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It is impossible that Daniel Schmitt&Co. could have such fine ratings from everyone who leaves one here…. They cheated me on a ´74 Corvette, claiming an appraised value of about $40,000.00 USD when I got it home The local appraiser would only value it at less than $30,000.00 CDN.(which would at that time be about $33-34,000.00 USD) When Schmitt put this car on the hoist for me before finalizing the purchase, they used the hoist pads to cover the stretched out transportation tie down slots in the bottom side rear dogleg of the frame (just ahead of the rear axle) . Later, after I returned to my home and put the car on a drive-on hoist, these elongated slots show that the frame had been pulled on an alignment rack at some point in it´s history (usually meaning that the frame had been bent at one time from a major accident), which Schmitt claimed there was no history of. I also note that upon closer examination at home it appears the body has a slight linear twist (high left rear, right front) I would NEVER buy anything from Daniel Schmitt & Co. ever again and strongly recommend others stay clear of the place……
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Daniel Schmitt & Company in St. Louis,MO.
SUBMITTED: Saturday, November 16, 2013POSTED: Saturday, November 16, 2013
For Schmitt´s, Jon Sherman stated to me that they have been in business for about 40 years and have less than a half dozen complaints
I´ve counted about 5 other rip-off reports on this site alone....
I´m wondering if Daniel Schmitt and Company should be investigated for Internet Fraud, or Wire Fraud because there seems to be somewhat of a paper trail going back at to 2009 (I ask, what about all those years prior?)
I for one will gladly enjoin any class action, to recover my losses, in regard to this company and it´s Shady Practices!
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Daniel Schmitt & Company Scammers
SUBMITTED: Saturday, November 16, 2013POSTED: Saturday, November 16, 2013
I filed a final results report in regard to the ´74 Corvette Convert. on Nov. 16/13
As with other trusting people like myself, I was taken to the cleaners by these Low Life Scammers
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Daniel Schmitt & Co. Scammers!
SUBMITTED: Saturday, November 16, 2013POSTED: Saturday, November 16, 2013
It´s bout 3 weeks since talking to Jon Sherman salesman for Daniel Schmitt with no return call from him on the staus of the buy-back of my car at a lesser price. As I had offered it back to them for $22,500.00, having paid them $27,000.00 for the car. I called him and another salesman there told me Jon would return my call the next day. He did not!
When I called back the day after, Jon Sherman said he had talked with his ¨Boss¨and said they would only consider taking the ´74 Vette back in on consignment. Only after prompting did he admit that there would be costly fees for that service, and there were no guarranties Since I had already dropped the price I wanted to recover for the car by about $5,000.00 I told him that was impossible.
This whole deal was a scam from the beginning, in that upon first phone contact with Daniel Schmitt & Company I was required by Jon Sherman to put a deposit of $2,000.00 on my Mastercard, to hold the car for my inspection.(Later Jon told the $2,000.00 was non-refundable if I didn´t buy th car)
Then he emailed me papers to sign and send back which turned out to be an agreement to purchase, upon which I inserted the words ¨upon inspection¨(which he told me was meaningless)
I felt preasured by Jon because of the deposit situation and because they were able to keep me from seeing the frame damage through use/positioning of hoist pads I had no out and felt obligated to take the car. (1picture of 2 in original report)
It´s Dealers like Daniel Scmitt & Company in St Louis, who give the whole car sales industry a black eye with their sleezy, underhanded way of doing business.
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SUBMITTED: Monday, October 28, 2013POSTED: Monday, October 28, 2013
In regard to the problems with the 1974 Corvette Convert. I purchased from Dan Schmitt Classic Cars, I should have inserted in the original article that I never even attempted to contact them about my concerns, in order to give them a chance to rectify the problems one way or the other..
I thought that because of the time passage and not knowing what to do about this issue I couldn´t do anything, until I stumbled upon this Ripoff Report site and proceeded to write.....
Within 2 days the seller´s Salesman Jon contacted me to voice his company´s dismay of my not first giving them a chance to try and make things right.
He said that he would talk to the owner of the company about possibly ??? buying the car back....though they ARE NOT HAPPY that I went this root.
Soooo I wait and see?????
I will keep posting on the progress and results if any!
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"Do not base your decision on false advice" – that is the call from environment campaigners to fisheries ministers ahead of their agreement on a Baltic Sea fisheries plan on Monday 20 April. Some member states seek to delay parts of the plan.
The proposal for Baltic Sea fishing limits currently on the table is a breach of the binding objectives of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), campaigners say.
In a letter to fisheries ministers, a coalition of environmental NGOs point out that EU law requires fish quotas to stay below the level called "F-MSY" and warn ministers not to let quotas exceed that level.
Commission has asked for advice on overfishing
The letter alerts ministers to the way that advice from the scientific organisation ICES has been handled by the European Commission. Fish quotas (or fishing mortality, "F", as it is referred to in the letter) must be set below F-MSY levels. "Yet, the Commission requested that ICES provide values for fishing mortality around F-MSY, and these values were subsequently integrated into the Commission's proposal", according to the letter.
The fisheries committee in the European Parliament has already voted on the Baltic Sea management plan, saying that quotas must stay below F-MSY. The environmental organisations write that they "are urging member states to demonstrate the same level of ambition to implement the reformed CFP."
Deadlock ahead?
A Council document, released Thursday, indicated that some member states want to postpone the decision on ranges for fishing quotas. They want to wait for the outcome of a court case regarding the legal basis for fisheries management plans. There is a long-standing conflict between the Council and the European Parliament, where Council wants Parliament to have no say over ranges for fishing quotas (background here, here or here).
Follow the Council meeting on Monday
Ministers will hold a public discussion on the Baltic management plan at around 10:30 on Monday, according to the indicative programme for the Council meeting. The public discussion will be live streamed at video.consilium.europa.eu.
More background
– The NGO letter to the ministers in BE, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, HR, LI, NL, PL, PT, SL, UK.
– A comparison of the scientific advice and the positions of Council, Parliament and Commission can be found here: On Monday, Council may endorse overfishing in the Baltic Sea
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Asymptomatic bacteriuria, antibiotic use, and suspected urinary tract infections in four nursing homes
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are the most commonly treated infection among nursing home residents. Even in the absence of specific (e.g., dysuria) or non-specific (e.g., fever) signs or symptoms, residents frequently receive an antibiotic for a suspected infection. This research investigates factors associated with the use of antibiotics to treat asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) among nursing home residents.
This was a cross-sectional study involving multi-level multivariate analyses of antibiotic prescription data for residents in four nursing homes in central Texas. Participants included all nursing home residents in these homes who, over a six-month period, received an antibiotic for a suspected UTI. We investigated what factors affected the likelihood that a resident receiving an antibiotic for a suspected UTI was asymptomatic.
The most powerful predictor of antibiotic treatment for ASB was the presence of an indwelling urinary catheter. Over 80 percent of antibiotic prescriptions written for catheterized individuals were written for individuals with ASB. For those without a catheter, record reviews identified 204 antibiotic prescriptions among 151 residents treated for a suspected UTI. Almost 50% of these prescriptions were for residents with no documented UTI symptoms. Almost three-quarters of these antibiotics were ordered after laboratory results were available to clinicians. Multivariate analyses indicated that resident characteristics did not affect the likelihood that an antibiotic was prescribed for ASB. The only statistically significant factor was the identity of the nursing home in which a resident resided.
We confirm the findings of earlier research indicating frequent use of antibiotics for ASB in nursing homes, especially for residents with urinary catheters. In this sample of nursing home residents, half of the antibiotic prescriptions for a suspected UTI in residents without catheters occurred with no documented signs or symptoms of a UTI. Urine studies were performed in almost all suspected UTI cases in which an antibiotic was prescribed. Efforts to improve antibiotic stewardship in nursing homes must address clinical decision-making solely on the basis of diagnostic testing in the absence of signs or symptoms of a UTI.
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are the most commonly treated infection among nursing home residents
Antibiotic overuse for ASB occurs even though no evidence indicates that treating ASB in older adults is of benefit. Antimicrobial treatments do not affect the prevalence of bacteriuria, the frequency of symptomatic urinary tract infections, morbidity, or mortality
To assist clinicians in differentiating symptomatic UTIs from ASB, several consensus guidelines have been developed that provide criteria for diagnosis and management of a suspected UTI in a nursing home resident
As part of a larger study of antibiotic use in nursing homes, we investigated antibiotic use among residents in four nursing homes who were treated with an antibiotic for a suspected UTI. In this cohort of nursing home residents receiving antibiotics for a suspected UTI, our study investigated differences between residents treated with an antibiotic who presented with documented signs or symptoms of a UTI and those who received an antibiotic but were asymptomatic.
A retrospective chart review was performed to obtain data from the four study nursing homes about nursing home residents receiving antibiotics for a suspected UTI. Data collection was part of a larger study on antibiotic stewardship in nursing homes. The four study facilities, all located in central Texas, ranged in size from 48 to 222 beds and included for-profit homes, not-for-profit homes, and homes that are part of multi-facility systems.
From April 2010 through September 2010, residents receiving an antibiotic for a suspected UTI were identified from the four study homes' infection logs, which list all infections in the home and which federal regulations require homes to maintain [56 FR 48876, Sept. 26, 1991, as amended at 57 FR 43925, Sept. 23, 1992]. All but a scant few of the listed infections were associated with an antimicrobial prescription, so that the infection logs essentially represent antibiotic treatment logs. For each identified episode of antibiotic treatment for a suspected UTI, the research team collected resident-level data, including resident characteristics at admission and information from the Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessment completed prior to the date of the prescription that brought them into our sample
Additional information was gathered from the review of residents' medical records, including nursing notes and clinician's orders. The information in these sources included the symptoms noted at the time of the suspected infection and the prescribed treatments. Data were collected by research consultants with clinical experience in nursing homes, who were employed by the TMF Healthcare Quality Institute, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) for Texas. The Institutional Review Boards at Texas A&M University and the American Institutes for Research approved the on-site data collection procedures for this study. Both boards gave the research team a waiver of written consent and a waiver of consent prior to accessing Private Health Information because no personal identifiers were included in the database.
Dependent variable
The dependent variable in our analyses was a binary variable reflecting the presence or absence of any signs or symptoms associated with a symptomatic UTI, based on consensus criteria previously published by Loeb et al. (Loeb criteria)
•acute dysuria,
•fever (>37.9°C [100°F]) or 1.5°C [2.4°F] increase above baseline temperature),
•new or worsening urgency, frequency, or incontinence,
•suprapubic pain,
•gross hematuria,
•costovertebral angle (flank) tenderness,
•rigors, or
•delirium (recent and abrupt change in mental status).
The dependent variable equaled zero when any of the signs or symptoms above were noted in the medical record (i.e., symptomatic UTI), and it equaled one when none of these symptoms were present (i.e., ASB).
Independent variables
Resident characteristics were obtained using a resident's admission MDS (version 2.0) and the most recent MDS completed prior to the date of the first suspected UTI. Information on physical functioning and cognitive patterns were used to construct established scales for activities of daily living and cognitive performance. Our model also included an indicator for potential depression, and an indicator of the presence of a problem or condition that might result relatively soon in a health decline or in death.
We investigated the effects of individual health status measures on the likelihood a prescription would be written for ASB. Although the results of previous research on the impact of functional status or case-mix on certain aspects of antibiotic use is somewhat mixed
Resident demographic characteristics were included in the analysis to explore any potential differences in the presence or absence of signs and symptoms for UTIs associated with age, gender and race/ethnicity. Age was categorized into 3 groups (under 85, 85+, and missing). Given the preponderance of non-Hispanic White residents and missing observations, race/ethnicity was categorized as three variables representing non-Hispanic White, all other races/ethnicities, and missing observations. A binary variable identifying any resident with multiple courses of antibiotics for a suspected UTI was also developed. Similarly, an indicator representing the nursing home within which the suspected infection took place was included in our analyses. General data on the four nursing homes were also collected by the research consultants.
Statistical analyses
Data were analyzed using SAS 9.2. We present descriptive data for the four homes and compare baseline characteristics of all non-catheterized residents who received antibiotics for a suspected UTI, categorizing those residents by whether or not they presented with signs or symptoms thought to warrant antibiotic use.
One of the major predictors of the use of an antibiotic for a suspected UTI was the presence of an indwelling urinary catheter
While the descriptive analysis focused on 151 individual residents without an indwelling catheter, the multivariate analysis was performed on 204 prescriptions for a suspected UTI for these 151 individuals. The unit of analysis for our multivariate modeling was the prescription. As our results indicate, a reasonable proportion of residents received more than one antibiotic for a suspected UTI during the study period. Very few of these were prescriptions were for a persistent UTI. We identified all prescriptions written for the same person over a period of one month. We then removed these individuals from our analyses. The results did not change, so these cases remain in the data used in our analyses.
Due to the correlated nature of the prescription data, in which a resident may have had more than one episode of a suspected UTI during the study period, a generalized linear mixed effect model was used to estimate the likelihood of a resident having none of the signs or symptoms identified in the Loeb criteria among those who received an antibiotic prescription for a UTI
Twenty-three prescriptions in the study period were written for individuals with an indwelling catheter. Of these, 82.6 percent (19) were written when the resident displayed no localized or proximal symptoms of a UTI. Since the relative number of prescriptions was low, but the percent of prescription written for residents who were asymptomatic was so different from that for other residents, we did not use these cases in our further analyses. While recognizing the overwhelming role of an indwelling urinary catheter in antibiotic prescription for a suspected UTI, our analyses focus on those factors that result in treatment for ASB among residents who are not catheterized; the results discussed below involve only the prescriptions written for those residents without an indwelling catheter.
As the results in Table
In a multivariate analysis (Table
One of the major issues in antibiotic stewardship in nursing homes is the use of antibiotics to treat suspected UTIs
Somewhat surprisingly, our results indicated that resident demographics or indicators of health and functional status did not affect the likelihood of receipt of an antibiotic despite the absence of physical symptoms for UTI. Several resident conditions such as diabetes, stroke and causes of urinary tract dysfunction were not included in these data. Nonetheless, these results imply that differences in health and functional status among residents are not a driving force behind prescribing antibiotic treatment for ASB.
Our results provide evidence of the overwhelming importance of the presence or absence of an indwelling urinary catheter in the use of antibiotics for ASB. Our results from these four homes indicate that over 80 percent of the antibiotics prescribed for individuals with a catheter were written in the absence of signs or symptoms of a UTI. However, they were usually written in the presence of urinalysis results.
Previously published infection surveillance criteria for UTIs in long term care facilities have given too little attention to laboratory data as part of the diagnostic paradigm
Our data highlight the need for further assessment of how the interpretation of these tests might drive prescribing decisions in this setting. The medical literature emphasizes that older persons with a UTI may present differently than younger persons
Given the receipt of a positive urinalysis, the attending clinician is faced with what can be viewed as a short and long-term risk assessment decision. For the clinician the calculation of risk can be almost entirely short-term. In terms of short-term risks, by not prescribing an antibiotic, the clinician may fail to treat a blossoming infection; the resident's condition may worsen, possibly dramatically. The benefits of not prescribing an antibiotic, such as reduction in emergence of antibiotic-resistant pathogens or avoidance of adverse drug complications' will usually be seen in rates for the entire population in the home (e.g. decreases in
Further studies should explore how the level of engagement and types of authority wielded by nursing home clinicians in homes of different sizes may influence antibiotic prescribing practices. The longer term benefits of antibiotic stewardship may be more evident to nursing home clinicians with greater responsibility in the home. If that is the case, it may provide guidance to those seeking avenues to address effectively the overuse of antibiotics and the lack of good antibiotic stewardship in long-term care.
Our study has several limitations. Our sample was based on a log of antibiotic prescriptions driven by clinical suspicion of a UTI. We did not have a comparison of this cohort to residents in the facility who did not receive antibiotics, nor could we identify individuals who had ASB but were not suspected of having a UTI. Therefore, we could not provide a comparison between individuals treated with an antibiotic for ASB and individuals with ASB not treated with antibiotics, to explore risk factors related to receiving an antibiotic. Our definition of symptomatic UTI was based on criteria developed by a consensus panel of experts, with limited validation, so some may disagree with the criteria applied in this study. Our data came from homes that varied on a number of dimensions, but all were located in central Texas, potentially affecting whether these findings are more broadly representative of the nursing home setting. Finally, data collection was retrospective and dependent on the quality of residents' medical records in nursing homes.
Despite its limitations, this study offers some interesting insights into antibiotic use in nursing homes in the management of a suspected UTI in the presence or absence of signs and symptoms. Our results indicate that further study might do well to focus on the use and interpretation of laboratory testing in clinicians' decisions to prescribe an antibiotic for a suspected UTI. Given our findings related to the importance of the site of care, additional efforts might focus on improving knowledge of the risks and benefits of antibiotic use for ASB among nursing home staff and administration.
UTI: Urinary tract infections; ASB: Asymptomatic bacteriuria; MDROs: Multi-drug resistant organisms; MRSA: Methicillin-resistant
Competing interests
The authors indicate that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
CP, EF, NS and SG planned the project. DKM, HZ, OA, ON, and were responsible for data management and data analyses. All authors were involved in reviewing and interpreting the results of the analyses. CP wrote the first draft of the article. All authors reviewed and commented on the draft. NS had lead responsibility for later drafts. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Authors' information
CP is a Regents Professor at the Texas A&M Health Science Center (HSC) in College Station, TX. DKM is an assistant professor in Health Policy and Management at the HSC. OA and ON are doctoral students at the HSC. HZ is an associate professor of biostatistics at the HSC. DM is William C. Allen Professor in Family and Community Medicine at the University Of Missouri School Of Medicine in Columbia, MO. NS is the medical epidemiologist for long-term care in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA.
Kevin Warren, TMF; Katherine Crosson, AHRQ.
Funding provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/sub to American Institutes for Research, Award No. 00530–02434.008, Prime award: HHSA2902006000191 T.0.8.
"The findings and conclusions in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality".
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2 blocks from Elk Ave (main street) and 1/2 block to the FREE Mountain Shuttle Bus (NO CAR NEEDED). Other activities: skiing, XCC skiing, snow mobiling, ice fishing, dog sledding, snow shoeing, ice skating, sleigh rides, sled ride hill, hiking, mountain biking, golfing, skate board park, white water rafting, hang gliding, four wheeling, and bird watching.
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Year Purchased: 2008
About the owner: Kurt, Paula, Luca and Keifer at home in Kenya ... the best of both worlds!
Why the Owner Chose Crested Butte, CO, USA:
Crested Butte is the most incredible place to call home in the USA! And The Carriage House is just perfect for a special honeymoon or small family holiday - luxurious, romantic, beautifully decorated, FABULOUS VIEWS, and ultra convenient!
The Unique Benefits at this House:
Fabulous views, pure luxury, eco-friendly, less than 100 yards to the free shuttle, two blocks to boutique shops and restaurants, and lots of room to run and play!
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Morning sunshine on The Carriage House
Quaint as a gingerbread house at Christmas
Gourmet kitchen - stainless steel appliances & slate black paperstone counters
Mstr Bedroom - pillow top mattress, Egyptian sheets, and down pillows & comforte
1800's Sliding Barn door to master bath
Master STEAM Shower - travertine tiling and 'massaging' pebble flloor
Beautiful, studded Colorado leather couch and Persian carpet, camel bag
View west of Paradise Divide from the house
Open view of the Kuphusion Farm looking west from The Carriage House
View of Mt. Crested Butte from the deck
Mt. Crested Butte from the patio (same view from deck and living room)
Only 2 blocks to Elk Avenue and Pooh's Corner - every kids' favorite store!
View of Mt. CB from The Carriage House deck
Living room, cozy fireplace and views of Mt. CB, Maroon Bells & Paradise Divide
The Carriage House with a beautiful view of Mt. Crested Butte
Imagine waking to this view from mstr bed - daisies, old farm and Red Lady
Master bath - STEAM SHOWER, toasty heated floors, fluffy towels, Bedouin vanity
Cowboy bedroom (twins or KING) - Grandma's antique spindle beds and G'pa's trunk
View of Marroon Bells sunrise at Christmas from The Carriage House
Sunset mountains from house and outdoor BBQ area!
Beautiful views from the house looking northwest towards Paradise Divide
Summertime - lovely outdoor living space and BBQ area
Only 2 blocks to Elk Avenue -- filled with great restaurants & quaint boutiques
2008 photo of house
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Date last modified - Thursday, May 25, 2017
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Leaders at Dewey & LeBoeuf have been sued by UK insurance group Aviva in connection with a bond issued by the now-defunct US firm in 2010.
Aviva and its New York arm filed the action last week (14 December) against former chairman Steve Davis, former executive director Stephen DiCarmine and ex-CFO Joel Sanders following an investigation by the insurer's lawyers into the sale of the bond two years before the law firm's collapse.
The suit concerns Aviva's purchase of $35m of senior secured notes issued by Dewey on 16 April 2010, which the company alleges was missold. It was forced to sell the bond at a discount and suffered damages as a result, it claims.
The company claims in its complaint: "As a result of false and misleading statements that Dewey and the defendants knew or should have known were deceptive, the Aviva plaintiffs were misled in their purchase of the notes, and have suffered significant damages. This action seeks actual damages and attorneys' fees for violations of federal and state securities laws."
It alleges that the firm, the defendants and "high-level officers and managers" of the firm prepared and disseminated false and misleading information about Dewey's financial condition, financial obligations and practices and that Aviva relied on this information when buying the bond.
In particular, it claims that Dewey, Davis, DiCarmine and Sanders had said Dewey was financially sound with a "conservative debt profile", when it in fact owed more than $100m to certain partners.
It continues: "In fact, at the time of the note offering, Dewey's financial situation was so dire that it was unable to make required payments due and owing to retired partners, a fact that was not disclosed to the note purchasers."
The company also alleges that Dewey did not disclose a practice of guaranteeing pay to certain partners regardless of the firm's financial performance, leading to indebtedness in years in which the firm missed its revenue target.
It claims: "The reason that Dewey and the defendants concealed these compensation guarantees was because they created the possibility of a mass defection of partners, and ultimate collapse of Dewey, if they were revealed. That is in fact what ultimately happened."
It also alleges that the defendants' actions with regard to the note offering were part of a larger course of misrepresentation of the firm's financial condition for their own enrichment, and that they induced lateral partners to join the firm and make a capital contribution by misrepresenting the firm's financial position.
An Aviva spokesperson said in a statement: "In March 2010, Aviva purchased $35m in senior secured notes through a private securities offering issued and sold by Dewey & LeBoeuf. As a result of the law firm's financial difficulties, Aviva incurred a financial loss on the sale of the notes.
"It has become clear to Aviva that certain members of Dewey's leadership failed to sufficiently inform Aviva about the firm's financial health, and did not provide certain critical information that Aviva required, and was entitled to, when purchasing the notes. Our complaint simply seeks to recover damages stemming from Aviva's investment and to hold Dewey's senior leaders accountable."
Aviva has instructed Iowa-based Nyemaster Goode West Hansell & O'Brien partner John Clendenin and Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton partners Helen Michael and Stephen Hudson in Washington DC and Atlanta respectively.
Davis, DiCarmine and Sanders were also defendants in a suit filed by former partner Dewey Henry Bunsow earlier this year alleging that the firm's management ran a Ponzi scheme and misrepresented the firm's financial situation (14 June 2012).
The defendants were unavailable for comment.


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Addressed to my uncle, who recently passed away due to a brain tumour and was one of the best people I've ever met.
When I was young, I used to call you my A1 best friend. My other friends could come later, but you were the best friend I could ever get, I said; the first in line. It's been perhaps 10 years since then, and I've made hundreds of other friends, bot none could match up to you.
You- with your everlasting smile, your bubbling energy, you were the last person whom I expected to be rid of that which you loved the most- life. I shall never be able to see that charming smile or hear your silly jokes again.
You've left your children, who haven't even passed school yet, without so much as a goodbye, and your younger son will probably never even remember his father. Who would have known, that the headache you started out with would escalate to sch levels? Who would have imagined that every single minute we talked to you, that tumour was growing in your brain like some amorphous, horrendous monster, set out to rid us of your presence? Did you know how much I cared for you, did I ever take the chance to tell you? Were you even aware of the terrible panic attacks I would get all that time you spent in the hospital, unconscious? Do you realize how much pain you've caused us, just sitting up there, snug in heaven? Because I know you are in heaven right now, looking down upon us with the same love I remember, and cherished. If you aren't in heaven, then no one else deserves to be.
My only consolation is that now, you are in a happier place, a better place than this earth, and I hope you are happy there. Perhaps you will read this, somehow; I just want you to know that I loved you very much.


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Thank Heavens for public transportation. It makes my life a whole lot easier.
It's dawned on me, as it did to Machado de Assis, in 4th of July 1883, to list a few clauses, five to be precise, that aim to bring order out of the chaos that the excess of democracy brings to buses
Art I - On the Sad
Sad, depressed folks should not talk to their friend, the one that managed to grab a seat next to me, about matters arising from their quiet and sleepy little lives often laden with petty gossip. After all, there is always the chance that the batteries in my "Walkman" are not charged enough.
Art II - On the Hunky and Good-looking Guys
Handsome boys, it behooves me to warn you that it is forbidden for you to inch closer and touch my thighs which are yin in nature with yours which are strong and energetic, more yang, when you get a place near me, lest you raise incongruous behavior with the collective setting of the vehicle. I'm telling you!
Art III - On the Ill-humored
Will the grumpy ones please remain in their beds and do you not dare leave your pestilential cocoons to spread poison and thereby polluting the prana that I use to stay alive.
Art IV - On the Old and Sassy
It would be wise and for everyone's good that old folks stay in their rocking chairs in their yards, telling stories to their five-year-old grandchildren, reminiscing about what they could have done with their lives and did not do, rather than coming to take my favorite seat at seven o'clock in the morning. Have a heart! Banks open at ten.
Art V - On the Drivers and Collectors
To these it is vetoed the exchange of information relevant to their profession. It comes with a typical, unswallowable verbiage for people who think they are the queens of the black coconut brittle. Due to the distance from the driver's seat to where the collector sits, we, the passengers, will be left wondering why we are subjected to such drivel. Voice carries. Keep my mind free and my ears safe.
The other five articles are left to the reader's imagination which, I'm sure, has as much essence as does mine.
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1838-1908).
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒoaˈkĩ maˈɾiɐ maˈʃadu dʒi aˈsis]), often known as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho[1] (June 21, 1839, Rio de Janeiro—September 29, 1908, Rio de Janeiro), was a Brazilian novelist, poet,playwright and short story writer. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature.[2][3][4] However, he did not gain widespread popularity outside Brazil in his own lifetime.
Machado's works had a great influence on Brazilian literary schools of the late 19th century and 20th century. José Saramago, Carlos Fuentes, Susan Sontag and Harold Bloom are among his admirers[5] and Bloom calls him "the supreme black literary artist to date."


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Name: Gaming Jobs Online
Website: www.gamingjobsonline.com
Price: $27 Monthly Membership
Rank: 0/100 – Scam
Can you really get paid to play games, online? How awesome would that be..? It's because of the nature of this website I was immediately skeptical when landing on it. Whether or not, this means to end for making an online income is at all legitimate, is the purpose of this review.
What Is It?
Gaming Jobs Online acts as a potential middleman between high paying corporations and video game testers. This company in a way, is very similar to a number of the various online survey websites out there, getting ready to pay you for your mere opinion.
Because the demand is so high for this type of work, there tend to be more online survey scams than there ever used to be. Many of which will offer paid and registered memberships.
How Much Is It?
Joining gamingjobsonline.com will cost you $27 per month. Nonetheless, gamingjobsonline.com makes a wide number of claims that can be hard to believe at first sight.
False Claims:
#1. You can get paid to Play New and Upcoming Games.
#2. You can get paid to take online surveys and make from $5 to $75 each, or more.
#3. You can get paid to participate in focus groups and make up to $150 an hour.
#4. You can get paid to try new Games, Gaming Consoles, Controllers or other products and keep the free products too!
#5. You can get paid to preview new movie or game trailers for $4 to $25 an hour.
#6. You can get paid to review new Games for up to $30 an hour.
In addition, gamingjobsonline.com claims all you need to do to begin earning money is a video game tester is to simply "Create an Account, Choose a Job, then Play and get Paid!"
Another big red flag to be aware when considering Gaming Jobs Online as a potential source of revenue is its false trademark advertising! This is something I see all the time with scams, claiming to work besides big job corporations such as: MSNBC, YAHOO, GAMESPOT, JOYSTIQ, & GAMETRAILERS, making the company look more legitimate.
Last but not least, the company claims to pay you an average of:
Weekly Income: $1,025.00
Monthly Income: $4,100.00
Yearly Income: $53,300.00
That's a full-time income, and over what most people make!
Just to play video games in your spare time, this is something worth looking into and finding out what is really going on in the background.
How It Works?
Most individuals might ask how a company like this could rip people off, however that seems to be the only purpose of this website.
After having tested the product, I found that nothing with this website has anything to do with helping you find video game tester jobs as they have claimed.
Instead after searching around its gaming jobs database, and clicking its various icons, would seemingly come up with nothing but broken links. Another error that I found was getting re-directed to a temporary job that would last only a few weeks, and yet was completely out of date.
This makes me wonder whether or not the company had any legitimate postings at all. The last error I would get, is the link telling me "this posting does not exist." Unbelievable!
Instead, the entire purpose of Gaming Jobs Online is to provide fake video gaming job postings, and post survey links everywhere. Although, this makes no sense, what this does is it gets individuals to sign-up for various survey companies with their affiliate links.
Knowing that you are going to cancel your video gaming job membership, the company will still profit for each individual who simultaneously signs up with the survey company instead!
Kind of ingenious, indeed.
Immoral and unethical?
GamingJobsOnline.com Scam Overview
As far as we can tell, companies like Gaming Jobs Online are willing to go as far as they need, and lie as much as they need to, just to profit off its consumers. They seem to have no care in the world for the provided user value in exchange. Rip off reports have even shown the company not honoring the majority of its customer refunds!
Verdict: Scam
Rank: 0/100
In my opinion, Gaming Jobs Online is nothing more than a scam, that does not offer any "real" gaming jobs.
Almost all the links I went to were not only broken, but would even re-direct me to their affiliate survey links just to profit off my own registration.
Furthermore, if you are still looking for a more legitimate method to making an online income, please see My #1 Recommendation!
This will teach you on how to go about making an income, the right way, using the proper channels, methods, and training, and does not rely upon scammy techniques as involved with Gaming Jobs Online.
Thanks for reading this GamingJobsOnline.com review. If you have any comments, questions, or concerns, please leave them below.


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We have a number of prints here in the Collection, most of which come from old issues of Harper's or Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, covering all manner of Brooklyn life. Some of my favorite images come from the Sports folder, showing as they do the great diversity of early sporting activity in the borough. Here we can find young men playing handball in stripped-down handball togs, polo dandies in candy-striped jerseys wrangling their horses around the desired ball, and women in feather-caked hats drawing their bows in Prospect Park archery tournaments. But none of these pages from the illustrated papers interest me as much as the one from Leslie's dated February 1, 1879. Though correctly filed away with the other sports prints, it's not immediately evident what sport is being depicted here. We see no mallets, balls, arrows, bows, horses, targets, teammates, or opponents. Instead, we see one woman as she appeared in five different scenes:
singing from a stage...
enjoying the adulation of a crowd...
clowning around with a sleeping man...
striking a noble pose...
and being carried away, wrapped in blankets. So what kind of sport was this?
Almost 133 years ago to the day Madame Ada Louise Anderson began the task of walking 2,700 quarter miles in 2,700 quarter hours. Or, if my math is right, 675 miles in about a month, or 28.125 days. This phenomenal feat of pedestrianism, as the sporting ways of these distance walkers was termed, took place in Brooklyn at the Mozart Garden on the corner of Fulton and Smith streets. The Eagle ran careful descriptions of both the Garden and the celebrated English pedestrienne. The auditorium of the Garden was encircled by a neatly-laid and well-rolled tan bark track about three feet wide. This oval was then enclosed by a narrow railing about eighteen inches high which separated the track from the flooring. Within the ring, several hundred chairs were set out for spectators -- prominent Brooklynites, a large contingent of women, and gamblers with a stake in the trek. The whole place was brilliantly illuminated, and on the Garden's stage, which was decorated so as to resemble an open air landscape, a brass band regularly played until midnight.
Intersection of Fulton and Smith from an 1886 Robinson's atlas.
As for the 36-year-old Madame Anderson herself, the Eagle describes her as being "robust, rosy, and hearty" with a bright and prepossesing face (though of a "slightly masculine type"). The reporter goes on to describe her form as being "exceedingly strong and muscular, but symmetrical as well." Her costume consisted of black velvet knee breeches, and a loose flowing robe of blue and scarlet cloth, embroidered in white. On her feet were stout, loose, leather shoes topped by scarlet stockings. Her strong, muscular, and altogether symmetrical legs were encased in silver tights, and on her head she wore a blue and scarlet cloth cap ornamented with a white braid and snowy feather. Not only were the Eagle reporters taken with the hale Madame Anderson, but so too were the crowds. On December 30th the Eagle reported that between the hours of 7pm and 11pm four thousand people had gone in and out of the Garden. The seats in the center of the circle were filled, and so too was nearly every available piece of ground on which a spactator could stand. People hung around at all hours of the day, with some crowds at the early hour of 3am reportedly as large as 300 people.
Though not without its own sort of drama, a long endurance walk could be a difficult event to report on with continually new and interesting material. As Madame Anderson plodded on toward her goal, most Eagle headlines offered up some variation of "Still Walking" to keep Brooklynites abreast of the pedestrian's labors. As the achievement of the 2,700th quarter mile became more and more of a reality, Madame Anderson wasn't the only one who seemed to be getting fatigued. This one word might sum up the mood in the Eagle offices.
But, as you can probably tell from the Leslie's images, walking was just one part of the spectacle created by Madame Anderson. As much as to wake herself up as to entertain the crowd, Madame Anderson would occasionally take to the stage following a quarter mile and belt out an aria from Verdi, graciously accept challenges from Hoboken pedestrienne wannabes and then vanquish them, or disappear into her dressing room after a few laps only to reappear in some new brown and silver trimmed velvet costume.
Though many doubted her when she first began, Madame Anderson proved all her disbelievers wrong. Keeping up her strength on a diet of rare beefsteak, roast beef, mutton, beef tea, port wine, and champagne, Madame Anderson completed her arduous walk on January 13th 1879. A coach awaited her at the stage door of the Mozart Garden. Several large bouquets of flowers were handed in to her as she left, and a big basket of champagne was hoisted onto the roof. As the coach began to leave, the surrounding crowd shouted out to Madame Anderson to unhitch the horses so that they might pull her to her well-deserved destination -- Dr. Charles H. Shepard's Turkish baths at 81 and 83 Columbia Heights.
"Amid wild scenes of face-slapping and hair-pulling, police today quelled a stampede among 3,000 women fighting for places in line... The line had formed as early as 1:30 a.m... some women brought their lunches, their knitting, and their babies."
It may sound like the standard consumer zealotry we're accustomed to hearing about this time of the year, as usually sane citizens spend their Thanksgiving vacation camped out for hours, or days, in front of retail stores in hopes of snagging deals on big-screen TVs, videogame systems, and other toys... the kinds of products they'd enjoy at home, if they were there. But no, this is not a description of the now-typical Black Friday bargain-hunter brawls that overtake the aisles of otherwise tranquil shopping centers. Printed in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in June of 1946, this is a rundown of the desperate measures Brooklyn housewives would take to get their hands on a product that most of us take for granted. What was the hot-ticket item that dragged them out of bed in the wee hours of the morning?
Even though the war, with its attendant deprivations, was over, throughout 1946 meat was a hard-won item on America's dinner plate. Since World War II the federal Office of Price Adminstration (OPA) had been imposing price ceilings on consumer goods in an effort to quell inflation. The ceilings were popular with much of the public, which appreciated affordable staples like meat, eggs, and milk, but they were increasingly unpopular with the producers of those goods, who argued that they couldn't turn a profit under the government restrictions. To protest the price controls, meat packers staged a slowdown in production, refusing to slaughter and ship the meat that fed the nation, until price ceilings were removed.
As meat supplies dwindled, the borough's collective stomach rumbled. Brooklyn's Fort Greene Retail Meat Market, at 174 Fort Greene Place (now home to a different kind of market, the Atlantic Center Mall), slaughtered its own meat, and throughout that year was often one of the only places borough residents could get the porterhouse steaks, lamb shoulders, and beef livers for which their families clamored.
Above, on June 6, 1946, shoppers vied to get a piece of a shipment of 30,000 pounds of meat that the Fort Greene Retail Meat Market managed to bring in, despite nationwide shortages. Police were called in that day at about 9 a.m. to restore order to a crowd of over 3,000 restless shoppers, below, waiting for their turn at the butcher's block. "To add to the excitement," wrote the Eagle, "someone yelled 'Murder!' at the height of the disorder and others took up the cry."
The powers of the OPA were set to expire on June 30, 1946, unless Congress passed an extension. This was easier said than done; an extension bill put forward in the Senate proposed a much-weakened OPA that would ease price controls and, according to a June 10th Eagle editorial, cost consumers an additional $2 billion in the following six to nine months. After heated debate in the Senate, which included a futile eight-hour filibuster by anti-OPA Texas Senator W. Lee O'Daniel, the extension of the OPA passed. On June 29th the Eagle all but guaranteed readers that President Truman would sign the bill into law, while this less reassuring headline ran alongside:
To the surprise of many, President Truman vetoed the OPA extension bill on the grounds that it did not give the agency adequate power and would "legalize inflation and bring economic disaster to the nation." It was hoped that Congress would act quickly to push through a new bill restoring the OPA to its former strength, but that effort was blocked by -- you guessed it -- Senator O'Daniel. At midnight on June 30th, all OPA price controls expired. The beef industry was quick to capitalize on the increased profit potential, and by July 2nd, Brooklyn was back in the meat, but at prices that alarmed many shoppers.
"Despite the price hike," the Eagle reported on July 2nd, "the rush at the market was as great as ever. Up to noon 1,000 persons had been served. The line started forming at 4 a.m. Many of the early arrivals were drenched by rain, but they refused to yield their places." Prices eased down by the next week as meat from the revived Chicago stockyards trickled into Brooklyn. The black market for beef, which had flourished under the OPA price ceiling system, quickly dissipated as supplies flooded the city.
Above, an image from the Eagle, July 10, 1946, with the caption: "Scarce no more -- Yes, folks, that's beef and there's plenty of it at the Fort Greene Retail Meat Market." A spokesman from the Unity Meat Market, at 125 Smith Street, remarked to the Eagle on July 7th that, "The death of the OPA was the best thing that could happen in our business."
But not everyone was ecstatic about the newly unfettered meat market, and consumers moved quickly to push back against rising prices. On July 18th, 150 housewives and veterans paraded down DeKalb Avenue, between Sumner and Throop Avenues, announcing a boycott on new meat prices with punny slogans like "Meat may be nice but we won't meet the price," and "We refuse to swallow hamburger at $1 a pound." According to the Eagle, "they succeeded in keeping shoppers out of seven butcher stores. Poultry shops, not included in the boycott, did a landslide business."
Several other organizations rallied with the housewives, including the local chapter of the American Veterans Committee, whose chairman, a young Howard Zinn, declared, "We are now engaged in another grim war which must be won if the first victory is to be of any significance." More rallies followed; July 23rd was the first of several "buy nothing days" staged by a citywide consumer strike committee. On August 1st Coney Island shoppers picketed along Mermaid Avenue and that same day Mayor O'Dwyer himself endorsed the boycott efforts. The Brooklyn Buyers Strike Committee declared a meat boycot for the entire week of August 12th to 20th.
Their efforts were rewarded, albeit inadequately, when a revived OPA bill was finally pushed through the legislature. Price ceilings on meat and other staples went back into effect in early September, and the wearying cycle immediately started all over again. Meat supplies dried up. Black markets sprang up with pocket-gouging prices. Long lines formed outside the Fort Green Retail Meat Market which was, again, the only game in town.
Look familiar? Brooklynites wait patiently to get inside the Fort Greene Retail Meat Market, where on October 2nd crowds swelled to 5,000 hungry shoppers.
The Eagle ran this picture on October 13th, lamenting the plight of these cattle who had "nothing to do and no purpose in life" while another meat industry slowdown kept beef off the market.
The seesaw of feast and famine finally came to an end in mid-October. President Truman, "under severe political pressure from Republicans and members of his own party who have bombarded the White House for relief from the meat shortage," according to the Eagle, announced his decision to lift controls on the price of meat completely. Once again, the floodgates were opened and meat poured into Brooklyn's markets. The Eagle snapped this shot of Dave Ershowsky, owner of the Harvey Beef Company at 201 Fort Greene Place, standing forlornly in an empty meat cooler on October 15th...
...and came back the next day to capture a still-low-key Ershowsky posing with his just-arrived 15-ton shipment of prime beef.
Another price hike followed, but by the end of the month, as the beef supply evened out, prices again came down, although not as low as the OPA ceiling prices shoppers had once enjoyed. While the housewives and consumer groups had lost their fight to keep meat prices in check, they did strike a parting jab against the meat industry -- by the end of October, meat markets complained of an overabundance of beef that customers were unwilling to buy. As Eagle reporter J. A. Livingston described it in his "Business Outlook" column on October 27th, "OPA decontrols meat prices, beef flows to market, and overnight Mrs. Housewife decides she'd rather save the bank account than buy red meat." Maybe familiarity bred contempt?