FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Blasting Legislation To Rock The House Industrial Impact Committee

Nashville, TN - On November 3^rd at 8 am in LP-31 at Legislative Plaza The House of Representatives

will meet to study HB1562.

This bill will remove a law that, since 1975, preempts county governments from enacting necessary laws to protect the public.

Since 1975 insurance companies have been able to avoid paying out untold millions of dollars in claims. As a result, hundreds of families across Tennessee each year have suffered property damage and/or physical and psychological trauma leading to in one instance suicide.

Currently, if developers are blasting more than 300 feet away from a home that is damaged by Rayleigh waves coming from the blast site the property owner has no legal recourse.

It is a scientific fact that Rayleigh waves(4hz to 20hz) in limestone travel 2,300 feet per second, roughly twice the speed of sound.

Join Andrew McElroy and Nina Ground on November 3^rd in Room LP-31 at Legislative Plaza at 8:00 am as we break down the scientific basis again for why counties need local authority for blasting regulation. Please visit BlastingFacts.org for more information about the blasting issue in Tennessee.

If you own a home in Tennessee, this meeting is for you.

Press Contact
Andrew McElroy
(615)582-7924
sophrinix@gmail.com

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Please see the next post below this one for directions.

HB 1562 will be heard on Nov. 3 in the House Industrial Impact Mandate Study Committee which will meet in Room 31 at 8am.

Channel 4 news did a good job letting people know that the house is studying this issue on the 3rd.

http://www.wsmv.com/video/21426097/index.html

 If you are unsure as to where Legislative Plaza is or where to park, use

This map

Note on the map: This website has no relation nor affiliation with the tea baggers; they just happened to make a good map for Legislative Plaza

Be there!

Update: You will likely receive an email from Sophrinix. This is my email address.

I will begin contacting people tomorrow to ensure they are who they say they are in the user list.

There will be a help section added to the forums (with some video) to show off this site soon.

There are simply to many feature updates to list them all here.

Stay tuned!

Greetings Everyone,

Many of you have signed up and have not yet been approved on blasting facts. Please be patient.

By Friday, I will have a forum launched and new sections to blastingfacts.org opened up and live.

Due to past espionage attempts by those who protect the status quo, I have had to be very careful opening up new information and research that we have.

The time, however, has come to begin to open the flood gates of knowledge.

If you have signed up on Blasting Facts, you will receive an email to verify that you are not VCE or their ilk.
Once this process and been completed, you will have access to information that would other wise cost thousands in time and dollars to obtain.

Sincerely,
Blasting Facts Management

It has been a while since any updates have happened.

This is because we are busy scheduling a tour of homes for the Industrial Impact Committee. This tour will occur on the 18th of May 2009.

The following are stories and footage of the Industrial Impact Committee on May 6th. This is a Tennessee State House Subcommittee.

For the whole raw footage of the Industrial Impact Committee click here

Please, watch for 1562.

News channel 4 link
http://www.wsmv.com/news/19385204/detail.html

channel 5

http://www.wkrn.com/Global/story.asp?s=10316763

Stay tuned for more updates.

We appreciate all who have registered on this website.

We are days away from launching the forums.

To see the video of Nina holding the state senate accountable, click here

On April 20,2009 we tried to bring a presentation to the Tennessee House and Senate. This presentation would have explained to anyone, with a 3rd grade education, what Rayleigh waves are, how they work, why they are a problem, why we should remove the pre emption (TCA 66-105-110) rule, and much more.

Since there was an "administrative error", the truth was given a hatchet job.

In my last post to Blasting Facts, I posted an article that exposes the fact that science education is abysmal in this country. The only thing more abysmal than the education is the understanding of fundamental concepts in science by the general public.

While this is not explicitly blasting related, I feel that it is worth explaining a few basic ideas. Hopefully, this will clear up what we mean by "We need more science in blasting".

First off, what is science?
Wikipedia has a very succinct answer to this question:

"In its broadest sense, science (from the Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") refers to any systematic knowledge or practice. In its more usual restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research."

This website attempts to bring you the best science on blasting and blast damage. We choose to use science as the instrument for understanding blasting, because it is the only system that, unless tainted by politics and corruption, produces objective, observable, repeatable data and *theories*.

With observable , reliable, and repeatable data in hand, we can then use this information to better understand our world.

So, what is a scientific theory?
This link says it best. It is worth noting that the following are actually statements from the National Academy of Sciences

"
A scientific law is a description of an observed phenomenon. Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion are a good example. Those laws describe the motions of planets. But they do not explain why they are that way. If all scientists ever did was to formulate scientific laws, then the universe would be very well-described, but still unexplained and very mysterious.

A theory is a scientific explanation of an observed phenomenon. Unlike laws, theories actually explain why things are the way they are. Theories are what science is for. If, then, a theory is a scientific explanation of a natural phenomena, ask yourself this: "What part of that definition excludes a theory from being a fact?" The answer is nothing! There is no reason a theory cannot be an actual fact as well.
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While this has been a long article, It is worth pointing these things out in order to understand what "We need more science is blasting" actually means.

It is no surprise that the public is snowed by the blasting industry. Especially when studies like this[sciencedaily.com] show that the public has a less than strong understanding of science.

This is why it is important that we begin to embrace good scientific research into public policy. Equally important, we must stop the blasting industry from suppressing legitimate research that our own Department of Defense funded.

For those who have signed up, there will soon be a message board available to you. Additionally, a library of scientific studies that you should be aware of will be accessible.

I encourage everyone to sign up, because we can only help if you are willing to help yourself first!