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Rough Draft Mississippi

James Polk and Holley Rumbarger

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A discussion about the sites and sounds of Mississippi with some of the state's finest thinkers, dreamers, doers, movers, shakers, creative and musical minds with your hosts James Polk and Holley Rumbarger
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Walking With Dante

Mark Scarbrough

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Ever wanted to read Dante's Divine Comedy? Come along with us! We're not lost in the scholarly weeds. (Mostly.) We're strolling through the greatest work (to date) of Western literature. Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as I take on this masterpiece passage by passage. I'll give you my rough English translation, show you some of the interpretive knots in the lines, let you in on the 700 years of commentary, and connect Dante's work to our modern world. The pilgrim comes awake in a dark wood, then w ...
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It's an Audio Book but without the alexa haha but comes with a personality and a real voice. I only read two books Self-Development & Business because let's face it life is rough but "when life hands you lemons, puts some sugar on it and listen to The Human Book Podcast!" Also did I mention that I have a Jamaican Accent so Wah Gwaan! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thehumanbookpodcast/support
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The Knight Writer Podcast is a weekly show that will bring you the latest news in the literary world while also following the journey of one aspiring author from the start of writing his book to the eventual goal of self-publishing it. Listen as he pitches idea after idea, discusses the things he learns during the process, explains the reasons for what he does, and divulges most of the plot and conceptions for his current work-in-progress.
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This is the essential podcast for everyone that loves to get out in the field and see herps in their natural environment. This monthly podcast covers the passion, excitement, and camaraderie of field herping, specific species, US herping, herping the globe, photography, equipment, logistics, trip planning, herping icons and pioneers, today’s top herpers.. and all things herp related.
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Book Stew

Simon & Schuster

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Discover your next read and go beyond the page with the latest trailers and author videos. Hear from authors of biography, memoir, current events, historical literary fiction, mysteries, sports books and more.
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Every bike racer needs deserves to have their story told. Every bike holds a history of adventures that live with the exaggerated tales that are told over and over again to anyone close enough to hear them. Freebooter is dedicated to help guide you through the rough waters of being a privateer with stories of inspiration, tips on how to be a better racer, and to talk about the products that will help you hunt gold.
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What makes a good story? Join awk (and guests) as critchat explores writing criticism and storytelling. Want a story of your own read on critchat? Subscribe so you don't miss calls for submissions. Chat with other writers on the official Discord: crit.chat/discord
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We explore the ocean through a climate change lens. We strive to make the ocean healthier by listening to those who work on it, study it, live next to and are inspired by it. We help you understand ocean science, innovation and technology, and how climate change affects our ocean and the world at large. You can reach us by email: [email protected]
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Hello and welcome to the place where I'll mainly be sharing my journey as a freelance poet and father as well as some practical insights into helping children read and build literacy confidence through poetry and Hip Hop. I'm a Shortlisted Birmingham Poet Laureate, Hip Hop artist, former teacher in a PRU (Pupil Referral Unit - which is a school for excluded pupils) and a self employed literacy engagement specialist who visits schools and community settings throughout the U.K.
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Me & My Broke Best Friend

Me and My Broke Best Friend (BFF)

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A mom who is a self proclaimed ‘closet comedian/private investigator’ & her gorgeous, yet incredibly intelligent, broke teenage daughter share all the tea on their imperfectly perfect relationship. These two have decided to NOT to let the teen years kill them or their relationship. They. Share. It. ALL! Everything from marriage, faith, boys, being the big sister of four, mommyin’ as an entrepreneur & full time Stay At Home Mom (SAHM) , blended families, going to college out of state and so, ...
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Ernest Thompson Seton's book, "Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac." Published in 1919, it tells the story of a tiny Grizzly cub who grew to be the Monarch of the Plains -- and the Prisoner of humanity's arrogance. "Kind memory calls the picture up before me now, clear, living clear: I see them as they sat, the one small and slight, the other tall and brawny, leader and led, rough men of the hills. They told me this tale--in broken bits they gave it, a sentence at a time. ... They told of the ri ...
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Turn your KNOWLEDGE, SKILL & PASSION into a digital business that you can SCALE! From publishing your own book(s), to creating digital products, coaching programs, memberships, communities, and more, Ty Cohen has you covered. Learn how to overcome challenges of everyday life, and business, so that you too can build the business of your dreams. Subscribe & listen in now. 📚 Join the Free Publish Like A Pro Community → www.PublishLikeAPro.com 📖 Get the Book "Publish Like A Pro" → www.KindleCash ...
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Have you ever found yourself in a group of people discussing how great last night’s episode of whatever the new hit show was? Did you have any clue what they were talking about? Had you seen it? My name’s Zac and my answer is always “NO!” When it comes to the best series everyone is talking about, I’m always comically late to the party. Join me as I change that by binging some of the most iconic series in recent memory. Whether I’m reacting for the first time to some of the biggest shows eve ...
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The first of two books that he wrote on golfing themes, The Clicking of Cuthbert by PG Wodehouse sparkles with typical Wodehousian wit, humor and general goofiness! An avid golfer himself, Wodehouse published the ten stories in this volume in 1922. In 1924, an American edition titled Golf Without Tears was published. Since then it has enjoyed undimmed popularity among both Wodehouse fans and golfing enthusiasts. Nine of the stories contained in this book are narrated by the Oldest Member, a ...
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Sheldon George of Ocean Trout Canada says they're trying to determine how many trout escaped from a farm site near St. Alban's + Kimberly Orren of Fishing for Success talks about the upcoming live reading of "Death on the Ice."
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Since we’ve come to a moment of (perhaps!) profound irony as Statius misquotes and even misinterprets Virgil’s AENEID to find his way to salvation, we should perhaps pause and talk a bit about irony, both as an artistic concept and specifically as tool our poet, Dante, uses to make meaning in his text. In this interpolated (or interstitial?) episod…
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Nunatsiavut's deputy minister of Lands and Natural Resources Jim Goudie says the NMCA off Torngat Mountains National Park is still on track to be the first in NL + Hear from some of the students working on ways to store carbon under the seabed at MUN's new CCUS lab.
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On Christmas night in 1996, the brutal murder ofsix-year-old JonBenét Ramsey shocked the nation. Found dead in her family's Boulder, Colorado home, JonBenét's body was discovered in the basement, with a broken skull, strangled by a garrote and sexually assaulted. A ransom note left in the home added to the confusion, but the truth would prove even …
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What if your calling has been right in front of you all along? In part 2 of this powerful conversation, John and Lisa unpack You Are Called, John’s newest book. They reveal surprising truths about discovering your purpose, abiding in God, and activating the gifts you already carry—so you don’t miss the life you were born to live. __________________…
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Process engineering professor Lesley James says the students at the new Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage Lab at MUN will help create a new industry in NL + Chef Chris Mercer of the Post Taphouse in Torbay is giving a workshop on how to fillet and cook fish.
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Rough Water Traps owner Matthew O'Leary says despite threats, his company did not need to comply with ASP demands + Barry Fordham of the Food Fishery Fighters is still hopeful DFO will make changes to the summer recreational cod fishery.
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Statius and Virgil continue their conversation as they climb to the sixth terrace with the pilgrim Dante. Statius explains that he discovered his error when he read two lines from Virgil's AENEID. The problem is that Statius misquotes these lines and misinterprets them, making them fit his personal situation while pushing them through Aristotle's e…
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FFAW president Dwan Street accusing ASP of intimidation tactics + Jamie Baker, FFAW rep for area 3PS, says harvesters beyond frustrated over the apps used or electronic logging + Jeff Griffin, FFAW rep for area 14A, says cold water temperature affecting beginning of lobster season.
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Laurenne Schiller, a postdoc research fellow at Dalhousie and Carleton, is the lead author of a study on the damaging effects of drifting fish aggregating devices to catch tuna + Some junior high students use some old-fashioned tools to learn about boat building.
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Blinded by the angel, Dante the pilgrim begins his climb to the sixth terrace of Mount Purgatory. But his plight is overshadowed by Virgil’s desire to know more about Statius . . . in this strange passage of misquotings and misreadings. The angel cuts short a beatitude from the gospels. Virgil seems to misquote Francesca from INFERNO, Canto V. And …
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Danny Dumaresque is part of NL delegation at a seafood expo in Barcelona + Tonia Grandy of New Age Seafoods in Garnish says lobster harvesters are having a rough season + C-Core's Desmond Power says big icebergs off NL shores are becoming more rare.
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We have been a long time on the terrace of the avaricious (without knowing there's another sin punished there as well). We're ready to climb on up to the sixth terrace of Mount Purgatory with Virgil and Statius as the pilgrim Dante's guide. On this episode, sit back for a read-through of these three cantos. Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as I read a rou…
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Imagine, spending 18 years in prison for a crime youdidn’t commit! October 1997. Late one night in Fairbanks, Alaska, a passerby finds a teenager unconscious, collapsed on the edge of the road, beaten nearly beyond recognition. Two days later, he dies in the hospital. His name is John Gilbert Hartman and he's just turned 15 years old. The police qu…
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Dwight Russell, president of the Labrador Fishermen's Union Shrimp Company, says Labrador should get a fair share of a cod quota increase, but that's not what was recommended to DFO by the FFAW + A team from Southwest Arm Academy is competing in the MATE ROV challenge for the first time
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Clayton Burry, chair of the Ocean Ranger Legacy Foundation, hopes they can secure a permanent exhibit space in St. John's + Sean Brillant of the Canadian Wildlife Federation says harvesters in NL may soon need better access to whale-safe crab and lobster gear
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Statius has sung his (first!) hymn of praise to Virgil without knowing that the old poet is right in front of him. Dante the pilgrim is caught between them in this most human episode with his master, Virgil, demanding silence and his new friend, Statius, wanting to know why the pilgrim is smiling. Which means Dante is also caught on his emotions wh…
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Hilding Neilson, an assistant professor of physics and physical oceanography, talks about the debris warning due to the Atlas V rocket launch + Ian Gosse of the Torbay Harbour Authority on why Tapper's Cove is now off-limits + Brad House of Port Saunders talks about the opening of lobster season
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Do you know the purpose God designed just for you—or are you missing it without even realizing? In this episode, John and Lisa dive deep into the truth that every believer has a unique, God-given calling—and why uncovering it is the key to living a truly fulfilled, powerful life. They open up about their own journeys, the highs and lows of staying …
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We finally get to know our unknown shade on the fifth terrace of Purgatory: Statius, the epic Roman poet. His salvation is one of the most audacious moves in all of COMEDY. Dante has to work every fiction-making muscle he has to assert that this pagan poet has spend so long in Purgatory on his way to heaven . . . and finds himself face to face with…
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The difference in the Urner Barry price for Nfld and Gulf crab, is not a cause for concern says Jeff Loder of the ASP + Jocelyn Kelland talks about the legacy of her father's song 'Let Me Fish off Cape St. Mary's' which will soon be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
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When last we saw our heroine, Karen Read, she was free after her trial last year in Dedham, MA for the murder of her then boyfriend, Police Officer John O’Keefe. The trial ended in a hung jury. But like all soap operas, we ain’t done yet! Her retrial has just begun and it promises to be as bizarre as her first…or even more so.Once again, we turn to…
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FFAW president Dwan Street says the difference between the price of Gulf crab and NL crab needs to be investigated + Historian Willeen Keough tees up her lecture on "Unsettling Femininity in Early Irish-Newfoundland Fishing Communities"
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The still-unknown shade on the fifth terrace of Mount Purgatory rounds out his answer to Virgil's questions with some shocking revelations: The souls in Purgatory seem to declare the moment they're cleansed. The will is the only proof that their penance is complete. They stand up. They choose to move on. Or do they? Is it that simple? Or theologica…
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Nadia Childs says the salvage operation of a grounded container ship off Lark Harbour is taking too long + Ernest Decker has concerns about how lobster is priced + Barry Fordham of 'Sharing the Harvest' and 'Food, Fish Fighters' is donating some seal flippers to food banks
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Virgil has asked two questions: Why'd the mountain shake and why'd the shades all cry out with one voice? The unknown shade on the fifth terrace of Mount Purgatory begins his answer by referring to Aristotle's notions of change . . . and offers the surprising conclusion that some change is impossible about the three steps to the gate of Purgatory p…
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The unknown shade has been gobsmacked by the fact that escapees from hell may be climbing Mount Purgatory. Virgil explains that the pilgrim is still very much alive. To do so, Virgil uses classical, not Christian, imagery. And Virgil presses for an answer as to "why" the mountain just shook and "why" all the souls sang out with one voice. Join me, …
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What do Central Newfoundland federal candidates NDP Darian Vincent, Liberal Lynette Powell and Conservative Clifford Small have to say about fisheries issues? + Independent MHA Eddie Joyce has concerns about the salvage of the grounded MSC Baltic III.
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What does the voice of God really sound like? In this episode, we explore how God speaks—through inner promptings, dreams, Scripture, peace, and even His audible voice. Drawing from passages like Romans 8 and Acts 10, you’ll gain clarity on how to recognize His leading in your everyday life. Whether you’re new to faith or have walked with God for y…
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Erin Snow is frustrated that no governments have offered assistance to help clean debris and ghost gear off of Spotted Island + Larry Daley gave reporters a sneak peak of his new Titanic and iceberg exhibit.
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FFAW president Dwan Street says the grounded container ship near Lark Harbour is a potential environmental disaster + Mike Peach is running for the Animal Protection Party of Canada in the district of Cape Spear.
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Dante is left wondering why the mountain has shaken when an even deeper mystery occurs: a shade appears seemingly out of nowhere and behind our pilgrim and Virgil. This shade offers a Christian greeting, Virgil returns it in a darker way, and then this shade assume he's looking at two damned shades, escaped from hell. Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as w…
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Dion Dakins of Carino Processing on today's market for seal products + Élodie Lévêque and Matthew Collins are part of a University of Cambridge study on how medieval French monks used seal skin to bind books.
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FFAW president Dwan Street and fisherman John Efford are relieved the Pricing Panel chose the union's price offering for snow crab + Dion Dakins, CEO of Carino Processing, talks about the harp seal stock.
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The 1987 murder of Lita McClinton Sullivan sent shockwaves through the affluent Atlanta suburb of Buckhead, Georgia like few other crimes before it. The neighborhood, with its stately mansions and top-tier schools, was simply not the kind of place where women were gunned down in cold blood in broad daylight. How many socialites had enemies so dange…
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Dante the pilgrim and Virgil have seemingly moved off even as Hugh Capet was still speaking. They're picking their way among the avaricious when they're stopped by an earthquake that rattles Mount Purgatory. Dante is afraid. Virgil may even be afraid. But he tells the pilgrim to "fear not," much as those angels tell the shepherds at the birth of Je…
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Supreme Court strikes down minister Gerry Byrne's decision to delay crap opening date + Lark Harbour mayor Wade Park says it doesn't feel like much progress has been made in the salvage operation of MSC Baltic III.
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The province's labour division has assigned a conciliator to help the FFAW and St. Anthony Seafoods get back to collective bargaining + Chris Hamelmann relies on barometers to monitor the weather, and he repairs them too.
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James Farrell of the FFAW says the intimidation tactics continue from Royal Greenland-owned plant in St. Anthony + FFAW negotiator Ray Critch on why union wants $4.97 per lb for opening snow crab price + What federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh said about fisheries during campaign stop in St. John's.
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Hugh Capet has spent a long time answering the pilgrim Dante's first question: who were you? He now turns to the pilgrim's second question: why did I only hear your voice on this terrace? In doing so, Hugh begins to sing antiphonally . . . or at least, he begins to list off those who have been done in by avarice, the quickest and tightest list of f…
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Company president Blaine Sullivan on how OCI became co-owner of crab plant in Glovertown + Labrador Gem Seafoods owner Danny Dumaresque on Canada being spared US tariffs on seafood + Estella Pfaff, Nick Weis-Fogh and crew circumnavigated North America in a schooner that departed from Triton.
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Research scientist Paul Regular says northern cod spawning biomass has been revised upward + Alberto Wareham of Icewater Seafoods and chair of Fisheries Council of Canada relieved about US tariffs and news about northern cod + The FFAW's Jason Spingle says there are questions about the science, but the news about northern cod is positive.…
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The incredible story of a 1958 murder that ended with the last woman to ever be executed in California—a murder so twisted it seems ripped from a Greek tragedy. Deborah Larkin was only ten years old when the quiet calm of her California suburb was shattered. Thirty miles north, on a quiet November night in Santa Barbara, a pregnant nurse named Olga…
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As Hugh Capet winds up to the heights of his monologue, he comes to a most shocking climax: that moment when the French monarchy is so bad that it makes even the corrupt papacy look good. We've come to the very center of Dante's beef with the French crown, voiced by this legendary monarch about his own descendants, particularly Philip IV (or Philip…
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