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A short summary of a visit to the area around the St. Louis Arch in St. Louis Missouri.
Filmed on a Canon 60D with a Sigma 28mm Prime lens @24p. It was very sunny that day so I had to set aperture pretty low. Color corrected with Premiere Pro CS5.
Facts about the Arch:
The Gateway Arch is the tallest national monument in the United States at 630 feet.
Construction began February 12, 1963, and the last section of the Arch was put into place on October 28, 1965.
The Arch weighs 17,246 tons. Nine hundred tons of stainless steel was used to build the Arch, more than any other project in history.
The Arch was built at a cost of $13 million.
Visit http://www.stlouisarch.com/ for tour information.
Music: Louis Armstrong – St. Louis Blues
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Sherbin Coulette- Mayor of Henderson, LA explains “Back to the Butte” Celebration.
Butte La Rose — July 23. Just two months ago, Butte LaRose was a ghost town, with law enforcement and St. Martin Parish officials blocking the access roads. A few resident holdouts refused to leave, even during a mandatory evacuation. Fear grew that several feet of water would inundate the town following the opening of the Morganza Spillway and continued flooding of the Mississippi River.
But today some signs of vitality are back in this community on the edge of the Atchafalaya Basin. Boats and trailers fill the landings along the basin, the adjoining Atchafalaya River and several connecting canals. The main highway leading in and out of town is filled with pickup trucks passing back and forth. Teenagers on ATVs ride the gravel road on top of the town’s main levee. Campgrounds are filled to capacity with visitors.
Some say, though, that misconceptions about the level of damage are keeping visitors and even some property owners away. The event — “Back to the Butte”– is a fundrasier for the Catholic Church, Sacred Heart of Jesus Chapel, and the Butte La Rose Volunteer Fire Department.
Local musicians donated their time to perform for the event include Hunter Courville and Cajun Fever, Terry Huval and Jambalaya, D.L. Menard, Joe Douglas, Al Berard and REFLX, Geno Delafose and Helen Boudreaux.
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Mississippi River Flooding HISTORIC FLOOD LEVELS EMERGENCY NEWS Vicksburg MS Continues to Flood Governor Haley Barbour Calls in Military National Guard
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As the Mississippi River continues to rise in the US, land and homes along one of its main tributaries have been completely submerged.
The water level has reached 17.28 meters in the town of Vicksburg, obliterating a record set in 1927.
About 2.1 million acres were inundated in the state of Mississippi’s central region, as of Monday evening.
Due to a rainy spring, and heavy snow melts, the river has been rampaging across property in the states of Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas. The waterway is still surging, as it moves south through Mississippi and Louisiana.
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http://www.youtube.com/user/keymastermind77?feature=mhum#p/a/f/1/Due3iUlaoX4
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driving through this historical city
Around Your Town takes you for a strut through the French Quarter in New Orleans, with a little “LAGNIAPPE” at 3:48 of the vid!
Along the way you will see some of the landmarks that have made New Orleans famous, and a great band on Royal Street performing the 1931 classic song “Egyptian Ella” !
Title: The French Quarter
Film Shot on 1/4/09 & 1/5/09
Location: The French Quarter New Orleans, Louisiana
Movie produced & edited on 24″ iMac using iMovie 06 HD
Gee Three Slick Volume 8 Stabilizer, Anti-Mattes, and Titles
Sound: iLife & Skywalker Sound Effects
Soundtrack: French Quarter Strut – Tucker Conspiracy
Egyptian Ella – Meschiya Lake
Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans – Billie Holiday
Video filmed with Sony DCR-HC52 DVR Handycam
Lenses: Sony VCL-0630X 30mm 0.6x Wide Angle Lens
Sony VCL-2030X 30mm 2x Telephoto Lens
*Film is property of Smoky Cat Productions, and cannot be duplicated outside of You Tube without the expressed, written consent of Smoky Cat Productions.
Music and video are licensed separately under the Creative Commons “BY” 3.0 license.
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http://www.timesofearth.com/Worldnews/?NT=0&nid=21584 SAN FRANCISCO – Oil giant BP has said that it will pay for all the cleanup costs from a ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico that could continue spewing crude oil for at least another week.
The British company issued a statement on its website on Monday, saying that it took responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon spill and would pay compensation for legitimate claims for property damage, personal injury and commercial losses.
“We are responsible, not for the accident, but we are responsible for the oil and for dealing with it and cleaning the situation up,” Tony Hayward, BP’s chief executive, said on Monday on the TV show, Good Morning America.
He said that the equipment that failed on the rig and led to the spill belonged to a company called Transocean, and not BP.
Guy Cantwell, a Transocean spokesman, said that they would not speculate but rather wait for all the facts before drawing a conclusion.
Eric Holder, the US attorney general, said that the justice department was taking part in an ongoing investigation into the spill.
“We are part of an ongoing monitoring [effort] and investigation along with our partners at DHS [the department of homeland security] and other agencies that are involved,” Holder said.
However, a justice department official said that it was yet not a criminal probe.
Barack Obama, the US president, said on Sunday that his administration would require BP to bear all costs.
“BP is responsible for this leak; BP will be paying the bill,” Obama said.
Meanwhile, Hayward said chemical dispersants seem to be having a significant impact in keeping oil from flowing to the surface.
The update on the dispersants came as BP was preparing a new, untested system nearly 1.6km under water to syphon away the geyser of crude.
However, the plan to lower 74-tonne, concrete and metal boxes being built to capture the oil will need at least another six to eight days to get it in place.
That could spill at least another 3.8 million litres into the Gulf, on top of the roughly 9.8 million litres already estimated to have spilled since the April 20 blast.
Officials were also trying to cap one of three leaks to make it easier to place the first box on the sea floor.
Crews continued to lay boom to try to keep the spill from reaching the shore, though choppy seas have made that difficult and rendered much of the equipment useless.
Fishermen from the mouth of the Mississippi River to the Florida Panhandle were informed that more than 17,612 square km of fishing areas were closed.
This was expected to have a devastating impact on their livelihood’s for at more than the next 10 days, just as the prime spring season had begun.
The slick was also very close to a key shipping lane used to feed goods and materials to the interior of the US via the Mississippi River.
Even if the well is shut off in a week, officials say that it will take a long time for fishing and coastal life to return to normal.
Everything engineers have tried since the April 20 oil rig explosion has failed.
After the blast, which killed 11 people, the flow of oil should have been stopped by a blowout preventer, but the mechanism failed.
Efforts to remotely activate it have proven fruitless.
The oil could keep gushing for months until a second well can be dug to relieve pressure from the first.
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The Mississippi River is the second longest river in the United States, with a length of 2,320 miles (3,730 km) from the source of its upper portion at Lake Itasca in Minnesota to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Mississippi River is part of the Missouri-Mississippi river system, which is the largest river system in North America and among the largest in the world: By length—3,900 miles (6,300 km)—it is the fourth longest, and by its average discharge of 572,000 cu ft/s (16,200 m³/s), it is the tenth largest.
The name Mississippi is derived from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi (”Great River”) or gichi-ziibi (”Big River”).
From its origin at Lake Itasca to St. Louis, Missouri, the flow of the Mississippi River is moderated by 43 dams.
The Mississippi River runs through 10 states and was used to define portions of these states’ borders. The middle of the riverbed at the time the borders were established was the line to define the borders between states. The river has since shifted, but the state borders of Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi have not changed; they still follow the former bed of the Mississippi River as of their establishment.
The area of the Mississippi valley was first settled by Native American tribes, such as the Cheyenne, Sioux, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, Fox, Kickapoo, Tamaroa, Moingwena, Quapaw and Chickasaw.
The Cheyenne, one of the earliest inhabitants of the upper Mississippi River, called it the Máˀxe-éˀometaaˀe (Big Greasy River) in the Cheyenne language. However, the word Mississippi comes from Messipi, the French rendering of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe or Algonquin) name for the river, Misi-ziibi (Great River).
On May 8, 1541, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto became the first recorded European to reach the Mississippi River, which he called Río del Espíritu Santo (”River of the Holy Spirit”), in the area of what is now Mississippi. In Spanish, the river is called Río Mississippi.
The Ohio River is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River. It is approximately 981 miles (1,579 km) long and is located in the eastern United States.Pearls have a particularly long history in the Midwest. Excavations in the Ohio River Valley revealed fabulous quantities of pearls belonging to the people of the ancient Hopewell culture (200 B.C.-A.D. 500).
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http://www.homeschoolersavvy.typepad.com THE MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI,
Driving from Arkansas to Mississippi across the Helena bridge. Water level at 45.6 feet, spread from levee to levee, about 5 feet up the levee.
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