This is encouraging.
Hundreds of banks and other financial institutions are participating in the largest test of its kind ever conducted to ensure the nation’s financial system can keep functioning in case of an outbreak of pandemic flu.
The test began today and is scheduled to run for three weeks. More than 2,700 financial institutions have signed up to participate, about five times the number the Treasury Department expected.
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islandgrovepress 09.27.07 at 12:07 pm
Never mind the flu.
There’s weirder stuff coming up from the border.
Stole this from the Oakville ON BEAVER newspaper:
Keith Urban is booked for a Canadian tour in Sept/Oct. and is scheduled for Calgary. Friends in Calgary have turned their tickets back.
NO MORE KEITH URBAN (OR GARTH BROOKS)
This big shot western singer ( Keith Urban ) asked all Canadians to stand up at the Minot (N.D.) Fair.
After the Canadians stood up, he asked them all to leave the stands before he would sing because they were not helping out fighting with USA troops.
He is a New Zealander by birth (1967), then grew up in Australia from 1969) and finally in 1992 moving and living in Nashville, becoming another imported, brainwashed Yankee.
Pass this around and see how his record sales do in Canada.
9/27/2007 1:47 PM
ivan@creativewriting.ca said…
Anon,
I can’t attest to the veracity of the Keith Urban insult, but I see your email comes from the Oakville Beaver, a medium-circulation newspaper in Ontario…I have worked for the Beaver and found it no great shakes.
Still, we have readers from all over the world on this blog, notably Australia and even New Zealand. I know there are going to be comments.
Ivan
9/27/2007 1:52 PM
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[Photo] One problem I have found with all research (and all googling) is that my question is usually so off-trail, so, um, esoteric in nature that the most fuzzy-eared of archivists can’t find what I’m looking for.
(Whoops. Printing error. But I’ll send this anyway).
IP