Adirondacks Whitewater Rafting
A couple geologists tag along with a group of nuclear engineers for an adventure in upstate New York. This includes whitewater rafting in the Adirondack mountains, while the rivers are filled to the brim with snow melt. It was a fun and hypothermic experience for everyone!
Music:
He's a Pirate - Klaus Badelt and Hans Zimmer (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Bootstraps Bootstraps - Klaus Badelt and Hans Zimmer (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Sacandaga Outdoor Center Whitewater Rafting Trip
Lansing High School Class of 2018 High School seniors enjoy a fun filled whitewater rafting ride down the Sacandaga River in the Adirondack Park with the Sacandaga Outdoor Center, Hadley, on June 2, 2018. This is a video composite of the photo shoot I was doing that day for the Adirondack Explorer in the Lake George / Hadley / Luzerne corner of the Adirondacks
Adirondack Trail OK Slip Falls
Adirondack Trail is a region-specific special interest magazine published by Brock Garrison Images and the vision of Charles Saint Genevieve, Founder and President of Black Book Holdings, Ltd., a United States company headquartered at 250 Park Avenue in New York City.
Adirondack Trail features a unique format, based on exceptional theme photography with short captions and interesting articles targeted to a diverse audience and a broad demographic mix. The magazine has a strong feel of LOOK, a large-size magazine that was published from 1937 to 1971 and was best known for having an emphasis on photographs more so than article content; Adirondack Trail promises to consistently deliver a robust blend of both.
Scheduled as a bimonthly publication with a summer bonus issue and one special Forever Wild issue, Adirondack Trail will provide riveting images and tasteful content celebrating the wonders of region's people, native and seasonal, places familiar and unfamiliar, its wildlife, historical interests and modern day topics.
More than just another general interest publication ... Adirondack Trail is market savvy, appeals to different readers for different reasons and made in New York. Separating each issue from other North Country publications, Adirondack Trail will introduce the readership to Miss Adirondack and a photo pictorial featuring a beautiful BGM Agency model in each issue and sporting North Country fashions made by local Adirondack outfitters in the Park and shot on location.
Summer brings more excitement and the introduction of the Adirondack Trail Swimsuit Issue featuring Miss Adirondack and the fashion photography of Brock Garrison Behind The Lens. In addition, each issue will also host The Adirondack Hike pictorial featuring a selected trail and topics of interest from the region among other things.
For Rent : Rustic Cabin in the Adirondacks
3BR/1Bath Sleeps 8 Year round cabin in the Adirondacks. A great place to hike, fish, skii(downhill/xcountry) kayak, snowmobile, snowshoe, or just hang out and do nothing.
River Log Drive
River drives were a standard way of moving large amounts of cut timber to sawmills during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, prior to the expansion and adoption of railroads and trucks for log transport. This clip is an excerpt from Timber on the Move: A History of Log Moving Technology, a documentary film from the Forest History Society:
Richmond, Virginia | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:03:14 1 History
00:03:23 1.1 Colonial era
00:04:19 1.2 Revolution
00:05:17 1.3 Early United States
00:08:04 1.4 Civil War
00:12:57 1.5 Postbellum
00:14:23 1.6 20th century
00:17:56 2 Geography and climate
00:19:37 2.1 Cityscape
00:23:23 2.2 Climate
00:27:59 3 Demographics
00:31:44 3.1 Crime
00:33:59 3.2 Religion
00:40:42 4 Economy
00:45:40 4.1 Fortune 500 companies and other large corporations
00:48:28 4.2 Poverty
00:49:22 5 Arts and culture
00:49:31 5.1 Museums and monuments
00:53:19 5.2 Visual and performing arts
00:54:05 5.2.1 Murals
00:54:23 5.2.2 Professional performing companies
00:57:50 5.2.3 Other venues and companies
01:02:07 5.3 Literary arts
01:03:33 5.4 Architecture
01:09:12 5.5 Historic districts
01:10:05 5.6 Food
01:10:39 6 Parks and outdoor recreation
01:14:38 7 Sports
01:18:11 8 Media
01:20:06 9 Government and politics
01:23:55 10 Education
01:25:15 10.1 Colleges and universities
01:26:32 11 Infrastructure
01:26:42 11.1 Transportation
01:30:22 11.2 Major highways
01:30:30 11.3 Utilities
01:32:53 12 International relations
01:33:03 12.1 Sister cities
01:33:33 13 See also
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Richmond () is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. It is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and the Greater Richmond Region. Richmond was incorporated in 1742 and has been an independent city since 1871.
As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 204,214; in 2016, the population was estimated to be 223,170, making Richmond the fourth-most populous city in Virginia. The Richmond Metropolitan Area has a population of 1,260,029, the third-most populous metro in the state.
Richmond is located at the fall line of the James River, 44 miles (71 km) west of Williamsburg, 66 miles (106 km) east of Charlottesville, 100 miles (160 km) east of Lynchburg and 98 miles (158 km) south of Washington, D.C. Surrounded by Henrico and Chesterfield counties, the city is located at the intersections of Interstate 95 and Interstate 64, and encircled by Interstate 295 and Virginia State Route 288. Major suburbs include Midlothian to the southwest, Chesterfield to the south, Varina to the southeast, Sandston to the east, Glen Allen to the north and west, Short Pump to the west and Mechanicsville to the northeast.
The site of Richmond had been an important village of the Powhatan Confederacy, and was briefly settled by English colonists from Jamestown in 1609, and in 1610–1611. The present city of Richmond was founded in 1737. It became the capital of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia in 1780, replacing Williamsburg. During the Revolutionary War period, several notable events occurred in the city, including Patrick Henry's Give me liberty or give me death speech in 1775 at St. John's Church, and the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom written by Thomas Jefferson. During the American Civil War, Richmond served as the second and permanent capital of the Confederate States of America. The city entered the 20th century with one of the world's first successful electric streetcar systems. The Jackson Ward neighborhood is a national hub of African-American commerce and culture.
Richmond's economy is primarily driven by law, finance, and government, with federal, state, and local governmental agencies, as well as notable legal and banking firms, located in the downtown area. The city is home to both the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, one of 13 United States courts of appeals, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, one of 12 Federal Reserve Banks. Dominion Energy and WestRock, Fortune 500 companies, are headquartered in the city, with others in the metropolitan area.