, he used a lecture tour, mostly as a temperance speaker, to emerge from debt. His museum added America's first aquarium and expanded the wax-figure department.
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2018 Américas Award Ceremony
Ibi Zoboi, author of American Street (Harper Collins Publishers, 2017), and Duncan Tonatiuh, author and illustrator of Danza!: Amalia Hernández and El Ballet Folklórico de México (Abrams Books, 2017), will receive the 2018 Américas Award.
The Américas Award is given in recognition of U.S. works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected non-fiction (from picture books to works for young adults) that authentically portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States.
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Man who's pooped on at least 19 cars caught on camera
Ohio officials are looking to identify a man believed to have defecated on multiple cars and children's toys over the last several years.
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Humankind: Amazing moments that give us hope ➤
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She Roars - A Conversation with the Justices October 5, 2018
During the October 2018 conference She Roars: Celebrating Women at Princeton, Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States Sonia Sotomayor ’76 and Elena Kagan ’81 participated in a discussion with Heather Gerken ’91, dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Ramona E. Romero, Princeton's general counsel, introduced the participants. (Video by Video Production Support, Princeton University)
The 2012 Election: Seven Keys to Deciding the Presidency with Bill Whalen
Before ballots were cast in the 2012 presidential election, Bill Whalen took a look at seven factors that would largely determine whether Barack Obama earned a second-term or Mitt Romney became yet another Oval Office occupant with a Stanford connection.
Bill Whalen is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he studies and writes on current events and political trends, with an emphasis on California's political landscape.
This Classes Without Quizzes lecture was filmed on location at Stanford Reunion Homecoming 2012 by the Stanford Alumni Association.
Burt Lancaster stars Part 1 - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis - Colgate Comedy Hour
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis need money to pay their bills, their next door neighbor might be able to find them a job in the circus... When they get there they meet former trapeze artist Burt Lancaster. Jerry talks his way into the lion enclosure... Dean Martin sings I Wanna Be There When The Band Starts Honey at min 6. Burt Lancaster starred in a very funny tv show with Martin and Lewis
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show featured many notable comedians and entertainers of the era as guest stars.
Synopsis
The program evolved from NBC's first TV variety showcase, Four Star Revue, sponsored by Motorola. The running gag sketches were dropped in favor of more performing acts. The weekly show was proposed to be hosted by four comedians in a four-week rotation to provide competition for Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town on CBS. The first episode, starring Hans Conried, Rosemary DeCamp and Dick Foran, was written and produced by the then 22-year-old Peggy Webber, who appeared in over 100 episodes of Dragnet with Jack Webb.
The new format was heavily backed by its sponsor, Colgate-Palmolive, to the tune of $3 million in the first year, and the 8:00 p.m. ET, Sunday evening format show was a spectacular success, particularly for Eddie Cantor and the Martin & Lewis and Abbott & Costello duos. In his autobiography, Jerry Lewis wrote that the show premiered Sunday, September 17, 1950, with Martin & Lewis and was telecast from the Park Theatre off Columbus Circle in New York City. As theatres are known by different names over history, it is possible that this was the now-demolished International Theatre at 5 Columbus Circle, the broadcast location of another NBC show of the era, Your Show of Shows with Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. In fact, Eddie Cantor hosted the first Colgate Hour on September 10, 1950.
During the 1950-51 season, AT&T put into regular service a coast-to-coast coaxial/microwave interconnection service which allowed live telecasts from across the nation. Three production units were quickly set up, one in New York, one in Chicago, and one in Los Angeles. Martin & Lewis and Abbott & Costello anchored the West Coast, broadcasting from the El Capitan theater in Hollywood (today known as Avalon Hollywood. Other shows that originated here include The Hollywood Palace), while Eddie Cantor anchored from New York. This gave NBC a substantial edge over Ed Sullivan, since top-grade talent from motion pictures could also do network TV on the West Coast Colgate Comedy Hour, while Sullivan had to work with whomever happened to be in New York at the time that a particular episode aired.
During the 1952-53 season, Cantor suffered a heart attack immediately after a Colgate Comedy Hour broadcast in September. Although he quickly recovered and returned in January 1953, he was reluctant to move with the show. By the fourth season, the sponsor was providing $6 million, but the performers were finding difficulty in offering fresh material. Ratings hence began to decline. Cantor had become too ill to continue in the hosting role, and the travel was too stressful and painful for him. His final Colgate appearance was in May 1954. Vic Schoen was hired as the musical director in 1954.
In 1954, Tony Martinez, later cast as the farmhand on The Real McCoys, made his television debut on The Colgate Comedy Hour.
Also known as: Colgate Summer Comedy Hour, Colgate Variety Hour
Genre: Comedy/Variety
Created by: Fred Hamilton
Directed by: William Asher, Bob Finkel, Fred Hamilton, Ernest D. Glucksman, Jim Jordan, Kingman T. Moore, Ed Sobol, James V. Kern, Bud Yorkin
Country of origin: United States
Original language(s): English
No. of seasons: 6
No. of episodes: 221
Production
Executive producer(s): Samuel Fuller, Pete Barnum
Producer(s): Charles Friedman, Ernest D. Glucksman, Leo Morgan, Ed Sobol, Michael Todd, Pete Barnum
Camera setup: Multi-camera
Running time: 50 minutes
Production company(s): Colgate-Palmolive-Peet
Release
Original network: NBC
Picture format: Black-and-white, Color
Audio format: Monaural
Original release: September 10, 1950 – December 25, 1955
Nebraska Stories | Dirt Addiction & More
In this episode a dedicated group of bikers who ride the Platte River State Park trails, Cambridge native and fashion journalist Marylou Luther, the quilts of a woman struggling with Alzheimer's, and the Ponca tribe thanks the town of Neligh.
“Dirt Addiction”
Nebraska mountain biking might sound like an oxymoron but it is a growing sport in a state that has no actual mountains. The bike trails at Platte River State Park are a popular destination for a dedicated group of bikers who ride and maintain the trails. And now, thanks to an influx of federal grant money, the trails will expand for new and experienced riders. The park is already on a top 25 list of State Park bike trails and the goal is to become a regional destination. We’ll meet the riders who love these trails, including a national champion female mountain biking racer from Omaha who practices at the park.
“Beyond the Runway: Marylou Luther”
Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Betsy Johnson… are just a few of the names on a long list of international fashion designers Nebraska native Marylou Luther has written about in her 66 year career. A resident of New York City, Luther spends her summers in Cambridge, Nebraska where she grew up and still calls home. In her long career as a fashion journalist, syndicated newspaper columnist, book author, essayist and blogger, Luther is now the creative director of the Fashion Group International, a non-profit organization on fashion, beauty, and related fields. We meet the woman whose writing is essential reading for industry leaders worldwide.
“Olive’s Refuge”
Olive Bucklin was a women of many talents and a well-respected producer at NET. In 2010 she became ill and was later diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s. Her illness forced her into retirement, but her creativity would not waver as she continue to express it though quilting until her untimely passing.
“A Promise Kept”
In 1877, at the request of her grieving parents, the people of Neligh agreed to care for the grave of a Ponca Indian girl. Since that day, the town has tended the grave. In 2011, the tribe said thank you in a special ceremony.
Spiegle Willcox & Al Gallodoro Interview by Monk Rowe - 11/14/1995 - Norwich, NY
Trombonist Spiegle Willcox and reed man Al Gallodoro reminisce about their experiences in the music business over seven decades.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY - Documentary
'''Ernest Miller Hemingway''' (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. His economical and [[Iceberg Theory|understated style]] had a strong influence on [[20th century in literature|20th-century fiction]], while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Additional works, including three novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works, were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of [[American literature]].
Hemingway was raised in [[Oak Park, Illinois]]. After high school, he reported for a few months for ''[[The Kansas City Star]]'', before leaving for the [[Italian Front (World War I)|Italian Front]] to enlist with the [[List of ambulance dr...
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William McKinley | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:35 1 Early life and family
00:05:45 2 Civil War
00:05:55 2.1 Western Virginia and Antietam
00:09:27 2.2 Shenandoah Valley and promotion
00:13:59 3 Legal career and marriage
00:18:23 4 Rising politician 1877–1895
00:18:36 4.1 Spokesman for protection
00:23:25 4.2 Gerrymandering and defeat for re-election
00:26:15 4.3 Governor of Ohio (1892–1896)
00:31:29 5 Election of 1896
00:31:39 5.1 Obtaining the nomination
00:36:49 5.2 General election campaign
00:43:59 6 Presidency (1897–1901)
00:44:11 6.1 Inauguration and appointments
00:48:05 6.1.1 Cabinet
00:48:13 6.2 Cuba crisis and war with Spain
00:53:30 6.3 Peace and territorial gain
00:56:37 6.4 Expanding influence overseas
00:59:01 6.5 Tariffs and bimetallism
01:00:54 6.6 Civil rights
01:04:02 6.7 1900 election
01:07:36 6.8 Second term
01:08:28 6.9 Assassination
01:12:48 7 Funeral, memorials, and legacy
01:12:59 7.1 Funeral and resting place
01:15:19 7.2 Other memorials
01:17:08 7.3 Legacy and historical image
01:22:15 8 See also
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William McKinley (born William McKinley Jr.; January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th president of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897, until his assassination six months into his second term. During his presidency, McKinley led the nation to victory in the Spanish–American War, raised protective tariffs to promote American industry and kept the nation on the gold standard in a rejection of free silver (effectively, expansionary monetary policy).
McKinley was the last president to have served in the American Civil War and the only one to have started the war as an enlisted soldier, beginning as a private in the Union Army and ending as a brevet major. After the war, he settled in Canton, Ohio, where he practiced law and married Ida Saxton. In 1876, he was elected to Congress, where he became the Republican Party's expert on the protective tariff, which he promised would bring prosperity. His 1890 McKinley Tariff was highly controversial, which together with a Democratic redistricting aimed at gerrymandering him out of office led to his defeat in the Democratic landslide of 1890. He was elected governor of Ohio in 1891 and 1893, steering a moderate course between capital and labor interests. With the aid of his close adviser Mark Hanna, he secured the Republican nomination for president in 1896 amid a deep economic depression. He defeated his Democratic rival William Jennings Bryan after a front porch campaign in which he advocated sound money (the gold standard unless altered by international agreement) and promised that high tariffs would restore prosperity.
Rapid economic growth marked McKinley's presidency. He promoted the 1897 Dingley Tariff to protect manufacturers and factory workers from foreign competition and in 1900 secured the passage of the Gold Standard Act. McKinley hoped to persuade Spain to grant independence to rebellious Cuba without conflict, but when negotiation failed he led the nation into the Spanish-American War of 1898. The United States victory was quick and decisive. As part of the peace settlement, Spain turned over to the United States its main overseas colonies of Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines while Cuba was promised independence, but at that time remained under the control of the United States Army. The United States annexed the independent Republic of Hawaii in 1898 and it became a United States territory.
Historians regard McKinley's 1896 victory as a realigning election in which the political stalemate of the post-Civil War era gave way to the Republican-dominated Fourth Party System, which began with the Progressive Era. McKinley defeated Bryan again in the 1900 presidential election in a campaign focused on imperialis ...
2018 Americas Awards
Ibi Zoboi, author of American Street, and Duncan Tonatiuh, author and illustrator of Danza! Amalia Hernández and El Ballet Folklórico de México were awardded the 2018 Americas Award for Children's and Young-Adult Literature at the annual award presentation. The awards are presented annually to authors of U.S. works of fiction, poetry, folklore or selected non-fiction that authentically portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States.
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Another Man's Treasure Film Festival Version
Why do you collect? Is it for nostalgic purposes? Social reasons? To preserve history? Are you an EXTREME collector? Does you collection define you? How do you perceive value?
Traveling the country and talking to notable collectors, Eric and Chris Gaizat look into all these aspects of collecting, and gather the stories about the collections and the collectors themselves; discovering what truly matters most in their lives.
Collections as Data: Stewardship and Use Models to Enhance Access
The rise of accessible digital collections coupled with the development of tools for processing and analyzing data has enabled researchers to create new models of scholarship and inquiry. The National Digital Initiatives team invites leaders and experts from organizations that are collecting, preserving and providing researcher access to digital collections as data to share best practices and lessons learned. This event will also highlight new collaborative initiatives at the Library of Congress that seek to enhance researcher engagement and the use of digital collections as data.
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