Height: 39 feet

Breadth: 75 feet

Weight empty: 13,632 tons

Hull: 301

Registry number: US 277437

Ship Builder: Great Lakes Engineering Works

Engine Manufacturer: Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Christened: June 8, 1958

First voyage: Sept. 24, 1958

Final resting place: Lake Superior, 530ft underwater

Sinking: November 10, 1975 with no survivors

The Edmund Fitzgerald

The ship was the pride of the American side
coming back from some mill in Wisconsin.
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
with a crew and good captain well seasoned,
concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
when they left fully loaded for Cleveland.
And later that night when the ship's bell rang,
could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?

 

Facts about the Fitz, Crew and the Lakes:

I have come to really believe in the above statement, even though as I was growing up and even up until recent years I have always based my life on how honest I was with others around me and my honesty with myself would affect how I felt about myself. But like it said above sometimes complete honesty can needlessly hurt somebody as it did in my last relationship. Something happened early on in the relationship where I had an opportunity to be totally OPEN and HONEST in the relationship from the start. I had great intentions, turns out by being too honest I set a tone between my X-wife and my new found lover at the time. If I had kept what was said to myself I may have by-passed a needless underlying stress between the two ladies. Turned out to be a constant tension in the relationship. My Lover was truly hurt by my X- wife's ignorant attitude, but I truly must take the blame by opening my mouth and letting the 'ugly' words get to my lover. My intention was to showcase the true personality of my X.... in doing so I think I accomplished that but also hurt the woman close to me. I thought the words said could have been brushed off but I guess I was wrong.

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>>>>>[What are the chances that smoking will kill you?

About half of all those who continue to smoke will die because of the habit. In the U.S., tobacco causes nearly 1 in 5 deaths, killing about 435,000 Americans each year. Smoking is the single most preventable cause of death in our society.

Based on current smoking patterns, smoking will kill about 500 million people alive in the world today. Tobacco-caused deaths worldwide are expected to increase from about 5 million per year today to about 10 million per year by the 2030s. Most of these deaths will occur in developing countries.

How does tobacco use affect the economy?

The tobacco industry is one of the most profitable businesses in the country, making billions of dollars yearly. But the costs of smoking are far higher than the income from cigarette sales.

• Smoking causes more than $150 billion each year in health-related costs, including the cost of lost productivity due to smoking.
• Smoking-related medical costs totaled more than $75 billion in 1998 and accounted for 8% of personal health care medical expenditures.
• Death-related productivity losses due to smoking among workers cost the U.S. economy more than $81 billion (average for 1995-1999).
• For each pack of cigarettes sold in 1999, $3.45 was spent on medical care due to smoking, plus $3.73 in lost productivity, for a total cost of $7.18 per pack.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Above: is an excerpt from The American Cancer Society

My personal confusion as usual here below: 

Q.  Why are tobacco industries allowed to legally sell such a deadly product to the public and yet drugs such as 'heroin' (Just as addictive and harmful as nicotine) pot, cocaine, etc... are illegal?

A. ______________________________________________ <--- place answer here

The Tobacco industry reminds me of the Oil industry in a way that they have the ability to make one addicted or dependant on their product. They both are products that some can't seem to live without, more so OIL, but I think you can see the comparison here. Yes Tobacco kills people that use it and sometimes people that are not even using it but so also does the products of Oil indirectly.

One Million Die in Car Accidents Every Year

 In 2002, road traffic injuries accounted for 2.6 percent of the worldwide burden from disease and made up approximately 23 percent of all deaths from injury, compared to other deaths such as suicide at 16.9 percent, war at 3.4 percent and other acts of violence at 10.8 percent. Experts estimated the number of people injured in traffic accidents each year could be as high as 50 million and has captured less attention from the media than less common and unusual types of deaths.

Research has shown the rapid growth of motorized vehicles in the developing areas of the world has increased the number of traffic-related deaths. An example of this could be seen in 1998, when India lost 217,000 people due to road accidents. Britain on the other hand, is considered to have the safest roads in the world.

-In the United States, traffic accidents remain the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 35.

-While cell phones have recently sprung up as a common cause of car accidents, a study, the largest to date on crashes involving distracted drivers, found that rubbernecking causes far more accidents than cell phone use.

-The largest number of accidents was caused by drivers looking at other accidents, traffic or roadside incidents. Comparatively, cell phone use ranked as the sixth highest cause. The study included data on more than 2,700 accidents involving distracted drivers between June and November 2002.

-Distractions from inside the vehicle accounted for 62 percent of the distractions reported while distractions from outside the vehicle accounted for 35 percent, and three percent of the distractions were undetermined.

By: Chris Squire

Contained in everything I do
There's a love, I feel for you
Proclaimed in everything I write
You're the light
Burning, brightly

Onward through the night
Onward through the night
Onward through the night of my life

Displayed in all the things I see
There's a love you show to me
Portrayed in all the things you say
You're the day
Leading the way

 
Onward through the night
Onward through the night
Onward through the night of my life

Onward through the night
Onward through the night
Onward through the night of my life

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By Jon Anderson

Take the water to the mountain;
Take the river to the sea.
Let the forest be salvation
Long before it needs to be.

Take the water to the mountain;
Let your body flow upstream.
Let it cascade off your shoulders;
Be the body of your dreams.

Take the water to the mountain;
Let the sun shine on your ground.
You decide your every movement;
Let the water to the land.

Take the water to the mountain;
Cross the Great Divide of Love.
Put to Nature all you can give;
Let the Mother know your heart.

Take the water to the mountain;
Let's become alive again.
Holy water, holy mountain,
Holy river, holy tree.

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The Myth Of Peak Oil

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones | October 12 2005

"Peak oil is a scam designed to create artificial scarcity and jack up prices while giving the state an excuse to invade our lives and order us to sacrifice our hard-earned living standards."

 "The Scientific evidence also flies in the face of the peak oil theory. Scientific research dating back over a hundred years, more recently updated in a Scientific Paper Published In 'Energia' suggests that oil is abiotic, not the product of long decayed biological matter. Oil, for better or for worse, is not a non-renewable resource. It, like coal, and natural gas, replenishes from sources within the mantle of earth.

No coincidence then that the Russians, who pioneered this research have pumped expenditure into deep underground oil excavation."

 Anderson

Sunshine is creeping in and somewhere in a field a life begins,
An egg too proud to rape the beginning of the shape of things to come,
That start the run, life has begun, fly fast the gun.
The Mother flew too late and life within the egg was left to fate,
Not really knowing how the world outside would take it when it came,
And life's the same for things we aim, are we to blame?
Don't doubt the fact there's life within you,
Yesterday's endings will tomorrow life give you,
All that dies, dies for a reason,
To put its strength into the Season,
Survival, Survival,
They take away and they give their life as they live,
The living right to live, it's all that we need to show
The livings right to know.
The egg breaks all is out, the crawling bird begins to scream and shout,
Where is the parent bird, a loneliness arose and heard its name-
Ring in for live's begin, survival win, survival's sin.
So soon the evening comes with it runs the aching
Fear of hate could Someone still remain who thinks he
Still could gain by escaping fate? it's much too late,
Don't underrate, appreciate.
And we're all going
And we're all going
And we're all going somewhere!

30,000 so far reported dead !

I'm thinking mother nature is going into labour this year, though I may be mistaken but the amount of natural disasters in the last year seems alot higher in number and intencity than I can recall than when I was younger.

Just thinking back to the major Tsunami last christmas up until now. I read this morning that they are expecting a severe October Hurricane (s) for the states along with a couple smaller ones. Keep in mind that the hurricane season finishes November 30th which is still a ways away yet. It just seems that not only are WE as a human race becoming more angry at each other but infact the planet we live upon has also become just as angry. Whether we are the cause or not, the earth is very much alive and is also growing and changing just as we do. We are evolving and so is the earth.

All these disasters are costing billions of dollars all over the world. Where is all the money going to come from?

This is something I could never understand: Huge amounts of money are given out to other countries when disasters happen which is a great neighbourly gesture and a humane one at that. The U.S.A. has been hit hard this year with disasters and there are more to come, but I can't understand how they are able to come up with HUGE amounts of cash for these things and for other countries aswell.

So this is my confusion : I can't understand the fact all this money is available but yet I see all kinds of homeless and poor people in America. Why can't they come up with money to help out the people in their own country? I look at it this way. I have a residence (comparison to a country) and a family (My People) to take of... now there is a budget ofcourse, but things need to be taken care of financially within the limits of my residence... so for instance my next door neighbour (neighboring country) needs money but I know I do not have any extra cash outside my budget to give to them... Do I go into debt to help them out? or do I suggest asking another neighbour (country) for help? and what if there are 5 other neighbours that need help? do I further extend myself beyond my means?...... because if I do extend myself BEYOND my means I am putting my own family (countrymen) at great risk if infact an emergency or tragedy happens within my own space. I can't ask the nieghbours for help because I just had to help them out of their BAD situation and I know for a fact they wouldn't have the financial means at the time to help me out.

Does anyone know how this all works? if so, then please explain it to me!

The new world way of thinking should be

as... 'ONE'