query: place_of_birth mary sattler
supports: Russia (from the  Rus'), also officially known as the Russian Federation, is a country in Eurasia. At , Russia is the largest country in the world by surface area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with over 140 million people at the end of March 2016. The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern, about 77% of the population live in European Russia. Russia's capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world, other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara. Alaska is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America. The Canadian administrative divisions of British Columbia and Yukon border the state to the east; its most extreme western part is Attu Island; it has a maritime border with Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seasthe southern parts of the Arctic Ocean. The Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest. Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area, the 3rd least populous and the least densely populated of the 50 United States. Approximately half of Alaska's residents (the total estimated at 738,432 by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2015) live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska's economy is dominated by the fishing, natural gas, and oil industries, resources which it has in abundance. Military bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy. Yukon (also commonly called the Yukon) is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three federal territories (the other two are Northwest Territories and Nunavut). The territory is very sparsely populated with its about 35,000 people on almost half a million square kilometres. Whitehorse is the territorial capital and Yukon's only city. The Alaska House of Representatives is the lower house in the Alaska Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Alaska. The House is composed of 40 members, each of whom represents a district of approximately 17,756 people per 2010 Census figures. Members serve two-year terms without term limits. With 40 representatives, the Alaska House is the smallest state legislative lower house in the United States. The Alaska Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is a bicameral institution, consisting of the lower Alaska House of Representatives, with 40 members, and the upper house Alaska Senate, with 20 members. There are 40 House Districts (1-40) and 20 Senate Districts (A-T). With a total of 60 lawmakers, the Alaska Legislature is the smallest bicameral state legislature in the United States and the second-smallest of all state legislatures (only the 49-member unicameral Nebraska Legislature is smaller). There are no term limits for either chamber. Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or helium. It is formed when layers of decomposing plant and animal matter are exposed to intense heat and pressure under the surface of the Earth over millions of years. The energy that the plants originally obtained from the sun is stored in the form of chemical bonds in the gas. The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east. The Bering Strait ("Beringov proliv", Yupik: "Imakpik") is a strait of the Pacific, which borders with the Arctic to north. It is located between Russia and the United States. Named after Vitus Bering, a Danish-born explorer in the service of the Russian Empire, it lies slightly south of the Arctic Circle being at about 65° 40' N latitude. The present Russia-US east-west boundary is at 168° 58' 37" W. North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere. It can also be considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, and to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea. Redistricting is the process of drawing United States electoral district boundaries. A U.S. state is a constituent political entity of the United States of America. There are 50 states, which are bound together in a union with each other. Each state holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory, and shares its sovereignty with the United States federal government. Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government, Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons covered by certain types of court orders (e.g., paroled convicts and children of divorced spouses who are sharing custody). The Anchorage Metropolitan Statistical Area , as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of the Municipality of Anchorage and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough in the south central region of Alaska. Mary K. Sattler ( born August 31 , 1973 ) , is a Democratic politician in the U.S. state of Alaska , best known for serving five terms in the Alaska House of Representatives . Sattler represented the 39th District , and following redistricting the 38th District , which were centered on the community of Bethel , from 1999 to 2009 . Outside politics she has pursued careers in health care , journalism and public relations . Sattler was originally elected in 1998 , having defeated incumbent Ivan Martin Ivan of Akiak in the Democratic primary . Sattler appeared on the ballot in her first successful election under her maiden name , though she was at that point already married to Jonathan Kapsner . She was elected and reelected mostly without or with only minimal opposition , with Ivan 's return to challenge her in the 2002 primary the closest contest she faced . She served on various standing committees in the Alaska State House , including Finance , Resources and Health and Social Services . Special committee work included Fisheries , Education and Regulatory Review . Budget Subcommittees included : Corrections , Courts and Public Safety . Most notably , Mary successfully coalesced the then defunct `` Bush Caucus '' , a non-partisan caucus of Representatives and Senators who represent rural and off - road communities in Alaska . She was Chair of the Bush Caucus for eight years . Mary successfully sponsored legislation relating to school safety , fisheries , inhalant abuse and judicial districts . Rural school construction , and requiring Alaska history curriculum for high school graduation were among many issues she championed . During her tenure in the House , she was mostly known by the married name Mary Kapsner . In the latter part of her House tenure , she married Joe Nelson and became known as Mary Nelson . Joe Nelson is director of admissions at the University of Alaska Southeast , and in 2009 was one of then - governor Sarah Palin 's unconfirmed appointees to replace Juneau 's state senator Kim Elton , who resigned from his Senate seat to take a position in the Obama administration . That Senate seat would eventually be filled by Dennis Egan . He is the Chairman of the Board for Sealaska Corporation , and now re-married to Crystal Nelson . Sattler has since reverted to going by her maiden name . Since leaving the House , she worked as Manager of Community Development and Sustainability for Donlin Gold Donlin Creek Mine . Sattler was elected to the Bethel city council in 2011 as a successful advocate of the Yukon - Kuskokwim Fitness Center , and served until her term ended in 2013 . Mary is now the sole proprietor of Sattler Strategies , a consulting business based in Bethel , Alaska . Mary is the mother of four children ; Conrad and Van Kapsner and Job and Nora Nelson . The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, although some oceanographers call it the Arctic Mediterranean Sea or simply the Arctic Sea, classifying it a mediterranean sea or an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean. Alternatively, the Arctic Ocean can be seen as the northernmost part of the all-encompassing World Ocean. Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are normally caught in the wild. Techniques for catching fish include hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping. Fishing may include catching aquatic animals other than fish, such as molluscs, cephalopods, crustaceans, and echinoderms. The term is not normally applied to catching farmed fish, or to aquatic mammals, such as whales where the term whaling is more appropriate. A lower house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the upper house. Attu is the westernmost and largest island in the Near Islands group of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, and the westernmost point of land relative to Alaska, the United States, North America and the Americas. The island became uninhabited in 2010. An electoral district (also known as a constituency, legislative district, riding, ward, division, electoral area or electorate) is a territorial subdivision for electing members to a legislative body. Generally, only voters (constituents) who reside within the district are permitted to vote in an election held there. From a single district, a single member or multiple members might be chosen. Members might be chosen by a first-past-the-post system or a proportional representative system, or another voting method entirely. Members might be chosen through a direct election under universal suffrage, an indirect election, or another form of suffrage. British Columbia (BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, with a population of more than four million people located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. 
  British Columbia is also a component of the Pacific Northwest and the Cascadia bioregion, along with the U.S. states of Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Alaska.
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answer: anchorage