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Aug.15.2012
New America Media, News Analysis, Andrew Lam, Posted: Aug 15, 2012
The modern world has long thought of refugees in strictly political terms, victims in a world riven by competing ideologies. But as climate change continues unabated, there is a growing population of...
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Jul.25.2012
This was our last day in the Civic Center Holiday Inn.
We began to wind up our affairs here, and prepare for our move to the Granada Hotel.
Phone calls to the Red Cross and Elder Services about Son Guy's discoveries at the Granda were not successful. And...
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Jul.25.2012
We spent much of the day making tentative preparations to go into our new temporary headquarters. Leslie from the Elder Services made a visit, bringing us the application forms for the Grenada Hotel. Later, Son Guy made a trip to the hotel, carrying the completed form. Then, he picked up our...
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Jul.20.2012
Good news today amid the bad of the morning.
We made the mistake of staying up to 2 a.m., and were caught up in the "Breaking News" of the terrible Aurora, Colorado, Batman Massacre. We foolishly gave the inept morning anchors "another half hour," and then, "another half hour." ...
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Jul.20.2012
We rose at 10 this morning in the Holiday Inn.
I tried to return to my banana breakfast regimen, settling down to catching up with my Blog, but I soon realized the events of the last several weeks seem to have effected my short-term memory. Afer an hour or so, I decided to bridge...
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Jul.18.2012
We left on Tuesday the Embassy Hotel on Polk Street and traveled through the gathering mist in a little cab loaded with our goods, south on Mission to the outer Excelsior. On reaching the Mission Inn, the meter came to 27 dollars and something. I gave the cabbie our Red Cross debit card...
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Jul.09.2012
We woke about eight in the morning, were at work by nine.
Son Guy was doing our laundry, gathering our goods from the old place.
After writing a cheque for the phone bill, I began to call around: having our phone at the apartment put on hold; suspending our DISH account, trying...
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Jul.05.2012
Well, we missed the breakfast hour at the hotel again!
We were up for business, however, late in the morning.
Son Guy went off to the wreck to bring back a few treasures we had neglected.
In the interim, I spoke to representatives of the Red Cross, the management...
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Jul.01.2012
The day was a little warmer than predicted.
THEN . . .
The superannuated Agents of the Vehme caught up with us at last. In gthe morning, a little before ten o'clock a bell, familiar in the past, but not heard recently, began to ring incessantly. Londera called to tell us our...
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Mar.05.2011
In January of 2010 when Haiti was hit by a tragic earthquake, masses of people supported campaigns from the Red Cross to Oprah by giving money to aid in Haiti’s recovery.
Initially the group ,Médecins Sans Frontièrs (MSF)better known in English speaking countries as Doctors without Borders were...
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