Posts Tagged ‘Gulf’
$250,000 – Riverfront Home on Steel Beams – Perfect for a weekend getaway! Includes one boat slip located on the Suwannee River in Chiefland (Fowlers Bluff), Florida with deep water access into the Gulf of Mexico. – MLS # 0909-63648 – Smith & Associates United Country Real Estate
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Thursday May 19 2011 10:05 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River
The Mississippi River is the largest river system in North America. About 2,320 miles (3,730 km) long, the river originates at Lake Itasca, Minnesota, and flows slowly southwards in sweeping meanders, terminating 95 miles (153 km) by river below New Orleans, where it begins to flow to the Gulf of Mexico. Along with its major tributary, the Missouri River, the river drains all or parts of 31 U. S. states stretching from the Rocky Mountains in the west to the Appalachian Mountains in the east to the Canada–US border on the north, including most of the Great Plains, and is the fourth longest river in the world and the tenth most powerful river in the world. The current form of the Mississippi River basin was largely shaped by the Laurentide Ice Sheet of the most recent Ice Age. The southernmost extent of this enormous glaciation extended well into the present-day United States and Mississippi basin. When the ice sheet began to recede, hundreds of feet of rich sediment were deposited, creating the flat and fertile landscape of the Mississippi Valley. During the melt, giant glacial rivers found drainage paths into the Mississippi watershed, creating such features as the Minnesota River, James River, and Milk River valleys. When the ice sheet completely retreated, many of these ‘temporary’ rivers found paths to Hudson Bay or the Arctic Ocean, leaving the Mississippi Basin with many features ‘oversized’ for the existing rivers to have carved in the same time period. The Mississippi River Delta has shifted and changed constantly since the formation of the river, but the construction of dams on the river has greatly reduced the flow of sediment to the delta. In recent years, the Mississippi’s mouth has shown a steady shift towards the Atchafalaya River channel, but because of floodworks at the river’s mouth, this change of course—which would be catastrophic for seaports at the river mouth—has so far been held at bay. Some researchers believe that due to natural forces inherent to river plains, it is a matter of time before this event takes places and that it becomes more likely each year. Hundreds of Native American tribes have depended on the Mississippi River and its tributaries for thousands of years. Although they knew the river by many different names, it was the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi, meaning Great River, or gichi-ziibi, meaning Big River, that ultimately gave the river its present-day name. European explorers reached the mouth of the river as early as the 16th century and 17th century. The river throughout history has served as the border for New France, New Spain, and the early United States—its size and importance made it a formidable boundary as well as a strategic military location, and later, an important artery for steamboats to travel on. Writer Mark Twain was one of the most well-known figures on the river in this period. Even today, the river serves as partial boundaries for ten states, and most of its course can easily be seen on a political map. The Mississippi has also been known for great flooding events, especially in the 20th century which experienced up to four 100-year floods. This has led to the construction of hundreds of miles of levees along nearly the entire course of the river, although they have not always succeeded in preventing the greatest floods. Throughout its history, whether for Native Americans, explorers, or modern commerce, the Mississippi has always been a major navigation route through the center of North America. In the 19th and 20th centuries, despite its slow current and relative depth, a series of dams were constructed on the river, one of the most notable of which is at St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis. These dams facilitate navigation for a steady stream of barge traffic carrying agricultural products from the fertile Mississippi Basin to the Gulf Coast, and like the Columbia River, most of the upper Mississippi is a cascade of reservoirs, as are many of its tributaries like the
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8 years after visiting Hawaii, I finally get to take a real vacation again! This time it was with the Carnival cruise line on the Fantasy from New Orleans to Progreso and Cozumel, Mexico. The 5 day vacation was problem free and well worth the wait. Special thanks to my roommate, Burlian, Audry, Joey, Shannon and Rusty who invited me along. Music by IamTheadore.com. Recorded on the Canon Vixia HF100 HD camera.
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Radio Free Market with Michael McKay
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** Why BP Should Stand for Beyond Public: How the BP spill is NOT a failure of Free Markets ** with Dr. Walter Block.
Walter is a Senior Fellow at The Ludwig von Mises Institute, a Professor of Economics at Loyola University in New Orleans, and the author of Defending the Undefendable.
Dr. Block removes the confusion surrounding the BP fiasco and clearly explains the important differences between Private versus Public property. He illustrates how Privatization of the oceans– Yes, Even The Oceans –creates stronger regulation, accountability, and transparency of the oil industry, more so than ALL the government agencies currently tasked with the job. Plan on CALLING IN and being a part of this very important discussion and show. With Special Guest Host, Zoe Russell.
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Sara and I were up on the Lido deck on the Carnival ship Fantasy, in this quiet little side deck area we’d found where no on else ever seemed to go. We were steaming along the Mississippi at around 15 knots, just about to enter the Gulf of Mexico, when a small boat pulled up alongside the ship, directly under us, 5 stories down! We waved and laughed, and wondered what the heck they were doing. A crew member came out onto the small deck with us and turned on some lights on the side of the ship, illuminating the boat down below. (That’s when I started filming.) All of a sudden a guy leapt from our ship ONTO the small boat, which then sped away! It was so amazing! Turns out maritime laws require a pilot to be onboard while the ship is on the Mississippi River, but as soon as we hit open water, off he went! You can hear the announcement thanking the crew member and telling her she can turn the lights back off.
If we hadn’t happened to be there just at that moment, we’d have missed one of the most exciting moments of the cruise!
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The University of Pennsylvania’s Douglas Jerolmack, assistant professor of earth and environmental science, and postdoctoral researcher Federico Falcini have been studying the flow of river water and sediment into large bodies of the earth’s waters. In this video, they argue that the mighty Mississippi River could be used to beat back the spread of spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
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LSU professor and wetland ecologist, Dr. Irving Mendelssohn, answers questions about possible oil spill effects on wetlands, mechanisms of damage to plants, and pros and cons of clean-up procedures. Mendelssohn has studied the coastal habitats along the Louisiana coast for over 30 years and has published more than 100 scientific articles on wetlands, 25 on oil spill impacts.
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The Carnival Fantasy Cruise ship leaves the mouth of the Mississippi River on a 5 day cruise to Mexico. Progresso and Cozumel. October 27 2008 from New Orleans
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Was it deception or just misinformation when in the early days of this platform collapse it was being reported that there was no oil leaking in the gulf. Well the story is now quite different, this could end up being the worst environmental damage in history.
Just a short time ago in Jamaica we filmed a poet talking about oil. Listen to the words,who is the owner of the oil.
Oil slick from a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to reach a wildlife reserve at the mouth of the Mississippi River on Thursday as it threatens the environmentally delicate coastline of Louisiana and three other Southern U.S. states.
People along the Gulf Coast braced for environmental damage and disruption to businesses, such as the rich shrimp and oyster fisheries along southern Louisiana. President Obama said he will commit “every single resource” the federal government had available to combat the spill, as the military began mobilizing Thursday to help prevent environmental damage.
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“What we began to observe is that the horse instinctively knows how and when to introduce humans to the unexpected and to the challenges of surpirses and new difficulties. The horse becomes not only a soothing friend but a provocative adversary – what Celtic shamans call an anam cara, or “soul friend,” in Gaelic. It is this combination of soothing our doubts and fears and challenging our entrenched behaviors and beliefs that epitomizes the role of the anam cara. With laserlike precision, the horse easily assumes the role of soul friend, disturbing our comfort by frustrating our demands, withdrawing its compliance, becoming hard to handle, or shocking our rigid and deterministic minds. Thus, the horse is capable of opening doors of awareness that stretch the bounds of human consciousness.” – Horses and the Mystical Path: The Celtic Way of Expanding the Human Soul by Adele von Rust McCormick, Marlena Deborah McCormick, and Thomas E. McCormick p. 6
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“The Dead Zone is a much more complicated problem to solve There’s no controversy about the goal: The quantity of nutrients entering the Mississippi River must be substantially reduce.d But there’s no “big fix” solution to achieve such results. Instead, the solution will require tens of thousands of tiny actions and investments by thousands of farmers, local and county governments, and individual property owners across thirty-two states. Nobody doubts that it will take decades to address the crisis. What’s not certain is whether Gulf ecosystems can wait that long.” – Ocean’s End: Travels Through Endangered Seas by Colin Woodard p. 125
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