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I'm about to start reading British native Simon Winchester's 2003 bestseller Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded about the massive Indonesian volcano. I've always had a fascination with natural disasters all the way back to writing a junior high school research paper on hurricanes when I was growing up in Miami. Winchester's book on Krakatoa and his 2005 book A Crack in the Edge of the World about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake have had great reviews and I'm looking forward to reading both. Simon Winchester is a noted journalist who is known for his work writing for The Guardian,...
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kshitijnt
04-24 12:35 AM
It is possible to approve I-485 if I-140 is approvable but is not approved. One of my friends got his GC this way.
surabhi
07-23 11:35 AM
Hi,
Apologize for posting in this forum, but this forum has largest number of people viewing. So hoping for response.
I need to get a copy of AILA InfoNet Doc. No. 01040603
really appreciate if some with access to AILA infonet can post this doc
Thanks
Apologize for posting in this forum, but this forum has largest number of people viewing. So hoping for response.
I need to get a copy of AILA InfoNet Doc. No. 01040603
really appreciate if some with access to AILA infonet can post this doc
Thanks
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tnite
09-25 10:41 AM
All TriState (NY/NJ/CT) members please join us on Sep 27th, 9 pm for the " No Obligation "Conference Call.
This discussion is about future social events, mobilization plans and other relevant issues from the tri state area.
When you sign in, please announce your name so that we know who's attending the tele conference.
For more information go to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/immigrationvoiceny/
This discussion is about future social events, mobilization plans and other relevant issues from the tri state area.
When you sign in, please announce your name so that we know who's attending the tele conference.
For more information go to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/immigrationvoiceny/
more...
Macaca
06-10 05:53 AM
Why Washington Can�t Get Much Done (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/weekinreview/10broder.html?_r=1&oref=slogin) By JOHN M. BRODER (http://www.nytimes.com/gst/emailus.html), June 10, 2007
MEMBERS of Congress � with the possible exceptions of Senator Robert C. Byrd and Representative John D. Dingell � come and go. So do presidents and even Supreme Court justices.
But some big issues come to the nation�s capital and never leave, despite the politicians� best efforts to wrap them up and send them packing. Immigration is one.
Efforts to craft a grand compromise on the perennially nettlesome issue of how to deal with the millions who want to settle in this country collapsed in the Senate in spectacular fashion Thursday night, even though President Bush and the Senate leadership desperately wanted a deal. Almost everyone in Washington believes that America�s immigration laws are an unenforceable mess. But confronted with real legislation built on real compromises, the Senate sank beneath murderous political, geographic and ideological crosscurrents. Despite vows of senators to resuscitate the bill, it may be months � or years � before Congress again comes close to passing a major overhaul of immigration law.
But immigration is only one of several major policy matters on which virtually all Americans agree that something has to be done, even as Washington seems mired in dysfunction. What will happen when Congress turns next to energy legislation? Or global warming? Health care? Social Security?
It sometimes seems that it takes a catastrophe to create consensus. The Great Depression, Pearl Harbor and Sept. 11 all shattered partisan divisions and led, at least for a time, to enhanced presidential power and a rush of bipartisan lawmaking (some of which political leaders later came to regret). Today, however, the partisan chasm in Washington is deeper than it has been in 100 years, according to some academic studies, as moderate blocs in both parties have all but vanished.
�Remember,� said Thomas E. Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, �these are really big problems and they�re really tough. Solving them is going to involve some major changes in the way we live, the way we tax ourselves, the way we get our health care and the way we transport ourselves.�
He added: �Many of these questions are caught up in ideological differences that really are quite fundamental. On all of them right now there is no consensus in the country and therefore the political system has to try to create one where none now exists.�
A sign of how hard it is to fashion a compromise on these big questions is the length of time between major legislative actions on them. It took almost a decade from the collapse of the Clinton administration�s health care initiative in 1994 to the passage of the new Medicare prescription-drug benefit. The federal minimum wage went unchanged for 10 years until this spring. The last major overhaul of immigration law passed in 1986. The most recent significant revision to Social Security came in 1983.
Even the relatively new issue of global warming has been batted around since 1988, when Al Gore began talking about its potentially dire effects. Now, despite a foot-high stack of proposed legislation on the subject, virtually nothing has been done.
Mr. Gore said it was extremely difficult to move the political system when it is paralyzed by partisan passion and beset by well-financed and well-organized interests. He refers to the combination of the oil, coal and automobile industries as the �carbon lobby,� which he said is very difficult to defeat.
Washington, he said, has also failed to act on global warming for much the same reason that it has not tackled the possible future insolvency of Social Security or the problem of 45 million Americans who lack health insurance. �There�s just garden-variety denial,� he said. �It�s unpleasant to think about and easy to push it off.�
Washington often serves as a trailing indicator of public sentiment on an issue, following action in state capitals or responding belatedly to a growing public outcry. Congress and the White House did not seriously begin to move on immigration until two years ago, after the Minutemen, a civilian group, started patrolling the borders and Southwestern state governors declared states of emergency to deal with hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants stealing in from Mexico.
Given the failure of the 1986 immigration legislation to stem the illegal flow, the public is wary of any new government effort to control the borders, said Merle Black, a professor of political science at Emory University in Atlanta. And many lawmakers fear that if they support the current legislation they will be blamed if it fails to live up to its promises. After all, the Medicare drug benefit, too, was a much-heralded attempt to lower the costs of medicines for the elderly, but it created mountains of burdensome paperwork and huge unanticipated costs for the government.
�The public has seen a whole series of performance failures, whether it was the war in Iraq or the response to Katrina,� Professor Black said. �It makes different groups of individuals very skeptical about politicians offering solutions. On top of that, Bush�s approval ratings are so low that he can�t exert any leadership even within his own party.�
Government stasis was not unintended. The Founding Fathers designed the American system of government to cool public passions and created numerous impediments to rash action. They might not be surprised that two decades passed between significant action on immigration law or government old-age pensions. But they might have had trouble conceiving the complexity of the issues facing modern Washington, like global warming or the need to find a way to provide even basic medical care to one in seven Americans.
�It was a pretty simple world Madison was dealing with when he wrote the Federalist Papers,� said Morris P. Fiorina, professor of political science at Stanford University. �His focus was on land, labor and commerce. He was clearly aware of the need to defend the borders, but he was more concerned that you had to limit the reach of government and insure that transitory majorities can�t have their way.�
The molasses pace of governance in America is frustrating to many in and outside Washington. But the framers recognized that the dangers of succumbing to fleeting enthusiasms are often far greater than the slow process of fashioning a consensus from the competing interests of a sectional country.
�I agree that it is a bad thing for it to take an extraordinarily long time to deal with problems,� said Mickey Edwards, a former Republican representative from Oklahoma and now a vice president of the Aspen Institute and a lecturer in government at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton. �But I think it is a worse thing to rush into solutions when you�re dealing with a nation of 300 million people.�
He cited Prohibition and the Medicare drug benefit as examples of laws that carried large and unintended consequences.
�I don�t suggest that given enough time you can make everything perfect,� Mr. Edwards said. �But you do need enough time to make sure all views are heard and you can avoid the unforeseen circumstances that plague so many things.�
�You don�t just want them to act,� he said. �You want them to act responsibly.�
MEMBERS of Congress � with the possible exceptions of Senator Robert C. Byrd and Representative John D. Dingell � come and go. So do presidents and even Supreme Court justices.
But some big issues come to the nation�s capital and never leave, despite the politicians� best efforts to wrap them up and send them packing. Immigration is one.
Efforts to craft a grand compromise on the perennially nettlesome issue of how to deal with the millions who want to settle in this country collapsed in the Senate in spectacular fashion Thursday night, even though President Bush and the Senate leadership desperately wanted a deal. Almost everyone in Washington believes that America�s immigration laws are an unenforceable mess. But confronted with real legislation built on real compromises, the Senate sank beneath murderous political, geographic and ideological crosscurrents. Despite vows of senators to resuscitate the bill, it may be months � or years � before Congress again comes close to passing a major overhaul of immigration law.
But immigration is only one of several major policy matters on which virtually all Americans agree that something has to be done, even as Washington seems mired in dysfunction. What will happen when Congress turns next to energy legislation? Or global warming? Health care? Social Security?
It sometimes seems that it takes a catastrophe to create consensus. The Great Depression, Pearl Harbor and Sept. 11 all shattered partisan divisions and led, at least for a time, to enhanced presidential power and a rush of bipartisan lawmaking (some of which political leaders later came to regret). Today, however, the partisan chasm in Washington is deeper than it has been in 100 years, according to some academic studies, as moderate blocs in both parties have all but vanished.
�Remember,� said Thomas E. Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, �these are really big problems and they�re really tough. Solving them is going to involve some major changes in the way we live, the way we tax ourselves, the way we get our health care and the way we transport ourselves.�
He added: �Many of these questions are caught up in ideological differences that really are quite fundamental. On all of them right now there is no consensus in the country and therefore the political system has to try to create one where none now exists.�
A sign of how hard it is to fashion a compromise on these big questions is the length of time between major legislative actions on them. It took almost a decade from the collapse of the Clinton administration�s health care initiative in 1994 to the passage of the new Medicare prescription-drug benefit. The federal minimum wage went unchanged for 10 years until this spring. The last major overhaul of immigration law passed in 1986. The most recent significant revision to Social Security came in 1983.
Even the relatively new issue of global warming has been batted around since 1988, when Al Gore began talking about its potentially dire effects. Now, despite a foot-high stack of proposed legislation on the subject, virtually nothing has been done.
Mr. Gore said it was extremely difficult to move the political system when it is paralyzed by partisan passion and beset by well-financed and well-organized interests. He refers to the combination of the oil, coal and automobile industries as the �carbon lobby,� which he said is very difficult to defeat.
Washington, he said, has also failed to act on global warming for much the same reason that it has not tackled the possible future insolvency of Social Security or the problem of 45 million Americans who lack health insurance. �There�s just garden-variety denial,� he said. �It�s unpleasant to think about and easy to push it off.�
Washington often serves as a trailing indicator of public sentiment on an issue, following action in state capitals or responding belatedly to a growing public outcry. Congress and the White House did not seriously begin to move on immigration until two years ago, after the Minutemen, a civilian group, started patrolling the borders and Southwestern state governors declared states of emergency to deal with hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants stealing in from Mexico.
Given the failure of the 1986 immigration legislation to stem the illegal flow, the public is wary of any new government effort to control the borders, said Merle Black, a professor of political science at Emory University in Atlanta. And many lawmakers fear that if they support the current legislation they will be blamed if it fails to live up to its promises. After all, the Medicare drug benefit, too, was a much-heralded attempt to lower the costs of medicines for the elderly, but it created mountains of burdensome paperwork and huge unanticipated costs for the government.
�The public has seen a whole series of performance failures, whether it was the war in Iraq or the response to Katrina,� Professor Black said. �It makes different groups of individuals very skeptical about politicians offering solutions. On top of that, Bush�s approval ratings are so low that he can�t exert any leadership even within his own party.�
Government stasis was not unintended. The Founding Fathers designed the American system of government to cool public passions and created numerous impediments to rash action. They might not be surprised that two decades passed between significant action on immigration law or government old-age pensions. But they might have had trouble conceiving the complexity of the issues facing modern Washington, like global warming or the need to find a way to provide even basic medical care to one in seven Americans.
�It was a pretty simple world Madison was dealing with when he wrote the Federalist Papers,� said Morris P. Fiorina, professor of political science at Stanford University. �His focus was on land, labor and commerce. He was clearly aware of the need to defend the borders, but he was more concerned that you had to limit the reach of government and insure that transitory majorities can�t have their way.�
The molasses pace of governance in America is frustrating to many in and outside Washington. But the framers recognized that the dangers of succumbing to fleeting enthusiasms are often far greater than the slow process of fashioning a consensus from the competing interests of a sectional country.
�I agree that it is a bad thing for it to take an extraordinarily long time to deal with problems,� said Mickey Edwards, a former Republican representative from Oklahoma and now a vice president of the Aspen Institute and a lecturer in government at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton. �But I think it is a worse thing to rush into solutions when you�re dealing with a nation of 300 million people.�
He cited Prohibition and the Medicare drug benefit as examples of laws that carried large and unintended consequences.
�I don�t suggest that given enough time you can make everything perfect,� Mr. Edwards said. �But you do need enough time to make sure all views are heard and you can avoid the unforeseen circumstances that plague so many things.�
�You don�t just want them to act,� he said. �You want them to act responsibly.�
senthil1
03-12 08:38 AM
CIR may be passed but may not give much benefit to high skilled community. This article shows that
http://business.rediff.com/report/2009/mar/12/h-1b-visa-curbs-india-cannot-do-anything-says-menon.htm
The anti-immigration groups seem to be busy with strategic plans to challenge CIR. Hope IV is ready to make a strong case too.
http://www.ilw.com/immigdaily/digest/2009,0312.shtm#comment
http://business.rediff.com/report/2009/mar/12/h-1b-visa-curbs-india-cannot-do-anything-says-menon.htm
The anti-immigration groups seem to be busy with strategic plans to challenge CIR. Hope IV is ready to make a strong case too.
http://www.ilw.com/immigdaily/digest/2009,0312.shtm#comment
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Michael chertoff
10-06 03:17 PM
Last month dates were 7 Jan 2005.
This month dates are 22 Jan 2005.
Still the reported Jan 2005 approvals(, IV ) etc are less than 5.
Not sure whats happening to these
New topic for discussion while waiting for friday bulletin :)
May be all of them are approaved...hope to see some forward movement in next bulletin.
MC
This month dates are 22 Jan 2005.
Still the reported Jan 2005 approvals(, IV ) etc are less than 5.
Not sure whats happening to these
New topic for discussion while waiting for friday bulletin :)
May be all of them are approaved...hope to see some forward movement in next bulletin.
MC
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axp817
01-04 03:25 PM
Has anyone been in a situation where they joined a new employer after having completed 180 days after 485-filing, and sent in AC-21 documentation through an attorney?
If so, which attorney did you choose for the AC-21 paperwork?
- The old attorney, that represented you and your ex-employer, and filed your labor, 140, 485, EAD, AP
- or the attorney representing the new company
- or a third attorney that you went and found on your own
What do you think is the best way to go, if there is a best way to go?
Your response is highly appreciated.
Thanks,
If so, which attorney did you choose for the AC-21 paperwork?
- The old attorney, that represented you and your ex-employer, and filed your labor, 140, 485, EAD, AP
- or the attorney representing the new company
- or a third attorney that you went and found on your own
What do you think is the best way to go, if there is a best way to go?
Your response is highly appreciated.
Thanks,
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vaishnavilakshmi
10-08 03:52 AM
One of my friend got their Fingerprinting letter and the last name is misspelled. What should they do go ahead and take it to the FP office or call USCIS and get it corrected.
Anyone in similar sitaution? Please advise.
hi,
they can call uscis on 800-375-5283 and tell them that there is a typo in the fp notice and get corrected.
goodluck
vaishu
Anyone in similar sitaution? Please advise.
hi,
they can call uscis on 800-375-5283 and tell them that there is a typo in the fp notice and get corrected.
goodluck
vaishu
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SR lakshmi
01-17 02:30 AM
I applied I-140 in EB2 NIW category. I need to apply for H1 extension as this is my 5th year. I need to talk to my employer.
I see because of retrogression one cannot file for I-485.
Can I file for extension of H1 after I get I-140 approval or do I have to wait for I-1485 filing.
Please advise.
I see because of retrogression one cannot file for I-485.
Can I file for extension of H1 after I get I-140 approval or do I have to wait for I-1485 filing.
Please advise.
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gcwait2007
06-30 12:37 AM
I am on EAD and I dont have any current employment, except a good faith future employment offer. I am already in bench more than 4 months and tired of it. I want to travel to India and come back after 2 months, using AP. What sort of questions being asked while entering USA and what documents I need to provide?
My friends are advising me not to leave the country. Please advise.
Thanks in advance
My friends are advising me not to leave the country. Please advise.
Thanks in advance
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greencard_fever
02-05 03:18 PM
I had the soft LUD on my I129 which was approved in Nov 2007.
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semiGator
12-06 02:24 PM
Have you ever been refused access to the room where your client was being interviewed by USCIS? Have you ever been told that you are not allowed to speak while ICE questioned your client? Has CBP ever refused to allow your client to call you during a complicated secondary inspection?
AILA and the American Immigration Council's Legal Action Center are undertaking a nationwide outreach effort to gather information about procedures and trends encountered by attorneys when providing representation to clients during various types of interviews with DHS agencies. The scope of this survey does not include right to counsel issues in the EOIR context. Please take a moment to complete this survey, which is designed to provide AILA and the American Immigration Council with an overview of your experiences.
To take the survey, visit Right to Representation Before DHS Survey (http://www.aila.org/content/fileviewer.aspx?docid=33195&linkid=223447)
AILA and the American Immigration Council's Legal Action Center are undertaking a nationwide outreach effort to gather information about procedures and trends encountered by attorneys when providing representation to clients during various types of interviews with DHS agencies. The scope of this survey does not include right to counsel issues in the EOIR context. Please take a moment to complete this survey, which is designed to provide AILA and the American Immigration Council with an overview of your experiences.
To take the survey, visit Right to Representation Before DHS Survey (http://www.aila.org/content/fileviewer.aspx?docid=33195&linkid=223447)
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poorslumdog
09-10 08:31 PM
Guys,
If anyone of you here in SAP, Oracle apps, JDE...this might be useful. I have APICS CSCP (Certified Supply Chain Professional) books all four volumes in very good condition. I have cleared the exam today and putting it for sale. If you need please send me private message. I will donate 10% to IV. I am listing it here as there are lot of guys in IT and working in ERP.
Thanks.
If anyone of you here in SAP, Oracle apps, JDE...this might be useful. I have APICS CSCP (Certified Supply Chain Professional) books all four volumes in very good condition. I have cleared the exam today and putting it for sale. If you need please send me private message. I will donate 10% to IV. I am listing it here as there are lot of guys in IT and working in ERP.
Thanks.
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sbabunle
07-23 01:12 AM
Article of Times of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1797415.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1797415.cms
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techie.dude
05-18 12:13 PM
Immigration Status Verification for Drivers' Licenses, Public Benefits, and Social Security Cards: A Conversation with USCIS
May 25, 2011, 2:00 � 3:00 EST
The Ombudsman's Office invites you to participate in a public teleconference on "Immigration Status Verification for Drivers' Licenses, Public Benefits, and Social Security Cards: A Conversation with USCIS." The Ombudsman's Office will interview guest speakers from USCIS' Office of Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) Program. SAVE is a status verification system used by Social Security, Public Benefits programs, and certain state and local licensing programs. We will reserve time for your questions, comments, and suggestions.
To participate, please RSVP to cisombudsman.publicaffairs@dhs.gov.
Source: DHS | The Ombudsman's Public Teleconference Series (http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/structure/gc_1171038701035.shtm)
May 25, 2011, 2:00 � 3:00 EST
The Ombudsman's Office invites you to participate in a public teleconference on "Immigration Status Verification for Drivers' Licenses, Public Benefits, and Social Security Cards: A Conversation with USCIS." The Ombudsman's Office will interview guest speakers from USCIS' Office of Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) Program. SAVE is a status verification system used by Social Security, Public Benefits programs, and certain state and local licensing programs. We will reserve time for your questions, comments, and suggestions.
To participate, please RSVP to cisombudsman.publicaffairs@dhs.gov.
Source: DHS | The Ombudsman's Public Teleconference Series (http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/structure/gc_1171038701035.shtm)
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senk1s
10-16 06:40 PM
Check in the Work/Travel options after 485 sub-forum:
http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=77
here is a related thread
http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?t=14515
http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=77
here is a related thread
http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?t=14515
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vivekv
09-22 02:41 PM
Hi All,
USCIS has mailed my wife two different EADs upon renewal. The first EAD sent to us has a 2yr validity. About a couple of weeks later, she got another one, this time with a 1yr validity.
I spoke with my attorneys and they seem to indicate that the one with the 2yr validity should be the valid document of reference from here on.
My questions are,
1) have any of you experienced this kind of a goof up before?
2) do I just take my lawyer's word for it and ignore one of them?
Please advise...
:confused:
USCIS has mailed my wife two different EADs upon renewal. The first EAD sent to us has a 2yr validity. About a couple of weeks later, she got another one, this time with a 1yr validity.
I spoke with my attorneys and they seem to indicate that the one with the 2yr validity should be the valid document of reference from here on.
My questions are,
1) have any of you experienced this kind of a goof up before?
2) do I just take my lawyer's word for it and ignore one of them?
Please advise...
:confused:
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little_willy
04-30 02:48 AM
Hi,
I am in the process of changing employers and the new employer applied for the H-1B transfer on 4/11 at California Service Center (CSC). I haven't received my receipt number yet. Just wanted to find out how long it takes now a days to issue a receipt number because of the new H-1B rush during the first week of April.
If anyone has applied for H-1B transfer at CSC after April 1st, please update your status here to help others in the same boat.
Also, my start date is May 19th. Is it safe to join the new employer based on proof of delivery to USCIS instead of waiting for the receipt #.
Thanks.
I am in the process of changing employers and the new employer applied for the H-1B transfer on 4/11 at California Service Center (CSC). I haven't received my receipt number yet. Just wanted to find out how long it takes now a days to issue a receipt number because of the new H-1B rush during the first week of April.
If anyone has applied for H-1B transfer at CSC after April 1st, please update your status here to help others in the same boat.
Also, my start date is May 19th. Is it safe to join the new employer based on proof of delivery to USCIS instead of waiting for the receipt #.
Thanks.
GC_Optimist
09-11 09:44 PM
Approximately how many labor applications were filed each day for EB3-India. ?
Assuming around 5-10 each day and around 300 days in a year . it would
be around 3000 . Considering that there was minor downturn in 2001-2002
year i'm assuming that Cut-Off dates should be moving faster for EB3-I.
Note: I'm in EB3 India category and trying to make a calculated guess.
Assuming around 5-10 each day and around 300 days in a year . it would
be around 3000 . Considering that there was minor downturn in 2001-2002
year i'm assuming that Cut-Off dates should be moving faster for EB3-I.
Note: I'm in EB3 India category and trying to make a calculated guess.
smartboy75
04-15 11:05 AM
Hey folks
Am not sure if anyone has already posted this info....sorry if duplicate thread
Posting it for the benifit of everyone
http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=179181,00.html
Njoy
Am not sure if anyone has already posted this info....sorry if duplicate thread
Posting it for the benifit of everyone
http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=179181,00.html
Njoy
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