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<\/a>“Climbers descend Mount Ontake amid smoke and ash after it erupted without warning on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014. The 3,067-metre mountain is 210 kilometres west of Tokyo. (Kyodo News\/Associated Press)”<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n { Thank You -Jim W- for filling in for me – I’m back, – I think, -counting fingers and toes etc, yeah, I think I’m all here —> Doug, who’s finally getting over his ‘mild flu’. } =======================<\/p>\n Lead Articles:<\/span><\/p>\n -Updated- Volcano erupts in central Japan, injuring at least 40<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { Mount Ontake erupted without warning, catching mountain climbers of guard. Seven people were missing at last notice.\u00a0\u00a0 —djo— }<\/p>\n Neil Young performs at anti-pipeline concert in Nebraska<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n Paul Calandra’s non-answers prompted by PMO staffer: CBC<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { “Conservative MP Paul Calandra choked back tears while apologizing Friday for responding to NDP Leader Tom Mulcair’s questions on Canada’s mission in Iraq this week with an attack on the NDP position on Israel. – But CBC News has learned that Calandra was put up to the responses by a senior staffer in the Prime Minister’s Office. Several Conservative MPs also told CBC they were furious as they listened to Calandra’s answers in the House.”\u00a0 —djo—\u00a0 }<\/p>\n Petra Kvitova beats Eugenie Bouchard in Wuhan open final<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n U.S. urges Canada to give as much as it can to fight ISIS<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { Should I quote Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane? “War’s good business, so give your sons-”\u00a0 —djo— }<\/p>\n Why the Newfoundland soccer stabbing has shaken parents to the core<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n 3 high-tech ways to limit the flow of arms in Syria<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n -Photos- George Clooney’s wedding in Venice\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n <\/p>\n =====<\/p>\n “Tabulator Ale”<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n “Offbeat”<\/span><\/p>\n Picaroon’s new Tabulator Ale pokes fun at N.B. election\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 { Picaroon’s is a ‘micro-brewery’. The Tabulator glitches are what slowed down Monday Evening’s election results. Everybody thought their new high-tech toys would speed up the results news specials. Nope- Some of the politicians gave up and went home before they announced probable winners after midnight. A manual recount is still a possibility.\u00a0 —djo— }<\/p>\n Richard Branson offers unlimited vacation days (you read that correctly)\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { “You’re exhausted. You feel like you work 24 hours a day because your phone is always on, always beeping, vibrating \u2014\u00a0a leash\u00a0to your cubical. And even though you (hopefully) love what you do,\u00a0you just need a rest. – Sound familiar? “Holy Muttrimony, Bat Man these dogs are getting married!”<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n Round of a-paws expected at Brandon ceremony of Holy Muttrimony<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 { “Two Brandon [ Manitoba ] dogs will be joined in Holy Muttrimony this weekend. – Opus the sheltie and his bride-to-be, November, a mix-breed\u00a0from the Humane Society will marry in Brandon’s Stanley Park on Sunday. -November (left) and Opus are set to tie the knot on Sunday in Brandon’s Stanley Park. – “There will 120 white chairs,” said owner Alyssa Fletcher. “Opus’s bow tie just came in\u00a0and November will be wearing a floral wreath.” – When asked whether the groom would be kissing the\u00a0bride at the end of the ceremony, Fletcher said the newly weds will be taking a different approach. – “They’re going to kibble each other,” said Fletcher. “He’s going to kibble his bride so she’ll get a nice little bowl of food.” –‘Anybody and their dog is welcome to the wedding.’<\/span>– Alyssa Fletcher- <\/cite>Fletcher, who runs Grassroots Grooming in Brandon, said the idea to wed\u00a0her dogs was sparked during a conversation with\u00a0a friend.”\u00a0 —djo— }<\/p>\n & There’s a repeat of yesterday’s disgusting story about an abandoned truck full of rotten chicken being cleaned up in Montana.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { “Ick” <—-<< That’s my daughter’s comment. & that about sums it up for me too.\u00a0 —djo— }<\/p>\n <\/p>\n =====<\/p>\n “Most Viewed”<\/span><\/p>\n Deck collapse in south end Halifax sends 6 to hospital<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n Adam Keunen, Niagara-area teen, killed on co-op placement<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { “Niagara Regional Police say a teenager on a high school co-op placement has died in an industrial accident. – Adam Keunen, 17, of West Lincoln, Ont. was fatally struck by a front-end loader around 9:45 a.m. Friday at Plazek Auto Recycler. -Keunen was a fourth-year student at Beamsville Secondary School. – Paramedics and firefighters were unable to save him. – Keunen\u00a0was a fourth-year student at Beamsville Secondary School, where flags were lowered to half-mast and grief counsellors were on hand. – “Students and staff are in shock, naturally, they’re devastated. Adam was a very loved member of the Beamsville community,” said Kim Yielding, spokeswoman for the\u00a0District School Board of Niagara.”\u00a0 *\u00a0 I’m not sure whether a ‘co-op placement’ is when they let students work during school hours and get some kind of credit of it, or not. I was told that many school systems in Canada have a requirement for graduation that includes working so many hours in some kind of community service volunteer position. —djo— }<\/p>\n Moderate alcohol use increases breast cancer risk, UVic study says<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { “UVic” = University of Victoria —djo— }<\/p>\n Mysterious Developments website publishes rare gems from old rolls of undeveloped film<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { Link >>—-> \u00a0http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\/mysterious-developments-website-publishes-rare-gems-from-old-rolls-of-undeveloped-film-1.2779549<\/a>\u00a0 }<\/p>\n TTC ‘Leprechaun’ spurs outrage, legal questions<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { An unknown man wearing a green shirt and a bowler hat, nicknamed ‘Leprechaun’, refused to move his stuff, on the seat next to him on a bus, when a woman passenger asked him to move it so she could sit down. He was captured on somebody else’s smart phone while he sat there, engrossed in what he was doing on his smart phone –\u00a0 and pushed the woman away when she tried to sit down anyway. * I think that’s what happened, I didn’t watch the video —djo— }<\/p>\n Chelsea Clinton gives birth to baby girl<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { \ud83d\ude42 }<\/p>\n -24 photo slide show- The week in pictures Sept. 20-26<\/span> \u00a0 { Weekends don’t count? The first photo in the group is a couple white tiger cubs, one looks like he might want to eat the camera-\u00a0 —djo— }<\/p>\n <\/p>\n =====<\/p>\n Other:<\/span><\/p>\n Humans hard-wired to ignore climate change: George Marshall<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { George Marshall is described as an author and activist. The article says that ‘top military officers have called climate change “A huge threat to national security”, but activists think that environmental issues have slipped off the political agendas around the world.’ *1. You can’t believe a word any ‘top military officer’says, they’re trained to “tell them anything you have to, just get them to follow orders” 2. Those same ‘top military officers’ are probably the biggest threat to national security on the planet- magnitudes more dangerous than anybody else, with the exception of the ‘Banksters’ who control them.\u00a0 —djo— \u00a0 }<\/p>\n Microplastic pollution discovered in St. Lawrence River<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { “Microbeads” – “They’re normally found in face\u00a0wash, shower gel\u00a0and toothpaste. But\u00a0plastic\u00a0microbeads are now showing up in lakes and rivers. – A team of researchers from McGill University and the Quebec government have discovered these microbeads \u2014 often marketed by the cosmetic industry as a way to feel extra clean\u00a0\u2014 at the bottom of the St. Lawrence River. – “The more we looked, the more we found. That was definitely really worrisome,” said\u00a0Suncica Avlijas, a graduate student at McGill University. – Microplastics\u00a0are a global contaminant in the world\u2019s oceans, but this is the first time they been detected in fresh water. – Researchers\u00a0collected sediment from ten locations along a 320-kilometre\u00a0section of the river from Lake St. Francis to Quebec City. – Microbeads\u00a0were sieved from the sediment, and then sorted and counted under a microscope. – At some locations, the researchers measured over 1,000\u00a0microbeads\u00a0per litre of sediment, a magnitude that rivals the world\u2019s most contaminated ocean sediments. -Biologist Anthony Ricciardi says if microbeads appear in large numbers, they can enter the food chain. – “I was surprised because they’re buoyant, they’re small, they’ve only been reported as floating,” said Anthony\u00a0Ricciardi, a\u00a0McGill\u00a0University associate professor and biologist. – Ricciardi is worried the small plastic beads will end up in the food chain.\u00a0Scientists say toxins like PCBs can latch onto microbeads\u00a0which then get eaten by fish. – McGill researchers are dissecting some fish that feed on the riverbed, looking for microplastics inside. – “If they build up in large enough numbers, as they appear to be, they can more easily enter the food chain,” Ricciardi said.<\/p>\n – “-Illinois recently became the first U.S. state to ban the sale of cosmetics containing\u00a0microbeads. – Quebec’s Green Party wants the\u00a0province to follow suit. – “What we hope is that if a couple of states or\u00a0jurisdisctions\u00a0in North America ban the sale of\u00a0microbeads then the manufacturers will extend that ban to all their products simply to have uniform distribution,” said Alex Tyrrell, leader of the Green Party of Quebec. – Cosmetics companies such as L’Or\u00e9al and Johnson & Johnson are pledging to phase out microbeads from their products within the next three years. – “Our ability to detect things in our environment has just increased exponentially in the last number of years. This kind of science has now come to light and the appropriate steps are going to be taken to make sure they’re eliminated,”\u00a0said Darren\u00a0Praznik, president and CEO of the\u00a0Canadian\u00a0Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association.”\u00a0\u00a0 —djo— }<\/p>\n A mail carrier couldn’t deliver a parcel because a female black bear was sauntering around the house where the parcel was supposed to be delivered. The note the carrier left was photographed and uploaded and went viral on social media.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n Meet the Canada Post worker who wrote the ‘Bear at Door’ non-delivery slip<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { See photo to the left\u00a0 —djo— }<\/p>\n 5 steps to safeguard against the ‘Bash bug’<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { “Bash can typically only be found on Unix-based devices, such as those running the Mac OS X and Linux operating systems and the servers behind the world\u2019s websites. – Even then, most Macs aren\u2019t vulnerable, Apple said in a statement Friday, because it ships OS X in a configuration that doesn\u2019t allow \u201cremote exploits of Bash.\u201d Some Mac users who have turned on advanced Unix services could be affected, and Apple said it is \u201cworking to quickly provide a software update\u201d for those customers.”\u00a0 *** Link to article with 5 things you can do to protect yourself: >>—-> http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/bash-bug-aka-shellshock-has-no-easy-fix-1.2779383<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 —djo— }<\/p>\n Former U.S. Fed examiner made secret recordings of Goldman Sachs meeting\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 “The Federal Reserve Bank of\u00a0New York says\u00a0it \u201ccategorically rejects\u201d allegations made by a former examiner that the Fed has become deferential to America\u2019s biggest banks and fails to effectively regulate them. – The New York Fed was responding to a story on news site\u00a0ProPublica <\/a>and radio show This American Life <\/a><\/em>that alleges a culture of deference to banks such as Goldman Sachs. – Former Fed bank examiner Carmen Segarra says she found a culture of compliance with the banks when she was posted at Goldman Sachs in 2012. – The report critical of the Fed is driven by secret recordings made by New York Fed bank examiner Carmen Segarra, who was fired after just seven months on the job. – She had been stationed inside Goldman Sachs in 2012, as is the practice for all Fed examiners. She alleges\u00a0she attempted to make constructive criticism of the bank, only to be contradicted and eventually fired by Fed managers. * The Federal Reserve Bank is not a department of the United States Government. It is a private group of ‘Bansksters’ who have blackmailed their way to power and now pretty much control US currency and US Politicians. *** The US Revolutionary War was fought as much against bansksters as anything else. “No Taxation without representation” was only part of the problem. The straw that broke the camel’s back happened when the Bank of England insisted that the Colonists pay their taxes in Bank of England Notes. These Bank Notes were almost impossible to get in the colonies and when available cost way more than their face value. Thomas Jefferson, who physically wrote the Declaration of Independence and later became the 3rd President, after George Washington and John Adams, has been quoted as saying “Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.” The U.S.A. successfully fought off attempts by unethical ice-holes to copy the Bank of England’s tactics and install what eventual became the Federal Reserve, for two hundred years. This gives Banksters, not governments, the power to create money. ‘Credit’ evolved from a scheme that would get con artists life sentences in prison, but the banksters got away with it because they got politicians to write what should be illegal legislation to give them their authority. The huge bailout after 2008 is only the latest fiasco in a long line of illegal, immoral and unethical maneuvers on the part of and in the name of these ‘banksters’. Their first con job is: They have on deposit “X” amount of gold or similar assets, they can then ‘lend’ 20 times that amount, in effect, creating credit out of thin air. The banks get away with this. You would be in jail or evicted from your property if you tried this. AND – we keep hearing that a lot of eviction notices have been served to people whose payments on their homes were perfectly up to date. The system doesn’t care. The banksters don’t care. They want to control you and they believe that if you’re in debt to them, they control you. Grrrrr! Lock ’em all up. —djo—<\/span><\/em> }<\/p>\n Egypt postpones verdict in case against ex-president Mubarak<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { But what’s happening with the phoney charges against the Canadian-Egyptian journalist? }<\/p>\n Gay teen says he was forced to wear ‘GAYTARD’ nsme-tag at work\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 { “A teenaged\u00a0fast-food worker\u00a0from Yankton, South Dakota\u00a0has become the unwitting\u00a0poster-child\u00a0for workplace discrimination this week after teaming up with the ACLU to take on an employer who allegedly forced him to wear a name-tag with the word “GAYTARD” on it. -Tyler Brandt, 16, told South Dakota’s KELO<\/a> that he had taken a part-time\u00a0job at the\u00a0Taco John’s chain restaurant in Yankton this summer to make some extra money. -Unfortunately, upon starting the job, Brandt found his manager to be consistently agitated and “verbally abusive.” – I’ve been very vulnerable and I’ve been allowing him to say things to me that shouldn’t be said, and after a while I was just worried about being terminated from my position at Taco John’s,” Brandt said, noting that he continued to work despite what he felt was ongoing verbal harassment. – Near the end of June, Brandt says he was pulled into the manager’s office and given a name-tag that read “GAYTARD” and asked to wear it. – The gay teen put the badge on for fear of losing his job, despite feeling humiliated in front of customers. -“I would always stay behind the till so they couldn’t see the name tag, I didn’t want them to see it, but even though they couldn’t see it, he would still call me by the name across the store and customers would notice,” he said. – Brandt\u00a0quit his job one day after being given the name-tag\u00a0and sought legal help, which eventually came in the form of representation by the American Civil Liberties Union. – “No one should have to face slurs in their workplace \u2013 no boss should be allowed to label their employee with insults,” wrote the ACLU on its website. “This is why the ACLU is representing Tyler with his charge of discrimination against Taco John\u2019s – but it’s time they also apologize to Tyler and publicly speak out against discrimination and bullying in the workplace.”\u00a0 – The ACLU has assisted Brandt in filing a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, as well as\u00a0a discrimination charge with the South Dakota Department of Labor. -The complaints allege the restaurant violated the\u00a0American Civil Rights Act of 1964<\/a>, a law that\u00a0prohibits employers from discriminating against workers\u00a0based on race, religion, sex or\u00a0national origin.”\u00a0 —djo— }<\/p>\n \u00a0B.C. First Nation granted leave to appeal Northern Gateway pipeling approval\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n -Politics- Canada ‘joins the big leagues’ with EU trade deal, Harper says<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 { And Stephen Harper goes down in history as one of the biggest economic criminals of all times with this one act. But that’s not all he’s guilty of. —djo— }<\/p>\n <\/p>\n =====<\/p>\n “Local \/ New Brunswick”<\/span><\/p>\n Serious assault in Saint John has police investigating\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0 {\u00a0 }<\/p>\n
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\nYou start looking at flights and find an fabulous deal.\u00a0You can taste the\u00a0margaritas. You can feel the sand between your toes. And then reality smacks you in the\u00a0face: you’re out of vacation days. The dream is over and all you can do is battle through the next few months until the cycle begins again.-But what if you could take a holiday whenever you needed it? – If this idea sounds appealing to you, consider lobbying your employer with this idea: -Virgin\u00a0Group founder and chairman, Richard Branson<\/a>, announced via his\u00a0website Tuesday<\/a>,\u00a0that he\u2019s giving his whole personal staff unlimited vacation days. -The\u00a0Financial\u00a0Times<\/i>\u00a0reported that the rules apply to about\u00a0170 staff at the Virgin head offices<\/a>\u00a0in the U.K. and U.S. -However, the 50,000 employees of the larger Virgin Group won\u2019t be subject to the same policy, at least not right away. (Branson did assert in his note<\/a> that if this initiative is\u00a0successful, he\u2019ll encourage Virgin\u2019s subsidiaries to adopt the policy.)”\u00a0 * Is he taking applications? —djo— }<\/p>\n![\"Dogs](\"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/aarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/holy-muttrimony.jpg\")
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