"THERE ARE ONLY TWO KINDS OF MUSIC: GOOD AND BAD."
Louis Armstrong
Terry’s songwriting contemporaries referred to him as a musical triple threat. Terry’s lyrics spoke straight from the heart — and from a charged social conscience. His melodies were supported by sophisticated finger-style guitar orchestrations. The result: songs that were often anthemic, and always profoundly affecting.
Born on Lake Erie, the son of a Canadian diplomat, Terry grew up in Denver, Rome, and Ottawa. He played music starting at the age of nine, beginning with the mandolin and later moving on to guitar. Influences ranged from Gordon Lightfoot and Red Shea through Keats, Byron and Shelley to Lenny Breau and Tommy Smothers.
At the end of the '80s, Terry started releasing albums of original material: Terry Tufts, Transparent Blue, Down The Eighth And Gone, Walk On, Two Nights Solo, and The Better Fight. All were greeted with critical acclaim, and his songwriting was recognized when he was a winner in Standard Radio’s National Songwriting Competition in 1997. He was also the only two-time winner of the Ontario Council of Folk Festival’s Songs From the Heart competition winning in 1998 and 2001.
Terry’s final recording, The Better Fight, reflected his continuing growth as songwriter and musician. In it, he explored the pop, jazz and folk idioms, moving seamlessly through all three in the company of some of the best musicians in Eastern Canada.
In March of 2007 Terry and his family moved off-grid to North Frontenac, Ontario.
Borealis Recording Artist
TERRY TUFTS (GUITAR, VOICE)
-Self-taught from 9 years of age.
BORN IN GASLINE, ONTARIO
Performed As Guitarist For or In Performance With:
-Laura Smith
-Lynn Miles (Rounder, True North)
-Wayne Rostad
-Colleen Peterson
-Family Brown (RCA)
-The Arrogant Worms
-Susan Aglukark (Capital-EMI)
-Ian Tamblyn
-Willie P. Bennett
-Sneezy Waters
-George Fox
-David Francey
-Tom Paxton
Special Performances:
CBC Radio:
-Musical Friends with Marie Lynne Hammond
-Morningside with Peter Gzowski
-Swinging On A Star with Murray McLauchlan
CBC TV:
-The Rita McNeil Show
-True North, Yellowknife, Whitehorse
CTV TV:
-The Dini Petty Show
-Canada AM
-The George Hamilton IV Show
-CCMA Awards
-The Tommy Hunter Show
-4 Tours with Hank Williams:The Show He Never Gave
-Canada Day Celebrations, Parliament Hill, Ottawa
-The Commonwealth Games, Victoria
-Human Rights World Conference, Vienna, Austria
-Davi Suuva Festival- Karesuando, Sweden
-Melbourne Music Festival- Melbourne, Australia
-Governor General Romeo Leblanc's Inauguration - House of Commons
-HRH Elizabeth II's visit to Canada
-Ottawa winner of ’97 National Songwriting Contest
-Only two time winner of the Ontario Council of Folk Festival’s Songs From The Heart competition ('98 and '01)
-Six album releases
-Four self-financed and self produced albums to credit
-’99 release (2 Nights Solo: Terry Tufts Live @ Rasputin’s) in the year’s top 15 on the Galaxy Network
In addition to four independently produced and released albums, Terry has three Borealis releases, WALK ON, produced by Ian Tamblyn the re-released TWO NIGHT SOLO, and finally THE BETTER FIGHT, released in October of 2005 and produced by Bill Garrett.
This is the only important opinion I have to express. Whether or not you agree is up to you and it really doesn't matter to me if you do or don't.
THINGS TO DO TO SAVE THE PLANET
Establish a lottery for the birth of children based on regional sustainability. In all fairness to a balanced planet, we must strive for ZERO POPULATION GROWTH (ZPG), one child per human MAX. For life.
Kill Your Television
Outlaw electricity not produced by wind, wave, or solar.
Establish a system of catagorization to determine what goods should be manufactured exclusively from recycled materials ie: clothes pegs could be designated as class one - manufacture exclusively from pre-used materials and not from wood.
Trade may be conducted in real goods only and not credit or currency. This one needs to be roughed out more, fer shur.
Origin of manufacture is responsible for the retrieval and recycling of packaging for goods created and also responsible for retrieval and recycling of all parts manufactured in the production of said goods for the life of all things manufactured. Take 'dat.
Outlaw the exploration, mining, and use of uranium and uranium based products. If it's that hard to get the stuff up out of the ground, it must be for a legitimate evolution-based reason. It's probably down there in order not to screw things up that are out of contact with it.
Outlaw petroleum production. If it's that hard to get the stuff up out of the ground, it must be for a legitimate evolution-based reason. It's probably down there in order not to screw things up that are out of contact with it.
Outlaw manufacture of all petroleum based goods.
Outlaw the internal combustion engine
Outlaw air travel. We've invented giant aerosol cans spewing havoc into the atmosphere. At any one time there are at least 5000 planes over North America helping with the demise of life. As repellant as the concept may be, whoever was responsible for the attack on the World Trade Centre is the only entity that has actually done something for the environment on a significant scale. While air travel was stopped over the next week, the average North American night time temperature dropped by 4 degrees.
Outlaw the importation of food
Outlaw the manufacture and use of plastic. It doesn't go away. It breaks down into parts per billion, granted, but it is currently on the shoreline of every waterway (creek, stream, river, lake, and ocean) on the face of the planet and has entered the food chain.
Clean up nitrates from our land and water and prevent them from assisting blue algae blooms now found at river mouths on every ocean
Outlaw large agriculture and all agriculture for economic gain (including trade) and redirect dependence on local and regional operations
Outlaw large forestry and redirect dependence on local and regional operations
Disassemble all hydro dams
Outlaw construction within 300 meters of all lakes and waterways, disassemble all human construction already established, and reestablish growth within that 300-meter zone of indigenous plants
Outlaw the manufacture of all non-recyclable and non-biodegradable products
Outlaw sewage disposal by water and waste drainage into all water
Reestablish political boundaries by geographical and/or geological region
Outlaw all threats to the food of non-human species
Outlaw the representation of value and worth by things that have no value, ie: credit and currency
Outlaw travel between regions for economic gain with the exception of the arts
Outlaw construction and maintenance of all non-regionally funded travel ways
Outlaw government
Outlaw unlimited competition
Outlaw universal monetary systems
Outlaw monoculture and promote diversity in every walk of life, economic or otherwise
Outlaw religion but not spirituality. (Regarding Christianity or most other ancient religions...to quote at least 7 or 8 ancient civilizations as to what it's been, is, and evermore shall be: TIME AND NAVIGATIONAL MARKERS!!!!!
The three stars in Orion's Belt (Known for AT LEAST 14,000 years in at least 7 or 8 ancient civilizations as The Three Kings) gradually line up with Sirius (The Brightest Star in The Eastern Night Sky) and by the 22nd of December, the sun (The Son, The Lamb of God, The Glory Of Heaven) appears to exhibit 0 degrees amplitude for three days in the constellation of the Southern Cross (Crucification) until the Kings and The Star line up to point to sunrise on the 25th of December. The sun slowly gains amplitude daily (Resurrection, Ascension from The Cross) until by Spring Equinox (Easter) there are more hours of light than darkness (The Light overtakes the powers of Darkness) and the sun (Son) returns. Now will all you self-righteous zealots please get off my lawn?)
Outlaw prejudice, species-based or otherwise
Discourage arrogance
Outlaw zoos and domestication of non-human animals except by willing participants
Outlaw food gathering for economic gain (including trade)
Outlaw financial, medical, and food assisted aid to stressed regions of the planet
Outlaw profit
Begin an intense program of locating and thoroughly cleaning all dumps and landfill sites and purifying the soil, (if we can find the money to send a robot to Mars, we can find the money and intellectual resources to do this) and initiate prosecutions to the full extent of the law.
Pass legislation to create laws in order to accommodate the above. None responsible shall escape penalization.
Re-institute the death penalty for crimes against the environment
Outlaw science for money
Plant as many indigenous hardwood trees in a non-monocultural manner as possible…NOW
It's just a thought. Don't forget you have to be willing to bend to accommodate each situation.
DID YOU KNOW THAT TO MAKE A SINGLE URANIUM CANDU FUEL BUNDLE:
-It takes 10 square metres of mine site and causes approximately 500 litres of mine effluent.
-It creates 2 tonnes of radioactive tailing with a volume of approx. 1.3 cubic meters. (Mining machinery is run with CO2 producing diesel fuel)
-The new fuel bundle weighs approx. 20kg. produces about 1,000 MWh of electricity over its useful life of 12-18 months.
-It uses 180 million litres of cooling water.
-Emits 36,000,000,000 Bq (Becquerels=Rate of radioactive decay per second) Tritium oxide, 28,000,000,000 Bq.MeV noble gasses, 29,000 Bq particulates 2,400 Bq Iodine-131 into the air.
-Emits 80,000,000,000 Bq Tritium, 1,600,000 Bq gross beta into the water? (Reactor emissions are based on annual emissions, normalized per MWh.)
-Creates 7.6 kg of Low and Intermediate level waste.
-After its useful life still weighs approx. 19 kg and contains Plutomium as well as highly lethal fission products.
-One third of the power contained in the nuclear fuel is used in the plant to generate the electricity.
-One additional third is wasted in the form of excess heat contained in the cooling water and in the removed nuclear fuel.
-Only less than one third of the power is the nuclear fuel makes it it the end user because of losses in the high-voltage long distance transmission.
-Nuclear reactors cannot run when the hydro grid goes down?
-Reactors need large diesel generators as back-up power which have to be test-run every 60 days? (CO2-Greenhouse gas emissions)
-Reactors need large battery banks as secondary back-up power and if only one cell in a battery fails, the whole battery bank must be replaced.
-Reactors have to be taken off-line at least once every 2 years for a 3-month maintenance outage.
-Pickering A reactors are 35 years old, 2 of those were refurbished at the total cost of 2.25 billion dollars and need continuous maintenance.
-In case of a serious accident the 30-year-old Nuclear Liability Act compensates victims with a measly 75 million dollars on both sides of the border.
-No home insurance policy compensates for loss or damage caused by a nuclear incident or caused by contamination from radioactive material.
-The Committee on Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation in their BEIR VII Report (June 2005) states that…"each unit of radiation-no matter how small-still is assumed to cause cancer."
And, of course, then there are approx 2,000,000 used fuel bundles (2005 estimate) that are highly radioactive and need to be isolated from humans and the environment indefinitely. A team of scientists retained by the Nuclear Waste Management Organizations (NWMO) has come to the conclusion that containment and isolation of used nuclear fuel can not be guaranteed for an indefinite period. (Page 345, NWMO final Study Report, November, 2005)
PLEASE MAKE YOUR OWN JUDGEMENT ON THE CLAIM OF CLEAN, SAFE, ECONOMICAL AND RELIABLE NUCLEAR ENERGY GENERATION.
Complied by Ziggy Kleinau and taken from Citizens for Renewable Energy's fact sheet on nuclear power. All information taken from official sources and can be certified.
CFRE is a non-profit information sharing and advocacy organization, incorporated in 1996. The Coordinator, Ziggy Kleinau, has spent years informing the public of alternatives to fossil fuels and nuclear energy.
For more information go to their website, http://www.cfre.ca. Email cfre@web.ca.
Hi Terry, got any friends living there, tell them to test there water for bench mark,can it get any more mental.xxBee ONTARIO TOWN CHOSEN AS SITE FOR NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE A "deep geologic repository" for the storage of nuclear waste has been proposed by the Ontario Power Generation to be located on the Bruce nuclear site in the municipality of Kincardine, Ontario. The federal government has released documents related to the licensing of this storage facility and the environmental assessment that is required for it. (These documents are available at www. ceaa-acee. gc. ca.) The radioactive waste to be stored in this proposed repository would come from the OPG-owned nuclear stations at Bruce, Pickering, and Darlington, Ontario. Before a license for this facility can be granted, a study of the possible environmental impacts must be conducted by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. Written comments are invited from concerned citizens on this project. They should be mailed or faxed to: Deep Geologic Repository Project, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, 160 Elgin Street, Place Bell Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A-0H3. Tel. 1-866-582-1884; Fax: 613-954-0941. The deadline for receiving such written views is June 18, 2008. ------
