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Saturday, November 4, 2006
On November 13, Torontonians will be heading to the polls to vote for their ward’s councillor and for mayor. Among Toronto’s ridings is Don Valley East (Ward 33). One candidates responded to Wikinews’ requests for an interview. This ward’s candidates include Zane Caplan, Shelley Carroll (incumbent), Jim Conlon, Sarah Tsang-Fahey, and Anderson Tung.
For more information on the election, read Toronto municipal election, 2006.
By Sean A. Kelly
Tyler King, my friend’s brother is a hard working man. However his ‘Live Life King Size’ formula to life made sure that he got into debt. The fact that he earns a wonderful salary has kept him afloat. Since he has been in debt most of his life and has always paid his dues, he doesn’t remember ever not paying. One afternoon he got a telephone call from a debt collection agency asking him to pay a debt that he had disputed with the company nearly four years ago. As per California Statute of Limitations four years would be the applicable time period for collection of credit card debt. What Tyler did when contacted was that he accepted that there was an unpaid disputed debt that he owed and did not know that his acceptance would refresh the statute of limitation and he was sued by the collection agency.
According to California Statute of Limitations, the time period during which a creditor can sue the debtor in a court of law for credit card debtor open accounts, written contracts and promissory notes is four years, for oral contracts it is two years and for civil judgment it is 10 years from the date of last payment or last usage. In case one is contacted near the end of the statute of limitations time period, it would be advisable not to accept that debt and not to agree to pay the debt or send the creditor any money as it would reset the statute of limitations giving the creditor the right to sue.
In case of being contacted near the expiry of the statute of limitations, it might be prudent to get in touch with a debt relief company to aid resolve the problem. In California debt help might be sought by approaching a debt relief network which would be related to many legal debt businesses. This would provide legal options to deal with one’s debt. In case of a long pending debt as in the case of Tyler, it might be better to either send out a certified letter, return receipt requested for not contacting again regarding the debt due to the expiry of the statute of limitations. However, one must remember that even if the statute of limitations has run on the account and would not be payable after the expiry, the debt would be reported in the credit report.
To get rid of a debt being reported in one’s credit report, the debt would need to be paid. In California debt relief may be sought by approaching certified debt relief companies. Usually it would be advisable for one to look at one’s finances closely and to budget one’s expenditure breaking down one’s income into packets like essential living expenditure like bills, grocery, children’s school fees, compulsory payments towards debt like credit card bills, car loan, mortgage etc. and miscellaneous expenditure like movies, outings, holidays etc. This exercise would help one to understand one’s finances and also be helpful while seeking debt relief help from a professional and reliable debt relief company. It might stand one in good stead to check if the company one approaches for help is a part of a credit resolution network and is a member of the Bureau of Better Business. It would be advisable to check the credentials of the company and research its client base and their experiences so that one may make a prudent decision. One would benefit to beware of fraudsters who might not help one to debt freedom or debt reduction but might lead one to bankruptcy.
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
Eric Bogosian is one of America’s great multi-dimensional talents. “There’s sort of three different careers, and any one of them could exist by itself, on its own two feet. There was that solo stuff, and then I started writing plays in the late seventies.” Although his work has spanned genres, most readers will recognize Bogosian for his acting, which has included a memorable performance in Woody Allen‘s Deconstructing Harry to co-writing and starring in the Oliver Stone movie Talk Radio (based upon his Pulitzer Prize-nominated play) to playing the bad guy in Under Siege 2 to his current role in Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Captain Danny Ross. They may not know, however, that he had collaborated with Frank Zappa on a album, worked with Sonic Youth, and was a voice on Mike Judge‘s Beavis & Butthead Do America. He started one of New York City’s largest dance companies, The Kitchen, which is still in existence. He starred alongside Val Kilmer in Wonderland and his play Talk Radio was recently revived on Broadway with Liev Schreiber in the role Bogosian wrote and made famous.
Currently at work on his third novel, tentatively titled The Artist, Bogosian spoke with David Shankbone about the craft of writing and his life as a creative.
December 25, 2004
Officials in Mumbai, India, demolished over 6,000 shanties today in a push to eradicate the capital city’s slums. In total, 39,000 shanties have been flattened, displacing over 200,000 people, in the city’s biggest-ever demolition drive, which began in early December.
When complete, over 2 million people are expected to be displaced. After wiping out the least desirable shanties, next in line for demolition are the illegal ‘well-off’ shanties and neighborhoods, according to the legal and bureaucratic motions that have been executed toward cleaning up Mumbai’s appearance by lowering the dominance of shanties, which make up 62 percent of Mumbai’s housing.
“As far as eye can see, there are mounds of wood, tin and tarpaulin, the remains of 6,200 illegal homes, flattened by a heavy excavator running on tank-like tracks and giant motorised claws,” the Indian Express reported about today’s destruction. [1]
Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said that citizens would see a change within six months. “Every chief minister likes to be remembered, and I’m no exception,” said Deshmukh, who despite having an empty exchequer, also announced that Rs 31,000 crore will be spent on new roads, sea links and rail lines. [2]
Monday, May 3, 2010
Wikinews reporter Iain Macdonald today interviewed Petros Tzomakas, a Greek far-left activist and member of Xekinima, which is the Greek division of the Committee for a Workers’ International. The party is a member of Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA).
Tzomakas also sits on his local 5th Athens Municipal District committee, which is a joint effort by left-wing parties including SYRIZA, the Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow and a number of other political parties to oppose austerity measures proposed by the government. All left-wing parties in the country except the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) are involved. Tzomakas explained that the KKE prefers not to co-operate with other radical left-wing groups.
The interview comes amid tensions in cash-strapped Greece, where the government is introducing controversial austerity measures to try to ease the nation’s debt-problem. An international rescue package has been prepared by European Union member states and the International Monetary Fund – should Greece require a bailout; protests have been held against government attempts to manage the economic situation.