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Kend: Yes, I saw Lac Beauvert and several other lakes in that area. Thanks for the correction. Those lakes are really beautiful and so is the whole area.
Kend:
I believe I have located the old Lodgepole blowout well of Oct.17, 1982
It is located just 352 meters to the north of the current well. And it looks like the current well was built on top of the burned out area of the fire that looks to have blown southeast.
The documents (below) tells where the incident happened even providing very crude drawings. Also it says that it was located near where the Zeta Creek connects with the Pembina River.
Google coordinates:
old well: 13-12-048-12W5
Latitude: 53° 8'3.47"N
Longitude: 115°37'47.57"W
new well: 00/11-12-048-12W5/0
Latitude: 53° 7'51.62"N
Longitude: 115°37'44.25"W
http://info.ngwa.org/GWOL/pdf/850149633.pdf
Yeah Palin; a sideways grin, like your head's on a pillow!
Sorry Palin it is called "lac beauvert ". Or lake Beauvert in English. A lot of the early explorers where French So there is a lot of French names. Google Fairmont Jasper Park lodge and you will see the pictures. The life is right in front of the cabins. . It is the color of a emerald I guess it threw me off.
Thank you, Aliceinwonderland! ;-} See my Cheshire grin?
Actually PD, "Ms" suits me fine, because it is equivalent to "Mr"; unaffected by marital status. It's "Miss" I don't much care for. And since these titles are always in reference to one person, it doesn't seem as important that they be gender-neutral. It's when you're entering the realm of plurality that gender specifics get in the way. But I don't think proximity to the letter "A" is of any consequence.
So you suggest "Duh" as a gender-neutral alternative, huh? Wise ass.
Incidentally my friend, t's not for you or me or anyone else to "get our heads around" Bradley Manning's metamorphosis to Chelsea Manning. All we have to do is not make an issue of it. - AIW
Aliceinwonderland: I don't suppose you much like the term "Ms" ...after all males get the term "Mr (mister) whether they are married or not.
Females: Ms or Mrs....Males: Mr or Mr.
But then again, "s" is higher up on the alphabet scale than "r" so that's one better unless one thinks that it is more prestigious to be closer to the letter "a". And speaking of Axis...off with their heads!;-}
But, you are quite correct...it is very cumbersome! Maybe instead of using Mr, Ms or Mrs. we can use "Duh"...May I present Duh Peabody....that should surely keep people guessing the gender..especially if the person is a cross dresser or transvestite. I still can't get my head around Bradley Manning's change to Chelsea without a smirk. But then, I'm evil!
Aliceinwonderland ~ Sandgiver... lacked common communication skills to state exactly where he/she was coming from. On the other hand I totally reject the opinion of horsetrotter as pure propaganda.
Horsetrotter ~ please show us the irrefutable statistics and spare us the untenable BS.
He/she said "new".
Ya know, speaking of language issues (ahem!), it's always griped me that there are no gender-neutral ways to refer to someone where gender is either unknown or irrelevant. This isn't simply a matter of ideological or social shortsightedness. It forces us to either use the cumbersome "he/she", or resort to plural terms such as "they" or "their", which not only is bad grammar but sounds bad. Australians at least have a gender-neutral way of greeting one another as "mate", which I think is pretty cool. - AIW
Kend: Google Earth shows an Emerald Lake about 120 miles southeast of the Emerald Lodge in Jasper but none near Jasper.
Very, very nice, Kend! Very beautiful!
Aliceinwonderland: My guess is that Sander-viergever misspelled "and" and should have been "end"
"I agree with the following idea: employers should make an end to put drug test to their (new) employees. "
I think he/she is possibly from the Netherlands and his/her English may not be as accurate as we are accustomed to reading.
So it looks to me like Sander-viergever is saying that he/she agrees that employers should not test employees. But, I suppose that could also be a wrong assumption as well.
Palin nice to here you enjoyed it. At the jasper park lodge there is a lake call Emerald Lake it has a beautiful green color. a British tourist ask how they drained the lake to paint it I told her she would have to ask god. I don't think she ever believed it was real. Canada is so big and so untouched. But so freakin cold in the winter. When I was younger we would enjoy the winter but as we get older we just light the fire place and drink until spring. Google radium hot springs that's where I have a summer place. Much warmer on that side of the big rocks
LOL! Yes, definitely better than a turd!
Maybe one day I will check out the Stampede..in Calgary..I believe.
Some years back I was in Edmonton for business. Flew into Edmonton, rented a car, did my business which took a couple of weeks. Spent the weekend driving to Jasper Park, then down south to Banff, then to Calgary, then back up to Edmonton. I remember an area inside of, or near, Calgary where they had different street scenes representing different eras. There was a nice park there with an old fashioned bandstand and grassy place to sit while the old fashioned band played old fashioned tunes. Very pleasant! There was a small train that went around the park as well.
I had worked at the University of Edmonton during those two weeks on some high tech equipment they had (part of the process of manufacturing integrated circuit chips).
I remember that downtown Edmonton had all these tall buildings all connected with either subterranean passageways full of stores or passageways 1 or two stories above ground level that bridged the buildings.
I remember, driving to the University one morning and I had been going over the speed limit...this cop runs right out into the highway in front of me and waves me over to the little clearing where other cars had been pulled over as well. I am very grateful that the cop didn't actually give me a ticket...just a warning. In the US, you're likely to get shot if you make any sudden moves like reaching for your ID. ;-|
Yes, I often have the same problems finding my car even in smaller shopping malls. But that Edmonton Mall had an amusement park built right inside...with roller coasters and water slides. Another area had a big pool with a treasure ship...quite an interesting place to visit and spend some time. I have also gone to the Mall of America (near Minneapolis) which was also interesting...but I've always remembered the one in Edmonton.
That glacier park in Jasper park was quite a site as well.
Ya Palin I won't complain as much about the bridge I guess it's better than a turd. My home has a great view of the mountains and it is exactly one hour drive from my house to Banff. I love the smell of the pines there. I like Jasper better, much less commercial. I was born in Edmonton and moved to Calgary about 20 years ago. I hate that mall I can never remember where my car is. LOL. Come up for the Stampede. It's a great party. Greatest outdoor show on earth.
What did bring you up? Work or play.
I have to say, though, that I really liked Edmondton and Calgary...oh, and Banff. Of course, I wasn't there for very long..certainly not during the winter. I thought the colors of everything from the traffic signs to the house roof tops were very colorful. Nice place...and that mall in Edmonton was pretty neat too.
But Kend, Bruce Jack had lived there for quite a while and had a water pump for all that time and had no problems until they started to frack near by. And then, even after his accident (by the way it also injured the two oil-gas inspectors as well) they kept getting the runaround between the gas-oil company and the government. Neither would accept responsibility and both passed the buck to the other. And those blowouts, especially the one you said you worked at during that time, made lots of people in the surrounding towns very ill. And the oil company tried to convince the public, as was shown in one of the previous video links I had given, that it was all in people's minds.
I have been hearing about the tar-sands fields in Utah which are just now being planned to be exploited. They are not as cheap to mine as are the ones in Canada which is why they haven't yet exploited them. But as oil prices escalate, they'll be mining Utah too. And it is some investors from Estonia, I think that is planning to mine the tar sands.
Kend: Well, actually, I don't know all of the facts as to why they felt they needed such a bridge...perhaps that other bridge was carrying heavy traffic and would have been dangerous to pedestrians...I don't know. But I do know that once cities (states, and nations) get their hands on resources they will spend them on, oftentimes, ridiculous things. I'm certainly not against art and beautification of cities...but, you are right, there are certainly more important things to spend the money on. Many people's lives depend on it. It's funny but back when I lived in San Jose area, they spent a ridiculous amount of money to put what looked like a giant dinosaur turd in a small downtown park. It was carved out of wood, I think, and it was supposed to be a coiled up snake god that had something to do with some indigenous Mexican ancient religion. It was not easy to see that it was supposed to be a coiled up snake...I used to call it a giant dinosaur turd. Damn politicians!!!
Thanks Palin very interesting. I don't think any tip I give on this blog is going to change the market at all in a Edmonton. Take it for what it is. You should know that CBC is a government funded, about a billion dollars a year tv station. VERY liberal . You should also know that there are pockets of gas all over northern Alberta just feet from the surface in many areas. A lot of people who bought land with water problems like this blame the oil companies for there bad water but the same problem exists where they are know where near wells. Spirt River like many places up there has really really nasty sour gas that is very harmfull and corrosive. One little sniff and you could be gone. I believe with the advances in directionAl drilling there are no wells drilled close to a home like that. I should also mention most of thoSE farmers are payed very well to have those wells there.
Is that the investor tip of the day? Hurry up and buy now, in Edmonton...of course that tip, if taken seriously by investors would further inflate the value of those homes...you would stand to profit. Are you "pumping and dumping" kend? I guess someone who has investments on the line is certainly not going to talk it down. As for "exploding"...I wonder if that is not the oil fields you are referring to...like the blowouts...poisonous gases...in the air and in the water.
Here's Bruce Jack's water well pumphouse blowing up in his face in the presence of two investigators at the time. He got very badly burned and was lucky he didn't get killed when he opened the door of his water pump house.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpW_j7uPCWs&feature=youtu.be
Thanks Palin. But would you spend 25 million for that. Just think of all the health that would buy. Remember there is a bridge just down the street that has a sidewalk for foot traffic it's seems kind of dumb. A freind of mine who is in a lot of pain has to wait 8 to 12 months for a operation. My whole complaint here is exactly this. Our governments take in enough money it's what they do with it that drives me nuts.
i don't know about the projects you mentioned but a lot of times here the bridges are to nowhere but they are built to develop resources on the other side.
Mark I don't consider myself rich. Unless you are talking about my family. Rich to me you are in the tens of millions Which I am not. If you are talking about how much wealth I have accumulated. I am somewhere in the top 10% of Canadians. My wife and I got married very young and had children in our early 20's. Bought a home when I was 21. both of us only have a high school diploma. We just worked hard and as I said I worked on the rigs at a very early age and did ok. Most of our wealth came from real estate. Buy low sell high. Alberta where I live is oil country and there are many booms and busts. Great for real estate investing. That's why I have invested in phoenix our dollar was the same and prices where very low. We will rent Them until your dollar and home prices rise and we will sell. We also have done well with private financing. Something we found out doesn't happen down there much. We own a business that we import and sell machinery. that business is growing and we hope will soon bring us income when we are not there soon and we can retire. As I mentioned before we have some younger employees that work for us that are on a profit bonus system we have and they will take over someday Hopefully. Pretty boring I guess. just wonder what do you consider Rich .
Ps I little tip we are on the edge of a major boom. Zero unemployment, major housing shortage. If even one of the five pipelines that are proposed goes through and we are close All hell will break loose. Watch for Edmonton real estate to explode soon.
"Sander-viergever", your post is barely intelligible. Do you mean to suggest that drug testing be discontinued for new employees, those hired from some arbitrarily-chosen initial date onward, while veteran employees continue being violated randomly, indiscriminately and without prior notice? You find that acceptable? - AIW
Kend: #26...this one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Bridge_%28Calgary%29
And if you just do a google images search on "calgary walk bridge" you get a lot of pictures of the bridge.
Nice bridge!...way more useful that that Ted Steven's $400 million "bridge to nowhere" or Sarah Palin's $25 million "road to nowhere".
"As far as Thom and the mainstream democrat party…" Global gripes, "I have never seen a more comprehensive campaign of division in my life. Let's start with this fictitious 'war on women' (total BS) and the use of racism as a go to strawman at the drop of a hat. And the arbitrary hate of the so called one percent. Please let me know how much wealth classifies a person to be in the one percent so we all know who to hate."
Let's begin with the "strawman". Here in 21st Century America where young unarmed black men are routinely targeted by trigger-happy white guys and these killers alwayss skate free, Global dismisses this as some sort of "strawman, drop-of-a-hat", phony issue that no one need be concerned about. This is because people like Global only care if they are the ones being targeted. Since that is never the case, it's not worthy of discussion in Global's realm of reality. Okay Global, whatever you say.
War on women BS, Global? Gimmie a break.
Rather than take on the tedium of making my point cold turkey from scratch, concerning this war on women Global dismisses as BS, I'll just share an article I wrote a couple years back. Seems just as relevant today, so what the hey! Here goes:
WOMB FOR RENT (Published in the March 2012 issue of The Advocate): Do you recall Sigmund Freud’s famous theory, that girls suffer from so-called “penis envy”? As I observe the shenanigans going on in Congress nowadays, it seems the opposite is true. If there’s one thing old-school patriarchs can never get a grip on, it’s an ability women have that none of them will ever possess, despite all the advantages to being male in a “man’s world”. Only females have access to this unique form of power. It sets us apart, for we are the gateway to life itself. Whether a blessing or a curse, it is our exclusive domain, the power to open or close that gate. It is something we’ve inherited as females and it is our birthright. Can you imagine any reality more basic to the laws of the natural world? Which begs the question: what could be more sharply at odds with a patriarch’s worldview than this simple fact of life?
Through the ages, patriarchs have compensated for this by keeping us marginalized, disempowered, handicapped via artificial means. They accomplish this through a variety of methods, ranging from religious custom and repressive legislation to plain old brute force. This battle over the womb has dragged on, literally, for millennia. We women now find ourselves pitted against the current generation of misogynist bigots who are determined to roll back the proverbial clock. This could condemn women and girls to second-class citizenship status, at a level few of us, of either gender, are old enough to recall. Regardless of what motivates these womb-obsessed woman haters, their efforts to keep us down, at the mercy of our own biology, are relentless and never-ending. Womb envy? Perhaps. The latest episode of this ancient power struggle has erupted in the halls of Congress. We’ve just witnessed a drama so archaic, I’ve had moments when I’ve found myself wondering which century I’m living in. Imagine the implications of an all-male group of legislators, monopolizing a discussion about birth control! These men get to decide on policies that determine who has access to birth control and who doesn’t. It is a dialogue where no woman is allowed to participate, from which we’ve been brazenly and willfully excluded. Never mind that it is our reproductive health on the line, not theirs!
With this planet in such peril, its life support systems collapsing while the fate of humanity hangs by a thread, you’d think our elected officials would have better things to do than attack women’s hard-won rights. As the next presidential election looms near, corporate media’s pundit shills busy themselves filling the airwaves with their loud, toxic drivel. It is so transparent, so predictable, I’d find it laughable if only the stakes weren’t so high. Armed with their latest wedge issue, these guardians of the status quo have picked their target; not abortion, mind you, but birth control! Neo-con legislators not only want to re-criminalize abortion, they aim to take away all means of prevention as well. Yet when it comes to having babies, we’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t, especially if we’re poor.
Like all wedge issues, this one was manufactured to keep us collectively distracted from real problems we face: global warming, overpopulation, the nuclear threat, decaying infrastructure, monopoly crony capitalism, economic injustice, privatization of the commons with its ugly consequences, the erosion of democracy and so on. But for patriarchs and oligarchs, this tired old debate serves a duel purpose. As a wedge issue, it divides and conquers us - the “masses” - while simultaneously, keeping women “in their place”. Double bonus, for them! So here we are at the dawn of the 21st Century, having to fight for access to birth control yet again, while at the same time, a man’s access to gender-specific healthcare services is never scrutinized.
Just blows my mind, this ongoing obsession over the womb. Seems bizarre to me, how a mere body part can provoke so much controversy. Our wombs are fought over nonstop, coveted as if mere territory to be conquered. This uniquely female organ has been the object of male envy throughout recorded history; something highly valued, despite all the negative ways its value might manifest in patriarchal cultures.
With living-wage jobs so scarce these days and the “fruit of the womb” in such high demand, I see a potential source of revenue here. This could be the opportunity of a lifetime! So ladies, if you are of childbearing age, why not transform burden into bounty, leasing womb space to the wombless among us? In hard times like these, you’ve got to think creatively to get ahead. Were I not past childbearing age myself, I’d post an ad in the classifieds: “WOMB FOR RENT”. Hey, I’m a 99er too! I could use some extra cash.
Cheers! - Aliceinwonderland