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THE REAL CHRISTMAS IMAGE THE COMMERCIAL CHRISTMAS SCENE 

Sorry for the Quality but newspaper clippings are hard to copy unless you have Photo Shop that I do not have. You will have to click on this one twice to enlarge it enough to read.

Pictures of our Fall colours.

Anonymity One of the differences between using bitcoin and using regular money online is that bitcoin can be used without having to link any sort of real-world identity to it. Unless someone chooses to link their name to a bitcoin address, it is hard to tell who owns the address. Bitcoin does not keep track of users; it keeps track of addresses where the money is. Each address has two important pieces of cryptographic information, or keys: a public one and a private one. The public key, which is what the "bitcoin address" is created from, is similar to an email address; anyone can look it up and send bitcoins to it. The private address, or private key, is similar to an email password; only with it can the owner send bitcoins from it. Because of this, it is very important that this private key is kept secret. To send bitcoins from an address, you prove to the network that you own the private key that corresponds to the address, without revealing the private key. This ...

Independence Day, also referred to as the Fourth of July or July Fourth, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence 241 years ago on July 4 th. - 1776.  .            May You All BE Happy And Healthy 

Did you know  Canada was only 3.5 million strong in "1867" now we are 35 million, still the whole Canadian population equals the State of California.

Still dangerous work but a whole lot safer.

Back in the 1900's everything by hand. Notice no hard hats but it does look as  if the linemen are buckled into some sort of safety belt.  Contrary to  the modern era. On ground assembly and the use of helicopters to maneuver the towers in place. 

The way that Hydro Electrical Crews used to do it and how they do it now. The early  picture somewhere in the early 1900's. The big difference look how many people  were installing 11 if you count the Supervisor. Now picture 2 employees and a machine.

I can recount the many failures but hardly recall any benefits. Here is one and a really bad outcome 800,000 people hacked to death and the U.N. would not give Dalllaire the troops he needed.

The cost of being uninsured would rise for many Americans  under GOP's health plan For example, a 50-year-old earning $47,520 annually would  pay just $465 for being uninsured for six months under  Obamacare. But that same person but would be on the hook for up to  $1,991 in penalties under the Republicans' plan if they  were uninsured for the same time period and then signed up  for coverage, the analysis finds. If that person ended up earning $118,800 the following year  in income, and also had a six-month gap in coverage, their  Obamacare penalty would be $2,414. But their fine under the  GOP plan if they signed up for insurance could be as low as  $1,006. And because the Republican plan's penalty "is not tied to  income," as Obamacare's penalty is, "low-income individuals  will pay significantly more under" the GOP proposal than  higher income earners. While the 30 percent pen...

Trump at heart is a creative, aggressive salesman who sees little value in restraining the message he delivers. Sometimes he plays the role of carnival barker, sometimes attack dog. Either way, he'd rather be forceful than accurate. Yet one of his pet boasts is also a true assessment of his unlikely political rise: Donald Trump will be a president like you've never seen before. That is not an invitation to panic. It is a reminder to keep perspective after Ian. 20, when he takes office as the nation's -chief. Trump arrival to the White House with no  previous experience in government, military or national security affairs. He ran on the Republican ticket but values his own business judgment above party particulars. He is bombastic, intemperate, vain, mercurial and hyperbolic. He is also savvy, confident and instinctual. For millions of Americans, he embodies liberation from a suffocating era of insider governance. To these optimistic voters, his presidency brims with p...

North Bay   Jan.15/2017 The city has started clearing banks nearly a month earlier than usual due to the whack of snow that's already fallen so far this winter. Nick Schiavone, the city's director of public works, said Friday that snow removal on some streets has already taken place during the day, including Fisher and Sixth and Fourth avenues. And, he said, night crews will be doing a full blitz of the downtown starting Sunday, hitting areas including Oak, Main and McIntyre streets, along with Cassells and John streets. “We're definitely starting early,” said Schiavone, noting full street removal doesn't typically get underway until early February. He said the public works department started to receive calls from residents about snowbanks. But Schiavone said calls in recent days have been more about road conditions. He said rain, snow and a change in temperature this week have created icy and snow-packed conditions. But Schiavone said the city is hoping to...

The Palestinian people (Arabic) comprising the modern descendants of the peoples who have lived in Palestine over the centuries, including Jews and Samaritans, and who today are largely culturally and linguistically Arab. Despite various wars and exoduses (such as that in 1948), roughly one half of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in historic Palestine, the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Israel. In this combined area, as of 2005, Palestinians constituted 49% of all inhabitants, encompassing the entire population of the Gaza Strip (1.865 million), the majority of the population of the West Bank (approximately 2,785,000 versus close to 500,000 Jewish Israeli citizens which includes about 200,000 in East Jerusalem), and 20.8% of the population of Israel proper as Arab citizens of Israel. Many are Palestinian refugees or internally displaced Palestinians, including more than a million in the Gaza Strip, three-quarters of a million in the ...