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[Sir Osis of Liver]

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[Sir Osis of Liver]

Because that's a rare temp in Germany, while 6 months of the year here, BING everytime you start the car.

Yeah. The XV used to bing too, I think around 2C.

The Passat does it at anything less than 4C. Fine enough I guess, but the first few times it was after a few minutes of driving and the car had cooled from the garage temperature. I figured it was just letting me know that a CEL was on the way.

 

[blur911]

I think that is an FGC thing.   I've had that in all my cars since 1987.   If the temp drops below 3 C while driving a little ding and a * beside the outside temp display.

Only car I had that warned of possible icy roads was a 1990 Ford Probe GT, (Mazda), none of my FGCs ever had it.  The Probe flashed "ICE" on the temperature display.

[bridgecity]

Was doing some drywalling in the basement yesterday.  I had the measuring tape stretched out across a section of wall when there was a loud pop and bright flash.  The tape came in contact with an outlet wire.  The wiring had been tucked into the boxes for now, however there was a small portion protruding from the box which contacted the tape.  These wires are not supposed to be energized obviously.  Somewhere along the way someone flipped the breaker on for this particular plug outlet (I  wired it separately on its own circuit for the central vac).  My dad was there at the time who also assisted me with the wiring.  He recalls checking the breakers when they were connected and so do I.  I don't know how the breaker got flipped.  Must have been accidental by one of us while working in the basement.

Fack me.  Gave me a scare.

Edit:  Yes, I have a permit pulled and a rough in inspection has been completed.  Just for you Steve 

[wing]

Windsor home cleaning, tell them 1morelap sent you?

[Railton]

Ottawa folks - does anyone have a housecleaning service they can recommend?

When I lived in Ottawa I used Dust Bunnies.
Railton

[safristi]

Hire a refugee...and buy a Swiffer

[wing]

That's insane...

[wing]

SRT8 and a Hellcat

[tenpenny]

Wait a month, then you'll have Syrian refugees to hire.


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[rrocket]

Wait a month, then you'll have Syrian refugees to hire.


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Wrong.  They won't need to work because they will be getting a free ride for at least a year.

[safristi]

posted same 5 threads back..are |U both in Turkey Land...letting the leftovers IN

[johngenx]

Wrong.  They won't need to work because they will be getting a free ride for at least a year.

So?  The refugees what we've taken in the past become highly productive member of our society.

[tenpenny]

Jews, Irish, you know, all those nasty refugees that we allowed in.


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[rrocket]

Wrong.  They won't need to work because they will be getting a free ride for at least a year.

So?  The refugees what we've taken in the past become highly productive member of our society.

That's not true, unless you have stats.  But some of them certainly do. 

As I mentioned before, I've spoken to a local reporter and asked how many of the refugees that have come to Windsor in the past who now have jobs.  "Not many" was his answer.

[tenpenny]

Wrong.  They won't need to work because they will be getting a free ride for at least a year.

So?  The refugees what we've taken in the past become highly productive member of our society.

That's not true, unless you have stats.  But some of them certainly do. 

As I mentioned before, I've spoken to a local reporter and asked how many of the refugees that have come to Windsor in the past who now have jobs.  "Not many" was his answer.

You have the stats on that?


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[rrocket]

Wrong.  They won't need to work because they will be getting a free ride for at least a year.

So?  The refugees what we've taken in the past become highly productive member of our society.

That's not true, unless you have stats.  But some of them certainly do. 

As I mentioned before, I've spoken to a local reporter and asked how many of the refugees that have come to Windsor in the past who now have jobs.  "Not many" was his answer.

You have the stats on that?

I can ask the reporter on how many I suppose.

[johngenx]

Lots of good info here

http://www.unhcr.org/4e4123d19.pdf

One thing about refugees is that yes, they tend to stay poor if they were poor.  Accepting refugees that have little or no education or skills is like planting a seed: it's going to take a long time to grow to a big tree.  We probably won't see many gains for the generation that arrived here, but subsequent generations will often do much better.  I worked with families from Eritrea and the newcomers to Canada came in poverty and but saw a future for their children.  Looking now at subsequent generations, they're doing very well.

In many ways my own family were refugees in the mid 1800s.  They were fleeing persecution in Russia and came to Canada in 1842 with nothing.  If you checked on them in 1852 (10 years post arrival) they hadn't made much progress.  Go forward many generations and their contribution to Canada is significant.

A little support now will go a long, long way.  Drop them into the country with no supports and we're just dooming them to failure here.

[rrocket]

Lots of good info here

http://www.unhcr.org/4e4123d19.pdf

One thing about refugees is that yes, they tend to stay poor if they were poor.  Accepting refugees that have little or no education or skills is like planting a seed: it's going to take a long time to grow to a big tree.  We probably won't see many gains for the generation that arrived here, but subsequent generations will often do much better.  I worked with families from Eritrea and the newcomers to Canada came in poverty and but saw a future for their children.  Looking now at subsequent generations, they're doing very well.

They also tend to stay poor if they were rich when coming to Canada...at least until their kids make it.  If they make it.  And that was the issue that was pointed out to me.  One of the families I was referring to when speaking with the reporter were VERY educated.  Father was a lawyer, mother was a teacher of some type.  But none of that matters here, because their credentials mean zero in Canada.  Plus somewhat of a language barrier (very broken English; they can stumble through English enough to have a simple conversation)  2+ years in, neither has a job and are still 100% relying on assistance.  What prospect does the father or mother have?  Not much it seemed.  Both were well into their 40s, so the prospect of either of them going back to school and finding meaningful employment was very low.  The reporter claimed they were motivated to find work, but in 2+ years in, you'd think their English would be better than very broken and very basic if they really wanted to find work. 

I think there was a time when people could just show up here and make a good life easily enough.  But now with so much emphasis put on the education it's very, very difficult.

I'm very proud Canada is always ready to jump in and help though.

[tpl]

^^^   This is why the neighborhoods always described as  <country>town are so useful in big cities like TO. It gives immigrants whether refugees or not a place where they can learn about how Canada works in somewhat familiar surroundings.   There is a downside of course, often poor accommodation, for some groups bad employers, still better than no jobs and for groups that tend to sequester women it gives the women even less chance of integrating.

Your Lawyer example, he may never be called to the bar in Canada but starting within his local community he, who is obviously smart, could work his way into a good job...but if the 'system' were to dump him in rural Manitoba ( just an example!!) that would not work.