Woman, baby killed by bear at remote Yukon cabin
A Yukon woman and her 10-month-old daughter are dead after a bear attack at a remote cabin, the territory's coroner said. Valérie Théorêt, 37, was on maternity leave from her job teaching French immersion at Whitehorse Elementary School.
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Albany County Web Map Getting Started
A short getting started tutorial video on the basics of the Albany County GIS Web Map.
Cobleskill New York 1883 Panoramic Bird's Eye View Map 6878
Panoramic Maps, also known as Bird's Eye View, aerial view, or perspective maps. These were a popular form of art at the turn of the 20th century depicting a city's key points of interest.
Unlike traditional maps, Panoramic maps often highlighted the commercial aspects of a town, while also clearly showing many local residences.
I've had a lot fun looking up places I've been to on these maps -- and I've gotta say - It's amazing just how much things change -- and also how much things stay the same.
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Light Your Water On Fire from Gas Drilling, Fracking
A video by Scott Cannon DEP consent order proving methane migration:
Please read this before saying methane migration doesn't exist. It's a proven fact:
The Promised Land in real life. Matt Damon John Krasinski
People can light their taps on fire because of gas drilling. This is one of those cases. In fact, one of the companies that produced Truthland, Chesapeake Energy, was responsible for this mess. A snippet from the Marcellus Shale Reality Tour video
Sherry Vargson gave the group a tour of her farm in Granville Township, where Chesapeake Energy has drilled one well and installed compressor and metering stations and a gathering pipeline. She said her water became contaminated with methane after maintenance activities at the site in June 2010, and lit water from her tap alight for a trip attendees and the media.
The little bus wound its way over green mountains, alongside undeveloped stretches of the meandering Susquehanna River and through some of Pennsylvania's most pristine wilderness.
The man inside with the microphone, the Gas Drilling Awareness Coalition's Scott Cannon, said there's trouble in paradise as he pointed out the changes Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling has brought to Pennsylvania's Northern Tier.
Here was a drilling rig, there a water withdrawal site and every so often yet another pipeline was laid out in preparation for burial.
The sights were part of the coalition's Marcellus Shale Reality Tour, held Sunday for area legislators, municipal representatives and candidates for political office.
We still have to deal with pipelines, compressor stations; they wanted to put a frack water treatment facility in Hanover Township -- that was an hour away from the nearest drill site, Cannon said.
About 15 people attended the tour, including candidate for U.S. representative Bill Vinsko, Wilkes-Barre Administrative Coordinator Drew McLaughlin and Luzerne County Council candidates Kathleen Dobash, Salvatore Licata, Eileen Sorokas and Michelle Bednar.
It's all about information, Sorokas said. You can't beat going firsthand and seeing it. I've heard so many things about it; I want to clarify it in my mind.
It's important to learn about all sides of this important issue, said Vinsko, a Democrat who plans to a 2012 challenge to Republican Lou Barletta in Pennsylvania's 11th Congressional District.
In order to make informed decisions, I wanted to hear from the landowners on both sides of the issue. I also plan to meet with the gas companies to get all sides of the story, but this is an important first step.
At least one trip participant had already made up his mind about the issue. Throop Borough Council President Tommy Lukasewicz said he has been fighting against the efforts of Keystone Sanitary Landfill to increase its daily intake by 2,500 tons, which would allow it to accept more solid waste from the gas drilling industry.
I agree more than anyone here probably that this is the worst thing that could happen to Northeastern Pennsylvania, he said, adding that he believes gas drilling could reverse the progress the area has made in erasing the scars left 50 years ago by coal mining.
Lukasewicz, who attended Mansfield University and often drove through Bradford County to get there, said he wanted to see firsthand what an area (he) had known about looks like now.
Hearing on Fracking Wastewater Well in Sioux County, NE (clip)
Steve Fossett
James Stephen Steve Fossett (April 22, 1944 – c. September 3, 2007) was an American businessman, and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon. He made his fortune in the financial services industry, and was best known for many world records, including five nonstop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo flight fixed-wing aircraft pilot.
A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club, Fossett set 116 records in five different sports, 60 of which still stood when he disappeared.
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Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9, 1932) is an American politician and businessman. Rumsfeld served as the 13th Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, and as the 21st Secretary of Defense from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. He is both the youngest and the oldest person to have served as Secretary of Defense. Additionally, Rumsfeld was a four-term U.S. Congressman from Illinois (1962–1969), Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (1969–1970), Counsellor to the President (1969–1973), the United States Permanent Representative to NATO (1973–1974), and White House Chief of Staff (1974–1975).
Born in Illinois, Rumsfeld attended Princeton University, graduating in 1954 with a degree in political science. After serving in the Navy for three years, he mounted a campaign for Congress in Illinois' 13th Congressional District, winning in 1962 at the age of 30. He was a leading co-sponsor of the Freedom of Information Act. Rumsfeld reluctantly accepted an appointment by President Richard Nixon to head the Office of Economic Opportunity in 1969; appointed Counsellor by Nixon and entitled to Cabinet-level status, he would also head up the Economic Stabilization Program before being appointed Ambassador to NATO. Called back to Washington in August 1974, Rumsfeld was appointed Chief of Staff by President Ford, and soon successfully urged Ford to veto an expansion of the Freedom of Information Act, though the veto was easily overridden. Rumsfeld recruited a young one-time staffer of his, former Congressman Dick Cheney, to succeed him when Ford nominated him Secretary of Defense in 1975.
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Vermejo Park Ranch
The Vermejo Park Ranch is a 590,823-acre ranch owned by Ted Turner in northeastern New Mexico and southern Colorado. The ranch is about 3/4 the size of the State of Rhode Island. The ranch, which stretches from the Great Plains to the summit of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, is used primarily for conservation, hunting, fishing, and other recreation, but also produces significant quantities of coalbed methane, a type of natural gas.
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Columbia Southern University 2018 Commencement
Forrest Fenn Saturday Session - We Answer Your Questions
Join A Gypsy's Kiss as they tell you about their search for the treasure Forrest Fenn hid somewhere in the mountains north of Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2010 and described in his first memoir, The Thrill of the Chase.
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