Robert Edmondson Conservation Park - Day 28 of 31 of my Favourite Spots in Milton
Day 28 of 31 of My Favourite Spots in Milton!
We went to Robert Edmondson Park. This is one of the smallest conservation Halton parks.
The water levels are pretty low right now, but it's still a beautiful place to come. We saw a turtle, which you'll see in the video, and a snake, which you won't, as it was super quick!
There are lots of picnic tables and shade trees. It's not as busy as the other conservation Halton parks. We were the only people there for most of today which is nice if you're really looking for a quiet nature escape.
It's also especially close to our Day 29 pick which is a sweet surprise for tomorrow!
Fall in to Nature
Fall into Nature takes place on Thanksgiving weekend (October 12 to 14) and the weekend of October 19 and 20. Festival events run at all seven of Conservation Halton's main parks: Crawford Lake, Hilton Falls, Kelso, Mountsberg, Mount Nemo, Rattlesnake Point and Robert Edmondson Conservation Areas.
Residents and visitors alike are invited to join us in celebrating autumn at this fun filled festival great for people of all ages! View the Fall into Nature festival activities.
Regular park entrance fees apply.
Fall into Nature is made possible in part through the generous support of the Government of Ontario Celebrate Ontario Program.
Fishing in a Bog: Tangles, Soakers and Snappin' Turtles!
Watch me achieve one of my wilderness goals!
What an afternoon! When I arrived at the park I was so excited to fish, but what I saw was a big surprise. It was basically a BOG! Turned out to be an 'eggcellent' little day trip full of ups and downs.
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MiniZooTube Trip to Mountsberg Conservation Area
Some awesome rescue birds in this nice Conservation Area in the Halton region
Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident Documentary Film
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown which occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States on March 28, 1979. More on this topic:
It was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history, and resulted in the release of small amounts of radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment.
The power plant was owned and operated by General Public Utilities and Metropolitan Edison (Met Ed). The reactor involved in the accident, Unit 2, was a pressurized water reactor manufactured by Babcock & Wilcox.
The accident began at 4 a.m. on Wednesday, March 28, 1979, with failures in the non-nuclear secondary system, followed by a stuck-open pilot-operated relief valve (PORV) in the primary system, which allowed large amounts of nuclear reactor coolant to escape. The mechanical failures were compounded by the initial failure of plant operators to recognize the situation as a loss-of-coolant accident due to inadequate training and human factors, such as human-computer interaction design oversights relating to ambiguous control room indicators in the power plant's user interface. In particular, a hidden indicator light led to an operator manually overriding the automatic emergency cooling system of the reactor because the operator mistakenly believed that there was too much coolant water present in the reactor and causing the steam pressure release. The scope and complexity of the accident became clear over the course of five days, as employees of Met Ed, Pennsylvania state officials, and members of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) tried to understand the problem, communicate the situation to the press and local community, decide whether the accident required an emergency evacuation, and ultimately end the crisis. The NRC's authorization of the release of 40,000 gallons of radioactive waste water directly in the Susquehanna River led to a loss of credibility with the press and community.
In the end the reactor was brought under control, although full details of the accident were not discovered until much later, following extensive investigations by both a presidential commission and the NRC. The Kemeny Commission Report concluded that there will either be no case of cancer or the number of cases will be so small that it will never be possible to detect them. The same conclusion applies to the other possible health effects. Several epidemiological studies in the years since the accident have supported the conclusion that radiation released from the accident had no perceptible effect on cancer incidence in residents near the plant, though these findings are contested by one team of researchers. Cleanup started in August 1979 and officially ended in December 1993, with a total cleanup cost of about $1 billion. The incident was rated a five on the seven-point International Nuclear Event Scale: Accident With Wider Consequences.
Communications from officials during the initial phases of the accident were confusing. There was an evacuation of 140,000 pregnant women and pre-school age children from the area. The accident crystallized anti-nuclear safety concerns among activists and the general public, resulted in new regulations for the nuclear industry, and has been cited as a contributor to the decline of new reactor construction that was already underway in the 1970s. Public reaction to the event was probably influenced by The China Syndrome, a movie which had recently been released and which depicts an accident at a nuclear reactor.
Baltimore, Maryland | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:03 1 History
00:03:32 1.1 Etymology
00:04:00 1.2 Before European settlement
00:05:20 1.3 Colonial period
00:08:16 1.4 Antebellum period
00:10:11 1.5 Civil war and after
00:11:05 1.6 20th century through 1968
00:13:09 1.7 1968 and after
00:14:18 1.7.1 Development and promotion
00:17:21 2 Geography
00:18:23 2.1 Cityscape
00:18:31 2.1.1 Architecture
00:22:54 2.1.2 Tallest buildings
00:23:02 2.1.3 Neighborhoods
00:23:50 2.1.3.1 Central Baltimore
00:25:14 2.1.3.2 North Baltimore
00:26:20 2.1.3.3 South Baltimore
00:27:20 2.1.3.4 Northeast Baltimore
00:28:08 2.1.3.5 East Baltimore
00:28:44 2.1.3.6 Southeast Baltimore
00:29:32 2.1.3.7 Northwest Baltimore
00:30:07 2.1.3.8 West Baltimore
00:31:12 2.1.3.9 Southwest Baltimore
00:32:21 2.2 Adjacent communities
00:32:36 2.3 Climate
00:35:30 3 Demographics
00:35:38 3.1 Population
00:37:28 3.2 Characteristics
00:38:28 3.3 Income and housing
00:39:33 3.4 Life expectancy
00:39:59 3.5 Religion
00:40:28 3.6 Languages
00:40:59 4 Crime
00:45:40 5 Economy
00:47:42 5.1 Port
00:49:26 5.2 Tourism
00:51:29 6 Culture
00:55:16 6.1 Cuisine
00:56:35 6.2 Local dialect
00:57:36 6.3 Performing arts
01:00:54 7 Sports
01:01:02 7.1 Baseball
01:03:02 7.2 Football
01:04:52 7.3 Other teams and events
01:08:05 8 Parks and recreation
01:08:52 9 Government
01:09:54 9.1 City government
01:10:02 9.1.1 Mayor
01:11:51 9.1.2 Baltimore City Council
01:12:41 9.1.3 Law enforcement
01:15:32 9.1.4 Baltimore City Fire Department
01:16:20 9.2 State government
01:17:07 9.2.1 State agencies
01:17:15 9.3 Federal government
01:18:47 10 Education
01:18:55 10.1 Colleges and universities
01:19:19 10.1.1 Private
01:19:51 10.1.2 Public
01:20:11 10.2 Primary and secondary schools
01:21:08 11 Transportation
01:21:44 11.1 Roads and highways
01:25:17 11.2 Transit systems
01:25:25 11.2.1 Public transit
01:27:28 11.2.2 Intercity rail
01:29:05 11.3 Airports
01:30:23 11.4 Pedestrians and bicycles
01:32:53 11.5 Port of Baltimore
01:35:25 12 Environment
01:35:55 12.1 Trash interceptors
01:38:03 12.2 Other water pollution control
01:38:53 13 Media
01:40:45 14 Notable people
01:40:54 15 Sister cities
01:41:16 16 See also
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Baltimore ( BAWL-tim-or) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, as well as the 30th most populous city in the United States, with a population of 602,495 in 2018 and also the largest such independent city in the country. Baltimore was established by the Constitution of Maryland as an independent city in 1729. As of 2017, the population of the Baltimore metropolitan area was estimated to be just under 2.802 million, making it the 21st largest metropolitan area in the country. Baltimore is located about 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Washington, D.C., making it a principal city in the Washington-Baltimore combined statistical area (CSA), the fourth-largest CSA in the nation, with a calculated 2018 population of 9,797,063.Baltimore is also the second-largest seaport in the Mid-Atlantic. The city's Inner Harbor was once the second leading port of entry for immigrants to the United States. In addition, Baltimore was a major manufacturing center. After a decline in major manufacturing, heavy industry, and restructuring of the rail industry, Baltimore has shifted to a service-oriented economy. Johns Hopkins Hospital (founded 1889) and Johns Hopkins University (founded 1876) are the city's top two employers.With hundreds of identified districts, Baltimore has been dubbed a city of neighborhoods. Famous residents have included writers Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Hamilton, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ogden Nash, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dashiell Hammett, Upton Sinclair, Tom Clancy, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and H. L. Mencken; musicians James Eubie Blake, Billie ...
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Baltimore () is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States.
Baltimore was established by the Constitution of Maryland and is an independent city that is not part of any county. With a population of 611,648 in 2017, Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States. As of 2017, the population of the Baltimore metropolitan area was estimated to be just under 2.808 million, making it the 20th largest metropolitan area in the country. Baltimore is located about 40 miles (60 km) northeast of Washington, D.C., making it a principal city in the Washington-Baltimore combined statistical area (CSA), the fourth-largest CSA in the nation, with a calculated 2017 population of 9,764,315.Founded in 1729, Baltimore is the second-largest seaport in the Mid-Atlantic. The city's Inner Harbor was once the second leading port of entry for immigrants to the United States, when most were coming from Europe. It was also a major manufacturing center. After a decline in major manufacturing, heavy industry, and restructuring of the rail industry, Baltimore has shifted to a service-oriented economy. Johns Hopkins Hospital (founded 1889) and Johns Hopkins University (founded 1876) are the city's top two employers.With hundreds of identified districts, Baltimore has been dubbed a city of neighborhoods. Famous residents have included writers Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Hamilton, Frederick Douglass, and H. L. Mencken; jazz musician James Eubie Blake; singer Billie Holiday; actor and filmmaker John Waters; and baseball player Babe Ruth. During the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key wrote The Star-Spangled Banner in Baltimore after the bombardment of Fort McHenry. His poem was set to music and popularized as a song; in 1931 it was designated as the American national anthem.Baltimore has more public statues and monuments per capita than any other city in the country, and is home to some of the earliest National Register Historic Districts in the nation, including Fell's Point, Federal Hill, and Mount Vernon. These were added to the National Register between 1969–1971, soon after historic preservation legislation was passed. Nearly one third of the city's buildings (over 65,000) are designated as historic in the National Register, which is more than any other U.S. city.
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- Socrates
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Baltimore () is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States.
Baltimore was established by the Constitution of Maryland and is an independent city that is not part of any county. With a population of 611,648 in 2017, Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States. As of 2017, the population of the Baltimore metropolitan area was estimated to be just under 2.808 million, making it the 20th largest metropolitan area in the country. Baltimore is located about 40 miles (60 km) northeast of Washington, D.C., making it a principal city in the Washington-Baltimore combined statistical area (CSA), the fourth-largest CSA in the nation, with a calculated 2017 population of 9,764,315.Founded in 1729, Baltimore is the second-largest seaport in the Mid-Atlantic. The city's Inner Harbor was once the second leading port of entry for immigrants to the United States, when most were coming from Europe. It was also a major manufacturing center. After a decline in major manufacturing, heavy industry, and restructuring of the rail industry, Baltimore has shifted to a service-oriented economy. Johns Hopkins Hospital (founded 1889) and Johns Hopkins University (founded 1876) are the city's top two employers.With hundreds of identified districts, Baltimore has been dubbed a city of neighborhoods. Famous residents have included writers Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Hamilton, Frederick Douglass, and H. L. Mencken; jazz musician James Eubie Blake; singer Billie Holiday; actor and filmmaker John Waters; and baseball player Babe Ruth. During the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key wrote The Star-Spangled Banner in Baltimore after the bombardment of Fort McHenry. His poem was set to music and popularized as a song; in 1931 it was designated as the American national anthem.Baltimore has more public statues and monuments per capita than any other city in the country, and is home to some of the earliest National Register Historic Districts in the nation, including Fell's Point, Federal Hill, and Mount Vernon. These were added to the National Register between 1969–1971, soon after historic preservation legislation was passed. Nearly one third of the city's buildings (over 65,000) are designated as historic in the National Register, which is more than any other U.S. city.