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The consumer admitted that she accepted Chase's offers for two "zero interest" credit cards.
Chase filed a credit card collection lawsuit consisting of one count which alleged that she owed $ 14,931.25 under an "Account Stated" cause of action. In Parricai Farley v. Chase Bank, USA, N.A., the Florida District Court of Appeal for the Fourth Circuit, held that "when an account statement has 'been rendered to and received by one who made no objection thereto within a reasonable time,' a prima facie case for the correctness of the account and the liability of the debtor has been made'." The Farley court further explained that the defendant borrower may overcome this presumption by "meeting the burden of providing fraud, mistake or error" in the account. So, the consumer faced what is usually a very steep uphill struggle to overcome the presumption.
The bench trial on November 17, 2010, before the Honorable Shirley A Green exposed what appear to be systemic errors in Chase's electronic record keeping system.
Chase called the consumer as its first witness. It is not unusual for creditors and debt collectors to attempt to prove up their case through the consumer's testimony.
The consumer testified that she did not remember receiving the statements that Chase attached to its complaint as the basis for its account stated cause of action.
More importantly, the consumer testified that she reviewed the Chase's account statements and other documents. The statements contained "inaccurate information including incorrect address for her resident at the time they were sent." The consumer's testimony explained that the addresses shown on Chase's statements produced for trial contained an address where no building existed on the date shown on the documents. Other documents contained blanks where consumer's address should appear. Other documents contained "Sample A. Sample, 1234 Main Street, Anytown, USA 00000" where a name and address should appear.
On cross examination by her counsel, the consumer testified that both of her Chase accounts were "zero interest" accounts and that she did not remember receiving a notice of change of terms notifying her that Chase intended to increase the interest rates on her accounts. Consumer testified that she did not remember receiving documents entitled "Important Notice for Credit Card Customers about Changes to Your Cardmember Agreement" and "Important Information Regarding Changes to Your Account and Your Rights to Reject Charges."
Consumer further testified that she had personally calculated the balance of both accounts and that the amount she owed was $ 85.22. The consumer had paid substantial amounts which were all to be credited to her account which legally remained a "zero interest" account.
The consumer volunteered that she would not object to a judgment against her in the amount of $ 85.22.
Chase also called Michelle Donaldson, and sought to have documents presented at trial admitted as business records under Florida's business record exception to the hearsay rule.
During voir dire, Ms. Donaldson stated that she worked for "Chase" but was unable to state whether she worked for Chase Bank USA, N.A., or Chase Bankcard Services, Inc. Ms. Donaldson testified that Chase did not have a hard copy or physical paper file of the account records but rather that Chase's records were computerized. Ms. Donaldson admitted that she did not input any of the information concerning the account into Chase's computerized system. Ms. Donaldson further admitted that she lacked personal knowledge of Chase's procedures for inputting any of the information into Chase's computer nor could she produce any manuals or written policies explaining the procedure or policy of how the customer information was inserted into the computer. Nor did Ms. Donaldson know whether Chase's computer system now being used was being used when the account was opened and at the time the credit card charges were made and if or how the data was converted to a new system. Finally, Chase's witness admitted that she did not have personal knowledge of the reliability of the computer system or the audit procedure used to assure the integrity of the computerized records.
The consumer's lawyer, Mr. Leonard Cabral, timely objected to the admission of Chase's documents and the court sustained the consumer's objections that Chase's documents were hearsay. The court reviewed the requirements of Florida's business records exception to the hearsay rule which authorizes the court to admit documents made at or near the time by, or from information transmitted by, a person with knowledge, if kept in the course of a regularly conducted business activity and if it was the regular practice of that business activity to make such memorandum, report, record, or data compilation all as shown by the testimony of the custodian or other qualified witness, unless the sources of information or other circumstances show lack of trustworthiness. Florida Statutes, Section 90.803.
The court found that the records Chase proffered into evidence were not made in the ordinary course of Chase's business but, rather , were created for the trial. The court also found that Chase's records lacked trustworthiness and were not admissible. Because Chase's records lacked trustworthiness, Chase's witness could testify only upon matters that she had personal knowledge of. Ms. Donaldson was truthful that she did not have the personal knowledge required by the Court.
The Court entered judgment in the amount of $ 85.22 against the consumer and in favor of Chase Bank USA, N.A. despite their objection.
In the Volusia County, Florida credit card lawsuit, the inference is that Chase's system produces documents for trial bearing the cardholder's address which is current when the documents are printed out. Chase's records concerning the mailing of any account documents or statements are to say the least "suspect".
Chase remains under investigation by the United States Securities Exchange Commission arising from Linda Almonte's (a former Chase manager) whistleblower suit alleging that as many as 20 percent of Chase Bank's so-called "judgment accounts" failed Chase Bank's internal tests for accuracy but were nevertheless sold to a debt buyer, DebtOne LLC. Ms. Linda Almonte also alleged that Chase's paper and computer records were frequently unreliable. Although Ms. Almonte settled her wrongful discharge lawsuit in Texas courts, her SEC whistleblower complaint remains active.
Chase Bank also acquired the credit card operations of Washington Mutual and, with WaMu, the Providian credit card portfolio where Martha Kunkle (allegedly a deceased employee) robo-signed affidavits for junk debt buyers to use in credit card collection lawsuits. Probably as a result of the Martha Kunkle controversy, Chase has dismissed thousands of collection cases nationwide and has announced plans to close down its in house collection law operations including in Florida.
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Child Custody False Allegations - Defeating False Accusations - Mental Abuse
When it comes to playing dirty the worst trick in the book is to falsely accuse someone of a crime against their own child. It will make your blood boil and take you completely off of your child custody strategy. It creates the worst possible relationship between parents. It takes a special brand of "evil" to do that to a child.
Make no mistake, falsely accusing a parent of abuse is a crime against the child because it is ultimately the child who will pay the price of having parents at each other's throats instead of having them cooperate for their benefit. In fact in some states (including California) if one parent falsely accuses the other parent of abuse, it is considered grounds to have custody terminated.
It is helpful to first define what Mental Abuse is. Mental Abuse is defined as belittling, humiliating, name calling, shaming, making negative comparisons, yelling, threatening, bullying, exposing to inappropriate behaviors or situations.
Having the definition is one of the best tool you can have to not only survive this accusation but to defeat it. In order to turn this around it is helpful to know that Mental Abuse is typically learned and is lifelong. It does not just pop up one day. In short it is the type of thing that has a history. Like other forms of abuse, if it is a serious accusation, then it should be reported to Child Protective Services (CPS). Failure of the other parent to report it prior to a custody battle can help prove the lack of a history.
One of the best things that can happen to you, if you are falsely accused, is to have CPS investigate the claim. Yes, it is a good thing. These are professionals that can identify and separate real claims from false. If you find yourself talking to CPS out of the blue, the first thing you should say is, "did the other parent mention that we are in the middle of a custody battle?". This gives them an immediate reason to draw a conclusion in your favor. Once they have concluded that there is no basis you can now boast about it.
If the accusation is made in mediation or with an evaluator the question you need to ask is, "If this is true, why didn't they call CPS?". The mediator or evaluator can then conclude that they didn't call because it wasn't true.
Keep in mind that there is a history with abuse. If you have correspondence from the other parent about, daycare, child support, expenses, and stuff, then why wasn't there ever a message about abuse? The answer is, "because there wasn't any".
I understand that this is an extremely ugly allegation to have made against you, but if you are smart, in the long run it can work for you an against them.Ed
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To Evaluate or Facilitate? Parties' Perceptions of Mediation Affected by Mediator Style
Roselle Wissler
Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Dispute Resolution Magazine, Vol. 7, p. 35, Winter 2001
This article reports findings from four empirical studies of mediation in civil and domestic relations cases that examined the effect of mediator style on parties' perceptions of mediation. The mediator's encouraging the parties to express their feelings and summarizing what the parties said had by far the strongest and most consistently positive effects on parties' perceptions. If the mediator evaluated the merits of the case and made some suggestions about possible settlements, the parties generally had more favorable perceptions of mediation. But if the mediator recommended a specific settlement, parties felt pressured to settle and thought the mediation process was less fair and the mediator was less neutral. When mediators kept silent about their views of the case, parties' perceptions were generally neither enhanced nor diminished. Overall, similar patterns of findings were observed in both civil and domestic relations mediation.
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WYOMING, MI -- The West side of Michigan represented itself well Friday night in the Golden Gloves state semifinals, winning 16 of the 21 scheduled bouts.
The winners move ahead to Saturday's state finals with the open class fighters having the opportunity to represent the state in the National Golden Gloves Tournament in Las Vegas.
Four rematches are on tap for Saturday including a controversial matchup at 152-pounds in the open class.
In last Saturday's West Michigan Championships Joe Hicks of MGGA-King Park Gym in Grand Rapids lost a decision to Tipton Walker of Point Blank Boxing in Benton Harbor.
The fight was marred with fouls, some alleged, others apparent, and Hicks said he's been dreaming all week of getting another opportunity to fight Walker.
He locked that in Friday night by defeating Calvin Seay of Pontiac.
"That's going to be fun," Hicks said of his rematch with Walker. "I couldn't even sleep all week, all I've been thinking about is losing and losing my composure. That's why tonight I tried to be calm and be Joe, not someone else."
"Tipton's a faster fighter outside (than Seay)," Hicks said. "The way I fought tonight is the way Tipton is going to try to fight me. I've been waiting for this rematch all week."
Another rematch will pit Joeseph Nelson of The Fire Within Boxing Club of Holland against Ben Harbenski of Eastside Boxing of Lansing in the 201+ pound novice class.
Nelson beat Harbenski by split decision last week and took care of Rudy Silvas of Flint Friday. He said preparing for the same opponent has its advantages.
"Tonight I was a little sloppy but we're going to turn it up, fix it and throw cleaner punches," Nelson said. "I saw (Harbenski) fight tonight, it looked like the same style. I'm going to try to make him miss then make him pay but I don't underestimate anyone."
Other rematches will pit Anthony Williams of MGGA-St. Mary's against Malik Garett of Team Glass of Lansing at 132-pound novice and MGGA-St. Mary's Burim Beqiri will give Donte Bryont of Kalamazoo another chance at him in the 141-pound open class.
The state finals will be held Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Grand Valley Armory in Wyoming.
Full results:
123 - Novice: Juan Covarrubias - West def. Logan Post - East
132 - Novice: Anthony Williams -West def. Tanille Marble - East
132 - Novice: Malik Garett - West def. Nathan Gray - East
141 - Novice: Angel Cabrena - West def. Nicholas Alonzi - East
141- Novice: Antonio Vasquez - East def. Anthony Goatz - West
165- Novice: Rob Bursley - West def. Brandon Barber - East
201- Novice: Jose Pizano - West def. Tim Houghtalino - East
201- Novice: Ronell Hinley - East def. Ajdin Dzafic - West
201+ Novice: Joeseph Nelson - West def. Rudy Silvas - East
201+ Novice: Benjamin Harbenski - West def. Jacob McGraw - East
132- Open: Roberto Hernandez - West def. Tyrone Washington - East
132- Open: David Lewis - West def. Cortez Chambliss - East
141- Open: Donte Bryont - West def. Andy Grezeszak - East
152- Open: Tipton Walker - West def. Alex Worvie - East
152- Open: Joe Hicks - West def. Calvin Seay - East
165- Open: Eddy Herrera - West def. Adam Brimmer - East
165- Open: Ardreal Holmes - East def. Marquis Johnson - West
178- Open: Johnathon Scroggins - East def. Tyrone Triplett - West
178- Open: Randy Patino - West def. Jerome Dixon - East
201- Open: Tyler Bussell - West def. Deshawn Young - East
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Posted on 08/20/2007 1:23:04 PM PDT by BronzePencil
Chris Aandewiel is a Dutch man with a well-worn mountain bike who slept this past weekend at the YMCA on Huntington Avenue. He has pedaled some 11,000 miles in the last year searching for the truth about Americans.
Growing up in Rotterdam, Aandewiel had an impression of this country shared by many in the Netherlands, an image formed by Hollywood movies and the media.
"We really think of Americans as how we perceive the United States government, and that's a little arrogant and stubborn," Aandewiel said by telephone.
Or at least that was the impression the 29-year-old consumer researcher had before he embarked on a yearlong bicycle tour around the perimeter of the United States. Since September, he has passed through 35 states, spent the night in the homes of 72 strangers, and met hundreds of people in gas stations and on highways who have nudged him along on his trip.
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How can he ride a bike with wooden shoes; I'm sure he misses his windmill. Still its a good thing to get past sterotypes.
With an 11,000 mile base going for him, a guy must really feel good in the saddle.
Thanks to CNN International. I hear it is horrible to the US in Europe.
What's wrong with being a little arrogant and stubborn
Socialist bum.
Sounds like he had a fairly extreme case of not trusting the MSM. Good for him. And do you suppose he's flying home on 9/11 for symboilc reasons, or because tickets are extra cheap on that date?
Makes you wonder if he tried to plug the broken dikes in New Orleans with his arm.
LOL.....I don't care who you are, that's funny right there!
"Growing up in Rotterdam, Aandewiel had an impression of this country shared by many in the Netherlands, an image formed by Hollywood movies and the media."
Negative propaganda exists, is pervasive, and is effective, in other words?
gotta give it to the guy. he rode 11000 miles in search of the truth and found it. who else would ride a bicycle for 11000 miles to find the truth about something? cheers!
Now, reflecting on his trip from the YMCA, he says he has some 300 miles left to go. He plans to pedal to New York City and fly home on Sept. 11
9-11. Interesting.
I'm jealous. What a great trip.
I know, I was thinking, "Damn, 11,000 miles on a mountain bike!" That guy is hardcore.
I'm overseas a lot and quit watching CNN International years ago. You have to wait hours sometimes for a real news update and it's BBC wannabe anyway. Worthless.
I've heard they also got a thing for tulips... mighty odd.
No kidding ... talk about torture. Heck, a 3 mile ride on my street bike turns the seat into a picket fence.
Maybe this will soften your impression of him. From the article:
"After being here, I really think that [Americans] aren't that different than the Dutch," Aandewiel said. "In fact, I really think they are friendlier — and really more helpful than Dutch people."
The dirty, dirty Dutch,
They don't amount to much.
But they're a damn sight better than the Irish.
There's Amsterdam Dutch and Rotterdam Dutch
And the Potsdamn Dutch
And all the other damn Dutch.
They make special toe clips for bicycles in Holland that will fit a wooden shoe. Don't believe me? Check out one of their bicycle web-sites.
Now, reflecting on his trip from the YMCA, he says he has some 300 miles left to go.
This writer really needs to spend a little time rereading his work before submitting it.
"After being here, I really think that [Americans] aren't that different than the Dutch," Aandewiel said. "In fact, I really think they are friendlier — and really more helpful than Dutch people."
Yeah, try forming opinions of people based on first hand experience next time and not what you see portrayed by hollyweird or the foreign press.
I think a lot of Euros think they're generous b/c they permit 50%+ of their checks to be taken from them for social welfare programs while we whine about taxes. The difference is we like to give out of our own pockets as we sit fit and don't require nanny gov't telling us who, when, where, and why to give.
I hope he writes a book and spreads the word. The anti Americanism has to cease. I recently visited Europe and had no problems, but I did notice that we were the only ones who tipped and were polite. (i.e. saying excuse me, moving over so people could get by, please and thank you, etc.).
I bet the first thing he noticed at the start of his 11,000 miles on a bicycle, is that most of the United States is not flat.
People in the Middle West and South, also the West are a lot friendlier than those in the Northeast for some weird reason.
No mention of how and or why the biker and all his countrymen bought the media's slant on America and what he plans on doing with his 15 minutes.
rollin' rollin' rollin',
Mein butt chur es swollen,
Keep dat Dutchman rollin'/Rawheide
I also think the American government is arrogant and stubborn...also very corrupt, incompetent and inefficient
Now, get back to work...hundreds of thousands of government bureaucrats are depending on you
Post of the day, hands down! Thanks for the laugh!
I often see a few old men in the local village (south of Rotterdam) riding bicycles with wooden shoes on their feet. No joke!
First it was Alexis de Toqueville, then Jack Kerouac and the memorable Malcolm Merriweather; now we have Chris Aandewiel reminding us that all is not wrong with the world as we know it. :>)
After 11,000 miles or so it's about time to change the bearings in the crank and maybe the wheels.
(I checked a map and it looks like it would take 2 weeks to circle the Netherlands at his 30 miles/day pace).
Quote from the Dutch cyclist:
"After being here, I really think that [Americans] aren't that different than the Dutch," Aandewiel said. "In fact, I really think they are friendlier — and really more helpful than Dutch people."
Duh! Make sure you tell every European you meet!
Dang, Blue whales on a bike. But kudos to the guy for taking this adventure. I'm glad to know that Americans did not disappoint him.
Aw the Dutch. A whole lot stupid and soft now are being over run by Muslims.
Alex, I'll take stubborn and arrogant for a thousand.
The problem is most foreigners get their impressions of Americans from Hollywood, American television, the repugnant US music industry, and the equally repugnant MSM. Think about that...that is one warped viewpoint.
You have to be friendly to people like this. How else are you gonna get close enough to steal their wallets?
Funny, Funny.
I ride about 100 miles a week on my road bike. The key is to keep riding so your butt gets used to the ride. Also, use of "bag balm" on a key spot helps. Further, leaning on your handlebars helps reduce the weight on your butt.
Sing Glorious! Glorious!
One keg of beer for the four of us.
Glory be to God that there ain't no more of us,
'Cause one of us could drink it all alone,
Damn near!
Nothin' wrong with that when you're good and right.
Getting his wallet stolen is the least he deserves to coming to America and screwing up traffic for 11,000 miles.
George: What is Holland?
Jerry: What do you mean, 'what is it?' It's a country right next to Belgium.
George: No, that's the Netherlands.
Jerry: Holland *is* the Netherlands.
George: Then who are the Dutch?
Cool! He had a great adventure and found truth.
LOL! Not only that, but it's too bad he couldn't have done this a couple years earlier. If only he'd been down in New Orleans when Katrina came through, his genetic background might have enabled him to avert a catastrophy by sticking his finger in the dike that failed.
Don't even bother to read the damn article. No, don't do that.
This man had a very positive experience. And now knows a great deal about the real America.
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Sometimes in life things seem to come together almost at random. Many people spend the days leading up to New Years telling themselves that they're going to do this or stop doing that. Most don't last and those going past a week are truly dedicated to the cause (or under doctor's orders). Why does this happen? Wrong mindset. The dedication is there, but the true gravity of their decision hasn't sunk in yet. So how does one go around changing your lifestyle for the better?
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GOODBYE FOR NOW: That's the end of our live blog on day two of #surreylive. I hope you've enjoyed all the updates. Nick Edmondson will be back online tomorrow morning at 6.30pm.
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WILDLIFE AT RISK: Nature experts have said the floods in Surrey have had a damaging impact on wildlife. The rising water levels lead to fish becoming trapped, animal burrows waterlogged and longer-term implications, such as the effect on nesting sites of birds. Click here for the full story.
SURREY HALF: I hope everyone taking part in the Surrey half marathon on Sunday is looking forward to it. I'll be on the start line in my go-faster shorts, and am hoping for a good day. Hopefully road closures won't affect too many people, although some residents are worried they will be left under 'virtual house arrest.'
TRAVEL: It seems the traffic is behaving on the roads at the moment. Remember you can help keep me updated on travel news by tweeting @kitty_dann or @getsurrey.
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1. In pole position is the Royal visit to a Cobham school.
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3. In third position, there are still lots of people reading about the schoolgirl taken to hospital after being hit by a car today.
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5. And finally, this champion Guildford bartender who came fourth at the world championships.
BOAT APPEAL: A Chertsey boat club is appealing for the return of a valued boat believed to have been taken to help out with last month's floods. The yellow Comet dinghy, sail number C728, has gone missing from Littleton Sailing Club. Let's hope it makes its way back home soon!
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CRUFTS: It was deadline day for a lot of the reporters at Get Surrey HQ today, so let's lighten the mood with some pics of a few perfectly poised pooches who are getting ready to compete at Crufts. Picture gallery here.
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AH-CHOO!: Mascara-lovers beware, hayfever season is upon us. Graham Dash took this lovely picture of some crocuses in Cobham, but I know what lies behind images of a beautiful blossoming spring - sneezes, eye drops and lots of tissues.
CHERTSEY STABBING: A man has been sectioned under the Mental Health Act after a stabbing in Chertsey last year. Richard Donovan, 48, from Bunyard Drive in Sheerwater, admitted a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm at Guildford Crown Court last Friday. Here's the full story.
RUNWAY PLAN: A former Concorde pilot has come up with a runway plan that he says will save homes from demolition at Heathrow.
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TRAVEL: Traffic is currently very heavy on the M25 clockwise between junction 12 and junction 15.
STEAM ENGINE: Thomas himself passed through Guildford station earlier today, and here's a picture to prove it.
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TRAVEL: Couldn't resist posting some good travel news for a change - traffic has returned to normal in Waterden Road, Guildford. Hurrah!
WORLD BOOK DAY: I'm still gathering the titles of your favourite children's books, specially for World Book Day. Reporter Jenny Stanton is plumping for The Famous Five, while Ron Walker has gone for Harry Potter. Guy Martin has picked The Twits, an excellent choice. What's your favourite book? You can get some inspiration from our gallery of World Book Day pics.
WELCOME TO SURREY MA'AM: If you haven't seen them yet, we've got some great pictures of the Queen, who was at Reeds School in Cobham today.
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Just when I thought BI couldn't get funnier :)
never mind mixing characters - it should be "whips his mother and _me_".
Andrew, you must be British. "...his mother and me" would be proper grammar in England. Here in the US, though, it is proper to say "...his mother and I".
Is that because when you take the mother out, it would be proper to say '... he whips I.'
LG, that's only because in the US it is considered proper, even preferred, to use improper grammar. Look at Dubya.
No it isn't . . . I thought that you can always tell by removing the first person. I.E. "He whips I," or "He whips me." Clearly, it needs to be 'me'.
That's what they taught me in third grade anyway. Maybe the rules have changed. It IS English.
Technically, yeah, it should be "mother and me". The rule is indeed to remove the other person and see if it still makes sense. However, if you listen to Americans speak, they almost always get it wrong. (Although the Brits aren't exempt -- look at the first verse of The Who's "1921" from "Tommy".)
Common usage can sometimes be a frustrating bitch-goddess.
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Basic Instructions: How to Pick Out Gifts For Someone You Don't Know
Just click through. NSFW: But so worth it. For those of you unfamiliar with BI, enjoy!...
I am going to assume that the grammar is part of the joke--it is funny to me, anyways. Regardless--lighten up people! We are adults addicted to a comic strip, you can't take yourself too seriously!
of all the archives that i saw and read, this is the only panel that i think has more than 3 person giving comments and you are all bickering on the grammar.
my wife is a super heroine, and she might have a ball gag around somewhere...hahaha, we DO have handcuffs, but we like to essentially pistol-whip cops with them...kidding...about the pistol whipping...sheesh people! i'm not boy george.
why are some of you further up the page argueing about grammar? It's a comic - every imperfection is what makes it great.
And it is "His mother and I", just so thou doth know
Um... I'm ... *resists the urge to wage grammar war* ... see... the thing is ... *coughs* ... when you... *reswallows his puke* ... gah... it is all burny... *cough*... in a grammar sense... *dry heaves* ... I gotta go!
Grammar is a load of bollocks. Language is for communicating with other people, not acting elitist over. If you understood the message the author was trying to convey, it accomplished it's purpose. We get it, you're smarter than us.
You must have missed the one with the fake PC ad.
ITS (posessive)
IT'S (contraction for "it is")
This comic made me laugh out loud in each panel. The last panel had me laughing so hard I started clapping and not being able to breathe. Good Jorb!
@Ken, way to prove Fred's point.
In my region of Canada, it would be "me 'n' his mother."
The phrase "my mother and [I/me]" is the direct object of the sentence, therefore "me" should be used (being the objective form of the pronoun).
"My mother and I" works as a subject, or a pred.nominative.
Grammar ninjitsu is nerdy.
Either way, we digress.
It's still a good comic.
Death to the grammar war!!!!
Let me put this one to rest with a reference (I ended up way too curious as to which was actually right)...
If you really wanna know, there it is. If you don't, then you have a choice.
Well, if a comic is portraying regular people speaking on the fly, it isn't surprising that there'd be grammar errors here and there. I'm sure we've all had friends who've made the same mistake in conversation.
Anyway, I think the bigger landmark is that this is the first BI strip to reference sado-masochistic incest and ball gags. I'm not planning on celebrating that fact, though.
I'm not sure I'm a fan of the Scott's Wife overlapping of the panel edges. I reckon it looks too comicky and less instructonal bookletty, which was half of the funny for me.
Fred, i just gotta say: I really dig ya man :)
I dig all you guys:)
but i've got a friend who's all about correcting people:
" *fake throat clear* it's so-and-so and I, not so-and-so and ME"
even when it is actually "so-and-so and me"
next time he does it i may have to quote your "Language is for communicating with other people, not acting elitist over." because it's perfect
It's always been my opinion that correcting people is only acceptable behaviour for 1: a parent to their child or 2: an english teacher to their pupil. Any other time it's just rude
This has certainly been mentioned, but I want to simplify it:
If the pronoun is DOING THE ACTION, then you use I:
"She and I ran a marathon."
If the pronoun is NOT doing the action, then you use me:
"She ran a marathon instead of me."
It's weird that every time I use correct grammar, someone on this website claims that I must be British.


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A federal grand jury charged 28-year-old Floyd Corkins with assault with intent to kill and with transporting a gun and ammo across state lines.
Corkins' parents said their son is a strong supporter of gay rights. He was a volunteer at a homosexual community center in Washington at the time of the shooting.
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> needed to run what's included? I'm starting to see this sqlite needed
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> my install? I'd rather believe that than Pat just tossing together a
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Yup, that was a head-scratcher.
Again, these are available at slackbuilds.org.
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Hugh Leatherman, R-Florence, announced Friday hes appointed a five-member oversight committee that will look into the massive breach of an S.C. Department of Revenue database.
The cyberattack compromised Social Security numbers for 3.8 million people who had paid state taxes since 1998, thousands of credit and debit card numbers and information from as many as 657,000 S.C. businesses.
Leatherman said in a statement that he decided to convene the panel after a recent Finance Committee hearing in which senators questioned Revenue Department Director James Etter about the breach.
I dont think any senator was satisfied with the answers we got, Leatherman said. More questions were raised than answers were provided. Mr. Etter first told us he did not know if private information of companies was stolen. When members pressed him, however, and after he checked with his staff, he admitted that corporations with state identification numbers had been breached.
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Haley spokesman Rob Godfrey said senators should ask any questions they have, but the administration believes it will have the answers senators need next week when the governor and other officials update taxpayers.
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For the Murdoch media empire, accuracy is never as important as racist sensationalism.
by James M. Wall
Global News Service of the Jewish People, coverage of the Murdoch News Corp story sounded the traditional Jewish mother's alarm: "uh oh, this will not be good for the Jewish people".
JTA columnist Ron Kampeas has been a lone voice in sounding the alarm to his Jewish readers:
"Pro-Israel leaders in the United States, Britain and Australia are warily watching the unfolding of the phone-hacking scandal that is threatening to engulf the media empire of Rupert Murdoch."
The Murdoch scandal has been extensively reported as a telephone hacking police story. Only in the JTA, the Global News Service of the Jewish People, has coverage of the Murdoch News Corp story sounded the traditional Jewish mother's alarm: "uh oh, this will not be good for the Jewish people".
Kampeas assumes, correctly I am sure, that his readers do have a strong interest in Murdoch's "sudden massive reversal of fortune". They have reason to be alarmed.
Without Daddy Murdoch's formidable pro-Israel presence, that pesky UN September vote could tilt toward the Palestinians. After that, Israel-Palestinian border negotiations might find a disgraced Murdoch-controlled British government eager to prove its independence. Without Murdoch, Fox News will have lost its most reliable news producer.
Thus far, the Murdoch "hacking scandal" has reached ten former staffers and News Corp executives who have been arrested by British police. They are accused of "hacking into the phones of public figures and a murdered schoolgirl, and paying off the police and journalists."
These allegations threaten to severely weaken Murdoch's media empire, an empire the Australian built which now includes The Wall Street Journal, the Times of London and The Australian. Murdoch also owns two major tabloids, The Sun in Britain and the New York Post. In the US, Murdoch owns and virtually writes the scripts for the Fox News Channel. Until he recently sold it, Murdoch also owned The Weekly Standard, the neo conservative magazine he created in 1995.
Admirers of Murdoch's aggressive take-over of news outlets have praised him for revitalizing the news industry. What they overlook is that his "revitalizing" has also lowered the standards of the journalism profession. It is the Murdoch style to view the world through black and white lens, "West good, Muslim East bad".
For the Murdoch media empire, accuracy is never as important as racist sensationalism. Glenn Greenwald reports in his Salon column this week-end how both the New York Times and the Washington Post incorrectly blamed "Muslim extremists" for the Oslo, Norway, attacks, retaining on line, false racist accusations later shown to be incorrect.
The Post's Jennifer Rubin cited The Weekly Standard as a source for her false reporting, a dive into the Murdoch pool of sleeze for which the Atlantic's James Fallows calls her to task.
Before the hacking scandal broke, Murdoch had expanded his empire into the Middle East, choosing, as no surprise, to connect with a Saudi prince Aljazeera recently described as " the 26th wealthiest person on the planet, as well as the richest man in Saudi Arabia, billionaire Prince Walid bin Talal bin Abdelaziz Al-Saud, a nephew of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia".
Forbes magazine reports that Prince Walid has a net worth estimated to be at least $19.6bn.
Aljazeera also reports that the Prince is the second largest shareholder (at seven per cent) in News Corp, second only to Murdoch. How close are the two men?
During a recent interview on his yacht with the BBC's Newsnight, Prince Walid declared himself to be a "good friend" of Rupert Murdoch and his son James, and staunchly defended the men amid the ongoing News Corp scandal.
It is noteworthy that, while Prince Walid is the second largest shareholder in News Corp, Murdoch is also a major shareholder (ten per cent) in Prince Walid's Rotana Media Group based in the Middle East. As recently as this May, Murdoch's conglomerate took a significant stake in Prince Walid's film, TV, and music business, a move that deepened the financial relationship between the two men.
The Saudi connection, however, will be of little help in Murdoch's dealing with the British and possibly, the American, legal systems.
Kampeas writes that "Jewish leaders" fear that any reduction in Murdoch's media influence could "mute the strongly pro-Israel voice of many of the publications he owns." Those "Jewish leaders" rely on Murdoch to reassure them that all is well in the world of political Zionism.
His publications and media have proven to be fairer on the issue of Israel than the rest of the media," said Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice-chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. "I hope that won't be impacted."
These comments suggests that what happens to Murdoch in the future is significant to supporters of Israel not primarily because of the alleged immoral or illegal violations of the public good, but because of the potential impact on the pro-Israel voice of Murdoch's media empire.
If there are US media outlets, other than JTA, which have included Murdoch's Zionist zealotry in their hacking scandal stories. I have been unable to locate them.
The Big Three PEPs, (Progressive Except for Palestine) Maddow, Matthew, and O'Donnell, are progressive voices on MSNBC-TV, but they will absolutely not touch the sins of Israel, the third rail of American politics.
Rachel Maddow, my favorite of the Big Three, appeared uncharacteristically oblivious of what she was saying in her recent interview with Bill Moyers.
Writing on Consortium News, Marquette Theology Professor Daniel C. Maguire offered a list of Israel-related issues where "Rachel Maddow Dares Not Tread". He began with a gentle priestly admonition:
To MSNBC's Rachel Maddow: On your show of July 14, you spoke of your complete freedom to say what you want on your show and Bill Moyers gently demurred, speaking of restricting forces that hover over journalists. Bill Moyers was correct. I cannot believe you don't care, but you are not free to address on your show the political influence of the Israeli lobby (which is far broader than AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee).
For Maguire's complete list, click here.
The Big Three constantly feast off the right wing shallowness of Fox news readers and commentators, but they do not venture even close to the linkage between Murdoch's strong pro-Israel bias, and his threatened downfall.
Kampeas, on the other hand, is quite forthright about the linkage and its potential damage to Israel. Note how eager Kampeas is to cast Murdoch in a favorable light by citing "Jewish leaders".
Jewish leaders said that Murdoch's view of Israel's dealings with the Palestinians and with its Arab neighbors seemed both knowledgeable and sensitive to the Jewish state's self-perception as beleaguered and isolated.
Murdoch has visited Israel many times, always meeting, of course, with Israeli leaders. He is equally well received by "Jewish leaders" in the US. In 2009 he was honored by the American Jewish Committee.
On October 13, 2010, Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League (shown at right in this picture with Murdoch) hosted a dinner in Murdoch's honor.
At that dinner, Murdoch said,
My own perspective is simple: We live in a world where there is an ongoing war against the Jews," Murdoch said last October at an Anti-Defamation League dinner in his honor. "When Americans think of anti-Semitism, we tend to think of the vulgar caricatures and attacks of the first part of the 20th century. Now it seems that the most virulent strains come from the left. Often this new anti-Semitism dresses itself up as legitimate disagreement with Israel.
Murdoch is popular with conservatives in the US but highly unpopular with the progressive community, as the Nation magazine's John Nichols was eager to demonstrate in his recent story on the scandal.
Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch has manipulated not just the news but the news landscape of the United States for decades. He has done so by pressuring the Federal Communications Commission and Congress to alter the laws of the land and regulatory standards in order to give his media conglomerate an unfair advantage in "competition" with more locally focused, more engaged and more responsible media.
It's an old story: while Murdoch's Fox News hosts prattle on and on about their enthusiasm for the free market, they work for a firm that seeks to game the system so Murdoch's "properties" are best positioned to monopolize the discourse.
Even with such a strong progressive as Nichols, there is still no mention of Murdoch's strong Zionist passions in his story of the scandal.
When he testified before the House Judiciary Committee in May of 2003, Murdoch was seeking to secure ownership of the nation's largest satellite television company. Nichols writes that Murdoch was pressing for FCC rule changes that would allow him to own newspapers and broadcast outlets in the same cities. His goal was to ease controls so that "one corporation could dominate television viewership nationally".
At that appearance before the House Judiciary Commitee, Murdoch's reception, according to reports at the time, were "just short of fawning."
Wisconsin Republican James Sensenbrenner, who was, at the time, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, greeted Murdoch by thanking the media executive for developing the Fox News network. The chairman added: "When my wife doesn't get a good dose of Fox News every day she gets grumpy. So there are some of us who appreciate what you are doing."
Progressive writers like Nichols want to make it clear that the right wing Republican party has a deep affection for a strong man like Murdoch whose media empire is dedicated not only to making money but to the promotion of a conservative ideology.
Joe Nocera was equally disdainful of Murdoch in his July 18 New York Times column:
You have to love the fact that when John Yates resigned on Monday as the assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in London — a k a Scotland Yard — he complained about the "huge amount of inaccurate, ill-informed and, on occasion, downright malicious gossip" that had finally forced his hand. . . .
When the writers and editors of the late, unlamented News of the World were busy bribing Mr. Yates's police officers, what they wanted in return was — gosh! — malicious gossip. When they were hacking the phones of royal family members and murdered teenagers, they were seeking, you know, malicious gossip.
When the recently arrested Rebekah Brooks called Gordon Brown, the former prime minister, to tell him that Rupert Murdoch's Sun, which she then edited, was about to reveal that his infant child had cystic fibrosis — information that Brown is convinced came from a hacked phone message — she was telling him the paper was going to print a piece of gossip that a more humane institution would have let pass. She might not have viewed this as malicious, but the Brown family certainly did. . . . .
Laura Barnett's recent story in the London Guardian, describes Rupert Murdoch's 102-year old mother Elisabeth Murdoch (shown at top with her son) as a mother who frequently stands in "firm maternal opposition to Rupert, 80, the second of her four children."
In her native Australia, "Elisabeth is held in high esteem as one of the country's most beneficent philanthropists," a sharp contrast to the "sullied reputations of Rupert, and her grandson James", both now under intense police scrutiny.
When Elisabeth's husband Rupert, Senior, died from cancer in 1952, she turned her attention to charity work. She became life governor of the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne and helped to set up the Murdoch Children's Research Institute.
Consistently, however, she has expressed strong disagreement with the policies of News Corp. Nine years ago, for example, she told Julie Browning, author of A Winning Streak: The Murdochs, that her son's purchase of the News of the World, "nearly killed me".
In the US, Fox News, and more recently, the once highly respected conservative Wall Street Journal, have emerged as "house organs" for right wing Israeli governments.
If Murdoch self destructs, Israel will have lost a major weapon in its hasbara (propaganda) arsenal. Whether that is "good for the Jewish people", depends entirely on your definition of "good".
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: James Wall is currently a Contributing Editor of The Christian Century magazine, based in Chicago, Illinois. From 1972 through 1999, he was editor and publisher of the Christian Century magazine. He has made more than 20 trips to that region as a journalist, during which he covered such events as Anwar Sadat's 1977 trip to Jerusalem, and the 2006 Palestinian legislative election. He has interviewed, and written about, journalists, religious leaders, political leaders and private citizens in the region. Jim served for two years on active duty in the US Air Force, and three additional years in the USAF (inactive) reserve. Jim launched his new personal blog Wallwritings, on April 24, 2008. He can be reached at: firstname.lastname@example.com
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any way we can investigate if the actual scandal is that instead of hacking voicemails of 9-11 victims families,maybe somehow these were the guys were involved in the supposed calls to loved ones from the hijacked planes,were these calls ever confirmed being made from the planes,i was told cellphones dont work in airplanes?or was that just disinformation the media puppets put out,i know it is a long shot,i just cant put anything past my government,i dont believe one word our government tells us,they have showed a pattern of lying, repeatedly
Yes, Dave, every family has an "aunt Irene" who gobbles up the soaps on TV and knows everything about the "Kids" except that they are drugged up little monsters. I don't think "heaven" would help; too disgusting
All the major media are Israeli/Zionist mouthpieces. I am joyful that their stranglehold over the transfer of information to the sheeple is being broken. The sheeple would believe feces sandwiches were "Good for you!" if the Zionist media told them it was so. The sheeple would be standing in line at McDonald's and scarfing down feces sandwiches for every meal, believing that "Recycled Nutrients" were improving their health. Sewage would be listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the faux, penis worshiping Jews would own most of the stock. Maybe it is wishful thinking, but I hope this is the beginning of the end for the Khazar Jew rule of the world.
Truth always prevails. Its unfortunate that so many lives have to be lost until it does.
I disagree.
Look at the BIG LIES prevailing WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, 911 and the current ME wars. The bulk of the sheeple believe the Federal Reserve is part of the government, and the US is a democracy with a free press.
Maddow does'nt have the balls
"The Big Three PEPs, (Progressive Except for Palestine) Maddow, Matthew, and O'Donnell, are progressive voices on MSNBC-TV, but they will absolutely not touch the sins of Israel, the third rail of American politics."
MSNBC (and CNN) is just another flavor of the same baloney.
Sadly I think that it might all be too late to matter even if News Corporation were to be broken up tomorrow.
Israel is likely to attack Iran within just a few months, and – in no small part because of the propaganda which Murdoch's outlets have pumped out for years in the U.S., UK and Australia – the Anglozone countries will get quickly drawn into a horrific and massive conflict.
I believe that the debt ceiling talks in the USA and the austerity measures people are suffering under in the UK will make it very hard for either country to go to war for Israel. In fact I believe that one of the reasons that the debt ceiling talks in the USA have been so widely publicized is so that American TAXPAYERS realise that they have to pay for the wars – can't see many Americans wanting to pay more taxes for more wars.
If a Palestinian State is voted in at the UN in September, Israel may decide that it wants to go to war, but no taxpayers are going to be wanting to go with them.
The taxpayers wont get a say in it. It will be the U.S. Congress and President that make the decision and it will all happen fast. And I expect a surprisingly high proportion of the public will in fact support them – the decade long campaign to make the 'muslims' the 'enemy' has been pretty successful and opposing voices will have few ways to communicate with the masses.
The breaking up of the Murdoch empire won't necessarily good for freedom and democracy.Murdoch has snippets of truth on 'Freedom Watch' with Judge Napolitano.He has also had people on Fox with evidence of controlled demolition of WTC 7.If Wall St interests or Central Banking forces buy up the Murdoch empire,we will be worse off.We see now the elites in conflict with Murdoch being targeted like Dominique Strauss Kahn.They knew for years that phone tapping was wide spread and common practise.
If Murdoch or James have a change of mind or realise what a bunch of psychopaths they have aligned themselves with,then Murdoch has the power to burst their bubble.Note also Lachlan Murdoch his other son decided yrs ago not to be involved in this dirty business.All is never clear cut of good Vs evil.There are a lot who are trapped by the system that are fearful of the outcomes.
Poor old Murdoch "aligned" himself with a bunch of psychopaths? Breaking up his fascist regime of lies and propaganda won't be good for freedom and democracy? WHAT? Are you nuts?
It won't be good Bob if the real nutters take control of his media empire.Murdoch has been targeted for a reason.He probably now sees that their scotched earth policy is insane.You like others are jumping at the sweets that will entrap you.At least with Murdoch right now he is showing some resistance.
I've just got to believe this isn't quite what it looks like. There must be something else going on.
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This is my first attempt at Football Manager, so here goes..
I started off as an unknown, and picked my local team, Adelaide United.
My first point of call was to the Boardroom, to get funding for better Youth Facilities, which was granted straight away. The reason i think the Reds need better Youth facilities is that A-League rules stipulate that there can only be five foreign players per A-League team. Adelaide United already have five, so im going to go the home grown strategy over time, instead of recruiting from interstate teams.
My second action as manager was to put Andy Slory on the transfer list. His performances in the first two friendlies didnt warrant his high salary, and he wasnt very happy at Adeliade. He was eventually sold to West Ham for $1.7 million, an Adelaide United record.
Then i looked into the pool of amatuer leagues in Australia and picked up two good young prospects in Thurtle and Christaldo. Both filled in for injuries, and its hard to warrant leaving them out when the first teamers are back to full fitness.
We've had a horrible start to the season, with a 3-1 loss to Perth Glory and a 5-0 loss to rivals Melbourne Victory featuring marquee player Harry Kewell. But our lucks starting to turn around with a 1-1 draw with Brett Emertons Sydney United and then our first win against reigning Champions Brisbane Roar 1-0...the only way is up from here...
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AussieBrad 2011-11-01 03:59
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AussieBrad 2011-11-01 09:24
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....and now my save wont load...
JoeCAFC93 2011-11-01 16:17
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Good Luck, ive not played with a team from this league before
AussieBrad 2011-11-02 22:11
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My first save wont load, so i started again. This time Thurtle wouldnt join Adelaide United, even for triple his value, which was disappointing. Slory was traded behind my back by the Board, and so was Captain McKain. Brought in around $4million, but i couldnt find anyone as good that wanted to move to Australia. This meant diving into the Youth team and fishing out some potential future stars.
I started the season fairly well, being mid-table at the halfway point. Then things took a turn for the worst, and began a 7 game streak without a win (an Adelaide United record). With Fabian Barbiero out for the season with a broken leg, then Bruce Djite out for 6 weeks with a hamstring, i was very low on firepower up front. Sergio van Dyke hadnt scored in weeks, and midfield Milan Susak was the one trying to pick up the slack.
Bruce Djite made his return, only to be red carded for a "violent incident" and suspended for 3 matches, which ended his season.
With the team performing so terribly, the only positive feedback i got from the Board was that my spending on wages was very low, which pleased them. Also, they informed me with three rounds to go that one more loss could seal my fate and i would lose my job.
Thankfully we drew the next two, and then in the last round smashed Melbourne Heart 6-0, ending the season on a positive.
We finished 7th of 10 teams, winning about a third of our games. Now starts the offseason, where hopefully i can snare a marquee player or two.
AussieBrad 2011-11-03 03:10
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Just got fired by Adelaide United during the offseason. Unfortunately the lack of flexability for wages during player negotiations made it difficult to attract decent players, and also led to current players not wanting to renew contracts.
Maybe its just a case of me needing to learn more about how the negotiations work.
So this seems like an abrupt end to my Australian Dynasty, but im sticking with the same save and gonna try and kickstart my career again. Ive just secured the Canadian U23s Olympic job, and will be on the lookout for a league team that wants my services.
...all this in my lunch break
Kronos 2011-11-04 13:14
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I hope you get hired again, you'll get the hang of it, good luck mate.
AussieBrad 2011-11-08 03:58
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My Australian Dynasty has come to an end already. Had to start again because no one would hire me after losing both Olympic matches with the Canadian U/23's.
This time started unemployed with mostly Eastern European and Asian leagues as playable. I ended up accepting an offer with Chavdar (Intropole) in the Bulgarian B Group Western.
This time things are going much better, sitting 2nd behind Bankso.
Also managed the Indonesian U/23s for the Olympic Qualifiers. Expectations were low, and 2 big loses to the Chinese team ended any hope of an Olympics birth. Even so, Indonesia wanted me to keep managing, but i decided it was in my best interests to part company, and stick solely to club commitments for now.
Might leave this story thing until i have a good hang of the game, then ill start a new one.
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Teen jobs: Generation can't find work
For the fourth consecutive summer, teen employment has stayed anchored around record lows, prompting experts to fear that a generation of youth is likely to be economically stunted with lower earnings and opportunities in years ahead.
The trend is all the more striking given that the overall unemployment rate has steadily dropped, to 7.4 percent in August. And employers in recent months have been collectively adding almost 200,000 new jobs a month.
It led to hopes that this would be the summer when teen employment improved.
In 1999, slightly more than 52 percent of teens 16 to 19 worked a summer job. By this year, that number had plunged to about 32.25 percent over June and July. It means that slightly more than 3 in 10 teens actually worked a summer job, out of a universe of roughly 16.8 million U.S. teens.
"We have never had anything this low in our lives. This is a Great Depression for teens, and no time in history have we encountered anything like that," said Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. "That's why it's such an important story."
Summer is traditionally the peak period of employment for teens as they are off from school and get their first brush with employment and the responsibilities that come with it. Falling teen employment, however, is just as striking in the 12-month numbers over the past decade.
The picture these teen employment statistics provide looks even worse when viewed through the complex prism of race. Sum and colleagues did just that, comparing June and July 2000 and the same two months of 2013. In 2000, 61.28 percent of white teens 16 to 19 held a job, a number that fell to 39.25 percent this summer. For African Americans, a number that was dismal in 2000, 33.91 percent of 16- to 19-year-olds holding a job, fell to a staggering low of 19.25 percent this June and July.
It wasn't terribly better for Hispanics, who saw the percentage of employed teens fall from 40.31 percent in the two-month period of 2000 to 26.7 percent in June and July 2013.
One of the more surprising findings of Sum's research is that teens whose parents were wealthy were more likely to have a job than those whose parents had less income. Some 46 percent of white male teens whose parents earned between $100,000 and $149,000 held a job this summer, compared with just 9.1 percent of black male teens whose family income was below $20,000 and 15.2 percent for Hispanic teen males with that same low family income.
That finding is important because a plethora of research shows that teens who work do better in a wide range of social and economic indicators. The plunging teen employment rate is likely to mean trouble for this generation of young workers of all races.
"Kids that get work experience when they are 17 or 18 end up graduating from college at a higher rate," said Michael Gritton, executive director of the Workforce Investment Board, which promotes job creation and teen employment in Louisville, Ky., and six surrounding counties. "There are economic returns to those young people because they get a chance to work. Almost every person you ask remembers their first job, because they started to learn things from the world of work that they can't learn in the classroom."
The teen employment numbers are calculated from the Current Population Surveys, carried out by the Census Bureau for the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics. This survey of households is used in determining estimates for the size of the civilian workforce, the number of employed nationally and the unemployment rate.
Unemployment data is calculated in a different fashion, and while it tells a similar story of hardship for teens, it is not considered by researchers to be as accurate as the employment data because it underestimates the severity of the slow economy.
The weak employment numbers sometimes prompt a mistaken narrative that younger workers are just staying in college longer rather than entering the workforce, or are going on to graduate school given the impaired jobs market.
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Glencore International Plc adjourned a shareholder meeting called to vote on its $34 billion offer for Xstrata Plc, raising prospects the biggest publicly traded commodities supplier will increase its bid.
The postponement followed developments overnight, Chairman Simon Murray told shareholders in Zug, Switzerland. Shares of Xstrata jumped as much as 6.3 percent while Glencore fell as investors bet that the trader will give in to investor demands to boost its offer.
Xstrata investors including Qatar Holding LLC and Knight Vinke Asset Management LLC have sought a higher bid and last month said they would vote against Glencore Chief Executive Ivan Glasenberg's current offer of 2.8 shares. In bidding for Xstrata, the largest exporter of power-station coal, Glasenberg is seeking to complete a five-year plan to create the world's fourth-biggest mining company.
"The market has assumed that the terms of the offer from Glencore could change, so the market has pushed Glencore down and Xstrata up," Peter Davey, head of metals and mining research at Standard Bank Group Ltd. in London, told Bloomberg Television in an interview. "Is he going to do an 11th-hour or 13th-hour change of terms? Will he come in with a slam-dunk offer and come in over three" shares for each in Xstrata?
Xstrata gained 4.5 percent to 1,023 pence at 9 a.m. in London after falling 6 percent earlier. Glencore dropped 2.9 percent to 381.05 pence after earlier falling as much as 7 percent. It requested that trading in its shares be halted. Xstrata stock traded at 2.69 times that of Glencore, up from a ratio of 2.5 yesterday.
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The discount at which Xstrata trades below the bid tumbled to as little as 2.1 percent from yesterday's close of 10.9 percent, indicating traders are betting it's more likely the deal is completed. The difference to the offer terms hasn't been that narrow since May 10.
"Glencore is considering its options and will update the market in due course," the Baar, Switzerland-based company said in a statement after the adjournment.
It's the second time Glencore's meeting has been rescheduled after Qatar Holding surprised analysts and investors in June by calling for a higher offer. Xstrata CEO Mick Davis had encouraged Glencore and Qatar Holding to reach a resolution ahead of the vote, according to people familiar with the situation.
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Qatar Holding, controlled by the Persian Gulf state's royal family and the owner of 12 percent of Xstrata, has said it will block the 21.2 billion-pound deal. The fund has called for Glencore's offer of 2.8 shares for each Xstrata share to be raised to 3.25. Glasenberg has said he doesn't understand the fund's position and has rejected calls from Qatar and other investors to raise the bid.
Murray apologized to Glencore shareholders as they approved the adjournment by a show of hands. "I'm afraid that I have to tell you that there has been an adjournment because of developments, very recent developments overnight," he said. "We've been unable to give you warning. My apologies again for bringing you here under what would be almost false pretenses."
Xstrata investors are due to meet at 10 a.m. London time at the Theatre-Casino in Zug where the company is based. A 75 percent acceptance level is needed for the takeover to proceed. A spokesman for Glencore declined to comment further.
"Investors should not underestimate Glencore's ability to engineer a bump in the agreed ratio to three shares or the possibility of a last-minute deal with Qatar," Alain William, a Paris-based analyst at Societe Generale SA, said in a note yesterday.
Blocking Vote
Votes from as little as 16.48 percent of Xstrata's shares would be sufficient to block the deal because Glencore can't vote its 34 percent stake under the terms of the deal, which was announced in February.
Xstrata is being advised by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Deutsche Bank AG and Nomura Bank International Plc. Glencore, which has agreed to pay Xstrata a so-called break fee of 298 million pounds should it withdraw the offer, has tapped Citigroup Inc. and Morgan Stanley. Qatar Holding has been advised by Lazard Ltd.


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