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Earthquake Felt in Arnprior & As far away as Mississauga

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Friday, May 17, 2013.

At about 9:43 am EDT a 5.2 (?) magnitude quake centered about 20 km northeast of Shawville, Quebec rumbled the ground, vibrated a pepper shaker into ‘walking’ off the back of our stove here. The shaker crashed to the ground, I thought I heard breaking glass.

The quake lasted about a full minute. I looked around, no trees or poles were swaying outside and the animals were not going nuts in here.

A neighbour has two small ‘yap yap’ dogs who yapped up a storm after the quake and the aftershock that hit, possibly centered in Braeside? at about 9:53 am EDT.

The Ottawa CBC radio station reported that initial guesses had the first quake originating in Braeside at around a magnitude of 4.8, but I guess subsequent reports moved the quake’s centre north and west of here and boosted it’s power up to 5.2.

A friend in Mississauga IM’ed me saying the quake woke her up there.

The latest radio news announced that the quake was felt as far away as Cleveland, Ohio?

—————Boof-

January Thaw

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1:23 pm Sunday, January 13th, 2013. 5˚C / 37˚F and Raining in Arnprior.

Leading to the new Baskin Drive underpass beneath Highway 417.
Leading to the new Baskin Drive underpass beneath Highway 417.

I took the above photo through a rain pelted window (while safely parked on the side of the foggy road with lights and blinkers on.)

I’m guessing that this week’s story is the January Thaw- There were record breaking high temperatures in the Toronto area. Don’t think we broke any records here. (-Unless we broke a “How Frustrated can winter sports people get?” record- The jury’s still out on that one.)

————— Jim

Welcome to 2013

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Week One: Feels like we got more snow in the last two weeks than we got in the last two years.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAAbove was a common sight in Arnprior this week. After two winters with hardly enough snow to satisfy cross country skiers, we got walloped with about two feet of snow one week and then more again on Saturday, January 5th and Sunday, January 6th.

January 5th, The dog dropped his bone and lost it in the snow.
January 5th, The dog dropped his bone and lost it in the snow.
Photo taken on January 6th, during the most recent storm.
Photo taken on January 6th, during the most recent storm.

 

 

Smart Meters are Dangerous to Your Health.

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Dirty Electricity Image
Dirty Electricity image from Dr Milham’s site.

Dr. Sam Milham became alarmed about microwave radiation and illnesses caused or aggrivated by electric currents and electro-magnetic fields.

He wrote a book based on his findings.

Also: Smart Meters are doubly or triply dangerous because they are microwave transmitters and they are “hackable”. People with malicious intent can hack these meters and control your electricity, maybe even turn vital electric equipment inside your home on or off. (Think of people with medical problems whose lives depend on electric appliances.)

“You wouldn’t put your head inside a microwave oven and turn it on if you could- why would you want to stick a microwave transmitter (a cell phone) next to your head and fry your brain that way, or even worse- put ear buds inside your ears and send the brain frying microwaves through your brain from inside your skull- and  now they’ve put very strong microwave trainsmitters on the side of your home in the form of ‘Smart Meters’. People are reporting sleep disorders, heightened irritability- inability to concentrate, and many other medical problems since Smart Meters have been installed in their neighbourhoods. Men who carry their cell phones in their pants pockets are developing lowered sperm counts and this may even contribute to sexual dysfunction.”

The Doctor’s web site (where the book is available) is at: http://www.sammilham.com/

—thanks

———T-R-Jim

Prince Of Wales 1860 Visit Re-Enactment

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This is a press release:

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Prince of Wales Costume Workshop
Saturday Morning, May 29 @ 9:30
Kenwood Building, Edward Street

Come and discover how to create a period costume and accessories the easy way. This is open and free to all animators and those just attending the Re-Enactment of the Prince of Wales’ visit to Arnprior on July 3rd. If possible bring what you think would be a good costume for 1860 and we can make it more authentic. If you can, please bring a glue gun, artificial flowers, sewing kit and material if you have any, We will meet you at the front double doors off Edward Street.

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(There is a wheel chair ramp up to the double doors.)

—thanks,

—–Jim

Gas Prices Update

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To quote top Exxon officials: “There is no gas shortage, There never was a gas shortage, and from what we know now, there never will be a gas shortage!”

This planet and many others manufacture oil by some process we don’t yet understand. There are more oil reserves now than ever before and consumption has more than doubled since 1973.

And in 1973 many many huge tankers full of crude oil stayed off shore of New England until they were declared “New Oil” and could be sold for $30 a barrel instead of $3 a barrel. Oil company officials were running all around the state of Connecticut, looking for closed gas stations, any place they could find to hide as much gasoline as possible so they could free up their tankers to go get more. Gasoline trucks were meeting drivers in New York State (the Ithaca area) in the middle of the night to fill their gas tanks so they could deliver whatever they were delivering. The above two examples are just what I am personally aware of.

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Gas prices in Arnprior:

As of Thursday Morning, 29 April, 2010, 7 am:

After at least two stations (Ultramar and Mr Gas) tried to raise their price to over 98 ¢ per litre, prices have rolled back to 96.3¢ at most stations with MacEwen (+ethanol) at 97.5¢ and Petro Canada at 96.5¢ per litre.

I haven’t driven the extra half a kilometer to check out the Stinson station with the car wash (which is usually the most expensive in town) or the extra 6 kilometers ((3 each way)) to the other side of the highway to see how the Stinson station there and the Ultramar at the truck stop are doing.)

—————Jim

Another Day Closer to Spring

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-Monday, 08 March, 2010. 8˚C @ 3:00 pm.

Ducks gathered on the Madawaska River, North of the Weir.

This photo was taken by Cathi Harris a couple days ago. She caught the ducks landing on the water. Snow is melting. I wish I could say hearts were melting too. I heard a politician giving a speech this afternoon. He was stumbling over the phrase “The Great Recession” that I believe he was trying to use, maybe to coin, for the financial mess the media have been trying to convince us we’re in the middle of. I heard somebody else explain that this is an attempt to manipulate millions of people into a panic so a few unscrupulous people who want to rule them can take action toward that end. Anyway, the politician stumbled over the words and it sounded like “the great reception” and then my brain went to work and called it “The Great Deception.” Wouldn’t it be nice if that description sticks and we throw the bumbs out and start again with a nice clean slate?

—————Jim