Wildlife of Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge
Enjoy this 2 minute video, showcasing some of the wildlife you would expect to see while visiting Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge.
Oak Harbor Ohio Aerial Views
Aerial views of the marina in Oak Harbor, Ohio on the shores of Lake Erie. Had sometime between days of perch fishing to get some video of where we chartered from. August 2018
Music by: Ben Jammin'
Cedar Point National Wildlife Refuge | Wikipedia audio article
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Cedar Point National Wildlife Refuge
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- Socrates
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Cedar Point National Wildlife Refuge was donated to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in 1964 by the owners of the Cedar Point Shooting Club. Currently, the refuge consists of 2,445 acres (9.9 km2) of marsh, divided into three pools. The largest pool, almost 2,000 acres (8 km2), is the largest contiguous marsh in Ohio's Lake Erie marshes.
Most of the refuge is closed to the public; however, a fishing area is open from June through August. The refuge is managed by staff at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge, in Oak Harbor.
Oak Harbor Ohio- Same Scene 1
Water Street in downtown Oak Harbor circa 1910 & 2013
DJI aerial Portage River flood in Oak Harbor
Portage River up & aerial views of downtown
Opening Time Capsule
St. Boniface Parish in Oak Harbor, Ohio opened the time capsule from 1915 on November 20, 2016 with Bishop Daniel Thomas from the Diocese of Toledo. We are looking for new ideas of what to put in the time capsule when it is placed back behind the cornerstone. Video was done by Robert Rosiak.
Churches in Oak Harbor - Family Bible Church
Don Jaques of Windermere Real Estate Whidbey interviews Pastor Ron Lawler of Family Bible Church in Oak Harbor to find out what makes this church unique.
Go to for more information about this church and all the churches in Oak Harbor WA.
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Don Jaques
Windermere Real Estate Whidbey Island
360-672-5447
donj@windermere.com
Buck behind our Lake Erie Cottage
The wall was higher that it looks here, but it worked out pretty well.
Winning 3rd Oak Harbor OH IPRA Rodeo
I can always count on this guy!!!!
Wildwood Metropark, Window on Wildlife, Toledo,OH 2015
Spending a beautiful day with amazing wildlife...
Willow Point Wildlife Area in Ohio.......7.18.17
I have posted videos from there before but, you can never have enough nature videos.
The water was up again due to all the wind and rain we recently had. The water is way up into where you can sit. It can be fished when up but it becomes snag city worse then ever. The water washed up a lot of sand, stones, trash, drift wood and who knows what else. Not in the video because seen after was a huge tree root ball that wash carried to there from the river and it was stuck so it was not going anywhere. There was even cut pieces of wood that looked like someones fire wood got washed away and stopped on the banks here.
Safety Concerns Over State Route 53 in Ottawa County
Concerned Ottawa County residents packed the Bay Township Hall Monday night during a
Public meeting aimed at addressing safety concerns along a stretch of State Route 53.
The biggest worries are about 53 between State Route 2 and the Ottawa-Sandusky County line. The Ottawa County Sheriff's Office says there have been 250 crashes there in the past eight years and four fatalities since 2006.
Crane Creek State Park 2010
Crane Creek State Park in Oak Harbor is located on the Shores of Lake Erie, it was has been transfered to the Division of Wildlife as part of the Magee Marsh Wildlife Refuge. The sandy beach used to be open for public swimming, but swimming is not allowed there anymore (I recall swimming there when I was a kid). The water didnt look very clean when I was there this last time, and there was trash as well as a few large rotting fish on the beach (carp i think). If your into hunting for shells however, there are tons of them all along the beach.
Detroit | Wikipedia audio article
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Detroit
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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Detroit (, locally also ; French: Détroit, lit. 'strait') is the largest and most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County. The municipality of Detroit had a 2017 estimated population of 673,104, making it the 23rd-most populous city in the United States. The metropolitan area, known as Metro Detroit, is home to 4.3 million people, making it the second-largest in the Midwest after the Chicago metropolitan area. Regarded as a major cultural center, Detroit is known for its contributions to music and as a repository for art, architecture and design.
Detroit is a major port located on the Detroit River, one of the four major straits that connect the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The Detroit Metropolitan Airport is among the most important hubs in the United States. The City of Detroit anchors the second-largest regional economy in the Midwest, behind Chicago and ahead of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, and the 13th-largest in the United States. Detroit and its neighboring Canadian city Windsor are connected through a tunnel and the Ambassador Bridge, the busiest international crossing in North America. Detroit is best known as the center of the U.S. automobile industry, and the Big Three auto manufacturers General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler are all headquartered in Metro Detroit.
In 1701, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, the future city of Detroit. During the 19th century, it became an important industrial hub at the center of the Great Lakes region. With expansion of the auto industry in the early 20th century, the city and its suburbs experienced rapid growth, and by the 1940s, the city had become the fourth-largest in the country. However, due to industrial restructuring, the loss of jobs in the auto industry, and rapid suburbanization, Detroit lost considerable population from the late 20th century to the present. Since reaching a peak of 1.85 million at the 1950 census, Detroit's population has declined by more than 60 percent. In 2013, Detroit became the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy, which it successfully exited in December 2014, when the city government regained control of Detroit's finances.Detroit's diverse culture has had both local and international influence, particularly in music, with the city giving rise to the genres of Motown and techno, and playing an important role in the development of jazz, hip-hop, rock, and punk music. The erstwhile rapid growth of Detroit left a globally unique stock of architectural monuments and historic places, and since the 2000s conservation efforts managed to save many architectural pieces and allowed several large-scale revitalizations, including the restoration of several historic theatres and entertainment venues, high-rise renovations, new sports stadiums, and a riverfront revitalization project. More recently, the population of Downtown Detroit, Midtown Detroit, and various other neighborhoods has increased. An increasingly popular tourist destination, Detroit receives 19 million visitors per year. In 2015, Detroit was named a City of Design by UNESCO, the first U.S. city to receive that designation.
Detroit | Wikipedia audio article
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Detroit
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Detroit (, locally also ; French: Détroit, lit. 'strait') is the largest and most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County. The municipality of Detroit had a 2017 estimated population of 673,104, making it the 23rd-most populous city in the United States. The metropolitan area, known as Metro Detroit, is home to 4.3 million people, making it the second-largest in the Midwest after the Chicago metropolitan area. Regarded as a major cultural center, Detroit is known for its contributions to music and as a repository for art, architecture and design.
Detroit is a major port located on the Detroit River, one of the four major straits that connect the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The Detroit Metropolitan Airport is among the most important hubs in the United States. The City of Detroit anchors the second-largest regional economy in the Midwest, behind Chicago and ahead of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, and the 13th-largest in the United States. Detroit and its neighboring Canadian city Windsor are connected through a tunnel and the Ambassador Bridge, the busiest international crossing in North America. Detroit is best known as the center of the U.S. automobile industry, and the Big Three auto manufacturers General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler are all headquartered in Metro Detroit.
In 1701, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, the future city of Detroit. During the 19th century, it became an important industrial hub at the center of the Great Lakes region. With expansion of the auto industry in the early 20th century, the city and its suburbs experienced rapid growth, and by the 1940s, the city had become the fourth-largest in the country. However, due to industrial restructuring, the loss of jobs in the auto industry, and rapid suburbanization, Detroit lost considerable population from the late 20th century to the present. Since reaching a peak of 1.85 million at the 1950 census, Detroit's population has declined by more than 60 percent. In 2013, Detroit became the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy, which it successfully exited in December 2014, when the city government regained control of Detroit's finances.Detroit's diverse culture has had both local and international influence, particularly in music, with the city giving rise to the genres of Motown and techno, and playing an important role in the development of jazz, hip-hop, rock, and punk music. The erstwhile rapid growth of Detroit left a globally unique stock of architectural monuments and historic places, and since the 2000s conservation efforts managed to save many architectural pieces and allowed several large-scale revitalizations, including the restoration of several historic theatres and entertainment venues, high-rise renovations, new sports stadiums, and a riverfront revitalization project. More recently, the population of Downtown Detroit, Midtown Detroit, and various other neighborhoods has increased. An increasingly popular tourist destination, Detroit receives 19 million visitors per year. In 2015, Detroit was named a City of Design by UNESCO, the first U.S. city to receive that designation.
Detroit | Wikipedia audio article
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Detroit
00:03:23 1 History
00:03:31 1.1 Early settlement
00:05:20 1.2 Later settlement
00:08:02 1.3 19th century
00:11:06 1.4 20th century
00:15:05 1.5 Postwar era
00:21:16 1.6 1970s and decline
00:24:29 1.7 1980s
00:24:51 1.8 1990s–2000s
00:27:08 1.9 21st century
00:30:42 2 Geography
00:30:51 2.1 Metropolitan area
00:31:44 2.2 Topography
00:35:02 2.3 Climate
00:37:56 2.4 Cityscape
00:38:04 2.4.1 Architecture
00:41:48 2.4.2 Neighborhoods
00:45:01 3 Demographics
00:48:13 3.1 Income and employment
00:50:12 3.2 Race and ethnicity
00:54:17 3.2.1 Asians and Asian Americans
00:56:20 4 Economy
01:02:46 5 Culture and contemporary life
01:03:47 5.1 Nicknames
01:04:42 5.2 Music
01:10:04 5.3 Entertainment and performing arts
01:11:16 5.4 Tourism
01:15:40 6 Sports
01:19:24 7 Law and government
01:21:15 7.1 Crime
01:23:21 7.2 Politics
01:24:30 7.3 Public finances
01:26:03 8 Education
01:26:12 8.1 Colleges and universities
01:27:59 8.2 Primary and secondary schools
01:28:09 8.2.1 Public schools and charter schools
01:29:51 8.2.2 Private schools
01:31:03 9 Media
01:32:45 10 Infrastructure
01:32:55 10.1 Health systems
01:35:18 11 Transportation
01:36:38 11.1 Transit systems
01:38:43 11.2 Modal characteristics
01:39:14 11.3 Airports
01:40:06 11.4 Freeways
01:42:05 11.5 Floating Post Office
01:42:41 12 Notable people
01:42:50 13 Sister cities
01:43:23 14 See also
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
Detroit (, locally also ; French: Détroit, lit. 'strait') is the largest and most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County. The municipality of Detroit had a 2017 estimated population of 673,104, making it the 23rd-most populous city in the United States. The metropolitan area, known as Metro Detroit, is home to 4.3 million people, making it the second-largest in the Midwest after the Chicago metropolitan area. Regarded as a major cultural center, Detroit is known for its contributions to music and as a repository for art, architecture and design.
Detroit is a major port located on the Detroit River, one of the four major straits that connect the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The Detroit Metropolitan Airport is among the most important hubs in the United States. The City of Detroit anchors the second-largest regional economy in the Midwest, behind Chicago and ahead of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, and the 13th-largest in the United States. Detroit and its neighboring Canadian city Windsor are connected through a tunnel and the Ambassador Bridge, the busiest international crossing in North America. Detroit is best known as the center of the U.S. automobile industry, and the Big Three auto manufacturers General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler are all headquartered in Metro Detroit.
In 1701, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, the future city of Detroit. During the 19th century, it became an important industrial hub at the center of the Great Lakes region. With expansion of the auto industry in the early 20th century, the city and its suburbs experienced rapid growth, and by the 1940s, the city had become the fourth-largest in the country. However, due to industrial restructuring, the loss of jobs in the auto industry, and rapid suburbanization, Detroit lost considerable population from the late 20th century to the present. Since reaching a peak of 1.85 million at the 1950 census, Detroit's population has declined by more than 60 percent. In 2013, Detroit became the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy, which it successfully exited in December 2014, when the city government regained control of Detroit's finances.Detroit's diverse culture has had both local and international influence, particularly in music, with the city giving rise to the genres of Motown and techno, and playing an important role in the development of jazz, hip-hop, rock, and punk music. The erstwhile rapid growth of Detroit left ...
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)