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My first time shooting the moon. I used a 500mm mirror lens, coupled with my 1.6x sensor on my 50D = 800mm equivalent. This photo is not cropped at all, it is how it came out from my camera, with contrast boosted a bit to see the craters in the moon clearer.
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L'equivalente scoglioso della piscinotta dei bambini... con gli scogli aguzzi che c'erano là in mezzo, una saggia scelta.
A cherry blossom is the name for the flower of cherry trees known as Sakura. In English, the word "sakura" is equivalent to the Prunus serrulata, Japanese flowering cherry. Cherry Blossoms are indigenous to many East Asian states including Japan, Korea, China. Japan has a wide variety of cherry blossoms (sakura); well over 200 cultivars can be found there. Every year the Japanese Meteorological Agency and the public track the sakura zensen (cherry-blossom front) as it moves northward up the archipelago with the approach of warmer weather via nightly forecasts following the weather segment of news programs. The blossoming begins in Okinawa in January and typically reaches Kyoto and Tokyo at the end of March or the beginning of April. It proceeds into areas at the higher altitudes and northward, arriving in Hokkaidō a few weeks later. Japanese pay close attention to these forecasts and turn out in large numbers at parks, shrines, and temples with family and friends to hold flower-viewing parties. Hanami festivals celebrate the beauty of the cherry blossom and for many are a chance to relax and enjoy the beautiful view. The custom of hanami dates back many centuries in Japan. Most Japanese schools and public buildings have cherry blossom trees outside of them. Since the fiscal and school year both begin in April, in many parts of Honshū, the first day of work or school coincides with the cherry blossom season. Very very beautiful!
The equivalent of a pulpit, from which to deliver midday Friday prayers in important mosques. This was probably made in Cairo, between 1468-96.
It is richly decorated in geometric wood carving and inlaid with wood and ivory. This detail is from the tower side-panels.
equivalent 35mm-format focal lenght: 750
lens groups-elements:5-7
Minimum focus:(m(feet)):4.0(13)
Max.magnification(x):0.13
Min.f-stop:f/8 (fixed)Dimensions:approx-89x118(3.5?8x4 3/4)
Mass:665 grams
I photographed this beautiful Toucan at Park Las Aquilas Jungle Park in Tenerife last month with my Panasonic GH4 + 100-300mm (200-600mm 35mm equivalent) lens.
Cairo's equivalent of the Moscow Kremlin, the Citadel was home to the city's rulers for some 700 years. Built by Saladin in 1176, the fortified complex is divided into three vast enclosures, containing mosques, museums, battlements and residential buildings, dating from the 12th to the 19th centuries. This photograph shows the top of the prayer hall and green dome of the Mosque of Sultan al-Nasr, built between 1318 and 1335; it was the only Mamluke building inside the Citadel left standing by Mohammed Ali.
Images from the rally in Stornoway protesting against the Scottish Government's cuts to the Road Equivalent Tariff (RET).
Cairo's equivalent of the Moscow Kremlin, the Citadel was home to the city's rulers for some 700 years. Built by Saladin in 1176, the fortified complex is divided into three vast enclosures, containing mosques, museums, battlements and residential buildings, dating from the 12th to the 19th centuries. This photograph shows the courtyard of the most prominent building in the Citadel, Mohammed Ali's Mosque, built in classic Ottoman style in the mid-19th century. The ablutions fountain is in Turkish Baroque style. The clock on the right was a gift to Mohammed Ali from Louis Philippe of France, to thank him for having sent him the obelisk which now stands in the place de la Concorde in Paris. The clock was damaged when it was being unpacked in Cairo and has apparently never worked!
Blueback Kite Ski - 7 (of 13) - Olympus Camedia 38-380mm (35mm equivalent) C-750 Ultra Zoom (2003) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia where he works also as a writer and a personal trainer.
Equivalent of an engagement ceremony, the Ashirbaad ceremony takes place two- three days before the wedding date.
For this ceremony, first the groom's family (excluding the groom) visit the bride's home and shower her with blessings as well as with costly presents, usually in the presence of a priest who places an idol of Bhagwan Narayan in the front.
Later, the bride's family blesses the groom in his house and gifts him a ring, gold buttons and a watch. It is a kind of acceptance of the boy and the girl on both sides.
Vintage Olympus DIgicam - 17 (of 18) - Olympus Camedia 38-380mm (35mm equivalent) C-750 Ultra Zoom (2003) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Equivalent with Warman 6/4 D-AH Slurry pump
Max Flow: 100L/sec
Max Head: 56 Meters
Size: 1021x812x668mm
Weight: 626kg
Suction: 6 inch
Discharge: 4 inch
Material: High chrome or Rubber liner
16mm f/13 full frame equivalent , converted to BW from jpg No editing, film simulation I am working on
More than 300 graduates, family members and faculty celebrated during the High School Equivalency (HSE) Commencement Ceremony held Saturday, Oct. 22, on College of DuPage’s Glen Ellyn campus. The ceremony honored students who received their HSE certificates over the past three years and overcame the obstacles faced during the COVID-19 pandemic
Borie est l’équivalent français du provençal bori désignant un mas et vient du médiéval boveria, boria, étable à bœufs. On l’emploie sans distinction au féminin ou au masculin.
Ce hameau dit « Les Cabanes », avant d’être baptisé Village des bories, est situé à 4km de Gordes, à 270m d‘altitude.
Dépourvu de cimetière et d’église, ce hameau est typique de l’habitat temporaire qui, dans les pays méditerranéens, venait doubler le village permanent et était lié aux travaux agricoles saisonniers.
Son apparition résulte des grands mouvements de conquête des terres qu’à connus la Provence aux 17ème et 18ème siècles. La ruée sur les collines autour de Gordes est à l’origine des milliers de tonnes de pierres extraites du sol lors de la fabrication des champs qui donneront naissance aux différents groupes de cabanes que l’on retrouve sur ce plateau calcaire.Les parcelles défrichées étaient plantées de cultures « sèches » : muriers, amandiers, céréales, fourrage mais surtout oliviers. Tout près d’ici des moulins à huile d’une taille considérable nous renseignent sur l’activité phare de Gordes jusqu’au grand gel de 1956 : la production d’huile.
Les activités complémentaires étaient nombreuses et permettaient une valorisation de la main-d’œuvre familiale : élevage de petit bétail, miel, jardins, vergers, ramassage de plantes aromatiques, médicinales, cueillettes sauvages, boisillage, cavage de truffes, élevage du ver à soie…
Les maigres revenus tirés de l’exploitation de ces terres arides étaient pour les paysans un moyen d’échapper à la faim et au manque de grains qui souvent les menaçaient.
Les principaux bâtisseurs sont de modestes paysans, des cultivateurs, et des bergers qui ont pratiqué l’auto construction avec la pierre qu’ils trouvaient in situ.
Les cabanes les plus grandes, d’une belle plasticité, et à l’architecture élaborée sont l’œuvre de professionnels, de maçons dont le nom est perdu mais qui étaient de véritables «maîtres» de la pierre sèche et qui nous ont laissé de magnifiques ouvrages.
L’expression « maçonnerie à pierre sèche » signifie la pose de pierres choisies et taillées sans recourir à du ciment ou autre liant : chaux ou terre.
Cette technique atteint un degré de perfection lors de la construction des cabanes et notamment de la voute en encorbellement, phase la plus délicate de l’assemblage des pierres.
La voute en encorbellement ne nécessite pas de coffrage. Les pierres sont disposées horizontalement ou même légèrement penchées vers l’extérieur pour empêcher les rentrées d’eau. Chaque rangée est en surplomb par rapport à la rangée inférieure. Les pierres sont soigneusement croisées et les rangs deviennent solidaires les uns des autres. Pour terminer la cabane on place au faitage de grosses dalles plates qui assurent la stabilité de la voute.
Les voutes en carène caractéristiques des cabanes de Gordes sont les plus délicates à élever.
Equivalent with Warman 6/4 D-AH Slurry pump
Max Flow: 100L/sec
Max Head: 56 Meters
Size: 1021x812x668mm
Weight: 626kg
Suction: 6 inch
Discharge: 4 inch
Material: High chrome or Rubber liner
Images from the rally in Stornoway protesting against the Scottish Government's cuts to the Road Equivalent Tariff (RET).
The Equivalent of the US Army War College, and the location of the CPX for Rapid Trident, in 2005, and 2006.
Nikon D2H
Focal Length: 35mm
White Balance: Cloudy
Color Mode: Mode II (Adobe RGB)
RAW (12-bit)
Lens: 28-300mm f/3.3-6.3 D
Sensitivity: ISO 400
Skoda hails from this part of the world, in case you didn't know. It is like the Maruti equivalent of Czech, and you'll find Skodas dominating the roads.
Prague, Czech Republic.
For lack of a better place to put these pictures, I'm giving rione 4 -- and only rione 4 -- its own set. Rome has 22 rioni. They're basically administrative divisions/"neighborhoods." (The Parisian equivalent would be their arrondissements.)
Rione 4 -- Campo Marzio -- is a small area that includes Piazza del Popolo, up Pincio Hill (but just a small portion of it), over to the Tiber, and about 1/3 of the way down Via del Corso. Rione 4 is known as the "foreigners' quarter."
It includes Piazza di Spagna, Piazza dei Trinita Monti, and the Spanish Steps that connect them. It includes Via dei Condotti (and the parallel streets to the south) that are the high-end shopping area (Gucci, Bulgari, etc. have flagship stores here). It also includes Ara Pacis and the Mausoleum of Augustus over on the river. The Villa Medici is also in the neighborhood, between the Spanish Steps and Porta Pinciana.
The small alleys between the Spanish Steps and Piazza del Popolo have been home to a lot of poets, artists, and others, mainly in the 20th century.
The rest of these notes involve the area around the Spanish Steps.
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Spanish Steps:
This is the highlight of the area. 135 steps on a 30 meter (95 foot) slope that connects the Piazza dei Trinita Monti (and associated church, which is under the auspices of the French Bourbons) at the top with the Spanish Embassy to the Vatican (in the Palazzo Monaldeschi) that gives Piazza di Spagna its name at the bottom of the steps.
A French diplomat to the Vatican, Etienne Gueffier, died in 1660, leaving part of his ample fortune behind to have these stairs built. They were delayed (contested wills, and all) and eventually completed in 1725. Two French writers noted that, barely 30 years later, the stairs were already in poor condition. They've undergone a number of restorations, most recently in 2015-16 (paid for by Bulgari, at the cost of about 1.5 million euros).
In an effort to keep these way-too-touristy steps from needing restoration every three weeks, the local government can (and will) fine you $250-300 for sitting down on the steps and $400-450 for damaging the steps.
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Piazza di Spagna:
This is the small piazza at the base of the Spanish Steps. The focus of the piazza is the Fontana della Barcaccia, which was designed by Bernini. Not the famous one, but his dad, Pietro Bernini. It was built in 1623.
Also on the square, you'll find the Giorgio di Chirico House Museum, the Keats-Shelley Memorial House (directly to the right of the stairs; it's where John Keats decided to die; he spent the last year of his life in this house, dying of tuberculosis), On the opposite side of the stairs is Babington's (tea room) founded in the 1890s by two young women (a Brit and a New Zealander).
There's also the Spagna metro stop on the square (which has an elevator to take you to the upper level if you don't want to walk the 135 steps).
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Trinita dei Monti:
The church (and very small piazza in front of it) was built on land bought by King Charles VIII of France in 1494. Construction began in 1502 by King Louis XII (to celebrate his successful invation of the Kingdom of Naples). The obelisk in front of this church is -- shockingly -- NOT Egyptian. It was made in 1789 (ironically, the year that the French Revolution started) and is a copy of the nearby Popolo Obelisk, hieroglyphics and all.
The church was consecrated in 1585. It's still an active church.
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Via Margutta:
This is a very narrow street parallel to Via del Babuino (on the Pincian Hill side). Wikipedia says, it "originally was home to modest craftsmen, workshops and stables, but now hosts many art galleries and fashionable restaurants." What changed? 1953. Audrey Hepburn. Roman Holiday.
Gregory Peck's character lived in an apartment on our Via Margutta here at #51. (The exterior and courtyard shots from the movie are real, but the interior was shot on a sound stage.)
Speaking of the famous, among those who have lived here are Giulietta Masina (Italian film actress from the 1950s), Federico Fellini (one of the most famous directors of Italian cinema), Renato Guttuso (Italian painter and politician), Marina Punturieri (Italian socialite, actress, director, activist, stylist, writer, and TV personality), and Amerigo Tot (Hungarian sculptor and occasional actor).
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Via Condotti:
This is a cross street of il Tridente. It starts at the base of the Spanish Steps and stretches towards the Tiber. I'll just note three things.
Caffe Greco (one of the most famous in Rome) is at Via Condotti 86. It was founded in 1760 and has hosted the likes of Stehndal, Goethe, Liszt, Byron, Keats. Marconi (inventor of the radio) probably dropped in a time or two as well. He lived at Via Condotti 11.
In 1986, fashion designer Valentino filed a lawsuit against McDonald's (as they'd just opened a restaurant nearby). Why? "Noise and disgusting odors" below his sixth-story palazzo. He lost.
I mentioned that this is the upscale shopping street. Well...Dior, Gucci, Valentino, Hermes, Armani, Jimmy Choo, Rolex, Tudor, Patek Philippe, Prada, Salvator Ferragamo, Celine, Van Cleef & Arpels, Dolce & Gabbana, Max Mara, Alberta Ferretti, Trussardi, Buccellati, Bulgari, Damiani, Tod's, Zegna, Cartier, Montblanc, Tiffany & Co., and Louis Vuitton all have stores here. Done.
Nanaimo Arts Council Banners at Departure Bay - 10 (of 11) - Olympus Camedia 38-380mm (35mm equivalent) C-750 Ultra Zoom (2003) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia where he works also as a writer and a personal trainer.
Stunt 902 performs on Aberdeen Street
June 16th 2018 - Stunt 902 demonstration team performs on front of Maders tobacconist on Aberdeen Street KVille.
Due to extremely harsh Government rules and regulations Maders tobacconist, now has dark and empty store front windows in its little shop that's been on Aberdeen Street downtown Kentville for the last 50 years ? Meanwhile, the liquor store up the street on Main sits on the finest piece of prime commercial real estate in town, has the largest store front display windows around, the biggest NSLC sign, and is by far the nicest, brightest, cleanest, classy-est, and most well stocked with aisles and aisles of an unlimited selection of alcohol which is the only product sold in this massive Govt owned single product only specialty shop department store ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/9344935900
Alcohol leads the nation in substance use costs almost doubling that of smoking. csuch.ca/substance-use-costs/current-costs/#:~:text=The%2...
Alcohol costs Ontario over $7 billion in health-care, criminal justice and 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...
.Cigarettes don't impair you, but alcohol can cause physical and mental impairment..
National Drug Driving Study 2024 - Cannabis edges out alcohol as the most common impairing substance,
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-cannabis-edges-out...
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Here are some relevant news clippings :
Tobacco :
A disproportionate Government taxation is forced on the purchasers of a singled out publicly sold legal product ? Tobacco users now pay the equivalent of over 4 times the amount of Government sin tax on their product as do the users of alcohol pay on their product even though stats show that alcohol use ranks twice as much in its cost to society due to substance use as does tobacco use ? 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 ,
atlantic.ctvnews.ca/n-s-store-owner-loses-Constitutional Challengetobacco-battle-...
A stifling, superfluous, unimaginable and shocking cigarette Sin Tax ? The Maders street window in downtown Kentville is allowed to display Government gambling ads but not the product he's been selling since 1929, and so he instead reveals and displays a huge Government sin tax that is being charged on customer purchases of tobacco ? He was later ordered to take it down.. www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/9344935900
When purchasing a tobacco product you are now charged a Government Sin Tax at a rate equivalent to 4 times more than is charged to alcohol even though the alcohol product is far more destructive and far more costly to society ? This bias and discrimination against one singled out product is the direct result of many years of very one-sided lobbying directed at Governments by those that don't like smoking but seem to hide and never mention other bad habits like smoking marijuana, drinking alcohol, junk food obesity, or gambling ? A lot of damaging misinformation has been submitted to Governments by these biased and one-sided lobby groups that constantly target their own choice of one select product out of the many that are out there ? The negative influence of this kind of targeted single product harassment has resulted in a severe over-taxation now being charged to the tobacco customer ? And now the purchaser must deal with an unjust and extremely over inflated price thst is the result of the continued influence and interference of these outsider prejudicial groups that don't purchase or use this particular long time legally sold public product ? Does this unfair situation and the harm being done constitute a form of damage and consumer fraud ? A Class action tax recovery suit and application for a fair share of the recent 24 billion dollar tobacco reclamation suit is now being considered ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52649460406/in/datepos...
August 16, 2023 - Unfortunately, cancer diagnosis rates are way up in a new generation ? Study finds that cancer diagnosis rates are going up in younger adults, driven largely by the rises in women and people in their 30s ? Unlike previous generations, this generation is made up of much fewer smokers ? www.cnn.com/2023/08/16/health/early-onset-cancer-increase...
May 13, 2024 - May 13, 2024 - Everyone is quitting smoking yet while the number of actual smokers keeps going down - cancer 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 surviving. Researchers projected there will be 247,100 new cancer diagnoses and 88,100 cancer deaths in 2024. That is up from last year ?
www.cbc.ca/news/health/cancer-cmaj-may-1.7200589
Sept 4th, 2023 - A tenacious, well funded, decades long, well-organized and fiercely anti tobacco lobbying campaign with its main focus always on the tobacco products, appears to have failed miserably in its promise to reduce heart and lung disease ? Figures show that after many years of a strategy that focused mainly on one single product only, that while on their watch, instead of cancer rates going down as they have promised everyone, the numbers have instead soared upwards during their campaign especially among young adults, (who don't smoke anymore)?
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 incidence on the rise among young adults under 50, Doctors searching for answers,"
For years now cancer societies have directed their central focus of blame for cancer mainly on the tobacco products ? And , in spite of the constant attack on this one singled out product, the incidence of cancer is on the rise among adults under 50 ? Has this barnstorming and concentrated fucused approach on one product strategy served to distract from or even prevent the discovery of what the real cause or causes might be ? 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 ? The Female gender is now living longer ? Canada's overall mortality rate was on the increase from 2020 to 2021 ? Life expectancy gender inequality now being shown as life expectancy declines for men but increases for women ?
www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230828/dq230828b-...
Lawyers rubbing hands together in anticipation ? There's a pending 500 billion dollar, 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 her new position with yet another attack on the tobacco industry by ordering that 50 additional new dire warning messages ( 25 in French and 25 in English) be placed on or within the cigarette packages that are already overcrowded by numerous dire warnings and graphic pictures ? This is interesting ? First they assist alcohol products by giving them a generous 4 times the sin tax break over the tobacco products, then they create legislation to legalize and to enable the smoking of cannabis, and, then they create more legislation enacting Bill C-218 to open up the flood gates of wide open at home and mobile phone sports parlor betting and casino gambling as never before seen or even imagined in Canada - And then, after all of this enabling assistance, they will then proceed to create a brand new Cabinet position called Minister of mental health and addictions, and her first order of business when assuming her new job is to once again target and single out tobacco products for yet another restriction ? ( while ignoring and not even mentioning the words sports gambling, marijuana or alcohol) ?
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Ottawa May 31, 2023 - Canada makes history, (and the Guinness book of records) ? The Canadian Government has issued a brand new demand for 50 new dire warnings to be placed on or inside cigarette packages that are already 75% covered with multiple warnings and graphic images and must also be hidden away from all public view in drawers in stores ? Meanwhile the number 50 just also happens to be the same number as there are new at-home and on-line gambling las vegas style casinos and sports betting parlors that have just recently opened up for business in Canada since this same Liberal Government recently enacted their gambling enabling Bill C-218 ?
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Lobbyists claim that 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 the official cause of that death ?
www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-concerns/t...
The Province of Nova Scotia publishes an official yearly Government financial statement showing tax revenue collected from all provincial sales of major sin taxed legal adult recreational products. The sin products they list are : alcohol ( NSLC sales ), tobacco, gambling (Atlantic lotto/casino), and now Cannabis (NSLC ) ? According to the numbers stated, and based on total number of products purchased, smokers appear to be paying 4 dollars tax into the coffers for every 1 tax dollar that the drinkers are paying in ? This is equivalent to 4 times more Provincial tax being charged to the smoker on his product of choice as is charged to the drinker of alcohol ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52649460406/in/datepos...
Aug 23, 2023 - Absurdly over-valued cigarettes are top priority for robbers involved in armed robberies - Two similar HRM gas station robberies under investigation . Cigarettes, food and cash were all stolen during the robberies...
atlantic.ctvnews.ca/police-seek-suspect-in-halifax-conven...
'Why not just blame everything on smoking ? '
Stats Can, October 16, 2017 - The Conference Board of Canada says that although actual smokers have decreased in their numbers, deaths and health care costs attributed to smoking are still increasing dramatically ? They explain the reason for such a paradox may lie in the way they view their statistics that will include all sickness and negative health problems (and we assume this includes both physical and mental health ) incurred by the quitters over their lifetime until death, as well as those of all the part timers and those who had just tried it for a while ? And so, even if you don't smoke now but may have at one time or another, all negative personal health issues and problems incurred during your non-smoking natural life will be blamed on smoking and listed by them to be caused as a result of 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 seen by them to have been caused by smoking ? www.cbc.ca/news/business/smoking-economic-cost-1.4357096
Desperate Lobbyists gaslight and stoop to playing the race card as they weaponize the common cigarette in order to intenstfy their anti tobacco arguments ? In nonsensical gaslighting they portray menthol cigarettes to be a weapon specifically designed, manufactured and distributed for a purpose of harming members of the black race in America ? As a direct result of such propaganda a previous long time freedom of choice and right of every adult has been taken away from them when menthol smokes were banned from sale in the USA similar to Canada ? read "How the tobacco industry targeted Black Americans with menthol smokes" www.npr.org/2022/04/29/1095291808/tobacco-industry-target...
Why do they always place such a high priority on just the smoking habit only and why do they hide and ignore the other bad habits ? Is it because some of those who occupy high profile political and social placements are in a position to make these decisions while exercising their own personal opinion on something they themselves hold strong negative feelings and personally detest ? Notice they never show a similar attitude when it comes to pot, gambling, obesity or alcohol ? It is noteworthy that in Countries where those in power do not hold such a personal grudge or a strong bias against a particular product, for example Turkey, that today's price for a store bought pack of Marlboro is $ 1.73 American ? 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 and many other creative artists, to all or most notable physicists and mathematicians like Einstein and Oppenheimer, to all the Kings of England, to the greatest ever Canadian musicians Joni Mitchel, Gordon Lightfoot, Leonard Cohen and Tragically Hip (all members), and also, to the many soldiers who fight Wars for us.. www.hoodmwr.com/celebrities-who-smoke/
Is your home still your castle Part 1 - A worried Couple seeks a ban on the secondhand smoke from the next door neighbors house ?
nationalpost.com/news/canada/couple-seeks-ban-on-secondha...
Feb 9th 2024 - Is your home still your castle Pt.2 - Is the State abusing the Charter and invading privacy when invoking compulsory government control over your private residence ? Health Canada has floated the notion of placing a total ban on smoking in all homes in Canada ahead of its upcoming attendance at the 2024 World Health Organization tobacco summit ? 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 - Although the number of actual smokers has gone way down, Rob Cunningham's Canadian Cancer Society says deaths per year caused by these same smokers are way up ? They also claim that 1 in 3 cancer cases in Canada are still being caused by the smoking ? Given that in the last 10 years the actual number of smokers gas 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 more or 30% more than 10 years ago when there only 36,000 deaths were reported even though there were twice as many smokers smoking ? Their figures don't make sense ? Are these numbers being manipulated in order to get the results wanted ? globalnews.ca/video/10194704/tobacco-free-generation-the-...
While the number of actual smokers keeps going down - cancer rates blamed on them keeps going up ? The latest figures from the Canadian Cancer Society May 17, 2023 says in its official public report that smoking tobacco causes about 30% of all cancer deaths ? They also say that It results in 46,000 Canadian deaths. ( 46,000 is up 30 % from 10 years ago even though actual smokers are down by 50% ? ) cancer.ca/en/about-us/news/2023/june/stop-big-tobacco
CTV news Dec 29th, 2023 : Unprecedented Government legislation is proposed that may be based on false facts and misleading figures ? If passed the Government is to be given power to choose a publicly sold legal product and then force lifetime restriction probationary orders on the citizens they choose to select along with lifetime monitoring and surveillance on them to insure compliance to their lifetime probation ? 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 obsessed on one single product only, tobacco hating, radical social activist and class action lawyer Rob Cunningham, ( and some World Leaders ) want to establish and enforce a form of enforced population control that will allow current Governments the right to control certain citizens, (as chosen by them), and place a lifetime restriction on a legal product (as chosen by them) to be placed on certain segregated citizens without having to gain their knowledge, permission or consent ? And to then State monitor these individuals for the rest of their lives to insure that mandatory compliance is fully enforced on the legal lifetime probationary order that has been forcibly placed on them by their Government forever ? globalnews.ca/video/10194704/tobacco-free-generation-the-...
A 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 with newer more horrific pictures upgraded to the 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 ? Sound ridiculous ? But is the idea of advertising 'safe' gambling not just another way to lure potential clients into the sports betting parlor and world of high stakes casino gambling ? Are these not gambling ads that serve to advertise, endorse and normalize gambling ? And what about connecting the word 'good' to the gambling vice where in Betano ads the sports hero claims that ; "You're 'good' if you gamble, but you're 'great' if you safe gamble" ?
May 25,2022 - The big gambling companies run ads targeting daytime TV viewers ? Is this idea of running gambling commercials that advertise 'limited play' and 'safe' gambling not the same as the alcohol industry running drinking ads that encorage drinking while telling you how much to drink, or, how about the tobacco industry running ads promoting safe smoking thru a suggested amount of cigs you should smoke per day, or the marijuana industry recommending the number of joints to safely smoke per day ? Or, what if they were to spin the advertisement; You're 'good' if you drink or you're good if you smoke cigarettes or you're good if you smoke pot, but you're even 'great' if you safe drink or safe smoke cigarettes or safe smoke pot ? 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 the battle appears over, and smokers have co-operated with 1 out of every 2 remaining smokers quitting in the last 10 years and numbers now down to a tolerable 12 % in Canada as compared to rates like 40% in other countries like Russia and China, some of the more extreme anti tobacco lobbyists are still not satisfied and demanding legislation be introduced for a total nation wide ban on all tobacco products forever ?
Continual dissatisfaction seems to be a standard in the never ending, blinkers on, blind-sided, focused and targeted attack on one singled out product, but on the other hand they don't seem bothered at all and tend to hide, overlook and will never mention the incredible progress, innovation and expansion of other sin taxable legally sold public social habits (or vices) like alcohol, pot, gambling, etc etc. that, ( while under their watch ) are all now enjoying an unprecedented period of unimpeded growth, expansion, profit and phenomenal success ? www.cbc.ca/player/play/2302654019728
The tobacco endgame, Canada at the W.H.O. Canada wants to impose nationwide household Government surveillance ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=aikvPnNYfeY&t=2250s
Feb 10th 2024 - Nicotine may be helpful in the fight against Covid 19 ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBm9OQyy4sI
Mar 20, 2024 - Zonnic, A new colorful packaged pouch style tobacco substitute and smoking cessation chew product is immediately attacked by the Lobbyists ? Government responds and quickly issues a statement that any use of glamorous marketing techniques to lure under age young people into the world of tobacco is unacceptable ? Liberal Health Minister Mark Holland says, quote "Stay the hell away from our kids" ? Maybe Mark should think about talking to his own Government about sports superstars appearing on gambling ads during CBC's hockey night in Canada, or the running of gambling ads during the CBC broadcast of the Paris Olympics ? www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nicotine-pouches-regulations-war...
Aggressive marketing of a highly addictive social vice to sports fans both young and old ? continually running glamorous gambling ads ? www.cbc.ca/news/marketplace/sports-betting-gambling-adver...
Nov 30, 2023 - A warning to all pot, gambling and alcohol industries ? Health Canada has issued a strong warning statement that, " 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 to quit smoking after he bans Zonnic nicotine replacement therapy from all stores in Canada - This is a dark day for freedom and democracy and for anyone who wants to quit smoking. It also suggests an abuse of power when Minister Holland uses position to target, politicize and ban smoking cessation product Zonnic that is currently being sold only to those over 19 and kept hidden away from view under the counter in stores ? Holland explains, "All the stuff that's clearly designed to target youth — it's over," ?
www.newswire.ca/news-releases/a-dark-day-for-canadian-smo...
Nov 2023 London England. The Throne Speech.
Smoking and tobacco are given top priority by the King and Prime Minister while other problems like influx of illegals, climate change, nuclear war, war in Ukraine, mental health, opioids and fentanyl, crime and unsafe streets, homelessness, tent encampments, crippling inflation, nurse shortages, long emergency wait times, loss of the English identity in England, etc etc etc, are left out ? www.thesun.co.uk/money/24653882/kings-speech-charles-rish...
Apr 16 2024 - The English Parliament makes history after introducing legislation ordering that no one in England currently under age 14, ( known as Generation Alpha ) will ever in their life be able to legally buy tobacco products for as long as they live ? Question - can it mean that an entire generation are presumed to be born with a lifetime probationary order put on them (without their permission) ? And, what will happen when time passes and all of this segregated generation become Adults and family providers, Mothers, Fathers, defenders of the nation fighting in wars, taxpayers, and voters of legal age ? What will happen when these grown up people want to enter into a public retail outlet in London and buy some pipe tobacco as a gift, but unlike every other citizen around them, this common everyday act for everyone else would instead be considered as a breach of lifetime probation and a crime against the law ? metro.co.uk/2024/04/16/uks-proposed-gen-alpha-smoking-ban....
May 14 2024 - Dr Heather Morrison Chief PEI Public Health Officer - The freedom loving system of democracy in P.E.I. may soon come to a halt when PEI forces lifetime bans and conditions on young citizens without their knowledge, consent or permission, for as long as they live ?
atlantic.ctvnews.ca/p-e-i-proposes-banning-islanders-of-a...
May 19, 2024, CBC Power & Politics - The notion that, "Smokers are creating long line ups at the Emergency" WHA-A-T ?? Most smokers I know are out there working hard and earning a living - not sitting around on chairs in Emergency Rooms waiting 8 hours to see a Doctor ?
Listen as Dr. Heather Morrison, P.E.I.'s Chief Public Health Officer has blamed smoking for the current problems in her troubled health care system and for the long wait times at Emergency ? She goes on to suggest that in order to contain this threat that a drastic solution is necessary and is suggesting that constitutional rights and freedoms guaranteed under a Constitution be removed from some citizens for the rest of their lives in order to protect PEI citizens ?
It is unfortunate here, that the Minister seems oblivious to and never mentions in the interview the real reasons for the current health care crisis that has not so much been caused by smokers but by an incredible lack of planning and foresight by her predecessors who had for years cut staff and slashed hospital budgets to the bone. There is also a surprisingly large influx of newcomers and foreigners incl students now moving unimpeded by Government into a small and unprepared Province creating shortages of Doctors and Nurses. And, what about the huge drain on the health system caused by the abuse of alcohol, social media abuse, gambling addictions, cannabis abuse, opioid and fentanyl hard drug use, mental illness and depression. And we mustn't forget all of those suffering from obesity, sugar diabetes, poor diet choices, lack of exercise and from the effects of overdoing fast food and junk food. There is also the victims of violence, be it domestic or other, and the increase in accidents caused by pot and alcohol impairment. And, we must also remember the ever growing number of elderly residents in our society needing attention and now living longer. And not to forget the hundreds of everyday visitors to the hospital suffering from the common everyday illnesses like colds, flu, cuts and bruises and Covi, as well as all of the soon to be Mothers requiring immediate attention or treatment ?
www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/p-e-i-considers-banning-peo...
Newfoundland, June 3, 2024 - A proposal has been put forth to Newfoundlanders that as a way to get rid of a product that some people in Newfoundland don't approve of, that the Provincial Government be given permission to interrupt and override the current system of democracy and to deny longtime constitutional rights and freedoms guaranteed under a Charter to certain young Newfoundlanders without gaining their knowledge, attention, permission or consent ? Apparently under the new proposal the local Governance will be allowed to choose and pinpoint a particular publicly sold product and then force an absolute lifetime ban on this product on whomever they have chosen ? A lifetime probationary condition is to then remain permanently attached to these subjects for as long as they live ? To insure compliance to this lifetime of social control, these individuals will be tracked by personal monitoring systems that could in the future involve the use of ankle, bracelet or necklace monitoring devices working in tandem with Tobacconist cash registers, or could perhaps involve the use of an implanted sub-epidermal computer chip that has been programmed to track personal SIN numbers, birth dates and probationary status and capable of recording and instantly alerting authorities if the targeted subject ever breaks the law by violating his or her lifetime probationary status ?
It will always be a major concern when the installation of any such major, groundbreaking, first ever of its kind, freedom removing, undemocratic or totalitarian legislation may be being based on the opinions of heavily biased individuals, unproven facts, and made-up figures that are mostly hypothetical, over-exaggerated, out dated, and might even have been deliberately manipulated ? www.ctvnews.ca/canada/n-l-becomes-latest-province-to-eye-...
Jun 01, 2024 - The number of Senior visits to E.R. units is rising ? Many Seniors have enjoyed 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 their brain and lung health and causing trips to emergency ? www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/cannabis-seniors-emergency-ro...
Smokers must turn to the Indians to buy their tax free cigs on the reserve without having to pay the heinous Government sin-tax that is being charged to the white man ?
www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/new-report-says-illegal-cig...
Oct 20, 2024 - Is Ya’ara Saks yet another 'one product only minister of Addictions' as her first order of business will be to initiate yet another focused attack on tobacco products only. She has announced that a National ban on vaping flavors is coming soon. Still nothing from her, ( nor any of the previous Ministers ) about the on-line gambling, alcohol, pot, obesity, junk food, or energy drink problems ? www.cbc.ca/news/politics/vaping-flavour-ban-saks-1.7355945
Nov 13,2024 - A Nova Scotia Provincial Crown Corporation is endorsing 'safe' smoking in public advertisements that are now playing to viewers of all ages ? The Nova Scotia liquor control board is advertising 'safe' smoking, (of a joint that is) ? Terah MacKinnon promotes her NSLC cannabis ( an addictive and impairment causing product that is generally smoked ), on behalf of her employer NSLC in a new 'safe use awareness campaign' ? NSLC claims in publicly televised commercials that by focusing more on their product quality and the safety offered by the NSLC marijuana that it will make the pot smoker better able to understand the importance of a safe and regulated product ? atlantic.ctvnews.ca/nslc-ad-campaign-promoting-it-s-canna...
Nicotine proving to 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,
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 and their loved ones as part of a corporate restructuring process triggered by a long-running legal battle .. Could pay out $32.5 B .
www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/tobacco-giants-would-pay-ou...
Mar 7 2025 - 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. Canadians could claim $100,000 as part of a $32.5 B lawsuit,, Canadians could claim $100,000 as part of $32.5 B proposed tobacco settlement in settled lawsuit,,
dailyhive.com/canada/class-action-lawsuit-tobacco-settlement
January 24, 2025 - Trump administration withdraws the proposed menthol ban,, www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/trump-administration-withdr...
April 07, 2025 - Nova Scotia Provincial Government aiding, assisting and profitting from First Nation smoking ? NSPC will supply their qwn cannabis product to Mi’kmaq reserves in Nova Scotia ?
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/nova-scotia-i...
Cannabis :
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...
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...
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 marijuana 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 is advertising 'safe' smoking in public ? (of a joint that is) ?
atlantic.ctvnews.ca/nslc-ad-campaign-promoting-it-s-canna...
July 7th 2024 - Come from Away ? An epidemic of crime 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...
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-...
A Doctor's warning about legalizing and normalizing the use 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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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 the 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...
Why do they give obesity-causing products a free sin tax ride when they cost our society far more than tobacco products ? 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 placed on social media platforms,
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/6/17/us-surgeon-general-ca...
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Alcohol :
Jan 27, 2025 - Premier Ford spending a billion to expand liquor sales in Ontario ? (the expansion of alcohol product sales 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 the Prime-Time Killer !
Alcohol is increasingly crippling the lives of younger adults, with its effects playing out in the morgue and the operating room.
www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2020-...
The Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation (NSLC) is making it easier 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 ? www.mynslc.com/en/Shop-With-Us/Delivery
Maders tobacconist in downtown Kentville has empty store front windows ,, but the liquor store down the street is located on the best prime real estate in town, and has the largest display windows in the area and is by far the nicest, brightest, classy-est, most well stocked with the best product selection in Town ? 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...
Is the WEF supporting consumption of alcohol ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ0ixgDElH8
Apr 12, 2024, Dartmouth, N.S - Artificial Intelligence and robotics are to provide alcohol to the public ? Company launches alcohol vending business with conveniently placed AI liquor dispensing machines ? Not known at this time just how AI machines plan to do a proper ID check ? atlantic.ctvnews.ca/more/dartmouth-n-s-company-launches-a...
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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...
Canada's National shame is now 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 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 :
Betano Gambling message: Sports hero to all you young gamblers, "are you a good player, or a great player ?"
June, 2021. The Liberal Government has enacted new Legislation that will serve to assist, encourage and enable far more gambling and 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 phone 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 SenateBetting on single games of football, hockey and other sports is about to become legal in Canada.
www.cbc.ca/sports/single-event-sport-gambling-to-become-l...
A dramatic expansion of government-owned legal gambling because of governments need to increase revenue without additional taxation ?
Province of Ontario reporting a 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...
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...
apr 24 2024 - Gambling in Pro Sports ? CFL suspends Shawn Lemon indefinitely for betting on league games www.msn.com/en-ca/sports/nfl/cfl-suspends-shawn-lemon-ind...
It's no longer Hockey Night in Canada - Now it's Gambling night in Canada ? NHL heros past and present like Wayne Gretzky, Austin Matthews and Connor McDavid can be found in commercials, online ads and billboards promoting and endorsing online gambling ? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-gambling-ads-sport...
Aug 22 2024, Minister of hypocrisy, I mean Minister of Health, Mark Holland says, "All the stuff that's clearly designed to target youth — it's over," ?
the fans are confused ? After Connor McDavid and other NHL Superstar heroes played starring roles in glamorous new betMGM ads promoting gambling on their sites, numerous complaints were filed. And so they eased up on the image of a Sports hero who encourages and participates in gambling although the McDavid image itself was not totally disconnected from gambling or from the lucrative gambling industry ? A corrected new version will now show Connor as an ambassador for safe and responsible gambling whenever you gamble ? But isn't it still gambling ? see news article, "Connor McDavid's latest gambling ad with Bet MGM sparks outrage among his fans,"
www.sportskeeda.com/us/nhl/news-disgusted-started-gamblin...
Betano Gambling message: Sports hero to all you young gamblers, "are you a good player, or a great player ?"
Here’s why you see so many gambling ads on TV ? Sports betting sites and online casinos and cryptocurrency dealers are now the major TV media buyers.
www.bcbusiness.ca/industries/sports/heres-why-youve-been-...
Nov Dec 2023 - The Gambling help line is overwhelmed ? "the number of calls to the helpline from online gamblers has skyrocketed since April 2022 when gambling became regulated in Ontario. “It went from being a relatively small percentage of the total number of people calling to the number one reason for the call" globalnews.ca/news
In a groundbreaking move, and for the first time ever, CBC has introduced and has now included gambling in its coverage of the Olympic games ?
2024 Paris Olympics - It appears that CBC has partnered with one particular online Casino company and BetRivers is running sports betting ads during the televising of Olympic sporting events ? Is the inclusion of a Casino and Sports betting parlor that runs gambling ads during thr Olympic events appropriate to the principles and high moral standards exemplified by the Olympic Games ?
UPDATE - Apr 1st 2023, Today's price in Canada for a Carton (8 pks) of du Maurier Signature cigarettes,,,, $229.16
Today's price for a package of Marlboro in downtown Istanbul Turkey = 1.73 American
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Thanks for viewing, and remember: It's always best not to smoke, gamble, drink alcohol, eat junk food, smoke marijuana, be obese or drink energy drinks, but if you happen to choose to indulge in any of these, remember although these are all legally sold products, they are also potentially harmful and addictive so best do it respectfully, carefully and in moderation.
Our equivalent of the London Eye. It stands at a 165m high with a diameter of 150m. There are 28 capsules that will carry visitors in a 30 min ride, with a view of the Singapore skyline
Sakura (Japanese kanji : 桜 or 櫻; hiragana: さくら) is the Japanese name for cherry trees, and their blossoms. In English, the word "sakura" is equivalent to the Japanese flowering cherry,[1] and their blossoms are commonly called cherry blossoms. Cherry fruit (known in Japanese as sakuranbo) comes from another species of tree.
The most popular variety of sakura in Japan is the Somei Yoshino. Its flowers are nearly pure white, tinged with the palest pink, especially near the stem. They bloom and usually fall within a week, before the leaves come out. Therefore, the trees look nearly white from top to bottom. The variety takes its name from the village of Somei (now part of Toshima in Tokyo). It was developed in the mid- to late-19th century at the end of the Edo period and the beginning of the Meiji period. The Somei Yoshino is so widely associated with cherry blossoms that jidaigeki and other works of fiction often depict the variety in the Edo period or earlier; such depictions are anachronisms.
Winter sakura (fuyuzakura/Prunus subhirtella autumnalis) begins to bloom in the fall and continues blooming sporadically throughout the winter. It is said to be a cross between Tokyo Higan cherry (edohiganzakura/P. incisa) and Mamezakura/P. pendula. [10]
Other categories include yamazakura, yaezakura, and shidarezakura. The yaezakura have large flowers, thick with rich pink petals. The shidarezakura, or weeping cherry, has branches that fall like those of a weeping willow, bearing cascades of pink flowers.
El municipio de Oporto tiene 15 freguesías (equivalentes a parroquias o barrios). Limita al norte con Matosinhos y Maia, al este con Gondomar, al sur con el río Duero y Vila Nova de Gaia, y al oeste con el Atlántico.
Como muchas ciudades europeas, Oporto es una ciudad antigua que cuenta con un amplio patrimonio histórico, aunque durante las últimas décadas ha sido sometida a una amplia modernización. Cuenta con el metro más largo de Portugal que cubre no sólo el Centro, sino también zonas de su área metropolitana como Senhora da Hora o Maia. Asimismo, el aeropuerto internacional Sá Carneiro ha sido recientemente ampliado hasta alcanzar una capacidad de 16 millones de pasajeros anuales.
Desde muy antiguo hay una pugna entre Lisboa y Oporto. Dicen que esta ciudad tiene un cierto aire británico, desde que se asentaron aquí los comerciantes de vino ingleses. Se dice que Lisboa gasta, Coimbra estudia, Braga reza y Oporto trabaja.
Su centro histórico ha sido declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco. Otros atractivos turístico-culturales son la Torre de los Clérigos, realizada por Nicolau Nasoni, la Casa de la Música y la Fundación Serralves dedicada al arte contemporáneo, y que es el museo más visitado de Portugal. En el margen sur del río Duero se encuentran las famosas bodegas de vinos aunque de ese margen del río ya no es Oporto sino Vilanova de Gaia. Dista de la frontera española (Galicia) unos 140 km que pueden recorrerse por autopista.
Tanto el país como el vino de Oporto (Vinho do Porto), u Oporto a secas, deben sus nombres a la ciudad de Oporto, que a su vez significa "puerto". Por su pujanza cultural, demográfica e industrial es considerada como la "Capital del Norte" portugués.
Cairo's equivalent of the Moscow Kremlin, the Citadel was home to the city's rulers for some 700 years. Built by Saladin in 1176, the fortified complex is divided into three vast enclosures, containing mosques, museums, battlements and residential buildings, dating from the 12th to the 19th centuries. This photograph shows part of the qibla (wall indicating the direction of Mecca) of the prayer hall of the Mosque of Sultan al-Nasr, built between 1318 and 1335; it was the only Mamluke building inside the Citadel left standing by Mohammed Ali.
Having seen the diesel equivalent the previous week, I had to search-out class 9F 62220 "Evening Star" - although she is not well sited being surrounded by various bit of electronic "clutter" (and I had a long wait for the "gawpers" to move).
Would be nice to see this out again a taking-on the S&C once more.
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October Light - 9 images - Sony Cybershot (2007) DSC-H9 (15X Superzoom 31-465mm equivalent) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Our Acetal Copolymer thermoplastic equivalent of our PWJDM Balanced Shift Knob has arrived! With all the same physical shift-knob fitment dimensions as its machined counterpart, this precision-engineered material is a great alternative to an aluminum knob with two available colors: Ivory White and Matte Black. Acetal Copolymer is stiffer than other plastics, chemical resistant, self-lubricating and comes with a low coefficient of friction so you can shift as smooth as a baby’s…well, you know. ;)
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El municipio de Oporto tiene 15 freguesías (equivalentes a parroquias o barrios). Limita al norte con Matosinhos y Maia, al este con Gondomar, al sur con el río Duero y Vila Nova de Gaia, y al oeste con el Atlántico.
Como muchas ciudades europeas, Oporto es una ciudad antigua que cuenta con un amplio patrimonio histórico, aunque durante las últimas décadas ha sido sometida a una amplia modernización. Cuenta con el metro más largo de Portugal que cubre no sólo el Centro, sino también zonas de su área metropolitana como Senhora da Hora o Maia. Asimismo, el aeropuerto internacional Sá Carneiro ha sido recientemente ampliado hasta alcanzar una capacidad de 16 millones de pasajeros anuales.
Desde muy antiguo hay una pugna entre Lisboa y Oporto. Dicen que esta ciudad tiene un cierto aire británico, desde que se asentaron aquí los comerciantes de vino ingleses. Se dice que Lisboa gasta, Coimbra estudia, Braga reza y Oporto trabaja.
Su centro histórico ha sido declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco. Otros atractivos turístico-culturales son la Torre de los Clérigos, realizada por Nicolau Nasoni, la Casa de la Música y la Fundación Serralves dedicada al arte contemporáneo, y que es el museo más visitado de Portugal. En el margen sur del río Duero se encuentran las famosas bodegas de vinos aunque de ese margen del río ya no es Oporto sino Vilanova de Gaia. Dista de la frontera española (Galicia) unos 140 km que pueden recorrerse por autopista.
Tanto el país como el vino de Oporto (Vinho do Porto), u Oporto a secas, deben sus nombres a la ciudad de Oporto, que a su vez significa "puerto". Por su pujanza cultural, demográfica e industrial es considerada como la "Capital del Norte" portugués.
The equivalent of five incandescent bulbs is the total energy consumption the University of Minnesota team claims it takes to provide lightning both inside and outside its solar-powered house at the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009 (Photo by Stefano Paltera/US Dept. of Energy Solar Decathlon)
Vintage Olympus Digicam - (31 images) - Olympus Camedia 38-380mm (35mm equivalent) C-750 Ultra Zoom (2003) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
El municipio de Oporto tiene 15 freguesías (equivalentes a parroquias o barrios). Limita al norte con Matosinhos y Maia, al este con Gondomar, al sur con el río Duero y Vila Nova de Gaia, y al oeste con el Atlántico.
Como muchas ciudades europeas, Oporto es una ciudad antigua que cuenta con un amplio patrimonio histórico, aunque durante las últimas décadas ha sido sometida a una amplia modernización. Cuenta con el metro más largo de Portugal que cubre no sólo el Centro, sino también zonas de su área metropolitana como Senhora da Hora o Maia. Asimismo, el aeropuerto internacional Sá Carneiro ha sido recientemente ampliado hasta alcanzar una capacidad de 16 millones de pasajeros anuales.
Desde muy antiguo hay una pugna entre Lisboa y Oporto. Dicen que esta ciudad tiene un cierto aire británico, desde que se asentaron aquí los comerciantes de vino ingleses. Se dice que Lisboa gasta, Coimbra estudia, Braga reza y Oporto trabaja.
Su centro histórico ha sido declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco. Otros atractivos turístico-culturales son la Torre de los Clérigos, realizada por Nicolau Nasoni, la Casa de la Música y la Fundación Serralves dedicada al arte contemporáneo, y que es el museo más visitado de Portugal. En el margen sur del río Duero se encuentran las famosas bodegas de vinos aunque de ese margen del río ya no es Oporto sino Vilanova de Gaia. Dista de la frontera española (Galicia) unos 140 km que pueden recorrerse por autopista.
Tanto el país como el vino de Oporto (Vinho do Porto), u Oporto a secas, deben sus nombres a la ciudad de Oporto, que a su vez significa "puerto". Por su pujanza cultural, demográfica e industrial es considerada como la "Capital del Norte" portugués.
More than 300 graduates, family members and faculty celebrated during the High School Equivalency (HSE) Commencement Ceremony held Saturday, Oct. 22, on College of DuPage’s Glen Ellyn campus. The ceremony honored students who received their HSE certificates over the past three years and overcame the obstacles faced during the COVID-19 pandemic
Made of the fabric equivalent of about three shirts, this hat is heavy. It has a very substantial feeling, more like a "winter helmet." It was certainly warm on this snowy morning, and the elastic fabric "hugs" your head. Also, the thick, squishy feel of the material makes one feel insulated from the world.
I like the very homemade look of this hat, plus the array of lovely, deep colors of pine, blue, carmine, and a mixed plaid. It's machine washable of course, and will probably last for a long time.
Borie est l’équivalent français du provençal bori désignant un mas et vient du médiéval boveria, boria, étable à bœufs. On l’emploie sans distinction au féminin ou au masculin.
Ce hameau dit « Les Cabanes », avant d’être baptisé Village des bories, est situé à 4km de Gordes, à 270m d‘altitude.
Dépourvu de cimetière et d’église, ce hameau est typique de l’habitat temporaire qui, dans les pays méditerranéens, venait doubler le village permanent et était lié aux travaux agricoles saisonniers.
Son apparition résulte des grands mouvements de conquête des terres qu’à connus la Provence aux 17ème et 18ème siècles. La ruée sur les collines autour de Gordes est à l’origine des milliers de tonnes de pierres extraites du sol lors de la fabrication des champs qui donneront naissance aux différents groupes de cabanes que l’on retrouve sur ce plateau calcaire.Les parcelles défrichées étaient plantées de cultures « sèches » : muriers, amandiers, céréales, fourrage mais surtout oliviers. Tout près d’ici des moulins à huile d’une taille considérable nous renseignent sur l’activité phare de Gordes jusqu’au grand gel de 1956 : la production d’huile.
Les activités complémentaires étaient nombreuses et permettaient une valorisation de la main-d’œuvre familiale : élevage de petit bétail, miel, jardins, vergers, ramassage de plantes aromatiques, médicinales, cueillettes sauvages, boisillage, cavage de truffes, élevage du ver à soie…
Les maigres revenus tirés de l’exploitation de ces terres arides étaient pour les paysans un moyen d’échapper à la faim et au manque de grains qui souvent les menaçaient.
Les principaux bâtisseurs sont de modestes paysans, des cultivateurs, et des bergers qui ont pratiqué l’auto construction avec la pierre qu’ils trouvaient in situ.
Les cabanes les plus grandes, d’une belle plasticité, et à l’architecture élaborée sont l’œuvre de professionnels, de maçons dont le nom est perdu mais qui étaient de véritables «maîtres» de la pierre sèche et qui nous ont laissé de magnifiques ouvrages.
L’expression « maçonnerie à pierre sèche » signifie la pose de pierres choisies et taillées sans recourir à du ciment ou autre liant : chaux ou terre.
Cette technique atteint un degré de perfection lors de la construction des cabanes et notamment de la voute en encorbellement, phase la plus délicate de l’assemblage des pierres.
La voute en encorbellement ne nécessite pas de coffrage. Les pierres sont disposées horizontalement ou même légèrement penchées vers l’extérieur pour empêcher les rentrées d’eau. Chaque rangée est en surplomb par rapport à la rangée inférieure. Les pierres sont soigneusement croisées et les rangs deviennent solidaires les uns des autres. Pour terminer la cabane on place au faitage de grosses dalles plates qui assurent la stabilité de la voute.
Les voutes en carène caractéristiques des cabanes de Gordes sont les plus délicates à élever.