Sterling Fire Tower Loop Hike | Sterling Forest State Park, NY
Climb historic Sterling Fire Tower while enjoying ample birding along the way on this 4-mile loop hike in Sterling Forest State Park, NY! A spectacular, I repeat, spec-TAC-ular hike for bird-nerds thanks to its locality along the Atlantic Flyway, this moderate trek takes you past iron ore mining remains, saunters by Sterling Lake, climbs over undulating ridgelines, and leads you up 60’ Sterling Fire Tower with its 360-degree views. Hike it while it’s hot!
Hike length: 4 miles, loop
Time to hike: 3-4 hours
Difficulty: Moderate
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Sterling Lake Fire Tower - New York
This is the spectacular view from the 100 foot tall firetower at the top of a mountain overlooking Sterling Lake in Northern New Jersey. Sterling Lake is part of Sterling Forest, a public park with wonderful hiking trails and a pristine natural area. It also contains remnants of the historic Sterling Furnace, which was used to process locally mined iron, some of which was used to build the Great Chain across the Hudson to protect Colonial America from British warships. My guide today was Hal from anhoutdoors.com.
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Logan Center Bluesfest 2018 - Sterling Plumpp interview by Billy Branch
Bluesfest Live Interview - Billy Branch and Sterling Plumpp with an introduction by Leigh Fagin, October 21, 2018, at the Logan Center Performance Hall for Bluesfest 2018.
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The Truth About George Washington
George Washington was unanimously elected as the first president of the United States of America after winning the American Revolutionary War as the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army.
Washington was first called Father of his Country three years after the beginning of the Revolutionary War – a status he earned not only for his military accomplishments, but also because of the numerous virtues he was perceived to possess as a human being.
But within Washington's impeccable character, one quality stood out the most – a unique immunity to the corrupting effects of power, which stemmed from his selfless nature. I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power, stated Robert Frost, America's great poet-philosopher.
After overthrowing the tyranny of the British Empire, Americans were unwilling to trust anyone with the power of a central government, yet in George Washington they saw a man who had transcended human fallibility. Had he lived in the days of idolatry, the Pennsylvania Journal noted in 1777, Washington would have been worshipped as a god.
How could such a man ever abuse his power, let alone become a tyrant? Furthermore, if men like Washington exist and can be elected into power, perhaps the United States government would never follow in the footsteps of the hated British Empire.
Does the mortal George Washington live up to his immortal legend? What is the Truth About George Washington?
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Alison Cornyn: Rediscovering wayward girls
It started with a box. Artist, Alison Cornyn's journey with the box became a transmedia project called 'Incorrigibles'. The project tells the stories of ‘incorrigible’ girls in the United States over the last 100 years – beginning with New York State. Drawing on the personal narratives of young women in “the system”, the work investigates the history and present state of youth justice and social services for girls.
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Research suggests that human beings are equipped for, and even prefer, a kind of mild hierarchy. However, there is a certain alchemy behind successful leaders. For instance, we don't want leaders that are too powerful or too autocratic or are too able to impose punishment on ourselves. The best leaders foster connections, friendships, and cooperation among their subordinates.
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Nicholas A. Christakis is a physician, sociologist, and director of the Human Nature Lab at Yale University, where he is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science. His most recent book is Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society (March 2019). Follow him on Twitter @NAChristakis
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NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS: So I looked at a number of cases of groups being in very demanding circumstances. I looked at a sample of shipwrecks, for example 20 cases of groups of 19 or more people stranded for two or more months on isolated shores. I looked at the Shackleton expedition. I looked at the Mutiny on the Bounty and the Pitcairn Islanders. I've looked at groups of scientists that were self-isolated in Antarctica for nine months on their own. I've looked at all of these and more types of groups of people and the role that leadership might play in them, and how natural selection may have shaped our desire for leadership and our capacity for leadership. I've also looked at evidence done by other scientists on primate groups and the role of leadership in primate groups, including experiments in which the leading primates were experimentally removed from the group to see how the group functioned after removal of the leader.
And all of this evidence tends towards a set of conclusions, one of which is that human beings are equipped for and prefer a kind of mild hierarchy. We don't want leaders that are too powerful or too autocratic or are too able to impose punishment on ourselves, and there's a lot of evidence that in ancient times what human beings did in those types of circumstances is that the lower guys on the totem pole kind of bonded together to kill a person who was too violent or too aggressive or exercising too much control over the group. So this is known as the self-domestication hypothesis, the idea that we humans made ourselves more peaceful in part by weeding out those among us that were too autocratic or too capable of inflicting harm on those below us. Furthermore, however, we are not too egalitarian. We don't want groups in which everyone is equal in status or equally capable. And this evidence comes from a number of sources.
One piece of evidence, for instance, looks at the role of inequality even in forager groups. So there's something known as the Gini coefficient, which varies from 0 to 1. It's a measure of economic inequality, but you can also look at other kinds of inequality. 0 is perfect equality everyone, for instance, has the same amount of money. And 1 is perfect inequality one person has all the money, everyone else has nothing. And in the United States the inequality the Gini right now is about 0.4. In Scandinavian countries, it's about 0.2. Among forager populations, it's about 0.12 approximately. It's not zero. So even in forager populations, there is some natural inequality that's present. And furthermore, when you look at forager populations, forger populations have other ways of communicating hierarchy and status. So what human beings care about is not just status, but we also care about prestige. So we don't just care about individuals who are powerful. We care about individuals who have prestige because they are knowledgeable.
So the argument goes that evolution has shaped us for two conflicting ways of achieving some kind of hierarchy. One has to do with how strong you are in essence, and one has to do with how much you know. So we value people who know stuff. We're interested in leaders who manifest a kind of mild hierarchy, who know more than we know, who maintain our ability to work together by a kind of tamping down on violence and conflict, but who are not themselves autocratic. And if you look at well-functioning teams in the examples that I mentioned earlier, often you find exactly that kind of leadership. For example, Shackleton in the Shackleton expedition and this was about 30 guys that were stranded for a couple of years during a failed exploration of Antarctica Shacklet...
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The Worst Road In America!! Pot Hole City!! Alpena Michigan 2017
It wouldn't be bad but They Grade the Wrong roads and leave this one. Everyone in the Community called the Road Commission and This is the results. Been this way for years They need to do something about it!! Worst Roads in America
East to Appalachia: Frankfort to Mount Sterling, Kentucky--Elevation 974 ft (297 m) 2015-05-29
0:01-1:30 Leaving area of the Kentucky State Capitol, Frankfort, Kentucky
1:30-13:00 Through city of Frankfort to Interstate 64
13:00 Entering Interstate 64 east
53:52 Exiting at Exit 100 at Mount Sterling, Kentucky
Mt. Sterling is named for an ancient burial mound called Little Mountain, and for the town of Stirling in Scotland. It was named by the first developer of the area, Hugh Forbes. The Kentucky Assembly passed an act in 1792 establishing the town as Mt. Sterling, a misspelling which was retained.
The area was originally part of the thick wilderness of central Kentucky. Explorers, hunters, and surveyors traveling along a trail called Old Harper's Trace noted a 125-foot-high tree-covered mound which they called The Little Mountain. Later excavations showed it to be a burial site. The site of the mound is now the intersection of Queen and Locust streets in Mt. Sterling.
Appalachia (/ˌæpəˈleɪtʃə/ or /ˈæpəˈlætʃə/) is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York to northern Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia. While the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Canada to Cheaha Mountain in Alabama, the cultural region of Appalachia typically refers only to the central and southern portions of the range. As of the 2010 census, the region was home to approximately 25 million people, containing the major cities of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Knoxville, Tennessee; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Birmingham, Alabama; and Asheville, North Carolina.
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Bill McKibben speaks as part of Augustana's Campus 2012/13 annual academic theme Resilience
As part of Augustana's annual academic theme -- Resilience -- Bill McKibben will speak at the University of Alberta's Augustana Campus in Camrose on Tuesday, October 23. Hear the activist, author and environmentalist discuss Adapting to that Which You Can't Prevent--and Vice Versa at 7pm in the Faith & Life Chapel. A reception will immediately follow.
June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States. That followed the warmest May on record for the Northern Hemisphere -- the 327th consecutive month in which the temperature of the entire globe exceeded the 20th-century average, the odds of which occurring by simple chance were 3.7 x 10-99, a number considerably larger than the number of stars in the universe.
From Global Warming's Terrifying New Math by Bill McKibben: Rolling Stone, July 2012
Author of a dozen books about the environment -- beginning with The End of Nature in 1989, which is regarded as the first book on climate change for a general audience -- Bill is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009. Time Magazine called him 'the planet's best green journalist'. Bill has helped organize and lead the opposition in the United States to the Keystone Pipeline.
Bill McKibben is arguably the most prominent environmental writer and activist in the U.S., said Augustana Dean Dr. Allen Berger. And given his positions on climate change, the tar sands, fracking, and the Keystone pipeline, he is clearly relevant to Albertans.
Bill is a frequent contributor to various magazines including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, The New York Review of Books and Rolling Stone. Bill has been awarded Guggenheim and Lyndhurst Fellowships, and won the Lannan Prize for nonfiction writing in 2000. He has honorary degrees from Green Mountain College, Unity College, Lebanon Valley College and Sterling College.
Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with The End of Nature in 1989, which is regarded as the first book for a general audience on climate change. He is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009. Time Magazine called him 'the planet's best green journalist' and the Boston Globe said in 2010 that he was 'probably the country's most important environmentalist.' Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, he holds honorary degrees from a dozen colleges, including the Universities of Massachusetts and Maine, the State University of New York, and Whittier and Colgate Colleges. In 2011 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dedication held at new home of Robert M. Linsley Geology Museum
Museum, which moved from Lathrop Hall to the Ho Science Center, includes pieces that focus on New York State.
Bells 'ring out' on a Sunday - Church Of The Holy Nativity
Church Of The Holy Nativity:
A Parish Church of the Holy Nativity, Knowle in Bristol. They are a Church of England Parish of a modern Catholic tradition in the Diocese of Bristol. Inside Holy Nativity, you’ll find daily worship, a welcoming, supportive community, and space for personal prayer and reflection. Their mission is to seek to be 'open to God, open to each other, open to the community.'
With its distinctive green copper spire, the parish church of the Holy Nativity is visible from many places in Bristol. Just 15 minutes walk from Bristol Temple Meads railway station and located on the A37 Wells Road, the beautiful church of the Holy Nativity, Knowle was first consecrated in 1883 to serve the growing population of Knowle and Totterdown. This church was to replace the Chapel of the Holy Nativity, a plain structure of wood, that had been built previously in July 1865. During the first heavy Blitz on Bristol of the Second World War, the original church building was badly damaged. Rebuilding of the church was completed in 1958. Work was then undertaken in 2004 to completely redecorate the church. As part of this work, talented local artist Mike Long completed the stunning apse mural. They recently celebrated 150 years of Christian witness at Holy Nativity, Knowle.
Bristol:
Bristol is a city and county[4] in South West England with a population of 456,000.[5] The wider district has the 10th-largest population in England.[6] The urban area population of 724,000 is the 8th-largest in the UK.[2] The city borders North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, with the cities of Bath and Gloucester to the south-east and north-east, respectively.
Iron Age hill forts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon, and around the beginning of the 11th century the settlement was known as Brycgstow (Old English the place at the bridge). Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373, when it became a county of itself. From the 13th to the 18th century, Bristol was among the top three English cities after London in tax receipts. Bristol was surpassed by the rapid rise of Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool in the Industrial Revolution.
Bristol was a starting place for early voyages of exploration to the New World. On a ship out of Bristol in 1497 John Cabot, a Venetian, became the first European since the Vikings to land on mainland North America. In 1499 William Weston, a Bristol merchant, was the first Englishman to lead an exploration to North America. At the height of the Bristol slave trade, from 1700 to 1807, more than 2,000 slave ships carried an estimated 500,000 people from Africa to slavery in the Americas. The Port of Bristol has since moved from Bristol Harbour in the city centre to the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Dock.
Bristol's modern economy is built on the creative media, electronics and aerospace industries, and the city-centre docks have been redeveloped as centres of heritage and culture. The city has the largest circulating community currency in the U.K.—the Bristol pound, which is pegged to the Pound sterling. The city has two universities, the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England, and a variety of artistic and sporting organisations and venues including the Royal West of England Academy, the Arnolfini, Spike Island, Ashton Gate and the Memorial Stadium. It is connected to London and other major UK cities by road and rail, and to the world by sea and air: road, by the M5 and M4 (which connect to the city centre by the Portway and M32); rail, via Bristol Temple Meads and Bristol Parkway mainline rail stations; and Bristol Airport.
USA:
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.[fn 6] At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km2) and with over 325 million people, the United States is the world's third- or fourth-largest country by total area[fn 7] and the third-most populous country. The capital is Washington, D.C., and the largest city by population is New York City. Forty-eight states and the capital's federal district are contiguous and in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east and across the Bering Strait from Russia to the west. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U.S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, stretching across nine official time zones. The extremely diverse geography, climate, and wildlife of the United States make it one of the world's 17 megadiverse countries.[19]
Waterfalls in Bristol, Vermont
Each summer Adam and I try and travel Vermont when we don't really know what to do with ourselves on our days off. Today was Memorial Day and we both happen to have it off. We went to Bristol and visited 3 or 4 waterfalls there, the main ones being Barlett Falls and Memorial Park Falls. A few were just random by the side of the road falls but all the rain had made them amazing.
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Open House Lecture: Jeanne Gang, “Thinking Through Practice and Research”
American architect and MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang, FAIA, FRIBA, is the founding principal of Studio Gang, an architecture and urban design practice with offices in Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Chevalier de l’Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur, Jeanne is internationally renowned for a design process that foregrounds the relationships between individuals, communities, and environments. Her diverse body of work spans scales and typologies, expanding beyond architecture’s conventional boundaries to pursuits ranging from the development of stronger materials to fostering stronger communities. Her approach has resulted in some of today’s most compelling architecture, including Aqua Tower, the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, and Writers Theatre. She is currently designing major projects throughout the Americas and Europe, including the Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History in New York; a unified campus for California College of the Arts in San Francisco; and the new United States Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil.
A recipient of the 2013 National Design Award (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum), Jeanne was named the 2016 Architect of the Year by the Architectural Review. In 2017, she was honored with the Louis I. Kahn Memorial Award and made an honorary fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Widely published and acclaimed, her work has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Museum of Modern Art, and Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of Reveal, the first volume on Studio Gang’s work and process, and Reverse Effect: Renewing Chicago’s Waterways, which envisions a radically greener future for the Chicago River.
Jeanne is a distinguished alumna of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she was recently appointed Professor in Practice. Her GSD studios have previously explored the multivalent potential of materiality. This semester she is working with students to explore strategies for rebuilding community infrastructure in the Caribbean Islands following Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Jeanne lectures frequently throughout the world and serves on various civic and design-focused committees and advisory groups.
Jocko Podcast 148 w/ Echo Charles: Valleys Of Death, by Bill Richardson
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0:04:29 - Valleys Of Death: Memoirs of The Korean War, by Bill Richardson
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3:42:58 - Closing Gratitude.
An Evening with Rev Jeremiah Wright
Fresno State's Africana Studies Program and the 2015 Black Popular Culture Lecture Series and Online Research Archive present...
An Evening with Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright
March 2, 2015
The event was an oral history project and a free event attended by students, staff, faculty, and the Fresno community. This was a not-for-profit event.