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June 16th 2018 - Stunt 902 demonstration team performs on front of Maders tobacconist on Aberdeen Street KVille.
Happy Birthday Maders Tobaconnist - 13 Aberdeen St, Kentville NS B4N 2M9
serving downtown Kentville shoppers for 50 years,
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Here are some relevant news clippings :
Tobacco :
A highly disproportionate Government taxation is forced on the purchasers of a singled out long time publicly sold legal product ? Tobacco users must now pay the equivalent of over 4 times the amount of Government sin tax on their product as do the users of alcohol pay tax on their product even though stats show that alcohol use ranks twice as much in cost to society due to substance use as does tobacco ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52649460406/in/datepos...
The Kentville Courthouse - Longtime Kentville resident, businessman, community leader and Maders Tobacconist store owner operator loses his Constitutional Challenge,
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/n-s-tobacconist-won-t-...
A stifling, superfluous, unimaginable and shocking Sin Tax has been placed on cigarettes ? The Maders street window in downtown Kentville is allowed to display Government gambling ads but not the product he's been selling for the last 50 years, and so Maders has instead posted a sign that reveals the massive Government Sin Tax that is currently being charged to the customer on their purchases of tobacco ? He was later ordered to take this information down ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/9344935900
When legally purchasing a tobacco product you are now charged a Government Sin Tax at a proportional rate equivalent to over 4 times more than charged on alcohol even though the alcohol product is far more destructive and far more costly to society ? The extreme difference in taxation and the obvious discrimination shown against one legally sold product over another is a direct result of many years of lobbying by those who are biased against smoking but do not appear to have a problem with other more harmful bad habits such as smoking marijuana, alcohol, junk food, obesity, energy drinks, gambling, etc ? Over the years there's been loads of one product only negative misinformation and gaslighting submitted by the lobby in order to stack their case that has served to convince and encourage Government (s) to levy outrageous sin taxes on the lone product lobbyists have chosen to singularly target ? Consequently, has the fair and normal progression of the placement of a tax on a product by a Government(s) been negatively influenced by discrimination, bias and an attack aimed at one consumer product only ? And, has the biased outside interference now caused an extraordinarily harsh and unjust taxation to be imposed on a long time legally sold product and on certain Canadian citizens ? And would such an unfortunate and very unfair discriminatory situation constitute a form of harassment or a form of consumer fraud against this injured group of Canadian citizens ? A Class action tax recovery suit and an application for a fair share of the recent 24 billion dollar tobacco reclamation suit to compensate consumers for large financial losses is being considered ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52649460406/in/datepos...
August 16, 2023 - Unfortunately, cancer diagnosis rates have gone way up in a new generation ? Studies find that cancer diagnosis rates are going up in younger adults, driven largely by a rise in women and in people in their 30s ? But, unlike previous generations, this is a generation made up of far fewer cigarette smokers ? www.cnn.com/2023/08/16/health/early-onset-cancer-increase...
May 13, 2024 - May 13, 2024 - Many have quit smoking but as the number of persons who smoke cigarettes keeps going down the cancer death rates blamed on them keeps going up ? Monday's issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal says Cancer is still your leading cause of premature death in Canada. Stats Canada data says it has accounted for 25 per cent of the deaths in 2022, however more people than ever are now surviving. Researchers projected there will be 247,100 new cancer diagnoses and 88,100 cancer deaths in 2024, up from last year ?
www.cbc.ca/news/health/cancer-cmaj-may-1.7200589
Sept 4th, 2023 - A tenacious, well funded, well-organized and anti tobacco lobbying campaign with its laser focus continually on the tobacco products seems to have failed miserably in their promise to reduce and to even eliminate heart and lung disease ? Figures now show that after many years of a strategy focusing mainly on tobacco, that while on their watch cancer rates have risen significantly instead of going down as their lobby has promised the donors ? This is especially true among young adults (who are mostly non smokers) ?
globalnews.ca/news/9938796/cancer-cases-young-adults-stud...
Aug 2024 - Obesity - 17 of the 34 most common cancers are increasing in younger people and are now linked to obesity, consistent to the rise in childhood obesity ?
www.cbc.ca/news/health/cancer-millennials-genx-1.7287779
Jan 17,2024 -"Cancer incidences on the rise amongst young adults under 50 ? Doctors search for answers,"
For years now cancer societies have directed their energy and primary focus on the tobacco products ? While the attack has always been targeted mainly on this one singled-out product alone, smoking has gone way down but the cases of cancer keeps on steadily increasing as never before ? Has the cancer societies biased blinkers on, one product only strategy taken the wrong path and has it even prevented discovery of the real causes of all of these cancers ? If it isn't the smoking, then what is it ? and why aren't they getting warning labels on whatever it is ?
www.cnn.com/2024/01/17/health/cancer-incidence-rising-report
Gender inequality ? Female gender is now living longer ? Life expectancy inequality now shown as life expectancy rate declines for men but has increased for women ? Men are also 3 times more likely to commit suicide than women ? Males are also suffering the most opioid toxicity deaths (72%) ? There are hundreds for Women but no emergency shelters provided in Canada for the many male victims of spousal abuse ?
www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230828/dq230828b-...
Lawyers rubbing hands together in eager anticipation ? There's a pending 500 billion dollar, (that's with a 'b') tobacco industry suit still up for grabs ? www.ctvnews.ca/health/provinces-must-seek-anti-smoking-me...
May 31, 2023 - Canada has created a brand new Cabinet position called Minister of health and Addictions, and Carolyn Bennett has started off with yet another repeated attack on tobacco by ordering that 50 additional dire warning messages ( 25 in French and 25 in English) must be placed on or within the cigarette package that is already overcrowded with many dire warnings and graphic pictures ? This is getting interesting ? First they favor alcohol products by giving them a generous 4 times the Sin Tax break over tobacco products, and then they create and pass legislation that legalizes and enables smoking cannabis, and then they create more legislation in Bill C-218 that will open the flood gates to enable legal at home and mobile phone sports parlor betting and casino gambling as never before seen or imagined in Canada - And then after aiding, abetting and enabling all of these social vices through new Liberal legalization, they will then create a Cabinet position called the Minister of mental health and addictions, and her first order of business is to once again go after tobacco while ignoring and never mentioning sports parlor betting, on-line gambling, marijuana or alcohol ?
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Ottawa May 31, 2023 - Canada has made history, (and the Guinness book of records) ? The Canadian Government has ordered that 50 new dire warnings be placed on or inside cigarette packages that are already 75% covered with multiple warnings and graphic images and must always be hidden away from public view in drawers in stores ? Meanwhile the number 50 also just happens to be the same number of new at-home on-line gambling las vegas style gambling casinos and sports betting parlors that quickly opened for business in Canada following this same Liberal Government's recently enacted Bill C-218 ?
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Lobbyists claim 10's of thousands of Canadians die each year from smoking but strangely enough not one of the 10's of thousands of official death certificates posted will ever list or use the word 'smoking' as an official cause of that particular death ?
www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-concerns/t...
Each year the Province of Nova Scotia publishes an official Government financial statement showing tax revenue collected from sales of Sin Tax legal adult recreational products. The Sin Tax products listed are : alcohol ( NSLC sales ), tobacco, gambling (Atlantic lotto/casino), and, now Cannabis (NSLC ) ? According to numbers stated and based on total purchases, the smokers appear to be paying 4 tax dollars into the Government coffers for every 1 tax dollar the drinkers pay in ? This would be equivalent to 4 times more Provincial tax now being charged to the smoker as that being charged to the alcohol purchaser ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52649460406/in/datepos...
Aug 23, 2023 - Absurdly over-valued cigarettes are a top priority for armed robbers - Two similar HRM gas station robberies are under investigation . "Cigarettes", food and cash stolen during the robberies...
atlantic.ctvnews.ca/police-seek-suspect-in-halifax-conven...
'Let's just blame it all on smoking ? easy,,,,,,eh !'
Stats Can, October 16, 2017 - The Conference Board of Canada says that although the number of actual smokers have decreased dramatically, the deaths and health care costs attributed to smoking are still increasing dramatically ? They explain that the reason for the paradox may lie in the way they compute statistics. Calculations include all lifetime sickness and negative health problems (both physical and mental) that are ever incurred by the smoker in an entire lifetime even if they had quit and are a non smoker ? And so, even if you happened to smoke at one time or another in life and quit, all of your health issues and illnesses experienced in your lifetime will be seen by them as caused by smoking ? And so, for example, If an ex smoker dies naturally at say age 80, his death and all of his lifetime sickness and negative medical issues even if a non smoker for 50 years are viewed by them as being caused by smoking ? www.cbc.ca/news/business/smoking-economic-cost-1.4357096
Desperate tobacco Lobbyists stoop to play the race card and to weaponize the common cigarette ? Lobbyists falsely portray menthol cigarettes to be a racist weapon that was specifically invented, manufactured and distributed to harm blacks in America ? As a direct result of this kind of gaslighting a long time freedom of choice and guaranteed right has now been taken away from citizens after menthol smokes were banned in the USA in a move similar to Canada ? read "How the tobacco industry targeted Black Americans with menthol smokes" www.npr.org/2022/04/29/1095291808/tobacco-industry-target...
January 24, 2025 - Trump administration withdraws the proposed menthol ban,, www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/trump-administration-withdr...
Why do they always place high priority on the smoking habit only and why do they hide and never mention all the other bad habits and why has this bias that is now shown on one product become so politically correct ? It is noticed that they never show such strong opinions against pot, gambling, obesity or alcohol ? In Countries where those in power do not hold a personal grudge or strong bias towards one particular product, for example Turkey, where today's normal and rational price for a pack of Marlboro is $ 1.73 American when purchased at the local downtown tobacconist ? www.thesun.co.uk/money/24653882/kings-speech-charles-rish...
Famous smokers at one time or another, ( and there's sure a lot of em ) from Roosevelt to Churchill to Dylan, to many other creative artists, to all or most notable physicists and mathematicians including Einstein and Oppenheimer, to many world leaders and all the Kings of England, to the greatest ever Canadian musicians like Joni Mitchel, Gordon Lightfoot, Leonard Cohen and Tragically Hip (all members), and also, to the many brave soldiers who fight in Wars for us.. www.hoodmwr.com/celebrities-who-smoke/
Is your home still your castle Part 1 - A worried couple seeks ban on secondhand smoke seeping in from the next door neighbor ?
nationalpost.com/news/canada/couple-seeks-ban-on-secondha...
Feb 9th 2024 - Is your home still your castle Pt.2 - Health Canada has floated the notion of calling for a ban on all smoking in all homes in Canada for its upcoming attendance at the W H O tobacco summit ? What about the Charter, guaranteed freedoms, and an invasion of privacy ? How can they force compulsory government control on a citizen's private residence ? tnc.news/2024/02/09/health-canada-ban-on-smoking/
Richard Vobes Show - Freedom of choice ? Should Government be telling us what to do and what not to do ? Are we all being gaslighted, and if so then what is their alternative narrative ? Richard White (author) - ' Smoke Screens the truth about tobacco' www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9FPnIyC22A&t=630s
The $500 Million Anti Tobacco Industry ,, Pt 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAkM5bssOcw
The $500 Million Anti Tobacco Industry ,, Pt 2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdbtAgvnoIE&t=13s
Global news 2023 - It seems strange that although smoking and smokers are way down, Rob Cunningham's Canadian Cancer Society says deaths per year caused by smokers are way up ? They also claim that 1 in 3 cancer cases in Canada are still being caused by these same smokers ? Given that in the last 10 years the actual number of smokers has gone down by half, it was interesting when Cunningham and the Minister of Health said recently that in 2022 there were a whopping 46,000 deaths related to smoking ? This is 10,000 or 30% more than it was 10 years ago in 2011 when there were only 36,000 deaths reported caused by smokers even though there were twice as many smokers smoking then ? And so the 46,000 deaths related to smoking figure used in 2022, 23, 24, 25, and 26 don't make any sense ? Are these numbers misinformation and are they being exaggerated and manipulated in order to get the results wanted ? globalnews.ca/video/10194704/tobacco-free-generation-the-...
While the number of actual cigarette smokers continues steadily on a downward trend each year - for some odd reason the cancer rates blamed on them keeps going in the other direction, and at an alarming rate upwards ? The latest figures from the Canadian Cancer Society in 2023, 24, 25 and 26 claim in their official public reports that smoking tobacco causes 46,000 Canadian deaths per year ? 46,000 deaths are actually up 30 % from 10 years ago even though actual smokers are 50% less since then ? cancer.ca/en/about-us/news/2023/june/stop-big-tobacco
CTV news Dec 29th, 2023 : Loss of guaranteed freedoms to be imposed on many defenceless unwary citizens by their Government ? Government social control has been proposed in new legislation ? If passed Government will have the power to select a publicly sold legal product. as chosen by them, and then force lifetime probationary orders to be placed on citizens, as chosen by them, and then impose monitoring and surveillance on these citizens to insure birth to death compliance ? www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/preview/82789576983846...
1984, a disturbing futuristic novel and dark look into the future written by George Orwell in which a Totalitarian society is portrayed where social control is exercised through the use of manipulated statistics, misinformation, monitoring and surveillance in order to rule and get the result they want ? www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/preview/82789576983846...
The tobacco hating and one single product only obsessed, social activist and lawyer Rob Cunningham, ( and some World Leaders ) want to curb smoking by establishing and enforcing a form of Government social control that will allow them the legal right to initiate lifetime restrictions pertaining to certain legally sold products, (as chosen by them), and to then be able to place these restrictions on certain citizens (as chosen by them) that will deny them access to the publicly sold legal products without having to gain approval, permission or consent, and to then place lifetime state monitoring on these citizens to insure mandatory compliance is met on the legal probationary orders that were forced on them at birth by their Government ? globalnews.ca/video/10194704/tobacco-free-generation-the-...
Caste system convention ? The National NDP Convention October 13 – 15, Hamilton Convention Centre. No smoking allowed here.
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Jan 17, 2024 - A new year and newer even more horrific pictures upgraded to ultra super gruesome level ? "Cigarette warning labels in Canada are about to get even more graphic ? " dailyhive.com/canada/canadian-cigarette-pack-images-even-...
What if they were to advertise a safe way to smoke cigarettes in order to obtain clients ? This sounds ridiculous ? But is this not the same as advertising gambling as 'safe' gambling ? Don't safe gambling ads serve to advertise, welcome, endorse and normalize the gambling vice which can be a dangerous and life altering highly addictive serious practice ?
May 25,2022 - The big gambling companies are running ads that emphasize 'limited play' and 'safe' gambling ? Is this not the same as the alcohol industry running ads to encourage the drinking of alcohol by telling you how many beers you can safely drink per day, or, how about the tobacco industry running ads promoting smoking thru a suggested amount of safely smoked cigs per day, or the marijuana industry recommending the number of joints to safely get high on each day ? Or, what if they were to spin : You're 'good' if you drink but You're 'great' if you safe drink this number of drinks every day, or, you're 'good' if you smoke cigarettes but You're 'great' if you safe smoke by only smoking so many cigarettes per day, or , you're 'good' if you smoke pot but you're 'great' if you only do this many grams per day ? ref, "All those sports betting ads you're seeing,, It's illegal says the Alberta gaming commission ?" www.cbc.ca/player/play/2302654019728
Jan 22 2024 - Although smokers have co-operated and 1 out of every 2 smokers has quit during the last 10 years and the numbers are now down to a tolerable 11 % in Canada as compared to rates like 40% or 50% in other countries like Russia and China, a few radical anti tobacco lobbyists are still unsatisfied and are demanding that further legislation be introduced for a total nation wide ban on all tobacco products ?
'It's never enough' and 'we'll never be satisfied' seems to be a standard moto in the never ending, blinkers on, one-product only, singular, blind sided attack on the one social product that they don't happen to approve of ? However, on the otherhand, they hide and will never mention the incredible progress, innovation and expansion of other social habits (or vices) such as alcohol, pot, gambling, energy drinks etc etc.that have all, while under their watch, never before in history seen such phenomenal growth, financial profit and unobstructed expansion ? www.cbc.ca/player/play/2302654019728
The tobacco endgame, Canada at W.H.O. - Canada wants to impose nation wide household Government surveillance on Canadians to spy on them for a detection of used cigarette smoke ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=aikvPnNYfeY&t=2250s
Mar 20, 2024 - Zonnic, A colored flavored pouch style tobacco substitute and smoking cessation product is attacked by the tobacco lobbyists ? Government responds to the lobby and orders the product pulled and issues a statement that any use of glamorous marketing techniques to lure under age young people is unacceptable ? Liberal Health Minister Mark Holland says, quote "Stay the hell away from our kids" ? Maybe Mark should talk to his boss about sports superstars appearing in gambling ads during CBC's hockey night in Canada, or the introduction of gambling into the CBC broadcast of the Paris Olympics ? www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nicotine-pouches-regulations-war...
gambling ads - The aggressive marketing of a highly addictive social vice to sports fans both young and old ? www.cbc.ca/news/marketplace/sports-betting-gambling-adver...
Nov 30, 2023 - A stark warning to the pot, gambling and alcohol industries ? Health Canada has issued a strong warning statement, " Any marketing directed at youth deemed as deceptive advertising could trigger post-market compliance actions. " www.cbc.ca/news/politics/we-were-duped-health-minister-re...
Aug 22 2024, Minister of Health Mark Holland makes it harder for quitters to quit when he bans Zonnic nicotine replacement therapy from public stores in Canada ? A dark day for freedom and an over use of a privileged position to target, politicize and ban a smoking cessation product that is currently sold only to those over 19 and always kept hidden away from view under the counter in stores ? Holland warns, "All the stuff that's clearly designed to target youth — it's over," ? no such warning given by Holland to the pot or gambling industry ?
www.newswire.ca/news-releases/a-dark-day-for-canadian-smo...
Nov 2023 London England. The Throne Speech.
Smoking and tobacco get top priority by the King and the Prime Minister in this years Throne Speech while problems like the influx of immigrants, illegals, climate change, nuclear war, war in Ukraine, a mental health epidemic, opioid and fentanyl crisis, high levels of crime, the homeless and tent encampments, crippling inflation, Doctor and Nurse shortage, the ondoing loss of the the English identity, etc etc etc, seenm to have been overlooked ? www.thesun.co.uk/money/24653882/kings-speech-charles-rish...
Apr 16 2024 - The English Parliament makes history with legislation to say that no one in England under age 14, ( known as Generation Alpha ) will ever be able to legally buy tobacco products as long as they live ? Question - can this mean that an entire generation are now presumed to be born with a lifetime probation order placed on them without ever gaining their permission or consent ? And also, what will happen as time passes and when the segregated people have grown up to be family providers, Mothers, Fathers, taxpayers and legal age voters ? What will happen when these now Adult citizens want to go into a public retail outlet in London to buy pipe tobacco as a gift, but unlike other citizens, they will be arrested or ticketed for doing an everyday act like everyone else ? metro.co.uk/2024/04/16/uks-proposed-gen-alpha-smoking-ban...
April 29, 2024 - In a world first, king-size cigarettes in Canada must feature one of these warnings starting Tuesday.
www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/in-a-world-first-king-size-...
May 14 2024 - Dr Heather Morrison Chief PEI Public Health Officer - CBC Power & Politics - Morrison's notion that "Smokers are creating long line ups in Emergency" ? WHA-A-T she say ? Most smokers I know are out there working hard earning a living and not sitting around on chairs in your backed up Emergency Rooms waiting 8 hours to see a Doctor ? Is she just using smokers to distract from the current dysfunction in her own health system ?
href="https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/p-e-i-proposes-banning-islanders-of-a-certain-age-from-purchasing-tobacco-products-in-new-health-plan-1.6888591" rel="noreferrer nofollow">atlantic.ctvnews.ca/p-e-i-proposes-banning-islanders-of-a...
Dr. Morrison lies about victims of Covi ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z517OdX3vX0
Newfoundland, June 3, 2024 - A proposal has been put forth that wants to allow the Provincial Government to interrupt and override the current system of democracy in Newfoundland and deny rights and freedoms of citizens as guaranteed under a Charter without having to aquire their attention or consent ?
It is always concerning when a Government wants to install groundbreaking, freedom removing, controlling, Authoritarian or totalitarian legislation that might be based on radical opinions of a few who are presenting biased, unproven, out dated, over-exaggerated and manipulated facts and figures ? www.ctvnews.ca/canada/n-l-becomes-latest-province-to-eye-...
Jun 01, 2024 - The number of visits by Senior citizens to E.R. units is rising ? Many Seniors enjoy their tobacco products from time to time but can no longer afford the price ? And, the tobacco affordability factor has created a safety hazard for many Seniors who are turning to the much stronger pot smoke ? This very strong smoke is adversely affecting brain and lung function causing trips to emergency ? www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/cannabis-seniors-emergency-ro...
Smokers forced to turn to the Indians to buy tax free cigs without those stupid pictures on them in order to side step the sick pictures and superfluous Sin Tax that is now forced on the white man ?
www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/new-report-says-illegal-cig...
Nicotine may prove to help curb long term covid-19 Fatigue syndrome,,
www.healthrising.org/blog/2023/12/07/nicotine-patch-long-...
Apr 04, 2022 - Indian Island First Nation elder passes down traditional tobacco teachings to children. Tobacco is a traditional medicine that connects prayers to the Creator, says Christopher Sanipass, www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/indian-island-tobacco-teaching...
Tobacco: The Sacred First Nations Medicine, custom of burning tobacco ties in the "sacred fire",
www.fnha.ca/Documents/FNHA-Tobacco-The-Sacred-Medicine.pdf
Oct 31, 2024 - tobacco giant JTI-Macdonald Corp opposes proposed $32.5B settlement with provinces,
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/jti-macdonald-settlement-oppositio...
Oct 17th 2024 - Three tobacco giants proposing to pay $24 billion to provinces and territories and more than $4 billion to 100,000 Quebec smokers . Could pay out $32.5 B . www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/tobacco-giants-would-pay-ou...
Mar 7 2025 - It's finally payday ? A settlement has been reached between JTI-Macdonald Corp., Rothmans, Benson & Hedges and Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. and creditors after five years. They will pay close to $24.7 billion to provinces and territories over 20 years, including approximately $6.3 billion upfront, according to the judgment.
dailyhive.com/canada/class-action-lawsuit-tobacco-settlement
Nov 13,2024 - The Provincial Government of Nova Scotia is advertising 'safe' smoking, (of a joint that is) on public television ? The Provincial Crown Corporation is promoting 'safe smoking' in advertisements now playing to viewers of all ages ? Glamorous NSLC employee Terah MacKinnon shows off their cannabis product ( an impairment causing product that is generally smoked ) in a 'safe use public awareness campaign' ? Slick ads attempt to convince the smoker that by focusing more on their NSLC marijuana, it will make ehem better understand the importance of a safe and regulated product ? atlantic.ctvnews.ca/nslc-ad-campaign-promoting-it-s-canna...
April 07, 2025 - The Provincial Government run NSLC has made a deal and will be providing and supplying cannabis smoking products to Mi’kmaq First Nations reserves in Nova Scotia ? wh-a-a-a-tt ?
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/nova-scotia-i...
Sept 9th, 2025 - for the first time ever more people smoke weed than regular cigarettes.
www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/stocks/XXII/pre...
March 19, 2026 - A SEVERE case of severe OVER-TAXATION ? An insane and discriminating Government Taxation applied to one select singled out legally sold product is forcing many customers to buy from the Indians ? ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/statement-brunswick-steps-fight...
March 18, 2026 - "The Convenience store industry backs a Provincial Government plan to tackle contraband tobacco and bring back their 'valuable' customers"
Your $27.99 pack of cigarettes have cost $2.79 to make and then had 10 times that amount added to the price in tax related charges ? Duh-h-h-h-h , have these low IQ stores not figured out yet that their exploited 'valuable' customers can't afford to be ripped off anymore when purchasing a simple pack of cigarettes that have cost $2.99 to produce but then Sin-fully marked up to $25.99 or more when mafia level taxation is forced on this legal product ?
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/new-brunswick/article/convenience...
March 13, 2026 - Nova Scotia First Nation assert Indian control over tobacco and cannabis-related activities on their traditional lands, tells government and RCMP to stay out of cannabis and tobacco sales ? www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/ns-first-nati...
Apr 2, 2026 - RCMP vehicles damaged and highways blocked following raid on a First Nations tobacco shop in Cape Breton during Provincial Government crack down .
halifax.citynews.ca/2026/04/03/highway-4-reopens-after-fi...
George Orwell's dark prediction has come true.
London England, Apr 22,2026 - The British Parliament has just enacted legislation to install a form of Orwellian Totalitarian rule into the current democratic English social system allowing for Government installment of social control in the form of mandatory lifetime probationary orders to be placed on certain Government selected unwary citizens without asking their permission who will then state monitored from their birth to death to insure compliance is met on a legal lifetime probation order that is attached to them for life ? Great Canadians Rob Cunningham and his Cancer Society are boldly crusading for residents of his democratic home country of Canada to also lose the current freedoms they enjoy and to now be forced into this dark Totallitarian form of Government social control ? www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/uk-agrees-ban-on-cigarette-s...
Dec 13th, 2025 - this could be a bit rich ? The top doctor for Nova Scotia is advertising smoking for the liquor store ? What ?? Dr. Robert Strang Chief Medical Officer of Health is now appearing in TV ads that endorse the (safe) smoking of pot while representing Provincially owned liquor stores ? It also seems a bit rich when Rob Cunningham and his Canadian Cancer Society don't appear to have any problem at all with this new run of smoking ads by the top Provincial Doctor ?
www.facebook.com/watch/?v=4190201767960744
Jul 22, 2026 - In their ongoing quest for notoriety, the powers-that-be have ordered cigarette packages to be re engineered and re-designed not to make room for the addition of more product but instead to increase the showcase area size of the package cover ? The added space will be needed to accommodate a fresh new series of 13 upgraded ultra sickening pictures and warnings that are to be added to the existing 73 others that are now over-crowding current package covers ? Messages will also be added to the extended upper flap inside cigarette packages says Karine LeBlanc.
Do these people really think that by continually using this idea for political gain as they deliberately hide or ignore the thousands of other possible causes of cancer that they are actually helping to find the cure for cancer ?
www.cbc.f ca/news/health/canada-graphic-image-warnings-ciga...
July, 2026 - Smoking pot is now more than cigs ? And there's still no horrible pictures on these smoking products ? Why so obsessed with one single product only, and why are social activist and lawyer Rob Cunningham and his Canadian Cancer Society downplaying data and studies showing that cannabis use in Canada, ( while under their watch ) has risen nearly 29% while cigarette smoking rates have steadily declined 50 % over the years ? www.hli.ubc.ca/2020/05/new-canadian-study-on-the-impact-o... www.hli.ubc.ca/2020/05/new-canadian-study-on-the-impact-o...
Cannabis :
Cigarettes don't impair you, but the others do. National Drug Driving Study 2024 - Cannabis now edges out alcohol as the most common impairing substance,
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-cannabis-edges-out...
Oct. 17, 2018 - The Liberal government has introduced The Cannabis Act and made marijuana smoking legal in all provinces and territories for adults 18 and over, making Canada just the second country to legalize recreational use of the drug. Jane Philpott, Minister of Health www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marijuana-faq-legalization-need-to...
Canadian study claims smoking weed is more harmful than tobacco,
www.thegrowthop.com/cannabis-health/canadian-study-claims...
Studies show Marijuana use raises the risk of heart attack, heart failure, and stroke,
ca.news.yahoo.com/marijuana-raises-risk-heart-attack-2201...
Study finds marijuana smoke harms lungs in tobacco smokers,
www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/health/marijuana-lung-damage-study...
Cannabis use disorder is common where marijuana is legal,
www.cnn.com/2023/08/29/health/medical-marijuana-cannabis-...
Nov/2023 - A newly separated Sophie Grégoire Trudeau opens Cannabis based business ? she says, quote, "Now some of you might remember this being the month that Justin and the federal government officially legalized cannabis and like many other Canadian entrepreneurs, I saw the opportunity, as did Justin, to capitalize on this " ? nutracrazy.com/sophie-gregoire-trudeau-cbd-gummies-canada...
Feb 7, 2024 - Cannabis use is linked to anxiety diagnoses, worsened anxiety disorders: Ontario study,,
globalnews.ca/news/10275463/cannabis-anxiety-ontario-study/
June 13, 2024 - We're #1.... We're #1 ! The province of Nova Scotia is now leading the country in cannabis use.
atlantic.ctvnews.ca/video/c2940041-n-s--leads-country-in-...
Nov 13, 2024 - Nova Scotia Provincial Government advertises 'safe' smoking, (of a joint that is) ?
atlantic.ctvnews.ca/nslc-ad-campaign-promoting-it-s-canna...
Marijuana may damage unfertilized eggs in female ovaries, Researchers worry may lead to infertility, miscarriage and possible genetic defects in babies. New research has linked marijuana use during pregnancy to autism, poor fetal development, low infant birth weight, dangerously early deliveries and even death.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/health/marijuana-female-fertility-...
A Doctor's warning about legalizing or normalizing usage of marijuana ? Marijuana is highly addictive and much more dangerous than alcohol,, Never use marijuana for mental health issues. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp-3YaAkCa8
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2025 - impairment by pot ? 29 people were killed in crashes last year and so far this year, the highest in a decade, Calgary police say,,
calgaryherald.com/news/fatal-crashes-calgary-police-campa...
Dec 5th, 2025 - cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS), Screaming while vomiting ? It's called ‘scromiting,' a painful side effect of chronic marijuana use: www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/screaming-while-vomiting...
Feb 02, 2026 - Marijuana crisis ? Psychosis rates climb among young people in Ontario, researchers find People born more recently are being diagnosed with psychotic disorders like schizophrenia more often. People aged 14 to 20 are more often being diagnosed with psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia, compared with those born earlier, a large Ontario study examining 30 years of data suggests.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/psychosis-schizophrenia-age-cmaj-9...
Apr 01, 2026 -The Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation is reporting an increase in both alcohol and cannabis sales.. cannabis sales up 10% during its third quarter.
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/video/2026/04/01/nslc-reports-inc...
July, 2026 - data and stats now show more Canadians smoke cannabis than cigauettes ? www.hli.ubc.ca/2020/05/new-canadian-study-on-the-impact-o...
Obesity now outranks smoking in health care costs and 40 % of the population now suffer from obesity ? Yet they pay zero in 'Sin Tax' to Government coffers ? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/health-study-shows-eco...
Aug 2024 - Obesity and Cancer - Some cancers increasing in Millennials and Gen-Xers, with over half linked to obesity. 17 of the 34 most common cancers that are increasing in younger people are being linked to obesity and are consistent to the rise in childhood obesity among recent generations.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/cancer-millennials-genx-1.7287779
Obesity is a bigger social problem than smoking (no pun intended) ? Nationally, the estimated annual economic burden attributed to excess weight is now 25 percent higher than tobacco ?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/health-study-shows-eco...
Sin Tax ? Why aren't they attacking the obesity-causing products that are costing our society far more than tobacco products do ? www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/8278957698384692094/24...
Energy drinks - those popular Hi caffeine Energy drinks can cause major health issues, including increased blood pressure, nervousness, irritability, insomnia, and a wealth of heart problems,
www.foxnews.com/health/energy-drinks-health-risks
big money ? A can of Monster Energy contains about 160 milligrams of caffeine — triple the amount in a can of Coke ? Energy drink sales in Canada jumped from $851 million to $1.1 billion between 2018 and 2022, according to Euromonitor, and are expected to hit $1.5 billion by 2027.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/energy-drink-recall-health-canada-...
The hidden danger of energy drinks. A doctor explains,
www.cnn.com/2024/09/09/health/energy-drinks-caffeine-dang...
June 18, 2024 - U.S. surgeon general calling for mental health warning labels to be placed on all social media platforms,
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/6/17/us-surgeon-general-ca...
May 06, 2026 - Zachary Miron's death - 455 affiliated pharmacies in Quebec and New Brunswick withdrawing energy drinks from stores in both provinces, Calls for a total ban grow in aftermath of 15-year-old Zachary Miron's death,
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-pharmacy-energy-dr...
September 06, 2026 - Fentanyl detected in cannabis on N.S. First Nation, www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/drug-alert-is...
Alcohol :
Cigarettes don't impair you, but alcohol can cause physical and mental impairment..
National Drug Driving Study 2024 - ,
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-cannabis-edges-out...
Alcohol leads the nation in substance use costs almost doubling that of smoking. csuch.ca/substance-use-costs/current-costs/#:~:text=The%2...
"alcohol deficit" - Alcohol costs Ontario over $7 billion in health-care, criminal, justice, family, and lost productivity costs. Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation 3.0 published last year showed that alcohol generated $4.2 billion for the province, but cost $7 billion in social costs, resulting in an overall "alcohol deficit" of nearly $2 billion. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ontario-s-alcohol-deficit-t...
Jan 27, 2025 - Premier Ford expanding liquor sales in Ontario expected to cost the province roughly $1.4 billion by 2030, www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-alcohol-beer-wine-boo... )
24/7 booze in 2024, Montreal plans to create a 24-hour nightlife district,
montreal.ctvnews.ca/montreal-plans-to-create-a-24-hour-ni...
1 in 20 deaths globally result from alcohol :
www.cnn.com/2018/09/21/health/global-alcohol-deaths-who-i...
Johnny Gaudreau and his brother are killed by an alleged drunk driver,
ottawa.citynews.ca/video/2024/08/30/nhl-star-johnny-gaudr...,
A record number of people died from alcohol and drug use during the pandemic, (no deaths reported from cigarettes) ; StatsCan
www.cbc.ca/news/health/alcohol-deaths-pandemic-1.6712273
NSLC reports a 6 % increase in 2022/23 earnings."I’m very proud says Greg Hughes, President & CEO,,"
halifax.citynews.ca/2023/06/13/nslc-reports-a-6-increase-...
2023 - NSLC yearly sales figures have doubled in just 10 years in Nova Scotia ? Yearly sales are now close to a billion ?
www.mynslc.com/About-NSLC/Media-Centre/2023/NSLC-Third-Qu...
Alcohol growing as Prime-Time Killer ! Alcohol is increasingly crippling the lives of young adults with its effects playing out in the morgue and operating room.
www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2020-...
The Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation (NSLC) is making it easy for drinkers by offering home delivery service right to the door. Just click the over 19 years of age button on your home PC or mobile phone to view thousands of listed alcohol products on an elaborate and detailed NSLC menu ? just flash our phoney I.D. ? www.mynslc.com/en/Shop-With-Us/Delivery
Maders tobacconist in downtown Kentville (celebrating 50 years service this year), has dark empty store front windows due to harsh Government regulations, but the nearby liquor store located on the best piece of prime commercial real estate in town is the nicest, brightest, most modern, classiest, most well stocked and best product variety to choose from, and, by far the brightest largest street front display windows in the County ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/9344935900
Current alcohol tax rates. The combined amount of excise taxes and sales taxes for alcohol in Canada runs between 20% and 31% depending on the beverage in question and the alcohol quotient that beverage is expected to contain. www.partnershipagainstcancer.ca/topics/alcohol-policies/a...
Does WEF support consumption of alcohol ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ0ixgDElH8
Apr 12, 2024, Dartmouth, N.S - Artificial Intelligence and robotics provide alcohol to the public ? Company launches alcohol vending machine business with conveniently placed A.I. liquor dispensing machines ? Not known at this time just how machines plan to do a proper ID check ? atlantic.ctvnews.ca/more/dartmouth-n-s-company-launches-a...
Jun 27, 2025 - Ontario to allow alcohol on pedal pubs starting in July 2025, www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-allowing-alchohol-...
Mar 1st, 2026 - Liquor labels could save lives, U of Vic study finds,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwijJswGKZw
Alcohol plays a big role in deaths from many different cancers. Just one drink a day may increase the risk of dying from numerous cancers, www.cnn.com/2026/09/03/health/alcohol-impact-cancer-death...
Opioid Crisis in Canada - According to the government Over 1700 opioid overdoses occurred in the first three months of 2021. That was approximately 20 deaths per day, representing a 65 per cent increase from last year ? I think we'd rather have them smoking their traditional cigarettes ? globalnews.ca/news/10216880/homelessness-and-opioid-use-o...
A National shame taking place daily in British Columbia ? Jan 24th 2024- Toxic drug deaths in B.C. last year were almost 7 each and every day or 2511 deaths for the year.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-sets-grim-rec...
Alberta daily Drug deaths are soaring ? More than 4 Albertans died — each and every day — from opioids in 2023 ? Shame on the richest Province,,.. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-opioid-overdoses-a...
Apr 15, 2024 - Opioid-related deaths have now doubled in Canada ?
atlantic.ctvnews.ca/video/c2904079-opioid-related-deaths-...
Apr 29 2024 - Liberals legalize hard drugs ? Ottawa has allowed B.C. to decriminalize small amounts of hard drugs like heroin and fentanyl starting in 2023, www.cbc.ca/news/politics/decriminalization-british-columb...
July 7th 2024 - Come from Away ? An epidemic of violent crime homelessness and opioid deaths are now hitting big cities in the down home and laid back Maritimes starting in Moncton and Halifax ?
atlantic.ctvnews.ca/video/c2954811-new-brunswick-saw-72-o...
Gambling :
A message to the kids from a mentor- "are you a good player, or a great player". Betano gambling ads associate words like 'good and great' with gambling ?
June, 2021. The Liberal Government has enacted new Legislation that serves to assist, encourage and enable far more gambling and will greatly expand the gambling industry in Canada ? Bill C-218 opens the floodgates for legalized sports bar betting and Las Vegas style casino gambling at home or on your own personal mobile devise as never before imagined ? The Provinces are now able to regulate and tax personal wagering and single game sports betting,
www.cbc.ca/sports/single-game-betting-legalized-1.5999028
Jun 22, 2021 - Bill C-218 passes in the Senate - Single-event sport gambling to become legal in Canada. Betting on single games of football, hockey and other sports is to become legal in Canada.
www.cbc.ca/sports/single-event-sport-gambling-to-become-l...
There has been a dramatic expansion of government-owned legal gambling because of governments need to increase revenue without additional taxation ?
Province of Ontario reporting massive $1.4 billion in total gaming revenue for 1st year of sports betting
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/raptors-sports-betting-1.6...
A breathtaking salary ? Wonder where all that money comes from ? The founder and boss of Bet365 earned a salary of around $281 million in the last financial year ending March 26, 2023. The massive figure was described as "not sensible or proportionate” by one campaign group,
www.msn.com/en-ca/money/companies/gambling-executive-s-28...
'Bigger issue than doping': Canada flirting with disaster amid growth of legalized sports gambling www.cbc.ca/sports/sports-gambling-industry-canada-analysi...
Jul 20, 2023 - Gambling revenues up 300 % in Ontario - Ontarians wagering far more on legal online casino games than on sports betting ? Together, these wagers generated $545 million in gaming revenues. Up from $162 million last year www.cbc.ca/news/business/ontario-online-gaming-wagers-spo...
read,, "Sports betting has gone full throttle - but has it gone too far" ? www.cbc.ca/news/business/ontario-online-gaming-wagers-spo...
January 12, 2021 Atlantic Lotto plans bigger better online casinos for P.E.I. and Nova Scotia ! N.B. site launched in August raises concerns around ease of access and to higher bets ? website allows New Brunswick residents to gamble up to $500 on a hand of blackjack, or up to $100 on a single pull of a virtual slot machine, all from the privacy of their own home or mobile phone ?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-ns-casino...
Oct 11 2023 - Atlantic Lottery records a record profit: ‘We’re very proud’ atlantic.ctvnews.ca/more/atlantic-lottery-records-record-...
Oct 11, 2023 Atlantic Lottery - huge Online gambling casino profits brighten Atlantic Lottery's financial picture ? CEO calls lottery tickets, "an innocent indulgence ",
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei0-atlantic...
2026, Atlantic Lottery - Atlantic Lottery expands their gambling interests. Their new 'Live Casino' offers real dealers and hosts live from a studio and is broadcast to your home.
www.alc.ca/content/alc/en/promos/live-casino.html
Dec 2023 - New NDP government led by first ever First Nations Premier Wab Kinew says Manitoba will consider more First Nations-run casinos and already plan to open a new casino in Winnipeg,, www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ndp-ready-to-consider-mor...
Apr 17 2024 - Gambling in Pro Sports ? Raptors' Jontay Porter banned from NBA for betting on games . League investigation finds player guilty of manipulating games for betting purposes
www.cbc.ca/sports/basketball/nba/nba-jontay-porter-gambli...
I was watching some videos online from "Live from Abbey Road" and found this song from Leann Rimes (pop i know), so i was listening and paid attention to the lyrics then this idea came to my mind...so i went upstairs took my camera take the picture.
Non-Destructive Testing (NDT): Methods and
Techniques for Civil Structures in Pre- and Post-Management of Natural Disasters.
Participants discussed key nuclear techniques for NDT during a side event held at the IAEA a 62nd General Conference, Vienna, Austria, 20 September 2018.
Photo Credit: Y. Yustantiana / IAEA
By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive
Nature accomplishes her beneficiant designs
- now a flood of fire
...again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life.
John Muir
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Song: This is the Last Stop - The Dave Mattews Band from the album Before These Crowded Streets:
Fire
The Sun is well asleep
Moon is high above
Fire grows from the east
How is this
Hate so deep
Lead us all so blindly killing killing
Fools we are if hate’s the gate to peace
This is the stop
For raining tears
(Is) War
The only way to peace
(Well) I don’t fall for that
Raining Tears
Go ahead and dream
Go ahead, believe that you are the chosen one
Raining tears
You’re righteous, so righteous
You’re always so right,
Oh no
Gracious even God
Bloodied the cross
Your sins are washed enough
Mothers cry
“Is hate so deep
Must a baby’s bones this hungry fire feed?”
As smoke clouds roll in
The symphony of death
This is the last stop
Scream
Right is wrong now
Shut up you big lie
This black and White lie
You comb your hair to hide
Your lying eyes
You’re righteous, so righteous
You’re always so right,
But why your lie
Go ahead and dream
Go ahead, believe that you are the chosen one
This is the last stop
Here there’s more than is showing up
Hope that we can break it down
So it’s not so black and white
You’re righteous
You’re righteous
You’re righteous
You’re always so right,
There you are nailing a good tree
Then say forgive me, forgive me
Why
Raining tears
This is the last stop
Here there’s more than is showing up
Hope that we can break it down
So it’s not so black and white.
Lucky residents of Virginia will be treated to a free live concert in Richmond, VA on Sunday, October 26, 2008. The Last Chance for Change performance will be held at the ALLTEL Pavilion at the VCU Stuart C. Siegel Center to encourage Virginians to vote for change.
For ticket locations and additional information, please visit www.barackobama.com/dave.
More info about DMB www.davematthewsband.com/news/
I correctly forecast single costliest natural disaster ever world wide in great detail.
On the evening of June 15, 1896, the northeast coast of Hondo, the main island of Japan, was struck by a great earthquake wave (tsunami), which was more destructive of life and property than any earthquake convulsion of this century in that empire. The whole coastline of the San-Riku, the three provinces of Rikuzen, Rikuchu, and Rikuoku, from the island of Kinkwazan, 38° 20' north, northward for 175 miles, was laid waste by a great wave moving from the east and south, that varied in recorded height from 10 to 50 feet. A few survivors, who saw it advancing in the darkness, report its height as 80 to 100 feet. With a difference of but thirty minutes in time between the southern and northern points, it struck the San-Riku coast and in a trice obliterated towns and villages, killed 26,975 people out of the original population, and grievously wounded the 5,390 survivors. It washed away and wrecked 9,313 houses, stranded some 300 larger craft—steamers, schooners, and junks—and crushed or carried away 10,000 fishing boats, destroying property to the value of six million yen. Thousands of acres of arable land were turned to wastes, projecting rocks offshore were broken, overturned, or moved hundreds of yards, shallows and bars were formed, and in some localities the entire shoreline was changed.
They were all seafaring communities along this coast strip and the fisheries were the chief industry. The shipment of sea products to the great ports was the main connection with the outer world. A high mountain range bars communication with the trunk railway line of the island, and this picturesque, fiord-cut coast is so remote and so isolated that only two foreigners had been seen in the region in ten years, with the exception of the French mission priest, Father Raspail, who lost his life in the flood. With telegraph offices, instruments, and operators carried away, word came slowly to Tokyo, and with 50 to 100 miles of mountain roads between the nearest railway station and the seacoast aid was long in reaching the wretched survivors. When adequate idea of the calamity reached the capital and the cities, men-of-war, soldiers, sappers, surgeons, and nurses were quickly dispatched, and public sympathy found expression in contributions through the different newspapers, amounting to more than 250,000 yen, for the relief of the injured. The Japanese journalist and photographer were quickly on their way, and the vernacular press soon fed the public full of horrors, yet the first to reach the scene of the disaster was an American missionary, the Rev. Rothesay Miller, who made the usual three days' trip over the mountains in less than a day and a half on his American bicycle.
There were old traditions of such earthquake waves on this coast, one of two centuries ago doing some damage, and a tsunami of forty years ago and a lesser one of 1892 flooding the streets of Kamaishi and driving people to upper floors and the roofs of their houses. The barometer gave no warning, no indication of any unusual conditions on June 15, and the occurrence of thirteen light earthquake shocks during the day excited no comment. Rain had fallen in the morning and afternoon, and with a temperature of 80° to 90° the damp atmosphere was very oppressive. The villagers on that remote coast adhered to the old calendar in observing their local fêtes and holidays, and on that fifth day of the fifth moon had been celebrating the Girls' Festival. Rain had driven them indoors with the darkness, and nearly all were in their houses at eight o'clock, when, with a rumbling as of heavy cannonading out at sea, a roar, and the crash and crackling of timbers, they were suddenly engulfed in the swirling waters. Only a few survivors on all that length of coast saw the advancing wave, one of them telling that the water first receded some 600 yards from ghastly white sands and then the Wave stood like a black wall 80 feet in height, with phosphorescent lights gleaming along its crest. Others, hearing a distant roar, saw a dark shadow seaward and ran to high ground, crying "Tsunami! tsunami!" Some who ran to the upper stories of their houses for safety were drowned, crushed, or imprisoned there, only a few breaking through the roofs or escaping after the water subsided.
Shallow water and outlying islands broke the force of the wave in some places, and in long, narrow inlets or fiords the giant roller was broken into two, three, and even six waves, that crashed upon the shore in succession. Ships and junks were carried one and two miles inland, left on hilltops, treetops, and in the midst of fields uninjured or mixed up with the ruins of houses, the rest engulfed or swept seaward. Where the wave entered a fiord or bay it bore everything along to the head of the ravine or valley and left the mass of debris in a heap at the end. Where the coast was low and faced the open ocean the wave washed in and, retreating, carried everything back with it. Many survivors, swept away by the waters, were cast ashore on outlying islands, or seized bits of wreckage and kept afloat. On the open coast the wave came and withdrew within five minutes, while in long inlets the waters boiled and surged for nearly a half hour before subsiding. The best swimmers were helpless in the first swirl of water, and nearly all the bodies recovered were frightfully battered and mutilated, rolled over and driven against rocks, struck by and crushed between timbers. The force of the wave cut down groves of large pine trees to short stumps, snapped thick granite posts of temple gates and carried the stone cross-beams 309 yards away. Many people were lost through running back to save others or to save their valuables.
One loyal schoolmaster carried the emperor's portrait to a place of safety before seeking out his own family. A half-demented soldier, retired since the late war and continually brooding on a possible attack by the enemy, became convinced that the first cannonading sound was from a hostile fleet, and, seizing his sword, ran down to the beach to meet the foe. One village officer, mistaking the sound of crashing timbers for crackling flames, ran to high ground to see where the fire was, and thus saved his life. Another village officer, living on the edge of a hill, heard the crash and slid his screens open to look upon foaming waters nearly level with his veranda. In a moment the waters disappeared, leaving a black, empty level where the populous village had been a few minutes before. Four women clung to one man, seeking to escape to high ground, and their combined weight resisting the force of the receding wave they were all saved. The only survivors of another village were eight men who had been playing the game of "go" in a hillside temple. Eight children floated away and left on high ground were believed to be the only survivors of one village, until one hundred people were found who had been borne across and stranded on the opposite shores of their bay. One hundred and fifty people were found cast away on one island offshore. From two large villages on one bay only thirty young men survived, hardy, muscular young fishermen and powerful swimmers, yet in other places the strongest perished, and the aged and infirm, cripples, and tiny children were miraculously preserved. The wave flooded the cells of Okachi prison and the jailers broke the bolts and let the 195 convicts free. Only two convicts attempted to escape, the others waiting in good order until marched to the high ground by their keepers. The good Père Raspail had just reached Kamaishi from his all-day walk of 50 miles over the mountains and entered his inn, when his assistant called to him from the street. The priest came to the veranda, but in an instant the water was upon him. He was seen later, swimming, but evidently was struck by timbers or swept out to sea, as his body has not been recovered. Japanese men-of-war cruised for a week off Kamaishi, recovering bodies daily. The Japanese system of census enumeration is so complete and minute that the name of every person who lost his life was soon known, and the Official Gazette was able to state that out of a population of 6,529 at Kamaishi 4,985 were lost and 500 injured, while 953 dwellings and 867 warehouses and other structures were destroyed or carried away, and 176 ships carried inland or swept out and lost.
The survivors were so stunned with the appalling disaster that few could do anything for themselves or others. With houses, nets, and fishing-boats carried away and the fish retreating to further and deeper waters, starvation faced them, and, the great heat continuing while so many bodies were strewn along shore and imprisoned in ruins, the atmosphere fast became poisonous. The north-coast people are opposed to cremation and insisted on earth burial, which delayed the disposal of the dead and augmented the danger of pestilence. Disinfectants were sent in quantity, and the work of recovery and burial was so pressing that soldiers were put to it after all available coolies had been impressed. The Red Cross Society, with its hospitals and nurses, had difficulty in caring for all the wounded, the greater number of whom, besides requiring surgical aid, were suffering from pneumonia and internal inflammations consequent upon their long exposure in wet clothing without shelter and from the brine, fish oil, and sand breathed in and swallowed while in the first tumult of waters. Besides the generous relief fund subscribed by the people, the government has made large assignments from its available funds and sent stores of provisions, clothing, tools, etc., to the 60,000 homeless, ruined, bereaved, and starving people of the San-Riku coast.
The wave was plainly felt two hours later on the shores of the island of Yesso, 200 miles north of the center of disturbance on the San-Riku coast, the water advancing 80 feet beyond high-tide mark on the beach at Hakodate. Eight hours later there was a great disturbance of the waters on the shores of the Bonin islands, more than 700 miles southward, the water rising three or four feet and retreating violently. Six hours later, on the shores of Kaui, the most northern of the Hawaiian islands, distant 3,390 miles, the waters receded violently and washed on shore in a wave some inches above the normal height.
The plainest inference has been that the great wave was the result of an eruption, explosion, or other disturbance in the bed of the sea, 500 or 600 miles off the San-Riku coast. The most popular theory is that it resulted from the caving-in of some part of the wall or bed of the great "Tuscarora Deep," one of the greatest depressions of the ocean bed in the world, discovered in 1874 by the present Rear-Admiral Belknap, U. S. N., while in command of the U. S. S. Tuscarora, engaged in deep-sea surveys.
The "Tuscarora Deep" is nearly five and one-third statute miles in depth, being exceeded, so far as known, only by the still more profound depths discovered last year in the South Pacific by Commander A. F. Balfour, of the British Navy.
That disturbances were taking place in this tremendous abyss was again suggested at six o'clock on the morning of July 4, when the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's mail steamer Empress of Japan, sailing directly over it in a smooth sea, was shaken as if a propeller blade had been lost or the ship had struck an obstruction. Every one was roused by the peculiar shock, but no visible explanation was furnished. The destructive wave and this incident together should stimulate further investigation of this dangerous, bottomless pit of the Pacific ocean, which owes its discovery to United States explorers by deep-sea soundings.
Red Lily Beetle - very pretty but very destructive. Can kill Lily plants by eating all the leaves and flowers. This insect was only recently introduced to the UK back in the 1920s and in the last 15 years it has become a serious problem.
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Students Against Destructive Decisions organized a mock car crash for the junior and senior classes in the hopes of ensuring an injury and accident-free prom.
Students Against Destructive Decisions organized a mock car crash for the junior and senior classes in the hopes of ensuring an injury and accident-free prom.
Hurricane Sandy (also unofficially known as "Superstorm Sandy") was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, as well as the second-costliest hurricane in United States history. Classified as the eighteenth named storm, tenth hurricane and second major hurricane of the year, Sandy was a Category 3 storm at its peak intensity when it made landfall in Cuba.[1] While it was a Category 2 storm off the coast of the Northeastern United States, the storm became the largest Atlantic hurricane on record (as measured by diameter, with winds spanning 1,100 miles (1,800 km)).[2][3] Estimates as of March 2014 assess damage to have been over $68 billion (2013 USD), a total surpassed only by Hurricane Katrina.[4] At least 286 people were killed along the path of the storm in seven countries.[5]
Sandy developed from a tropical wave in the western Caribbean Sea on October 22, quickly strengthened, and was upgraded to Tropical Storm Sandy six hours later. Sandy moved slowly northward toward the Greater Antilles and gradually intensified. On October 24, Sandy became a hurricane, made landfall near Kingston, Jamaica, re-emerged a few hours later into the Caribbean Sea and strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane. On October 25, Sandy hit Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane, then weakened to a Category 1 hurricane. Early on October 26, Sandy moved through the Bahamas.[6] On October 27, Sandy briefly weakened to a tropical storm and then restrengthened to a Category 1 hurricane. Early on October 29, Sandy curved north-northwest and then[7] moved ashore near Brigantine, New Jersey, just to the northeast of Atlantic City, as a post-tropical cyclone with hurricane-force winds.[1][8]
In Jamaica, winds left 70% of residents without electricity, blew roofs off buildings, killed one, and caused about $100 million (2012 USD) in damage. Sandy's outer bands brought flooding to Haiti, killing at least 54, causing food shortages, and leaving about 200,000 homeless; the hurricane also caused two deaths in the Dominican Republic. In Puerto Rico, one man was swept away by a swollen river. In Cuba, there was extensive coastal flooding and wind damage inland, destroying some 15,000 homes, killing 11, and causing $2 billion (2012 USD) in damage. Sandy caused two deaths and damage estimated at $700 million (2012 USD) in The Bahamas. In Canada, two were killed in Ontario and an estimated $100 million (2012 CAD) in damage was caused throughout Ontario and Quebec.[9]
In the United States, Hurricane Sandy affected 24 states, including the entire eastern seaboard from Florida to Maine and west across the Appalachian Mountains to Michigan and Wisconsin, with particularly severe damage in New Jersey and New York. Its storm surge hit New York City on October 29, flooding streets, tunnels and subway lines and cutting power in and around the city.[10][11] Damage in the United States amounted to $65 billion (2013 USD).[12]
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About my pictures:
Since 2014 I've been documenting the daily, destructive, poisonous chemtrail activity in the Dayton, Ohio area -- home of the notorious Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (visited by every important person on Earth, and even a few Aliens ;-) -- and apparently from my photo and video documentation, Chemtrail Central. This area has been getting chemtrailed on a massive, daily basis and is being conducted, as they say, “in plain sight”. I've got over 10,000 high-resolution pictures already uploaded and available for free on Flickr, with thousands more on the way:
www.flickr.com/photos/133042043@N04/albums
Additional Chemtrail videos may be found on:
www.youtube.com/user/BlueRidgeParkway
I am designating all my chemtrail pictures uploaded to Flickr as CC0 (Creative Commons Zero), which removes my copyright and releases them into the Public Domain. They are archived on Flickr under "Chem Trailchaser". I hope by making these images widely available, it will accelerate interest, research, study and more documentation from all over the world. Please, download, copy, backup, mirror, share, use and improve as many of these photos as you can! Thanks for looking - Chem
Mountaintop removal is a destructive way of extracting coal from mountains. Photo by Kent Kessinger. Courtesy of Southwings
Clearly, ultrasonic testing of pristine billets of steel not being terribly useful, this is a training exercise rather than an actual use of non-destructive testing as such. Still, rather interesting.
This is a testing method called ultrasonic inspection whereby the probe (held in hand) is moved along a smooth surface of a metal object. It uses sound waves and their reflections to find hidden cracks. Ultrasonic testing is very useful for finding sub-surface defects in steel, aluminium, and other metals. We use it in the underground for train axles (on wheelsets) and the like.
After the destructive storms, after the100+ mph winds, a double rainbow appears over flood waters south of Tillamook as seagulls huddle in the distant foreground. The second rainbow is far to the right and doesn't show up well - but there you go.
The Gherkin, London. This is the first of two shots testing whether you could use the shadows of other buildings to create a destructive effect on glass buildings. The aim was to give the impression that the windows have shattered, that the building is slowly breaking apart.
The bulldog was originally bred strong and agile, but very low to the ground so that they could crouch away from the bulls horns while bull baiting.
Like a snapping turtle, once a bulldog's jaws are closed or locked they remain this way for quite some time, even if they are knocked out.
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Since 2014 I've been documenting the daily, destructive, poisonous chemtrail activity in the Dayton, Ohio area -- home of the notorious Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (visited by every important person on Earth, and even a few Aliens ;-) -- and apparently from my photo and video documentation, Chemtrail Central. This area has been getting chemtrailed on a massive, daily basis and is being conducted, as they say, “in plain sight”.
However, this area isn’t special in that regard. The massive chemtrailing is going on across the USA (and other countries), as evidenced in abundance on FlickR and many other sites. This incredible not-so-secret Government program, which itself is expensive and dangerous, spoils not only blue skies, but poisons our air, water and soil to unknown levels. Regardless of the purpose, weather control/weather as a weapon/mind control, it really amounts to a crime against humanity in my opinion.
In response, I have posted thousands of full-resolution images (15,000+!), documenting the overwhelming evidence of this crime on Flickr:
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And to help generate interest, further study and assist in research, I am designating all my chemtrail pictures uploaded to Flickr (under “Chem Trailchaser”) as CC0 — Creative Commons Zero.
This removes my copyright and releases them into the Public Domain, which means that any of my photos designated CC0, can be used, without restriction or attribution, for any use. Isn’t that awesome? So please… download, copy, backup, mirror, share, use and improve as many of these photos as you can! Thanks for looking - Chem
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano tours a facility of non-destructive testing at the Ministry of Urban Development in Kathmandu during his official visit to Nepal. 6 July 2017.
Photo Credit: Shota Kamishima / IAEA
I correctly forecast single costliest natural disaster ever world wide in great detail.
On the evening of June 15, 1896, the northeast coast of Hondo, the main island of Japan, was struck by a great earthquake wave (tsunami), which was more destructive of life and property than any earthquake convulsion of this century in that empire. The whole coastline of the San-Riku, the three provinces of Rikuzen, Rikuchu, and Rikuoku, from the island of Kinkwazan, 38° 20' north, northward for 175 miles, was laid waste by a great wave moving from the east and south, that varied in recorded height from 10 to 50 feet. A few survivors, who saw it advancing in the darkness, report its height as 80 to 100 feet. With a difference of but thirty minutes in time between the southern and northern points, it struck the San-Riku coast and in a trice obliterated towns and villages, killed 26,975 people out of the original population, and grievously wounded the 5,390 survivors. It washed away and wrecked 9,313 houses, stranded some 300 larger craft—steamers, schooners, and junks—and crushed or carried away 10,000 fishing boats, destroying property to the value of six million yen. Thousands of acres of arable land were turned to wastes, projecting rocks offshore were broken, overturned, or moved hundreds of yards, shallows and bars were formed, and in some localities the entire shoreline was changed.
They were all seafaring communities along this coast strip and the fisheries were the chief industry. The shipment of sea products to the great ports was the main connection with the outer world. A high mountain range bars communication with the trunk railway line of the island, and this picturesque, fiord-cut coast is so remote and so isolated that only two foreigners had been seen in the region in ten years, with the exception of the French mission priest, Father Raspail, who lost his life in the flood. With telegraph offices, instruments, and operators carried away, word came slowly to Tokyo, and with 50 to 100 miles of mountain roads between the nearest railway station and the seacoast aid was long in reaching the wretched survivors. When adequate idea of the calamity reached the capital and the cities, men-of-war, soldiers, sappers, surgeons, and nurses were quickly dispatched, and public sympathy found expression in contributions through the different newspapers, amounting to more than 250,000 yen, for the relief of the injured. The Japanese journalist and photographer were quickly on their way, and the vernacular press soon fed the public full of horrors, yet the first to reach the scene of the disaster was an American missionary, the Rev. Rothesay Miller, who made the usual three days' trip over the mountains in less than a day and a half on his American bicycle.
There were old traditions of such earthquake waves on this coast, one of two centuries ago doing some damage, and a tsunami of forty years ago and a lesser one of 1892 flooding the streets of Kamaishi and driving people to upper floors and the roofs of their houses. The barometer gave no warning, no indication of any unusual conditions on June 15, and the occurrence of thirteen light earthquake shocks during the day excited no comment. Rain had fallen in the morning and afternoon, and with a temperature of 80° to 90° the damp atmosphere was very oppressive. The villagers on that remote coast adhered to the old calendar in observing their local fêtes and holidays, and on that fifth day of the fifth moon had been celebrating the Girls' Festival. Rain had driven them indoors with the darkness, and nearly all were in their houses at eight o'clock, when, with a rumbling as of heavy cannonading out at sea, a roar, and the crash and crackling of timbers, they were suddenly engulfed in the swirling waters. Only a few survivors on all that length of coast saw the advancing wave, one of them telling that the water first receded some 600 yards from ghastly white sands and then the Wave stood like a black wall 80 feet in height, with phosphorescent lights gleaming along its crest. Others, hearing a distant roar, saw a dark shadow seaward and ran to high ground, crying "Tsunami! tsunami!" Some who ran to the upper stories of their houses for safety were drowned, crushed, or imprisoned there, only a few breaking through the roofs or escaping after the water subsided.
Shallow water and outlying islands broke the force of the wave in some places, and in long, narrow inlets or fiords the giant roller was broken into two, three, and even six waves, that crashed upon the shore in succession. Ships and junks were carried one and two miles inland, left on hilltops, treetops, and in the midst of fields uninjured or mixed up with the ruins of houses, the rest engulfed or swept seaward. Where the wave entered a fiord or bay it bore everything along to the head of the ravine or valley and left the mass of debris in a heap at the end. Where the coast was low and faced the open ocean the wave washed in and, retreating, carried everything back with it. Many survivors, swept away by the waters, were cast ashore on outlying islands, or seized bits of wreckage and kept afloat. On the open coast the wave came and withdrew within five minutes, while in long inlets the waters boiled and surged for nearly a half hour before subsiding. The best swimmers were helpless in the first swirl of water, and nearly all the bodies recovered were frightfully battered and mutilated, rolled over and driven against rocks, struck by and crushed between timbers. The force of the wave cut down groves of large pine trees to short stumps, snapped thick granite posts of temple gates and carried the stone cross-beams 309 yards away. Many people were lost through running back to save others or to save their valuables.
One loyal schoolmaster carried the emperor's portrait to a place of safety before seeking out his own family. A half-demented soldier, retired since the late war and continually brooding on a possible attack by the enemy, became convinced that the first cannonading sound was from a hostile fleet, and, seizing his sword, ran down to the beach to meet the foe. One village officer, mistaking the sound of crashing timbers for crackling flames, ran to high ground to see where the fire was, and thus saved his life. Another village officer, living on the edge of a hill, heard the crash and slid his screens open to look upon foaming waters nearly level with his veranda. In a moment the waters disappeared, leaving a black, empty level where the populous village had been a few minutes before. Four women clung to one man, seeking to escape to high ground, and their combined weight resisting the force of the receding wave they were all saved. The only survivors of another village were eight men who had been playing the game of "go" in a hillside temple. Eight children floated away and left on high ground were believed to be the only survivors of one village, until one hundred people were found who had been borne across and stranded on the opposite shores of their bay. One hundred and fifty people were found cast away on one island offshore. From two large villages on one bay only thirty young men survived, hardy, muscular young fishermen and powerful swimmers, yet in other places the strongest perished, and the aged and infirm, cripples, and tiny children were miraculously preserved. The wave flooded the cells of Okachi prison and the jailers broke the bolts and let the 195 convicts free. Only two convicts attempted to escape, the others waiting in good order until marched to the high ground by their keepers. The good Père Raspail had just reached Kamaishi from his all-day walk of 50 miles over the mountains and entered his inn, when his assistant called to him from the street. The priest came to the veranda, but in an instant the water was upon him. He was seen later, swimming, but evidently was struck by timbers or swept out to sea, as his body has not been recovered. Japanese men-of-war cruised for a week off Kamaishi, recovering bodies daily. The Japanese system of census enumeration is so complete and minute that the name of every person who lost his life was soon known, and the Official Gazette was able to state that out of a population of 6,529 at Kamaishi 4,985 were lost and 500 injured, while 953 dwellings and 867 warehouses and other structures were destroyed or carried away, and 176 ships carried inland or swept out and lost.
The survivors were so stunned with the appalling disaster that few could do anything for themselves or others. With houses, nets, and fishing-boats carried away and the fish retreating to further and deeper waters, starvation faced them, and, the great heat continuing while so many bodies were strewn along shore and imprisoned in ruins, the atmosphere fast became poisonous. The north-coast people are opposed to cremation and insisted on earth burial, which delayed the disposal of the dead and augmented the danger of pestilence. Disinfectants were sent in quantity, and the work of recovery and burial was so pressing that soldiers were put to it after all available coolies had been impressed. The Red Cross Society, with its hospitals and nurses, had difficulty in caring for all the wounded, the greater number of whom, besides requiring surgical aid, were suffering from pneumonia and internal inflammations consequent upon their long exposure in wet clothing without shelter and from the brine, fish oil, and sand breathed in and swallowed while in the first tumult of waters. Besides the generous relief fund subscribed by the people, the government has made large assignments from its available funds and sent stores of provisions, clothing, tools, etc., to the 60,000 homeless, ruined, bereaved, and starving people of the San-Riku coast.
The wave was plainly felt two hours later on the shores of the island of Yesso, 200 miles north of the center of disturbance on the San-Riku coast, the water advancing 80 feet beyond high-tide mark on the beach at Hakodate. Eight hours later there was a great disturbance of the waters on the shores of the Bonin islands, more than 700 miles southward, the water rising three or four feet and retreating violently. Six hours later, on the shores of Kaui, the most northern of the Hawaiian islands, distant 3,390 miles, the waters receded violently and washed on shore in a wave some inches above the normal height.
The plainest inference has been that the great wave was the result of an eruption, explosion, or other disturbance in the bed of the sea, 500 or 600 miles off the San-Riku coast. The most popular theory is that it resulted from the caving-in of some part of the wall or bed of the great "Tuscarora Deep," one of the greatest depressions of the ocean bed in the world, discovered in 1874 by the present Rear-Admiral Belknap, U. S. N., while in command of the U. S. S. Tuscarora, engaged in deep-sea surveys.
The "Tuscarora Deep" is nearly five and one-third statute miles in depth, being exceeded, so far as known, only by the still more profound depths discovered last year in the South Pacific by Commander A. F. Balfour, of the British Navy.
That disturbances were taking place in this tremendous abyss was again suggested at six o'clock on the morning of July 4, when the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's mail steamer Empress of Japan, sailing directly over it in a smooth sea, was shaken as if a propeller blade had been lost or the ship had struck an obstruction. Every one was roused by the peculiar shock, but no visible explanation was furnished. The destructive wave and this incident together should stimulate further investigation of this dangerous, bottomless pit of the Pacific ocean, which owes its discovery to United States explorers by deep-sea soundings.
Mountaintop removal is a destructive form of coal mining where mountains are blown apart to extract the coal most effectively. Photo by Kent Kessinger with a flight courtesy of Southwings.
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Oakland riots were reported after the Trayvon Martin verdict and protestors destructive demonstrations left the city in bad shape.
I correctly forecast single costliest natural disaster ever world wide in great detail.
On the evening of June 15, 1896, the northeast coast of Hondo, the main island of Japan, was struck by a great earthquake wave (tsunami), which was more destructive of life and property than any earthquake convulsion of this century in that empire. The whole coastline of the San-Riku, the three provinces of Rikuzen, Rikuchu, and Rikuoku, from the island of Kinkwazan, 38° 20' north, northward for 175 miles, was laid waste by a great wave moving from the east and south, that varied in recorded height from 10 to 50 feet. A few survivors, who saw it advancing in the darkness, report its height as 80 to 100 feet. With a difference of but thirty minutes in time between the southern and northern points, it struck the San-Riku coast and in a trice obliterated towns and villages, killed 26,975 people out of the original population, and grievously wounded the 5,390 survivors. It washed away and wrecked 9,313 houses, stranded some 300 larger craft—steamers, schooners, and junks—and crushed or carried away 10,000 fishing boats, destroying property to the value of six million yen. Thousands of acres of arable land were turned to wastes, projecting rocks offshore were broken, overturned, or moved hundreds of yards, shallows and bars were formed, and in some localities the entire shoreline was changed.
They were all seafaring communities along this coast strip and the fisheries were the chief industry. The shipment of sea products to the great ports was the main connection with the outer world. A high mountain range bars communication with the trunk railway line of the island, and this picturesque, fiord-cut coast is so remote and so isolated that only two foreigners had been seen in the region in ten years, with the exception of the French mission priest, Father Raspail, who lost his life in the flood. With telegraph offices, instruments, and operators carried away, word came slowly to Tokyo, and with 50 to 100 miles of mountain roads between the nearest railway station and the seacoast aid was long in reaching the wretched survivors. When adequate idea of the calamity reached the capital and the cities, men-of-war, soldiers, sappers, surgeons, and nurses were quickly dispatched, and public sympathy found expression in contributions through the different newspapers, amounting to more than 250,000 yen, for the relief of the injured. The Japanese journalist and photographer were quickly on their way, and the vernacular press soon fed the public full of horrors, yet the first to reach the scene of the disaster was an American missionary, the Rev. Rothesay Miller, who made the usual three days' trip over the mountains in less than a day and a half on his American bicycle.
There were old traditions of such earthquake waves on this coast, one of two centuries ago doing some damage, and a tsunami of forty years ago and a lesser one of 1892 flooding the streets of Kamaishi and driving people to upper floors and the roofs of their houses. The barometer gave no warning, no indication of any unusual conditions on June 15, and the occurrence of thirteen light earthquake shocks during the day excited no comment. Rain had fallen in the morning and afternoon, and with a temperature of 80° to 90° the damp atmosphere was very oppressive. The villagers on that remote coast adhered to the old calendar in observing their local fêtes and holidays, and on that fifth day of the fifth moon had been celebrating the Girls' Festival. Rain had driven them indoors with the darkness, and nearly all were in their houses at eight o'clock, when, with a rumbling as of heavy cannonading out at sea, a roar, and the crash and crackling of timbers, they were suddenly engulfed in the swirling waters. Only a few survivors on all that length of coast saw the advancing wave, one of them telling that the water first receded some 600 yards from ghastly white sands and then the Wave stood like a black wall 80 feet in height, with phosphorescent lights gleaming along its crest. Others, hearing a distant roar, saw a dark shadow seaward and ran to high ground, crying "Tsunami! tsunami!" Some who ran to the upper stories of their houses for safety were drowned, crushed, or imprisoned there, only a few breaking through the roofs or escaping after the water subsided.
Shallow water and outlying islands broke the force of the wave in some places, and in long, narrow inlets or fiords the giant roller was broken into two, three, and even six waves, that crashed upon the shore in succession. Ships and junks were carried one and two miles inland, left on hilltops, treetops, and in the midst of fields uninjured or mixed up with the ruins of houses, the rest engulfed or swept seaward. Where the wave entered a fiord or bay it bore everything along to the head of the ravine or valley and left the mass of debris in a heap at the end. Where the coast was low and faced the open ocean the wave washed in and, retreating, carried everything back with it. Many survivors, swept away by the waters, were cast ashore on outlying islands, or seized bits of wreckage and kept afloat. On the open coast the wave came and withdrew within five minutes, while in long inlets the waters boiled and surged for nearly a half hour before subsiding. The best swimmers were helpless in the first swirl of water, and nearly all the bodies recovered were frightfully battered and mutilated, rolled over and driven against rocks, struck by and crushed between timbers. The force of the wave cut down groves of large pine trees to short stumps, snapped thick granite posts of temple gates and carried the stone cross-beams 309 yards away. Many people were lost through running back to save others or to save their valuables.
One loyal schoolmaster carried the emperor's portrait to a place of safety before seeking out his own family. A half-demented soldier, retired since the late war and continually brooding on a possible attack by the enemy, became convinced that the first cannonading sound was from a hostile fleet, and, seizing his sword, ran down to the beach to meet the foe. One village officer, mistaking the sound of crashing timbers for crackling flames, ran to high ground to see where the fire was, and thus saved his life. Another village officer, living on the edge of a hill, heard the crash and slid his screens open to look upon foaming waters nearly level with his veranda. In a moment the waters disappeared, leaving a black, empty level where the populous village had been a few minutes before. Four women clung to one man, seeking to escape to high ground, and their combined weight resisting the force of the receding wave they were all saved. The only survivors of another village were eight men who had been playing the game of "go" in a hillside temple. Eight children floated away and left on high ground were believed to be the only survivors of one village, until one hundred people were found who had been borne across and stranded on the opposite shores of their bay. One hundred and fifty people were found cast away on one island offshore. From two large villages on one bay only thirty young men survived, hardy, muscular young fishermen and powerful swimmers, yet in other places the strongest perished, and the aged and infirm, cripples, and tiny children were miraculously preserved. The wave flooded the cells of Okachi prison and the jailers broke the bolts and let the 195 convicts free. Only two convicts attempted to escape, the others waiting in good order until marched to the high ground by their keepers. The good Père Raspail had just reached Kamaishi from his all-day walk of 50 miles over the mountains and entered his inn, when his assistant called to him from the street. The priest came to the veranda, but in an instant the water was upon him. He was seen later, swimming, but evidently was struck by timbers or swept out to sea, as his body has not been recovered. Japanese men-of-war cruised for a week off Kamaishi, recovering bodies daily. The Japanese system of census enumeration is so complete and minute that the name of every person who lost his life was soon known, and the Official Gazette was able to state that out of a population of 6,529 at Kamaishi 4,985 were lost and 500 injured, while 953 dwellings and 867 warehouses and other structures were destroyed or carried away, and 176 ships carried inland or swept out and lost.
The survivors were so stunned with the appalling disaster that few could do anything for themselves or others. With houses, nets, and fishing-boats carried away and the fish retreating to further and deeper waters, starvation faced them, and, the great heat continuing while so many bodies were strewn along shore and imprisoned in ruins, the atmosphere fast became poisonous. The north-coast people are opposed to cremation and insisted on earth burial, which delayed the disposal of the dead and augmented the danger of pestilence. Disinfectants were sent in quantity, and the work of recovery and burial was so pressing that soldiers were put to it after all available coolies had been impressed. The Red Cross Society, with its hospitals and nurses, had difficulty in caring for all the wounded, the greater number of whom, besides requiring surgical aid, were suffering from pneumonia and internal inflammations consequent upon their long exposure in wet clothing without shelter and from the brine, fish oil, and sand breathed in and swallowed while in the first tumult of waters. Besides the generous relief fund subscribed by the people, the government has made large assignments from its available funds and sent stores of provisions, clothing, tools, etc., to the 60,000 homeless, ruined, bereaved, and starving people of the San-Riku coast.
The wave was plainly felt two hours later on the shores of the island of Yesso, 200 miles north of the center of disturbance on the San-Riku coast, the water advancing 80 feet beyond high-tide mark on the beach at Hakodate. Eight hours later there was a great disturbance of the waters on the shores of the Bonin islands, more than 700 miles southward, the water rising three or four feet and retreating violently. Six hours later, on the shores of Kaui, the most northern of the Hawaiian islands, distant 3,390 miles, the waters receded violently and washed on shore in a wave some inches above the normal height.
The plainest inference has been that the great wave was the result of an eruption, explosion, or other disturbance in the bed of the sea, 500 or 600 miles off the San-Riku coast. The most popular theory is that it resulted from the caving-in of some part of the wall or bed of the great "Tuscarora Deep," one of the greatest depressions of the ocean bed in the world, discovered in 1874 by the present Rear-Admiral Belknap, U. S. N., while in command of the U. S. S. Tuscarora, engaged in deep-sea surveys.
The "Tuscarora Deep" is nearly five and one-third statute miles in depth, being exceeded, so far as known, only by the still more profound depths discovered last year in the South Pacific by Commander A. F. Balfour, of the British Navy.
That disturbances were taking place in this tremendous abyss was again suggested at six o'clock on the morning of July 4, when the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's mail steamer Empress of Japan, sailing directly over it in a smooth sea, was shaken as if a propeller blade had been lost or the ship had struck an obstruction. Every one was roused by the peculiar shock, but no visible explanation was furnished. The destructive wave and this incident together should stimulate further investigation of this dangerous, bottomless pit of the Pacific ocean, which owes its discovery to United States explorers by deep-sea soundings.
Nationwide Launch October 5th 2006. If there is one thing that America loves as a culture it is scandal. Celebrity culture is such a pervasive force that it substitutes for small talk just as well as the weather nowadays. High minded individuals may take offense to these subjects but in truth we are all attracted to the destructive flames of perversion and excess. Many disdain the hoi polloi for their distractions but I would contend that we all benefit from wiffs of scandal now and again.
Students Against Destructive Decisions organized a mock car crash for the junior and senior classes in the hopes of ensuring an injury and accident-free prom.
After such a destructive Atlantic hurricane season, I'm especially glad that this one is over. I made this satellite montage over the course of the season that captures all 18 of the year's storms; the storms themselves were drawn manually. The storms displayed are at or somewhat near their respective peak intensities, with track-points displayed in conjunction with the pseudo-satellite images. The storms are superimposed on NASA's Blue Marble imagery, slightly desaturated for easier viewing.
The information and tracks for the storms is accurate to the latest data from the National Hurricane Center, though this can change when the agency conducts post-season reviews (e.g. I suspect that they may upgrade Jose to a Category 5 based on some of the reconnaissance data I've seen).
About my pictures:
Since 2014 I've been documenting the daily, destructive, poisonous chemtrail activity in the Dayton, Ohio area -- home of the notorious Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (visited by every important person on Earth, and even a few Aliens ;-) -- and apparently from my photo and video documentation, Chemtrail Central. This area has been getting chemtrailed on a massive, daily basis and is being conducted, as they say, “in plain sight”. I've got over 10,000 high-resolution pictures already uploaded and available for free on Flickr, with thousands more on the way:
www.flickr.com/photos/133042043@N04/albums
Additional Chemtrail videos may be found on:
www.youtube.com/user/BlueRidgeParkway
I am designating all my chemtrail pictures uploaded to Flickr as CC0 (Creative Commons Zero), which removes my copyright and releases them into the Public Domain. They are archived on Flickr under "Chem Trailchaser". I hope by making these images widely available, it will accelerate interest, research, study and more documentation from all over the world. Please, download, copy, backup, mirror, share, use and improve as many of these photos as you can! Thanks for looking - Chem
In part because of the destructive whims of the North Sea, most major Belgian cities were built inland- connected to the sea, rivers, and each other by a series of canals that stripe through the country.
March 7, 2011
Brugge/Bruges
Belgium/Belgique/Belgie
Bruges (Brugge in Dutch) is a gem of a museum piece- almost miraculously so. It rose early enough to create its own prosperity and identity before most other cities in Northern Europe, and it faded soon enough to escape the cataclysms of the Reformation and Industrial eras.
Bruges built its fortune upon the trade and processing of wool products from England and Scotland, and upon goods from the continental interior. By the late 1100's, ships began arriving in the city's Zwin River from as far as the Hanseatic League and Venice with goods from as far as the Middle East and Russia. Trade was conducted along the canals, and Bruges quickly became arguably the most important port in Europe. This complex trade led to the development of more sophisticated financial systems, and in 1309, Bruges opened what was possibly the world's first stock exchange.
Such was the city's prosperity that when the queen of France visited in 1301 she is quoted as saying: "I thought I alone was queen, but I see that I have 600 rivals here". Bruges' richness also helped develop the earliest artists of the Northern Renaissance, most notably Jan van Eyck.
Only a year later, the French garrisoned an army in the city to settle a dispute among the ruling and merchant classes, and on the night of May 18 a revolt against French rule began with the "Bruges Matins", in which a mob filled the streets killing anyone who could not properly pronounce the Dutch phrase: "schild en vriend" (supposedly difficult to pronounce for a French speaker). Almost the entire French population (estimated at 2,000) was massacred. Over the next few years, local militias throughout Flanders drove the French out, thus permanently cementing the city in Dutch/Flemish culture.
At its peak, Bruges had a population of 200,000, and by many accounts was the second largest city in Europe after Paris. The miraculousness of Brugge as a "museum piece", however, comes from its precipitous decline. Around 1500, by one of the many whims of the North Sea, the Zwin River began to silt up. Lacking its lifeblood, the city fell into obscurity as business moved to Brussels, Ghent, and Antwerp.
It became a forgotten city, "Die tote Stadt" of Korngold's 20th century opera. Its dormancy, however, was its preservation. Hardly, if any, Baroque, Classical, or 19th century developments ever touched this town. In the past century, however, Bruges has picked up speed again, this time due to tourism.
The result- a pretty much intact medieval city, not terribly different from its original state. As such, it draws its requisite tourists, and can be seen at times a sort of historical theme park (but thankfully without the commercialization).
To walk its streets is surreal. A fever dream of sorts. The real magic is at night, when the daytrippers disappear, and the few tourists that are left hole up with locals at the bar or sit in the Grote Markt listening to the ethereal and ornate rings from the bell tower. The ancient streets then are dead quiet, the canals still, and one can feel the ghosts rising.
The destructive dark arts master has escaped the void realm and is back to pursue his reign of terror on the world!
Inspired by The Dark Mage from Order & Chaos 2, Shinnok and Shang Tsung from Mortal Kombat.
WALCOTT, Sir CLYDE LEOPOLD, OBE, who died on August 26, 2006, aged 80, was one of the most destructive shot-makers of his - or any other - time. Well over six feet tall, and solidly built, Walcott liked to give the ball a thump, and for a time in the 1950s thumped away to such effect that his main rivals for the title of world's best batsman were the two other Barbadians with whom he will be forever bracketed: Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell. The Three Ws were born within 18 months of each other, all in or around Bridgetown.
Walcott, the youngest of the triumvirate, made his debut for Barbados on his 16th birthday in 1942, the year after his brother Keith. Four years later, he made an unbeaten 314 against Trinidad, sharing an unbroken stand of 574 with Worrell, a world record at the time. But initially he was thought to be a lesser talent than the other Ws, possibly because, despite his size, he was also saddled with the wicketkeeping gloves. After a quiet start in Test cricket, he made 152 against India at Delhi in 1948-49.
On the seminal 1950 England tour it was Walcott's uncompromising, unbeaten 168 which set up West Indies' famous victory at Lord's: Wisden labelled his innings the turning point of the match. On the whole trip Walcott made 1,674 runs at 55.80, putting him eighth in the national averages but behind both the other Ws. Walcott also made 48 dismissals, including 18 stumpings, mostly off Sonny Ramadhin and Alf Valentine - he couldn't understand why the English batsmen had such trouble against Ramadhin's "mystery" spin, since he could pick him all the time - but also suffered the first bouts of back trouble which eventually forced him to give up the gloves. Soon Walcott was solely concentrating on his batting - and how. He warmed up for his golden spell with centuries in the last two Tests when India toured the Caribbean early in 1953. The following year he piled up 698 runs against England, his coruscating 220 at home at Bridgetown helping West Indies to a 2-0 lead. In that match, Walcott had to rescue the team from 25 for three. "He knew Hutton had to set an attacking field which left gaps in front of the wicket and he accepted the challenge with a counter-attack," wrote Alex Bannister in Cricket Cauldron. "How well he succeeded is history."
Then, in 1954-55, Walcott (who by now had moved to British Guiana) went up another gear. Against Australia he made five centuries in the series, including two in a match twice, on his way to 827 runs. West Indies, whose bowling was weak, still lost 3-0. Richie Benaud recalled: "I have never seen a more powerful batsman than Walcott, and when he was 'going', it was almost impossible to bowl a length to him." Walcott had a strange twirl in his backlift ("he sometimes took the bat forward in a semi-circle through mid-off before bringing it down with a full face to meet the ball," wrote Benaud) and he preferred to hang on the back foot, and club through the line. This sometimes found him out when the ball was moving - he failed in Australia in 1951-52 - but it worked well in the West Indies, where the ball usually deviated less. In those three home series, from 1952-53 to 1954-55, he made 1,982 runs at 82, with ten centuries.
The England all-rounder Trevor Bailey crossed swords with all the Ws many times. "Weekes was a small, neat, compact back-foot player," he wrote, "while Worrell was the most artistic and stylish. But of all three I found bowling to Clyde on a good wicket the most difficult and unremunerative. He had the ability to hit good-length deliveries with astonishing ferocity using a straight bat off both front and back foot." "Lord knows what he would do with a modern bat," said John Woodcock. Walcott toured England again on the unhappy 1957 trip. England romped to a 3-0 series victory, although Walcott became one of the Wisden Five (unusually, editor Hubert Preston had said in 1951 that he regretted not being able to find room for him).
He retired from Test cricket after Pakistan's tour of the West Indies early in 1958, but re-emerged briefly when England visited the Caribbean two years later. He ended with a Test batting average of 56.68, ahead of Worrell (49.48) but behind Weekes (58.61). Walcott then devoted himself to business, rising to become a director of a shipping company in Barbados, where he had returned at the start of the 1970s as the political climate in what was now Guyana worsened. He also moved smoothly into cricket administration, rising to the heights for which Worrell, who died of leukaemia in 1967, had seemed destined. Walcott managed several West Indian touring teams (in 1969, his first one in charge, he played, aged 43, in the infamous all-out 25 against Ireland), chaired the board and the selectors, and in 1993 became the first non-British chairman of the ICC. Politically, he was a transitional figure, taking the organisation calmly and emolliently from under the wing of MCC before it was taken over by leaders less wedded to traditional Anglophilia. Already an OBE, he was knighted in 1993 for services to cricket. He also received the Golden Arrow of Achievement from Guyana, and a Gold Crown of Merit for his immense contribution to cricket in the West Indies.
© John Wisden & Co.
"Not One More Deportation!": Unidad Latina en Acción and the Latino community of New Haven respond to the release of the "Destructive Delay Report": Rally and press conference: Grand Avenue and Ferry Street, New Haven, Connecticut, Thursday, October 9, 2014.
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Since 2014 I've been documenting the daily, destructive, poisonous chemtrail activity in the Dayton, Ohio area -- home of the notorious Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (visited by every important person on Earth, and even a few Aliens ;-) -- and apparently from my photo and video documentation, Chemtrail Central. This area has been getting chemtrailed on a massive, daily basis and is being conducted, as they say, “in plain sight”.
However, this area isn’t special in that regard. The massive chemtrailing is going on across the USA (and other countries), as evidenced in abundance on FlickR and many other sites. This incredible not-so-secret Government program, which itself is expensive and dangerous, spoils not only blue skies, but poisons our air, water and soil to unknown levels. Regardless of the purpose, weather control/weather as a weapon/mind control, it really amounts to a crime against humanity in my opinion.
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In the same way that dust is blown around by the wind here on Earth, space dust can be blown around by the wind and radiation from stars. This image of the Elephants Trunk nebula from NASAs Wide-field Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows clouds of dust and gas being pushed and eroded by a massive star. The bright trunk of the nebula near the center is an especially dense cloud holding up against the stars powerful radiation and stellar wind, like a windsock standing strong while the rest of the gas and dust gets broken up and swept away.
Elephant trunk is a term commonly used by astronomers for this type of structure. Similar structures can be found in many other nebulae, however this is the only nebula that uses the term in its moniker. More distant examples of elephant trunks can be seen in previously featured WISE images such as LBN 211.91-01.37 and the Soul nebula. Theyre all formed in basically the same way -- a nearby massive star (or cluster) emits vast amounts of ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds that clear out all of the gas and dust surrounding it, leaving behind only the most dense parts of the cloud. These dense portions then protect some of the gas downwind creating a trunk-like feature.
The culprit star here, HR8281, is located close the center of the image. Its one of the three bright blue stars near the upper left tip of the trunk that form a triangle about as wide as the glowing tip of the trunk. Of those three, its the uppermost one in the center. Its destructive effects on the surrounding nebula can be seen by the dark cavity its created, outlined by the brighter dust clouds encircling it. The entire nebula, also known as IC1396A, fills most of the field of view. Its located only 2,450 light-years away, quite close compared to other similar nebulae. The trunk itself is about 30 light-years long, while the full nebula stretches over 100 light-years across.
If you look closely at the tip of the elephant trunk you can see a small dark area, appearing as a sort of opening. This is a small void in the gas formed by a pair of new baby stars that recently formed in the dense cloud. Their radiation and wind is clearing out the nearby gas and dust, creating a smaller version of the same effect seen on a larger scale in the full image. The reddish stars scattered throughout the image are likely new stars still wrapped inside their dusty cocoons.
The colors used in this image represent specific wavelengths of infrared light. Blue and cyan (blue-green) represent light emitted at wavelengths of 3.4 and 4.6 microns, which is predominantly from stars. Green and red represent light from 12 and 22 microns, respectively, which is mostly emitted by dust.
Mountaintop removal is a destructive form of coal mining where mountains are blown apart to extract the coal most effectively. Photo by Kent Kessinger with a flight courtesy of Southwings.
For more info on mountaintop removal and what you can do to help check out www.ilovemountains.org.
Geo Dynamics is pleased to announce its recent tie-up with PROCEQ SA world leaders for Non Destructive Testing Products for Concrete, Metal, and Paper/Film industry. Geo Dynamics will represent PROCEQ SA for sales through North India for their concrete testing products like Rebar Detection, Pull Off Testing, Corrosion Analysis, Ultrasonic Testing, Permeability Analysis and Concrete Test Hammer.
I correctly forecast single costliest natural disaster ever world wide in great detail.
On the evening of June 15, 1896, the northeast coast of Hondo, the main island of Japan, was struck by a great earthquake wave (tsunami), which was more destructive of life and property than any earthquake convulsion of this century in that empire. The whole coastline of the San-Riku, the three provinces of Rikuzen, Rikuchu, and Rikuoku, from the island of Kinkwazan, 38° 20' north, northward for 175 miles, was laid waste by a great wave moving from the east and south, that varied in recorded height from 10 to 50 feet. A few survivors, who saw it advancing in the darkness, report its height as 80 to 100 feet. With a difference of but thirty minutes in time between the southern and northern points, it struck the San-Riku coast and in a trice obliterated towns and villages, killed 26,975 people out of the original population, and grievously wounded the 5,390 survivors. It washed away and wrecked 9,313 houses, stranded some 300 larger craft—steamers, schooners, and junks—and crushed or carried away 10,000 fishing boats, destroying property to the value of six million yen. Thousands of acres of arable land were turned to wastes, projecting rocks offshore were broken, overturned, or moved hundreds of yards, shallows and bars were formed, and in some localities the entire shoreline was changed.
They were all seafaring communities along this coast strip and the fisheries were the chief industry. The shipment of sea products to the great ports was the main connection with the outer world. A high mountain range bars communication with the trunk railway line of the island, and this picturesque, fiord-cut coast is so remote and so isolated that only two foreigners had been seen in the region in ten years, with the exception of the French mission priest, Father Raspail, who lost his life in the flood. With telegraph offices, instruments, and operators carried away, word came slowly to Tokyo, and with 50 to 100 miles of mountain roads between the nearest railway station and the seacoast aid was long in reaching the wretched survivors. When adequate idea of the calamity reached the capital and the cities, men-of-war, soldiers, sappers, surgeons, and nurses were quickly dispatched, and public sympathy found expression in contributions through the different newspapers, amounting to more than 250,000 yen, for the relief of the injured. The Japanese journalist and photographer were quickly on their way, and the vernacular press soon fed the public full of horrors, yet the first to reach the scene of the disaster was an American missionary, the Rev. Rothesay Miller, who made the usual three days' trip over the mountains in less than a day and a half on his American bicycle.
There were old traditions of such earthquake waves on this coast, one of two centuries ago doing some damage, and a tsunami of forty years ago and a lesser one of 1892 flooding the streets of Kamaishi and driving people to upper floors and the roofs of their houses. The barometer gave no warning, no indication of any unusual conditions on June 15, and the occurrence of thirteen light earthquake shocks during the day excited no comment. Rain had fallen in the morning and afternoon, and with a temperature of 80° to 90° the damp atmosphere was very oppressive. The villagers on that remote coast adhered to the old calendar in observing their local fêtes and holidays, and on that fifth day of the fifth moon had been celebrating the Girls' Festival. Rain had driven them indoors with the darkness, and nearly all were in their houses at eight o'clock, when, with a rumbling as of heavy cannonading out at sea, a roar, and the crash and crackling of timbers, they were suddenly engulfed in the swirling waters. Only a few survivors on all that length of coast saw the advancing wave, one of them telling that the water first receded some 600 yards from ghastly white sands and then the Wave stood like a black wall 80 feet in height, with phosphorescent lights gleaming along its crest. Others, hearing a distant roar, saw a dark shadow seaward and ran to high ground, crying "Tsunami! tsunami!" Some who ran to the upper stories of their houses for safety were drowned, crushed, or imprisoned there, only a few breaking through the roofs or escaping after the water subsided.
Shallow water and outlying islands broke the force of the wave in some places, and in long, narrow inlets or fiords the giant roller was broken into two, three, and even six waves, that crashed upon the shore in succession. Ships and junks were carried one and two miles inland, left on hilltops, treetops, and in the midst of fields uninjured or mixed up with the ruins of houses, the rest engulfed or swept seaward. Where the wave entered a fiord or bay it bore everything along to the head of the ravine or valley and left the mass of debris in a heap at the end. Where the coast was low and faced the open ocean the wave washed in and, retreating, carried everything back with it. Many survivors, swept away by the waters, were cast ashore on outlying islands, or seized bits of wreckage and kept afloat. On the open coast the wave came and withdrew within five minutes, while in long inlets the waters boiled and surged for nearly a half hour before subsiding. The best swimmers were helpless in the first swirl of water, and nearly all the bodies recovered were frightfully battered and mutilated, rolled over and driven against rocks, struck by and crushed between timbers. The force of the wave cut down groves of large pine trees to short stumps, snapped thick granite posts of temple gates and carried the stone cross-beams 309 yards away. Many people were lost through running back to save others or to save their valuables.
One loyal schoolmaster carried the emperor's portrait to a place of safety before seeking out his own family. A half-demented soldier, retired since the late war and continually brooding on a possible attack by the enemy, became convinced that the first cannonading sound was from a hostile fleet, and, seizing his sword, ran down to the beach to meet the foe. One village officer, mistaking the sound of crashing timbers for crackling flames, ran to high ground to see where the fire was, and thus saved his life. Another village officer, living on the edge of a hill, heard the crash and slid his screens open to look upon foaming waters nearly level with his veranda. In a moment the waters disappeared, leaving a black, empty level where the populous village had been a few minutes before. Four women clung to one man, seeking to escape to high ground, and their combined weight resisting the force of the receding wave they were all saved. The only survivors of another village were eight men who had been playing the game of "go" in a hillside temple. Eight children floated away and left on high ground were believed to be the only survivors of one village, until one hundred people were found who had been borne across and stranded on the opposite shores of their bay. One hundred and fifty people were found cast away on one island offshore. From two large villages on one bay only thirty young men survived, hardy, muscular young fishermen and powerful swimmers, yet in other places the strongest perished, and the aged and infirm, cripples, and tiny children were miraculously preserved. The wave flooded the cells of Okachi prison and the jailers broke the bolts and let the 195 convicts free. Only two convicts attempted to escape, the others waiting in good order until marched to the high ground by their keepers. The good Père Raspail had just reached Kamaishi from his all-day walk of 50 miles over the mountains and entered his inn, when his assistant called to him from the street. The priest came to the veranda, but in an instant the water was upon him. He was seen later, swimming, but evidently was struck by timbers or swept out to sea, as his body has not been recovered. Japanese men-of-war cruised for a week off Kamaishi, recovering bodies daily. The Japanese system of census enumeration is so complete and minute that the name of every person who lost his life was soon known, and the Official Gazette was able to state that out of a population of 6,529 at Kamaishi 4,985 were lost and 500 injured, while 953 dwellings and 867 warehouses and other structures were destroyed or carried away, and 176 ships carried inland or swept out and lost.
The survivors were so stunned with the appalling disaster that few could do anything for themselves or others. With houses, nets, and fishing-boats carried away and the fish retreating to further and deeper waters, starvation faced them, and, the great heat continuing while so many bodies were strewn along shore and imprisoned in ruins, the atmosphere fast became poisonous. The north-coast people are opposed to cremation and insisted on earth burial, which delayed the disposal of the dead and augmented the danger of pestilence. Disinfectants were sent in quantity, and the work of recovery and burial was so pressing that soldiers were put to it after all available coolies had been impressed. The Red Cross Society, with its hospitals and nurses, had difficulty in caring for all the wounded, the greater number of whom, besides requiring surgical aid, were suffering from pneumonia and internal inflammations consequent upon their long exposure in wet clothing without shelter and from the brine, fish oil, and sand breathed in and swallowed while in the first tumult of waters. Besides the generous relief fund subscribed by the people, the government has made large assignments from its available funds and sent stores of provisions, clothing, tools, etc., to the 60,000 homeless, ruined, bereaved, and starving people of the San-Riku coast.
The wave was plainly felt two hours later on the shores of the island of Yesso, 200 miles north of the center of disturbance on the San-Riku coast, the water advancing 80 feet beyond high-tide mark on the beach at Hakodate. Eight hours later there was a great disturbance of the waters on the shores of the Bonin islands, more than 700 miles southward, the water rising three or four feet and retreating violently. Six hours later, on the shores of Kaui, the most northern of the Hawaiian islands, distant 3,390 miles, the waters receded violently and washed on shore in a wave some inches above the normal height.
The plainest inference has been that the great wave was the result of an eruption, explosion, or other disturbance in the bed of the sea, 500 or 600 miles off the San-Riku coast. The most popular theory is that it resulted from the caving-in of some part of the wall or bed of the great "Tuscarora Deep," one of the greatest depressions of the ocean bed in the world, discovered in 1874 by the present Rear-Admiral Belknap, U. S. N., while in command of the U. S. S. Tuscarora, engaged in deep-sea surveys.
The "Tuscarora Deep" is nearly five and one-third statute miles in depth, being exceeded, so far as known, only by the still more profound depths discovered last year in the South Pacific by Commander A. F. Balfour, of the British Navy.
That disturbances were taking place in this tremendous abyss was again suggested at six o'clock on the morning of July 4, when the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's mail steamer Empress of Japan, sailing directly over it in a smooth sea, was shaken as if a propeller blade had been lost or the ship had struck an obstruction. Every one was roused by the peculiar shock, but no visible explanation was furnished. The destructive wave and this incident together should stimulate further investigation of this dangerous, bottomless pit of the Pacific ocean, which owes its discovery to United States explorers by deep-sea soundings.
Non-Destructive Assay
Non-Destructive Assay (NDA) refers to the quantitative determination of content or isotopic composition of nuclear materials without altering their chemical or physical form. In many situations NDA provides the only measurement method that can be used, eg, when sampling is difficult or impossible. In the instruments described below, neutron or gamma rays emitted by nuclear materials are measured.
Copyright: IAEA Imagebank
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Beta Reflectometer
Routine use of the beta reflectometer permits the rapid and precise determination of the uranium concentration of powder or pellet samples at facilities handling nuclear materials in bulk form. The absolute value of the results is tied to samples sent for chemical analysis. This instrument has the capability of reducing analytical costs by routinely determining the concentration of a large number of samples. (Developed by Bulgarian Academy of Sciences under contract for IAEA).
Mountaintop removal is a destructive form of coal mining where mountains are blown apart to extract the coal most effectively. Photo by Kent Kessinger with a flight courtesy of Southwings.
For more info on mountaintop removal and what you can do to help check out www.ilovemountains.org.
Mountaintop removal is a destructive form of coal mining where mountains are blown apart to extract the coal most effectively. Photo by Kent Kessinger with a flight courtesy of Southwings.
For more info on mountaintop removal and what you can do to help check out www.ilovemountains.org.
County town of Buckinghamshire, large and sprawling, with a destructive road system around which new brash buildings have arisen. We parked in a multistorey car park, on the third floor and travelled UP two floors to get out by walking over a bridge, through a huge recent shopping centre and out into a little oasis of streets in the old town where St Mary's church is sited, all on the same level as that fifth floor bridge.
Large and cruciform, mainly C13, grouped around a central tower with a picturesque recessed leaded clock stage with gothic open parapet and pinnacles, and short further recessed spire. The approach is to the south transept, the main entrance. Many trees make exteriors problematic. On entering there was a pervasive smell of coffee (although my friend got bacon!). The west end has a newish gallery and a dais with tables and chairs serving a cafe which is sited in the south-west corner of the south aisle and also fills the south porch. In this sea of pine boarding sits the Norman font; I was surprised that it didn't have a flat cover with "bar stools" around it. Olympic banners hang from the nave roof obstructing the view east, although the view was better from the gallery. Gorgeous west window by O'Connor. The north aisle has dome comfy armchairs and some medieval stalls ejected from elsewhere, and also a lovely baroque altar table among the clutter. The north transept has two good monuments, a cusped triangular recess with an alabaster knight, and a standing canopied monument with kneeling figures of mother and daughter complete with the original railings. Here too a Norman pillar piscina (not mentioned at all in the BofE) and a medieval cope chest. EE chancel, although east and south wall are entirely Victorian by the restorer Scott. There is an outer chapel east of the south transept (C14 with rich sedilia and a collection of memorials which seemed resited here) and an odd large square space to the west with a tall central wooden column supporting the roof. The inner south chapel has been converted into an office for a local charity which is based in the church, and has a stone screen filling the arch with a reset window.
I quite enjoyed my visit, if not the smell of stale coffee, apart from the awful staged cafe area at the west end and the poorly judged inclusion of the font here. However at least it was laid out as a church when I called, my friend recalled seeing badminton nets strewn across the nave on a previous visit. However it is obviously a well-used building, and an open one.
Workflow:
1. Non destructive
2. Preparing custom brushes
3. Selection & masking
4. Adjustment and Filters
5. Texturising
6. Lighting effects
7. Fine tuning
8. Adobe Lightroom tuning
Used technique: layers, adjustment, smart object styles, masking, clipping masking, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop CC 2017, several Stock Photos, plugins.
While these are quite a destructive insect, they are very pretty.
"Ceratitis capitata, the Mediterranean fruit fly, or medfly for short, is a species of fruit fly capable of causing extensive damage to a wide range of fruit crops. It is native to the Mediterranean area, but has spread invasively to many parts of the world, including Australasia and North and South America.
... In the United States, C. capitata has invaded four states (Hawaii, California, Texas and Florida), but has been eradicated from all but Hawaii. The medfly has been spotted in California as recently as mid September of 2009.[1] It has also been eradicated from New Zealand and Chile." Wikipedia