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Paul Graham has won the 2009 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for a shimmer of possibility (steidlMACK), his 12-part book inspired by Chekhov's short stories. Presented annually by The Photographers' Gallery and sponsored by Deutsche Börse group, the prize recognizes a living photographer who has made the most significant contribution (through an exhibition or publication) to photography in Europe over the past year. Dazed & Confused co-founder Jefferson Hack presented Graham with the £30,000 (approximately $43,000) prize at a ceremony yesterday evening in London. The artists that joined Graham on the shortlist—Emily Jacir, Tod Papageorge, and Taryn Simon—each received awards of £3,000.
Graham, 52, is a British-born master at capturing quotidian America. He has described his earliest photographic forays as an adapted "amalgam of [William] Eggleston and Robert Adams…together with the classic British obsession with Social Critique" and is currently the subject of a solo exhibition on view through May 18 at the Museum of Modern Art. "a shimmer of possibility sees Paul Graham pushing the photographic medium in many ways—through his acute observation of 'bare' life and diagnosis of the mood of contemporary America through its smallest details," said Photographers' Gallery director Brett Rogers, who chaired the jury. "Few photographic projects ever reach this level of subtlety, sensitivity, and complexity."
For Graham, the goal was "to do something looser and freer, to take pictures of people at the most ordinary, everyday moments—cutting the grass or waiting for the bus, smoking cigarettes or traveling to and from the supermarket," he explained in an interview with Richard Woodward. "I wanted to reflect Chekhov's openness, his simple transparency…I'm not, of course, literally illustrating Chekhov's stories, but simply isolating a small rivulet of time. So, each of the individual books is a photographic short story, a filmic haiku. They are quite short, but complete in their own modest way."
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The Belfry Hotel which is situated in the city centre and adjacent to City Square, Waterford's premier shopping centre and the new Barronstrand pedestrian area.
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ST. LOUIS, Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Gregory H. Boyce will present at the Barclays 2012 CEO Energy/Power Conference on Thursday, Sept. 6. The presentation is expected to begin at approximately 1:45 p.m. EDT.
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BALLERUP, Denmark, Dec. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LiqTech International, Inc. (NYSE: LIQT) ("LiqTech") is pleased to announce that LiqTech has been invited to participate in the Institute for Sustainable Process Technology (ISPT) water cluster with the intent to develop a commercial solution to treat oil emulsion challenges found in the upstream Oil & Gas industry. LiqTech was the only membrane supplier selected. The current members of this dedicated cluster are: Gaz de France, Shell, EBN, Frames, Vito, ISPT and LiqTech.
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Seattle lawyer for sex offenders defends suing to block release of offender informationon December 17, 2013 @ 2:18 pm (Updated: 4:13 pm - 12/17/13 )
The ACLU and several sex offenders say no and have sued to stop them.
At issue is the release of personal information about "level one" offenders. They are deemed the least likely to re-offend and have been determined to be of little or no risk to the community.
Currently, state law allows just limited release of their information, based on geography. In contrast, those offenders considered more likely to re-offend or pose a danger are classified as "level two" or "level three," and their information is widely available on websites run by state law enforcement agencies.
"The fact of the matter is most of these people are not anything like that. Their behavior hasn't been predatory, they were juveniles when they committed their offenses or young, they've been through treatment programs," said Seattle lawyer Brad Meryhew in an interview with KIRO Radio's Tom and Curley Show. Meryhew specializes in the defense of sex offenders.
Meryhew agrees the public should have access to information about potentially dangerous offenders, but argues research has shown low-level offenders who undergo treatment are the least likely of any felons to re-offend. And he argues the woman seeking the release of the statewide database, former Mesa, Washington mayor Donna Zink, is seeking to do nothing more than shame people who've paid their dues.
"She doesn't have any interest or need to know who the "level one" juvenile sex offenders are in Port Angeles when she lives in Eastern Washington, but that's the information she wants to put out on the Internet," he says. "What we're trying to prevent is somebody getting a wholesale disclosure of all of this information, creating their own website and then using it to humiliate and embarrass people in the community."
Currently, anyone can request a list of "level one" sex offenders in their area from the state. Meryhew says if a court agreed to release that information more broadly, it would undermine the entire purpose of the sex offender registry law, which is to protect the public rather than punish those who've already served their punishment.
"The courts have said there needs to be some geographical limitation on the release of information," he says.
Meryhew argues many of his clients are teens or young adults whose lives would be ruined if word of their offenses got out.
"If you put this information out, those kids are going to get forced out of school, their victims are often their siblings or relatives and outed in the process, their family is suddenly faced with all sorts of financial crises because their kid can't got to school anymore. It's devastating to these families."
Last week, a King County Superior Court judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking the release of the database until the case can be fully heard, the Seattle PI.com reports.
An Assistant Attorney General representing the State Patrol, which maintains the database, argued unsuccessfully the complaints are mostly irrelevant because the information is already out there and has been released to a number of organizations and media outlets.
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'X' Trailer Will Seduce You Before Breaking a Bottle Over Your HeadMovie News By Scott Beggs on January 18, 2011 | (4) Comments
The first images of the X trailer are scintillating. They're seductive. Co-writer/Director Jon Hewitt follows up his serial killing blackmail thriller Acolytes with a new flick about the dangerous, tawdry world of prostitution and call girls.
It looks absolutely gripping, and the promise of violence will undoubtedly be kept with Hewitt at the helm, but watch out for this trailer.
As soon as it slips off its little black dress, it pulls a gun on you.
Australia is crushing it lately.
The film features Hanna Mangan Lawrence (who was also in Acolytes) alongside Viva Bianca, and has been picked up by IFC so people in the US can see it.
The synopsis as printed over at Twitch (where the trailer also comes from):
Holly Rowe's retiring, kissing her callgirl life goodbye. She just has to get through her last night on the job. Shay Ryan's a teenage runaway, broke and alone. She just has to get through her first night as a hooker. Then fate throws them together on a job that goes horribly wrong and they're suddenly racing on an out-of-control roller coaster ride, through Sydney's criminal underworld. X is a sizzling thriller about love, chance, escape and the oldest profession experienced by two women on a night that will change their lives forever.
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Attorneys must meet a number of requirements (including ethics requirements) to be able to practice law in California. But what happens when public agency attorneys are pressured to justify unlawful actions?
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Recent media coverage of public officials' ethical lapses raises questions about the underlying causes of such behavior. This column explores why people make poor choices and the roles that rationalizing and denial play in the decision-making process.
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This column presents options for securing compliance with local lobbying laws and questions to ask about what kind of laws make sense for a particular community.
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Public agency transparency comprises two dimensions: information and process. This article includes a handy checklist of items local agencies may want to consider including on their website.
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Understanding Changes to the Gift Rules
A variety of changes to the gift regulations took effect Jan. 1, 2012. The goal was to simplify the gift regulations and make them easier to understand, while reinforcing the principle that public officials may not use their positions for personal gain.
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The "Front Page" Test: An Easy Ethics Standard
As an elected official and public servant, your actions and words are often subject to intense public scrutiny. Thinking about how the average constituent on the street will perceive your actions is a useful exercise. Will that constituent think you are doing the right thing as a public official?
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Digital window turns every car into a BMW i3 or i8
BMW is turning every car on the road into a BMW. Well, not literally, but this is pretty cool nonetheless. We know that BMWs all-electric i3 will be available in late 2013 and its plug-in hybrid i8 is coming some time in 2014. So, in anticipation of these futuristic concepts-turned-production models, BMW has put together a clever little trick.
A virtual window was constructed in Manhattan at 42nd Street and 6th Avenue that reflects your car back as one of the BMWi hybrid models. In other words, as you drive by, cameras and motion-detection technology will sense your car and "turn" it into a BMWi. Sadly, it's only an illusion to show us how the world would look if we all drove BMWs - tough to resist that, though.
The 'BMWi window' works in real time and provides data on carbon dioxide reductions. It also calculates how much money all of us would save if we drove electric cars. (BMWi's, specifically.) If you aren't in NYC to view the campaign in person, check out the video below. This is probably the only way that BMWs will ever outnumber cabs in New York City, and it's a beautiful, beautiful dream.


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[=Dogfaces=], or dognoses, are PettingZooPeople dogs that populate the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse, ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse, WesternAnimation/DuckTales, WesternAnimation/GoofTroop, AGoofyMovie, and ''An Extremely Goofy Movie'' and some of the ClassicDisneyShorts. One even shows up in the WesternAnimation/QuackPack episode, "All Hands On Duck." {{Goofy}} and his son, Max are supposed to be [=dogfaces=] too. Similar character designs have been used by other cartoon studios as well, though Disney is largely the TropeCodifier.
'''Physical Characteristics Common to [=Dogfaces=][=/=]Dognoses:'''
* They often have [[FurIsSkin human-skintone colored fur or skin]].
** WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} and Max have black fur all over their bodies. Goofy has a flesh colored muzzle and Max has a flesh colored face.
** In MickeyDonaldGoofyTheThreeMusketeers, the Beagle Boys have grey fur all over.
* They usually have muzzles like dogs.
* They almost always have [[HumanlikeFootAnatomy feet shaped at least somewhat like human feet]].
* They [[InexplicablyTailless do not have tails]].
* They often have [[FurryFemaleMane human-like head hair]], and sometimes have human-like facial hair and body hair.
* They usually have black or brown (typically button) noses.
** But Goofy Jr., Max's prototype, has a pink nose.
* They usually have ears that flop ("rose ears" like those of a greyhound or bulldog) or those that droop ("pendant ears" like those of a bloodhound)
** But [[GoofTroop Pistol]] has erect ears like a Chihuahua, [[AGoofyMovie Roxanne]] has ears that [[FurryEarDissonance look like human ears]], and Goofy Jr. and [[GoofTroop Peg]] are drawn ''[[ArtMajorBiology without any pinnae (ear flaps)]]'' whatsoever.
** Sometimes they will have completely humanlike ears.
* They usually range in portrayal from {{Funny Animal}}s to PettingZooPeople and anywhere in between.
** Though [[WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie Roxanne]] and, believe it or not, The ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'' version of [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti [=Bigfoot=]]] are Borderline LittleBitBeastly.
Even though they are most prominent in the Creator/{{Disney}} universe, [=dogfaces=]/dognoses are not exclusive to Creator/{{Disney}}.
!!Tropes that apply to Creator/{{Disney}} Dogfaces:
* [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti [=Bigfoot=]]]: There is a [=dogface=] version of him in ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie''.
* CarlBarks
* CartoonCreature
* DependingOnTheArtist: Sometimes, dognoses are drawn with human-like ears.
* DonRosa
* ExecutiveMeddling: CarlBarks loved drawing humans, and wanted to include them in his DonaldDuck stories, but the higher ups demanded Dogfaces to be used all the time. He snuck some humans here and there, before completely sending his bosses' wishes to screw themselves with his classic story ''Dangerous Disguise'', in which Donald and his nephews are the sole ducks in a world otherwise exclusively populated by humans. He got the warning of his life for that one, and was forbidden from using humans ever again. His chief editor declared that it simply looked bad, and that it "took the ducks out of their own world".
** Subverted in the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck ''cartoons''. If you pay attention, dogfaces populate Donald's world only early on; unlike many of the MickeyMouse toons before, Don's universe was much more likely to shelter actual humans; in fact, WesternAnimation/QuackPack settled on using them instead of dogfaces because there was already a rich history of duck-human interactions on these WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts.
* FantasticRacism: A mild example. The two richest individuals in Duckburg are duck people, while most of the middle and lower classes and seemingly the entire criminal element (the Beagle Boys) is made up entirely of [=Dogfaces=]. Think about it.
* FullyDressedCartoonAnimal
* FurIsSkin: Many of them have this.
* FurryBaldness: Some older male [=Dogfaces=] have this.
* FurryDenial: They act completely human, they are almost never aknowledged to be dogs, and they refer to themselves as "people," "person," "man," "men," and any other human-related term. They don't refer to themselves by any dog-related term at all. They don't even act anything like dogs. Both [[MickeyMouse Mickey]], Minnie, and Mortimer are still referred to as mice, and [[WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck Donald]], Daisy, the Nephews, Scrooge, Von Drake, and the rest of the Duck family are still referred to as ducks, however.
** In the MickeyMouse, Donald Duck, [=Goofy=], and other WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts related worlds, "dogs," save for Penelope Poodle from ''MinniesBowToons'', [[FurryConfusion are ''always'' nonanthropomorphized]], which in turn, actually include Pluto, and as a result, many people are still determining what animal [=Goofy=] actually is.
*** On ''GoofTroop'', Pete (who is of course a cat, although in ''Goof Troop'' this was made ambiguous) had a pet dog called Chainsaw, who acted like a real dog. There was even an episode where Max, frustrated by Chainsaw's misbehavior, muttered, "I hate dogs" (!).
* FurryFemaleMane: Most of the female dogfaces, though a lot of male dogfaces have human-like head hair too.
* FurryReminder: One dogface in ''AnExtremelyGoofyMovie'' catches a Frisbee in his mouth like a normal dog would.
* HumanlikeFootAnatomy: They have feet like that of humans.
* HumanoidFemaleAnimal: The female [=Dogfaces=] in ''GoofTroop'', ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'', and ''An Extremely Goofy Movie'' look a little more humanlike than the male ones in general, to the point where their noses, muzzles, and ears can often be their only non-human feature.
* OlderThanYouThink
* SpeciesSurname: Completely averted, but for some reason played straight with [[QuirkyMinibossSquad the Beagle Boys]] and Penny Pooch from ''Minnie 'N Me'' line of merchandise.
* UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt: [[strike: CarlBarks]] DonRosa apologized for depicting him as a dognose for the sake of consistency in the biography of Scrooge [=McDuck=].
!!Disney Examples:
* Disney/TreasurePlanet: The character, Dr. Doppler is actually one of these, though he atypically evidences some canine behavior traits.
* WesternAnimation/{{Pete}} and P.J. are portrayed as [=Dogfaces=] in ''GoofTroop'', ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'', and ''An Extremely Goofy Movie'', but they are really cats, even in those appearances.
** [=Pete=] and his (unnamed) son in their [[TheCameo Cameo]] in "Father's Week End" are actual [=Dogfaces=], however.
* Most secondary, tertiary and background characters in the ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse.
* Surprisingly averted with Penelope Poodle from ''MinniesBowToons''; she is an anthropomorphic poodle instead of a dogface.
!!Tropes that apply to Non-Disney Dogfaces:
* CaptainErsatz: The bank robbers in [[http://disneyweirdness.blogspot.com/2010/10/excellent-idea.html this John Stanley Woody Woodpecker strip]] look awfully like the [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Beagle Boys]].
* FullyDressedCartoonAnimal
* FurIsSkin: Like the Disney ones, most of them have this.
* OlderThanYouThink
* SpeciesSurname: Mostly averted as with the Disney examples, but somehow played straight with the titular character of the MGMOneshotCartoon, "Officer Pooch."
!! Non-Disney Examples:
* J. P. Cubish from one WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon and ''Daffy Duck's Quackbusters''
* WesternAnimation/BettyBoop started out as one of these before [[ArtEvolution her dog nose was removed and her floppy ears replaced with hoop earrings.]]
* The very first episode of the Fleischer ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} cartoon featured dogfaces as background characters, though this is an example of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, most other Popeye shorts feature strictly humans.
* '''Mazing Man'': Maze's best friend/HeterosexualLifePartner Denton Fixx is fully human, but has a dog face (though it makes him look like a dogface). (The [[FloatingHeadSyndrome Floating Head]] in the upper left [[http://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net/iss/600w/482/104821/645444.jpg here.)]]
* There are a few WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons, especially in the 1950s, that feature dogfaces.
** They showed up a lot in Warner Bros. oneshots from the 30's as well, many of which, such as "Thugs With Dirty Mugs", were directed by Creator/TexAvery.
* [=Dogfaces=] even show up in Creator/WalterLantz's [[http://stanleystories.blogspot.com/2010/02/killer-not-filler-john-stanleys-woody.html New Funnies comics]] that WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker also shows up in.
* The original ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'' (a.k.a. Shoeshine) and Sweet Polly Purebred look like dognoses, unlike the {{Disney}} [[Film/{{Underdog}} version]] of both characters, who are a beagle and a cocker spaniel respectively.
* The dogs in the movie, ''RockAndRule''.
* A literary example would be the the Fetchers from ''[[KeysToTheKingdom Mister Monday]]''.
* The title character in ''Officer Pooch'', an MGMOneshotCartoon that Bill Hanna and Joseph Barbara directed.
* The Whos from various Creator/DrSeuss works (like in ''HortonHearsAWho'') are similar. They are a type of DemiHuman in animated and live-action ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' though.
* Several characters from ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', such as Binky Barnes.
* Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid was eventually redesigned into one of these to mask that he was originally a racist, politically incorrect caricature of a black person.
* Of the various FunnyAnimal people in ''SphinxAndTheCursedMummy'', the most common are dog-like people. They bear a strong resemblance to the Disney dogfaces, especially in their "snouts." Given their Egyptian origins, they're probably jackal-people.
* One of the planes from ''WesternAnimation/JayJayTheJetPlane'' has a face that looks like that of a dogface.
* Leo Ortolani's peculiar style makes all of his human characters look like not dogs, but monkeys. Ths is especially evident for the protagonist of ''ComicBook/{{Rat-Man}}'', who without his Rat-costume seems perpetually naked and in fact looks like a monkey rather than a human.
* Timburr and its evolutionary family from Franchise/{{Pokemon}} resemble overly muscular dog-faces.
* Most of Gondoland's population in ''MuzzyInGondoland'' with the exception of the green goblinoid Corvax and possibly the King (who looks like anthropomorphic lion, but can be considered a Dogface with mane-like hair).
* Some {{Blackface}} style caracitured black African people in early 20th century comics look rather like short-muzzled, black-furred dogfaces with peach or light skintone colored muzzles.
** Unfortunately that may be where this trope has its roots.
* The female-gendered tow truck in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' episode, "Calling All Cars," has a face that looks like that of a dogface.
* An alternate nickname for [=GI=]s in WorldWarII.
* The titular character of ''ParappaTheRapper'' looks like a dogface with floppy ears.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'' episode, "Teacher's Pet," Crocker turned his mom into something resembling a dogface after hooking her to his Mother machine.
--> Crocker: I hooked Mother up to Mother, but she got a little too much bloodhound.
--> Unnamed Man: That's one freaky bloodhound.
** Unlike most of the examples, she acts like a dog and even [[RunningOnAllFours runs on all fours]].
* Some of the generic civvies in ''SonicUnderground''.
* Music/TheClash's album ''Music/{{Sandinista}}!'' has liner notes formatted like a fictitious newspaper, "The Armegideon Times". All the illustrations in this newspaper feature cartoon dogfaces rather than humans.
* The musicians and people on the album cover of Music/FrankZappa's ''Music/CruisingWithRubenAndTheJets'' all have dog noses and ears. Album cover designer Cal Schenkel did this as a {{Homage}} to Creator/CarlBarks.


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No suspects have been arrested in the deaths of two cousins at an illegal club in north Minneapolis.
A day after two men were gunned down during an open-mic night at an illegal after-hours club in north Minneapolis, police continued to look Saturday for suspects and a family was searching for closure.
Gone on Saturday were the long strands of crime tape and barricades of police squad cars that cordoned off several city blocks the night before. However, blood-spotted snow, a makeshift memorial and even a bullet submerged in the slush remained outside the boarded-up building on the corner of Fremont and 39th Avenues N. where the shooting occurred.
The victims were identified by family members as Erick Felton, 23, and Demetrius Harper, 32. The two men were cousins, relatives said Saturday.
About 3 a.m. Friday, police responded to 3859 Fremont Av. N. on a call of shots being fired. When officers arrived, they found two men lying dead, one inside the building and the other outside.
Later that night, a third man who also had been at the club arrived at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis with noncritical injuries.
City officials said that early Friday, 50 to 100 people packed the venue, which had been operating illegally as an after-hours club for people who wanted to dance and socialize after most bars close.
While there wasn't any sign on the building indicating the venue's name, according to a social media poster, the club is called the Black & Gold Room. According to the poster, its doors had been scheduled to open at 9 p.m. Thursday for open mic night, the poster said.
As rain fell Saturday, those who knew the shooting victims paid tribute with flowers stuck into melting snow and balloons tied to a nearby tree.
Harper had three children and was outgoing and dedicated to his family, cousin Rita Harper said. She wrote "Luv you cuz," in highlighter on a poster she and another family member placed against a tree.
According to Demetrius Harper's Facebook page, he lived in Minneapolis and was originally from St. Louis.
History of citations
Zoning inspectors were at the club in November and issued a violation order for illegal use, city spokesman Matt Laible said in a Friday e-mail. The city has issued three citations since then totaling $1,100, which remain unpaid, he said. One was for illegally selling alcohol.
Police had been called to the building 14 other times since the beginning of February. While most of the calls were minor, one, on Feb. 22, was for a shooting.
Attempts to reach the building's owner, identified by public records as Yia N. Vang, who lives in Elk River, were unsuccessful Saturday.
Staff writer Maya Rao contributed to this report. Nicole Norfleet • 612-673-4495 Twitter: @stribnorfleet


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CHICAGO (AP) — In a short ceremony inside their Chicago apartment, two beaming brides made Illinois history Wednesday as they became the first gay couple to wed under the state's new law legalizing same-sex marriage.
The law approved last week doesn't go into effect until June, but one of the women — Vernita Gray — is terminally ill with cancer, so she and her partner of five years, Patricia Ewert, were granted an expedited marriage license by a federal judge's order.
The two made it official Wednesday in front of more than 20 friends at their high-rise home on the city's North Side. A Cook County judge officiated, and a close friend who deemed himself the "flower girl" tossed red rose petals and the couple kissed several times.
They were pronounced wife and wife.
"So happy, so incredibly happy," Ewert told The Associated Press after the wedding. "We feel so blessed to have this honor bestowed upon us. I love my partner, my wife now, more every single day."
When Illinois legalized gay marriage earlier this month, it was bittersweet for the couple, in their mid-60s. They feared that Gray might not live until the law would allow them to wed. They filed a lawsuit, and a federal judge allowed the two women, in their mid-60s, to get an expedited marriage license.
The mood was cheerful and festive Wednesday; Ewert wore a leopard print shawl that belonged to Gray's mother and Gray donned a dark silky jacket. A friend sang Etta James' "At Last." The couple signed papers at the ceremony which was attended by many of the city's gay rights activists; Gray has long been involved in the movement.
"Vernita goes back in our community. Everyone feels a friendship with her," said Jim Bennett, the "flower girl" and a regional director for Lambda Legal, the group that helped represent the women in court. "That Vernita helped be the pioneer that leads us to this path was the icing on the wedding cake."
Their legal battle could be just the beginning and may fuel efforts to change the effective date of the law, which Gov. Pat Quinn signed last week. Sixteen states, most recently Illinois and Hawaii, have legalized same-sex marriage. In Illinois, there's legislation pending to allow the law to take effect immediately, and it could come up in late January when lawmakers gather in Springfield.
Quinn, who helped Illinois legalize civil unions in 2011, said if lawmakers sent him that bill, he'd sign it.
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Publisher: Xinhua News Agency
Story date: 05/12/2012
Language: English
ISLAMABAD, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) The UN refugee agency said Wednesday that nearly 83,000 Afghan refugees have returned home this year through its assisted voluntary repatriation program, a 24 percent increase from 2011.
In November this year, more than 8,200 refugees returned from Pakistan, compared with some 3,000 a year earlier. However, Pakistan is still hosting some 1.65 million Afghan refugees and another 1 million undocumented Afghans, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said.
Voluntary repatriation remains the UNHCR's preferred solution globally for most refugees. Since 2002, around 5.7 million Afghan refugees have returned to their home country, constituting nearly a quarter of the country's population. Nevertheless, Pakistan and Iran are still generously hosting some 2.7 million Afghan refugees after three decades, a UNHCR statement said.
The Pakistani government is holding informal consultations to formulate the policy beyond Dec. 31, 2012, a date set for the Afghan refugees to return homes.
Pakistan has issued Proof of Registration Cards (PoRs) to Afghan refugees that will expire on Dec. 31 and the government has not yet decided to extend its period. Pakistan said that it will treat all Afghan refugees as illegal immigrants after the expiry of PoRs.
Pakistani Minister for States and Frontier Regions, Engineer Shaukatullah Khan, whose ministry also deals with the refugees affairs, concluded a three-day visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday and has assured the Afghan leaders that Pakistan will not forcibly expel Afghans.
The minister also called on Afghan President Hamid Karzai and expressed his commitment to the voluntary return of Afghan refugees to their homeland, while also hoping that the Pakistani government will soon agree to a mechanism in this respect for voluntary and dignified return. During this meeting, emphasis was made on the voluntary nature of return by the president, the UNHCR said.
The minister also saw first-hand the implementation of the Solutions Strategy for Afghan Returnees (SSAR) in Afghanistan, and the conditions in which refugee returns are taking place.
Together with Dr. Jamaher Anwary, minister for Refugees and Repatriation, he visited two high-return areas where they met returnees from Pakistan. They were also accompanied by representatives of the UNHCR in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including Neill Wright, UNHCR representative in Pakistan.
The delegations met with recently returned refugees from Pakistan and witnessed the many needs still faced by the returnees as winter approaches, despite several already completed projects, including a new school that was under construction at the time.
Voluntary repatriation and sustainable reintegration are at the center of the SSAR that was endorsed at an international conference in Geneva in May 2012. "However, we need development funding and development actors to urgently become more engaged in supporting sustainable reintegration for refugees, through the implementation of this strategy, "said Dr. Anwary.
Publisher: The Sydney Morning Herald
Author: Ben Doherty NEGOMBO, SRI LANKA and Bianca Hall
Story date: 05/12/2012
Language: English
ASYLUM SEEKERS who were forcibly deported from Australia say the federal government ignored their claims of persecution, granting them only one brief interview in detention and knowingly sending them back to danger in Sri Lanka.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says their forcible deportation and subsequent imprisonment raises "troubling concerns" with Australia's asylum processes.
Fairfax Media met members of the latest group of 50 men expelled from Australia 38 Tamils and 12 Sinhalese who were deported on Friday after they were bailed from Negombo court, on Sri Lanka's west coast.
It comes as the Australian government agreed in the High Court on Wednesday to reconsider the refugee claims of 56 Tamil men due to be deported this week. The men had previously been "screened out" of the refugee process, but launched a legal bid to have their claims heard.
In Negombo, a returned Tamil man from Batticaloa, Megaraj Suresh, said he had been harassed and beaten by Sri Lankan "government people" because he campaigned for the opposition Tamil National Alliance. He was previously jailed for his political activism but, he said, Australia did not listen to his claim.
"I had only one interview to determine my case, they had already decided to send us back," he said. "They didn't do proper research, they didn't care about my circumstance, or even look at my documents, they were not honest in their assessment."
A spokesman for the UNHCR in Canberra said the agency was troubled by the way Australia was processing people's claims.
"In principle, UNHCR has no objection to the return of people found clearly not to need international protection," he said. "However, the first step must be a fair and accurate process to assess any protection claims that are raised. The current procedures raise troubling questions as to both fairness and accuracy which we have raised with the Australian government."
An immigration department spokesman would not respond to specific questions about screening, saying: "The department does not discuss specifics of its discussions with clients."
But, he said: "The removal of these people was consistent with Australia's non-refoulement obligations [not to return people to danger].
"Since May 2012 there has been an increasing number of people outlining that their reasons for coming to Australia were based on economic concerns. The process and then removal of people who make economic claims or who otherwise make unfounded claims for protection is consistent with Australia's obligations."
Mr Suresh said he now feared for his life and for his family.
"The criminal investigation department has my details now, the number of my house where I live, my phone number, everything. I have great fear for my life. I don't know what I will do. I needed Australia to help me, but they just sent me back to danger.
"Now I wait for when the white van will come for me."
Unmarked white vans, driving without number plates, are notorious in Sri Lanka for snatching people, usually political opponents of the government, from the street or their homes.
The Australian Tamil Congress spokesman, Bala Vigneswaran, said one of the men marked for return contacted him to say he feared for his life if he returned to post-war Sri Lanka.
Mr Vigneswaran said the man told him: "They talked to me for only five minutes.
"I tried to tell [the official] that I am a refugee and please help me, and she said: 'No, I am not here to hear all those stories, you are going'."
Mr Vigneswaran said: "And he kneeled down and begged and cried and they said, 'please leave now', and he came back [from the screening interview] after only three minutes."
Leading refugee lawyer David Manne said "if Australia were to summarily expel someone without due process who had expressed fears of being persecuted that would amount to a flagrant violation and a flagrant rejection of our obligations under the Refugee Convention".
"The concern here is not that all of these people are refugees they may or may not be the concern is that we don't know because they have been denied basic due process."
The Sri Lankan government refutes all allegations that anyone, particularly the ethnic minority Tamil population, faces any mistreatment.
Publisher: AAP, Australian Associated Press
Story date: 05/12/2012
Language: English
Asylum seekers on Nauru are being stopped from communicating their plight to families or media because their internet access has been restricted, a refugee advocacy group says.
Asylum seekers supervised by the Salvation Army on Nauru are only allowed 30 minutes of internet time every two days, the refugees action collective said.
They are also prohibited from giving friends use of their quota, helping one another with the internet or even using spare computers.
Those in the Nauru detention centre had agreed to forgo their internet quota so Mahdi Vakili, an Iranian refugee, could have four hours a day to disseminate information about conditions in the facility via Facebook.
"Using the internet has often been the only way asylum seekers on Nauru have been able to communicate their horrific conditions and publicise their protests and hunger strikes, as media have been barred from the detention centre," Refugee Action Collective spokesman Chris Been said.
"This measure is sadly in step with the government's policy of pushing asylum seekers out of sight and out of mind through the policy of offshore processing and dumping asylum seekers on Nauru."
The new restrictions will cut Ms Vakili's ability to correspond with media, thus preventing government spin from being challenged, Mr Breen said.
A spokesman for the Salvation Army told AAP the move was not designed to censor or restrict communications, but to make access to the limited number of computers on the island more equitable.
"There's just not enough time throughout the day and there's also not enough bandwidth for us to distribute the internet for as long as each person wants," he said.
The refugee action collective will protest the quota cuts outside the Salvation Army City Temple in central Sydney on Friday.
Comment was being sought from the Immigration Department.
A department of immigration spokesman told AAP the changes had been made so all in the Nauru detention centre had internet access.
"Arrangements have been made to ensure that each person has equal opportunity to book their time on a PC," he said.
Requests for additional time would be considered if interest levels dropped, he added.
Publisher: The Katmandu Post
Author: Chetan Adhikari
Story date: 05/12/2012
Language: English
DAMAK, Dec. 5 A fire engulfed a Bhutanese refugee camp in Beldangi, Jhapa, on Tuesday, destroying more than 80 huts. About 600 refugees have been homeless in the wake of the inferno.
Police said that the fire started at Hut No 21 occupied by Tirtharaj Poudel in Sector C 4 in Beldangi II. According to witnesses, the blaze had been triggered by the explosion of a cooking gas cylinder.
The fire broke out at around 1:30pm. It took two hours for four fire engines, security personnel and the locals to douse the fire. The security personnel and the locals pulled down 35 other huts to stop the fire from catching other huts.
There was no human casualty. However, the fire killed scores of animals and poultry in the camp. "It is too early to ascertain the total loss of property as we are assessing the damage," said camp Secretary DB Subba.
The fire victims were complaining about the damage. Some said cash and documents including those for third country settlement were destroyed.
"The fire burnt Rs 300,000 and killed two goats," lamented Ratna Bahadur Adhikari. The victims are taking shelter at the local Panchawati Secondary School. The children and the elderly are shivering in the cold.
District Administration Office, Jhapa, provided Rs 2,000 to each of the families whose huts were burnt down. The local administration gave Rs 1,500 to each family whose huts were pulled down.
Meanwhile, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the World Food Programme and other donor agencies held a meeting and decided to take initiatives to provide food, shelter and clothes for the needy.
Publisher: The Korea Herald
Author: Shin Hyon-hee
Story date: 05/12/2012
Language: English
A new resettlement center for North Korean defectors opened on Wednesday to accommodate a growing influx of refugees and provide improved assimilation education and support.
Located in Hwacheon, Gangwon Province, the second Hanawon will house up to 500 people in 10 units in a 15,000-square-meter area, increasing the total hosting capacity to 1,100 across the country.
"The new resettlement center was built to prepare ourselves for the steadily increasing defector inflow and carry out advanced education," the Unification Ministry said in a statement.
The ministry is in charge of protection and training at five such institutions including the first Hanawon center, which opened in 1999 in Anseong, Gyeonggi Province, to help asylum seekers adapt to the capitalist South and stand on their own feet. Under a 1997 North Korean refugee law, the central and local governments provide support in housing, education and job training.
The government has poured 34 billion won ($31.4 million) into establishing the new facility since July 2011.
It will offer not only the mandatory three-month training but also reeducation for graduates and upper-level lessons for highly educated North Koreans, the ministry said.
The new center will also facilitate programs for male defectors, while the first Hanawon continues to serve women and children. The ministry had been striving for segregated training in line with U.N. recommendations.
The project reflects a recent surge in North Koreans who cross the border to escape hunger and oppression in their homeland.
A stone monument stands in the new Hanawon complex with an inscription that reads, "This is a new home for North Korean defectors who come to the Republic of Korea to pursue their dreams and freedom." (Yonhap News)
Despite tightening border controls and harsh penalties, the annual tally has been hovering between 2,400 and 3,000 since 2007, ministry data shows. Nearly 70 percent are female and about 74 percent are younger than 50.
More than 2,700 North Koreans took refuge here last year, up about 12.7 percent from a year ago. The collective figure has topped 24,300 since the 1950-53 Korean War.
Officials expect the exodus to persist in the coming years. Seoul estimates that tens of thousands of North Koreans are hiding in China currently aspiring to move into the South and other countries.
The ministry has expanded the Hanawon center twice before, in 2003 and 2008, increasing the capacity from the initial 150 people to 600. It is expected to transfer services from three other smaller branches running in rented spaces on the outskirts of Seoul to cut costs and stabilize operation.
The ministry is also providing 5.7 billion won to build a stadium at Hanawon as early as the end of 2013 to improve trainees' health and promote various programs.
However, the plan for the new Hanawon met with stiff public opposition since the site selection process in early 2009.
A bulk of 24 candidate towns witnessed the rise of the "not-in-my-backyard" movement. Residents in some regions furiously claimed that they would not let their children study in the same class with the offspring of "red commies."
After talks with government officials and touring the first Hanawon, opponents eventually changed their minds and started seeing advantages the facility may bring, ministry officials said.
"There was an atmosphere in which people saw the resettlement center as a place like a refugee camp or prison," a ministry official said on condition of anonymity.
Seoul's overall defector policy has also been subject to debate as critics cast doubt on its effectiveness, saying that many Hanawon graduates are still struggling to adjust here.
The government offers each defector 19 million won for resettlement, in addition to financial aid worth up to 21.4 million won for vocational training and preparation.
Other support programs include health insurance and subsidies for low-income earners.
The ministry's defector-related spending neared 124 billion won this year, taking up about 60 percent of its entire budget. With expenses by provincial governments taken into account, its share of public coffers should be much greater.
Still, defectors here have reported a wide range of social and financial problems. Cultural and educational gaps could take years to overcome. Prejudice among South Koreans is another factor as politics and ideology frame them despite their ethnicity.
"It still remains questionable whether the public fund is well distributed to actually improve the livelihoods of the defectors," said Ahn Chan-il, director of the World North Korea Research Center who defected to the South in 1979, in an earlier interview with The Korea Herald.
"The authorities are trying to increase the number of counseling centers, resting places and other facilities with state organizations trying to yield good achievements from them. It is just window dressing, not welcomed by the defectors."
A 2011 survey of 8,299 defectors by the North Korean Refugees Foundation showed that more than 30 percent earn less than 1 million won a month. Their jobless rate averaged 12.1 percent ¯ more than triple the population's 3.7 percent.
Some opt to head for a third country such as the U.S., Britain or Australia, seeking to access a better social safety net and to break free from social exclusion and cutthroat competition with better-off, highly educated South Koreans in an already saturated job market.
In extreme cases, at least five defectors returned to their impoverished homeland and held news conferences this year, stoking speculation and concerns over their resettlement and adaptability here.
But others emphasize that no matter how much state money is given, defectors should also make substantive efforts to be self-reliant.
"Everyone goes through a period of adjusting to cultural differences, social prejudice and so on," said Kang Chul-ho, a Christian minister who fled the North in 1992.
"But more importantly, you'd better strive to learn and get used to the society you are in. How can the government take care of so many defectors forever?"
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- Resort Altitude (metres): 1585m
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Throughout the session, we have been following Rep. Hansen's pro-discrimination bill. This bill seeks to nullify Missoula's non-discrimination ordinance that expands protections in the state's human rights act to include gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Hansen's bill would also prohibit any other city from passing similar measures.
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While at this point, we cannot say anything definitive about the reason the bill, however, if history teaches us anything, it is that when bills are sent back to committee, it is not a good sign for the ultimate fate of the bill. One can't help but wonder if today's polling on the actions of the GOP scared a few of them out of supporting such a discriminatory measure.
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After the vote on the bill, Rep. Diane Sands made it clear that she and thousands of their friends, family, neighbors and coworkers saw this as a personal attack.
Supporters of the bill have vowed to continue working until this stain of a law is removed from our books.
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Both these decisions today are simply another example of the GOP's extreme social agenda they have been pushing all session long.
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The second, from Rep. Ellie Hill, provides for workers compensation for firefighters who are diagnosed with certain diseases related to their service. As we know, firefighters put their lives on the line to protect their communities. However, some often forget that the danger doesn't end when they extinguish the fire. In the line of their duties, they are subject to extreme conditions and often suffer long-lasting effects from the smoke and heat. This bill would ensure that these heroes are not forgotten when the flames are out. It provides them with workers compensation insurance if they are diagnosed with these diseases.
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|Our national broadcaster has a phone-in program covering our (large) province, using a large number of repeater stations, 5 days weekly for an hour, sometimes more, around noon.
Some time ago the host asked how we reacted when we phoned a company and got one of those reorded messages offering us a number of options (which usually weren't relevant to our concern).
I said that, when I was feeling mischievous (actually, quite a bit of the time), I'd note when the phone was answered and how long that it took me to get to talk to a warm body.
Then I'd say that their company was saving money by having phones answered by a machine instead of a person who could deal directly with my request, the machine offering me a number of options which didn't interest me.
And that they had just wasted, say a minute and 40 seconds of my time, while saving money for their corporation.
So - I proposed to talk nonsense to that perspon for a simimlar amount of time, then get down to business.
Several have said that they are busy and don't have time for such nonsense.
So - it's O.K. for their company to waste my time - but they don't like me wasting theirs?
Too darn bad!, say I.
I say that if their time is too precious for me to waste it, I want to talk to their supervisor.
No one has hung up on me - when the first one does, you can bet I'll be calling back and giving whomever I can contact, as high in the organization as I can reach, a piece of my mind.
(Not too big a piece - don't have all that much to spare!).
The host of the show said, "Oh, I love that - I'm going to try that myself!".
Have a happy weekend, everyone.
ole joyful
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|Joyful, you are too much! I wish I had thought of that.
|We kept getting calls from the manufacturer of our washer and dryer, attempting to sell us extended warranties. One day my DH answered such a call and explained to the caller that he was at that very moment filling out a stolen property report because the units had been stolen from us only "yesterday". I wasn't really paying attention to what he was saying...then it clicked in and I had to stifle my laughter. The caller expressed her sympathy. We never got another solicitation from them.
|Meghane - and all,
It ain't patented, registered, copyrighted or whatever.
So - feel free to use it at your convenience.
Have a great week.
ole joyful
|Perhaps some of you newcomers to this thread may have missed this message when it first appeared several months ago, and since.
I hope that you may find it interesting.
No reason that I can think of why you shouldn't try such an impish trick, should it suit you.
Have a happy spring and summer.
ole joyful
I read it a while back, but enjoyed rereading it as much as the first time. I have forgotten to put your idea to some good use. Thanks for the reminder.
Sue...who feels impish a good bit of the time.
|I have seen lists on the web how to avoid all the prompts.
I recently talked to Yahoo and was advised to ignore all prompts and it would get me to a warm body.
As usual, customer service is a low priority. We pay their bills so why be concerned?
Here is a link that might be useful: Get Human
- Posted by socks12345 (My Page) on Mon, May 29, 06 at 20:05
|Maybe that is a satisfying thing to do, Joyful, but it then eats up even more of your time on the phone. The thing that irks me is when you are asked to punch in your account number and other numbers and info, and then when you get to a human being, you have to repeat it all over again. About that time you realize you are talking to someone in India.
Well, the customer service reps are just people trying to make a buck, trying to survive, like we are. They have to call and hold and push buttons too in their personal lives.
|The thing that irks me is when you are asked to punch in your account number and other numbers and info, and then when you get to a human being, you have to repeat it all over again.
Yes. Isn't that a lousy way to start an interaction with a company? I used to work in the telecommunications field and I know that you don't have to design "press one to ..." systems as poorly as most of them work. I also know that it is entirely possible to deliver your account number/whatever to the person who eventually answers the call, even if they are in India. When that happens to me, I conduct my business and, then, when I get the inevitable "Is there anything else we can do for you today?", I ask to speak with a supervisor to complain about their phone system. I figure if enough of us do that, things may change. It's not a matter of can't; it's a matter of won't.
|I once heard a delightful, true story about someone who got his cash card slurped into a machine at the start of a long weekend. He was shuffled from one phone number to another, eventually ending up waiting for some apparently non-existant service person at the end of a long phone chain.
He was one of the people who design these "press 1" systems. So on the Tuesday after the holiday was over, he designed a call system for himself. Every bank number he had called on the weekend received a automated call that began "This is an automated customer complaint," followed by a detail of his complaint and the instruction to "press 1 to speak to a real customer, press 2 to repeat this complaint." On pressing 1 the bank personel got a recorded message that the customer was not available at that time, but that their call was important and they should press 1 to obtain a number where the customer could be reached or press 2 to record a message of apology, detailing what action the bank intended to take.
|Sock 'em! 12345,
You make a valid point about the person on the other end of the line possibly/quite likely being a person working in a call centre, with a certain quota of contacts to make per hour ...
... so if I waste her/his time ... I'm hurting that person, not the contracting company.
I hadn't thought of that. Thanks for bringing that idea into the discussion.
Next time I'll ask first off if the person is working in a call centre.
As for me wasting my time - if I weren't doing that, I'd probably be here bugging you guys, as this is time-filler time for me.
Don't forget - when you're retired ... every day is holiday.
And the dollars that you invest at age 15, with some added knowledge gained over the years as to how to make them work harder, add a substantial amount to your asset to fund a complex, busy retirement, at, say 60, instead of, maybe ... 65?
Oh Steve,
I agree with you about it not being a case of "can't": I'm not so sure about the "won't".
I think it's a matter of that having been an easy way to set it up and now it just runs that way. That in a number of situations it's somewhat related to their scale of priorities: they have a lot more pressing things to do than revamp the answering mechanism.
If enough of us register our displeasure - it might move that issue up enough higher on their priority scale to cause them to do something about it.
Sort of like when I was a clergyperson, when I went to visit a family sort of on the fringe of our client base (not infrequent, in the case of mainline liberal Protestant churches), they might apologize for not having attended church, participated, etc.
I'd tell them to please not apologize to me: that their system of setting priorities for their personal/family's interest and activities was theirs to decide. That if they felt that being involved with church-related issues was below the red line, that was their choice, and I could live with it.
I might, of course, come along to suggest some activity or interest that was going on, or about to, etc., that might interest them enough to encourage them to participate.
But that how they set their priority system was their family's decision to make.
My additional comment now: if an apology was in order, it should be to God, not me as a clergyperson - I'm merely a messenger.
[[Isn't that dirty pool? Hitting below the belt?]] [[spiritual blackmail? well, not really "blackmail" - how about "bulldozing"?]] Which I find distasteful - won't do it: it doesn't respect the other person's integrity; it isn't democratic, and church people (especially leaders) tend to think that they know-it-all. We refer to is as our "God complex".
It might be well, though, if our priority system is such that we feel the need to *really* apologize for it (apart from window-dressing) ...
... possibly some realignment might be worthy of consideration?
Sort of like budgetting - we really should do it ... but haven't got around to it ... this week ... it's sort of a pain in the butt (even if the long-term gain (might? could well? would almost certainly?) validate the current pain?
Have a great week.
ole joyful
|Several have said that they are busy and don't have time for such nonsense.
So - it's O.K. for their company to waste my time - but they don't like me wasting theirs?
Too darn bad!, say I.
|oooh ... I like that one!
|I do too!
ole joyful
| Maybe some of you recent comers may like it, as well.
ole joyfoul
|If I get someone who is obviously from India, I ask to be transferred to a supervisor in the States. For instance, I had questions about the hockey sports package that DISH offers. I don't think that the person on the other end (from India) had ever even heard of hockey. But the person in the States at least tried to help me. If we all did that, maybe these companies would keep more jobs here instead of sending them overseas.
|Joyful.....I actually heard that broadcast, didn't realize it was you doing the talking! Valid point. Budster
|Hi again Budster,
Son of a gun!
Would you believe it - and that was a long time ago!
The joys of having a national public-service broadcaster!
Oh - but that was not on nation-wide "Cross Country Check-up", late Sunday afternoon, but on the weekday noon program that only went around Ontario. And you live on the west coast (several time zones away).
Were you a resident of that large territory (maybe even bigger than Texas) at that time?
ole joyful
P.S. Many U.S. people in th northern states who can pick up Canadian stations like to listen to CBC radio.
Check their website at www.cbc.ca.
Quite a few of their programs are carried on Sirius 137, also.
o j
|Our state just passed a law that at anytime during a message during business hours of 9-5, you MUST be able to press 0 and get a person at anytime during the message. None of this waiting nonsense and then half the time you don't know the category of the issue you want to discuss and try to figure it out, etc.
Try the 0 tip, I bet you will get an operator on those systems. I wonder?
|Klimkm, what state do you live in? It's good to hear that at least one state is looking out for their people.
I think that some milk manufacturing co. that we knew of years ago must have operated in some sort of a backward province/state ...
... for they called their powdered milk by the brand name of "K-L-I-M".
Come to think of it - I haven't heard of them in years ... ages!
Have a lovely remainder-of-week and weekend, everyone.
ole joyful
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