execute warrants on those who come to vote based on the anticipated turnout," writes the anonymous student in the letter which was later posted on the Drexel College Democrats website. "He advised me if I had any outstanding warrants or traffic offenses I should clear them up prior to voting."

Political experts say the Drexel flyer is a classic example of voter suppression – a practice that involves scaring, angering, or confusing voters so that they stay at home on Election Day.

"The basic idea is that you intimidate people by saying that law enforcement is using the polling place to catch scofflaws…criminals…whoever. It's basically a deterrent to keep people away from voting," said Allen Raymond, a former Republican operative who went to prison for three-months in 2006 for hisinvolvement in a scheme to jam the phones at headquarters of the Democratic get-out-the vote effort in New Hampshire in 2002.

Raymond says that such tactics have evolved from some of the more overt voter intimidation schemes seen back in the early 1980s when the GOP's "Ballot Security Task Force" used armed off-duty police officers at the polling places in New Jersey and posted signs reading "voter fraud is a felony."

Other underhanded tactics seek to confuse voters about their voter registration. In 2006, voters in Virginia reportedly received fake voicemail messages from the state elections commission claiming that the voters were registered in another state and could be criminally charged if they cast their vote in Virginia.

"It doesn't take much to discourage people from voting," said Dr. Larry Sabato,


trigger a "latent bigoted reaction." Perhaps the most notorious example was the smear against Senator John McCain in South Carolina before the state's presidential primary in 2000.

Anonymous opponents used push-polls and flyers to spread a whisper campaign suggesting that McCain's Bangladeshi-born adopted daughter was his illegitimate black child.

In his book, "How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative", Raymond describes how he helped devise other subtle tricks playing on voters' prejudices during the 2000 congressional race in New Jersey. One trick involved phone calls to Democratic voters of Eastern European descent using the voice of an "angry black man," while another used taped phone messages to Democratic union households using actors with thick Hispanic accents. The ultimate goal of both efforts was to make the voters"throw up their hands" and stay away from the polls.

Such schemes may be harder to pull off today now that federal laws require campaigns and parties to identify themselves to callers, but political experts say that in the age of the Internet the dirty trickster has an almost infinite ability to carry out their schemes with easy and anonymity.

"It's easy, it's untraceable, and by the time you find anything about it, the election is over," said Sabato.

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Moon Occults Saturn

Moon Occults Saturn

Sometimes Saturn disappears from view when our Moon moves in front. This rare moment was captured by Cory Schmitz.

Such a Saturnian eclipse was visible along a small swath of Earth — from Brazil to Sri Lanka — near the end of last month. The featured color image is a digital fusion of the clearest images captured by successive videos of the event taken in red, green, and blue, and taken separately for Saturn and the comparative bright Moon.

The exposures were taken from South Africa just before occultation — and also just before sunrise. When Saturn re-appeared on the other side of the Moon almost two hours later, the Sun had risen.

This year, eclipses of Saturn by the Moon occur almost monthly, but, unfortunately, areMothers Against Drunk Driving

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Mothers Against Drunk Driving

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is a nonprofit organization with more than 600 chapters nationwide. MADD seeks to find effective solutions to the problems of drunk driving and underage drinking, while also supporting those persons whose relatives and friends have been killed by drunk drivers. MADD has proven to be an effective organization, successfully Lobbying for tougher laws against drunk drivers.

MADD was founded by a small group of California women in 1980 after 13-year-old Cari Lightner was killed by a hit-and-run driver who had previous drunk driving convictions. Although the offender was sentenced to two years in prison, the judge allowed him to serve time instead in a work camp and a halfway house. Candy Lightner, the victim's mother,


addressed: youth issues, enforcement of laws, sanctions, self-sufficiency, and responsible marketing and service.

By 1997 MADD membership had grown to three million people, making it the largest victim-advocate and anti-drunk-driving organization in the United States and the world. In addition to local chapters, MADD has state offices in 29 states. Coordination of the organization is handled by a national headquarters staff of approximately 60 individuals located in Irving, Texas, who direct training, seasonal and ongoing education and awareness programs, national fund-raising, media campaigns, and federal and state legislative activities.

Also in 1997, MADD sponsored the first National Youth Summit to Prevent Underage Drinking. The summit was attended by 435 teens representing each of the U.S. congressional districts. In 1998, with support from MADD members, "Zero Tolerance" legislation was passed incrore in the previous financial year, due to a slump in crude oil prices.

STEPPING ON THE GAS Centre saved Rs 21,672 cr of LPG subsidy in FY15 and FY16 due to DBTL

The gains included Rs 14,672 cr of subsidy outgo avoided in FY15 and Rs 7,000 cr in FY16 as eliminated 33 million ghost connections

OMCs’ losses on LPG dipped from Rs 36,500 cr in FY15 to Rs 16,000 cr in FY16

Kerosene under-recoveries declined from Rs 24,799 cr to Rs 11,500 cr in the same period

Govt plans to allot 10,000 new LPG distributors to meet rising demand for LPG due to Ujjwala rollout

According to the oil ministry, India had 181.9 million registered LPG consumers as on April 1, 2015. These included 148.5 million active consumers, implying a gap of


government has increased the active consumer base of LPG by 37 million in the past two years, against 130 million in the first 60 years since Independence.

The minister clarified that the beneficiaries for the just-launched Ujjwala Yojana were identified based on four data sets — the Socio-Economic Caste Census, bank accounts, Aadhaar numbers and the list of consumers after the de-duplication drive.

The government plans to appoint 10,000 new LPG distributors, including 2,000 in the next four years, to meet the rising demand for the cooking fuel arising out of the implementation of the Ujjwala Yojana, under which 50 million new connections will be allotted to poor households in three years.a potential leftwing contender for the top job. Pitch Promising to champion “progressive patriotism”.

Lisa Nandy The Wigan MP has built a reputation as a campaigner for her constituency and others like it, many of which have fallen to the Tories. A soft-left candidate, she resigned from the shadow cabinet in 2016 over Corbyn’s leadership and handling of the EU referendum. Pitch Wants to “bring Labour home” to voters that have abandoned the party in its traditional strongholds.

Keir Starmer Ambitious former director of public prosecutions has led the charge for remain in the shadow cabinet. He was instrumental in shifting Labour’s position towards backing a second referendum

Pitch Launched his campaign by highlighting how he has stood up for leftwing causes as a campaigning lawyer, and unveiled the slogan “Another


states the EIA website. Certain areas, however, are protected. The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act bans oil and natural gas development within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on the state’s northern coast.

The Russian Arctic is also facing an assault. It contains 43 of the 61 “large Arctic fields”—oil and natural gas fields that exceed 500 million barrels of recoverable oil and natural gas, the EIA website states. The Evenks indigenous people are banding together in an unlikely attempt to stop a $13 billion hydroelectric development that will flood an area 10 times the size of New York City, according to Yale Environment 360. Russian hydroelectric company RusHydro is planning to build a large-scale hydroelectric project in a Siberian region inhabited by 7,000 Evenk, primarily reindeer herders. Accordingto a December 2008 report from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, “At present, there was no dialogue with the indigenous peoples.…” The document states that the RusHydro representative, not named in the report, “argued that the project was essential to the long-term energy needs of the Russian Federation.” He also emphasized the potential for job creation among local residents. Pavel Sulyandziga, representing the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, said the Evenk were being removed from their lands without any say and their traditional way of life would be affected.

Meanwhile, Alcoa, the world’s largest producer of aluminum, hopes to build a massive smelter along with hydro dams in Kangerlussuaq-Sisimiut herd’s calving region in Greenland, reported Yale Environment 360.

All of these


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A spokesman for Sweden's police service said that children "threw themselves" out of the way of the car, which "accelerated into the group of students and teachers," injuring two.

"He drove into two of the students. One was injured on the wrist and possibly the other student was also injured," said the spokesman.

Police are searching for any information on the incident, which occurred at approximately 1pm local time as the group from Mjallby secondary school was walking from Hinnedalsvagen to Grundsjon for a reported social event.

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is worthwhile,” said Knox, a legal professor at Wake Forest University in South Carolina, US. “One thing I like about the pact is its rights-based approach to environmental protection.”

So far, discussion of the initiative has been largely confined to legal and academic circles. Aguila, who got involved as chair of the environmental law commission of top Paris think tank Club des Juristes, said promotional events were planned in the United States, China, Brazil, Canada and Senegal.

“This is just the beginning of a large campaign that aims to supplement and ease the diplomatic processes,” said Aguila, a partner at law firm Bredin Prat and public law professor at Sciences Po and the Paris Bar School.

The programme includes a day-long conference at Columbia University on 20 September as part ofgas inlet and including a ceiling, a sidewall and a workpiece support pedestal capable of supporting a workpiece at a plasma processing location facing the ceiling, the workpiece processing location and ceiling defining a process region therebetween, the pedestal being spaced from said sidewall to define a pumping annulus therebetween having inner and outer walls, to permit process gas to be evacuated therethrough from the process region. The invention further includes a pair of opposing plasma confinement magnetic poles arranged adjacent the annulus within one of the inner and outer walls of the annulus, the opposing magnetic poles being axially displaced from one another the opposite poles being oriented to provide maximum magnetic flux in a direction across the annulus and a magnetic flux at the processing location


and he takes an oath with himself to work day in and day out for the abolition of the system to which he ascribes his miserable conditions in life. That is the cause of unrest."--Daniel MacDonald (p. 192)

"In some cities, there was a deliberate attempt to overthrow the existing organization of the Government and to supersede it by crude, fantastic methods founded upon absurd conceptions of what had been accomplished in Russia. It became necessary in some communities to repress revolutionary methods with a stern hand and from this I did not shrink."--Robert Borden

At 11 a.m. May 15, 1919, little more than six months after the guns fell silent in Europe to celebrate the arrival of peace, an eerie silence gripped the city of Winnipeg as thousands ofworkers walked off the job in response to the stalemate in industrial relations that had developed in the city. Winnipeg workers remained on the picket lines for another six weeks until the events of Bloody Sunday broke the back of the longest general strike in North American history. Over this period, thousands of other Canadian workers joined their colleagues in Winnipeg on the picket line, both in sympathy for their cause and to advance their own particular interests.

Despite the tragic defeat of the strike, the Winnipeg General Strike holds a central place in Canadian history. For historians documenting Canada's rise from "Colony to Nation," such embittered class conflict became an important signpost of Canada's journey from a colonial backwater to a modern industrial nation. For labour historians, the


strike also represents a watershed in the history (and some might say the mythology) of the Canadian labour movement. While there is no doubt among Canadian historians that the Winnipeg General Strike was one of the most important events in Canadian history, there has been little consensus on the meaning of the strike. Indeed, perhaps no other event in Canadian history has generated so much controversy, and one might add vitriol, among historians. Was Canada on the eve of revolution? Or were Winnipeg workers striking for the simple right to bargain collectively? Was the strike caused by radical western workers as evidence of some kind of "western exceptionalism?" Or was it merely the tip of the iceberg in an otherwise national labour revolt? Even among labour historians themeaning of the General Strike has produced divisions which have at times been as sharp as those that cleft Winnipeg in twain in 1919.[1]

Craig Heron's reappraisal of the events of 1919, The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917-1925, wades into this fractious territory with a solid synthesis of the events of the period and their ultimate meaning. Even so, there is relatively little new here. Much of the narrative, analysis, and most importantly interpretation of labour's great revolt can be found elsewhere (One only has to peruse the impressive forty-page bibliography). Nonetheless, the volume provides a good synthesis of the breadth and depth of the movement, and for the first time integrates much of the material in Canadian labour history from this period--a much needed project to say the


least.

It is clear from the title of the book as well as the approach of the contributors that The Workers' Revolt in Canada intends to put the "sorry shibboleth" of western exceptionalism to rest.[2] Thus, it is somewhat surprising that the book assesses the revolt from a regional perspective, while trying to incorporate more recent paradigms of gender, ethnicity, and ideology.

However, as two of the contributors argue, "The fact that labour's revolt was part of a national and international experience does not, of course, negate the necessity of regional perspectives. Regional textures of capitalist development and class relations, as well as the broader experience of workers, shaped the character of class struggle (p. 231). For the most part historians of the labour revolt east of Winnipeg attempt torefute the portrayal of eastern workers as innately conservative. They do this not simply by pointing out that these regions had their own radicals. Rather, they demonstrate the breadth and depth of the revolt that took place in large and small eastern and central Canadian communities. In particular, Ian McKay & Suzanne Morton's essay reveals that the Maritime labour revolt went beyond the radical and violent battles in the Cape Breton coal fields, to encompass as broad a range of workers as elsewhere in the country. On the other end of the scale, historians of the Western labour revolt tend to play down the radicalism of western workers as explanations of their behaviour in 1919. Direct action, syndicalism and general strikes, were strategies rather than ideological commitments, made


by western workers to wrest specific demands from capital and the state. Placed in specific times and spaces, Canadian workers confronted capital and the state in a myriad of ways, each of which conditioned and required different responses. For this reason, the authors reject the Winnipeg General Strike as the litmus test of Canadian labour radicalism. As James Naylor and Tom Mitchell state most emphatically in their essay on Winnipeg and the West, "historians have generally offered only a single test of radicalism: did workers in other centres strike in sympathy with Winnipeg in May and June 1919? This is a high standard. Expressed differently, the question becomes, were workers willing to forego wages and in many cases risk the permanent loss of their jobs to support workersworkers sympathetic to the industrial unions and the One Big Union (OBU) "constructed the defeat [of their resolution for industrial unionism at the 1917 Trades and Labor Congress] in regional terms ... and chose to minimize the evidence of support their position East of the Lakehead" (p. 291).

Two important and synthetic chapters by Craig Heron frame the regional approach in the rest of the volume. The opening chapter by Heron and Myer Siemiatycki sets the stage for the rest of the book by examining the causes of the post war revolt at the national level. Heron and Siemiatycki emphasize the way the war pitted notions of democracy, public service, and sacrifice against self-interest that drives capitalism. The First World War, they argue "disrupted the dynamics of pre-war working


class life and provided new pressures and opportunities that would fuel large-scale working-class organisations, resistance and radicalization across the country" (p. 11). Indeed, the rhetoric of wartime propaganda only added fuel to the workers' revolt by highlighting the disparities between the ideals of the war--a war for democracy against Kaiserism--and life on the home front that was increasingly giving way to an interventionist state that tended to come down on the side of compulsion and authoritarian restrictions on civil liberties, rather than the democratization of Canadian social and industrial life for which Canadian workers and increasing numbers of middle class Canadians began to call.

They note that the labour revolt sprang from a position of strength among Canadian workers. The wartime economy placed a great deal of bargaining powerin the hands of Canadian workers, many of them new to the workforce--particularly immigrants and women. Workers of all backgrounds took ready advantage of the situation by joining unions by the thousands and then striking for that very right, along with more bread and butter issues as better pay and improved working conditions. Nonetheless, there were dark clouds on the horizon. For one, the war sped up the transformation of industry along Tayloristic lines (deskilling, scientific management, assembly lines). Also, by the third year of the war wartime shortages and rising consumer prices began to take their toll on workers wages and standards of living. Evidence of profiteering by some of Canada's most notorious capitalists, and supposedly dollar a year men (i.e., Sir Joseph Flavelle), only added fuel


illustrate that the Maritime labour revolt was not limited to the blood spilled on the Cape Breton coal fields, but was equally as extensive (in terms of numbers and types of workers involved, and the variety of strategies adopted) as the labour revolt waged across Canada. Yet, they claim, the widespread labour revolt was quickly and thoroughly suppressed in the historical memory of Maritimers. For McKay and Morton, this is the most tragic aspect of the Maritime labour revolt, because during the revolt Maritime workers overcame many of the barriers to which all counter-hegemonic projects in the region must inevitably face (the uneven fragmented economy which separates industrial workers from primary producers, paternalistic social relations, and fundamental gender equality) and yet not only failed, but left no lastinglegacy. Here workers formed larger, less structured labour organizations, such as district federations, which spoke directly to the needs of a diverse workforce and the regional fragmentation that characterized Maritime society and its economy. Maritime workers also entered politics and were relatively successful, at least as successful as their counterparts elsewhere in the country. Most of this activity tended to swing towards the more moderate labourism. However, McKay and Morton are quick not to write of labourism as a confused and inchoate working class liberalism. Instead, they argue that it represented some of the best aspects of the workers' revolt, particularly labourism's broad-based appeal, and its tendency to break down "natural" social divisions and categories (p. 56). Moreover, they note that while labourism's political tactics may have been


limited, its cultural and intellectual activities represented a kind of movement culture.

Like everywhere else, however, labour's day in the sun turned into a long night of crushing defeats. Though all Canadian workers experienced the effects of the post-war recession, McKay and Morton argue that Maritime workers were hit particularly hard by a double blow of the collapse of primary products markets and the logic of deindustrialization. Though recessions were nothing new to Maritime workers, the one that followed the war was larger than any since the 1870s, driving thousands of Maritimers "away" in search of work. In place of a larger Maritime revolt of producers, paternalism re-emerged under the thin veil of welfare capitalism, and on the political front through the Maritime Rights movement. The only thing leftwas the final battle which Cape Breton coal miners provided over a three year period between 1922 and 1925. Far from creating martyrs to the cause, as Bercuson claims most Marxist accounts of the labour revolt tend to do, McKay and Morton's account of the battles in the coal fields is extremely balanced.[5] They illustrate that although labour's defeat came primarily at the hands of the combined forces of the state and capital which sought to smash the fifth column of the Red International they believed McLachlan and the UMW represented, the miners themselves seemed to have lacked a strategic sense and made "serious strategic errors" (pp. 71-76).

In a similar vein, although ultimately less successful, Geoffrey Ewen's chapter on Quebec also tries to minimize the notion of an


innate French Canadian conservatism, which left Quebec as a weak link in the chain of Canadian labour radicalism during this period. Part of this image of conservatism, he claims, is the result of historians' misplaced focus on the growth of the Catholic labour movement which was a response to the growth of the labour radicalism during the period rather than an integral part of the revolt. Though more conservative than their counterparts in the rest of the country, Ewen highlights that the Quebec workers were not untouched by the labour's new militancy. Quebec workers, including craft unionists, established more inclusive organizations and adopted new strategies in their battle for collective bargaining. Like elsewhere, much of the militancy arose out of the rank and file, many of whom werenew members to the labour movement, and was often tempered by cautious leadership from the international unions. Yet even virulent anti-communist labour leaders, such as Gustave Franq, declared that the war had accelerated the class struggle and had pushed workers to the brink of transformation. Workers were no longer satisfied with existing power structures and demanded a share in the management of industries. As the war progressed, these sentiments often escaped the boundaries of respectable labourism, and to the horror of Franq, some Quebec workers expressed sympathy with the Russian revolution. Nonetheless, support for the Winnipeg General Strike severely divided Quebec workers. In the end, craft unionism undermined the Montreal general strike, and labour militancy more generally, across the province.

Ewen also argues that the workers' revolt in Quebec


was further limited by the inability of Quebec workers to put forward an effective and unified voice at the political level (p. 121). Once again traditional cleavages within the labour movement (ethnicity, craft vs. industrial unionists, and the tradition of lib-labism--that is support for the Liberal Party) divided workers in the political realm. Even neighbourhood labour clubs, which initially appeared as progressive institutions by uniting workers from national and international unions along with unorganized and unemployed workers, remained divided along ethnic lines. This was especially evident when French Canadian workers formed the Federation des clubs ouvriers municipaux de Montreal (FCOM) to represent their particular class and national interests. Moreover, unlike elsewhere, labourites in Quebec carried on a more hostile relationship with socialists. Finally, the age old alliance betweenlabour and the Liberals re-emerged during the conscription crisis, and proved disastrous, especially after the economic downturn in 1920. Increasingly, labour members of the Liberal government became less effective in voicing workers' concerns within the Liberal caucus.

While Ewen successfully illustrates that Quebec workers were part of a national general labour revolt, he is less successful in overturning the interpretation that Quebec workers were, on the whole, more conservative than elsewhere in Canada. What is clear from Ewen's analysis is that ethnic and religious divisions only further weakened an already vulnerable labour movement. Given that Montreal was still Canada's most important industrial metropolis, a weak Quebec labour movement constituted a large chink in labour's armour.

James Naylor's account of the labour revolt in Ontario is largely a condensation of his


book, The New Democracy, so there is little new here either in terms of information or interpretation. As in the larger book Naylor illustrates the dual nature of the revolt in Ontario. On one hand, Naylor repeatedly illustrates that Ontario was not the conservative monolith as it has been painted by previous historians of the revolt. As elsewhere, Ontario workers, in the words of their leader Joseph Marks, were caught up in "the spirit of revolt," so much so, that labour minister, Gideon Robertson, worried that Toronto might follow Winnipeg into a general strike. The key to the Ontario labour revolt was not simply the number of workers who flocked to unions during the war, but rather that for the first time since the movement culture of theofficials remained strong in Ontario. Ontario workers' ambivalence toward the general strike, concludes Naylor, was due to a careful assessment of the relationship of forces, and a lack of confidence in its ultimate success.

Nonetheless, Naylor argues, despite the unprecedented working class activity in Ontario during this period, "the goals of the movement appear meagre in comparison with the passion with which workers fought for them" (p. 145). Their overarching belief in the dignity of labour and uncompromising faith in democracy spurred them on to many industrial and political victories in 1919, yet provided little in the way strategy for taking the struggle to the next level. Naylor claims that this can be seen most clearly in the Ontario workers' overarching focus on waging the labour revolt at the


ballot box rather than on the picket line. Craft union labourites and industrial union socialists put aside their differences over industrial strategy to mount an effective political opposition. They were soon rewarded with electoral success as eleven Independent Labor Party (ILP) members helped the United Farmers of Ontario form the first third-party government in Canadian history. Ontario workers figured they had found a way to snatch victory from the jaws of labour's defeat in Winnipeg; in striking at the ballot box Ontario workers claimed to have found the path of least resistance. Yet, as Naylor notes, electoral success lulled the labour movement into a false sense of security. Without a definite platform, the ILP appeared rudderless. Equally important, labour's alliance with their fellow producers masked important ideological andprogrammatic differences which quickly emerged once faced with the reality of governing. As Naylor notes, labourism's unqualified support for parliamentary institutions and its separation of industrial from political struggles prevented the movement from surging forward.

Though Naylor's interpretation of the labour revolt in Ontario is solid, the chapter's almost exclusive focus on Southern Ontario, and one might say the Golden Horseshoe area, is problematic. Though Southern Ontario was undoubtedly at the heart of the unrest, workers in Northern communities also were caught up in the revolt as evidenced by the fact that three of the eleven seats won by the ILP were in the North--Kenora, Sault Ste. Marie, and Fort William. Indeed, the ILP received popular support throughout the north in frontier communities such as Cobalt and Temiskaming. Considering


the regional focus of the collection, an analysis of the affinities and divergences between frontier and metropolitan labour movements in Ontario would have been particularly germane.

James Naylor and Tom Mitchell's contribution on Winnipeg and the West is the key chapter in the book, as it deals head-on with the key events and interpretations of the revolt--the Winnipeg General Strike and western exceptionalism. In opposition to Bercuson's interpretation of the strike as isolated and reform oriented, they argue persuasively that, although the strike did not begin as a revolutionary movement, it soon took on radical if not revolutionary implications. "Although the strike was never an overtly revolutionary challenge for state power," the authors write, "it was certainly (particularly in the context of the events of 1918) a militant andhistorians listen more to the words of labour's opponents who privately expressed the revolutionary nature not only of the general strike, but of labour's supposedly non-revolutionary "bread and butter" demands.

Equally important, Naylor and Mitchell assess the impact of the strike on the rest of the Western provinces. They reject Bercuson's argument that the Winnipeg General Strike was an isolated event and, therefore, no general labour revolt took place. Using the Winnipeg General Strike to gauge labour radicalism elsewhere sets up a false comparison, because, they claim, events unfolded in other centres according to their own logic and according to workers' own assessments of the balance of forces. Like workers in Ontario, workers in other western centres regarded the events in Winnipeg with a discriminating eye. Naylor and Mitchell


in the far west was remarkably similar to that in the rest of the nation, and in doing so turn the argument against western exceptionalism on its head. Whereas the historians of the eastern labour revolt attempted to undermine the argument by illustrating that workers east of prairies were more radical than previously depicted, Seager and Roth argue that workers in British Columbia were often more conservative than previously portrayed. In British Columbia, as in the rest of the country, the labour revolt was led not by socialist leaning immigrants, but by British trade union militants. Yet, even if one could argue that these western workers from socialists to labourites were on the whole more radical than their eastern counterparts, radical ideas did not necessarily translate directly intorecaptured control over the labour movement, pushing the OBU and socialists to the sidelines.

Heron uses the last chapter, and a somewhat superfluous conclusion, to sum up the commonalities across the various chapters. He confirms the period as one of a general labour revolt, noting that strikes were distributed remarkably evenly across the country, despite the legacy of uneven capitalist development in Canada. He also notes that the period was one of intense unionization that would not be matched until the 1940s when war once again brought thousands of workers to unions. Most important, Heron argues that the revolutionary aspect of the workers' revolt lay not so much in labour's victories on the picket line and at the ballot box, but rather in the minds of workers. Individual workers,


regardless of ethnicity, gender, political or industrial ideologies, began to rethink their roles in the labour movement and in society more generally. They were less inclined to accept guidance from established interests, be they within the labour movement or in civil society. In this sense, Heron notes, "the vision of a different society at the heart of the workers' revolt was greater than the sum of its individual parts." Whether labourist or socialist, craft unionist or syndicalist, workers of all stripes retained an open-ended vision of working class power, which carried radical dimensions and potential that did not escape the notice of bourgeois leaders (p. 295). Though Heron notes that workers made key strategic and tactical errors, the workers' revolt foundered mainly on the structural impediments which allThesis, History, Queen's University, 1991; and "'This is Not a Company; It Is a Cause': Class, Gender and the Toronto Housing Company, 1912-1920," Urban History Review, 21, 2 (1993); and Jill Wade, House for all: The Struggle for Social Housing in Vancouver, 1919-50, (Vancouver, 1994).

[8]. See the work of Richard Harris, in particular, "The Family Home in Working-Class Life", Research Paper no. 171, Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto, 1989; Unplanned Suburbs: Toronto's American Tragedy, 1900-1950 (Baltimore, 1996); and Oliver Zunz,The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization, Industrial Development and Immigrants to Detroit, 1880-1920 (Chicago, 1982).

[9]. For examples of such an approach for later decades see the work of Van Gosse, "To Organize in Every Neighbourhood, in Every Home: The Gender Politics of American Communists between


Ebola fears hit South Sudan-DRC border residents

Tambura/Juba, December 18, 2018 (SSNA) — South Sudanese residents living in areas bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) say they are living in fear as the deadly disease hit the DRC, a Tambura state health minister old Eye Radio.

David Simbi, the Tambura minister told the Radio that Congolese refugees were entering South Sudan without being screened for Ebola and that South Sudan and local authorities worry that some of those refugees could be carrying the virus.

“People from neighboring DR Congo are entering South Sudan without being screened for Ebola due to lack of testing kits,” David said.

However, South Sudan’s national health ministry said it has sent Ebola surveillance teams set at Tombura border with DRC and Central African Republic (CAR) witheastern.

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on April 23 and then the county commissioners on their May 13 consent agenda.

Pepper opened her own flower shop, Autumn Flourish, with boyfriend Dan Tri after 17 years of arranging flowers and crafting corsages for other companies. Their store on the southeast corner of West Bowles Avenue and South Kipling Parkway celebrated its grand opening last week.

The Venters got tired of vying for meeting space at a busy Starbucks, so they decided to open their own coffee shop in downtown Littleton.

The result is Spur, a Littleton hipster spot with a decidedly European flavor. Spur Coffee Ltd. has a coffee bar with its own pastry case, and a meeting room that opened in November. The Venters’ design studio, co-working space and coffee shop is in a former beauty schoolat 5624 S. Prince St., a block north of Littleton’s trendy downtown restaurants and shops.

The county and the Jeffco Economic Development Corp. are close to completing an agreement to develop a database of potential commercial property.

As part of the agreement, the county will help create an inventory of commercial properties of more than 10 acres, along with land identified in community plans for potential commercial rezoning. The database would then be used by a real-estate advisory committee in the EDC to help pair businesses looking to expand with potential locations.

The Jeffco Economic Development Corp. is about to have a $300,000 funding agreement with the county finalized this week.

The contract was delayed while the county commissioners and the EDC clarified two new provisions requiring the economic development group to


hold out hope that some mad scientist will bring them back through genetic engineering.

The earliest trilobites that we know of are from an order called Redlichiida, which appeared midway through the Lower Cambrian and lasted until about the middle Cambrian. They were small, oval arthropods that had the distinctive three lobed exoskeleton and broad cephalon (headshield). They were followed by another order, which also appeared in the lower Cambrian, the Ptychopariida. You’ve probably seen these distinctive, button-sized trilobites at a gift shop or as a piece of jewelry. These little guys survived through the Ordovician era only to perish during the series of Ordovician–Silurian extinction events that wiped out nearly 85 percent of all marine species.

Some species sprouted spectacular spines

It was the Ordovician era that provided the bestinterfere with matters of state. Obama has yet to learn this. His insistence on winging it, on reinventing established practice on his own terms, is potentially

"The way this deal was concocted and announced was perhaps the logical conclusion of a news culture wherein it is

more important to beam a speaking president live into peoples' homes from the other side of the world

than it is

to evaluate what has happened and give a balanced account.

The Obama White House mounted a surgical strike of astounding effectiveness (and astounding cynicism) that saw the president announcing a deal live on TV before anyone - even most of the governments involved in the talks - knew a deal had been done.

The news went first to the White House lobby journalists travelling with the president.

Nat


discern that he will adhere to. His only principle is his own aggrandizement. This is a very dangerous mindset for a president to have.

JW: Do you consider Obama to be worse than George W. Bush?

NH:Oh, much worse.Bush essentially came in with very little qualifications for presidency, not only in terms of his background but he lacked a certain amount of curiosity, and he depended entirely too much on people like Rumsfeld, Cheney and others. Bush was led astray and we were led astray. However,

Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution. The irony is that Obama was a law professor" (or instructor) "at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that what he is doing weakens the Constitution.

In fact, we have never hadeach other, started a Committee of Correspondence.

We hear talk now about reforming public education. There are billions of dollars at stake for such a reform. But I have not heard Arne Duncan, who is the U.S. Education Secretary, mention once the civic illiteracy in the country.

JW: Adults are constitutionally illiterate as well.

NH:A few years ago, I was lecturing at the Columbia Journalism School of Education. I asked them about what was happening to the Fourth Amendment. I said, "By the way, do you know what is in the Fourth Amendment?" One student responded, "Is that the right to bear arms?" It's hard to believe these are bright students.

JW: I ask law students who attend our Summer Internship Program to name the five freedoms in the First Amendment. I


American taxpayers and their children. Since American people have no leadership to defend us, no UN of our own, we must protect ourselves by having the UN move its quarters elsewhere.

His face always gives him away. getty photo, last day of snowy Copenhagen. (12/27, Now knowing how humiliated he was, this face makes even more sense).

If they had looked at this multimillionaire's behavior toward his own relatives living in squalor in the slums of Boston and huts in Africa, they would have known he'd leave anybody in the lurch in 2 seconds flat.

On the other hand, who or what lead these unelected elitists to believe they could harness and enslave US citizens and their children indefinitely?

Did they think this man risked his young life in World War IIhas been endlessly reproduced in everything from newspapers to primary-school textbooks ever since, showing centuries of level or declining temperatures until a dizzying, almost vertical rise in the late 20th Century.

For example, some suggest that the ‘medieval warm period’, the 350-year era that started around 1000, when red wine grapes flourished in southern England and the Vikings tilled now-frozen farms in Greenland, was considerably warmer than even 1998.

Of course, this is inconvenient to climate change believers because there were

no cars or factories pumping out greenhouse gases in 1000AD - yet the Earth still warmed.

In September 1999, Jones’s IPCC colleague Michael Mann of Penn State University in America - who is now also the subject of an official investigation --was working with Jones on the hockey stick. As they


Marusan goes live with Fidessa for wholesale agency trading

July 25, 2017

Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) has announced that Marusan Securities Co., Ltd., an independent securities company headquartered in Tokyo, has gone live with Fidessa for its wholesale agency trading business. Fidessa is the leading system of choice in the Japanese market with 11 domestic security firms now using it for their wholesale agency trading.

Japan’s Financial Services Agency is now promoting wider adoption of “fiduciary duty – in a broad sense of serving the clients’ interests”, not only for buy-side firms but for all firms involved in the financial business. In addition, European regulation in the form of MiFID II, which emphasises market transparency and investor protection, will affect those firms outside of Europe that trade European markets whenRobert Bridge is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of 'Midnight in the American Empire,' How Corporations and Their Political Servants are Destroying the American Dream. @Robert_Bridge

Robert Bridge is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of 'Midnight in the American Empire,' How Corporations and Their Political Servants are Destroying the American Dream. @Robert_Bridge

Donald Trump, the billionaire real estate mogul who tossed his famous brand name into the 2016 presidential race, has catapulted himself to the top of the US political dung heap by hitting a raw nerve among disenchanted voters.

Trump’s stunning success in public opinion polls - he has about twice the likeability of his nearest rival - required no huge sums of money, no inordinate political flair or genius and no


nuclear-armed superpower - would grant millions of illegals (11 million by Washington's conservative count) rite of passage into its territory? Why is it that US forces can patrol halfway around the world along the Afghan-Pakistan border with drones, satellites and Special Forces - even obliterate bin Laden one messy morning - yet the Mexican border is somehow mission impossible? So was anybody really surprised when the Obama administration’s revolving-door border policy culminated in a series of deadly tragedies across the country involving illegal aliens with criminal records and innocent Americans?

Earlier this month, Kathryn Steinle, 31, was shot dead in San Francisco as she strolled with her father along the waterfront area, a popular tourist destination. Police arrested the suspected murderer, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, a Mexican native who hadtwelve dinners here, with a slideshow of photos.

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Orlando’s cooking career began, in the coastal kitchens of his home state of California, merely as an accessory to a life of snowboarding and skateboarding. Since then, he has recorded some meaningful time in two celebrated kitchens. He spent three years cooking at Per Se in New York (straddling both Jonathan Benno’s and Eli Kaimeh’s tenures). And, more recently, he spent five years in the kitchen at Noma in Copenhagen, where I first met him in February, 2013. It was his last week at the restaurant as chef de cuisine, and it was his day off. So he came in and joined my friends and me for dessert at the end of our meal. He told us about his own restaurant,


encrusted with crispy bits of caramelized yogurt; and potato bread served with a spicy, vegetable condiment (at Amass, the condiment was made from pickled cabbage; at the Twelve Days of Christmas, he used kale and Calabrian chiles). The bread dough, made from fermented potatoes, was formed into thick discs, quickly grilled to set the shape, brushed with butter, and finished in the oven. The bread was quite dense, but very moist on the inside. The outside was dusty with char marks, with a slight hint of smoke from the grill. Served warm, it was incredibly comforting.

Instead of pork neck and apples under a canopy of kale, he served venison with pears topped with a rainbow of chard. And adapting my favorite dish from my dinner at Amass toat the time they participated in the event (some have moved on to other projects and restaurants).

2012

Scott Anderson (Elements; Princeton, New Jersey)

John & Karen Shields (Formerly of Townhouse; Chilhowie, Virginia)

Phillip Foss (EL Ideas; Chicago, Illinois)

Stuart Brioza & Nicole Krasinski (State Bird Provisions; San Francisco, California)

Jason Franey (Canlis Restaurant; Seattle, Washinton)

Matthias Merges (Yusho; Chicago, Illinois)

Mori Onodera (Formerly of Mori Sushi; Los Angeles, California)

James Syhabout (Commis; Oakland, California)

Nick Anderer (Maialino; New York, New York)

David Toutain (Agapé Substance; Paris, France)

Josh Habiger & Erik Anderson (The Catbird Seat; Nashville Tennessee)

Christopher Kostow (The Restaurant at Meadowood; St. Helena, California)

2013

Andy Ricker (Pok Pok, Portland, Oregon & New York, New York)

Rodolfo Guzman (Boragó; Santiago, Chile)

Carlo Mirarchi (Blanca and Roberta’s; Brooklyn, New York)

Tim Cushman (O Ya; Boston, Massachusetts)

Ashley Christensen (Poole’s Diner; Raleigh, North Carolina)

David Chang (Momofuku;


New York, New York)

Matthew Accarrino (SPQR; San Francisco, California)

Mark Ladner & Brooks Headley (Del Posto; New York, New York)

Rasmus Kofoed (Geranium; Copenhagen, Denmark)

Nicolaus Balla & Cortney Burns (Bar Tartine; San Francisco, California)

David Kinch (Manresa; Los Gatos, California)

Christopher Kostow (The Restaurant at Meadowood; St. Helena, California)

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* Orlando told me that the original version of this dish that I had at Amass was created rather spontaneously, when his gardner’s successful experiment with growing crosnes yielded a small batch, only enough for about 20 portions.

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( Originally Published Early 1900's )

The development of free discussion in Europe during this age of fermentation was enormously stimulated by the appearance of printed books. It was the introduction of paper from the East that made practicable the long latent method of printing. It is still difficult to assign the honour of priority in the use of the simple expedient of printing for multiplying books. It is a trivial question that has been preposterously debated. Apparently the glory, such as it is, belongs to Holland. In Haarlem, one Coster was printing from movable type somewhen before 1446. Gutenberg was printing at Mainz about the same time. There were printers in Italy by 1465, and Caxton set up his press in Westminister in


1477. But long before this time there had been a partial use of printing. Manuscripts as early as the twelfth century display initial letters that may have been printed from wooden stamps.

Far more important is the question of the manufacture of paper. It is scarcely too much to say that paper made the revival of Europe possible. Paper originated in China, where its use probably goes back to the second century B. C. In 751 the Chinese made an attack upon the Arab Moslems in Samarkand; they were repulsed, and among the prisoners taken from them were some skilled paper-makers, from whom the art was learnt. Arabic paper manuscripts from the ninth century onward still exist. The manufacture entered Christendom either through Greece or by the capture ofMoorish paper mills during the Christian reconquest. of Spain. But under the Christian Spanish the product deteriorated sadly. Good paper was not made in Christian Europe until near the end of the thirteenth century, and then it was Italy which led the world. Only by the fourteenth century did the manufacture reach Germany, and not until the end of that century was it abundant and cheap enough for the printing of books to be a practicable business proposition. Thereupon printing followed naturally and necessarily, and the intellectual life of the world entered upon a new and far more vigorous phase. It ceased to be a little trickle from mind to mind; it became a broad flood, in which thousands and presently scores and hundreds of thousands of minds


participated.

One immediate result of this achievement of printing was the appearance of an abundance of Bibles in the world. Another was a cheapening of school-books. The knowledge of reading spread swiftly. There was not only a great increase of books in the world, but the books that were now made were plainer to read and so easier to understand. Instead of toiling at a crabbed text and then thinking over its significance, readers now could think unimpeded as they read.

With this increase in the facility of reading, the reading public grew. The book ceased to be a highly decorated toy or a scholar's mystery. People began to write books to be read as well as looked at by ordinary people. With the fourteenth century the real history ofthe European literatures begins. We find a rapid replacement of local dialects by standard Italian, standard English, standard French, standard Spanish, and, later, standard German.' These languages became literary' languages in their several countries; they were tried over, polished by use, and made exact and vigorous. They became at last as capable of the burden of philosophical discussion as Greek or Latin.


as the full complement of civilians to staff the bureaucracy. And think of the uniforms that will have to be distinct from those used by the other branches of the service, maybe copying those formerly in vogue on the Starship Enterprise or as seen in the movie Starship Troopers.

The reality is that the United States does indeed have a major national security interest in protecting its network of satellites in orbit as well as related infrastructure, but there is still quite a lot in the Trump remarks that is disturbing. Trump is basically saying two things. The first is that he will be weaponizing outer space and the second is that he is doing so because he intends for the United States to become dominant in that domain.chambers and the cup containing the target mouse was placed in the center of the other chamber. Location of the empty wire cup (novel object) and the novel mice was counterbalanced to avoid confounding side preference. The doors were then removed and a 10-min timer was initiated. The three-chamber apparatus was cleaned between mice. The social approach task was also used as habituation for the social memory task, 3 h after the first phase (3-min exposure), the mouse was placed back into the apparatus for another 3 min (second phase), during which one cup contained the familiar mouse and the other contains a novel mouse. The positions of the familiar and novel mouse during phases 1 and 2 were counterbalanced within and between groups to exclude the possibility of positional


Gozes is a Humboldt Award winner visiting Charité (summers). We acknowledge support from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Open Access Publication Fund of Charité -- Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Professor Illana Gozes is supported by the following grants ERA-NET neuron ADNPinMED, AMN Foundation, NSF-BSF as well as Drs. Ronith and Armand Stemmer (French Friends of Tel Aviv University). Stefan Bereswill and Markus M. Heimesaat received financial support from the German Federal Ministries of Education and Research (BMBF) in frame of the zoonoses research consortium PAC-Campylobacter (IP7/ 01KI1725D) as part of the Research Network Zoonotic Infectious Diseases and from the German Federal Ministries of Economy and Energy (ZIM; ZF4117904 AJ8).

Professor Illana Gozes serves as the Chief Scientific Officer of Coronis Neurosciences developing CP201 for the ADNP syndrome. Microbiome changes as aSam Amidon

Nonesuch Records has released The Following Mountain, the newest solo album by experimental folk artist, singer, and multi-instrumentalist SamAmidon. Created with producer LeoAbrahams (Brian Eno, Regina Spektor) and Amidon’s frequent collaborator ShahzadIsmaily, it represents a new approach for Amidon, who has shifted here from his previous norm of re-working traditional folk songs to present nine wholly original compositions with some lyrics drawing on traditional sources. The album features a rare guest appearance by drummer MilfordGraves, known initially for his work in the 1960s with free jazz legends AlbertAyler and SonnySharrock, and was made during two distinct recording sessions. The first, took place over a weekend in Brooklyn where Ismaily and Amidon brought in Graves, percussionist Juma Sultan (Jimi Hendrix), and saxophonist Sam Gendel for a heavily improvised


session; that was followed by time in a London studio where Amidon worked with Leo Abrahams to shape and develop the songs.

“The Following Mountain is a walk through the thickets of the imagination,” Amidon says, “… a personal mythology of sounds and visions and characters. It is my first album of original music, but is still linked to the Appalachian music I love, as well as improvisation, beats, Don Cherry, Vermont, London.” The Following Mountain is Amidon’s sixth album and follows Lily-O, his 2014 Nonesuch-released collaboration with guitarist BillFrisell.

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before seeing the start of the great tribulation. This convinces us even more that soon . . .

It only makes sense that this first group must have discerned the sign as it was occurring in 1914. Especially because the phrase in the Watchtower was "readily discerned." The above was from the Simplified version of the 2014 Watchtower. The version from the main Watchtower, where slightly different, is included below:

*** w14 1/15 p. 31 pars. 15-16 “Let Your Kingdom Come”—But When? ***

Jesus was referring to two groups of anointed Christians. The first group was on hand in 1914, and they readily discerned the sign of Christ’s presence in that year. . . The second group included in “this generation” are anointed contemporaries of the first group. . . .This should add to our conviction that little time remains . . .

The Simplified version of the Watchtower said that the first group understood that Jesus Christ began ruling as King in 1914.

The regular version of the Watchtower said that the first group discerned the sign of Christ's presence in 1914.

But that first group did not actually discern either event in 1914. In 1914 that first group of anointed still only "discerned" that Jesus had begun his reign as king in 1878. They continued to believe that Jesus had begun his presence in 1874. Nothing changed in 1914 regarding the discernment of either event.

In fact, it was until 1943 that the Watchtower continued, officially, to teach that Christ's presence had begun in 1874:

*** ka chap. 11 pp. 209-210


par. 55 “Here Is the Bridegroom!” ***

In the year 1943 the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society published the book “The Truth Shall Make You Free.” . . . Naturally this did away with the year 1874 C.E. as the date of return of the Lord Jesus Christ and the beginning of his invisible presence or parousia.

But, the teaching about when Jesus became King is a little different. Years after 1914, the Watch Tower Society was still publishing that Jesus began his reign as King in 1878. And they continuing promoting that date in literature campaigns until 1933 or so. By 1922 there were already statements, not 100 percent explicit, but hints that the official doctrine might change, perhaps even as early as 1919. By 1925, the doctrinefact it clearly states that Jesus Christ was ALREADY the Faithful Witness, and was already the "Firstborn from the dead" and therefore already the Ruler of the kings of the earth. In other words, King of Kings. Therefore, he had already made Christians to be a kingdom (v.6). The introduction is to show the current authority of the one who gave him the visions, not his future authority. And I agree, of course, that he was already given "all authority" according to Matthew 28.

(Revelation 1:1-6) . . .A revelation by Jesus Christ, which God gave him, to show his slaves the things that must shortly take place. And he sent his angel and presented it in signs through him to his slave John, 2 who bore witness to


of his own blood— 6 and he made us to be a kingdom, priests to his God and Father—yes, to him be the glory and the might forever. Amen.

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How does the wt get away with postponing this until 1874/1914/1919/1925 or whatever?

The loophole is in Colossians:

(Colossians 1:13) . . .He rescued us from the authority of the darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son. . .

In earlier versions it was preferred to translate this to make it sound like something so unique and special that it didn't sound like Christ has the Messianic Kingdom yet, as in "the kingdom of the son of his love." In fact, this introduction is much like that of Revelation in proclaiming the. . He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might become the one who is first in all things; 19 because God was pleased to have all fullness to dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all other things by making peace through the blood he shed on the torture stake, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens.

Being over all other thrones and lordships and governments and authorities, while simultaneously saying that Jesus already has a Kingdom, is pretty much the same thing as saying that Jesus is already King -- in fact, already "King of Kings."

But the loophole was found in the 10 words I skipped from verse 18, where it adds ".


. . and he is the head of the body, the congregation." So all that needed to be done, was to ignore all the talk of Jesus position and authority, and focus on this idea of "and he is head of the body, the congregation." The "kingdom" is therefore not Christ's Kingdom, not the Messianic Kingdom of God through Christ, but merely Jesus headship over the congregation as a kind of "kingdom."

But this "kingdom" cannot have a capital "K" as in "Kingdom" because that would remind us of God's Kingdom through Christ. In the rest of the NWT, every mention of God's Kingdom, sons of the Kingdom, the Kingdom of heaven, the Son of man coming in his Kingdom, sitting at the right of Jesus in his Kingdom,mark the "End of the Gentile Times"

All the latest publications only focus on this one point now, since it is generally admitted that, long after 1914, we still taught that:

Jesus had returned as King in 1878,

had begun his presence in 1874,

that the invisible presence in heaven had begun in 1874 and the visible effects upon the world would begin to be seen just after 1914,

and that the "time of the end" had begun in 1799,

and that 1914 would be the END of the great trouble on the earth, not the BEGINNING.

(About a decade before 1914, this last idea was adjusted to push the time of trouble before 1914 to a time beginning in October 1914 and ending around or just after 1915.)

But now that the teaching is better


grounded in the idea that the prediction was that 1914 would be the "End of the Gentile Times" it would be good to know if we are talking about the same belief.

It's not the same.

The End of the Gentile Times referred to the fact that Palestine would see an Israeli government beginning in 1914 because the governments and institutions of the Gentile kings and governments would all collapse during a period of several months beginning in October 1914 with some likely holding on until the end of 1915.

The expression End of the Gentile Times, was the equivalent of saying that the non-Gentile Kings have had their day. The U.S. government was therefore set to collapse within months of October 1914. The government of Great Britain would also collapse.of trouble with which the Gospel age will close, and in the midst of which present dominions shall be utterly consumed, passing away amid great confusion.

The above was written at a time when Russell still taught that the time of trouble would completely END in 1914, and 1914 initially was seen as the first year of peace "the end of the time of trouble" following the great chaos and confusion of the trouble as the Gospel age closed in 1914.

In this chapter we present the Bible evidence proving that the full end of the times of the Gentiles, i.e., the full end of their lease of dominion, will be reached in A.D. 1914; and that that date will see the disintegration of the rule of imperfect men. And


a world-wide reign of anarchy; and then men will learn to be still, and to know that Jehovah is God and that he will be exalted in the earth. (

) . . . But the Lord's Anointed and his rightful and righteous authority will first be recognized by a company of God's children while passing through the great tribulation--the class represented bymandton the Chart of the Ages (see also pages 235 to 239, Vol. I); afterward, just at its close, by fleshly Israel; and ultimately by mankind in general.

Seventhly, It will prove thatbefore that date God's Kingdom, organized in power, will be in the earth and then smite and crush the Gentile image (

)--and fully consume the power of these kings. Its own power and dominion will beestablished as fast as by its varied influences and agencies it crushes and scatters the "powers that be"-- civil and ecclesiastical--iron and clay.

So, the Watch Tower's view of "The End of the Gentile Times" referred to the crushing and scattering of all "powers that be" both governmental and religious powers BEFORE October 1914, fully consuming the power of the kings of the earth so that FLESHLY Israel's rulership from Jerusalem could quickly fill the void and fill the need for order in a time of complete world-wide anarchy. Fleshly Israel would, of course, be helped and guided by blessings flowing from the heavenly portion of God's kingdom government, and his approval and blessing upon the government of fleshly Israel.

Recognizing God's lease of power to these worldly or Gentile


up of the Kingdom of God is already begun, that it is pointed out in prophecy as due to begin the exercise of power in A.D. 1878, and that the "battle of the great day of God Almighty" (

), which will end in A.D. 1915, with the complete overthrow of earth's present rulership, is already commenced.

It should also be noted that the emphasis on Jews returning to Palestine was a big part of Russell's teaching as the Watch Tower, right up until 1914 was making statements like this:

Another thing we have been expecting is the return of the Jews to Palestine. There is more and more nowbeing said about the Jews returning to Palestine, and more interest is being aroused in the matter. When we first began toa historical fact worth noting that, on the basis of the points and evidence above presented, the March 1880 edition of the Watch Tower magazine identified the year 1914 as the time for the close of “the appointed times of the nations” (and the end of the lease of power granted the Gentile rulers). This was some 34 years before the arrival of that year and the momentous events it initiated. In the August 30, 1914, edition of The World, a leading New York newspaper at that time, a feature article in the paper’s Sunday magazine section commented on this as follows: “The terrific war outbreak in Europe has fulfilled an extraordinary prophecy. For a quarter of a century past, through preachers and through press, the ‘International Bible


promoted currently, because for now we look at examples like Fred Franz who was part of that original generation already anointed and who saw the sign, and the typical example of an anointed brother who was apparently "anointed" prior to Franz' death in 1992 would be someone like Governing Body member, Brother Sanderson, who was born in 1965, baptized in 1975, and was already a "special pioneer" in 1991. His is currently 52.
However, the generation problem is just one more problem now which we can add onto the list of all the other points that make up the 1914 doctrine. Here are several points related to 1914 that appear problematic from a Scriptural point of view:
All evidence shows the 1914 date is wrong when trying to base itAct of Parliament

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Fear and loathing of income inequality is both totally understandable and ultimately misplaced.

It's understandable because everywhere around us it seems as if top income earners—those latter-day kulaks vilified as the "1 Percent" by the Occupy crowd and populist politicians—are gaining while the rest of us seem barely able to hang on to a lower-middle-class standard of living.

It's misplaced because it glosses over strong evidence that the ability to rise above your starting place—the American Dream, by most accounts—is better than it was 40 years ago.

There is no doubt that the spread between top earners and those below them has grown over time. The share of income earned by the top 1 percent in the United States has doubled since the early 1970s. The top 20 percent's share hasleft-wing cross was cleared straight to Michael O'Connor on the edge of the area and he fired home.

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There was some consolation for Exeter after 76 minutes when Danny Coles bundled the ball over the line from Arron Davies' corner, but it was too little, too late for the visitors.


and quality of the planned micro homes.

"The additional concern was the lack of communication with the surrounding neighbors in that area," said Lee Kebler, vice president of the Woodbine Neighborhood Association.

Kebler said some nearby neighbors feel like the micro homes project is being forced on them.

"The United Methodist Church and the financially powerful board members of Open Table Nashville could surely find a more efficient location for this worthy project," said Bill Durkin, a longtime Glencliff area resident.

McIntyre explained during a Monday news conference at the church that she thinks sharing the project details with concerned neighbors helped. She hopes to continue to keep the community up-to-date as it unfolds.

"Certainly not everybody is going to be as excited as we are," McIntyre said. "But we are definitely lookingThis fall Kurt Nilsen will play 27 concerts around Norway with his band. They will present new songs in Norwegian in addition to some of Kurt’s greatest hits.
The tour kicks off in Oppdal on Octorber 10th.

Friday May 11th Kurt Nilsen will be guest at the "NRK1 “Lindmo” season finale. He is taking a day off from the studio where he is recording his first album in Norwegian. In addition to talking with Anne Lindmo, Kurt and his band will perform “Du sa” witch is the next single from the forthcoming album.
“Du sa” will be released May 18th.

Coming fall Kurt Nilsen will release his first album in Norwegian. October 10th his biggest tour so far in his career kicks off.
The tour is entitled “Kurt Nilsen – Norsk Aften” witch


Segisaurus

Segisaurus (meaning "Segi canyon lizard") is a genus of small coelophysoid theropod dinosaur, that measured approximately 1 metre (3 feet) in length. The only known specimen was discovered in 1933 in early Jurassic strata in Tsegi Canyon, Arizona, for which it was named. Segisaurus is the only dinosaur to have ever been excavated from the area. It was later described in 1936 by the paleontologist Charles Lewis Camp. The fragmentary fossil skeleton consisted of portions of the limbs, pelvis, and vertebrae, but no cranial material was located. Segisaurus appears to have been closely related to the better-known Coelophysis. One distinction, however, was that Segisaurus had solid bones, while those of Coelophysis' were hollow. This even made some scientists consider if Segisaurus was even a theropod at all. Latera bird's, thus strengthening scientists' arguments that dinosaurs were related to avians.
Segisaurus is described from the only specimen ever found. The holotype, however, was a sub-adult, so that the full size of Segisaurus as an adult may never be known. Strangely, clavicles were found on the Segisaurus specimen, which were unknown in other dinosaurs from that era.

The first discovery of Segisaurus was by Max Littlesalt, a Navajo Indian who kept livestock inside Tsegi Canyon. After discovering the remains in the Navajo Sandstone formation of Arizona, Littlesalt pointed out the fossils to archeologists on an expedition inside the canyon. Other than the first finding of Segisaurus, no other specimens have been discovered. After its initial description by Charles Lewis Camp, the holotype went relatively ignored for the next half


century. When the specimen was investigated during this period, all who viewed it commented on the presence of clavicles and the solid bone structures the dinosaur had. According to recent reports, Segisaurus is vital in understanding the evolution of early theropods.

Restoration of the holotype skeleton from 1936
When the specimen of Segisaurus was discovered, Camp likened it to that of a "sitting hen", due to the position the dinosaur's remains were in.[2] Other theropods used this positions to sleep or stay sheltered during sand and ash storms, and indeed the Segisaurus holotype was found in a bed of sand stone, suggesting that the dinosaur had been submerged in a layer of sand and died. This is still only a hypothesis, as no nest or den materials were discovered alongISRAEL THE TERRORIST STATE

On Wednesday, November 14th, it was reported that Israel assassinated the leader of Hamas' military wing, Ahmed Jabari, breaking a tentative truce with Palestinian fighters that had been in place since Monday. The truce followed an escalation in violence that began last Thursday in which 6 Palestinian civilians were killed, including three children, and more than 50 others injured.

The IMEU offers the following timeline of the recent violence and a link to an IMEU fact sheet on previous Israeli ceasefire violations.

- TIMELINE: ISRAEL'S LATEST ESCALATION IN GAZA -

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8

Following a two-week lull in violence, Israeli soldiers invade Gaza. In the resulting exchange of gunfire with Palestinian fighters, a 12-year-old boy is killed by an Israeli bullet while he plays soccer.

Shortly afterwards, Palestinian fighters blow


up a tunnel along the Gaza-Israel frontier, injuring one Israeli soldier.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10

An anti-tank missile fired by Palestinian fighters wounds four Israeli soldiers driving in a jeep along the Israel-Gaza boundary.

An Israeli artillery shell lands in a soccer field in Gaza killing two children, aged 16 and 17. Later, an Israeli tank fires a shell at a tent where mourners are gathered for a funeral, killing two more civilians, and wounding more than two dozen others.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11

One Palestinian civilian is killed and dozens more wounded in Israeli attacks. Four Israeli civilians are also injured as a result of projectiles launched from Gaza, according to the Israeli government.

During an Israeli government cabinet meeting, Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz urges the government to "cut off the head of the snake...take out the leadership of Hamas in Gaza." He also calls for a cutting off of water, food, electricity, and fuel shipments to Gaza's 1.7 million people.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12

Palestinian militant factions agree to a truce if Israel ends its attacks.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14

Israel breaks two days of calm by assassinating Ahmed Jabari, the head of Hamas' military wing. According to reports, at least eight other Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks, including at least two children. Palestinian militant groups vow to respond.


the document contained almost no technical information, since the weapon it was requesting, by its own acknowledgment, didn’t actually exist. Rather, what it was proposing was a theoretical weapon based on the Advanced Tactical Laser system, a chemical laser that an Air Force review in 2008 determined was not suitable for operations.

Danger Room posted the document in 2007, as part of an ongoing series of articles about requests for equipment by troops in Iraq – requests that were often rebuffed by the Pentagon. Not all of those requests were over-the-top: One of those "urgent needs" was for bomb-resistant trucks.

When then-Defense Secretary Bob Gates found out through the media that the request wasn't being met, he ordered tens of thousands of trucks built. Gates says that the lives ofthousands of U.S. troops were saved as a result – although those figures have recently been challenged.

The NCIS' continued interest in an unclassified document posted over five years ago comes amid a new push by the Obama administration to crack down on leakers. The effort has been Kafka-esque from the start. It started when a pair of books revealed that the White House is intimately involved in approving drone attacks and cybersabotage operations against its foes. Days after the leaks, President Obama scolded the secret-spillers – even though the books' authors were granted officially access to the highest levels of the administration. Congress has also stepped in with its own legislation that would punish leakers of classified information. But the bill, recently passed by the Senate Intelligence Committee,


exempts from reprisal most senior White House and administration officials – and, of course, members of Congress, as well.

The leak investigations have also gone after lower-ranking players, like Franz Gayl, a civilian scientist working for the Marine Corps. Gayl, who first brought attention to delays in fielding bomb-resistant vehicles, wasn't celebrated for helping keep troops alive; rather, he was stripped of his security clearance, and then suspended him from work. (Gayl won his job back in November 2011.)

In July, the Pentagon chief established a "top-down" system for reporting leaks, and requires a security officer review of unauthorized disclosures of protected information. The guidance also states that public affairs is the "sole release authority for all DoD information to news media in Washington." That lead some to wonder whetherNew jewelry store tops October building starts in Sunnyside

A new jewelry store in the Mid-Valley Mall accounted for almost half of the city of Sunnyside's new building valuation during the month of October.

Work on a Harry Ritchie Jewelers' store accounted for almost half of the $373,000 in new building starts approved in Sunnyside during the month of October.

The improvements made for the new store, located at 2010 E. Yakima Valley Highway, are valued at $156,000 and generated $2,161.63 in permit fees for the city of Sunnyside.

Also in October, Sunnyside building officials gave the thumbs up for a $50,000 project to re-roof and re-side a pole building owned by the Port of Sunnyside at 3251 Sunnyside-Mabton Road. That project generated just over $650 in fees for the Sunnyside city


coffers.

Building officials also gave the okay last month for seven re-roofing projects with a combined valuation of $26,100. Three of the re-roofs were for buildings at 1319 S. Sixth Street, with a combined valuation of $14,000.

Of the 37 new projects permitted in October, four were for new signs and five were for new windows.

For the month of October, the city of Sunnyside received $7,208.63 in permit fees for new construction.

During October, city building officials issued a combined total of 53 permits, a significant drop from the 193 permits issued during October 2007.

The biggest reason for the drop was in code enforcement, which earlier this fall had personnel cuts. There were 116 permits issued related to code enforcement during October 2007, compared to just one last month.

Of the permitsTag Archives: Demerara

Rum Exchange Guyana Port Mourant. Rum Exchange are a importer of fine spirits and are now an independent bottler of rum. This is their fourth release, following on from some very impressive rums from Jamaica and Belize. Today we are in familiar territory with an independently bottled Port Mourant rum from Guyana.Read more to see the fatrumpirate rating

Hamilton 86 Ministry of Rum Collection Demerara River. Edward Hamilton is a well known figure in the rum world. His knowledge has been built up by sailing around the Caribbean islands and he has been an active writer, importer, rum-runner, brand owner and enthusiastic supporter of rum for a number of years. He runs the website and Facebook page Ministry of Rum, where has has gained the moniker Minister


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Last year, spokesperson Hua Chunying called rumors of a potential naval base at Gwadar "irresponsible remarks" and "hearsay". The MoU was signed by Ambassador Khalid and President of China Foreign Affairs Studies University, Qin Yaqing.

The Congress chief identified lack of job growth as the most serious concern facing the country and its youth. The Congress also said, "Your talent, skills, tolerance, patriotism is what India needs today".

The Nitro 5's keyboard looks great, all backlit in bright crimson and the trackpad sits off-centre, right under the spacebar. Acer hasn't released the full specs yet, but we do know the Spin 3 arrives in February and will start at $599.

In the book, Bannon is quoted as calling Donald Trump Jr .'s 2016 meeting at Trump Towerwith a Russian lawyer "treasonous". As I wrote after Wolff's "Today" appearance, the author's methods do not directly undermine the veracity of his reporting.

Donald Trump has been criticised on social media after he appeared to struggle to recall the words to the U.S. national anthem. Video of the performance shows Trump mouthing some of the words, but he also appeared to have botched some of the lyrics.

The government statement also said there is no evidence that al-Kholi is actually a member of the security services. Kholi alluded to Egypt's acceptance of Ramallah as a Palestinian capital, in fear of another intifada .

It's not clear how Facebook's latest change will affect those of you who've chosen that option, but it's worth a try. A big part of that effort


would be "making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent", he said.

Ever since the appearance of such a strong female superhero, fans have been pushing to see Black Widow in her own movie. Sadly though, the character was never the main lead previously as she only served in ensemble casts.

In November 2016, GoPro eliminated 15 percent of its workforce in an attempt to cut costs and turn the company around financially. GoPro's potential sale inspired a mid-day rally in the stock, which plunged earlier on preliminary fourth-quarter figures.

It still included integrated graphics though, and that's HD Graphics 630, the same as in the seventh-generation H-series. The chip maker has also launched the latest and most powerful Intel® NUC created to complement the latest processor.

The Irishcompeting imperatives.

South Korean authorities to plan Bitcoin ban
The South Korean won accounts for 10 percent of all trading activity in ethereum and 5 percent in bitcoin . Reports are emerging of nation-wide police inspections on crypto exchanges in the Southeast Asian nation.

Dianne Feinstein Releases Dossier Testimony
But Simpson's comments appear to confirm that the FBI did not launch its Trump-Russia investigation just because of the dossier. During Simpson's interview in August, a Republican staffer pressed him further on this claim, and Simpson's answers were vague.

Firefighters fighting fire at Trump Tower; 2 injured
At least two people were injured when a fire broke out in Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York in the early hours of Monday. Starting around 7 a.m., smoke billowed from one corner of the building for a


Thursday, January 23, 2014

Earlier today, an indictment was unsealed charging five members of the Bonanno organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra (the Bonanno family) variously with racketeering conspiracy, including predicate acts of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, solicitation to murder, robbery and extortion, and other crimes. Bonanno family administration members and captains Vincent Asaro and Thomas Di Fiore; Bonanno family captain Jerome Asaro; Bonanno family acting captain Jack Bonventre; and Bonanno family soldier John Ragano were arrested earlier today and are scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Marilyn D. Go at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn.

The charges and arrests were announced by Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and George Venizelos, Assistant Director in Charge, FederalBureau of Investigation, New York Field Office.

“As alleged, Vincent Asaro devoted his adult life to the Bonanno crime family, with a criminal career that spanned decades. Far from a code of honor, theirs was a code of violence and brute force. Those suspected of cooperating with law enforcement paid with their lives. Asaro helped pull off the 1978 Lufthansa robbery—still the largest bank robbery in New York history. Neither age nor time dimmed Asaro’s ruthless ways, as he continued to order violence to carry out mob business in recent months. The arrests and charges announced today are a testament to the relentless pursuit of justice by law enforcement,” stated United States Attorney Lynch. Ms. Lynch extended her grateful appreciation to the FBI for its extraordinary work in bringing


quantities of gold jewelry from the proceeds of the robbery.

Murder of Paul Katz

Vincent Asaro is charged with the murder of Paul Katz, who disappeared in 1969, and Asaro and his son Jerome are also charged with accessory after the fact for their roles in moving Katz’s body to prevent its discovery by law enforcement. Vincent Asaro and Burke allegedly strangled Katz with a dog chain because they believed he was cooperating with law enforcement. They then buried his body in the basement of a vacant home in Queens, New York, where it remained until the mid-1980s when, alerted to a state law enforcement investigation into Katz’s murder, Vincent Asaro directed Jerome Asaro and another individual to dig up Katz’s body and move it. Almost 35 years later, inJune 2013, the FBI executed a search warrant at the Queens residence, which was still owned by the Burke family, and recovered remnants of Katz’s remains buried in the basement. Katz’s identity was confirmed through DNA testing.

Solicitation to Murder

Vincent Asaro and Jerome Asaro are charged with solicitation to murder their cousin, identified in the indictment as John Doe #1, because he was perceived to be a “rat” for testifying against another family member in a federal trial on fraud charges.

Armed Robberies

Vincent Asaro and Jerome Asaro are charged variously with participating in additional armed robberies and armed robbery conspiracies, including the robbery of approximately $1 million in gold salts.

Extortion

All five defendants, including Thomas Di Fiore, the highest ranking member of the Bonanno family at liberty, are charged with using


government officials themselves continued to be complicit in trafficking crimes, including the coerced recruitment and use of Afghan men for combat in Syria, and the funding of militias in Iraq that recruited and used child soldiers.

The report also pointed out the extreme difficulty for female victims of trafficking to obtain justice in Iran, since the courts accord legal testimony by women only half the weight as testimony by men, and female sex trafficking victims are liable to be prosecuted for adultery, a crime punishable by death.

In his introduction to the report, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called human trafficking “one of the most tragic human rights issues of our time” - – not only splintering families, but undermining the rule of law, encouraging other transnational criminal activity, andEnvironmentalists filed a petition Wednesday seeking to remove a designation of a 15-mile stretch of the river below Wilmington as “swamp water.”

By Greg Barnes

Since 2015, the state Environmental Management Commission has classified an impaired 15-mile stretch of the Cape Fear River near Wilmington as swamp water.

The reclassification remains on the books, even though the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rejected it last summer, saying the state failed to include data about the Cape Fear’s velocity — it is among the fastest-moving rivers in the state — and whether water quality in the river could be improved.

On Wednesday, the Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of Waterkeeper Alliance and Cape Fear River Watch, filed a petition with the Environmental Management Commission to have the swamp water designation removed and the


the action began under former Gov. Pat McCrory’s administration. Munger said then that she expected the EPA would have concerns about the reclassification and that DEQ planned to recommend that the Environmental Management Commission re-evaluate its reclassification, especially in light of GenX and related fluorinated compounds being discovered in the river and hundreds of private drinking wells.

GenX is a suspected carcinogen manufactured by DuPont, and now Chemours, at a plant near the border of Bladen and Cumberland counties. The chemical, used to make Teflon and other nonstick and water-resistant products, had been discharged into the river at least since the early 1980s. In 2017, DEQ ordered Chemours to stop its release.

The health effects of GenX in humans is unclear. The chemical has been found in animal tests toOne in 200 men alive today is a relative of Genghis Khan

An international team of geneticists have found an astonishing statistic; one in every 200 men alive today is a relative of Genghis Khan. These men have the same male Y chromosome as the great warlord Genghis Khan.

Genghis Khan conquered many countries during his reign (between 1162 and 1227) and in this campaign he captured many beautiful women and fathered many children on the way. According to on Persian historian, that within a century of Khan’s birth and his extravagant mating habits had resulted in more than 20,000 children. And now his descendants make about 8% of the men in Central Asia after a genetic study of these men.

Dr. Chris Tyler-Smith and his team from Britain, Italy, China,


The adventures of toys Woody and Buzz Lightyear continue when their owner Andy goes off to summer camp, leaving them to their own devices. Things take a bad turn when an obsessive toy collector kidnaps Woody because he is a highly valuable collector's item. Buzz Lightyear, Mr. Potato Head, Slinky Dog, Rex and Hamm, all leap into action to rescue Woody and get home before Andy returns from camp.of any who bring it to them. And I
myself, and very likely many of you too, have seen cestres
tamed to the hand in the fountain of Arethusa, near Chalcis;
and eels, having silver and golden earrings, taking food from
any one who offered it to them, and entrails from the victims,
and fresh cheese. And Semus says, in the sixth book of his
Delias—“They say that a boy once dipped a ewer into the
well, and brought water to some Athenians who were sacri-
ficing at Delos, to wash their hands with; and he brought up,
as it happened, some fish in the ewer along with the water:
and that on this the soothsayers of the Delians told them that
they should become the lords of the sea.”

Athenaeus. The Deipnosophists. Or Banquet Of The Learned Of Athenaeus.


LulzSec attacks gaming sites...just for laughs

Robert McMillan |
June 14, 2011

The Escapist, League of Legends, Eve Online and others were hit with attacks.

The hacking group known as LulzSec called it Titanic Takeover Tuesday. Gamers called it by a variety of names, many of which cannot be reprinted here. But for system administrators at a handful of gaming companies, Tuesday, June 14 was a nightmare: the day their websites went down under an online attack.

LulzSec took down systems at the Escapist, Eve Online, Minecraft and League of Legends Tuesday during a three-hourlong distributed denial-of-service rampage that left gamers annoyed and the Lulz hackers crowing.

"Welcome to #TitanicTakeoverTuesday where everyone is laughing at crybabies getting Lulz Cannoned!" the hacking group said during one of its many Twitter messages documenting the online assault.

LulzSecaccess to the company's website was "intermittent" for three hours Tuesday because of the attack. "Our system administrators are still reviewing the situation to assess whether anything occurred other than a DDoS attack," he said in an e-mail message.

After its attack on the Escapist, LulzSec invited people to call in via telephone and recommend new targets. It then began attacking gaming sites Eve Online, Minecraft and League of Legends. The hackers also said that they hit FinFisher, an IT intrusion monitoring company owned by Gamma Group.

Late Tuesday Eve Online and the Escapist websites remained offline, but League of Legends, Minecraft and FinFisher were all operational.


Edward Irving "Ed" Koch (December 12, 1924 - February 1, 2013) was an
American lawyer, politician, political commentator, movie critic and
reality television arbitrator. He served in the United States House of
Representatives from 1969 to 1977 and three terms as mayor of New York
City, which he led from fiscal insolvency to economic boom, from 1978 to
1989. (Click
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write
wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how
I get my kicks.

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's
wasting your life.

How'm I doin'?

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow asto selling only Ontario Vintners Quality Alliance wines for the first three years, while the rest can sell Canadian and international wines as well. After the initial three-year period those stores' restrictions would be lifted, and every three years the province would roll out a new tranche of Ontario-only licences. This would allow producers to keep up with increased demand.

Wynne also announced that cider can be sold in any grocery store that sells beer, and that the program allowing VQA wines to be sold at farmers' markets will expand to include fruit wines and craft cider.

Small producers of spirits will get to sell directly to bars and restaurants, and will be allowed a greater commission. The Liberal government has made a "fundamental decision" that "hard liquor" will not


Youth advocates stress talking about the issues

What better way to work with youth than hearing what their needs are. So to help tribal communities engage more with their youth the National Indian Child Welfare Association led a discussion about youth leadership and engagement during their 32nd annual Protecting Our Children National American Indian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect conference this past week.

To get people talking about the youth in their tribe as well as to offer ideas on how to engage the youth, Melissa Bob, NICWA's director of Community Development for Children's Mental Health and Youth Engagement, and Youth Engagement Specialist Linda Gokee-Randal sat in a circle talking about Native youth.

Bob said the discussion was a way of "helping tribes understand that there are a lot ofpermanent establishment is already a complex issue with at least three separate regimes in the tax treaty context- the OECD Authorised Approach under the 2010 OECD version of Article 7 of the OECD Model, the AOA subject to limitations required by the pre-2010 version and that permitted by Article…

Corporate Social Responsibility (“CSR”) has become one of the top priorities on the Agenda of almost all supranational bodies (OECD, EU, UN) and many jurisdictions. Due to the overall lack of revenues by Countries and the innumerable tax-related leaks (Luxleaks, Panama papers, etc.) along with the recent and ongoing changes within the worldwide international tax…

The OECD BEPS project was kicked off by the observation that the interaction of domestic tax systems sometimes leads to an overlap, resulting in double taxation


Fans Think The Weeknd Disses Drake on New Song “Lost in the Fire”

The Internet believes The Weeknd has just sneak-dissed Drake on "Lost in the Fire," a new song he dropped with French DJ-producer Gesaffelstein last night (Jan. 11).

On the track, which is produced by Gesaffelstein and DaHeala, The Weeknd sings, "And I just want a baby with the right one/'Cause I would never be the one to hide one."

In a vacuum, the above lyrics wouldn't mean all that much. However, fans think Weeknd is referring to Drake's son Adonis, a child Pusha-T told the world about on his Drizzy diss song "The Story of Adidon." Before the Pusha diss, Drake had yet to reveal his son to the world, and Pusha poked fun at the Toronto rapperfor allegedly hiding the child.

With Weeknd's lyrics hitting the web, fans have naturally had a lot to say about his potential Drizzy diss.

"The Weeknd is the only one that gets a pass when dissing the living legend himself, Drake," one Twitter user said.

While there's always a chance Weeknd isn't speaking on Drake at all, the two did have something of a falling out after Weeknd helped craft Drake's Take Care album with the Toronto rapper more than seven years ago. Despite reported tension surrounding Weeknd's contributions to Take Care, the two Canadian artists were considered to be on good terms once Drake fully supported a collaborative project between OVO and XO.

We'll see if that ever happens, but for now listen The Weeknd's new song "Lost in the Fire"