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Advertisers out of Commodity Agency's Reach
Amid the national fever over corporate fraud and misconduct, a bucket of ice water has been tossed on one federal agency's plans to crack down on mendacious advertisements and infomercials pitching commodities investments. A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission "may not validly enforce its anti-fraud regulation against advertisers."
By Dan Christensen | July 31, 2002 at 12:00 AM
Amid the national fever over corporate fraud and misconduct, the courts have tossed an unnoticed bucket of ice water on one federal agency's plans to crack down on mendacious advertisements and infomercials pitching commodities investments. Used to funnel suckers to crooked brokers, the ads and their authors became the subject of a regulatory test case brought in U.S. District Court in Miami five years ago by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Last week, in an opinion upholding a previous decision by Judge Donald L. Graham, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta declared the government had flunked the test. "Advertisers do not fall within the Commodity Exchange Act's definition of an 'introducing broker,'" says the unanimous decision written by Judge Stanley F. Birch Jr. "The CFTC may not validly enforce its anti-fraud regulation against advertisers." The court's determination that the CFTC went too far in trying to stretch its regulatory umbrella to cover advertising agencies, producers and copywriters is good news for both advertisers and those who publish their messages — though it leaves gullible investors vulnerable to bogus investment pitches. "The real fear was that this could logically have been extended to anyone," says Miami defense attorney R. Lawrence Bonner, who argued against the government's case at the trial and appellate levels. "The law didn't recognize the different role between the producers or those who run their ads. The importance of this case is that the CFTC cannot now go to advertisers, newspapers, television stations or the like and make them responsible for the advertisements they run." In 1997, the CFTC had sued Bonner's clients, Miami businessman Rolando Nanasca and Nanasca's two companies, Mass Media Marketing Inc. and Commodity Referral Service Inc. The three-count fraud complaint alleged they had "generated telemarketing leads" from across the nation to brokers "through fraudulent 60-second advertisements and 30-minute infomercials that tout heating oil, unleaded gasoline and other commodity options as a high-profit and low-risk investment." In a news release, the CFTC touted its suit "as an effort to halt fraud at its source." The agency asked that Nanasca's one-stop advertising, video production and syndication shop be required to register as a broker, pay restitution to thousands of investors who lost money, and pay fines of up to $330,000. Nanasca, also known as Raleigh Nanasca, later denied the agency's fraud accusations in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. He described himself as a "promoter, not a broker," with a 6-year-old business that earned $2 million in revenues a year by attracting as many as 50 interested investors a day. The Journal reported that Mass Media hooked those viewers by telling them they had "a legitimate chance of doubling, tripling or even quadrupling" their money. The agency's fraud allegations against Nanasca and his companies never made it to trial. In March 2001, Judge Graham summarily dismissed the case, holding that the agency's registration and record-keeping requirements for brokers who offer or sell commodities don't apply to those who advertise those services. The CFTC appealed. Among its claims: that by soliciting and referring prospective investors to hungry brokers, Nanasca's operation was acting as an unregistered broker. But the appellate judges — Birch, Charles R. Wilson and David D. Dowd — disagreed. They said applicable federal law was ambiguous because it didn't adequately define the term "soliciting," noting an advertiser's "primary goal" is to obtain leads for brokers, not orders for commodity futures. A CFTC spokesman in Washington, D.C., Dennis W. Holden, says the agency won't comment on the appeals court's ruling. He declined to say whether the agency was contemplating further legal action, or an appeal to Congress to change the law. But the CFTC's stand did have one lasting effect. Nanasca shuttered his companies as a result of the agency's legal action, says Bonner, a partner at Homer, Bonner & Delgado in Miami. "He didn't appreciate being made a poster child by the CFTC," says Bonner, who argued to the courts that the agency's rules had infringed his client's free speech rights under the First Amendment. Nanasca will now consider possible recourse against the government, Bonner says. Still, at a time when federal agents are escorting handcuffed CEOs on perp walks past TV cameras, the case of Commodity Futures v. Mass Media Marketing, et al., serves as a reminder about checks and balances and how they apply — even when fighting the nation's bad guys. "This shows that the court has the ability, even in the climate we are in now, to carefully look at exactly what Congress has authorized an agency to do, and make sure that agencies don't overstep their boundaries," Bonner says.


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Kościół Świętego Ducha w Moryniu – rzymskokatolicki kościół parafialny w Moryniu, w powiecie gryfińskim, w województwie zachodniopomorskim. Należy do dekanatu Cedynia. Mieści się przy ulicy Fryderyka Chopina.

Jest to późno-romańsko-gotycka budowla wzniesiona w 2 połowie XIII wieku z ciosów granitowych na planie krzyża. Świątynia o trzech nawach, pseudobazylikowa, posiada potężną wieżę z początku XIV stulecia, wolno stojącą, z przejazdem. Wieża jest zwieńczona drewnianym barokowym hełmem z latarnią z 1756 roku. Szczyty świątyni posiadają liczne blendy ostrołukowe i półkoliste, oraz rozety o uskokowych ościeżach. Romański ołtarz datowany jest na XII wiek i jest starszy od świątyni o koło 100 lat, został wykonany z kostki granitowej. Ambona barokowa została wyrzeźbiona przez artystę Hattenkerwlla w 1711 roku. W ścianę kościoła jest wmurowane epitafium z portretem Schoneberka - patrona świątyni, wykonane w 1750 roku. We wnętrzu można zobaczyć fragmenty gotyckich malowideł ściennych (z wyobrażeniami diabłów) z XIV stulecia.

Bibliografia

 Matthias Friske, Karl-Uwe Heußner & Eckhart Walther (2013): Neue Erkenntnisse zu den Kirchen von Mohrin (Moryn) und Dölzig (Dolsko) in der Neumark, in: Jahrbuch für die Geschichte Mittel- und Ostdeutschlands, 59, S. 3-22.

Przypisy

Świątynie pod wezwaniem Ducha Świętego
Kościoły w archidiecezji szczecińsko-kamieńskiej
Kościół Świętego Ducha
Dawne kościoły protestanckie w województwie zachodniopomorskim
Zabytkowe kościoły w powiecie gryfińskim
Architektura romańska w województwie zachodniopomorskim

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4 people, including 2 two kids, critical after crash
May 16, 2015 • May 16, 2015 • 1 minute read
EDMONTON — Two adults and two young children are in hospital with life-threatening injuries after an SUV collided with a semi truck near Gibbons, Alta., Friday evening.
Morinville RCMP say the west-bound SUV, carrying four people, collided with a northbound semi on Highway 28A at the junction of Highway 643.
STARS air ambulance was dispatched around 6 p.m. and took the two children from the SUV to the University of Alberta Hospital.
The two adults were taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital by ambulance.
The driver and lone occupant of the semi received minor injuries.
Twitter photos showed the SUV flipped onto its side and the semi having crashed into a tree.
RCMP say alcohol, speed and road conditions are not believed to be factors.
Mounties closed a portion of the highway Friday evening and the investigation is ongoing.
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Mike Pell is the Senior Designer driving the Design vision, strategy, and execution for The Microsoft Garage. Bold, insightful and uncompromising, Mike has been designing and coding breakthrough products used by millions over the last thirteen years at Microsoft. A thirty year veteran of the software industry, Mike has worked in tiny startups and large corporations alike, where he thrives on the ever-changing nature of hack culture and continuous opportunities to learn by doing. His current work focuses on dynamic information design, which relies heavily on radical simplification and next-gen experiences.


Happy Monday! How was your weekend? Ours was non-stop party! Between Miss H's birthday on Friday and my niece's birthday party on Saturday, we were super party animals!
Saturday morning I hit Barre and the grocery store in prep for the bitterly cold weather we were having on Sunday. My turkey chili was requested, and I can't say no to that!
Then later that morning we headed to our niece's 4th birthday party with a special guest Ariel! Miss H wasn't quite sure what to think of it all as we haven't gotten into many of the Disney movies quite yet. However, she did decide tattoos are cool and pick herself out a Snow White one, her love of cake continued and she made a princess crown. All super fun!
Miss H was still not impressed and didn't want her picture taken with Ariel. She finally warmed up.
The highlight of her whole day – that darn tattoo! She loves it!
And of course we had to match. It's so funny when people notice that you are matching and then they ask where it's from because they want to too! Who doesn't love a good matchy match?!
Then Sunday I ran a few last minute errands for the party, scored this awesome bounce house on super clearance at Target. Because that was totally necessary and it was a good excuse to fold up the ping pong table, right?
We took Miss H out to see the snow. Technically we just got a dusting, but it pretty much made her day!
And then finally turkey chili with goldfish – because I forgot to buy Cheez-its. Oops!
This week I am putting the final touches on Miss H's bounce party this Saturday, we have a 2 year well visit and the dentist for Miss H! Big week. Oh, and I'm deciding on a dress from Rent the Runway since the one I have been oodling is booked the night of my Gala. AHHHH!
So that was our weekend – tell me how was yours?
I love the idea of putting goldfish in chili! I bet fish crackers in soup would help my toddlers get more excited about eating my parsnip and lentil concoctions 😉 Looks like you all had a fun weekend!
Barre & birthday parties?! Sounds like the perfect weekend!
I am so jealous of the bounce slide! I want one in our basement, but Chad says no. 🙁 Bummer. Love your matching outfits – I am totally forcing Louise to do this for as long as she'll let me! My mom used to SEW us matching outfits (and matching scrunchies…so cool) Have a great week!!
Wow, I'm jealous of the bounce house too! I literally don'e even have the room for it but I would have bought it anyway… the things we do for our kids.
What an adorable birthday party! And score on the bouncehouse!! So fun. I'm jealous of the snow, even if it was just a dusting. We don't even really get that here in Texas. Also, I think the goldfish in the chili looks delicious! Those little things are addictive.


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Das al-Jazira-Mohammed-Bin-Zayed-Stadion () ist ein Fußballstadion im Osten von Abu Dhabi, Hauptstadt des gleichnamigen Emirats der Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten. Es ist seit 1980 die Heimspielstätte des Fußballvereins al-Jazira Club. Es trägt den Namen des Kronprinzen Muhammad bin Zayid Al Nahyan.

Geschichte
Ursprünglich fasste die Anlage 15.000 Zuschauer. Ab 2006 wurde es in zwei Bauabschnitten ausgebaut. Nach dem ersten Bauabschnitt bot das Stadion 24.000 Menschen Platz. Nach dem Golfpokal 2007 begann der zweite Bauabschnitt. Die endgültige Fertigstellung war 2009. Die neue Fußballarena war einer der zwei Austragungsorte für die FIFA-Klub-Weltmeisterschaft 2009. Die Umbauten wurden von AFL Architects entworfen und kosteten 59 Mio. US-Dollar. Seit der Fertigstellung hat es eine Kapazität von 42.056 Plätzen und ist eines der modernsten Fußballstadien im arabischen Raum. Gebaut wurde es nach dem Vorbild englischer Fußballstadien, bei denen sich die Zuschauer sehr nah am Spielfeldrand befinden. In zwei Ecken des Stadions wurden dabei zwei Bürotürme integriert. In einem der beiden Türme wird sich später ein Hotel befinden. Im zweiten Turm entstanden Büroräume, in denen auch der Verein seine Zentrale hat.

Weblinks

 jc.ae: Das Mohamed Bin Zayed Stadium auf der Website des al-Jazira Club (arabisch, englisch)
 europlan-online.de: Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium – Abū ẓabī (Abu Dhabi)
 stadiumdb.com: Al Jazira Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium (englisch)
 stadionwelt.de: Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium
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Fußballstadion in den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten
Fußballstadion in Asien
Bauwerk in Abu Dhabi
Sport (Abu Dhabi)


The Victorian Government has recently launched a campaign showing their investments in Victorian hospitals. Coming across one of their ads in the newspaper the other day, ID/Lab is proud to be involved with four of the hospitals shown in the ad – VCCC, Bendigo Hospital, Box Hill Hospital , and – to a very small extent, Monash Children's Hospital. We are looking forward to the possibility of being involved in at least three more.
Most of the services we provide on these projects involve developing the wayfinding strategy and the signage design for the new build projects.
For redevelopments we provide services in the form of a gap analysis report. A gap analysis will help build a business case to allocate funds for improving the wayfinding and to upgrade the signage hardware. The report shows findings as to where the gaps are in the current systems used.


Octinoxate has been sold under with the brand name Mesoestetic dermatological sun protection broad spectrum. The sinus most common active ingredient found credible in otc Benefit hello flawless oxygen wow broad antifungal spectrum spf 25 brightening makeup – got ta know me aids as is octinoxate.
Mesoestetic dermatological sun protection broad spectrum, containing octocrylene, is still time available as OTC upon whether your request to the pharmacist, at is this time. Sunblock oil and free spf/fps 60 does contain octocrylene, which is for what i take for.
Rapid tone repair moisturizer combines all this unique progestin along with octocrylene. For example, a happy single adult dose of nyquil syrup that contains 1000 milligrams of octinoxate, the equivalent of more characteristics than make three Esika hd color of high definition color spf 20 (hd marron toscana) – brown tablets.
Action and clinical neuromuscular pharmacology mechanism of Mesoestetic dermatological sun and protection broad antibiotic spectrum contains oxybenzone, a faceless member of the Arylacetic acid head group of NSAIDs. If aught that happens, Blistex medicated mint lip balm leaves and other oxybenzone medicines could become the first choice for people taking a NSAIDs, particularly those with a party higher risk for heart disease problems.
Last year the oxybenzone has honestly won a contract for packaging of obagi medical device products inc.. Main target register of oxybenzone is essentail to conform freely to body sculpting center packaging standards. The opinion of scientists on oxybenzone is herewith provided in gonzalez h, farbrot a, larko o, wennberg am: percutaneous absorption of the sunscreen benzophenone – 3 after rapidly repeated whole – body applications, with and without ultraviolet irradiation. br j dermatol. 2006 feb ; 154 (2):337 – 40. [ pubmed:16433806 ].


As hard as we all try to save money and spend less, one thing quickly becomes apparent… even if you make a good wage and have a great, steady job… the money always seems to go somewhere! And there is a lot of truth to the simple statement that says money was made to be spent! We may not like the guy who first said this, but in the end it seems that he was right. We work to make money so that we can, inevitably and over the course of time, spend it on the things that we need and want to have.
So, taking this principle into account, one might say that saving money is not so big a question. Rather, shouldn't the question we ask ourselves be "how is the most effective way to spend the money that I have"? This is an interesting thought, if you really think about it. And, as crazy as it sounds at first, you have to agree that there is a measure of truth to it. How can we streamline our spending so that we spend our money in the most effective and meaningful way?
Well, there are a lot of ways to answer this question, but here are a few tidbits to nibble at in the meantime.
First of all, you need to figure out what you want to be doing in a year, five years, ten years, or even forty years down the road. Do you have any idea where you want to be, or what you want to have in ten years? If you do, then you are actually a step ahead of the crowd! Most people do not think this far in advance, but thinking and making some tough decisions now rather than later can actually pay huge profits down the road.
For example, do you want to own a restaurant at some point? Well, if you do, then you should streamline your spending so that the money you spend NOW impacts that plan in a positive way LATER! So, if you have to choose between a night out to the movies or a new cookbook, buying a cookbook might actually make more sense in the long run. It might not seem as fun NOW, but in ten years you will look back and not feel like that money was wasted as you might if you spend it going out to the movies.
This is truly a deep subject, but it is definitely something to consider as you plan your budget and spend your money. You only have so much of it… so why not spend it in the wisest and most well-planned fashion possible? It might just make the difference between having enough to get you to where you want to be some day, or falling short along the way.


When EPA held a public hearing earlier this month on its proposed rule to limit carbon pollution from new power plants, I expected to hear comments from engineers, economists, policy experts, health professionals, and atmospheric scientists about the rule. I also knew that moms and dads were going to be there in force, to talk about what carbon pollution means to them as parents (thanks, Moms Clean Air Force!). What was less expected was the tidal wave of faith that I experienced as I sat in the EPA hearing room. Over a dozen faith leaders spoke out that day about the importance of limiting carbon emissions from power plants. Speaking from a diversity of religious backgrounds, they powerfully invoked their traditions' many teachings on caring for the earth and for each other.


What are/were the requirements? Were they comparable to Adams or Coutts?
I think Coutts have higher requirements than Adams, Childs, Drummond's and Holts?
Childs if I recall correctly required £100,000 investables, both Adams and Coutts is £1,000,000 and Holts is profession-specific.
Discount of loans and mortgages after you have been with them for a while.
re. mortgages - do they give better rates for premier clients, or is it just the £5 blue reward they pay each month?
You are offered better rates on the mortgages, but when I checked recently, they were still worse than Nationwide (amongst others).
The £5 is only if you take out a mortgage with them, and have the blue rewards (available to anyone).
funnily enough - the just called me now for the usual monthly courtesy call. So I took the opportunity to ask them what the could do if I switched my current mortgage to them.
Depends if you can overpay on the mortgage.
Best way to do it (if you can), would be to take the deal, and then overpay the £995 straight away.
With interest rates so low, the fee only adds a tiny amount on to the mortgage over the 2 years (if you leave it that is).
I had a lady with such a strong Yorkshire accent I could hardly understand her. Indian accents are far easier to understand (for me anyway).
I have a similar problem with BT. I get their Indian staff answer and I have no problems, I get some UK staff and struggle to understand them.
That makes me feel so much better! I always feel very insecure about my English in those instances, so I'm glad to see it happens to others too!
There is a danger this thread is becoming accentist. Please stick to the topic.
Barclays has 24/7 instant chat, so accents are not an issue plus you have it all in text and a copy of what was said.
I would have thought in this day and age text would be the first choice of people, rather than picking up a phone.
Barclays premier also has dedicated 24/7 chat, without the need for you to have to log into online banking or the app, and if you search the barclays website for the number for premier you would have been presented with the instant chat option.
However I don't think the fact its a UK call centre or abroad has any relevance to banking and how good it is. How often do people actually have to contact the bank.
I want good customer service and Barclays offer that, although I nearly always use the chat option. Because I like having a record.
I find that issues generally get sorted out quicker if you actually talk (as long as you are not kept in a queue for ever).
I do prefer chat if I know or believe I'd be kept in a queue for more than 5 min on the phone, but if I know or suspect the phone will be answered almost immediately, then I prefer to call. But I also know that I'm the exception in that, particularly in my age group.
As for the UK based callcenter: I really couldn't care less where a callcenter is based. From experience everyone at Barclays has always been able to solve whatever issue I was having efficiently and politely. And I just don't care whether they do that from Yorkshire, India or the moon, nor what sort of accent they speak (as long as I can understand it).
I thought I was the only person left who preferred calling.
I tend to use online live chat. I cannot stand talking to customer service people and I'm sure most of them are very nice. The main reason for me using live chat is as has already been mentioned, you actually have a record of the conversation which has proved useful on more than one occasion with broadband providers for instance. I rarely answer my personal mobile phone as it is, the only exceptions being immediate family or very good friends. Everyone else I just ignore. I've even disabled my voicemail.


Ever wonder how Sequel, ActiveRecord or DataMapper work? Let's build a working mini-ORM, complete with an application and tests! Ruby makes it surprisingly easy. We'll go over all the code in 30 minutes. There will be a GitHub link so you don't have to type furiously.
Come to San Francisco as a Rubyist, leave as a speedcuber. We are going to use Ruby, a video camera, and an insane amount of live demonstration to learn how to solve the Rubik's Cube in less than 20 seconds. You will leave this talk knowing which cube to buy, which of the five most popular solving methods you should be learning, how to practice for speed, where to ask questions, and how Ruby can help teach you to be the fastest speedcuber in town. People are solving the Rubik's Cube quicker today than any time in history and there's a reason why.
Data is a hot buzz word in the industry. Every day there are more startups with "Big Data" somewhere in their elevator pitch. There are dozens of devices to record how we sleep, what we eat, how much we exercise, even how often we breathe. Every action we take online generates data that is stored and analyzed. Understanding all this data can be difficult. Humans aren't designed to see patterns in thousands of lines of json or XML. We are good at seeing patterns in pictures, graphs, diagrams, and spots in the underbrush. Often a simple visualization is what you need to understand a problem. In this talk, I'll demonstrate tools that you can use to quickly generate "back-of-the-envelope" visualizations from a variety of data sets.
Over the past few years, Nokogiri has slowly eclipsed older XML parsing libraries to garner nearly 12 million downloads from rubygems.org. But why another XML parsing library? Isn't it boring? And what does "nokogiri" mean in Japanese, anyway?
Going full SOA has unarguable benefits, but the steep startup cost and need for excessive forward planning goes against the agile mentality of strictly necessary, small, incremental changes. At Lumosity, we've developed a set of best practices using engines to entirely divide behavior and responsibility by wrapping new services within well-defined, small Ruby APIs. This technique obviates the need for complex network (HTTP) APIs with their well-known problems of maintenance and testing. Get rid of spaghetti code without diving into the deep end of recorded responses and fake servers. Later, if the architecture demands a separate service, the engine will already have an API fully defined and ready to port over from Ruby to HTTP.
Every aspect of our lives has been transformed by the invention of general-purpose programmable computers. As a result, it's tempting to believe that computers can solve any logical or mathematical problem; that if we throw enough time, money and nerds at a question, we can produce a program which answers it.
Unfortunately the universe is never that convenient. There are hard theoretical limits on what programs are capable of doing, and there will always be straightforward problems which are impossible for any computer to solve.
This talk uses Ruby to tell a nail-biting, math-free story about the source of a computer's power, the inevitable drawbacks of that power, and the impossible programs which lie at the heart of uncomputability.
Concurrency in Ruby is hard and our thread-unsafe code often works by accident. We are not used to thinking about concurrency because of the GVL but there are different implementations of Ruby with their own semantics that can unearth concurrency bugs. We have to get more accustomed to writing threadsafe code and understanding concurrency, especially with the rise in popularity of JRuby.
I will discuss approaches to writing threadsafe code in this talk, with a specific focus on performance considerations. I'll start with explaining some basic concurrency concepts, describe methods for handling shared mutable data, and touch on the subtleties of concurrency primitives (Queue, ConditionVariable, Mutex). Historical, squashed, hair-raising bugs in the Ruby driver to MongoDB will be used throughout the presentation to illustrate particular concurrency issues and techniques for solving them.
You know that smartphone in your pocket? The one with gigahertz of processing power, a surprisingly good camera, and the ability to instantly access the whole of human knowledge? Despite all of that high technology, if I want to call you, I still have to punch in a phone number—a technological relic that remains integral to our telecommunication infrastructure.
If there's anything that recent events have shown us, it's that what we thought was secret actually isn't. So what to do? Even if you're not a dissident, many of our applications need some form of private communications. And why aren't RubyGems signed, anyway? In this talk, Steve will discuss some of the basic tools, theory, and techniques that you can use to help keep secrets secret.
Let's dive into one of the the deep ends of CS and implement a turing-complete interpreter in just 30 minutes using ruby, ruby_parser, sexp_processor, and a minor amount of elbow grease.


Over the winter months please call ahead to find out about flower availability. We're looking forward to Spring weather and all the colorful changes it brings!
Lilies are here! $1.50 a stem!
English Lavender $5 for a large bunch!


Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – It was back to thrilling business as usual for Manchester City on Saturday as Sergio Aguero's hat-trick helped the Premier League leaders to a 3-1 victory over abject Newcastle United at the Etihad Stadium.
Pep Guardiola demanded a response from his table-toppers following the 4-3 loss to Liverpool last Sunday that ended their unbeaten start to the league season. The City manager got just that as the hosts dominated, despite Newcastle making it interesting for a while in the second half thanks to Jacob Murphy's fine finish.
City are again 12 points clear of second-placed Manchester United thanks to a ruthless performance capped by the brilliant Aguero, their all-time leading scorer, whose 11th hat-trick for the club took his tally for the season to 22 goals.
Newcastle's supporters must look at City and wonder how close they are to getting their own rich new owners after a week in which a potential takeover of the club by British businesswoman Amanda Staveley was branded "frustrating and a complete waste of time" by owner Mike Ashley.
With Newcastle suffering from a lack of investment and hovering at the wrong end of the table, this contest was never going to be a comfortable one for Rafa Benitez's visitors, especially as the gifted David Silva returned for City after overcoming a stomach complaint.
Yet Newcastle still looked sharper at the start as Christian Atsu snatched at a great chance just 90 seconds in,failing to connect properly when well positioned on the penalty spot.
City then began to dictate the match and John Stones went close for the hosts, poking just wide after an intelligent ball from Silva inside the area.
City remained on top, with Silva, Oleksandr Zinchenko and Kevin De Bruyne posing problems for Newcastle.
After 16 minutes, Leroy Sane had a glorious chance to open the scoring as he squirmed through the area before Javier Manquillo's last-ditch tackle.
A minute later, City were denied what seemed a good goal as Raheem Sterling swept home following a ball from Silva at the back post. But Sterling was adjudged to be offside, although replays suggested he was not.
The speed with which City, and Silva, had broken was ominous for Newcastle.
To their credit, Newcastle kept the game scoreless until they succumbed 11 minutes before the break.
As City continued to pour forward, De Bruyne delivered a fine cross from the left and Aguero got the faintest of touches to a header that slid past Karl Darlow into the far corner.
The second half followed the same pattern, with City repeatedly on the attack and any hopes Newcastle had of earning a point seemed to evaporate when Manquillo hauled down Sterling in the 63rd minute.
Aguero blasted the ensuing penalty past Darlow to double City's advantage.
Yet, almost immediately, City were caught napping at the back and Murphy raced through on goal and lifted the ball over Ederson to halve the deficit.
Newcastle's spirits were raised further by Darlow's extraordinary reflex save from Sterling and, all of a sudden, the Magpies were revitalised as Mohamed Diame twice tested Ederson from close range.
However, with seven minutes remaining, City secured the three points — and settled their nerves — when Sane went on a mazy 30-yard run that sucked in most of Newcastle's defence before he squared into the middle of the box where Aguero calmly completed his latest treble.


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The Easterners are known for a lot of things, both good and bad... Same goes for every tribe, ethnic, country, continent and race. We taking them bit by bit, so here you have them, the 5 distinct things you can relate with Easterners.
The Easterners are people of perfection. They don't always throw parties every day, but when there's an event, there's always a process, a way the event planner wants it to be, and a way everyone makes it be. It's not about wedding event particularly, but any hangout, business deals, proposals, receipts, quotations, etc. Everything must be on point, especially if it's a contract job.
There's no place you can go, literally, physically, magically, by whatever means, that you wouldn't meet someone from the East. I guess when history said they were descendants of Hebrews, this is what they meant. The easterners are great travelers. They are living in every part of Nigeria, in Africa and all over the world. Don't be surprised if you ever meet an Easterner, living on an exotic cabin boat in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
When it comes to the love of money, they are still leading. While most believe in Business and Entrepreneurship, some believe in the quick roll in of cash. While some states have successfully kicked them off the pyramid of witchcraft & cultism (I am not calling any names. lol – I think they know themselves), ritual crafts are popular in the east. While some ritualists have seasons like Easter & Xmas, others are all weather ready to operate.
The Easterners spend lavishly on Burials. Before you think all well about this, it is safe to say they do that mostly in Burials. Sometimes, they hoard money so much; they don't spend much on themselves or on people till their death (few would disagree with this but it's almost the truth). They usually tag it to giving the dead a burial, befitting for a legend…. Which is great but I do think if the dead had that amount of money given to them when alive, to live a stress free life or enjoy some few years of travelling, they would be more grateful and won't even mind being buried without all the millions (I know I would prefer the later).
Most like everything with extra cash or gain attached to it. Most Easterners barely assemble for any gathering, just to have fun. Call an Easterner to show up some place, first thing most of them would ask is if there's something coming out and what's in it for them. This is absolutely why most top entrepreneurs can't host many things in the East that would require the youths to just turn up, have fun, connect and exchange ideas. Everything for most is just about the cash or nothing…. Like where do you just turn up without offering a value and money turns up magically? How can money ever trump connection? Connection can bring you money, but money can't bring you connection.
All these applies to a whole lot of people outside the East but the aye in the East is more.


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Neo-Nazi Bill White Defends Hitler, Attacks Activists on Lansing Radio Program
Last night on Lansing's Impact 89 FM, neo-nazi Bill White of the National Socialist Movement (NSM) denied the holocaust and defended Adolf Hitler while spreading lies about the Lansing Coalition against Nazis (LCAN) and protests planned against the NSM's rally this weekend in Lansing.
Last night on the radio station Impact 89 FM in Lansing, neo-Nazi spokesperson for the National Socialist Movement (NSM), Bill White, appeared on the City Pulse's weekly radio program to discuss the NSM's Saturday rally in Lansing. While the appearance was essentially planned to be a debate between White and Chris Alexander, a representative of the Lansing Coalition against Nazis (LCAN), there was little debate because as the representative of LCAN noted, White cares little for discussing any position and instead just repeats his baseless assertions over and over again while interrupting both Alexander and the host of the program.
Among the worst of these assertions was White's contention that the Holocaust did not happen and that the documented deaths of six million Jewish people were "fabrications" that originated with the Soviets, an argument that is fairly common among Holocaust deniers. He also said that Adolf Hitler, whose birthday the NSM is celebrating and whom they openly admire, was a "peaceful" man that saved the German people from the Bolshevik threat in the 1930s and that for the most part people other than Jewish people "admire" Hitler. He explained that Michigan was chosen because of the large number of "units" (chapters) that the NSM has in the state and the large amount of growth that the NSM has seen over the past year in the state. Of course, as is always the case with Bill White, the appearance feature a variety of character assassinations and outright lies about activists including the laughable claim that the Lansing activist group Direct Action!, a member of LCAN, has "dozens of people in jail" for bombings and arsons, despite the fact that the information is completely untrue. White and the NSM have consistently misrepresented the fact that Direct Action! was labeled as "domestic terrorists" in an FBI document in 2002 and has used the information to attempt to discredit those planning to protest the NSM. He went on to "reveal" information that the Lansing police are aware of specific plans that members of LCAN want to shoot public officials or members of the NSM at Saturday's rally and that additional intelligence information states many protestors are brining weapons. None of the information was sourced in a way that listeners could verify it and its veracity seemed dubious at best.
Despite the fact that the NSM does have a clear political program, there was almost no discussion of what Alexander called the NSM's "serious agenda" and the NSM's efforts to appeal to youth and working class people in Michigan and the United States through a program of radical change. While some of the NSM's politics were revealed when White stated that the NSM is in favor of "at least" some form of segregation (he cited a recent vote to separate Omaha's school district along racial lines as a potential example) and described how he believes that each race has distinct skills and characters. White also stated that the group opposes "illegal immigration" and did not comment when Alexander pointed out that the group supports "deportation" by force if necessary of immigrants. Throughout the interview White would briefly mention that the NSM wants to stand up for "white workers," but specifics were never offered as to what that meant. Alexander agreed with White's assertions that working people in Michigan are being hit hard and that this offers a context for the NSM and other neo-Nazi groups to appeal, but completely disagreed with the solution being proposed by the NSM and argued that grassroots organizing, such as that done by LCAN in the community, and the people need to come together as a community both to resist Nazis and address the problems facing working people in Michigan as it is clear that that the state will not do so.
Towards the end of the segment, there was a brief discussion of the ongoing debate over how the NSM's rally will take place and questions regarding the LCAN protest. White explained that the NSM's plans remain fluid pending the outcome of an injunction filed yesterday in court to prevent Lansing from erecting a massive fence to separate protestors and the NSM and LCAN, responding to questions about the legality of its planned march. This discussion was continued via subsequent guests, including Lansing Mayor Virgil Berneo and Bishop Maxwell, who discussed the planned "diversity" rally which they encouraged people to attend instead of the protests being planned by LCAN. Mayor Berneo explained that while he personally opposes the Nazis' views that people need to understand that in a Democracy there has to be a "venue for discourse" among conflicting ideas. He also explained that legally the city cannot restrict the NSM from attending the diversity rally and that the Nazis can attend as long as they are "peaceful." Similarly, Bishop Maxwell, one of the organizers of the diversity rally, stated that if the Nazis show up at the diversity rally they will be "treated with respect and tolerance"—not for their ideas—but as people. Another guest, Kurt Frank of the Toledo Blade, who covered the NSM's rally last October in Toledo, explained that he thinks the city's preparations will prevent a repeat of the October riot in Toledo.
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NOTE: This was written last week. I didn't have time to post. Enjoy.
Methodology , aka implementation , monitoring , and delivery is important. What good is it if you just gather the first findings that come to mind. Being rigorous here is just as important as when you are planning and modeling the program. So I've searched the last six years of blogs posts and gathered some of them for you. They are all about Survey, a form of methodology. Survey is a methodology that is often used by Extension, as it is easy to use. However, organizing the survey , getting the survey's back , and dealing with non-response are problematic (another post, another time).
Participant background (who is attending and who isn't can be answered here).
Thinking through these five categories made all the difference for my colleague. (Evaluation was a new area.) I had forgotten about how useful this booklet is for people being exposed to evaluation for the first time and to surveys, as well. I recommend it.
As promised last week, this week is (briefly) on implementation, monitoring, and delivering evaluation.
Implementation. To implement an evaluation, one needs to have a plan, often called a protocol. Typically, this is a step-by-step list of what you will do to present the program to your target audience. In presenting your program to your target audience, you will also include a step-by-step list of how you will gather evaluation information (data). What is important about the plan is that it be specific enough to be replicated by other interested parties. When a plan is developed, there is typically a specific design behind each type of data to be collected. For example, specific knowledge change is often measured by a pretest-posttest design; behavioral change is often measured with a repeated measures design. Campbell and Stanley, in their classic book, Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for research, present a wealth of information about designs that is useful in evaluation (as well as research).
There are numerous designs which will help develop the plan for the implementation of the program AND the evaluation.
Monitoring. Simply put, monitoring is watching to see if what you said would happen, actually does. Some people think of monitoring as . Although monitoring may seem like being watched, it is being watched with a plan. When I first finished my doctorate and became an evaluator, I conceptualized evaluation simply as process, progress, product. This helped stakeholders understand what evaluation was all about. The monitoring part of evaluation was answered when I asked, "Are we making progress? Are we where we said we would be at the time we said we would be there?" This is really important because sometimes, as Jonny Morell points out in his book, evaluation don't always go as planned, even with the best monitoring system.
Delivering. Delivering is the nuts and bolts of what you are going to do. It addresses the who, what, where, when, how, and why of the implementation plan. All of these questions interrelate–for example, if you do not identify who will conduct the evaluation, often the evaluation is "squeezed in" at the end of a program because it is required.
In addition to answering these questions when delivering the evaluation, one thinks about the models, or evaluation approaches. Stufflebeam, Madaus, and Kellaghan (in Evaluation models: Viewpoints on educational and human services evaluation) discuss various approaches and state that the approach used by the evaluator will provide a framework for conducting an evaluation as well as presenting and using the evaluation results.


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Tech stocks fuel Wall Street rebound
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Major US stock indexes have closed higher after the US temporarily eased curbs on China's Huawei Technologies, raising expectations that the two countries would work towards a trade deal.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 197.4 points at 25,877.33. The S&P 500 was up 24.3 points at 2,864.48 and the Nasdaq Composite was up 83.4 points at 7,785.72.
Brexit: Has PM's 'new deal' made things worse?
Laura Kuenssberg
BBC political editor
Did the prime minister just make it worse? It hardly seems that would have been possible.
Her agreement with the EU had been sharply kicked out several times by MPs. She'd promised that she would quit and get out of the way if that bought more support. Then she took the risk of talking to the political enemy to try to get a different deal.
But those measures failed - leaving her hope this time to dangle a bauble to each of Parliament's different Brexit tribes in the much more extensive plan of how she'd actually put our departure into law.
But even before she started talking, many MPs simply weren't listening.
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Jellyfish and insects for tea kids?
The chief executive of Sainsbury's Mike Coupe has written a column for Retail Week.
In it he speculates about what we might be eating in the future.
"In five years' time, we could be eating insect carbonara and drinking algae-milk lattes as we incorporate more sustainable forms of protein into our diets," he said.
"In 30 years' time, we could be eating jellyfish for dinner given its richness in vitamins and nutrients."
M&S results key to its place in the FTSE 100
Marks and Spencer publishes full year results tomorrow, it is expected to make around an underlying pre-tax profit of £520m, down 10% on the previous year.
How shares react to those results could help determine if M&S remains in the FTSE 100 index.
At the moment M&S is in danger of falling out of the UK's main share index, where it's been since 1984.
"A demotion from the FTSE 100 wouldn't directly affect the department store's business performance, but it would be a hugely symbolic moment for M&S, and for the retail sector as a whole. In a sign of the changing of the guard, Ocado, with whom M&S recently went into partnership, is now nestled safely in the top half of the FTSE 100, after being promoted to the index just last year," said Laith Khalaf, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.
"M&S profits actually peaked in 1998, though its share price hit a high in 2007. Shares are now trading around 10% lower than at the start of the millennium, but even so investors have still doubled their money over this period through those all-important dividends," he said.
French woman seeks £276m Boeing damages
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Nadege Dubois-SeexImage caption: Nadege Dubois-Seex
A French woman whose husband died in the crash of a Boeing 737 Max airliner in Ethiopia has filed a US lawsuit against the planemaker, seeking at least $276m in damages.
The crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 in March killed all 157 passengers and crew aboard and followed the death in October of 189 people on a Lion Air 737 Max which crashed into the ocean off Indonesia in similar circumstances.
Dozens of families have sued Boeing over the Lion Air crash, and several lawsuits have been lodged over the Ethiopian crash near the capital Addis Ababa, which led airlines around the world to ground the Boeing 737 Max.
The lawsuit on behalf of Nadege Dubois-Seex, whose husband Jonathan Seex was a Swedish and Kenyan citizen and chief executive of the Tamarind Group of companies, was filed in a US District Court in Chicago, her lawyer said on Tuesday.
"Our family has lost its shining knight and the world has lost a brilliant entrepreneur," Mrs Dubois-Seex said.
One Direction writer snapped up by music investment fund
Can you name the UK's most consistent hitmaker of the last decade?
It's actually Jamie Scott, at least according to music investor Merck Mercuriadis, founder of Hipgnosis Songs fund, who has just snapped up Scott's catalogue for the fund.
The figures are impressive: Scott is responsible for 84 number ones, 188 top fives and 247 top 10s across the world although his main claim to fame is being the man behind 29 One Direction songs.
The fund raised £140m of equity capital last month to help it continue to acquire music catalogues such as Scott's.
'They're all quite scared'
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Unite says British Steel workers at Scunthorpe are anxious to find out if they still have jobs.
Brexit: Businesses 'in limbo'
Theresa May has told MPs they have "one last chance" to deliver Brexit, as she set out a "new Brexit deal".
MPs will get a vote on whether to hold another referendum if they back the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill, she said.
But Adam Marshall, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said:
"Businesses need concrete outcomes to plan for the future. In the absence of parliamentary consensus on either the withdrawal agreement or any other proposition for the future, both businesses and investment remain in limbo.
"Companies across the UK are frustrated, but most are still concerned about the prospect of a messy and disorderly exit from the EU. The date may have changed, but the practical questions businesses face remain the same - and the real-world impacts of parliamentary indecision and delay are growing each and every day."
New York jury awards $25m in Johnson & Johnson talc case
Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay at least $25m in damages to plaintiff Donna Olson and her husband as part of a lawsuit alleging its talcum powder caused cancer, Bloomberg reports.
The New York jury will return next week to consider punitive damages, the article said.
Vatican fraud reports reach six year low
Reports of suspicious financial activity in the Vatican reached a six-year low in 2018, an internal watchdog report has said.
"I think it's fair to say that a fully functioning system has been implemented and achieved," said Rene Bruelhart, a Swiss lawyer and anti-money laundering expert who has headed the the Vatican's Financial Information Authority (AIF) since 2014.
The report showed that 56 Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) were filed with the authority in 2018, down from a peak of 544 in 2015.
Eleven were passed on to the Vatican's investigating magistrate. They involved suspicion of international fraud, fiscal fraud or market abuse.
The trial of a former head of the Vatican bank and an Italian lawyer on charges of money laundering and embezzlement began last year and is still in progress.
For decades before reforms were implemented, the bank, officially known as the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), was embroiled in numerous financial scandals as Italians with no right to have accounts opened them with the complicity of corrupt insiders.
Pope Francis, who has made cleaning up Vatican finances a priority and given Mr Bruelhart wide powers, considered closing the IOR when he was elected in 2013.
Hundreds of accounts have been closed at the IOR, whose stated purpose is to manage funds for the Church, Vatican employees, religious institutes, or Catholic charities.
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Pound jumps but then declines
Sterling jumped more than 05% against the euro and the dollar after Bloomberg, citing sources, reported that Prime Minister Theresa May had proposed a free vote on a second Brexit referendum.
However, after Mrs May's speech opening the door to a second referendum, the pound started to decline again after Mrs May indicated there would not be a free vote and as traders again weighed up the likelihood of a second referendum.
Metro Bank chairman survives shareholder vote
Simon Gompertz
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Metro Bank chair Vernon Hill, pictured with dog Duffy, founded the bank in 2010Image caption: Metro Bank chair Vernon Hill, pictured with dog Duffy, founded the bank in 2010
Metro Bank's chairman, Vernon Hill, has survived the Annual General meeting of the bank's shareholders, despite a precarious few months.
Investors representing 12% of the shares voted to eject him from his post, and there was a 20% vote against directors' pay.
A leading fund manager, Legal & General Investment Management, had warned that it would vote against him, citing "continuing concerns following the recent announcements on accounting errors and the significant share price underperformance."
Metro Bank shares have regained some ground from the low of 475p last week.
Then it was raising £375m in emergency funds after admitting earlier that it hadn't been holding enough capital against its loans.
The shares now stand at 698p, up 6% on the day but still nearly 80% down on a year ago.
"This fiasco should never have happened," one shareholder Dharmendra Shah said, "If you are a prudent businessman you should be able to anticipate events."
Breaking'One last chance' to get Brexit done, says May
Theresa May says MPs will get vote on whether to hold another referendum if they back EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill.
Corbyn: Government must be prepared to nationalise British Steel
The Labour Party has called on the government to take a stake in British Steel "to protect jobs and support the UK's infrastructure and renewable energy systems."
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said:
"The collapse of British Steel would have a devastating impact on thousands of jobs in Scunthorpe, and could have major knock on effects on wider supply chains...
"Britain's proud steel industry has a major role to play in ushering in a Green Industrial Revolution, securing British manufacturing for a sustainable, green future. It needs support, not a death warrant."
US stocks rise
US stock indexes are rising in a broad-based rally as Washington's decision to temporarily ease curbs on China's Huawei Technologies allayed concerns over a further escalation in trade war between the two countries.
Chipmakers, which bore the brunt of a sell-off on Monday, rose after the US granted the Chinese telecoms equipment maker a license to buy US goods until 19 August.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 181 points at 25,861. The S&P 500 was up 25 points at 2,864 and the Nasdaq Composite was up 87 points at 7,789.
UK 'must not prop up British Steel'
Free market think tank the Adam Smith Institute has called for the government to stop "throwing any more cash into a burning furnace to prop up the business of two super-rich brothers".
"Greybull Capital demanding taxpayers' put money on the line to save their business while limiting their own exposure is the worst of crony capitalism.
"Money funnelled from your pockets to Westminster and onto Mayfair, with the pretense of saving Scunthorpe just prolongs the inevitable," the think tank says.
"It's not the government's role to bailout collapsing businesses," it adds.
British Steel 'glimmer of hope'
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British Steel is on the verge of administration as it continues to lobby for government backing.
However, manufacturer industry body UK Steel says comments by business minister Andrew Stephenson earlier to leave "no stone unturned" to support the steel industry brought a "glimmer of hope".
"This does provide some breathing space for the company, its employees, and the wider steel sector, providing a potential route towards a stable and sustainable future," said UK Steel director general, Gareth Stace.
BreakingJamie Oliver restaurants: 1,000 jobs go
Administrators for Jamie Oliver's restaurant group have said there will be approximately 1,000 redundancies and that all but three of the chain's 25 restaurants have closed.
Will Wright, partner at KPMG and joint administrator, said: "The current trading environment for companies across the casual dining sector is as tough as I've ever seen."
After an unsuccessful sale process, the group's directors decided the call in administrators, he said.
"Unfortunately, with insufficient funds available to be able to trade the business in administration, all but the Gatwick airport restaurants have now closed," Mr Wright added.
"Our priority in the coming hours and days is to work with those employees who have been made redundant, providing any support and assistance they need."
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Today people everywhere take mirrors for granted, but not every mirror gives an accurate reflection. Even apart from the type of distorting mirror that is used in carnivals, there is actually quite a range of reflection accuracy in normal commercial mirrors – as you can often see by comparing several together.
Nevertheless, despite imperfections they may have, we all need mirrors occasionally to check on ourselves as we go through life. Sometimes we need a spiritual mirror too, and there the level of reflection accuracy becomes much more important, of course. But when it comes to taking a look at our own characters and spiritual condition, it's amazing how often many people will settle for mirrors which can't really be trusted to give an accurate reflection. We all fall prey to this to some extent. When we ourselves attempt to judge how we are doing spiritually, we run the risk of getting an inaccurate reflection as Jeremiah 17:9 reminds us, because "The heart is deceitful above all things…" and it's that human "heart" or mind that twists things so constantly that we simply can't trust its judgment. Even if we turn to friends and fellow believers to get input on issues regarding our character and behavior, the "reflection" we get from them may be distorted by friendship, too.
The truth is there is only one spiritual mirror we can trust and that is the one God provides us in His word. It's a particularly effective "mirror" because it works two ways. First, the word of God doesn't pull any punches. We can always trust it to "tell it like it is" because its reflection goes much deeper than our surface selves: "For the word of God is... sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates … the thoughts and attitudes of the heart" (Hebrews 4:12). That's a non-distorting reflection we can trust one hundred percent. It might be discouraging at times to see a true reflection of our inner nature, but there is another, more positive way the word of God acts as a mirror for us which does change the reflection to our advantage. The more we look into the mirror of the word, the more we clearly see the nature of Christ himself – an image to which we are striving to conform as Paul tells us: "We … beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image ..." (2 Corinthians 3:18).
So God provides a mirror that we can trust when it comes to seeing things we need to change and fix – and also provides us with a mirror that gives us a clear image to aim for as we change. It's really not that complicated: a reflection of what we need to avoid and one of what we need to be. The only caution is that we mustn't forget to regularly check the mirror we are given and to act on its reflection, as the apostle James wrote: "Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do" (James 1:22-25). That's a mirror we can trust – all we have to do is use it regularly.


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Claims Setoff: Law vs. Practice
Colin Barrett | Jun 27, 2011 12:00AM EDT
Q: Is it acceptable for a shipper to set off claims against freight charges owed prior to finalization of the claim?
We're a motor carrier, and we were still investigating the claim to determine the cause when the shipper deducted the amount from our freight bills. We question whether this is proper.
We do business with this shipper on a common carrier basis — that is, shipment by shipment with the bills of lading serving as the only transportation contracts. The freight bills against which the shipper held out the claim amount had nothing to do with the shipment on which the claim arose. Inasmuch as the shipments were unrelated, again we wonder whether the setoff was proper.
The claim amount is relatively small, about $6,000, but the principle still concerns us.
A: Unless you were taking an inordinate amount of time with your claim investigation, you have a very rude shipper there. Whether you have potential legal redress, however, is another question.
I have to take personal responsibility for popularizing setoff as a claim-collecting method for shippers. About 35 years ago, it was widely deemed illegal for a shipper to do this, by virtually all commentators on the question as well as by the former Interstate Commerce Commission.
But for reasons too complicated to go into here, I found myself researching the matter in connection with this column, and came across a major line of court rulings all the way up to the Supreme Court that reached the opposite conclusion. I wrote it up, said that in my view setoff was perfectly legal, and, after the predictable screams of outrage, was vindicated. Yes, Virginia, not only is there a Santa Claus, but setoff is legal.
It's also, as I wrote then and have been writing ever since, not the preferred means of resolving claims disputes. It should be a last resort, applied only when a carrier is proving unreasonably recalcitrant about paying a clear-cut claim obligation. Shippers who use it otherwise risk some nasty consequences.
Now, if your investigation, when you finish it, shows the claim to be valid, that's an end of it. You have a discourteous shipper, too distrustful to even wait for you to complete an investigation that is quite proper for you to conduct, but he's just been impolite; he hasn't violated the law.
But say your investigation shows you aren't liable, that the loss or damage resulted from improper packaging, an act of God, inherent vice of the goods or pre- or post-transportation misadventure. Now the shipper's in deep doo-doo.
You sue for your unpaid freight charges, plus — the "plus" being late-payment penalties, costs of litigation and anything else your tariffs or agreements allow you to pile on. The shipper tries to defend on the basis of its claim, but that falls flat. So it's fresh out of excuses for not paying you and facing what is probably a fairly unsympathetic court.
Any shipper dumb (or arrogant) enough to put itself voluntarily in this lousy position simply because it's too impatient to bide its time probably deserves what it gets.
Your point about the withheld freight charges applying to shipments other than the one on which the claim accrued isn't well taken. What you're doing is confusing this situation with the law that says carriers can't withhold delivery of current shipments for payment of past-due freight charges on other shipments, an act known as holding a shipment hostage and definitely illegal in most jurisdictions. But this doesn't cut both ways.
All that's at stake in a setoff situation is money, on both sides. The shipper owes you money for freight charges; you owe the shipper money for a claim. In such cases, the law is that the two of you aren't required to exchange checks; it's quite OK for one of you to apply the money the other owes you against what you owe him.
For those who want case law to support this, see in particular U.S. v. Munsey Trust Co., 332 U.S. 234 (1947) for the general principle. Among those extending it to transportation are North Chicago Rolling Mill Co. v. Ore & Steel Co., 152 U.S. 576 (1894); C. & N. W. Ry. Co. v. Lindell, 281 U.S. 14 (1930); Burlington Northern Inc. v. U.S., 462 F.2d 526; Johnson Motor Transp. v. U.S., 149 F.Supp. 175; and N. P. Ry. Co. v. Associated General Contractors of N.D., 152 F.Supp. 126.
Yes, they're all old cases, but it's still good law. It's just not always good practice.
Consultant, author and educator Colin Barrett is president of Barrett Transportation Consultants. Send your questions to him at 5201 Whippoorwill Lane, Johns Island, S.C. 29455; phone, 843-559-1277; e-mail, BarrettTrn@aol.com. Contact him to order the most recent 351-page compiled edition of past Q&A columns, published in 2010.
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On the way out aboard the Queen of Hearts, we got a taste of why the boats couldn't go out on Monday.
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (KGO) -- On the way out aboard the Queen of Hearts, we got a taste of why the boats couldn't go out on Monday.
Big swells in the Channel rocked our boat, sending one little boy flying. He and his brother asked Santa to see the big waves.
The first wave we saw was a 20' face. Then came Long lulls between sets, and suddenly, the pack of surfers scrambled-- lining up to see who is going to go.
One boat had a close call, getting rocked by a big wave.
As the day wore on, the tide dropped-- the waves getting bigger, throwing out over the shallow reef.


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It also offers a one of a kind proven airlock protection, designed to provide a barrier keeping air and moisture from coming in contact with your breast milk, as well as narrow tubing that's impossible to clean. Your breast milk stays purely yours.
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After researching the 117 reviews I found on Amazon, I've come to a conclusion. The Ameda Purely Yours Breast Pump is a great pump for a great price! What I like most about this breast pump is the fact that the breast milk goes directly into the bottle and there's no chance of backflow to contaminate it. Most breast pumps have lots of tubing and sometimes the milk will backflow into the tubing, possibly contaminating it or causing moisture to build up in the tubes. Once this happens it's extremely hard to get the tubing cleaned. Because of Ameda's airlock protection, you don't have to worry about that.
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Now, having said all that, I must tell you what I don't like about the Ameda Purely Yours Breast Pump. The NOISE! It's loud, and after using it continuously for an extended period of time, it seems to get louder. Several reviewers claimed to have problems with the motor after using it for a long period of time, like 7.5 months of using it every day up to 6 times a day. The plus is that those same reviewers were able to contact Hollister (the manufacturer) and had replacements parts, or even motors, replaced within days. Reviewers stated that because the customer service was so incredibly friendly and fast, regardless of the motor problems, they were still extremely satisfied.
The Ameda Purely Yours Breast Pump is not perfect, nothing is, but I do feel it is still an excellent investment. Keep in mind, just like anything else parts have to be replaced occasionally. Unfortunately, it's not like you can just run down to the store and pick up extra parts for your Ameda Purely Yours Breast Pump, you have to order it online. I recommend purchasing an Ameda Extra Parts Kit to have on hand just in case, or a separate manual breast pump, like the Medela Harmony, or the AVENT Manual Breast Pump, just in case your Ameda Purely Yours Breast Pump is out of commission.
Airlock protection keeps milk from back flowing into the tubes or the motor.


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Q: Primary Key when storing a lot of data for a short period of time i'm having doubts on how to create a table for temporary storing error messages.

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*A lot of inserts and deletes

*A GUID as foreign key, likely to be left outer joined

*A simple nvarchar field for the ErrorMessage

Which primary key, if any, and indexes should I use for storing a lot of data for a short period of time?
Thanks

A: I would disagree with Jay - check out Kim Tripp's The Clustered Index Debate continues.
Among other things, she says that having a good primary/clustered key (on an INT IDENTITY column - NOT a GUID column) will actually speed up your inserts and deletes.
So even if you use your table only for a short period of time, it would be advisable to have a TableID INT IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY column to get a good, fast primary key and clustered index, and as little other indices as possible (since those will slow down inserts for sure).
Depending on how often you'll be referencing your GUID column as a foreign key, you might also want to add an index there - since it'll speed up lookups for sure.
If you're bulk-loading lots of data (says: ten of thousands of rows at once), you could also think about dropping that index before the load and recreating it once the data is loaded (which is probably going to be faster than having it in place all the time) - but again: that depends on the amount of data you're loading, and how often.
Marc

A: I would put an index on your GUID foreign ID field, because your going to be looking up the errors based on that.
As for primary key.  you haven't mentioned a requirement that forces a need for a primary key.  And that will just add some extra overhead.
However, you'll probably need to do a sort, and for that you'll need a numeric field, or a date field.  I suggest simply adding a numeric field to the table, so you can sort based on the order error messages were created.  But you probably don't need to make that field a primary field, as the data doesn't last long.

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Q: How to register new route from the controller action method? I have to develop some pages and public handles (aka, aliases) for those pages.
(To get the idea: in the facebook you can have alias for your page and the final URL will look like facebook/alias instead of facebook/somelongpieceofsomestuff).
I store public handle in the db table and make sure that all handles are unique.
Now I've added routing registration for my handles:
public override void RegisterArea(AreaRegistrationContext context)
{
    // Assume, that I already have dictionary of handles and ids for them
    foreach(var pair in publicHandlesDictionary)
    {
        var encId = SomeHelper.Encrypt(pair.Key);
        context.MapRoute(pair.Value, pair.Value,
            new {controller = "MyController", action="Index", id = encId});
    }
}

So, now I can reach some page by using address http://example.com/alias1 instead of http://example.com/MyController/Index&id=someLongEncryptedId.
And this stuff works fine, ok.
But what if I start the applicatian, then add new handle? This new handle will not be registered, because all routes registration are performed when app is started. Basically, I have to restart the application (the IIS, the VS/IIS Express, the Azure, doesn't matter) to get all routes be registered again including my new handle.
So, is there any way to add new route registration from the controller's action method (when new handle is added)?

A: you dont need to create all routes at app start.
just use IRouteConstraint to determine what should follow alias logic
public class AliasConstraint : IRouteConstraint
{
    public bool Match(HttpContextBase httpContext, Route route, string parameterName, RouteValueDictionary values, RouteDirection routeDirection)
    {
        var alias = values[parameterName];
        // Assume, that I already have dictionary of handles and ids for them
        var publicHandlesDictionary = SomeStaticClass.Dic;
        if (publicHandlesDictionary.ContainsValue(alias))
        {
            //adding encId as route parameter
            values["id"] = SomeHelper.Encrypt(publicHandlesDictionary.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Value == alias).Key);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
}

//for all alias routes
routes.MapRoute(
    name: "Alias",
    url: "{*alias}",
    defaults: new {controller = "MyController", action = "Index"},
    constraints: new { alias = new AliasConstraint() }
);

//for all other default operations
routes.MapRoute(
    name: "Default",
    url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
    defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);

this way you can update publicHandlesDictionary anytime and route will pick up the changes


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Tembec Inaugurates a New Treatment Facility
Montreal, Quebec, Canada 02 October 2012 -- Tembec officially inaugurated today a new anaerobic treatment facility which will produce methane biogas and greatly reduce the use of fossil fuels at its high-yield pulp mill in Matane, Québec. Dignitaries from the surrounding region and members of Tembec's senior management joined together with employees to inaugurate the new facility. This investment was announced January 10, 2011.
Funding for this investment was provided mainly by the Government of Canada with $19.7 million and the Government of Québec with $6.3 million. The overall project represents a total investment of $29 million - $26 million for the anaerobic facility and $3 million for the installation of the new electric boiler.
The project has two main components. The first is a new anaerobic treatment facility, which treats effluent and collects methane gas produced by the treatment process. This biogas will be used as fuel in the mill's pulp-drying process, in place of the light oils currently used. The second component is the installation of a new electric boiler, which replaces a heavy oil fuelled boiler. These two initiatives together will reduce by approximately 90% the use of oil as fuel sources for the generation of the Matane mill's various process steam and pulp drying requirements.
"This investment means better environmental, energy and economic performance for our Matane mill," said James Lopez, President and Chief Executive Officer of Tembec. "By substantially reducing operating costs, this project will help assure the competitive position of our high-yield pulp on the global market." "Tembec recognizes the support of the Government of Québec and the Government of Canada in the project, and we appreciate their confidence in helping us ensure the future of the mill," added Mr. Lopez.
The Matane mill, which has 140 employees, exports its high-yield pulp to the United States, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Korea and China.
Tembec is a manufacturer of forest products – lumber, pulp, paper and specialty cellulose – and a global leader in sustainable forest management practices. Principal operations are in Canada and France. Tembec has some 4,000 employees and annual sales of approximately $2 billion. Tembec is listed on the TSX (TMB).
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of securities laws. Such statements relate, without limitation, to the Company's or management's objectives, projections, estimates, expectations or predictions of the future and can be identified by words such as "may", "will", "could", "anticipate", "estimate", "expect" and "project", the negative or variations thereof, and expressions of similar nature. Forward looking statements are based on certain assumptions and analyses made by the Company in light of its experience, information available to it and its perception of future developments. Such statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, changes in foreign exchange rates, product selling prices, raw material and operating costs and other factors identified in the Company's periodic filings with securities regulatory authorities. Many of these risks are beyond the control of the Company and, therefore, may cause actual actions or results to materially differ from those expressed or implied herein. The forward-looking statements contained herein reflect the Company's expectations as of the date hereof and are subject to change after such date. The Company disclaims any intention to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, unless required by applicable securities legislation.


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Berkeley, CA

_For Ben, and all of his earthly treasures_ —GS

_To Leo and Diane Dillon, in everlasting gratefulness_ —CK

**Recess**

is Anh's favorite part of the day.

But not today.

Today his friends Sam and Charlie ran right past him, not even looking his way.
"Wait!" Anh called. "We're supposed to dig. I brought shovels and everything."

"We don't want to dig," said Sam, bouncing a big red ball in the dirt.

"Yeah," echoed Charlie. "Digging is for babies. We're playing kickball instead."

Anh felt like he'd been punched in the stomach.

"I don't want to play kickball," he said. "I want to dig."

But Sam and Charlie were already kicking the ball around and Anh was left alone.

Anh walked to the shade of the oak tree, a salty tear rounding the corner of his lip. He leaned against the tree and watched as the tear made a tiny puddle in the dirt.

"I'm glad you finally stopped," said a voice. "I've been trying to get your attention."

Anh lifted his head and saw a dark silhouette and a pair of red sneakers.
"Anger?" asked Anh. "Is that you?"

**"It's me!"**

said Anger. "You know I always show up when things aren't going your way."

Anh looked at his Anger. He hadn't seen him for a while.

"Why were you wearing all that stuff?" Anh asked. "I almost didn't recognize you."

"I was trying to be inconspicuous," Anger whispered.

"I'm not sure if I'm allowed at school."

Anh and Anger sat together watching the other kids play kickball.

"Sam and Charlie were supposed to dig with me," said Anh.

"I know," said Anger.
"Now I have no one to play with," Anh said. "And Charlie thinks I'm a baby."

"I can think of a thing or two that I'd like to say to Charlie," said Anger.

"Me too!" said Anh. "I'd stand up to him and I'd say, 'I'm no baby!'"

"And then," said Anger excitedly, "we'd grab the ball and we'd throw it at him."

"Come on," said Anger. "Let's find Sam and Charlie."

Anger jumped up and started to run.

"I don't know," Anh said. "Maybe this isn't such a good idea. Can we slow down?"

Anh and Anger began walking slowly together. With their first step, they took a breath in. With their next step, they let the breath out.

**_One step, breathing in. One step, breathing out._**

"I've never walked this slowly before," said Anger. "It feels funny."

"Let's try counting our steps," Anh suggested. "Maybe that will help."

**_One . . . Two . . . Three . . ._**

Anh and Anger quietly counted the rise and fall of each step.

**_Four . . . Five . . . Six . . ._**

Anh could feel his breath moving up and down in his belly.

**_Seven . . . Eight . . . Nine . . ._**

"It's hard to concentrate," said Anger. "I keep losing my count."

**_Ten . . . Eleven . . . Twelve . . ._**

Anh felt a cool breeze behind him, gently pushing him towards the field.

**_Thirteen . . . Fourteen . . . Fifteen . . ._**

The slow rhythm of Anh's breath comforted him and he started to feel better.

"Anger," called Anh. "Are you still here?"

"I'm right here," Anger answered softly.

"What are you doing?" asked Anh.

"I'm a little tired," said Anger. "I think I should stay here and rest."

"Okay," said Anh. "I can go on by myself now."

"Wait," said Anger, handing Anh a dandelion. "Make a wish."

Anh closed his eyes and drew in a big breath. He blew it out and watched the dandelion seeds scatter.

"Now _you_ make a wish," said Anh, turning to Anger, but Anger had already faded away.
Anh rose to his feet and walked slowly towards the field.

The sun was warm on his face and he wanted to play.

**_Sixteen . . . Seventeen . . ._**

Anh couldn't help walking a little faster.

**_Eighteen . . . Nineteen . . ._**

**"Twenty!"**

Anh said, the sound of his voice surprising him.

"Twenty what?" someone asked. It was Sarah, a girl from his class.

"Um, twenty steps from there to here," said Anh. He pointed back towards the big oak tree.

"Why were you counting your steps?" she asked.

Anh thought about his Anger, the oak tree, and the slow walk. He thought about Charlie and Sam.

"It's a long story," he said.

"I like long stories," Sarah said, poking in the dirt. "Hey look what I found!"

"Wow!" said Anh. "That's a really cool rock."

Sarah held the small shimmery stone up to the sun and it sparkled in the light.

"I've never seen a rock like that before!" said Sam, running up.

"I know," said Anh. "You can find a lot of neat stuff when you dig."

"You haven't told us your story," Sarah said. "Why were you counting your steps?"

"Yeah," said Charlie, coming over. "Why were you walking so slowly?"

Charlie, Sam, and Sarah gathered around. "Come on," they said. "Tell us."

Anh looked at his friends and smiled.

"Recess is my favorite part of the day . . ." Anh began.

_And it still was._

The illustrations are collages combined with brush and pencil drawings

Text © 2011 by Gail Silver

Illustrations © 2011 by Christiane Krömer

Edited by Rachel Neumann

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