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This displays the Chart Tools, adding the Design, Layout, and Format tabs.
On the Format tab, in the Current Selection group, click the arrow next to the Chart Elements box, and then click Depth (Series) Axis.
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Police: East side man posed as cop, tried to rape woman
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WTVN) --Columbus police have filed charges of kidnapping, attempted sexual assault and impersonating a police officer against an east side man after they say he tried to attack a woman early Wednesday.
Police found Samuel W. Worthy, 65, hiding in a closet at his Olney Drive home after ditching his car.
The victim, a 33-year old woman, says Worthy, posing as a police officer, convinced her to get inside his car on Brookway Rd. near Livingston Ave. around 1:30 a.m. then tried to sexually assault her.
She was able to escape, but her condition has no been disclosed.
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1. Determine the effects of tillage, corn residue removal, cover crop, and crop rotation on soil physical, chemical, and biological properties including greenhouse gas and soil carbon dynamics in conventional and organic agricultural production systems. Contribute to multi-location projects including Greenhouse gas Reduction through Agricultural Carbon Enhancement network (GRACEnet) and Renewable Energy Assessment Project (REAP). 2. Assess soil-landscape rehabilitation (movement of soil from areas of net accumulation to areas of net soil loss) as a means of improving soil characteristics, soil productivity, farm profitability, pesticide persistence and mobility, and soil erosion. 3. Develop crop rotation, soil nutrient cycling, corn residue removal and pest management practices that improve farming efficiency (increase unit output/unit input), and manage soils in a holistic approach to improve crop yield and quality while maintaining or reducing production inputs.
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Sikkim Public Service Commission invites application for the recruitment of Assistant Geologist with MSc holders
Company Name: Sikkim Public Service Commission
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Applications are invited from the eligible candidates for filling up of 03 (three) posts of Assistant Geologist on temporary regular basis in PB-2 of Rs. 9300-34800 plus grade pay of Rs.5000/- under Mines and Geology Department, Government of Sikkim.
- Minimum Educational Qualification a). Master Degree in Geology from a recognized University.
- Other requisites : (1) Candidate must be in possession of either Sikkim Subject Certificate or Identification Certificate issued by the competent authority under relevant orders of the State Government. (2) Should have valid Local Employment Card. Should be conversant with the customs and usages of Sikkim.
- Duties of the post : As prescribed by the Controlling Authority.
- Age : Should have attained the age of 21 years, but should not have exceeded 30 years as on 01.05.2014. The maximum age limit shall be relaxed upto 5 years in respect of candidates belonging to B.L., S.T., S.C. & 4 yrs. for MBC candidates and 03 yrs. for OBC candidates.
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The Fourth of July began like any other summer morning. Lucy Knowlton woke up, well-rested after a dreamless night, and showered. Then, with sunlight streaming lemon yellow through her open kitchen window, she ate her normal breakfastmultigrain Cheerios with sliced strawberries and almond milk.
The early morning air was still cool, though she knew the temperature would continue to rise. All in all, she felt good. Surprisingly upbeat. Maybe because she'd actually slept well. She supposed she should feel grateful that she'd finally stopped having nightmares about Tucker and how he must have felt when the plane went down.
Rinsing her dishes in the sink and stacking them in the dishwasher, she'd just finished when her three-month-old baby, Eli, cried to let her know he was awake and wanted to be fed. The obvious delight in his bright
blue eyes as he latched on to her breast made her happy and she smiled. Vaguely amazed at the soft happiness she felt, she thought her smiles came a little bit more frequently these days. Or at least she hoped so.
After all, she had so much to be thankful for. Though Tucker's absence had left her with a gaping hole in her life, over time she'd tried to pull the tattered edges closer together. A week, a month, a day, a minute at a time.
Still, at any given moment she could calculate exactly how long it had been since Tucker had died. Today marked one year, two weeks and one day. Ignoring the ever-present ache of missing him, she spent the rest of the morning puttering around the house doing myriad daily chores.
Humming nursery rhymes to entertain Eli in his playpen, she washed two loads of laundry, cleaned her bathroom and mopped the kitchen floor. In between she changed Eli's diaper, sang to him, rocked him and cuddled him. She found if she kept busy, she didn't think so much. All in all, life kept getting better.
Come early afternoon, she put Eli down for a nap. At three months old, he slept a lot still, for which she was guiltily grateful, as she couldn't seem to find enough hours in the day to get everything done.
Especially today. Glad her energy was high, because she still had a lot to do before the holiday celebration later. And it was very important to her that she attend the fireworks display, even though she wouldn't take the baby inside the stadium because of the noise. She'd watch from a distance and try to stay until the very end. She planned to do this in honor of Tuckerthe Fourth of July had been his favorite holiday. Last year, she'd been too devastated to even consider attending any kind of celebration.
This year, she'd do it up right.
So, on this day of all days, she pushed aside her grief at his untimely death and tried to feel lighthearted. At least she could count on Sean Morey, Tucker's best friend and her brand-new fiancé, to help her as they watched the fireworks display explode in vibrant colors in the velvet sky above them.
When the doorbell rang, the muted sound of the clear, mellow chimes made her smile again. A gift from Sean, he'd installed them only a few days ago. She loved the way they sounded, too quiet to wake Eli, but loud enough to let her know someone was at the door. Her obvious delight in the chimes had to be the reason why Sean rang them now instead of just walking inside as he usually did.
Keeping her smile firmly in place so Sean wouldn't worry because she always looked so sad, she hurried to the front door and pulled it open.
"Hey, you!" As she took in the sight of the tall, broad-shouldered man standing on her front step, her less than genuine smile froze in place.
A ghost looked back at her from sapphire blue eyes exactly like her son's. Her heart skipped a beat and she struggled to breathe. Not Sean, as she'd supposed. But Tucker, instead. Tucker Drover, the man who, for all intents and purposes, had died a little over one year ago in a fiery plane crash in Mexico.
Died. She'd attended his funeral, wept over his grave.
This. Could. Not. Be. Real.
Had she finally lost it? Closing her eyes, she inhaled and counted to three before opening them again.
He was still there, his shadow long and dark behind him in the bright sunlight. Standing on her doorstep, staring back at her, his amazing eyes roaming over her as intimate as a touch, making her shiver.
Tucker? Really? She couldn't speak, unable to trust her eyes. He continued to watch at her, his expectant smile fading as she continued to stare in shocked disbelief.
"Say something," he entreated. "Welcome me home, curse me out, I don't know. But say something, Lucy. Do something."
Though he sounded weary, his tone low and ragged, she would have recognized that beloved voice anywhere. Tucker. Tucker was alive? How could this be?
Paralyzed, she tried to form words to demand answers. Pain warred with hope, agony with desire. Tucker was dead. He couldn't be standing here on her doorstep. Was this a trick? Some kind of hallucination? One of those nightmares that she'd thought she'd vanquished?
Had she finally completely gone insane?
"Lucy?" he rasped, narrowing his eyes. "Are you all right?"
She didn't faint, even though the edges of her vision momentarily went gray and the ground seemed to tilt in front of her. Staring at him, she tried to remember to breathe, still dimly certain that this couldn't be real.
"Lucy?" he said again, cocking his head and studying her with that serious, glinting blue gaze she'd always loved. Finally, hope slammed into her, mingling with joy and shock and disbelief and.love.
"Tucker," she managed, her throat closing up as words failed her. But it didn't matter; nothing did, because Tucker was here, with her. Alive. He'd come back alive.
She let her gaze devour him, feeling starved. Taking in his rugged, beloved face, his broad shoulders and muscular arms suddenly wasn't enough. She needed to feel him, his arms around her. She needed to bury her face in the crook of his neck, to inhale the woodsy scent of him. She needed reassurance that she wasn't dreaming, that indeed, this was real.
"Is it ?" Her voice came out in a croak. Trying to understand, to assimilate how he could both be here and not, she took a step forward, dizzy, swaying, confused. "Tucker? It's you? It's really you?"
Head tilted quizzically, he gave the smallest of nods. Still, he made no move to take her in his arms, to hold her close. She didn't understand why not, didn't really care at this point. Tucker was home!
She made the first move herself. Taking a step forward, she threw herself at him, joy filling her. Her heart beat a frantic tattoo in her chest as she wrapped her arms around him, holding on like she never wanted to let him go. Which she didn't. Not ever.
Gradually, she became conscious of the fact that, though he hugged her back, something was different. He held himself stiffly. Rather than relaxing into her embrace, he seemed to be only going through the motions.
She pulled back and looked up at him. While his eyes were still the same shocking shade of sapphire, the look in them was not. Anger and bitterness, rather than love, warred in his amazing eyes.
Anger? At her?
As she eyed him, Tucker, this man who'd disappeared from her life so suddenly and violently, whose supposed death had ripped the heart from her chest and stripped all the joy from her world, she suddenly realized she was angry, too. Furious.
Glaring up at him, she stepped back, keeping hold of his arms. "What happened to you? Where have you been all this time? Why didn't you call?"
"I couldn't," he said simply. "After they got me out, they wouldn't let me have access to a phone, even after my debriefing. Take my word for it. If I could have called, I would have."
"They? Debriefing?" She needed answers. She deserved answers. "Tucker?" she kept her voice level. "I don't understand. What do you mean?"
"Sorry." Letting out a breath, he dragged his hand across his chin. "It's a long story and I'm dead on my feet. Can I come in?"
Without hesitation, she stepped aside, gesturing for him to move past her. Once he did, she closed the door, quietly clicking the lock into place. All of her motions were slow and deliberate, as though the simple routine of performing regular gestures could make everything normal again.
Normal. As if. For a heartbeat, one frozen moment, she let her own anger simmer, then took a deep breath and ruthlessly pushed it back down inside her, allowing the joy to come flooding back. Tucker was alive. He'd returned home; miraculously back from the dead, like Lazarus pushing aside his funeral shroud. Alive.
They would rejoice, they should rejoice, but first, surely he owed her a few words of explanation. He'd disappeared for over a year, made no effort to contact her, and let her believe he was dead. She needed to understand why.
Trembling from the effort of remaining calm, she turned again to face him. He watched her, expression impassive, detached when he should have been joyful. This, she also didn't understand.
"You seem surprised to see me," he commented, one corner of his mouth lifting in a twisted sort of smile. "It's been a while, hasn't it, Lucy girl?"
Despite herself, warmth curled inside of her at the familiar nickname. She hadn't been called that since the last time she'd seen him.
"Of course I'm surprised." Her voice came out wobbly. Taking a deep breath, she eyed him, full of a cautious sort of loveand pain. "Seriously, I really need to know where you've been all this time. We thought you were dead."
"Dead?" He lifted a brow, inadvertently making her insides clench from the sheer masculine beauty of his rugged features. "Really?"
Scarcely able to believe that he wasn't taking her seriously, she nodded. "Yes. We were officially notified that you were dead."
"Sean and I. Remember him? Your best friend? Or did you forget about him, too?" Guilt and anger propelling her, she swept by him, leading the way into her living room, hyper-conscious of him right behind. Alive. Alive.
"We thought you were dead," she repeated. "I wept over your picture at your funeralwe didn't even have a body to bury. Your parents flew in from Nepal." Her eyes filled with tears and she turned away to hide it.
Gathering her composure, she continued. "I've mourned you, Tucker. You don't know how much I've grieved over you. And now you're here. Alive and waltzing into the house as though nothing has happened, asking me if I'm surprised to see you."
Perching on the edge of the couch, she gestured for him to take a seat in the overstuffed chair he'd always claimed as his own. "I don't understand. Explain this to me. I don't even know what page you're on."
"I'm sorry," he said softly, sounding both bewildered and sad. "I've been through so much. I'm confused and recovering. But I swear to you, no one told me you thought I died."
He took a deep breath and blew it back out again. "I was in pretty bad shape. The ones who rescued me, they were mostly concerned with making sure I didn't really die to tell me anything."
Again with the odd, sketchy references.
"Once they got me back to health, they had questions of their own that they wanted answered," he continued. "Too many of them to remember. And yes, I've been told I was gone over a year, though time passes differently when you're in that sort of situation. In this, I had no choice in the matter."
"I still don't understand. I guess you think what you're saying is clear, but it makes no sense to me."
Slowly, he nodded. "I'm sorry. Let me start over."
Crossing her arms to keep from touching him, she caught her breath as she belatedly realized exhaustion showed white around the edge of his mouth. Despite his tanned skin and corded, muscular arms, he was thin as a rail, too, though his shoulders were still as broad.
And he was just as beautiful.
"Start at the beginning," she offered.
"Okay. Let me tell you as much as I remember," he said. "One minute I was striding through the Mexican fields with the man I went to meet. You remember. His name was Carlos, and he claimed to have grown a completely new and fantastic strain of coffee beans."
He'd gone to obtain samples to see if his company, Boulder's Best Brew, would be interested in distributing them.
"I felt a blow at the back of my head like an explosion," he continued. "After that, I regained consciousness chained and was trussed like an animal, with a headache the size of Denver."
His eyes were haunted as he paused. "I had no idea where I was. I'd gone down in the wilds of the Mexican jungle. Carlos, the two employees who'd traveled with me, as well as my Spanish interpreter, had vanished either dead or captured, too. I was a prisoner, with no way to contact you or Sean or even the American embassy. Worse, I had no idea why."
Though he paused as if inviting comments, Lucy didn't interrupt. Holding her gaze, he swallowed and continued.
"They tortured me enough to put me on the tattered edge of crazy. Without my interpreters, I couldn't understand most of what they asked me, though after a while I realized they thought I'd stolen something. Instead, I tried to figure out a way out of there, a way home to you. I began making up lies to keep them from torturing me more. But no matter what they did to me, I couldn't tell them what they wanted because I truly didn't know."
"They? Who were they?" she asked, her throat aching at the haunting look on his face. "Who did this to you?"
He winced as he shrugged. "As best as I could tell, I was held prisoner by a major Mexican drug cartel."
"Did you tell them that they had the wrong person?"
"I tried. But since my Spanish is extremely limited, the explanation I tried to give them fell on deaf ears."
"You're lucky they didn't kill you."
"I don't know about that," he said. "At first, I dreamed of escape, of home. After a while, I mostly dreamt of death. I wanted them to just go ahead and kill me. Get it over with. But they wouldn't end my suffering and let me die."
His voice broke and he looked down briefly before continuing. "I still don't understand why not. Drug cartels like this one are ruthless. They usually kill spies or anyone who pissed them off without blinking. You've heard the stories of the mass graves found near the border, where they lined their enemies up near a shallow ditch and shot them in the back. But not me." He sounded bitter, but this time, she understood why.


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Pot profiling: Probable cause to stop Colorado driver in New Mexico is (literally) out of sight
As we noted in an article yesterday asking whether Alabama cops think all Colorado drivers look like drug smugglers, we've been hearing from lots of folks on the subject of pot profiling.
Of course, officers are supposed to have probable cause to justify a traffic stop and a search for marijuana -- but there doesn't always seem to be a reason beyond the sight of a Colorado license plate. Here's an example of probable cause that was literally out of sight.
The teller of this tale is Desiré Anastasia, who notes via e-mail that last year, she loaded up her mother and her dogs in a rented Enterprise van with Colorado plates and began the trek from Denver to Lake Havasu for their annual camping trip.
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"As we were driving through New Mexico, and I was driving, an officer flipped lights and sirens on," Anastasia recalls.
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Why was the van targeted? At first, Anastasia had no idea. She looked over her shoulder at her mom, who was laying flat on the back seat and said, "Wake up. I'm being stopped and I wasn't speeding or talking/texting on my phone, and I'm wearing my seat belt, I promise."
As a humorous aside, Anastasia points out that "I am 35 and my mom is 58."
Her mom is also an ex-officer, and after the cop approached the van and began giving it a careful look, she asked why he'd pulled them over.
The reason he gave? In Anastasia's words, "My mom wasn't in a seat belt."
Maybe not, but there's no way the New Mexico law enforcer could have known that until he looked in the window, since she'd been laying down at the time -- plus, the van had tinted windows.
At this point, the cop may have realized he was on shaky ground, probable cause-wise. "When she pulled out a seat belt from under her, he handed my information back to me and went back to his car with barely a word," Anastasia maintains.
Last week, Anastasia and her mother made the trip again, this time in a Yukon rented from Hertz. "How we didn't get stopped going through UT, AZ, or NM is way beyond me," she admits.
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Teenager Max Verstappen has shrugged off concerns over his age after he was confirmed to race for the Toro Rosso team next season.
The 16-year-old, who will be 17 by the time next season begins, will replace not one but two Toro Rosso drivers when he partners Daniil Kvyat in Franz Tost's Red Bull-backed team. He will take over the car currently driven by the Frenchman Jean-Eric Vergne, and will supplant former racer Jaime Alguersuari as the sport's youngest-ever pilot. The Spaniard was 19 years and 125 days old when he started the Hungarian GP with the team in 2009; Verstappen will be 17 years and 164 days old when he starts next year's Australian GP in Melbourne on 15 March.
Verstappen said he would be training hard to ensure he was physically ready and played down his youth.
"I'm a relaxed guy, I will handle it," the European Formula Three title contender said. "I think the biggest step I had was karting to F3. I think F3 to F1 will be a smaller step. "I'm not that worried about it. The cars are really safe. I think it's more dangerous to bike through a big city than race in an F1 car."
Close observers always believed Verstappen Jnr's chances of becoming a Formula One driver were high, given his antecedents. Father Jos, a likeable but sometimes hot-headed racer who has faced charges of assault since retiring from F1 in 2003, drove for Benetton in 1994 after turning down the chance of testing with McLaren.
Subsequently he drove for Simtek before going on to race for Footwork Arrows, Tyrrell, Stewart, Arrows and Minardi. His best results were two third-place finishes, in Hungary and Belgium in 1994, when he partnered championship-winning Michael Schumacher.
Additionally, Max's mother is the talented karter Sophie Kumpen. Her father Paul is a former rallycross champion, while her brother Anthony races in FIA GT. Kumpen herself beat F1 racers Jarno Trulli and Giorgio Pantano to the 1995 Andrea Margutti Trophy at Parma, and was a Belgian champion. Her son continued that heritage with victories in several key karting championships before making his Formula Three debut with Van Amersfoort Racing this year. Thus far he has won eight of his 27 races.
The news will come as an unpleasant surprise to another son of a famous father, however. Carlos Sainz Jnr, who is leading the World Series by Renault feeder championship one step below Formula One, had been expected to replace Vergne for 2015, but it became clear that things were moving fast for Verstappen when he and his father recently had talks with both Red Bull and Mercedes during a recent visit to the German Grand Prix.
Red Bull's Helmut Marko, the hard-line former racer who brought Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo into the fold, made it clear he was impressed by the young Dutchman. Like the man who will be his team-mate next year, the 20-year-old Russian Kvyat, Verstappen has already shown enough fire to bypass both World Series by Renault and GP2.The highly impressive Kvyat did the same when he leapt up this year straight from GP3.
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Set in an elegant Georgian property, Hotel Castle retains many original features such as grand staircases, crystal chandeliers, and marble fireplaces, whilst also providing modern comforts and conveniences. Complimentary wireless Internet is accessible throughout the hotel and several meeting rooms are also available. The new restaurant and bar 'The Castle Vaults' serves first rate cuisine and has an exposed vaulted ceiling that has been in place for the past 200 years. Live traditional Irish music can be enjoyed Thursday to Sunday evenings in the summer months and Friday and Saturday evenings through the winter. Having been used as a hotel since 1809, this is one of the oldest in the city.
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Many errors in online banking
Many unacceptable errors by AmtrustDirect of New York Community Bank.
1. Bank accepted my order for an ACH deposit transfer, then executed it before the date we scheduled, subjecting me to a NSF fee taken by the sending bank.
2. Bank accepted my order for an ACH deposit transfer, then it disappeared from the pending transaction queue without its execution or any explanation.
3. Bank accepted my nomination of a bill pay payee and my direction to make a payment. Then the scheduled payment disappeared from the pending transaction queue before execution without any explanation, subjecting me to a large late payment fee. All the details about my payee also disappeared from my online account without any explanation.
4. Bank enrolled me in a transfer service I did not want or order and started taking fees for it from my account.
5. Bank changed the WWW domain for online account access without any notice to me.
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Completely disgusted!!
Two months ago I deposited almost One Million Dollars in a 12 month CD at this branch and also opened a checking account. In addition, I had my Mother in law open an account and she deposited over $360,000 in a CD. We were both new customers to the bank. I stopped in the branch today and wanted to cash a $4.40 cent check that was made out to my daughter and was signed by her on the back. The bank REFUSED to cash the check. I will never do business with Ohio Savings or NYCB in the future!! They are completely out of their minds!!
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CReviewed By CHICO Feb 16, 2017
Poor Communication and trained staff deplorable
After many years of banking at this NYCB, they finally questioned a check that for years was deposited and now decided that the name was not spelled correctly and denied the check. It was announced over the PA drive up window.
Trying to contact by email any of the executives is impossible. All you can do is email customer service, which I find unacceptable. The response I was given was unacceptable..........
Moving all my banking elsewhere, good riddenceThank you for your feedback Is this review helpful?
MReviewed By mynycb Feb 7, 2017
They are awful, I am done my business with them in rest of my life
We had mortgage account with them, but not any more. My husband was the only person on this mortgage, but I am the person writing checks to pay all the bills. Every time when I called them for an issue (online account password, mortgage statement (never received statement from them), only three months of statements available for viewing online, etc.), they would ask my husband to be present. My husband had given verbal consent to them many many times that he authorized his wife to talk them regarding any issue with this mortgage account. They had notes on this in their system. They knew it was always me calling them on this mortgage account, but they always said they would not talk anything with me on this account, it had to be my husband.
Last month I called them together with my husband to ask payoff quota and sent a check through our credit union checking account. The amount on the check was a few hundred more than the pay off quota. A few days later, I called them to ask if they received the pay off payment, again I was asked to let my husband join the call even he was at a job conference. Then we were told the money had been received, but the payoff payment has to be a certified check and has to be paid to a different address according to their policy, but no one told us when we asked pay off amount last time. The check was sent directly from our credit union checking account, it had to be a certified check and they received the money and the check had been cleared. We were still told it would take extra time for them to verify the payoff was a certified check before they can issue refund check from the escrow account. A couple weeks later, we received a letter from them saying the pay off check was about one hundred short. From the balance summary in the letter, we found out they put more than four hundred dollars into the escrow account. I called to ask why, again they asked me to get my husband into the call, they said they would investigate and called us back in two days, but they never did. Five days later today, I called back, the person again asked where my husband was, he said we knew you called many times, but we need talk to your husband, it was happened my husband was on a conference call for his work, he had a few more minutes to finish up his conference call. They cannot wait and cut me off, when we finally called back in again, all we were told is the mortgage already been paid off. I was totally pissed off, they are not doing their business in a professional way, I am done my business with them. I am just very surprised their business even still exist today.Thank you for your feedback Is this review helpful?
VReviewed By vgasper Dec 13, 2016
New York Community Bank - Untrustworthy Online Banking
Ohio Savings Bank used to be a great bank. Great service, wonderful people, and a good solid online experience then it was taken over by New York Community Bank. The people at the local branch are still great and provide good service but the online experience has gone downhill and has proven it cannot be trusted.
1. The online bill pay feature doesn't work half the time. Scheduled payments have disappeared from the que and bills have incurred late fees because the payment was never made.
2. I paid a bill online and NYCB actually mailed the payment to ME instead of the proper vendor.
3. Bills paid through the online bill pay feature are not deducted from the available balance until the check is actually cashed. So, until the recipient of your check cashes that check, it looks like you still have all that money. What bank does this??!!
4. Upcoming bills are shown under "Scheduled Bills" but you have to click on it to actually see which bills are scheduled. They don't even show up as a "pending transaction."
5. I made an external transfer. I initiated a withdrawal from NYCB from another institution and the other institution made the money available within 2 days. Two days later NYCB doesn't show any withdrawal or pending transactions. It looks like that money is still in my NYCB account. How can the money be in 2 places at once??!! IT CAN'T!! This is an egregiously sneaky tactic to rip off their own customers. SHAME ON YOU NYCB!!!
NYCB's online banking site sets you up to incur NSF charges because there is no "available balance" reflected online. It only shows a "balance." Schedule bills and pending payments are not deducted from that balance until they are completed and finalized. There's no way to tell if a bill you payed online has even been mailed out because it only shows it as being "scheduled" until the check is actually cashed. How are you suppose to know how much money you really have when NYCB operates like this? NYCB even causes you to incur late fees because they don't mail your online bill payment promptly - or at all (and probably erase it from que to cover up the mistake).
I no longer trust NYCB with my money. If you want a true and accurate balance of your NYCB account and know for sure your bills have been paid, you have to keep a manual checkbook and pay your bills yourself. And if you have to do that, what's the point of using their online banking at all?Thank you for your feedback Is this review helpful?
JReviewed By Justinswinea1989 Nov 25, 2016
Unethical, racist, and thieves.
We are having a dispute with our bank about our banking app not clarifying that it was deducting money from out of the account and not money being put back into our account. My fiance and I use a website called upwork to pay out to artist for working on our comic book. Whenever the initial amount posted on upwork wasn't totally paid out than they are supposed to refund (upwork) the remaining balance to our card. We were telling them this is where the confusion lies and we would pay what we overdrafted but didnt feel we should have to pay the three overdraft fees. Finally, we left it alone and when the money comes back into our account from upwork.com we plan to close community bank. But then another problem presents itself because last night when we tried to use our debit card. We realized the banks froze our accounts so when we addressed the bank clerks they said it was because of the issue we started. We are very upset because we are now starting to believe it's because of our skin color. Mind you we paid back all the fees they asked us to.Thank you for your feedback Is this review helpful?
SReviewed By sofrustrated Jul 6, 2016
Discovered everyone is as upset here as I am!
This bank has the worst online system possible. After 2 years of miserable experiences I decided to check out reviews to see if others were having the same experience as my family members and me. Turns out everyone gives this bank 1 star. I get shut out every time I try to log in! I complained all the way to the top manager and all he did was apologize. No excuses. Nothing he could do. It was a shocking situation. Now I know I'm not alone!Thank you for your feedback Is this review helpful?
BReviewed By Bogs May 13, 2016
Worst Bank ever
If you have complaints against this bank or other financial instituions, file a complaint at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which regulates these type of instituions. The Federal regulator is the FDIC. Be educated and fight againt these bank practices that take advantag of consumers.Thank you for your feedback Is this review helpful?
TReviewed By tedliggett Apr 12, 2016
Completely disgusted!!
Two months ago I deposited almost One Million Dollars in a 12 month CD at this branch and also opened a checking account. In addition, I had my Mother in law open an account and she deposited over $360,000 in a CD. We were both new customers to the bank. I stopped in the branch today and wanted to cash a $4.40 cent check that was made out to my daughter and was signed by her on the back. The bank REFUSED to cash the check. I will never do business with Ohio Savings or NYCB in the future!! They are completely out of their minds!!Thank you for your feedback Is this review helpful?
RReviewed By Roberto Jan 29, 2016
Privacy practices are lacking
During a mortgage refinance process, I was sent multiple documents with private information via email in an unprotected PDF. When I reported the issue to NYCB, their reply was basically "don't worry we have software to protect your data". I responded that I doubted how that was possible on a technical (smtp) basis and I would like an explanation. The agent and manager I talked to had just repeatedly insisted the emails were protected. But they were unable to answer the most basic of technical questions. When I asked for a privacy officer or technical support, I was ignored.Thank you for your feedback Is this review helpful?
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I'm fed up, stressed and I want to SCREAM!!!
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - CBS unveiled three new dramas and two comedies for its fall prime-time lineup on Wednesday, with executives promising more laughs and female faces from a network known for its popular crime dramas.
In rolling out five new shows for the fall, CBS, which often trumpets the stability of its lineup, introduced far more changes than Walt Disney Co's ABC after a development season abbreviated by the 14-week screenwriters' strike.
News Corp's Fox will take the wraps off its 2008-09 schedule on Thursday. General Electric Co's NBC did so last month, in a departure from the traditional announcement during the so-called "upfront week" in May.
Next, over the coming weeks, the broadcast networks will get down to signing around $9 billion worth of commercial deals with advertisers for the new season.
At CBS, executives have picked up three new dramas titled "The Mentalist," "Eleventh Hour" and "The Ex List," as well as a pair of sitcoms -- "Worst Week" and "Project Gary" -- that give the network a comedy bloc for two nights a week.
Three of those shows -- "Ex List," "Eleventh Hour" and "Worst Week" -- are based on the formats of overseas programs in what has emerged as another post-strike programming trend.
"When the strike was done, the day after, we hit the ground running," Chief Executive Les Moonves said at a news conference. "The compressed development schedule forced people to concentrate more and work harder."
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text: Using Lean to improve customer service at the University of St Andrews Lean at the University of St Andrews an introductory guide The benefits of Lean 2 Why Lean at St Andrews? 3 The five principles of Lean 4 The eight wastes 5 How can I implement Lean in my area? 6 Knowing what your customer wants 7 Measuring and data-gathering 8 Using charts to interpret information 9 Mapping the customer journey 10 Using 5S to organise your workplace 11 Using visual management tools 12 What next? Keeping Lean going 13 How do I make Lean work for me? 14 Ensuring great customer service 15 Where can I get more support? 16 The benefits of Lean Why go Lean? Lean thinking began with the Toyota Production System which transformed car manufacturing in post-war Japan, but is now being used by companies and organisations around the world, in the public and private sectors, to improve: Customer service Quality and efficiency Staff morale Internal communication and cooperation Lean is simple to implement and results are easily sustained. The principles are common-sense and can be adapted to give benefits in a range of business and service environments. For example, in recent years both Tesco and the NHS have successfully used Lean to improve the quality of their service. The benefits they have seen include: Reduced waiting times Lower costs Improved customer experience 2 Why Lean at St Andrews? People have got all sorts of questions about Lean: – Why here, why now? – Isn't "Lean" more appropriate to manufacturing and heavy industry? – Is this just the latest management fad? The fact is, Lean has proven its worth in streamlining processes and improving Efficiency within office administration. Many UK universities are now implementing large-scale change programmes aimed at reviewing their administrative services and developing a culture of continuous improvement. High quality administrative support is vital for the smooth running of every area of the University of St Andrews. As in many organisations, administrative functions in St Andrews have grown organically, which can lead to some services suffering because of a lack of coordination and clarity of purpose. We have a lot of skilled and motivated people who want to provide great service. Now it's important to ensure that our administrative staff members are able to direct their Time and energy in doing so, without being held back or let down by outdated, unnecessary processes. 3 The five principles of Lean Specify Value Is our service currently providing value to the customer? One of the ways in which we can find this out is by measuring the type and frequency of customer demand. For us, 'the customer' will almost certainly mean our students, but may also include our colleagues in other parts of the University, parents, alumni and external organisations. Identify the value stream By mapping our administrative processes, step-by-step, we can see what adds value and provides a good service to our customers, and where there is waste. Make the process flow We work on eliminating waste from our administrative processes, to streamline the end-to-end journey. This makes the process 'flow' smoothly and efficiently, and minimises delay. Let the customer pull By focusing on the customer, we can understand and respond efficiently to customer demand. We look at every transaction between the customer and ourselves from the customer point of view. Continual Improvement We aim for perfection by taking responsibility for reviewing and improving our service on an ongoing basis. 4 The eight wastes Lean begins with an awareness of waste in our administrative processes, and in considering how we can reduce or remove it. The eight wastes we may find are: Transport Unnecessary movement of materials, people, information or paper. Overproduction Producing either too much paperwork / information, or producing it before it is required. This consumes resources faster than necessary. Inventory Excess stock: unnecessary files and copies, and extra supplies. Overprocessing Processing things that don't add value to the customer, e.g. asking for student details multiple times, excessive checking or duplication. Motion Unnecessary walking and searching; things not within reach or accessible. Defects Work that needs to be redone due to errors (whether human or technical) or because incorrect or incomplete information was provided. Waiting Idle time that causes the workflow to stop, such as waiting for signatures, machines, phone calls. Skills misuse Not using full potential of staff; wasting the available knowledge, experience and ideas. 5 How can I implement Lean in my area? Lean has a number of tools that can be used to help you. These tools are designed to be quick and simple to use, and present information in a visual way that is easy to understand. Tools include: Data-gathering techniques Charts and diagrams Value stream mapping 5S for workplace organisation Visual management These are just some of the tools that may help you understand demand, measure performance and plan for change. The Lean project team can give you information on and examples of further tools that you may find useful. 6 Knowing what your customer wants Who is your customer? Probably your customers include students. Consider also the other people (or organisations) to whom you provide information, data, paperwork or to whom you refer students. Internally, your customers may be academics, School secretaries, or colleagues in other administrative departments. Externally, you may deal with parents, alumni, colleagues at other higher education institutions, funding bodies, local businesses, etc. Your customer = anyone, internal or external, who is affected by your processes or services What does your customer want? The best way to find out is to ask them. Arrange to visit colleagues for a chat about what they need from you. Use feedback forms (printed or electronic) to ask your customer to rate your service. Collect data on what customers are asking you when they get in touch, in their own words. Encourage feedback – good AND bad. A silent customer isn't necessarily a happy customer, and you can only fix the problems if you know what they are. 7 Measuring and data-gathering A good place to begin building a picture of your current processes and service is by measuring and data-gathering. Consider measuring such things as: End-to-end time of dealing with a work unit (this may be an individual file or application, a visitor, an invoice, or a transaction). How long work or customers spend waiting for the next step in the process. Volume of work dealt with, and how this varies over a year (or week/month). Number, type and source of errors. Frequency and type of customer demand – what are your customers asking for, do most of them want similar things, and are they currently receiving what they want from you? Type of communication – how many people contact you by phone? By email? By letter or fax? In person? 8 Use charts to interpret information A chart can be an effective and precise way both to analyse your processes and to communicate results to others. A pareto chart is a bar chart, ordered highest to lowest. 80 70 60 50 This gives an instant comparison and allows you to focus on the biggest or most time-consuming problems. 40 30 20 10 0 Phone calls Em ails Letters Visitors 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 12 /0 2/ 20 07 05 /0 2/ 20 07 29 /0 1/ 20 07 22 /0 1/ 20 07 15 /0 1/ 20 07 08 /0 1/ 20 07 0 01 /0 1/ 20 07 A run chart shows data over time, and allows you to identify trends and patterns. 9 Mapping the customer journey A key part of the Lean methodology is value stream mapping. Value is anything that is worthwhile from the customer point of view. The stream is the journey from end to end. The ideal process flows smoothly, to deliver output to the downstream customer as quickly and efficiently as possible. Start with where you are now. Map each step of your service journey from the customer's point of view. This will be most effective if it is done in a group, by the people who do the work. It's important that EVERY step is included, as this is a picture of how things really are rather than how things should be. The value stream map can be hand drawn, or even done with Post-It notes. Once you have a current state map of your customer journey, identify all the steps which add value to the customer. Everything else is either non-value adding or is waste. 10 Using 5S to organise your workplace 5S is a way of eliminating waste in your immediate office environment. It gives workers more control over their workplace and is a great way to start an improvement initiative. The 5S system has five key activities: 1. Sort and remove unnecessary items. 2. Straighten up your work area so that you have easy and efficient access to everything you need. 3. Shine means making sure everything is clean and in good working order. 4. Standardise by creating guidelines for keeping the area organised. 5. Sustain by making 5S a habit. Sort Sustain Standardise Straighten Shine 11 Using visual management tools Visual management makes use of charts, diagrams, tags, colour-coding, in fact anything that gives instant visual feedback on the current work state. Use visual management to communicate current conditions to your whole team Make sure the display is easily visible, and keep it simple. Visual management being used to track current state in Recruitment. Two visual control concepts you may come across in Lean are: kanban – a signal to replace stock or respond to a customer demand. poka-yoke – this is a way of mistake-proofing using colour or shape, or otherwise limiting options, to guide your customer to do things in the correct way. A primary visual display in use in the School of Modern Languages. 12 What next? Keeping Lean going Future state mapping involves redesigning your processes, removing as much waste as possible. The ideal state is one of continuous flow, where you are responding to customer demand or 'pull' at exactly the right time. In administration, this means performing only the work that is needed at the moment, and avoiding work that is not required by the customer (whether a student or a colleague). This can be done by considering the end-to-end process rather than each person's current duties. Again, this works best if the people who do the work are involved. Reorganising your workspace can have immediate benefits for efficiency, by improving communication, reducing motion waste, and enabling 'joined-up' working. Of course, when making decisions that will change jobs and workspace, ensure there is two-way communication at every stage. 13 How do I make Lean work for me? You can help make your Lean initiative a success by: Making a real time commitment – the more time you can put in, the quicker the results and greater the rewards will be. Allocating the resources and getting everyone involved. Being clear about what you want to achieve. Communicating with your team, and listening to their suggestions. If you and your colleagues are working with the Lean project team, it's also helpful if you: Stay flexible and stay involved. Keep an open mind about the possibilities. Commit to sustaining effort over time. Implementing Lean does require an initial investment of time, energy and imagination. Those who have made this commitment have found the results worthwhile. 14 Where can I get more support? The Lean project team is happy to help or advise on any aspect of Lean implementation, process streamlining and customer service improvement. 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Man...On one hand, I didn't get to actually release my music when I'd like but the first mixes came back and my goodness...there's a lot of growth that will be a pleasant surprise for my small, homely fanbase, a def treat
Well, it has been waaaaaaay too log since my last blog, some of that is life as you'll find out soon via #strangebeds&&anime... Some of it has been just lack of motivation. None the less, I'm here and once again active and again the #1 RnB artist in the area. The new project will be releasing soon and free to download here and various other places around the net. I will have professional videos to accompany the music and some sharp interviews and fun vids coming too. Keep tuned and tell a friend or four.
well, the new year is fully underway and while I have had the same resolution every year since 98, this year it means more than ever. BE BETTER, DO BETTER...Go get pinkBox! While you're listening to that get ready for the new project 'strAngeBeds'...join the mailing list for exclusive previews coming soon...LEROY OUT
Merry Christmas world...spend time with family, enjoy each if you can. Many of us don't have that luxuary so IF you do, make sure your loved ones know you love them. ..LEROY OUT