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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Just hours after Major League Baseball objected to the bankruptcy filing by the Los Angeles Dodgers, accusing team owner Frank McCourt of siphoning off more than $100 million in club revenue and driving the Dodgers into a liquidity crisis, a Delaware judge on Tuesday granted several routine motions that will allow the team to continue operations.Judge Kevin Gross authorised the Dodgers to continue paying vendors, utility providers and employees, and to keep up with tax and insurance obligations. The granting of such motions is routine in first-day hearings in bankruptcy court, but Gross noted that the baseball club's case is unique in some aspects.
"I haven't seen a wage motion quite like this one," the judge said, referring to the team's 44-page motion to continue paying hundreds of full-time and part-time employees, including about 250 players, most of whom are in the minor league ranks.
Gross also granted the team's request to honour payments it is required to make under collective bargaining agreements.
"The seamless, uninterrupted operation of the team is vital," said Richard Seltzer, an attorney for the Major League Baseball Players Association.
After granting several of the motions, Gross ordered a 30-minute recess, allowing time for discussions between attorneys for the Dodgers and MLB, which opposes the team's request for authorization to enter into a $150 million financing arrangement.
"It's a foregone conclusion that a loan is going to be approved," said Dodgers attorney Bruce Bennett. "We have to decide which one and on what terms."
Commissioner Bud Selig claims in the filing that his office can provide a loan on better terms than what a group of lenders is offering, and argues that the court should reject McCourt's financing proposal because it compels the team to sell valuable future broadcast rights to meet current expenses and to provide money for McCourt's personal use.
The Dodgers have blamed the bankruptcy filing on Selig's refusal to approve a multibillion-dollar TV deal that McCourt was counting on to keep the cash-starved franchise afloat.
Thomas Lauria, an attorney representing Selig's office, disagreed with Bennett that the league and the team were adversaries, saying the league views the Dodgers as one of its "cherished crown jewels," and an "essential component" of the league.
Lauria did suggest, however, that the league was at loggerheads with McCourt, whom he blamed for "today's sorry mess."
In addition to the dispute with the league over financing, the Dodgers are facing a challenge from McCourt's ex-wife, Jamie, who is battling in a California divorce court for half of his ownership assets.
"Jamie McCourt is a presumptive owner of 50 per cent of assets," said Laura Davis Jones, an attorney representing her.
Jones urged the judge to do only what is minimally necessary to preserve the assets of the team.
"Nothing should be done today that locks the future of this case into concrete," she said.
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Mary Patricia (Pat) Domalavage of New Windsor, age 93, died Monday, November 26, 2012. Pat was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, April 5, 1919, to John Harding and Mary Ellen Baker Harding. She was the wife of Albert Domalavage (deceased.) They were married in Newfoundland, Canada and were longtime residents of New Windsor.
She is survived by two children, Mary Elizabeth Meddaugh of Mount Pleasant, SC and Albert James Domalavage of Honolulu, HI. She has three grandchildren: Therese Meddaugh Jenkins of Mount Pleasant, SC, Thomas Edward Meddaugh of Mount Pleasant, SC and Kathleen Meddaugh (deceased).
Pat has always been an energetic person who loved being involved in her church, worked all her life and also volunteered often. She has several commendations from military organizations where she donated her time and services, including the VFW, United States Military Academy at West Point and the Volunteer Stewart Wives Club at Stewart Airport in New York.
Pat loved to cook, especially cakes and Christmas cookies and she took pride in her ceramic creations.
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12 teams selected for next stage of ESA's 'Fly your Thesis!' 2011 programme
In April 2009, ESA's Education Office launched the second call for the 'Fly Your Thesis! – An Astronaut Experience' programme. This exciting programme offered an opportunity for teams of university students to fly their experiments in microgravity by participating in a series of parabolic flights on the Airbus A300 Zero-G aircraft.
After the deadline for applications passed on 22 June, ESA's Education Office set up an Evaluation Board composed of experts from ELGRA (European Low Gravity Research Association), the ESA Human Spaceflight, Microgravity and Exploration Directorate, and ESA's Education Office. Out of the 25 teams that applied for the next phase of the programme, 12 were pre-selected, involving a total of more than 30 European students.
The pre-selected teams
This list summarises the names of the pre-selected teams, the title of their proposed experiment and their university:
- GRAPPA, Gravitationless accretion of protoplanetary bodies and rubble pile asteroids, University of Leicester (U.K.);
- ARID, Electrostatic self-assembly of topsoil particles to study the reorientation of water repellent organic coatings, University of Amsterdam, FNWI - IBED - Earth Sciences (Netherlands);
- QNEM & nano's on board!, Is nano's thermal diffusivity different in micro-g ?, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Microgravity Research Center, Brussels (Belgium);
- TREX Parabolic Team, Investigation of the Effectiveness of "Einstein's Teacup" Phenomenon in Microgravity Using Parabolic Flights, Luleå University of Technology, Kiruna (Sweden);
- Lark, Influence of gravity on the effects of anasthetic materials in mouse model utilizing heart rate variability measurement and analysis methods, Szent Istvan University, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Budapest (Hungary);
- GSI, Effect of microgravity and flight-related stress on radio-sensitivity, Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany);
- Team Chaos, Chaotic Dripping in Reduced Gravity, Kingston University, Faculty of Engineering (U.K.);
- Sparky Space Cells, Investigation of proposed porous and micro channel material electrodes in a low temperature proton exchange membrane Fuel Cell for Earth and Space Applications, Dublin City University, Mechanical Engineering Department (Ireland);
- MuSpace2010, Analysis of metabolic and physical behaviour of muscle models in gravity-altered environments, CRIM Lab, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa (Italy);
- KUL ADACS, Low Cost Attitude determination and control system, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Mechanical Engineering (Belgium);
- CMEFE, Micro-g experiment for liquid management device, CMEFE, Petit Lancy – GE (Switzerland);
- Supermassive B., DEEP IMPACT, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (France);
The pre-selected teams are now expected to write a scientific and a technical proposal before mid November. Teams will be invited to present their project to the Evaluation Board during a dedicated workshop to be held in December. Up to four teams will be selected to further develop and perform their experiment on an ESA Microgravity Research Campaign that will take place in Bordeaux, France.


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March 2016 Wholesale Sales Strongly Improve
Written by Steven Hansen
The headlines say wholesale sales were up month-over-month with inventory levels remaining at levels associated with recessions. Our analysis shows an improving trend of the 3 month averages AND inflation adjusted data is now positive.
Note that Econintersect analysis is based on the change from one year ago. Econintersect Analysis:
Year-over-Year Sales - Unadjusted (blue line), Unadjusted but Inflation Adjusted (red line), 3 month Rolling Averages (yellow line)
US Census Headlines based on seasonally adjusted data:
Wholesale Sales - Unadjusted - $ Millions
Wholesale sales were at record highs for almost two years - until 2015 where they contracted year-over-year (and the contraction continues). Overall, the inventory-to-sales ratios (a rising ratio is an indicator of economic slowing) was high relative to past Februarys.
Unadjusted Inventory-to-Sales Ratio (blue line - left axis), Year-over-Year Change (red line - right axis)
Year-over-year change in the inventory-to-sales ratio is what is important. A jump in the ratio which could indicate a slowing economy (one month of data is not a trend). A flat trend would indicate an economy which was neither accelerating or decelerating. A decelerating trend would indicate an improving economy. Since mid-2014 there has been a general deterioration of the inventory-to-sales ratio indicating a slowing economy.
Caveats on the Use of this Index
The data in this index continues to be revised up to 3 months following initial reporting. The revision usually is not significant enough to change the interpretation of each month's data in real time. Generally there are also annual revisions to this data series.
The methodology used by US Census to seasonally adjust the data is not providing a realistic understanding of the month-to-month movements of the data. One reason is that US Census uses data over multiple years which includes the largest modern recession which likely distorts the analysis. Further, Econintersect believes there has been a fundamental shift in seasonality in the aftermath of the Great Recession of 2007 - the New Normal.
Econintersect determines the month-over-month change by subtracting the current month's year-over-year change from the previous month's year-over-year change. This is the best of the bad options available to determine month-over-month trends - as the preferred methodology would be to use multi-year data (but the New Normal effects and the Great Recession distort historical data).
This series is NOT inflation adjusted. To make this adjustment Econintersect uses the PPI - subindex Total Wholesale AWHLTRAWHLTR.
As economic indicators go, wholesale sales and inventories are poor at spotting economic problems. Wholesale data did not start contracting during the Great Recession until October 2008. The only portion of wholesale trade data which seems to correspond to general economic conditions is wholesale trade employment.
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My first U2 showI was 15. I was in the very front row. Opening song was a surprise as I don't think that had used 'Bullet' first up all that often. The audience was much smaller than the sold-out second night (which I also attended). I recall that 'Gloria' was played which I think wasn't played the next night. HIghlight for me was 'Bad' and Bono was down in front of us in the climactic 'isolation, desolation' part... tears from me at that point! BB was also bloody good.


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OneDrive doesn't have the option to select folders from multiple disk drives – this wasn't a problem for other online storage/synchronization tools that I have used previously, however OneDrive wants you to simply selection one "root" folder and it will only included files/folders beneath that.
I have a scenario where I have a 100GB SSD disk for frequently accessed files and a 1TB slower SATA disk for photos and archives. I have files and folders in both drives that I want to be synchronized to the OneDrive "Cloud".
So to do this I needed to use the Windows command line tool MKLINK to create a symbolic link.
C:\Users\danovich\OneDrive\ <——- "Root" OneDrive folder, located on the 100GB SSD drive
D:\Data\Photos\ <——- Photos folder, located on the 1TB SATA drive, containing 500GB of photos I want to be sync'd into OneDrive
Open a command prompt with admin privledges and type:
mklink /d "C:\Users\Dan\OneDrive\Photos" "D:\Data\Photos"
You'll get a success message:
symbolic link created for C:\Users\Dan\OneDrive\Photos <<===>> D:\Data\Photos
Data will now be syncing with OneDrive and the "Photos" symbolic link, essentially a shortcut, will appear in the OneDrive folder:
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Unique watches, unique brand: rvndsgn
Zach Raven is a 27 year old award winning product designer from Grand Rapids, Michigan. A few years ago, with the US deep in recession, he suffered the fate of many of his fellow Americans and was laid off from his job.
Following this setback Zach, an industrial design alumni from Kendall College of Arts & Design, came to the conclusion that relying on others for his income was a more risky strategy than designing his own destiny and becoming his own boss. This idea coincided with his long held ambition to create watches.
The Horizon watch
Zach's design portfolio even from college days included three watch designs, including the futuristic looking Horizon watch, which uses embedded LED ribbons in a semi transparent urethane band to display time. LED's illuminate around the wrist in accordance to the current time. For example, at 6:00, the hour LED ribbon would be illuminated at the underside of the wrist, where the minute LED ribbon would be illuminated at the top of the wrist.
Earlier this year, Zach, who has designed for yacht interiors as well as office furniture, started rvndsgn watches, a boutique watch brand. The idea is to design and build watches using 3D rapid prototyping technology, with which of course you're all familiar, right? No? Well think of an inkjet printer that lays down a thin layer of material, be it various plastics, metal, glass, or even sandstone, and then continuously builds layer upon layer following the CAD (Computer Assisted Design for the uninitiated) data until the three dimensional part is finished.
This is unique, no other watch is made this way. Most pieces made this way using rapid prototyping are one off trinket types, not actual products. Rvndsgn watches incorporate quality Swiss ETA quartz movements, Italian leather straps, and high quality lumed hands. Everything else is printed.
The watches come in various colours including natural, polished gold, matte bronze, and both black and white powder-coated finishes. The printing process leaves a unique subtle texture to the case that the finish preserves.
No two watches the same
The process used for the case is a layering process; the machine leaves behind a unique grain on the metal that makes each watch unique. Therefore each watch has its own story because the watch is made using a fascinating technology and builds itself following the input of the CAD program.
The watches are made from what is known as rapid prototyped stainless steel and due to the manufacturing process, the grain of each case is unique. The watches are then assembled by hand in the USA and the plan is to retail them at around $200, which, unless the good people on the Hill get the debt repayment crisis sorted out by next week, will be a very affordable price indeed.
The watches in the pictures are renderings accurate to the colours and the look of the watches.
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I've restocked and added a couple of new products in the store that I wanted to share today. Enjoy!
Paper Coffee Cups, 50 for $12
After I introduced the Clear Cups & Lids this summer, my sister suggested a to-go coffee cup for the store. She mentioned the ones found at the grocery store were not attractive and pretty expensive. We usually use stainless thermoses for our coffee, but... I am the worst about leaving our nice coffee thermoses in my car for days... or leaving them in the backyard, or the garage, or on the shelf at the store while I'm browsing. They are always missing.
When we have friends or parents for dinner or brunch, I always offer to send them home with a coffee for the road, but end up having to scrounge up a cup of sorts to put it in. These will be so nice to have for so many reasons - hot cider on walks this fall, to-go hot cocoa (and schnapps) for our friends on halloween night, and anytime we're headed in the car in the morning.
I've added a new color to my Taper Candle mix - Rust (top, left, $10.50 for set of 12" tapers). You may have noticed that I don't really do much red around here (really only around the holidays). But, I do love that warmth of red tones. This Rust color is muted enough for my neutral loving habits, but still adds that seasonal warmth that I'm craving.
Colors : Rust, Natural Beeswax, Falmouth Grey
These bags are great for everyday lunches (they fit a sandwich, popcorn, slice of banana bread or cookie!) or entertaining. This fall, I plan to fill them with popcorn trail mix for Emma's class (they're into not so sweet at her school).
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7/8" Copper Satin : A favorite from last year in a new size.
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What do these terms mean, and what is the difference.
Why wouldn't you give us your context? It would be much easier to answer your question, because the terms look like ones from some special field of knowledge.
The only thing I can suggest is that it refers to literature analysis, I mean a story/novel etc. can have a primary conflict, that is the key idea of the book, or realtionship between the protagonists or something like that. A secondary conflict is minor events and ideas, which are observed against the background of the primary conflict and are important as well. I may be not quite accurate in my explanations, this is just all I can remember at the moment. I hope it helps.


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These murder victims were a group of twelve Muggles killed by an explosion deliberately caused by Peter Pettigrew on 1 November, 1981. This event was one of the most infamous massacres in recent times.
Eventually, three of these Muggles became employed as a guard, guitarist, and officer respectively, while the others pursued unknown careers.[2]
Destroyed by Peter Pettigrew
After betraying the Potters, Pettigrew was pursued by Sirius Black, and was eventually cornered by him on a crowded London[1] street. Pettigrew then loudly accused Black of betraying the Potters, created an explosion, and escaped, leaving behind a finger he had cut off to fake his death. This explosion claimed the lives of twelve Muggles, and left a deep crater in the street. Over fifty Muggle witnesses reported what Pettigrew said to Ministry of Magic officials. Black was imprisoned in Azkaban without trial. Before his capture, Black was found laughing like a maniac, seemingly confirming his guilt.
The Ministry of Magic had difficulty covering up this event given the extent of the damage and the number of Muggle casualties.[4] They erased the memories of surviving Muggle witnesses[3] and disseminated the story that the explosion had been caused by a leak in a gas main.[4]
It was not until 1993 that Remus Lupin realised Black was innocent and convinced Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger to believe the truth. Nevertheless, Cornelius Fudge ignored their stories, and the Ministry continued to consider Black guilty until after his murder in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries on 18 June, 1996.
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Mentioned only)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (Appears in photographs)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The fact there was a Queen's Guard in uniform among the casualties suggest the incident happened near one of the Queen's official residences in London.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 10 (The Marauder's Map)
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It's safe to say that Highlight has stolen SXSW. The app has single-handedly taken a firm grip over a yet-to-be-defined new social genre: it's called SoMoLo (social, mobile, local), ambient social, ambient local, or even just the vague and all-encompassing "ambient reality."
Whatever you want to call it, SXSW Interactive week has been a springboard for Highlight — and that's putting it very, very mildly. "It's been huge," creator Paul Davison tells me. (Full disclosure: I obsessively checked Highlight to see when he arrived at our meeting place). "At the same time, [SXSW] creates this artificial state of ubiquity, because everyone here is using it."
They most certainly are. During my hour-long conversation with Davison, who formerly worked for a structured database company called Metaweb (acquired by Google in 2010), I watched the app reveal some 20+ others in the coffee shop using Highlight. Davison even pointed out someone a table away showing the app to a colleague. "That's so awesome!" he laughs.
Everywhere you go at the show, you see heads downturned toward their phones — which is nothing new for what many call "Spring Break for nerds." We're all furiously checking in to everything and checking out everyone there. But this year, Highlight has been the location and social discovery app of choice.
Before talking about Highlight's updates and momentum, we discussed this sudden attention to SoMoLo (or whatever you want to call it). "It's a number of things coming together," Davison says. "Smartphones are everywhere, Facebook is ubiquitous, all this data is in the cloud and it's all highly recognizable, the ability to run mobile apps in the background is fairly new, push notifications, battery life is just now barely good enough and it's only getting better."
As is Highlight. A few updates have really fine-tuned the simple application, which uses your smartphone's location data and your Facebook account to find people who have similar friends and interests, and happen to be in your general vicinity.
"The main thing we added was ability to see who's nearby right now," Davison says. Before you would see someone who was nearby moments ago — it wasn't necessarily clear if they were still near you or had just left. Now at the top of the activity you see people who are still there, and people who have left are time-stamped and fall under those currently around you.
The new app also features the option to search for someone specific, the ability to follow someone on Twitter, or friend someone on Facebook immediately from within the app, and a redesigned, cleaner navigation dash.
But the biggest change, appropriately, is the ability to Highlight someone: The idea is like bookmarking a person you think is interesting or want to mentally note. "We thought about that a lot," says Davison. "Highlight is so passive, and there's no currency — no friend adding, which is what everyone wants from a social application. In most cases, a follow is a person saying, 'I'm consuming content generated by you. I want your content.' And that makes sense for most social products.
"But for us, the people are the content. Feed is determined by who's around you. So following doesn't make sense. At the same time, there's room for interaction. We wanted something really lightweight. It sort of serves — and I hate saying this — like a 'poke' or a 'nudge.'"
Davison says there was much discussion about the visibility of a Highlight. They are completely public: you see it, the highlighted person sees it, everyone who ever sees your profile sees it. Ultimately, it was decided that making this information entirely public kept the app close to it goal of connecting — not individuating — users.
Highlight isn't the first ambient social app to spark privacy concerns. Last year, when photo app Color launched, the reaction was palpable: While people were intrigued by its technology, the security implications overwhelmed users. Highlight has been no exception; it's even been called the 'stalker app.' The company also doesn't have a privacy policy page on its website to explain its guidelines.
"Privacy is a huge thing and we think about it all the time," Davison tells me. "This sort of thing is just new and if people have anxiety about it then that's okay, because it's unfamiliar. It happened with the Web before… it happened with Facebook. The ability to share information with the people around you in this really sort of ambient way is new. And the reason that seems weird is that we haven't been able to do it before. We're not used to that level of openness and sharing."
Highlight uses the iPhone default privacy policy, Davison tells me.
Regarding the ill-fated Color, Davison says he "thought the ideas behind it were really cool, and I still do. It's a similar concept and it was intended to be a way to help you learn about the people around you. I feel like with these sorts of products the details matter a lot. User interface, interaction, tiny differences." He also references the app's other insurmountable problem. "With hyper-local, there's been this tremendous problem of getting users. You open up the app, no one is there, you have a bad experience with it, and you'll never use it again."
Color was based on actions — users taking pictures, he explains. And he's right, there's no passive way to use the app. Highlight is attempting to avoid this particular issue by encouraging a browsing experience and telling people to get out of the app: The welcome screen gets your info and then tells you to close the app until later.
The other elephant in the room concerning Highlight is battery life. Running an app in the background is power consuming — but maybe not for long. According to Davison, every new release of Highlight improves battery life, and it should cease to be a problem in less than a year.
Davison seems to have this same confidence — almost ambivalence — toward every obstacle in Highlight's way. "It's all do-able. All solvable," he says about any every potential hangup.
"What we have right now is this tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of where we know we can take this and it's really exciting," he says. "The app is going to get smarter. There's all this math that's going to make it better and better."
And that's where I offered him my Highlight wish list — the ideas that you could message everyone using the app within 900 square feet simple questions like "What Wi-Fi network is working best for you?" or "Is anyone going uptown and want to share a cab?" (these are clearly SXSW issues) even earned me a high five. I also complained about not being able to edit my photo, which didn't format correctly, and he says facial recognition technology or a photo edit tool could be implemented to fix this.
At the moment, Highlight is small — two people, including Davison, to be exact. So the building will come fast and furious. And listening to Davison, it sounds like the sky is the limit. "It's going to change everything — there's a reason so many [developers] are doing this: It's a really big deal," he says. "There have been all these moments happening — someone in the room who knows your sister, or someone you have 46 friends in common with. That's always been true but we haven't had the technology to discover them."
But now we most certainly do, and it isn't going to stop. Davison talks about building a function so Highlight knows when you're traveling, and can identify people on the train or bus with you, or knows when you're away from home to notify you if someone who happened to go to the same high school as you is nearby. The instances of what this thing can do (or will soon do, as Davison insists) are never-ending, really. He sums it all up nicely: "We're building the sixth sense."
The real test comes now. We're all leaving SXSW, and with it the company of fellow app nerds among us. But if Highlight can use this spotlight and keep user engagement, then we could be poised for the next big step in the social evolution.
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This month, Scott Tucker, an online payday lender who used his billions in proceeds to fund his auto racing dreams, including buying a $1.3 million Ferrari and running a LeMans Series racing team, was sentenced to 16 years in jail on federal racketeering charges. Last fall, his former business partner Charles Hallinan, known as the Philadelphia Main Line "godfather" of payday lending, was also convicted of federal racketeering charges. Tucker and Hallinan's main business model? Their claim that their payday loan enterprises were for the benefit of Native American tribal partners and therefore subject to tribal immunity from state or federal laws. In an authoritative new report (200 page pdf), a leading public interest law firm, Public Justice, now speculates: "Tribal Immunity" may no longer be a Get-Out-of-Jail Free Card for payday lenders." It's about time.
Along with others, we've been fighting payday lenders for decades. Their triple-digit predatory loans are debt traps, even where "legalized" by state action. Of course, when the lenders also claim to be above the law, the practices are even worse. One count in Scott Tucker's conviction, for example, as pointed out by the USDOJ, is that the Tucker Companies violated the Truth In Lending Act by a practice of only paying off interest, but not principal, on a $500 loan, in a manner that resulted in the following fact pattern, where the loan was in fact, not paid off, but the total amount due actually tripled:
"Specifically, for a customer who borrowed $500, contrary to the TILA Box disclosure stating that the total payment by the borrower would be $650, in fact, and as Tucker [...] well knew, the finance charge was $1,425, for a total payment of $1,925 by the borrower."
You read that correctly. You borrowed $500 at (an already very, very high) cost of $30 per $100, expecting to pay $650 in a complete payoff of the loan, but ended up owing a total of $1,925. Meanwhile, in a letter to the judge seeking a lesser penalty before his sentencing this week, Tucker gave the following, tortured non-apology:
"Although I saw myself as being an entrepreneur, a jobs provider, and a contributor to the American economy, I've learned that others view me through a different lens. I am very sorry that our leaders castigate me as a villain, or some type of predator."
You don't have to make this stuff up, it writes itself.
Rent-a-tribe is merely the latest — but among the most sophisticated — in a long line of legerdemain to avoid state laws. Our joint 2001 report with the Consumer Federation of America, "Rent-A-Bank Payday Lending," helped expose a previous payday lender scheme of using bank charter preemption of state interest rate laws to operate in the growing number of states that had explicitly banned payday lending by capping interest rates for small loans. Following a multi-year advocacy campaign, all federal banking regulators eventually banned "rent-a-bank" payday lending in the mid-2000s. The action shifted to "rent-a-tribe" gimmicks, which were successful for a while, but, as documented in that new report from Public Justice, relentless actions by a coalition of private attorneys, bi-partisan state attorneys general and federal agencies including the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have helped to slam the door on the "rent-a-tribe" scheme.
As Leslie Bailey, a co-author of the Public Justice report, explains in a detailed blog post summarizing the report:
"Payday lenders are nothing if not creative in their quest to operate outside the bounds of the law. As we've reported before, an increasing number of online payday lenders have recently sought affiliations with Native American tribes in an effort to take advantage of the tribes' special legal status as sovereign nations. The reason is clear: genuine tribal businesses are entitled to "tribal immunity," meaning they can't be sued. If a payday lender can shield itself with tribal immunity, it can keep making loans with illegally-high interest rates without being held accountable for breaking state usury laws."
Fortunately, the courts are now finding that these payday lender relationships with tribes are mere contrivances to avoid the law, not genuine tribal businesses. Tribes receive token payments; the vast bulk of the online businesses harm consumers off the reservation, particularly in those states that effectively ban triple-digit payday lending through 36% APR interest rate ceilings on small loans.
The convictions of Tucker and Hallinan and the now-growing body of law against the payday lender tribal schemes are not the end of the payday lending fight. In Congress, an effort to use the Congressional Review Act to repeal the Consumer Bureau's short-term payday lending regulation is expected on the House floor soon (although it is largely premised on disingenuous arguments from its proponents). Further, with federal bank regulators under new management, the lenders are pushing to rescind previous prohibitions on "rent-a-bank" schemes.
And as Leslie Bailey concludes, the next strategem that payday lenders roll out may be to ride an idea from the federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish a loose, anything goes "Fintech" charter for non-banks.
Like sharks, payday lenders are always moving. Now that the tribal immunity scam's days may be limited, we're hearing rumblings about how online payday lenders might attempt take advantage of the OCC's planned Fintech charter as a path to avoid being governed by state law, including state interest-rate caps and licensing and operating requirements.
We're watching the development of the fintech charter and potential other threats to strict payday lending regulation, too, as are the 15 states and DC that make up "Payday Freelandia." Learn more about the payday lending fight at StoptheDebtTrap.org. Stay tuned.
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Seems to me that you are the person on this forum who spends most of his time trying to 'rile people up'; your usual techiques of sarcasm, insult, name-calling etc is evident in almost everything you post.
This section of the forum is about so-called CCD (which doesn't actually exist - it's a 'false -flag syndrome' created by the industry's spin doctors to divert attention from the simplest and most blindingly obvious cause of global, mass bee-deaths: systemic, neuro-toxic, neonicotinoid insecticides.
I am in touch with dozens of American beekeepers beyond this Forum and I get all the advice I need about how to keep bees from my own bee inspectors and friends over here. 'Trying to be a better beekeeper' in a landscape where 200 million acres of crops are being laced with deadly, bee-killing pesticides, year after year since 1998 - is like re-arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic as she went down.
This debate is about the greatest ecological disaster ever faced in the entire history of beekeeping - ten million hives have been killed in American according to some estimates; for sure, 5,560,000 colonies have been killed since 2007 according to the EPA and USDA.
your role on here seems to be to defend pesticides and GM at all costs. People can make their own minds up as to why you do that; but from what I have seen and witnessed here, you do it all the time, every time, every post - from way back when.
George C Scott delivered one of the greatest lines in film history, in Dr Strangelove, when asked how he knows the Russian ambassador is a 'commie' he replies:
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Well sir, you defend pesticides and GM till the cows come home; you do it all the time, consistently and with great energy. You also bully, ridicule, attack and try to humiliate anyone who dares to raise their head above the parapet on this devastating issue, that has produced an ecological disaster across the length and breadth of Europe and the USA. It is plain as a pikestaff what you are. You sir - are a duck!


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10 July 2010
Lift Off
My buddy The Educated Genealogist and I are of like minds when it comes to travel, especially conference attending. We understand the importance of shoe selection. Colour coordination is everything. Each top has a bottom to go with it. Accessories need infinite consideration. Many bits from the grooming collection must have those zip-lock baggies. All that. It's advisable to take rest breaks between planning each outfit.
Excellence in suitcase packing is surely a sign of the mature traveller. T-shirts with writing on them are so not cool. For a slice of summertime wardrobe wisdom while away from home, see this delicious photo of senior activists, taken by Marq Frerichs at the recent G20 demonstrations. It appeared in Torontoist's "Boulevardier" section of their Style Notebook.
Mais je digresse. I stare at the suitcase. No apron there yet. The Reeboks went into the suitcase three times, removed for the third time. Packing principle: Heavy, bulky, clumsy, is to wear airborne, not to pack. Sometimes packing principles interfere with style principles. How glam do I look departing from broiling sauna weather in shoes the size of bricks and my heavy, all-purpose winter sweater. I know, it's not winter over there, but what about evenings north of the 56th parallel.
While I'm not going to a convention, some genealogy is involved. It behooves the profession to look competently put together. A couple of notches above flowered capris. Adding one item means removing another. The dress goes in, one top gets heaved. How many socks should I bring? I can wash them, can't I? Get rid of the mousse. No, I need it. Where is the insect repellent? Do they wear sandals in the Hebrides?
You can tell that weather has a role in packing. Personally, I am deeply disappointed that The Weather Channel and The Weather Network and Yahoo Weather are unsynchronized and indecisive regarding forecasts and averages. If averages mean anything any more what with climate change. Do I really need the sweltering rain jacket that doesn't breathe? Ditch that; replace with lightweight folding umbrella.
Don't forget the gifts. Those little guest soaps cunningly shaped like maple leaves. Uh-oh. What if someone with no English (and my sign-language skills are deficient) tries to eat them? Rush back to the shop and substitute maple sugar candy. Safer.
Staring at the suitcase again. A weight allowance of 23 kg is a challenge when you have books, family history, maps, manuals, and masses of notes. Why do the cords and plugs necessary for electronic sustenance weigh pounds apiece? Find the adaptor. Should I bring the vitamins? How many earrings are enough? Which hat is crushable?
Notice I didn't mention the Carry-On. Worthy of its very own blog post, but time runneth short. The contents will be on my shoulder or my back for the duration with, of course, all that paper telling me what to do if I become dismembered or lose everything.✱ As long as it contains tranqs for a couple of looooong ferry crossings, I'm good. Assuming I get to meet the North Sea face to face. Don't stint on the wine, dear flight attendant.
My inner child is screaming. Are we there yet?
✱ Trust me, I am not sending panic emails from Europe asking you for money :-D
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wear layers its been wet but reasonably warm, but some of the archives, libraries are cool, you can buy a cheap umbrella for a £1.
- Saturday, 10 July, 2010
- BDM said...
Thank you, Anonymous. How could I forget to mention the important concept of layering? Probably because I was hunting for camera batteries and ear plugs.
- Saturday, 10 July, 2010
- Sheri Fenley said...
Brenda Dahling,
You Jet-Set Fashionista! Please do not start a trend with the apron. I do not look good in an apron. I have only just re-invented my entire wardrobe to cleverly disguise the 30 pounds of blubber that jumped on board when I wasn't looking. You start the apron thing and I'll have to toss the wardrobe and go without. Or maybe go with just the apron! LOL
Have a wonderful trip. Maybe one day you'll make it out West to California - The Land of Fruits and Nuts.
- Sunday, 11 July, 2010
- BDM said...
Sheri, is Arizona close enough?
- Sunday, 11 July, 2010
- Sheri Fenley said...
Arizona! Why that is just around the corner. Well compared to Canada it is. Where, when and why? For how long? Let me know and I will meet you there!
- Sunday, 11 July, 2010
- BDM said...
Talk @ you by email in August!
- Sunday, 11 July, 2010
- BDM said...
Dear Anonymous: I hate to tell you what I paid for the privilege of having a lightweight, fold-up umbrella just because I HAD to have it in tartan (only Stuart ever available). Edinburgh price half what I forked over in Oban. What we call a shopping mistake.
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Your teen's doctor can reinforce the messages you're giving your teen at home, as well as help identify early signs of an eating disorder.
For example, the doctor can look for unusual changes in your teen's body mass index or weight percentiles during routine medical appointments. The doctor can talk to your teen about his or her eating habits, exercise routine and body image. If necessary, he or she can refer your teen to a mental health provider.
If you suspect that your teen has an eating disorder, talk to him or her. Encourage your teen to open up about his or her problems and concerns. Also schedule a medical checkup for your teen. The doctor can assess your teen's risk of an eating disorder, as well as order urine tests, blood tests or other tests to detect complications.
If your teen is diagnosed with an eating disorder, treatment will likely involve a specific type of family therapy that helps you work with your child to improve his or her eating habits, reach a healthy weight, and manage other symptoms. Sometimes medication is prescribed to treat accompanying mental health conditions, such as depression, anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorder. In severe cases, hospitalization might be needed.
Whatever the treatment plan, remember that early intervention can help speed recovery.
Original article: https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/tween-and-teen-health/in-depth/teen-eating-disorders/art-20044635
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Hello World
Some of you might already know it... I have finally decided to
add all the QUARTET-format files to the fading twilight archive...
In the past I did not like that format as its splitted into two
files ... the sondata (SONG.4V) and the sampledata (SAMPLE.SET).
Recently I discovered a tool that merges both into a single file
(MERGED.4Q). There also exists a player on the atari ST/Falcon
that plays such files...
1. Merging does not work on some of the files... the player crashes
when you try to play the merged version. I guess somebody with
some coding skills has to fix that First Task!
2. There should be a player for PC and other systems for .4Q-files
aswell... I already mailed to the DELIPLAYER team but did not get
any response Second Task!
3. I NEED HELP .. merging all the stuff... you can easily do this
under STEEM so you dont need to copy all the stuff to your real
machine... If you are interested to support me I can supply you
some of the unmerged songs...
if you merge those 2 files it is possible to add songinfos...
you just need to type a little ascii-text-file... like this:
Starball intro
Composed by: Spaz/The Lost Boys
and add it to your folder... the merging tool (MAKE_ONE.PRG)
will ask you for this one too... IT IS necessary that you add
those information .. or atleast it would be very very
nice to have those infos too cause this is one of the reasons
why Im not finished with merging right now... sometimes you
have to investigate to find out WHO the composer of the music
It would be nice to get some support because this would push
me further to another release of a fading twilight cd... or even
the DVD project