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How were disputes resolved? It's your guess: Roseman
In three out of five cases, I helped customers win concessions from companies. But in two cases, I struck out.
In my Saturday columns, I usually say what happens in disputes I mediate between customers and large companies.
For a change of pace, I'll make you guess the outcome in each case. And I'll reveal the results at the end of this column.
Aeroplan : Jennifer McAvoy had 54,763 points she'd collected for 10 years. She called to book two reward flights to New York for a daughter's recital, only to learn her points had been cancelled a month earlier for inactivity.
Did Aeroplan restore her points at no cost?
BMO : Preethi Williams applied for a World Elite MasterCard on May 4. The card was mailed May 12 and she received it May 27. She called and emailed many times, but couldn't get through because of system problems.
As a result of the delays, she was charged $150 more for three airline fares than she was quoted originally. Did BMO compensate her for the extra cost?
The Brick : Sandip Shah thought he had bought a five-year warranty on a TV set, similar to his five-year warranties on other Brick products. His invoice said nothing about four years. Neither did the salesman.
But when he tried to use his $370 store credit for making no claims, he learned his warranty had expired a year earlier. Did the Brick give him the credit anyway?
Insta-Payment : Mona Nasreddine runs a chiropractic clinic. In 2013, she cancelled her credit card processing contract with Insta-Payment in writing. She also returned her terminal to Ladco and paid a $1,600 cancellation fee.
Later, a collection agency said she owed $3,000 on her contract – without itemizing the cost. Did Insta-Payment back off from its demand?
Capital One : A Hudson's Bay customer found her credit card was declined on a $61 purchase in May. She'd missed paying her April bill ($189), which had gone astray, but thought she could catch up when the May bill arrived.
As a long-time customer who always paid on time, she said it was wrong to cut her off for an overdue payment of less than 30 days. Did Capital One, which handles the Bay's credit card operation, agree to reinstate her?
Results : Two of the five complaints were resolved as the customers wanted. One customer wanted more than she received. And two customers struck out when the companies insisted they were right.
LeeAnn Dellaire, the Brick's dispute resolution manager, helped to give Sandip Shah a store credit long after his warranty expired. He bought a $799 dining set on sale at $499 and paid $130 (plus tax) after using his credit.
Insta-Payment apologized to Nasreddine for demanding $3,000. It sent two executives to her office to say she owed nothing, since her cancellation letter had been sent a year earlier.
Dan Kelly, president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business , helped Nasreddine and others who told me about problems with a credit card processing contract. I thank him for his efforts.
BMO compensated Preethi Williams with 5,000 Air Miles. While grateful, she wanted enough Air Miles to cover the $150 extra cost of airline fares caused by the delay. I forwarded her email to BMO and await a response.
Aeroplan told McAvoy she had to redeem or collect points once a year under the plan's terms. Refusing to pay $600 to buy back her points, she joined a class action lawsuit against parent company Aimia, launched in 2013, for allowing points to expire.
Capital One told the Hudson's Bay customer she'd have to live with the consequences of ignoring a $189 balance because she couldn't find her bill. "Our policy is 20 days after a missed payment," said spokeswoman Laurel Ostfield.
The woman, shocked to be cut off without warning, said she had called to check her account and heard she had $9,700 in available credit.
When first contacted by the Star, Capital One immediately reached out to the customer to resolve any outstanding issues with her account.
It's a hard pill to swallow. Many companies set the rules, enforce the rules and penalize customers who don't follow the rules. Loyalty? Forget it.
Ellen Roseman writes about personal finance and consumer issues. You can reach her at email@example.com or www.ellenroseman.com
Clarification - June 19, 2014: This article was edited from a previous version to to include Capital One's response to the customer.
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LOS ANGELES—Rush fans can relax. The band is now officially in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The Canadian rockers were welcomed into the musical fraternity at Thursday's 28th annual induction ceremony by the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins. At the beginning of the Nokia Theatre event, the audience was already administering a standing ovation to the group.
"We've been saying for a long time that this wasn't a big deal," drummer-lyricist Neil Peart told the crowd, most of whom came out to specifically support the band. "It turns out, it kind of is."
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Rush gained entry following its first appearance on the ballot after repeatedly being left off the list since gaining eligibility in 1998, to the great consternation of the legion of Rush fans who cried bias against progressive rock. The long wait didn't seem to matter at Thursday's star-studded concert event, which ran over five hours. Peart, lead singer Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson made up for lost time by launching into a rambunctious rendition of "Tom Sawyer" in front of the more than 7,000 attendees.
Rush was among this year's eight eclectic inductees, which also included fellow classic rockers Heart, singer-songwriter Randy Newman, rap group Public Enemy, disco queen Donna Summer, bluesman Albert King, and producers Quincy Jones and Lou Adler.
RUSH: An Oral History is now available. Star journalist Vinay Menon sat down with Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart, as well as their family, friends and colleagues to discuss the band's years together, the trappings of fame, their need to innovate, their near disbandment, and what they consider their secret to success. This is RUSH in their own words. To get your copy, subscribe for only $1 a week at StarDispatches.com or purchase for $2.99 at starstore.ca and iTunes.com/stardispatches .
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Sacramento committed five turnovers in the period, two of which came on consecutive possessions and led to layups by Lawson.
The Kings were never really in it. They led by one early in the game but a 28-7 run by Denver made it 35-15 late in the first quarter and trailed 39-25 heading into the second.
"I don't think it took us out emotionally but when you look up at that board and you see 39 up there, you know you have to have a huge second quarter to get back under control," Sacramento coach Keith Smart said.
The Kings showed brief life early in the second quarter when Marcus Thornton hit a 3-pointer to cut it 39-28, but the lead never dipped below double digits.
Denver's bench, led by JaVale McGee, scored 14 points in the second quarter as the lead grew to 22. Iguodala's 3-pointer with 10 seconds left in the second finished the Nuggets best half of the season.
"Ty had it going, he started things off and we got on a roll," Iguodala said.
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From 1955 to 1962, it seemed only the Americans could create convincing rock'n'roll, and few British records could compete. One exception was the atmospheric "Shakin' All Over" from Johnny Kidd and the Pirates (1960): the tense stop/start song, Kidd's belligerent vocal and Joe Moretti's dramatic guitar breaks combined to make a remarkable record.
Joe Moretti was born in the Glasgow docklands in 1938, the son of a Scottish-Italian father and an Irish mother. He taught himself to play his grandfather's piano, although he had ambitions to be an artist. With the advent of rock'n'roll and skiffle, Moretti acquired a cheap guitar and then a Hofner Senator. In 1957, he entered a newspaper competition for Glasgow's Tommy Steele. At the audition, he met the eventual winner, Alex Harvey. Harvey offered Moretti a place in his group, the seven-piece Kansas City Band (all from Glasgow).
In 1958, Moretti made his TV début on Six-Five Special with the Rikki Barnes All Stars. After marrying a young trainee nurse, Pina, they moved to London with £11. He went straight to the Two I's coffee bar in Soho, where he jammed with Tony Sheridan and Brian Bennett. He was offered a job with Tommy Steele's brother, Colin Hicks, and then he joined Vince Eager for a pantomime, Mother Goose, in Southport. "There was just me, Joe and Tex Makins so I don't know what we sounded like without a drummer," says Eager, "but Joe was a very good guitarist and ahead of his time. He left me and joined Vince Taylor and the Playboys, but I never got on well with Vince. My real name is Roy Taylor so I accused him of taking my name."
Vince Taylor, an American from Hounslow, had determination, if not talent, and he looked the part, with long sideburns and a black leather suit. Moretti played electrifyingly on "Brand New Cadillac", but it was banned by the BBC because of advertising, even though Cadillacs were not available in the UK. Taylor was later rediscovered and influenced David Bowie's creation, Ziggy Stardust. After the Playboys, Moretti moved to Johnny Duncan and his Bluegrass Boys then to the middle-of-the-road trumpeter, Eddie Calvert.
In 1960 he joined Johnny Kidd and the Pirates (Brian Gregg, Alan Caddy and Clem Cattini) for a session as Caddy felt nervous about playing the solo on "Shakin' All Over". Moretti told Dave Burke of Pipeline Instrumental Review in 2002: "I created the introduction, the backing figures, the solo, and slid a cigarette lighter across the strings to get that shakin' guitar sound. We had it down in a couple of takes." The single went to No 1 and he also played on the follow-up, "Restless".
Moretti did not tour with the Pirates as he was working in the Beat Boys with Gene Vincent. Vincent's agent, Larry Parnes gave Moretti £7 to go to Italy for a TV date, not appreciating that he needed the same amount to return. Moretti had to sell his guitar to get home. He borrowed a Fender Telecaster for a UK tour with Vincent, but almost immediately Vincent crashed into him on stage and broke the guitar. He said of his time with Vincent, "He didn't have a set list. Every song began with the word 'Well-ll-ll-ll" and we had to guess what it was going to be."
Another musician, Mike O'Neill, had acquired some plastic Roman gladiator costumes no longer required at Elstree film studios, and he formed a band, Nero and the Gladiators, with himself in a toga and a laurel wreath. Moretti became a Gladiator and played on "In the Hall of the Mountain King", again banned by the BBC, this time because it insulted Grieg.
The former Shadows Jet Harris and Tony Meehan had a UK No 1 with "Diamonds" in 1963, and Moretti joined their stage band with a schoolboy, John Paul Jones, later of Led Zeppelin, on bass. Because Harris was drinking heavily, Moretti often played his solos. He also played on their hits "Scarlett O'Hara" and "Applejack", and when Harris left, he played the lead on Meehan's "Song of Mexico".
Moretti had a residency at London's Flamingo club with Herbie Goins and the Nightimers, so could take daytime session work for Decca, Pye and EMI. He might play three sessions a day, five days a week. He is on Tom Jones's "It's Not Unusual" (1965) and Chris Farlowe's "Out of Time" (1966), both No 1s, as well as Donovan's "Mellow Yellow" (1967) and the original album for Evita (1976). He appeared, dressed as a Spanish guitarist, on a TV special with Barbra Streisand and wrote an instrumental tribute, "Little Evvy", for Kenny Everett and "Disco Kid" as the Sound of Pop.
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In the late 1970s, Moretti toured Africa with Madeline Bell and, knowing he owed tax in the UK, settled in South Africa. He formed a band for a casino in Sun City and settled in Johannesburg in 1981. His wife made costumes for dramas while their son, "Little Joe", became a gifted musician and music teacher. Asked if he regretted anything, Joe Snr said, "A course in business management would have helped."
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Michael Jackson may have set a record, 60 days without REM sleep
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A sleep expert Dr. Charles Czeisler, has testified that Michael Jackson could be the only human ever to have gone two months without REM sleep, the stage in normal sleep rhythm in which dreaming occurs and which experts say is essential for life.
Michael Jackson sleep deprived, lacked REM sleep before death
According to Dr. Charles Czeisler, a Harvard Medical School sleep expert, testifying on Friday at the trial of concert promoter AEG Live, the 60 nights of propofol infusion that Dr. Conrad Murray used to fight Michael Jackson's chronic insomnia may be unique because it is possible that no other person has undergone such extended treatment with the drug.
Czeisler said he was not aware of any other person having gone 60 days without REM sleep.
reports that Czeisler, a sleep consultant to NASA and the CIA, said "The symptoms that Mr. Jackson was exhibiting were consistent with what someone might expect to see of someone suffering from total sleep deprivation over a chronic period."
Jackson's personal staff, including and his choreographer, had testified that the symptoms he suffered before his death included inability to do regular dance routines, memory lapses such as forgetting songs he had known for a long time, paranoia, hearing voices and extreme weight loss.
Czeisler said: "I believe that that constellation of symptoms was more probably than not induced by total sleep deprivation over a chronic period."
The expert listed the effects of REM sleep deprivation as paranoia, anxiety, depression, learning impairment, exaggerated emotional responses, loss of appetite and physical reflexes, which get 10 times slower.
Jackson died while preparing for a comeback concert run.
Czeisler was testifying in a trial following a suit brought by Michael Jackson's mother Katherine and Michael Jackson's children against concert promoter AEG Live, claiming that the organization was liable in the performer's death because although it hired and retained Murray, it failed in its responsibility to monitor him properly and did not pay attention to early warning signs that Jackson's health was failing.
The late popstar's family also alleged that the company placed Murray under pressure to ensure that Jackson attended rehearsals while refusing to acknowledge the warning signs.
AEG Live's lawyers, however, said that Jackson hired Murray himself and that the company's executives did not have sufficient access to know that Jackson was undergoing propofol infusions in the privacy of his home.
Czeisler explained that propofol disrupts the normal sleep cycle. The "coma" it induces gives a patient a misleading feeling of having had a good night's sleep, but in fact, because it deprives the user of REM sleep, it does not allow the brain opportunity to undergo normal self-repair and maintenance.
Czeisler, describing the effect of REM sleep deprivation, said: "It would be like eating some sort of cellulose pellets instead of dinner. Your stomach would be full, and you would not be hungry, but it would be zero calories and not fulfill any of your nutrition needs."
He told the jury that the adult brain needs seven to eight hours of sleep for proper self-maintenance function. Explaining the effects of REM sleep deprivation and the functions of the body's internal clock, the circadian rhythm that controls hormonal activities associated with the cycle of night and day alternation between sleep and wakefulness, Czeisler, said: "That's why we sleep at night and are awake in the day. Your brain needs sleep to repair and maintain its neurons every night. Blood cells cycle out every few weeks, but brain cells are for a lifetime. Like a computer, the brain has to go offline to maintain cells that we keep for life, since we don't make more. Sleep is the repair and maintenance of the brain cells."
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, he said that during REM sleep "... we are integrating memories that we have stored during slow-eyed sleep, integrating memories with previous life experiences. We are able to make sense of things that we may not have understood while awake."
Czeisler said that had Jackson not died on June 25, 2009 of an overdose of propofol, he would likely have died before eighty days of propofol infusions. He said research experiments showed that rats deprived of REM sleep died after about five weeks, and that experiments had never been tried on humans before Jackson's doctor unwittingly tried it on his patient.
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The pop superstar Michael Jackson, died on June, 25, 2009, after his personal doctor Conrad Murray, administered an overdose of the drug propofol, an anesthetic.
Murray was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter and is serving a four-year prison sentence.
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After trying to explain its fourth defeat by seven points or less, Wisconsin will have to settle for a handout.
"People always say we didn't beat a big team, we didn't earn the right to go to the Big Ten championship," said junior tailback James White. "We really wanted to win this game. We just have to move forward to Penn State."
Wisconsin's game at Penn State means nothing in the landscape of the Big Ten Leaders Division. The Badgers (7-4, 4-3 Big Ten) can finish in a tie for second in the division with a win, but clinched a spot in the Dec. 1 title game two weeks ago due to Ohio State and Penn State being ineligible from postseason play.
His team has lost four games by a combined 16 points and lost to both ranked conference teams on its schedule, but Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema won't be tentative with his starters as he searches for a winning mixture.
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Bielema is cognizant that his team's mental and physical fatigue will be pivotal with a third straight trip to the Rose Bowl on the line in two weeks. To balance that, Bielema acknowledged potential changes as the Badgers prepare for their 12th game in 13 weeks.
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#1Posted 24 December 2012 - 01:53 PM
The kids were listening to CHrissy carols in the loungeroom. They are pretty hyped up about Christmas tomorrow so they seemed to be alternately playing and fighting, progressively getting louder and louder.
Just as the noise reached screaming fever pitch I could hear (faintly, in the background) ".....aaaallll is caaaaaaalllm; aaaaalllll is briiiiiiiight........" Ironic Christmas carol is ironic. #2Posted 24 December 2012 - 08:10 PM #3Posted 24 December 2012 - 08:29 PM #4Posted 24 December 2012 - 08:38 PM
that is gold!
#5Posted 24 December 2012 - 08:39 PM
hahaha what good timing!!!
#6Posted 24 December 2012 - 09:52 PM
Now all you need is that particularly nauseating one with the line
"...children all should be, mild, obedient, good as he." #7Posted 25 December 2012 - 09:27 AM
Further to the irony... now that all the presents are open it is actually very quiet. I'm hoping it takes the boys most of the day to build their new Lego.
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The department store chain, which caters to price-sensitive middle-class shoppers, said it expects same-store sales to be flat to up 2 percent this year, following a modest 0.3 percent gain last year.
Kohl's sales forecast is below that of rival Macy's Inc's 3.5 percent and suggests the company does not expect to benefit much from the steep sales decline of its most direct rival, JC Penney Co. Inc. On Wednesday, Penney reported a 31.7 percent same-store sales decline last quarter.
Kohl's said net income fell to $378 million, or $1.66 per share, from $455 million, or $1.82 per share, a year earlier for the quarter ended Feb. 2. The latest EPS result was 3 cents better than analysts' targets, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Kohl's gross profit margin fell 2.9 points to 36.2 percent of sales, largely because of price slashing in December to lure hesitant shoppers holding out for deals, then again in January to clear shelves to make room for spring merchandise.
"Sales for the fourth quarter developed very late and as a result, came at a cost to profitability," Kohl's Chief Executive Kevin Mansell said in a statement, noting that cost controls had limited the damage.
Kohl's struggled with finding the right level of inventory last year. Some months it ran out of merchandise and was deprived sales, while other months it had too much and ended up slashing prices.
As previously reported, Kohl's comparable sales for the quarter that included the holiday season were up 1.9 percent. At Macy's, they rose 3.9 percent, and at Dillard's Inc, they gained 3 percent.
Kohl's expects a full-year profit for the new fiscal year of between $4.15 and $4.45 per share, while Wall Street projected $4.56 per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
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Aliens vs. Predator is a science fiction first-person shooter video game, developed by Rebellion Developments, the team behind the 1999 original PC game, and published by Sega for Microsoft Windows, the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360. The game is based on the Alien vs. Predator franchise, a combination of the characters and creatures of the Alien franchise and the Predator franchise. There are three campaigns in the game, one for each race/faction (the Predators, the Aliens and the Colonial Marines), that, while separate in terms of individual plot and gameplay, form one overarching storyline.
Following the storyline of the campaign modes comes the multiplayer aspect of the game. In this Multiplayer section of the game, players face off in various different gametypes in various different ways.
Like we're seeing in all our other games, the small overclock is giving us a small performance boost. In this case you can see the extra MHz was just enough to get us over the 60 FPS average we want to see at 1680 x 1050.
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